Emile Schepers (2019-09-17). \'Rio Pact\' means war danger between Venezuela and Colombia, pressure on Cuba. peoplesworld.org Some people had the wistful thought that the departure of John Bolton as Trump\'s National Security Advisory would cause an easing of the wacky aggressiveness of current U.S. foreign policy. Alas, no. Trump quickly clarified that whatever his disagreements with Bolton actually had been, he has no intention of letting up the pressure on Venezuela, …

RT (2019-09-17). \'The Times is DEAD!\' Trump demands resignation of all NYT writers involved in latest Kavanaugh smear. rt.com US President Donald Trump slammed the New York Times for \'destroying lives\' after the paper belatedly issued a correction admitting its claim of assault by Justice Brett Kavanaugh was totally unsubstantiated by the \"victim.\" | \"I call for the Resignation of everybody at The New York Times involved in the Kavanaugh SMEAR story, and while you\'re at it, the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, which is just as phony!\" Trump tweeted on Monday in response to the Times\'s correction to an article describing Kavanaugh\'s alleged drunken misbehavior during his college years at Yale University, posted two days after the article itse…

Binoy Kampmark (2019-09-17). Oiling for War: The Houthi Attack on Abqaiq. counterpunch.org The attack on the world\'s largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia southwest of Aramco\'s headquarters in Dhahran had a few predictable responses. Given that the facility has a daily output of some 5.7 million barrels, damaging it was bound to cause a spike in the price of oil. The question troubling the More

Mark Gruenberg (2019-09-17). Elizabeth Warren wins Working Families Party endorsement in Democratic primary. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—By a 61%-36% count, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., beat Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., for the Working Families Party endorsement for next year\'s Democratic presidential nomination. The nod to Warren is notable for two reasons: One is the WFP includes some of the nation\'s most-committed progressive activists, who can now be expected to hit the …

Dave Lindorff (2019-09-17). Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America\'s Endless \'War on Terror\'. counterpunch.org Now that the flags are back waving from the tops of flagpoles across the country, and the maudlin paeans to the close to 3000 lives lost in the airplane attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, it\'s time we gave a thought to the dead who were ignored. According More

The Canary (2019-09-17). Trump is \'corruption in the flesh\', presidential contender Warren says. thecanary.co Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren on Monday decried US President Donald Trump as \"corruption in the flesh\" and outlined her plans to root out corruption in the White House, Congress and courts.\"Corruption has put our planet at risk. Corruption has broken our economy. And corruption is breaking our democracy,\" said Warren, a Massachusetts senator who has emerged as a leading presidential contender.While aggressive, the message was a familiar one.Warren has embraced corruption as a central campaign theme from the beginning of her 2020 presidential bid. | But rarely has she addressed such a crowd wi…

RT (2019-09-17). \'We are not your prostitutes!\' Tulsi Gabbard slams Trump for \'pimping out\' US soldiers to Saudi Arabia. rt.com Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard has doubled down on her attacks on President Donald Trump\'s \'disgraceful\' allegiance to Saudi Arabia, eviscerating his \'betrayal\' of her fellow soldiers and the US Constitution. | Singling out Trump\'s statement that the US was \"locked and loaded\" but \"waiting to hear from the Kingdom … under what terms we would proceed,\" Gabbard slammed the US president for \"offering to place our military assets under the command of a foreign country.\" | . @realDonaldTrump Despicable. Offering to place our mili…

Mario Barrera (2019-09-17). The Southern Strategy and Donald Trump. counterpunch.org Contemporary Republican politicians like to invoke the legacy of Ronald Reagan to bolster their policies. However, the type of White nationalism being espoused by Donald Trump and his supporters more accurately traces back to two less appealing Republican personalities: Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon, and to the backlash created by the Civil Rights Movement of the nineteen sixties. More

Dean Baker (2019-09-17). Health Care: Premiums and Taxes. counterpunch.org There\'s an old joke about a lawyer who is questioning a doctor on an autopsy they had done on someone who was allegedly a murder victim. The lawyer asked the doctor, \"did you check whether the patient was breathing?\" The doctor answers \"no.\" The lawyer then asks \"did you check whether the patient had a More

Robert Jensen (2019-09-17). The Danger of Inspiration in a Time of Ecological Crisis. counterpunch.org Naomi Klein\'s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, has one crippling flaw—it\'s inspiring. At this moment in history, inspiring talk about solutions to multiple, cascading ecological crises is dangerous. At the conclusion of these 18 essays that bluntly outline the crises and explain a Green New Deal response, Klein bolsters readers More

Eds. (2019-09-17). Venezuela: Despite U.S. sanctions Maduro delivers house number 2.8 million. mronline.org As a part of Great Housing Mission Venezuela, the national program guarantees citizens\' access to adequate housing. | Source

Ramzy Baroud (2019-09-17). Israeli Apartheid Made Official: Annexation is the New Reality in Palestine. mintpressnews.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving quickly to alter the political reality in Palestine, and facing little or no resistance. | On September 10, Netanyahu declared his intentions to annex swathes of Palestinian land adjacent to the Jordan River, an area that covers 2,400 square kilometers, or nearly…

Norman Solomon (2019-09-17). The \'Official Secrets\' Movie vs. Joe Biden\'s Lies About the Iraq War. commondreams.org Then-U.S. Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) during a taping of \"Meet the Press\" at the NBC Studios December 19, 2004 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/joe_biden_iraq_war.jpg …

Vijay Prashad (2019-09-17). Only the Coalition of the Foolish Wants a War With Iran. commondreams.org Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been at war against Yemen since 2015. It is a ghastly war, a reckless war, one for which there is no end in sight. Trump wants advice on how to deal with Iran from the architect of that war—Mohammed bin Salman. (Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/mbs_trump_khashoggi.jpeg …

Berkeley Antifa (2019-09-17). 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.

W. Alejandro Sanchez (2019-09-17). Inside the Syrian Peace Talks. counterpunch.org Eight years since its inception in 2011, the Syrian civil war rages on, a conflict that has taken on grand geopolitical dimensions and resulted in tens of thousands killed and a massive exodus of refugees. While other tensions and conflicts around the world have since grabbed the attention of major media outlets, the situation in More

teleSUR (2019-09-17). Venezuelan Opposition Leader Condemns Guaido and Sanctions. telesurenglish.net Claudio Fermin, leader of the \'Soluciones Para Venezuela\' opposition party, railed against lawmaker Juan Guaido, accusing him of wasting the opportunity for peace talks. Fermin also addressed sanctions, attacking them as an enemy of peace and economic recovery. | RELATED: | Venezuela Gov\'t Announces Agreements with Opposition | The comments were made on Monday to reporters following the signing of wide-ranging…

Steven Sahiounie (2019-09-17). Netanyahu Has Resisted Peace for 23 Years, but the Resistance Movement Is Getting Stronger. globalresearch.ca The occupation of Palestine is always at the center of Middle East turmoil, and it would seem the name which is associated with conflicts in the region for over 23 years is Benjamin Netanyahu. It all began in 1996 …

WSWS (2019-09-17). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Teachers across Colombia staged another nationwide strike on September 12 to protest continuing violence and threats by far-right paramilitary groups.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (2019-09-17). The True Geopolitical Significance of the Hong Kong Protests. globalresearch.ca This is an interview between Emanuel Pastreich and Larry Wilkerson. | Lawrence B. \"Larry\" Wilkerson was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Upon retirement, he has become a critic of US foreign policy. Emmanuel Pastreich is …

Pepe Escobar (2019-09-17). On the Ground, Feeling the Pulse of Protest Hong Kong. globalresearch.ca What\'s going on deep down in Hong Kong? For a former resident with deep cultural and emotional ties to the Fragrant Harbor, it\'s quite hard to take it all in just within the framework of cold geopolitical logic. Master filmmaker …

Stephen Lendman (2019-09-17). US Rejects \"Resolution\" in All Its War Theaters. globalresearch.ca Permanent war is longstanding US policy. Today it\'s military Keynesianism on steroids. | With all categories included, spending for militarism, warmaking, maintaining its global empire of bases, so-called homeland security, black budgets, and related areas is more than double official the …

Stephen Lendman (2019-09-17). Trump Locked and Loaded Against Iran or Just Bluster? globalresearch.ca Take nothing Trump says at face value. Time and again his rhetoric and actions diverge greatly. | That said, on Sunday he tweeted the following: | \"Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, …

Rep. Ron Paul (2019-09-17). Will Trump Take Neocon Bait and Attack Iran over Saudi Strike? globalresearch.ca The recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities by Yemeni Houthi forces demonstrate once again that an aggressive foreign policy often brings unintended consequences and can result in blowback. In 2015 Saudi Arabia attacked its neighbor, Yemen, because a coup in …

Kurt Nimmo (2019-09-17). Trump: Saudi Arabia\'s Bitch. globalresearch.ca \"Saudi Arabia\'s Bitch\". That\'s what Democrat candidate Tulsi Gabbard calls President Trump for his slavish reliance on Saudi Arabia to declare Iran responsible for last weekend\'s attack on Saudi oil resources. | Gabbard\'s comments are in response to Trump\'s tweet on …

Philip Giraldi (2019-09-17). Israel Spies and Spies and Spies. globalresearch.ca Here we go again! Israel is caught red handed spying against the United States and everyone in Congress is silent, as are nearly all the mainstream media which failed to report the story. And the federal government itself, quick to …

Gary Brumback (2019-09-17). \"911!\" The Book Amazon May Not Want Americans to Read. dissidentvoice.org \"911!\" is the title of my new book.1 You immediately recognize the title as the nationwide telephone number to call for help or rescue. My choice of this title was deliberate. America and the world need to be rescued from the wrongdoing and evildoing by the power elite of America\'s corpocracy, or the Devil\'s marriage …

Staff (2019-09-17). Are We About to Attack Iran? truthout.org | | John Bolton is gone from the White House, yet war with Iran is suddenly imminent. I had begun to believe irony was dead. | \"[Bolton] calls for the preemptive bombing of Iran with dreary regularity during his many Fox News appearances,\" I wrote after he became Donald Trump\'s national security adviser in March of 2018, \"and has labored f…

Peter Koenig (2019-09-17). Impact of Yemeni Attack on Saudi ARAMCO Oil Facilities. globalresearch.ca Background | Saudi Arabia says the recent drone attacks on the state-run oil company Aramco, led to a temporary closure of its facilities and disrupted the kingdom\'s oil production and exports. | \"[Saudi] Energy Minister, Abdulaziz bin Salman said the attacks led …

Andrew Korybko (2019-09-17). Russia-Saudi Relations: Putin\'s S-400 Sales Pitch to Saudi Arabia. globalresearch.ca Those surprised by President Putin\'s S-400 sales pitch to Saudi Arabia earlier this week while speaking in Ankara alongside his Turkish and Iranian counterparts clearly haven\'t been following the rapid development of Russian-Saudi relations and are likely influenced by the …

Paul Antonopoulos (2019-09-17). Russia-Venezuela Air Travel: Latin American Is Not the US\' \"Backyard\"? globalresearch.ca The Venezuelan Minister for Tourism and Foreign Trade, Felix Plasencia revealed in an interview that Russia and Venezuela are analysing the possibility of opening commercial air routes between the two countries. The minister, who last week participated in the 23rd …

WSWS (2019-09-17). Brazilian GM workers speak out on US autoworkers\' strike. wsws.org Brazilian GM workers increasingly recognize that every issue they face is common to their class brothers in the US and internationally.

teleSUR (2019-09-17). Israelis Vote for 2nd Time This Year to Elect New PM. telesurenglish.net Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu battled for his political survival in the final hours of a close-run election Tuesday, urging voters to support him to avert a \"disaster.\" | RELATED: | \'Apartheid\': Palestinians Can\'t Vote in Israeli Election Set to Decide on Their Lands\' Fate | Opinion polls put former armed forces chief Benny Gantz\'s centrist Blue and White party neck-and-neck with Netanyahu\'s right-wing Likud, and suggest the far-right Yisrael…

Don Fitz (2019-09-17). What is Energy Denial? counterpunch.org The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half a century, it has forgotten its early focus and shifted toward green capitalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than abandonment of the slogan popular during the early Earth Days: \"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.\" The More

Dan Bacher (2019-09-17). Newsom Says He Will Veto Bill Blocking Trump Rollback of Endangered Fish Protections. indybay.org After Newsom\'s announcement that he plans to veto SB 1, it is no surprise that the total contributions from agriculture in his 2018 campaign for Governor were $637,398. Newsom received $58,400 from Beverly Hills agribusiness tycoon Stewart Resnick, $58,400 from Lynda Resnick and $58,400 from E.J. Gallo. Agribusiness tycoons are strident supporters of the voluntary agreements and the Delta Tunnel — and are among the strongest proponents of attacks on the Endangered Species Act, a landmark federal environmental law that SB 1 would help protect.

Julian Rose (2019-09-17). Four Funerals and a Wedding: A Brief History of the War on Humanity. globalresearch.ca Here, in the village of Stryszow in Southern Poland, you can hear the funeral ceremonies from the farmhouse on the hill where I reside during my time in this Country. The mournful cadences of the undertaker match the dull mechanical …

Bryant Harris (2019-09-17). Sanders Warns Trump Against Illegal Iran Strike. globalresearch.ca The attack on the Saudi Aramco oil facility over the weekend and President Donald Trump\'s subsequent tweet that the United States is \"locked and loaded\" immediately prompted presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to fire back. | Sanders and …

Staff (2019-09-17). On Climate and Food, What\'s the Lesson We Insist on Missing? truthout.org | | \"Food will be scarce, expensive and less nutritious,\" CNN warns us in its coverage of the UN\'s new \" Climate Change and Land\" report. The New York Times announces that \"Climate Change Threatens the World\'s Food Supply.\" | Reading these headlines,…

Dr. Albert Einstein (2019-09-17). Why War? Is There any Way of Delivering Humanity from the Menace of War? Mutual Exchange between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. globalresearch.ca Caputh near Potsdam, 30th July, 1932. | Dear Professor Freud, | The proposal of the League of Nations and its International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation at Paris that I should invite a person, to be chosen by myself, to a frank exchange …

teleSUR (2019-09-17). Colombia: Record Violence Against Local Elections Candidates. telesurenglish.net From the beginning of the electoral campaign on July 27 until Sep. 16, political violence in Colombia have left 40 candidates threatened with death, 2 candidates kidnapped, 5 candidates victims of attacks and 7 candidates killed, according to the Mission of Electoral Observation (MOE), an independent platform of social organizations which promotes the exercise of civil and political rights. | RELATED: | Colombia: Candidate for Mayor Killed at Campaign Event | Currently, some 117,000 peo…

Jason Ditz (2019-09-17). Trump Threatens Military Action Against Iran Over Saudi Oil Attack. theantimedia.com Trump felt the need to emphasize, as always, that he \"doesn\'t want war, but..\" while talking up how easy it\'d be for him to launch a new war.

WSWS (2019-09-17). Washington\'s rush to indict Iran over Saudi attacks. wsws.org Without presenting a shred of evidence, the Trump administration charged Tehran with responsibility for attacks that provide a pretext for another US war in the Middle East.

WSWS (2019-09-17). US Attorney General Barr invokes \"state secrets\" to cover up Saudi involvement in 9/11. wsws.org The cover-up of Saudi involvement has been carried out over three administrations, Democratic and Republican alike.

teleSUR (2019-09-17). Iran Not Interested In Talks With US After Trump\'s Accusations. telesurenglish.net Iran\'s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic has ruled out any talks with the U.S. administration after President Donald Trump accused them of carrying out the atack on the Saudi Aramco oil facilities this past weekend. | RELATED: | Iran Seizes Vessel in Gulf for Smuggling Diesel Fuel to UAE | \"Iranian officials, at any level, will never talk to American officials … this is part of their policy to put pressure on Iran,\" Iranian state TV…

Staff (2019-09-17). The Big American Bribery Scandal Isn\'t Felicity Huffman\'s $15,000. truthdig.com The American media world—both social media and \"news\" media—is afire with the news that actor Felicity Huffman is going to jail for spending $15,000 to bribe her daughter\'s way into college. | But a much bigger bribery scandal is played out every day in America with nary a peep from the media. It\'s the way billionaires and big corporations buy not just college admissions but tax cuts, deregulation, and hundreds of billions in government subsidies paid for with our ta…

Thom Hartmann (2019-09-17). The Big American Bribery Scandal Isn\'t Felicity Huffman\'s $15,000. commondreams.org A much bigger bribery scandal is played out every day in America with nary a peep from the media. It\'s the way billionaires and big corporations buy not just college admissions but tax cuts, deregulation, and hundreds of billions in government subsidies paid for with our taxes. (Photo: Paul Marotta/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-1167871428.jpg …

Elijah J. Magnier (2019-09-17). Iraq Cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr and Iran: A Long Love-Hate Relationship. globalresearch.ca The leader of the Iranian revolution Sayyed Ali Khamenei received on the 10th of Moharram, the Iraqi leader Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr, brought to him by Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps — …

Rich Gibson (2019-09-17). Seize Solidarity House. counterpunch.org The corrupt and Quisling leadership of the United Auto Workers Union has sent its 50,000 General Motors worker-members out on strike—a strike the labor bosses probably never wanted, as with the wildcat school workers\' strikes of recent months. While William Serrin in his, \"The Company and the Union,\" showed how the UAW used a counterfeit More

Dan Bacher (2019-09-17). Governor Newsom Says He Will Veto Bill Blocking Trump Rollback of Endangered Fish Species Protections. counterpunch.org The California Assembly passed Senate Bill 1, legislation blocking Trump administration rollbacks of environmental regulations, on Friday, September 13, on a 43-21 party-line vote. But Governor Gavin Newsom announced the next day that he plans to veto the bill. Newsom said he backs the principles behind the legislation, but doesn\'t support the bill as written. More

Laura Flanders (2019-09-17). From Voice of America to NPR: New CEO Lansing\'s Glass House. counterpunch.org I don\'t know about you, but I take a teeny weeny bit of offense when a guy in a glass house lobs a great big stone and expects me not to notice the sound of shattering. Which brings me to National Public Radio. When the ubiquitous news and public affairs network announced the appointment of More