The Canary (2019-09-15). Refugee boats carrying children, women and men intercepted after French camp clearances. thecanary.co Small boats carrying children, women and men have been intercepted off the Kent coast after a wave of refugee camp clearances in France.At least two Border Force vessels, carrying what appeared to be around a dozen refugees and asylum seekers in orange life-vests, were seen pulling into Dover on Sunday morning.It is understood more UK-bound boats were caught before reaching British shores — although events are still unfolding.The Home Office said it was \"aware of ongoing incidents\".A couple thought to be migrants after being brought to shore by Border Force officers (Gareth Fuller/PA)It comes days after Bord…

Staff (2019-09-15). Hydro-Quebec Ends Cyber-Security Agreement With Israel Electric Corporation. therealnews.com Lawyer John Philpott discusses BDS Quebec\'s campaign against cyber-cooperation between Hydro-Quebec and IEC…

RT (2019-09-15). SPY PIGEONS & KILLER CIGARS: Weird ways CIA tried to win the Cold War. rt.com The CIA has declassified documents revealing its Cold War spy pigeons program, the latest revelation of the truly bizarre lengths the US went to to win the war which included killer cigars, trained dolphins and acoustic kitties. | Pigeon spies: | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified details of its secret spy-pigeon mission during the Cold War, named \'Tacana\'. It used the birds to secretly photograph sites inside the Soviet Union. The avian species was chosen because of their ability to navigate their way back home, and they apparently flew their missions while expensive cameras were s…

RT (2019-09-15). Yang says SNL novice should not be fired over Chinese racial slur, drowned out by PC crowd. rt.com Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has said that Saturday Night Live\'s new hire Shane Gillis should not be sacked for making a tasteless joke after a clip of him mocking Chinatowns resurfaced, setting Twitter alight. | Yang, a son of immigrants from Taiwan, struck a distinctly different tone from most online warriors when he said he would be \"happy to sit down and talk\" with Gillis about the ill-fated clip that resurfaced on Friday. The video shows the comedian tearing into Chinatowns and their inhabitants. | \"Damn, Chinatown is f**king nuts,\" Gillis says in the clip, referring to the ability of Chi…

Murtaza Hussain (2019-09-15). Industrialized Militaries Are a Bigger Part of the Climate Emergency Than You Know. theintercept.com Not only do conflicts leave a poisoned landscape in their wake, but the U.S. military has a larger carbon footprint than most countries on earth.

RT (2019-09-15). Trump authorized release of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve if needed to keep markets supplied. rt.com US President Donald Trump has said he green-lighted the release of oil from the US strategic reserves and ordered to streamline pipelines\' approvals to keep the oil market \"well-supplied\" in wake of the attacks on Saudi Aramco. | The drone strikes on Saudi Arabia\'s largest Abqaiq oil processing plant and another oil facility have cut the state-run oil giant\'s daily production in half, sending Saudi stocks into a nosedive and sparking fears that oil prices can rise to triple-digits. | In a series of tweets on Sunday, Trump said that the US would draw from its oil reserves \"if needed, in a to-be-determined amoun…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-09-15). The Myth of the Cold War: 74 Years Ago, Secret September 1945 Plan to \"Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map\" globalresearch.ca Seventy four years ago, on September 15, 1945, the US released a secret document which consisted in waging a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas of the Soviet Union, which at the time was an ally of …

teleSUR (2019-09-15). AOC\'s Face Burned in Republican Party Video to Slam Socialism. telesurenglish.net The United States Congresswoman Ilhan Omar slammed a video aired during the Democratic Debate Thursday which showed her fellow Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez\'s burning face while a former congressional candidate spo…

Fight Back (2019-09-15). USF students demand no immigration authorities on campus. fightbacknews.org Tampa, Fl – On September 10, students at the University of South Florida (USF) participated in a national day of action that was called by National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to speak out against the Trump administration\'s attacks on undocumented immigrants. The event was hosted by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Over 30 students and staff attended. | During President Donald Trump\'s tenure, his administration has engaged in escalating attacks against undocumented immigrants. Some of these attacks include Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining undocumented children in h…

Fight Back (2019-09-15). USF students demand no immigration authorities on campus. fightbacknews.org Tampa, Fl – On September 10, students at the University of South Florida (USF) participated in a national day of action that was called by National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to speak out against the Trump administration\'s attacks on undocumented immigrants. The event was hosted by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Over 30 students and staff attended. | During President Donald Trump\'s tenure, his administration has engaged in escalating attacks against undocumented immigrants. Some of these attacks include Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining undocumented children in h…

Berkeley Antifa (2019-09-15). Third Annual Far-Right Gathering in Berkeley Continues Record of Failure. indybay.org On Sunday, September 1, a small collection of bored and lonely far-right activists gathered in Berkeley, CA for what was dubbed the \"Third Annual March Against Communism.\" Despite the massive police presence and resources committed to protecting this tiny group of confused conspiracy theorists, community mobilization kept Berkeley locals safe and ultimately pushed back the far-right\'s attempted advances.

Staff (2019-09-15). 10 Things You Need to Know About the Fires in the Amazon. truthout.org | | The world is watching in horror as pictures circulate of huge stretches of the Amazon rainforest in flames, but these are no ordinary wildfires. They were set on purpose to generate immense profit for a few multinational companies and the bourgeois governments that support them. Urgent action and mobilization of working people and activists around the world is necessary to put an end to the capitalist exploitation that is destroying one of the Earth\'s most important ecological regions. Here\'s what you nee…

teleSUR (2019-09-15). Cuba, Uruguay, Nicaragua Reject TIAR Treaty Against Venezuela. telesurenglish.net The governments of Cuba, Uruguay and Nicaragua have strongly rejected the TIAR treaty activation against Venezuela, which could authorize the use of military force against Caracas government if the countries part of the treaty deemed it a threat to security or peace in the region. | RELATED: | Venezuelan FM Calls TIAR \'Dead\', Denounces Its Activation | Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, denounced the embarrassing decision of activating TIAR as he called it \"a poorly legally supported…

Afroze Fatima Zaidi (2019-09-15). In the wake of Netanyahu\'s racist campaigning, it\'s time for the world to hold the Israeli state to account. thecanary.co Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is running for re-election, and in a bid to strengthen his support he has promised to annex even more areas of the occupied West Bank. This would mean giving the Israeli state sovereignty over what is currently recognised as Palestinian territory. | \"The nail in the coffin\" for any hope of peace: | Netanyahu\'s latest move has been widely condemned. For many, it\'s not only detrimenta…

Ted Snider (2019-09-15). Demythologizing the Roots of \"The New Cold War\" globalresearch.ca When Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev received his peace prize in 1990, the Nobel Prize committee declared that \"the two mighty power blocs, have managed to abandon their life-threatening confrontation\" and confidently expressed that \"It is our hope that we are …

Fréa Lockley (2019-09-15). I was one of the Canary journalists arrested at the world\'s largest arms fair. Here\'s why. thecanary.co Last week I was arrested. Police put me in handcuffs three times. I was just one of many people taking direct action to try and stop the world\'s largest arms fair — Defence Security and Equipment International (DSEI). | I paddled a kayak straight towards warships and sat in front of arms trucks. My body still aches and bruises from handcuffs deepen darker every day. But that really doesn\'t matter. I\'d do it all again without a second thought. Because those minuscule injuries pale into insignificance in the face of why we protested…

Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz (2019-09-15). Venezuela Probes Guaido over Photos with Colombian Drug Traffickers. venezuelanalysis.com Los Rastrojos have been accused of drug smuggling, extortion, and targeted killings.

Stephen Lendman (2019-09-15). Pre-election Stunt. Possible US-Israeli Defense Pact? Netanyahu Fighting for his Political Life. globalresearch.ca Days ahead of Israeli Knesset elections on Tuesday, Netanyahu fighting for his political life, Trump tweeted the following: | \"I had a call today with Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss the possibility of moving forward with a Mutual Defense Treaty, between …

Stephen Lendman (2019-09-15). US Sponsored War: Formidable Yemeni Houthi Fighters Strike Back. globalresearch.ca Things aren\'t going well for the US, NATO, Israel, Riyadh, and their jihadist proxies in Yemen. | They\'re losing endless war to Ansarullah Houthi rebels, their capabilities much more sophisticated than earlier believed. | Their explosive-laden drones and missiles are able to …

Tyler Durden (2019-09-15). Ready for \"Full-Fledged\" War: Iran Responds to US Claim It Launched Saudi Oil Attack. theantimedia.com Iran has warned it stands ready for a \"full-fledged\" war with the United States.

Kurt Nimmo (2019-09-15). Sen. Graham Wants to Bomb Iran in Response to Houthi Attack on Saudi Oil. globalresearch.ca Following the early morning attack on Saudi Arabia\'s Abqaiq oil processing facility—the largest oil processing plant in the world—and a similar drone attack at the Khurais oil field on Saturday, the neocon senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, has …

unitedEditor (2019-09-15). \'I Rule the White House\': Will Bolton\'s ouster help Trump facilitate US-Iran negotiations? uwidata.com Most analysts agree that Donald Trump\'s main motivation for dismissing his National Security Advisor, John Bolton, was that Bolton had been giving off the impression that he was the real decision-maker in the White House, while the president was merely a talking puppet. Looking at Trump\'s career, even before coming into office, it is clear …

Common Dreams staff (2019-09-15). US \'Lies\' Slammed After Pompeo, Without Proof, Blames Iran for Drone Attacks. commondreams.org Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) threatens to \"break the regime\'s back\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1168377141-955px.jpg …

teleSUR (2019-09-15). #NoMoreTrump Campaign Ends With 13m Signatures Expected. telesurenglish.net The Venezuelan government wrapped up the international #NoMoreTrump campaign Sunday as thousands gathered in the Bolivar plazas, communities and neighborhoods of the country to sign the petition calling on the United States to lift the unilateral blockade. | RELATED: | Maduro: 12m #NoMoreTrump Petitions to be Presented to UN | \"In every corner of the planet, we have seen the #NoMoreTrump campaign because it is a feeling that has expanded to the peoples of the world. This campaign symbo…

Edward Curtin (2019-09-15). The 9/11 Deception Remains in Control of America\'s Destiny. globalresearch.ca The 18th anniversary of 9/11 is over, but 9/11 isn\'t. September 11, 2001, is the defining event of America\'s 21st century. The neoconservatives used their false flag event to destroy the Bill of Rights and turn the American people over …

Aaron Kesel (2019-09-15). Yale Study: Wild Mosquitoes Retained Genes of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes. theantimedia.com In Brazil, a genetic engineering test of mosquitoes appears to have failed.

teleSUR (2019-09-15). Lula Da Silva: \'They Thought Lies Were Going To Win\'. telesurenglish.net \"I\'m turning 73 years old but I\'ve got the energy of a 20-year-old boy\", said former President Lula Da Silva during his first interview to an Argentinian diary since he was imprisoned April 7, 2018. Sitting behind a small desk and guarded by a police officer, he confessed he has planned to live 120 years, therefore, he needs a lot of strength because otherwise \"life would be boring\". | RELATED: | Prosecutors Hid Evidence to Keep Lula From Becoming Minister in 2016 | The…

Kurt Nimmo (2019-09-15). Trump the Clueless: Israel is Not Spying on Me. globalresearch.ca It does not bother President Trump the Israelis are spying on him. In fact, he believes it is not true despite evidence to the contrary. Every president since Truman knew about Israel\'s aggressive intelligence efforts, but not Trump the Clueless….

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-09-15). \"Doctored Admissions\": The US University Admissions Scandal as a Global Problem. globalresearch.ca Not so much a Desperate House Wife as a desperate mother, a contrite Felicity Huffman, known for playing Lynette Scavo, has been convicted for her role in the university admissions scandal in the United States. The scene is set …

teleSUR (2019-09-15). Israeli Gov\'t Legalizes Colony in Palestinian Jordan\'s Valley. telesurenglish.net Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled for far-right voter support two days before an election, convening his cabinet in the occupied West Bank and having it approve legal status for an unauthorised outpost. | RELATED: | Apartheid\': Palestinians Can\'t Vote in Israeli Election Set to Decide on Their Lands\' Fate | Netanyahu\'s caretaker government met on Sunday in the Jordan Valley, a largely agricultural area which he announced on Tuesday that…

Lynda Carson (2019-09-15). Outing the Board Members of the NRA. indybay.org It seems that NOW is the time to take this a step further and expose some of the Board Members of the notorious NRA, a domestic terrorist organization!

splcenter (2019-09-15). Remembering the Birmingham church bombing. splcenter.org Fifty-six years ago today, four precious little girls were murdered in one of the most heinous acts of white supremacist terror of the civil rights era.

Aaron Maté (2019-09-15). Outing of CIA\'s Kremlin mole echoes Iraq WMD hoax. thegrayzone.com The outing of a CIA informant inside of the Kremlin raises new questions about the Russia investigation and the intelligence…

Staff (2019-09-15). Let\'s Make Friday the Biggest Day of Climate Action in Global History. truthout.org | | What do Ben and Jerry\'s, an 800,000-member South African trade union, countless college professors, a big chunk of Amazon\'s Seattle workforce, and more high school students than you can imagine have in common? They\'re all joining in a massive climate strike this coming Friday, September 20 — a strike that will likely register as the biggest day of climate action in the planet\'s history. | More than this, what they have in common is something they share with much of the rest of humanity:…

Laura Flanders (2019-09-15). From Voice of America to NPR: New CEO Lansing\'s Glass House. commondreams.org John Lansing, now CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), talked about the operations of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the agency that oversees United States government-supported, civilian international news media such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Marti, and Alhurra. He explained how he planned to reshape U.S. media operations to better fit the current media environment, including how to address propaganda by countries such as Russia and China and stateless actors such as ISIL. (C-SPAN January 6, 2016) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_…

Alan MacLeod (2019-09-15). Russia Has \'Oligarchs,\' the US Has \'Businessmen\'. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/david-koch-and-charles-955px.jpg …

teleSUR (2019-09-15). Turkey: Russian S-400 Missile Delivery Complete, Active in 2020. telesurenglish.net Turkey\'s defense ministry informed Sunday that the delivery of the second battery of Russian S-400 missile defense systems has been completed, adding that it would become operational by April 2020 despite United States threats. | RELATED: | Trump Won\'t Allow S-400 Deal to Harm Turkish-US Ties: Erdogan | \"They (U.S. officials) told us \'don\'t activate them and we can sort this out\', but we told them that we didn\'t buy these systems as a prop,\" Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusgl…

Michael Welch (2019-09-15). 9/11 Truth and Justice 18 Years after the Attacks. globalresearch.ca \"The worst act of terrorism in the history of our country which claimed almost 3000 innocent lives and which dramatically altered the course of our nation and the world and it had a proposed deadline of just 18 months which …

Global Research News (2019-09-15). Selected Articles: Houthi Attack on Saudi Oil. globalresearch.ca A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media \"NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize\", and where \"nuclear weapons and wars make us safer\" | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …

Afroze Fatima Zaidi (2019-09-15). Everyone\'s raving about Netflix\'s Unbelievable, and with good reason. thecanary.co Warning: this article discusses sexual assault and contains content some readers may find triggering. | A few days ago, I read an article in The Canary about a drop in prosecutions for rape in the UK. It talked about the reasons for this drop, and how it meant an \'effective decriminalisation\' of rape. It didn\'t make for an easy read, particularly for me, a survivor of sexual assault. | Coming across Netflix\'s new show Unbelievable, which looks at how local author…

Staff (2019-09-14). Yemen\'s Houthi Rebels Attack Key Saudi Oil Sites. truthdig.com DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Yemen\'s Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world\'s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires at a vulnerable chokepoint for global energy supplies. | It remained unclear hours later whether anyone was injured at the Abqaiq oil processing facility and the Khurais oil field or what effect the assault would have on oil production. Rising smoke from the fires at the sites could be seen by satellites. | The attack by the Iranian-backed Houthis in the war against a Saudi-led coalition comes after weeks of similar drone…

RT (2019-09-14). Pompeo blames Iran for drone attack on Saudi oil facilities, Senator Graham urges US to strike it. rt.com A drone attack on Saudi oil facilities claimed by Yemen\'s Houthi rebels prompted Washington to blame Tehran, with US warhawk, Senator Lindsey Graham, calling for a strike against Iran. | The smoke from the huge fires at the world\'s largest oil processing plant caused by the strike had barely dissipated when officials in Washington jumped at the opportunity to use the occasion to push an anti-Iranian agenda. | US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Tehran for what he called \"an unprecedented attack on the world\'s energy supply\" but stopped short of suggesting any retaliatory measures. | Meanwhile Graham was q…

Staff (2019-09-14). Son of Bin Laden Killed in U.S. Strike, White House Says. truthdig.com American officials say there are indications that al-Qaida member Hamza bin Laden was killed by the CIA, not the U.S. military.

Gloria Rubac (2019-09-14). El Paso, firme! workers.org The chants rang out loud and clear all weekend: \"El Paso!\" Then: \"Firme!\" After the racist mass murders on Aug. 3, when a gunman killed 22 people and wounded 24 more, El Paso activists issued a call to action against white supremacy. This was followed by a weekend of actions . . . | Continue reading El Paso, firme! at Workers.org

RT (2019-09-14). Bolton resurrects pair of PACs to prop up Congress\' top warmongers. rt.com Former National Security Advisor John Bolton has wasted no time relaunching his political action committees and endorsing five Republican congressmen, all of whom appear to love war almost as much as he does. | The John Bolton PAC has endorsed Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Cory Gardner (R-Colorado), and Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), along with Reps Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) and Lee Zeldin (R-New York), according to its first post-resurrection press release on Friday, which referred to the now-unemployed hawk as \"Ambassador John Bolton\" despite the fact that he has not held a diplomatic position in year…

Eds. (2019-09-14). Trade, currency war weapons double-edged. mronline.org The US-China trade war has flared up again less than two weeks after US President Donald Trump delayed new tariffs of US$160 billion on Chinese imports until December, purportedly to avoid harming the holiday shopping season. | Source

Joe Piette (2019-09-14). Protest of India\'s rule over Kashmir. workers.org Chanting \"From Kashmir to Palestine, occupation is a crime,\" over 100 people, mostly immigrants from Kashmir, rallied on Sept. 6 outside the Masjid Al-Madinah Upper Darby Islamic Center near Philadelphia to call attention to India\'s recent human rights\' abuses and violations of Kashmir\'s sovereignty. | Continue reading Protest of India\'s rule over Kashmir at Workers.org

Soumya Shankar (2019-09-14). Mourning and Resistance in Kashmir After India Revoked the State\'s Special Status. theintercept.com Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir — On the eve of Eid al-Adha last month, 17-year-old Asrar Khan lay in a vegetative state at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, a hospital in downtown Srinagar, Kashmir\'s largest city. The unconscious teenager was barely hanging on to life, connected to a ventilator and blinded in one eye — the result, his family says, of pellet injuries at the hands of India\'s armed forces. | Six days earlier, on August 5, India\'s government, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the helm, had unilaterally abrogated a constituti…

Saul Foster (2019-09-14). Green Fascism: A Far-Right Ecology Movement is on the Rise in Germany, And It\'s Spreading Here. mronline.org Using green sensibilities to rally people around a nationalist ideology is also at the core of the AfD\'s agenda. The party, which does not seem to see a contradiction in its embrace of \"a healthy environment\" and climate-change denial, fuels fears that climate politics could threaten Germany\'s national sovereignty — for example, if ending fossil-fuel […] | Source

Staff (2019-09-14). Drug Companies Seek to Disqualify Judge in Opioids Suits. truthdig.com CLEVELAND— Attorneys for eight drug distributors, pharmacies and retailers facing trial next month for their roles in the opioid crisis want to disqualify the federal judge overseeing their cases, saying he has shown bias in his effort to obtain a multibillion-dollar global settlement. | According to the motion filed late Friday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, where Judge Dan Polster presides over most of the 2,000 lawsuits filed by state, local and tribal governments, the judicial code requires judges to recuse themselves when there is an appearance of prejudice or bias. | The attorneys wrote that Pol…