US to allow indefinite detention for migrant children following rule change
rt.com | 2019-08-21
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a change in policy that could see migrant children detained indefinitely, replacing a previous restriction limiting confinement of undocumented minors to 20 days. | The department announced on Wednesday that it would terminate the 1997 Flores Settlement, which set requirements for detaining migrants, arguing the rules contained a \"loophole\" that drives illegal immigration into the US. | \"By closing this key loophole in Flores, the new rule will restore integrity to our immigration system and eliminate the major pull factor fueling the crisis,\" acting Home…
rt.com/usa/466992-indefinite-detention-migrant-children/

Australian Investigative Journalist Exposes Mainstream Media Betrayal of Assange
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
At a Sydney \"Politics in the Pub\" meeting on Thursday night, award-winning Australian journalist Mark Davis revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the …
globalresearch.ca/australian-investigative-journalist-exposes-guardiannew-york-times-betrayal-assange/5686660

Trump-Netanyahu: The Disgraceful President and the Contemptible Prime Minister
Prof. Alon Ben-Meir | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, to enter Israel. Netanyahu, like a poodle, simply obeys his …
globalresearch.ca/disgraceful-president-contemptible-prime-minister/5686759

Omar, Tlaib, and the United States of Israel
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
I\'m trying to remember when Israel wasn\'t the fifty-first state. It receives my tax money and a blank check by the United States government to torture, ethnically cleanse, and murder Palestinians. | Israelis are apparently more important and cherished than Americans, …
globalresearch.ca/omar-tlaib-united-states-israel/5686803

Democrats Are Waging a Covert War on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-21
The Democratic Party establishment wants you to know that they\'re not afraid of primary challenges from the Justice Democrats–a progressive political action committee that runs progressive candidates who reject campaign funding from the ultra-rich and corporations. But when the establishment Democrats tell you they aren\'t afraid, they often aren\'t brave enough to let reporters quote them by name. | These anonymous sources are rarely as insulting as the one quoted by Fox News\' Brooke Singman: \"No one is afraid of those [Justice Democr…
truthdig.com/articles/democrats-are-waging-a-covert-war-on-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/

Emergency Palantir Mass Mobilization–#StopICEterror
Coaltion to Close the Concentration Camps | indybay.org | 2019-08-21
100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301-1616, United States | (Palantir Headquarters)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/21/18825567.php

New York Court Directive May Violate Rules Protecting Families From Deportation
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-21
| This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast.A high-ranking immigration court official has issued a requirement to judges in New York City that deportation cases involving…
truthout.org/articles/new-york-court-directive-may-violate-rules-protecting-families-from-deportation/

Bolsonaro greenlights new pesticides even as advocates mourn half billion dead bees in Brazil
Jessica Corbett | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-21
Pointing to the deaths of more than half a billion bees in Brazil over a period of just four months, beekeepers, experts, and activists are raising concerns about the soaring number of new pesticides greenlighted for use by the Brazilian government since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January–and the threat that it poses …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/21/bolsonaro-greenlights-new-pesticides-even-as-advocates-mourn-half-billion-dead-bees-in-brazil/

Taliban Peace Talks Must Not Ignore CIA-Funded Afghan Militias, Report Says
Alex Emmons | theintercept.com | 2019-08-21
\"If cut loose by the CIA,\" the report notes, militias \"may be reborn as private armies or \'security guards\' in the service of powerful individuals.\"
theintercept.com/2019/08/21/taliban-peace-talks-afghanistan-militias/

That Couldn\'t Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
Michael Welton | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
The Canadian nation-state presents itself to the world as a benign peacekeeper and benevolent force for good in the world. This myth washes over us and leaves us unwilling and reluctant to face up to our past as a white settler colonial state. If we did a few nasty things in the past, well, that…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/that-couldnt-be-true-restorying-and-reconciliation/

Sudan opposition leaders form government with the army
wsws.org | 2019-08-21
The agreement is a shameless betrayal of the months-long protest movement that brought cities across the country to a virtual standstill.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/21/suda-a21.html

In Protest Against Police Raping Spree, Women Burn Their Station in Mexico City
Johnny Hazard | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
About two thousand people, mostly young women (many of whom identify themselves as anarcofeministas), marched and rampaged through the Zona Rosa area of Mexico City on Friday, August 16. This was the second such action in less than a week. The first, on Monday, was in direct reaction to a young woman\'s accusation against four…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/in-protestagainst-police-raping-spree-women-burn-their-station-in-mexico-city/

\'Slowbalization\': Is the Slowing Global Economy a Boon or Bane?
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
A group of Italians started the Slow Food movement back in the 1980s. Stay away from fast-food restaurants, they urged: eat local, focus on traditional recipes, relax, and enjoy your meal. The Slow Food movement began as a protest against McDonald\'s, which opened a new franchise near the Spanish Steps in Rome. But it grew…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/slowbalization-is-the-slowing-global-economy-a-boon-or-bane/

Jewish Settlers Rule the Roost in Israel, but at What Price?
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-21
With Jewish settlers dictating the political agenda in Israel, and constantly provoking Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, violence is likely to grow exponentially in the coming months.
mintpressnews.com/jewish-settlers-rule-the-roost-in-israel-but-at-what-price/261415/

2 American servicemen killed in Afghanistan — NATO
rt.com | 2019-08-21
Two US soldiers have been killed in action in Afghanistan, according to NATO\'s press office. The alliance did not elaborate on the cause of death or release the names of the servicemen. | Sixteen US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan so far in 2019, 14 of them in combat and the other two in accidents aboard an American warship. | Taliban attacks have also spiked this year, inflicting major civilian casualties in bombings in Kabul and elsewhere. Earlier this month, the group claimed responsibility for a bombing that injured 100 people and killed 18. | DETAILS TO FOLLOW…
rt.com/usa/467006-us-servicemen-killed-afghanistan/

Brian Banks: A false rape accusation and its consequences
wsws.org | 2019-08-21
Brian Banks is based on the true story of a black high school football star in Long Beach, California falsely accused of rape at the age of 16. Rosie deals with homelessness in Dublin and Angels Are Made of Light the war in Afghanistan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/21/bank-a21.html

øEs posible un bloqueo naval de EE.UU. contra Venezuela?
Redacción Internacional, granma.cu | workers.org | 2019-08-21
19 de agosto — El magnate presidente Donald Trump ha insistido en el bloqueo naval como opción a tomar contra la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y, de acuerdo con el portal estadounidense Axios, citado por Misión Verdad, se trataría de un embargo directo a las costas venezolanas \"para evitar que . . . | Continue reading øEs posible un bloqueo naval de EE.UU. contra Venezuela? at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/08/21/es-posible-un-bloqueo-naval-de-ee-uu-contra-venezuela/

Rick Perry, politician responsible for US nukes, falls for embarrassing Instagram hoax
rt.com | 2019-08-21
The US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry showed his age and social media naivety by reposting a hoax that supposedly stops Instagram from making its users\' public posts… public. | The former governor of Texas, who\'s currently responsible for America\'s nuclear arsenal, shared…
rt.com/usa/466970-rick-perry-instagram-hoax/

Half a Billion Bees Drop Dead in Brazil Amid Jump in Pesticide Use
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Bee apocalypse has unfolded in four of Brazil\'s southern states in 1Q19. More than half a billion bees died earlier this year, in a short period, experts are suggesting that pesticides are likely to be blamed, reported Bloomberg. | ….
globalresearch.ca/half-billion-bees-drop-dead-brazil-pesticide-use/5686822

Washington intensifies its collective punishment of Venezuelans
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-21
Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/21/washington-intensifies-its-collective-punishment-of-venezuelans/

Lack of funds forces UN to close down life-saving aid programmes in Yemen
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-21
The United Nations announced on Wednesday that it is being forced to close down several humanitarian programmes in Yemen because money pledged by Member States to pay for them has \"failed to materialize\".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1044681

Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny: the Corporate Capture of Agriculture
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies to maximise choice and options. At the same time, somewhat ironically, they decry organic agriculture and proven agroecological approaches, presumably because these practices have no need for…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/offering-choice-but-delivering-tyranny-the-corporate-capture-of-agriculture/

The Forest Service Puts Ranchers Ahead of Grizzlies (and the Public Interest)
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
The recent killing of more grizzly bears by the Wyoming Game and Fish, a listed endangered species, to protect ranchers in the Upper Green River Allotment on the Bridger Teton National Forest is another shameful example of the mixed-up priorities and mismanagement of our public lands. Why should native animals, especially endangered animals, be killed…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/the-forest-service-puts-ranchers-ahead-of-grizzlies-and-the-public-interest/

The Smiling Turtle
Gary Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
The smiling turtle looks like he\'s About to break into a laugh He\'s been Waiting a long time for the punch-line I am not smiling My mirror has misted up I feel the closeness of the swamp I think we are sinking Into the muck of our business We have to call off the meeting…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/the-smiling-turtle/

Condescension and Climate Change: Australia and the Failure of the Pacific Islands Forum
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
It was predictably ugly: in tone, in regret, and, in some ways, disgust. Australia emerged from the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting isolated, the true spoiler of the party which saw 17 states facing the obstinacy of one. It had taken place on Tuvalu, some two hours flight north of Fiji. The capital Funafuti is…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/condescension-and-climate-change-australia-and-the-failure-of-the-pacific-islands-forum/

Sleater-Kinney — Can I Go On
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/sleater-kinney-can-i-go-on/

The Dead Letter Office of Capitalist Imperium: a Poverty of Mundus Imaginalis
Kenn Orphan — Phil Rockstroh | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
PR: What has been of greater service to humanity, the dark vision of humanity, limned in satire, by Jonathan Swift or the positivity-rancid homilies of corporate church of self-actualization? What is more propitious to the psyche, a descent into the underworld by Orphic imagination or the Icarusian dazzle on Instagram or the narcissistic intoxication induced…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/the-dead-letter-office-of-capitalist-imperium-a-poverty-of-mundus-imaginalis/

Endangered Species Act: A Failure Worth Fighting For?
Craig Collins | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
Everyone who gives a damn about the planet is denouncing Trump\'s latest attack on the Endangered Species Act. But little is being said about this law\'s actual impact on the fate of endangered species. In theory, the collapse of global biodiversity was supposed to be prevented by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Convention on International Trade of Endangered (CITES). But in reality this has amounted to trying to stop a raging wildfire with a squirt gun.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/endangered-species-act-a-failure-worth-fighting-for/

Video: Militant Groups Lose Lots of Equipment in Southern Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Units of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces, backed up by the Syrian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces, have liberated Umm Zaytunah and Kafr Tab, and advanced on Abedin and Madaya in southern Idlib. | Meanwhile, …
globalresearch.ca/video-militant-groups-lose-equipment-southern-idlib/5686632

History: US Encroachment Encouraged Japan To Support Hitler and Mussolini
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
During late September 1940, Japanese representatives like Sabur≈ç Kurusu flew to Berlin where they were greeted by the ruler of Europe, Adolf Hitler. Kurusu, an experienced career diplomat from Yokohama, could not help but notice the Nazi self-assurance at …
globalresearch.ca/ongoing-western-encroachment-japan-turned-her-hitler-mussolini/5686798

Video: Khan Shaykhun Is About to Fall into the Hands of Syrian Army
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Militants\' defense in southern Idlib and northern Hama has collapsed. | On August 19, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces and their allies backed up by Syrian and Russian air power cut off the M5 highway north of Khan …
globalresearch.ca/video-khan-shaykhun-fall-syrian-arm/5686768

A Nightmare of Homelessness: A Knapsack Full of Dreams
John Clarke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Cathy Crowe\'s book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse comes out of decades of witnessing and challenging a growing blight of destitution and poverty in Toronto that has developed with the advance of the neoliberal agenda. …
globalresearch.ca/nightmare-homelessness-knapsack-full-dreams/5686834

Fast Bowling, Concussions and Jofra Archer
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
We should all be cheering on some level. So much in this age of cricket favours the pampered bat over the stifled ball. The game of duration has suffered: five-day test matches are struggling before diminishing attention spans and ever …
globalresearch.ca/fast-bowling-concussions-jofra-archer/5686806

What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
The main problem with the US economy is that globalism has been deconstructing it. The offshoring of US jobs has reduced US manufacturing and industrial capability and associated innovation, research, development, supply chains, consumer purchasing power, and tax base of …
globalresearch.ca/globalism-transfer-us-economy-china/5686832

Colonization and Americanization of Hawaii: Replacing Hawaiian Culture
Kioni Dudley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Summary | In 1959, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 1469 relieving the U.S. from the reporting requirements under Article 73 e, after finding that the people of the territory had exercised self-government by choosing to become a state of the | …
globalresearch.ca/call-review-historical-facts-surrounding-unga-resolution-1469-xiv-1959-attainment-self-government-hawaii/5686727

The MH17 Malaysian Airlines Tragedy, Blamed on Russia. NGOs Say They Will Seek PM Mahathir Support to Prevent the MH17 Trial of Four Men
Ida Lim | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) today said they will soon ask for Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad\'s help to prevent the trial of four individuals over the 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from starting. | Chandra Muzaffar…
globalresearch.ca/ngos-seek-aid-stop-mh17-trial-four-men/5686673

Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA\'s 200 Million-acre Expansion of Bee-killing Pesticide