2019-08-16: Social Media Postees

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The Prosecution of Julian Assange Affects Us All
Nozomi Hayase | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
With the indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the imprisonment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, we are seeing the US government\'s blatant attack on the First Amendment. This assault now is officially acknowledged by a US federal court, where the judge dismissed a Democratic National Committee (DNC) civil suit against WikiLeaks on the grounds of…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/the-prosecution-of-julian-assange-affects-us-all/

Rashida Tlaib Blasts Israel for \'Oppressive Conditions\'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-16
U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib blasted Israel on Friday for imposing \"oppressive conditions\" on her visit to the occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | Israel Reverses Ban on US Congresswoman Tlaib | Israel, who was conditionally allowing Tlaib to visit the occupied West Bank, issued a list of demands for the U.S. congresswoman that prohibited her from promoting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) during her stay. | The U.S. congresswoman, in turn, said she would not visit her family there…
telesurenglish.net/english/bloggers/Rashida-Tlaib-Blasts-Israel-for-Oppressive-Conditions–20190816-0001.html

Israel Reverses Ban on US Congresswoman Tlaib
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-16
Israel has decided to reverse the ban on U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Friday after she agreed to just visit her family in the occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds. | RELATED: | Israel Confirms Banning Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib from Visiting Palestine Over BDS Support | Tlaib, a critic of Israeli policy towards Palestinians, has agreed to respect the restrictions imposed on her during the occupied West Bank trip and will not promote the Boyco…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Reverses-Ban-on-US-Congresswoman-Tlaib–20190816-0001.html

Israel Fears a Visit by Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib
Yoav Litvin | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
On July 16, Somali-American Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, together with Representatives John Lewis and Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib, introduced bill HR-496 which is meant to affirm Americans\' \"right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution\". Though not explicitly mentioned, HR-496 is at least…
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Bernie Sanders: If Israel Bans Members of Congress, It Shouldn\'t Receive US Aid
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-16
| Sen. Bernie Sanders told MSNBC Thursday night that perhaps Israel should not be receiving billions of dollars in U.S. military aid after the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu barred Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country. | \"I wish I could tell you…that I am shocked. I am not,\" Sanders, a 2020 Demo…
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\"Bernie is Trump\" (and other Corporate Media Bullsh*t)
Eric Draitser | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
A dead-end street with a lemonade stand Where is the sky in upside down land? That question is hard if you can\'t see the stars I\'m really not sure, ask me tomorrow — Yasiin Bey, \"Education\" (featured on the album \"Bandana\" by Freddie Gibbs) Welcome to Bizarro World where up is down, black is white,…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/bernie-is-trump-and-other-corporate-media-bullsht/

#CloseTheCamps: Protest by Public Health & Healthcare Workers for Migrant Rights
Public Health Justice Collective & Others | indybay.org | 2019-08-16
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
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#CloseTheCamps: Protest by Healthcare & Harm Reduction Workers for Migrant Rights
Do No Harm Coalition, Public Health Awakening | indybay.org | 2019-08-16
Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), | 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
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Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
One of the occupational and intellectual hazards of being a historian is that current events often seem far less new to oneself than they do to others. Recently a leftish liberal friend told me that the United States under the Donald Trump had \"become a lethal society.\" My friend cited the neofascist Trump\'s: horrible family separations and concentration camps on the border; openly white-nationalist assaults on four progressive nonwhite and female Congresswomen; real and threatened roundups of undocumented immigrants; fascist-style and hate-filled \"Make America Great Again\" rallies; encouragement of white suprema…
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Jewish Activists and Allies Confront Amazon for Profiting Off ICE Terror
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams | indybay.org | 2019-08-16
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

Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil
Cat Bell | indybay.org | 2019-08-16
Corner of Masonic and Fell at the Golden Gate Park Panhandle…
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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

Brazil: Supreme Court Judges Sergio Moro\'s Lack of Impartiality
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-16
Brazil\'s Supreme Court (STF) will judge the lack of impartiality of former judge Sergio Moro in conducting trials against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has remained a political prisoner since April 7, 2018. | RELATED: | Students Strike, Protest Across Brazil as Moro Orders Crackdown | From August 16 to August 22, the STF judges w…
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200 years since the Peterloo Massacre
wsws.org | 2019-08-16
A savage attack by sword-wielding cavalry on a crowd of protesters in Manchester, England in August 1819 resulted in at least 18 people being killed and some 700 injured.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/16/pete-a16.html

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

Manifestos of Hate: What White Terrorists Have in Common
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
Writing under the title of \"If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim\", Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious. \"If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,\" Bayoumi wrote in the British Guardian newspaper on August 6, US President Donald Trump…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/manifestos-of-hate-what-white-terrorists-have-in-common/

Did the US really intend to destroy the Soviet Union with its nuclear monopoly?
Dave Lindorff | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-16
74 years ago by the United States dropped the only two atomic bombs exploded in war on cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, recalling those events, remember that the US still refuses to renounce a strategy of first-strike use of its nuclear arsenal. This has me pondering two questions that should raise enormous doubts in …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/16/did-the-us-really-intend-to-destroy-the-soviet-union-with-its-nuclear-monopoly/

With the Boeing 737 MAX Grounded, Top Boeing Bosses Must Testify Before Congress Now
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
Two Boeing 737 MAX crashes, one in Indonesia last October and one in Ethiopia this past March, took a combined 346 lives. Steady scrutiny by the media reported internal company leaks and gave voice to sidelined ex-Boeing engineers and aerospace safety specialists. These experts have revealed that Boeing\'s executives are responsible because they chose to use an unstable structural…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/with-the-boeing-737-max-grounded-top-boeing-bosses-must-testify-before-congress-now/

US Trained Honduran Police Get Medieval as Political Prisoner Edwin Espinal Released
Adrienne Pine | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-16
The Honduran corruption canard keeps the focus on police resources and individuals rather than on the pangs of privatization, and so it is often the line favored by the U.S. State Department.
mintpressnews.com/honduras-political-prisoner-edwin-espinal-released-us-trained-police-medieval/261374/

Oslo mosque targeted in attempted far-right terrorist attack
wsws.org | 2019-08-16
The Norwegian political establishment has promoted the hysterical anti-immigrant atmosphere that encourages fascist attacks.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/16/oslo-a16.html

Trump, el capitalismo incitan tiroteos masivos
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2019-08-16
Entre el 31 de julio y el 3 de agosto, tres terroristas hombres de raza con blanca mataron e hirieron a docenas de personas en Gilroy, California; El Paso, Texas; y Dayton, Ohio. Tres tiroteos masivos en los Estados Unidos en una semana. Los locutores de televisión expresaron que esto . . . | Continue reading Trump, el capitalismo incitan tiroteos masivos at Workers.org
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Ideas from hell: The far right\'s weaponized conspiracy theories
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-16
Since the end of April, there have been three mass shootings that can be directly tied to white nationalism. The victims of these white supremacist terrorist attacks were almost all from minority communities, including Jewish people at a synagogue in Poway, California, Muslims in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand and most recently Latinx people …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/16/ideas-from-hell-the-far-rights-weaponized-conspiracy-theories/

George W. Bush\'s Infuriating Innocence Project
Robert Shetterly | commondreams.org | 2019-08-16
US President George Bush addresses the nation during his State of the Union address from Capitol Hill in Washington 20 January 2004. Bush vowed that the United States \"will never seek a permission slip\" to go to war as he took aim in his annual State of the Union speech at critics of the invasion of Iraq. At left is Vice President Dick Cheney; at right House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-IL. (Photo: Kevin Lamarque/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/george_w_bush_war_criminal.jpg
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\'Official Secrets\' Reveals How Little We Still Know About the Push for War in Iraq
Martin Bright | thenation.com | 2019-08-16
\'Official Secrets\' Reveals How Little We Still Know About the Push for War in Iraq…
thenation.com/article/official-secrets-iraq-film/

US Kaiser Permanente workers vote overwhelmingly in favor of strike
wsws.org | 2019-08-16
The 98 percent strike vote is a powerful expression of opposition to decades of attacks on workers by the multi-trillion dollar US health care industry.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/16/kais-a16.html

Trump worsens threat of nuclear catastrophe with Russia
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-16
MIT professor Ted Postol warns that Trump\'s withdrawal from the INF treaty threatens nuclear \'catastrophe.\' Guest: Theodore Postol, award-winning Professor…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/16/trump-worsens-threat-of-nuclear-catastrophe-with-russia/

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

Dead Man\'s Hand: The Impeachment Gambit
Jim Kavanagh | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
The two-year Mueller investigation of Donald Trump\'s alleged collusion (\"largely synonymous with conspiracy\") with Russia is over. Nothingburger. The 448-page Mueller Report has been published in full, and made into a dramatic hour-and-twenty-minute stage performance adapted by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright with a cast of Hollywood stars. Yawn. Then there was the seven hours of…
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Trump starves Venezuela, Democrats are silent
Aaron Maté | mronline.org | 2019-08-16
The Trump administration is intensifying its economic warfare on the people of Venezuela with a crippling embargo–and facing no resistance from the Democratic Party. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/16/trump-starves-venezuela-democrats-are-silent/

The Biotech-Industrial Complex Gets Ready to Define What is Human
Stuart A. Newman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
Fabricating part-human-part-nonhuman animals, with features of both, seemed like something out of Greek mythology until the late 20th century. New research then on \"geeps,\" fully developed, viable mixtures of goats and sheep, showed that constructing such \"chimeras\" was a real possibility. Still, the warning by H.G. Wells, a century before, in his novel \"The Island of Dr. Moreau,\" that scientific experiments like this could go terribly awry, seemed fantastical. But this will soon change. At the end of July, it was reported that the biologist Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, director of a laboratory at the Salk Insti…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/the-biotech-industrial-complex-gets-ready-to-define-what-is-human/

The Vanity Cinema of Quentin Tarantino
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
After being sorely disappointed by Quentin Tarantino\'s last two films– \"The Hateful Eight\" and \"Django Unchained\" –I decided to wait for a studio screener of \"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood\" in November. This is when I customarily get freebies from studio publicists hoping to influence my vote in NYFCO\'s awards meeting in early December.
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Where\'s the beef in NAFTA 2.0?
Jim Hightower | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-16
\"MAGA,\" blusters Donald Trump — Make America Great Again! America\'s ranching families, however, would like Trump to come off his high horse and get serious about a more modest goal, namely: Make America COOL Again. COOL stands for Country-of-Origin-Labeling, a straightforward law simply requiring that agribusiness giants put labels on packages of steak, pork chops, …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/16/wheres-the-beef-in-nafta-2-0/

Warning over facial recognition \'epidemic\' in the UK
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-16
Facial recognition technology has been used in shopping centres, museums and conference centres around the UK, an investigation has claimed. | Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch labelled use of the technology an \"epidemic\" and said its use on privately owned sites was \"deeply disturbing\". | The group said the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield had carried out trials of the technology last year, while the World Museum in Liverpool and Millennium Point conference centre in Birmingham were also named in its investigation as locations where scans had taken place. | On Thursday, the Information Commissioner\'…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/16/warning-over-facial-recognition-epidemic-in-the-uk/

\'Fefu and Her Friends\': Fornés\'s feminist odyssey at the Odyssey
Ed Rampell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-16
LOS ANGELES–Originality is among those attributes I admire and cherish most in the arts, and Maria Irene Fornés\'s (1930-2018) Fefu and Her Friends is singular on several fronts. First of all, the Cuban-born, Obie Award-winning playwright\'s characters are eight females. This is far less common than mixed-gender or all-male casts, such as in Jason Miller\'s …
peoplesworld.org/article/fefu-and-her-friends-forness-feminist-odyssey-at-the-odyssey/

The War on Nature
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
Ancient Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese and Indians respected or worshipped several gods. Those gods were usually forces of nature, which opened the mind, eyes and hearts of human beings to the mysteries, beauty and truth of the natural world. The vast human majorities of the ancient world were peasant farmers and shepherds who cultivated…
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\"Proletarian billionaire\" act wears thin: Trump\'s war on workers
Joe Sims | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-16
The U.S. working class has received special attention from the Trump campaign\'s first days; since his election, it has been singled out for special assault. \"America First\" was portrayed as making working-class America first; \"Make America Great Again\" meant reawakening the greatness of the American working class. But the Trump agenda as thus marketed had …
peoplesworld.org/article/proletarian-billionaire-act-wears-thin-trumps-war-on-workers/

British Rail: A Mass Transport System Is an Essential Public Service Not a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme for Investors
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
Outdated rolling-stock, primitive or no air-conditioning, poor service, unreliable timetables and sky-high fares make Britain\'s railways the bad joke of Europe. | As millions of commuters are forced to use a rail system near to collapse, it serves a stark warning | …
globalresearch.ca/british-rail-mass-transport-system-essential-public-service-not-get-rich-quick-scheme-investors/5686593

South Yemen Is Already Functionally Independent Even if It\'s Not Recognized as Such
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
The Southern Transitional Council\'s liberation of the former South Yemeni capital of Aden from the Saudi-backed Islah Islamists has restored the independence of the Old Cold War-era country. | STC vs. Islah | It was bound to happen sooner than later, but | …
globalresearch.ca/south-yemen-functionally-independent-not-recognized/5686573

Financial turbulence continues as major economies move towards recession
wsws.org | 2019-08-16
The gyrations in financial markets and the growing signs of recession–threatening to set in motion a crisis even more severe than that of 2008–pose vital political issues before the working class in every country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/16/mark-a16.html

Tit For Tat: Baltimore Takes Another Hit, This Time From Uruguay
Bob Scofield | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
I imagine that however a Baltimorean feels when their city is attacked by the barbarian in the White House it has to be worse when the city is slighted by Uruguay, one of the world\'s most progressive countries. On August 5th the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a warning to Uruguayans traveling to the…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/tit-for-tat-baltimore-takes-another-hit-this-time-from-uruguay/

A Wave of Solidarity With Kashmir Is Spreading Across the Globe
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-16
| Tragedy is unfolding in Kashmir. Split between India and Pakistan, the state has been under military occupation as a result of the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 and a war between the two powers the following year. On August 5, however, the right-wing Bha…
truthout.org/articles/a-wave-of-solidarity-with-kashmir-is-spreading-across-the-globe/

Poetry selections for the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre
Jenny Farrell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-16
Percy Bysshe Shelley\'s lifetime was defined by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and severe political repression in England and elsewhere in Europe. In contrast to other European countries, the power of the bourgeoisie in England had been consolidated in their own revolutionary period in the 17th century. Therefore, the ruling class in England had …
peoplesworld.org/article/poetry-selections-for-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-peterloo-massacre/

Newark, New Jersey suspends distribution of bottled water over expiration concerns
wsws.org | 2019-08-16
City officials were forced to stop distributions Tuesday in response to concerns over cases of bottled water that were labeled as expired.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/16/newa-a16.html

Modern medicine declares war on loneliness with drugs & bots, threatening introverts with extinction
rt.com | 2019-08-16
With pharmaceutical and even robotic \"cures\" in the works for loneliness – a condition once considered part of the normal human emotional range but now framed as a health risk – we risk losing the ability to be alone at all. | …
rt.com/news/466644-loneliness-pill-robots-medicalization-control/

\'Expanding Empire\' — in 1969 and today
V. Copeland | workers.org | 2019-08-16
The following excerpt from \"Expanding Empire — The global war drive of big business and the forces that will stop it\" was written in 1969 during the Vietnam War. The author, Vince Copeland, was a founding member of Workers World Party and had been a militant steel worker fired in . . . | Continue reading \'Expanding Empire\' — in 1969 and today at Workers.org
workers.org/2019/08/16/expanding-empire-in-1969-and-today/

It\'s No Wonder the Military likes Violent Video Games, They Can Help Train Civilians to Become Warriors
Neve Gordon | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
Following the recent massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the bestselling author Keith Boykin tweeted: Trump is on TV blaming the Internet, social media, video games and mental health for the mass shootings. Nonsense! Every country has Google, Facebook, video games and people with mental health issues. What they don\'t have is…
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Warnings, Ancient and Modern
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
The wise priest Laocoà∂n, old legends say, vainly warned against the famous \"Trojan horse\". A hostile god sent giant serpents which strangled him and the big wooden present was opened. The soldiers hidden inside opened Troy\'s gates so the Greek battalions could rush in, kill the men, enslave the women and destroy the city. Its…
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Australian government boosts Special Forces despite war crimes charges
wsws.org | 2019-08-16
The move is part of the preparation for war, as well as for the suppression of domestic dissent.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/16/sasf-s16.html

Looking backwards: 2020-1944
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-16
Perhaps you\'ll recognize the reference in the title to this article to a novel published in 1888. It was the third most popular American novel of the 19th century after Uncle Tom\'s Cabin and Ben-Hur: Looking Backward: 2000–1887, a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy. When its second edition was published in 1889, it inspired 162 …
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Catch and Hang Live Chickens for Slaughter: $11 an Hour Possible!
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-16
Koch Foods, a giant chicken processor that supplies Burger King, Kroger and Walmart (not affiliated with the Koch brothers) lost no time in replacing the five busloads of undocumented workers taken from its Mississippi plants this month due to an ICE raid. It is already holding \"job fairs\" to replace the workers. The August ICE…
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