\'CA has decriminalized illegal alien crime\': Outrage as Kate Steinle\'s killer\'s conviction tossed
rt.com | 2019-08-31
A California appeals court has thrown out the conviction of an illegal immigrant who shot a woman on a San Francisco pier after escaping deportation due to the city\'s sanctuary policy, triggering further outrage. | Jose Ines Garcia Zarate\'s conviction on charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun was thrown out by a California state appeals court on Friday, reviving the furor over a case that has defined the immigration debate. The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled the judge failed to offer the jury the option of acquitting the Mexican national on the theory he only possessed the weapon \"for a…
rt.com/usa/467663-zarate-conviction-overturned-kate-steinle/
\'CA has decriminalized illegal alien crime\': Outrage as Kate Steinle\'s killer\'s conviction tossed
rt.com | 2019-08-31
A California appeals court has thrown out the conviction of an illegal immigrant who shot a woman on a San Francisco pier after escaping deportation due to the city\'s sanctuary policy, triggering further outrage. | Jose Ines Garcia Zarate\'s conviction on charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun was thrown out by a California state appeals court on Friday, reviving the furor over a case that has defined the immigration debate. The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled the judge failed to offer the jury the option of acquitting the Mexican national on the theory he only possessed the weapon \"for a…
rt.com/usa/467663-zarate-conviction-overturned-kate-steinle/
Fakes for me, not for thee: US govt to use false social media profiles to monitor immigrants
rt.com | 2019-08-31
US Citizenship and Immigration officers can now use fake social media accounts to surveil foreigners seeking visas and citizenship, even after years of US lawmakers blasting foreign rivals for supposedly doing the same. | Officers have until recently been banned from creating fictitious profiles, but a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) privacy review dated July 2019 but posted online on Friday has reversed that ban. According to the review, officers with the department\'s…
rt.com/usa/467715-immigration-officers-fake-profiles/
SF Journalists Protest Detention Camps And Terror Against Immigrants
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-08-31
Journalists spoke out against the detention camps and racist attacks on immigrants and migrants. Journalists are threatened by major corporate media not to take political stands or face termination. The San Francisco Chronicle prohibits journalists and photograpers from marching in rallies. The use ] of \"objective\" journalism by the bosses is to shutdown free speech.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/30/18825858.php
Hausmann hypocrisy: Guaido coup official raked in dollars from dictators and banking behemoths while promoting \'democracy\' for Venezuela
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-31
Ricardo Hausmann slammed banks for doing business with Venezuela\'s elected government. But financial disclosure forms filed with Harvard show the…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/31/hausmann-hypocrisy-guaido-dollars-dictators/
Heroin Addiction in America Spearheaded by US-led War on Afghanistan
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
Afghanistan under US military occupation produces approximately 90% of the World\'s illegal supply of opium which is used to produce heroin. The production of opium in Afghanistan has registered a 49 fold increase since 2001.
globalresearch.ca/trumps-hypocritical-concern-on-heroin-addiction-sustained-by-us-led-war-on-afghanistan/5628138
Hungering for the language of class war
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-08-31
Dark skies persist over coastal Brazil, where the country\'s major population centres are to be found. This year, there have been 40,341 fires in the Amazon, the highest since 2010. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/30/hungering-for-the-language-of-class-war/
Colombia\'s President \"Wants War,\" FARC Dissidents Comply
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-31
Colombian activist Manuel Rozental explains that the flawed 2016 peace agreement with the FARC rebels was an important step forward, but now FARC dissidents are giving in to the government\'s push for more war…
therealnews.com/stories/colombias-president-wants-war-farc-dissidents-comply
Cuba and Norway Ratify Their Commitment to Peace in Colombia
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-31
Through a statement released on Friday, Cuba and Norway, the guarantor countries of the table of talks between Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People\'s Army (FARC-EP), ratified their commitment to peace in the South American nation. | RELATED: | Colombia: President Duque Announces Major Attack on Former FARC | \"The Republic of Cuba and the Kingdom of Norway, guarantor countries of the table of conversations between the Government of Colombia and the FA…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-and-Norway-Ratify-Their-Commitment-to-Peace-in-Colombia-20190831-0001.html
FARC-EP calls for renewed armed struggle
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-31
In a video released on August 29, 2019, Iván Márquez, former lead peace negotiator for the FARC-EP in the peace talks in Havana, Cuba, announced that a sector of the FARC party (name of the successor party to the FARC-EP that was founded after the signing of the peace agreement in 2016) were returning to the armed struggle under the banner of the revolutionary guerrilla organization the FARC-EP (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia- Ejército del Pueblo). Iván Márquez read the FARC-EP\'s new manifesto dressed in military fatigues surrounded by armed companions, including the famous FARC-EP commanders El Pais…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/30/farc-ep-calls-renewed-armed-struggle
Mind+Body Fun-raiser + ZUMBATHON
Oakland Peace Center | indybay.org | 2019-08-31
Oakland Peace Center | 111 Fairmount Avenue (enter on 29th St.) | Oakland, CA 94611…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/30/18825833.php
During Global Month of Action For Yemen, SF Protesters Make Demands of Pelosi
End the Genocide in Yemen | indybay.org | 2019-08-31
As separatists and government-backed forces battle for control of the Yemeni capital, innocent civilians suffer. Yemeni-Americans and allies gathered in front of San Francisco\'s federal building on August 16 with a message for Nancy Pelosi. | PHOTOS: Please credit the photographer as noted | Cornelia Grimes, Pro Bono Photo.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/29/18825802.php
Anti-War Protest: U.S. Out of Yemen
SF Demo | indybay.org | 2019-08-31
As separatists and government-backed forces battle for control of the Yemeni capital, innocent civilians suffer. Yemeni-Americans and allies gathered in front of San Francisco\'s federal building on August 16 with a message for Nancy Pelosi. | PHOTOS: Please credit the photographer as noted | Terry Scussel, Pro Bono Photo.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/29/18825818.php
America\'s Economic Dark Side. Widening Social Inequality, Rising Poverty and Joblessness
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
This incisive ad timely article was first published in October 2013 | Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich explained, saying: | \"Of all developed nations, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income, and we\'re surging towards every greater | …
globalresearch.ca/americas-economic-dark-side-widening-social-inequality-rising-poverty-and-joblessness/5354970
Monster Hurricane Dorian
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
Currently at Category 4 strength, defined as having sustained winds of from 130 — 156 mph, gusts up to 30% stronger, Dorian is expected hit Florida\'s Atlantic coast on Tuesday, precisely where unclear so far. | On August 31, the National …
globalresearch.ca/monster-hurricane-dorian/5687698
US/North Korea Talks Undermined by Pompeo and Bolton
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
Trump\'s \"fire and fury like the world has never seen\" remark about North Korea shifted to the appearance of friendship with Kim Jong-un, DJT saying \"(h)e wrote me beautiful letters and we fell in love.\" | Two summits and Trump\'s …
globalresearch.ca/us-north-korea-talks-pompeo-bolton/5687697
GOP Hardliners Want China Sanctioned
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
Time and again, the US, its key NATO allies and Israel blame their victims for wrongdoing committed against them. | According to the Daily Beast, Republicans are pushing for sanctions on China over how Hong Kong authorities are handling months …
globalresearch.ca/gop-hardliners-want-china-sanctioned/5687669
Amazon Fires Will Have Global Consequences. The UN Must Act
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
The Amazon is burning. Nearly 75,000 fires have started in the iconic Brazilian rainforest this year to date, an 84 percent increase from the year before. Since August 10, a spate of intentionally set fires have been raging in the …
globalresearch.ca/amazon-fires-global-consequences-un-must-act/5687666
David Swanson: Nukes- What Are They Good For?
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-31
counterpunch.org/2019/08/31/david-swanson-nukes-what-are-they-good-for/
The Pentagon\'s Map of Afghanistan: An Eldorado of Mineral Wealth and Natural Resources
Nikolai Malishevski | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
Of relevance to an understanding America\'s military and economic agenda in Afghanistan. First published in August 2012 | Curious information surfaced in the media [2012] — based on space reconnaissance, the US Department of Defense put together a map of Afghanistan …
globalresearch.ca/the-pentagon-s-map-of-afghanistan-an-eldorado-of-mineral-wealth-and-natural-resources/32265
Video: Syrian Army Further Advances in Greater Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies responded to recent militant attacks near Abu Dail with a limited offensive in the area. | In the first phase of the offensive, SAA units liberated Khuwayn al-Kabir, Ard al-Zurzur, the Aghir hilltop, …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-advances-greater-idlib/5687679
Mozart Piano Concerto No 15: Yeol Eum Son, the World\'s Most Outstanding Pianist
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
Forget geopolitics and the World financial crisis. | Music gives us hope. Listen carefully. | By far Yeol Eum Son is among the World\'s most outstanding pianists. | It is not only musical excellence and talent. | She translates her feelings into music. Her …
globalresearch.ca/mozart-piano-concerto-no-15-yeol-eum-son-the-worlds-most-outstanding-pianist/5687646
A Conspiracy Theory That Became a \"Conspiracy Fact\": The CIA, Afghanistan\'s Poppy Fields and America\'s Growing Heroin Epidemic
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
First published by Global Research in July 2016 | The heroin epidemic resembles the days when \"Crack cocaine\" became the major drug that destroyed communities across the United States and other parts of the world including the Caribbean that began in …
globalresearch.ca/a-conspiracy-theory-that-became-a-conspiracy-fact-the-cia-afghanistans-poppy-fields-and-americas-growing-heroin-epidemic/5533673
The Key to a Sustainable Economy Is 5,000 Years Old
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
We are again reaching the point in the business cycle known as \"peak debt,\" when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be paid. Student debt, credit card debt, auto loans, business debt and sovereign debt …
globalresearch.ca/key-sustainable-economy-5000-years-old/5687675
The Recolonization of Latin America and the War on Venezuela
Prof. James Petras | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
The US struck first at the \'weakest link\' of the decolonization process. The US backed coups in Honduras and Paraguay. Then Washington turned to converting the judiciary and congress as stepping stones for launching a political attack on the strategic regimes in Argentina and Brazil.
globalresearch.ca/recolonization-latin-america-war-venezuela/5670545
Macedonia Is Macedonian — Common Sense Dictates It
Bill Nicholov | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
If an ethnic group told you that a certain name used to describe them is deeply offensive, would you continue to use that name and even try to convince them that it is not offensive? | No. So stop calling me …
globalresearch.ca/macedonia-macedonian/5687677
Neoliberal Globalization: Is There an Alternative to Plundering the Earth?
Prof. Claudia von Werlhof | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
Is there an alternative to making war? Is there an alternative to destroying the planet? No one asks these questions because they seem absurd…
globalresearch.ca/neoliberal-globalization-is-there-an-alternative-to-plundering-the-earth/24403
5G Wireless Technology Is War against Humanity
Claire Edwards | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
This important article was first published in February 2019. | Disclosure about 5G — and its considerable risk for humanity — is occurring within the United Nations. This is thanks to longtime UN staff member and whistle-blower Claire Edwards, who recently …
globalresearch.ca/5g-wireless-technology-is-war-against-humanity/5679372
Video: Yemen\'s Houthis Carry Out Drone Strike on Saudi Capital
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
The Ansar Allah movement carried out a new series of strikes on Saudi Arabia in the framework of their operations to oppose the Kingdom-led intervention of Yemen. | On August 25, Yemeni forces fired 10 short-range ballistic missiles at military sites …
globalresearch.ca/video-yemen-houthis-drone-strike-saudi-capital/5687702
9/11: Facts, Fiction and Censorship
Julie Lévesque | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
The commemoration of 9/11 on September 11, 2019 is fast approaching. | The following text (including a selection of articles) was first posted seven years ago on September 12, 2012. | *** | Whoever dares raise questions about the official 9/11 narrative, will …
globalresearch.ca/911-facts-fiction-and-censorship/5304306
Reckless Path to Nuclear Weapons Leaves Us Looking Over the Edge
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
After two years of analysis and inquiries, Roosevelt formally established America\'s nuclear program on 19 January 1942, called the Manhattan Project — with a final $2 billion budget supporting it ($36 billion today) and employing over 130,000 people.
globalresearch.ca/reckless-path-nuclear-weapons-leaves-looking-edge/5665290
Subitamente o Ocidente já nà£o consegue derrubar \"regimes\"
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-31
Costumava ser feito regularmente e funcionava: o Ocidente identificava um país como seu inimigo, desencadeava sua propaganda profissional contra ele, a seguir administrava uma série de sanàßàµes, esfaimando e assassinando crianàßas, idosos e outros grupos vulneráveis. Se o país nà£o …
globalresearch.ca/subitamente-o-ocidente-ja-nao-consegue-derrubar-regimes/5687710
Will Rouhani meet Trump?
Mazda Majidi | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-31
Washington\'s foreign policy establishment is dominated by \"Iran Hawks,\" headed by National Security Adviser John Bolton.
liberationnews.org/will-rouhani-meet-trump/
The Best Movie Ever Made About the Truth Behind the Iraq War Is \"Official Secrets\"
Jon Schwarz | theintercept.com | 2019-08-31
\"Official Secrets,\" which opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles, is the best movie ever made about how the Iraq War happened. It\'s startlingly accurate, and because of that, it\'s equally inspiring, demoralizing, hopeful, and enraging. Please go see it. | It\'s been forgotten now, but the Iraq War and its abominable consequences — the hundreds of thousands of deaths, the rise of the Islamic State group, the nightmare oozing into Syria, arguably the presidency of Donald Trump — almost didn\'t happen. In the weeks before the U.S.-led invasion on March 19, 2003, the American and British case for war was…
theintercept.com/2019/08/31/official-secrets-iraq-war-film/
U.S. Presidential Hopeful Bernie Sanders Backs Lula\'s Freedom
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-31
The United States democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders made statements in favor of Brazil\'s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva release during a political rally held in Florence, South Carolina, on August 30. | RELATED: | Brazil Supreme Court Judge Says Lula Deserves Retrial | At the event stage designated to answer questions from the audience, a young man asked the Democrat senator on his opinion regarding the emergence of far-right governments around the world. | One o…
telesurenglish.net/news/U.S.-Presidential-Hopeful-Bernie-Sanders-Backs-Lulas-Freedom-20190831-0005.html
\'It\'s Too Much Land For So Few Indians\', Jair Bolsonaro Holds
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-31
Brazil\'s President Jair Bolsonaro made new statements on Friday against the demarcation of indigenous lands in the Amazon saying he intends to review the areas previously assigned to ancestral communities. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro Calls On Trump To Help Put Out Amazon Fires | \"It is too much land for so few Indians, and without lobbying. What are the interests behind this…
telesurenglish.net/news/Its-Too-Much-Land-For-So-Few-Indians-Jair-Bolsonaro-Holds-20190831-0006.html
Brazil announces 60-Day ban on clearing land with fire
Olivia Rosane | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-31
\"What we are experiencing is a genuine crisis which could become a tragedy foretold with much larger fires than the ones we are now seeing if they are not immediately halted.\"
nationofchange.org/2019/08/31/brazil-announces-60-day-ban-on-clearing-land-with-fire/
Bernie Sanders\' plan to phase out nuclear power draws attacks — here\'s why they\'re wrong
Justin Mikulka | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-31
Attacks on the Sanders\' climate plan appear to have less to do with the ongoing viability of nuclear power as a legitimate climate solution and more to do with an ongoing effort to convince the public to subsidize another unsuccessful sector of the energy industry.
nationofchange.org/2019/08/31/bernie-sanders-plan-to-phase-out-nuclear-power-draws-attacks-heres-why-theyre-wrong/
The Pakistani PM needs to realise that nuclear warfare is never the answer
Afroze Fatima Zaidi | thecanary.co | 2019-08-31
In an op-ed in the NY Times, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has addressed the situation in Kashmir. With India\'s military crackdown in Kashmir still ongoing, Khan has made an appeal to world leaders, and India in particular, to open dialogue on the issue. | The bulk of the a…
thecanary.co/opinion/2019/08/31/the-pakistani-pm-needs-to-realise-that-nuclear-warfare-is-never-the-answer/
A New Novel Transcends Space and Time to Illustrate Historical Struggle
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-31
| No one writes like Peter Linebaugh. Perhaps no one would dare to write like Linebaugh, a singular quality that will be found on virtually every page of his 2019 volume Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard . | This is…
truthout.org/articles/a-new-novel-transcends-space-and-time-to-illustrate-historical-struggle/
Announcing the 2019 Food Sovereignty prize honorees
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-31
The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance is very excited to announce the winners of the 2019 Food Sovereignty Prize. Urban Tilth (Richmond, CA) is the domestic honoree, and Plan Pueblo a Pueblo (Plan People to People; Venezuela) is the international honoree. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/31/announcing-the-2019-food-sovereignty-prize-honorees/
Neoliberals\' Attack on Sanders\' GND Plan Is a Clear and Present Danger
John Atcheson | commondreams.org | 2019-08-31
Last week Bernie Sanders released his version of the Green New Deal—a $16.3 trillion 10-year plan to get down to zero carbon in the power industry and in transportation. Right on schedule, the neoliberal establishment pounced on it as \"too expensive,\" not \"realistic\" and not \"prudent.\"
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/31/neoliberals-attack-sanders-gnd-plan-clear-and-present-danger?cd-origin=rss
Trump to open 16.7 million acres of Alaska rainforest for drilling
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-31
As the Amazon rainforest burns, President Donald Trump is opening a rainforest right here in the United States corporate interests. This week Trump ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska\'s Tongass National Forest for logging, energy, and mining projects. The Tongass National Forest is the world\'s largest intact temperate rainforest. As reported by …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/31/trump-to-open-16-7-million-acres-of-alaska-rainforest-for-drilling/
Home video security systems increasingly linked to US police departments in violation of democratic rights
wsws.org | 2019-08-31
More than 400 police department partnerships have been established by Amazon\'s Ring home security system across the US over the past year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/31/ring-a31.html
2019 Folsom Community Service Day ~ 170th Anniversary of the Gold Rush Town, Negro Bar, CA
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2019-08-31
Together, we are poised for a special 170th Anniversary of Negro Bar, Sacramento County by utilizing both private and public resources to forever preserve and interpret our unique contributions to the forward flow of humanity.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/30/18825857.php
The Causes and Consequences of World War II
wsws.org | 2019-08-31
David North, the chairman of the WSWS international editorial board, delivered the following lecture at San Diego State University on October 5, 2009, marking the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/31/caus-a31.html
As Hurricane Dorian Threatens Florida, Gov. DeSantis & Trump—Who Haven\'t Curbed CO2 Emissions—Should Resign
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2019-08-31
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, \" is doing nothing practical about the state\'s carbon dioxide emissions, which are what cause sea level rise and warming oceans and monster hurricanes.\" (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/25303733820_138e65082d_o11.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/31/hurricane-dorian-threatens-florida-gov-desantis-trump-who-havent-curbed-co2?cd-origin=rss
Street lights glow red to help bats cross the road
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-31
A stretch of \"bat-friendly\" street lighting has been switched on in what is believed to be a UK first.The LED lights, which emit a red glow, will provide bats with a 60-metre-wide crossing area on the A4440, near to Worcester\'s Warndon Wood nature reserve.Worcestershire County Council has described the lighting as an innovative approach to a much-needed highway crossing with a greatly reduced impact on local wildlife.It said research shows some species of bat are light shy and will not cross roads lit by white lights, which can stop them accessing food supplies and water.Standard street lights also attract insect…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/31/street-lights-glow-red-to-help-bats-cross-the-road/
The Making of an Album
David Rovics | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-31
As my regular readers and listeners are aware, I tend to go jaggedly back and forth in these missives between discussions of geopolitics and world history, and explorations of the minutiae of the daily life of the working musician. This one belongs in the latter category. It\'s been years since I\'ve had much time for …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/the-making-of-an-album/
People\'s Park: AntiFascism and Park Defense
Anon-E-Moose | indybay.org | 2019-08-31
After anti-fascists announced plans for a rally in People\'s Park, the UCB chancellor sent out a press release that the UC is determined to move forward on their plans to eradicate the park.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/31/18825865.php