Ramzy Baroud (2019-07-10). The Book of Palestine: National Liberation vs Endless Negotiations. counterpunch.org Those who are still hoping that the new American agenda on Palestine and Israel is temporary, or reversible, should abandon this false hope. Washington\'s complete adoption of Israel\'s messianic, extremist policies regarding Occupied Palestine has been a long time in the making. And it is here to stay. Despite the unmistakable clarity in the American More

John Bachtell (2019-07-10). A turning point moment to save people and planet. peoplesworld.org This is part 1 of the full main report, \"Unity to save people and planet; For full equality, democracy, peace, and green socialism,\" which was delivered to the 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in Chicago, Ill., June 21-23, 2019. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA …

Vijay Prashad (2019-07-10). Why Trump caved to China and Huawei. mronline.org This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Everything about the trade war between the United States and China is bewildering. The world\'s two largest economies entered a titanic struggle with harsh words and high tariffs, sending shudders through the global economy. Hundreds of billions of dollars of goods on […] | Source

Andre Vltchek (2019-07-10). If You Provoke the Entire World, Something May Happen. globalresearch.ca The United States believes that it is so invincible, exceptional and so frightening that no one would ever dare to protest, let alone defend its people against constant humiliation, economic embargos and military threats. | It used to be like this …

Mallika Khanna (2019-07-10). Climate change is a working-class and poor people\'s issue. peoplesworld.org If you\'ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you\'ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe. Recently in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, more than 40 people were killed by a severe heat …

Staff (2019-07-10). John Carlos Frey: America\'s Deadly Stealth War on the Mexico Border Is Approaching Genocide. democracynow.org John Carlos Frey\'s new book, \"Sand and Blood: America\'s Stealth War on the Mexico Border,\" chronicles how the U.S.-Mexico border became a war zone through decades of deadly bipartisan immigration policy. But it also examines the border through the personal history of his family. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Frey moved to the U.S. with his family when he was a toddler in 1965. He grew up in southern San Diego, California, where he witnessed the effects of American immigration policy on the borderlands every day. His father was an American citizen. His mother was a Mexican immigrant. Frey\'s book is dedicated \"To my mot…

Thomas Hon Wing Polin (2019-07-10). Hong Kong: New Epicenter of the Empire\'s Smear Campaign Against China? counterpunch.org Photograph Source: 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests by Studio Incendo — CC BY 2.0 | As the Western Empire ramps up its full-spectrum war on the Chinese, its latest target is Hong Kong, China\'s premier special administrative region (SAR). Even the latest wave of media assaults confirms it. | An essential adjunct to an Imperial attack on any designated victim is a sustained campaign of demonization, conducted through mainstream media and supported by associated local media. Such a drive had been onging in Hong Kong, since the former Britis…

Eric A. Gordon (2019-07-10). \'Scraps\': A forceful play about slavery\'s legacy in West Coast premiere. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES— In 2009, just as the Barack Obama presidency began and following more than three decades of producing multiple award-winning work for the stage, Matrix Theatre Company founder/artistic director Joseph Stern resolved to redirect the company\'s focus to the exploration of race issues in contemporary society. Recently at the Matrix People\'s World reviewed August …

Ociel Alí López (2019-07-10). Norway, Bachelet, and the Twilight of Guaido\'s Insurrection. mintpressnews.com Venezuelanalysis — Guaido\'s uprising is going through its terminal phrase. He does not yet appear to have reached his end as leader, as he still produces and consolidates an important consensus among the opposition. What has decisively failed is his attempt to form a government without elections with the backing of the hawks in Washington. In almost six months since his self-swearing in as \"interim president,\" it has become palpable that his governing is truly impossible. The coup de grace was de…

Mark Gruenberg (2019-07-10). At NEA, Democratic candidates weave pro-teacher messages into campaign themes. peoplesworld.org HOUSTON—From Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to Beto O\'Rourke and Julian Castro, Democratic presidential hopefuls weaved pro-teacher, pro-education messages into their general campaign themes at a 2-hour-long one-by-one q-and-a on the evening of July 5 at the convention of the National Education Association, the nation\'s largest union. There were few mentions of President Donald Trump, …

Mirinda Crissman (2019-07-10). Acts of solidarity with migrants grow. workers.org The United States government is waging a white-supremacist, imperialist, neocolonial war on multiple fronts. While this war on oppressed people rages on, people across the country and the world are taking a stand against state violence. Violence abroad can take many forms like resource extraction, economic sanctions and regime change. . . . | Continue reading Acts of solidarity with migrants grow at Workers.org

Morning Star (2019-07-10). Israel\'s illegal apartheid wall turns 15. peoplesworld.org

Stephen Lendman (2019-07-10). Israel\'s Scheme to Bury the Nakba. \"The Ethnic Cleansing oF Palestine\" globalresearch.ca Israel\'s 1947-48 Nakba against the Palestinian people was and remains one of history\'s great crimes — what Ilan Pappe called \"The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\" in his book by this title. | Establishment of the Jewish state came at the expense …

Eric Walberg (2019-07-10). Barack Obama: \"Turns Out I\'m Really Good At Killing People\" dissidentvoice.org In Obama\'s Unending Wars, Kuzmarov has brought together many telling proofs, nuggets, of just how horrible the world is, and just how responsible the US and its henchmen around the world are. A kind of who-does-it. Kuzmarov is that rare analyst (Belen Fernandez is another) who respects footnotes, leaving fascinating bits there that would otherwise …

Staff (2019-07-10). Appeals Court Sides With Trump in Hotel Lawsuit. truthdig.com RICHMOND, Va.—A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel, handing Trump a significant legal victory on Wednesday. | A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the ruling of a federal judge in Maryland who said the lawsuit could move forward. | The state of Maryland and the District of Columbia sued in 2017, claiming Trump has violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution…

Staff (2019-07-10). The National Security State Is Eating America Alive. truthdig.com Put up with me for just a moment while I wax literary. It turns out that, if French novelist Marcel Proust lived today, he might have had to retitle his Remembrance of Things Past as Remembrance of Things Present, or even more sadly, Things Future. As an ex-military man who lived through part of the Cold War in uniform, let me make my point, in terms of the Pentagon and an ever-growing atmosphere of American militarism, this way: I love used bookstores. I\'ve been browsing in them since my teens. I was, then, an early fan of Stephen King, the famed horror-story writer. Admittedly, today I\'m more likely to browse t…

Staff (2019-07-10). The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Is Not New. It\'s a Key Part of a Decades-Old Bipartisan Policy. democracynow.org More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in immigration jails, reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions for asylum seekers are continuing. In Clint, Texas, the Border Patrol station that garnered international attention for jailing hundreds of migrant children without access to sufficient food, water, beds or medical care now has a spreading outbreak of scabies, shingles and chickenpox, according to border agents. In Yuma, Arizona, NBC reports that jailed migrant children have been subjected to mistreatment and sexual…

Staff (2019-07-10). Immigrant Rights Activists Renew Push Against Palantir to Cancel ICE Contract. truthout.org Organizers with Mijente, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, the Tech Workers Coalition, and other groups mobilized in New York and Washington D.C. to demand Palantir Technologies, a surveillance company, cancel its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). | In New York, people stood outside the Palantir office and chanted, \"Immigrants are welcome here! Time to cancel, Palantir!\" | Activists with Mijente, an immigration and Latinx-focused organization, attempted to give workers entering the New York office a flier that ur…

Ben Norton (2019-07-10). The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson. thegrayzone.com Britain\'s leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…

Andrew Korybko (2019-07-10). China\'s Belt and Road, Trump\'s Trade War and the Future of the Global Economy. globalresearch.ca Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan told the audience at this year\'s World Peace Forum that \"development is the key to resolving all issues\", remarking in the run-up to his conclusion that \"China\'s development can\'t shut out the rest of the …

Nick Turse (2019-07-10). Pentagon Document Shows U.S. Knew of \"Credible\" Reports of Civilian Casualties After Its Attacks in Somalia. theintercept.com U.S. Africa Command claimed no civilians were hurt in its attacks in Somalia — but its own internal assessment shows this isn\'t true.

Staff (2019-07-10). How the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Central Americans Out of Their Homes Toward the U.S. democracynow.org As the U.S. continues to crack down on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, we look at one of the underreported driving factors leading people to flee their home countries: the climate crisis. John Carlos Frey, author of \"Sand and Blood: America\'s Stealth War on the Mexico Border,\" spent time with Central American climate refugees traveling in a caravan toward the United States. He says, \"If this drought continues, we\'re looking at all-out famine from Central America. …That\'s one of the major reasons why they\'re coming. … The government doesn\'t even acknowledge the fact that there is a climate c…

Staff (2019-07-10). Headlines for July 10, 2019. democracynow.org Children Recount Mistreatment, Sexual Abuse at Yuma, AZ Migrant Jail, Scabies, Shingles & Chickenpox Spreading Among Children at Clint, TX Migrant Jail, Jewish Activists Arrested After Protesting Migrant Detention on Capitol Hill, Judge Rejects DOJ Move to Replace Legal Team Charged with Census Citizenship Battle, Court Says Trump Cannot Block Critics on Twitter, U.K. Ambassador Resigns After Leaked Cables Scandal, Afghan Peace Talks Close as Deadly Attacks Continue, Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act, Megan Rapinoe to Trump: \"Your Message Is Excluding People\", Calls Grow fo…

George Ochenski (2019-07-10). Speaking Truth to Power. counterpunch.org Last week Rep. Justin Amash, formerly a very conservative Republican member of Congress and the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, declared he\'s no longer a member of either the party or the caucus. He is also the only Republican member of Congress to call for the impeachment of president Trump after he actually read the entire More

Walden Bello (2019-07-10). Elections in the Era of Charismatic Politics. counterpunch.org Elections are often regarded as the quintessential expression of democracy. Yet elections can have undemocratic outcomes. The carefully choreographed election designed to give a fig leaf to an authoritarian regime is something everyone is familiar with. But there is also the paradoxical case where a relatively free and fair election ends up bringing the winner More

Jonah Raskin (2019-07-10). NORML\'s Deputy Director Paul Armentano Speaks Volumes. counterpunch.org \"Passing Prop 64 in California was just the beginning. We\'ll go on tinkering with cannabis rules and regulations for a long time and we\'ll also have to address life style issues. In many part of the country marijuana is still associated by and large with hippies. The culture wars will go on.\" — Paul Armentano, More

Michael Doliner (2019-07-10). Piddling in the Think Tank. counterpunch.org So let\'s see if I\'ve got this straight. Obama signed the JCPOA with Iran and other countries to get out of a tight spot. He was on the verge of being forced to go to war with Iran. That would have been a disaster. Signing this agreement was supposed to relax the tension. The agreement More

Fred Baumgarten (2019-07-10). We are the Losers: Played Again by King Donald. counterpunch.org I spent last weekend considering the latest word salad plated by our Accidental President and enjoying some of the endless satirical memes about Revolutionary air forces and such, until they became tiresome and predictable—which was in about five minutes. (Still to come: John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, and a thousand other talk show hosts More

Laura Pangallozzi (2019-07-10). At least 2% of U.S. public water systems are like Flint\'s — Americans just don\'t hear about them. nationofchange.org More than five years after Flint\'s water crisis first hit the news, the city has successfully lowered the lead levels in its water. The most recently available testing, from the second half of 2018, puts the lead in Flint\'s water at 4 parts per billion. That\'s well below the level, 15 ppb, that the federal …

Tanya Rawal-Jindia (2019-07-10). How Multinationals Pad Their Budgets With the Wealth of Developing Countries. commondreams.org In 2015, Global Financial Integrity (GFI) published a study revealing that in 2013 an astounding US$1.1 trillion was stolen annually—or nearly $3 billion a day—from developing countries due to trade mispricing. (Photo: The Weekly Bull/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/economists.jpeg …

Staff (2019-07-10). Another Billionaire Running for President? truthout.org One might have thought that the election of celebrity businessman Donald Trump would have put an end to the stale old trope that we\'d be better off if \"the government were run like a business.\" It\'s a silly idea since the American government\'s only resemblance to a business is the fact that it employs a lot of people to do certain tasks and, like most big organizations, it\'s managed in a hierarchical framework. | Other than that, they are very different systems with very different purposes. The most important distinction being that a business is an autocracy which exists to make a profit while the government i…

teleSUR (2019-07-10). French Senior Diplomat in Iran to Salvage Nuclear Deal. telesurenglish.net French President Emmanuel Macron\'s top diplomatic advisor held Wednesday high-level talks in Tehran aimed at saving the 2015 nuclear deal and easing tensions between Iran and the United States. | RELATED: | Iran Increases Uranium Production Beyond Nuclear Deal\'s Limit | Emmanuel Bonne met Rear-Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran\'s Supreme National Security Council, and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his deputy Abbas Araghchi. | Bonne\'s mission is \"to try and…

Sarah Abed (2019-07-10). Iran Rightfully Increases Uranium Stockpiles and Enrichment Beyond JCPOA Limits. globalresearch.ca Iran recently increased its enriched uranium stockpiles and uranium enrichment levels beyond JCPOA limits in response to Washington\'s unilateral withdrawal and increased sanctions. | Fourteen months ago, Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the United States out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive …

teleSUR (2019-07-10). Iran Warns US Over Plans of Military Coalition in Gulf Waters. telesurenglish.net The United States hopes to enlist allies over the next two weeks or so in a military coalition to safeguard strategic waters off Iran and Yemen, where Washington blames Iran and Iran-aligned fighters for attacks, a top U.S. general said Tuesday. | RELATED: | UK Navy Seizes Tanker Filled With \'Iranian Oil\' Meant for Syria | Under the plan, which has only been finalized in recent days, the United States would provide command ships and lead surveillance efforts for the military c…

Crofton Black (2019-07-10). CIA Torture Unredacted: Four-Year Investigation Reveals What Was Hidden in US Senate Torture Report. commondreams.org New report is the most comprehensive public account of one of the most disturbing elements of America's so-called 'War on Terror\' | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/unredacted_torture_report.jpg …

Benjamin Neimark (2019-07-10). US Military Is a Bigger Polluter than as Many as 140 Countries — Shrinking this War Machine Is a Must. globalresearch.ca The US military\'s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our …

Pepe Escobar (2019-07-10). Turkey\'s Erdogan Meet\'s China\'s Xi: Sultan Shines in the Court of the Dragon King. globalresearch.ca The graphic image of Turkey pivoting away from NATO towards the Russia-China strategic partnership was provided, in more ways than one, by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing right after the G20 in Osaka. | Turkey …

Joshua Funnell (2019-07-10). Momentum launches pre-emptive strike on BBC Panorama\'s \'hatchet job\' on antisemitism. thecanary.co Tonight (10 July) the BBC airs its long-anticipated Panorama documentary, Is Labour Anti-Semitic? with reporter John Ware.But one of the Labour left\'s largest grassroots organisations, Momentum, has expressed…

Jessica Piper (2019-07-10). Trade group airs ads to boost five senators facing reelection. nationofchange.org A trade group representing chemical companies will spend more than $150,000 on advertising during July in support of four Republican senators and one Democrat, all of whom face reelection in 2020. The American Chemistry Council, which represents nearly 200 companies including DuPont, Chevron Phillips and ExxonMobil, is running TV and radio ads in Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana and South Dakota …

Staff (2019-07-10). The US\'s Deadly Stealth War on the Mexico Border Is Approaching Genocide. truthout.org John Carlos Frey\'s new book, Sand and Blood: America\'s Stealth War on the Mexico Border, chronicles how the U.S.-Mexico border became a war zone through decades of deadly bipartisan immigration policy. But it also examines the border through the personal history of his family. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Frey moved to the U.S. with his family when he was a toddler in 1965. He grew up in southern San Diego, California, where he witnessed the effects of American immigration policy on the borderlands every day. His father was an American citizen. His mother was a Mexican immigrant. Frey\'s book is dedicated \"To my mo…

John McEvoy (2019-07-10). Read Labour\'s full complaint to the BBC as tensions flare over Panorama\'s antisemitism episode. thecanary.co The BBC is due to air an episode of Panorama called Is Labour Anti-semitic? at 9pm on 10 July. Ahead of the show, the Labour Party has issued a multi-point complaint. It claims Panorama presenter John Ware is \"unsuitable\" and asks the BBC to \"suspend and reconsider\" airing the programme. | Summary: | The compl…

The Canary (2019-07-10). Government has \'Dad\'s Army\' approach to coping with climate impacts. thecanary.co The Government has a \"ramshackle, Dad\'s Army\" approach to making sure England can cope with the impacts of rising temperatures, its climate advisers warn. | And UK action to slash the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change is lagging far behind what is needed, even before the Government set a tougher new target to cut pollution to zero overall by 2050. | In its annual progress report to Parliament, the advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said the Government had to show it was serious about tackling the problem in the next 12 to 18 months. | And it warned that action to prepare homes, businesses an…

Michael Welch (2019-07-10). \"Wars Come About As a Result of Lies.\" Selected Radio Shows. globalresearch.ca \"When we understand that wars come about as a result of lies peddled to the British public and the American public and the publics all over Europe and other countries then who are the war criminals? It is not …

Angus Satow (2019-07-10). Only a mass movement can bring about a Green New Deal. nationofchange.org Ours is an age of crisis. Britain faces a crisis of inequality, with the Tories\' brutal austerity program leaving schoolchildren eating from bins and 14 million people living in poverty, whilst the obscene riches of the 1% accumulate yet further. At the same time, we face planetary collapse, with just 11 years left to stop runaway warming. …

teleSUR (2019-07-10). Brazil: Glenn Greenwald Invited to Students Union Event. telesurenglish.net More than 18,000 delegates from universities are gathering Wednesday in Brasilia to attend the 57th edition of the National Union of Students (UNE) Congress, an event whose central theme is the defense of education, employment and social security. | RELATED: | Sergio Moro Asks for a 5-Day Leave During Lava Jato Case | \"In times of crisis, when there are attempts to restrict political participation, attacks on acquired rights and other setbacks happening across the country, Brazilian…

John Shafthauer (2019-07-10). The winner of the leadership TV debate declared to be \'people who didn\'t watch\'. thecanary.co Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt debated on 9 July. But who won? Well, as the Tory membership has already decided to go Johnson or go home — the winner was whoever avoided watching. | State of affairs : | Hunt continued his strategy of answering as if every question was \'what do the Tory membership want to hear?\' This meant responses like: I\'m… tough on crime? I\'m tough on Iran? I\'ll be firm with Trump? I\'ll do whatever Trump wants? I\'ll dress like a giant chicken and practice auto-erotic asphyxiation? I\'ll cull squirrels to reduce TB in postmen? I\'ll gentrify Hadrian\'s wall? | Johnson, meanwhile, con…

United Nations (2019-07-10). UN experts voice \'deep concern\' over Iran\'s \'consistent pattern\' of denying life-saving medical treatment to detainees. un.org Despite repeated calls, Iran continues to deny medical treatment to detainees in what amounts to \"a consistent pattern\", according to eight UN human rights experts, in a statement on Wednesday.

Billy Briggs (2019-07-10). In Pictures: The Devastated City of Mosul Two Years On. globalresearch.ca More than 300,000 people are unable to return to their homes in Mosul two years after the end of a military operation to retake Iraq\'s second largest city from Islamic State. | An estimated 138,000 houses were damaged or destroyed in …

Environmental Health Trust (2019-07-10). The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. The Right to Know. Don\'t Put in Your Shirt Pocket. globalresearch.ca A landmark Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the City of Berkeley\'s cell phone right to know ordinance rejecting industries argument that the ordinance violates the first amendment. The Berkeley ordinance requires retailers to inform consumers that cell phones emit …

Andrew Korybko (2019-07-10). Trump Wants His Friend Boris Johnson to Win the Tory Leadership Race. globalresearch.ca Whoever leaked the British Ambassador to the US\' diplomatic telegrams to London did so with the intent that the resultant tiff that it predictably provoked with Trump would probably make Boris Johnson win the Tories\' leadership vote with a landslide….