unitedEditor (2019-07-13). \'We will respond with force\': Former Turkish military leader issues warning to Washington amid S-400 tension. uwidata.com The former head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Turkey, retired general ƒ∞lker Ba≈übuƒü recent made a number of powerful statements about his country\'s purchase of Russian S-400 defense systems and American F-35 fighters (which Ankara still counts on receiving despite threat from the US to the contrary). Here are the most …

The Canary (2019-07-13). Police under fire after warning to press over leaked diplomatic cables. thecanary.co The Metropolitan Police came under fire after warning journalists against the publication of further leaked diplomatic dispatches.Scotland Yard announced on Friday it was launching a criminal investigation into the leak of cables from the British ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, which were highly critical of the Trump administration.Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said there was a \"clear public interest\" in bringing the perpetrator to justice given the damage caused to Britain\'s international relations. | In a highly unusual move, he also warned the media that they could face prosecution if there was any f…

Julie Hollar (2019-07-13). Why Does WaPo See Black as an \'Identity\'—but Not Multi-Millionaire? fair.org by Julie Hollar The Washington Post\'s \"identity politics\" writer put out a piece this week ( 7/9/19) devoted to what Robert Johnson, the ultra-rich founder of Black Entertainment Television, thinks about the Democratic primary race. The piece leads off: Few demographic groups are more faithful to the Democratic Part…

David Rovics (2019-07-13). Embargoes and Other Acts of War. dissidentvoice.org The war between the United States and Japan began with a US-enforced oil embargo against the Japanese Empire. Right now, in the United States, huge detention camps are being constructed for the increasingly criminalized refugee and migrant population, a campaign of government-sponsored domestic terror run by a supposedly temporary, \"acting\" head of the department created …

Fight Back (2019-07-13). Carnegie Library told to respect union drive. fightbacknews.org Pittsburgh, PA – A group of Pittsburgh community members delivered a petition to the Carnegie Library, July 11, in support of the workers\' efforts to unionize with the United Steelworkers. | The petition, delivered to the main Oakland branch and the East Liberty location, includes over 1,000 signatures calling upon the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh to release a statement of neutrality towards the United Library Workers\' unionization efforts and act in good faith. | \"The staff at the library in my community are incredibly knowledgeable and helpful, and they should be able to collectively bargain for better workin…

Jake Johnson (2019-07-13). House Votes to Block Trump From Launching Unauthorized War With Iran. theantimedia.com The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan amendment barring Trump from launching an unauthorized war with Iran.

Jason Ditz (2019-07-13). US Silent as Turkey Begins Receiving Russian Missiles in Challenge to NATO. theantimedia.com The US refused comment on Friday as Turkey started making the delivery of the first Russian missiles in the system.

WSWS (2019-07-13). Euthanasia bill before New Zealand parliament. wsws.org The bill, which would make assisted suicide legal, is sponsored by leader of the far-right ACT party amid a sharpening social crisis.

Party for Socialism and Liberation (2019-07-13). Socialist Analysis & Discussion on U.S. War Threats Against Iran. indybay.org San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St.

Mike Rhodes (2019-07-13). Fresno\'s Radical Past. indybay.org This is an article about the 50 Years of Resistance event held on June 22, 2019 in Fresno. We brought together Anti-War and Draft Resistance activists who were active in Fresno 50 years ago. The photo below shows this young woman being arrested at an antiwar protest at Fresno State, probably on May 23, 1970. This photo is from the Special Collections department at Fresno State.

Dayton Andrews (2019-07-13). Resist US Imperialism: Close the Camps, No War With Iran. indybay.org The SF Federal Building, 90 7th st SF CA, 94103 | We will meet on Seventh street, right in front of the main entrance.

WSWS (2019-07-13). Bossa Nova pioneer, songwriter and musician Joà£o Gilberto dead at 88. wsws.org Together with the composer Antà¥nio Carlos Jobim, Gilberto pioneered a \"new wave\" in Brazilian popular music during the mid-to-late 1950s that had a worldwide impact.

WSWS (2019-07-13). Trump\'s nominee for top US military commander calls for nuclear buildup to confront China. wsws.org General Milley, tapped as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, predicted that the US would be in confrontation with China for the next 100 years.

WSWS (2019-07-13). Canada\'s Liberal government hosts anti-Russia conference on Ukraine. wsws.org Discussions at the Ukraine Reform Conference focused on \"affirming Ukraine\'s sovereignty and security in the face of Russian aggression.\"

WSWS (2019-07-13). Seventeen-year-old girl fatally shot by police on California freeway. wsws.org Hannah Williams was shot and killed after being involved in a minor traffic accident with a police vehicle in Fullerton, California.

Party for Socialism and Liberation, Sonoma (2019-07-13). Reading Between The Headlines: Stop The War on Immigrants! indybay.org A\'roma Roasters Coffee | 95 5th Street | Santa Rosa…

WSWS (2019-07-13). Police crack down on undocumented workers occupying Paris Pantheon. wsws.org Late yesterday afternoon, approximately 700 undocumented immigrant workers held a peaceful demonstration and occupied Paris\' historic Panthéon building, demanding an immediate recognition of their right to reside in France.

Judy Greenspan (2019-07-13). Stop the Deportations! US Hands off Iran and Venezuela! National Day of Protest. indybay.org Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway, Oakland…

Staff (2019-07-13). House Passes Bill to Halt US Support for Yemen War, UAE Withdraws Troops. therealnews.com The war in Yemen could end, if U.S. and United Arab Emirates\' support for Saudi Arabia\'s war in Yemen is truly over. However, the House NDAA bill still faces a major hurdle in the Senate. If those who want US military involvement to end pressure Congress, it can be done, says CodePink\'s Medea Benjamin…

Kathleen Wallace (2019-07-12). Too Horrible to Understand, Too Horrible to Ignore. counterpunch.org The Lolita Express……\"I\'m not for impeachment. The green dream or whatever.\"…… \"maybe toilet water is a step up…..\" As if it wasn\'t obvious before, surely now the commingling interests of the wealthy should be evident to anyone with even rudimentary brain stem function. Like our worsening climate situation, the fact that the wealthy are simply More

teleSUR (2019-07-12). ICE to Launch Nationwide Raids to Arrest Undocumented Migrants. telesurenglish.net The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will carry out raids onJuly 14th to detain undocumented migrants in ten large cities, an operation which is expected to be focused mainly on those having final deportation orders. | RELATED: | Migrants Protest Against Bribe Requests by Mexican Officials | These raids were expecte…

teleSUR (2019-07-12). Maduro Pens Powerful Response to UN High Commissioner. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro penned on July 11th a powerful response to U.N. High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, who accused the government of the Bolivarian Republic of killing nearly 7,000 people. | RELATED: | Norway: \'Spirit of Cooperation\' at Venezuela Talks in Barbados | President Maduro slammed these allegations from Bachelet, pointing out that these unfounded accusations were harmful to Venezuela and its people. \"The report presented by your Office to the Human Righ…

Gregory Elich (2019-07-12). How Real is the Trump Administration\'s New Flexibility with North Korea? counterpunch.org Although widely derided by the Washington Establishment as an empty photo opportunity, the recent meeting between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un at Panmunjom produced an agreement to resume working-level talks in the near future. According to the North Korean news agency KCNA, the two leaders discussed stumbling blocks in improving relations and easing More

Global Research (2019-07-12). \"The Globalization of War\" and \"The Globalization of Poverty\" — Two Books by Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca Special Price: $29.00 for two books!: | Click here to order! | The Globalization of War: America\'s \"Long War\" against Humanity by Michel Chossudovsky | America\'s hegemonic project in…

Jason Hirthler (2019-07-12). The Journalists Do The Shouting. counterpunch.org The loudest pro-war voices are nowhere near the fight It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. — George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia There seems to have been a distinct More

Kathy Kelly (2019-07-12). Remnants of War. dissidentvoice.org Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In Kabul at least 40 people, including one child, were killed in a complex Taliban attack. Dozens of children whose school was partially collapsed by …

Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz (2019-07-12). Venezuela: \'Progress\' Reported in Gov\'t-Opposition Talks as US Sanctions Counter-Intelligence Agency. venezuelanalysis.com The agenda of the talks has not been disclosed but the topic of elections is reportedly being left for last.

Mark Gruenberg (2019-07-12). Amazon forces Shakopee, Minn., warehouse workers to walk out again. peoplesworld.org SHAKOPEE, Minn.—Amazon is forcing its workers at its monster warehouse in Shakopee, Minn., to walk out again. The 1,500 workers, one-third of them migrants and refugees from Somalia and other nations of East Africa, plan to peacefully walk off the job for six hours on July 15. That\'s the first of the monster distributor and …

teleSUR -EF (2019-07-12). Palestine: US Relations Resume When D.C. Committs to Peace. telesurenglish.net The Palestinian Authority says diplomatic relations with the United States can be resumed on the condition that Washington is committed to the peace process in the region. | RELATED: | Israel\'s Apartheid Wall Stands 15 Years After UN Deemed it Illegal | Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for the government, said in a Thursday statement that the Palestinians have never rejected any negotiations or initiatives for Palestinian-Israeli peace. | \"Peace can only be established in accordanc…

Ralph Nader (2019-07-12). An Unsurpassable Sterling Record of Stamina! counterpunch.org I\'ve always been fascinated by stamina. Lou Gehrig was my boyhood hero, and not just because of his batting average, clutch hitting, and dignified comportment. From 1925 to 1939 he played 2,130 ballgames in a row, not missing one, despite injuries and illnesses. (It was the record until eclipsed by the Baltimore Oriole\'s formidable Cal More

Vijay Prashad (2019-07-12). For the reasons that follow, that Country is currently not likely to be the United States. mronline.org The largest delegation from outside Russia at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in early June came from China. | Source

Joshua Cho (2019-07-12). \'Hypersonic Missiles\' Aren\'t Starting an Arms Race—Washington Is. fair.org The New York Times ascribes agency and responsibility to mysterious forces and inanimate missiles manipulating the US both in its headline—it\'s the missiles that are \"starting a new global arms race,\" not the government—and in its claim that \"the rush\" to possess hypersonic missiles has \"pushed the United States into an arms race with Russia and China.\"

P. Sainath (2019-07-12). It\'s Raining Sand in Rayalaseema. counterpunch.org It\'s a classic Indian cinema fight-in-the-desert scene. Against the background of dunes and depressions with a tiny sprinkling of scrub vegetation, the hero rises from the burning sands of a barren wasteland to beat the bad guys to a pulp. Adding plenty of heat and dust to that already bestowed by nature, he brings the More

Nicholas Buccola (2019-07-12). Colin Kaepernick, Ted Cruz, Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of Patriotism. counterpunch.org \"Ted Cruz schools Colin Kaepernick on \'context\' of Frederick Douglass quote.\" So read a headline in the Washington Times last week. The story that followed was about a twitter exchange between the athlete-activist and the junior senator from Texas. On Independence Day, Mr. Kaepernick tweeted out a quotation from Douglass\'s famous \"What to the Slave is the More

Staff (2019-07-12). Know Your Rights: Immigration Activists Prepare for Looming ICE Raids. truthout.org Immigrant communities across the country and their allies are preparing for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to begin Sunday that will target undocumented members of immigrant families in at least nine major cities. The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco. New Orleans had been on the list, but the city announced this weekend that ICE was temporarily postponing the raids due to Tropical Storm Barry. We speak with a roundtable of immigrants\' rights activists: Adelina Nicholls,…

Roger D. Harris (2019-07-12). The Glaring Holes in Michelle Bachelet\'s Venezuela Human Rights Report. mintpressnews.com UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet\'s report on Venezuela echoes the US government\'s talking points, which are designed to terminate the two-decade-old Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. The report fails to acknowledge Venezuela\'s manifest accomplishments or even recognize victims of US-backed right-wing violence in Venezuela. The US economic war against Venezuela, US threats of a \"military option,\" and opposition violence are treated in the Bachelet report as figments of the imagination, \"alleged internal and external threats.\" | Mean…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-07-12). Donald Trump, The Manchurian Candidate and The Russia Probe. The Rosenstein Comey Mueller Intrigue. globalresearch.ca Trump\'s Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was to organize the so-called Russia Probe pertaining to alleged Kremlin interference in the November 2016 elections. Rosenstein\'s first step consisted in the firing of FBI Director James Comey & appointing former FBI Director Robert Mueller to lead the Russia Probe.

Andrew Levine (2019-07-12). The Electoral Circus as the End of Its Initial Phase Looms. counterpunch.org Democratic hopefuls will be back at it over two nights in Detroit later this month; more or less the same twenty candidates as in June, presumably again at ten a pop. The composition of the two groups will be determined later and, as before, left to chance. These debates — actually, joint public appearances — More

T.J. Coles (2019-07-12). \"Strategic Extremism\": How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule. counterpunch.org As we know, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are bought, sold, and paid for by big business. For that reason, both have a history of avoiding the issues that are common to Americans of all political persuasions. Addressing such issues would undermine the profits of big business. They include free healthcare, living More

John McEvoy (2019-07-12). Noam Chomsky says \'there is not much time\' to avert global catastrophe. thecanary.co In an interview published on 12 July, Noam Chomsky told Jacobin that \"there is not much time\" to avert global catastrophe. He also talked about Iran, Venezuela, and antisemitism allegations aimed at the UK Labour Party. | Climate crisis and the Green New Deal: | Most importantly, he attended to the issue of global climate crisis. On the subject of rising sea levels, he said: the ca…

Staff (2019-07-12). Ousted Honduran President Zelaya: The 2009 U.S.-Backed Coup Helped Cause Today\'s Migrant Crisis. democracynow.org Since the 2009 U.S.-backed military coup in Honduras, extreme poverty and violence has skyrocketed in the country, forcing tens of thousands of Hondurans to flee to the U.S. with the hope of receiving political asylum. We speak with ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in the capital of Tegucigalpa about the 10th anniversary of the coup in Honduras, U.S. intervention in Central America and its link to today\'s migration crisis.

Whitney Webb (2019-07-12). The Untold Story of Christian Zionism\'s Rise to Power in the United States. mintpressnews.com Well before Theodore Herzl founded political Zionism and published The Jewish State, Christian Zionists in the United States and England were already seeking to direct and influence the foreign policy of both nations in service to a religious obsession end times prophecy…

Melissa Sanchez, Duaa Eldeib and Jodi S Cohen (2019-07-12). Immigrant children sent to Chicago shelters are traumatized and sick, in some instances with chickenpox or tuberculosis. nationofchange.org The Trump administration is sending immigrant children who are alone, afraid and sick with fever, chickenpox and even tuberculosis to shelters in Chicago, where they are further isolated to prevent the spread of disease, according to one of the nonprofit organizations caring for them. In yet another byproduct of the administration\'s immigration policy, many of …

Robert Hunziker (2019-07-12). The Flawed Food Dependency. counterpunch.org \"The most destructive object on the planet… is the human jawbone.\" (Food or War, Cambridge University Press, 2019) pg 177 Whether by sight, taste, touch, feel, or smell, it\'s only too obvious that \"food\" affects every aspect of life and is key to crucial life-supporting ecosystems. Day-in, day-out, every living thing needs food. Perchance, ecosystems More

Tim Riley (2019-07-12). Evolution of a Medium. truthdig.com \"I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution\" | A book by Emily Nussbaum | Emily Nussbaum began writing her New Yorker TV column in 2011, surfing the medium\'s Great Transformation. Ten years ago, nobody streamed; today, fewer and fewer watch \"live\" television. In 2007, Netflix shipped its billionth DVD mailer, propping up the U.S. Postal Service; today its streaming proves harder to resist than even Amazon Prime. Like Netflix, Prime\'s brand now routinely pumps out original shows and movies. Oscar sweeps appear imminent. | By 2014, Ferguson\'s street protests, police brutality, and sexual harassment s…

teleSUR (2019-07-12). US Extradites Ex-Colombian Agriculture Minister for Corruption. telesurenglish.net The United States has extradited the Colombian ex-Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Andres Felipe Arias Leiva to his native country after a five-year legal battle over embezzlement charges. | RELATED: | UN Visits Colombia to Review Failing Peace Accord | The Colombian official arrived in El Dorado, Colombia at 8: 20 Friday morning to serve his 17-year prison sentence for corruption and embezzlement during his tenure in the previous decade. | Leiva was convicted for diverting fe…

Kathy Kelly (2019-07-12). Remnants of War. commondreams.org Martha, a granddaughter of the Catholic Worker Movement's founder Dorothy Day, is one of seven activists, the \"King\'s Bay Plowshares 7\", whose April 4, 2018 action was in accord with their deeply held beliefs that life is sacred, and must not be taken in war. (Photo: Kathy Kelly) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/kings_bay_plowshares_7.jpg …

Staff (2019-07-12). Know Your Rights: How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Preparing for Looming ICE Deportation Raids. democracynow.org Immigrant communities across the country and their allies are preparing for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to begin Sunday that will target undocumented members of immigrant families in at least nine major cities. The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco. New Orleans had been on the list, but the city announced this weekend that ICE was temporarily postponing the raids due to Tropical Storm Barry. We speak with a roundtable of immigrants\' rights activists: Adelina Nicholls, th…

Kevin Gosztola (2019-07-12). Then CIA is Invoking Wikileaks to Push for the Expansion of a Cold War Era Secrecy Law. mintpressnews.com Three decades ago, the CIA mobilized to protect itself from radical acts of transparency, and now, with the internet and organizations like WikiLeaks, it hopes to be able to further isolate and criminalize those who challenge it.

Staff (2019-07-12). Trump Gives Up Citizenship Question But Doubles Down on Terrorizing Immigrants. truthout.org On July 11, President Trump gave up his fight to ask people about their citizenship on the 2020 census. | The question, which the administration has been trying to add to the census since 2017, would have resulted in a significant undercount by dissuading people in households with undocumented residents from responding to the census. An estimated 6.5 million people could be uncounted if the question were included, according to the Census Bureau. | The census is used to calculate…