Humanity Denied: What Is Missing from the Omar, Tlaib Story
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-28
Israel\'s decision to bar two United States Democratic Representatives, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, from entering Israel and visiting Palestine has further exposed the belligerent, racist nature of the Israeli government. But our understanding of the Israeli decision, and the massive controversy and discussion it generated, should not stop there. Palestinians, who have been at …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/humanity-denied-what-is-missing-from-the-omar-tlaib-story/

Systematic Palestinian Isolation: What Is Missing from the Omar, Tlaib Story
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-28
This is the story of Palestinian isolation by Israel that we must not allow to die out, long after the news cycle covering the two Congresswomen\'s story move on beyond Omar, Tlaib and Israeli transgressions.
mintpressnews.com/palestinian-isolation-missing-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-story/261568/

Migrant Death Toll Tops 900 in Mediterranean as 40 Die Near Libya
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-28
| At least 40 refugees and migrants are feared dead off of the coast of Libya after a boat carrying dozens of people en route to Europe capsized Tuesday morning in the Mediterranean Sea. According to the Libyan coast guard, some 65 migrants and refugees, mostly from Sudan, were rescued with the help of local fishermen. With Tuesday\'s tragedy, the number of migrants and refugees who have lost their lives this year in the Mediterranean en route to Europe is up to 900. Meanwhile, far-right European leade…
truthout.org/video/migrant-death-toll-tops-900-in-mediterranean-as-40-die-near-libya/

Emergency Palantir Mass Mobilization to Stop ICE Terror
R.R. | indybay.org | 2019-08-28
An angry group of activists mobilized on August 23 at the headquarters of Palantir Technologies in Palo Alto. Just 3 days earlier Palantir renewed its ICE Investigative Case Management contract that enables ICE to track the every move of undocumented immigrants until 2022; protesters responded quickly and loudly. | Photos by Jack Owicki, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/27/18825745.php

On David Koch\'s passing and the Koch network\'s ongoing war on clean energy
Ben Jervey | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-28
Billionaire libertarian activist and oil industry tycoon David Koch died on Friday, leaving a toxic legacy that includes helping birth the climate denial movement, fighting against regulations that protect worker and public health, and — critical to our work here on DeSmog\'s KochvsClean project — helping fund and coordinate a decades-long attack on clean energy and low carbon …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/28/on-david-kochs-passing-and-the-koch-networks-ongoing-war-on-clean-energy/

Wednesday\'s Daily Brief: Guterres talks technology for Africa\'s development, \'extinction crisis\' prompts stronger wildlife protection, Greta Thunberg reaches New York, funding shortfalls in Iraq, a positive step for Indigenous women
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-28
A recap of Wednesday\'s stories: Secretary-General António Guterres says \'winds of hope are blowing ever stronger\' for Africa\'s development; Swedish climate youth activist Greta Thunberg reaches New York by boat; Chief of UN Mission for Iraq warns on funding shortfalls; and in Canada, a new bill recognizes the rights of indigenous women.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1045131

Protesters Force Palantir to Empty HQ
Fight for What\'s Right | indybay.org | 2019-08-28
Palantir, the secretive $20 billion data-analysis company whose work with ICE has even led some of its own employees to make a fuss, succumbed to the power of protesters on August 23. The main office at 100 Hamilton, Palantir\'s world headquarters, was emptied in advance of the arrival of demonstrators. | Photo credit: Cornelia Grimes, Pro Bono Photo…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/27/18825755.php

G7 Summit: Critical Outcomes
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-08-28
In the French city of Biarritz, a three-day summit featuring the heads of state from 7 of the world\'s largest economies (Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, the USA, France and Japan) has come to a close. The hottest topics of discussion were trade relations, a nuclear deal with Iran, the protests in Hong Kong, the …
uwidata.com/5103-g7-summit-critical-outcomes/

What Is Happening in Hong Kong?
Brandon Turbeville | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Over the past few months, both mainstream and alternative news outlets have been covering massive protests in Hong Kong where tens of thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations that have since devolved into violence both with police, counter-protesters, …
globalresearch.ca/what-happening-hong-kong/5687331

Algerians Patiently Protest
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
On February 22, thousands took to the streets in Algeria to protest the ruling regime, triggered by the infirmed President Bouteflika\'s candidacy for a fifth mandate. The April resignation of the long-time president did not stop the demonstrations. Au contraire: the demonstrations have continued. August 16, 2019, marked the twenty-six consecutive Friday of protests in…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/algerians-patiently-protest/

US/Israel Upping the Stakes for More Middle East War
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
No nation may legally attack another state preemptively — what US-dominated NATO and Israel do time and again unaccountably. | It\'s what aggression is all about — defined by UN General Assembly Res. 3314. | Calling it the \"most serious and dangerous …
globalresearch.ca/us-israel-middle-east-war/5687434

The Green Party Denounces Business Deals and Trade Policies Through Which Multinational Corporations Profit From the Destruction of the Brazilian Rainforest
commondreams.org | 2019-08-28
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/08/28/green-party-denounces-business-deals-and-trade-policies-through-which?cd-origin=rss

US Opens Venezuela Interest Section in Colombia as Guaido Rebuffs Further Talks
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-08-28
It remains unclear whether the new Venezuela Affairs Unit will facilitate talks with Caracas.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14640

\"This ruling is huge\": Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572 million for fueling opioid epidemic
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-28
In a landmark ruling, an Oklahoma judge has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million for contributing to the state\'s opioid crisis. It marks the first time a drug company has been held responsible for the opioid crisis, though it fell far short of the $17 billion judgment sought by the state. According to …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/28/this-ruling-is-huge-johnson-johnson-ordered-to-pay-572-million-for-fueling-opioid-epidemic/

The Greek Way to a Green Planet
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
The dawn of the twenty-first century is giving us a whiff of another Dark Age. Christianity and Islam have been hovering over each other, fighting small-scale crusades. More than a billion Moslems hate America because America has been an ally of Israel and because America destroyed Iraq, eyeing the oil of the entire Middle East.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/the-greek-way-to-a-green-planet/

The EU and NATO Remain Closely Linked on the Most Important Issues. Nuclear Weapons \"Sharing Policy\" directed against Russia
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Of the European Union\'s 28 member states, it reveals much that 22 of these nations belong to NATO, the Pentagon-run military organization. | What is striking also is that, in…
globalresearch.ca/the-eu-and-nato-remain-closely-linked-on-the-most-important-issues-nuclear-weapons-sharing-policy-directed-against-russia/5687361

Bolsonaro Fiddles While the Amazon Burns
J.P. Linstroth | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
Of course, my title conjures up images of the Emperor Nero (37-68 A.D.) fiddling while ancient Rome burned, and for many reasons, this mythwas a historical falsehood. Fiddles did not exist in 64 A.D. when a great fire ravaged ancient Rome, but stringed instruments did nonetheless, like the citharaand lyre. Moreover, Nero himself was not…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/bolsonaro-fiddles-while-the-amazon-burns/

It\'s not just Brazil\'s Amazon rainforest that\'s ablaze — Bolivian fires are threatening people and wildlife
Claire F.R. Wordley | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-28
Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That\'s more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years. Experts say that it will take at least two centuries to repair the ecological damage done by the fires, while at least 500 species are said …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/28/its-not-just-brazils-amazon-rainforest-thats-ablaze-bolivian-fires-are-threatening-people-and-wildlife/

Health concerns rise in Brazil as Amazon fires rage
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-28
Lingering smoke in the Amazon is causing concern among Brazilians who say that respiratory problems — particularly among children and the elderly — have increased as fires in the region rage.\"The kids are affected the most. They\'re coughing a lot,\" said Elane Diaz, a nurse in the Rondonia state capital of Porto Velho, as she waited for a doctor\'s appointment at a hospital with her five-year-old-son Eduardo.\"They have problems breathing. I\'m concerned because it affects their health.\" | The number of people treated for respiratory issues increased sharply in recent days at a local children\'s hospital.\"Th…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/08/28/health-concerns-rise-in-brazil-as-amazon-fires-rage/

The Amazon Fires and the Dawn of Environmental Interventions
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
So-called \"environmental interventions\" might become commonplace as global powers seek excuses to intervene in the domestic affairs of sovereign states in order to seize control of their natural resources. | The entire world has watched in horror over the past week …
globalresearch.ca/amazon-fires-dawn-environmental-interventions/5687376

We are facing a global emergency in the Amazon. Here\'s what we can do
Leila Salazar-Lopez and Lindsey Allen | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-28
Called \"the lungs of the Earth\", the Amazon rainforest and its lush trees make roughly 20% of the oxygen on Earth. Yet, right now, the skies of Sao Paolo, Brazil are black and the smoke can be seen from space. Flames are ravaging the Amazon Basin. Though climate change has catalyzed many devastating blazes in recent years, …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/28/we-are-facing-a-global-emergency-in-the-amazon-heres-what-we-can-do/

As the World Burns
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2019-08-28
Catastrophes in the Amazon and elsewhere are flash points for the larger, ongoing crisis that claims lives in less spectacular fashion–one that sees life itself as expendable.
progressive.org/dispatches/as-the-world-burns-jaffe-190828/

Canada and Bolsonaro
Yves Engler | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
By now most environmentally conscious people understand that Jair Bolsonaro is a bad guy. Brazil\'s president has scandalously blamed environmentalists for starting fires burning in the Amazon region, after having called for more \"development\" of the huge forests. Canadians are lucky we have a prime minister who is not such an embarrassment and understands environmental…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/canada-and-bolsonaro/

The Open Amazon and Its Enemies: A Call for Action and Optimism
Francesc Badia i Dalmases | commondreams.org | 2019-08-28
Tree in the Brazilian rainforest. (Photo: Pablo Albarenga, all rights reserved.) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/amazonr.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/28/open-amazon-and-its-enemies-call-action-and-optimism?cd-origin=rss

Disastrous Alaskan wildfires could permanently alter forest composition
Madison Dapcevich | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-28
From the Amazon to the last frontier of Alaska, fire season is raging on both sides of the equator and bringing with the flames long-term effects that could permanently alter the diverse ecosystems of both regions. As of Tuesday, the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center reports that more than 200 individual wildfires are burning across the state and threatening more than a …
peoplesworld.org/article/disastrous-alaskan-wildfires-could-permanently-alter-forest-composition/

SF Workshop — Capitalism: Arsonist of the Amazon
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-08-28
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indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825711.php

Amazon wildfires expose fallacy of \"green\" capitalist politics
wsws.org | 2019-08-28
While Bolsonaro invokes rabid dictatorship-era chauvinism, world powers are using the fires to further their own strategic aims.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/28/amaz-a28.html

Recent Israeli Attacks \"Significantly Weakened\" Syria\'s Air-Defense Systems
Robert Inkalesh | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-28
While an attack of this scale on virtually any sovereign nation aside from Syria would likely provoke a major response from the international community, this Israeli attack has barely registered.
mintpressnews.com/lsrael-attacks-syria-air-defenses/261551/

Hollywood Reboots Russophobia for the New Cold War
Max Parry | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
It is an age-old question as to the extent art reflects the world we live in. Bertolt Brecht allegedly said to the contrary that art was \"not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape …
globalresearch.ca/hollywood-reboots-russophobia-new-cold-war/5687362

US Removes Palestine Authority from List of Countries
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
\"Cancelling Palestine (Palestinian Authority or Palestinian Territories) from the U.S. State Department\'s list is not related to American national interests,\" PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said. | *** | Palestinian officials slammed the United States Sunday for removing it from its list of …
globalresearch.ca/us-removes-palestine-authority-list-countries/5687428

India\'s Shadow Banking Crisis Is Intensifying
Kavaljit Singh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
The ongoing liquidity crisis in India\'s shadow banking sector is intensifying. The troubles that started with defaults by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) last year are far from over as the sector continues to face a severe liquidity …
globalresearch.ca/india-shadow-banking-crisis/5687425

U.S. Africa Command Marks a Controversial Return to Libya
Alaeddin Saleh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Mohammed Al-Ghasri confirmed in an interview to a Libyan media outlet \"Ain Libiya\" that U.S. African Command team arrived at Air Defense College airbase located in Libyan port city of Misurata on July 22….
globalresearch.ca/u-s-africa-command-return-libya/5687406

\"Shadow Statistics\": US Government\'s Fudging the Numbers on Unemployment, GDP and Inflation
Bryant Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
John Williams has worked as a consulting economist since getting his BA and MA from Dartmouth college in New Hampshire in 1972. He now lives in California — these paragraphs are from his biography: | One of my early clients was | …
globalresearch.ca/shadow-statistics-us-governments-fudging-the-numbers-on-unemployment-gdp-and-inflation/5687366

Multiculturalism, In Morocco, Difference Is a Strength
Caroline Kirk | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Morocco\'s belief in the strength of pluralism has energized me and shown me that difference can serve as a strength for any country, whether it is religious or secular, large or small, developed or developing. | I was told that there …
globalresearch.ca/morocco-difference-strength/5687438

Video: \"Dawn of Idlib\": Syrian Army\'s Offensive in Northwestern Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
August 2019 was marked by important changes on frontlines in northwestern Syria. | The month started with a declaration by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani that his group, the most powerful faction in Idlib and formerly the official branch …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-offensive-northwestern-syria/5687469

Momentous Decision by CITES to Limit Trade in Wild Caught African Elephants from Zimbabwe and Botswana for Zoos to \"Exceptional Circumstances\" with Independent Oversight
Humane Society International | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
This momentous decision will save countless elephants from being snatched from their families and natural environment, says Humane Society International at CITES CoP18 in Geneva | *** | Wildlife experts from animal protection charity Humane Society International are celebrating a momentous win …
globalresearch.ca/cites-limit-trade-wild-caught-african-elephants-zimbabwe-botswana/5687447

Malaysia: The Najib Razak 1MDB Trial. The Prosecutor\'s Opening Statement
Gopal Sri Ram | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
The following is appointed prosecutor Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram\'s opening statement at Najib\'s 1MDB trial, reproduced in full. | 1. This case concerns the monies of a company called 1Malaysia Development Berhad, widely known as 1MDB. It was originally …
globalresearch.ca/sri-ram-opening-statement-najib-1mdb-trial/5687422

Lula Tells the World He\'s \"Back in the Game\" from Jail. \"Lula is Brazil\'s only Possible Factor of Stability\"
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Brazil has always been a land of superlatives. Yet nothing beats the current, perverse configuration: a world statesman lingers in jail while a clownish thug is in power, his antics now considered a threat to the whole planet. | In a …
globalresearch.ca/lula-back-game-from-jail/5687382

The Media\'s Russian Radiation Story Implodes Upon Scrutiny
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
How the mainstream media reported an August 8 accident at a top-secret missile test facility in northern Russia should serve as a cautionary tale regarding the dangers of rushed judgments via institutional bias. | In the days following the initial report …
globalresearch.ca/media-russian-radiation-story-implodes-upon-scrutiny/5687397

Video: Syrian Army (SAA) Works to Secure Recent Gains in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces are conducting active security operations in the recently liberated parts of northern Hama and southern Idlib. The goal of the effort is to remove mines and improvised explosive devices, uncover weapons …
globalresearch.ca/video-army-works-secure-recent-gains/5687373

Israel Has Attacked Lebanon and Syria — So What?
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
On August 25th, 2019, Israel attacked Lebanon. It has done it again. | Just as it attacked Syria, the same night. | RT reported the same day: | \"Israeli drone flights were \"an open attack on Lebanese sovereignty\" and an | …
globalresearch.ca/israel-attacked-lebanon-syria/5687390

New Delhi\'s Man in Moscow Is Right, Russia and India Are Global Partners
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
The Indian Ambassador to Russia was right when he said that his host nation increasingly views his homeland as a global player, an observation that\'s becoming all the more significant after Moscow has shown that it\'s willing to contradict China …
globalresearch.ca/russia-india-global-partners/5687420

The World is Watching Kashmire
Shubh Mathur | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
\"The hasty stroke goes oft astray.\" This piece of remembered wisdom from The Lord of the Rings seems to be an apt description of the Indian military siege of Kashmir. On August 5th, at midnight local time, the disputed territory was abruptly cut off from all communication, both with the outside world and within Kashmir,…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/the-world-is-watching-kashmire/

Sri Lankan PM backs Indian repression in Kashmir
wsws.org | 2019-08-28
The support for New Delhi\'s anti-democratic measures in J&K reflects the fact that all factions of Sri Lanka\'s ruling elite are moving towards the imposition of dictatorial rule.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/28/kash-a28.html

Trump\'s Trade War and the Emerging Corporatist-Fascist State
Anthony DiMaggio | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
President Donald Trump\'s fit over China speaks to the rise of neofascism in American politics, at a time when neither Congress nor the courts are showing any interest in rolling back presidential power. Trump\'s unique brand of neofascism first emerged in the form of his attempt to crack down on journalistic critics for \"treason,\" and…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/trumps-trade-war-and-the-emerging-corporatist-fascist-state/

On the Persistence of Religion
Dan Corjescu | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all –Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Recently I received an angry note about the persistence of religion in the modern world as proof of the world\'s ongoing irrationality in response to some of my comments in my lately published article…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/on-the-persistence-of-religion/

Fire and the \"Changing Narrative\" Thing
Susan Babbitt | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
Toni Morrison referred to the story beneath the story. James Baldwin called it a burning fire. In a letter to Angela Davis, awaiting trial, he wrote: \"we have been told nothing but lies, lies about ourselves and our kinsmen and our past, and about love, life, and death\". In other words, everything.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/fire-and-the-changing-narrative-thing/

Endangering the Ark
Louisa Willcox | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
This week the Trump administration announced new rules that effectively gut the Endangered Species Act. This move is a disastrous blow to a natural heritage that is increasingly under threat, an abdication of our moral responsibility to future generations — and another giveaway to big corporations and ideologues who will ultimately be on the wrong side of history.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/endangering-the-ark/

Captain Pia Klemp Arrives as David Koch Departs the United States of Altamont
Phil Rockstroh | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
Fifty Years after rhapsodic auguries of the acid-informed era involving the coming \"Woodstock Nation,\" the US citizenry — convulsed by violence, strung out on all the wrong drugs, and with the Rolling Stones still touring — stumble in mortification through the grim phantasmagoria of the United States Of Altamont. What a long, strange, bad (Nixonian…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/captain-pia-klemp-arrives-as-david-koch-departs-the-united-states-of-altamont/

CEOs Say Shareholders Won\'t Be No. 1 Anymore. Turns Out They Already Weren\'t
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-28
To great fanfare Monday, the chief executives who make up the Business Roundtable declared that companies should pursue a variety of social goals rather than focus solely on shareholders. The CEOs said they should invest in employees, foster diversity and protect the environment. As Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase and head of the…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/28/ceos-say-shareholders-wont-be-no-1-anymore-turns-out-they-already-werent/