Trump Appoints Disgraced Iran-Contra Hawk Elliott Abrams as Iran Envoy
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Activists, the UN, and even mainstream news outlets expressed dismay at the Trump administration's decision to appoint regime-change champion Elliot Abrahams to the role of Special Representative for Iran. | *** | The Trump administration has appointed disgraced neoconservative hawk Elliott …
globalresearch.ca/trump-appoints-disgraced-iran-contra-criminal-elliott-abrams-iran-envoy/5720649

New Report Reveals US Special Forces Active in 22 African Countries
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-10
A new report published in South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian has shed light on the opaque world of the American military presence in Africa. Last year, elite U.S. Special Operations forces were active in 22 African countries. This accounts for 14 percent of all American commandos deployed overseas, the largest number for any region besides the Middle East. American troops had also seen combat in 13 African nations. | The U.S. is not formally at war with an African nation, an…
mintpressnews.com/report-us-special-forces-active-22-countries-africa/270270/

COVID-19: A blessing for Bezos and a nightmare for workers
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
While workers fight for safe working conditions and adequate pay, Amazon has taken advantage of the business opportunities opened up by COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/amaz-a10.html

Twitter spreads paid US gov't propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-08-10
Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like Voice of America's VOA Persian…
thegrayzone.com/2020/08/10/twitter-us-state-media-ads-voa-persian/

Western media's favorite Hong Kong 'freedom struggle writer' is American ex-Amnesty staffer in yellowface
Max Blumenthal | mronline.org | 2020-08-10
A prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist named Kong Tsung-gan has become a go-to source for Western media. An investigation by The Grayzone confirms Kong as a fake identity employed by an American teacher who's a ubiquitous figure at local protests.
mronline.org/2020/08/10/western-medias-favorite-hong-kong-freedom-struggle-writer-is-american-ex-amnesty-staffer-in-yellowface/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=western-medias-favorite-hong-kong-freedom-struggle-writer-is-american-ex-amnesty-staffer-in-yellowface

Chris Hedges: America's Death March
Chris Hedges | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-10
Princeton, New Jersey ( Scheerpost) — The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. The political rot and depravity will continue to eat away at the soul of the nation, spawning what anthropologists call crisis cults — movements led by demagogues that prey on an unbearable psychological and financial distress. These crisis cults, already well established among followers of the Christian Right and Donald Trump, peddle magical thinking and an infantilism that promises…
mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-hypernationalism-crisis-cults-signs-united-states-decline/270236/

Elliott Abrams' Appointment as the Next U.S. Special Representative for Iran. Spells Disaster
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The appointment of Elliott Abrams to replace Brian Hook as the next U.S. Special Representative for Iran is another low point for the Trump administration's disastrous policy towards Iran. The dangerous conflict resulting from Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear agreement …
globalresearch.ca/codepink-denounces-elliott-abrams-appointment-next-us-special-representative-iran/5720647

Don't Delay Military Withdrawal from the Middle East
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The Quincy Institute's " New Paradigm for the Middle East" calling for a definitive end to the disastrous policy the United States has pursued in the region for nearly two decades offers the first coherent analysis of what is …
globalresearch.ca/dont-delay-military-withdrawal-middle-east/5720645

Revolutionaries Living in a System of Growing Fascism
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Watching the documentary The Weather Underground (2002) (see Independent Lens review, PBS) is a painful experience. Included with this award-winning documentary about Vietnam-era revolutionaries is the smaller and separate interview with David Gilbert, who remains imprisoned in New York for his part in the 1981 Brinks robbery in which some of those involved in the robbery killed two policemen…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/revolutionaries-living-in-a-system-of-growing-fascism/

Guterres pledges continued UN support for Lebanon 'in every possible way'
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
The United Nations and humanitarian partners are working around the clock to support and mobilize emergency assistance in the aftermath of the deadly explosion in Beirut Port last Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069912

The Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Human Rights Emergency is Not a Photo-Op for Ivanka Trump
Lynnette Grey Bull | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
We need to be clear about what is needed to address this crisis, and it is not a photo-op where our sacred symbols of high office are degraded by being used as props by Ivanka Trump. Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, accurately called MMIWG "an unconscionable human rights emergency," and the response must…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/the-murdered-and-missing-indigenous-women-human-rights-emergency-is-not-a-photo-op-for-ivanka-trump/

From colonialism to COVID-19, Indigenous peoples show resilience in the face of evictions
Joan Carling and Mike Taylor | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
With special emphasis this year on resilience in the face of COVID-19, it's time to turn the spotlight on the strength and dignity of Indigenous peoples and acknowledge the contribution they make protecting our planet.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/from-colonialism-to-covid-19-indigenous-peoples-show-resilience-in-the-face-of-evictions/

As Indigenous Peoples, We Are Resilient
Galina Angarova | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Today, we celebrate the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples and all Indigenous leaders who have been fighting for our rights. Today, we remember the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations that took place in …
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-peoples-resilient/5720675

Reuters Ecuador Headlines since "Auditor General" Pablo Celi demands elimination of party allied with Rafael Correa
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
21 articles on Reuters website that mention Ecuador since the country's super shady "auditor genera" Pablo Celi began demanding (on June 22) that various political parties be banned from participating in the 2021 elections. One of the four parties Celi targeted was Fuerza Compromiso Social which Correa and his allies have joined in order to Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/reuters-ecuador-headlines-since-auditor-general-pablo-celi-demands-eliminating-party-allied-with-rafael-correa/

How did Americans become such Wimps?
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
Silence as Trump kills tens of Thousands, Destroys Social Security and Post Office, Plots Election Fraud…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-did-americans-become-such-wimps/

Era of US Domination of Latin America Coming to an End: Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Despite its failings at home, the United States intervenes in countries across multiple continents seeking to control their governments and resources. | This week, we look at the US' latest efforts in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Bolivia to undermine their independence and …
globalresearch.ca/us-domination-latin-america-coming-end/5720713

Era of US domination of Latin America coming to an end
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-10
As U.S. empire fades, so might the Monroe Doctrine come to an end.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/10/era-of-us-domination-of-latin-america-coming-to-an-end/

New guidance for protecting migrant workers during the coronavirus pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
As migrant workers continue to be on the front lines of the collective response to COVID-19, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) are releasing new employer guidance for measures to protect them.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069862

Pandemic poses fresh challenges for vulnerable migrant workers in Middle East
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
Amidst reports that many migrant workers in the Middle East are being made destitute, due to an economic crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN is calling on governments and employers to respect their rights, and show solidarity with their plight.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069922

Brown Berets of Minnesota hold protest honoring Mario Sanchez
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Minneapolis, MN – On August 9, over 100 people gathered on the corner of 35th Street and Chicago Avenue, the site where Mario Sanchez was killed during community violence on July 27. The protest was called by the newly-formed Minnesota chapter of the Brown Berets, the broader immigrant rights and Black liberation movements, and the American Indian Movement. Family and organizers believe the case has remained uninvestigated by the Minneapolis Police Department due to its proximity to the site where George Floyd was murdered Memorial Day weekend and because of Sanchez's immigration status. | In spite of the everch…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/brown-berets-minnesota-hold-protest-honoring-mario-sanchez-0

Millions Facing Eviction and Joblessness Get No Immediate Help from Trump's New Executive Orders
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-10
President Trump's latest executive orders to extend unemployment benefits and defer payroll taxes may be unconstitutional. Democrats had hoped to extend a program to give unemployed workers an additional $600 in weekly benefits and to extend a federal moratorium protecting some renters from evictions, but failed to overcome opposition from Republican lawmakers. Under Trump's order, unemployed workers would continue receiving an additional $400 a week, but only once states put up a quarter of the money and set up a new system to distribute the payments — a process that could take months. Trump also signed an…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/10/trump_executive_orders

Is Trump Sabotaging U.S. Postal Service Ahead of Election as Part of His Attack on Mail-in Voting?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-10
Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration is sabotaging the United States Postal Service ahead of the November election, when a record number of votes are expected to be cast by mail. Since taking office, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — a major Trump donor — has instituted a number of cost-cutting measures that have slowed down the delivery of mail, and overhauled the leadership of the agency in a move that critics say will give him more power. This comes as President Trump continues to attack mail-in voting, claiming…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/10/usps_postmaster_general_mail_delay_ballots

Lebanese Gov't Faces Collapse Amid Rage-Filled Protests over Blast, Economic Crisis & Corruption
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-10
The Lebanese government may be on the verge of collapse amid protests over the massive port explosion that devastated much of Beirut and killed at least 200 people and injured thousands. At least four ministers and nine members of Parliament have resigned. "The dominoes are falling," says Dion Nissenbaum, a Beirut-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal, who led an investigation into the official neglect that preceded last week's explosion, and says it has intensified public outrage over long-standing government dysfunction, calling it "the straw that's broken the camel's back here."
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/10/lebanon_government_collapse_beirut_port_explosion

Free Them All! Care Not Cages! March & Rally In SF Against ICE & Republicrats
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Activists protested at the ICE office in San Francisco against the imprisonment of children in cages and the ICE terrorism against immigrants and people of color. They also attacked California Governor Newsom, Pelosi and the Democrats for supporting these policies.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835770.php

Chris Hedges: The United State's Death March
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. The political rot and depravity will continue to eat away at the soul of the nation, spawning what anthropologists call crisis cults — movements led by demagogues that prey on an unbearable psychological and financial distress. These crisis cults, already well established among followers of the Christian Right and Donald Trump, peddle magical thinking and an infantilism that promises — in exchange for all autonomy — prosperity, a return to a mythical past, order and security.
popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-the-united-states-death-march/

Lawmakers Demand Removal of Postmaster General DeJoy
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
On the heels of a " Friday Night Massacre" at the U.S. Postal Service that deeply alarmed lawmakers, activists, and ordinary citizens nationwide, two House Democrats are demanding the immediate removal of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy…
truthout.org/articles/lawmakers-demand-removal-of-postmaster-general-dejoy/

Assange: "Send Him Back" to Australia
John Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-10
Australia's the kind of place where, after twenty years here, you can wake up one morning to a sucker-punch epiphany — wow! This is what it would be like if the South had won the Civil War. No slavery, but a mindset, sometimes an arrogance that comes at you like Dylan's twisty freight train. Not …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/assange-send-him-back-to-australia/

How Did Americans Become Such Wimps?
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
A procession of demonstrators marched in front of the statue of the Republic with trade union flags and banners calling for struggle on December 19, 2019, the fifteenth day of a national strike. (Photo: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/france_strikes.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/10/how-did-americans-become-such-wimps?cd-origin=rss

Trump's Executive Orders: EOs as PR and FUs
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Less than 24 hours after Trump broke off negotiations on the economic stimulus package with Congressional Democrat leaders, Pelosi and Shumer, last Friday August 7, Trump issued a series of Executive Orders (EOs) that he had been signaling and threatening all last week well before the break up. Almost certainly the legal crafting of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/trump-scuttles-economic-stimulus-negotiations-what-next/

Trump's Executive Orders: EOs as PR and FUs
Jack Rasmus | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
Less than 24 hours after Trump broke off negotiations on the economic stimulus package with Congressional Democrat leaders, Pelosi and Shumer, last Friday August 7, Trump issued a series of Executive Orders…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-executive-orders-eos-as-pr-and-fus/

Migrants still landing in UK as govt takes tougher line
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
A small boat carrying 20 Syrian migrants was met by the British Border Force off the coast of Dover, local media reported on Monday.Between Thursday and Sunday, almost 700 migrants landed in the UK via the Channel, according to Sky News.The British government has taken a tougher line on migration via the Channel in recent days.Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his willingness to work with French authorities to stop the channel crossings and ensure that migrants "understand that this isn't a good idea, this is a very bad and stupid and dangerous and criminal thing to do"."But then there's a second thing we've…
yenisafak.com/en/news/migrants-still-landing-in-uk-as-govt-takes-tougher-line-3536528

Donald Trump is Defeating Himself
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
The combination of greed and power often spin out of control and challenge the enforceable rule of law and the countervailing force of the organized civic community. When greed and power are exercised by giant multinational corporations that escape the discipline of the nation-state, the potential for evil becomes infinite in nature. Enough is never…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/donald-trump-is-defeating-himself/

Ranking the Infinite Greed, Power and Controls of Giant Corporations
Ralph Nader | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
At the end of the day, we are all paying the price of the full measure of the infinite avarice spiraling from these corporate supremacists and their private governments of controls…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/ranking-the-infinite-greed-power-and-controls-of-giant-corporations/

Biden's Ukrainegate Problem
Gerald Sussman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Joe Biden's role in the Ukraine regime change, as Victoria Nuland put it, was to "midwife" the new government into existence and thereby incorporate another eastern European satellite into America's orbit. This is what the neocons call "democracy promotion." His efforts in Ukraine, however, proved disastrous.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/bidens-ukrainegate-problem/

Lebanon explosion is an ecosocialist issue
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-10
In saying that the terrible explosion in Beirut is an ecosocialist issue I am not counterposing this claim to the fact that this is also an issue of corruption, of government incompetence, of health and safety and many other things.
mronline.org/2020/08/10/lebanon-explosion-is-an-ecosocialist-issue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lebanon-explosion-is-an-ecosocialist-issue

Lebanon: President Macron Pushes "Neo-expansionism"
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The current geopolitical position of France is shaped by a variety of factors. As one of the key actors in the Mediterranean region, Paris is now primarily a European leader in countering Turkey's expansionist policy. Relations between the two countries …
globalresearch.ca/lebanon-president-macron-pushes-neo-expansionism/5720699

Trump Usurps Congressional Appropriations Authority
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
On Saturday, Trump unconstitutionally breached exclusive congressional appropriations authority. | Under Article I, section 9, clause 7 of the US Constitution (the appropriations clause), "(n)o money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." | Congress …
globalresearch.ca/trump-usurps-congressional-appropriations-authority/5720659

Trump's Payroll Tax Deferral Aims to Weaken and Kill Social Security and Medicare
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
All politicians lie. Rare exceptions prove the rule. | Trump is Exhibit A, a serial liar never to be trusted, a menace to virtually everything just societies hold dear. | Last February 8 he tweeted: "We will not be touching your Social …
globalresearch.ca/trump-payroll-tax-deferral-aims-weaken-kill-social-security-medicare/5720690

Not Just a Bad President, Trump is a "Holmesian Bad Man." Act Accordingly
Russell Pearce | aclu.org | 2020-08-10
"If you want to know the law, you must look at it as a bad man does, who cares only for the material consequences," wrote legendary Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience." , , Donald Trump is a Holmesian bad man, and an even worse president, pushing the bounds of corruption and authoritarianism, unbound by norms, the rule of law, a sense of shame, or even care for others. To deal with such a bad man and bad president — one who truckles to adversaries like Russian P…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/not-just-a-bad-president-trump-is-a-holmesian-bad-man-act-accordingly

US Supreme Court defends deadly jail conditions in California
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The high court decision denies inmates their right to safety during a deadly pandemic and at the same time shows contempt for the lives of the poor.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/pris-a10.html

Afghan government to release remaining 400 Taliban prisoners
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-10
The release is expected to pave the way for the beginning of intra-Afghan talks this week in Qatar. President Ashraf Ghani had earlier refused to release them saying their crimes were to heinous…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/10/afghan-government-to-release-remaining-400-taliban-prisoners/

How the U.S. Failed at Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela
Vijay Prashad — Érika Ortega Sanoja | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
On August 4, 2020, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Venezuela. Appearing before the committee was U.S. State Department Special Representative Elliott Abrams. Abrams, who has had a long–and controversial–career in the formation of U.S. foreign policy, was assaulted by almost all the members of the Senate committee. The senators, almost…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/how-the-u-s-failed-at-its-foreign-policy-toward-venezuela/

War Crimes in Afghanistan Covered up by UK Ministry of Defence
Jean Shaoul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The government has been caught out lying about evidence on the killing of civilians in Afghanistan by the elite Special Air Service (SAS). | Three years into a civil case in the High Court brought by Saiffulah Yar into the deaths …
globalresearch.ca/war-crimes-afghanistan-covered-uk-ministry-of-defence/5720639

Cognitive Without Conscience
Rev. William Alberts | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
President Trump took a cognitive test, and touted his performance as "amazing." The test: he repeated "Person, Woman, Man, Camera and TV" in that order. It is a dementia test that measures memory, not morality, the capacity to recall, not intelligence. Seventy-four-year-old Trump proposed that his 2020 presidential opponent, seventy-seven-year-old Joe Biden take the test…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/cognitive-without-conscience/

Bernie and colleagues introduce Make Billionaires Pay Act
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-10
"As our country faces vast economic and health needs, billionaires continue to display their appetite for greed."
nationofchange.org/2020/08/10/bernie-and-colleagues-introduce-make-billionaires-pay-act/

Biden's blueprint for a right-wing presidency: Part one
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Despite media claims that the Democratic Party has "moved to the left," Joe Biden is running on a thoroughly right-wing program based on the defense of Wall Street and the global interests of American imperialism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/bide-a10.html

How Trump Plans to Win Wisconsin
Roger Bybee | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
The Badger State, for Trump and Biden, is ground zero for November's election.
progressive.org/magazine/trump-plans-win-wisconsin-bybee/

A good news storyline: Trump repudiated, Biden steady but insufficient. Enter systemic reformers
Robert S. Becker | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-10
Biden is no FDR. To expect systemic reform from Biden is naive but to envision him as a stepping stone is good progressive strategy.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/10/a-good-news-storyline-trump-repudiated-biden-steady-but-insufficient-enter-systemic-reformers/

Caleb Reed, a youth activist in Chicago, falls victim to gun violence
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Most recently Reed opposed Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot's budget that starves schools of resources while flooding the Police Department with billions of dollars.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/cale-a10.html

The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-10
~ | The fact that the Phoenix Program existed is by itself an unassailable argument for permanently dismantling the entire CIA. | ~ | A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent is a political establishment that should not exist. | A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent can never and will never lead to a sane world. | A political establishment which thinks it'…

The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

German government continues to boost military spending and cover for fascists
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The billion-euro armament projects are aimed at expanding Germany's ability to make war, including the upgrading of the elite KSK force, which is riddled with fascists.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/germ-a10.html

The rise of the Middle Kingdom in the Middle East: China's Belt and Road Initiative
Arhama Siddiqa | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stands as the most prominent example of the pivotal shift in Chinese foreign policy from Deng Xiaoping's "bide and hide" philosophy to the current ambitious endeavors…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-rise-of-the-middle-kingdom-in-the-middle-east-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative/

Climate official pushing controversial sun-blocking plan resigns
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-10
Welcome back to TRNN's Climate Crisis News Roundup. | In recent weeks, this column has focused heavily on the intersection between COVID-19 and the climate crisis, and that will continue as the pandemic sweeps the world. | This week, with the presidential election just over three months away, President Donald Trump is down in the polls, but was up for a speech at a fracking rig in a COVID-19 hotspot, one with no masks in sight. As he spoke, a company with operations nearby and ambitions to boost an obscure drilling technique joined a legion of other companies who have declared bankruptcy. | If you have a story…
therealnews.com/columns/climate-official-pushing-controversial-sun-blocking-plan-resigns

Fanon and the 'rationality of revolt'
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-10
Fanon's idea that the measure of time not be that of the moment but that of the rest of the world takes on urgent significance as climate extinction meets global pandemic.
mronline.org/2020/08/10/fanon-and-the-rationality-of-revolt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fanon-and-the-rationality-of-revolt

Rising popular anger over Nepali government's response to COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The Kathmandu government has reacted to youth protests over its failure to contain the coronavirus pandemic by arresting demonstrators.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/nepa-a10.html

Is Big Pharma More Interested in Profiteering Than Protecting Us From Coronavirus?
F. Douglas Stephenson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Gainesville, Florida April 12, 1955 stands out as the brightest day in the history of vaccine development and public health when news of the discovery by Jonas Salk of a vaccine for the poliovirus was made public. The most venerated medical scientist of the 20th century, Jonas Salk, M.D., was hailed as a miracle worker.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/is-big-pharma-more-interested-in-profiteering-than-protecting-us-from-coronavirus/

WHO chief points to 'green shoots of hope' in COVID-19 pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
Although COVID-19 cases are on track to hit 20 million worldwide this week, and 750,000 deaths, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has pointed to "green shoots of hope" amidst the global crisis, while urging both governments and people everywhere to work to suppress the new coronavirus.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069842

Why We Oppose Golden Rice
The Stop Golden Rice Network | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
The push for corporate-led solutions to hunger and malnutrition is alarming. In particular, Golden Rice is now being proposed as a solution to the worsening hunger and malnutrition associated with the pandemic. Agrochemical transnationals (TNCs) and collaborating institutions such as the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) are using concerns over food security during the pandemic…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/why-we-oppose-golden-rice/

Authors William I. Robinson and Peter Phillips Discuss Corporate-Directed Changes in the Economy
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-08-10
Sociologist and author William I. Robinson returns to the program to speak about his forthcoming book, "The Global Police State," from Pluto Press. Also on the program is sociologist and…
projectcensored.org/authors-william-i-robinson-and-peter-phillips-discuss-corporate-directed-changes-in-the-economy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=authors-william-i-robinson-and-peter-phillips-discuss-corporate-directed-changes-in-the-economy

6 Questions an Honest, Intelligent Reporter Would Ask Dr. Fauci About COVID-19
Stacey Lennox | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
If you had been going down the rabbit hole of COVID-19 research for long enough, a few things would be astounding to you. First, how uninformed, uncurious, or deceptive reporters in the corporate media are on a matter of life …
globalresearch.ca/6-questions-honest-intelligent-reporter-would-ask-dr-fauci-about-covid-19/5720718

'Cancel the Rent'–Tenants pressure D.C. city council and corporate landlords
Jamal Rich | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
WASHINGTON–On Saturday, July 25, a major rally hosted by D.C. Jobs With Justice, Reclaim Rent Control D.C., and the D.C. Tenants Union was held at Columbia Heights Plaza with hundreds of organizers and tenants from the D.C. metropolitan area who are struggling to pay rent amidst the economic fallout from the pandemic, an expiration of …
peoplesworld.org/article/cancel-the-rent-tenants-pressure-d-c-city-council-and-corporate-landlords/

Geneva: The Home of Lost Causes
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Anniversaries call for celebrations. The 75th anniversary of the United Nations was supposed to be the event of 2020 for the multilateral system. The list of scheduled events and publications is too long to mention. Should we celebrate? What is there to celebrate? A global pandemic with no multilateral response? Increasing economic and social inequality…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/geneva-the-home-of-lost-causes/

Politicizing Fear Through the News Media
David Altheide | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
News coverage of fear, threat, and violence continues to influence and be manipulated by politicians attuned to network TV criteria for coverage. President Trump sent armed federal agents to several cities, to battle "terrorists" because he says some cities run by Democrats, are out of control.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/politicizing-fear-through-the-news-media/

Some Come, Others Go
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Some come and others go, to the applause of some and regret of others. On Saturday, crowds came to Berlin from all over Germany for a huge mass parade, estimated at 17,000 to 20,000 by the police but over a million by some exuberant adherents. Many or most politicians, media and a majority of Germans…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/some-come-others-go/

After Nagasaki, the U.S. Did Not Choose Peace
Michael D. Knox | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
On August 9, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, I attended a ceremony at Ashley Pond, Los Alamos, New Mexico. This is the place, geographically, where the first atom bombs were constructed. As I prepared my remarks, I realized a personal connection that had never registered before. On this date in 1945, our…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/after-nagasaki-the-u-s-did-not-choose-peace/

The Money Plague
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
I am not an economist and I have a bad taste for money. No doubt Plato and Aristotle had something to do with my economic views. Economy and civilization Since childhood I have not paid much attention to money. However, since we live in a society, country, and world run by money, I had to…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/the-money-plague/

The Police Force Stampede in Portland on August 8, 2020
Mike Hastie | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
I was in attendance of another BLM demonstration in Portland, Oregon this weekend. I say attendance, because eventually if there is going to be any real changes in this country, we need more attendance. If there is going to be real Police Reform in the U.S. then the resistance calling for that reform has to be constant, or shall we say relentless. That is why the demonstrations have been going on every night in Portland for the past 70 + days. There are certainly a lot of different opinions as to how that should be played out. It is hard to tell where this is all going in Portland, or any other major city across…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/the-police-force-stampede-in-portland-on-august-8-2020/

Death From the Sky: Hiroshima and Normalised Atrocities
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
When US President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by another on Nagasaki a few days later, he was not acting as an agent untethered from history. In the wheels of his wearied mind lay the battered Marines who, despite being victorious, had…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/death-from-the-sky-hiroshima-and-normalised-atrocities/

US hits five million COVID-19 cases as testing declines and schools reopen
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The number of daily COVID-19 tests in the US has dropped significantly in recent weeks in line with the increasingly feverish drive to reopen the schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/coro-a10.html

Iranian oil workers mount wave of strikes as COVID-19 rages across the country
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
According to reports, at least 10,000 workers have participated in walkouts at nearly 30 oil and petrochemical facilities, including the Abadan, Parsian and Qeshm refineries.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/iran-a10.html

Delay school reopening: Tallahassee car-noise rally outside of school board meeting
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Tallahassee, FL – Around 50 people gathered outside of the Leon County School Board meeting on the afternoon of August 4. The group met in front of the building where the Leon County School Board was meeting to discuss the district's plans to reopen schools for in-person lessons on August 31. This action came shortly after the community learned that the second of two staff members at a local school had died after contracting COVID-19. | Organized by Leon For a Safe Return to Campus, the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) and Graduate Assistants United FSU, the action was an opportunity to show school b…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/delay-school-reopening-tallahassee-car-noise-rally-outside-school-board-meeting

Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19: Europe's Top Health Officials
Jon Miltimore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. | That's less than one-third of the number of Danes who …
globalresearch.ca/europe-top-health-officials-say-masks-arent-helpful-beating-covid-19/5720652

What Racism Smells Like
Sharon Lerner | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
Ravaged by Covid-19, Polluted Communities Demand Environmental Justice…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-racism-smells-like/

Fiat Chrysler workers speak out on COVID-19 outbreak at Belvidere Assembly Plant
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The company's so-called "safety measures," implemented with the support of the UAW, have been completely ineffective at halting the spread of the virus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/belv-a10.html

It could have been different
Tom Engelhardt | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-10
And keep in mind, when assessing this world I'm going to leave behind to those I hold near and dear, that Covid-19 is hardly the worst of it. Behind that pandemic is something so much worse.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/10/it-could-have-been-different/

Workers have a right to know about COVID-19 in their plants!
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Autoworkers are being deprived of the most basic information about the spread of infections in their workplaces.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/auto-a10.html

COVID as a Pretext to Prevent the Reopening of Schools: Deceit and Demagoguery in Montgomery County, Maryland
James Bovard | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Across the nation, politicians and bureaucrats have invoked the COVID pandemic to seize dictatorial power to ban activities they disapprove. One of the most brazen examples recently occurred in super-lefty Montgomery County (MoCo), Maryland, where local health czar Travis Gayles…
globalresearch.ca/deceit-demagoguery-montgomery-county-maryland/5720664

Georgia teachers and students force temporary closure of North Paulding High School over COVID-19 outbreak
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The cluster of COVID-19 cases at the school emerged as a direct consequence of the decision to reopen schools for in-person instruction amid a surge in infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/geor-a10.html

Local lockdowns in West Yorkshire following UK workplace outbreaks
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The Kirklees area has had several workplace-based outbreaks of COVID-19, including at the Kober meat processing plant in Cleckheaton.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/kirk-a10.html

The Fight for Democracy in Wisconsin
Douglas M. Poland | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
State Republicans have set out to reverse the state's progressive legacy–by commandeering its mechanisms of governance.
progressive.org/magazine/fight-for-democracy-wisconsin-poland-mandell/

Tensions rise in Bolivia as far-right groups mobilize against national strike
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-10
Over 140 major highways and roads have been blocked by protesters across Bolivia to demand that the general elections be held on September 6 and for the de facto president, Jeanine àÅñez, to resign immediately…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/10/tensions-rise-in-bolivia-as-far-right-groups-mobilize-against-national-strike/

Pushing GMO Crops into India: Experts Debunk High-Level Claims of Bt Cotton Success
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
On 6 July 2020, an article extolling the benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops appeared on the BloombergQuint website based on an interview with Dr Ramesh Chand, a member of the key Indian Government think tank Niti Aayog (National | …
globalresearch.ca/pushing-gmo-crops-india-experts-debunk-high-level-claims-bt-cotton-success/5720670

Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a "New Middle East"
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Towards the balkanization (division) and finlandization (pacification) of the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/3882

Experts Debunk False Claims that GM Bt Cotton in India Has Been a Grand Success
Prof. Andrew Paul Gutierrez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
"By nearly all measures, hybrid GM Bt cotton in India is a failure." | Three eminent experts have joined forces to debunk claims by a member of two influential think tanks that GM Bt cotton in India has been a resounding …
globalresearch.ca/experts-debunk-false-claims-gm-bt-cotton-india-grand-success/5720673

Nicaragua — Singing in the Rain. The USAID Project to Destroy the Sandinista Movement
Stephen Sefton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Only the most perverse kind of ideology-derived inertia explains the stupidity, incompetence and criminality of current US foreign policy towards Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Stupid for being based on the insane messianic 19th Century Monroe Doctrine vision of Manifest Destiny, …
globalresearch.ca/nicaragua-singing-rain/5720681

Brent Scowcroft: Could He Have Stopped the 2003 Invasion Of Iraq?
Ray McGovern | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Brent Scowcroft badly served his friend George H. W. Bush on Iraq by not doing all he could to stop Bush's son from committing a war of aggression, writes Ray McGovern, who used to brief H.W. | *** | Some of the …
globalresearch.ca/what-scowcroft-failed-do/5720722

Who Profits from the Beirut Blast?
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The narrative that the Beirut explosion was an exclusive consequence of negligence and corruption by the current Lebanese government is now set in stone, at least in the Atlanticist sphere. | And yet, digging deeper, we find that negligence and corruption …
globalresearch.ca/who-profits-beirut-blast/5720678

The Jakarta Method: How the U.S. Used Mass Murder to Beat Communism
Daniel Larison | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The so-called Long Peace after 1945 was covered in the blood of innocent people. Americans generally prefer to remember the Cold War as a mostly peaceful triumph punctuated by a handful of debacles, but for many of the people living …
globalresearch.ca/jakarta-method-how-us-used-mass-murder-beat-communism/5720697

US Crimes Against Humanity at Home and Abroad
Bill Hackwell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
This month marks the second year since former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced to the world a campaign promoted by a group of Latin American writers and academics to declare August 9 as International Day of US Crimes …
globalresearch.ca/us-crimes-against-humanity-home-abroad/5720684

Corona and the End of the Neoliberal Era?
Marc Vandepitte | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
For 40 years they hurled their neoliberal dogmas at us. The financial crisis seriously shook the belief in those beliefs, but eventually the system survived. This time things are different. The corona crisis and the socio-economic measures for saving the …
globalresearch.ca/corona-end-neoliberal-era/5720706

Unending "9/11s", "A Sad Kind of Freedom.": "Dear USA, Your 9/11 is our 24/7."
Felicity Arbuthnot | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
This article was published by GR ten years ago in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. | On September 12, 2001, The Atlantic Council meeting in Brussels invoked article 5 of the Washington Treaty. An Attack against one member state …
globalresearch.ca/unending-9-11s-a-sad-kind-of-freedom/26478

Macron Takes Advantage of Explosion to "Conquer Lebanon"
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
All relevant events on the international stage have some geopolitical effects. Terrorist attacks, natural catastrophes, accidents and other tragedies also have implications for the power game between nations. In fact, any atypical event can completely change the way of relations …
globalresearch.ca/macron-takes-advantage-explosion-conquer-lebanon/5720689

Video: The NATO Conquest of Eastern Europe
G2MIL | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
General Dwight Eisenhower was the first NATO supreme allied commander. | After assuming that post in 1951, General Eisenhower wrote about NATO's goal: | "If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned | …
globalresearch.ca/nato-conquest-eastern-europe/5720668

Hiroshima and the Glorification of American Militarism
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
This article was originally published in 2012, on the 67th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | August 6, 9, 2012 was the 67th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the whole truth of which has been …
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-glorification-american-militarism/32377

Ukraine's Complex Historical Background and The Contemporary Era
Prof. John Ryan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Ukraine has a complex historical background and most people have little knowledge of this. The western part of Ukraine known as Galicia has an especially complex history. Going back for more than a thousand years, this region had been settled …
globalresearch.ca/ukraine-historical-background-current-status/5720635

Worker's death sparks historic oil and gas strike in Iran
Jane Green | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
peoplesworld.org/article/workers-death-sparks-historic-oil-and-gas-strike-in-iran/

1000 march for community control of Chicago police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Chicago, IL – About 1000 people gathered at two locations August 9 and marched to Diversey and Halsted for a rally aimed at getting North Side Aldermen to sponsor the ordinance establishing an all-elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC). | The focus was on the 2nd, 32nd, 43rd, and 44th Wards and Aldermen Brian Hopkins, Scott Waguespack, Michele Smith and Tom Tunny. | The action is part of the nationwide protests over unrelenting killings of Black and Latino people by police in Chicago and the United States, especially since the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks. | Sponsor…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/1000-march-community-control-chicago-police

US: Crimes against Humanity at Home and Abroad
Bill Hackwell and Alicia Jrapko | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-10
Photo Credit: Albert Eisenstaedt This month marks the second year since former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced to the world a campaign promoted by a group of Latin American writers and academics to declare August 9 as International Day of US Crimes against Humanity. Appropriately the day is to remember the second nuclear bomb …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/us-crimes-against-humanity-at-home-and-abroad/

Young people have a major role to play in ridding the world of nuclear weapons
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
Nuclear weapons are still one of the most serious threats to mankind, and the dangers are growing. Young people can play an important role in ensuring that they are eliminated once and for all, says the UN's top disarmament official, ahead of International Youth Day on 12 August.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069722

Robin Kelley on love, study, and struggle
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-10
Hosted by Paul Holdengrà§ber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
mronline.org/2020/08/10/robin-kelley-on-love-study-and-struggle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=robin-kelley-on-love-study-and-struggle

Unions' big lie to Quebec health care workers battling the pandemic: "The government will protect you"
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
With the unions unable and unwilling to defend them, health care workers must take matters into their own hands, to protect their own health and lives and those of the public.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/queb-a10.html

Virtual march on Livermore Lab caps Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
LIVERMORE, Calif.–As the world observed the 75th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, a virtual rally focusing on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory here kicked off two days of nationally broadcast virtual programming put together by over 160 peace and disarmament organizations under the auspices …
peoplesworld.org/article/virtual-march-on-livermore-lab-caps-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombing-anniversaries/

Episode 101 — A 3rd Reconstruction And Critical Environmental Media Literacy w/Professor Jeff Share
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-08-10
On today's episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon host University of Los Angeles' Jeff Share. Along The Line is a non-profit, education-based podcast that provides listeners…
projectcensored.org/episode-101-a-3rd-reconstruction-and-critical-environmental-media-literacy-w-professor-jeff-share/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-101-a-3rd-reconstruction-and-critical-environmental-media-literacy-w-professor-jeff-share

Asian Network Mounts Week-long Protest vs Golden Rice
Stop Golden Rice Network | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-08-10
asia-pacificresearch.com/asian-network-mounts-week-long-protest-golden-rice/5629187

Massive protests continue in Lebanon following Beirut blasts
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-10
Protests against the government gained steam after the blasts last week that claimed more than 150 lives and injured 6,000 others. The protesters are demanding the resignation of the government…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/10/massive-protests-erupt-continue-in-lebanon-following-beirut-blasts/

The Killing that Awakened the City that Never Sleeps
Ed Rampell | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
A new documentary reflects on the killing of a Black teenager in 1989, drawing parallels to today's Black Lives Matter protests.
progressive.org/dispatches/killing-awakened-city-never-sleeps-rampell-200810/

As statewide cases hit half a million, opposition mounts in Florida to school reopening
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Teachers from across Florida marched on Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' mansion Saturday to protest his statewide mandate for fully in-person instruction.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/flor-a10.html

Lynching Is Not a Relic of a Jim Crow Past. It's a Modern Form of Racial Terror
Terry Anne Scott | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
Some things have changed, however. These brutal deaths have engendered an unprecedented call for reform…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/lynching-is-not-a-relic-of-a-jim-crow-past-its-a-modern-form-of-racial-terror/

A Path Forward for Wisconsin
Mandela Barnes | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
If we learned anything from 2016, it's that we cannot rely solely on an anti-Trump vote in order to win the Electoral College and the presidency.
progressive.org/magazine/path-forward-for-wisconsin-barnes/

Letter Carriers union files nationwide grievance against mail slowdown scheme
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
WASHINGTON–The Letter Carriers union has filed a national grievance, an unusual move, against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who took over the agency, promptly fired 21-31 top staffers, and imposed shutdown actions and an overtime ban that slows the mail down. The union's grievance, which also demands mandated talks over DeJoy's moves, comes just after 84 …
peoplesworld.org/article/letter-carriers-union-files-nationwide-grievance-against-mail-slowdown-scheme/

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Isiah Holmes | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
The civic engagement leading up to the election offers a vision of what Milwaukee could become.
progressive.org/magazine/reinventing-milwaukee-holmes/

Hiroshima: The Lessons We Haven't Learned
Helen Caldicott | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
75 years after the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan, we remain perched on the precipice of unparalleled catastrophe…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/hiroshima-the-lessons-we-havent-learned/

The 'Broken Windows' Approach to Teaching Is Breaking Our Schools
Victoria Theisen-Homer | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
And Students of Color Are Harmed the Most…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-broken-windows-approach-to-teaching-is-breaking-our-schools/

'We all want to be fellow travelers': Mike Glick's new CD
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
"We all want to be fellow travelers" is not the title of singer-songwriter Mike Glick's new CD, but his song "Fellow Travelers" kicks off the collection, prefacing and summing up its greater content. "When this CD was finished," the New York City-based artist writes, "I realized that it was inspired by the struggles and lives …
peoplesworld.org/article/we-all-want-to-be-fellow-travelers-mike-glicks-new-cd/

European radical left makes itself superfluous
Herman Michiel | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
If the radical left doesn't want to make itself superfluous, it has to completely resource itself, develop a strategy and stick to it…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/european-radical-left-makes-itself-superfluous/

Belarus: UN chief following post-election developments 'with great concern'
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
The UN Secretary-General has appealed for restraint in Belarus, where ongoing clashes between police and demonstrators continue following disputed elections held on Sunday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069852

Tampa Bay SDS wins major victory in their Increase Black Enrollment campaign
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Tampa Bay SDS wins major victory in their Increase Black Enrollment campaign | By Eithne Silva | Tampa, Fl – On August 4, the president of the University of South Florida (USF) released a statement to the public announcing changes being made to improve Black student life. Some of these changes include demands that Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) brought to USF administration through their Increase Black Enrollment campaign. | In the fall of 2019, after a string of white supremacist activity on campus as well as the lowest proportion of black students at USF in a decade, Tampa Bay SDS launched th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/9/tampa-bay-sds-wins-major-victory-their-increase-black-enrollment-campaign

'You are not alone, we are in this together', declare UN staffers in Lebanon
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
Last Saturday was another scorching August day in Lebanon's shattered capital of Beirut, but UN staff members who had gathered outside UN House — itself damaged during the deadly port explosion – were determined to get straight to work, and stand in solidarity with the country they call home.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069932

Clashes in Beirut as ruling elite exploits anger over blast
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The latest demonstrations over Tuesday's deadly port explosion were marked by the presence of the Christian and Sunni parties and ex-generals.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/beir-a10.html

We are a community of voters: Somos una comunidad de votantes
David Trujillo | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
For the Latino community the question should not be "Should I vote?" The question to be asking is what is the best option for my vote? There are so many honest reasons why voting out the president and taking back the Senate is the best option. This article would have to be much, much longer to …
peoplesworld.org/article/we-are-a-community-of-voters-somos-una-comunidad-de-votantes/

Lies, Lies, and More Lies: A Presidential History
Bill Lueders | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
Eric Alterman explores the one area in which Donald Trump's performance has been truly outstanding.
progressive.org/dispatches/lies-more-lies-presidential-history-lueders-200810/

Tampa Bay SDS wins major victory in their Increase Black Enrollment campaign
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Tampa Bay SDS wins major victory in their Increase Black Enrollment campaign | By Eithne Silva | Tampa, Fl – On August 4, the president of the University of South Florida (USF) released a statement to the public announcing changes being made to improve Black student life. Some of these changes include demands that Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) brought to USF administration through their Increase Black Enrollment campaign. | In the fall of 2019, after a string of white supremacist activity on campus as well as the lowest proportion of black students at USF in a decade, Tampa Bay SDS launched th…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/9/tampa-bay-sds-wins-major-victory-their-increase-black-enrollment-campaign

Trump executive orders set stage for tens of millions of evictions
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
An analysis released Friday by the Aspen Institute estimates that between 28,900,000 and 39,900,000 tenants in the US are at risk of eviction by the end of the year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/unem-a10.html

Outrage at demolition of mural in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-10
On Thursday, July 23 the iconic Roxbury Love Mural was demolished by Cruz Companies with little warning to the community that had cherished it for years. In its place will be built condos well out of the price range of current residents. As outrage spread at this brazen act of gentrification, the Boston branch of …
liberationnews.org/outrage-at-demolition-of-mural-in-bostons-roxbury-neighborhood/

Trump's illegal power grab and the specter of American Bonapartism
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Trump's usurpation of the congressional prerogative to tax and spend is the latest act in his years-long effort to destroy all Constitutional guardrails on the power of the presidency.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/pers-a10.html

Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan transit corridor operational
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — The pilot project of the Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan transit corridor became operational under the TIR system with two trucks starting transporting goods from Iran to Afghanistan and finally to Uzbekistan on Monday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162082/Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan-transit-corridor-operational

Iran-Eurasia trade reaches $2.6 billion in 9 months
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union trades reached $2.6 billion in the nine months since October 27, 2019 — when the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) was inked between Islamic Republic of Iran and Eurasian Economic Union.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162088/Iran-Eurasia-trade-reaches-2-6-billion-in-9-months

Iran records 2,132 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected 2,132 people and claimed 189 lives in Iran in the past 24 hours, a senior health official said.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162089/Iran-records-2-132-COVID-19-cases-in-24-hours

Pharmaceutical industry discussed under Covid-19 pandemic
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Mehr news agency, on Monday, hosted the head and members of the Iranian Pharmaceutical Industries Syndicate in a meeting to investigate the condition of the domestic pharmaceutical industry under the coronavirus pandemic.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162100/Pharmaceutical-industry-discussed-under-Covid-19-pandemic

Iranian animation 'Crab' competing at Animafest Cyprus
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian short animation 'Crab' directed by Shiva Sadegh Asadi is present at the international competition film program of the 19th Countryside Animafest Cyprus, the official animation event of the country, August 9-12.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162078/Iranian-animation-Crab-competing-at-Animafest-Cyprus

Iran' Mahiroud Market exports over 13 million $ goods
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) –The Director-General of South Khorasan Customs administration said, "The definite export from Mahiroud Market in the first quarter of the current year has been 13 million and 112 thousand and 97 dollars."
en.mehrnews.com/news/162066/Iran-Mahiroud-Market-exports-over-13-million-goods

"Hormuz Peace Endeavor" can only be sustained strategically
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute believes that "The "Hormuz Peace Endeavour" can only be sustained strategically.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162105/Hormuz-Peace-Endeavor-can-only-be-sustained-strategically

Beirut Blast to change political arrangement in Lebanon
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian ex-ambassador to Germany said that It seems when the Beirut tensions end, the political arrangement of the forces in Lebanon will change and some political groups will turn to Hezbollah.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162090/Beirut-Blast-to-change-political-arrangement-in-Lebanon

Anibar Animation Festival to screen 'Eaten' from Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian animation 'Eaten', directed by Mohsen Rezapour, will be screened at the 2020 edition of the Anibar International Animation Festival.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162081/Anibar-Animation-Festival-to-screen-Eaten-from-Iran

Iran, Azerbaijan set roadmap for development of coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Social Welfare announced that Iran and Republic of Azerbaijan have set a roadmap for the development of cooperation between the two countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162083/Iran-Azerbaijan-set-roadmap-for-development-of-coop

Iran not officially notified of ship seizure off Pakistan
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — In reaction to reports that an Iranian oil tanker was seized in the port of Karachi, Iranian Ambassador to Islamabad said that the Iranian embassy has not received any official report from Pakistani authorities.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162067/Iran-not-officially-notified-of-ship-seizure-off-Pakistan

Iran to adopt various methods to unblock frozen assets
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the Islamic Republic of Iran will adopt various methods to unblock its frozen assets in other countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162098/Iran-to-adopt-various-methods-to-unblock-frozen-assets

Swiss financial channel to facilitate cereals, pharmaceutical
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Chairman of Iran-Switzerland Joint Chamber of Commerce said that Swiss financial channel with the Islamic Republic of Iran will facilitate trade of cereals and pharmaceuticals.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162063/Swiss-financial-channel-to-facilitate-cereals-pharmaceutical

UNSC facing major test to show independence: Vaezi
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian President's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said that the members of UN Security Council are facing a major test to show their independence and react negatively to US pressure on Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162087/UNSC-facing-major-test-to-show-independence-Vaezi

Leader condoles demise of Hojatoleslam Mousavian
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Leader of the Islamic Revolution has expressed condolences over the demise of Hojatoleslam Seyyed Abbas Mousavian, an expert on issues related to Islamic economy.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162086/Leader-condoles-demise-of-Hojatoleslam-Mousavian

VIDEO: Police, protesters clash in Belarus
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Riot police clashed with protesters in Belarus overnight following a declared 80.23 percent victory for long-time president Alexander Lukashenko in Sunday's elections.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162076/VIDEO-Police-protesters-clash-in-Belarus

Guardian Council spox' presser
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Guardian Council Spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodaei held a press conference on Monday morning.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162085/Guardian-Council-spox-presser

VIDEO: Mauritius oil spill in Indian Ocean
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — The island of Mauritius is facing an environmental emergency as a wrecked ship is leaking tons of diesel and oil into the Indian Ocean. The island's government has declared an environmental emergency following the incident.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162077/VIDEO-Mauritius-oil-spill-in-Indian-Ocean

Govt. pursuing to resolve people's economic problems
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — President Hassan Rouhani said that his administration in cooperation with other branches of the Establishment is seeking to resolve economic problems facing people of the country as well as boosting the economy of the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162104/Govt-pursuing-to-resolve-people-s-economic-problems

Rare 'boomerang' earthquake observed along Atlantic Ocean fault line
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-08-10
Scientists have tracked a 'boomerang' earthquake in the ocean for the first time, providing clues about how they could cause devastation on land.
imperial.ac.uk/news/201733/rare-boomerang-earthquake-observed-along-atlantic

Social Security & Medicare Cut to Be Permanent if Nazi Trump Reelected
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Nazi Trump signed an illegal order on 8/8/20 to cut the payroll tax for Social Security and Medicare and promised on national TV to make it permanent if he is re-elected. This is a long-standing Republican Party program, outlined in their platform as they want to privatize both programs.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835736.php

Tuesday 8/18: Bi-Weekly Community On Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835769.php

San Francisco March Demands State Shut Down Concentration Camps
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
ICE building covered with "bloody" hands as part of state wide protest.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835744.php

Saturday 9/5: San Francisco: Nationwide Mass Protest to Demand Trump Pence Out Now!
Refuse Fascism Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
San Francisco: Rally Embarcadero Plaza, Market St & Steuart St, then March to San Francisco City Hall…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835792.php

BREAKING: Reina Robinson Launches Campaign for Vallejo City Unified School District Truste
Reina Robinson | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Reina Robinson announced her candidacy for the Vallejo City Unified School District's newly created Trustee Area 2 today, along with a major community endorsement from Vallejo Girls Youth Empowerment Group. Her candidacy for VCUSD Trustee Area 2 comes nearly two years after the City of Vallejo was found to be in violation of the California Voting Rights Act.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835797.php

Sunday 8/16: Anarchist Black Cross – Virtual Political Prisoner Support
Direct Action Monterey Network | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835795.php

Monday 8/10: Progressive Press Conference
Progressive Press Conference | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835766.php

Friday 8/21: Sreening and Discussion of "Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed"
Mechanics' Institute Library | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835784.php

Tuesday 8/11: Defund the Police – ReFund the Community March
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Town Clock Park | N Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835793.php

Saturday 8/29: 50th Anniversary of United Native Americans Takeover of Mount Rushmore
United Native Americans | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835776.php

Sunday 8/9: Green Sunday: Reopening Schools: Whether, How, When? — with Jack Gerson
Green Party | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835765.php

Chowchilla Women's Prison
Shauna Gunderson | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Demonstration of women and children in front of Chowchilla Women's Prison highlight desperate conditions inside…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835764.php

Sunday 8/30: Silicon Valley Pride 2020: A Digital Celebration (Aug. 30)
Silicon Valley Pride | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835787.php

Senate Committee Votes Against Bill to Create Health and Safety Setbacks Around Oil Wells
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
"The fact that dozens of Spanish speaking residents who are currently poisoned by the fugitive emissions coming out of oil wells near their homes and schools were denied the opportunity to express their support for AB345 during yesterday's hearing is just another example of the environmental racism that they have endured, being unheard," said Nayamin Martinez, Director of CCEJN and a member of the VISION coalition.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835777.php

Friday 8/21: Film Screening and Discussion of "Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed"
Mechanics' Institute Library | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835784.php

Friday 8/14: Giants and Warriors Workers Fight Back
Marc Norton | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Willie Mays statue, 3rd and King Streets, Giants ballpark (Oracle Park)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835790.php

Thursday 8/13: Saving Life on Earth: Protecting People & Wildlife from Poisonous Pesticides
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835767.php

Saturday 8/29: Silicon Valley Pride 2020: A Digital Celebration
Silicon Valley Pride | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835785.php

BLM Oakland Solidarity March Part 3
Victor Noir | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Because of social distancing I was grateful for the photos I took. It makes me cringe sometimes when I cannot photograph fresh ink. I ventured out on 7 26 20 and retraced for archival purposes.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835737.php

The GWHS Murals & The Life of Victor Arnautoff
LaborFest | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
This panel is about the Victor Arnautoff murals at George Washinton High and the life of Arnautoff including his relationship with the ILWU.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835778.php

Era Of US Domination Of Latin America Coming To An End
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Despite its failings at home, the United States intervenes in countries across multiple continents seeking to control their governments and resources. | This week, we look at the US' latest efforts in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Bolivia to undermine their independence and force them to serve the interests of the US government and transnational corporations. | In all three countries, the US has displayed a lack of understanding of the people and their support for their revolutionary processes, and as a result, is failing. As US empire fades, so might the Monroe Doctrine come to an end.
popularresistance.org/era-of-us-domination-of-latin-america-coming-to-an-end/

The Neoliberal Virus
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Neoliberalism can be characterized, amongst other things, by a doctrinaire preoccupation with market deregulation and accompanying mythology, with all the supporting evidence of children's fairy tales, that market mechanisms left to themselves can best guarantee social happiness and prosperity. | In reality, neoliberals fear checks on the absolute power of capital. Not making a distinction between being criticized and being attacked, and habitually conflating their own grotesque class privileges with individual freedoms, the transnational corporate capitalist class who sponsor this ideology and defend its hegemon…
popularresistance.org/the-neoliberal-virus/

US Crimes Against Humanity At Home And Abroad
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
The US crimes against humanity did not begin or end with the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Japan. As militant civil rights leader Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) pointed out years ago, "Violence is as American as cherry pie." Since its inception, the US has been ingrained with a motor force of violent oppression against everyone and every country that stood in its way of its expansion for control of resources and its entitlement to a limitless accumulation of vast wealth for a few. | The original thirteen colonies that rebelled against England were not motivated solely by being taxed without rep…
popularresistance.org/us-crimes-against-humanity-at-home-and-abroad/

'Execute Them': Lebanon Protesters Demand Revenge After Blast
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Mock gallows nooses tied to brooms: Lebanese protesters on Saturday clamored for bloody revenge against a leadership they blame for the massive blast that engulfed their capital. | "There is hatred and there is blood between us and our authorities," said Najib Farah, a 35-year-old protester in central Beirut. "The people want revenge." | On a street leading to parliament, young men lobbed stones at security forces who replied with tear gas, a familiar sight in Lebanon since last October. | Thousands of young men and women earlier revived the main camp of a months-long protest movement, some of them carrying portr…
popularresistance.org/execute-them-lebanon-protesters-demand-revenge-after-blast/

Lebanese Protesters Occupy Government Buildings As Army Uses Live Ammunition
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Massive demonstrations rippled through Beirut on 8 August as protesters took to the streets calling for revenge on the politicians who bear collective responsibility for the huge explosion at the port on 4 August. Protesters stormed the Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Economy, the Ministry of the Environment and set the Association of Banks headquarters on fire. "This is the heart of corruption. The centre of fraud and plunder", commented one of the demonstrators as he filmed inside the Ministry of Energy.
popularresistance.org/lebanese-protesters-occupy-government-buildings-as-army-uses-live-ammunition/

Can Cities Go Zero-waste?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
In 2003 the small Japanese town of Kamikatsu set an ambitious zero-waste declaration, aiming to be 100% waste-free by 2020. The goal was to produce no trash, meaning everything from food packaging to unwanted clothing to yesterday's newspaper should be reused, repurposed into new goods, or recycled. Now that 2020 has arrived, we can see the result: In the 17 years since establishing its goal, Kamikatsu transitioned from openly incinerating all its trash to reusing and recycling 80% of its waste. | While the town made incredible progress, it ultimately fell short of its 100% goal. Its main issue? Unrecyclable plas…
popularresistance.org/can-cities-go-zero-waste/

Trump's Executive Orders Are Public Relations Stunts
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Trump, Meadows, Mnuchin and McConnell cleverly set up and sucked in Pelosi and Shumer into negotiations last week, never planning to conclude a deal by Friday, in the process getting them to reveal their priority demands and securing from them major concessions worth $1 trillion–for which the Democrat leaders apparently got nothing in return. | A day later, Trump dropped the hammer and issued his EOs, which are designed more as PR for his election campaign. They certainly won't provide anything remotely necessary as fiscal stimulus to confront the US economy's emerging fading rebound in recent weeks. | Upon…
popularresistance.org/trumps-executive-orders/

Victim of 'systemic racism'? Biden's Ferguson anniversary tweet flops… as his own DOJ justified Michael Brown shooting
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden seemingly forgot what was made clear by his own administration when he was vice president under Obama: Evidence shows that Michael Brown was killed while assaulting a police officer. | That was the conclusion of a US Department of Justice investigation in 2015, during the Obama-Biden administration, when the feds exonerated former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson in the August 2014 sho…
rt.com/usa/497548-biden-ferguson-systemic-racism/

What could it mean? Twitter erupts with sarcastic suggestions after Trump refers to himself as 'President T'
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Donald Trump has sparked yet another Twitter drama after referring to himself as 'President T' in a post questioning the loyalty of a senator, prompting users to make sarcastic suggestions of what the 'T' could possibly stand for. | In the Monday tweet, Trump accused Republican Senator Ben Sasse of "going rogue" after he sharply criticized the president's executive orders aimed at providing coronavirus relief while bypassing Congress. | RINO Ben Sasse, who needed my support and endorsement in order to get the Republican nomination for Senate from the GREAT State of Nebraska, has, now that he's got it (Thank yo…
rt.com/usa/497625-president-t-twitter-trump/

Hundreds of looters raid Chicago after riots break out over police shooting (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Chicago has been gripped by large-scale rioting and looting, believed to have been sparked by a police shooting in the city. Law enforcement are reportedly struggling to restore order. | Social media was flooded with photographs and videos showing widespread chaos in the city. Footage shows large crowds walking through the streets with looted merchandise, as people rush in and out of stores. | According to eyewitness reports, looters targeted large department stores such as Macy's and Nordstrom, as well as luxury shops including Gucci, Louis Vuitton and even a Tesla dealership. Countless other businesses were…
rt.com/usa/497565-chicago-riots-looting-videos-police/

Mayor of Chicago slammed for failed response to looting & police shooting after focusing on lakeside social distancing
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been excoriated for the city's belated response to an outbreak of looting, shooting and chaos that followed a police-involved shooting. The city was quick to shut down beach access, however. | Lightfoot belatedly condemned the looters during a press conference on Monday, urging prosecutors to "put their best people" on the task of rounding up those behind the violence that left 13 police officers injured over the course of a single night. | "There is no justification for criminal behavior ever," Lightfoot said, adding, "You have no right to take and destroy the property of othe…
rt.com/usa/497607-lightfoot-response-looting-chicago-fail/

1 killed, several injured as 'major gas explosion' obliterates three Baltimore homes (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-10
A huge gas explosion has reduced three row houses to rubble in Baltimore, Maryland, killing one resident and injuring several others, the city's fire department has said. At least five people remain trapped in the debris. | Shocking photos from the scene show an empty space in the row of houses where the destroyed homes used to stand. The trio of two-story buildings were literally leveled to the ground, and many nearby homes also sustained damage in the blast. | UNBELIEVABLE: multiple homes have been LEVELED by an explosion in Northwest Baltimore, one person has died and multiple others still missing, possibly…
rt.com/usa/497613-baltimore-gas-explosion-us/

Coronavirus Is the New 'Terrorism'
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-10
Ron PAUL | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed the next multi-trillion dollar "coronavirus relief" spending bill that will support testing, tracing, treatment, isolation, and mask policies that have been part of a "national strategic plan" she has been advocating. The Trump administration is not opposing Pelosi's plan on principle. Instead, it is haggling over the price. | But, even if the strategic plan could be implemented at little or no monetary cost, it would still impose an unacceptable cost in lost liberty. | Pelosi's plan will lead to either a federal mask mandate or federal funding of state and local…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/10/coronavirus-new-terrorism/

Neoliberalism and the Beirut Explosion
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-10
Back when people were still allowed to say such things, the famous defense attorney Clarence Darrow used to confess that he liked filling his juries with Irishmen because, no matter how heinous the crime, they'd look at the accused, cross themselves, and mutter, "There but the grace of God go I." | Darrow's story is worth keeping in mind now that a massive ammonium-nitrate blast has leveled much of Beirut. Although terrorism can't be entirely dismissed, it looks like the cause is something more prosaic, i.e. years of government neglect and decay. Ammonium nitrate is a compound used to make both fertilizers and ex…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/10/neoliberalism-and-the-beirut-explosion/

Why Is the BBC Promoting Identity Politics?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-10
It is supposed to bring us together. But it has embraced a divisive agenda. | Calvin ROBINSON | While the identity-obsessed left peddles its white-privilege theories, white working-class boys languish at the bottom of the academic pile. The evidence is clear, available for all to see on Gov.uk — white working-class boys are the most consistently disadvantaged social group in our country, after gyp…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/10/why-is-bbc-promoting-identity-politics/

Lebanon Bomb Might Focus the Minds of Regional Powers to Why Lebanon Matters
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-10
Macron has said he will throw his weight behind a political initiative to help Lebanon rebuild itself after an entirely corrupt government pushed the country towards an abyss. But will he suggest resignations of present leaders as a good start? And will he use his influence in the EU to get Brussels engaged? | The dust has settled in Lebanon now, after what might be described as its largest explosion to date in the troubled country. But while hordes of so-called analysts pour over the scarce details of what we know as fact, many will speculate about whether the explosion was indeed an accident — and, of cou…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/10/lebanon-bomb-might-focus-minds-regional-powers-to-why-lebanon-matters/

Widespread calls for PM to boost testing as he prepares for schools reopening
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-10
Boris Johnson is facing widespread calls to boost coronavirus testing and tracing in order to safely reopen schools to all pupils without imposing further restrictions on businesses or social lives.The prime minister said it is the "national priority" to get children back in class in England next month, but he has been warned by scientific advisers that "trade-offs" may be necessary to keep transmission down. | Teachers, scientists, opposition politicians and the children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield have all called for improvements to testing before pupils return.Longfield welcomed Johnson's commitm…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/10/widespread-calls-for-pm-to-boost-testing-as-he-prepares-for-schools-reopening/

Manchester and Liverpool mayors demand pay for self-isolating workers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-10
The Mayors of Greater Manchester and Liverpool have launched a campaign to ensure workers still get paid when they're asked to self-isolate. | Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and his Liverpool counterpart Steve Rotheram are calling for employees to receive their full normal wage if they're asked to isolate at home. The mayors are saying employers should then be able to claim this back from the government. | They joined the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in launching the "Time Out to Help Out" campaign. It comes after figures revealed 22,000 people have been requested to self-isolate in Greater Manchester already. | Fa…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/10/manchester-and-liverpool-mayors-demand-pay-for-self-isolating-workers/

Plan for more nursing apprenticeships falls short, union warns
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-10
A multi-million pound government plan to train more apprentice nurses falls short of what is needed, the Royal College of Nursing has said.The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said a package worth up to £172m will enable healthcare employers to take on up to 2,000 nursing degree apprentices every year over the next four years.The NHS and other healthcare employers will receive £8,300 per placement per year for both new and existing apprenticeships. | The government said the funding will enable employers to meet the costs of taking on apprentices, including staffing costs while apprentices a…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/10/plan-for-more-nursing-apprenticeships-falls-short-union-warns/

Climate Activists Push Biden to Cut Ties With Industry-Friendly Energy Advisers
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
With President Trump's poll numbers sinking, he is increasingly turning to the fossil fuel industry for support. Rallying oil patch workers and executives during a stop at a fracking rig in West Texas's Permian Basin in late July, the president stood in front of stacked oil drums and declared "victory" over spring's historic crash in oil prices that continues to throttle most of the U.S. oil and gas ind…
truthout.org/articles/climate-activists-push-biden-to-cut-ties-with-industry-friendly-energy-advisers/

Trump Executive Action on Unemployment Insurance Deliberately Leaves Out Poorest
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
On top of serious questions about the directive's legality and workability, experts are warning that President Donald Trump's executive action to extend the federal unemployment insurance boost at $400 per week — using $44 billion in funds meant for disaster relief — leaves out the poorest Americans by design. | The language of Trump's…
truthout.org/articles/trump-executive-action-on-unemployment-insurance-deliberately-leaves-out-poorest/

ALEC Works to Pass Industry-Backed COVID Liability Shields at the State Level
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has long fought for restrictions on individuals' right to sue in civil court because of unsafe workplaces or products. | It is no surprise, then, that ALEC has joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Independent Businesses, and Senate Republicans to push for sweeping limits on the civil liability of employers for coronavirus-rel…
truthout.org/articles/alec-works-to-pass-industry-backed-covid-liability-shields-at-the-state-level/

When Things Feel Dire, Remember Real Change Begins at the Grassroots Level
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
Right now feels like a challenging time to be an American fighting for equality, fighting for justice. We have COVID-19, an economic crisis, and the violence against Black Americans and anti-Blackness in the foreground. But we also have people across the nation rising up to say, in the words of Ella Baker, "We who believe in freedom cannot rest." | This is our moment to make sure we do what we can, where we are, with what we have. | We don't have to do it all. There's a saying that goes, "many h…
truthout.org/articles/when-things-feel-dire-remember-real-change-begins-at-the-grassroots-level/

Trump's Social Security Sleight of Hand Is Another Scam. Don't Fall for It
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
We begin with a foundational premise, a stone-bound axiom learned the hardest of hard ways after three long years: Donald Trump does not care about you, or me, or anyone on this planet. Donald Trump cares only about Donald Trump, full stop, end of file. Do not let the triumphant-sounding weekend headlines about his executive orders fool you; those orders are made of soap bubbles. Yes, friends, it's yet another scam. | House Democ…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-social-security-sleight-of-hand-is-another-scam-dont-fall-for-it/

San Francisco Giants and Golden State Warriors give stadium workers the boot
Marc Norton | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
I got the email firing me from my job at the Giants ballpark Monday, July 27. The following evening, I learned from the San Francisco Examiner that I would also get fired from my second job at the new Golden State Warriors stadium, and a combined 2,154 other food service workers were also being shown …
peoplesworld.org/article/san-francisco-giants-and-golden-state-warriors-give-stadium-workers-the-boot/

This week in history: August 10-16
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
25 years ago: Indictments in Oklahoma City bombingOn August 10, 1995, a federal grand jury handed down indictments against the two main suspects in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in which 168 people died. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with making the explosive device from a combination of diesel fuel and fertilizer, transporting it in a rented Ryder truck, and detonating the bomb outside the Murrah Federal Building on the morning of April 19, 1995.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/twih-a10.html

Turkish official warns of mental impact of COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
A Turkish official, who has recovered from COVID-19, warned of psychological impact of the disease as well as its biological impact on human body."It is really troublesome psychologically. So take your measures," Osman Bilgin, the governor of northwestern Kirklareli province, told Anadolu Agency.Bilgin was diagnosed with the disease caused by the novel coronavirus on March 31 and he recovered on April 17."Some citizens are not aware because they did not experience it. But when you do, there are both biological and psychological impacts of the disease," Bilgin stressed.Recounting the ordeal, he said he was so sad…
yenisafak.com/en/life/turkish-official-warns-of-mental-impact-of-covid-19-3536505

Russian tourists return to sunny Turkish beaches
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
After Turkey and Russia negotiated a resumption of flights between the two countries, Russian tourists once again chose the resort city of Antalya for their "safe vacation" amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.Turkey ranked first among countries visited by Russian nationals for tourism last year with nearly 7 million tourists coming to the country. This year, in line with measures taken to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Turkey once again began to host Russian tourists.After five months of pause, tourists from Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport took off for Turkey's Antalya province where they landed…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/russian-tourists-return-to-sunny-turkish-beaches-3536506

Turkish expert weighs in on importance of face masks
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
The slight discomfort that comes from wearing a mask on a hot summer day is a small price to pay for protecting oneself from the coronavirus, Turkey's pandemic task force member has said. Dr. Afsin Emre Kayipmaz, a member of Turkey's Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board, told Anadolu Agency that a rise in coronavirus cases was witnessed after the four-day Eid al-Adha holiday as people used the opportunity to flock to beaches and attend wedding ceremonies, flouting social distancing rules.Cases have risen 1.3 times compared to May when lockdown was still imposed in many parts of the country, Turkey's Health Minis…
yenisafak.com/en/life/turkish-expert-weighs-in-on-importance-of-face-masks-3536524

Iraq reports highest-ever daily virus case count
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
With 3,484 new coronavirus cases, Iraq on Monday reported the highest-ever daily COVID-19 infections, according to the Health Ministry.Meanwhile, the ministry reported 72 additional fatalities from the virus.Monday's figures bring the total case count to 153,599 and the number of fatalities to 5,464, along with 109,790 recoveries.Health centers in Iraq face shortages of oxygen supplies and protective equipment, prompting the Higher Committee for Health and National Safety to direct the Health Ministry to provide support for investors wishing to build medical oxygen production plants.Security forces have also been…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iraq-reports-highest-ever-daily-virus-case-count-3536527

Southeast Asia reports over 8,800 new coronavirus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
With 8,887 new coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia, the tally of cases in the region has crossed 333,300, authorities said Monday.The death toll in the region has hit 8,291, while recoveries are at 212,507.In Phillippines, the worst-hit in the region, total infections climbed to 136,638 after the country's health authority confirmed 6,958 new cases.The archipelago nation reported 24 more virus-related fatalities, raising the nationwide death toll to 2,292, while recoveries jumped by 633 to reach 68,306.Indonesia reported 42 more fatalities from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/southeast-asia-reports-over-8800-new-coronavirus-cases-3536530

Iran's real virus figures higher than announced: Expert
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
The coronavirus figures announced by the Iranian authorities are one-twentieth of the real numbers, a member of an anti-virus taskforce said Monday."There was no transparent flow of information regarding the numbers. Authorities announce official numbers by considering political and security concerns", Mohammad Reza Mahboubfar told the Iranian Jahanesanat news website. | Mahboubfar said despite all the warnings, President Hassan Rouhani's statement that the mourning ceremonies of Ashura will be celebrated with enthusiasm revealed serious disagreements between the taskforce members and the government. | Despite an…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irans-real-virus-figures-higher-than-announced-expert-3536507

WHO urges action to contain virus as cases near 20M
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Behind the rising numbers of registered novel coronavirus cases and deaths — both expected this week to reach 20 million and 750,000, respectively — is "a great deal of pain and suffering," and leaders need to embrace new measures to turn the outbreak around, the top official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday.Addressing a bi-weekly COVID-19 webinar for journalists Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "I know many of you are grieving and that this is a difficult moment for the world.""But I want to be clear, there are green shoots of hope and no matter where a country, a…
yenisafak.com/en/news/who-urges-action-to-contain-virus-as-cases-near-20m-3536529

Gambia's health system near collapse amid pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
The Gambia has seen over a 70% rise in coronavirus cases last week, and its health sector is crumbling under the weight of the deadly virus.The total number of confirmed cases in the country as of Aug. 7 stood at 1,235, with 23 deaths and 221 recoveries, according to the latest Health Ministry data released on Sunday. The Gambia's reporting of cases is two days behind due to lack of capacity to deal with the surge.The situation is "alarming" in the small West African country of around 2.4 million people, according to Modou Touray, communications director of the Gambia Red Cross Society, as the number of COVID-19…
yenisafak.com/en/world/gambias-health-system-near-collapse-amid-pandemic-3536512

Eurasia countries report new COVID-19 cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Coronavirus cases and fatalities continued to rise across Eurasian and Central Asian countries on Monday.- UkraineHealth Minister Maksym Stepanov said 1,008 more people tested positive for the virus over the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 81,957.He said 25 more fatalities raised the death toll to 1,922 while recoveries increased by 387 to reach 44,359. | Stepanov urged the public to strictly follow the government's COVID-19 restrictions, which have been extended until Aug. 31. | – KazakhstanKazakhstan reported 741 more virus cases, raising the total to 99,442, as recoveries rose by 250 to reach the total of…
yenisafak.com/en/world/eurasia-countries-report-new-covid-19-cases-3536509

Coronavirus: Iran reports 189 more fatalities
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
As many as 189 new coronavirus-related fatalities have raised the death toll in Iran to 18,616, the Health Ministry sai…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-iran-reports-189-more-fatalities-3536513

Some tourists confused by new COVID-19 mask rules in Paris
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
The wearing of masks in some crowded areas around Paris became compulsory on Monday as part of a drive to stem a sharp rise in COVID-19 infections, but some tourists appeared perplexed about where the new rule is meant to apply.A detailed list of more than 100 mandatory mask-wearing zones includes the popular Montmartre district, with its narrow streets, and the banks of the River Seine but excludes other famous tourist destinations such as the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysees and the huge shopping area of Les Halles."It's not clear at all. We're tourists so we don't know in which zones we're required to wear a m…
yenisafak.com/en/world/some-tourists-confused-by-new-covid-19-mask-rules-in-paris-3536523

Israel says ready for war with Lebanon: Gantz
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Monday Israel is ready for a war with Lebanon if such war is imposed on Tel Aviv. | In his briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Gantz warned that such war would have serious consequences on Lebanon. | "While [Hezbollah leader Hasan] Nasrallah is our biggest enemy in the north, he is Lebanon's biggest problem." He said. | Gantz also said that the situation in the Middle East in the past decade was fragile and uncertain, stressing that Israel will continue efforts to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear power, and from operati…
yenisafak.com/en/news/israel-says-ready-for-war-with-lebanon-gantz-3536504

Oil prices slightly up on optimism over Asian demand
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Oil prices slightly up on Monday backed by Saudi optimism about Asian demand and an Iraqi commitment to speeding up production cuts to offset overproduction in the previous months.International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $44.89 per barrel at 0840 GMT for a 0.05% increase after closing Friday at $44.66 a barrel.American benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was at $41.94 a barrel at the same time for a 0.21% increase after ending the previous session at $41.80 per barrel.Chief Executive of Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser, said on Sunday that he sees oil demand growing in Asia as economies slowly open up afte…
yenisafak.com/en/world/oil-prices-slightly-up-on-optimism-over-asian-demand-3536510

Lebanese gov't resigns after protests in wake of deadly Beirut blast
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
On Sunday, Information Minister Manal Abdel-Samad and Environment Minister Damianos Kattar stepped down. Six lawmakers have also resigned from the 128-member parliament in protest over the blasts.Two explosions rocked the Beirut port last Tuesday after a neglected stockpile of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse there ignited.Ammonium nitrate is a chemical substance often used to make bombs and commonly used in fertilizer. Terrorism has been ruled out as a probable cause of the blasts.The blasts rocked Beirut to its core, registering 3.5 on the Richter scale and shattering buildings miles in the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/lebanese-govt-resigns-after-protests-in-wake-of-deadly-beirut-blast-3536532

Ancient bathhouse, gymnasium unearthed in Izmir, Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Archeologists have unearthed a Roman bathhouse and gymnasium, as part of excavations in Turkey's western province of Izmir.The excavations were carried out by researchers from the Izmir Katip Celebi University in the ancient Smyrna city's Ikicesmelik area.Experts found the remains of a building from the 2nd century, which was used for physical, social and cultural activities.The structure is believed to be from the era of Roman Emperor Hadrian.Akin Ersoy, head of the excavation team, told Anadolu Agency on Monday that bathhouses and gymnasiums were common in the Roman era.Bathhouses, he said, were used as social…
yenisafak.com/en/news/ancient-bathhouse-gymnasium-unearthed-in-izmir-turkey-3536511

US Treasury chief says TikTok cannot continue in present form
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday that Chinese-owned short video app TikTok cannot continue in its present form collecting data on Americans on a large scale and the Treasury has the tools it needs to remedy the situation.Mnuchin, speaking to CNBC television, said President Donald Trump "has made perfectly clear, it's not going to continue with this in this form." Mnuchin declined to comment on Microsoft's negotiations to purchase TikTok.
yenisafak.com/en/news/us-treasury-chief-says-tiktok-cannot-continue-in-present-form-3536531

McDonald's sues former CEO Stephen Easterbrook
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
McDonald's Corp filed a lawsuit against former chief executive officer Stephen Easterbrook to recover compensation benefits after an internal investigation showed that he had sexual relationships with multiple employees, violating company policy, it said in a filing on Monday.Easterbrook lied during the investigation into his behavior, the filing showed.McDonald's dismissed Easterbrook in November over a consensual relationship with an employee, which the board then determined violated company policy. Easterbrook and McDonald's could not be immediately reached for comment.
yenisafak.com/en/economy/mcdonalds-sues-former-ceo-stephen-easterbrook-3536526

Lebanon gov't intends to resign: Source
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
The resignation of Prime Minister Hassan Diab's government has become "inevitable", a Lebanese cabinet source said on Monday. | "The prime minister intends to tender the resignation of his government," the source told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. | Lebanese Minister of Communications and Information Technology Talal Hawat and Minister of Displaced Ghada Chreim also said in cabinet meeting that the government's resignation has become "inevitable." | "If the government did not resign, I will," Hawat said. | On Monday, Justice Minister Marie-Claude Na…
yenisafak.com/en/news/lebanon-govt-intends-to-resign-source-3536525

SunExpress beefing up German flights to Turkish resorts
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
With tourists flocking to several popular Turkish coastal resorts again, Turkish-German joint venture SunExpress is adding capacity to ferry German holidaymakers.The Turkish-German carrier is offering a 15% capacity rise in Antalya flights and 20% rise in Izmir flights this month, said a Monday statement by SunExpress, a joint venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, the countries' flag carriers.The move follows last week's decision by Germany to lift travel warnings for the Turkish resort cities of Antalya, Izmir, Mugla (including Fethiye), and Aydin. The move came as Turkish resorts and destinations nationwid…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/sunexpress-beefing-up-german-flights-to-turkish-resorts-3536508

Australian Kmart warehouse workers in Melbourne strike over COVID-19 safety
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Warehouses, like meatworks and nursing homes, have become dangerous places for workers in this pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/aust-a10.html

Twenty percent of Australian health workers lack PPE as infections in the sector soar
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Some 400 more health workers in Victoria have contracted COVID-19 over the past two weeks, prompting warnings of a looming staffing crisis in the hospital system.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/vict-a10.html

Five Ways "The New Normal" Is Getting Worse and Worse. Curfew, Masks at Home, Immunity Passports,
Kit Knightly | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
It's been a big few days for the New Normal narrative and, through the deliberately cultivated haze of confusion, it's not hard to see the world they want to build is taking shape. | 1. Australia's curfew | The state of Victoria, …
globalresearch.ca/5-ways-new-normal-getting-worse/5720643

Australian parliamentary staffer initiates legal challenge to "foreign interference" laws
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The High Court case will shed light on the profoundly anti-democratic implications of the legislation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/laws-a10.html

Johnson calls Channel crossings 'bad, stupid, dangerous and criminal'
Claud Fullwood | thecanary.co | 2020-08-10
Boris Johnson has criticised people crossing the Channel to seek refuge in the UK. He said crossing the Channel was a "very bad and stupid and dangerous and criminal thing to do". He has also hinted at changing laws to tackle Channel crossings. | A human crisis: | Over 4,000 people, including women and children, have made the crossing from Calais to Dover in 2020. This is less than 1% of the total number of people who came to live in the UK in 2019. Most of them travel on small and overcrowded dinghies. And the Channel is one of the busiest shipping lan…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/10/johnson-calls-channel-crossings-bad-stupid-dangerous-and-criminal/

'We Are Expecting the Worst': Alarm Over Eco Crisis Grows Amid Fears Ship Leaking Oil Near Mauritius Could Break in Two
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
Climate campaigers charge that "this oil leak is not a twist of fate, but the choice of our twisted addiction to fossil fuels." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1227940355.png …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/10/we-are-expecting-worst-alarm-over-eco-crisis-grows-amid-fears-ship-leaking-oil-near?cd-origin=rss

Tracking Apps Are Unlikely to Help Stop Covid-19
Jay Stanley & Jon Callas | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
"The sensitive privacy and trust issues that human contact tracers face are likely to be amplified in the technology realm." (Photo: Roger Brown Photography/Shutterstock.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/contact-tracing.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/10/tracking-apps-are-unlikely-help-stop-covid-19?cd-origin=rss

'Impossible to Stay Quiet': With Nearly 100,000 Kids Infected by Covid-19 in Just Two Weeks, Medical Experts Warn Against Hasty Return to School
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
"Rushing to reopen our schools will directly jeopardize the lives of our students and educators, and that is a risk we cannot take," said Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/getty-schoolgirl_in_mask_in_mirror-crop.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/10/impossible-stay-quiet-nearly-100000-kids-infected-covid-19-just-two-weeks-medical?cd-origin=rss

BP Plans to Keep It in the Ground, Sort Of
Robin Tress | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
Greenpeace activists delivered 500 solar panels with a total area of over 800 square meters to BP's London headquarters in St. James Square Feb. 5, 2020. Activists locked to oil barrels blocked all six office doors around the building. (Photo: Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bp_protesters.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/10/bp-plans-keep-it-ground-sort?cd-origin=rss

It Could Have Been Different
Tom Engelhardt | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
"Why are peace and nonviolence impossible to embrace as national values?" (Photo: Rudi Riet/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/americanflag-peace-rudiriet-flickr-cc_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/10/it-could-have-been-different?cd-origin=rss

Marginalized Communities Could Be 'Shortchanged' for Decades to Come by Trump's Abrupt Change to Census Deadline, Critics Say
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
The Trump administration appears intent on jeopardizing elections and marginalized communities for decades to come, critics said Sunday of the president's abrupt change to the U.S. Census deadline. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1215182502_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/10/marginalized-communities-could-be-shortchanged-decades-come-trumps-abrupt-change?cd-origin=rss

The Interests of the Nation
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
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Lebanese Gov't Faces Collapse Amid Rage-Filled Protests
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/lebanese-govt-faces-collapse-amid-rage-filled-protests/

Stagehands push for $600 unemployment benefit
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Grand Rapids, MI – Fifty union stagehands chanted, "$600 now!" while pushing music road cases thru downtown Grand Rapids. They began their push at the U.S. Federal Building to demand Senator Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans pass the $600 workers need. | Outdoor diners gawked, homeless workers shouted approval and cars honked in solidarity as the stagehands rolled past on their way to a lively rally under the Rosa Parks statue. | "We paid into unemployment our entire working lives. It is our money and we need the Republican politicians in the Senate to pass $600 now to pay our bills, pay for housing and pay…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/9/stagehands-push-600-unemployment-benefit

Stagehands push for $600 unemployment benefit
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Grand Rapids, MI – Fifty union stagehands chanted, "$600 now!" while pushing music road cases thru downtown Grand Rapids. They began their push at the U.S. Federal Building to demand Senator Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans pass the $600 workers need. | Outdoor diners gawked, homeless workers shouted approval and cars honked in solidarity as the stagehands rolled past on their way to a lively rally under the Rosa Parks statue. | "We paid into unemployment our entire working lives. It is our money and we need the Republican politicians in the Senate to pass $600 now to pay our bills, pay for housing and pay…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/9/stagehands-push-600-unemployment-benefit

Flight from New York
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-10
New York City is in Serious trouble. Indeed, all diverse US cities are in trouble, especially those ruled by Democrats. The combination of coronavirus and unchecked rioting and looting have undermined their economies. | Working at home has taught businesses that they do not need to accumulate employees in office complexes. Working at home saves money for businesses and employees. With profits and raises harder to come by, dispensing with office complexes and commutes is cost effective. | High income people who no longer need to work in office complexes do not need expensive Manhattan brownstones and apartments. T…

Flight from New York

Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19?
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19?
thenation.com/article/society/superheroes-coronavirus/

6 Superheroes Who Could Totally Save Us From Covid-19
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
6 Superheroes Who Could Totally Save Us From Covid-19…
thenation.com/article/society/superheroes-coronavirus/

Cuomo's Administration Faces Questioning Over Its Handling of Nursing Home Covid Deaths
Ross Barkan | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
Cuomo's Administration Faces Questioning Over Its Handling of Nursing Home Covid Deaths…
thenation.com/article/politics/cuomo-covid-nursing-homes/

Julian Bond's Life in Protest and Politics
Robert Greene II | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
Julian Bond's Life in Protest and Politics…
thenation.com/article/culture/julian-bond-race-man-review/

Inconvenient by Design
Cathleen Campbell | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
Inconvenient by Design…
thenation.com/article/activism/inconvenient-by-design/

How Stephen Miller Turned the Department of Homeland Security Into a Political Weapon
Jean Guerrero | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
How Stephen Miller Turned the Department of Homeland Security Into a Political Weapon…
thenation.com/article/society/stephen-miller-dhs/

When Humans Make the Wilderness
Valentine Faure | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
When Humans Make the Wilderness…
thenation.com/article/world/animal-ethics-conservation-rewilding/

The World on Fire
Robert Hunziker | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wild fires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic. Somebody somewhere must be asking why all of a sudden in unison, all over creation, two of the planets largest ecosystems are …
globalresearch.ca/world-fire/5720593

Western Media's Favorite Hong Kong 'Freedom Struggle Writer' Is American ex-Amnesty Staffer In Yellowface
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-09
A prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist named Kong Tsung-gan has become a go-to source for Western media. An investigation by The Grayzone confirms Kong as a fake identity employed by an American teacher who's a ubiquitous figure at local protests. | Max BLUMENTHAL | An American man with ties to Amnesty International and key Hong Kong separatist figures has been posing online as a Hong Kong native named Kong Tsung-gan. Routinely cited as a grassroots activist and writer by major media organizations and published in English-language media, the fictitious character Kong appears to have been concocte…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/09/western-media-favorite-hong-kong-freedom-struggle-writer-american-ex-amnesty-staffer-yellowface/

Israeli Crimes Against Humanity: Remembering the Sabra and Shatila Massacre
Institute for Middle East Understanding | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
First published on September 17, 2012 | The Gaza massacre is part of longstanding process of Israeli crimes against humanity. This article describes one of the worst atrocities in modern Middle Eastern history committed against the people of Palestine. This article …
globalresearch.ca/israeli-crimes-against-humanity-remembering-the-sabra-and-shatila-massacre/5545969

IRCS sends over 90 tons humanitarian aid to Beirut
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) –The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society said that so far, over 90 tons of various humanitarian packages have been sent to Lebanon, and sending of the other four shipments weighing 60 tons is underway.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162038/IRCS-sends-over-90-tons-humanitarian-aid-to-Beirut

Calais refugees 'exhausted' and 'scared' as police evictions continue
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-09
Refugees living in Calais facing repeated police evictions have been left "exhausted, scared and not knowing which way to turn", a humanitarian charity has warned.Aid workers in northern France say the forced moving on of refugees is fuelling attempts to cross the English Channel in small boats.They say recent weeks in the French port city have been "unbelievably tough" and that people there "only want to be given the chance to rebuild their lives".Hundreds of refugees live in various camps along the French coastline, often in desperate conditions that have only been made more dangerous by the Covid-19 pandemic.C…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/09/calais-refugees-exhausted-and-scared-as-police-evictions-continue/

The Attack on Indigenous Rights in Brazil
Yanis Iqbal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
On 5 August, 2020, the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to institute measures aimed at protecting indigenous people from the Covid-19 pandemic. This ruling is the legal recognition of the totally disastrous anti-indigenous policies of the Bolsonaro government. …
globalresearch.ca/attack-indigenous-rights-brazil/5720596

On International Day, UN chief spotlights indigenous peoples' resilience in face of COVID-19 pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-08-09
Inclusion and participation of the world's 476 million indigenous peoples must be ensured in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and on the road ahead towards recovery, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has underscored.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069822

First Person: COVID-19 helping Hawaiians to 'recognize the importance of heritage'
news.un.org | 2020-08-09
Sabra Kauka is a cultural practitioner and teaches Hawaiian Studies at the Island School on the island of Kauai, in Hawaii, while acting as a coordinator for the Department of Education. As the daughter of an army officer, she spent much of her youth living overseas, but "felt the call to come home" to Hawaii as an adult after reading a newspaper article which highlighted the poor standard of living for indigenous Hawaiians in Hawaii.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1068801

What Is the US-Mexico Border to Indigenous Peoples Who Have Lived There?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-09
For Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the U.S.-Mexico border is increasingly a symbol and tool of genocide. When this border was created, Indigenous peoples of the region were divided, including the Yaqui, O'odham, Cocopah, Kumeyaay, Pai, Apache, and Kickapoo. These peoples are represented by 26 sovereign tribal nations in the United States with tribal relatives residing in Mexico. Indigenous peoples tend to understand and talk about the U.S.-Mexico border in different terms from those who under…
truthout.org/articles/what-is-the-us-mexico-border-to-indigenous-peoples-who-have-lived-there/

Trump Scuttles Economic Stimulus Negotiations. What Next?
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Today, August 7, 2020 negotiations on an economic stimulus package between US House Democrats and the White House broke down and broke off. What's behind it? | In recent days the Democrats' leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer, reportedly reduced …
globalresearch.ca/trump-scuttles-economic-stimulus-negotiations-what-next/5720589

How The US Failed At Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
On August 4, 2020, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Venezuela. Appearing before the committee was U.S. State Department Special Representative Elliott Abrams. Abrams, who has had a long–and controversial–career in the formation of U.S. foreign policy, was assaulted by almost all the members of the Senate committee. The senators, almost without exception, suggested that Abrams had been–since 2019–responsible for a failed U.S. attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro.
popularresistance.org/how-the-us-failed-at-its-foreign-policy-toward-venezuela/

Video: Dr. Judy Mikovits and the Real Plague Infecting Humanity
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Dr. Judy Mikovits is a top U.S. scientist who has played key roles in saving millions of lives. Instead of lauding her achievements and honoring her, Western governments and their agencies have sought to destroy her. | Why? Because corruption infests …
globalresearch.ca/dr-judy-mikovits-real-plague-infecting-humanity/5720582

Free Them All! Care Not Cages! March & Rally In SF Against ICE & Republicrats
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Activists protested at the ICE office in San Francisco against the imprisonment of children in cages and the ICE terrorism against immigrants and people of color. They also attacked California Governor Newsom, Pelosi and the Democrats for supporting these policies.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835770.php

E$paña: No somos esclavos!
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
E$paña: °No somos esclavos! -reclamo antirracista de trabajadorxs agrícolas inmigrantes- | "A los negros aquí nos tratan como mierda"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835731.php

New UK commander to tackle migrant boat 'invasion,' as record numbers reach British shores
rt.com | 2020-08-09
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has appointed a former Royal Marine commando to stop migrants crossing the English Channel by boat. As hundreds of migrants land in the UK daily, Patel said her aim is to "make this route unviable." | A former Royal Marine and veteran of combat in Iraq and Kosovo, Dan O'Mahoney will now be tasked with stemming the flow of migrants into Britain from France via the English Channel. O'Mahoney was appointed 'Clandestine Channel Threat Commander' by Home Secretary Priti Patel on Sunday, and is the first official to assume the new role. | "The number of illegal small boat crossings is a…
rt.com/uk/497531-migrant-boats-commander-invasion/

As Israel's Regime Change War on Hezbollah ramps up, This Devastating Image Haunts
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-09
I'm not an expert on explosives but damn, that looks like a nuke going off. That mushroom cloud…. Infrared, coloriz…

As Israel’s Regime Change War on Hezbollah ramps up, This Devastating Image Haunts

Video: Syrian Army Undertakes Failed Advance in Northern Lattakia Amid Rise of ISIS Attacks in Deir Ezzor
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Iranian-backed militias and the Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF) have launched a joint security operation against ISIS cells in the area between the towns of al-Mayadin and al-Bukamal, on the western bank of the Euphrates. According to pro-government sources, hundreds …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-undertakes-failed-advance-northern-lattakia-amid-rise-isis-attacks-deir-ezzor/5720598

Covid-19 and the "Greater Economic Depression" Exceeding the 1930s: Unemployment Armageddon
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
The COVID-19 crisis at a time of deteriorating economic conditions caused what in hindsight may be known as a Greater Depression — exceeding the worst of the 1930s. | For 20 straight weeks, new claims for unemployment insurance exceeded one million….
globalresearch.ca/us-economic-unemployment-armageddon/5720570

Two killed, five injured in Kabul blast as govt navigates peace deal with Taliban
rt.com | 2020-08-09
An explosion in Kabul has killed two people and left several others injured, according to local media citing officials. The violence comes amid an ongoing rocky peace process with the Taliban. | Two civilians and five policemen were killed in the explosion, Afghanistan's TOLO News reported. A spokesman for the Kabul police told the outlet that a mine had exploded after security personnel tried to diffuse it. A photograph purportedly taken at the scene shows bystanders gathered around a large fire on a busy street, with a plume of dark smoke rising from the blaze. | Two civilians were killed and five policemen…
rt.com/news/497516-kabul-blast-2-killed-taliban-peace/

Afghanistan to free 400 Taliban to start peace talks
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
The Afghan president, following a recommendation by a traditional Afghan council, pledged on Sunday to release the remaining 400 Taliban prisoners to pave the way for peace talks aimed at ending the nearly two-decade-long war."The Taliban must demonstrate they are not afraid of a comprehensive ceasefire… there is no great bravery required for war, but for peace," Ashraf Ghani told the Loya Jirga, which began on Friday.He promised to free the remaining prisoners on Aug. 19, Afghanistan's Independence Day.Over 3,000 public figures, who assembled in the capital Kabul, approved the release and called for an immedia…
yenisafak.com/en/news/afghanistan-to-free-400-taliban-to-start-peace-talks-3536450

Selective Maritime Rules: The United States, Diego Garcia and International Law
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
There are few more righteous sights than the paunchy US Secretary of State savaging the People's Republic of China with his next volley on Chinese territorial aspirations. In July, Mike Pompeo released a statement putting any uncertain minds at ease …
globalresearch.ca/selective-maritime-rules-united-states-diego-garcia-international-law/5720607

The United States, Diego Garcia, and International Law
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-09
There are few more righteous sights than the paunchy US Secretary of State savaging the People's Republic of China with his next volley on Chinese territorial aspirations. In July, Mike Pompeo released a statement putting any uncertain minds at ease on where Washington stood on the matter. "We are making clear: Beijing's claims to offshore …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/the-united-states-diego-garcia-and-international-law/

Washington Signals End of One China Policy Towards War Footing
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-09
A Washington Post oped headlined: "Alex Azar's trip to Taiwan is about refusing to appease China". This weekend Health Secretary Azar is the highest ranking US government official to visit the island territory since Washington first adopted its One China policy four decades ago. | Azar, a senior cabinet member in the Trump administration, is scheduled to meet Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen in the capital Taipei. The visit has sparked fury in Beijing which views Taiwan…

Washington Signals End of One China Policy Towards War Footing

Beirut Disaster City–MES EP.66
Marwa Osman | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-09
A massive blast that ripped through the port in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, killed dozens, wounded thousands and damaged buildings across a country grimly familiar with upheaval. Officials have said it was caused by the detonation of chemicals stored there, without saying whether it was an accident or an attack. The tragedy piles yet another layer of hardship on a country already reeling from the worst financial crisis in its history and struggling to contain a growing coronavirus outbreak. To discuss this issue with us from Beirut is Dr. Jamal Wakeem, university professor. | The footage of the destruction of Beir…

Beirut Disaster City–MES EP.66

More evidence emerges of T Cell Immunity against novel Coronavirus in unexposed people
Sandipan Talukdar | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-09
Aside from our immune response to COVID-19, another important factor in countering the disease are cellular reactions which offer immunity in case of an infection. Two important aspects have emerged in recent case studies. The first is the production of an antibody that kills the virus at different locations of the body that the virus has colonized. The other is the cellular immunity provided by T cells. The T cell immunity could be more important than antibody production as it produces a longer immunogenic response than antibodies — which can die off in a shorter period of time, even within a few weeks.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/09/more-evidence-emerges-of-t-cell-immunity-against-novel-coronavirus-in-unexposed-people/

Tenants in Milwaukee march and rally for an eviction freeze
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-09
Tenants in Milwaukee march and rally for an eviction freeze | Milwaukee, WI – On the evening of August 1, around 70 people gathered at the Washington Park Senior Center to demand an end to home evictions and to cancel the mortgages and rents. The action was organized by the recently formed Milwaukee Autonomous Tenants Union (MATU), a collection of tenants from around the city looking to fight back against the looming crisis of evictions brought on by loss of jobs and income due to the coronavirus pandemic. | MATU organizer Robert Penner gave a speech which highlighted the central role played by Berrada Properties…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/9/tenants-milwaukee-march-and-rally-eviction-freeze

Covid-19 and the Health Crisis in Latin America
Yanis Iqbal | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
Latin America has surpassed more than 5 million Covid-19 cases to overtake North America, with 4.8 million Covid-19 cases, as the region worst-hit by the Coronavirus pandemic…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-19-and-the-health-crisis-in-latin-america/

Tenants in Milwaukee march and rally for an eviction freeze
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-09
Tenants in Milwaukee march and rally for an eviction freeze | Milwaukee, WI – On the evening of August 1, around 70 people gathered at the Washington Park Senior Center to demand an end to home evictions and to cancel the mortgages and rents. The action was organized by the recently formed Milwaukee Autonomous Tenants Union (MATU), a collection of tenants from around the city looking to fight back against the looming crisis of evictions brought on by loss of jobs and income due to the coronavirus pandemic. | MATU organizer Robert Penner gave a speech which highlighted the central role played by Berrada Properties…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/9/tenants-milwaukee-march-and-rally-eviction-freeze

The COVID-19 Vaccine. The Imposition of Compulsory Vaccination with a Biometric Health Passport?
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
The COVID-19 vaccine… | Is this THE final goal of this crisis, to impose a compulsory vaccination on everyone, with a biometric health passport and without it, the impossibility to move, to buy, to eat? | The near future will tell. | With …
globalresearch.ca/the-covid-19-vaccine-the-imposition-of-compulsory-vaccination-with-a-biometric-health-passport/5720163

100 days without COVID-19
Michael Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
How New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/100-days-without-covid-19/

Trump's Withdrawal From WHO A Cover-Up for His Failure on COVID-19
Prabir Purkayastha | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
The WHO, with its warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global cooperation. It is hated by the right wing precisely for these reasons…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-withdrawal-from-who-a-cover-up-for-his-failure-on-covid-19/

A Virus Has Brought the World's Most Powerful Country to Its Knees
Ed Yong | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
COVID 19 is but a harbinger of worse plagues to come. The US cannot plan for these inevitable crises if it returns to normal. Normal led to this. To avert another catastrophe, the US needs to grapple with all the ways normal has failed us.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-virus-has-brought-the-worlds-most-powerful-country-to-its-knees/

Covid-19: Questionable Policies, Manipulated Rules of Data Collection and Reporting. Is It Safe for Students to Return to School?
H. Ealy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Elected officials have enacted many questionable policies that have injured our economy, educational system, our country's mental and emotional health, and the American citizen's personal expression of Constitutionally-protected rights to participate in our own governance.
globalresearch.ca/covid-fatalities-wer-90-2-lower-how-would-you-feel-about-schools-reopening/5720264

The COVID "Second Wave" Will Tear Our Communities Apart
Stewart Brennan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
When the new flu season arrives in autumn 2020, our western governments and mainstream news media are preparing to go into overdrive and declare (without evidence) that the 2nd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is here. The fact is, they're …
globalresearch.ca/covid-second-wave-tear-communities-apart/5720566

Beirut Suffers While Demanding Answers
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
The sonic blast at the Port of Beirut on August 4 produced a huge white mushroom cloud that enveloped the port and then rose into the evening sky just after 6 pm. However, the cloud of confusion and disbelief still …
globalresearch.ca/beirut-suffers-while-demanding-answers/5720610

The Rapid Postwar Increase of America's Nuclear Arsenal
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Hitler had, as early as June 1942, decided against the development of an atomic bomb — on both racial and pragmatic grounds. By the summer of 1944, Allied intelligence accounts were flowing in that a Nazi atomic bomb was non-existent.
globalresearch.ca/the-rapid-postwar-increase-of-americas-nuclear-arsenal/5645686

Global Warfare: "We're Going to Take out 7 Countries in 5 Years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.."
General Wesley Clark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Originally published in March 2007. | Global Research Editor's Note: | This interview serves as a reminder regarding the diabolical timeline of America's hegemonic project. Is Iran the next target "to be taken out"? | All these countries including Lebanon and Iran are …
globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Un-Censored Version
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Today, August 9, 2020, we commemorate the 7th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. | This article was first published by Global Research in August 2013 as a commemoration of the egregious lie on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. See | …
globalresearch.ca/the-bombing-of-nagasaki-august-9-1945-the-un-censored-version/5345274

The Beirut Blast. "An Understanding of the Geopolitical Forces at Work"
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Four days after the Beirut Blast of 4th August 2020, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, has attempted to explain what caused the largest explosion since the end of the Second World War. He attributes it to either the …
globalresearch.ca/the-beirut-blast/5720600

Lessons of Nagasaki survivors should motivate the world to eliminate all nuclear weapons — UN chief
news.un.org | 2020-08-09
UN Secretary General António Guterres on Sunday marked 75 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki with praise for the hibakusha, the survivors, who transformed their decades-long plight into a warning about the perils of nuclear weapons and an example of the triumph of the human spirit.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069812

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the threat of nuclear extinction
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-09
It is difficult to believe that the US view of the justness of its possession of nuclear power, while threatening others, is not underpinned by the belief of many in white supremacy…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/09/remembering-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-and-the-threat-of-nuclear-extinction/

Workers Blow the Whistle on Mass Death
Moe Tkacik | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
Private equity firms have imposed austerity measures on the hospitals they acquire. In a pandemic, that's meant countless preventable deaths…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/workers-blow-the-whistle-on-mass-death/

Trump's Presidency Is a Death Cult
Sonali Kolhatkar | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
The fact that the president and his supporters want us to tolerate hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths from the pandemic reveals their true nature…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-presidency-is-a-death-cult/

Jordanian teachers intensify protests against banning of union
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-09
Teachers held protests in a number of cities in Jordan condemning last month's ban on the Jordanian Teachers' Syndicate. Security forces attacked these protests with tear gas and batons…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/09/jordanian-teachers-intensify-protests-against-banning-of-union/

Pakistan welcomes prisoner release in Afghanistan
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the country welcomes Afghan Loya Jirga's recommendation on the release of prisoners.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162045/Pakistan-welcomes-prisoner-release-in-Afghanistan

Eid al-Ghadir Khumm celebrated in Tabriz
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TABRIZ, Aug. 09 (MNA) — People in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan province, celebrated the auspicious feast of Eid al-Ghadir Khumm at Imam Khomeini Mosalla of the city by fully observing health protocols and guidelines due to outbreak of coronavirus.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162016/Eid-al-Ghadir-Khumm-celebrated-in-Tabriz

Iran registers 2,020 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected 2,020 people and claimed 163 lives in Iran in the past 24 hours, a senior health official said.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162036/Iran-registers-2-020-COVID-19-cases-in-24-hours

West wants to avoid strategic coop. between Iran, East
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — In a tweet on Sunday, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani wrote that the west is in favor of avoiding Iran from developing ties with the eastern countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162043/West-wants-to-avoid-strategic-coop-between-Iran-East

Iran could buy a lot of planes during sanctions: official
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Deputy Ministry of Roads and Urban Development said that Islamic Republic of Iran could purchase a lot of planes in sanctions period.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162031/Iran-could-buy-a-lot-of-planes-during-sanctions-official

Iran copper cathode output passes 90,000 tons in 4 months
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The performance of large industrial and mineral companies showed that more than 91,000 tons of copper cathode was produced in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (from March 21 to July 22).
en.mehrnews.com/news/162028/Iran-copper-cathode-output-passes-90-000-tons-in-4-months

World never to forget US crimes in Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman said the people around the world, alongside the Japanese, will never forget the US crimes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162046/World-never-to-forget-US-crimes-in-Hiroshima-Nagasaki

New US rep. for Iran indicates Trump's confusion
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to Venezuela Hojjatollah Soltani said that the new US special representative for the Islamic Republic of Iran indicates Trump's confusion.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162047/New-US-rep-for-Iran-indicates-Trump-s-confusion

700 Iranian War Veteran using domestic prosthetic feet
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The CEO of a knowledge-based firm producing carbon fiber prosthetic feet said, "So far, prosthetic feet have been used for 700 Iranian disabled veterans and 1,000 amputations."
en.mehrnews.com/news/162034/700-Iranian-War-Veteran-using-domestic-prosthetic-feet

Parl. mulls over Lebanon's developments after blast: Spox
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission addressed the developments in Lebanon after a devastating explosion happened in Beirut Port last week.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162048/Parl-mulls-over-Lebanon-s-developments-after-blast-Spox

Iran, Bosnia seeking to expand media coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to Sarajevo Mahmoud Heidari met and held talks with the head of the state broadcasting of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162051/Iran-Bosnia-seeking-to-expand-media-coop

Police seize over 4 tons of narcotics in SE Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The police forces of the Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran, have seized over 4 tons of illegal drugs in two separate operations.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162052/Police-seize-over-4-tons-of-narcotics-in-SE-Iran

IAU Chancellor visits Mehr News Agency
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The Chancellor of the Islamic Azad University (IAU), Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi made a visit to Mehr News Agency on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162044/IAU-Chancellor-visits-Mehr-News-Agency

Russia says terrorists attacked eight cities in Syria
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — The Head of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria announced on Sun. that terrorists of Tahrir al-Sham (Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Nusra Front) invaded eight cities in Syria's Idlib and Aleppo provinces.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162049/Russia-says-terrorists-attacked-eight-cities-in-Syria

Monday 8/10: Call to Action: Demand COVID Relief & Stop McConnell's Misery, Meanness & Mayhem Now!
Poor People's Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835735.php

Tuesday 8/11: Protect Our Vote! Virtual Town Hall to Demand Safe & Fair Elections Now!
Declaration for American Democracy | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835732.php

Social Security & Medicare Cut to Be Permanent if Nazi Trump Reelected
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Nazi Trump signed an illegal order on 8/8/20 to cut the payroll tax for Social Security and Medicare and promised on national TV to make it permanent if he is re-elected. This is a long-standing Republican Party program, outlined in their platform as they want to privatize both programs.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835736.php

Tuesday 8/18: Bi-Weekly Community On Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835769.php

Friday 8/14: F*ck Trump: Anti-Fascist Counter Protest
Autonomous Anti-Fascists in Marin | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
DeLong Avenue Overpass in Novato.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835729.php

San Francisco March Demands State Shut Down Concentration Camps
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
ICE building covered with "bloody" hands as part of state wide protest.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835744.php

Trump's Order To Bypass Congress On COVID-19 Relief Faces Likely Legal Challenges
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
Washington, DC – President Trump on Saturday said he was bypassing Congress and taking unilateral action to provide financial relief to Americans struggling during the coronavirus crisis, despite uncertainty about his legal authority to do so. | Following the breakdown of talks on Capitol Hill to reach a bipartisan deal, Trump signed four orders that he said would extend enhanced federal unemployment benefits, defer some employees' payroll taxes, continue a temporary ban on evictions and reduce the burden of student loans.
popularresistance.org/trumps-order-to-bypass-congress-on-covid-19-relief-faces-likely-legal-challenges/

The Infinite Greed, Power And Controls Of Giant Corporations
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
The combination of greed and power often spin out of control and challenge the enforceable rule of law and the countervailing force of the organized civic community. | When greed and power are exercised by giant multinational corporations that escape the discipline of the nation-state, the potential for evil becomes infinite in nature. Enough is never enough. | Global giant companies, aided and abetted by their corporate attorneys and accountants, can literally decide how little taxes they are going to pay by shifting profits and expenses among different tax haven countries such as Ireland, Luxembourg, and Panama…
popularresistance.org/the-infinite-greed-power-and-controls-of-giant-corporations/

Neoliberal Centrists And The American Left
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
The rapid end to the electoral fortunes of the Anglo-American left in 2020 was engineered by radical centrists for the benefit of capital. What was banished, in addition to vibrant and informed opposition to an atrophied political class, was the prospect of Federal government programs that are both desired and needed by the American people. Even if the agents of atrophy get it together in coming weeks to toss a few crumbs to those economically displaced by the pandemic, current woes arrived decades into engineered economic decline.
popularresistance.org/neoliberal-centrists-and-the-american-left/

National Uprising Exposes Divisions In The Ruling Class
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
For weeks on end, the George Floyd protests against racism and police violence shook America. Support for the movement overflowed all demographic boundaries as an estimated 10% of all American adults–some 25 million people–participated in at least one protest. However, although mass gatherings have continued unabated in some cities, in most of the country the torrential river has inevitably receded into its banks as it was deprived of a revolutionary outlet–for now. | The revived BLM movement has been a treasure trove of practical experience for the millions who drove it forward.
popularresistance.org/national-uprising-exposes-divisions-in-the-ruling-class/

There Is No Political Solution To The Syrian Conflict
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, of the Obama administration, created a mantra for the media: "There is no military solution to Syria." He said it so many times, he seemed to convince everyone. However, after 9 years of conflict it appears there is neither a military, nor political solution for Syria. Despite the fact that the Syrian government under President Assad, with help from Russia, has regained 70% of the territory, and all the major cities are calm, still there is no possibility for recovery or reconstruction of hospitals, schools, homes and lives due to the US sanctions.
popularresistance.org/there-is-no-political-solution-to-the-syrian-conflict/

Self-aware much? CNN's Stelter says right-wing media outlets exist 'to tear down Joe Biden,' sees nothing like it on the left
rt.com | 2020-08-09
CNN host Brian Stelter has attempted to give viewers what he called "a reality check about the alternative reality" of right-wing media, which he said exists to tear down Democrat Joe Biden, failing to see any irony in the claim. | "Let's go on a trip together to a totally alternative universe," Stelter said on his Sunday show. "You never hear what's happening there unless you tune into rightwing talk radio. But you need to know what they are saying because they're the most popular, the most powerful talkers in the whole country." | If you're not listening to right-wing talk radio, you're missing just how extr…
rt.com/usa/497545-cnn-rightwing-attacks/

Self-aware much? CNN's Stelter says right-wing media outlets exist 'to tear down Joe Biden,' sees nothing like it on the left
rt.com | 2020-08-09
CNN host Brian Stelter has attempted to give viewers what he called "a reality check about the alternative reality" of right-wing media, which he said exists to tear down Democrat Joe Biden, failing to see any irony in the claim. | "Let's go on a trip together to a totally alternative universe," Stelter said on his Sunday show. "You never hear what's happening there unless you tune into rightwing talk radio. But you need to know what they are saying because they're the most popular, the most powerful talkers in the whole country." | @ReliableSources this morning pic.twitte…
rt.com/usa/497545-cnn-rightwing-attacks/

Pelosi prays for needy as Dems rip Trump Covid-19 orders as 'big show' that 'won't do the job,' ignoring futile shows in Congress
rt.com | 2020-08-09
Democrat leaders — ignoring their latest in a decade-long string of failures at legislative compromise — are blasting President Donald Trump for signing executive orders that won't provide all needed Covid-19 economic relief. | Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the orders signed Saturday by Trump "unworkable, weak and far too narrow." He also took issue with Trump's signing the orders at his New Jersey country club. | "The event at the country club is just what Trump does — a big show, but it doesn't do anything," Schumer said Sunday in an ABC News interview. "As the American people…
rt.com/usa/497541-dems-bash-trump-orders/

Six French tourists killed by gunmen in Niger giraffe reserve
rt.com | 2020-08-09
A group of French tourists along with their local tour guide and driver have been shot and killed by gunmen in Niger. French President Emmanuel Macron's officer confirmed the deaths of the French citizens. | The shooting took place in the Koure region, which is home to the last herd of West African giraffes and a popular tourist destination. | The unidentified armed men were riding motorcycles and waited for the arrival of the tourists to the area, a source told AFP. "Most of the victims were shot… We found a magazine emptied of its cartridges at the scene," the source explained, adding that the tourists' ve…
rt.com/newsline/497535-french-tourists-killed-niger/

Macron styles himself as Lebanon's savior, ready to reshape country's system in Western image
rt.com | 2020-08-09
French President Emmanuel Macron has rallied a host of international donors to support Lebanon, and promised that the country's future "is being decided now." The French leader, it seems, will be the one making the decisions. | More than 150 people lie dead, with thousands injured following a devastating chemical explosion in the capital of Beirut on Tuesday. As public anger toward the Lebanese government grows, two ministers and at least seven Members of Parliament have resigned — and crowds of enraged protesters have stormed government buildings and demanded the wholesale resignation of Prime Minister…
rt.com/news/497540-macron-lebanon-regime-change/

Fire breaks out as protesters attempt to storm Beirut parliament in second night of demonstrations (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-08-09
A fire broke out near the parliament in Beirut as protesters and police clashed for the second night. Police deployed tear gas as demonstrators demanding the resignation of the government over the huge port explosion hurled rocks. | After attempting to storm parliament on Saturday night, protesters returned to the streets on Sunday, this time firing projectiles at security officers deployed to protect the government building. | As the sun set, a fire broke out at the barricaded entrance to Parliament Square, prompting police to deploy heavy clouds of tear gas and send firefighters in to extinguish the blaze…
rt.com/news/497538-beirut-protesters-parliament-explosion/

WATCH military vehicles deployed near Minsk on Belarusian presidential election day after authorities warned of 'provocations'
rt.com | 2020-08-09
Army jeeps were filmed standing on guard near the Belarusian capital on presidential election day. The country's longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko earlier warned foreign forces may try to incite violence on the day of the vote. | A clip obtained by RT's Ruptly video agency shows several military vehicles parked next to the road outside the country's capital Minsk. The camouflage-painted jeeps were accompanied by police cars. | Local media earlier reported that army vehicles moved across central Minsk on Saturday night. | The election campaign was marked by large-scale anti-government protests, as Preside…
rt.com/news/497520-belarus-military-hardware-election/

Violent clashes with riot police in Belarus as protesters rally over projected Lukashenko landslide victory (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-09
Protesters are rallying in Belarus despite ongoing clashes with riot police who have deployed teargas and flash grenades, as they express discontent with incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko's projected re-election. | Lukashenko is forecast to receive well over 70 percent of the vote, according to early official results and exit polls, while the main opposition candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, is expected to get between 6.8 and 10 percent. She refused to acknowledge her defeat saying the results from three polling stations where "there were no falsifications" showed that she was actually winning. | Also…
rt.com/news/497543-minsk-protest-lukashenko-election/

Protests in Minsk, other cities after preliminary results of Belarus presidential election show landslide Lukashenko victory
rt.com | 2020-08-09
People are rallying in the streets of Belarus cities after preliminary election results showed incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko winning. Riot police were deployed, making arrests and clashing with protesters. | Lukashenko received 81.35 percent of the vote in the election that saw a record turnout, according to the central electoral commision. Main opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya received eight percent of the ballots, with four percent of voters choosing the "against all candidates" option, official preliminary results showed. | But the opposition candidate supporters disagree with results,…
rt.com/news/497537-belarus-election-polls-close/

Saudi Aramco Sees Profit Decline by 50% as Coronavirus Slams Global Energy Sector
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-09
The coronavirus pandemic has seen a dramatic crisis in the energy sector as countries introduce lockdown measures and travel restrictions in order to stop the spread. However, industry performance was declining prior to the global downturn.
sputniknews.com/business/202008091080114208-saudi-aramco-sees-profit-decline-by-50-as-coronavirus-slams-global-energy-sector/

Christopher Eccleston to Return as Doctor Who in New Audio Series
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-09
The return of the famous British sci-fi show 'Doctor Who' in 2005 was coupled with Christopher Eccleston as the main actor, who introduced a darker, war-torn characterisation to the face-changing alien protagonist.
sputniknews.com/uk/202008091080113984-christopher-eccleston-to-return-as-doctor-who-in-new-audio-series/

Investigators Find Labyrinth of Underground Rooms at Epicenter of Beirut Explosions, Report Claims
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-09
As many as 60 people remain missing following Tuesday's massive blasts in the Lebanese capital, with over 150 killed and up to 6,000 suffering injuries of varying severity. Researchers say the ammonium nitrate believed to have caused the explosions had an explosive power equivalent to that of a small nuclear bomb.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008091080114006-investigators-find-labyrinth-of-underground-rooms-at-epicenter-of-beirut-explosions-report-claims/

Netizens Complain About BBC Failing to Cover Minsk Protest
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-09
Protesters hit Belarus' capital on Sunday evening just after exit poll data was released showing incumbent President Lukashenko set to win a sixth term in office.
sputniknews.com/europe/202008091080114800-netizens-complain-about-bbc-failing-to-cover-minsk-protest/

Police Use Smoke Bombs, Tear Gas, Water Cannons to Disperse Protesters in Minsk
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-09
A large crowd of citizens, dissatisfied with the exit poll on Sunday, have been gathering for an unauthorised rally at Victory Square in Minsk.
sputniknews.com/europe/202008091080114336-police-use-smoke-bombs-tear-gas-water-cannons-to-disperse-protesters-in-minsk/

Belarus Police Detaining People Near Victory Square in Minsk
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-09
MINSK (Sputnik) – Belarus police have started to detain people on the Victory Square in central Minsk for participation in an unauthorized rally in protest against the results of Sunday's presidential election in the country, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene.
sputniknews.com/europe/202008091080114273-belarus-police-detaining-people-near-victory-square-in-minsk/

Sounds of Powerful Blasts Heard in Protest-Hit Minsk, Cloud of Smoke Is Seen
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-09
Protests erupted in Belarus' capital following the release of exit poll data showing the country's incumbent leader Lukashenko winning the presidential election on Sunday.
sputniknews.com/europe/202008091080114358-sounds-of-powerful-blasts-heard-in-protest-hit-minsk-cloud-of-smoke-is-seen/

Watch Protesters Clashing With Police in Central Minsk
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-09
Protests erupted in Belarus on Sunday night following preliminary results of the presidential election, according to which the current President Alexander Lukashenko emerged victorious.
sputniknews.com/europe/202008091080114628-watch-footage-of-protesters-clashing-with-police-in-central-minsk/

Washington Signals End of One China Policy Towards War Footing
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-09
A Washington Post oped headlined: "Alex Azar's trip to Taiwan is about refusing to appease China". This weekend Health Secretary Azar is the highest ranking US government official to visit the island territory since Washington first adopted its One China policy four decades ago. | Azar, a senior cabinet member in the Trump administration, is scheduled to meet Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen in the capital Taipei. The visit has sparked fury in Beijing which views Taiwan as a reneg…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/09/washington-signals-end-of-one-china-policy-towards-war-footing/

In another sign that Biden is the true neocon candidate, his inner circle reads like a who's who of US imperialism
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-08-09
The Canary recently reported that major figures from a previous Republican Party administration are rallying behind presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden. This provides clear evidence that Biden is the preferred choice of Washington's neoconservative establishment. Moreover, it demonstrates that the US has two right-wing, imperialist major parties. | Now figures from the Democratic Party's small progressive (or, perhaps more accurately, mode…
thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2020/08/09/in-another-sign-that-biden-is-the-true-neocon-candidate-his-inner-circle-reads-like-a-whos-who-of-us-imperialism/

BBC finally apologises over use of racist term in news report
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-09
BBC director-general Tony Hall has apologised for a news report which contained a racist term.More than 18,000 people complained to the BBC over the broadcast, which saw social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin repeat a racial slur allegedly used in a suspected racially-motivated attack in Bristol.After the broadcaster initially defended the report, Hall said in a statement that the BBC "now accepts that we should have taken a different approach at the time of broadcast and we are very sorry for that".Lord Hall said the corporation is 'very sorry' (Ben Stansall/PA)He said the report had caused "distress" to many…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/09/bbc-finally-apologises-over-use-of-racist-term-in-news-report/

Lynching Is Not a Relic of a Jim Crow Past. It's a Modern Form of Racial Terror
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-09
The moment haunts me. It resides in my consciousness as a harbinger of stalled progress. It grasps my existence with the tension of every maddening expression of racial othering and inhumanity I have witnessed, studied, experienced. | It was the moment when I saw the slender, round face of a young Black man, gleaming with the innocence of an unsuspecting altruist — the moment I read his last words, filled with the clemency seemingly reserved for an ethereal being. "You are all phenomen…
truthout.org/articles/lynching-is-not-a-relic-of-a-jim-crow-past-its-a-modern-form-of-racial-terror/

Warren Denounces Trump's Executive Orders as "Cruel Joke" on American People
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-09
Progressive critics and Democratic lawmakers did not need the help of even the Republican U.S. Senator who used the phrase " unconstitutional slop" to describe President Donald Trump's slate of executive orders–signed Saturday at his private golf club in New Jersey–to rack up ferocious condemnation of the presidential actions as "legally dubious," shortsighted, wholly inadequate, and final proof that Trump does…
truthout.org/articles/warren-denounces-trumps-executive-orders-as-cruel-joke-on-american-people/

Trump's Threat to Press Freedom Is Global
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-09
Conservative filmmaker Michael Pack is a true believer in Trump's version of a global war of ideas, as was made evident by a recent editorial penned by the Trump loyalist. That is likely why the Senate confirmed his appointment in June as head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), one of the largest news networks in the world. USAGM runs a number of state media and techn…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-threat-to-press-freedom-is-global/

The Atomic Bomb Poets and the Military Realists 75 Years After Nagasaki
H. Patricia Hynes | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
People observe a one minute silence during a remembrance service for Korean victims of the atomic bomb on the 75th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, on August 9, 2020 in Nagasaki, Japan. In a ceremony that has been scaled back substantially because of Covid-19 coronavirus, Japan will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki by U.S forces in World War 2 killing between 35,000 to 40,000 instantly while many thousands more continued to die for months afterward from the effects of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries compounded by illness and malnutrition.
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/09/atomic-bomb-poets-and-military-realists-75-years-after-nagasaki?cd-origin=rss

France to host fundraising conference for Beirut
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
France's President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday will bring the international community together to raise funds for Beirut in the aftermath of the deadly blast earlier this week.The virtual conference will be held at 1200GMT with Macron hosting the conference from his vacation home in the south of France.The conference is backed by the United Nations and will involve major world leaders, including Lebanon's President Michel Aoun and US President Donald Trump.Leaders from the EU, Britain, China, Russia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE are also expected to participate.Two massive explosions tore through…
yenisafak.com/en/world/france-to-host-fundraising-conference-for-beirut-3536445

Eurasian nations report new coronavirus cases, deaths
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
Coronavirus cases and fatalities continued to rise across Eurasian and Central Asian countries on Friday.- UkraineHealth Minister Maksym Stepanov said 1,199 more people tested positive for the virus over the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 80,949.He said 18 more fatalities raised the death toll to 1,897 while recoveries increased by 317 to reach 43,972.Stepanov urged the public to strictly follow the government's COVID-19 restrictions, which have been extended until Aug. 31.- KazakhstanKazakhstan registered 872 new COVID-19 cases, raising the tally to 98,701. The number of recoveries rose by 664 to reach 72,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/eurasian-nations-report-new-coronavirus-cases-deaths-3536444

N.Korea brings aid supplies to border town under lockdown: state media
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
North Korea's ruling party has delivered special aid packages of food and medical equipment to residents of Kaesong, near the border with the South, after imposing a lockdown there due to COVID-19 concerns, state media said on Sunday.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared an emergency and imposed a lockdown on the small border town last month after a person, who defected to South Korea in 2017, returned to Kaesong across the highly fortified border showing coronavirus symptoms.Pyongyang has not confirmed any coronavirus infections but has been taking strict quarantine measures and screening the town, while prov…
yenisafak.com/en/news/nkorea-brings-aid-supplies-to-border-town-under-lockdown-state-media-3536448

Hong Kong reports 72 new coronavirus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
Hong Kong reported 72 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, of which 63 were locally transmitted, as authorities continued efforts to contain a resurgence of infections in the global financial hub over the past month.More than 4,000 people have been infected in Hong Kong since January, 51 of whom have died. Sunday's figure was slightly up from Saturday's 69 cases.
yenisafak.com/en/world/hong-kong-reports-72-new-coronavirus-cases-3536452

Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes western Iran
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
The quake that hit at 1.46 p.m. local time (1046GMT) had a depth of 8 kilometers (4.97 miles) and the epicenter was Gilan-e-Garbh district, according to the Tehran University Seismological Center.There were no immediate reports of casualties.Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, where earthquakes occur often and are destructive.
yenisafak.com/en/world/magnitude-51-earthquake-strikes-western-iran-3536453

Turkey: 32 suspects held in anti-drug operations
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
At least 32 suspects were held during anti-drug operations in Mersin and Gaziantep provinces of Turkey, security sources said on Sunday.In the southern coastal province of Mersin, police acted on a tip-off and found 25,000 drug pills in a vehicle. The driver of the vehicle was detained.Meanwhile, in Gaziantep, the southeastern border province, anti-drug police teams carried out operations to nab drug traffickers.During the operations, police rounded up 31 suspects for possession, use, and selling of drugs.They also seized 13 guns, 11 of which were unlicensed, three unlicensed shotguns, and some cash.*Writing by F…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-32-suspects-held-in-anti-drug-operations-3536447

Turkey: 5 die, 25 injured in bus accident
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
At least five people died and 25 others got injured in a bus accident in Istanbul on Sunday.A passenger bus crashed into a wall of an overpass at the Istanbul Northern Marmara Motorway.The health condition of 10 among the injured, including three children, is serious, according to local authorities.Police have initiated an investigation, and further details are awaited.*Writing by Fahri Aksut…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-5-die-25-injured-in-bus-accident-3536449

Ex-Lebanon premier denies knowledge of Beirut shipment
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
Former Lebanese premier Tammam Salam has denied receiving correspondence or information about the arrival of hazardous chemical materials shipment in Beirut, which allegedly caused a deadly blast in the capital on Tuesday.In a statement on Sunday, Salam's media office said reports alleging that he was aware of the arrival of a ship carrying chemical materials to Beirut were "false and bare of truth." Earlier, media reports suggested that a Lebanese court had ordered the ship to unload its cargo at the Beirut port when Salam was the prime minister.Salam, who served as a prime minister from Feb. 2014 to Dec. 2016,…
yenisafak.com/en/news/ex-lebanon-premier-denies-knowledge-of-beirut-shipment-3536446

Australia: Willing Pawn in US Conflict with China
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Upon reading Australia's new defense strategy, one might think its authors believe they are surrounded by nations invaded and destroyed by China with Australia next in line. | News headlines declare, " Australia's new defence strategy unveils a significant strategic shift …
globalresearch.ca/australia-willing-pawn-us-struggle-china/5720569

Vowing to Defend Retirees, Biden Denounces 'New, Reckless War on Social Security' by Trump
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
"This is no art of the deal. This is not presidential leadership. These orders are not real solutions. They are just another cynical ploy designed to deflect responsibility." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/joe_biden_6.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/09/vowing-defend-retirees-biden-denounces-new-reckless-war-social-security-trump?cd-origin=rss

Trump COVID-19 Executive Actions Woefully Inadequate, Legally Dangerous
Robert Greenstein | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders extending coronavirus economic relief, during a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 8, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_executive_failure_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/09/trump-covid-19-executive-actions-woefully-inadequate-legally-dangerous?cd-origin=rss

Our Moral Awakening in the Long Shadow of the Bomb
Robert Dodge, Vincint J. Intondi | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/hiroshima-peace-_0.jpg …

Trump Executive Orders Likely Won't Help the Millions Struggling to Pay Rent
Peggy Bailey | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
Tenant right advocates including Karissa Stotts organized a honking vehicle protest around the U.S. Bank building in Minneapolis on April 8, 2020. (Photo: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-12177067381.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/09/trump-executive-orders-likely-wont-help-millions-struggling-pay-rent?cd-origin=rss

Progressives Call Trump Executive Orders What They Are: IIllegal. Inadequate. Misleading. 'A Disgrace.' 'A Sham.' 'A Cruel Joke.'
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
If president actually "cared about helping Americans," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "he would have demanded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell start negotiating as soon as the House passed the HEROES act almost two months ago." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_executive_orders1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/09/progressives-call-trump-executive-orders-what-they-are-iillegal-inadequate?cd-origin=rss

Progressives Call Trump Executive Orders What They Are: Illegal. Inadequate. Misleading. 'A Disgrace.' 'A Sham.' 'A Cruel Joke.'
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
If president actually "cared about helping Americans," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "he would have demanded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell start negotiating as soon as the House passed the HEROES act almost two months ago." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_executive_orders1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/09/progressives-call-trump-executive-orders-what-they-are-illegal-inadequate-misleading?cd-origin=rss

Elizabeth Warren Leads Charge Against Trump, Denouncing 'Dubious' Executive Orders as 'Cruel Joke' on American People
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
If president actually "cared about helping Americans," the Democratic senator charged, "he would have demanded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell start negotiating as soon as the House passed the HEROES act almost two months ago." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_executive_orders1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/09/elizabeth-warren-leads-charge-against-trump-denouncing-dubious-executive-orders?cd-origin=rss

Progressives Say Call Trump Executive Orders What They Are: IIllegal. Inadequate. Misleading. 'A Disgrace.' 'A Sham.' 'A Cruel Joke.'
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
If president actually "cared about helping Americans," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "he would have demanded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell start negotiating as soon as the House passed the HEROES act almost two months ago." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_executive_orders1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/09/progressives-say-call-trump-executive-orders-what-they-are-iillegal-inadequate?cd-origin=rss

Critics Warn Against Smear Campaign, 'Creepy Victorian Moralizing' Aimed at Progressive Challenger Alex Morse
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
"Would be quite something if the groups backing Alex Morse took a stand here on behalf of free, consenting adults not in a subordinate role to do what they want with their lives," said one political observer. "Not counting on it but we'll see." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/alex_morse_umass.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/09/critics-warn-against-smear-campaign-creepy-victorian-moralizing-aimed-progressive?cd-origin=rss

Academia Stoops to Defamation over Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Groundless Accusations against 2 World-class Scientists
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
There are two world-class scientists at the center of the Covid-19 hydroxychloroquine storm. | They are Dr. Didier Raoult at the IHU Medical Institute in Marseille, and Dr. Harvey Risch at Yale University. | The present article confronts a shabby injustice to …
globalresearch.ca/academia-stoops-defamation-hydroxychloroquine/5720584

Foiled at Toronto: The Tiger Squad's Canadian Outing
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-09
Silencing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul was a feat of primeval brutality that sent a shudder through even the most hardened officials. The House of Saud, and in particular certain members of it, had gotten a taste for blood. Soon after Khashoggi's slicing and dicing in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the hands …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/foiled-at-toronto-the-tiger-squads-canadian-outing/

Nine years after the killing of Mark Duggan, police show little has changed
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-08-09
CORRECTION: This article was updated on 10 August to clarify that whilst many believe Mark Duggan was murdered by the police, it was found to be a lawful killing and we have therefore corrected this piece accordingly. | This week has marked not only the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, but also the ensuing protests that followed in 2011 — labelled by politicians and the media as " riots"
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/08/09/nine-years-after-mark-duggans-murder-police-show-little-has-changed/

Nine years after Mark Duggan's murder, police show little has changed
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-08-09
This week has marked not only the anniversary of the police murder of Mark Duggan, but also the ensuing protests that followed in 2011 — labelled by politicians and the media as " riots". A demo outside a police station in London symbolically remembered the events, and also highlighted ongoing issues with institutional racism and classism. But another situation involving police in the capital shows that despite…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/08/09/nine-years-after-mark-duggans-murder-police-show-little-has-changed/

The End of Big Tech?
Scott Galloway | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
Calls Grow to Break Up Facebook, Amazon for "Mob-Like" Behavior, Monopoly Power…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-big-tech/

Western media's favorite Hong Kong 'freedom struggle writer' is American ex-Amnesty staffer in yellowface
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-08-08
A prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist named Kong Tsung-gan has become a go-to source for Western media. An…
thegrayzone.com/2020/08/08/hong-kong-western-media-yellowfacing-amnesty/

Video: The Privatization of Nuclear War. A "First Strike" Use of Nuclear Weapons as a Means of "Self Defense"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-08
An important transition in nuclear doctrine occurred in the immediate wake of 9/11. | The Cold War MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) doctrine was scrapped by the Bush Jr administration in 2002, replaced by the first strike pre-emptive use of nuclear …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-privatization-of-nuclear-war-first-strike-use-of-nuclear-weapons-as-a-means-of-self-defense/5720256

CODEPINK Denounces Elliott Abrams' Appointment As US Special Representative For Iran
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
The appointment of Elliott Abrams to replace Brian Hook as the next U.S. Special Representative for Iran is another low point for the Trump administration's disastrous policy towards Iran. The dangerous conflict resulting from Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear agreement will be exacerbated by a man committed to Washington's failed policies of regime change, including in his present-day position as Trump's representative for Venezuela. | Elliott Abrams has made a career of lying and committing criminal acts that have led to the death and suffering of innocent people from Guatemala to Iraq.
popularresistance.org/codepink-denounces-elliott-abrams-appointment-as-us-special-representative-for-iran/

Turkey's IHH aids thousands in Lebanon after blast
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) on Saturday provided humanitarian aid for thousands who have been affected by Tuesday's massive explosion at Beirut port.In a statement, the IHH said rescue efforts are still underway for those still missing after the blast, which killed at least 154 people."The grain silos destroyed by the explosion were a vital artery for the supply of food in the country," IHH said, warning of a humanitarian crisis in Lebanon in case of failure to supply the country with enough quantities of flour within a short period of time.According to the statement, the IHH has launched a camp…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkeys-ihh-aids-thousands-in-lebanon-after-blast-3536402

Over a third of indigenous Canadians struggling to pay for essentials during pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
If anything, the figures presented by Statistics Canada understate the horrific social conditions facing most indigenous people.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/cain-a08.html

Keep plantations out of Palawan Forest! Please Sign Petition
Rainforest Rescue | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
The provincial government wants to open up areas of rich biodiversity and indigenous land to industrial plantations. An industrial coconut grower is already destroying indigenous peoples' sacred sites.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835721.php

[Editorial] Self-determination and Indigenous health
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Colonisation is a fundamental determinant of Indigenous peoples' health. Indigenous is a term defined by dislocation, and the effects of that displacement are felt by Indigenous peoples around the world. Aug 9, International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, is a chance to look at the continuing effects of territorial removal, the destruction of people, culture, and languages, and the lack of self-determination (the right to determine one's own social, cultural, and economic development), and their impact on Indigenous peoples' health.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31682-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Brazilian liberation theologist Dom Pedro Casaldáliga passes away
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-08
Dom Pedro Casaldáliga Plá, a Catholic missionary and an iconic voice of liberation theology, died on the morning of August 8, Saturday, at the age of 92. He was the Bishop Emeritus of the Prelature of Sà£o Félix do Araguaia and famous for his defense of the rights of the indigenous people of Brazil. He died of a pulmonary embolism at the Santa Casa de Batatais Hospital in the State of Sà£o Paulo. | Dom Pedro Casaldáliga Plá was admitted to the hospital after complaining of respiratory problems. He had earlier been admitted to the Hospital Sà£o Félix do Araguaia in the State of Mato Grosso. Casal…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/08/brazilian-liberation-theologist-dom-pedro-casaldaliga-passes-away/

"The Squad Is Here to Stay"
Luke Savage | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
For leftists and progressively minded Democrats still reeling from Bernie Sanders's defeat, this week's elections were very welcome news…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-squad-is-here-to-stay/

How the US failed at its foreign policy toward Venezuela
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-08
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Venezuela confirmed this week the overt efforts over the last year of the US government to carry out a coup d'état against president Nicolás Maduro…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/08/how-the-us-failed-at-its-foreign-policy-toward-venezuela/

Venezuela's Maduro Demands Investigation into Landlord Violence
Manuela Solé | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-08-08
The Venezuelan president ordered the armed forces to protect campesinos from landowner attacks.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14962

Watchdogs Alarmed by Changes to Postal Service Under Trump's Postmaster General
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-08
Government watchdogs, Democratic lawmakers, and pro-democracy advocates declared it a " Friday Night Massacre" for the U.S. Postal Service after news broke in a classic end-of-the-week dump that Louis DeJoy — a major GOP donor to President Donald Trump and the recently appointed Postmaster General — had issued a sweeping overhaul of the agency, including the ouster of top executives from key posts and t…
truthout.org/articles/watchdogs-alarmed-by-changes-to-postal-service-under-trumps-postmaster-general/

E$paña: No somos esclavos!
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
E$paña: °No somos esclavos! -reclamo antirracista de trabajadorxs agrícolas inmigrantes- | "A los negros aquí nos tratan como mierda"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835731.php

France Will Ask UK to Pay £30 Mln to Police the English Channel Amid Migrants Influx – Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-08
Britain earlier vowed to take tougher action on illegal migration together with France, as some 7,500 migrants in total could cross the Channel by Christmas.
sputniknews.com/world/202008081080105600-france-will-ask-uk-to-pay-30-mln-to-police-the-english-channel-amid-migrants-influx—report/

The corporate press is back to the 'migrant invasion' propaganda again
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
The corporate press's response to refugees crossing the English channel shows that little has changed in five years. That is right-wing politicians and tabloids continue to roll out the 'migrant invasion' narrative for their own purposes; ignoring the fact that many of these people are refugees and asylum seekers — and the part the UK has played in putting them in that position in the first place.Let's deal with the facts: B…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/08/08/the-corporate-press-is-back-to-the-migrant-invasion-propaganda-again/

The Likud Conspiracy: Israel in the Throes of a Major Political Crisis
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-08
Protests against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have raged on for weeks, turning violent sometimes. Israelis are furious at their government's mediocre response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially as COVID-19 disease is experiencing a massive surge throughout the country. Netanyahu warned protesters, thousands of whom have been rallying outside his residence in Jerusalem, against "anarchy …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/the-likud-conspiracy-israel-in-the-throes-of-a-major-political-crisis/

'Lebanese people have suffered too much': US encourages 'peaceful' regime change as protests rage in blast-ravaged Beirut
rt.com | 2020-08-08
The US embassy has expressed its solidarity with anti-government protesters in Lebanon, urging all sides to "refrain from violence," after clashes in blast-devastated Beirut left some 500 people injured. | Thousands of people gathered in Beirut on Saturday, demanding government resignation over corruption and negligence that they believe led to the horrific explosion this week. | Also on rt.com | | Lebanese protesters occupy Foreign Ministry & other govt buildings in Beirut (PHOTO, VIDEO) | Amid clashes with riot police, protesters stormed severa…
rt.com/usa/497490-lebanon-us-embassy-peaceful-protest/

'Lebanese people have suffered too much': US encourages 'peaceful' regime change as protests rage in blast-ravaged Beirut
rt.com | 2020-08-08
The US Embassy has expressed its solidarity with anti-government protesters in Lebanon, urging all sides to "refrain from violence," after clashes in blast-devastated Beirut left around 500 people injured. | Thousands of people gathered in Beirut on Saturday, demanding the government resign over corruption and negligence, which they believe led to the horrific explosion this week. | Also on rt.com | | Lebanese protesters occupy Foreign Ministry & other govt buildings in Beirut (PHOTO, VIDEO) | Amid clashes with riot police, protesters stormed sev…
rt.com/usa/497490-lebanon-us-embassy-peaceful-protest/

Covid-19 pandemic will 'bring socialism to US' and transform the world — Nassim Taleb to RT
rt.com | 2020-08-08
In a remarkable twist, the raging coronavirus pandemic has forced even countries like the US to adopt "socialist" welfare programs, acclaimed author and risk analyst Nassim Taleb has told RT. | While people spend days worrying about global wars, our biggest threats have always been the pandemics, the author of 'The Black Swan' and 'Skin in the Game' told RT's Sophie Shevardnadze on her show SophieCo. Visionaries. | The advent of the novel coronavirus will tremendously change societies in many ways, making them better ready for future crises, he said. | "So the world will be different, wiser. But, hopefully, it…
rt.com/news/497465-nassim-taleb-pandemic-socialism/

Supreme Court Rules Jail Does Not Have to Provide Basic Protections to Inmates
Julia Conley, Common Dreams | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
Even as prisons across the US report a surge in Covid-19 cases, the Supreme Court ruled on August 5th that prisons do not have to provide basic protections to inmates.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835717.php

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Under House Arrest
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
The Colombian Supreme Court of Justice has ordered the preventive home detention of Senator and former President Alvaro Uribe for the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery. The Latin American right-wing leader became the first former president to receive this type of arrest order, suspected of trying to manipulate the statement of a defendant who linked him to the creation of paramilitary groups. "The deprivation of my freedom causes me deep sadness for my wife, for my family and for the Colombians who still believe that I have done something good for the country," lamented Uribe…
popularresistance.org/former-colombian-president-alvaro-uribe-under-house-arrest/

Military police allege cover-up of hundreds of UK war crime cases closed down by government
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
Claims that UK authorities covered-up hundreds of war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq have been circulating for some years. But a BBC article, published 1 August 2020, revealed that evidence backs up the claim by former detectives that there was a "deliberate policy" to kill unarmed civilians. The article followed a Panorama programme, War Crimes Scandal Exposed, aired the day before and based on an earlier December 2019 broadcast. | "Suspicious killin…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/08/08/military-police-allege-cover-up-of-hundreds-of-uk-war-crime-cases-closed-down-by-government/

Union prepares sellout of Renault strike in Brazil
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The movement that involved thousands of workers and their families is under threat of being shutdown with an agreement that validates the destruction of 747 jobs.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/braz-a08.html

The filthy hypocrisy of America's "clean" China-free internet
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-08
The Trump administration wants to keep other countries from weaponizing technology the way the U.S. and its allies already have.
mronline.org/2020/08/08/the-filthy-hypocrisy-of-americas-clean-china-free-internet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-filthy-hypocrisy-of-americas-clean-china-free-internet

Africa's one million coronavirus cases "the tip of the iceberg"
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
Between June and July, the number of cases grew by 500 percent indicating that COVID-19 is more widespread than the official figures suggest.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/afri-a08.html

Reject whitewash report into London bus driver coronavirus deaths! For rank-and-file health and safety committees!
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
There is nothing remotely "independent" about University College London's review into bus driver deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/tran-a08.html

Coronavirus Outbreaks at Summer Schools Are a Warning Not to Reopen
Jake Jacobs | progressive.org | 2020-08-08
A spate of COVID-19 "clusters" at summer schools across the country show that we could be heading for a disaster if in-person classes resume this fall.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/coronavirus-outbreaks-summer-schools-jacobs-200808/

US coronavirus death toll predicted to reach 295,000 by December
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The IHME projection of nearly 300,000 deaths by December exposes the lie that it is safe to reopen the schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/covi-a08.html

German schools reopen despite increase in coronavirus infections
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
In order to ensure the capitalists can turn a profit, all established parties, from the Christian Social Union to the Left Party, are pushing for a return to regular in-person teaching.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/schu-a08.html

Eviction wave looms in Idaho's Treasure Valley
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-08
The story of the housing crisis in the Treasure Valley has once again risen sharply in pitch, spurred on by the unremitting COVID-19 pandemic. The Treasure Valley — also known as the Boise Metropolitan Area — comprises nearly 40 percent of Idaho's total population and is home to more than 730,000 people. Approximately 42 percent …
liberationnews.org/eviction-wave-looms-in-idahos-treasure-valley/

Revisiting the Idea of Pigou Wealth Tax in the Time of Covid-19
Kavaljit Singh | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
The unprecedented nature of the Covid-19 pandemic offers a new window of opportunity to governments to introduce wealth taxes on wealthy sections of society…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/revisiting-the-idea-of-pigou-wealth-tax-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

Job growth slows in July
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-08
San José, CA – In March and April of this year, more than 20 million jobs were lost because of the economic crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders to fight the virus. Millions more who were working gig jobs or had their own businesses lost their livelihood. At the time when the government count was done in mid-July, more than 30 million people – almost 20% of the workforce – were collecting some form of unemployment insurance benefits. | But most states quickly reopened their businesses, before the virus had been beaten down to levels where public health offices could track down and isolate new infecti…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/7/job-growth-slows-july

Job growth slows in July
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-08
San José, CA – In March and April of this year, more than 20 million jobs were lost because of the economic crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders to fight the virus. Millions more who were working gig jobs or had their own businesses lost their livelihood. At the time when the government count was done in mid-July, more than 30 million people – almost 20% of the workforce – were collecting some form of unemployment insurance benefits. | But most states quickly reopened their businesses, before the virus had been beaten down to levels where public health offices could track down and isolate new infecti…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/7/job-growth-slows-july

GM Spring Hill workers speak out against unsafe conditions amid COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The WSWS Autoworker Newsletter has received comments from a number of workers at the Tennessee plant.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/tenn-a08.html

Eviction wave looms in Idaho's Treasure Valley
Madi B | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-08
The story of the housing crisis in the Treasure Valley has once again risen sharply in pitch, spurred on by the unremitting COVID-19 pandemic. The Treasure Valley — also known as the Boise Metropolitan Area — comprises nearly 40 percent of Idaho's total population and is home to more than 730,000 people. Approximately 42 percent …
liberationnews.org/eviction-wave-looms-in-idahos-treasure-valley/

Towards Theocracy: the ignominious collapse of Secular Democracy in India
Badri Raina | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
The constitution of India is there, like many other artifacts in the archives, but, like the human appendix, it may now be vestigial…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/towards-theocracy-the-ignominious-collapse-of-secular-democracy-in-india/

Workers, farmers give the call to "Save India"
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-08
On August 9, trade unions and farmers' organizations across India will conduct a protest against the Narendra Modi government's anti-worker policies which have intensified during the lockdown…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/08/workers-farmers-give-the-call-to-save-india/

UK: For a general strike against the reopening of schools
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The SEP calls for the development of an interconnected network of rank-and-file committees to prepare for a general strike against the opening of schools and the murderous policy of the ruling class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/scho-a08.html

Texas attorney general orders in-person education as state cases top 500,000
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The attorney general and governor of Texas are endangering the lives of teachers and students with a patently unscientific back-to-school pandemic plan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/texa-a08.html

Justice for Travis Jordan – 38th birthday protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-08
Minneapolis, MN – Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Minneapolis police's 4th Precinct in North Minneapolis, July 31, to demand justice for Travis Jordan, on what should have been his 38th birthday. | On November 9, 2018, Travis Jordan was shot and killed by two rookie officers of the Minneapolis Police Department's 4th Precinct during a wellness check for his suicidal ideation. Officers Neal Walsh and Ryan Keyes, who had each been on the police force less than a year, responded to the call. Instead of saving Travis's life and providing him with the mental health support he needed, they killed him. C…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/7/justice-travis-jordan-38th-birthday-protest

Street Artists Rise to the Occasion
Paul Von Blum | progressive.org | 2020-08-08
In the midst of international protests against racist violence, artists are using their skills to send a clear message: Black lives matter.
progressive.org/dispatches/street-artists-rise-to-occasion-vonblum-200808/

Belarus elections may mark a key moment in European geopolitics
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-08
Five-time president Alexander Lukashenko is likely to win due to the lack of strong opposition candidates but the possibility of major protests remains. The country is a key part of both Russian and western strategies in the region…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/08/belarus-elections-may-mark-a-key-moment-in-european-geopolitics/

Massive anger erupts following Beirut port explosion
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
Security forces used tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters near parliament on Thursday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/beir-a08.html

Justice for Travis Jordan – 38th birthday protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-08
Minneapolis, MN – Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Minneapolis police's 4th Precinct in North Minneapolis, July 31, to demand justice for Travis Jordan, on what should have been his 38th birthday. | On November 9, 2018, Travis Jordan was shot and killed by two rookie officers of the Minneapolis Police Department's 4th Precinct during a wellness check for his suicidal ideation. Officers Neal Walsh and Ryan Keyes, who had each been on the police force less than a year, responded to the call. Instead of saving Travis's life and providing him with the mental health support he needed, they killed him. C…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/7/justice-travis-jordan-38th-birthday-protest

New York Governor Cuomo sanctions statewide reopening of schools
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
Cuomo's mandate provides crucial political support for the Trump administration's drive to reopen schools irrespective of the cost to human life.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/cuom-a08.html

Trudeau government remains silent on corruption and repression in Haiti
Yves Engler | mronline.org | 2020-08-08
One way to evaluate the seriousness of the Trudeau government's stated objectives in seeking to oust Venezuela's elected government is to examine their policies elsewhere in the region.
mronline.org/2020/08/08/trudeau-government-remains-silent-on-corruption-and-repression-in-haiti/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trudeau-government-remains-silent-on-corruption-and-repression-in-haiti

US moves to delist Chinese companies from stock exchanges
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The move has been couched in terms of protecting "investor safety," but it is another component of the economic warfare being carried out by Washington.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/list-a08.html

Red Roja's declaration on King Juan Carlos's flight from Spain
| workers.org | 2020-08-08
By Red Roja This is the Aug. 5 statement by the Red Roja (Red Network) organization regarding the escape of Spain's former King Juan Carlos I on Aug. 3 from Spanish territory where he faces charges of corruption. Translation and explanatory notes by Workers World Managing Editor John Catalinotto. The . . . | Continue reading Red Roja's declaration on King Juan Carlos's flight from Spain at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50492/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=red-rojas-declaration-on-king-juan-carloss-flight-from-spain

The Heat: U.S. targets China
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-08-08
No deal yet. Talks still in limbo over an economic rescue package providing financial relief to millions of Americans as the coronavirus pandemic continues to surge across the United States.
america.cgtn.com/2020/08/08/the-heat-u-s-targets-china

Eid al-Ghadir celebrated in Urmia
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-08
TEHRAN, Aug. 08 (MNA) — People in Urmia, West Azerbaijan Province of Iran, celebrated the occasion of Eid al-Ghadir on Saturday, preserving the anti-coronavirus health protocols.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162006/Eid-al-Ghadir-celebrated-in-Urmia