Stephen Lendman (2019-08-16). US Waging Wars on Multiple Fronts: Cold Wars, Hot Wars, Economic Wars, Propaganda Wars … globalresearch.ca 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 …

Philip Giraldi (2019-08-16). Punishing the World with Sanctions. Intended to Cause Real Pain. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Andrew Korybko (2019-08-16). What Explains Russia and China\'s Differing Stances towards Kashmir? globalresearch.ca 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 …

Yves Engler (2019-08-16). Media Can\'t Even Tell the Truth About Canada\'s Foreign Policy History. globalresearch.ca 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….

RT (2019-08-15). Russians everywhere! Biden aide cries \'spy plane\' about normal treaty flight over US. rt.com 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 (2019-08-15). US Navy expert laments \'Slav\' incompetence of new NATO navies in scary Russia essay. rt.com 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.

Nick Licata (2019-08-15). What Happened at Woodstock? counterpunch.org 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 More

Marshall Auerback (2019-08-15). It Was More Like a Couple of Asian Decades Than a Century. counterpunch.org 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…

Yves Engler (2019-08-15). Canadian Prime Ministers\' Sordid Imperialism. dissidentvoice.org 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. A recent Maclean\'s story titled \"The long history of \'go back to where you came …

Jesse Jackson (2019-08-15). End endless conflict and bring peace to Korea. peoplesworld.org 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 …

Paul Rockwell (2019-08-15). Aloha from Dr. Martin Luther King and Tulsi Gabbard. mintpressnews.com \"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.

RT (2019-08-15). \'Like a scene that you see in war\': 6 cops shot in Philadelphia drugs raid gone wrong. rt.com 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.

Staff (2019-08-15). Germany Shows Signs of Recession — Is the Global Economy Next? therealnews.com 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,…

The Canary (2019-08-15). A-levels \'milestone\' hailed as more girls than boys take science. thecanary.co 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…

Sharon Kelly (2019-08-15). Fracking and shale drilling caused spike in climate-warming methane pollution, says new study. nationofchange.org 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 …

Richard Ward (2019-08-15). Our Lords, Their Flies. counterpunch.org 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 More

Jonas Ecke (2019-08-15). The End of Humanitarianism? counterpunch.org 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 More

Zubeida Mustafa (2019-08-15). Trump\'s Ignorance Touches Off a New Crisis in Kashmir. truthdig.com 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…

John Bachtell (2019-08-15). Changing world balance of forces in new stage of globalization. peoplesworld.org 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 …

Steve Sweeney (2019-08-15). Turkey: Women\'s group offers solidarity to Syrian refugees. peoplesworld.org Women in Turkey have come together and sent a message of solidarity with thousands of Syrian refugees being deported as authorities crack down across Istanbul. The Yoƒüurtàßu Women\'s Forum met in Turkey\'s largest city to discuss the plight of the country\'s 3.6 million Syrian refugees as the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government implements a …

John McMurtry (2019-08-15). Overpopulation a Cover Story for Money-Cancer System. counterpunch.org It is not \"the rising tide of human numbers\" simpliciter that loots, pollutes and destroys the life carrying capacities of the planet. It is what all over-populationists conveniently ignore: (1) the much still exponentially self-multiplying tides of private money demand on the earth\'s resources that drives every degenerate trend in the planet\'s life carrying capacities, More

Norman Solomon (2019-08-15). Why Bernie Sanders is Right About the Washington Post—and Corporate Media Overall. counterpunch.org 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 More

George Ochenski (2019-08-15). Ominous Signs From the Hinterlands. counterpunch.org It\'s fair to say many people judge the state of the nation\'s economy and well-being by the performance of the stock market — even though only a small majority of Americans actually have a stake in the stock marker. It\'s also fair to say many Americans think of Montana as a hinterland \"somewhere up by Canada.\" But More

Staff (2019-08-15). The Black Working Class and Venezuela: Fighting The Same Enemy. therealnews.com Netfa Freeman discusses the unique perspective of the Embassy Protection Collective\'s work through the lens of the Black working class and their connection with Venezuela…

Akela Lacy (2019-08-15). 26-Year-Old Gun Violence Prevention Activist Is Taking on 26-Year Incumbent Rep. Bobby Rush. theintercept.com 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…

Julie Hollar (2019-08-15). Here\'s the Evidence Corporate Media Say Is Missing of WaPo Bias Against Sanders. fair.org Bernie Sanders has taken to calling out corporate media for their anti-progressive bias, and their feathers have gotten quite ruffled. | In a campaign event Monday in New Hampshire, Sanders told the crowd: We have pointed out over and over again that Amazon made $10 billion in profits last year. You know how much they paid in taxes? You got it, zero! Any wonder why the Washington Post is not one of my great supporters, I wonder why? New York Times not much better. | The next day, he returned to the same point: And then I wonder why the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, doesn\'t write…

ACLU NorCal SCU Law Club (2019-08-15). Growing Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and Trump\'s Immigration Policies. indybay.org Charney Hall, Room 104. Santa Clara University School of Law | 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 95050…

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez (2019-08-15). \"Give us your rich\": Immigration reporter says trump admin is changing \"wholesale\" who gets into U.S. nationofchange.org \"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 …

Public Health Justice Collective & Others (2019-08-15). #CloseTheCamps: Protest by Public Health & Healthcare Workers for Migrant Rights. indybay.org Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…

Do No Harm Coalition, Public Health Awakening (2019-08-15). #CloseTheCamps: Protest by Healthcare & Harm Reduction Workers for Migrant Rights. indybay.org Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), | 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (2019-08-15). Immigration Is for Rich People. thenation.com Immigration Is for Rich People…

Jake Johnson, Common Dreams (2019-08-15). Jewish Activists and Allies Confront Amazon for Profiting Off ICE Terror. indybay.org 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.

Cat Bell (2019-08-15). Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil. indybay.org Corner of Masonic and Fell at the Golden Gate Park Panhandle…

Ted Rall (2019-08-15). The Root Cause of Mass Shootings is the Rage of Alienation. counterpunch.org 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. More

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-15). Trump Regime Gutting the Endangered Species Act. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-15). Fake News About Venezuela and the Power of Propaganda. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Aaron Maté (2019-08-15). Top scientist denounces smears of Tulsi Gabbard on Syria. thegrayzone.com Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has been smeared as an Assad apologist for her efforts to end the US-backed proxy war and…

teleSUR (2019-08-15). Russia Denounces Plan Based in Guyana to Destabilize Venezuela. telesurenglish.net 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…

teleSUR (2019-08-15). Russia Denounces Plan Based in Guyana to Destabilize Venezuela. telesurenglish.net 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…

unitedEditor (2019-08-15). The US is already interfering in the upcoming Venezuelan elections. uwidata.com 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 …

James Carden (2019-08-15). Progressives Are Right to Endorse a \'No First Use\' Nuclear Weapons Policy. thenation.com Progressives Are Right to Endorse a \'No First Use\' Nuclear Weapons Policy…

Kaitlin Grable (2019-08-15). Why Mauna Kea needs your protection. nationofchange.org 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 …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2019-08-15). Sudan\'s \"Constitutional Declaration\" Leaves Out Key Political Forces. Attempted Military Coups and Regional Intrigue. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Christopher Black (2019-08-15). America\'s \"Hybrid War\" against China has Entered a New Phase. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Jessica Corbett (2019-08-15). Planned Parenthood demands federal court intervene to stop trump attack on abortion rights and Title X program. nationofchange.org 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 …

teleSUR (2019-08-15). \'Hong Kong is a Chinese Affair\', China Warns the United States. telesurenglish.net 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…

William Hawes (2019-08-15). Questioning the Extremely Online. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

True Publica (2019-08-15). The Truth About the UK\'s Special Relationship with Israel. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Staff (2019-08-15). Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution. truthout.org | | 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…

teleSUR (2019-08-15). \'Hong Kong is a Chinese Affair,\' China Warns the United States. telesurenglish.net 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…