US Waging Wars on Multiple Fronts: Cold Wars, Hot Wars, Economic Wars, Propaganda Wars
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
Supported by both hawkish wings of its war party, the US is waging hot wars, cold wars, economic wars, financial wars, trade wars, anti-social justice wars, anti-human rights wars, anti-democracy wars, propaganda wars, sanctions wars, tariffs wars, protest wars, homeland …
globalresearch.ca/us-waging-wars-on-multiple-fronts-cold-wars-hot-wars-economic-wars-propaganda-wars/5686511
Punishing the World with Sanctions. Intended to Cause Real Pain
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
Sanctions are economic warfare, pure and simple. As an alternative to a direct military attack on a country that is deemed to be misbehaving they are certainly preferable, but no one should be under any illusions regarding what they actually …
globalresearch.ca/punishing-the-world-with-sanctions-intended-to-cause-real-pain/5686517
What Explains Russia and China\'s Differing Stances towards Kashmir?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
Russia and China, two of the most important Great Powers that are jointly working to accelerate the emergence of the Multipolar World Order, are on totally opposite sides when it comes to Kashmir, with their differing stances being explained by …
globalresearch.ca/russia-china-differing-stances-kashmir/5686499
Media Can\'t Even Tell the Truth About Canada\'s Foreign Policy History
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
Media coverage of Canadian foreign policy is uniquely one-sided and biased. It\'s so bad that few readers, listeners or viewers will have ever seen or heard an honest analysis of this country\'s past, let alone current role around the world….
globalresearch.ca/media-cant-even-tell-the-truth-about-canadas-foreign-policy-history/5686502
#CloseTheCamps: Protest by Public Health & Healthcare Workers for Migrant Rights
Public Health Justice Collective & Others | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/15/18825498.php
Immigration Is for Rich People
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | thenation.com | 2019-08-15
Immigration Is for Rich People…
thenation.com/article/immigration-trump-public-charge-rule/
#CloseTheCamps: Protest by Healthcare & Harm Reduction Workers for Migrant Rights
Do No Harm Coalition, Public Health Awakening | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), | 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/15/18825502.php
Jewish Activists and Allies Confront Amazon for Profiting Off ICE Terror
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
More than 1,000 Jewish activists and allies gathered at an Amazon book store in New York City on Sunday to protest the online retail behemoth\'s collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which swept up nearly 700 people last week in what was reportedly one of the agency\'s largest-ever raids.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/15/18825493.php
Growing Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and Trump\'s Immigration Policies
ACLU NorCal SCU Law Club | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
Charney Hall, Room 104. Santa Clara University School of Law | 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 95050…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/13/18825456.php
\"Give us your rich\": Immigration reporter says trump admin is changing \"wholesale\" who gets into U.S
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
\"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!\" Those are the words of Emma Lazarus inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. But this week, acting Director of Citizenship …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/15/give-us-your-rich-immigration-reporter-says-trump-admin-is-changing-wholesale-who-gets-into-u-s/
The End of Humanitarianism?
Jonas Ecke | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
Our current historical moment is characterized by a global push towards so-called \"counter-humanitarian policies\" that intentionally undermine hard-won rules aimed at preventing repetitions of the atrocities of the 20th century. The erosion of humanitarian norms has already changed how western countries deal with immigrants, wage war and deliver aid. Saving humanitarianism will require us to address the shortcomings of the current world order…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/15/the-end-of-humanitarianism/
Why Bernie Sanders is Right About the Washington Post–and Corporate Media Overall
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
Many decades ago, the great media critic George Seldes observed: \"The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself.\" That remains true today. Bernie Sanders set off the latest round of outraged denial from elite media this week when he talked to a crowd in New Hampshire about the tax avoidance of Amazon…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/15/why-bernie-sanders-is-right-about-the-washington-post-and-corporate-media-overall/
Prison Guard Drives Truck Into Crowd of Peaceful Anti-ICE Protesters
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2019-08-15
Activists who were sitting at the entry to the detention facility\'s parking lot in Rhode Island are shaken but remain as committed as ever.
truthdig.com/articles/prison-guard-drives-truck-into-crowd-of-peaceful-anti-ice-protesters/
26-Year-Old Gun Violence Prevention Activist Is Taking on 26-Year Incumbent Rep. Bobby Rush
Akela Lacy | theintercept.com | 2019-08-15
A 26-year-old organizer in Chicago is mounting a primary challenge to Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who has been a member of Congress for 26 years. | Robert Emmons, whose best friend, high school classmate, and freshman roommate was shot and killed in 2015, is making gun violence prevention a cornerstone of his campaign. The Windy City experiences gun violence at alarming yet not uncommon rates, as compared to other metropolitan areas — but the number of fatal shootings is in some ways unique to Chicago, where Emmons\'s 21-year-ol…
theintercept.com/2019/08/15/chicago-gun-violence-democratic-primary/
Aloha from Dr. Martin Luther King and Tulsi Gabbard
Paul Rockwell | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-15
\"Aloha,\" says Gabbard, \"is a powerful force that motivates us to take action for the well-being of others and our country.\" In King\'s famous words, \"The arc of the moral universe is long, but bends toward justice.\" Gabbard seeks to bend the arc of history away from war toward peace.
mintpressnews.com/aloha-from-dr-martin-luther-king-and-tulsi-gabbard/261363/
End endless conflict and bring peace to Korea
Jesse Jackson | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-15
July 27 marked the 66th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice, which brought an end to hostilities that killed nearly five million people, including almost 40,000 U.S. service members. The war ended in a temporary cease-fire, which is why the United States still maintains 28,500 troops in South Korea. Nuclear missiles ring the …
peoplesworld.org/article/end-endless-conflict-and-bring-peace-to-korea/
Changing world balance of forces in new stage of globalization
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-15
This is part 7 of the full main report, \"Unity to save people and planet; For full equality, democracy, peace, and green socialism,\" to the 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in Chicago, Illinois, June 21-23, 2019. Other installments available here. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA national …
peoplesworld.org/article/changing-the-world-balance-of-forces-in-the-new-stage-of-globalization/
Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil
Cat Bell | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
Corner of Masonic and Fell at the Golden Gate Park Panhandle…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/14/18825492.php
The Root Cause of Mass Shootings is the Rage of Alienation
Ted Rall | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
Mass shootings prompt simple explanations of the gunman\'s motivation. At Columbine High School in Colorado, the killers supposedly snapped after being bullied. The guy who shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado was wild-eyed carrot-topped nuts. After a massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, an anti-immigrant manifesto posted online pointed to right-wing politics.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/15/the-root-cause-of-mass-shootings-is-the-rage-of-alienation/
Fake News About Venezuela and the Power of Propaganda
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Public ignorance and indifference about major issues let US authorities get away with mass murder and much more. | In a June 1950 commencement address, Boston University President Daniel Marsh said: | \"If the (television) craze continues…we are destined to have a | …
globalresearch.ca/fake-news-venezuela-power-propaganda/5686440
Trump Regime Gutting the Endangered Species Act
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Richard Nixon was a friend of the earth, Donald Trump its mortal enemy. | Following the 1969 offshore Santa Barbara, CA February oil spill, the largest in US waters to that time, (now third-ranked after the 1989 Exxon Valdez and 2010 …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-gutting-endangered-species-act/5686448
Top scientist denounces smears of Tulsi Gabbard on Syria
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-15
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has been smeared as an Assad apologist for her efforts to end the US-backed proxy war and…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/15/top-scientist-denounces-smears-of-tulsi-gabbard-on-syria/
US Navy expert laments \'Slav\' incompetence of new NATO navies in scary Russia essay
rt.com | 2019-08-15
NATO\'s Eastern European member states have terrible navies that suffer from \"legacy concepts\" and equipment and can\'t do much against Russia, a prominent professor lamented, asking the US Navy to do something about it. | …
rt.com/usa/466599-nato-navy-russia-reforms/
Russians everywhere! Biden aide cries \'spy plane\' about normal treaty flight over US
rt.com | 2019-08-15
A routine Russian flight to Hawaii under the Open Skies treaty has been invoked by a former senior Obama administration official to stir up panic among the \'Russiagate\' holdovers, proving some conspiracies just refuse to go away. | …
rt.com/usa/466591-open-skies-plane-scare/
Russia Denounces Plan Based in Guyana to Destabilize Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
Russia\'s Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday on a plan to train alleged Venezuelan refugees in a British military base in Guyana, this in order to deploy them in the South American country to perpetrate violent acts. | RELATED: | Maduro Says Uribe, Colombian Ambassador Plotting his Killing | The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova, said that \"dozens of alleged refugees from Venezuela have been transferred to a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Denounces-Plan-Based-in-Guyana-to-Destabilize-Venezuela-20190815-0014.html
Russia Denounces Plan Based in Guyana to Destabilize Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
Russia\'s Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday on a plan to train alleged Venezuelan refugees in a British military base in Guyana, this in order to deploy them in the South American country to perpetrate violent acts. | RELATED: | Maduro Says Uribe, Colombian Ambassador Plotting his Killing | The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that \"dozens of alleged refugees from Venezuela have been transferred to a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Denounces-Plan-Based-in-Guyana-to-Destabilize-Venezuela-20190815-0014.html
The US is already interfering in the upcoming Venezuelan elections
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-08-15
US President Donald Trump has maintained strong economic pressure against Venezuela, having signed numerous decrees blocking the assets of the Venezuelan authorities within US jurisdiction. Giants such as the Central Bank of Venezuela and the state-owned oil company PDVSA were also included in the sanctions list. Now, Washington has announced it will even impose sanctions …
uwidata.com/4894-the-us-is-already-interfering-in-the-upcoming-venezuelan-elections/
Progressives Are Right to Endorse a \'No First Use\' Nuclear Weapons Policy
James Carden | thenation.com | 2019-08-15
Progressives Are Right to Endorse a \'No First Use\' Nuclear Weapons Policy…
thenation.com/article/nuclear-weapons-no-first-use-john-bolton-donald-trump/
Why Mauna Kea needs your protection
Kaitlin Grable | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
I was born on the island of O\'ahu, 98 years after the U.S. supported an illegal coup in my hometown of Honolulu to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani and steal Hawaiian land. I was born in a Hawai\'i that is radically and tragically different from the Hawai\'i of my ancestors. The Hawaiian word for land is \'aina. This word …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/15/why-mauna-kea-needs-your-protection/
What Happened at Woodstock?
Nick Licata | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
Fifty years ago, this week, close to 500,000 youth attended Woodstock. Each of us could tell a story of what happened there. This is mine. After hitchhiking a couple thousand miles around New England and Canada for the month of July 1969, I returned back to Bowling Green, Ohio, dead tired. I was met by…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/15/what-happened-at-woodstock/
Sudan\'s \"Constitutional Declaration\" Leaves Out Key Political Forces. Attempted Military Coups and Regional Intrigue
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Members of the Sudanese Professional Association (SPA), a leading organization within the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), announced on August 9 that they would have no representatives in the soon to be created transitional government. | This report comes in …
globalresearch.ca/sudans-constitutional-declaration-leaves-out-key-political-forces-attempted-military-coups-and-regional-intrigue/5686446
It Was More Like a Couple of Asian Decades Than a Century
Marshall Auerback | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
It\'s become media orthodoxy to suggest that the era of U.S. hegemony is slowly slipping away and migrating to Asia–with China as its locus–as we proceed into the heart of the 21st century. There is, however, a competing narrative, one recently expressed by Michael Auslin on ForeignPolicy.com, who makes the case that the \"Asian Century\" \"is ending far faster than anyone could have predicted. From a dramatically slowing Chinese economy to showdowns over democracy in Hong Kong and a new cold war between Japan and South Korea, the dynamism that was supposed to propel the region into a glorious future seem…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/15/it-was-more-like-a-couple-of-asian-decades-than-a-century/
The Truth About the UK\'s Special Relationship with Israel
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Britain does not have a special relationship with the USA. It is, and has been since the end of the World War, a subservient inferior \'partner\' doing what it is told. Britain stands next to the schoolyard thug and tries …
globalresearch.ca/uk-special-relationship-israel/5686506
Trump\'s Ignorance Touches Off a New Crisis in Kashmir
Zubeida Mustafa | truthdig.com | 2019-08-15
South Asia is again in crisis and could be on the brink of war. For the second time in six months, the world is on tenterhooks, waiting to see what turn events will take. Because the two antagonists are armed with nuclear weapons, the possibility of a confrontation is taken seriously. And as has happened before, Kashmir is at the center of the dispute that has kept India and Pakistan at loggerheads for over 70 years. | The simmering cauldron came to a boil about 10 days ago, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, flush after a landslide electoral victory, revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which e…
truthdig.com/articles/trumps-ignorance-touches-off-a-new-crisis-in-kashmir/
America\'s \"Hybrid War\" against China has Entered a New Phase
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
The hybrid war, being conducted against China by the United States and its gaggle of puppet states from the UK to Canada to Australia, has entered a new phase. | The first stage involved the massive shift of US air and …
globalresearch.ca/americas-hybrid-war-against-china-has-entered-a-new-phase/5686429
Planned Parenthood demands federal court intervene to stop trump attack on abortion rights and Title X program
Jessica Corbett | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
Planned Parenthood warned Wednesday that, without intervention from a federal court, it will be forced out of the Title X Family Planning Program next week because of the Trump administration\'s ban on health clinics receiving federal tax dollars if they provide or refer patients for abortions. The Health and Human Services Department declared last month it would …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/15/planned-parenthood-demands-federal-court-intervene-to-stop-trump-attack-on-abortion-rights-and-title-x-program/
Federal Relief Essential for Newark and Other Communities Facing Water Crises
commondreams.org | 2019-08-15
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/08/15/federal-relief-essential-newark-and-other-communities-facing-water-crises?cd-origin=rss
Trade war, falling sales take center stage at Michigan auto industry conference
wsws.org | 2019-08-15
The discussions at the Management Briefing Seminar exposed the financial pressures on the auto industry that are driving demands for ever greater attacks on workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/15/auto-a15.html
Fracking and shale drilling caused spike in climate-warming methane pollution, says new study
Sharon Kelly | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That\'s both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government\'s State of the Climate report, which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/15/fracking-and-shale-drilling-caused-spike-in-climate-warming-methane-pollution-says-new-study/
A-levels \'milestone\' hailed as more girls than boys take science
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-15
Girls have overtaken boys in A-level science entries for the first time, national figures show.The gender switch was hailed as \"a cause for celebration\" by scientists as school leaders suggested that an increase in female role models in the subjects may be contributing to the trend.The figures came in national A-level results, published today, which showed that across all subjects, the proportion of A-level entries awarded an A grade or higher has fallen to the lowest level for more than a decade.Students celebrate their A-level results at Roedean School in Brighton (PA)Girls narrowly clawed back the lead from bo…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/15/a-levels-milestone-hailed-as-more-girls-than-boys-take-science/
US Demands UK Hand Over Seized Iran Oil Tanker
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
The U.S. Department of Justice has put in a special request, in the early hours of Thursday morning, demanding that they be given Iran\'s oil tanker, which was seized by the U.K., and which was due to be returned to Iran on Thursday. | RELATED: | US Trade Deal Could Drag Britain Into More Wars, Austerity | \"The US Department of Justice has applied to seize…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Demands-UK-Hand-Over-Seized-Iran-Oil-Tanker-20190815-0002.html
Questioning the Extremely Online
William Hawes | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-15
This essay is in regard to a crime that too often goes unmentioned when the conversations turn towards political analysis, the contemporary journalistic scene, and broader social critique: the crime of being extremely online. What does it mean to be extremely online? It mostly is as straightforward as it sounds. Generally, activities such as spending …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/questioning-the-extremely-online/
\'Hong Kong is a Chinese Affair\', China Warns the United States
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
The Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry reminded Thursday that Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China and \"no country has the right to interfere in China\'s internal affairs.\" | RELATED: | China Journalism Association Rejects Violence Against Reporter | \"We have noted that President Trump has previously said that \'Hong Kong is part of China and they have to solve it for themselves, without (external) recommendations\',\" Hua Chunying, the Foreign Affairs spokesperson r…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hong-Kong-is-a-Chinese-Affair-China-Warns-the-United-States-20190815-0011.html
\'Hong Kong is a Chinese Affair,\' China Warns the United States
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
The Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry reminded Thursday that Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China and \"no country has the right to interfere in China\'s internal affairs.\" | RELATED: | China Journalism Association Rejects Violence Against Reporter | \"We have noted that President Trump has previously said that \'Hong Kong is part of China and they have to solve it for themselves, without (external) recommendations,\'\" Hua Chunying, the Foreign Affairs spokesperson r…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hong-Kong-is-a-Chinese-Affair-China-Warns-the-United-States-20190815-0011.html
Our Lords, Their Flies
Richard Ward | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
As a college student, after reading Lord of the Flies for the second time (I\'d first read it as a young teenager), I asked the professor in my philosophy of literature class if he thought humans were inherently evil. He responded by asking if I was pursued by daemons. Taken aback, I replied that I didn\'t know…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/15/our-lords-their-flies/
Germany Shows Signs of Recession — Is the Global Economy Next?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-15
Heiner Flassbeck argues that the China-US trade war is not having as much of an impact on the global economy as many assume. China\'s currency is not undervalued, despite its recent devaluation. Rather, the undervalued Euro gives Germany a real competitive advantage in world trade. It\'s actually Europe\'s economic weakness that is dragging down Germany,…
therealnews.com/stories/germany-shows-signs-of-recession-is-the-global-economy-next
Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-15
| Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That\'s both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government\'s State of the Climate report, which was published this week with the American Meteorological Societ…
truthout.org/articles/fracking-and-shale-drilling-caused-spike-in-climate-warming-methane-pollution/
\'Like a scene that you see in war\': 6 cops shot in Philadelphia drugs raid gone wrong
rt.com | 2019-08-15
Philadelphia police attempting to serve a drugs warrant were drawn into an hours-long shootout after heavily-armed suspects opened fire, wounding at least 6 officers and terrifying residents in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood. | …
rt.com/usa/466522-philadelphia-police-shootout-standoff-warzone/
Australia: Pro-US ideologue brands student groups as China\'s \"useful idiots\"
wsws.org | 2019-08-15
Clive Hamilton\'s comments are a warning that Australia\'s involvement in the US drive to war with China will be accompanied by political repression domestically.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/15/hami-a15.html
Damning new evidence is yet another reason why selling arms to Saudi Arabia is illegal
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2019-08-15
New evidence that shows the Saudi-led coalition is breaking humanitarian law in Yemen has been published by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and Mwatana for Human Rights (Mwatana). Its research shows that the coalition: has continued to carry out apparently unlawful attacks throughout the course of the conflict, failed to credibly investigate, and whitewashed signif…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/08/15/damning-new-evidence-is-yet-another-reason-why-selling-arms-to-saudi-arabia-is-illegal/