Nicky Reid (2019-07-16). Nukes For Peace? counterpunch.org Surrounded by trigger happy Tonkinesque gunboats and drowning in debt, the Islamic Republic of Iran has made the risky decision to play the last card left in their deck; to defy the P5+1 Deal in order to save the P5+1 Deal. It\'s a hell of a gambit but it already has those pussies in the More

Hans Stehling (2019-07-16). Trump, Netanyahu, Pence and Bolton: The Four Horsemen of the Nuclear Apocalypse. globalresearch.ca These are the demented Gang of Four who are determined to destroy 74 years of international cooperation for peace by waging a completely unwarranted war against Iran in a bid for global supremacy, and oil, that will provoke nuclear war …

Christopher Ketcham (2019-07-16). This Land Was Your Land. counterpunch.org For the past 10 years I\'ve been documenting the fate of the least protected and most at-risk portion of the national commons: the roughly 450 million acres across 12 Western states overseen on our behalf by the United States Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service. It\'s an astonishingly diverse landscape of More

Howard Lisnoff (2019-07-16). Everybody Must Get Stoned. counterpunch.org I recently wrote on these pages about the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee. Reading an article that the committee references on the Pentagon\'s past commemoration of the war, I was not surprised to find pure and unabashed vitriol hurled at the peace movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. Yogi Berra might have observed that \"It\'s like déjà vu all More

Eds. (2019-07-16). Science group opposes planned immigration raids, mistreatment of immigrants. mronline.org Statement by Ken Kimmell, President, Union of Concerned Scientists | Source

Gary Leupp (2019-07-16). What Right Has Britain to Seize an Iranian Tanker Off Spain? counterpunch.org \"We have reason to believe that the Grace 1 was carrying its shipment of crude oil to the Banyas Refinery in Syria. That refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to European Union sanctions against Syria.\" — Fabian Picardo, chief minister of Gibraltar \"[Praise for Gibraltar and the British marines] for this More

Patrick Hilsman (2019-07-16). How Israeli-Designed Drones Became Russia\'s Eyes in the Sky for Defending Bashar al-Assad. theintercept.com Last summer, Israel shot down yet another military drone near the line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria. The confrontation would have been business as usual, if not for a twist: Images of the destroyed drone showed Cyrillic tail markings and other identifiable components of a Forpost belonging to Russia. The findings presented an awkward geopolitical moment: Syria and Russia are allies, and Syria and Israel are bitter enemies — but the Russ…

teleSUR (2019-07-16). US Jeopardizes Peace Talks With North Korea Over New Drills. telesurenglish.net The U.S. may have hurt its chances at convincing North Korea to abandon their nuclear program following Washington\'s decision to break a promise not to hold military exercises with South Korea. | RELATED: | Australian Student Expelled From North Korea For \'Spying Acts\' | According to North Korea\'s official news agency, U.S. President Donald Trump revitalized efforts to persuade them to give up their nuclear weapons last month when he arranged a spur-of-the-moment meeting with No…

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2019-07-16). Democratic Virtues in Electing a President. counterpunch.org Privatizing the US elections? I enjoyed listening to the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates speak of their hopes for the future of this country. What I did not like was the NBC umbrella over the aspiring candidates. Why should large TV monopolies run the presidential campaigns? Who gave this \"media\" money-machine the right to have its employees ask More

Martin Billheimer (2019-07-16). Sylvan Shock Theater. counterpunch.org Sylvan Shock Theater The Woods Theater was one of several run-down Varieties joints in the old Chicago Loop, great junk barges in stone whose razing epitomized the Late Reagan Mesozoic c. 1989. Each one of these old palaces had a different Gilded Age motif: The Oriental was brightest and echoed Khayyam and the Grand Turk\'s More

John Perry (2019-07-16). A year after Nicaragua\'s coup, the media\'s regime change deceptions are still unraveling. thegrayzone.com A deadly arson attack during last year\'s regime change attempt was blamed on Nicaragua\'s government by everyone from the State…

Barbara Nimri Aziz (2019-07-16). The Podcast Revolution: The Power of Our Human Voice, from Marconi to Woods Hole. globalresearch.ca Heard \"Trader Joe\'s\" podcast yet? I don\'t know who might listen to a 22-minute corporate ad. But, given how cool podcasts have become: hey, that sounds inviting. The idea is also an implicit endorsement for radio — because that\'s where …

Josh del Sol (2019-07-16). The 5G Wireless Crisis: Awareness & Accountability Summit. globalresearch.ca 5G wireless… the industry HAS NOT shown it to be safe for your health or privacy — yet THOUSANDS of peer-reviewed, independent studies show the risks it presents. | Understand the dangers and find solutions in your community! | The 5G Crisis: …

Ethan Indigo Smith (2019-07-16). Nuclear Experimentation: Year 74. globalresearch.ca Nuclear experimentation began with the first detonation of the Manhattan Project. The first detonation began the unstable and unceasing chain reaction that is the nuclear era. The scientists involved in the detonation experiment actually debated on whether or not it …

Erin Schwartz (2019-07-16). Is \'Veep\' Still Funny? thenation.com Is \'Veep\' Still Funny?

teleSUR (2019-07-16). Iran\'s Supreme Leader Threatens to Respond to UK\'s \'Piracy\'. telesurenglish.net Iran\'s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic would respond to Great Britain\'s \'piracy\' over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar. | RELATED: | Unlike US, UK Foreign Secretary Wants To Save Iran Nuclear Deal | The religious leader called on Great Britain to immediately release the Iranian oil tanker and end their hostilities towards the Islamic Republic. | \"Evil Britain commits piracy and steals our ship … an…

Katy Fox-Hodess (2019-07-16). How Dockworkers Are Fighting the Arms Trade. thenation.com How Dockworkers Are Fighting the Arms Trade…

Matt Johnson (2019-07-16). The United States of Overreaction. counterpunch.org On July 4, at a Starbucks in Tempe, Arizona, six police officers were asked to either move out of a customer\'s line of sight or leave the establishment because they were making a patron uncomfortable—for being police. As a progressive-minded American who believes certain (unjust) laws are meant to be broken and who strongly opposes More

Binoy Kampmark (2019-07-16). The Resigning Ambassador. counterpunch.org Rarely do ambassadors resign after an intense self-assessment of worth. Diplomatic immunity does not merely extend to protecting the official from the reach of local laws; it encourages a degree of freedom in engaging as a country\'s representative. Sir Kim Darroch, as UK ambassador to the United States, felt that any freedom afforded him in More

Thomas Knapp (2019-07-16). Free Speech Just isn\'t That Complicated. counterpunch.org It\'s hard to believe we need to have this conversation in this day and age. But if we don\'t keep having it, at some point we might not be allowed to have it. Question: What is free speech? Or, rather what is NOT free speech? In 2017, former Vermont governor, presidential candidate, and Democratic National More

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (2019-07-16). Dan Kovalik: Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: U.S. Creating a Coup for Oil. indybay.org Berkeley Hillside Club | 2286 Cedar St | Berkeley, CA 94709…

Text: R.R. Photos: Teri Vershel (2019-07-16). Mountain View Vigil Protests Immigration Camps. indybay.org On June 30, 2018 in Mountain View 2,000 people demonstrated to send a clear message to Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress: Families Belong Together! They demanded an end to cruel and unjustified treatment of immigrant children and their families. A year later, on July 12, 2019, members of Together We Will once again called upon the people to gather on the streets, for the situation has not improved. Quite the opposite, it has only become more dire. | Photos by Teri Vershel, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.

Ruth Robertson (2019-07-16). Protest of Planned Federal Immigration Roundups Draws Hundreds to Redwood City. indybay.org President Donald Trump has threatened mass deportation roundups, starting today. On Friday July 12, in Redwood City, California, demonstrators said it was important to protest the administration\'s crackdown. | Photos by Charlie Moehle, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.

WSWS (2019-07-16). The Assange precedent: Journalists in Britain threatened with Official Secrets Act. wsws.org What the Metropolitan Police proposed was the de facto criminalisation of journalism so that it could be bracketed within terrorist activity.

Ruth Robertson (2019-07-16). Protesters Target Palantir for Profiting from ICE Conracts. indybay.org July 12 was a national day of action to call for the protection of immigrants from ICE raids. In Palo Alto, demonstrators marched on Palantir Technologies\' headquarters, saying the data mining company is helping the Trump administration separate families. Palantir sells software that assists the government in tracking and finding people to arrest and deport. | Please credit the photographer: Jack Owicki, Pro Bono Photo.

WSWS (2019-07-16). Australian government seeking to prosecute journalists over exposure of war crimes. wsws.org The federal police are investigating journalists over the 2017 publication of the \"Afghan Files,\" which revealed Australian military involvement in extrajudicial killings and other crimes.

RT (2019-07-16). #Resistance fawns over Antifa \'martyr\' killed while attempting to set ICE facility on fire. rt.com Impassioned tributes for Willem Van Spronsen, the seasoned Antifa activist who was shot dead by police after attacking an ICE detention center in Tacoma on Saturday, have flooded Twitter, praising him as a \"hero\" and a \"martyr.\"

WSWS (2019-07-16). Amazon workers internationally protest against conditions on Prime Day. wsws.org Across the US and in Europe, Amazon workers are protesting dangerous working conditions, low pay and the company\'s ties to the US immigration Gestapo.

WSWS (2019-07-16). Jeff Bezos flaunts obscene wealth with $80 million Manhattan penthouse purchase. wsws.org Bezos\' $137 billion combined wealth could pay the annual median rent for all 250,000 Amazon workers in the US for 100 years.

The Canary (2019-07-16). Grieve accuses Johnson of Brexit \'radicalisation\' over Irish backstop. thecanary.co Dominic Grieve has accused Boris Johnson of further radicalising on Brexit and leaving the UK with \"starker\" prospects by trying to appease hardliners in a strengthening of his stance on the Irish backstop.The former attorney general also accused the Tory leadership front-runner of making a \"disgraceful\" suggestion which would spell the end of democracy as we know it.On Tuesday, Grieve warned whoever becomes the next prime minister that their government will collapse if they pursue a no-deal departure from the EU.Conservative Party leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt during a head-to-head debate h…

WSWS (2019-07-16). IYSSE wins seat in student parliament at Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany. wsws.org The IYSSE\'s electoral success shows widespread opposition to militarism, war and the rise of the far-right and the growing support for a socialist perspective.

RT (2019-07-16). AOC & Omar's 'squad' bashes Trump for 'distracting' tweet — by devoting entire conference to it. rt.com The four freshman congresswomen President Donald Trump told to leave the US if they didn\'t like it have hit back with a grandstanding press conference, feeding the #Resistance back its own warmed-over talking points.

RT (2019-07-16). Have \'Russian bots\' tricked Americans into thinking their country has problems? RT investigates. rt.com Americans concerned about political friction in the US will be relieved to know that, according to the media, most of these issues have been manufactured by Russian bots. RT took a closer look at this scary conspiracy. |

Staff (2019-07-16). Ruthless Philippine President\'s High Popularity Is the Result of Failed Democracy. therealnews.com As the death toll in President Rodrigo Duterte\'s brutal war on drugs keeps climbing, so does his popularity. How can this be? Walden Bello says it is the result of a failed liberal democracy in the Philippines…

Conn Hallinan (2019-07-16). The World Needs a Water Treaty. counterpunch.org During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India\'s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water. More

Patrick Cockburn (2019-07-16). A Firm Grasp of the Obvious: Kim Darroch and the Weakness of Britain. counterpunch.org The resignation of Sir Kim Darroch as British ambassador to Washington, because of his leaked messages to London criticising President Trump, is highly revealing about the real state of British knowledge of what is going on in the US. Supporters of the former ambassador portray him as a skilled and experienced foreign office official who More

teleSUR (2019-07-15). Anarchist Activist Killed for Fighting US \'Concentration Camps\'. telesurenglish.net United States Anarchist and anti-fascist activist, Will Van Spronsen, was killed Saturday by the police in the state of Washington while trying to take direct action against a migration concentration camp, by setting up migrants deportation buses on fire. | RELATED: | Small Scale Immigration Raids in US as Migrants Hide in Fear | The killing occurred a few hours after a peaceful demonstration against the migrants\' detention camp when four police officers shot the 69-year-old campaigner in t…

Robert Fisk (2019-07-15). Trump\'s Hissy-Fit Over Darroch Will Blow a Chill Wind Across Britain\'s Embassies in the Middle East. counterpunch.org Just for a moment, let\'s forget poor old Kim Darroch. Let\'s jump a couple of days in front of this news story. Let me tell you how his utter humiliation and sacrifice at the hands of Trump — and with the connivance of the man who will probably be the next British prime minister — More

Staff (2019-07-15). Communities Fight Back as Threat of ICE Raids Terrorizes Immigrant Families. truthout.org This weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a handful of raids across the country as part of President Trump\'s push to detain and deport thousands of undocumented migrants in 10 major cities. Agents in Chicago reportedly arrested a mother and her children only to quickly release them. Arrests were also attempted in New York City, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and Harlem, where immigrants reportedly refused to open their doors to ICE agents because they did not have warrants. Authorities say more raids are planned this week, prompting fear but also generating mass protests on the ground. We sp…

Stephen Lendman (2019-07-15). Turkey\'s Purchase of Russian S-400 Air Defense System: A Blow to the US War Machine. globalresearch.ca Turkey\'s purchase of state-of-the-art Russian S-400 air defense equipment at the expense of less capable US Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) missiles is of much greater significance than has been reported. More on this below. | The White …

Roger Harris (2019-07-15). UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Bachelet\'s Gift to the US: Justifying Regime Change in Venezuela. counterpunch.org 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 More

Oscar Grenfell (2019-07-15). Three Months Since Arrest of WikiLeaks Publisher: UK Government Holds \"Media Freedom\" Conference While Imprisoning Assange. globalresearch.ca Thursday marked three months since WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy and into London\'s Belmarsh Prison, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States and a drumhead trial on Espionage Act charges …

The Canary (2019-07-15). Some Iranian women taking off hijabs as hardliners push back on dress code. thecanary.co A few daring women in Iran\'s capital have been taking off their headscarves in public, risking arrest and drawing the ire of hardliners.The simple act of walking has become a display of defiance for one young Iranian woman who often moves in Tehran\'s streets without a hijab.With every step, she risks harassment or even arrest by Iran\'s morality police, whose job is to enforce the strict dress code imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Women spend an afternoon around the Persian Gulf Martyrs\' Lake in Tehran (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)\"I have to confess it is really, really scary,\" the 30-year-old fire safety consulta…

Staff (2019-07-15). The Media Uses Coal Miners to Attack the Green New Deal While Ignoring Pensions. truthout.org Anna Attie, Eleanor Colbert and Daniel Fernandez contributed research to this report.To stave off the worst effects of the climate crisis, at least 80 percent of coal reserves must stay in the ground, according to a conservative estimate in the journal Nature. This means that coal miners would see their already declining industry all but disappear. The Green New Deal, the resolution put forward by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-M…

Natasha Hakimi Zapata (2019-07-15). I Know What It\'s Like to Be Told to \'Go Back\' to My Own Country. truthdig.com As the daughter of Iranian and Mexican immigrants, the president\'s racist attacks on four congresswomen of color have struck me to my core.

Jon Britton (2019-07-15). Hundreds join united action in Palo Alto, Calif., to shut down Palantir Technologies for complicity with ICE. liberationnews.org In a great show of unity in action, more than a dozen groups from all over the San Francisco Bay Area joined together July 19 to protest at Palantir Technologies in Palo Alto for the company\'s provision of software facilitating ICE raids, detentions and deportations.

Vijay Prashad (2019-07-15). Trump murdered the Iran Deal—and Europe isn\'t too happy about it. mronline.org During the July 14, 2019 meeting between France, Germany, and the UK to discuss their response to the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal, President Hassan Rouhani remarked that Iran is \"always ready for negotiation.\" Iran, he said, urges the U.S. to \"abandon bullying.\" | Source

Staff (2019-07-15). Trump\'s Asylum Ban 2.0 Is Broadest Attack Yet on the Asylum Process. truthout.org Today Trump\'s team announced its broadest assault yet on the asylum process: a regulatory change filed with the Federal Register saying that anyone who passes through another country to reach the United States would be ineligible to claim asylum here. Because it is an interim rule, it does not need to go through the regular and lengthy approval process. As a result, unless the courts intervene, at the stroke of a pen Trump will have gutted decades of American asylum and immigration p…

teleSUR (2019-07-15). Venezuelan Delegation Arrives in Barbados to Continue Dialouge. telesurenglish.net The Venezuelan delegation arrived in Barbados Monday to continue the negotiations with the spokesperson of the country\'s opposition. | RELATED: | Venezuela: US Trying to Destroy Political Dialogue in Barbados | Jorge Rodríguez, the Vice President of Communication, Tourism, and Culture of Venezuela informed about their arrival on Twitter. | \"We have arrived at generous Barbados to continue the dialogue of peace. Together with Pope Francis, we hope that all of us will commit our…

Mark Gruenberg (2019-07-15). Amazon Prime Day Strike: Workers say no to overwork and discrimination. peoplesworld.org SHAKOPEE, Minn.—Amazon Prime Day is becoming Amazon Strike Day. 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 are walking off the job for six hours today, July 15. That\'s the …