Trump's federal repression election ploy spurs greater resistance
Joyce Chediac | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-25
Far from being intimidated, Portland residents were outraged when unannounced paramilitary units started grabbing protesters off the street.
liberationnews.org/trumps-federal-repression-election-ploy-spurs-greater-resistance/

The Portland Police Attack: ACLU Files Lawsuit. Sues Trump and City of Portland
ACLU | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
PORTLAND, Ore. — Multiple volunteer street medics are suing the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals Service, and the City of Portland for targeting and attacking them at Portland protests against police brutality. The lawsuit was filed in federal court | …
globalresearch.ca/the-portland-police-attack-aclu-files-lawsuit-sues-trump-and-city-of-portland/5719370

Thailand Sees Largest Anti-Government Protests Since 2014 Military Coup
Sammy Westfall | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
The youth-led protests appear to have taken a page from Hong Kong's highly decentralized pro-democracy movement last year…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/thailand-sees-largest-anti-governments-since-2014-military-coup/

The Bonus Army Veterans' Protest of 1932, "The Cruelest Year of the Great Depression"
Gary Olson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
July 28 will mark almost the 90th anniversary of one of most controversial protests in U.S. history and yet it remains virtually unknown to most Americans. On that day, in 1932, 500 U.S. army infantrymen with loaded rifles, fixed bayonets …
globalresearch.ca/the-bonus-army-veterans-of-1932-the-cruelest-year-of-the-great-depression/5719378

Coalition to March on the DNC announces shift, to prioritize movement against police crimes
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-25
Milwaukee, WI – On August 20, the day that Joe Biden is expected to be in Milwaukee to accept the Democratic nomination, the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention is hosting a march and rally within sight and sound of the Wisconsin Center. | People in cities and towns across the country are protesting racist police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Alvin Cole right here in Milwaukee. Protests in Minneapolis ignited a fire that swept across the country, producing the largest civil rights movement in U.S. history. | For the Coalition, a shift in priority is necessary. Rather than maint…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/25/coalition-march-dnc-announces-shift-prioritize-movement-against-police-crimes

Trump orders federal police to more cities
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-25
The Trump administration is stepping up its unconstitutional moves toward dictatorial rule, tear gassing antipolice violence protesters in Portland, Oregon and announcing the deployment of federal police to three more cities–Detroit, Cleveland and Milwaukee–in addition to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
mronline.org/2020/07/25/trump-orders-federal-police-to-more-cities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trump-orders-federal-police-to-more-cities

Illinois Democrats embrace Trump's law enforcement "surge"
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Illinois Democratic lawmakers have made public statements aimed at assuaging public fears that the federal forces will crack down on anti-police violence protesters in Chicago, just as they have in Portland.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/chic-j25.html

[Correspondence] Women's reproductive rights
Marge Berer | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The Correspondence by Ciaran Clarke1 is a sophisticated attempt to support forced motherhood, but, in reality, it is a vicious antiwomen statement.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30474-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Tapering glucocorticoids in rheumatoid arthritis
Elizabeth R Volkmann | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Glucocorticoids are a cornerstone of care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Since the 1950s, glucocorticoids have been used to reduce inflammation and symptoms of arthritis, improve physical function, and reduce disability. These drugs are widely available, inexpensive, and typically combined with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs to induce remission in rheumatoid arthritis. However, the administration of glucocorticoids is not without risk. Long-term use of glucocorticoids is associated with increased mortality,1 cardiovascular events,2 and bone fractures.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30761-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] An AI-ECG algorithm for atrial fibrillation risk: steps towards clinical implementation — Authors' reply
Peter A Noseworthy, Zachi I Attia, Rickey E Carter, Xiaoxi Yao, Paul A Friedman | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
We thank our colleagues for their interest in our Article1 about artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled electrocardiogram (ECG) to identify patients with atrial fibriliation. They have posed key questions about confounding of the model by potential differences in baseline characteristics and about generalisability.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31064-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Dupilumab for nasal polyposis
Brian Lipworth, Rory Chan, Chris RuiWen Kuo | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The encouraging results of the LIBERTY trials1 evaluating the effects of dupilumab in patients with severe chronic sinusitis with nasal polyposis that use mometasone furoate nasal spray offer much-needed hope to patients with this condition. However, we believe that these results might not reflect real-life best clinical practice.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30562-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Abrocitinib for atopic dermatitis: a step forward
Stephan Weidinger, Stefan Schreiber | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Atopic dermatitis is one of the most common chronic inflammatory skin diseases worldwide with a global annual prevalence of 3–4%.1 Few data are available on disease activity strata, but in a 2018 multinational survey between 10% and 20% of adults with incident atopic dermatitis reported severe disease.2 Atopic dermatitis pathophysiology is characterised by epidermal dysfunction and T-cell-driven inflammation, with increased production of inflammatory cytokines, in particular type 2 cytokines such as interleukin (IL)-4, IL-13, and IL-31.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31284-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] An AI-ECG algorithm for atrial fibrillation risk: steps towards clinical implementation
Venkatesh L Murthy, Brahmajee K Nallamothu | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
We read with interest the Article by Zachi I Attia and colleagues1 describing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) using a convolutional neural net for identification of patients at risk of atrial fibrillation from electrocardiograms (ECGs) taken during sinus rhythm.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31061-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Australia's First Nations' response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Sandra Eades, Francine Eades, Daniel McCaullay, Lesley Nelson, Péta Phelan, Fiona Stanley | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Kaitlin Curtice and Esther Choo1 described the well known risks for infectious diseases among First Nations internationally and the serious concerns that COVID-19 poses for them. These risks include their levels of chronic disease, poverty, poor living conditions, and racism in mainstream services with resulting lack of trust using them. They also highlighted the problem of data not being available specifically for First Nations so that authorities are blind to the situation and hence how best to help them.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31545-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] COVID-19 and China: lessons and the way forward
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
China has largely controlled COVID-19. A country of 1 ∑4 billion people and a size similar to Europe or the USA now reports only clusters of cases rather than widespread community transmission. China has been widely criticised for its role and responsibilities during the pandemic because of censorship, transparency, and human rights concerns. But the rest of the world can still learn from China's successes in bringing its outbreak under control.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31637-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Protesters Use 'Midnight Yoga' To Cope With Police Violence
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
Saturday night marked another session of "Midnight Yoga" on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C. | The protesters, who have been out in the streets over 50 days after being initially sparked by the failure to arrest the officers who had murdered George Floyd and Breonna Taylor (still), have turned to the peace that yoga provides to manage their pain, both physical and emotional. | Around the same time federal police were turning Portland into a war zone while violently beating and pepper-spraying citizens, D.C. protesters were stretching out their limbs after giving a touching 100 candle-light tribute to l…
popularresistance.org/protesters-use-midnight-yoga-to-cope-with-police-violence/

Homeland Security Claims Shields And Gas Masks Are Weapons
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
Far from restoring order, the arrival of federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Border Patrol in Portland, Oregon has only heightened tensions, with agents attacking and arresting protesters nightly. DHS' Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli took to social media yesterday to share images of items confiscated from demonstrators. | "Here is a shield and a couple of gas masks from a rioter arrested in Portland. Not a sign with a slogan that someone expressing their first amendment rights might carry, but preparations for violence. Peaceful protester? I don't think so," he wrote.
popularresistance.org/homeland-security-claims-shields-and-gas-masks-are-weapons/

Louisville: Black Lives Matter Protesters Arrested After Blocking Street
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
Louisville, KY – More than 100 Black Lives Matter protesters were confronted by police after blocking off Market Street in Louisville's Nulu neighborhood on Friday afternoon and setting up an impromptu block party. | Police started arresting dozens of protesters shortly before 5 p.m. after declaring that the gathering was an unlawful assembly. In total, 76 were arrested, according to Louisville Metro Police Department spokesman Lamont Washington. The group arrived around 4 p.m., and in less than a half-hour, protesters put up long tables with meal settings, connect four games, a trampoline, artwork and shade tent…
popularresistance.org/louisville-black-lives-matterers-arrested-after-blocking-street/

Federal Prisons Locked Down To Quash Black Lives Matter Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
On June 2, for the first time in 25 years, the Bureau of Prisons directed all federal jails and prisons to implement a full lockdown, confining nearly 160,000 people to their cells and severely limiting contact with the outside world. The following day, on the orders of Attorney General William Barr, the Bureau pulled some of its most militarized units out of BOP facilities and deployed them to confront protesters on the streets of Washington, D.C. | Typically, a lockdown occurs in a single facility at the discretion of the warden, usually in response to temporary incidents like fights or, more rarely, longer-ter…
popularresistance.org/federal-prisons-locked-down-to-quash-black-lives-matters/

Federal Agents Use Tear Gas To Clear Portland Protest
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, into the early hours of Saturday shooting fireworks at the building as plumes of tear gas, dispensed by U.S. agents, lingered above. | The demonstration went on for hours until federal agents entered the crowd around 2: 30 a.m. and marched in a line down the street, clearing remaining protesters with tear gas at close range. They also extinguished a large fire in the street outside the courthouse. | The Federal Protective Service had declared the gathering as "an unlawful assembly" and cited that officers had been injured.
popularresistance.org/federal-agents-use-tear-gas-to-clear-portland/

Judge Rejects Oregon's Motion For A Restraining Order Against Federal Police
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
A federal judge on Friday afternoon denied a request by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to issue a temporary restraining order against federal officers making arrests of Portland protesters without probable cause. | In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman said Rosenblum had failed to provide sufficient evidence that such arrests were occurring widely in the streets of Portland or were part of a federal policy. (Disclosure: Rosenblum is married to the co-owner of WW's parent company.) | He ruled that because the state of Oregon couldn't establish a pattern or policy, it lacked the legal standi…
popularresistance.org/judge-rejects-oregons-motion-for-a-restraining-order-against-federal-police/

Thousands protest against Kremlin in Russian far east for third weekend
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Thousands of people marched in the Russian far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday for the third weekend in a row, protesting at President Vladimir Putin's handling of a regional political crisis that has sparked demonstrations.Residents of Khabarovsk, around 3,800 miles (6,110 km) and seven time zones east of Moscow, are unhappy about the July 9 detention of the wider region's popular regional governor, Sergei Furgal, who was arrested on murder charges he denies.His detention, which his supporters say was politically motivated, has triggered more than two weeks of street protests, creating a headache for the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/thousands-against-kremlin-in-russian-far-east-for-third-weekend-3535361

Saudi activist reports King in critical health conditions
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — A prominent Saudi activist and whistleblower, known by online pseudonym 'Mujtahidd', posted a leaked message on Twitter, claiming that Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the king of Saudi Arabia is in critical health conditions.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161418/Saudi-activist-reports-King-in-critical-health-conditions

Portland protests continue after judge rejects bid to restrict federal agents
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-25
Thousands of people joined another night of Black Lives Matter protests on the streets of Portland, hours after a US judge denied the state of Oregon's request to restrict federal police in the city.Demonstrators, most wearing masks and many donning helmets, stood near the fountain on Salmon Street Springs. They then marched to the Hatfield Federal Courthouse and the federal agents there.They chanted and clapped along to the sound of thunderous drums, pausing to listen to speakers. Various organised groups took part, including Healthcare Workers Protest, Teachers against Tyrants, Lawyers for Black Lives and the '…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/07/25/portlands-continue-after-judge-rejects-bid-to-restrict-federal-agents/

Animal Liberation Front Retaliates for the Murder of Activist Regan Russell
Animal Liberation Press Office | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
On the morning of Friday, June 19, Canadian animal rights activist Regan Russell was hit by a truck and murdered whilst peacefully protesting against a slaughterhouse. The truck which killed her was carrying the very pigs whose plight she was attempting to draw attention to. Despite being clearly visible to the driver, who accelerated towards her, and continued to drive even as her body was torn in half, no one has been arrested for the crime.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835321.php

Saturday 7/25: Race, Police, and Prisons: The American Gulag
Monterey Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Online webinar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/22/18835274.php

Friday 7/24: March for C.T. Vivian and John Lewis
San Jose Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
San Jose City Hall | 200 E. Santa Clara Street | San Jose CA 95113…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/22/18835275.php

THE PROBLEM ISN'T RACISM, IT'S IGNORANCE OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION (PROPER GRAND JURY FUNCT
TORDRR | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
{The problem(s), coast to coast, aren't racism; they're grand jury malfunction/sabotage…….DEMAND (IN WRITING) THE PROPER FUNCTION OF YOUR GRAND JURIES, AMERICA, AND LEGALLY-WIN IN 10 DAYS, SUNDAYS EXCEPTED…..THEN, DEMONSTRATE/PROTEST/RIOT, IF NEEDED, TO GET THE DUE-WARRANTS ENFORCED….WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME & MONEY, UNTIL THEN….}…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/25/18835337.php

Tuesday 8/4: Community Meeting on Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests Pt. 5
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835310.php

Sunday 8/2: San Quentin Prison Protest: No State Execution by COVID-19
No Justice Under Capitalism | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Larkspur Ferry Terminal Parking Lot, Larkspur, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/25/18835336.php

[Correspondence] Dismantling racism in research
April Joy Damian, Melanie Gonzalez | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The widespread dissemination of how George Floyd was murdered prompted people around the world to demand structural reform. We agree with the points raised in the Editorial about the need to "find ways to use science as an instrument for social change".1 Here we highlight approaches for dismantling racism within research.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31534-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19 vaccine affordability and accessibility
Safura Abdool Karim | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The need to ensure the affordability of any future COVID-19 vaccine is gaining increasing attention.1 Although there is support for bulk purchasing, making vaccines affordable is fraught with difficulties, particularly for the so-called missing middle countries that are not eligible for aid from Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance or other aid but lack the resources to produce their own vaccines or afford patent-protected drugs.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31540-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo: anti-apartheid campaigner
Georgina Ferry | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Few have done as much to forge an individual identity as "Dr Goonam", the name Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (1906–98) adopted as the first woman of colour to practise medicine in South Africa during the 1930s. She demanded women's inclusion in political organisations representing her Indian community, and joined others in passionate opposition to the apartheid policies that oppressed them.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31595-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] COVID-19 cases surge in Colombia
Joe Parkin Daniels | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Colombia has more than 8500 new cases per day, with restrictions being relaxed, putting the health system under strain. Joe Parkin Daniels reports from Bogotá.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31638-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Pandemic science and politics
Philip Ball | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
In 2019, the Global Health Security Alliance assessed worldwide adherence to the International Health Regulations (2005), which supposedly commit nations to measures that prevent or control the spread of infectious diseases and mitigate their effects. The study found that no nation was fully prepared, and many countries–rich or poor–fell woefully short. This finding is only one of the many indications that we could have been ready, nationally and globally, to deal with a crisis like COVID-19, but were not.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31594-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] An AI-ECG algorithm for atrial fibrillation risk: steps towards clinical implementation
Frank J Wolters | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Zachi I Attia and colleagues1 show us that we live in a time in which there is more to computer observations than meets the eye. Machine-learning methods for detecting imminent atrial fibrillation on electrocardiograms (ECGs) with sinus rhythm are a valuable step forwards, especially for patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source. However, some methodological drawbacks–related to the selection of controls–hamper implementation of their presented algorithm in clinical practice.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31062-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Ombudsman's report for 2019
Malcolm Molyneux | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
I submitted Annual Reports for 20151 and 2016,2 but there were no events of sufficient concern to the Ombudsman during the following 2 years that required investigation and reporting.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31546-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Offline: Preparing for a vaccine against COVID-19
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The results of two randomised trials reported this week in The Lancet give great encouragement to the view that a vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can be produced within the next 18 months. There are no guarantees. But the evidence is hopeful. Pedro Folegatti and colleagues from The Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford used a chimpanzee adenovirus viral vector expressing SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to create a vaccine given by a single intramuscular injection.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31636-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] DISCOVER: much accomplished, but not yet for all
Hans M L Spiegel | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Since the initial studies of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) a decade ago, multiple clinical trials in all key populations worldwide have confirmed the efficacy and safety of emtricitabine combined with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (F/TDF) for HIV prevention.1,2…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31530-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] An AI-ECG algorithm for atrial fibrillation risk: steps towards clinical implementation
Ben Freedman | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The idea of being able to predict incident atrial fibrillation from just a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) with no demographic or clinical information in the Article by Zachi I Attia and colleagues1 raised much interest at the meeting of the AF-SCREEN International Collaboration.2…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31063-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Articles] Efficacy and safety of abrocitinib in adults and adolescents with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (JADE MONO-1): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial
Eric L Simpson, Rodney Sinclair, Seth Forman, Andreas Wollenberg, Roland Aschoff, Michael Cork, Thomas Bieber, Jacob P Thyssen, Gil Yosipovitch, Carsten Flohr, Nina Magnolo, Catherine Maari, Claire Feeney, Pinaki Biswas, Svitlana Tatulych, Hernan Valdez, Ricardo Rojo | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Monotherapy with oral abrocitinib once daily was effective and well tolerated in adolescents and adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30732-7/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Dupilumab for nasal polyposis — Authors' reply
Claus Bachert, Leda P Mannent | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
We appreciate the interest shown by Brian Lipworth and colleagues in our Article1 and would like to take this opportunity to address their comments.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30563-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Obituary] Kirk R Smith
Jonathan Mingle | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Pioneering scientist focused on health, climate, and environmental impacts of air pollution. Born in Berkeley, CA, USA, on Jan 19, 1947, he died at his home in Berkeley of a cardiac arrest following a stroke on June 15, 2020, aged 73 years.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31596-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Articles] Emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide vs emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (DISCOVER): primary results from a randomised, double-blind, multicentre, active-controlled, phase 3, non-inferiority trial
Kenneth H Mayer, Jean-Michel Molina, Melanie A Thompson, Peter L Anderson, Karam C Mounzer, Joss J De Wet, Edwin DeJesus, Heiko Jessen, Robert M Grant, Peter J Ruane, Pamela Wong, Ramin Ebrahimi, Lijie Zhong, Anita Mathias, Christian Callebaut, Sean E Collins, Moupali Das, Scott McCallister, Diana M Brainard, Cynthia Brinson, Amanda Clarke, Pep Coll, Frank A Post, C Bradley Hare | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Daily emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide shows non-inferior efficacy to daily emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for HIV prevention, and the number of adverse events for both regimens was low. Emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide had more favourable effects on bone mineral density and biomarkers of renal safety than emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31065-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Women's reproductive rights
Lisa Hallgarten | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
I hope it is stating the obvious to suggest that it is despicable both to ban abortion and to impose it on women whether in the name of religion, in the service of a political ideology, or as a perceived demographic imperative.1 Forced birth and forced abortion are foul. They are an assault on the autonomy, dignity, and rights of women, and are a threat to their lives, health, and wellbeing. Examples of banning and forcing abortions are found throughout the world and across time (sometimes in the same place and at the same time, as seen in Nazi Germany).
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30467-0/fulltext?rss=yes

UK 'Russia report' fear-mongers about meddling yet finds no evidence
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-07-25
A long-awaited UK report finds no evidence of Russian meddling, but that hasn't stopped the fear-mongering. The report claims the…
thegrayzone.com/2020/07/25/uk-russia-report-fear-mongers-about-meddling-yet-finds-no-evidence/

Racism in Chile
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-25
They killed black woman Recently, when a retired Chilean U.N. employee tried to enter ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Santiago de Chile) to claim her pension in a bank inside the compound, her car was stopped by a U.N. security officer. She was asked to complete formalities. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/racism-in-chile/

Death of the Liberal Class — review
Radical Reviewer | mronline.org | 2020-07-25
Radical Reviewer reviews the book Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges…
mronline.org/2020/07/25/death-of-the-liberal-class-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=death-of-the-liberal-class-review

Trump's Troop Surge to Democratic Cities
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
"His entire attention is this one issue on his mind: that's the election. He has to cover up for the fact he is personally responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans. It's impossible to conceal that for much longer."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-troop-surge-to-democratic-cities/

Global Destruction, 
The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic and Social Impacts
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
Planned Destruction of World-wide Economy | What we have to realize is that the global, country-by-country destruction — happening simultaneously — is not a coincidence. | It has been planned for decades. Thousands of pages were written alone for the preparation of …
globalresearch.ca/global-destruction-%e2%80%a8the-covid-19-lockdown-economic-and-social-impacts/5719422

US secretary of state sets out case for conflict with China
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
By ruling out a return to the policy of "containment," Pompeo's speech marks a strategy aimed at regime change in Beijing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/lead-j25.html

Food, capitalism and the necessity of a socialist program
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-25
Capitalist food production is based on ecological destruction, imperialism, inhumane labor practices, and the degradation of human health. A socialist program that guarantees healthy food for all is the only alternative.
mronline.org/2020/07/25/food-capitalism-and-the-necessity-of-a-socialist-program/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=food-capitalism-and-the-necessity-of-a-socialist-program

Wednesday 8/12: Online Study Group: What Will It Take to Save a World in Crisis? Reform vs. Revolution
Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Zoom (details in description)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/23/18835294.php

Weaving Impunity for Dictatorship Crimes in Chile
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-25
In 1968, the U.S. backed a covert intelligence surveillance campaign in which Latin American right-wing governments conspired to annihilate socialist and communist influence in the region. The plan, known as Operation Condor, was formally implemented in 1975, two years after dictator Augusto Pinochet took power in Chile through a military coup supported by the U.S. Up to 80,000 left wing opponents are estimated to have been killed; 30,000 of them disappeared by right-wing governments in Latin America by 1989, when Operation Condor was officially terminated. Over 400,000 people were detained as political prisoners…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/25/weaving-impunity-for-dictatorship-crimes-in-chile/

US Economic Collapse: The Worst in US History
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
by Stephen Lendman ( stephenlendman.org — Home — Stephen Lendman) | The myth of recovery ignores the US economy's dismal state. | Numbers calculated as they were pre-1990 before rigging them occurred tell all. | According to economist John Williams, real US …
globalresearch.ca/us-economic-collapse-the-worst-in-us-history/5719373

Israeli Supreme Court rules: Palestinian prisoners have no right to social distancing protection against COVID-19
TLCFAMRII | imemc.org | 2020-07-25
By Adalah The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights in Israel: 23/07/2020: Israel's top court rejects Adalah petition demanding Israel implement COVID-19 protective guidelines for prisoners at Gilboa prison; 30 prison guards and 7 prisoners are infected while 489 guards and 58 prisoners are in quarantine.
imemc.org/article/israeli-supreme-court-rules-palestinian-prisoners-have-no-right-to-social-distancing-protection-against-covid-19/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-supreme-court-rules-palestinian-prisoners-have-no-right-to-social-distancing-protection-against-covid-19

US Fighter Jets in Near Miss against Iran Passenger Plane in Syrian Airspace
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
This event is downplayed by the Western media. | Why were those US jet fighters in Syrian airspace? | US and Israeli jet fighters are routinely violating Syrian airspace. | And why were they threatening a civilian passenger plane? | The unspoken truth is …
globalresearch.ca/us-fighter-jets-in-near-miss-against-iran-passenger-plane-in-syrian-airspace/5719398

Nuclear Weapons and Extreme Threats. A Tale of Two Men Handling Emergency
Judith Deutsch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
One man reacted to emergency and the other one didn't. The two men are Richard Feynman (1918 — 1988), the highly revered Nobel Prize laureate nuclear physicist, and 22-year old David Livingston, Senior Airman and missile repairman who was killed …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-weapons-and-extreme-threats-a-tale-of-two-men-handling-emergency/5719405

Full Steam Ahead on Reopening Schools? No Way, Say Teachers
Monique Dols and Peter Lamphere | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
"I just want everyone to know that educators, when we fight, we're not just going to fight for us. We're going to fight for those parents that are being forced to make a choice between having to go to work and putting their kids in the school building."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/full-steam-ahead-on-reopening-schools-no-way-say-teachers/

US demands even greater support from Australia in confrontation with China
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Despite the intensifying COVID-19 danger in the US, Australia's foreign and defence ministers will personally attend the annual AUSMIN talks in Washington next week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/usau-j25.html

What Should Define a COVID-19 Death? The Unreliability of COVID-19 Data. Dr. Ioannidis
Jon Jon Miltimore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
On Thursday, a Florida health official told a local news station that a young man who was listed as a COVID-19 victim had no underlying conditions. | The answer surprised reporters, | who probed for additional information. | "He died in a motorcycle …
globalresearch.ca/what-should-define-a-covid-19-death-the-unreliability-of-covid-19-data-dr-ioannidis/5719380

Report: 259 Israeli Violations Against Palestinian Journalists in 2020
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-25
A new report released by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) has documented 259 violations committed against Palestinian journalists by Israeli Forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the beginning of this year. The head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Nasser Abu Bakr, said during a press conference that of the 259 …
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COVID-19 means development setbacks for Mongolia: a UN Resident Coordinator's blog
news.un.org | 2020-07-25
Mongolia has recorded very few cases of COVID-19, less than 300 as on date, despite its more than 4,000 kilometre porous border with China. However, the country faces a major economic impact from the pandemic, says Tapan Mishra, the UN Resident Coordinator in Mongolia.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/07/1068821

Disabled people being abused for not wearing masks is peak 2020
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-07-25
The abuse by a fellow passenger of a disabled woman and her young sister over face masks may have shocked some people. But in reality, the attacks disabled people have faced during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is peak 2020. Because this embedded discrimination and hate has been over a decade in the making. | 'Disabled my arse': | As the Liverpool Echo reported: Karolina Pakenaite, 24, who is partially blind and deaf due to Usher Syndrome, was verbally attacked aft…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/07/25/disabled-people-being-abused-for-not-wearing-masks-is-peak-2020/

Why Trump's Paramilitary Force Is Unconstitutional. 'A Profoundly Un-American Attack On Civil Society'
Lawrence Tribe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
We are being confronted in city after city with a nationwide paramilitary force, its troops unidentifiable and its vehicles unmarked, directed in deliberately vague terms to protect property and preserve domestic order. | It began in Portland, Oregon where chilling video…
globalresearch.ca/a-profoundly-un-american-attack-on-civil-society-why-trumps-paramilitary-force-is-unconstitutional/5719394

Canadian medical experts provide ideological justification for homicidal back-to-work drive
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Exploiting their professional qualifications to give their arguments credibility, the experts have fully endorsed the corporate elite's reactionary dictum: "The cure cannot be worse than the disease."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/medi-j25.html

The Moment of Truth Is Now for COVID and Economic Relief
Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-25
The US Senate returned to work this week after a two-week vacation during which COVID-19 exploded and the economy imploded. The moment of truth has now arrived. Will the House and Senate now bring forth a Covid relief package adequate to the Covid health and economic crises? The last six months of the pandemic and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-moment-of-truth-is-now-for-covid-and-economic-relief/

Australia's Blind Allegiance to United States Foreign Policy Has a High Price to Pay
James O'Neill | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-25
Well over a century ago the German statesman Otto von Bismarck remarked that countries have neither friends nor enemies only interests. History since then has done nothing to dispel the wisdom of his observation. There are many people still alive today who were alive when this country fought for its very existence against the two …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/australias-blind-allegiance-to-united-states-foreign-policy-has-a-high-price-to-pay/

After 23 Years of Media Warfare Against Venezuela, the US Says it Will Start a Media War
Clodovaldo Hernández | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
After 23 years of unremitting media warfare against Venezuela, the United States announces that it will start a media war against Venezuela. It's cynical, it's tragic, it's even comical. Since 1997, when Commander Hugo Chávez Frías began to emerge in …
globalresearch.ca/after-23-years-of-media-warfare-against-venezuela-the-us-says-it-will-start-a-media-war/5719391

Michigan workers demand $600 unemployment from U.S. Rep. Huizenga
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-25
Grandville, MI – Stagehands held signs and rallied outside the office of U.S. Representative Bill Huizenga in this suburb of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Huizenga, like all but one Republican, voted against the HEROES Act in the House of Representatives. | Joining workers in other states, stagehands across Michigan are gathering outside politicians' offices to demand extending unemployment into next year. The stagehands, who are normally working behind the scenes, were out in front on June 23 chanting, "They say cut back! We say fight back!" and "What do we want? $600!" | Stagehands, like other entertainment and hospi…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/24/michigan-workers-demand-600-unemployment-us-rep-huizenga

Who is the most dangerous fascist?
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2020-07-25
Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the word's meaning.
mronline.org/2020/07/25/who-is-the-most-dangerous-fascist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-is-the-most-dangerous-fascist

100 years of Florestan Fernandes, a theoretician who served the working class
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-25
When he completed his Social Sciences degree at the University of Sà£o Paulo (USP), in 1944, Florestan Fernandes didn't graduate as a sociologist shaped merely by books. Sociology actually first came to him through work, and only later through reflection. This is an idea of the sociologist himself, and what permeates the complexity and totality of his thoughts. | Florestan was the only child of Maria Fernandes, a young Portuguese woman who arrived in Brazil to work the fields at age 13. She gave birth to him on July 22 of 1920. Florestan first witnessed class conflicts while at the Bresser (a wealthy Brazil…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/25/100-years-of-florestan-fernandes-a-theoretician-who-served-the-working-class/

Week In Review 18th — 24th July
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-07-25
Editor's Review of the Week Are we shocked by it all any more? It has taken Boris Johnson just six months to infect Westminister with wide-ranging levels of corruption and poisoned Britain's global standing in the world. It shouldn't be forgotten that Tory MP's voted for all this and it's almost impossible now to ignore …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/week-in-review-18th-24th-july/

Thawing Arctic Permafrost
Robert Hunziker | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
"We are standing at the threshold of abrupt change in permafrost carbon emissions."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/thawing-arctic-permafrost/

Florida State students host call-in day, slave-owner statue removed once again
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-25
Florida State students host call-in day, slave-owner statue removed once again | By Jonce Palmer | Tallahassee, FL – On July 23, The FSU chapter of Students for a Democratic Society held a call-in day demanding the administration immediately remove a statue honoring slave-owner Francis Eppes, and the immediate renaming of several buildings located on campus that are named after slave owners and segregationists. The statue of Francis Eppes, as well as Eppes Hall, B. K. Roberts Hall and Doak Campbell Stadium were the campus buildings included in the demands. | Participants in the action called the offices of FSU Pr…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/24/florida-state-students-host-call-day-slave-owner-statue-removed-once-again

The $24 an Hour Minimum Wage
Dean Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
If the minimum wage had kept pace with productivity growth it would be over $24 an hour today…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-24-an-hour-minimum-wage/

Palestinian Child Abducted by Under Cover Agents in Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-25
Undercover Israeli police abducted, on Thursday, a 12-year-old Palestinian child from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of al-'Isawiya, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Witnesses revealed that undercover agents were seen getting out of a civilian vehicle, and abducting Moath Ewewi, 12, taking him to an unknown location. Undercover Israeli forces, …
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Energy isn't just electricity
George Loumakis | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
The common mistake obscuring the mammoth task of decarbonisation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/energy-isnt-just-electricity/

Unstoppable Resistance to Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-25
In 2015 the Washington Post shared this observation of privately-operated charter schools by a veteran public school official: David Hornbeck was the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools from 1976 to 1988 and the superintendent of the Philadelphia school district from 1994 to 2000. For years he was a supporter of charter schools, seeing them as …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/unstoppable-resistance-to-charter-schools/

Trump's Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
Trump's actions in Portland are terrifying by any standard.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-reelection-strategy-involves-terrorizing-us-with-secret-stormtroopers/

Single Mothers And Children Take Over Abandoned Public Buildings
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
In Philadelphia, single mothers and their children have moved into abandoned, publicly owned buildings, in the most significant housing take over in the country–at a time when millions have lost their jobs and the country is on the brink of another housing crisis. Jennifer Bennetch has helped place unhoused people into vacant homes owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA), as the founder of Occupy PHA and a member of the Philadelphia Housing Action coalition. She's doing what she says is "the government's job to make sure people who need it have housing."
popularresistance.org/single-mothers-and-children-take-over-abandoned-public-buildings/

What Programs A 10% Cut In Military Spending Could Buy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
For millions of Californians, times are tough, and the future looks tougher still. So far, California has seen over 325,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 7,000 deaths. | In the economic fallout, over 6 million of us have applied for unemployment insurance since the start of the pandemic. Many of them have yet to see a dime from the understaffed California Employment Development Department, which has struggled to keep up with the sheer volume of claims. | Meanwhile, a $600-per-week federal unemployment supplement is set to expire at the end of July, and the Republican-controlled Senate appears determined to…
popularresistance.org/what-programs-a-10-cut-in-military-spending-could-buy/

Is The United States A Failing State? A Failed State?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
To ask whether the United States, the world's dominant military power, is 'a failing state' should cause worldwide anxiety. Such a state, analogous to a wounded animal, is a global menace of unprecedented proportions in the nuclear age. Its political leadership is exhibiting a reckless tendency of combining incompetence with extremism. It is also crucial to ascertain at what point a failing state should be written off as 'a failed state' for which there is no longer a clear path to redemption. The November elections in the United States will send a strong signal as to whether the United States is failing or has f…
popularresistance.org/is-the-united-states-a-failing-state-a-failed-state/

America's Terminal Decline
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-25
President Trump's U-turn admission on the coronavirus pandemic, acknowledging that it's going to get worse before it gets better, could be applied to the general condition of American politics. It can only get worse under present circumstances. | That's because there is no way to solve deep-seated problems in the US system under the prevailing bipartisan framework. | It is delusional for Democrats to blame Trump and the Republicans for all the woes of that nation. The notion that America can be returned to some kind of presumed normality if Joe Biden is elected to the White House in November is a fantasy.
popularresistance.org/americas-terminal-decline/

As the pandemic surges, Native Americans are resilient
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to surge, Native Americans manifest resilience, from the San Carlos Apache running for their sacred land to the Kumeyaay standing to protect their sacred land from the border wall construction. Lakota are cooking hot meals for relatives who are in quarantine in Rapid City, South Dakota, while Dine' and Hopi raise their own funds and deliver food, water and supplies to those most in need.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835298.php

LA County OKs Coronavirus 'Health Councils' to Keep Watch on Worker Safety
Staff and News Service Reports | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
COVID-19 outbreaks in such sites as Los Angeles Apparel underpinned the Board of Supervisors' efforts to include unions and business interests in a plan to ensure worker safety…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/la-county-oks-coronavirus-health-councils-to-keep-watch-on-worker-safety/

Enemies failed in creating duality between science, religion
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — Iranian First Vice President said that malicious plans orchestrated by enemies against Islamic Republic of Iran in creating duality between science and religion were failed.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161437/Enemies-failed-in-creating-duality-between-science-religion

Mainland China reports 34 new coronavirus cases, including 20 in Xinjiang
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Of the new infections, 20 were in the far western region of Xinjiang, according to a statement by the National Health Commission. Nine were in the northeastern province of Liaoning, while the remaining five were imported cases.China reported 74 new asymptomatic cases, up from 43 a day earlier.As of Friday, mainland China had 83,784 confirmed coronavirus cases, the health authority said. The COVID-19 death toll remained at 4,634.
yenisafak.com/en/world/mainland-china-reports-34-new-coronavirus-cases-including-20-in-xinjiang-3535373

Pakistani premier hails reopening of Hagia Sophia
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on late Friday hailed the reopening of Turkey's historic Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque after 86 years, following a Turkish court ruling."Felicitations to the Republic of Turkey, and H.E. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on this historic day after the first prayers in 86 years were held at Hagia Sophia [Grand] Mosque," Khan said on Twitter.Apart from the prime minister, several other Pakistani politicians and lawmakers, including the head of mainstream religious party Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Sirajul Haq, and Chief Minister of the most populous Punjab province Usman Buzdar also congrat…
yenisafak.com/en/news/pakistani-premier-hails-reopening-of-hagia-sophia-3535368

Japan, Qatar cover reopening of Hagia Sophia as mosque
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Japanese media allocated wide coverage for reopening of the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque for worship after an 86-year hiatus, while Qatari media called it a historic day.Japan's Asahi Shimbun covered the first Friday prayers after reconversion of Hagia Sophia to mosque from museum, and said worshippers filled all streets two hours before the prayer time.Featuring a photograph of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reciting the Muslim holy book Quran, it said Christian patterns covered with curtains inside the building will be opened after the prayers, and the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque will be free of charge for a…
yenisafak.com/en/life/japan-qatar-cover-reopening-of-hagia-sophia-as-mosque-3535370

103-year-old Pakistani man survives COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
A 103-year-old man has recovered from COVID-19 at a makeshift medical center in Pakistan.Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident of a village in the mountainous northern district of Chitral, was released last week from an emergency response centre after testing positive in early July."We were worried for him given his age, but he wasn't worried at all," Alim's son Sohail Ahmed told Reuters on the phone from his village, close to Pakistan's border with China and Afghanistan.Ahmed quoted his father as saying that he had been through a lot in life and the coronavirus did not scare him. He did however, not like being in isolatio…
yenisafak.com/en/world/103-year-old-pakistani-man-survives-covid-19-3535371

Press NGO calls for probe into Saudi journalist's death
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
International press freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders has called for launching an independent international investigation into the circumstances of the death of Saudi journalist Saleh al-Shehi due to health problems, two months after his release."Al-Shehi was released on 19 May to general surprise. At the time, RSF was unable to establish the reasons for his release or whether it was conditional. His health deteriorated quickly thereafter," the Paris-based watchdog said in a statement.It said that "illness has not been formally named but some media outlets such as the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh spoke of three week…
yenisafak.com/en/world/press-ngo-calls-for-probe-into-saudi-journalists-death-3535382

Erdogan says Turkey disappointed those expecting it to bow down
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Having no designs on territories and resources of other countries, Turkey also does not allow others to step on its interests, the country's president said on Saturday."We do not have designs on anyone's right, law, territory, sea, and natural resources. But, we do not allow anyone to step on our own right, law and interest," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the opening ceremony of the Amasya Beltway via a video link.Underscoring that Turkey defended the right, law and interests of both its nation and friends on the land, at the sea and in the air, Erdogan said it disappointed those who expected Turkey to "bow down."Erd…
yenisafak.com/en/news/erdogan-says-turkey-disappointed-those-expecting-it-to-bow-down-3535383

Cricket: England's Buttler admits feeling the pressure over test place
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler said on Saturday he had been stressing about his lack of test runs and feeling the pressure of mounting speculation about his place in the team.Buttler has a reputation as a swashbuckling batsman in the limited over games but had averaged only 18 runs in his last seven tests since replacing Jonny Bairstow as wicketkeeper in New Zealand last November.However, a half century on the opening day of the third and final test against West Indies on Friday lifted some of the stress, he said before resuming at the crease.Asked if he had been fretting about his place, the 29-year-old Buttle…
yenisafak.com/en/sports/cricket-englands-buttler-admits-feeling-the-pressure-over-test-place-3535372

Iranian judiciary says passengers on 'harassed' airliner can sue US in Iran courts
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Iran's judiciary said on Saturday that passengers of an airliner that Tehran has said was "harassed" this week by an American fighter jet over Syria can sue the U.S. military for damages in Iranian courts.Iranian media said on Friday that several passengers on the Mahan Air flight heading from Tehran to Beirut were injured on Thursday after the pilot rapidly changed altitude to avoid collision with the U.S. jet.The U.S. military said its F-15 was at a safe distance and the fighter was conducting a visual inspection of the airliner as it passed near the Tanf garrison in Syria, home to U.S. forces."All passengers o…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iranian-judiciary-says-passengers-on-harassed-airliner-can-sue-us-in-iran-courts-3535369

Turkey seizes terrorist PKK ammunition in northern Iraq
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
"Our heroic commandos captured numerous arms and ammunition in a depot belonging to the PKK terrorist organization," said a ministry statement on Operation Claw-Tiger, one of its anti-terror operations in the region.The PKK often uses northern Iraq to plan attacks in Turkey and across the border.Among seized items were 63 AK-47 rifles, a sniper rifle, two shut guns, 50 rocker launcher ammunition, 1,000 anti-aircraft gun ammunition, 300 chargers of AK-47 rifles, 50 grenades and 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of dynamite.The operation is continuing, it added.Turkey's operations Claw-Tiger and Claw-Eagle were launched in…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-seizes-terrorist-pkk-ammunition-in-northern-iraq-3535384

Somalia: Parliament ousts Prime Minister Hassan Khaire
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Somalia's Parliament removed Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire from office by a vote of no confidence on Saturday.According to Speaker Mohamed Mursal Abdirahman, legislators voted 170-8 to dismiss Khaire and his government during an extraordinary session in the capital Mogadishu.Khaire, a dual Somali-Norwegian citizen, was appointed prime minister on Feb. 23, 2017 by President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo and was approved by the Parliament days later on March 1.Mursal called on the president to appoint a new prime minister to lead the country to its first popular elections in decades.President Farmaajo has a…
yenisafak.com/en/news/somalia-parliament-ousts-prime-minister-hassan-khaire-3535380

Tight security outside US Chengdu consulate after China orders closure
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Security was tight outside the U.S. consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu on Saturday as staff inside prepared to leave, a day after China ordered it to close in response to a U.S. order for China to shut its consulate in Houston.The tit-for-tat consulate closures have brought a sharp deterioration in relations between the world's two largest economies.A consulate emblem inside the compound was removed as staff could be seen pushing trolleys and several consulate vehicles came and went.Police, including many plain clothes officers, gathered outside and closed off the street to traffic.Neither the consulate in…
yenisafak.com/en/news/tight-security-outside-us-chengdu-consulate-after-china-orders-closure-3535364

Vietnam reports first local coronavirus infection in more than three months
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Vietnam reported its first local coronavirus infection for more than three months on Saturday after a man in the central city of Danang tested positive four times for the virus, a government statement said.Thanks to strict quarantine measures and an aggressive and widespread testing programme, Vietnam had kept its virus total to an impressively low 415 cases, and had reported no locally transmitted infections for 100 days.
yenisafak.com/en/world/vietnam-reports-first-local-coronavirus-infection-in-more-than-three-months-3535365

Turtle released to sea after months recovering
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Free at last! Taking all the time in the world, a Loggerhead sea turtle ambles slowly back to the ocean and liberty.Unbothered by the prying eyes of tourists on this deserted Spanish beach, the reptile seems in no rush to head for the waves.Video: Free again! Turtle returns to ocean after recovering in Spanish nursery
Th…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turtle-released-to-sea-after-months-recovering-3535374

Storm Hanna becomes hurricane as it heads to Texas coast: NHC
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Storm Hanna on Saturday morning became the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season, as it is set to make landfall along the Texas coast in the afternoon or early evening, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Hanna was located about 90 miles (144.84 km) east-northeast of Port Mansfield, Texas, packing maximum sustained winds of 75 miles-per-hour, the NHC said."Additional strengthening is forecast before Hanna makes landfall later today," the Miami-based forecaster said, adding that the hurricane will rapidly weaken after it moves inland.
yenisafak.com/en/world/storm-hanna-becomes-hurricane-as-it-heads-to-texas-coast-nhc-3535375

Turkey's Erdogan, Italian PM discuss Libya over phone
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte over the phone on Saturday.Turkey's Communications Directorate said in a statement that Erdogan and Conte discussed regional developments, particularly in war-weary Libya, as well as cooperation in fighting COVID-19.The leaders agreed to maintain dialogue for a political solution in Libya.Since April 2019, warlord Khalifa Haftar's illegitimate forces have launched attacks on the Libyan capital of Tripoli and other parts of northwestern Libya, resulting in more than 1,000 deaths, including civilian women and children.However, the…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-erdogan-italian-pm-discuss-libya-over-phone-3535381

Record numbers of coronavirus cases in every global region: Reuters tally
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-25
Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the world.The rate of cases has been increasing not only in countries like the United States, Brazil and India, which have dominated global headlines with large outbreaks, but in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Bolivia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Uzbekistan and Israel, among others.Many countries, especially those where officials eased earlier social distancing lock…
yenisafak.com/en/news/record-numbers-of-coronavirus-cases-in-every-global-region-reuters-tally-3535362

'Cool War': Chinese-US Relations Haven't Sunk to Soviet-American Level of Tensions Yet, Analysts Say
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-25
The Houston-Chengdu consulate closure spat between Beijing and Washington is the latest front in a conflict ranging from trade and technology transfer, to the handling of the coronavirus crisis, and geopolitical and geoeconomic conflicts stretching from Asia and the Pacific to Africa, Europe and Latin America.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202007251079981813-cool-war-chinese-us-relations-havent-sunk-to-soviet-american-level-of-tensions-yet-analysts-say/

US ICE Threatens Filmmakers, Producers in Bid to Block Approved Footage From Netflix – Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-25
According to a report by the New York Times, two Netflix filmmakers who filmed approved, behind-the-scenes footage with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for two and a half years are now being threatened by the same government authorities.
sputniknews.com/us/202007251079979693-us-ice-threatens-filmmakers-producers-in-bid-to-block-approved-footage-from-netflix—report-/

Greece Denies Condoning Turkish Flag-Burning After Hagia Sophia Conversion Into Mosque
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-25
ATHENS (Sputnik) – Greece's Foreign Ministry said Saturday it disapproved of desecration of national symbols after Turkey accused it of encouraging the burning of its flag at a rally against the conversion of Istanbul's ancient Orthodox Christian temple into a mosque.
sputniknews.com/europe/202007251079983098-greece-denies-condoning-turkish-flag-burning-after-hagia-sophia-conversion-into-mosque/

Iran Warns Any Further 'Adventurist Move by American Terrorists' May 'Speed Up' Israel's Demise
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-25
Already strained relations between Tehran and Washington suffered another setback on Thursday after a Mahan Air passenger jet with over 150 people onboard was forced to take evasive maneuvers over Syrian airspace after being intercepted by two US F-15 fighter jets.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007251079983556-iran-warns-any-further-adventurist-move-by-american-terrorists-may-speed-up-israels-demise/

Harassment of Iranian airliner embodiment of US terrorist act
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — Syrian Ambassador Adnan Hassan Mahmoud said that the harassment of an Iranian airliner is the embodiment of US terrorist acts.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161417/Harassment-of-Iranian-airliner-embodiment-of-US-terrorist-act

Beirut condemns US harassment of Mahan airliner
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — Lebanese Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti denounced the hostile interception of an Iranian passenger plane in the Syrian airspace by US warplanes.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161426/Beirut-condemns-US-harassment-of-Mahan-airliner

US behaves like Mafia bands, bandits: Al-Nujaba
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — The spokesman of al-Nujaba Islamic Resistance condemned the harassment of the Iranian passenger airplane, flying from Tehran to Beirut, by the American fighters, describing it as the behavior of bandits and Mafia groups.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161399/US-behaves-like-Mafia-bands-bandits-Al-Nujaba

Iran, Azerbaijan emphasize developing transit coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — Customs heads of Islamic Republic of Iran and Azerbaijan Republic on Sat. stressed the need to expand and develop transit cooperation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161434/Iran-Azerbaijan-emphasize-developing-transit-coop

Iran's steel ingot production vol. up 7.5% in two months
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — Statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade showed that production volume of steel ingot registered a 7.5 percent growth in the first two months of the current year (from March 21 to May 20).
en.mehrnews.com/news/161410/Iran-s-steel-ingot-production-vol-up-7-5-in-two-months

'Yalda' to be screened at two festivals in Estonia
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — Iranian feature film 'Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness' directed by Masoud Bakhshi, will be screened at two film festivals in Estonia.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161407/Yalda-to-be-screened-at-two-festivals-in-Estonia

Tehran, Moscow confer on regional, Afghanistan affairs
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — In a meeting between the special envoy of the Russian President for Afghanistan affairs Zamir Kabulov and Iran's ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali the two sides discussed regional and Afghanistan affairs.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161409/Tehran-Moscow-confer-on-regional-Afghanistan-affairs

Police seize 440 kg of narcotics in Yazd
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — The police forces of Yazd province in central Iran have seized 440 kg of illicit drugs in three separate operations, according to the police commander.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161433/Police-seize-440-kg-of-narcotics-in-Yazd

Army Ground Force's Shahid Zarharan Center
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — Deputy Coordinator of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Army, Rear Admiral Sayyari, paid a visit on Saturday to Shahid Zarharan center that is responsible for improving, renovating, and manufacturing products for Iran Army Ground…
en.mehrnews.com/photo/161416/Army-Ground-Force-s-Shahid-Zarharan-Center

US left with no option but to withdraw from Iraq
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — The intensification of anti-American attacks in various parts of Iraq has left American terrorists with no other option than to pull out from Iraq.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161440/US-left-with-no-option-but-to-withdraw-from-Iraq

VIDEO: Hagia Sophia hosts first Friday prayers in 86 years
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — After more than eight decades as a museum, Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia held Islamic prayer services for the first time in 86 years.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161411/VIDEO-Hagia-Sophia-hosts-first-Friday-prayers-in-86-years

Parliament to address US attack on Iran's airliner
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Deputy Chairman of the Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Abbas Moghtadaei said that the UN must condemn US attack on the Iranian airliner.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161438/Parliament-to-address-US-attack-on-Iran-s-airliner

Meeting held between PBO chief, Martyrs Foundation's head
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — A meeting was held between Head of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs Saeed Ohadi and Head of Plan and Budget Organization (PBO) Mohammad-Bagher Nobakht on Sat.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/161436/Meeting-held-between-PBO-chief-Martyrs-Foundation-s-head

US fails to isolate Iran: ex-envoy
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — Former representative of Iran to the United Nations said that Iran-China's cooperation is strategic, and the US has failed to isolate Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161408/US-fails-to-isolate-Iran-ex-envoy

Saudi fighter jets launch attack on Yemen
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — In continuation of their aggression on Yemen, Saudi fighter jets violated the ceasefire in the country and launched a series of attacks on the Marib and Saada provinces.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161428/Saudi-fighter-jets-launch-attack-on-Yemen

Lebanon health min. to pursue US harassment of Iran airliner
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — Hamd Hasan said that the Health Ministry of Lebanon will file a lawsuit in international institutions on behalf of Mahan flight passengers threatened by the US disgraceful attack.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161414/Lebanon-health-min-to-pursue-US-harassment-of-Iran-airliner

Over 288K people infected by COVID-19, death toll at 15,484
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) — As of Saturday, the total number of coronavirus cases in Iran has passed 288,000, of whom 15,484 have lost their lives to the deadly virus.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161420/Over-288K-people-infected-by-COVID-19-death-toll-at-15-484

Montazeri urges follow-up on US attack on Iranian airliner
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-25
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Iran's Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri called on Iranian Foreign Minister to pursue legal actions regarding US attack on the Iranian airliner.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161432/Montazeri-urges-follow-up-on-US-attack-on-Iranian-airliner

The Heat: China-US tensions
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-07-25
US-China relations face another setback after Beijing tells Washington to close its consulate in Chengdu in a tit-for-tat move.
america.cgtn.com/2020/07/25/the-heat-china-us-tensions

The NHS is now on the chopping block. And it shows why reforming capitalism is an exercise in futility
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-07-25
The Canary recently reported that Tory MPs defeated an amendment which would have committed the government to protect the NHS from privatisation in a new trade deal with the US. | This raises the obvious question of whether we're about to see the end of the NHS's founding principle of 'free at the point of service'. But there's also a more elementary question worth exploring — whether it's even possible to maintain social reforms like universal health…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/07/25/the-nhs-is-now-on-the-chopping-block-and-it-shows-why-reforming-capitalism-is-an-exercise-in-futility/

UN weather agency warns of 'global repercussions' amid Arctic heatwave
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-25
The UN weather agency warned that average temperatures in Siberia were 10C (18F) above average last month. It's a spate of exceptional heat that has fanned devastating fires in the Arctic Circle and contributed to a rapid depletion in ice sea off Russia's Arctic coast. | World Meteorological Organisation secretary-general Petteri Taalas said in a statement: The Arctic is heating more than twice as fast as the global average, impacting local populations and ecosystems and with global repercussions | He noted that Earth's poles influence weather conditions far away, where hundreds of millions of people live. | We've…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/07/25/un-weather-agency-warns-of-global-repercussions-amid-arctic-heatwave/

UN weather agency warns of 'global repercussions' amid Arctic heatwave
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-25
The UN weather agency warned that average temperatures in Siberia were 10C (18F) above average last month. It's a spate of exceptional heat that has fanned devastating fires in the Arctic Circle and contributed to a rapid depletion in ice sea off Russia's Arctic coast. | World Meteorological Organisation secretary-general Petteri Taalas said in a statement: The Arctic is heating more than twice as fast as the global average, impacting local populations and ecosystems and with global repercussions | He noted that Earth's poles influence weather conditions far away, where hundreds of millions of people live. | #Sibe…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/07/25/un-weather-agency-warns-of-global-repercussions-amid-arctic-heatwave/

Government easing work from home guidance 'completely ignores the realities facing women', says charity supporting working mums
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-25
Half of working mothers are lacking the necessary childcare to enable them to work during the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, according to a survey. Campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed questioned 19,950 mothers and pregnant women amid an easing of the work-from-home guidance. | The survey found that more than two thirds (72%) of mothers have had to work fewer hours because of childcare issues, reducing household income. Meanwhile, 65% of those on furlough said a shortfall in childcare was the reason for them being furloughed. | Research showing the impact of childcare closures on women found that while 81% of emp…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/25/government-easing-work-from-home-guidance-completely-ignores-the-realities-facing-women-says-charity-supporting-working-mums/

Mayors sign letter to oppose Trump's unidentified jack booted storm troopers
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
7/22/2020 Updated Letter Signed By Mayors:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835296.php

Saturday 8/1: No More Billionaires Privatization, Union Busting & Racist Attacks
SPTESR | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
10: 30 AM Oakland Coliseum & Caravan To | GAP Corporate Headquarters Folsom & Embarcadero | San Francisco with rally at 12: 00 noon…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835327.php

Sunday 8/2: Cuba: This is what medical internationalism looks like
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835319.php

Defund OPD: Oakland Mayor Schaaf & the City Council Failed Us
APTP | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
On Tuesday night, Oakland City Council had the historic opportunity to address the decades-long budget inequity that has left police with the lion's share of our tax dollars and many residents without healthcare, housing, and critical social services during the pandemic. Instead, Councilmembers Reid, McElhaney, Taylor, Gallo, and Mayor Schaaf chose to overfund policing over funding basic needs for the people of Oakland, ignoring hours of public comment calling for further cuts to OPD's budget.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835322.php

WorkWeek On Confederate Monuments & Knights Of Labor & Covid Murders
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
WorkWeek looks at the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia and the Knights of Labor who were uniting Black and White workers against the Democrats and Republicans. WorkWeek also looks at racism at Tesla, the Port of Oakland and the fight against privatization of Alameda County Highland Hospital.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835311.php

Saturday 7/25: Wall of Moms Bay Area Action in Palo Alto
Moms and Grannies | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Corner of Embarcadero and El Camino in Palo Alto across from the main entrance to Stanford. Palo Alto 94301.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/25/18835332.php

Sunday 7/26: Unity Rally – Re-imagine Public Safety
PACT Silicon Valley | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
San José City Hall…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835330.php

Monday 7/27: #Windisivible: 2020 Election #GOTV Program Kickoff w/ Indivisible Leaders
Indivisible Guide | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835320.php

Stop SF Privatization Of Balboa Reservoir & Defend SF Community College
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
The land grab of SF PUC owned Balboa reservoir by the developer Avalon was opposed by speakers at the Ocean campus of San Francisco Community College on July 23, 2020. They also discussed the destruction of ESL classes and the closure of Fort Mason and other campuses. The CCSF administration and Board of Trustees speakers charged are dismembering the community college and destroying the futures of immigrants, Blacks, Latinos, working class youth and the faculty and staff of the college…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835304.php

Joaquín Murrieta y el Camino a Tres Piedras
Stan Santos | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
En 1980 familias campesinas lucharon por viviendas y dignidad cerca al Arroyo de Cantua, lugar que en 1853, se dio el último choque violento entre la banda de Joaquín Murrieta y los Rangers de California. Desde entonces, jinetes del área celebran esto eventos en la historia del Valle San Joaquín.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835323.php

Ada Mills Young – A new look 2020 National Buffalo Soldiers Day Weekend
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Ada Mills Young, born in our California Gold Rush District offers a new and facinating journey into the extended families of our Buffalo Soldiers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/23/18835295.php

Sunday 7/26: Socialism, Communism, Democracy, and Dictatorship: A Scientific Perspective
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/18835318.php

Why the "Russia Report" tells us more about Britain's BREXIT than anything else
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
The long-awaited UK 'Russia Report', whose publication was delayed by 10 months by Boris Johnson, was finally released this week by the Westminster Intelligence and Security Committee, much to the excitement of those keen to demonstrate alleged 'Russian interference' in …
globalresearch.ca/why-the-russia-report-tells-us-more-about-britain-brixit-than-anything-else/5719388

Parlamento ´coeso ª sobre as missàµes neocoloniais
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
O Ministro da Defesa, Lorenzo Guerini (Partido Democrático) manifestou grande satisfaàßà£o pelo voto "coeso" do Parlamento, sobre as missàµes internacionais. Excepto alguma divergência no apoio à Guarda Costeira de Trípoli, a maioria e a oposiàßà£o aprovaram, de maneira compacta, sem …
globalresearch.ca/parlamento-coeso-sobre-as-missoes-neocoloniais/5719381

WATCH Portland protesters battling federal police to sound of Star Wars' Imperial March
rt.com | 2020-07-24
Chaotic scenes outside Portland's federal courthouse were given a snarky soundtrack by a demonstrator who showed up to the fracas armed with a stereo. The city has seen nightly clashes between police and protesters. | Footage taken by New York Times correspondent Mike Baker shows activists and federal agents fighting over control of a fence guarding the building in downtown Portland, which has been under siege by demonstrators for nearly two months. | Protesters used projectiles and laser pointers against federal law enforcement tasked with protecting the courthouse, who in turn deployed tear gas to keep the m…
rt.com/usa/495720-star-wars-portland-police/

Leaked FBI Documents Reveal Secret Program To Criminalize Social Media
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-24
Simply posting about your presence at a police brutality protest can be used to incriminate you and lead to your arrest. We speak to Portland residents on the ground about the influx of unmarked federal agents.
therealnews.com/stories/leaked-fbi-documents-reveal-secret-program-criminalize-social-media

Tear Gas, Beatings and Projectiles in Portland
Mike Hastie | zcomm.org | 2020-07-24
The Feds and the News want to shape public opinion that these violent protests are being committed by mobs of anarchists and thugs…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/tear-gas-beatings-and-projectiles-in-portland/

Uprising: Mass Protests Rock the Nation
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-24
In an act of political desperation, President Donald Trump ordered a contingent of federal law-enforcement officers to impose order in Portland, OR. Under the direction of Attorney General Bill Barr, agents from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Bureau of Prisons were deployed to protect…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/24/uprising-masss-rock-the-nation/

From Portland to the World
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-24
Since the end of May, demonstrators opposing police violence and white supremacy have thronged the streets of Portland, Oregon, clashing with law enforcement officers. Last week, aspiring autocrat Donald Trump escalated the situation by announcing that he would be sending federal agents around the country to assert his authority through acts of violence against protesters.
mronline.org/2020/07/24/from-portland-to-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-portland-to-the-world

Homeland Security Justifies Invasion of Portland by Claiming Shields and Gas Masks are Weapons
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-24
DHS' Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli claimed that defensive tools like Shields and Gas Masks were evidence that protesters were making "preparations for violence." | MPN– Far from restoring order, the arrival of federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Border Patrol in Portland, Oregon has only heightened tensions, with agents attacking and arresting protesters nightly. DHS' Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli took to social media yesterday to share images…

Homeland Security Justifies Invasion of Portland by Claiming Shields and Gas Masks are Weapons

Uprising: Mass Protests Rock the Nation
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-24
In an act of political desperation, President Donald Trump ordered a contingent of federal law-enforcement officers to impose order in Portland, OR. Under the direction of Attorney General Bill Barr, agents from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Bureau of Prisons were deployed to protect…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/24/uprising-masss-rock-the-nation/

Homeland Security Justifies Invasion of Portland by Claiming Shields and Gas Masks are Weapons
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-24
DHS' Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli claimed that defensive tools like Shields and Gas Masks were evidence that protesters were making "preparations for violence."
mintpressnews.com/portlands-dhs-suggests-shields-and-gas-masks-weapons/269756/

Trump Uses Border Patrol to Implement Police State
James Goodman | progressive.org | 2020-07-24
The same agents arresting protesters in Portland routinely terrorize immigrant communities.
progressive.org/dispatches/trump-border-patrol-police-state-goodman-200724/

Three Federal Agents Could Be 'Permanently Blinded' By Laser Attacks From Portland Protestors
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-24
Demonstrations outside the courthouse in Portland have grown increasingly violent as the Trump administration sends in federal officers to crack down on the continuous nightly protests in the city.
sputniknews.com/us/202007241079978431-three-federal-agents-could-be-permanently-blinded-by-laser-attacks-from-portlandors/

18 Arrested for Vandalising Courthouse, Attacking Police in Portland
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-24
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The authorities have arrested 18 participants in nightly and often violent anti-police protests in Portland, Oregon, on charges ranging from assaulting federal officers to participating in attacks on a federal courthouse, the US Justice Department said in a press release.
sputniknews.com/us/202007241079979426-18-arrested-for-vandalizing-courthouse-attacking-police-in-portland/

Black protester ATTACKED while trying to stop mob taking down Portland courthouse fence (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-07-24
Protesters returned to the Justice Center in Portland for another night of orchestrated chaos on Thursday. Eyewitness footage from the scene captured the moment apparent Antifa members attacked a black protester calling for calm. | After repeated criticism of heavy-handed tactics, reportedly no police or federal agents were posted on the streets at the beginning of Thursday evening, instead remaining inside the courthouse and issuing repeated orders that protesters not target the exterior fence. | Despite this, several agitators in the crowd threw trash over and set it on fire at the fence, which quickly desce…
rt.com/usa/495725-antifa-attack-blacker-portland/

Oregon judge bans feds from arresting or using force against 'journalists & legal observers' at Portland protests
rt.com | 2020-07-24
A judge has issued a temporary restraining order on federal agents deployed in Portland, ruling that they may not arrest, disperse or otherwise use force against reporters and legal observers covering ongoing protests there. | US District Court Judge Michael Simon ruled on Thursday that federal police must stop "arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force" on journalists and legal observers not suspected of a crime, following an injunction request from the Portlan…
rt.com/usa/495689-feds-barred-arrest-journalists-portland/

Marjorie Cohn on Portland Secret Police
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-07-24
Media…
fair.org/home/marjorie-cohn-on-portland-secret-police/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marjorie-cohn-on-portland-secret-police

The Antifa Bogeyman
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-24
In an unparalleled assault on the Constitution recently, federal agents descended on Portland, Oregon. They behaved like storm troopers. They snatched people off the street, tossed them into unmarked vans and detained them without charge. This is what happens in a police state. Mindful of that, the governor and mayor implored the agents to leave.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/24/the-antifa-bogeyman/

The COIN doctrine comes to Portland?
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-24
The president has also promised to deploy similar militarized police to other cities, claiming that those run by Democrats are somehow in the thrall of the 'radical left', despite the latter being among the most strident critics of the former.
nationofchange.org/2020/07/24/the-coin-doctrine-comes-to-portland/

Trump orders federal police to more cities
wsws.org | 2020-07-24
The Trump administration is stepping up its unconstitutional moves toward dictatorial rule, tear gassing the mayor of Portland, Oregon and announcing the deployment of federal police to additional cities.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/24/trum-j24.html

2020 Vision Will Show You What is True, if You Can Keep Your Sanity
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-24
We've all been making jokes about how terrible 2020 has played out, but I think even those of us with a bit of an imagination for the absurd and ominous missed the mark as far as this ultimate level of governmental degeneracy we've been able to achieve. Dads backing up moms in Portland with leaf…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/24/2020-vision-will-show-you-what-is-true-if-you-can-keep-your-sanity/

Portland's movement is fighting back! Defend Portland, Ore.! Defend People's Resistance! No Police State!
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-07-24
Workers World Party Statement Despite the brutal attempt of the White House to crush the heroic Black Lives Matter movement by sending camouflaged federal agents — secret police — to Portland, Ore., Chicago and other U.S. cities, the movement and all who support it have been fighting back. The initial . . . | Continue reading Portland's movement is fighting back! Defend Portland, Ore.! Defend People's Resistance! No Police State! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50220/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=portlands-movement-is-fighting-back-defend-portland-ore-defend-peoples-resistance-no-police-state

Border Patrol Violently Assaults Civil Rights And Liberties
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-24
In the past week, unidentified federal officers in camouflage fatigues, labeled only "police," abducted people off the streets of Portland in unmarked vehicles and threatened the "Wall of Moms" standing up for our Constitution. The administration later confirmed the unidentified officers were Border Patrol agents. | This blatant demonstration of unconstitutional authoritarianism is demonstrating to the entire country the cruel capabilities of the U.S. Border Patrol. For communities that have historically borne the brunt of Border Patrol's abuses — and still do — seeing these agents pose as a "secret f…
popularresistance.org/border-patrol-violently-assaults-civil-rights-and-liberties/

Polling Shows Trump's Secret Police in Portland—and GOP Lawmaker Complicity—Could Have 2020 Consequences
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-24
MoveOn says voters are "fed up" with GOP senators from the battleground states of Arizona, Maine, and North Carolina "carrying water for him as he trundles toward authoritarianism." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-10518352781.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/07/24/polling-shows-trumps-secret-police-portland-and-gop-lawmaker-complicity-could-have?cd-origin=rss

Trump Administration Deploys Federal Forces into Major U.S. Cities
Black Alliance for Peace | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-23
The repressive U.S. state's chickens have come home to roost with President Donald Trump announcing federal troops will be deployed to several U.S. cities. This comes after federal agents reportedly disappeared protesters last week off the streets of Portland, Oregon….
globalresearch.ca/black-alliance-condemns-trump-administration-deploying-federal-forces-major-us-cities/5719233

Defund the Police State, Before It's Too Late
William Boardman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-23
The American police state is currently making its boldest test run to date in Portland, Oregon, escalating violence and lawlessness against the peaceful population of an American city. The people of Portland have responded with increased resistance, but support from …
globalresearch.ca/defund-police-state-before-too-late/5719241

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough calls Portland protests 'peaceful'… despite footage of escalating violence
rt.com | 2020-07-23
Joe Scarborough has called protests in Portland "peaceful for the most part," less than a day after the mayor was tear-gassed in the face amid escalating violence following more than two months of demonstrations. | On his Morning Joe show Thursday, Scarborough railed against the deployment of federal agents to the city of Portland, saying they have launched "deeply disturbing attacks" against "peaceful protests, for the most part." | The MSNBC host has no doubt seen footage of federal agents arresting protesters and proceeding to throw them into unmarked vans — but perhaps he missed the videos of demonstr…
rt.com/usa/495653-morning-joe-portlandsful/

Secret police in Portland violated human rights of peaceful protesters
DLI | indybay.org | 2020-07-23
Videos showing U.S. Federal secret police(with no badges and riding in unmarked vehicles)inflicting massive violence on mostly peaceful protesters are running viral across the Globe. Yet the Federal governing regime brazenly avows that this will be the "new normal" in major cities from now on…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/21/18835237.php

Stand with the resistance in Portland!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-23
Protesters grabbed off the streets by federal agents who refuse to identify themselves, placed unmarked vehicles, and taken to undisclosed locations. These same agents nearly killed a young man holding part of a sound system at a demonstration. This is the outrageous reality in Portland today, were Trump has deployed a paramilitary police force to carry out a wave of repression. The good news is that the resistance in Portland has been nothing short of heroic, as thousands have taken to the streets in a powerful display of opposition. | The Trump administration has repeatedly stated that it is deploying federal a…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/23/stand-resistance-portland

Cities challenge Trump's dispatch of federal law enforcement officers
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-23
OAKLAND, Calif. — Outrage is growing throughout the country over Donald Trump's use of federal law enforcement against protesters in Portland, Oregon, and his threats to dispatch federal officers to other U.S. cities. On July 20, Trump told reporters he might send federal "law enforcement" to cities he claimed were experiencing heightened violence, naming cities …
peoplesworld.org/article/cities-challenge-trumps-dispatch-of-federal-law-enforcement-officers/

The Federal Response to Protests Extends Far Beyond Portland
Ken Klippenstein | thenation.com | 2020-07-23
The Federal Response to Protests Extends Far Beyond Portland…
thenation.com/article/society/cbp-deployment-harris/

U.S. Navy veteran speaks out about being attacked by Trump's secret police in Portland this past weekend
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-23
It isn't about me getting beat up. It's about focusing back on the original intention of all of these protests, which is Black Lives Matter.
nationofchange.org/2020/07/23/u-s-navy-veteran-speaks-out-about-being-attacked-by-trumps-secret-police-in-portland-this-past-weekend/

New Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Federal Law Enforcement
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-23
The Western States Center, the First Unitarian Church of Portland, two state representatives and an ACLU legal observer are listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which alleges the federal government has violated protesters' 10th Amendment rights. It was filed Tuesday in federal court. | The 10th Amendment delineates the separation of powers between federal and state governments. | "The power to engage in ordinary law enforcement is one of the long-recognized powers that belong to the states and to their municipalities," said Cliff Davidson, an attorney with Snell & Wilmer, the firm filing the lawsuit. | The W…
popularresistance.org/new-civil-rights-lawsuit-filed-against-federal-law-enforcement/

What Are Trump And His Goons Up To?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-23
First and foremost, it is a political stunt to capture the law and order crowd and press on divides between the coastal cities and inland voters. But it's also more sinister than that. The use of federal forces is designed to weaken local accountability by freezing out local government that constituents can reach. Portland's mayor might not even have opposed some "help" from the feds, but he wasn't asked. In other words, this wasn't mutual aid. This was indeed an invasion. An alphabet soup of federal agencies have been employed to crack down on police brutality protests, including the National Guard, the US Marsh…
popularresistance.org/what-are-trump-and-his-goons-up-to/

Portland's Mayor Tear-Gassed By Militarized US Police
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-23
The mayor of Portland, Oregon was tear-gassed by U.S. government agents as he stood outside a federal courthouse during another night of protests against the presence of federal police sent by President Donald Trump to quell the city's ongoing unrest. | Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, appeared slightly dazed and coughed and said Wednesday night it was the first time he'd been tear-gassed. | He put on a pair of goggles someone handed him and drank water but did not leave his spot at the front of the protest and continued to take tear gas as the demonstration raged — with protesters lighting a large fire betwe…
popularresistance.org/portlands-mayor-tear-gassed-by-militarized-us-police/

Federal Agents Retreat To Portland Base As Protesters Control Streets
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-23
The DHS officers dispatched by the president to put down the demonstrations have instead become prisoners of the building they are ostensibly there to defend. | "The feds don't have control of the streets," said a woman holding a sign "100% not a terrorist", who gave her name only as Shannon. "I think they're more scared than us. They're hiding in there. They don't know what they're doing." If the intent was to intimidate the protesters into abandoning the few square blocks of downtown Portland under their control, it backfired spectacularly. | Residents of a city with a long history of radical street protest wer…
popularresistance.org/federal-agents-retreat-to-portland-base-asers-control-streets/

In another night of unrest in Portland, tear gas hits mayor
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-23
The mayor of the U.S. city of Portland, Ted Wheeler, was stung by tear gas early on Thursday morning after he joined demonstrators protesting against racial injustice and police brutality.Protests have rocked Portland every night for weeks, with security forces often tear-gassing and clubbing demonstrators.Visiting the protest site, Wheeler was jeered at by some demonstrators who called on him to resign and chanted "Shame on You". They said he should have done more to protect Portland's citizens.However, as he stood amongst the crowd outside Portland's Justice Center, Wheeler, who was wearing a face mask, was him…
yenisafak.com/en/news/in-another-night-of-unrest-in-portland-tear-gas-hits-mayor-3535206

Portland mayor cheers protesters & joins them to face tear gas, gets calls to resign anyway (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-23
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler failed to win over a crowd of angry anti-police protesters despite rooting for their cause. But rather than seeing him as an ally against federal agents, some said he's part of the problem and has to go. | …
rt.com/usa/495580-portland-mayor-appearance/

Paramilitary-Style Tactics in Portland Mirror Decades of U.S. Violence on the Border & Abroad
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-23
The harrowing scenes of paramilitary-style units in the streets of American cities like Portland has shocked mainstream America, but award-winning independent journalist Todd Miller, who has reported on border security and immigration for over a decade, says it's a reflection of how the U.S. has operated around the world. We also speak with Cecilia Menjívar, UCLA sociology professor, who says the image of unmarked vans snatching people from the streets "brings back memories to Latin Americans who lived through disappearances of families and friends and co-workers."
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/23/federal_agents_paramilitary_tactics_us_imperialism

As Trump threatens secret police deployment nationwide, Democrats debate expanding surveillance powers and new money for DHS
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-23
The rogue deployment of secret federal police forces in Portland, Oregon, has added a new complication to negotiations over reauthorizing the Trump administration's vast surveillance powers and appropriating new money for the Department of Homeland Security.
mronline.org/2020/07/23/as-trump-threatens-secret-police-deployment-nationwide-democrats-debate-expanding-surveillance-powers-and-new-money-for-dhs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=as-trump-threatens-secret-police-deployment-nationwide-democrats-debate-expanding-surveillance-powers-and-new-money-for-dhs

Defend Portland! Defend People's Resistance! No Police State!
Editor | workers.org | 2020-07-23
Despite the brutal attempt of the White House to crush the heroic Black Lives Matter movement by sending camouflaged federal agents ‚àí secret police ‚àí to Portland, Chicago and other U.S. cities, the movement and all who support it have been fighting back. The initial response to the threat of . . . | Continue reading Defend Portland! | Defend People's Resistance! No Police State! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50190/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defend-portland-defend-peoples-resistance-no-police-state

Guns? Yes. Masks? No. And Gestapo in Portland
Max Elbaum | zcomm.org | 2020-07-23
The toxic mix of valuing gun ownership over protecting public health, conspiracism, and reactionary movements glued together by white supremacy and national chauvinism are too deeply rooted to be ended any time soon…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/guns-yes-masks-no-and-gestapo-in-portland/

Paramilitary-Style Tactics in Portland Mirror Decades of Global US Violence
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-07-23
The harrowing scenes of paramilitary-style units in the streets of American cities like Portland has shocked mainstream America, but award-winning independent journalist Todd Miller, who has reported on border security and immigration for over a decade, says it's a reflection of how the U.S. has operated around the world. We also speak with Cecilia Menjívar, UCLA sociology professor, who says the image of unmarked vans snatching people from the streets "brings back memories to Latin Americans wh…
truthout.org/video/paramilitary-style-tactics-in-portland-mirror-decades-of-global-u-s-violence/

The Wisconsin District of FRSO condemns the deployment of federal agents to Milwaukee
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-22
Milwaukee, WI – Last week, unmarked federal agents in military uniforms grabbed protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon, and threw them into unmarked black vans. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed responsibility for the shadowy operation, citing "graffiti" as their justification for snatching activists off the street and interrogating them. | Now, Milwaukee has been named by the Trump administration as one of the cities that would likely be targeted for deployment of Homeland Security Investigation agents. Some Milwaukee activists have reported spotting unidentified agents in military gear n…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/21/wisconsin-district-frso-condemns-deployment-federal-agents-milwaukee

The Wisconsin District of FRSO condemns the deployment of federal agents to Milwaukee
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-22
Milwaukee, WI – Last week, unmarked federal agents in military uniforms grabbed protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon, and threw them into unmarked black vans. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed responsibility for the shadowy operation, citing "graffiti" as their justification for snatching activists off the street and interrogating them. | Now, Milwaukee has been named by the Trump administration as one of the cities that would likely be targeted for deployment of Homeland Security Investigation agents. Some Milwaukee activists have reported spotting unidentified agents in military gear n…
fightbacknews.org/2020/7/21/wisconsin-district-frso-condemns-deployment-federal-agents-milwaukee

Secret police in Portland violated human rights of peaceful protesters
DLI | indybay.org | 2020-07-22
Videos showing U.S. Federal secret police(with no badges and riding in unmarked vehicles)inflicting massive violence on mostly peaceful protesters are running viral across the Globe. Yet the Federal governing regime brazenly avows that this will be the "new normal" in major cities from now on…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/21/18835237.php

Federal officers seen dragging protesters into unmarked vans in Portland
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-22
Portland, OR – For weeks now, officers under the oversight of the Department of Homeland Security have been terrorizing the residents of Portland Oregon in new attempts to stamp out the protest movement that has been ongoing since the killing of George Floyd. These officers can be seen in various videos wearing nondescript camo fatigues with no markings indicating who they are or, or what agency they are working for. These same federal officers nearly killed a protester in Portland last week after shooting him in the head with a 'less-lethal' impact device. | In an intensification of an already overzeal…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/21/federal-officers-seen-draggingers-unmarked-vans-portland

Portland: "Wall of Moms" mobilizes to protect protests from police violence
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-07-22
Chanting, "Feds stay clear! Moms are here!," groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, injuring many.
mronline.org/2020/07/22/portland-wall-of-moms-mobilizes-to-protects-from-police-violence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=portland-wall-of-moms-mobilizes-to-protects-from-police-violence

Outrage over Trump attack: Portland movement fights back
Joshua Hanks | workers.org | 2020-07-22
Federal officers were deployed to "quell" Portland's protests beginning the weekend of July 10 and continuing the following week. Camouflaged unidentified agents arrested and detained demonstrators without even a pretext. The Trump administration has escalated the confrontation between the people and the state apparatus, bringing a whiff of fascism to . . . | Continue reading Outrage over Trump attack: Portland movement fights back at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50136/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=outrage-over-trump-attack-portland-movement-fights-back

Trump deploying 150 federal agents in Chicago to repress our movement
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-22
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | What we have watched in Portland is the dress rehearsal for what Trump is preparing for Chicago: an effort to squash the Black Lives Matter protests flowing from this uprising by violent military means. He claims he is targeting the cities controlled by Democrats because of the chaos caused by the largest rebellion in U.S. history. | In truth, broad democratic forces have come together to exercise their right to protest against police murder and violence. We've had signals this was…
fightbacknews.org/2020/7/21/trump-deploying-150-federal-agents-chicago-repress-our-movement

Over 100 US Lawmakers Ask Barr to Explain Unidentified Federal Officers in Portland
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-22
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US law enforcement chiefs need to explain the activities of unidentified federal personnel in Portland, Oregon, during the protests there, 114 members of the House of Representatives wrote in a letter to Attorney General William Barr and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on Wednesday.
sputniknews.com/us/202007221079959199-over-100-us-lawmakers-ask-barr-to-explain-unidentified-federal-officers-in-portland/

'We won't retreat': DHS chief defends 'proactive arrests' amid Portland riots, stokes Minority Report dystopia outcry (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-22
The head of the Department of Homeland Security set off alarms after saying that federal agents were making 'proactive' arrests in Portland amid heated protests, drawing comparisons to the dystopian "pre-crime" of Minority Report. | Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf appeared on a Fox News segment on Tuesday night, discussing the ongoing protests and rioting across Portland, which he says have continued for "52 nights in a row" as federal officers there are stretched to the limit. | "Because we don't have that local law enforcement support, we are having to go out and proactively arrest individuals, and we need…
rt.com/usa/495456-portland-proactive-arrests-dhs/

Tear Gas, Beatings and Projectiles in Portland
Mike Hastie | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-22
The last couple of nights I have been heavily involved in demonstrations in Portland, Oregon. ( July 18-19, 2020.) As most of you probably know these demonstrations have been going on in front of the Federal Justice Center for over 50 straight nights. Since Trump called in the Feds, the turmoil and violence has escalated. We…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/22/tear-gas-beatings-and-projectiles-in-portland/

Trumpfen Sturmabteilung (Trump's Stormtroopers)
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-22
It is not hard to see the forces kidnapping individuals and teargassing Portland's streets as the Trump administration's private stormtroopers. Although they are operating under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the truth is it is the Executive Branch that issued their orders.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/22/trumpfen-sturmabteilung-trumps-stormtroopers/

Why Portland Became the Test Case for Trump's Secret Police
Zoà´ Carpenter | thenation.com | 2020-07-22
Why Portland Became the Test Case for Trump's Secret Police…
thenation.com/article/activism/portland-secret-police-trump/

Portland's Wall Of Moms Joined By Dads With Leaf Blowers
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-22
In response to the use of tear gas being utilized by federal officers against demonstrators, including a group of moms, in an uprising in Portland, Oregon, this week, a like-minded dads' group encouraged others to show up to the event with leaf blowers in order to dissipate the chemical agents. | Uprisings in Portland have happened nightly since the end of May, in response to police violence against Black Americans, including renewed attention to Jason Washington, a Black resident of the city who was shot and killed by police in 2018. | Tensions have escalated in recent weeks as federal officers began appearing a…
popularresistance.org/portlands-wall-of-moms-joined-by-dads-with-leaf-blowers/

ACLU Sues Federal Agents Over "Unconstitutional Nightmare" in Portland
ACLU Foundation of Oregon | indybay.org | 2020-07-22
Organization Seeks to Block Federal Law Enforcement Attacks on Journalists, Legal Observers in Portland…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/21/18835229.php

Reject the "Exigency Clause" Measure — No Martial Law in Oakland
Coalition for Police Accountabiity | indybay.org | 2020-07-22
This letter was written by Cathy Leonard on behalf of CPA in response to the Police Union's addition to a Measure LL [Police Commission] clean-up measure which would allow the city administrator to declare a version of martial law. If Mayor Schaaf really opposes the Portlandization of Oakland, she needs to demand this addition be removed from any police accountability measure now.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/21/18835222.php