Document exposes new U.S. plot to overthrow Nicaragua's elected socialist gov't
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
A disturbing new document outlines plans for a U.S. regime-change scheme against Nicaragua's elected leftist government, overseen by USAID, to bring about a "market economy" and a purge of Sandinistas.
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Native Americans Win Historic Victories in U.S. High Court Rulings
Talli Nauman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Heat on the U.S. Presidential election campaign thermometer reached new highs during the dog days of summer 2020, with the final rulings of the Supreme Court calendar year favoring indigenous causes diametrically opposed to those of incumbent candidate Donald Trump. The highest court in the land ruled in favor of the exercise of Native American…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/native-americans-win-historic-victories-in-u-s-high-court-rulings/

America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo
Justin Podur | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Joe Emersberger interviewed Justin Podur regarding his new book about a conflict few understand thanks to, among other things, "Africanist" scholars.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/americas-wars-on-democracy-in-rwanda-and-the-dr-congo/

28 Million Evictions Loom as Houses Sit Empty
Lee Camp | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
America is not based on hard work. Get it out of your head that this society is set up to be fair. Fair would be everyone with a roof over their head…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/28-million-evictions-loom-as-houses-sit-empty/

Why the Left Must Reject and Elect Biden at the Same Time
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
To make a progressive future possible, beating Trump is absolutely necessary while very far from sufficient. To organize against a government headed by Trump is to push against a thick stone wall. To organize against a government headed by Biden holds out the real potential of progressive breakthroughs.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-the-left-must-reject-and-elect-biden-at-the-same-time/

PDF of August 6 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-08-06
Download the 12-page PDF. Boston school workers blast 'reopening plans' WORLD: Brazil; China; Fidel Agcaoili °presente! ALSO: John Lewis & Selma legacy; Disabled people: 'Part of the working class'; #SEIUDropTheCops; Pandemic relief sabotaged; Sahara dust cloud; Heat waves & socialism. BLACK LIVES MATTER: Remembering Garrett Foster, anti-racist fighter; Pensacola solidarity; . . . | Continue reading PDF of August 6 issue at Workers.org…
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A review of Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
What can a virus tell us about climate breakdown, in its causation and in humanity's response?>…
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Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos
Mel Gurtov | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
"Normal" isn't good, as in the following warning in November 2019:…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/falling-behind-covid-climate-change-and-chaos/

"Man Attacks Grizzly" and Other Leading Bleeding Stories
David Mattson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
My Google Alerts inbox has been flooded during the last week by an article making the rounds among national and regional media outlets with a title that virtually screams "Official: 7 Grizzly Bear Attacks This Year." More matter-of-factly, the article leads off with the observation that…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/man-attacks-grizzly-and-other-leading-bleeding-stories/

The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled
Robert Jacobs — Ran Zwigenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
In August 1945, the United States attacked two cities in Japan with nuclear weapons in the last days of World War Two. The US used weapons of mass destruction against a primarily civilian population, instantly killing over 100,000 human beings, with tens of thousands of wounded and irradiated people who would die in the subsequent…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-american-narrative-of-hiroshima-is-a-statue-that-must-be-toppled/

How the Fascists Won World War II
H. Bruce Franklin | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Come you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks –"Masters of War," Bob Dylan This is a mystery story.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/how-the-fascists-won-world-war-ii/

Reverse the New Nuclear Arms Race
Howie Hawkins, Madelyn Hoffman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
August 6 is the 75th anniversary of the only time any nation in the world dropped an atomic bomb on people. On August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman ordered Fat Man dropped on Hiroshima. 210,000 people were killed instantly. Three days later, Little Boy was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 more people instantly. Now would…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/reverse-the-new-nuclear-arms-race/

Ireland and Slavery: Debating the 'Irish Slaves Myth'
Brian Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Over recent months, social media in Ireland and the United States has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about 'Irish slaves' and a broader controversy about Irish complicity in the transatlantic slave trade. The timing of the 'debate' is far from coincidental: a series of false and malicious assertions that the American far Right have…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/ireland-and-slavery-debating-the-irish-slaves-myth/

Suffrage: The Myth of Sisterphus
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." — The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Woman is the nigger of the world Yes, she is If you don't believe me, take…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/suffrage-the-myth-of-sisterphus/

Public Health vs. Politics
Katherine Eban | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
White House Scrapped Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Plan to Hurt Blue States…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/public-health-vs-politics/

Dossier 31: 'The Politic of Blood': Political Repression in South Africa
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
In his famous speech from the dock in April 1964, Nelson Mandela spoke of 'revolutionary democracy' rooted in precolonial forms of collective deliberation and decision making.
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Raise, Don't Stabilize and Don't Reduce Social Costs
Collective 20 | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
We seek radical social transformation. But short of that, our actions should not only force elites to respond to our demands they should also expand democracy and plant the seeds of a new future in the present…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/raise-dont-stabilize-and-dont-reduce-social-costs/

Global Research Newsletter Temporarily Suspended
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Dear Readers, | Due to technical issues, our daily newsletter sent out via e-mail is currently suspended. We will be able to resume the send-out within the next week or so. We thank you for your patience. | In the meantime, as …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-newsletter-temporarily-suspended/5720341

Seeking peace on the Korean Peninsula
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
Although the date drew little notice in the U.S. media, July 27, 2020 marked the 67th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement, an agreement that ended the fighting but not the war between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
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75 Years Since Hiroshima: Nuclear Sword of Damocles Hangs Over Humanity
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
"Some fell to the ground and their stomachs already expanded full, burst and organs fell out. Others had skin falling off them and others still were carrying limbs. And one in particular was carrying their eyeballs in their hand." The above is an account by a Hiroshima survivor talking about the fate of her schoolmates. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/75-years-since-hiroshima-nuclear-sword-of-damocles-hangs-over-humanity/

Staring into the Economic Abyss
Max Elbaum | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
It will take an across-the-board combination of militant protest, get out the vote, and doing whatever is necessary to protect the results to best position partisans of justice, peace and saving the planet for the bitter battles that lie beyond November…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/staring-into-the-economic-abyss/

Artists, writers and human rights groups urge Egypt to release Sanaa Seif
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
Sanaa Seif has been held in pre-trial detention since June for protesting the illegal detention of her brother, activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. She was abducted from outside the prosecutor general's office where she had gone to file a complaint…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/artists-writers-and-human-rights-groups-urge-egypt-to-release-sanaa-seif/

Israel demolishes multiple Palestinian-owned buildings in occupied territories
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
A spate of illegal demolitions were carried out by the Israeli army on August 5, Wednesday, in the occupied territories of West Bank and East Jerusalem. Since Tuesday, Israeli authorities have destroyed three Palestinian homes, a barbershop and various unspecified structures on a large tract of land near an illegal Israeli settlement, as well as a number of animal shelters. | Khaled Abu Tayeh, a member of the Committee for the Defense of Silwan Land in occupied East Jerusalem, said that Israeli police and Jerusalem municipality staff escorted bulldozers into the Ein al-Lowza area of Silwan to carry out demolition…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/israel-demolishes-multiple-palestinian-owned-buildings-in-occupied-territories/

Tuesday 8/11: Indigenous Leadership in the U.S. Environmental and Climate Justice Movements
Climate Reality Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/18835673.php

Saturday 8/22: What Lies Ahead: Online Townhall with economist Jack Rasmus
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online meeting, see website for details…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/18835675.php

Democrats drifting to extreme left because they are 'owned by George Soros,' claims former House speaker Gingrich
rt.com | 2020-08-06
The Democrat Party continues to drift radically leftward, and its leadership will never rebuke militant elements like Antifa, because it's controlled by billionaire leftist George Soros, former US House speaker Newt Gingrich said. | "All of these Democrats are now basically owned by the left," Gingrich said on Wednesday in an interview on Fox News. "They are not going to pick any fights. They are owned by people who are financed by George Soros." | Gingrich made his comments after Democrats in a US Senate hearing on Tuesday refused to directly criticize the conduct of Antifa, whose members have been accused of…
rt.com/usa/497220-gingrich-democrats-soros-antifa/

Iran sends aid to Lebanon over explosion at Beirut port
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
The devastating tragedy in Beirut on Tuesday has drawn tremendous outpouring of shock and grief around the world with many countries, including Iran, coming forward with offers of help.Iran, one of Lebanon's key allies in the region, dispatched the second shipment of humanitarian aid to Beirut on Thursday, following the first shipment late on Wednesday.The consignment of humanitarian aid includes mainly food and medical supplies, said Mohammad Baqer Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS).Iran has also set up a field hospital in Beirut and sent a 37-member medical team comprising gen…
yenisafak.com/en/news/iran-sends-aid-to-lebanon-over-explosion-at-beirut-port-3536252

EU to mobilize over €33 million to support Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
The European Union is mobilizing over ‚Ǩ33 million for Lebanon after Tuesday's deadly explosion at Beirut's port, the head of the EU Commission told Lebanon's premier over the phone on Thursday.According to a readout of the phone call issued by the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen told Hassan Diab the bloc will provide further support depending on the ongoing humanitarian needs assessment.The EU's long-term support to help with the city's reconstruction also discussed during the phone call.The 27-member bloc Wednesday announced that it activated its "Civil Protection Mechanism" and send…
yenisafak.com/en/news/eu-to-mobilize-over-33-million-to-support-lebanon-3536257

Tane Chatfield's family: 'We deserve justice'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-08-06
Indigenous Rachel EvansIssue 1275 Australia Aboriginal deaths in custody SydneyAugust 6, 2020The mother and father of Tane Chatfield spoke in the front of Lidcombe Coronial Court on July 17, the…
greenleft.org.au/content/tane-chatfield%E2%80%99s-family-we-deserve-justice

A Message to the Swing State
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Trump is waging a war on truth, decency, our planet, and on working people. If Biden wins, we'll be at his door on day one, demanding the kinds of structural reforms that advance racial, economic, and environmental justice. But before that, we have to #VoteTrumpOut in swing states…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-message-to-the-swing-state/

Big Tech Antics: The Data Robber Barons Appear Before Congress
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
Silicon Valley continues to sprawl in influence, and its modern robber barons bestride the globe with a confidence verging on contempt. The technology giants that mark that region of California are praised as "virtuosos of ingenuity," to use Steve Forbes' words, "creating and supplying products and services that were once unimaginable and that have been …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/big-tech-antics-the-data-robber-barons-appear-before-congress/

We Must Organize Like Never Before
Rosa Pavanelli | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
To rebuild our public services and protect our communities, we must break the unholy alliance of finance and the far right…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-must-organize-like-never-before/

End the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
On Sunday a demonstration is planned in Montréal against the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA). Under the banner "Against Israel's annexation of the Jordan Valley. No to the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement!", the march is seeking to politicize CIFTA amidst Israel's plan to formally annex parts of the West Bank. The march follows …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/end-the-canada-israel-free-trade-agreement/

A fair and solid crisis financing
Philipp Gerhartinger and Joseph Woss | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
The contrast between the EU and the US in COVID financing could hardly be greater. McDonald's operators, Marathon Oil (over $400 million), Exxon, Chevron and Sea World received relief and will reduce their future tax payments. Tax gifts charac terize the US way of corruption and contradict these recommendations.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835678.php

Coalition Calls for Shut Down of Calpella Wood Pellet Plant
Bradley Allen | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Local tribes, activists and statewide organizations are joining forces to demand closure of the Calpella wood pellet plant during the COVID-19 pandemic.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835692.php

Thursday 8/6: Hiroshima Nagasaki Accord for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons Livestream
United Religions Initative | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via livestream & restream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835700.php

Hunger Striker At KPFA Calls For More Programming On Testing/tracing & Worker Safety
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
An artist and KPFA member John Sheridan spoke out in front of KPFA about the need to have more programming on the need for mass testing and tracing to stop the pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835699.php

Food Not Bombs needs volunteers to help serve food to the hungry masses
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Older Photo Of Some Hungry People In Line To Get A Free Meal From Food Not Bombs At People's Park In Berkeley. Photo By Lydia Gans.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835690.php

E$tado $hileno: racismo contra el pueblo Mapuche
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Investigación revela racismo institucional contra el pueblo Mapuche…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835679.php

Neil Young sued the Trump campaign for illegal use of his music
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Neil Young Sued The Trump Campaign For Illegal Use Of His Music In An Un-American Campaign Of Ignorance And Hate:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/18835672.php

San Francisco Empty and Abandoned Buildings (2nd Quarter, 2020)
San Francisco Food Not Bombs | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
SF Food Not Bombs has updated the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection's list of empty and abandoned buildings through June, 2020 on this webpage: sffnb.org/list-of-san-francisco-empty-and-abandoned-buildings/.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835688.php

Sunday 8/9: A Virtual Remembrance: 75 Years After the Atomic Bombings hosted by Nichi Bei SF
Nichi Bei Foundation of San Francisco | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835684.php

Saturday 8/8: Our Freedom, Our Fight: NARAL Activists' Summit for Reproductive Rights (Day 1)
NARAL Pro-Choice America | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via Hopin…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/18835676.php

Saturday 8/15: 11th Annual GLIDE Legacy Gala, A Virtual Gathering
GLIDE | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835694.php

Will "Defunding-the-Police" Bring Prosecutorial Reform?
Imran Khaliq | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
"Defunding the Police" needs to include prosecutorial reform as prosecutors have even more power and impact on oppressing minorities than the police.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835686.php

EPIC Win For Mendocino National Forest at the Ninth Circuit
Environmental Protection Information Center | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
In a major victory, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) in a case impacting fragile post-fire forest in the Mendocino National Forest.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835697.php

Sunday 8/9: Our Freedom, Our Fight: NARAL Activists' Summit for Reproductive Rights (Day 2)
NARAL Pro-Choice America | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via Hopin…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/18835677.php

'You're breaking the law!' LA mayor vows to CUT WATER & POWER to homes that host 'large parties'
rt.com | 2020-08-06
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has warned that residents hosting large home gatherings can expect their water and power utilities to be cut, a sharp escalation of the city's strict Covid-19 measures amid a series of recent house parties. | Starting on Friday, Garcetti said that the city's Department of Water and Power (DWP) would shut off service to properties where there are "egregious" violations of local health orders, pointing to house parties in the Hollywood Hills and Calabasas in recent weeks, which he said were held in "flagrant" defiance of the law. | "While we have already closed all bars and nightclubs, the…
rt.com/usa/497222-la-cut-water-power-gatherings/

Portland protester violence continues, spreads to suburbs despite claim that 'if feds leave, we'll leave' (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Despite claims to the contrary, protests and violence have continued in Portland following the withdrawal of federal police. Tear gas and flashbang grenades were used to disperse crowds that have now moved to the city's suburbs. | Local authorities declared a riot for the second night in a row on Wednesday, as violence continued in the city for the 70th consecutive night since the death of Geroge Floyd in police custody. | A crowd of approximately 100 people gathered outside the Portland Police East Precinct s…
rt.com/usa/497227-portland-violence-continues-federal-withdrawal/

3 teens with LOADED AK-47 hop wall into Trump's Mar-a-Lago by 'mistake,' claim they 'found' the gun
rt.com | 2020-08-06
A trio of 15-year-old boys scaled a wall outside US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida carrying a loaded AK-47 in a backpack, in what police say was a desperate attempt to evade arrest. | The three teens were taken into custody soon after they breached the walls around the resort on Friday, according to Palm Beach Police spokesman Michael Ogrodnick, who said the boys tried to dump a backpack containing a loaded semi-automatic Mini Draco AK-47 with a 14-round magazine. He added that the suspects likely did not know where they were at the time, however. | "Honestly, I really don't believe they…
rt.com/usa/497219-teens-mar-a-lago-ak-47/

'Is this it?' Anti-Trump #Resistance thrilled as NYT says Deutsche Bank 'complied with subpoena,' NY AG preps 'major announcement'
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Critics of President Donald Trump are again convinced the 'walls are closing in' on the US commander-in-chief, excited by reports that his bank complied with a subpoena from New York prosecutors as part of a broad criminal probe. | The New York Times reported on Wednesday that prosecutors looking into Trump's tax records had subpoenaed his decades-long lender, Deutsche Bank, sometime last year, suggesting the document request was part of an investigation larger in scope than was previously known. The bank reportedly complied with the subpoena, handing over "detailed records, including financial statements and…
rt.com/usa/497223-trump-new-york-ag-major-announcement/

'Virtue signaling her way to reelection': Michigan governor roasted online after declaring racism 'PUBLIC HEALTH crisis'
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was accused of pandering to those engaged in identity politics, after she declared racism a "public health crisis" and said that everyone is plagued by unconscious bias. | The executive order signed by Whitmer on Wednesday mandates implicit bias training for all state employees. The ultimate goal is to build "a more inclusive and unbiased state that works for everyone," the Democrat governor said. | Implicit, unconscious bias exists within each of us, and, as public servants, we have a duty to understand how our bias can impact the lives of others. | Another measure rolled ou…
rt.com/usa/497235-whitmer-racism-executive-order/

Voting Fraud Is Real: The Electoral System Is Vulnerable
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-06
The United States national election is now only three months away and it should be expected that the out-and-out lies emanating from both parties will increase geometrically as the polling date nears. One of the more interesting claims regarding the election itself is the White House assertion that large scale voting by mail will permit fraud, so much so that the result of the voting will be unreliable or challenged. To be sure, it is not as if voter fraud is unknown in the United States. The victory of John F. Kennedy 1960 presidential election has often been credited to all the graveyards in Mayor Richard Daley…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/06/voting-fraud-is-real-the-electoral-system-is-vulnerable/

Number of families affected by benefit cap surges due to Covid-19, figures show
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
The number of families affected by the benefit cap, which limits how much any one household can receive in total benefits, rose by 93% from February to May due to coronavirus (Covid-19), the government has confirmed.Statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that 154,000 households had their benefits capped in May, and that the rise from February represents the biggest single increase in the number of capped households since the policy was launched in April 2013.Of those now affected by the cap, 52,000 are single parents with at least one child under five years old.The DWP said this wa…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/06/number-of-families-affected-by-benefit-cap-surges-due-to-covid-19-figures-show/

Thousands of NHS workers to protest this weekend over pay
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Thousands of NHS workers are expected to take to the streets this weekend demanding a pay rise.Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, said it is supporting those wishing to attend the socially-distanced protests so that the government can see the depth of discontent and frustration among NHS staff.A demonstration is organised in London on Saturday morning, while protests will also take place in other towns and cities across the UK.NHS workers march from St Thomas' Hospital to Downing Street to demand a pay rise on 29 July (Yui Mok/PA)Health workers are in the final year of a three-year deal and a…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/06/thousands-of-nhs-workers-to-protest-this-weekend-over-pay/

UK's first Dutch-style roundabout which prioritises cyclists opens in Cambridge
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
The UK's first Dutch-style roundabout — which prioritises cyclists and pedestrians over motorists — has opened in Cambridge.Cyclists have an outer ring on the roundabout, with cycle crossings over each of the four approach roads in a contrasting red surface.There are also zebra crossings over each approach road for pedestrians.Motorists must give way to pedestrians and to cyclists when joining and leaving the roundabout.Cambridgeshire County Council said that the old roundabout "was perceived by many people to be dangerous to cycle around" (Joe Giddens/PA)Reduced lane widths on the roundabout and at exi…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/06/uks-first-dutch-style-roundabout-which-prioritises-cyclists-opens-in-cambridge/

50 million face masks bought by government in £252m deal cannot be used by NHS
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Fifty million face masks bought by the government as part of a £252m contract will not be used in the NHS due to safety concerns. | The masks, ordered from Ayanda Capital, have ear loops rather than head loops, and there are concerns over whether they are adequate. | The government has confirmed in court papers that the masks, which are now in the Department of Health and Social Care's (DHSC) logistic chain, will not be used in the NHS. | The Good Law Project and EveryDoctor, which are suing the government over its Ayanda contract, estimate the 50 million masks would have cost more than £150m. | https…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/06/50-million-face-masks-bought-by-government-in-252m-deal-cannot-be-used-by-nhs/

Capacity to confront blast impact 'limited': Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
Lebanon's financial capacity to deal with the impact of the port warehouse explosion is "very limited," the country's economy minister said Thursday. | Raoul Nehme told a TV channel that damages of the devastating explosion, which killed at least 137 people and injured about 5,000 others in the capital Beirut on Tuesday, are estimated to be in billions of dollars. | "The capacity of the state is very limited, and so is that of the central bank and the banks," he said. "Grain silos [structures for storing bulk materials] have been completely destroyed, and we need time to evaluate the damages." | The Port of Beiru…
yenisafak.com/en/news/capacity-to-confront-blast-impact-limited-lebanon-3536249

Coronavirus claims another 174 lives in Iran
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
A total of 2,634 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, raising the tally to 320,117, according to ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari.She said more than 277,000 patients have recovered so far, while 4,156 are still hospitalized in critical condition. "Over 2.6 million tests have been conducted in Iran to date," Lari added.The surge in daily fatalities has increased the fears of a collapse of Iran's already overwhelmed health care system.Since appearing in China last December, the virus has spread to at least 188 countries and regions, according to figures compiled by the US' Johns Hopkins U…
yenisafak.com/en/news/coronavirus-claims-another-174-lives-in-iran-3536256

Two Palestinians contract coronavirus in Israeli prisons
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
Two more Palestinian detainees have been infected with coronavirus in Israeli prisons in Ramallah, occupied West Bank. In a statement Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), a non-governmental organization, said: "The administration of the Israeli prison of Ofer — western Ramallah — announced that Naim Abu Turki, 38, has been infected with coronavirus."Abu Turki, arrested at his home in Hebron, has been under detention for the last four days. The PPS warned of further spread of coronavirus among the Palestinian prisoners. | Earlier in the day, the Palestinian Authority Prisoners' Affairs Com…
yenisafak.com/en/world/two-palestinians-contract-coronavirus-in-israeli-prisons-3536251

'India not releasing jailed critics despite virus risk'
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
India is among several countries where human rights defenders and activists imprisoned for criticizing the government have been kept in jail despite the risk of COVID-19, Amnesty International said in a report released on Thursday.The new briefing, Daring to Stand up for Human Rights in a Pandemic, states that India is one of the countries that has "left prisoners of conscience to languish in appalling conditions despite widely publicized prisoner release programs."According to the report, 131 people who speak up for human rights have been harassed, prosecuted, killed, or imprisoned on COVID-19-related pretexts i…
yenisafak.com/en/news/india-not-releasing-jailed-critics-despite-virus-risk-3536253

Ebola cases in DR Congo rise to 74 in latest outbreak
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
At least 74 Ebola virus cases have been recorded in the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization announced Thursday.So far there are 74 cases, with 70 confirmed and four probable, 32 deaths and 28 recoveries from the 11th Ebola virus outbreak in Mbandaka, Equateur province, the WHO African Region tweeted.For several months, the DRC has been battling with several diseasing including, Cholera, Ebola, Measles.Last month the WHO office in the Central African country said that a total of 12,959 people have been vaccinated since the start of the 11th Ebola outbreak in ear…
yenisafak.com/en/news/ebola-cases-in-dr-congo-rise-to-74-in-latest-outbreak-3536250

French president urges to prioritize aid to Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
French President Emmanuel Macron stressed on Thursday to prioritize aids for blast-hit Lebanon without any condition.Following his arrival in Beirut, Lebanon's capital, Macron met with his Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun and the two leaders visited the site of massive explosion at the Port of Beirut.Macron said: "Lebanon is not alone … and we are fully aware that Lebanon's crisis is massive."He also vowed to secure and coordinate international aid to Lebanon, including medical supplies and medicine.The massive blast that rocked the Port of Beirut on Tuesday has left so far at least 135 dead and around 5,000 in…
yenisafak.com/en/news/french-president-urges-to-prioritize-aid-to-lebanon-3536254

Plane with 20 tons of supplies lands in Beirut: WHO
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
A plane carrying 20 tons of World Health Organization health supplies has landed in Beirut to support the treatment of patients injured by the massive explosion that rocked the city, the WHO said Thursday."The supplies will cover 1,000 trauma interventions and 1,000 surgical interventions for people suffering from injuries and burns resulting from the blast," the WHO said.Beirut and its surrounding suburbs were rocked Tuesday by a massive blast that left at least 135 people dead and nearly 5,000 injured.In health emergency response, WHO's logistics hub in Dubai airlifted the shipment."We are working closely with…
yenisafak.com/en/news/plane-with-20-tons-of-supplies-lands-in-beirut-who-3536248

Trouble in Paradise Valley
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Paradise Valley, Montana, is aptly named. The Yellowstone River flows north to Livingston, Montana, framed by the Absaroka Mountains on the east and the Gallatin Range on the West. It's one of the most stunning landscapes in the entire West. Due to its location immediately adjacent to Yellowstone Park and the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, Paradise…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/trouble-in-paradise-valley/

No Matter Who Biden Chooses as VP, It Will Be a Bittersweet Win for Women
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
No Matter Who Biden Chooses as VP, It Will Be a Bittersweet Win for Women…
thenation.com/article/politics/suffrage-female-vice-president/

Down Goes Clay
Ryan Grim | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Down Goes Clay: Cori Bush Knocks Off Half-Century Dynasty…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/down-goes-clay/

It's advantage Rajapaksa brothers as counting begins in Sri Lanka parliamentary polls
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's older brother, 74-year-old Mahinda Rajapaksa is predicted to lead his party, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), to victory in the elections. The results will be announced late on Thursday…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/its-advantage-rajapaksa-brothers-as-counting-begins-in-sri-lanka-parliamentary-polls/

Why We're Demanding No Cops for Veep
Jennifer Epps-Addison | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
Why We're Demanding No Cops for Veep…
thenation.com/article/politics/biden-vp-police-prosecutor/

Biden, Just Say Yes on Medicare for All!
D.D. Guttenplan | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
Biden, Just Say Yes on Medicare for All!
thenation.com/article/society/medicare-biden-2020-m4a/

As the Hurricane Season Intensifies, Is Puerto Rico Ready?
Ed Morales | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
As the Hurricane Season Intensifies, Is Puerto Rico Ready?
thenation.com/article/politics/isaias-puerto-rico-hurricane/

Stupid Scientific Reality!
Josh Gosfield | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
Stupid Scientific Reality!
thenation.com/article/politics/stupid-scientific-reality/

A Lethal Traffic Stop in Georgia
ML Kejera | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
A Lethal Traffic Stop in Georgia…
thenation.com/article/society/georgia-police-killing-gambian/

For Ottessa Moshfegh, Novel Writing Is a Spiritual Experience
Rosemarie Ho | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
For Ottessa Moshfegh, Novel Writing Is a Spiritual Experience…
thenation.com/article/culture/for-ottessa-moshfegh-novel-writing-is-a-spiritual-experience/

Backed by Millions from Pro-Israel Interests, Antone Melton-Meaux Takes Aim at Ilhan Omar
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-05
A little-known union-busting attorney from Minnesota is raking in millions in campaign donations, mostly from out of state, in his attempt to unseat anti-war Rep. Ilhan Omar. | MPN– Some of the most committed pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian groups are flooding the Democratic primaries in an attempt to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar. | On the surface, there are five candidates Democrats vying to be the congressional representative for Minnesota's 5th district. But, in reality, it is a two-horse race, with two candidates raising millions, mostly from out of state, in this unusually hotly contested primary. One's prese…

Backed by Millions from Pro-Israel Interests, Antone Melton-Meaux Takes Aim at Ilhan Omar

Backed by Millions from Pro-Israel Interests, Antone Melton-Meaux Takes Aim at Ilhan Omar
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-05
A little-known union-busting attorney from Minnesota is raking in millions in campaign donations, mostly from out of state, in his attempt to unseat anti-war Rep. Ilhan Omar.
mintpressnews.com/big-bucks-pro-israel-interests-antone-melton-meaux-takes-aim-ilhan-omar/270109/

Beirut Blast a Deadly Blow to Lebanon's Already Shattered Economy
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-05
With Lebanon already suffering from a food crisis, currency collapse, and economic sanctions, the devastating explosion at Beirut's biggest port may be a death knell for the country's economy.
mintpressnews.com/beirut-blast-deadly-blow-lebanon-shattered-economy/270091/

Brazilian teachers oppose back-to-school drive
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Amid intense opposition from teachers and parents, private schools were reopened last month in the state of Amazonas and this week in Rio de Janeiro.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/braz-a05.html

Amazon violates its own health and safety rules in COVID-19 coverup
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Amazon continues to withhold the number of reported coronavirus infections from its own workers and the public, placing countless lives in danger.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/amzn-a05.html

The End of Big Tech? Calls Grow to Break Up Facebook, Amazon for "Mob-Like" Behavior, Monopoly Power
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-05
Calls are growing to break up the Big Tech giants, with a handful of companies controlling more and more of the technology industry, crowding out or acquiring would-be competitors and exercising vast power over the U.S. economy. Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook during a hearing last week on whether their companies are guilty of stifling competition, in a scene reminiscent of the 1994 hearing of tobacco executives who claimed cigarettes were not addictive. This came just days after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly made $13 billion in a single day, even as the coronavirus pandemic ha…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/5/scott_galloway_big_tech

Amazon Workers Blocked Delivery Trucks For Hours
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
Amazon warehouse workers shut down deliveries at an Amazon Distribution Center in the San Francisco Bay Area for several hours on Saturday, demanding the company implement more safety measures to protect workers against COVID-19 and increased pay to reflect the cost of living in one of the country's most expensive metro areas. | Early Saturday, a caravan of cars, organized by Bay Area Amazonians, an Amazon warehouse worker and delivery-driver led group, drove into the warehouse parking lot, blocking Amazon delivery vans from leaving the facility for roughly three hours and disrupting the flow of business, accordi…
popularresistance.org/amazon-workers-blocked-delivery-trucks-for-hours/

Ex-NYT reporter publishes new anti-lockdown book, calls out '90% of media' on parroting same lines on Covid responses
rt.com | 2020-08-05
Alex Berenson's latest chapter in a series of books about Covid-19, the first of which was briefly censored by Amazon, questions both the media's coverage of the pandemic and the effectiveness of lockdowns. | "I think it's really important, at a time when 90 percent of media… is saying the same thing, with very little pushback or smart questioning, to get different perspectives," Berenson told Fox News about the self-published 'Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 2: Update and Examination of Lockdowns as a Strategy.' | "Even if you disagree with me completely, it's always good to know what o…
rt.com/usa/497205-alex-berenson-covid-lockdown-book/

'This Is a Big Deal': Iowa Gov. Ends Voting Ban for People With Felony Convictions
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
The new executive order means there is now no U.S. state categorically banning people with former convictions from voting. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/iowa-reenfranchise-felon-convictions.jpg …
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"This Doesn't Smell Right": Acting State Dept. Inspector General Resigns Just Months After Predecessor Fired
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
Questions are being raised over the sudden departure amid lingering concerns of alleged impropriety by Secretary of State Pompeo. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/ig-resigns-three-months-in.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/05/doesnt-smell-right-acting-state-dept-inspector-general-resigns-just-months-after?cd-origin=rss

5 August 2019: The Kashmir Conflict and the Aksai Chin Border Clash, A Dark Day for India-China Relations
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Most observers at the time regarded India's de-facto annexation of Jammu & Kashmir on 5 August 2019 as being a defining moment for either India's internal affairs or Indian-Pakistani relations, but in reality it was a defining one for Indo-Sino …
globalresearch.ca/5-august-2019-defining-moment-indo-sino-relations/5720293

Journalist Rami Khouri: Beirut Explosion Follows Years of Lebanese Gov't Incompetence & Corruption
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-05
The explosion in the port of Beirut, which killed at least 100 people and injured about 4,000 others, is the latest blow to Lebanon, which already faces an economic, political and public health crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic. The blast is believed to have been triggered by 2,700 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate inexplicably left unattended in a warehouse for six years. Journalist Rami Khouri says it's further proof of "the cumulative incompetence, corruption, lassitude, amateurism and uncaring attitude by successive Lebanese governments" that have failed the country. "It's the ruling political elit…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/5/rami_khouri_lebanon_beirut_explosion

"Despair and Destruction": Doctor in Beirut Describes Harrowing Scenes After Massive Port Explosion
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-05
As Beirut reels from a massive explosion that killed at least 100 people and injured thousands, we get an on-the-ground update from pediatrician and writer Dr. Seema Jilani, who treated her own daughter for injuries after the blast. "It was extremely packed because we're just coming out of a four-day lockdown," says Jilani. "Everybody was out." Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab called the explosion a "national catastrophe."
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/5/beirut_explosion_seema_jilani

Iran to send 2000 humanitarian packs to Beirut
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — "2,000 packages weighing 9 tons of food, as well as medicine and medical supplies, will be sent to Lebanon by IRCS", Iranian Red Crescent Society spokesman announced.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161915/Iran-to-send-2000-humanitarian-packs-to-Beirut

Iran's shipment of humanitarian aid to Lebanon
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — Iranian Red Crescent Society sent 95 tons of food and medicine to Beirut from Mehrabad Airport on Wednesday evening.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/161946/Iran-s-shipment-of-humanitarian-aid-to-Lebanon

Tuesday 8/11: Indigenous Leadership in the U.S. Environmental and Climate Justice Movements
Climate Reality Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-05
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/18835673.php

John Pilger: Another Hiroshima is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-05
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target — China. | John PILGER | When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. | At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. | I stared at the shadow…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/05/john-pilger-another-hiroshima-is-coming-unless-we-stop-it-now/

Why Housing Is a Human Right
Lee Camp | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
Congress's inability to actually represent the real-live human beings of America, combined with an economic system that rewards lack of empathy and an excess of greed, has brought us to a dark time when an oncoming tsunami of financial ruin, destitution and evictions towers over our heads, blocking out the sunlight. The impending evictions may…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/why-housing-is-a-human-right/

Turkey 'neutralized' more than 100 terrorists in July
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-05
Turkish security forces "neutralized" more than 100 terrorists in July, a government official said on Wednesday.Speaking at a monthly news briefing, Turkish Interior Ministry spokesman Ismail Catakli said the country "neutralized" 105 terrorists, including 80 PKK/KCK, 23 Daesh/ISIS, two leftist terror group members.Catakli added that five of them were on the gray category of the Interior Ministry's wanted terrorists list with up to a bounty of 500,000 Turkish liras ($71,246) on each head.The wanted list is divided into five color-coded categories, with red as the most wanted, followed by blue, green, orange and g…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-neutralized-more-than-100-terrorists-in-july-3536167

Breaking through the walls of isolation: What is the Prisoners Solidarity Committee?
Editor | workers.org | 2020-08-05
This slightly edited statement first appeared in the Sept. 17, 1971, WW as part of a special eight-page Prisoners Solidarity Committee insert, "A Report from Inside Attica," in tribute to the Attica Prison uprising that occurred Sept. 9-13. This justified rebellion resulted in the massacre of over 40 prisoners by . . . | Continue reading Breaking through the walls of isolation: | What is the Prisoners Solidarity Committee? at Workers.org…
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U.S. Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the U.S, Not China
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China. But it is the United States that has initiated each new escalation in U.S.-China relations. China's responses have been…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/u-s-cold-war-china-policy-will-isolate-the-u-s-not-china/

Fascist networks in German police and military issue new death threats
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
A growing number of threatening e-mails and faxes, almost all signed NSU 2.0, have been sent to left-wing artists, immigrants, politicians, journalists and lawyers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/netz-a05.html

Explosion Rocks Beirut; Trump Defies SCOTUS, GOP Stimulus Failure
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-05
Lebanon's capital of Beirut is reeling from an explosion on Tuesday that killed more than 135 people, injured thousands more and left the economy crippled. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump continues to push against a Supreme Court ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, making life harder on immigrants.
sputniknews.com/radio-political-misfits/202008051080079505-explosion-rocks-beirut-trump-defies-scotus-gop-stimulus-failure/

A tale of two Chomskys: Cancel culture vs. neoliberal hegemonic soft power
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-05
Noam Chomsky has been writing about the lack of democracy under neoliberal hegemony for decades, which is why I was so surprised that he signed the recent Harper's Letter.
mronline.org/2020/08/05/a-tale-of-two-chomskys-cancel-culture-vs-neoliberal-hegemonic-soft-power/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-tale-of-two-chomskys-cancel-culture-vs-neoliberal-hegemonic-soft-power

Do Hundreds of UN Resolutions Prove the United Nations has an Anti-Israel Bias?
Kathryn Shihadah | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-05
Palestine has been a prominent UN topic since 1949 and has been the subject of at least seven hundred resolutions, but does that mean the UN has it out for Israel as many of its supporters claim?
mintpressnews.com/un-resolutions-prove-united-nations-has-anti-israel-bias/269968/

Apartheid or One State: Has Jordan Broken a Political Taboo?
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-05
"You close the door to the two-state solution, I could very well look at this positively, if we're clearly opening the door to a one-state democratic solution." — PM of Jordan, Omar Razzaz…
mintpressnews.com/two-state-solution-jordan-broken-political-taboo/270068/

Bangkok Political Unrest. Is the US Funding Protesters to Attack Thailand's Military and Monarchy?
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
The Southeast Asian nation of Thailand has in recent years "tilted" too far toward China for Washington's liking. | Now, the familiar signs of US-backed covert regime change are evident in Thailand's streets. Protests are openly targeting Thailand's current government as …
globalresearch.ca/why-us-funding-protesters-attack-thailand-military-monarchy/5720288

Why is the US Funding Protesters to Attack Thailand's Military and Monarchy?
Anthony Cartalucci | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-05
And why is the Western media pretending the US isn't funding them? | The Southeast Asian nation of Thailand has in recent years "tilted" too far toward China for Washington's liking. | Now, the familiar signs of US-backed covert regime change are evident in Thailand's streets. Protests are openly targeting Thailand's current government as well as its military and constitutional monarchy. Protests are similar to US-backed unrest seen recently in Hong Kong and are becoming more frequent despite their poor attendance and an overall protest-weary public. | Despite the superficial and deliberately ambiguous stated goa…

Why is the US Funding Protesters to Attack Thailand's Military and Monarchy?

Polling suggests 'regime change' in Russia would lead to far-right or Communist Kremlin, pro-Western liberals have no support
rt.com | 2020-08-05
One of the great mysteries in US/UK analysis of Russia is the apparently almost universally accepted belief that the implosion of Putin's system would somehow gift Moscow 'back' to the West, resetting the clock to the 1990s. | The general consensus seems to be that Russians are secretly bursting with desire for 'freedom,' counting down the days until they can re-embrace Uncle Sam. Never mind the fact that even Boris Yeltsin's pro-American administration became increasingly disillusioned with Washington during his second term in the Kremlin. And, most famously, Yevgeny Primakov, then prime minister, turned his…
rt.com/russia/497193-regime-change-far-right-communist-kremlin/

'Coup-Plotters for Hire': Unearthed USAID Nicaragua Regime Change Doc Puts 2018 Protests in Context
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-05
An uncovered US Agency for International Development (USAID) document lays out a blueprint for regime change in Nicaragua. An expert told Sputnik the playbook shines a new light on the 2018 protests in Nicaragua as well as similar operations in other countries targeted by the US, such as Venezuela.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202008051080079233-coup-plotters-for-hire-unearthed-usaid-nicaragua-regime-change-doc-puts-2018-protests-in-context/

Pensacola protests federal war on the people
| workers.org | 2020-08-05
Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 1. By Shannon Dover Workers World Party-Pensacola branch held a demonstration Aug. 1 in solidarity with Portland's resistance to federal forces that have assaulted and kidnapped Black Lives Matter protesters in Oregon. Joining in the protest were members of Strive (Socialist Trans Initiative) and the local branch . . . | Continue reading Pensacola protests federal war on the people at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50471/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pensacola-protests-federal-war-on-the-people

US War on Chinese Enterprises
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
US war on China's rising prominence on the world stage is a bipartisan affair. | It won't likely miss a beat if Biden succeeds Trump in January. | US hostility toward China by Republicans and Dems differs only or largely in style …
globalresearch.ca/us-war-chinese-enterprises/5720282

Devastating Beirut Explosion: An Accident or Something More Sinister?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
On Tuesday, a massive explosion rocked Beirut, Lebanon's port area. | Scores were killed, thousands wounded, dozens of people missing, along with widespread destruction and damage. | According to Lebanese authorities, around 2,700 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate were stored in …
globalresearch.ca/devastating-beirut-explosion-accident-more-sinister/5720283

Rights Groups Raise Alarm Over Upcoming Supreme Court Case That Could Turn US Into 'Safe Haven' for Abusive Corporations
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
The U.S. Supreme Court could soon turn the United States into "a safe haven for human rights abusers," rights groups said Wednesday, raising alarm over the court's plan to hear arguments from Nestle and Cargill about a lawsuit brought against the companies in 2005. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/supremecourt_3_0.jpeg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/05/rights-groups-raise-alarm-over-upcoming-supreme-court-case-could-turn-us-safe-haven?cd-origin=rss

How Trump managed to lead the World with the worst response to COVID-19 pandemic
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-08-05
Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Ten days before this, the Chinese government had said–to great alarm–that the coronavirus could be transmitted from human to human.
mronline.org/2020/08/05/how-trump-managed-to-lead-the-world-with-the-worst-response-to-covid-19-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-trump-managed-to-lead-the-world-with-the-worst-response-to-covid-19-pandemic

"People of Kashmir are living in shock"
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-05
In 2019, India's ruling BJP finally enacted what what its fascistic ideological parent, the RSS, had wanted 66 years beforehand – the abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Communist leader M.Y. Tarigami talks about the past year…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/05/people-of-kashmir-are-living-in-shock/

From Bombing of Hiroshima to Collateral Murder; War Crimes of Empire and Prosecution of Free Press
Nozomi Hayase | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
On April 5, 2010, WikiLeaks released "Collateral Murder": a video showing a July 12, 2007 US Apache attack helicopter attack upon individuals in a Baghdad suburb. Amongst the over twelve people killed by the 30mm cannon fire were two Reuters journalists. (Image: Wikileaks/'Collateral Murder' video/Screenshot) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/collateral-damage-children_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/05/bombing-hiroshima-collateral-murder-war-crimes-empire-and-prosecution-free-press?cd-origin=rss

Clemency, Redemption, and Justice: A Personal Story
Jason Hernandez | aclu.org | 2020-08-05
In 1998, at the age of 21, I was sentenced to life without parole plus 320 years for drug-related offenses that were committed mostly in my teens. In 1998, 16 years into my sentence, I received clemency from President Obama after writing a letter to him asking for forgiveness, asking for mercy, asking for understanding that I wasn't a bad kid, just a kid who made a bad decision. That I wasn't that person who roamed those streets long ago or the same person who stood in front of the judge and received a life sentence, and as a result I shouldn't die in prison. , , President Obama agreed., , I was extrem…
aclu.org/news/smart-justice/clemency-redemption-and-justice-a-personal-story

From Medicare-for-All to "Masks-for-All": Bernie Sanders and the incredible shrinking "political revolution"
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Under conditions of the greatest political, economic, social, and health catastrophe in US history, Sanders' proposal amounts to less than a Band-Aid for a bullet wound.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/sand-a05.html

NEA launches lobbying for $175 billion to aid schools
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-05
WASHINGTON –The nation's largest union, the National Education Association, is asking its members and allies nationwide to lobby lawmakers to include $175 billion to aid schools in the next economic relief act dealing with the impact of coronavirus closures. And they're also making the point the issue is in the hands of lawmakers, particularly senators' …
peoplesworld.org/article/nea-launches-lobbying-for-175-billion-to-aid-schools/

Malaysia's Arch-Kleptocrat is Found Guilty
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak was found guilty in the first of 5 trials he faces for his multibillion-dollar looting of Malaysia's 1MBD development fund. This particular trial concerned US$14m of funds deposited in Najib's personal accounts from a unit of 1MDB. In all, it is alleged that US $4.5 bn was stolen from…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/malaysias-arch-kleptocrat-is-found-guilty/

Brazil: From pandemic to genocide
Makasi Motema | workers.org | 2020-08-05
Since the pandemic began, Brazilians have suffered 93,000 deaths and 2.7 million infections — the second highest number of infections in the world after the United States. Far from marshaling his country's resources to battle the disease, Bolsonaro has intentionally sabotaged Brazil's COVID-19 response. Like his U.S. analog, the right-wing . . . | Continue reading Brazil: From pandemic to genocide at Workers.org…
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US imposes new sanctions on China over alleged Uyghur abuses
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
US propaganda now includes allegations of Uyghur "genocide," based on sensational accounts of forced birth control and the sterilization of Uyghur women in Xinjiang province.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/uygh-a05.html

Celebrating 100 years of the communist party in Britain
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-05
Communists in Britain organized a massive online event on August 1, Saturday, to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the communist party in country. The centenary celebrations, which were titled the 'Red Wedge,' were held online due to the pandemic. The event organized by the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) saw discussions on a wide range of topics with thousands of participants joining in, including around 70 speakers representing different fronts. | As per reports, five sessions were held on Saturday, with deliberations on the themes of anti-racism and anti-fascism, environment and climate crisis,…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/05/celebrating-100-years-of-the-communist-party-in-britain/

Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Some 2,200 workers at Cerrejón mine in Northeastern Colombia rallied against threatened job cuts, while US Foods delivery drivers in Phoenix are angry over lack of safety precautions related to coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/wkrs-a05.html

Don't fall victim to the right's anti-science coronavirus conspiracy theories
Kimball Cariou | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-05
With no early end in sight to the COVID-19 pandemic, two crucial questions are on the agenda: How can we protect lives in this emergency, and what fundamental economic changes can prevent big corporate interests from imposing the burden of this crisis on working people? The second question is a subject for another commentary, but …
peoplesworld.org/article/dont-fall-victim-to-the-rights-anti-science-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories/

Threat of strike forces Chicago to cancel school re-opening plan
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-05
CHICAGO–The Chicago Public Schools have backed down from their plan to reopen school buildings in August despite the coronavirus pandemic. City Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the reversal in a morning press conference on August 5, citing health recommendations and parent and teacher concern as her reasons. City schools will hold remote-only classes for the first …
peoplesworld.org/article/dangerous-chicago-school-reopening-plan-may-force-teacher-strike-vote/

For Egalitarians, a Sudden Sense of Possibility
Sam Pizzigati | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
Something seems to be in the air these days — besides coronavirus. A hopefulness. A boldness. A conviction that we now have a real opportunity for blunting the corporate power that's done so much to make the United States the world's most unequal wealthy nation. How can we seize that opportunity? New reports from two…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/for-egalitarians-a-sudden-sense-of-possibility/

The virus, the GDP and the profit motive
Editor | workers.org | 2020-08-05
"The coronavirus pandemic's toll on the nation's economy became emphatically clearer Thursday," the New York Times wrote July 30, "as the government detailed the most devastating three-month collapse on record, which wiped away nearly five years of growth." Specifically, the gross domestic product, "the broadest measure of goods and services . . . | Continue reading The virus, the GDP and the profit motive at Workers.org…
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As COVID-19 surges, infected Turkish workers forced back to work
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
The coronavirus is again spreading unrestrainedly in Turkey due to the criminal back-to-work policies of the ruling class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/turk-a05.html

The Big Tech Hearings Could Be a Model for Corporate Accountability
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-08-05
The American Prospect See article on original site In 2018, Democrats ran and won on a platform to hold President Trump and his cronies accountable. Many observers expected to be treated to a full schedule of oversight programming in the succeeding Congress, with a nearly endless stream of smug incompetents being caught in their lies …
cepr.net/the-big-tech-hearings-could-be-a-model-for-corporate-accountability/

For Egalitarians, a Sudden Sense of Possibility
Sam Pizzigati | zcomm.org | 2020-08-05
The corona crisis has left the greed grabs of Corporate America considerably more vulnerable…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/for-egalitarians-a-sudden-sense-of-possibility/

The Worst Hunger Season Yet to Come: Global Moral Failure in the Time of Covid-19
Jonas Ecke | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
As the moral philosopher Peter Singer asserts, we are just as obligated to save a child half a world away than we are to save a child that is drowning right in front of our eyes. While in the past, even the most powerful individuals could not affect what is happening in distant places, we…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/the-worst-hunger-season-yet-to-come-global-moral-failure-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

Hiroshima, Technique, and Bioweapons
Seiji Yamada | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
My family comes from Hiroshima, and I was born there myself. On August 6, 1945, my father was thirteen and just far enough away from home in the center of Hiroshima, across a few hills assigned to digging potatoes. The rest of his immediate family was scattered far enough from Ground Zero to survive. Branches of his family and branches of my mother's family came to an end that day, however.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/hiroshima-technique-bioweapons/

Ten Years After Lieberman's "Internet Kill Switch," the War on Freedom Rages On
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
In 2010, US Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Thomas Carper (D-DE) introduced their Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act. Better known as the "Internet Kill Switch" proposal for the emergency powers it would have conferred on the president, the bill died without receiving a vote in either house of Congress. A…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/ten-years-after-liebermans-internet-kill-switch-the-war-on-freedom-rages-on/

The View From Saturn
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
The View From Saturn In the time it takes the earth to make Eight trips around the sun Saturn completes just a quarter of one And there's nowhere to do laundry No place to clean clothes Every laundromat's closed The streams, polluted, Are thick with waste Or dried away Yet you're still here And can…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/the-view-from-saturn/

Black Lives Matter: Resisting the Propaganda of Status Quo Defenders
Roy Eidelson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
First came the new names–Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and others–all added one by one to the long list of tragic, unjustifiable police killings of Black Americans. Then came the batons, the pepper spray, the tear gas, the flash-grenades, the helicopters, the armored vehicles, and the rubber bullets wielded against nonviolent Black Lives Matter protesters across the United States,…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/black-lives-matter-resisting-the-propaganda-of-status-quo-defenders/

The Battle for Kashmir
Rafiq Kathwari | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
The erasure of Islam, its decimation in Kashmir, India's only Muslim majority state, has accelerated since last August 5 when Prime Minister Modi drew down Kashmir's limited autonomy, claiming that it was a hurdle towards Kashmir's development. Since then, Delhi's functionaries have blocked 8.8 million mobile phones; they have arrested 7,000 Kashmiris, including politicians, activists, including…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/the-battle-for-kashmir-3/

Pro-US liberal opposition promotes greater power for regional authorities in Russian protests
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
The political intervention of the pro-US "liberal" opposition is aimed, above all, at turning sections of the upper-middle class and the oligarchy against Putin and winning them for a right-wing "palace coup."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/russ-a05.html

NIA Multi-site COVID-19 Related Clinical Trial Implementation Grant on Aging-Related Topics in at-risk Older Adult Populations (R01 Clinical Trial Required)
grants.gov | 2020-08-05
PAR-20-234
| Funding Opportunity ID: | 327717 | Opportunity Number: | PAR-20-234 | Opportunity Title: | NIA Multi-site COVID-19 Related Clinical Trial Implementation Grant on Aging-Related Topics in at-risk Older Adult Populations (R01 Clinical Trial Required) | Opportunity Category: | Discretionary | Opportunity Category Explanation: | | Funding Instrument Type: | Grant | Category of Funding Activity: | Health | Category Explanation: | | CFDA Number(s): | 93.866 | Eligible Applicants: | State governments | County governments | City or township governments | Special district go…
grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=327717

COVID-19 surges in Spain as government pushes reopening of schools
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
The return to school is a criminal policy exposing children, teachers, families and neighbourhoods to serious illness and death.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/spai-a05.html

Hydroxychloroquine: An Effective COVID Treatment the Media Continues to Tag as "A Dangerous Drug"
Dr. Steven Hatfill | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
On Friday, July 31, in a column ostensibly dealing with health care "misinformation," Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan opened by lambasting "fringe doctors spouting dangerous falsehoods about hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 wonder cure." | Actually, it was Sullivan who was …
globalresearch.ca/effective-covid-treatment-media-besmirch/5720303

National Security Alert: COVID Tests Scientifically Fraudulent, Epidemic of False Positives
David DeGraw | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests are used worldwide to "diagnose" Sars-Cov-2 infection. An in-depth investigation reveals clear scientific evidence proving that these tests are not accurate and create a statistically significant percentage of false positives. Positive results more likely …
globalresearch.ca/national-security-alert-covid-tests-scientifically-fraudulent-epidemic-false-positives/5720271

Indian PM Modi to lay cornerstone for Hindu temple at site of razed Ayodhya mosque
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Facing mounting popular anger over its ruinous response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BJP government is doubling down on its Hindu supremacist agenda.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/ayod-a05.html

South Africa: UN health agency sends experts to help battle against COVID-19
news.un.org | 2020-08-05
new "surge team" of leading UN health experts is on its way to South Africa to ramp up the COVID-19 response there, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069582

Melbourne's 'State of Disaster' Is Covid as Usual in the US
Neil Demause | zcomm.org | 2020-08-05
If Victoria were a US state, its infection rate would be one of the lowest in the nation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/melbournes-state-of-disaster-is-covid-as-usual-in-the-us/

COVID-19 crisis highlights big meat companies' lack of openness
Linda Tyler | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-05
Meat companies' evasive language about what is happening to animals during the COVID-19 crisis is part of a larger pattern that suppresses open debate about the ethical costs of food production in the U.S.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/05/covid-19-crisis-highlights-big-meat-companies-lack-of-openness/

COVID-19: Are We Being Misled Again by Big Pharma?
Third World Network | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. | This is not the first time. The WHO, in the recent past, had announced H1N1 — also known as swine flu — in June 2009, a …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-misled-again-big-pharma/5720273

GM Fairfax worker speaks out on spread of COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Last week saw the highest number of new recorded cases for the Kansas City metro area since the start of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/fair-a05.html

Dismissal of public school workers in Portugal met with widespread condemnation
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-05
Massive reductions are due to take place in public schools in Portugal even as reports highlight an imminent risk of lack of school professionals in the upcoming academic year because of the COVID-19 pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/05/dismissal-of-public-school-workers-in-portugal-met-with-widespread-condemnation/

Covid-19: Questionable Policies, Manipulated Rules of Data Collection and Reporting. Is It Safe for Students to Return to School?
H. Ealy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Article by | H. Ealy, M. McEvoy, M. Sava, S. Gupta, D. Chong, D. White, J. Nowicki, P. Anderson | *** | Key Findings For Data Through July 12th | According to the CDC, 101 children age 0 to 14 have died from influenza, | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-fatalities-wer-90-2-lower-how-would-you-feel-about-schools-reopening/5720264

What has changed since Kashmir's special status was revoked?
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-05
It has been one year since the far-right Indian government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party revoked the special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The last one year has been described by the people of Kashmir as one of utter distress and helplessness.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/05/what-has-changed-since-kashmirs-special-status-was-revoked/

Breaking: Israel Bombed Beirut?
Richard Silverstein | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Photo: Massive mushroom cloud from Hezbollah warehouse bombing and its aftermath | A note to our readers | We bring to the attention of our readers an important Tikun Olan ◊™◊ô◊ß◊ï◊ü ◊¢◊ï◊ú◊ù article by author Richard Silverstein pointing to the role of …
globalresearch.ca/breaking-israel-bombed-beirut/5720298

Up to 300,000 Left Homeless by Beirut Explosion: Live Updates
Ted Regencia | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Lebanese President Michel Aoun called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday and said a two-week state of emergency should be declared following a massive explosion in Beirut that killed at least 100 people and injured 4,000 others. | The explosion …
globalresearch.ca/300000-left-homeless-beirut-explosion-live-updates/5720308

Pentagon Plans to Destroy Dozens of Soviet Cities and the So-called Cold War
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Though remaining unmentioned in official texts, the origins of the dubiously titled Cold War can be traced to policies pursued by American leaders during World War II itself. Following Nazi Germany's calamitous defeat at Stalingrad in early 1943, Washington's ongoing …
globalresearch.ca/pentagon-plans-destroy-dozens-soviet-cities-so-called-cold-war/5677930

Global Research Newsletter Temporarily Suspended
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Dear Readers, | Due to technical issues, our daily newsletter sent out via e-mail is currently suspended. We will be able to resume the send-out within the next week or so. We thank you for your patience. | In the meantime, as …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-newsletter-temporarily-suspended/5720341

Massive Explosion Destroys Beirut Harbor, Hundreds of Casualties
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
A massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut this afternoon Tuesday 04 August 2020, the center of the explosion was in the Beirut harbor. | The Lebanese people who lived through a lengthy civil war and several confrontations with Israel and …
globalresearch.ca/massive-explosion-destroys-beirut-harbor-hundreds-casualties/5720267

Kashmir, India and Human Rights
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
It is one year since the Indian government revoked article 370 of their constitution, thus rendering Kashmir an oppressed colony of India. This is not to imply that Kashmiris enjoyed any semblance of independence prior to August 5 of 2019, …
globalresearch.ca/kashmir-india-human-rights/5720260

P Is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of Tyranny from A to Z
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
"When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a …
globalresearch.ca/predator-state-building-blocks-tyranny/5720276

US-German Relations Are Beyond Repair as Result of Decades-long Clash of Views & Ideas. Troop Pullout Is Only a Symptom
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
While the Trump administration sells the decision to withdraw US troops from Germany as a strengthening of NATO force alignment, the reality is it's merely the latest manifestation of a relationship on the decline for decades. | The announcement by Secretary | …
globalresearch.ca/us-german-relations-result-decades-long-clash-views-ideas-troop-pullout-symptom/5720306

Breaking: Israel Bombed Beirut?
Richard Silverstein | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Photo: Massive mushroom cloud from Hezbollah warehouse bombing and its aftermath | A note to our readers | Important report by Tikun Olan ◊™◊ô◊ß◊ï◊ü ◊¢◊ï◊ú◊ù . This report by author Richard Silverstein is yet to be confirmed. It is not corroborated by …
globalresearch.ca/breaking-israel-bombed-beirut/5720298

Islamic Women's Council calls for transparency from inquiry into New Zealand terrorist attack
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
The WSWS spoke with Anjum Rahman from the Islamic Women's Council, which is concerned about secrecy surrounding the royal commission into last year's fascist attack.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/nzmo-a05.html

Independent rights experts call on India to remedy 'alarming' situation in Jammu and Kashmir
news.un.org | 2020-08-05
UN-appointed independent human rights experts have called for urgent action in India's Jammu and Kashmir, amid concerns of ongoing abuses against civilians there.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069602

In Kashmir, India's policies echo Israeli atrocities
Umer Beigh | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-05
A year after the abrogation of Kashmir's special status and the imposition of a harsh lockdown, the parallels between India's policies and that of Israel are all the more stark…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/05/in-kashmir-indias-policies-echo-israeli-atrocities/

Shadowy US Firm Run by Former Diplomat Cinches Syria Oil Deal with Kurds
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-05
A Delaware-based company formed by a former American diplomat, a CEO of a private mercenary company and an old hand in the oil business has inked a deal with U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels to develop crude in Syria.
mintpressnews.com/shadowy-us-firm-cinches-syria-oil-deal-kurds/270101/

Leaked bodycam footage shows George Floyd's arrest and murder
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
The harrowing footage, not meant for public distribution, was leaked to the Daily Mail this week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/floy-a05.html

Oshkosh, WI protest demands justice for Isaiah Tucker on 3-year anniversary of his murder by police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-05
Oshkosh, WI – On the evening of July 31, 50 people from Oshkosh and the surrounding Fox Valley participated in a protest and vigil for Isaiah Tucker. The event, organized by United Action Oshkosh (UAO), marked the three-year anniversary of Isaiah's murder by Oshkosh police officers Aaron Achterberg and Kyle Roberts. This event was also a call for the Oshkosh Police Department to fire, indict and convict killer cop Achterberg and his accomplice Roberts, both of whom are still employed by Oshkosh Police Department. | Attendees of the event took to the streets and marched to the Oshkosh Police Department to demand…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/5/oshkosh-wi-protest-demands-justice-isaiah-tucker-3-year-anniversary-his-murder-police

North Carolina comes together to 'Smash the Police State'
calvin deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-08-05
Raleigh, N.C. Hundreds gathered here in Nash Square, where demonstrations have been held daily since May 30, for a July 29 demonstration — "Smash the Police State: Portland, Gastonia, Roxboro" — highlighting the anti-racist struggle in those three cities. 'Stop the war on Black America,' Raleigh, July 29. (WW Photo: . . . | Continue reading North Carolina comes together to 'Smash the Police State' at Workers.org…
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Israel Hits Beirut with Nuclear Missile, Trump and Lebanese Govt. Confirm (continually updating)
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-05
Trump confirms this was a bombing, not an accident and is immediately scourged by pro-Israel press…starting with the Daily Beast | #Breaking #Syria President Assad orders all borders and ports in the country open to #Lebanon, orders caravans of ambulances to head to #Beirut and ferry injured to hospitals in #Damascus, and launches an air bridge of medical and food supplies between the two cities | Israeli Delilah missile carrying 6 kiloton (6000 tons of TNT equivalent) nuclear missile (unretouched photo via VT Damascus) Ti…

Israel Hits Beirut with Nuclear Missile, Trump and Lebanese Govt. Confirm (continually updating)

Republicans sabotage as negotiations delay pandemic relief package
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-08-05
Aug. 3 — Talks between the Republican administration and its majority Republican Senate with the Democratic Party House and Senate leaders have failed so far to reach agreement. This impasse holds up the emergency relief, which Republicans call CARES-2, beyond the date when vital unemployment supplements expired and the rent . . . | Continue reading Republicans sabotage as negotiations delay pandemic relief package at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50448/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=republicans-sabotage-as-negotiations-delay-pandemic-relief-package

75 years after the bomb, Hiroshima still chooses 'reconciliation and hope'
news.un.org | 2020-08-05
In a video message delivered to a Peace Memorial Ceremony in Japan on Thursday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has paid tribute to the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which devastated the city in 1945.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069612

Widespread protests in Bolivia oppose postponement of elections
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Since Monday, a movement of strikes and blockades of main roads by workers and peasants has been spreading in Bolivia.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/boli-a05.html

Struggle makes headway, but fight far from over in Portland, Ore
Joshua Hanks | workers.org | 2020-08-05
When federal officers entered Portland, Ore., over the July 4 weekend and began to confront Black Lives Matter protesters, it quickly became clear that the protesters were not going to be driven out. The presence of federal officers only galvanized protesters, who turned out by the thousands night after night. . . . | Continue reading Struggle makes headway, but fight far from over in Portland, Ore. at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50451/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=struggle-makes-headway-but-fight-far-from-over-in-portland-ore

'The world is watching': Amnesty report details human rights violations by US police during racial justice protests
Julia Conley | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-05
"Similar to the arrest of journalists–at the end of day, we need people who can tell this story, collect this information, or the government can do whatever it wants."
nationofchange.org/2020/08/05/the-world-is-watching-amnesty-report-details-human-rights-violations-by-us-police-during-racial-justice-protests/

Syria criticizes US deal with SDF over its oil fields
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-05
Syrian oil fields in the north-eastern part of the country have been under the control of the Kurdish-led rebel group, Syrian Democratic Forces, since the defeat of ISIS in 2017…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/05/syria-criticizes-us-deal-with-sdf-over-its-oil-fields/

In A Universe
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-05
In a universe where death exists, | in a universe where love exists, | in a universe where scientific mysteries exist, | in a universe where eyesight exists, | in a universe where hummingbirds exist, | in a universe where giant oceanic manta rays exist, | in a universe where starling murmurations exist, | in a universe where octopus stinkhorn plants exist, | in a universe where black holes exist, | in a universe where quantum physics exists, | in a universe where consciousness exists, | in a universe where DMT trips exist, | I am going to spend the next five hours arguing | about the effectiveness of face masks…

In A Universe

The U.S. Refuses to Give Up Its Colonies
Edward Hunt | progressive.org | 2020-08-05
Representatives from five U.S. island territories are demanding either equal rights or a path to independence.
progressive.org/dispatches/us-refuses-to-give-up-colonies-hunt-200805/

ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: The Decision to Drop the Bomb on Japan and the Genesis of the Cold War
Scott Ritter | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-05
The head of the Manhattan Project said, "The purpose of the whole project was to subdue the …

ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: The Decision to Drop the Bomb on Japan and the Genesis of the Cold War

UK teachers' pay award: A shoddy deal for all
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
The offer is divisive and paltry. It will not be funded nationally by the Johnson government, but out of school budgets which are chronically under-funded.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/teuk-a05.html

Workers World Party salutes Fidel Agcaoili
Editor | workers.org | 2020-08-05
Fidel Agcaoili Workers World Party sends its deepest condolences and firm solidarity to the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the world proletarian movement on the death of an extraordinary Filipino revolutionary, Fidel Agcaoili, on July 23. Fidel's deep, lifelong dedication to organizing . . . | Continue reading Workers World Party salutes Fidel Agcaoili at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50468/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=workers-world-party-salutes-fidel-agcaoili

Boston school workers blast 'reopening plans'
Workers World Boston bureau | workers.org | 2020-08-05
Boston Public School nurses, teachers and bus drivers occupied City Hall Plaza on July 29, vowing to defend public safety by any means necessary. The action was a response to the threatening, dangerous demands of the White House, Wall Street and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to "get back to school . . . | Continue reading Boston school workers blast 'reopening plans' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50454/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boston-school-workers-blast-reopening-plans

Boston school workers blast 'reopening plans'
| workers.org | 2020-08-05
By Steve Gillis, Financial Secretary, USW Local 8751 and G. Lechat, Harvard TPS Coalition Boston Public School nurses, teachers and bus drivers occupied City Hall Plaza on July 29, vowing to defend public safety by any means necessary. The action was a response to the threatening, dangerous demands of the . . . | Continue reading Boston school workers blast 'reopening plans' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50454/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boston-school-workers-blast-reopening-plans

A literal matter of history
Mumia Abu-Jamal | workers.org | 2020-08-05
Mumia Abu-Jamal Printed from a July 27 audio column posted on prisonradio.org. When I was a young man — a boy really — I found barber shops to be fascinating places, for there, men gathered in an air of relaxed familiarity and discussed things they didn't do elsewhere. I heard . . . | Continue reading A literal matter of history at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50463/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-literal-matter-of-history

The Heat: China-U.S. relations take another hit
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-08-05
China and U.S. relations take another hit after President Trump threatens to shut down TikTok. | What is driving Washington's attacks on Beijing?
america.cgtn.com/2020/08/05/the-heat-china-u-s-relations-take-another-hit

Iran, Afghanistan ink MoU in transit field: official
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — The Director General of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Department General revealed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Afghanistan's private sector in the field of transit via Chabahar Port.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161914/Iran-Afghanistan-ink-MoU-in-transit-field-official

Survey suggests 10m infected with COVID-19 in Afghanistan
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — A survey conducted by Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health suggests that some 10 million people may have contracted the novel coronavirus disease in the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161918/Survey-suggests-10m-infected-with-COVID-19-in-Afghanistan

Assassinating cmdr. violation of Iraq territorial integrity
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — In its latest report, the United Nations on Wed. said that the United States has violated Iraqi territorial integrity by assassinating former IRGC Quds Force Commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161945/Assassinating-cmdr-violation-of-Iraq-territorial-integrity

Global COVID-19 deaths pass 700,000
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) — Coronavirus worldwide cases have exceeded 18.2 million with the deaths passing 692,000 in total, according to Worldometer figures.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161922/Global-COVID-19-deaths-pass-700-000

2,697 new COVID-19 cases registered in Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected 2,697 people and claimed 185 lives in Iran in the past 24 hours, a senior health official said.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161925/2-697-new-COVID-19-cases-registered-in-Iran

Iran ready to dispatch medical equipment to Beirut: Hatami
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Defense Brigadier General Amir Hatami said that his ministry is ready to send medical staff and equipment to Lebanon's Beirut following the huge explosion occurred in Beirut Port yesterday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161938/Iran-ready-to-dispatch-medical-equipment-to-Beirut-Hatami

Iran standing by Lebanon: Ghalibaf
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that Tehran stands by the government and nation of the Lebanon for getting through this crisis.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161932/Iran-standing-by-Lebanon-Ghalibaf

New envoys of Oman, Germany submit credentials to Zarif
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — The new ambassadors of Oman and Germany submitted a copy of their credentials to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161939/New-envoys-of-Oman-Germany-submit-credentials-to-Zarif

Lebanon's stability significant for all regional countries
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Iranian First Vice President Es'hagh Jahangiri said that Lebanon's stability and security are significant for all regional countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161948/Lebanon-s-stability-significant-for-all-regional-countries

Iran's Parliament pursuing 12 anti-US plans
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mojtaba Zonnour said that the Iranian Parliament is pursuing 12 anti-US plans.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161929/Iran-s-Parliament-pursuing-12-anti-US-plans

Zarif says Iran ready to assist Lebanon after explosion
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed the country's full readiness to render any necessary help to Lebanon after a massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161913/Zarif-says-Iran-ready-to-assist-Lebanon-after-explosion

VIDEO: Blaze in Food warehouse in Najaf
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Iraqi officials reported a massive fire in more than 20 warehouses of wholesale markets in Najaf, Iraq.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161944/VIDEO-Blaze-in-Food-warehouse-in-Najaf

Leader pardons, commutes sentences of 2,135 prisoners
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has agreed to pardon or commute the sentences of as many as 2,135 prisoners.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161931/Leader-pardons-commutes-sentences-of-2-135-prisoners

Leader sympathizes with Lebanese people over Beirut explosion
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a message on Wed. expressed his sympathy with the Lebanese people following the tragic huge explosion occurred at Beirut Port.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161947/Leader-sympathizes-with-Lebanese-people-over-Beirut-explosion

Project to transform understanding of effects of climate change on mental health
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-08-05
A multidisciplinary team is examining the direct and indirect effects of climate change on mental health.
imperial.ac.uk/news/201393/project-transform-understanding-effects-climate-change

Judge upholds coronavirus pandemic eviction ban in San Francisco
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-08-05
Eviction Ban During the Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/03/18835640.php

Connecting Dots! GAP Fisher Family Attacks ILWU & SF Malcom X Academy With A KIPP Charter
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-05
ILWU members, other unionists and supporters of public education rallied in San Francisco on August 1, 2020 at the GAP corporate headquarters. They spoke against GAP & A's owner John Fisher's plan to privatize the Howard Terminal in the Port of Oakland and and against the efforts of Doris Fisher, John's mother to bust up the SF public school Malcom X Academy in Bayview Hunters Point. SF KIPP which she runs has sued the SFUSD to allow the KIPP school to grab more rooms from Malcom X Academy public school…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/03/18835637.php

Fifth COVID-19 Demonstration at San Quentin
Leon and Ruth | indybay.org | 2020-08-05
About 600 people marched to the west gate of San Quentin Prison on August 2nd. While they rallied inmates called out, confirming the horrific conditions inside the walls where the COVID-19 virus has spread like wildfire. | Top photo by Stephanie Mohan, Pro Bono Photo…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/03/18835641.php

A fair and solid crisis financing
Philipp Gerhartinger and Joseph Woss | indybay.org | 2020-08-05
The contrast between the EU and the US in COVID financing could hardly be greater. McDonald's operators, Marathon Oil (over $400 million), Exxon, Chevron and Sea World received relief and will reduce their future tax payments. Tax gifts charac terize the US way of corruption and contradict these recommendations.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835678.php

Saturday 8/8: 75th Annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance & Virtual Peace Lantern Ceremony
Monterey Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-08-05
Online via YouTube livestream or Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/03/18835635.php

Will The Pandemic Transform US Military Bases?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
Okinawans opposed to the expansion of U.S. military bases on their island have been upset by the environmental damage, the accidents, and the crimes associated with the presence of 25,000 American troops. Now the anti-base movement has one more powerful argument to use in its case to shrink the U.S. footprint in this southernmost Japanese prefecture: the coronavirus. | Until recently, the novel coronavirus pandemic had largely spared Okinawa. There had been fewer than 150 infections and only seven deaths among a population of nearly 1.5 million.
popularresistance.org/will-the-pandemic-transform-us-military-bases/

Work In The Time Of COVID-19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
In two weeks, my partner and I were supposed to leave San Francisco for Reno, Nevada, where we'd be spending the next three months focused on the 2020 presidential election. As we did in 2018, we'd be working with UNITE-HERE, the hospitality industry union, only this time on the campaign to drive Donald Trump from office. | Now, however, we're not so sure we ought to go. According to information prepared for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Nevada is among the states in the "red zone" when it comes to both confirmed cases of, and positive tests for, Covid-19. I'm 68.
popularresistance.org/work-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

Mutual Aid Unites NYC Neighbors Facing COVID-19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
Nancy Perez, a 45-year-old resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, contracted COVID-19 in March. She stayed quarantined in her room for a month to isolate from her two sons and grandson. | A few days before she got the virus, she'd met a volunteer with Bed-Stuy Strong — one of the many mutual aid groups around the country that have rallied to provide help in the face of the pandemic. Bed-Stuy Strong assembled an army of volunteers to help vulnerable neighbors with food deliveries and basic supplies.
popularresistance.org/mutual-aid-unites-nyc-neighbors-facing-covid-19/

Brute Force Approach To Reopen Benefits Reckless CEOs, Endangers Workers
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
In late April, poultry processor Pilgrim's Pride transferred Maria Hernandez from her usual job to another department at its plant in Lufkin, Texas. Her sons say Hernandez's bosses didn't give her proper protective gear. And they didn't warn the 63-year-old that she would be working in a hot spot where other workers had already fallen ill from COVID-19. | When Hernandez, who worked at the plant for 30 years, started feeling sick, she continued to show up for her shift for fear of being fired. On May 8, she was found dead in her home — one of more than 90 meat and poultry plant workers who've succumbed to th…
popularresistance.org/brute-force-approach-to-reopen-benefits-reckless-ceos-endangers-workers/

Atomic Bombings At 75: The Illegality Of Nuclear Weapons
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
The mere possession of nuclear weapons violates the Nuremberg Principles (decreed a day before Nagasaki) and other international laws. | The human race stands on the verge of nuclear self-extinction as a species, and with it will die most, if not all, forms of intelligent life on the planet earth. Any attempt to dispel the ideology of nuclearism and its attendant myth propounding the legality of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence must directly come to grips with the fact that the nuclear age was conceived in the original sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. | The atomic bombings of Hiroshim…
popularresistance.org/atomic-bombings-at-75-the-illegality-of-nuclear-weapons/

Over 60 People Have Driven Their Cars Into Protesters Since May
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
At least 68 people have driven their cars into Black Lives Matter protesters since May 25. The incidents, most incited by civilians and some by police, represent an alarming trend in counter-protest violence against those marching in the streets. On foot, protesters are often defenseless against attacks by speeding vehicles; many have been injured and at least one person has died. | Data collected since late May by Ari Weil, deputy research director at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats of the University of Chicago, shows that vehicle assaults on protesters are increasingly common.
popularresistance.org/over-60-people-have-driven-their-cars-into-protesters-since-may/

Parents Stand With Educators On Safety Before Reopening Schools
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
Many parents nationwide are questioning whether it's safe to send their kids back to a brick and mortar school this fall. With varied life circumstances, and different districts and schools choosing different options, it's a daunting decision to make. | For Florida's Raquel Pantoja Lias, a mom of a rising fourth grader in Broward County, it's a hard "no." | Under an emergency order from the state education commissioner, most schools are scheduled to reopen on August 19 for in-person learning, five days a week, a plan supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
popularresistance.org/parents-stand-with-educators-on-safety-before-reopening-schools/

I Was Wrong: Congress Isn't Cowardly; It's Evil!
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
Now that Congress has shown the "courage" of its combat-continuation "convictions," expect a repeat performance enabling the next (potentially extinctive) war — this time in Europe. As I noted with exasperation here last week, congressional majorities are appalled, just appalled, by Trump's plan to withdraw 12,000 troops from Germany. It doesn't matter that the Europeans can capably handle their own defense in the event of a future war that America's expatriate-soldiers shouldn't risk, can't win, and mustn't be fought. At least if our species-mates would like to meet their prospective grandkids. After all,…
popularresistance.org/i-was-wrong-congress-isnt-cowardly-its-evil/

Biden backs out of attending Democratic convention on Covid-19 fears, will instead accept presidential nomination VIRTUALLY
rt.com | 2020-08-05
Joe Biden won't be traveling to Milwaukee as planned to accept the Democratic presidential nomination – he and other scheduled speakers at the party's national convention will give their speeches remotely, due to Covid-19 fears. | "From the very beginning of this pandemic, we put the health and safety of the American people first," Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said Wednesday. | "We followed the science, listened to doctors and public health experts, and we continued making adjustments to our plans in order to protect lives. That's the kind of steady and responsible leadership America deserv…
rt.com/usa/497208-democrat-biden-skips-convention/

Gaffe-smothered Biden laughs off the idea he should take a cognitive test
rt.com | 2020-08-05
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has mocked an interviewer who asked him if he would take a cognitive test, and also dismissed Donald Trump's challenge to do so. | "Why the hell would I take a test?" the 77-year-old politician asked, during a Tuesday Yahoo News interview after confirming that he has not taken one. Biden then used his catchphrase "come on, man" to mock the very idea, adding that it is like asking the interviewer, Errol Barnett, if he has been taking cocaine before the interview. | Biden concluded by saying he believes that Barnett was trying to "goad" him during the interview, but…
rt.com/usa/497168-biden-laughs-off-cognitive-test/

Biden's wife says he WILL debate Trump, as his campaign blames right wingers for 'imaginary controversy'
rt.com | 2020-08-05
Joe Biden's wife confirmed in a Fox News interview that he will go through with plans for debates with President Donald Trump, ignoring the advice of some political strategists and media outlets such as CNN. | "Oh yes, he will," Jill Biden told Fox's Dana Perino on Tuesday. "I think they've already, I think it's three debates they've decided on. So yes, he will be there." She added that her husband, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, will make up his own mind rather than being swayed by those who are urging him to skip the debates. | Jill Biden's comments echoed those of Biden campaign spokes…
rt.com/usa/497119-biden-wife-presidential-debate/

NYC setting up quarantine CHECKPOINTS to monitor visitors from 34 states, de Blasio says
rt.com | 2020-08-05
New York City is setting up checkpoints at bridges, tunnels and train stations to crack down on visitors from 34 states attempting to elude a statewide mandatory two-week Covid-19 quarantine, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced. | De Blasio warned visitors that the city would be tightening its surveillance of new arrivals at "key entry points" during a press conference on Wednesday. Visitors "will be reminded that [quarantine] is required, not optional," he told reporters, adding that failure to self-isolate can net violators a $10,000 fine. | Mayor de Blasio says, "starting today," NYC will put COVID checkpoin…
rt.com/usa/497188-deblasio-nyc-checkpoints-coronavirus-quarantine/

'Harmful Covid-19 misinformation': Facebook scrubs Trump post stating children 'virtually immune' to coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-08-05
Facebook has removed a post from US President Donald Trump's personal page — a clip from a recent interview in which he suggested Covid-19 poses little risk to children — stating he had made "false claims" about the virus. | "This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from Covid-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful Covid misinformation," Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said in a statement on Wednesday. | In the interview segment, which aired on Fox on Wednesday morning, Trump called for a reopening of schools around the country, arguing that Covid-19 would…
rt.com/usa/497216-trump-facebook-covid-misinformation/

Israeli military sets up coronavirus task force 'to cut chain of infection'
rt.com | 2020-08-05
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it was establishing a coronavirus task force aimed at cutting the chain of infection in the country. The new force will begin operating next week and will connect all the different bodies under one umbrella. | The unit, headed by a brigadier general, will operate a sampling center, a quarantine center, recovery hotels, an evaluation complex, and an epidemiological investigations center, AP reports. | The Defense Ministry has long advocated utilizing the military's vast infrastructure and resources to combat the spread of the virus but has been rebuffed until now because o…
rt.com/newsline/497133-israel-military-task-force/

Poll asks whether you'd be more willing to take anti-Covid vaccine if recommended by…Oprah, LeBron, or Tom Brady
rt.com | 2020-08-05
A new poll to measure people's trust in a potential Covid-19 vaccine asked respondents whether they would be more likely to take it if select celebrities and sports stars gave it their stamp of approval. | "If each of the following people or groups encouraged Americans to receive the coronavirus vaccine, would you be more or less likely to get vaccinated or would it not have an impact on your decision?" the Politico/Morning Consult poll — which was conducted among…
rt.com/usa/497211-coronavirus-vaccine-poll-oprah/

'Where was the dignity?' Parents of dead 6-year-old speak out on brutal bedside arrest & manhandling at UK hospital
rt.com | 2020-08-05
A couple whose daughter was taken off life support against their wishes has won a court battle to publish footage of their brutal treatment by UK cops. Rashid and Aliya Abbasi spoke to RT on seeking justice for young Zainab. | After winning the right to have footage of Rashid's brutal arrest at his dying daughter's bedside made public on Friday, the respiratory doctor and his wife — also a trained physician — are determined to stop such heinous maltreatment by "bad apples" in the NHS from continuing, they told RT UK on Tuesday. | "Up and down the country families are taken into side rooms and told…
rt.com/uk/497185-father-arrested-dying-daughter-hospital/

Los Angeles DA's husband charged with ASSAULT for pointing gun at BLM protesters on his porch
rt.com | 2020-08-05
The husband of Los Angeles' first black district attorney has been charged with multiple counts of assault with a firearm for pointing a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters who showed up on the couple's doorstep. | David Lacey, whose wife is LA District Attorney Jackie Lacey, has been charged with three counts of assault with a firearm, according to charging documents filed on Monday by California State Attorney General Xavier Becerra in Los Angeles superior court. The three assault charges &#150…
rt.com/usa/497115-lacey-husband-charged-assault-blm/

UK schools' reopening could see Covid-19 cases multiply rapidly but it's 'not certain,' Professor Lockdown warns
rt.com | 2020-08-05
The UK might need to hold off on easing Covid-19 restrictions if it wants its schools to re-open without triggering a new viral outbreak, epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who once prompted London to impose a strict lockdown, warns. | Secondary schools throughout the UK could become new centers of infection as soon as the educational facilities fully re-open in September, Ferguson warned in his latest alarming forecast. | "The risk then is that big schools, comprehensives, universities and FE colleges, link lots of households together, reconnecting the social network," the scientist told BBC Radio 4's 'Today' prog…
rt.com/uk/497201-neil-ferguson-schools-covid-lockdown/

Cyprus ready to help EU 'fill E. Mediterranean power vacuum' amid alleged US disengagement
rt.com | 2020-08-05
The European Union must do more to fill a power void in the eastern Mediterranean brought on by a perceived US disengagement from the region, Cyprus' foreign minister said on Wednesday. The island nation is ready to host an EU task force to achieve that goal, AP quoted Nikos Christodoulides as saying. | The EU has so far failed to use its ample "soft power" to position itself as the leading player in a region fraught with problems such as terrorism and illegal immigration, the minister said. | The bloc should pursue a more muscular policy, with a larger military footprint in the region, the diplomat noted, lau…
rt.com/newsline/497164-cyprus-eu-mediterranean-vacuum/

Former acting AG Yates says she signed bogus FISA requests to spy on Trump campaign because it's not her job to do fact-checking
rt.com | 2020-08-05
Former acting attorney general Sally Yates continued clinging to the possibility that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to get elected in 2016, testifying in the Senate that she couldn't opine on whether he's guilty. | Asked on Wednesday by Louisiana Republican John Kennedy whether Trump violated the law by somehow colluding with Russia, Yates said the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller found insufficient evidence of a conspiracy between Trump…
rt.com/usa/497215-yates-senate-collusion/

Protesters SUE Seattle over 'expensive gear' required to confront cops, demand ban on riot control weapons
rt.com | 2020-08-05
A group of protesters has sued the Seattle government, arguing that "unmitigated police violence" has imposed a monetary cost on their right to demonstrate freely, forcing them to buy expensive gear to safely confront the cops. | Filed by five plaintiffs who took part in ongoing protests in Seattle, the suit seeks a temporary restraining order barring the city's police department from wielding force and crowd control munitions on demonstrators, alleging heavy-handed police tactics have made "safe protest prohibitive," as "one needs an exceptional amount of protective gear to enjoy that freedom." | Also on rt.c…
rt.com/usa/497120-seattle-lawsuit-expensive-gear/

Do black Americans really support defunding the police? Over 80% want cops to stay & keep patrolling their communities, poll shows
rt.com | 2020-08-05
Despite Black Lives Matter protests raging across the country and moves to defund police departments or cut back their budgets, a new poll suggests black citizens don't support the efforts to remove cops from the streets. | The Gallup poll, released on Wednesday, was conducted throughout July and involved over 36,000 adults across the US. | A whopping 81 percent of black respondents said they want police to spend the same amount of time in their neighborhoods that they already do or to…
rt.com/usa/497214-gallup-poll-police-black-americans/

Millions of Americans to Suffer Severe Financial Hardship When Unemployment Aid Ends – Survey
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-05
A new analysis has found that 5.4 million Americans are expected to have issues paying their bills by the end of August, following the July 31 expiration of the supplemental $600 unemployment insurance benefits provided by the US' Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
sputniknews.com/us/202008051080078922-millions-of-americans-to-suffer-severe-financial-hardship-when-unemployment-aid-ends—survey/

Facebook Removes Video Post From Trump Over COVID-19 Misinformation
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-05
Facebook has issued a statement confirming that "harmful COVID misinformation" was the reason a video has been removed from US President Donald Trump's personal page.
sputniknews.com/us/202008051080078952-facebook-removes-video-post-from-trump-over-covid-19-misinformation/

Trump Insists COVID-19 'Will Go Away,' Even as Cases Rise
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-05
On this episode of the Critical Hour, co-hosts Dr. Wilmer Leon and Garland Nixon talk to Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi about US President Donald Trump predicting that the COVID-19 pandemic will peter out, even as deaths surge in the US.
sputniknews.com/radio_the_critical_hour/202008051080079458-trump-insists-covid-19-will-go-away-even-as-cases-rise/

Leading US Disease Expert Fauci Says He, Family Face Death Threats Over COVID-19 Advice
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-05
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Anger over COVID-19 advice has forced Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci and his family to dodge death threats with security guards and cope with unwanted harassment, Fauci said on Wednesday.
sputniknews.com/us/202008051080078904-leading-us-disease-expert-fauci-says-he-family-face-death-threats-over-covid-19-advice/

Iranian FM Zarif Snaps at Google for 'Glitch' When Translating Condolences to Lebanese People
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-05
It appears from the video Zarif retweeted that Google Translate changes "condolences" to "congratulations" when Persian speakers want to translate their sympathies for the Lebanese who suffered a massive explosion on Tuesday.
sputniknews.com/world/202008051080078576-iranian-fm-zarif-snaps-at-google-for-glitch-when-translating-condolences-to-lebanese-people/

Militants Shell Localities in Syria's Idlib, Aleppo Provinces, Russian Military Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-05
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* terrorist group has attacked settlements in Syria's provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, Rear Admiral Alexander Shcherbitsky, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry's centre for Syrian reconciliation, said at a briefing.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008051080079209-militants-shell-localities-in-syrias-idlib-aleppo-provinces-russian-military-says/

'Nature of War is Changing': Israeli Ex-Spy Chief Justifies Exorbitant Mossad Budget Amid IDF Cuts
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-05
After spending decades bracing for massive military assaults from nearby states, Israel is now more focused on detecting low-grade assaults and terrorist threats in a timely manner, which explains a shift in financing, the former official alleged.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008051080077552-nature-of-war-is-changing-israeli-ex-spy-chief-justifies-exorbitant-mossad-budget-amid-idf-cuts/

How Trump Managed to Lead the World With the Worst Response to the COVID Pandemic
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-05
The incompetence of the Trump administration–mirroring the dangerous incompetence of Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Narendra Modi of India–coming on top of a destroyed public health system and a failed private sector testing establishment has condemned millions of people in the U.S. to catch the disease and pass it on. There is–thus far–no prospect of breaking the chain of infection in the United States.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/05/how-trump-managed-lead-world-with-worst-response-covid-pandemic/

Water Wars and America's Fate
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-05
India versus China, Egypt versus Ethiopia, Israel versus the Palestinians — the Water Wars are already here with U.S., yet American and European policymakers remain disastrously blind to them. This is certain to have catastrophic consequences for the wealthy, arrogant and ludicrously complacent elites of the West. | The problem is particularly acute in the United States: Indeed, it has been growing for half a century but has reached such enormous dimensions in the 21st century that neocon imperialist Republican, neoliberal imperialist Democratic and Green policymakers are all oblivious to it. | How can this…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/05/water-wars-and-america-fate/

Government criticised for quarantine 'failures' and treatment of children as coronavirus cases rise
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-05
The government has been criticised for treating children "as an afterthought" during the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis and not acting quickly enough to close the UK border in the early days of the pandemic.A failure to quarantine travellers arriving in the UK in the early days of the pandemic "accelerated" the spread of Covid-19, a new report by the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee suggests.Meanwhile, children's commissioner Anne Longfield said the re-opening of schools "should be prioritised" as lockdown measures are eased, saying schools must be the first to reopen and the last to close during any local lo…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/05/government-criticised-for-quarantine-failures-and-treatment-of-children-as-coronavirus-cases-rise/

Number of workers facing redundancy rises further as more retailers announce cuts
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-05
More high street retailers have announced plans for redundancies. The true impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on the UK's workforce continues to bite. | WHSmith is planning to cut up to 1,500 jobs as bosses said its recovery from the Covid-19 lockdown has been "slow". | The retailer said it is starting to consult with staff over plans that could see as many as 1,500 of them losing their roles. | The company said it needed to reduce costs as its shops in airports and train stations are hit by low passenger numbers and its high street stores also suffer from low footfall. | The company said just over hal…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/05/number-of-workers-facing-redundancy-rises-further-as-more-retailers-announce-cuts/

Wild camping ban introduced in part of Dartmoor after 'unsustainable levels' of littering and fires
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-05
A temporary ban on wild camping has been introduced in one of the few places it is legal in England and Wales, following a surge of visitors to the area and "unsustainable levels" of anti-social behaviour. | Dartmoor National Park Authority has used emergency powers under the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 after large numbers of people treated Riddon Ridge at Bellever as an informal campsite. | People are usually legally allowed to backpack camp — carrying their own equipment as part of their walk and staying one to two nights maximum — in certain areas of Dartmoor. | But since the easing of coronavirus (C…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/05/wild-camping-ban-introduced-in-part-of-dartmoor-after-unsustainable-levels-of-littering-and-fires/

GOP Proposes Letting Fossil Fuel Firms Sue Sick Workers Seeking Compensation
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-05
Fossil fuel firms have long argued that addressing climate change will kill jobs — but the main entities killing oil and gas jobs lately have been fossil fuel firms. | Rather than save jobs, oil firms have lined executive pockets just before declaring bankruptcy, and announced layoffs rather than cut into shareholder profits. Some oil workers are even dying on the job — and instead of increasing safety and transpare…
truthout.org/articles/gop-proposes-letting-fossil-fuel-firms-sue-sick-workers-seeking-compensation/

Trump Threatens Unilateral Suspension of Payroll Tax
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-05
President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that he is considering circumventing Congress to unilaterally suspend collection of the payroll tax, a move advocacy groups and lawmakers said would be an " unconstitutional" abuse of power and a destructive attack on Social Security funding. | Trump said during a Covid-19 press briefing that h…
truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-unilateral-suspension-of-payroll-tax/

Doctor in Beirut Describes Harrowing Scenes After Massive Port Explosion
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-05
As Beirut reels from a massive explosion that killed at least 100 people and injured thousands, we get an on-the-ground update from pediatrician and writer Dr. Seema Jilani, who treated her own daughter for injuries after the blast. "It was extremely packed because we're just coming out of a four-day lockdown," says Jilani. "Everybody was out." Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab called the explosion a "national catastrophe." | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its…
truthout.org/video/doctor-in-beirut-describes-harrowing-scenes-after-massive-port-explosion/

Poll: Most Americans Believe Mail-In Voting Should Be Allowed in 2020 Elections
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-05
Voting by mail has become a political issue in this election year, thanks in part to many errant and unverifiable statements by President Donald Trump. But a new poll demonstrates most Americans still trust the practice of voting by mail. | Only 31 percent of respondents in a Politico/Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday say the United States shouldn't allow mail-in voting under the mistaken be…
truthout.org/articles/poll-most-americans-believe-mail-in-voting-should-be-allowed-in-2020-elections/

Over 100 Protesters Block Road to Mt. Rushmore During July 4th Festivities
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-08-05
Keystone, SD — On Friday, July 3, 2020, hundreds of protesters rallied on the shoulder of Highway 16A demonstrating their opposition to President Trump and Vice President Pence speaking and celebrating at Tƒ•u≈ãká≈°ila ≈ ákpe (Six Grandfathers Mountain), also known as Mount Rushmore, for Independence Day….
unicornriot.ninja/2020/over-100-protesters-block-road-to-mt-rushmore-during-july-4th-festivities/

Over 100 Protesters Block Road to Mt. Rushmore During July 4th Festivities
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-08-05
Keystone, SD — On Friday, July 3, 2020, hundreds of protesters rallied on the shoulder of Highway 16A demonstrating their opposition to President Trump and Vice President Pence speaking and celebrating at Tƒ•u≈ãká≈°ila ≈ ákpe (Six Grandfathers Mountain), also known as Mount Rushmore, for Independence Day….
unicornriot.ninja/2020/over-100-protesters-block-road-to-mt-rushmore-during-july-4th-festivities/

Demilitarize Kashmir for plebiscite: Diaspora groups
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-05
The Kashmiri diaspora around the world has demanded the demilitarization of Jammu and Kashmir to pave way for a plebiscite in the disputed Himalayan region.In a joint statement marking a year since India scrapped the region's special constitutional status, 56 groups representing Kashmiris living overseas vehemently condemned New Delhi's "pernicious tyranny" and "imperialist" aims."[The Indian government] has unleashed a well-designed imperialist plan that seeks to forever change the political nature of the Kashmir dispute through demographic changes, political maneuverings, and administrative machinations," read…
yenisafak.com/en/world/demilitarize-kashmir-for-plebiscite-diaspora-groups-3536175

Pakistani envoy calls for raising awareness on Kashmir
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-05
Pakistani citizens living abroad should raise awareness about the plight of people in Jammu and Kashmir, which was annexed by India and reduced to a centrally administered territory a year ago, Pakistan's ambassador to Ankara said on Wednesday.Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi's comments came at an event held in the Pakistani Embassy in Ankara where Youm-e-Istehsal, or Day of Exploitation, was marked with participation of officials, journalists and diplomatic representatives.The Pakistani administration declared Aug. 5 as Youm-e-Istehsal to protest against the Indian government's actions in Jammu and Kashmir, which Isla…
yenisafak.com/en/news/pakistani-envoy-calls-for-raising-awareness-on-kashmir-3536170

Over 352 killed in Jammu and Kashmir in last 1 year: Report
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-05
At least 352 people, including civilians and Indian soldiers, were killed in clashes and search operations across Indian-administered Kashmir in the last one year, according to a new report.The Kashmir's Statehood Abrogated — Legal Fact-Finding Report said New Delhi's Aug. 5, 2019 move, which revoked the disputed region's special status, dragged the valley into fresh violence.It said that 75 civilians and 196 militants — referred as "freedom fighters" — were killed at the hands of Indian security forces during the said period.Some 81 Indian soldiers and paramilitary personnel were also killed during clash…
yenisafak.com/en/world/over-352-killed-in-jammu-and-kashmir-in-last-1-year-report-3536172

Turkey stresses import of European watchdog reports
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-05
Turkey values the Council of Europe's independent monitoring mechanisms and its cooperation with them, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.The assertion was part of a statement announcing the release of reports by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on its 2017 and 2019 visits to Turkey.The ministry stressed that the reports, available on the CPT website, were released with Ankara's authorization and include the Turkish government's responses."Turkey attaches importance to the independent monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Eur…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-stresses-import-of-european-watchdog-reports-3536166

Turkey rescues 74 asylum seekers in Aegean
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-05
Turkey on Wednesday rescued 74 asylum seekers, who were pushed back by Greek forces into Turkish territorial waters, according to security sources.In a rescue operation, the Turkish Coast Guard rescued the asylum seekers, who set off for the Greek island of Lesbos, off the coast of Ayvalik district in the northwestern Turkish province of Balikesir.They were on board two rubber boats that were pushed back to Turkish territorial waters by the Greek Coast Guard, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.Turkey has been a key transit point for asylum seekers aiming to cr…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-rescues-74-asylum-seekers-in-aegean-3536174

Turkey: Auto sales rise 387.5% year-on-year in July
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-05
Turkey's passenger car and light commercial vehicle (LCV) sales surged by 387.5% year-on-year in July, according to an industry group on Wednesday.Vehicle sales in the country totaled 87,401 last month, up from 17,927 in July 2019, the Automotive Distributors' Association (ODD) said in a statement.Some 17,974 light commercial vehicle and 69,427 passenger-car were sold in the month, rising 350.9% and 610.7% respectively year-on-year.In January-June, the automotive market also expanded 60.3% on an annual basis to 341,469.Passenger car sales posted a rise of 58.9% to 273,022, and LCV sales soared 65.8% year-on-year…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-auto-sales-rise-3875-year-on-year-in-july-3536165

Staying on Message: Australia, the US and the AUSMIN Talks
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
The Satrap Chronicles of the US imperium will have, near the top of their various ingratiating themes, such Australian politicians as Senators Linda Reynolds and Marise Payne. They resemble Siamese consuls, hard to tell apart (robust build, similar of voice and manner). For another, their views form the putty of derivative policy that has characterised…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/staying-on-message-australia-the-us-and-the-ausmin-talks/

Australian meatworks emerge as centres of COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Amid growing infections throughout the industry, cold storage workers at the JBS plant in Melbourne refused to begin work last week, demanding safe working conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/meat-a05.html

The acting union's take down of the Tories is absolutely delicious
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-08-05
The performers and creative practitioners union Equity has delivered a scathing verdict on the Conservative government's handling on the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. While it's a veritable 'pun-fest' of scorching criticisms, there's also a serious point to be made. | Oh no he didn't!: | BBC News reported that the general secretary-elect of the Equity Union Paul Fleming has openly criticised Boris Johnson's government. He was critical of not only the Tories' general handling of the crisis, but also their lack of sup…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/08/05/the-acting-unions-take-down-of-the-tories-is-absolutely-delicious/

'Don't Let Anyone Fool You,' Says Sanders. Primary Wins Show Progressives 'Transforming American Politics'
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
Sen. Bernie Sanders maintains progressive candidates won because they campaigned "not only against Trump, but for an agenda that works for the working families of this country." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-08-05_at_3.02.38_pm.png …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/05/dont-let-anyone-fool-you-says-sanders-primary-wins-show-progressives-transforming?cd-origin=rss

Beware Biblical Literalists Like Pompeo Seeking War With China
Jeffrey D. Sachs | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted on Wednesday that he was on the phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensy in July, in which Trump asked Zelensky to investigate 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-11336864281.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/05/beware-biblical-literalists-pompeo-seeking-war-china?cd-origin=rss

Mitch McConnell's GOP Is Destroying America
Robert Reich | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
"For the bulk of this crisis, McConnell called the Senate back into session only to confirm more of Trump's extremist judges and advance a $740 billion defense spending bill," writes Reich. "Throughout it all, McConnell has insisted his priority is to shield businesses from Covid-related lawsuits by customers and employees who have contracted the virus." (Image: Inequality Media) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/how_gop_are_destroying_america.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/05/mitch-mcconnells-gop-destroying-america?cd-origin=rss

Sen. Schumer, Rep. McEachin, Progressive and Climate Advocates Speak Out Against Liability Waivers in Covid Stimulus
commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/08/05/sen-schumer-rep-mceachin-progressive-and-climate-advocates-speak-out-against?cd-origin=rss

New Report Accuses Trump of 'Intentional Disregard' and Attack on Democracy Throughout Failed Covid-19 Response
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
A new report from government watchdog Common Cause details at least seven months of failures by the Trump administration to confront the coronavirus pandemic as a national emergency and to contain the virus. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/intentional_disregard.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/05/new-report-accuses-trump-intentional-disregard-and-attack-democracy-throughout?cd-origin=rss

In Latest 'Stunningly Irresponsible' Call to Reopen Schools, Trump Repeats Lie That Covid-19 'Will Go Away'
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
In his latest push for U.S. public schools to reopen even as the country reports more than 4.8 million coronavirus cases and nearly 160,000 deaths, President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated his frequent claim that the virus will eventually disappear. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1227895486_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/05/latest-stunningly-irresponsible-call-reopen-schools-trump-repeats-lie-covid-19-will?cd-origin=rss

City Hall, CPS Must Commit to Supporting Every Student and Family Through Deadly COVID-19 Pandemic
commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/08/05/city-hall-cps-must-commit-supporting-every-student-and-family-through-deadly?cd-origin=rss

Nuclear War or Invasion: The False Dichotomy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Brett Wilkins | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
Representatives of the Empire of Japan stand aboard USS Missouri prior to signing of the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945. (Photo: US National Archives/Army Signal Corps) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/japanese_surrender.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/05/nuclear-war-or-invasion-false-dichotomy-hiroshima-and-nagasaki?cd-origin=rss

Lawyers' Committee Statement on Iowa Governor Executive Order Restoring Voting Rights to Iowans with Former Convictions
commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/08/05/lawyers-committee-statement-iowa-governor-executive-order-restoring-voting?cd-origin=rss

After 75 Years, Last Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings Says Nuclear Abolition Still 'Starting Point for Peace'
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
"Hell is probably like what we went through. It must never be allowed to happen again." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1227897368_hiroshima_survivor-crop.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/05/after-75-years-last-survivors-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-atomic-bombings-says-nuclear?cd-origin=rss

The Lessons We Still Haven't Learned From Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Helen Caldicott | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
Seventy-five years ago, newly in full awareness of its newfound ability to destroy the human race, what did the world do next? It starting mass producing these nuclear weapons of mass destruction. (Photo: Getty) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/naga_0.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/05/lessons-we-still-havent-learned-hiroshima-and-nagasaki?cd-origin=rss

Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/nina-simone-mississippi-goddam/

Did the Atomic Bomb End the Pacific War?
Paul Ham | zcomm.org | 2020-08-05
The use of the atomic weapon must be seen as a continuation and a start: the nuclear continuation of the conventional terror bombing of Japanese civilians, and the start of a new "cold war."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/did-the-atomic-bomb-end-the-pacific-war/

Can Israelis Broaden Their Protests Beyond Netanyahu?
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
Israel is roiling with angry street protests that local observers have warned could erupt into open civil strife — a development Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be encouraging. For weeks, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have been the scene of large, noisy demonstrations outside the official residences of Mr Netanyahu and his public security minister,…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/can-israelis-broaden-their-protests-beyond-netanyahu/

Lancet warns of massive resurgence of coronavirus after UK school reopening
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Medical professionals warn that schools cannot be reopened safely when testing and tracing are grossly inadequate and there is already a resurgence of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/ukco-a05.html

How Mitch McConnell's republicans are destroying America
Robert Reich | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-05
Time and again, they've shown that they only care about their wealthy donors and corporate backers.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/05/how-mitch-mcconnells-republicans-are-destroying-america/

Selected Articles: Did Israel Bomb Beirut?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
If you look to Global Research as a resource for information and understanding, to stay current on world events, or to experience honesty and transparency in your news coverage, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. Your …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-israel-bombed-beirut/5720313

The Tories coronavirus plan has paid off. We're now blaming each other for this mess
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-08-05
It seems that the Conservative government's approach to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has paid off. Because the latest YouGov polling shows the majority of the public would blame each other if there was a second wave — not the Tories' chaotic handling of the crisis.The coronavirus blame-game has reached its climax: On Tuesday 4 August, YouGov released the results of its "daily question" survey. And as it t…
thecanary.co/uk/2020/08/05/the-tories-coronavirus-plan-has-paid-off-were-now-blaming-each-other-for-this-mess/

Will Climate Break Through in Big Media's Elections Coverage?
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-08-05
Will Climate Break Through in Big Media's Elections Coverage?
thenation.com/article/environment/election-paris-accord-climate/

Our Government Is Prioritizing Empire Over Health
Andrea Mazzarino | thenation.com | 2020-08-05
Our Government Is Prioritizing Empire Over Health…
thenation.com/article/world/trump-coronavirus-empire/

As Covid Slams Us, Elders Want Solidarity, Not Sentiment–or Blame
Judith Levine | thenation.com | 2020-08-05
As Covid Slams Us, Elders Want Solidarity, Not Sentiment–or Blame…
thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-austerity-elderly/

Teacher Protests Erupt As #DemandSafeSchools Takes Off
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-04
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Armenia's Risky Tovuz Strategy Dramatically Backfired
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-04
The latest clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan occurred along their shared border in Tovuz, north of Nagorno-Karabakh. Both sides blame one another but a compelling argument can be made that Armenia was the aggressor. Azerbaijan has no dispute with Armenia over this territory and has nothing to gain by destabilizing this strategy region through which important international energy pipelines and the BTK railway pass. The Mingachevir Dam is also located nearby, and if Armenia attacked it during another war, then the consequences would be disastrous for the millions of Azerbaijanis downstream. | It's actually…

Armenia's Risky Tovuz Strategy Dramatically Backfired

Assange Wins Award, Appears In Court Facing New Charges
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-04
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case management hearing yesterday continued the travesty of legal due process to which he has been subjected for more than a decade. | The journalist and publisher is fighting extradition to the United States, where he faces politically motivated frame-up charges of espionage with a combined potential sentence of 175 years. He has not attended hearings via videolink for the last three months on the advice of doctors, due to his fragile state of health and the threat of exposure to coronavirus. | At the previous hearing on June 29, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser had scolded Ass…
popularresistance.org/assange-wins-award-appears-in-court-facing-new-charges/

Document exposes new US plot to overthrow Nicaragua's elected socialist gov't
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-08-04
A disturbing new document outlines plans for a US regime-change scheme against Nicaragua's elected leftist government, overseen by USAID, to…
thegrayzone.com/2020/08/04/usaid-document-nicaragua-coup/

"Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map", 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
According to a secret document dated September 15, 1945, "the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas.
globalresearch.ca/wipe-the-ussr-off-the-map-204-atomic-bombs-against-major-cities-us-nuclear-attack-against-soviet-union-planned-prior-to-end-of-world-war-ii/5616601

U.S. Cold War China Policy will isolate the U.S. not China
MBNJSD | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-04
CODEPINK (Credit) Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China. But it is the United States that has initiated each new escalation in U.S.-China relations. China's responses …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/u-s-cold-war-china-policy-will-isolate-the-u-s-not-china/

Public Health vs. Politics: White House Scrapped Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Plan to Hurt Blue States
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-04
As the U.S. coronavirus death toll passes 155,000, there is still no national testing program, with widespread shortages and delays hampering efforts to contain the pandemic. This continues months after President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner launched a White House task force with the goal of establishing a national testing plan. We speak to investigative reporter Katherine Eban, whose explosive Vanity Fair report chronicles Kushner's fumbling efforts and the sudden decision to abandon the project on political grounds. "The participants expected that at any moment in early April, the plan would be announced,"
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/4/katherine_eban_jared_kushner

"Release Them All": Calls Grow to Stop Jailing Immigrants as Transfers & Deportations Spread COVID
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-04
The U.S. government continues to hold tens of thousands of asylum seekers and immigrants in detention centers and jails, ignoring the advice of medical experts as the coronavirus continues to spread. ICE has also continued to transfer and deport people — including those who are infected — making it a global superspreader. We speak with Luis Angel Reyes Savalza, an immigration attorney and co-director of Pangea Legal Services in San Francisco, who himself is undocumented and recently got arrested at a protest outside the mansion of California Governor Gavin Newsom demanding the release of people in sta…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/4/luis_angel_reyes_savalza_immigration_detention

"It's Basically a Death Sentence": Hunger Strikers Demand Release as Virus Surges in ICE Jails
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-04
People being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails are holding work strikes and hunger strikes over the lack of access to personal protective equipment or quality medical care, and to demand their release. We speak with Joe Mejia, an asylum seeker who was among a group of prisoners at Yuba County Jail in California who led a hunger strike while he was held there for nearly 11 months. "That place is dangerous," Mejia says. "It is a death sentence to detainees, especially right now with the coronavirus."
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/4/ice_jails_hunger_strikes

Militarized BORTAC Border Patrol Raids & Ransacks Medical Camp on U.S. Border, Arrests 30 Migrants
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-04
In Arizona, heavily armed Border Patrol officers raided the medical camp of humanitarian group No More Deaths and detained 30 migrants whose whereabouts are now unknown. It was the second raid in just two days on the camp, which provides water, food and medical attention to refugees crossing into the United States through the scorching Sonoran Desert. "Immediately after they entered the camp, the first thing they did was round up all of the No More Deaths aid workers and zip-tie them, remove their phones," says Montana Thames, a humanitarian aid worker with No More Deaths. "It was very clear they didn't want any…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/4/no_more_deaths_aid_camp_raid

Mohammed Rafi: Singer and Human Par Excellence
B. R. Gowani | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
Mohammed Rafi, the greatest humanitarian and singer, breathed his last forty years ago today, on July 31, 1980, due to multiple heart attacks while rehearsing for an album at home. Over 20,000 people, including film people, attended his funeral amidst heavy downpour. Rafi's versatility; his command over different genres; his modulating techniques to suit a vast…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/mohammed-rafi-singer-and-human-par-excellence/

Philippines: UN and partners launch major COVID-19 response plan to aid 5.4 million
news.un.org | 2020-08-04
Prioritizing the safety and well-being of women and girls, the UN and partners launched on Tuesday a COVID-19 humanitarian response plan to assist some 5.4 million of the poorest and most marginalized people in the Philippines.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069512

US: Navajo Nation Prolongs Emergency State Due To COVID Spikes
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
U.S. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez Monday urged his community to maintain precautionary measures against COVID-19 as health experts register over 462 Indigenous deaths due to the virus. | RELATED: | Ireland: PM Announces Precautionary Measures Close To Reopening | "Our health care experts urge everyone to continue to stay home and isolate as much as possible, wear masks in public, avoid large crowds, wash hands and practice social distancing," Nez briefed in a communiqu…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-navajo-nation-prolongs-emergency-state-due-to-covid-spikes–20200804-0023.html

US GDP Collapses and Economic Rebound Fades
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
This past week US economy collapsed in the 2nd quarter by 32.9% at annual rate and nearly 10% just for the April-June period. Never before in modern US history–not even in the worse quarters of the 1930s great depression–has the …
globalresearch.ca/us-gdp-collapses-and-economic-rebound-fades/5720181

John Pilger: Another Hiroshima is Coming, Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-04
75 years after Hiroshima, the US is making many of the same dangerous mistakes it did in the run-up to that disastrous moment, this time, with China.
mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-another-hiroshima-is-coming-unless-we-stop-it-now/270039/

Another Hiroshima is Coming…Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/another-hiroshima-is-coming-unless-we-stop-it-now/

Another Hiroshima is Coming…Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/another-hiroshima-is-coming-unless-we-stop-it-now/

Trump RUINED our Venezuela coup and botched 'winning play,' cries Democrat senator before getting ROASTED online
rt.com | 2020-08-04
The Democratic Party's gripes with President Trump are many, yet the latest may be the most bizarre to date. One senator argued that Trump's brash personality bungled a perfectly good, American-style coup in Venezuela. | If Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) had his way, opposition leader Juan Guaido would be occupying the Presidential Palace in Caracas right now, after the successful ousting of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Despite the weight the US threw behind Guaido last year, the young upstart's planned coup was a failure, and Murphy blames Trump for that loss. | 2/ In early 2019, an opportunity…
rt.com/usa/497111-trump-ruined-venezuela-coup/

Trump RUINED our Venezuela coup and botched 'winning play,' cries Democrat Senator & gets ROASTED online
rt.com | 2020-08-04
The Democratic Party's gripes with President Trump are many, yet the latest may be the most bizarre to date. One Senator argued that Trump's brash personality bungled a perfectly good, American-style coup in Venezuela. | If Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) had his way, opposition leader Juan Guaido would be occupying the Presidential Palace in Caracas right now, after the successful ousting of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Despite the weight the US threw behind Guaido last year, the young upstart's planned coup was a failure, and Murphy blames Trump for that loss. | 2/ In early 2019, an opportunity…
rt.com/usa/497111-trump-ruined-venezuela-coup/

China and the United States Could Avoid an Unnecessary War
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-08-04
Although few Americans seem to have noticed, China and the United States are currently on a collision course–one that could easily lead to war. Their dispute, which has reached the level of military confrontation, concerns control of the South China Sea. For many years, China has claimed sovereignty over 90 percent of this vast, island-studded Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/china-and-the-united-states-could-avoid-an-unnecessary-war/

Lee Camp: A Dozen Reasons Now is the Time for Housing as a Human Right
Lee Camp | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-04
America is not based on hard work. Get it out of your head that this society is set up to be fair. Fair would be everyone with a roof over their head.
mintpressnews.com/lee-camp-evictions-reasons-now-time-housing-human-right/270019/

Elliot Abrams Confirms to Senate Hearing That US Still 'Working Hard' to Overthrow Maduro in Venezuela
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-04
Admission was latest sign that high pressure campaign on Venezuela's leftist government—including crushing economic sanctions—remains. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/elliott.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/04/elliot-abrams-confirms-senate-hearing-us-still-working-hard-overthrow-maduro?cd-origin=rss

Venezuela: US Backs Guaido-led Opposition in Election Boycott
Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-08-04
Elliott Abrams reiterated US support for hardline opposition factions.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14960

Undocumented Youth Won on DACA, but Trump's a Sore Loser. So What's Next?
Andrea Flores | aclu.org | 2020-08-04
After a rebuke from the Supreme Court, President Trump is again trying to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — a program that protects over 700,000 people from deportation and allows them to work and attend school in the United States, their home. The White House is replacing the full DACA program with a skeleton program that will accept no new applicants and renew protection for only one year, instead of two. , , I served in the Obama administration at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the government agency responsible for creating and launching DACA. It was the resul…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/undocumented-youth-won-on-daca-but-trumps-a-sore-loser-so-whats-next

Tsunami of evictions underway as moratoriums end
Regina Garcia Cano, Michael Casey | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-04
BALTIMORE (AP) — Kelyn Yanez used to clean homes during the day and wait tables at night in the Houston area before the coronavirus. But the mother of three lost both jobs in March because of the pandemic and now is facing eviction. The Honduran immigrant got help from a local church to pay part …
peoplesworld.org/article/tsunami-of-evictions-underway-as-moratoriums-end/

Migrant farmworkers in Spain protest amid COVID-19 surge
wsws.org | 2020-08-04
Low-paid agricultural workers are seen as an entirely dispensable workforce, forced to work back-breaking days in appalling conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/04/farm-a04.html

Refugees freed from Greek camp 'hell' left homeless
AFP | indybay.org | 2020-08-04
When Amir Hussein was finally allowed to leave the horrific migrant camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, it was supposed to be the end of a year-long odyssey.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/03/18835625.php

'Optimism of the Will': Palestinian Freedom is Possible Now
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would not happen now, but that it would take a whole new generation to bring about such a paradigm shift. As innocuous as the declaration may have seemed, it troubled…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/optimism-of-the-will-palestinian-freedom-is-possible-now/

The Government's Failed Track-and-Trace System is a Disaster for England
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
Aggressive contact tracing is the strategy that will help most now, although it would have been easier to implement before Boris Johnson's credibility was shredded When I got polio on a farm in the middle of the Irish countryside in 1956, an Irish Health Ministry official visited our nearest neighbour, a farmer called Dick Cunningham, the next…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/the-governments-failed-track-and-trace-system-is-a-disaster-for-england/

Lithuania's Alleged Involvement in 2014 Ukraine Maidan Coup
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
New scandalous information about the 2014 Maidan coup d'état in Ukraine has emerged that implicates Lithuania's important role in instigating the violent events. David Zhvania, a former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, revealed on his YouTube channel that the …
globalresearch.ca/lithuania-alleged-involvement-maidan-contradicts-supposed-european-values/5720201

The WEF Knows Best: The Great Global Reset
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-04
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has just made a grandiose discovery and declared (21 July 2020) under the alarming title "This is now the world's greatest threat — and it's not coronavirus". The superb discovery is listed as "Affluence is the biggest threat to our world, according to a new scientific report." This "shocking and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/the-wef-knows-best-the-great-global-reset/

Europeans Are Waking Up to Government COVID Tyranny. Why Are We Still Asleep?
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
Tens of thousands of Germans marched through Berlin on Saturday, proclaiming a "Day of Freedom" and demanding an end to government-mandated face masks and "social distancing." The UK and Netherlands also saw large protests against their governments' tyrannical actions in …
globalresearch.ca/europeans-waking-government-covid-tyranny-why-we-asleep/5720216

Mass Evictions Are on The Way for Millions of American Working Families
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-04
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Professor Richard Wolff, a professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and founder of the organization Democracy at Work whose latest book is "Understanding Socialism."
sputniknews.com/radio_loud_and_clear/202008041080060625-mass-evictions-are-on-the-way-for-millions-of-american-working-families/

"ChinaGate" in the Making: US Hostility Toward China Is Bipartisan
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
A key factor behind Trump regime hostility toward China is election year politics. | But what's going on largely relates to China's growing political, economic, industrial, technological, and military prominence on the world stage. | The US dominated the 20th century — …
globalresearch.ca/us-hostility-toward-china-bipartisan/5720191

Colombia: Supreme Court Orders House Arrest for Alvaro Uribe
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
Colombia's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of former President Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) as part of the judicial process in which his participation in the manipulation of witnesses is being investigated. | RELATED: | Colombia: Supreme Court Accuses Uribe of Vote Buying | The five magistrates investigating the far-right Senator decided to guarantee his presence in the country through preventive detention at home. The news was confirmed by Uribe himself. | "The deprivation of my freedom cau…
telesurenglish.net/news/colombia-supreme-court-orders-house-Arrest-for-alvaro-uribe-20200804-0017.html

Supreme Court Does Not Decide the Future of Ex President Uribe
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
Colombia's Supreme Justice Court Monday concluded a meeting with no agreement to discuss the judicial future of former President Alvaro Uribe. | RELATED: | Colombia: Supreme Court Accuses Uribe of Vote Buying | Uribe is being investigated for procedural fraud and bribery. The Supreme Court judges must decide whether to issue an arrest warrant against him, whether he should remain under house arrest, or whether he can continue to defend himself with no restrictive measure. | The Uribe case…
telesurenglish.net/news/Supreme-Court-Does-Not-Decide-the-Future-of-Ex-President-Uribe-20200804-0005.html

Colombia: Nobody Is Above The Law, Says Senator Ivan Cepeda
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
Colombian Senator Iván Cepeda for the Alternative Democratic Pole (ADP-Polo Democrático Alternativo) and his lawyer Reinaldo Villalba welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice to issue an assurance measure against former Colombian President àÅlvaro Uribe Vélez, who is being investigated for witness tampering and procedural fraud. | RELATED: | Colombia: Supreme Court Orders House Arrest for Alvaro Uribe | At a short press conference, Villalba said this is importan…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Nobody-Is-Above-The-Law-Said-Senator-Ivan-Cepeda-20200804-0021.html

Colombian court orders detention of ex-president àÅlvaro Uribe Velez
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-04
Social movements and human rights organizations across Colombia hailed the decision of the Supreme Court. àÅlvaro Uribe Vélez is being investigated in a case related to witness manipulation and fraud…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/04/colombian-court-orders-detention-of-ex-president-alvaro-uribe-velez/

How Trump managed to lead the world with the worst response to COVID-19 pandemic
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-04
The United States leads the world in terms of absolute numbers of confirmed cases of COVID-19 as well as deaths. Vijay Prashad looks into how the US continues to fail to contain the spread of coronavirus…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/04/how-trump-managed-to-lead-the-world-with-the-worst-response-to-covid-19-pandemic/

Censorship. Does the U.S. Military Assassinate Journalists?
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
As the cries of United States' 'exceptionalism' are heard from the hallowed halls of Congress, one of the alleged hallmarks is freedom of the press. No nation, the breathless masses are told, protects press freedom like the United States. This …
globalresearch.ca/does-us-military-assassinate-journalists-answer-yes/5720223

House passes $740 billion defense bill amid the major struggles of the pandemic
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-04
"In the midst of a pandemic–as people across the country struggle to make rent, to pay their bills, to survive a deadly disease–it should be unthinkable."
nationofchange.org/2020/08/04/house-passes-740-billion-defense-bill-amid-the-major-struggles-of-the-pandemic/

US: Florida's Ports Are Going Through a Difficult Situation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
Florida's Port Council (FlaPort) warned that 169,000 jobs and US$23 billion will be lost because of the economic crisis unleashed by the pandemic. | RELATED: | US: MLB Season Will Continue Amid COVID-19 Pandemic | These data, which come from a study carried out by the firm Martin Associates, were mentioned by the Council to request a stimulus package from the U.S. Congress. | The FlaPort Chairman and Executive Director Doug Wheeler argues that the U.S. ports need no less than $ 1.5 billion…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Floridas-Ports-Are-Going-Through-a-Difficult-Situation-20200804-0011.html

Research and Development Costs of New Drugs
DiMasi JA. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-08-04
To the Editor The article by Dr Wouters and colleagues compared their estimate of the mean cost of developing a new drug with that found in a study by myself and colleagues. Their base case mean cost per approved new drug of $1.3 billion (in 2018 US dollars) stands in contrast to our estimate of $2.8 billion (2018 US dollars). The authors acknowledged that their sample was nonrepresentative in a number of drug characteristics (including therapeutic class) and by firm size (primarily small firms). Given that our sample consisted of midsized to large firms, their results could be viewed as complementary. Wouters an…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768970

Bolsonaro's Chief of Staff Tests Positive for COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
In Brazil, the Chief of Staff of the Presidency Walter Braga Netto Monday tested positive for COVID-19 and became President Jair Bolsonaro's seventh minister to contract the disease. | RELATED: | Brazil: COVID-19 Cases Increase, Bolsonaro Tours Country | "The minister is fine and asymptomatic," the Staff of the Presidency reported and explained that Braga Neto, 63, "will remain isolated until further medical tests and evaluations are performed. Until then, it will continue to fulfill…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolsonaros-Chief-of-Staff-Tests-Positive-for-COVID-19-20200804-0013.html

Imperialist Iran becomes anti-imperialist 1/2
Thierry Meyssan | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-04
The history of Iran in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries corresponds neither to the image that Westerners have of it, nor to the image that the official discourse of Iranians gives of it. Historically linked to China and for the past two centuries fascinated by the United States, Iran is struggling between the memory of its imperial past and the liberating dream of Rouhollah Khomeiny. Considering that Shiism is not only a religion, but also a political and military weapon, it hesitates between proclaiming itself the protector of the Shiites or the liberator of the oppressed. We publish a two-part study by…

Imperialist Iran becomes anti-imperialist 1/2

China & U.S. power
Tony Norfield | mronline.org | 2020-08-04
Can China do much to fight back against the power wielded by the U.S. in the world economy? At first sight, that looks unlikely. China is big, but world trade is conducted in dollars, and the U.S. has economic, political and military influence across the globe.
mronline.org/2020/08/04/china-u-s-power/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=china-u-s-power

U.S. Cold War China policy will isolate the U.S, not China
MBNJSD | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-04
The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China, and instead work with all our neighbors on this small planet.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/04/u-s-cold-war-china-policy-will-isolate-the-u-s-not-china/

Reckless President Trump: Escalation of US Aggressive Posturing against China
Junaid S. Ahmad | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
The dramatic escalation in America's aggressive posturing was not to be unexpected. On the question of relations with Beijing, there certainly have been intra-elite battles on whether to treat China as an essential trading partner massively bolstering the US economy …
globalresearch.ca/crossing-limits-china-patience/5720228

Empire Is the Root of U.S.-China Hostilities
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
The biggest factor that has led the U.S. government to initiate a hostile relationship against China involves the concept of empire. An empire wants to be the only empire or at least the dominant empire. That is, it wants to …
globalresearch.ca/empire-root-us-china-hostilities/5720207

China, the New Cold War Threat That Wasn't
Nicolas J S Davies | progressive.org | 2020-08-04
The United States manufactures reasons to keep military spending as high as it can be.
progressive.org/dispatches/china-cold-war-threat-benjamin-davies-200804/

Federal Government Releases Bipartisan Anti-China Plan for Artificial Intelligence
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-04
A Washington think tank and Congress issued a bipartisan plan for AI, which utilizes the veneer of technology to formally cast China as the number one obstacle to US hegemony…
mintpressnews.com/federal-government-releases-bipartisan-anti-china-plan-artificial-intelligence/270000/

Despite Official Reports, China Has Been Importing Millions of Barrels of Iranian Crude Oil
Simon Watkins | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
A number of high-profile reports last week cited data released on 26 July by China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) as clear evidence that China did not import any crude oil from Iran in June 'for the first time since …
globalresearch.ca/despite-official-reports-china-hoarding-iranian-crude-oil/5720212

State of Pandemic Disaster: Melbourne Moves to Stage Four
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-04
Melbourne — Being in control of a sinking ship is not enviable. Regulations previously passed have a museum feel to them, distinctly obsolete. Directions, once dictated with confidence, lack timbre. Coronavirus is serving as that most wily and cheeky of agents, with the most appropriate of accomplices: Homo sapiens. Human beings are fed up, munching …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/state-of-pandemic-disaster-melbourne-moves-to-stage-four/

Nurses to hit the streets, again, for protective coronavirus gear
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-04
OAKLAND, Calif.–The nation's nurses will hit the streets, again, on August 5, to demand Congress force the GOP Trump administration to order U.S. industry to make enough personal protective equipment (PPE) against the coronavirus, and to force firms to protect their workers on the job. The demonstrations will be at 200 hospitals, half of them …
peoplesworld.org/article/nurses-to-hit-the-streets-again-for-protective-coronavirus-gear/

How Companies Can Keep Their Employees Safe During a Pandemic and Civil Unrest
Beau Peters | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-04
Ivan Samkov (Pixels) This is a year unlike most we have ever seen. Few could have predicted the continuous impacts of the coronavirus, a struggling economy, the civil unrest in the streets, and deeper conversations about race and civil liberties. On top of all of that, our businesses are beginning to reopen, and the masses …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/how-companies-can-keep-their-employees-safe-during-a-pandemic-and-civil-unrest/

COVID-19 and Massive Job Losses Will Test the US Health Insurance Safety Net
Levitt L. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-08-04
With massive and rapid job losses during the current economic crisis related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the US is at risk of a historic decrease in job-based health insurance.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768962

Errors in Trial of Effect of Convalescent Plasma Therapy on Time to Clinical Improvement in Patients With Severe and Life-threatening COVID-19
Liu Z. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-08-04
To the Editor My coauthors and I recently undertook a review of the Original Investigation "Effect of Convalescent Plasma Therapy on Time to Clinical Improvement in Patients With Severe and Life-threatening COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial," published online in JAMA on June 3, 2020. In this trial, we assessed the effect of convalescent plasma therapy in addition to standard treatment vs standard treatment alone among 103 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), stratified by disease severity. The primary outcome was time to clinical improvement within 28 days. We found that among patients with seve…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768971

One month of the coronavirus pandemic: 7.2 million infected, 165,000 dead
wsws.org | 2020-08-04
The month of July was the deadliest yet in the COVID-19 pandemic, as the disease continued to tear through the global population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/04/pers-a04.html

New COVID-19 infections take hold in first week of attempted cruise industry restart
wsws.org | 2020-08-04
Among the first ship operators to resume sailings, Norwegian-owned Hurtigruten suspended operation of two ships this weekend after 36 passenger and five crew tested positive for coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/04/rest-a04.html

Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2–Theoretical Considerations and Available Evidence
Klompas M, Baker MA, Rhee C. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-08-04
This Viewpoint discusses physical and epidemiological evidence supporting droplet vs aerosol transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and concludes on balance that aerosol transmission seems unlikely to be the dominant mode of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768988

Globalization and the End of the American Dream
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
Immanuel Wallerstein provocatively begins one of his essays with the following cautionary note: "Globalization is a misleading concept, since what is described as globalization has been happening for 500 years." Nevertheless, in a 2000 article, "Globalization or the Age of Transition?," Wallerstein notes that after WW-II the U.S. was…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/globalization-and-the-end-of-the-american-dream/

Framing Wolves in New Mexico?
Greta Anderson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
Late in May 2020, the Arizona Daily Star ran an article titled, "Advocates question investigations used to target 'problem' wolves," detailing some of the work that Western Watersheds Project has been doing to review and assess Wildlife Services' work on livestock killed by Mexican wolves in New Mexico. Together with my colleague — WWP's Arizona…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/framing-wolves-in-new-mexico/

The Pandemic Reveals a Europe More United Than the United States
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
During the Trump era, America increasingly seems like a motley collection of states brought together for reasons of territorial contiguity and little else. The conservative South is ravaged by a pandemic. The liberal Northeast waits patiently for elections in November to oust a tyrant. A rebellious Pacific Northwest faces off against federal troops sent to…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/the-pandemic-reveals-a-europe-more-united-than-the-united-states/

Eight A-Bomb Haiku
David Krieger | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
Eight A-Bomb Haiku The desert glowed brighter than a thousand suns — everything changed Japan was clearly defeated … still the A-bombs found their targets The A-bombs killed and maimed massively — mostly civilians Hiroshima — city of a thousand cranes calls out for peace Nagasaki — may you be the last victim of an…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/eight-a-bomb-haiku/

We Need an Economic Survival Package Not Another Stimulus
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
There continues to be enormous confusion about what we should be trying to accomplish in the next pandemic relief package. This is best demonstrated by Republicans' obsession with getting people back to work, with a mixture of cuts to unemployment benefits and return to work bonuses. Ignoring the questionable economic logic (there is zero evidence…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/we-need-an-economic-survival-package-not-another-stimulus/

Pulling Out of Germany: Trump Adjusts the Military Furniture
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
One noisy theme in the Donald Trump Disruption Show in an otherwise chaotic assemblage of messages has remained fairly constant: winding back US troop commitments. The US has fought its complement of wars, bloodied and bloodying. Time to up stakes and head home. It was a message that sold in 2016 across the aisles of…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/pulling-out-of-germany-trump-adjusts-the-military-furniture/

Ocean Heat: From the Tropics to the Poles
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
The heat being captured by the increasing load of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is subsequently transferred into the oceans for storage. This process — global warming — has raised the temperature of the biosphere by 1 ∞C (or more) since the late 19th century. Heat introduced into any material body at…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/ocean-heat-from-the-tropics-to-the-poles/

The 1 Percent's Attack on Unemployment Benefits is a Sign of Our Broken Democracy
Adam Shah | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
Members of the One Percent, such as former restaurateur Andrew Puzder, have urged Congress to not renew the $600 a week unemployment supplement Congress enacted as part of the CARES Act. They argue, in Puzder's words, that "this $600 per week bonus is discouraging work" for low-wage earners. No one receiving unemployment benefits will make themselves…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/the-1-percents-attack-on-unemployment-benefits-is-a-sign-of-our-broken-democracy/

On the Beauty of Life
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
Some friends were wondering how I spend my days. I told them I write most of the time. I explained my books and essays are invisible conversations, if not with the present, at least with the future. I keep asking questions about life, all of its gigantic spectrum: biological, social, political and historical. I published…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/125683/

COVID Stimulus Checks Shouldn't Penalize One-Parent Households
Shawn Fremstad — Nicole Rodgers | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
Both the HEROES Act passed by the House in May and Senate Republicans' HEALS Act announced this week would provide a new round of stimulus in the form of one-time cash payments to most Americans, but with some major differences. One of these differences is in how the bills treat one-parent households with children, the…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/covid-stimulus-checks-shouldnt-penalize-one-parent-households/

Why the Idea of Jobless Benefits Scares the Conservative Mind
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-04
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income they've been demanding for years: $600 a week, which works out to $15 an hour for a 40-hour workweek. Because the federal minimum wage is less than half that rate–stuck there due to the intransigence…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/why-the-idea-of-jobless-benefits-scares-the-conservative-mind/

As fall semester approaches, students fret about their institution's safety
Cameron Hughey | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-04
NEWMARKET, N.H. — Students across the nation are preparing for the most turbulent semester of their lives. Post-secondary school administrators have started rolling out their strategies to combat the surge of COVID-19 cases and prevent a public relations disaster as the result of subsequent cluster outbreaks on their campuses. While it's safe to say that …
peoplesworld.org/article/as-fall-semester-approaches-students-fret-about-their-institutions-safety/

Breastfeeding link to COVID-19 is negligible, says World Health Organization
news.un.org | 2020-08-04
The risk of COVID-19 infection from breastfeeding is negligible and has never been documented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, in a call for greater support for the practice.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069522

Safeguards Needed for Development of COVID-19 Vaccines
Lurie N, Sharfstein JM, Goodman JL. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-08-04
This Viewpoint lists 4 safeguards policy makers should consider before release of a COVID-19 vaccine, including ensuring effectiveness through clinical trials, providing evidence of safety, requiring informed consent before vaccination, and establishing comprehensive adverse effects monitoring systems.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768989

Lebanon Explosion: At Least 78 Dead and 4000 Injured in Beirut
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
A colossal explosion Tuesday ravaged Beirut's port area causing several casualties and widespread damage to surrounding buildings. | RELATED: | Lebanon Fights Country's Worst Financial Crisis Amid COVID-19 | As of this hour, there have been at least 78 fatalities reported and 4000 people injured, according to the information given to Reuters by Lebanon's Health Minister Hamad Hasan. | The shock wave blew out windows and false ceilings, as a giant mushroom cloud lifted up above th…
telesurenglish.net/news/Lebanon-Explosion-78-people-dead-and-4000-injured-in-Beirut-20200804-0016.html

As Prison COVID-19 Cases Rise, A Mental Health Crisis Intensifies
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-04
Family visits, job programs, and recreational activities have all been put on hold because of the virus.
therealnews.com/stories/as-prison-covid-19-cases-rise-a-mental-health-crisis-intensifies

Dutch Government Ditches the Mask. Political Pressure Exerted on Sovereign Governments?
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
Last Wednesday, the Dutch government decided not to impose any "national obligation" on its people to wear masks, reports Reuters. | The reason for opting out of the global masquerade? Minister for Medical Care, Tamara van Ark, asserted that …
globalresearch.ca/dutch-minister-cites-lack-evidence-masks-slow-spread-covid-19/5720173

Isaias Arrives in North Carolina With Winds of 140 KPH
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) Monday reported that Isaias made landfall in North Carolina as a category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour. | RELATED: | Hurricane Isaias Hits the Bahamas | As stated in a newsletter released by the meteorological office, the hurricane touched down in the Ocean Isle Beach area, near the South Carolina border. | The eye of the storm is located 65 kilometers south-southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina, moving northeas…
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As Prison COVID-19 Cases Rise, A Mental Health Crisis Intensifies
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-04
Family visits, job programs, and recreational activities have all been put on hold because of the virus.
therealnews.com/stories/as-prison-covid-19-cases-rise-a-mental-health-crisis-intensifies

Peru's Congress Denies Approval To The New Cabinet
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
Peru's Congress rejected on Tuesday the new ministerial cabinet proposed by President Martin Vizcarra as the decision unleashes a political crisis amid the COVID-19 outbreak, one of the largest in Latin America. | RELATED: | Peru: Over 900 Women Disappeared During Quarantine | On July 15, president Vizcarra renewed half of his cabinet since his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has mainly been criticized, and his popularity is plummeting over four consecutive months according to a survey by…
telesurenglish.net/news/Perus-Congress-Denies-Approval-To-The-New-Cabinet-20200804-0024.html

Hurricanes Posit New Threats Amidst the Pandemic, Unicef Warns
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is concerned about the damage the hurricane season may cause to the most vulnerable Central American and Caribbean families. | RELATED: | Hurricane Isaias Hits the Bahamas | In this area, over 70 million children are affected by the hurricane season and the COVID-19 pandemic affects the disaster preparedness of these countries. | UNICEF is highly concerned that a powerful storm could seriously undermine ongoing efforts to halt transmission…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hurricanes-Posit-New-Threats-Amidst-the-Pandemic-Unicef-Warns-20200804-0001.html

Marlins' outbreak of COVID-19 blamed on 'false sense of security'
Steve Wine | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-04
Derek Jeter says his players let up and paid a price. This localized outbreak is a teachable moment. And one which shows the importance of doing one's due diligence when stepping out whilst round two of the pandemic takes hold: Wear a mask, wash your hands, keep six feet of distance, and don't think you're …
peoplesworld.org/article/marlins-outbreak-of-covid-19-blamed-on-false-sense-of-security/

COVID-19 takes hold in Papua New Guinea
wsws.org | 2020-08-04
A surge of new COVID-19 cases has been recorded in the past 14 days, threatening to overwhelm the impoverished country's ill-equipped healthcare system.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/04/pngv-a04.html

Why a strengthened labor movement is essential to fixing America's unjust economy
Tom Conway | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-04
Only by exercising collective power will more Americans put themselves on the path to financial stability–and help the nation emerge from the COVID-19 crisis stronger than before.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/04/why-a-strengthened-labor-movement-is-essential-to-fixing-americas-unjust-economy/

Communicating Science in the Time of a Pandemic
Saitz R, Schwitzer G. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-08-04
This Viewpoint uses the example of rapid changes to public reporting on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir for COVID-19 to illustrate how misinformation damages the public's trust in science and medicine, and urges accuracy and circumspection in news reports of developments in the pandemic.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768991

Correction to Data in Trial of Convalescent Plasma Treatment for COVID-19
jamanetwork.com | 2020-08-04
In the Original Investigation titled "Effect of Convalescent Plasma Therapy on Time to Clinical Improvement in Patients With Severe and Life-threatening COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial," published online June 3, 2020, in JAMA, the authors incorrectly reported relative risk instead of odds ratio data for the outcome of 28-day mortality as well as other secondary clinical outcomes. In addition, errors in some baseline laboratory values and supplemental eFigure 1 occurred. This article was corrected online and a letter of explanation accompanies this correction.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768954

Stricter lockdown reimposed in Philippines as cases top 100,000
wsws.org | 2020-08-04
The Duterte administration has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with authoritarianism and anti-scientific nonsense.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/04/phil-a04.html

The Tyranny of Lithium Extraction in Argentina
Yanis Iqbal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
In the middle of a raging Covid-19 pandemic, Argentina has decided to accelerate the lithium mining sector. This intensification is occurring as a part of the larger expansion of Argentinean extractivism wherein the country has decided to triple its mining …
globalresearch.ca/tyranny-lithium-extraction-argentina/5720221

The Pandemic Enhances Unequal Access to Education, UN Warns
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Tuesday asked countries to reopen schools when local transmission of COVID-19 is under control. | RELATED: | Mexico to Resume 2020 School Year Remotely | "Countries must address the health crisis with vigorous actions so that children can return to the classrooms as soon as possible," Guterres said. | The world is facing the biggest educational recession in history with schools closed in over 160 countries. | "We need education as never b…
telesurenglish.net/news/un-alert-on-unequal-access-to-education-entrenched-by-pandemic-20200804-0007.html

UNESCO Insists On Prioritizing Education After Covid-19 Impact
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) endorsed on Tuesday the call of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to place education at the forefront of…
telesurenglish.net/news/UNESCO-Insists-On-Prioritizing-Education-After-Covid-19-Impact-20200804-0022.html

COVID-19: ECLAC Countries Call For Unprecedented Cooperation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
Representatives of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) member countries met on Tuesday at the thirty-fifth session of the Commission's Committee of the Whole, in which Costa Rica received from Cuba the regional organization's Presidency Pro Tempore for the next two years. | RELATED: | ECLAC and PAHO Call on Nations to Think About Health First | During the virtual meeting, the participants urged for a paradigm shift in international financing that wou…
telesurenglish.net/news/ECLAC-Countries-Call-For-Unprecedent-Cooperation-Amid-Covid-19-20200804-0026.html

Thailand's COVID-19 response an example of resilience and solidarity: a UN Resident Coordinator's Blog
news.un.org | 2020-08-04
In January, Thailand became the second country to confirm a COVID-19 case but, since then, the country has shown remarkable resilience and, as of late July, there had not been any recorded cases of domestic transmission for nearly two months. Gita Sabharwal, the UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand, explains that this success is thanks to a combination of government action, social responsibility and community solidarity.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069191

UN chief outlines 'bold steps' for education in the face of COVID-19 disruption
news.un.org | 2020-08-04
The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption to education in history and prolonged school closures could further entrench inequalities in access to learning, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday, underlining the need for "bold steps" to address the crisis.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069442

The Confessions and Polemics of Esmeralda "The Red" Chang
Esmeralda Chang | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-04
On American Democracy In American political discourse we frequently hear the term "our democracy." For example, the Russiagaters are fond of this term. The term grates. The sound of the utterance "our democracy" is not as bad as the sound of fingernails scratching a chalkboard, but it's reminiscent. It's been said that a great advantage …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/the-confessions-and-polemics-of-esmeralda-the-red-chang/

Media Grossly Underestimates Massive Turnout at Berlin's "End of the Pandemic" Protest
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
Heiliger Strohsack! CNN sure seems to have trouble with its estimates. First, they confuse a regular cold and flu season with the bubonic plague. Then they confuse a massive protest as being merely a "large crowd of far-right groups gathered …
globalresearch.ca/media-underestimates-massive-turnout-berlin-end-pandemic-protest/5720192

The Power Elite Has Always Run America. The Super Rich Bundled into the "Deep State"
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
Sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote a book in 1956 that (sadly) still resonates today. In his book 'The Power Elite' Mills focused on groups and individuals who help to control this Republic for countless generations: | the "Metropolitan 400": members of | …
globalresearch.ca/power-elite-always-run-amerika/5720179

Were the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a War Crime and a Crime Against Humanity?
Rossen Vassilev Jr. | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
The two most often cited reasons for President Truman's controversial decision were to shorten the war and to save the lives of "between 250,000 and 500,000" American soldiers.
globalresearch.ca/were-atomic-bombings-hiroshima-nagasaki-war-crime-crime-against-humanity/5683441

Stories Of Economic Despair From America's Worst Economic Downturn Since The Great Depression Of The 1930s
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
The economic pain that we are witnessing right now is far greater than anything that we witnessed during the last recession. U.S. GDP declined by 32.9 percent on an annualized basis last quarter, more than 100,000 businesses have permanently shut …
globalresearch.ca/economic-despair-america-worst-economic-downturn-since-great-depression-1930s/5720199

New Reports Suggest Libyan Warlord Khalifa Haftar Is Working with Mossad
Raul Diego | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
Reports of Israeli support for the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar are nothing new, but as the apartheid state gains ground among Arab nations, the need to hide Mossad's role in the destabilizing of oil-rich Libya may be disappearing. | *** | The …
globalresearch.ca/new-reports-suggest-libyan-warlord-khalifa-haftar-working-mossad/5720197

Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence
Swiss Propaganda Research | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-04
1. Studies on the effectiveness of face masks | So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of cloth face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control. | A May | …
globalresearch.ca/are-face-masks-effective-evidence/5720209

Garifuna leaders in Honduras still missing after 16 days
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-04
Armed men wearing bullet-proof vests with the insignia of the police and military kidnapped four members of the Honduran organization OFRANEH, as well another member of the Garifuna community member on July 18…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/04/garifuna-leaders-in-honduras-still-missing-after-16-days/

Israel Confiscates 200 Dunams Of Palestinian Lands Near Bethlehem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-08-04
The Israeli occupation authorities confiscated, Monday, 200 Dunams of Palestinian agricultural lands in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, in addition to issuing an order for demolishing a barn. Ahmad Ghazal, the deputy-mayor of Kisan village, stated that a large military force invaded …
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B'Tselem: "If You Build It, They Will Come"
BIICFHRIOT | imemc.org | 2020-08-04
B'Tselem — The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories: While the news is full of the plans to annex the West Bank and legalize construction in settlements — Israel is busy creating facts on the ground, as usual. Annexation or not, Israel has been demolishing homes in …
imemc.org/article/btselem-if-you-build-it-they-will-come/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=btselem-if-you-build-it-they-will-come

Updated: PPS: "Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In West Bank"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-08-04
Updated: The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight until dawn hours Tuesday, fifteen Palestinians, including a young woman, during extensive and violent searches of homes across the occupied West Bank. The soldiers also shot two Palestinians in Jericho.
imemc.org/article/pps-israeli-soldiers-abduct-thirteen-palestinians-in-west-bank-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pps-israeli-soldiers-abduct-thirteen-palestinians-in-west-bank-3

Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians, Soldiers Set Fire to Palestinian-owned Crops
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-08-04
A large group of illegal Israeli settlers, on Saturday evening, assaulted Palestinian families, north of Ramallah, in central occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. According to local sources, a large number of armed illegal colonists with dogs, attacked Palestinian families, including Sheikh Mohamed al-Hajj and his family in …
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Israeli Colonists Burn Two Palestinian Cars Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-08-04
Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists infiltrated, on Tuesday at dawn, into Far'ata Palestinian village, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and burnt two cars in addition to writing racist graffiti. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said …
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Army Halts Construction Of Nine Palestinian Homes Near Salfit
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-08-04
The Israeli occupation army issued, Sunday, orders halting the construction of nine Palestinian homes in Kafr ad-Deek town, west of Salfit, in central West Bank. Several army jeeps invaded the village and handed local residents the stop-work orders against the nine homes as a prelude to demolishing them, local sources …
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Soldiers Demolish Barns Near Bethlehem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-08-04
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Kisan Palestinian village, east of Bethlehem south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and demolished several barns. The army also delivered orders for the demolition of residential sheds near Hebron. Ahmad Ghazal, the deputy mayor of Kisan, said several army vehicles and bulldozers invaded the …
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Israel Confiscates 327 Dunams Near Bethlehem To Build Colonialist Units
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-08-04
The Israeli occupation authorities have issued orders from the confiscation of 327 Dunams (80.8 Acres) of Palestinian lands to build hundreds of units in an illegal colony east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Hasan Breijiyya, the head of the Bethlehem office of the Colonization & …
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Shadow Wars: Leaks by Mossad Point to Israeli Involvement in Deadly Attacks on Iran
MintPress News Desk | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-04
The drumbeat for war with Iran seems to be intensifying as 2020 reaches its halfway point and the narrative that cyberattacks are to play an inciting role in the coming conflict is being drilled into the collective mind.
mintpressnews.com/leaks-mossad-point-israeli-involvement-deadly-attacks-iran/270053/

L'Iran impérialiste devient anti-impérialiste 1/2
Thierry Meyssan | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-04

| L'histoire de l'Iran du XXème et XXIème siècles ne correspond ni à l'image que les Occidentaux en ont, ni à celle que les discours officiels des Iraniens en donnent. Historiquement lié à la Chine et depuis deux siècles fasciné par les États-Unis, l'Iran se débat entre le souvenir de son passé impérial et le rêve libérateur de Rouhollah Khomeiny. Considérant que le chiisme n'est pas qu'une religion, mais aussi une arme politique et militaire, il hésite entre se proclamer protecteur des chiites ou libérateur des opprimés. Nous publions une étude de Thierry Meyssan, en deux volets, sur l'Iran moderne.

L’Iran impérialiste devient anti-impérialiste 1/2

Trump installs ex-general and anti-Islam bigot in top Pentagon post
wsws.org | 2020-08-04
The appointment of retired Gen. Anthony Tata was carried out by means of a maneuver designed to bypass opposition from both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/04/tata-a04.html

South Korea: 13 Deaths And Over 1000 People Displaced By Floods
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
Heavy rains and floodings have left 13 people dead, and over 1500 public facilities damaged, authorities reported on Tuesday. | RELATED: | South Korea Farming System Declared World Agricultural Heritage | The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters said that more than 1000 people had been forced to leave their homes in the capital Seoul and over 200 landslides and settlements in lowlands were registered. | "The government raised the crisis response to the high…
telesurenglish.net/news/South-Korea-13-Deaths-And-Over-1000-People-Displaced-By-Floods-20200804-0025.html

U.S. using Kurds to steal Syria's oil
Steve Sweeney | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-04
Kurdish forces were accused of "aggravated theft" and stealing from the Syrian people today after the semi-autonomous region known as Rojava signed an oil deal with the U.S. last week. The move, which has been portrayed as a necessity by Kurdish officials, has been widely criticized as evidence of support for the U.S. regime-change agenda …
peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-using-kurds-to-steal-syrias-oil/

SEP candidates file brief replying to Governor Whitmer in Michigan ballot access appeal
wsws.org | 2020-08-04
The brief replied to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's claim that April's right-wing anti-lockdown protests in Lansing means the SEP candidates should have recognized that it was safe to gather signatures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/04/mich-a04.html

Shape Yourself Into The Perfect Weapon Against The Empire
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-04
Do you want to win this thing? Actually win it? | By that I mean, do you actually want to create a healthy world instead of a world where we are ruled by lying, murderous, warmongering, oppressive, ecocidal, omnicidal sociopaths? Is that something you truly, deeply want? | It's okay if you don't, but be real with yourself about it. | A large percentage of the people who get involved in revolutionary political movements and criticism of establishment power structures, if they were honest with themselves, would admit that they do so not out of a sincere desire to replace the sociopathic ruling empire with something…

Shape Yourself Into The Perfect Weapon Against The Empire

Open Letter To My Landlord #5
David Rovics | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-04
Our landlord doesn't read my letters, as far as we know, but it feels like it's only fair to write a letter each month, if we're not going to be paying the rent. Well, hello again. This is the fifth full month in the pandemic, and the fifth month of the suspension on evictions here …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/open-letter-to-my-landlord-5/

Lebanon: UN 'actively assisting' in response to huge explosions at Beirut port
news.un.org | 2020-08-04
The United Nations has said that it is "actively assisting" in the response to the horrific explosions that ripped through the port area of Beirut on Tuesday, reportedly leaving dozens dead and thousands wounded, among them some UN naval peacekeepers.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069542

New Orleans protesters shut down eviction court and block landlords' entrance
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-04
New Orleans, LA – On the morning of July 30, over 100 people gathered around the New Orleans Civil District Court building to demand that eviction court be closed. The crowd physically prevented landlords from entering. By the end of the demonstration, protesters shut down the entire court as well as city hall. | The demonstration began with a mock trial that sentenced the court judges and local and state leadership to be evicted for not taking action to protect renters. Above the scene, demonstrators hung a banner from the court roof that read "Eviction = Death." During the trial, protesters placed furniture in…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/4/new-orleans-protesters-shut-down-eviction-court-and-block-landlords-entrance

Black Lives Matter in Small Towns, Too
Amanda Solliday | progressive.org | 2020-08-04
In Taylorville, a mostly white town in Illinois, a BLM protest highlights how the movement is making an impact in unlikely locations.
progressive.org/dispatches/black-lives-matter-in-small-towns-too-solliday-200804/

What's Going on in Portland?
David Rovics | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-04
My best effort to describe the current precipice we're on in 2,000 words. I have been a resident of Portland, Oregon since 2007. So I have been hearing from more people than usual lately, all asking the same question: what's going on in Portland? Portland Federal Court House Protest I find myself struggling to give …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/whats-going-on-in-portland/

Indefinite strike begins in Bolivia against postponement of general elections
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-04
Over 24 major interdepartmental and inter-provincial highways and roads have been blocked by protesters to demand compliance with the decision to hold elections on September 6 in Bolivia…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/04/indefinite-strike-begins-in-bolivia-against-postponement-of-general-elections/

Teachers protest Jordan government's closure of union and harsh crackdown
wsws.org | 2020-08-04
As poverty and social unrest rise, the government has used the draconian emergency laws introduced in March to curtail democratic rights.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/04/jord-a04.html

US teachers protest against reopening of schools, demand safe working conditions
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-04
Trade unions representing teachers and support staff from 35 school districts undertook the protest against the push to reopen in-person classes. Unions have argued that in-person classes could pose a risk to public health…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/04/us-teachers-protest-against-reopening-of-schools-demand-safe-working-conditions/

King Juan Carlos I Flees to the Caribbean to Evade Justice
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
King Juan Carlos I Tuesday arrived in the Dominican Republic after abandoning Spain amid a judicial investigation into possible illegal financial operations. | RELATED: | King Juan Carlos to Leave Spain Amid Financial Scandal | The member of the royal house left Spain amid a trial in which authorities inquire about the commissions that Saudi Arabia's King gave Juan Carlos I during the construction of a high-speed train. | The King's decision to escape his country has revitalized intern…
telesurenglish.net/news/king-juan-carlos-I-flees-to-the-caribbean-to-evade-justice-20200804-0012.html

Across Sudan, heavy rains and flash floods destroy houses, wash away crops — UN relief wing
news.un.org | 2020-08-04
Hundreds of houses have been destroyed and vital infrastructure damaged due to riverine and flashfloods after heavy rains across large parts of Sudan, the United Nations relief wing has reported.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069502

Israeli warplanes bomb targets in Syria
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-04
Israeli air force fighter jets, attack helicopters and other attack aircraft conducted airstrikes in southern Syria late on August 3, Monday. Israel claimed that the airstrikes were in retaliation to an attempted attack on Sunday along the northern Israel-Syria border in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. | The Syrian government is yet to confirm the specific locations targeted by the Israeli bombings. The official Syrian SANA news agency stated that the airstrikes caused significant material damage to Syrian government property, adding that no Syrians, civilian or military, were injured. | Syrian state media la…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/04/israeli-warplanes-bomb-targets-in-syria/

'Heed the calls' for ceasefire in north-western Syria — UN
news.un.org | 2020-08-04
The United Nations expressed concern on Tuesday for the safety and protection of more than four million civilians in north-western Syria, which has been hit with aerial bombardments over the past few days.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069532

Trump Fires Two Tennessee Valley Authority Board Chairmen
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
President Donald Trump Monday fired two Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) board members and called to replace the CEO over its decision to outsource overseas some jobs. | RELATED: | Trump Limits Hiring of Highly Qualified Foreign Professionals | During a meeting at the White House, Trump slammed on the TVA chair members James Thompson and Richard Howarth. Also, he blasted CEO Jeffrey Lyash over his salary. | Lyash is the highest-paid federal employee, for he has an income of US$8…
telesurenglish.net/news/trump-fires-two-tennessee-valley-authority-board-chairmen-20200804-0010.html

Chile Bans Plastic Bags With Environmental Pioneer Law
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
Chile Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt Monday announced the enforcement of a bill to prevent store owners from handing over plastic bags to their customers. | RELATED: | Chile: Legislators Urge To Stop Violence Against Mapuche People | "The call is for awareness. Let us use reusable bags and reusable masks. With small changes of habit, we have a gigantic impact," Schmidt said to local news outlets. | From August 3 of 2018 and…
telesurenglish.net/news/chile-bans-plastic-bags-with-environmental-pioneer-law–20200804-0020.html

Argentina: Mothers Of Plaza De Mayo Founder Celina Zeigner Dies
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
The Human Rights organization Mothers of Plaza de Mayo member Celina Zeigner Monday passed at the age of 96 in Santa Fe, Argentina. | RELATED: | Argentina: Founder of the Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers Dies | Argentina's Human Rights Secretariat praised Zeigner's labor and stated that "her commitment will make her an eternal emblem of Memory, Truth and Justice's struggle." | Zeigner, who dedicated her life to teaching, was affectionately known as Queca. | Her 23-years-old son Jorge Osc…
telesurenglish.net/news/argentina-mothers-of-plaza-de-mayo-founder-celina-zeigner-died-20200804-0006.html

Belarus: Early Voting for Presidential Elections Begins
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-04
On Tuesday, citizens of Belarus began voting in advance for the August 9 presidential elections, in which President Alexander Lukashenko hopes to be reelected to continue to his sixth consecutive term. | RELATED: | Belarus Wants to Reset Diplomatic Ties With US: Lukashenko | The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) reports that 9.5million citizens have been called to vote and 5,767 polling stations have been installed. | Until August 8, citizens will be able to cast their votes in th…
telesurenglish.net/news/Belarus-Early-Voting-for-Presidential-Elections-Begins-20200804-0004.html

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