Staff (2019-09-14). Yemen\'s Houthi Rebels Attack Key Saudi Oil Sites. truthdig.com DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Yemen\'s Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world\'s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires at a vulnerable chokepoint for global energy supplies. | It remained unclear hours later whether anyone was injured at the Abqaiq oil processing facility and the Khurais oil field or what effect the assault would have on oil production. Rising smoke from the fires at the sites could be seen by satellites. | The attack by the Iranian-backed Houthis in the war against a Saudi-led coalition comes after weeks of similar drone…

RT (2019-09-14). Pompeo blames Iran for drone attack on Saudi oil facilities, Senator Graham urges US to strike it. rt.com A drone attack on Saudi oil facilities claimed by Yemen\'s Houthi rebels prompted Washington to blame Tehran, with US warhawk, Senator Lindsey Graham, calling for a strike against Iran. | The smoke from the huge fires at the world\'s largest oil processing plant caused by the strike had barely dissipated when officials in Washington jumped at the opportunity to use the occasion to push an anti-Iranian agenda. | US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Tehran for what he called \"an unprecedented attack on the world\'s energy supply\" but stopped short of suggesting any retaliatory measures. | Meanwhile Graham was q…

RT (2019-09-14). \'Far into conspiracy theorizing\': Ex-MSNBC Host Krystal Ball slams network for Russiagate hype. rt.com Krystal Ball, a former MSNBC host, has admitted that her colleagues went too far focusing on Russiagate narrative alone that it turned into conspiracy theorizing. | After three years of non-stop speculations about an alleged collusion between the Kremlin and US President Donald Trump ended up with Russiagaters\' hopes crashed by the Mueller report, some in the American media seemed to have woken up to realize that the conspiratorial hype machine had replaced what should have been journalism. | The most recent example is Ball, who criticized her \"former colleagues, friends\" for going \"so far into the realm of co…

RT (2019-09-14). Bolton resurrects pair of PACs to prop up Congress\' top warmongers. rt.com Former National Security Advisor John Bolton has wasted no time relaunching his political action committees and endorsing five Republican congressmen, all of whom appear to love war almost as much as he does. | The John Bolton PAC has endorsed Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Cory Gardner (R-Colorado), and Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), along with Reps Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) and Lee Zeldin (R-New York), according to its first post-resurrection press release on Friday, which referred to the now-unemployed hawk as \"Ambassador John Bolton\" despite the fact that he has not held a diplomatic position in year…

Joe Piette (2019-09-14). Protest of India\'s rule over Kashmir. workers.org Chanting \"From Kashmir to Palestine, occupation is a crime,\" over 100 people, mostly immigrants from Kashmir, rallied on Sept. 6 outside the Masjid Al-Madinah Upper Darby Islamic Center near Philadelphia to call attention to India\'s recent human rights\' abuses and violations of Kashmir\'s sovereignty. | Continue reading Protest of India\'s rule over Kashmir at Workers.org

Soumya Shankar (2019-09-14). Mourning and Resistance in Kashmir After India Revoked the State\'s Special Status. theintercept.com Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir — On the eve of Eid al-Adha last month, 17-year-old Asrar Khan lay in a vegetative state at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, a hospital in downtown Srinagar, Kashmir\'s largest city. The unconscious teenager was barely hanging on to life, connected to a ventilator and blinded in one eye — the result, his family says, of pellet injuries at the hands of India\'s armed forces. | Six days earlier, on August 5, India\'s government, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the helm, had unilaterally abrogated a constituti…

RT (2019-09-14). Sackler family behind OxyContin busted trying to hide $1bn as lawsuits over opioid crisis pile up. rt.com New York\'s attorney general has uncovered over $1 billion in wire transfers by the Sackler family and accused the OxyContin magnates of trying to shield their wealth from mounting lawsuits over their role in the opioid crisis. | The prodigious stash was discovered in the records of just one of the 33 financial institutions Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed last month in an effort to trace the extent of the Purdue Pharma owners\' wealth, James\' office said in a statement on Friday. The money passed through several Swiss bank accounts, indicating the family may have tried to hide profits from the sale of…

Staff (2019-09-14). Drug Companies Seek to Disqualify Judge in Opioids Suits. truthdig.com CLEVELAND— Attorneys for eight drug distributors, pharmacies and retailers facing trial next month for their roles in the opioid crisis want to disqualify the federal judge overseeing their cases, saying he has shown bias in his effort to obtain a multibillion-dollar global settlement. | According to the motion filed late Friday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, where Judge Dan Polster presides over most of the 2,000 lawsuits filed by state, local and tribal governments, the judicial code requires judges to recuse themselves when there is an appearance of prejudice or bias. | The attorneys wrote that Pol…

Staff (2019-09-14). Son of Bin Laden Killed in U.S. Strike, White House Says. truthdig.com American officials say there are indications that al-Qaida member Hamza bin Laden was killed by the CIA, not the U.S. military.

Gloria Rubac (2019-09-14). El Paso, firme! workers.org The chants rang out loud and clear all weekend: \"El Paso!\" Then: \"Firme!\" After the racist mass murders on Aug. 3, when a gunman killed 22 people and wounded 24 more, El Paso activists issued a call to action against white supremacy. This was followed by a weekend of actions . . . | Continue reading El Paso, firme! at Workers.org

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-09-14). War is Good for Business and Organized Crime: Afghanistan\'s Multibillion Dollar Opium Trade. Rising Heroin Addiction in the US. globalresearch.ca Despite president Trump\'s announced US troop withdrawal, the Afghan opium trade continues to flourish. It is protected by US-NATO occupation forces on behalf of a nexus of powerful financial and criminal interests.

WSWS (2019-09-14). No letup in Trump\'s war on immigrants as 37-year-old Mexican man dies in ICE custody. wsws.org The recent Supreme Court ruling effectively eliminating the right to asylum is but the latest and sharpest expression of the attack on the rights of immigrants.

WSWS (2019-09-14). Fascistic elements in Republican Party threaten Democrats O\'Rourke and Ocasio-Cortez. wsws.org Both incidents reflect the growing threat of political violence from the far-right.

Staff (2019-09-14). Yemen Was Called the Forgotten War, but Activists Are Refusing to Forget. truthout.org | | Janine Jackson: When observers who have spent years in war-rocked places describe events as \"staggering,\" you know you\'re talking about a disturbing new order. That\'s how the UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen responded to the September 1 bombing by Saudi Arabia of a detention center in southwest Yemen that killed more than 100 people, some believed to be prisoners of war. And yet this h…

Staff (2019-09-14). Amazon Workers Are Bringing the Climate Strike to Jeff Bezos. truthout.org | | Two months after Amazon warehouse workers across the globe staged a one-day strike, the great \"disruptor\" is facing another workplace disruption—this time by tech workers at its Seattle headquarters. | The group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice announced this week that it would join the September 20 Global Climate Strike led by 16-year-old activist Greta T…

Berkeley Antifa (2019-09-14). Third Annual Far-Right Gathering in Berkeley Continues Record of Failure. indybay.org On Sunday, September 1, a small collection of bored and lonely far-right activists gathered in Berkeley, CA for what was dubbed the \"Third Annual March Against Communism.\" Despite the massive police presence and resources committed to protecting this tiny group of confused conspiracy theorists, community mobilization kept Berkeley locals safe and ultimately pushed back the far-right\'s attempted advances.

teleSUR (2019-09-14). Taliban Delegation Travels to Russia as US Peace Talks Collapse. telesurenglish.net Afghanistan\'s Taliban have sent a delegation to Russia to seek international support to push for the withdrawal of United States troops following the collapse of talks with the U.S. this month, officials from the insurgent group said Saturday. | RELATED: | US Will Lose More After Afghan Peace Talks End Abruptly: Taliban | \"The purpose of these visits is to inform leaders of these countries about the peace talks and President Trump\'s decision to call off the peace process at a…

Ann Wright (2019-09-14). From A Russian: Our Planet is So Small that We Must Live in Peace. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ann-wright-image1.jpg | sibirtrans.ru/…

The Canary (2019-09-14). Cycle protesters demand climate change action as German motor show opens. thecanary.co Thousands of people have demonstrated in Frankfurt to demand more action against climate change as the German city\'s motor show opens to the public, with some cycling along motorways that were temporarily closed for the occasion. | Demands raised by the organisers of Saturday\'s protests include an end to the combustion engine, climate-neutral transport by 2035, a speed limit on the autobahn and a strong German climate policy package. | Environmental groups say the trend toward bigger and more powerful cars, particularly SUVs, is eating into the fuel efficiency gains of recent decades. | On Thursday, when the Fran…

teleSUR (2019-09-14). Bolivian President Rejects Violent Attacks Against His Party\'s HQ. telesurenglish.net Bolivia\'s President Evo Morales rejected Friday the latest violent acts in the central city of Santa Cruz, where the campaign headquarters of his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) was attacked by opposition protesters. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Evo Morales Leads Presidential Election Poll by 11% | \"This is a conspiracy against democracy and, above all, a conspiracy to the defenders of democracy that are social movements. Don\'t give in to this game from paid participants…we reject and…

Lynda Carson (2019-09-14). Outing the Board Members of the NRA. indybay.org It seems that NOW is the time to take this a step further and expose some of the Board Members of the notorious NRA, a domestic terrorist organization!

teleSUR (2019-09-14). Yemen\'s Houthis Attacks Saudi Oil Fields. telesurenglish.net Yemen\'s Iran-aligned Houthi forces on Saturday attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia\'s oil industry, including the world\'s biggest petroleum processing facility, in a strike that three sources said had disrupted output and exports. | RELATED: | No Agreement Reached to End Power Struggle in Southern Yemen | Two sources close to the matter said 5 million barrels per day of crude production had been impacted — close to half of the kingdom\'s output or 5% of global o…

Middle East Eye (2019-09-14). Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes by Yemen\'s Houthi. theantimedia.com Yemen\'s Houthi group attacked the heart of Saudi Arabia\'s oil industry, including the world\'s biggest petroleum processing facility.

Ahmed AbdulKareem (2019-09-14). Human Trafficking is Booming in Yemen as the War Enters Its Fifth Year. theantimedia.com An absence of law and order in Yemen has given rise to a black market of human trafficking on a scale never before seen in the nation.

Peter Koenig (2019-09-14). Will the IMF, the Federal Reserve, Negative Interest Rates and Digital Money Kill the Western Economy? globalresearch.ca The IMF, has been instrumental in helping destroying the economy of a myriad of countries, notably, and to start with, the new Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, Greece, Ukraine and lately Argentina, to mention just a few. …

WSWS (2019-09-14). Russia, Ukraine carry out high-profile prisoner exchange. wsws.org The prisoner exchange was strongly backed by France and Germany with media reports suggesting that French President Emmanuel Macron, in particular, played a central role.

WSWS (2019-09-14). New Zealand opposition National Party attacked over relations with China. wsws.org The campaign by the Labour Party-led government and its supporters against \"Chinese influence\" is part of escalating preparations for a US-led war in the Pacific.

teleSUR (2019-09-14). Snowden Hopes France Will Grant Him Asylum. telesurenglish.net Former United States spy agency contractor Edward Snowden hopes France will grant him asylum, according to a France Inter radio interview to be broadcast Monday. It was not immediately clear when or where the interview took place. | RELATED: | US to Renew Internet Surveillance Program Exposed by Snowden | \"I would very much like Mr. Macron to grant me asylum,\" the famous whistleblower said in excerpts made available on the French radio station\'s Twitter account, reminding his int…

John Atcheson (2019-09-14). The Plutocratic War on People: Centrists and Conservatives are Ignoring the Giant Elephant in Our National Living Room. commondreams.org The list of problems getting buried by money is nearly endless. Gun control; health care; a living wage; the high cost of education; endless war; each is rooted in the power of the oligarch\'s coup, and each is a function of money in politics. But only two candidates — Sanders and Warren — address this issue head on in the debates, and to hear the media, the pundits\' and the Party\'s post mortem, both are \"extreme\" and the guy who\'s debating whether the lifeboat needs a patch is \"reasonable\" and the best bet for winning the election. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/c…

Ayssar Midani (2019-09-14). Video: Imperial Wars of Aggression. Interview with Syrian Scientist Dr. Ayssar Midani. globalresearch.ca \"We Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood, but Against Powers, Against the Rulers of the Darkness of this World, Against Spiritual Wickedness in High Places.\" (Epistle to the Ephesians 6: 12, New Testament) | *** | \"Hegemony\" is a sanitized word \"vomited\" up …

Claire Edwards (2019-09-14). The 5G Electromagnetic \"Mad Zone\" Poised to Self-Destruct: The 5G \"Dementors\" Meet the 4G \"Zombie Apocalypse\" globalresearch.ca The entities rolling out 5G are tormenting humanity and sucking their humanity from them by taking their minds and their health, while on the other side, you have the zombie apocalypse of all the people with their 4G cell phones, …

WSWS (2019-09-14). Two workers crushed to death at Michigan granite supplier. wsws.org The fire department immediately shut down the Stone Warehouse shop after the accident for multiple safety violations.

WSWS (2019-09-14). Defending pensions against Macron requires an international political strategy. wsws.org The way forward to defend pensions and oppose the well-advanced drive towards fascistic police state rule is to turn to the international working class.

Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area (2019-09-14). Swarming for the Global Climate Strikes! indybay.org Union Square, San Francisco…

Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels (2019-09-14). Fall 1941: Pearl Harbor and The Wars of Corporate America. globalresearch.ca Washington knew a Japanese fleet was on its way to Pearl Harbor, but welcomed the attack since a Japanese aggression would make it possible to \"sell\" the war to an anti-war American public.

Staff (2019-09-14). Neonicotinoid Pesticides Have Made US Agriculture Much More Toxic. truthout.org | | Scientists are warning about a second Silent Spring after a new study found that U.S. agriculture is 48 times more toxic to insects than it was 20 years ago. | A peer-reviewed study published in the journal PLOS One found that 92 percent of that toxic load can be attributed to neonicotinoids — the most widely used class of insecticides. | Neonics, as they are commonly called, are…

WSWS (2019-09-14). Billionaire Duke of Westminster carrying out social cleansing of working-class residents in London. wsws.org Of the 141 people being evicted, eight are disabled, with some having lived in the blocks for as long as 40 years.

Global Research News (2019-09-14). BBC Foreknowledge of 9/11 Collapse of WTC Building Seven: British Man Won Law Suit against BBC for 9/11 Cover Up. globalresearch.ca This article was first posted on Global Research in March 2015 | A class action law suit against the BBC should be contemplated? | The BBC had foreknowledge of a criminal act and failed to inform the public. ( M. Ch. GR …

Aaron Maté (2019-09-14). Ex-CIA analyst on why he predicted John Bolton\'s firing. thegrayzone.com Ex-CIA analyst John Kiriakou discusses why he accurately predicted John Bolton\'s ouster as National Security Adviser; who might replace him;…

Manlio Dinucci (2019-09-14). G7 hypocrites protest but exploit the Amazon anyway. workers.org Published in the Italian journal Il Manifesto on Sept. 3. Translation by John Catalinotto. Faced with the spread of fires in the Amazon, the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, changed its agenda to \"tackle the emergency.\" The seven — France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada and the United States . . . | Continue reading G7 hypocrites protest but exploit the Amazon anyway at Workers.org

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2019-09-14). Post-9/11 Terrorism Watchlist of More Than 1 Million Judged Unconstitutional. globalresearch.ca The U.S. government has used…

teleSUR (2019-09-14). Osama bin Laden\'s Son Killed in US Special Operation: Trump. telesurenglish.net The son of Osama bin Laden and the reported Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a U.S. counter-terrorism operation, the White House said on Saturday. | RELATED: | US Navy Enters Disputed South China Sea Amid Row With Beijing | \"Hamza bin Laden, the high-ranking al-Qaeda member and son of Osama bin Laden, was killed in a United States counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region,\" a statement attributed to the president released by the White House on Saturday said.

Ahmed Abdulkareem (2019-09-13). Human Trafficking is Booming in Yemen as the War Enters its Fifth Year. mintpressnews.com A complete absence of law and order in Yemen has given rise to a black Suq (market) of human trafficking on a scale never before seen in the war-torn and war-weary nation.

Jonah Raskin (2019-09-13). Uncensored Tony Serra: Consummate Criminal Defense Lawyer. counterpunch.org \"In the 1960s I was dropping acid and doing cases pro-bono and decided then and there that I didn\'t want to own things. In that sense I\'m a Marxist. I\'ve been in jail three times for not paying taxes. I\'ve always helped prisoners. There\'s usually a long line of people waiting to see me for More

Luke O\'Neil (2019-09-13). I Would Want To Drink Their Blood: God Will Punish Them. counterpunch.org The following is adapted from Luke O\'Neil\'s newsletter Welcome to Hell World and his book of the same name available now, Welcome to Hell World: Dispatches from the American Dystopia. *** There\'s a girl I never want to let myself forget. Her name is Samar Hassan and we killed her family. In January of 2005 More

Rob Urie (2019-09-13). Bernie Sanders and the Realignment of the American Left. counterpunch.org The neoliberal revolution that has been underway since the mid-1970s fundamentally reoriented American governance toward the interests of capital. While the distance between government and the so-called private sector was never that great, all pretense that government served the broader public interest was cast aside in favor of state-corporatism. This wasn\'t simply a matter of privatizing the public realm— it overlaid a capitalist rationale on all public undertakings. More

Sasan Fayazmanesh (2019-09-13). The Pirates of Gibraltar. counterpunch.org On April 17, 2019, a tanker named Grace 1 left Iran for an unspecified destination with reportedly 2.1 million barrels of crude oil, worth some $130 million. According to a March 20 report in Reuters about how Iran tries to evade US sanctions, the Grace 1 was \"Panamanian-flagged and managed by Singapore-based shipping services firm.\" The Grace 1, TankerTrackers reported, was built in 1997 and, given its age and size, was not allowed to dock at many ports. It therefore had a history of handling ship-to-ship fuel oil transfers at sea. It would typically receive fuel oil from Iran, the source stated, and then delive…

Louis Proyect (2019-09-13). The Intellectual Development of Karl Marx. counterpunch.org The first installment of Michael Heinrich\'s three-volume biography of Karl Marx titled \"Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society\" is now available from Monthly Review Press. In keeping with MR\'s long-time tradition as a movement rather than an academic press, the cloth edition is $34.95 and the eBook is only $19.95. Given the renewed More

David Rosen (2019-09-13). The Likely End to Roe v. Wade? counterpunch.org A 2017 U.S. government report, \"SUPREME COURT DECISIONS OVERRULED BY SUBSEQUENT DECISION,\" notes, \"while the Supreme Court sometimes expressly overrules a prior decision, in other instances the overruling must be deduced from the principles of related cases.\" The report identifies 237 Court decision that have been either overturned or revised. A handful of key Court cases illustrates More

John Feffer (2019-09-13). Hong Kong and the Future of China. counterpunch.org Something didn\'t quite add up. This past weekend, protestors were rallying outside the American embassy in Hong Kong. They were waving American flags. They were singing The Star-Spangled Banner. One 24-year-old protester wore a red Make America Great Again hat. Some signs at the protest read \"President Trump, please liberate Hong Kong.\" \"The Chinese government More