2020-08-09: Social Media Postees

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The World on Fire
Robert Hunziker | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wild fires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic. Somebody somewhere must be asking why all of a sudden in unison, all over creation, two of the planets largest ecosystems are …
globalresearch.ca/world-fire/5720593

The Attack on Indigenous Rights in Brazil
Yanis Iqbal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
On 5 August, 2020, the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to institute measures aimed at protecting indigenous people from the Covid-19 pandemic. This ruling is the legal recognition of the totally disastrous anti-indigenous policies of the Bolsonaro government. …
globalresearch.ca/attack-indigenous-rights-brazil/5720596

On International Day, UN chief spotlights indigenous peoples' resilience in face of COVID-19 pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-08-09
Inclusion and participation of the world's 476 million indigenous peoples must be ensured in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and on the road ahead towards recovery, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has underscored.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069822

First Person: COVID-19 helping Hawaiians to 'recognize the importance of heritage'
news.un.org | 2020-08-09
Sabra Kauka is a cultural practitioner and teaches Hawaiian Studies at the Island School on the island of Kauai, in Hawaii, while acting as a coordinator for the Department of Education. As the daughter of an army officer, she spent much of her youth living overseas, but "felt the call to come home" to Hawaii as an adult after reading a newspaper article which highlighted the poor standard of living for indigenous Hawaiians in Hawaii.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1068801

Video: Dr. Judy Mikovits and the Real Plague Infecting Humanity
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Dr. Judy Mikovits is a top U.S. scientist who has played key roles in saving millions of lives. Instead of lauding her achievements and honoring her, Western governments and their agencies have sought to destroy her. | Why? Because corruption infests …
globalresearch.ca/dr-judy-mikovits-real-plague-infecting-humanity/5720582

Covid-19 and the "Greater Economic Depression" Exceeding the 1930s: Unemployment Armageddon
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
The COVID-19 crisis at a time of deteriorating economic conditions caused what in hindsight may be known as a Greater Depression — exceeding the worst of the 1930s. | For 20 straight weeks, new claims for unemployment insurance exceeded one million….
globalresearch.ca/us-economic-unemployment-armageddon/5720570

Selective Maritime Rules: The United States, Diego Garcia and International Law
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
There are few more righteous sights than the paunchy US Secretary of State savaging the People's Republic of China with his next volley on Chinese territorial aspirations. In July, Mike Pompeo released a statement putting any uncertain minds at ease …
globalresearch.ca/selective-maritime-rules-united-states-diego-garcia-international-law/5720607

The United States, Diego Garcia, and International Law
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-09
There are few more righteous sights than the paunchy US Secretary of State savaging the People's Republic of China with his next volley on Chinese territorial aspirations. In July, Mike Pompeo released a statement putting any uncertain minds at ease on where Washington stood on the matter. "We are making clear: Beijing's claims to offshore …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/the-united-states-diego-garcia-and-international-law/

More evidence emerges of T Cell Immunity against novel Coronavirus in unexposed people
Sandipan Talukdar | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-09
Aside from our immune response to COVID-19, another important factor in countering the disease are cellular reactions which offer immunity in case of an infection. Two important aspects have emerged in recent case studies. The first is the production of an antibody that kills the virus at different locations of the body that the virus has colonized. The other is the cellular immunity provided by T cells. The T cell immunity could be more important than antibody production as it produces a longer immunogenic response than antibodies — which can die off in a shorter period of time, even within a few weeks.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/09/more-evidence-emerges-of-t-cell-immunity-against-novel-coronavirus-in-unexposed-people/

Covid-19 and the Health Crisis in Latin America
Yanis Iqbal | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
Latin America has surpassed more than 5 million Covid-19 cases to overtake North America, with 4.8 million Covid-19 cases, as the region worst-hit by the Coronavirus pandemic…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-19-and-the-health-crisis-in-latin-america/

100 days without COVID-19
Michael Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
How New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/100-days-without-covid-19/

The COVID "Second Wave" Will Tear Our Communities Apart
Stewart Brennan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
When the new flu season arrives in autumn 2020, our western governments and mainstream news media are preparing to go into overdrive and declare (without evidence) that the 2nd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is here. The fact is, they're …
globalresearch.ca/covid-second-wave-tear-communities-apart/5720566

The COVID-19 Vaccine. The Imposition of Compulsory Vaccination with a Biometric Health Passport?
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
The COVID-19 vaccine… | Is this THE final goal of this crisis, to impose a compulsory vaccination on everyone, with a biometric health passport and without it, the impossibility to move, to buy, to eat? | The near future will tell. | With …
globalresearch.ca/the-covid-19-vaccine-the-imposition-of-compulsory-vaccination-with-a-biometric-health-passport/5720163

A Virus Has Brought the World's Most Powerful Country to Its Knees
Ed Yong | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
COVID 19 is but a harbinger of worse plagues to come. The US cannot plan for these inevitable crises if it returns to normal. Normal led to this. To avert another catastrophe, the US needs to grapple with all the ways normal has failed us.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-virus-has-brought-the-worlds-most-powerful-country-to-its-knees/

Covid-19: Questionable Policies, Manipulated Rules of Data Collection and Reporting. Is It Safe for Students to Return to School?
H. Ealy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Elected officials have enacted many questionable policies that have injured our economy, educational system, our country's mental and emotional health, and the American citizen's personal expression of Constitutionally-protected rights to participate in our own governance.
globalresearch.ca/covid-fatalities-wer-90-2-lower-how-would-you-feel-about-schools-reopening/5720264

Trump's Withdrawal From WHO A Cover-Up for His Failure on COVID-19
Prabir Purkayastha | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
The WHO, with its warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global cooperation. It is hated by the right wing precisely for these reasons…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-withdrawal-from-who-a-cover-up-for-his-failure-on-covid-19/

The Beirut Blast. "An Understanding of the Geopolitical Forces at Work"
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Four days after the Beirut Blast of 4th August 2020, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, has attempted to explain what caused the largest explosion since the end of the Second World War. He attributes it to either the …
globalresearch.ca/the-beirut-blast/5720600

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

Beirut Suffers While Demanding Answers
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
The sonic blast at the Port of Beirut on August 4 produced a huge white mushroom cloud that enveloped the port and then rose into the evening sky just after 6 pm. However, the cloud of confusion and disbelief still …
globalresearch.ca/beirut-suffers-while-demanding-answers/5720610

Global Warfare: "We're Going to Take out 7 Countries in 5 Years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.."
General Wesley Clark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Originally published in March 2007. | Global Research Editor's Note: | This interview serves as a reminder regarding the diabolical timeline of America's hegemonic project. Is Iran the next target "to be taken out"? | All these countries including Lebanon and Iran are …
globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166

The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Un-Censored Version
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Today, August 9, 2020, we commemorate the 7th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. | This article was first published by Global Research in August 2013 as a commemoration of the egregious lie on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. See | …
globalresearch.ca/the-bombing-of-nagasaki-august-9-1945-the-un-censored-version/5345274

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the threat of nuclear extinction
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-09
It is difficult to believe that the US view of the justness of its possession of nuclear power, while threatening others, is not underpinned by the belief of many in white supremacy…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/09/remembering-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-and-the-threat-of-nuclear-extinction/

E$paña: No somos esclavos!
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
E$paña: °No somos esclavos! -reclamo antirracista de trabajadorxs agrícolas inmigrantes- | "A los negros aquí nos tratan como mierda"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835731.php

How The US Failed At Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
On August 4, 2020, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Venezuela. Appearing before the committee was U.S. State Department Special Representative Elliott Abrams. Abrams, who has had a long–and controversial–career in the formation of U.S. foreign policy, was assaulted by almost all the members of the Senate committee. The senators, almost without exception, suggested that Abrams had been–since 2019–responsible for a failed U.S. attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro.
popularresistance.org/how-the-us-failed-at-its-foreign-policy-toward-venezuela/

Letter To tThe Socialists, Old And New
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
I joined the labor movement 41 years ago. I had enrolled in the socialist movement two years before that. When I started out my links to the rest of the socialist movement were few; there were dwindling handfuls of people who identified publicly as "socialists." The U.S. Mail and shortwave radio were my links to the bigger movement out there in the world. What remained of the socialist movement was rapidly decelerating and fissuring after the big 1960's radicalization had run its course. | Even in these inopportune conditions I managed to climb aboard and find my places in both the labor and socialist movements.
popularresistance.org/letter-to-tthe-socialists-old-and-new/

Federal Judge Calls On Supreme Court To Overturn 'Qualified Immunity'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
Handing down a ruling to dismiss a civil lawsuit which alleged a police officer violated a Black man's Fourth Amendment rights during a traffic stop in 2013, a federal judge in Mississippi made clear that he sided with the plaintiff–and demanded the U.S. Supreme Court overturn legal precedent that makes it nearly impossible for the judicial system to hold officers accountable for rights violations. | Calling for an end to qualified immunity, which dates back to a 1982 ruling and shields police from civil liability in most cases, U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves turned his ruling into a plea for just…
popularresistance.org/federal-judge-calls-on-supreme-court-to-overturn-qualified-immunity/

Calais refugees 'exhausted' and 'scared' as police evictions continue
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-09
Refugees living in Calais facing repeated police evictions have been left "exhausted, scared and not knowing which way to turn", a humanitarian charity has warned.Aid workers in northern France say the forced moving on of refugees is fuelling attempts to cross the English Channel in small boats.They say recent weeks in the French port city have been "unbelievably tough" and that people there "only want to be given the chance to rebuild their lives".Hundreds of refugees live in various camps along the French coastline, often in desperate conditions that have only been made more dangerous by the Covid-19 pandemic.C…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/09/calais-refugees-exhausted-and-scared-as-police-evictions-continue/

Afghanistan to free 400 Taliban to start peace talks
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
The Afghan president, following a recommendation by a traditional Afghan council, pledged on Sunday to release the remaining 400 Taliban prisoners to pave the way for peace talks aimed at ending the nearly two-decade-long war."The Taliban must demonstrate they are not afraid of a comprehensive ceasefire… there is no great bravery required for war, but for peace," Ashraf Ghani told the Loya Jirga, which began on Friday.He promised to free the remaining prisoners on Aug. 19, Afghanistan's Independence Day.Over 3,000 public figures, who assembled in the capital Kabul, approved the release and called for an immedia…
yenisafak.com/en/news/afghanistan-to-free-400-taliban-to-start-peace-talks-3536450

Trump Scuttles Economic Stimulus Negotiations. What Next?
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Today, August 7, 2020 negotiations on an economic stimulus package between US House Democrats and the White House broke down and broke off. What's behind it? | In recent days the Democrats' leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer, reportedly reduced …
globalresearch.ca/trump-scuttles-economic-stimulus-negotiations-what-next/5720589

Video: Syrian Army Undertakes Failed Advance in Northern Lattakia Amid Rise of ISIS Attacks in Deir Ezzor
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Iranian-backed militias and the Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF) have launched a joint security operation against ISIS cells in the area between the towns of al-Mayadin and al-Bukamal, on the western bank of the Euphrates. According to pro-government sources, hundreds …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-undertakes-failed-advance-northern-lattakia-amid-rise-isis-attacks-deir-ezzor/5720598

Lessons of Nagasaki survivors should motivate the world to eliminate all nuclear weapons — UN chief
news.un.org | 2020-08-09
UN Secretary General António Guterres on Sunday marked 75 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki with praise for the hibakusha, the survivors, who transformed their decades-long plight into a warning about the perils of nuclear weapons and an example of the triumph of the human spirit.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069812

Trump's Presidency Is a Death Cult
Sonali Kolhatkar | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
The fact that the president and his supporters want us to tolerate hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths from the pandemic reveals their true nature…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-presidency-is-a-death-cult/

Workers Blow the Whistle on Mass Death
Moe Tkacik | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
Private equity firms have imposed austerity measures on the hospitals they acquire. In a pandemic, that's meant countless preventable deaths…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/workers-blow-the-whistle-on-mass-death/

Jordanian teachers intensify protests against banning of union
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-09
Teachers held protests in a number of cities in Jordan condemning last month's ban on the Jordanian Teachers' Syndicate. Security forces attacked these protests with tear gas and batons…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/09/jordanian-teachers-intensify-protests-against-banning-of-union/

Terminating Social Security and Medicare
Jon Queally | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
Trump Just Admitted on Live Television He Will 'Terminate' Social Security and Medicare If Reelected in November…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/terminating-social-security-and-medicare/

Restoring Free Speech and Freedom from Big Brother
Paul Larudee | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-09
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, and Part VII. One of the greatest obstacles to greater distribution of wealth and power, and therefore to an equitable society, is control of — and controls on — speech and the media. Most films, television, newspapers, Internet suppliers and other mass …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/restoring-free-speech-and-freedom-from-big-brother/

3 years after Santiago Maldonado's disappearance, the pattern continues
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-09
On August 1, 2017, in a massive operation, the National Gendarmerie (police) of Argentina illegally invaded the Pu Lof Mapuche community in Cushamen in Chubut Province. They entered the community firing their guns, and burned the belongings of the inhabitants. | Among those who fled the brutal attack was Santiago Maldonado, a young artisan and anarchist. He had come to stand in solidarity with the community that was mobilizing to demand the liberation of their Weichafe or spiritual leader, Facundo Jones Huala. | According to testimonies, Santiago made it to the banks of the Chubut river but was unable to cross ov…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/09/3-years-after-santiago-maldonados-disappearance-the-pattern-continues/

On Community Control of Police
M Adams | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
You need some form of organized force to deal with harm. But under community control, it would be radically different…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-community-control-of-police/

Young People Are Leading the Growing Movement for Police-Free Schools
Tasasha Henderson | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
They are demanding that city and school district leaders reallocate funding for police into services and resources for students, including counseling, social workers and restorative justice programming…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/young-people-are-leading-the-growing-movement-for-police-free-schools/

Economy Creates 1.8 Million Jobs in July, Production Workers' Wages Fall
Dean Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-08-09
There is no evidence that generous unemployment benefits are making it difficult to find workers…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/economy-creates-1-8-million-jobs-in-july-production-workers-wages-fall/

The lessons of South Africa's 1956 Women's March resonate to this day
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-09
On August 9, 1956, nearly 20,000 women marched in South Africa against apartheid-era Pass Laws. The struggles they waged and the demands they raised are especially relevant today…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/09/the-lessons-of-south-africas-1956-womens-march-resonate-to-this-day/

Eid al-Ghadir Khumm celebrated in Tabriz
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TABRIZ, Aug. 09 (MNA) — People in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan province, celebrated the auspicious feast of Eid al-Ghadir Khumm at Imam Khomeini Mosalla of the city by fully observing health protocols and guidelines due to outbreak of coronavirus.
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Iran registers 2,020 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected 2,020 people and claimed 163 lives in Iran in the past 24 hours, a senior health official said.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162036/Iran-registers-2-020-COVID-19-cases-in-24-hours

New US rep. for Iran indicates Trump's confusion
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to Venezuela Hojjatollah Soltani said that the new US special representative for the Islamic Republic of Iran indicates Trump's confusion.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162047/New-US-rep-for-Iran-indicates-Trump-s-confusion

Parl. mulls over Lebanon's developments after blast: Spox
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission addressed the developments in Lebanon after a devastating explosion happened in Beirut Port last week.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162048/Parl-mulls-over-Lebanon-s-developments-after-blast-Spox

West wants to avoid strategic coop. between Iran, East
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — In a tweet on Sunday, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani wrote that the west is in favor of avoiding Iran from developing ties with the eastern countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162043/West-wants-to-avoid-strategic-coop-between-Iran-East

World never to forget US crimes in Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman said the people around the world, alongside the Japanese, will never forget the US crimes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162046/World-never-to-forget-US-crimes-in-Hiroshima-Nagasaki

Iran could buy a lot of planes during sanctions: official
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Deputy Ministry of Roads and Urban Development said that Islamic Republic of Iran could purchase a lot of planes in sanctions period.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162031/Iran-could-buy-a-lot-of-planes-during-sanctions-official

Iran, Bosnia seeking to expand media coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to Sarajevo Mahmoud Heidari met and held talks with the head of the state broadcasting of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162051/Iran-Bosnia-seeking-to-expand-media-coop

700 Iranian War Veteran using domestic prosthetic feet
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The CEO of a knowledge-based firm producing carbon fiber prosthetic feet said, "So far, prosthetic feet have been used for 700 Iranian disabled veterans and 1,000 amputations."
en.mehrnews.com/news/162034/700-Iranian-War-Veteran-using-domestic-prosthetic-feet

IAU Chancellor visits Mehr News Agency
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The Chancellor of the Islamic Azad University (IAU), Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi made a visit to Mehr News Agency on Sunday.
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TEDPIX hovering above 2mn points
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The benchmark of the Tehran Stock Exchange, TEDPIX pushed up 44,320 points up to a level of 2,078,511 points on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162040/TEDPIX-hovering-above-2mn-points

Maghsoodloo clinches domestic title ahead of FIDE Olympiad
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Grandmaster Parham Maghsoodloo has claimed the title of an internal tournament prior to the 2020 FIDE Online Olympiad.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162037/Maghsoodloo-clinches-domestic-title-ahead-of-FIDE-Olympiad

Lebanese president rejects rumors on Beirut blast intl. probe
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-09
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — The Information Office of Lebanese President announced that Michel Aoun has not agreed on conducting an international investigation on Beirut port blast.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162042/Lebanese-president-rejects-rumors-on-Beirut-blast-intl-probe

Monday 8/10: Call to Action: Demand COVID Relief & Stop McConnell's Misery, Meanness & Mayhem Now!
Poor People's Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835735.php

Tuesday 8/11: Protect Our Vote! Virtual Town Hall to Demand Safe & Fair Elections Now!
Declaration for American Democracy | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835732.php

Social Security & Medicare Cut to Be Permanent if Nazi Trump Reelected
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Nazi Trump signed an illegal order on 8/8/20 to cut the payroll tax for Social Security and Medicare and promised on national TV to make it permanent if he is re-elected. This is a long-standing Republican Party program, outlined in their platform as they want to privatize both programs.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835736.php

San Francisco March Demands State Shut Down Concentration Camps
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
ICE building covered with "bloody" hands as part of state wide protest.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835744.php

Friday 8/14: F*ck Trump: Anti-Fascist Counter Protest
Autonomous Anti-Fascists in Marin | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
DeLong Avenue Overpass in Novato.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835729.php

Chowchilla Women's Prison
Shauna Gunderson | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Demonstration of women and children in front of Chowchilla Women's Prison highlight desperate conditions inside…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835764.php

BLM Oakland Solidarity March Part 3
Victor Noir | indybay.org | 2020-08-09
Because of social distancing I was grateful for the photos I took. It makes me cringe sometimes when I cannot photograph fresh ink. I ventured out on 7 26 20 and retraced for archival purposes.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835737.php

Trump's Order To Bypass Congress On COVID-19 Relief Faces Likely Legal Challenges
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
Washington, DC – President Trump on Saturday said he was bypassing Congress and taking unilateral action to provide financial relief to Americans struggling during the coronavirus crisis, despite uncertainty about his legal authority to do so. | Following the breakdown of talks on Capitol Hill to reach a bipartisan deal, Trump signed four orders that he said would extend enhanced federal unemployment benefits, defer some employees' payroll taxes, continue a temporary ban on evictions and reduce the burden of student loans.
popularresistance.org/trumps-order-to-bypass-congress-on-covid-19-relief-faces-likely-legal-challenges/

The Infinite Greed, Power And Controls Of Giant Corporations
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
The combination of greed and power often spin out of control and challenge the enforceable rule of law and the countervailing force of the organized civic community. | When greed and power are exercised by giant multinational corporations that escape the discipline of the nation-state, the potential for evil becomes infinite in nature. Enough is never enough. | Global giant companies, aided and abetted by their corporate attorneys and accountants, can literally decide how little taxes they are going to pay by shifting profits and expenses among different tax haven countries such as Ireland, Luxembourg, and Panama…
popularresistance.org/the-infinite-greed-power-and-controls-of-giant-corporations/

Neoliberal Centrists And The American Left
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
The rapid end to the electoral fortunes of the Anglo-American left in 2020 was engineered by radical centrists for the benefit of capital. What was banished, in addition to vibrant and informed opposition to an atrophied political class, was the prospect of Federal government programs that are both desired and needed by the American people. Even if the agents of atrophy get it together in coming weeks to toss a few crumbs to those economically displaced by the pandemic, current woes arrived decades into engineered economic decline.
popularresistance.org/neoliberal-centrists-and-the-american-left/

National Uprising Exposes Divisions In The Ruling Class
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
For weeks on end, the George Floyd protests against racism and police violence shook America. Support for the movement overflowed all demographic boundaries as an estimated 10% of all American adults–some 25 million people–participated in at least one protest. However, although mass gatherings have continued unabated in some cities, in most of the country the torrential river has inevitably receded into its banks as it was deprived of a revolutionary outlet–for now. | The revived BLM movement has been a treasure trove of practical experience for the millions who drove it forward.
popularresistance.org/national-uprising-exposes-divisions-in-the-ruling-class/

There Is No Political Solution To The Syrian Conflict
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, of the Obama administration, created a mantra for the media: "There is no military solution to Syria." He said it so many times, he seemed to convince everyone. However, after 9 years of conflict it appears there is neither a military, nor political solution for Syria. Despite the fact that the Syrian government under President Assad, with help from Russia, has regained 70% of the territory, and all the major cities are calm, still there is no possibility for recovery or reconstruction of hospitals, schools, homes and lives due to the US sanctions.
popularresistance.org/there-is-no-political-solution-to-the-syrian-conflict/

Study: Return To Work Not Affected By $600 Unemployment Boost
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
There's no relationship between expanded Unemployment Compensation payments and individuals' likelihood of returning to work, according to two recent studies. One, by researchers at Yale University, finds that more generous UC payments are not related to lower rates of return to work. Another shows employers saw no overall decline in the number of applicants per job vacancy as a result of the increased payments. | The findings refute the assertion by some pundits and politicians from both parties who claim the additional $600 weekly payment to laid-off workers established by Congress in March is a "disincentive t…
popularresistance.org/return-to-work-not-affected-by-600-unemployment-boost/

Occupy The Block For The Neville Family On Third Week
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-09
On day 22 of Occupy the Block #OccupyWSNC, demonstrators gathered at Bailey Park at 10 am. | At 3 pm, approximately 300 occupiers, supporters, and the Neville Family gathered on the sidewalk outside the Forsyth County Courthouse for the Rally of Support for the Neville Family. Activists spoke of love for the Neville family and called for transparency and accountability from our officials. Sean Neville offered words of thanks for the movement. | Meanwhile, officers lined the windows at the entrance of the courthouse. Bike cops stalked the gathering, following the group even as they marched and threatened participa…
popularresistance.org/occupy-the-block-for-the-neville-family/

NYT digs up more unnamed sources for 'Trump-Russia' narrative as media resurrects hysteria ahead of 2020 election
rt.com | 2020-08-09
The New York Times has once again broadcast the musings of anonymous officials to insinuate Donald Trump is somehow in cahoots with Russia, amid a growing resurgence in debunked Russiagate theories ahead of the November election. | The paper ran an exclusive report purportedly detailing the US president's battle with intelligence agencies over allegations that Moscow had interfered with the 2016 presidential contest. According to unnamed sources cited by the NYT, Trump was unresponsive and dismissive of an intelligence assessment which claimed that he is Russia's "favored" candidate in the 2020 race. One anony…
rt.com/usa/497496-trump-nyt-russia-intelligence-election/

Beirut Devastated: The New Paradigm May Be Explosive
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-09
Sometimes the news cycle and the geo-political cycle simply part company. This is one such occasion — the devastation of Beirut Port. What happened there is destined to constitute a major geo-political event — whatever way its sequellae should cascade out and shape the future. There are good, historic reasons for this parting of the ways: One (which explains the regional silence), is that we have not yet had the forensics. Yes, satellite photos galore, but not the nitty-gritty from the ground. Not the forensics. | The main stream media is in a hurry to 'shape' its story of the explosion in advance of…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/09/beirut-devastated-the-new-paradigm-may-be-explosive/

In another sign that Biden is the true neocon candidate, his inner circle reads like a who's who of US imperialism
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-08-09
The Canary recently reported that major figures from a previous Republican Party administration are rallying behind presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden. This provides clear evidence that Biden is the preferred choice of Washington's neoconservative establishment. Moreover, it demonstrates that the US has two right-wing, imperialist major parties. | Now figures from the Democratic Party's small progressive (or, perhaps more accurately, mode…
thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2020/08/09/in-another-sign-that-biden-is-the-true-neocon-candidate-his-inner-circle-reads-like-a-whos-who-of-us-imperialism/

BBC finally apologises over use of racist term in news report
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-09
BBC director-general Tony Hall has apologised for a news report which contained a racist term.More than 18,000 people complained to the BBC over the broadcast, which saw social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin repeat a racial slur allegedly used in a suspected racially-motivated attack in Bristol.After the broadcaster initially defended the report, Hall said in a statement that the BBC "now accepts that we should have taken a different approach at the time of broadcast and we are very sorry for that".Lord Hall said the corporation is 'very sorry' (Ben Stansall/PA)He said the report had caused "distress" to many…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/09/bbc-finally-apologises-over-use-of-racist-term-in-news-report/

France to host fundraising conference for Beirut
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
France's President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday will bring the international community together to raise funds for Beirut in the aftermath of the deadly blast earlier this week.The virtual conference will be held at 1200GMT with Macron hosting the conference from his vacation home in the south of France.The conference is backed by the United Nations and will involve major world leaders, including Lebanon's President Michel Aoun and US President Donald Trump.Leaders from the EU, Britain, China, Russia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE are also expected to participate.Two massive explosions tore through…
yenisafak.com/en/world/france-to-host-fundraising-conference-for-beirut-3536445

N.Korea brings aid supplies to border town under lockdown: state media
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
North Korea's ruling party has delivered special aid packages of food and medical equipment to residents of Kaesong, near the border with the South, after imposing a lockdown there due to COVID-19 concerns, state media said on Sunday.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared an emergency and imposed a lockdown on the small border town last month after a person, who defected to South Korea in 2017, returned to Kaesong across the highly fortified border showing coronavirus symptoms.Pyongyang has not confirmed any coronavirus infections but has been taking strict quarantine measures and screening the town, while prov…
yenisafak.com/en/news/nkorea-brings-aid-supplies-to-border-town-under-lockdown-state-media-3536448

Hong Kong reports 72 new coronavirus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
Hong Kong reported 72 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, of which 63 were locally transmitted, as authorities continued efforts to contain a resurgence of infections in the global financial hub over the past month.More than 4,000 people have been infected in Hong Kong since January, 51 of whom have died. Sunday's figure was slightly up from Saturday's 69 cases.
yenisafak.com/en/world/hong-kong-reports-72-new-coronavirus-cases-3536452

Eurasian nations report new coronavirus cases, deaths
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
Coronavirus cases and fatalities continued to rise across Eurasian and Central Asian countries on Friday.- UkraineHealth Minister Maksym Stepanov said 1,199 more people tested positive for the virus over the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 80,949.He said 18 more fatalities raised the death toll to 1,897 while recoveries increased by 317 to reach 43,972.Stepanov urged the public to strictly follow the government's COVID-19 restrictions, which have been extended until Aug. 31.- KazakhstanKazakhstan registered 872 new COVID-19 cases, raising the tally to 98,701. The number of recoveries rose by 664 to reach 72,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/eurasian-nations-report-new-coronavirus-cases-deaths-3536444

Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes western Iran
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
The quake that hit at 1.46 p.m. local time (1046GMT) had a depth of 8 kilometers (4.97 miles) and the epicenter was Gilan-e-Garbh district, according to the Tehran University Seismological Center.There were no immediate reports of casualties.Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, where earthquakes occur often and are destructive.
yenisafak.com/en/world/magnitude-51-earthquake-strikes-western-iran-3536453

Ex-Lebanon premier denies knowledge of Beirut shipment
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
Former Lebanese premier Tammam Salam has denied receiving correspondence or information about the arrival of hazardous chemical materials shipment in Beirut, which allegedly caused a deadly blast in the capital on Tuesday.In a statement on Sunday, Salam's media office said reports alleging that he was aware of the arrival of a ship carrying chemical materials to Beirut were "false and bare of truth." Earlier, media reports suggested that a Lebanese court had ordered the ship to unload its cargo at the Beirut port when Salam was the prime minister.Salam, who served as a prime minister from Feb. 2014 to Dec. 2016,…
yenisafak.com/en/news/ex-lebanon-premier-denies-knowledge-of-beirut-shipment-3536446

Turkey: 32 suspects held in anti-drug operations
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
At least 32 suspects were held during anti-drug operations in Mersin and Gaziantep provinces of Turkey, security sources said on Sunday.In the southern coastal province of Mersin, police acted on a tip-off and found 25,000 drug pills in a vehicle. The driver of the vehicle was detained.Meanwhile, in Gaziantep, the southeastern border province, anti-drug police teams carried out operations to nab drug traffickers.During the operations, police rounded up 31 suspects for possession, use, and selling of drugs.They also seized 13 guns, 11 of which were unlicensed, three unlicensed shotguns, and some cash.*Writing by F…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-32-suspects-held-in-anti-drug-operations-3536447

Turkey: 5 die, 25 injured in bus accident
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
At least five people died and 25 others got injured in a bus accident in Istanbul on Sunday.A passenger bus crashed into a wall of an overpass at the Istanbul Northern Marmara Motorway.The health condition of 10 among the injured, including three children, is serious, according to local authorities.Police have initiated an investigation, and further details are awaited.*Writing by Fahri Aksut…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-5-die-25-injured-in-bus-accident-3536449

Belarus holds presidential elections
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-09
Belarusians began casting votes on Sunday in the presidential election.In a statement, the country's central election commission said over 6.84 million people are expected to cast their votes.Five candidates are running for the presidency: Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus since 1994, Andreij Dmitrijev, co-chairman of the Speak the Truth movement, Anna Kanopackaja, a former lawmaker, Sergeij Cherechnia, chairman of Belarus' Social Democratic Party and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. | Lukashenko was re-elected with 83.5% votes in 2015. | *Writing by Fahri Aksut in Ankara…
yenisafak.com/en/news/belarus-holds-presidential-elections-3536451

Australia: Willing Pawn in US Conflict with China
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
Upon reading Australia's new defense strategy, one might think its authors believe they are surrounded by nations invaded and destroyed by China with Australia next in line. | News headlines declare, " Australia's new defence strategy unveils a significant strategic shift …
globalresearch.ca/australia-willing-pawn-us-struggle-china/5720569

Trump COVID-19 Executive Actions Woefully Inadequate, Legally Dangerous
Robert Greenstein | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders extending coronavirus economic relief, during a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 8, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_executive_failure_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/09/trump-covid-19-executive-actions-woefully-inadequate-legally-dangerous?cd-origin=rss

Elizabeth Warren Leads Charge Against Trump, Denouncing 'Dubious' Executive Orders as 'Cruel Joke' on American People
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-09
If president actually "cared about helping Americans," the Democratic senator charged, "he would have demanded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell start negotiating as soon as the House passed the HEROES act almost two months ago." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_executive_orders1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/09/elizabeth-warren-leads-charge-against-trump-denouncing-dubious-executive-orders?cd-origin=rss

Academia Stoops to Defamation over Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Groundless Accusations against 2 World-class Scientists
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-09
There are two world-class scientists at the center of the Covid-19 hydroxychloroquine storm. | They are Dr. Didier Raoult at the IHU Medical Institute in Marseille, and Dr. Harvey Risch at Yale University. | The present article confronts a shabby injustice to …
globalresearch.ca/academia-stoops-defamation-hydroxychloroquine/5720584

Foiled at Toronto: The Tiger Squad's Canadian Outing
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-09
Silencing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul was a feat of primeval brutality that sent a shudder through even the most hardened officials. The House of Saud, and in particular certain members of it, had gotten a taste for blood. Soon after Khashoggi's slicing and dicing in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the hands …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/foiled-at-toronto-the-tiger-squads-canadian-outing/

Nine years after Mark Duggan's murder, police show little has changed
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-08-09
This week has marked not only the anniversary of the police murder of Mark Duggan, but also the ensuing protests that followed in 2011 — labelled by politicians and the media as " riots". A demo outside a police station in London symbolically remembered the events, and also highlighted ongoing issues with institutional racism and classism. But another situation involving police in the capital shows that despite…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/08/09/nine-years-after-mark-duggans-murder-police-show-little-has-changed/

The End of Big Tech?
Scott Galloway | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
Calls Grow to Break Up Facebook, Amazon for "Mob-Like" Behavior, Monopoly Power…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-big-tech/

Western media's favorite Hong Kong 'freedom struggle writer' is American ex-Amnesty staffer in yellowface
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-08-08
A prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist named Kong Tsung-gan has become a go-to source for Western media. An…
thegrayzone.com/2020/08/08/hong-kong-western-media-yellowfacing-amnesty/

Video: The Privatization of Nuclear War. A "First Strike" Use of Nuclear Weapons as a Means of "Self Defense"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-08
An important transition in nuclear doctrine occurred in the immediate wake of 9/11. | The Cold War MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) doctrine was scrapped by the Bush Jr administration in 2002, replaced by the first strike pre-emptive use of nuclear …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-privatization-of-nuclear-war-first-strike-use-of-nuclear-weapons-as-a-means-of-self-defense/5720256

CODEPINK Denounces Elliott Abrams' Appointment As US Special Representative For Iran
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
The appointment of Elliott Abrams to replace Brian Hook as the next U.S. Special Representative for Iran is another low point for the Trump administration's disastrous policy towards Iran. The dangerous conflict resulting from Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear agreement will be exacerbated by a man committed to Washington's failed policies of regime change, including in his present-day position as Trump's representative for Venezuela. | Elliott Abrams has made a career of lying and committing criminal acts that have led to the death and suffering of innocent people from Guatemala to Iraq.
popularresistance.org/codepink-denounces-elliott-abrams-appointment-as-us-special-representative-for-iran/

Turkey's IHH aids thousands in Lebanon after blast
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) on Saturday provided humanitarian aid for thousands who have been affected by Tuesday's massive explosion at Beirut port.In a statement, the IHH said rescue efforts are still underway for those still missing after the blast, which killed at least 154 people."The grain silos destroyed by the explosion were a vital artery for the supply of food in the country," IHH said, warning of a humanitarian crisis in Lebanon in case of failure to supply the country with enough quantities of flour within a short period of time.According to the statement, the IHH has launched a camp…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkeys-ihh-aids-thousands-in-lebanon-after-blast-3536402

Over a third of indigenous Canadians struggling to pay for essentials during pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
If anything, the figures presented by Statistics Canada understate the horrific social conditions facing most indigenous people.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/cain-a08.html

Keep plantations out of Palawan Forest! Please Sign Petition
Rainforest Rescue | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
The provincial government wants to open up areas of rich biodiversity and indigenous land to industrial plantations. An industrial coconut grower is already destroying indigenous peoples' sacred sites.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835721.php

[Editorial] Self-determination and Indigenous health
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Colonisation is a fundamental determinant of Indigenous peoples' health. Indigenous is a term defined by dislocation, and the effects of that displacement are felt by Indigenous peoples around the world. Aug 9, International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, is a chance to look at the continuing effects of territorial removal, the destruction of people, culture, and languages, and the lack of self-determination (the right to determine one's own social, cultural, and economic development), and their impact on Indigenous peoples' health.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31682-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Brazilian liberation theologist Dom Pedro Casaldáliga passes away
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-08
Dom Pedro Casaldáliga Plá, a Catholic missionary and an iconic voice of liberation theology, died on the morning of August 8, Saturday, at the age of 92. He was the Bishop Emeritus of the Prelature of Sà£o Félix do Araguaia and famous for his defense of the rights of the indigenous people of Brazil. He died of a pulmonary embolism at the Santa Casa de Batatais Hospital in the State of Sà£o Paulo. | Dom Pedro Casaldáliga Plá was admitted to the hospital after complaining of respiratory problems. He had earlier been admitted to the Hospital Sà£o Félix do Araguaia in the State of Mato Grosso. Casal…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/08/brazilian-liberation-theologist-dom-pedro-casaldaliga-passes-away/

"The Squad Is Here to Stay"
Luke Savage | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
For leftists and progressively minded Democrats still reeling from Bernie Sanders's defeat, this week's elections were very welcome news…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-squad-is-here-to-stay/

How the US failed at its foreign policy toward Venezuela
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-08
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Venezuela confirmed this week the overt efforts over the last year of the US government to carry out a coup d'état against president Nicolás Maduro…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/08/how-the-us-failed-at-its-foreign-policy-toward-venezuela/

Venezuela's Maduro Demands Investigation into Landlord Violence
Manuela Solé | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-08-08
The Venezuelan president ordered the armed forces to protect campesinos from landowner attacks.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14962

Watchdogs Alarmed by Changes to Postal Service Under Trump's Postmaster General
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-08
Government watchdogs, Democratic lawmakers, and pro-democracy advocates declared it a " Friday Night Massacre" for the U.S. Postal Service after news broke in a classic end-of-the-week dump that Louis DeJoy — a major GOP donor to President Donald Trump and the recently appointed Postmaster General — had issued a sweeping overhaul of the agency, including the ouster of top executives from key posts and t…
truthout.org/articles/watchdogs-alarmed-by-changes-to-postal-service-under-trumps-postmaster-general/

E$paña: No somos esclavos!
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
E$paña: °No somos esclavos! -reclamo antirracista de trabajadorxs agrícolas inmigrantes- | "A los negros aquí nos tratan como mierda"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835731.php

France Will Ask UK to Pay £30 Mln to Police the English Channel Amid Migrants Influx – Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-08
Britain earlier vowed to take tougher action on illegal migration together with France, as some 7,500 migrants in total could cross the Channel by Christmas.
sputniknews.com/world/202008081080105600-france-will-ask-uk-to-pay-30-mln-to-police-the-english-channel-amid-migrants-influx—report/

The corporate press is back to the 'migrant invasion' propaganda again
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
The corporate press's response to refugees crossing the English channel shows that little has changed in five years. That is right-wing politicians and tabloids continue to roll out the 'migrant invasion' narrative for their own purposes; ignoring the fact that many of these people are refugees and asylum seekers — and the part the UK has played in putting them in that position in the first place.Let's deal with the facts: B…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/08/08/the-corporate-press-is-back-to-the-migrant-invasion-propaganda-again/

The Likud Conspiracy: Israel in the Throes of a Major Political Crisis
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-08
Protests against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have raged on for weeks, turning violent sometimes. Israelis are furious at their government's mediocre response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially as COVID-19 disease is experiencing a massive surge throughout the country. Netanyahu warned protesters, thousands of whom have been rallying outside his residence in Jerusalem, against "anarchy …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/the-likud-conspiracy-israel-in-the-throes-of-a-major-political-crisis/

'Lebanese people have suffered too much': US encourages 'peaceful' regime change as protests rage in blast-ravaged Beirut
rt.com | 2020-08-08
The US embassy has expressed its solidarity with anti-government protesters in Lebanon, urging all sides to "refrain from violence," after clashes in blast-devastated Beirut left some 500 people injured. | Thousands of people gathered in Beirut on Saturday, demanding government resignation over corruption and negligence that they believe led to the horrific explosion this week. | Also on rt.com | | Lebanese protesters occupy Foreign Ministry & other govt buildings in Beirut (PHOTO, VIDEO) | Amid clashes with riot police, protesters stormed severa…
rt.com/usa/497490-lebanon-us-embassy-peaceful-protest/

'Lebanese people have suffered too much': US encourages 'peaceful' regime change as protests rage in blast-ravaged Beirut
rt.com | 2020-08-08
The US Embassy has expressed its solidarity with anti-government protesters in Lebanon, urging all sides to "refrain from violence," after clashes in blast-devastated Beirut left around 500 people injured. | Thousands of people gathered in Beirut on Saturday, demanding the government resign over corruption and negligence, which they believe led to the horrific explosion this week. | Also on rt.com | | Lebanese protesters occupy Foreign Ministry & other govt buildings in Beirut (PHOTO, VIDEO) | Amid clashes with riot police, protesters stormed sev…
rt.com/usa/497490-lebanon-us-embassy-peaceful-protest/

Covid-19 pandemic will 'bring socialism to US' and transform the world — Nassim Taleb to RT
rt.com | 2020-08-08
In a remarkable twist, the raging coronavirus pandemic has forced even countries like the US to adopt "socialist" welfare programs, acclaimed author and risk analyst Nassim Taleb has told RT. | While people spend days worrying about global wars, our biggest threats have always been the pandemics, the author of 'The Black Swan' and 'Skin in the Game' told RT's Sophie Shevardnadze on her show SophieCo. Visionaries. | The advent of the novel coronavirus will tremendously change societies in many ways, making them better ready for future crises, he said. | "So the world will be different, wiser. But, hopefully, it…
rt.com/news/497465-nassim-taleb-pandemic-socialism/

Supreme Court Rules Jail Does Not Have to Provide Basic Protections to Inmates
Julia Conley, Common Dreams | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
Even as prisons across the US report a surge in Covid-19 cases, the Supreme Court ruled on August 5th that prisons do not have to provide basic protections to inmates.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835717.php

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Under House Arrest
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
The Colombian Supreme Court of Justice has ordered the preventive home detention of Senator and former President Alvaro Uribe for the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery. The Latin American right-wing leader became the first former president to receive this type of arrest order, suspected of trying to manipulate the statement of a defendant who linked him to the creation of paramilitary groups. "The deprivation of my freedom causes me deep sadness for my wife, for my family and for the Colombians who still believe that I have done something good for the country," lamented Uribe…
popularresistance.org/former-colombian-president-alvaro-uribe-under-house-arrest/

Military police allege cover-up of hundreds of UK war crime cases closed down by government
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
Claims that UK authorities covered-up hundreds of war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq have been circulating for some years. But a BBC article, published 1 August 2020, revealed that evidence backs up the claim by former detectives that there was a "deliberate policy" to kill unarmed civilians. The article followed a Panorama programme, War Crimes Scandal Exposed, aired the day before and based on an earlier December 2019 broadcast. | "Suspicious killin…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/08/08/military-police-allege-cover-up-of-hundreds-of-uk-war-crime-cases-closed-down-by-government/

Union prepares sellout of Renault strike in Brazil
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The movement that involved thousands of workers and their families is under threat of being shutdown with an agreement that validates the destruction of 747 jobs.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/braz-a08.html

The filthy hypocrisy of America's "clean" China-free internet
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-08
The Trump administration wants to keep other countries from weaponizing technology the way the U.S. and its allies already have.
mronline.org/2020/08/08/the-filthy-hypocrisy-of-americas-clean-china-free-internet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-filthy-hypocrisy-of-americas-clean-china-free-internet

Reject whitewash report into London bus driver coronavirus deaths! For rank-and-file health and safety committees!
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
There is nothing remotely "independent" about University College London's review into bus driver deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/tran-a08.html

US coronavirus death toll predicted to reach 295,000 by December
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The IHME projection of nearly 300,000 deaths by December exposes the lie that it is safe to reopen the schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/covi-a08.html

Africa's one million coronavirus cases "the tip of the iceberg"
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
Between June and July, the number of cases grew by 500 percent indicating that COVID-19 is more widespread than the official figures suggest.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/afri-a08.html

German schools reopen despite increase in coronavirus infections
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
In order to ensure the capitalists can turn a profit, all established parties, from the Christian Social Union to the Left Party, are pushing for a return to regular in-person teaching.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/schu-a08.html

Coronavirus Outbreaks at Summer Schools Are a Warning Not to Reopen
Jake Jacobs | progressive.org | 2020-08-08
A spate of COVID-19 "clusters" at summer schools across the country show that we could be heading for a disaster if in-person classes resume this fall.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/coronavirus-outbreaks-summer-schools-jacobs-200808/

Eviction wave looms in Idaho's Treasure Valley
Madi B | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-08
The story of the housing crisis in the Treasure Valley has once again risen sharply in pitch, spurred on by the unremitting COVID-19 pandemic. The Treasure Valley — also known as the Boise Metropolitan Area — comprises nearly 40 percent of Idaho's total population and is home to more than 730,000 people. Approximately 42 percent …
liberationnews.org/eviction-wave-looms-in-idahos-treasure-valley/

Eviction wave looms in Idaho's Treasure Valley
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-08
The story of the housing crisis in the Treasure Valley has once again risen sharply in pitch, spurred on by the unremitting COVID-19 pandemic. The Treasure Valley — also known as the Boise Metropolitan Area — comprises nearly 40 percent of Idaho's total population and is home to more than 730,000 people. Approximately 42 percent …
liberationnews.org/eviction-wave-looms-in-idahos-treasure-valley/

Job growth slows in July
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-08
San José, CA – In March and April of this year, more than 20 million jobs were lost because of the economic crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders to fight the virus. Millions more who were working gig jobs or had their own businesses lost their livelihood. At the time when the government count was done in mid-July, more than 30 million people – almost 20% of the workforce – were collecting some form of unemployment insurance benefits. | But most states quickly reopened their businesses, before the virus had been beaten down to levels where public health offices could track down and isolate new infecti…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/7/job-growth-slows-july

Revisiting the Idea of Pigou Wealth Tax in the Time of Covid-19
Kavaljit Singh | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
The unprecedented nature of the Covid-19 pandemic offers a new window of opportunity to governments to introduce wealth taxes on wealthy sections of society…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/revisiting-the-idea-of-pigou-wealth-tax-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

GM Spring Hill workers speak out against unsafe conditions amid COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The WSWS Autoworker Newsletter has received comments from a number of workers at the Tennessee plant.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/tenn-a08.html

Towards Theocracy: the ignominious collapse of Secular Democracy in India
Badri Raina | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
The constitution of India is there, like many other artifacts in the archives, but, like the human appendix, it may now be vestigial…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/towards-theocracy-the-ignominious-collapse-of-secular-democracy-in-india/

Workers, farmers give the call to "Save India"
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-08
On August 9, trade unions and farmers' organizations across India will conduct a protest against the Narendra Modi government's anti-worker policies which have intensified during the lockdown…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/08/workers-farmers-give-the-call-to-save-india/

UK: For a general strike against the reopening of schools
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The SEP calls for the development of an interconnected network of rank-and-file committees to prepare for a general strike against the opening of schools and the murderous policy of the ruling class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/scho-a08.html

Texas attorney general orders in-person education as state cases top 500,000
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The attorney general and governor of Texas are endangering the lives of teachers and students with a patently unscientific back-to-school pandemic plan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/texa-a08.html

Massive anger erupts following Beirut port explosion
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
Security forces used tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters near parliament on Thursday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/beir-a08.html

Justice for Travis Jordan – 38th birthday protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-08
Minneapolis, MN – Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Minneapolis police's 4th Precinct in North Minneapolis, July 31, to demand justice for Travis Jordan, on what should have been his 38th birthday. | On November 9, 2018, Travis Jordan was shot and killed by two rookie officers of the Minneapolis Police Department's 4th Precinct during a wellness check for his suicidal ideation. Officers Neal Walsh and Ryan Keyes, who had each been on the police force less than a year, responded to the call. Instead of saving Travis's life and providing him with the mental health support he needed, they killed him. C…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/7/justice-travis-jordan-38th-birthday-protest

Justice for Travis Jordan – 38th birthday protest
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-08
Minneapolis, MN – Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Minneapolis police's 4th Precinct in North Minneapolis, July 31, to demand justice for Travis Jordan, on what should have been his 38th birthday. | On November 9, 2018, Travis Jordan was shot and killed by two rookie officers of the Minneapolis Police Department's 4th Precinct during a wellness check for his suicidal ideation. Officers Neal Walsh and Ryan Keyes, who had each been on the police force less than a year, responded to the call. Instead of saving Travis's life and providing him with the mental health support he needed, they killed him. C…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/7/justice-travis-jordan-38th-birthday-protest

Belarus elections may mark a key moment in European geopolitics
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-08
Five-time president Alexander Lukashenko is likely to win due to the lack of strong opposition candidates but the possibility of major protests remains. The country is a key part of both Russian and western strategies in the region…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/08/belarus-elections-may-mark-a-key-moment-in-european-geopolitics/

Street Artists Rise to the Occasion
Paul Von Blum | progressive.org | 2020-08-08
In the midst of international protests against racist violence, artists are using their skills to send a clear message: Black lives matter.
progressive.org/dispatches/street-artists-rise-to-occasion-vonblum-200808/

New York Governor Cuomo sanctions statewide reopening of schools
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
Cuomo's mandate provides crucial political support for the Trump administration's drive to reopen schools irrespective of the cost to human life.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/cuom-a08.html

Trudeau government remains silent on corruption and repression in Haiti
Yves Engler | mronline.org | 2020-08-08
One way to evaluate the seriousness of the Trudeau government's stated objectives in seeking to oust Venezuela's elected government is to examine their policies elsewhere in the region.
mronline.org/2020/08/08/trudeau-government-remains-silent-on-corruption-and-repression-in-haiti/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trudeau-government-remains-silent-on-corruption-and-repression-in-haiti

US moves to delist Chinese companies from stock exchanges
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
The move has been couched in terms of protecting "investor safety," but it is another component of the economic warfare being carried out by Washington.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/list-a08.html

Red Roja's declaration on King Juan Carlos's flight from Spain
| workers.org | 2020-08-08
By Red Roja This is the Aug. 5 statement by the Red Roja (Red Network) organization regarding the escape of Spain's former King Juan Carlos I on Aug. 3 from Spanish territory where he faces charges of corruption. Translation and explanatory notes by Workers World Managing Editor John Catalinotto. The . . . | Continue reading Red Roja's declaration on King Juan Carlos's flight from Spain at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50492/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=red-rojas-declaration-on-king-juan-carloss-flight-from-spain

The Heat: U.S. targets China
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-08-08
No deal yet. Talks still in limbo over an economic rescue package providing financial relief to millions of Americans as the coronavirus pandemic continues to surge across the United States.
america.cgtn.com/2020/08/08/the-heat-u-s-targets-china

Eid al-Ghadir celebrated in Urmia
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-08
TEHRAN, Aug. 08 (MNA) — People in Urmia, West Azerbaijan Province of Iran, celebrated the occasion of Eid al-Ghadir on Saturday, preserving the anti-coronavirus health protocols.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162006/Eid-al-Ghadir-celebrated-in-Urmia

Iran calls on IAEA to clarify Saudis' secret nuclear program
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-08
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) — Iran's ambassador to IAEA Kazem Gharibabadi has called for the IAEA to put forward a report on Saudi Arabia's secret program of building yellowcake uranium processing plant.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162008/Iran-calls-on-IAEA-to-clarify-Saudis-secret-nuclear-program

'Funfair' to vie at five international film festivals
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-08
TEHRAN, Aug. 08 (MNA) — Iranian short film 'Funfair', directed by Kaveh Mazaheri will take part at five international festivals in the next three months.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162009/Funfair-to-vie-at-five-international-film-festivals

UN experts renew call for removal of US anti-human sanctions
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-08
TEHRAN, Aug. 08 (MNA) — A group of UN experts has once agian called for unilateral US sanctions to be lifted on countries including Iran, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, and Cuba.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161999/UN-experts-renew-call-for-removal-of-US-anti-human-sanctions

UN envoy condemns US' support for 'Tondar' terrorist group
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-08
TEHRAN, Aug. 08 (MNA) — In a letter to UN Secretary-General, Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN condemned the US support for 'Tondar' terrorist group and called the international body to take the required measures against such support.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162007/UN-envoy-condemns-US-support-for-Tondar-terrorist-group

South Korea floods, landslides kill at least 21
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-08
TEHRAN, Aug. 08 (MNA) — At least 21 people have died after 46 days of heavy rains in South Korea, with the country's longest monsoon in seven years causing more flooding, landslides and evacuations on Saturday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162003/South-Korea-floods-landslides-kill-at-least-21

Book review: Michael Shellenberger's reheated critique of climate 'alarmism'
Jim Green | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
California-based Michael Shellenberger first courted controversy in 2004 with his 'death of environmentalism' critique of the environment movement and has continued to attract controversy by promoting nuclear power, demonising renewable energy ("renewables are worse for the environment than fossil fuels") and demonising the environment movement that he claims to be part of.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835719.php

Monday 8/10: Call to Action: Demand COVID Relief & Stop McConnell's Misery, Meanness & Mayhem Now!
Poor People's Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835735.php

Tuesday 8/11: Protect Our Vote! Virtual Town Hall to Demand Safe & Fair Elections Now!
Declaration for American Democracy | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835732.php

Sunday 8/9: The Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future
CLPFSRS | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835722.php

Friday 8/14: F*ck Trump: Anti-Fascist Counter Protest
Autonomous Anti-Fascists in Marin | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
DeLong Avenue Overpass in Novato.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/08/18835729.php

Venezuela And Trump's Irrational Electoral Policy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
Caracas, Venezuela – Elections always have an interesting effect on public policy, in particular if the person in charge of designing and implementing a certain policy is up for reelection. In politics, it is logical that an incumbent candidate decides to show successful policies and accomplishments while minimizing failures or shortcomings. However, what is irrational is that a candidate insists on presenting, preserving and deepening a policy that has proven to be a failure and that the candidate himself only supports half-heartedly.
popularresistance.org/venezuela-and-trumps-irrational-electoral-policy/

TikTok Diplomacy: A Digital Containment Doctrine
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
With TikTok, Donald Trump is adding State Department coercion to his "art of the deal" toolkit. After months of feigned concern that the viral TikTok app represents a "trojan horse" for the Communist Party of China to access U.S. consumer data, the Trump Administration issued the Chinese company an ultimatum: sell the app to a U.S. buyer, or be shut down. | Microsoft has stepped forward as a potential buyer of TikTok, a clone of the Chinese video app Douyin tailored for a Western audience.
popularresistance.org/tiktok-diplomacy-a-digital-containment-doctrine/

Coronavirus Is Being Tackled By Nicaragua's Community-Based Health System
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
Nicaragua's Sandinista government is — like every other government — engaged in a struggle to limit the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on its people. But Nicaragua suffers two additional handicaps. One is that it is subject to US and European sanctions, which severely limit the aid it gets from abroad or from multilateral bodies. The other is its internal opposition, which aims to use the pandemic in its latest attempt to destabilize the government and turn opinion against it. To do so it employs a wide range of propaganda methods, at home and abroad. These were very evident in a recent article in t…
popularresistance.org/coronavirus-is-being-tackled-by-nicaraguas-community-based-health-system/

Grad Students And Faculty 'Die In' To Protest Reopening
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
Nearly 50 demonstrators lay scattered 6 feet apart wearing face coverings on the lawn outside the school administration's building, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. | Some protesters held signs resembling tombstones with phrases like "R.I.P. campus safety," or "In loving memory." The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in roughly 160,000 deaths in the U.S. since the start of the outbreak in January. Older adults are typically more prone to severe coronavirus infections, although individuals with weakened immune systems are also at high risk.
popularresistance.org/grad-students-and-faculty-die-in-to-protest-reopening/

War And Pandemic Journalism
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
The struggle against Covid-19 has often been compared to fighting a war. Much of this rhetoric is bombast, but the similarities between the struggle against the virus and against human enemies are real enough. War reporting and pandemic reporting likewise have much in common because, in both cases, journalists are dealing with and describing matters of life and death. Public interest is fueled by deep fears, often more intense during an epidemic because the whole population is at risk. In a war, aside from military occupation and area bombing, terror is at its height among those closest to the battlefield.
popularresistance.org/war-and-pandemic-journalism/

Utah Protesters Face Charges With Potential Life Sentence
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
Salt Lake City, UT – Some Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City could face up to life in prison if they're convicted of splashing red paint and smashing windows during a protest, a potential punishment that stands out among demonstrators arrested around the country and one that critics say doesn't fit the alleged crime. | The felony criminal mischief charges are more serious because they carry a gang enhancement. Prosecutors said Wednesday that's justified because the protesters worked together to cause thousands of dollars in damage, but watchdogs called the use of the 1990s-era law troubling, especial…
popularresistance.org/utah-protesters-face-charges-with-potential-life-sentence/

Trump Scuttles Economic Stimulus Negotiations
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
In recent days, the Democrats' leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer, reportedly reduced the cost of their original 'Heroes Act' proposals by $1 trillion. Instead of the original cost of $3T in the Heroes Act passed last June, they were willing to agree to a reduced package of $2 trillion. Never mind the attempt to reach a compromise on some middle ground. The White House, through his assigned negotiator, staffer Mark Meadows, Trump rejected the Democrats' offer. Meadows reportedly slammed the table (a two-bit amateur negotiating tactic) and walked out of negotiations with Pelosi-Shumer in a huff.
popularresistance.org/trump-scuttles-economic-stimulus-negotiations/

'Why not a diverse Latino?' Maxine Waters claims Biden 'can't go home without black woman VP,' gets mocked for 'racism'
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters was roasted online after saying 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden has no other choice but to pick a black woman as his running mate, suggesting he owed a debt to African American voters. | "We know that we're going to have a black woman as vice president," Waters said in an interview with Essence magazine on Friday, hinting that Biden's choice would be based on the "help" he'd received from the black voting bloc. | Let me guarantee you this, based on everything…
rt.com/usa/497435-maxine-waters-biden-black-vp/

Goodbye, greenback! As they abandon dollar in trade, Russia & China could create 'financial alliance,' leading Russian expert says
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Moscow and Beijing's ditching of the US dollar could result in the creation of a "financial alliance," according to a top Russian analyst. Alexey Maslov believes the partnership is approaching a "breakthrough moment." | Maslov, director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, predicts that Russia-China "de-dollarization" could lead to the two nations forming a de-facto fiscal alliance. | "The collaboration between Russia and China in the financial sphere tells us that they are finally finding the parameters for a new alliance with each other," he said, speaking to Japanese p…
rt.com/russia/497464-russia-china-alliance-ditch-dollar/

Doctors sound alarm as deadly tick-borne virus re-emerges in China, kills 7 so far
rt.com | 2020-08-08
As if Covid-19 wasn't enough, Chinese doctors are warning that the country's population is threatened by yet another virus. The infection is passed by tick bites, but could also be transmitted between humans, experts say. | The SFTS virus has already infected around 60 people this year in China's eastern Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces, and seven of them have died. | Symptoms of the potentially deadly infection include fever, cough, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting, as well as a decline in white blood cells. | SFTS isn't exactly new, as the first cases of the tick-borne disease were reported in rural parts of the Hub…
rt.com/news/497471-china-virus-tick-sfts/

'Flagrant example of unfair competition': Russia slams US over 'baseless' ban on China's TikTok
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Washington's recent order banning cooperation with the popular TikTok video-sharing service is an attempt to protect the dominance of American web giants, and violates the rules of the World Trade Organization, Moscow has said. | The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the action against TikTok "another fragrant example of unfair competition for dominance in the field of information." | On Thursday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that…
rt.com/russia/497470-russia-us-tiktok-ban/

He 'deserves a raise': 'Karen' roasted for shaming store manager for not doing enough about non-mask wearer
rt.com | 2020-08-08
A trans activist's attempt to shame a grocery store manager over not enforcing a Covid-19 mask mandate has epically backfired, with critics labeling the complainer a "super Karen." | "I was just threatened w/assault at @kroger in Louisville because I asked another customer to wear a mask, and she refused," Danielle Muscato tweeted. | Muscato said a manager was informed of the confrontation and talked to the non-mask wearing customer, but "refused to do anything more." | Muscato then posted an image of the store manager, named him, and attempted to shame him. | "His name is Andy, and he does not want Twitter t…
rt.com/usa/497489-kroger-karen-coronavirus-masks/

Incorrectly designed and rushed Covid-19 vaccine could actually AGGRAVATE infection, Russian virology expert warns
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Russia's domestically produced Covid-19 vaccine could be dangerous and even cause infection if improperly designed, says Alexander Chepurnov, the former lab head at the Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology. | A rapidly produced vaccine has already been completed and trialed in Russia, and will soon be registered and undergo mass production. The country is just one of many in the race to produce an effective immunization against the disease. According to Chepurnov, if the vaccinated person already has specific antibodies, coronavirus could actually intensify after receiving the vaccine.
rt.com/russia/497472-rushed-vaccine-could-aggravate-infection/

'This is a peaceful protest!' Trump rebukes journalist who mask-shamed crowded press conference
rt.com | 2020-08-08
US President Donald Trump sparred with a reporter who observed that dozens of people at a press conference in New Jersey were flouting the state's health guidelines, arguing the crowd was engaged in a "protest against fake news." | During a presser at Trump's golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey on Friday, a journalist challenged the president's contention that the coronavirus is "disappearing," pointing out that even the crowd attending the press event was not adhering to the state's restrictions. The question drew audible groans from the audience. | "No, they don't have to, this is a political activity. You…
rt.com/usa/497432-trump-masks-peaceful-protest/

Trump signs executive orders on Covid-19 relief after talks break down between White House and Democrats
rt.com | 2020-08-08
US President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders giving extended economic relief to Americans struggling economically during the Covid-19 pandemic after negotiations with Democrats broke down. | Trump announced the orders at a press conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club on Saturday, the same location where he warned such action would be taken a day earlier. | The orders will give a payroll tax holiday to Americans earning less than $100,000 a year. A second order will "protect people…
rt.com/usa/497487-trump-executive-order-covid19/

Georgian actions amounted to declaration of war on Russia — former President Medvedev has no regrets about 2008 conflict
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Russia had to intervene to protect people in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2008, when Georgia shelled civilians and "peacekeepers," former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, calling the move a 'difficult decision." | At the time, Georgia was led by Mikhail Saakashvili, who later fled to Ukraine and remains wanted on criminal charges back home. Medvedev called the behavior of Saakashvili "criminal," and criticized the "scoundrels" who ordered troops to open fire on the houses of civilians and Russian "peacekeepers." | "I made a difficult, but the only possible decision — to stand in defense of Abkhazi…
rt.com/russia/497478-medvedev-georgia-war-russia/

Lebanese PM calls for early parliamentary elections as protests rage following Beirut explosion
rt.com | 2020-08-08
As protests gather steam in Beirut, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab has called for early elections, saying they are the only way out of the deep political crisis which has worsened following the explosion in the city's port. | In a short speech on Saturday, Diab said the country "cannot get out of this crisis without early parliamentary elections." He added he was not to blame for the country's deep economic and political woes, Reuters reported. | Short speech by Hassan Diab included a call for early parliamentary elections in Lebanon. Aside from that, just a lot of vague talk of accountability, "national…
rt.com/news/497480-beirut-protests-hassan-diab-elections/

You will hang! Lebanese protesters 'execute' cardboard cutouts of PM, President & Hezbollah's Nasrallah (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Lebanese protesters have built gallows in Beirut to hang cardboard cutouts of Prime Minister Hassan Diab, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and other politicians they blame for the recent port blast and crisis in the country. | The anger of people spilled into the streets on Saturday, with some 10,000 gathering at Martyrs' Square in the center of the capital. They chanted anti-government slogans and staged a performance, which apparently served as a warning to those in power. Many in Lebanon blame the negligence of the authorities for a massive ammonium nitrate explosion on Tuesday that killed more than 150 p…
rt.com/news/497488-beirut-blast-gallows-protest-nasrallah/

Almost 240 people injured, 1 officer killed in Beirut protests amid clashes, reports of fire & police shooting
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Army has been deployed to Beirut downtown to quell protests over the deadly blast earlier this week. At least 238 people were injured and 63 of them hospitalized and police said an officer was killed in the clashes. | Thousands of protesters gathered at Martyrs' Square in central Beirut, attempting to reach the Parliament and clashing with riot police. | Demonstrators threw rocks and projectiles at the officers, who responded by employing tear gas and other special means. | #Beirut protests: Media reports claim that law enforcement…
rt.com/news/497476-injured-clashes-lebanon-beirut/

Portland protesters attack another police HQ, throw rocks and fireworks at officers (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland fired rocks and fireworks at police on the 71st night of demonstrations in the city, with some even wearing body armor and shields as they clashed with officers. | On Friday night, demonstrators made their way to the Penumbra Kelly Building in Portland, a headquarters shared by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office and Portland Police Bureau. | Portland Police said in a statement on Saturday that they warned the crowd several times that arrests would be made for trespassing, but not all protesters cooperated. Some eventually took to launching rocks and fireworks at the…
rt.com/usa/497483-portland-blm-protests-police/

Lebanese protesters occupy Foreign Ministry & other govt buildings in Beirut (PHOTO, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Demonstrators who took to the streets of Beirut after the Lebanese capital was rocked by a massive blast earlier this week have stormed the Foreign Ministry and other government buildings, amid violent clashes with police. | Around 10,000 people gathered at Martyrs' Square in central Beirut to accuse the government of negligence, which they say allowed a massive ammonium nitrate explosion to occur at the port on Tuesday. | Read more | | Almost 240 people injured, 1 officer killed in Beirut protests amid clashes, reports of fire & police shooting | T…
rt.com/news/497486-beirut-protests-ministry-lebanon/

Trump Signs Executive Orders on Coronavirus Relief for Americans
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-08
Earlier, Trump said he instructed the administration to start drafting an Executive Order on unemployment benefits and other aid for jobless Americans after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a new coronavirus relief bill.
sputniknews.com/us/202008081080105107-trump-says-signs-executive-orders-on-coronavirus-relief-for-americans/

Trump Holds Press Briefing in Bedminster, New Jersey – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-08
The US president is expected to sign a series of executive orders to grant, among others, unemployment benefits, after lawmakers failed to produce a new COVID-19 relief bill.
sputniknews.com/us/202008081080104609-trump-holds-press-briefing-in-bedminster-new-jersey—video/

Videos Show Military Trying to Maintain Order in Beirut Amid Anti-Govt Protests
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-08
Anti-government protests resumed in the Lebanese capital on Saturday, with demonstrators demanding the resignation of the government and social reforms. Hundreds have reportedly been injured in the clashes.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008081080105208-videos-show-military-trying-to-maintain-order-in-beirut-amid-anti-govt-protests/

Police Say 5,000 People Rally Near Netanyahu Residence, Media Report About 15,000
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-08
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – About 5,000 people gathered in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on Saturday evening as anti-government protests in Israel entered the fifth consecutive weekend, police told Sputnik.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008081080105425-police-say-5000-people-rally-near-netanyahu-residence-media-report-about-15000/

Militants Shell 8 Towns in Syria's Idlib, Aleppo Provinces, Russian Military Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-08
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Syrian militants from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* terrorist group shelled eight towns in the northwestern Idlib and Aleppo provinces, the head of Russia's Syria reconciliation centre said Saturday.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008081080104825-militants-shell-8-towns-in-syrias-idlib-aleppo-provinces-russian-military-says/

Bill Gates Warns That TikTok Is a 'Poison Chalice' Amid Potential Microsoft Takeover
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-08
The former CEO and co-founder of technology giant Microsoft has weighed in on the Trump administration's push for an American company to purchase Chinese-owned video-sharing social media app Tik Tok.
sputniknews.com/us/202008081080105010-bill-gates-warns-that-tiktok-is-a-poison-chalice-amid-potential-microsoft-takeover/

'Russiagate' Hoax Unravels, but Their Anti-Russia Sanctions Don't
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-08
Eric ZUESSE | It was reported only on 'fringe' media (such as "Disobedient Media" now gone from the Web) until recently. However, the evidence that the entire "Russiagate" charge — that Russia's Government had "hacked" the Democratic National Committee in 2016 — is an Obama Administration hoax (which was continued into Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report), is now starting to come out into public view and be endorsed publicly by retired U.S. intelligence professionals who can't be fired. It's not yet published in any mainstream U.S. news media, however. So, in this place will be chronologically pre…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/08/russiagate-hoax-unravels-but-their-anti-russia-sanctions-dont/

Schools prepare legal challenges over exam results that will impact poorest students the most
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
Teachers unions are reportedly seeking legal advice as they prepare for a flood of appeals from parents ahead of A-level results day. The cost of appealing decisions is likely to have added impact for poorer students given ongoing cuts to school's funding.Newspaper reports say exam boards are under pressure to make appeals free so poorer pupils do not miss out, and that 40% of teacher predictions for A-level results will be lowered.The developments come as British students await their final results in a year made extraordinary due to the coronavirus.The Times reports that education lawyers are working with school…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/08/schools-prepare-legal-challenges-over-exam-results-that-will-impact-poorest-students-the-most/

Pubs are 'perfect storm' for spreading coronavirus warning from academics
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
Pubs create the "perfect storm" for spreading coronavirus (Covid-19) and carry more risk than planes, according to academics. | Punters drinking together in an indoor pub are potentially subjecting themselves to a build-up of infected droplets caused by poor ventilation and people having continuous conversations, often speaking more loudly to be heard over the din of a noisy bar, the experts warn. | The comments come after households mixing in pubs and homes was blamed for a rise in Covid-19 cases in Preston, resulting in it being the latest area to have lockdown restrictions reimposed. | Aberdeen was also placed…
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Rapper Wretch 32 slams police for 'over-policing and under-protecting' Black communities
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
Rapper Wretch 32, whose father was Tasered by police officers, has said that Black people are "over-policed and under-protected".The musician was speaking as he stood next to his father Millard Scott, at a demonstration outside Tottenham Police Station, north London. The protest was held on the ninth anniversary of Mark Duggan's death. Duggan was fatally shot by police officers.Watched by uniformed officers, hundreds of people turned up in the scorching temperatures at the police station to suppo…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/08/rapper-wretch-32-slams-police-for-over-policing-and-under-protecting-black-communities/

Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-08
Health care workers of color were more likely to care for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, more likely to report using inadequate or reused protective gear, and nearly twice as likely as white colleagues to test positive for the coronavirus, a new study from Harvard Medical School researchers found. | The study also showed that health care workers are at least three times more likely than the general public to report a positive COVID test, with risks rising for workers treating…
truthout.org/articles/health-care-workers-of-color-nearly-twice-as-likely-as-whites-to-get-covid-19/

Fertilizer Likely Behind the Beirut Explosion Is Unevenly Regulated Across US
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-08
This article about the Beirut explosion was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom based in Washington, D.C. | A powerful explosion that ripped through Beirut on Tuesday and killed more than 130 people may be the latest example of the danger posed by a common fertilizer stored in communities throughout the U.S. | As investigators work to find the official cause of the blast, Lebanon President Michel Aoun said i…
truthout.org/articles/fertilizer-likely-behind-the-beirut-explosion-is-unevenly-regulated-across-us/

Abolishing Police Is a Step Toward Ending White Supremacy and Capitalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-08
Something has come unstuck. The common sense about policing has abruptly changed. | This shift was a long time coming: Prison abolitionists — a movement of scholars and activists, notably spearheaded by Black women such as Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore — have spent decades organizing toward a goal of abolishing the prison system. The Black Lives Matter movement and a new generation of Black-led organizing have kindled a new moment in which a world without police feels truly pos…
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[Comment] Optimal therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV
Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Christine Sekaggya-Wiltshire, Desta Kassa | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
The dual epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV have had a substantial toll on health outcomes, service delivery, and economies in many countries. Additionally, diagnosis of tuberculosis remains a challenge, especially with HIV infection, where the commonly used smears are of limited benefit; compounded by limitations of detecting drug-resistant tuberculosis.1…
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Turkey ready to rebuild Port of Beirut: Turkish VP
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
Ankara is ready to send more medical assistance and food aid to help Lebanon during its time of need, Turkey's vice president said on Saturday.Fuat Oktay, who is visiting the Lebanese capital along with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, said all of Turkey's hospitals and air ambulances are at Lebanon's service, as the country deals with the devastating fallout of Tuesday's massive blast at the port of Beirut.He said Ankara has told Lebanon that it can use Turkey's Mersin port until the Beirut port is rebuilt."Turkey is ready to help rebuild the heavily damaged Beirut port and nearby buildings," the vice…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-ready-to-rebuild-port-of-beirut-turkish-vp-3536400

Italy approves new post pandemic aid package
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
The new stimulus measures are the third tranche of a government plan aimed at supporting Italy's fragile economy brought to its knees by the strict lockdown imposed nationwide to stem the spread of coronavirus.In total, the three emergency decrees approved by the Italian government since March released funding to the tune of ‚Ç¨100 billion. | "The new decree aims at supporting workers, businesses, and local institutions," Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said at a press conference on Friday evening, detailing the new measures.The package includes an 18-week extension of public funding for workers un…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italy-approves-new-post-pandemic-aid-package-3536406

Death toll from Indian passenger aircraft accident rises to 18
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
The death toll from an Indian passenger aircraft accident has risen to 18, while 16 people have been severely injured, a senior government official said on Saturday.The Air India Express plane, which was repatriating Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus pandemic, overshot the runway of the Calicut International Airport in heavy rain near the southern city of Kozhikode on Friday. This was India's worst passenger aircraft accident since 2010.The flight was carrying 190 passengers and crew.The plane's pilot and the co-pilot were killed in the accident, K Gopalakrishnan, chief of the Malappuram district…
yenisafak.com/en/world/death-toll-from-indian-passenger-aircraft-accident-rises-to-18-3536397

Russia reports more than 5,200 new coronavirus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
Russian authorities reported 5,212 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Saturday, pushing its national tally to 882,347, the fourth largest in the world.The official death toll rose to 14,854 after officials said 129 people had died across the country in the last 24 hours.
yenisafak.com/en/world/russia-reports-more-than-5200-new-coronavirus-cases-3536399

Indonesia reports 2,277 new coronavirus infections
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
Indonesia reported 2,277 new coronavirus infections on Saturday and 65 more deaths, data from its health ministry website showed.This brings the country's total to 123,503 coronavirus infections and 5,658 deaths, the data showed.
yenisafak.com/en/world/indonesia-reports-2277-new-coronavirus-infections-3536398

Two Lebanese shot dead in Tehran in rare shootout
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
Two Lebanese nationals were shot dead by unknown assailants in Tehran, in what is being described as a rare incident of shooting in the Iranian capital. A father and daughter were shot by motorcycle-borne armed assailants north of Tehran's Pasdaran neighborhood on Friday, according to local media.The semi-official Fars News Agency identified the victims as Habib Davoodi and Maryam Davoodi, both Arab-speaking Lebanese nationals.Many social media users said the shooting took place near the Tehran house of slain Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed along with top Iranian general Qassem Sole…
yenisafak.com/en/world/two-lebanese-shot-dead-in-tehran-in-rare-shootout-3536401

At least 43 Syrians among people killed in Beirut blast
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
At least 43 Syrian nationals were among those killed in a massive explosion in the port of Beirut on Tuesday that destroyed parts of the Lebanese capital, Al-Mayadeen TV channel said on Saturday, citing the Syrian embassy in Lebanon.Al Mayadeen is a Lebanon-based channel close to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
yenisafak.com/en/world/at-least-43-syrians-among-people-killed-in-beirut-blast-3536404

Turkish Red Crescent helps Beirutis after explosion
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
The Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay) on Saturday launched a relief campaign to help those affected by a massive explosion at the Beirut port.Code-named "Extend Your Hands to Wounded Beirut", the aid agency said in a statement the campaign aims to help residents of the Lebanese capital following the blast that killed at least 150 people and injured thousands on Tuesday.The Lebanese government said the blast, which has caused massive property damage in several neighborhoods in Beirut, was caused by the detonation of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stored unsafely at the port for six years.Officials hav…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkish-red-crescent-helps-beirutis-after-explosion-3536405

Former Australian PM: Beware the Guns of August in Asia
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
Kevin Rudd argues that the danger of war between the US and China is greater than at any time since the 1950s and warns the risk "will be especially high" in the lead-up to the US presidential election.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/rudd-a08.html

Will Climate Break Through in Big Media's Elections Coverage?
Mark Hertsgaard | commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
Young people and their allies across the world took part in the largest global climate protests in history on September 20, 2019, demanding globale leaders act immediately and urgently to stop the climate crisis. (Photo: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate_media_action.jpg …
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Rehearsals for Apocalypse: From the A-Bomb to Covid-19
Richard Eskow | commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
Medical staff, wearing protective gear, move a patient infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) from an ambulance to a hospital on March 09, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/apocalypse_now_lessons_never_learned.jpg …
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Covid-19 'Has Laid Bare' the Crisis of Healthcare in America
Michael Winship | commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
The newly-created Center for Health and Democracy, says founder Wendell Potter, is necessary because there "not nearly enough awareness of the problems associated with money in politics and why money in politics is a real barrier for this country to move forward on meaningful healthcare reform. We will be drawing attention to how big corporations and associations are spending enormous sums of money to influence campaigns and public policy, both legislation and regulations, and help explain why that is blocking progressive reforms." (Image: Courtesy of Center for Health and Democracy) | www.commondreams…
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Trump's Dangerous Lies About the Covid Economy
Robert Reich | commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
Demonstrators rally outside the White House May 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_lies_0.jpg …
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'Executive Order Stunt No Substitute for Real Relief,' Say Progressives of Legally Dubious Trump Proposal
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
Coalition accuses Republican Party of "abandoning their constituents and the country as a whole, and causing chaos and turmoil by refusing to negotiate on COVID-19 relief." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_executive_orders.jpg …
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Progressive Groups Express Outrage at Senate Republicans and Trump for Walking Away from COVID-19 Stimulus Negotiations
commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
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Trump Just Admitted on Live Television He Will 'Terminate' Social Security and Medicare If Reelected in November
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
One progressive critic called the president's promise "a full-on declaration of war against current and future Social Security beneficiaries." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_vows_to_cut_social_security_medicare.jpg …
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[Perspectives] Together in a time of physical distancing
Sandro Galea | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Could there be a stranger time for a book about social connections than during a period when we have seen the most dramatic global effort ever to keep people away from one another? In the first half of 2020, the world was in the grip of fear about the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries instituted some form of physical distancing for their whole populations to mitigate the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Emerging data from this period showed that reports of loneliness and attendant depression and anxiety increased compared with 2019.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31642-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19–a very visible pandemic
David N Durrheim, Michael G Baker | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacting a confronting and extraordinarily visible toll in lives and livelihoods globally. The last occasion where humanity fought a similar calamitous infectious disease threat was the 1918–19 influenza pandemic. There are many lessons from that pandemic that are still relevant. The first pandemic wave did not grant adequate herd immunity and was followed by one or more subsequent waves, with those waves being more deadly than the initial wave.1 Additionally, stringent public health measures flattened the epidemic curve, preserving hospital capacity and saving many lives.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31675-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19–a very visible pandemic
Carina King, Lena Einhorn, Nele Brusselaers, Marcus Carlsson, Stefan Einhorn, Fredrik Elgh, Jonas Frisén, àÖke Gustafsson, Stefan Hanson, Claudia Hanson, Thomas Hedner, Olle Isaksson, Anders Jansson, àÖke Lundkvist, Jan Là∂tvall, Bo Lundback, Bjà∂rn Olsen, Cecilia Sà∂derberg-Nauclér, Anders Wahlin, Gunner Steineck, Anders Vahlne | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
We read the Correspondence by Johan Giesecke,1 a senior consultant to the Swedish Public Health Agency, with considerable concern.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31672-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19–a very visible pandemic
Raja Ramachandran | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
I read with interest the Correspondence by Johan Giesecke.1 Applauding the Swedish model, Giesecke1 posits a "relaxed strategy" or the development of a herd immunity as the way forward in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. He recommends that the crucial task is not to stop the spread, "which is all but futile, but to concentrate on giving the unfortunate victims optimal care". Given the drastic adverse economic consequences of the lockdown globally, the advocacy of herd immunity as a way out appears attractive.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31673-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19–a very visible pandemic
Andrew Ewing | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Johan Giesecke's1 many claims lead to two concepts. First, that lockdowns were bad, with the Swedish way being the best approach to the pandemic; and second, that everyone in the world would get COVID-19 in a thinly veiled argument that herd immunity was the only way that the virus would be controlled.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31676-7/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] Egyptian health workers arrested after COVID-19 comments
Sharmila Devi | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
At least seven doctors and two pharmacists have been detained for criticising the Egyptian Government's approach to the pandemic and working conditions. Sharmila Devi reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31683-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19–a very visible pandemic
Evan J Keil | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Many predictions have been made regarding the slowing spread of COVID-19; it is not my intention to refute the epidemiological position of Johan Giesecke in his Correspondence.1 However, I will respond as a student doctor concerned about the broader implications.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31671-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19–a very visible pandemic
Johanna F Lindahl, Bjà∂rn Olsen, àÖke Lundkvist | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Johan Giesecke1 referred to the COVID-19 pandemic as an invisible pandemic, estimating that 25% of the Stockholm population was infected by the end of April, 2020, of which 98–99% are unaware of being infected. On April 1, 2020, the media reported that half of the Swedish population might be infected by the end of April, 2020.2 More conservative estimates suggested that at least one-third of the Stockholm population may be seropositive by mid-May, and later that Stockholm might reach herd immunity by mid-June.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31674-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19–a very visible pandemic — Author's reply
Johan Giesecke | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Let me express thanks to the many colleagues who have provided valuable feedback. I will not address each of these responses individually, but give a collective answer.
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[Correspondence] Recurrence of breast cancer after anaesthesia
Masashi Ishikawa, Atsuhiro Sakamoto, Daqing Ma | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Daniel Sessler and colleagues1 compared regional (paravertebral blocks and propofol) with general (sevoflurane and opioid-based analgesia) anaesthesia on breast cancer recurrence in their randomised controlled trial. They concluded that regional anaesthesia did not reduce cancer recurrence after surgery for primary breast cancer compared with general anaesthesia.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30488-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Moral responsibility in medicine: where are the boundaries?
Wendy Rogers | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
All doctors have responsibilities to protect and promote health. These responsibilities lie at the heart of medicine, providing its moral foundation. Some doctors meet their responsibilities treating individuals with diseases, some teach or do research, while others safeguard or promote the health of populations. These responsibilities arise from the social role of doctors that is enshrined–but not always clearly delineated–in social, legal, ethical, and professional standards and norms. The health and wellbeing of the patient is, according to various codes, the pre-eminent responsibility of medicine,…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31643-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] Report says 815 million children have high blood lead levels
Talha Burki | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Mainly resulting from cookware and recycled batteries, lead exposure, even at low concentrations, can result in cognitive and neurological problems. Talha Burki reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31684-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Recurrence of breast cancer after anaesthesia
Dimitrios Moris, Michael Kontos | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Daniel Sessler and colleagues1 presented the findings from their multicentre, randomised trial that compared the effect of regional anaesthesia (paravertebral block and propofol) with general anaesthesia (sevoflurane) and opioids on breast cancer recurrence and postoperative pain after potentially curative surgery. Regional anaesthesia was reported to be equivalent to general anaesthesia regarding disease recurrence and postoperative pain.1…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30489-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Articles] Mortality in adults with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV by antiretroviral therapy and tuberculosis drug use: an individual patient data meta-analysis
Gregory P Bisson, Mayara Bastos, Jonathon R Campbell, Didi Bang, James C Brust, Petros Isaakadis, Christoph Lange, Dick Menzies, Giovanni B Migliori, Jean W Pape, Domingo Palmero, Parvaneh Baghei, Payam Tabarsi, Piret Viiklepp, Stalz Vilbrun, Jonathan Walsh, Suzanne M Marks | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Use of ART and more effective anti-tuberculosis drugs is associated with lower odds of death among HIV-positive patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Access to these therapies should be urgently pursued.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31316-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Senior Nicaraguan minister talks environment, crisis in capitalism, and imperialism in Latin America
Nathalia Urban | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
Dr Paul Oquist Kelley is Nicaragua's secretary of the presidency and national policies, and the country's long-time representative to the UN on climate change. In this interview, Oquist talks about his new book, Equilibra: The Philosophy and Political Economy of Existence and Extinction, and the imperialist threat in Latin America. | In your latest book, you've spoken about the threats of environmental destruction. Can you explain more about this, and tell me if…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/08/08/senior-nicaraguan-minister-talks-environment-crisis-in-capitalism-and-imperialism-in-latin-america/

Lebanon's corrupt, colonial system leads to explosion catastrophe
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-08-07
Beirut's explosion disaster is the product of a corrupt, sectarian political system maintained by foreign powers, Rania Masri argues. The…
thegrayzone.com/2020/08/07/lebanons-corrupt-colonial-system-leads-to-explosion-catastrophe/

With an Eye on Balkanization, Israel throws Support Behind Separatist Militants in Southern Yemen
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-07
Israel is hoping to capitalize on internal tensions in Yemen, throwing its support behind a UAE-backed militant group with eyes on secession and control of the coveted Bab al-Mandab Strait.
mintpressnews.com/eye-balkanization-israel-support-separatist-militants-southern-yemen/270190/

Don't Let His New Book Fool You, Bush Laid the Groundwork for Today's Immigration Nightmare
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-07
George W. Bush drastically increased the militarization of the Mexican border, sending 6,000 national guardsmen to patrol it, greatly increasing detention capacity for immigrants and using drones to patrol the area.
mintpressnews.com/dont-let-his-new-book-fool-you-george-w-bush-laid-groundwork-immigration-nightmare/270215/

Don't Let His New Book Fool You, Bush Laid the Groundwork for Today's Immigration Nightmare
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-07
George W. Bush drastically increased the militarization of the Mexican border, sending 6,000 national guardsmen to patrol it, greatly increasing detention capacity for immigrants and using drones to patrol the area. | MPN– George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, has announced he is releasing a new book called "Out of Many, One" which will celebrate America's diversity and immigrant populations. "Our immigrant heritage has enriched America's history. It continues to shape our society. Each generation of Americans — of immigrants — brings a renewal to our national character and add…

Don’t Let His New Book Fool You, Bush Laid the Groundwork for Today’s Immigration Nightmare

Disbelief as Trump Appoints Disgraced Iran-Contra Criminal Elliott Abrams as Iran Envoy
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-07
Activists, the UN, and even mainstream news outlets expressed dismay at the Trump administration's decision to appoint regime-change champion Elliot Abrahams to the role of Special Representative for Iran.
mintpressnews.com/disbelief-as-trump-appoints-disgraced-iran-contra-criminal-elliott-abrams-as-iran-envoy/270201/

The World on Fire
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-07
Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wild fires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic. Somebody somewhere must be asking why all of a sudden in unison, all over creation, two of the planets largest ecosystems are going up in smoke. It's eerily spine chilling. Major fires have hit the Amazon and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/the-world-on-fire/

The World on Fire
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wild fires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic. Somebody somewhere must be asking why all of a sudden in unison, all over creation, two of the planets largest ecosystems are going up in smoke. It's eerily spine chilling.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/the-world-on-fire/

Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook: The Big Four High Tech Oligarchs Appear Before the US Congress
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
Silicon Valley continues to sprawl in influence, and its modern robber barons bestride the globe with a confidence verging on contempt. The technology giants that mark that region of California are praised as "virtuosos of ingenuity," to use Steve Forbes' …
globalresearch.ca/big-tech-data-robber-barons-appear-before-congress/5720392

Ranking the Infinite Greed, Power and Controls of Giant Corporations
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
This combination of file photos shows Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. (Photo: DSK/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ceos.jpg …
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Our Planet's Missed Opportunity to unite and fight Side by Side against the Pandemic
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-07
It is time to stop irresponsible finger-pointing. All over the world, as this essay is being written, well over 17 million COVID-19 cases have been reported, and 676,000 people died. And instead of concentrating on serious research, trying to save human lives and attempting to stop the global calamity, 'residents' of the White House are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/our-planets-missed-opportunity-to-unite-and-fight-side-by-side-against-the-pandemic/

Bolstering Case for Transformational Green Recovery, New Study Finds Lockdown Emissions Had 'Negligible' Effect on Climate Crisis
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
"We still need far more serious measures to make a difference—we need structural change." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/time-running-out.jpg …
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"Let's Make It Happen!" Declares Jayapal of Medicare for All After Single-Payer in Canada Lauded as Shield Against Pandemic
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
"It is worth fighting for a system that puts public health ahead of profits: Medicare for All," said a doctor touting Canadian system. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/make-this-happen.jpg …
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Intimidation and Censorship Campaign against Online Independent Media
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
The heated debate within Western governments about the best way to fight what they regard as "propaganda" has recently taken a disturbing turn towards intimidation of the outlets accused of peddling such information products and even discussions about their possible …
globalresearch.ca/media-literacy-not-intimidation-censorship-best-way-fight-propaganda/5720487

Media Literacy, Not Intimidation & Censorship, Is The Best Way To Fight So-Called Propaganda
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-07
The heated debate within Western governments about the best way to fight what they regard as "propaganda" has recently taken a disturbing turn towards intimidation of the outlets accused of peddling such information products and even discussions about their possible censorship, but if they were really sincere in combating this menace while staying true to their "democratic" principles, then they'd work on improving their citizens' media literacy so that they could make up their own minds about the veracity of the various articles that they come across expressing non-mainstream views on contentious topics. | One o…

Media Literacy, Not Intimidation & Censorship, Is The Best Way To Fight So-Called Propaganda

America had first Contemplated Nuclear War against both China and North Korea in 1950
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
America's use of nuclear weapons on a first strike basis is no longer considered as a weapon of total annihilation. Quite the opposite, the preemptive use of nukes is upheld as a means to ensuring global peace and security. This is the doctrine which prevails today under Trump's "fire and fury"
globalresearch.ca/america-had-first-contemplated-nuclear-war-against-china-and-north-korea-in-1950/5613455

CODEPINK Denounces Elliott Abrams' Appointment as the Next U.S. Special Representative for Iran
commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/08/06/codepink-denounces-elliott-abrams-appointment-next-us-special-representative?cd-origin=rss

"The World's Most Dangerous Man": Mary Trump on Her Uncle, President Trump, & Why He Must Be Ousted
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-07
"In my family, being kind was considered being weak," says Mary Trump, President Trump's niece, a clinical psychologist and author of "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man." We spend the hour with Mary Trump, discussing her book the president doesn't want people to read, in which she describes his upbringing in a dysfunctional family that fostered his greed, cruelty and racist and sexist behaviors — which he is now inflicting on the world. Mary Trump also discusses the president's mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, his long history of lies and misrepresentati…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/7/mary_trump_how_dysfunctional_family_shaped

AOC-narrated Green New Deal clip nominated for Emmy for… news analysis?
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Democratic socialist New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been nominated for an Emmy award for "news analysis" for a video envisioning how the implementation of the Green New Deal solves all the US' problems. | Ocasio-Cortez revealed the seven-and-a-half minute video she narrated, produced by the Intercept and illustrated by Molly Crabapple, was shortlisted for an Emmy for News and Analysis in the Editorial and Opinion category on Thursday. Initially published in April 2019, the clip outlines the environmental disasters facing the world and describes how the proposed 'Green New Deal' will solve…
rt.com/usa/497315-aoc-green-deal-nominated-emmy/

Apartheid or One State: Has Jordan Broken a Political Taboo?
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on the ground indicates, with palpable clarity, that there can never be a viable Palestinian state in parts of the West Bank and Gaza. Politically, the idea…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/apartheid-or-one-state-has-jordan-broken-a-political-taboo/

Outraised 250-1, Progressive Marquita Bradshaw Upsets Establishment Opponent
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-07
Despite being outraised 250-1 by her establishment-backed opponent, progressive environmentalist Marquita Bradshaw scored a stunning upset victory in the Tennessee Democratic primary for an open U.S. Senate seat on Thursday after running on a platform that included Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. | James Mackler, one of Bradshaw's four primary competitors, was…
truthout.org/articles/outraised-250-1-progressive-marquita-bradshaw-upsets-establishment-opponent/

Pandemic highlights importance of indigenous self-determination: UN rights chief
news.un.org | 2020-08-07
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to ensure the world's indigenous people have control over their own communities, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has affirmed.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069762

Please SIGN: Keep plantations out of Palawan Forest!
Rainforest Rescue | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
The provincial government wants to open up areas of rich biodiversity and indigenous land to industrial plantations. An industrial coconut grower is already destroying indigenous peoples' sacred sites.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835721.php

Roaming Charges: Every Which Way to Lose
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
"And through the fog of the plague, most art withered into journalism." — Pete Hamill + Four years of Trump, the most precipitous collapse of the US economy in history and one killer pandemic later and we're right back to where we were in the late summer of 2016… Joe Biden's national polling lead is…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/roaming-charges-dnc-fragility/

Há outra Hiroshima a caminho… a menos que a impeàßamos agora
John Pilger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
Quando estive pela primeira vez em Hiroshima em 1967, a sombra na escada ainda estava lá. Era uma impressà£o quase perfeita de um ser humano bem à vontade: pernas abertas, costas flexionadas, uma mà£o ao lado do corpo, esperando que …
globalresearch.ca/ha-outra-hiroshima-a-caminho-a-menos-que-a-impecamos-agora/5720533

Reversal: Boeing's Flow of Blood
Kathy Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Today, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer morning following the U.S. 2003 "Shock and Awe" invasion of Iraq when the segment of the Chicago River flowing past the headquarters of the world's second largest defense contractor, Boeing, turned the rich, red…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/reversal-boeings-flow-of-blood/

Venezuela Ratifies Commitment Against Drug Trafficking
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-07
The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro ratified on Friday Venezuela's commitment in the fight against drug trafficking, on the 15th anniversary of the expulsion of the United States (U.S.) Agency for Drug Control (DEA). | RELATED: | Venezuela: President Maduro to Create Strategic Anti-Drugs Agency | "On a day like today 15 years ago, Commander Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) cut off relations with the largest drug cartel on the continent, the DEA. Since then, we have reinforced th…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Ratifies-Commitment-Against-Drug-Trafficking-20200807-0020.html

USAF Vet Could Face '20 Days for 20 Bombs' for Protest Against US H-Bombs Stationed in Germany
John Laforge | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Hamburg, Germany With this week's commemorations of the US atomic massacres at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there will be countless hours spent on speeches, sermons, hymns, and warnings; tons of ink spilled in op/eds, editorials and articles. All will solemnly promote the need to pursue a world without nuclear weapons. However, many of the same voices…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/usaf-vet-could-face-20-days-for-20-bombs-for-protest-against-us-h-bombs-stationed-in-germany/

Canadian court rules Safe Third Country Agreement with US violates refugee rights
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
The Trudeau government took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to eliminate the "loophole" that had allowed some refugees fleeing Trump's anti-immigrant witchhunt to escape immediate deportation under the STCA.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/stca-a07.html

Countries urged to target smugglers after 27 migrants die at sea
news.un.org | 2020-08-07
Two UN agencies are calling for greater action to dismantle smuggling and trafficking networks following the deaths of 27 migrants off the coast of Mauritania, northwest Africa.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069752

Migrants Die In The Atlantic Ocean Trying To Reach Spain
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-07
About 50 migrants Thursday died in the Atlantic Ocean after their barges sank while trying to reach the Canary Islands in Spain. | RELATED: | Italy: Salvini Will Go to Trial for Blocking the Open Arms Ship | Spanish outlets revealed that one of the boats broke down off the coast of Mauritania, and at least 40 people died. Also, 10 migrants died after another vessel shipwrecked near to the coast of Western Sahara. The only survivor told AFP that their boat broke down. | "For a l…
telesurenglish.net/news/migrants-die-in-the-atlantic-ocean-trying-to-reach-spain-20200807-0003.html

Why the Left Must Reject and Elect Biden at the Same Time
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
We have to get rid of Trump…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835710.php

DNC Platform Condemns BDS But Not Israel's Occupation of Palestine
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-07
Due to a series of decisions by the Democratic National Committee's (DNC's) platform committee, progressives are concerned that the Biden-led Democratic Party's foreign policy toward Israel and Palestine will more closely resemble that of Republicans than that of the Democratic rank-and-file. | There has already been much consternation among party activists over Biden's key role in pushing the Iraq War res…
truthout.org/articles/dnc-platform-condemns-bds-but-not-israels-occupation-of-palestine/

War and Pandemic Journalism
Patrick Cockburn | zcomm.org | 2020-08-07
The Truth Can Disappear Fast…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/war-and-pandemic-journalism/

What Happens When Covid-19 Becomes Old News?
Patrick Cockburn | thenation.com | 2020-08-07
What Happens When Covid-19 Becomes Old News?
thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-news-cycle/

Cyprus Is No Longer a Tax Haven for Russia's Oligarchs
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
Moscow announced the unilateral termination of the transnational agreement with Cyprus on the avoidance of double taxation. Effectively, Cyprus will no longer be a tax haven for Russia's rich. Russia seems to be moving in this direction without compromise so …
globalresearch.ca/cyprus-no-longer-tax-haven-russia-oligarchs/5720495

Trump is Not Conceding: This is Happening Here
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Sorry, Trump's Not Conceding I have been hearing liberals and lefties fantasizing that Donald Trump is conceding the presidency to Joe Biden. The evidence for this curious thesis? 1. Biden's significant polling lead over Trump not just nationally but in the battleground states where the presidency is contested. 2. The real or rumored pulling of…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/trump-is-not-conceding-this-is-happening-here/

Video: Russian S-300 Air Defense System Spotted in Libya?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
Russia has deployed an advanced S-300 air defense system to Libya to support the forces of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar against the Turkish military and its proxies, local media reported on August 5. | According to photos surfacing online, the supposed …
globalresearch.ca/video-russian-s-300-air-defense-system-spotted-libya/5720477

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), A Cure for COVID-19: Smear Campaign against US Doctors. Promotion of Hazardous Mass-Vaxxing
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
Big Pharma in cahoots with Big Media and Big Government want a known COVID-19 cure suppressed. | Why? Because an effective treatment is readily available, cheap, and if widely used to treat the disease or taken prophylactically to prevent it, Big …
globalresearch.ca/cure-covid-19-exists-campaign-debunk-effectiveness-promotes-mass-vaxxing/5720423

Supreme Court Rules Jail Does Not Have to Provide Basic Protections to Inmates
Julia Conley, Common Dreams | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Even as prisons across the US report a surge in Covid-19 cases, the Supreme Court ruled on August 5th that prisons do not have to provide basic protections to inmates.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835717.php

Pompeo Warned Moscow in July Call Against Alleged Bounties on US Soldiers – Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-07
Unnamed US officials told the New York Times on Friday that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a vague warning to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov last month that Russia should refrain from offering bounties to Taliban fighters to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan, as the Times has claimed was happening.
sputniknews.com/world/202008071080098065-pompeo-warned-moscow-in-july-call-against-alleged-bounties-on-us-soldiers—report/

Millions Face Long Term Unemployment and Homelessness
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-07
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Ted Rall. He's an award-winning columnist and political cartoonist and you can check out his work at www.rall.com.
sputniknews.com/radio_loud_and_clear/202008071080098348-millions-face-long-term-unemployment-and-homelessness-/

Bolivians start huge mobilisation for the 'return of democracy and sovereignty'
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-08-07
Bolivians are currently engaged in massive protests and a general strike. They are demanding the 'return of democracy' and sovereignty following a coup against their elected government in 2019. The temporary coup government recently delayed a planned election for 6 September, which it says is due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. But Bolivians are rising up in res…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/08/07/bolivians-start-huge-mobilisation-for-the-return-of-democracy-and-sovereignty/

Do not reach for the sky just to surrender
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-08-07
The novel coronavirus continues its march through the world, with 18 million confirmed cases and at least 685,000 deaths. Of these, the United States of America, Brazil, and India are the worst-hit, harbouring about half of the world's cases.
mronline.org/2020/08/07/do-not-reach-for-the-sky-just-to-surrender/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=do-not-reach-for-the-sky-just-to-surrender

Amendment 4 is Back in Court as Florida Fights Our Victory Over its Modern-Day Poll Tax
Anton Marino | aclu.org | 2020-08-07
Betty Riddle, a grandmother and university graduate, stood in line to vote for the first time in her life in Florida's 2020 presidential primary. Marq Mitchell, a peer support specialist and advocate, also proudly voted for his first time in March. Jeff Gruver, a local activist for people experiencing homelessness, is yet another of our clients who cast his vote and finally had a say in our democracy earlier this year. , , It is on their behalf, and on behalf of all returning citizens'…
aclu.org/news/voting-rights/amendment-4-is-back-in-court-as-florida-fights-our-victory-over-its-modern-day-poll-tax

NEA chief talks politics, school safety and pandemic
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-07
WASHINGTON–Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says "education is a civil and human right," National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen-Garcia reports. And it'll also be a top priority should he win the White House away from GOP incumbent Donald Trump, his spouse, Jill Biden, Ph.D., a past community college professor, declares. Besides, she adds, he …
peoplesworld.org/article/nea-chief-talks-politics-school-safety-and-pandemic/

On Climate Policy, Biden's Advisers Reveal More Than His Proposals Do
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-08-07
The Intercept See article on original site Last month, Joe Biden's presidential campaign released a sweeping climate proposal calling for 100 percent clean energy and net-zero emissions by 2050. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is working to finalize its 2020 platform. As of now, the platform is more aggressive than the 2016 document, but somehow does …
cepr.net/on-climate-policy-bidens-advisers-reveal-more-than-his-proposals-do/

Working Families Party members are voting on whether to endorse Biden
PAI | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-07
NEW YORK (PAI)–The thousands of members of the Working Families Party, the progressive pro-labor group that has backed and campaigned for state and local candidates from coast to coast, are voting on whether to do the same thing for Joe Biden. The race is between Biden and neutrality in the presidential tilt, the party said …
peoplesworld.org/article/working-families-party-members-are-voting-on-whether-to-endorse-biden/

Sanders' Make Billionaires Pay Act would help cover medical expenses for every American for a whole year
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-07
Over 5.4 million-Americans have lost health insurance during this time while billionaires are profiting off of the pandemic.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/07/sanders-make-billionaires-pay-act-would-help-cover-medical-expenses-for-every-american-for-a-whole-year/

Ask an expert: Congress plans to spend billions on dangerous, unnecessary nuclear weapons
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-07
This week is the 75th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only time nuclear bombs have been used in a conflict–and one could only hope the last time. To commemorate the anniversary, I thought it would be appropriate to devote this column to taking a hard look at current U.S. nuclear …
mronline.org/2020/08/07/ask-an-expert-congress-plans-to-spend-billions-on-dangerous-unnecessary-nuclear-weapons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ask-an-expert-congress-plans-to-spend-billions-on-dangerous-unnecessary-nuclear-weapons

Brazilian movements intensify "Out Bolsonaro" campaign
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-07
The authoritarian nature of the Bolsonaro government has rapidly intensified. Bolsonaro, acting against all public health specialists, as well as international entities and protocols, has denied the pandemic and adopted incorrect and disastrous measures. His grave mismanagement of the virus has made Brazil the global epicenter of COVID-19.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/07/brazilian-movements-intensify-out-bolsonaro-campaign/

TikTok — Trump's anti-China tech war is a protection racket for U.S. capital
Ian Goodrum | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-07
I can't say I expected a viral teen dance smartphone app to be the latest flashpoint in President Donald Trump's war on all things China. But that's 2020 for you. TikTok, the wildly popular short video platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is in the U.S. government's crosshairs due to alleged national security risks. Trump …
peoplesworld.org/article/tiktok-trumps-anti-china-tech-war-is-a-protection-racket-for-u-s-capital/

Fighting Over Kashmir Could Blow Up the Planet
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Jammu and Kashmir, widely referred to as Kashmir, has had many designations since India and Pakistan were partitioned by Britain and gained their respective independence from the Empire: a Princely State, a State, a Union Territory. The 86,000 mile, Muslim-majority region sits in the Himalayas on the border with China. It is of strategic significance…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/fighting-over-kashmir-could-blow-up-the-planet/

Choking China and Hassling Huawei
CGTN | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-07
U.S. attacks against China have shifted to a fresh round of arbitrary threats forbidding travel to the United States by employees of Huawei and by the Communist Party of China members and their families. The reasoning behind it is astounding.
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/choking-china-and-hassling-huawei/

What's Driving the Simmering Conflict Between India and China
Conn Hallinan | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Chinese and Indian forces have pulled back from their confrontation in the Himalayas, but the tensions that set off the deadly encounter this past June–the first on the China/India border since 1975–are not going away. Indeed, a combination of local disputes, regional antagonisms and colonial history have brewed up a poisonous elixir that could pose…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/whats-driving-the-simmering-conflict-between-india-and-china/

The Heart of the Matter in the South China Sea
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
When the USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz carrier strike groups recently engaged in "operations" in the South China Sea, it failed to escape cynics that the US Pacific Fleet was doing its best to turn the infantile Thucydides trap …
globalresearch.ca/heart-matter-south-china-sea/5720484

American left silence on China helps lay foundation for the U.S.' New Cold War
Danny Haiphong | mronline.org | 2020-08-07
When it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded U.S. 'left" are allies of white supremacy.
mronline.org/2020/08/07/american-left-silence-on-china-helps-lay-foundation-for-the-u-s-new-cold-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=american-left-silence-on-china-helps-lay-foundation-for-the-u-s-new-cold-war

California greenlights 'Orwellian' solar-powered fracking scheme
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-07
California-based multinational oil company Chevron landed two rounds of drilling permits from Gov. Gavin Newsom this summer–evidence, climate advocates say, that Newsom is not committed to tackling the climate crisis. | The permits bolster Chevron's position in the Lost Hills Oil Field, the sixth most prolific field in industry-heavy Kern County, and will shift drilling in the field largely towards using power from solar panels. One critic called the way the permits use climate crisis rhetoric "Orwellian," incorporating solar power into drilling operations to expand the use of fracking and oil production. T…
therealnews.com/columns/california-greenlights-orwellian-solar-powered-fracking-scheme

66 players quit NFL season due to COVID-19 pandemic
Barry Wilner | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-07
(AP)–A total of 66 players have opted out of the 2020 NFL season due to the coronavirus pandemic, nearly half of them linemen. Twenty offensive linemen and 11 on defense opted out before Thursday's deadline. Players with a medical opt out will receive a $350,000 stipend, while those voluntarily opting out receive $150,000 as an …
peoplesworld.org/article/66-players-quit-nfl-season-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/

American Failures: August, 2020
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
It's probably unpatriotic and maybe treasonable to talk about American failures but they are now so glaring that some 12 minutes of read time seems pardonable in this Age of Twitter "discourse." That such obvious failures, if admitted at all, are politicized relative to which side of the Blue/Red street you are one is itself…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/american-failures-august-2020/

Crossing the Creepy Line: Google, Deception and the ACCC
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Belief in Google's promises is much like believing in virgin births. For a company so proud of its pursuit of a transparent information environment, it has remained committedly opaque about informing customers on the way it gathers user data. Statements from the company over the years have not been reassuring, and should foster prolonged scepticism…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/crossing-the-creepy-line-google-deception-and-the-accc/

The US Left Needs Humility to Understand Mexican Politics
Bruce Hobson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
The US Left Needs Humility to Understand the Politics of México The recent visit to the US by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) for a meeting with President Trump has stirred a great deal of media reaction in the US and México. Nearly all US media articles about the visit characterize it as…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/the-us-left-needs-humility-to-understand-mexican-politics/

Haven't We All Known Guys Who Were Exactly like Donald Trump?
David Macaray | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Although it gives me no pleasure to report this, while growing up in the shady suburban confines of Southern California, in the Sixties, I probably knew half a dozen guys who–other than being middle or lower middle-class rather wealthy, and shorter rather than taller–were otherwise exactly like President Trump. I'm also certain that I never…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/havent-we-all-known-guys-who-were-exactly-like-donald-trump/

Here Come the 1968 Mistakes Again
Paul Ryder | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
"In our countercultural bubble, we assumed everyone watching the convention shared our feelings of revolt, but the spectacle in Chicago, as history showed us, had an unintended effect. It was the 'law-and-order' [Richard] Nixon who got elected." This statement comes from David Ansen in "First Look at Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7"
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/here-come-the-1968-mistakes-again/

When the Chickens Came Home to Roost In Portlandistan
Nicky Reid | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Well folks, it's official, Donald Trump has declared war on America. Probably should have saw that coming. After all, I've long argued that our dayglow duce isn't an isolationist but merely the world's shittiest imperialist. After trying and failing miserably to bring fascism to Nicaragua and Venezuela, Trump has set his sites on targets much…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/when-the-chickens-came-home-to-roost-in-portlandistan/

The Power of the White Man and His Symbols is Being De-Mystified
Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is warning us today that if we fail to build alternatives to the current system governed by voracious, ruthless and extractive capitalism, it will rob our descendants of the future. This historical moment that we are all living through is also serving to reveal that extreme inequalities are not…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/the-power-of-the-white-man-and-his-symbols-is-being-de-mystified/

The Neoliberal Virus
Ben Debney | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
To date, and to the extent that alleged political leaders have even tried to come to terms with the origins of the COVID-19 crisis at all, they have sought to do so in xenophobic terms; though not the only perpetrator on that count, Donald Trump has been most prominent in looking to characterise COVID-19 as…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/the-neoliberal-virus/

Fixing the COVID Numbers
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Right on schedule, when the death rate started to rise again, the Trump regime put the kibosh on any further CDC covid reporting. In the weeks before this death-rate spike, as the covid conflagration burned through Trump country, regime spokesmen crowed about the death rate being flat. No matter that all health experts warned death is a lagging indicator. No matter that the plague roared out of control. The Trump regime had a plan. Like any good banana republic, when the news got bad, the strongman stopped the news.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/fixing-the-covid-numbers/

Neoliberal Centrists and the American Left
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
The rapid end to the electoral fortunes of the Anglo-American left in 2020 was engineered by radical centrists for the benefit of capital. What was banished, in addition to vibrant and informed opposition to an atrophied political class, was the prospect of Federal government programs that are both desired and needed by the American people.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/neoliberal-centrists-and-the-american-left/

20 Postcard Notes From Iraq: With Love in the Age of COVID-19
Louis Yako | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
I was in the Iraqi Kurdistan region when COVID-19 hit the world hard in March of this year. Suddenly, all airports, roads between cities in Iraq, and life itself were shut down in Iraq and many countries around the world. A strict curfew was imposed while I was visiting my relatives in Duhok city. The curfew kept getting extended, mostly two weeks at a time with no end in sight. I decided to remain calm and maintain my equilibrium. After everything I have experienced in Iraq over the years, there is hardly any disaster that can take me by surprise, I thought to myself. Not even death itself will get the pleasure…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/20-postcard-notes-from-iraq-with-love-in-the-age-of-covid-19/

Time for an Emergency Charity Stimulus
Chuck Collins — Helen Flannery | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
We are living through a time of unprecedented challenges: a major public health crisis and a deepening recession. Congress has already authorized trillions in stimulus funds. But millions of Americans are still relying on the support of local nonprofits such as food banks and human services. These nonprofits are going to need major infusions of…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/time-for-an-emergency-charity-stimulus-2/

National strike continues across Bolivia, demands grow for àÅñez to step down
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-07
Social movements and trade unions stress that their demand is no longer just democratic elections, but also the immediate removal of the entire coup-installed government…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/07/national-strike-continues-across-bolivia-demands-grow-for-anez-to-step-down/

Explosion à Beyrouth : Qui est responsable?
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-07
Le mardi 4 août, une explosion dans le port se trouvant au c≈ìur de Beyrouth, la capitale libanaise, a causé des pertes humaines et matérielles dévastatrices. Plus de 140 personnes sont mortes instantanément, 80 sont toujours portées disparues sous les décombres et plus de 5 000 ont été blessées. Plus de 300 000 maisons ont été détruites et beaucoup d'autres ont été endommagées. Rien de moins que 2 750 tonnes de nitrate d'ammonium (l'équivalent de 1 000 tonnes de TNT) ont pris feu et causé la plus puissante explosion à se produire depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. De nombreuses théories circulent à…

Explosion à Beyrouth : Qui est responsable?

How Not to Lose the Lockdown Generation
Naomi Klein | zcomm.org | 2020-08-07
Lessons from the New Deal point the way forward in the era of Covid-19…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-not-to-lose-the-lockdown-generation/

Washington DC deadlocked as 30 million have their unemployment benefits cut
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-07
San José, CA – Talks between Democrats and Republicans about extending economic aid remained deadlocked as of Thursday morning, August 6. In May, Democrats passed their HEROES act to extend the $600 additional unemployment benefit, known as FPUC, or Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, as well as other economic aid for renters, state and local government, and others. But Republican senators and the Trump administration did nothing, hoping that the COVID-19 pandemic would go away, and the economy would recover in short order. The Republicans have also been hampered by divisions in the Senate, where a large…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/washington-dc-deadlocked-30-million-have-their-unemployment-benefits-cut

Trump Predicts Massive Use of COVID-19 Vaccine Before November
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-07
President Donald Trump Friday trusts that a vaccine to treat COVID-19 will be released before the elections and boost his presidential campaign. | RELATED: | Trump Insists on Virus Disappearance and Children Immunity | He talks about a possible vaccine several times a day and assures his people that up to 500 million individual doses will be available very soon. | "I'm optimistic that it'll be probably around that date. I believe we'll have the vaccine befo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Predicts-Massive-Use-of-COVID-19-Vaccine-Before-November-20200807-0001.html

A Day One Agenda for Private Equity
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-08-07
The American Prospect See article on original site Over the past decade, private equity has crept and crawled into all corners of our lives. Everywhere you look across our ruinous, virus-riddled landscape, private equity is there. It is behind many of the understaffed and underprepared nursing homes through which COVID-19 tore, the surprise medical bills …
cepr.net/a-day-one-agenda-for-private-equity/

COVID-19: Closer to the Truth: Tests and Immunity
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
The number of positive RT-PCR tests, which diagnose the presence of pieces [fragments] of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is equated in the press and government reports with the number of new COVID-19 cases. This is not entirely true. This is misleading. …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-closer-to-the-truth-tests-and-immunity/5720160

Washington DC deadlocked as 30 million have their unemployment benefits cut
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-07
San José, CA – Talks between Democrats and Republicans about extending economic aid remained deadlocked as of Thursday morning, August 6. In May, Democrats passed their HEROES act to extend the $600 additional unemployment benefit, known as FPUC, or Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, as well as other economic aid for renters, state and local government, and others. But Republican senators and the Trump administration did nothing, hoping that the COVID-19 pandemic would go away, and the economy would recover in short order. The Republicans have also been hampered by divisions in the Senate, where a large…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/washington-dc-deadlocked-30-million-have-their-unemployment-benefits-cut

A Guaranteed Basic Income Makes Sense
Mike McCabe | progressive.org | 2020-08-07
The "free money" putdown is downright insensitive and even cruel in light of the widespread suffering caused by the economic collapse brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
progressive.org/op-eds/guaranteed-basic-income-mccabe-200807/

Trump Isn't "Failing" on COVID Testing. He's Carrying Out a Brutal Plan
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-08-07
Men like White House adviser Stephen Miller are rolling out their most vivid fascist fantasies as the body count rises, and they are playing Trump like a badly tuned cello to do it…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-isnt-failing-on-covid-testing-hes-carrying-out-a-brutal-plan/

Neil deMause on Reopening Coverage, Nicole Porter on Covid and Prisons
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2020-08-07
Media…
fair.org/home/neil-demause-on-reopening-coverage-nicole-porter-on-covid-and-prisons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=neil-demause-on-reopening-coverage-nicole-porter-on-covid-and-prisons

The Threat on the Left
Roger Bybee | progressive.org | 2020-08-07
In his new book, historian Thomas Frank warns of the damage elitist liberals are causing to democracy.
progressive.org/dispatches/threat-on-the-left-bybee-200807/

The Political Exile of Ecuador's Rafael Correa
Dan Beeton | cepr.net | 2020-08-07
CEPR senior policy analyst and Ecuador's former foreign minister Guillaume Long talked to This Is Hell about lawfare, the barring of former president Rafael Correa's party from the ballot, and Ecuador's turn toward austerity and the IMF under Moreno. Ecuador's right-wing and its media were "unhappy with progressive governance and the return of … a …
cepr.net/the-political-exile-of-ecuadors-rafael-correa/

Fascist death squads preparing to carry out mass murder in Germany
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
Police officers, former military officers and far-right operatives engaged in a vast conspiracy to hoard large quantities of munitions and weaponry, establish safe houses, identify political opponents, and procure the necessary materials to secretly dispose of dead bodies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/fasc-a07.html

UN Warns of Devastating Environmental Side Effects of Electric Car Boom
Eco Central | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
The United Nations (U.N.) announced Sunday the electric car boom will result in a number of devastating ecological side effects for the planet. | While the shift to electric cars reflects ongoing efforts to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels, …
globalresearch.ca/un-warns-devastating-environmental-side-effects-electric-car-boom/5720496

Death From the Sky: Hiroshima and Normalised Atrocities
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
When US President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by another on Nagasaki a few days later, he was not acting as an agent untethered from history. In …
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-normalised-atrocities/5720478

Impacts of 5G Wireless Radiation on Children's Health: CHD Law Suit against FCC
Children's Health Defense | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
What we put in our bodies and our children's developing bodies is the most important and most personal choice we make as human beings. But when it comes to damaging levels of radiation, that right to choose has been stolen …
globalresearch.ca/children-health-defense-principal-brief-landmark-case-against-fcc-5g-wireless-harms-submitted/5720499

The Beirut Explosion: Who Is Responsible?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
On Tuesday 4th of August, an explosion at the Lebanese harbour in the heart of the capital Beirut caused devastating human casualties and material destruction. Over 140 people died instantly, 80 are still missing under the rubble, and over …
globalresearch.ca/beirut-explosion-who-responsible/5720504

Hiroshima at 75. The Doomsday Clock and the Ongoing Threat of "Atomic Horror"
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
These massive mushroom clouds would go on to become a symbol of the fate of humanity encapsulated in the threat of atomic horror. For all my life, I have contemplated the prospects of nuclear incineration and the aftermath that would follow if our leaders get caught up in a tragic misstep.
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-at-75-the-doomsday-clock-and-the-ongoing-threat-of-atomic-horror/5720452

Hiroshima at 75. The Doomsday Clock and the Ongoing Threat of "Atomic Horror"
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
"Not a particular country, not a particular city, and not a particular people. | The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material …
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-at-75-the-doomsday-clock-and-the-ongoing-threat-of-atomic-horror/5720452

Susan Abulhawa Embodies the Spirit of Palestinian Resistance in Her New Book: Against the Loveless World
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-07
Writer and political activist Susan Abulhawa weaves a daring tale of a Palestinian woman's defiant experience in solitary confinement at an Israeli prison.
mintpressnews.com/book-review-author-susan-abulhawa-against-the-loveless-world/270178/

Violent, secretive fascistic networks operating inside California police stations
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
Alongside rampant brutality, a secretive police culture has emerged featuring tattoos, occult rituals and symbols, codes of silence, and barbecues to celebrate murder.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/comp-a07.html

Thousands march across Turkey to denounce violence against women
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-07
Thousands of women marched in different cities in Turkey on Wednesday, August 5, demanding that the government take strong steps to stop the violence against women and asking it to not withdraw from the Istanbul convention. | Wednesday's protests were part of the ongoing movement that started last month after the brutal murder of a 27-year-old woman, Pinar Gultekin. Protests were held in several cities across Turkey including Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, Adana and Antalya. In Izmir, the women carried out a sit-in when the police used force and detained several of the protestors. | Hundreds of protestors gathering in…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/07/thousands-march-across-turkey-to-denounce-violence-against-women/

Meet the Candidates — Senator Ed Markey (D-MA)
Jeff Jurgens | peaceaction.org | 2020-08-07
Wednesday, August 5th 2020, Peace Action kicked off our new series of "Meet the Candidates" webinars with Senator Ed Markey (D-MA). Sen. Markey has provided steadfast leadership on issues of peace and justice and has been among our strongest allies in Congress. A long-time advocate for nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, he has stepped up …
peaceaction.org/2020/08/07/meet-the-candidates-senator-ed-markey/

75 years after Hiroshima, where do we stand?
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-07
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the state of the nuclear threat 75 years after the first atom bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. He explains how the US has embarked on a series of disastrous policies in this regard and also looks at the history of deployment and testing of US nuclear weapons and its racial undertones.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/07/75-years-after-hiroshima-where-do-we-stand/

Health Commissioner forced out as New York City prepares to reopen schools amid national pandemic surge
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
Dr. Oxiris Barbot's ouster indicates a more open return to the herd immunity strategy that guided the city's disastrous early response to the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/barb-a07.html

US retail bankruptcies and closures pile up amid pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
Two new bankruptcy filings on Sunday–Tailored Brands and Le Tote–bring the total number to 43 this year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/rcca-a07.html

UK government clears the path for "slums of the future"
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
On August 23, the moratorium on new evictions in England and Wales ends, threatening homelessness for the near quarter of a million people who have fallen behind with their rent since the start of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/hous-a07.html

Some come, others go
Victor Grossman | mronline.org | 2020-08-07
On Saturday, crowds came to Berlin from all over Germany for a huge mass parade, estimated at 17,000 to 20,000. The big crowd in Berlin, after picking up steam for weeks with smaller rallies, insisted that the whole corona virus pandemic had ended or maybe hadn't really existed at all!
mronline.org/2020/08/06/some-come-others-go/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=some-come-others-go

The Line movingly conveys health care workers' struggles during the pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
A powerful play based on interviews shows how New York City's health care workers battled the pandemic as the health care system collapsed around them.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/line-a07.html

US Homeland Security chief defends police-state crackdown, announces federal paramilitaries to remain in Portland
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
Wolf specifically defended the chilling practice carried out in Portland of seizing protesters blocks away from the federal courthouse, trundling them into unmarked vehicles and taking them to secret locations to be interrogated.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/wolf-a07.html

Waupaca, WI: Black Lives Matter protest disrupted by cops, protester violently arrested
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-07
Waupaca, WI – On the afternoon of August 1, members of United Action Oshkosh (UAO) and supporters of Black Lives Matter from the Fox Valley area gathered with local supporters in the small town of Waupaca for a march. Nearly 30 people plus a small caravan of cars turned out for the rural action. | The Black Lives Matter march was the second in Waupaca for many of those in attendance, including the organizers from UAO. At the first march, the protest was greeted by a resistant police force and a slew of racists in their cars. At one point, one of these cars tried to drive through the back of the small march, nearl…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/waupaca-wi-black-lives-matter-protest-disrupted-cops-protester-violently-arrested

Waupaca, WI: Black Lives Matter protest disrupted by cops, protester violently arrested
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-07
Waupaca, WI – On the afternoon of August 1, members of United Action Oshkosh (UAO) and supporters of Black Lives Matter from the Fox Valley area gathered with local supporters in the small town of Waupaca for a march. Nearly 30 people plus a small caravan of cars turned out for the rural action. | The Black Lives Matter march was the second in Waupaca for many of those in attendance, including the organizers from UAO. At the first march, the protest was greeted by a resistant police force and a slew of racists in their cars. At one point, one of these cars tried to drive through the back of the small march, nearl…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/waupaca-wi-black-lives-matter-protest-disrupted-cops-protester-violently-arrested

Angry educators and parents across the US protest the reckless return to classrooms
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
From Florida to California, teachers and parents are caravanning, protesting and petitioning against a reckless return to school as demanded by Wall Street and the entire political establishment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/educ-a07.html

India: A Plane Crashes At Landing During Monsoon Season
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-07
An Air India Express aircraft Friday overran the runway and crashed during landing at Kozhikode airport in Kerala. | RELATED: | No Survivors After Ukrainian Boeing With 176 Aboard Crashes | Airline officials said that the plane "skidded off the runway and plunged deep into a valley, where it then broke into two pieces." | The aircraft carried 184 passengers, including 10 children and seven crew members. As of this afternoon, authorities have reported at least 16 people dead. | Pre…
telesurenglish.net/news/india-a-plane-crashes-at-landing-during-monsoon-season-20200807-0016.html

Facebook Removes Foreign Pro-Trump Troll Farms
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-07
Facebook and Instagram Thursday took action to prevent their platforms from being used by U.S. President Donald Trump's supporters to promote his reelection campaign. | RELATED: | Trump Insists on Virus Disappearance and Children Immunity | A Romania-based troll farm pushed pro-Trump content under the names of "Black People Vote For Trump" on Instagram and "We Love Our President" on Facebook. | The content published in those fake accounts and pages was allegedly managed by U.S. ci…
telesurenglish.net/news/Facebook-Removes-Foreign-Pro-Trump-Troll-Farms-20200807-0007.html

Germans battle virus deniers, landlords, and the right wing
Victor Grossman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-07
On Saturday, crowds came to Berlin from all over Germany for a parade, estimated at 17,000 to 20,000 by the police but over a million by some exuberant adherents. Many or most politicians, media, and a majority of Germans were debating over whether, how soon and with what anti-virus restrictions schools, vacation travel, and soccer …
peoplesworld.org/article/germans-battle-virus-deniers-landlords-and-the-right-wing/

The specter of a national collapse looms over America as this virus runs rampant, unimpeded
Michael Payne | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-07
America has a terrible, horrific problem in that it can't seem to find the ways to bring this virus under control.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/07/the-specter-of-a-national-collapse-looms-over-america-as-this-virus-runs-rampant-unimpeded/

The Beirut Explosion: Who is responsible?
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-07
On Tuesday 4thof August, an explosion at the Lebanese harbour in the heart of the capital Beirut caused devastating human casualties and material destruction. Over 140 people died instantly, 80 are still missing under the rubble, and over 5000 were wounded. More than 300,000 homes were destroyed and many more were damaged. 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate (AN) (an equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT) somehow ignited and registered the largest explosion since the end of World War II. Many theories, accusing Israel or Hezbollah or the CIA, are circulating like wildfire in the Lebanese capital. Where is the truth? Cui bon…

The Beirut Explosion: Who is responsible?

As Beirut rescuers search for survivors, UN warns of 'huge' needs
news.un.org | 2020-08-07
Across Lebanon, "the needs are immediate, and they are huge" in the aftermath of the explosion that destroyed Beirut city port, UN agencies said on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069742

James P. Cannon on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "An unspeakable atrocity"
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
The founder of American Trotskyism warned in August 1945 that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan placed before humanity the alternative of "socialism or annihilation."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/cann-a07.html

Iran congrats Sri Lanka on successful parliamentary election
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-07
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi congratulated Sri Lanka's successful parliamentary elections to the country's government and nation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161983/Iran-congrats-Sri-Lanka-on-successful-parliamentary-election

Iran at forefront of providing aid to Beirut blast's victims
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-07
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) — Appreciating the performance of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), Lebanese Health Minister Hamad Hassan said that Iran is at forefront of providing assistance to Beirut blast's victims.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161987/Iran-at-forefront-of-providing-aid-to-Beirut-blast-s-victims

VIDEO: Lebanese health min. visits IRCS' field hospital
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-07
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) — Lebanon's health minister visited the field hospital deployed by Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) in Beirut to provide emergency medical care to the people injured in the deadly blast.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161976/VIDEO-Lebanese-health-min-visits-IRCS-field-hospital

Celebrating Eid al-Ghadir amid Iran's movement of charity
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-07
TEHRAN, Aug. 08 (MNA) –Iranian has set up a national charity movement around the country this year on the occasion of Eid al-Ghadir just as Imam Ali helped the needy in his time.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161971/Celebrating-Eid-al-Ghadir-amid-Iran-s-movement-of-charity

'Brian like John left White House without any achievement'
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-07
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani reacted to the departure of US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook from his post.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161988/Brian-like-John-left-White-House-without-any-achievement

Saudi, Zionist-backed media abusing Beirut blast
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-07
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) — The Saudi and Zionist-backed media, indifferent to the tragic incident in Lebanon, are seeking to accuse Iran and Hezbollah.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/161977/Saudi-Zionist-backed-media-abusing-Beirut-blast

'Iran not to consider Hook's departure as game-changer'
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-07
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) — In reaction to Brian Hook's departure, the spokesman for Iran's mission to the United Nations said that Iran will not do so regardless of who is in charge of implementing this bankrupt policy.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161981/Iran-not-to-consider-Hook-s-departure-as-game-changer

'Untimely' to go on screen at two intl. film festivals
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-07
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) — Iranian feature 'Untimely', directed by Pouya Eshtehardi, will be screened at "ONE Country ONE Film" in France and "Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF)" in the US.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161986/Untimely-to-go-on-screen-at-two-intl-film-festivals

Non-nuclear attack could trigger nuke response: Russia
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-07
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) — In a possible warning to the US and Western allies, Russia announced Friday it will consider any missile attack as being nuclear in nature, and so will result in a nuclear response.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161989/Non-nuclear-attack-could-trigger-nuke-response-Russia

COVID-19 recovery choices will shape the future climate as well as economy
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-08-07
While a pollution-free period hasn't averted climate change, the recovery offers a chance for health and nature, a study reveals…
imperial.ac.uk/news/201533/covid-19-recovery-choices-will-shape-future

Mosquito net distribution could halve Malaria deaths in Africa during COVID-19
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-08-07
Mosquito net distribution could help halve the number of deaths from Malaria during the coronavirus outbreak in Africa, Imperial researchers say.
imperial.ac.uk/news/201513/mosquito-distribution-could-halve-malaria-deaths

CERN benefits and academic award: News from the College
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-08-07
Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/201455/cern-benefits-academic-award-news-from

Book review: Michael Shellenberger's reheated critique of climate 'alarmism'
Jim Green | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
California-based Michael Shellenberger first courted controversy in 2004 with his 'death of environmentalism' critique of the environment movement and has continued to attract controversy by promoting nuclear power, demonising renewable energy ("renewables are worse for the environment than fossil fuels") and demonising the environment movement that he claims to be part of.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835719.php

Thursday 8/6: Voting Rights Act 55th Anniversary: COVID19, Voter Suppression, Vote by Mail, & More
Faith In Action | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Online via Twitter…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835709.php

Coalition Calls for Shut Down of Calpella Wood Pellet Plant
Bradley Allen | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Local tribes, activists and statewide organizations are joining forces to demand closure of the Calpella wood pellet plant during the COVID-19 pandemic.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835692.php

Thursday 8/6: Hiroshima Nagasaki Accord for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons Livestream
United Religions Initative | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Online via livestream & restream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835700.php

Sunday 8/9: The Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future
CLPFSRS | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835722.php

Hunger Striker At KPFA Calls For More Programming On Testing/tracing & Worker Safety
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
An artist and KPFA member John Sheridan spoke out in front of KPFA about the need to have more programming on the need for mass testing and tracing to stop the pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835699.php

Friday 8/7: 75th Anniversary Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered Ceremony (PPC & Peace Action)
Peace Action, PPC, & peace partners | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835712.php

Giants and Warriors Give their Workers the Boot
Marc Norton | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
While loudly proclaiming support for BLACK LIVES MATTER, the Giants and Warriors fired 2,154 largely Black, Latino and Asian concession workers last week.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835715.php

The Policy Of Maximum Pressure Against Iran Has Failed
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
Depending on what policy the United States adopts after the elections, Sahimi expects "the response to come at a later time and in a manner and at locations where neither Israel nor the US would expect." | Biden has pledged, if elected, to reverse course on Iran. Izadi believes a Biden Administration would change the Trump policy of maximum pressure. "Whether doing it through rejoining the nuclear agreement or coming up with some other policies, we have to wait and see," he says. | Parsi, who is familiar with the views of Biden's Iran advisors, says the new administration would likely call for "compliance for com…
popularresistance.org/the-policy-of-maximum-pressure-against-iran-has-failed/

Consequences Of Inadequate Action By Congress
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
Without federal aid to state and local governments, millions of jobs in the public sector will be lost by the end of 2021, severely impacting Black workers, women, and veterans, who are disproportionately employed in these jobs. Additional jobs will be lost–in both the private and public sectors–if Congress fails to reinstate the $600 weekly unemployment benefit that expired last week. EPI experts weigh in on what could happen if Congress fails to act to prevent further economic shock. | (1) The coronavirus shock was historically large–and the bounceback has already likely stalled. (2) UI claims…
popularresistance.org/consequences-of-inadequate-action-by-congress/

Why The United States Shouldn't Have Nuked Japan
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
Among the truths held self-evident by millions of Americans is the notion that the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives, both American and Japanese. | The choice, Americans learn, was between atomic bombs and an even bloodier invasion of Japan, whose fanatical citizens would have fought to the death defending their homeland and their emperor. | This narrative is deeply flawed. Seven of the eight five-star US generals and admirals in 1945 opposed using the bomb. One of the opponents, General Dwight D Eisenhower, later said that "the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hi…
popularresistance.org/why-the-united-states-shouldnt-have-nuked-japan/

"A Lot Of People Really Don't Think We Should Be Working Right Now"
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
Last week saw the highest number of new recorded cases for the Kansas City metro area since the start of the pandemic. The ever-increasing level of confirmed cases takes place as infection levels are soaring across both Kansas and Missouri, which have been recording record-breaking highs on a near-daily basis. | The GM Fairfax Assembly Plant is a sprawling 4,900,000-square-foot facility located in the Fairfax Industrial District along the Missouri River. Beginning production in 1988, on the grounds of the former Fairfax Airport, the plant now employees 2,385 workers in the production of the Chevrolet Malibu and C…
popularresistance.org/a-lot-of-people-really-dont-think-we-should-be-working-right-now/

Resisting The Propaganda Of Status Quo Defenders
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
First came the new names–Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and others–all added one by one to the long list of tragic, unjustifiable police killings of Black Americans. Then came the batons, the pepper spray, the tear gas, the flash-grenades, the helicopters, the armored vehicles, and the rubber bullets wielded against nonviolent Black Lives Matter protesters across the United States, from Minneapolis to New York City to Portland. And then came the chorus of privileged beneficiaries of our country's discriminatory status quo, denying and defending the reality of brutal, racist, militarize…
popularresistance.org/resisting-the-propaganda-of-status-quo-defenders/

Professor Mounts High-Altitude Protest Against Pipeline
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
Tim Takaro is by himself but insists he isn't alone. | Takaro, 63, is protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project by camping out in a cluster of trees in Burnaby, B.C. | Takaro is a professor of health sciences and environmental health at Simon Fraser University and a former physician, having retired from clinical medicine in December 2019. | He and other environmental activists say trees along the Brunette River near the boundary between Burnaby and New Westminster are slated to be felled between now and Sept. 15 as part of pipeline construction.
popularresistance.org/professor-mounts-high-altitude-protest-against-pipeline/

Anti-Occupation Activists Find Their Place In Israeli Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
The growing presence of Israeli anti-occupation protesters has been one of the most notable aspects of the wave of demonstrations that started on July 14 outside the Prime Minister's Residence on Balfour Street, Jerusalem. Among other things, this bloc of protesters have demanded justice for Iyad al-Hallaq, a Palestinian with autism whom Israeli police shot dead in the Old City of Jerusalem in late May. | The anti-occupation bloc, comprising several hundred protesters, are not on the margins of the demonstrations. Last Saturday night, for example, it was possible to hear them chanting "Justice for Iyad" at the Pr…
popularresistance.org/anti-occupation-activists-find-their-place-in-israeli-protests/

Anti-Occupation Activists Find Their Place In Israeli Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
he growing presence of Israeli anti-occupation protesters has been one of the most notable aspects of the wave of demonstrations that started on July 14 outside the Prime Minister's Residence on Balfour Street, Jerusalem. Among other things, this bloc of protesters have demanded justice for Iyad al-Hallaq, a Palestinian with autism whom Israeli police shot dead in the Old City of Jerusalem in late May. | The anti-occupation bloc, comprising several hundred protesters, are not on the margins of the demonstrations. Last Saturday night, for example, it was possible to hear them chanting "Justice for Iyad" at the Pri…
popularresistance.org/anti-occupation-activists-find-their-place-in-israeli-protests/

Beirut Goes Up In Smoke
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
To see Beirut and its port area with a huge mushroom cloud hanging above is a truly surreal sight. But what is not surreal in battered Lebanese capital? | A big part of the downtown looks flattened, thoroughly ruined. | One of my Japanese friends based in Beirut exclaimed: | "It looks like Hiroshima!" | It does. | Who is behind the carnage? What really happened? Nobody is claiming responsibility. Was it sabotage, a direct attack against Lebanon, or a politically motivated terrorist act? | What is certain is that the "earth moved." One of the explosions, equivalent to a 4.5-magnitude earthquake, ruined everything…
popularresistance.org/beirut-goes-up-in-smoke/

'Biden no longer worthy of the black vote': Trump pounces on 'Sleepy Joe' for controversial diversity statement
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Donald Trump attacked Joe Biden by tweeting that he is "no longer worthy of the Black Vote," after his controversial statement. Now both presidential candidates are under fire for their comments on the African American community. | "After yesterday's statement, Sleepy Joe Biden is no longer worthy of the Black Vote!" the president tweeted Friday morning. He referenced the Thursday interview with the presumptive Democratic nominee, where he seemingly said that the Latino community is very diverse "unlike" the Af…
rt.com/usa/497407-biden-not-worthy-black-vote/

'We will not back down': Canada hits back at US' aluminum tariff with $3.6 billion in countermeasures
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has announced retaliatory tariffs on $3.6 billion worth of US aluminum, to be put in place in September after industry consultations. | "We will not back down," Freeland said during the Friday announcement. | The tariffs, which will be in place by September 16, come in response to the US government imposing a ten percent tariff on raw aluminum coming in from Canada. That tariff will be in place on August 16. | President Donald Trump celebrated the tariffs during a trip to Ohio on Thursday where he claimed the country was "taking advantage of us, as usual." | He…
rt.com/usa/497412-canada-aluminum-tariffs-donald-trump/

Malta bans mass gatherings, makes masks mandatory as coronavirus cases surge
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Malta banned mass gatherings and made it mandatory to wear masks in public on Friday. The move came as new coronavirus infections surged after having been reduced to zero for a week early in July. | Health authorities reported 49 new infections on Friday, the second highest daily number since the first case was detected in early March. Nine patients have died, Reuters reported. | The decision to reimpose controls represents a sharp turnaround for Malta, which depends on tourism for a third of its GDP. | The Mediterranean country has conducted the third-highest level of testing in the EU and had lifted restrict…
rt.com/newsline/497383-malta-gatherings-masks-controls/

'It's okay when it comes out of Chuck Schumer's mouth?' Democrat senator says schools must reopen or economy suffers
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a compromise on a Covid-19 economic relief bill, but one comment from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) about schools needing to reopen has some seeing hypocrisy on the left. | Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Schumer addressed the press after failed negotiations with Republicans on a potential relief bill. While many of their complaints about Republicans refusing to continue robust unemployment and other government programs was to be expected, one comment from Schumer went viral as it didn't seem to match the outrage shown to President Donald Trump when he mentioned…
rt.com/usa/497425-chuck-schumer-coronavirus-schools-reopening/

Portland mayor blasts rioters for 'attempted MURDER'… because it could help re-elect Trump?
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler castigated rioters who tried to torch a police station while barring its exits, calling it nothing short of attempted murder while warning that violence would only fuel Donald Trump's reelection bid. | "When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people who you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder," Wheeler said during an online press conference on Thursday, referring to a protest the ni…
rt.com/usa/497429-portland-mayor-protesters-murder/

Fit for a king? Spanish ex-monarch Juan Carlos has fled to luxury Abu Dhabi hotel amid Saudi corruption scandal, report says
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Juan Carlos, the former king of Spain, has reportedly been staying at a lavish hotel — one of the world's most expensive — in the United Arab Emirates, after fleeing his country amid mounting corruption allegations. | Ever since the ex-monarch made the surprise move of leaving Spain on Monday, without saying why or clarifying his route, speculation has been mounting throughout the media. Now, Spanish newspaper ABC claims to have exclusive information on Juan Carlos' destination. The outlet suggests that the former king self-exiled on Monday via a rented €50 million Global 6500 private jet.
rt.com/news/497406-spanish-monarch-fled-to-luxury/

Fit for a king? Spanish ex-monarch Juan Carlos has fled to luxury Abu Dhabi hotel amid Saudi corruption scandal, report says
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Juan Carlos, the former king of Spain, has reportedly been staying at a lavish hotel — one of the world's most expensive — in the United Arab Emirates, after fleeing his country amid mounting corruption allegations. | Juan Carlos, the former king of Spain, has reportedly been staying at a lavish hotel — one of the world's most expensive — in the United Arab Emirates, after fleeing his country amid mounting corruption allegations. | Ever since the ex-monarch made the surprise move of leaving Spain on Monday, without saying why or clarifying his route, speculation has been mounting througho…
rt.com/news/497406-spanish-monarch-fled-to-luxury/

Israel shot down drone on Golan Heights overnight — military
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Israel's military said on Friday it had shot down a drone overnight that crossed into Israeli airspace near Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights. The strategic plateau is at the frontier with Syria. | The army said the incident was not connected to the triggering of sirens later in the day by a false alarm regarding a drone infiltration, Reuters reports. | Israel has been on high alert as tensions have escalated with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Earlier in the week Israeli aircraft attacked targets in Syria. | Most of the Golan Heights were captured by Israel from Syria in a war in 1967.
rt.com/newsline/497403-israel-drone-golan-heights/

Hezbollah leader denies group had arms at Beirut port, calls for transparent probe into blast
rt.com | 2020-08-07
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday denied statements made in Lebanon and abroad that the group had arms warehoused at Beirut port. He also called for a just and transparent investigation into blast that occurred there on Tuesday. | "We know more about the port of Haifa than the port of Beirut," the Jerusalem Post quoted him as saying. "The port of Beirut is not our responsibility, whereas the port of Haifa is part of our defense strategy." | In a televised speech, Nasrallah said that Tuesday's huge explosion in the Lebanese capital was an exceptional event in the country's modern history which…
rt.com/newsline/497395-hezbollah-beirut-probe-blast/

'War on gamers?!' Twitter freaks out fearing Trump's ambiguous 'Tencent ban' could hit Fortnite, League of Legends, PUBG & others
rt.com | 2020-08-07
A vaguely worded White House executive order targeting WeChat — owned by Chinese digital entertainment giant Tencent Holdings — has triggered panic online that the move could deal a death blow to the global video gaming industry. | US President Donald Trump signed the order late on Thursday evening, banning American firms from doing business with Tencent — or at least any transactions "related to" its messaging app, WeChat. The move kicked off a frenzy of speculation from netizens, who pointed to the fact that Tencent holds large stakes in a series of major game developers. That roster include…
rt.com/usa/497319-gamers-panic-tencent-ban/

US Selectively Omits 'Complicity' in Libyan War While 'Angling' Against Russia, China in Africa
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-07
As hue and cry rises in US media over whether Russian security contractors are involved in the Libyan civil war, one activist told Sputnik the US has no room to judge, since it created the chaos in Libya and deploys its own mercenaries around the globe.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202008071080098637-us-selectively-omits-complicity-in-libyan-war-while-angling-against-russia-china-in-africa/

Taiwan Deploys F-16s With Live Anti-Ship Missiles Amid China's Rumored Island Invasion Drills
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-07
Taiwan's Republic of China Air Force launched two multirole F-16 fighters fitted with anti-ship missiles from Hualien Air Force Base this week following reports that forces from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) would be holding drills simulating the capture of the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands, which Beijing calls the Dongsha Islands.
sputniknews.com/military/202008071080098480-taiwan-deploys-f-16s-with-live-anti-ship-missiles-amid-chinas-rumored-island-invasion-drills/

US Federal Agents Discover Underground Tunnel on Border With Mexico – Photos
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-07
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US federal agents found an underground cross-border tunnel in the state of Arizona on the border with Mexico, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a press release on Friday.
sputniknews.com/us/202008071080097953-us-federal-agents-discover-underground-tunnel-on-border-with-mexico—photos/

US State Department Says Behind Russian, Iranian Text Campaign
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-07
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The State Department stands behind text messages sent to Russians, Iranians, and others advertising multi-million dollar rewards for information about foreign actors who interfere in US elections, a spokesperson said.
sputniknews.com/us/202008071080098719-us-state-department-says-behind-russian-iranian-text-campaign/

The Smartest Guy in His West Point Class
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-07
The imaginary inner world of a fool is a dangerous place, especially if he happens to be the Secretary of State of the United States of America. | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's July 23 speech on U.S. policy with China exposes the vast empty realm between his two ears. This man, who also served as a veteran congressman and ran the CIA for a year and a half reveals himself as so ignorant of diplomacy, history, competence and commonsense that in assessing his comments and their dire consequences it is difficult to know where to start. | First, Pompeo imagines that the United States, guided of course by him can "c…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/07/the-smartest-guy-in-his-west-point-class/

War and Pandemic Journalism: The Truth Can Disappear Fast
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-07
The polio epidemic in Cork supposedly ended abruptly in mid-September 1956 when the local press stopped reporting on it, but that was at least two weeks before many children like me caught it. In a similar fashion, right now, wars in the Middle East and north Africa like the ongoing disasters in Libya and Syria that once got significant coverage now barely get a mention much of the time.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/07/war-and-pandemic-journalism-the-truth-can-disappear-fast/

Hiroshima, Nagasaki 75 Years On, Washington Still Playing Terror Card
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-07
Seventy-five years ago this week the world crossed an infernal threshold, with the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan by the United States. Humankind had gained the technological capability for inflicting mass, instantaneous annihilation. | The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with over 200,000 lives — 90 per cent of whom were civilians — was not a military act to end the Second World War, as the official American narrative would have us believe. It was a political act to begin the Cold War, deliberately carried out by American leaders to assert U.S. hegemony against the Soviet Union and…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/07/hiroshima-nagasaki-75-years-on-washington-still-playing-terror-card/

Hiroshima, Nagasaki 75 Years On, Washington Still Playing Terror Card
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-07
Seventy-five years ago this week the world crossed an infernal threshold, with the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan by the United States. Humankind had gained the technological capability for inflicting mass, instantaneous annihilation. | The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with over 200,000 lives — 90 per cent of whom were civilians — was not a military act to end the Second World War, as the official American narrative would have us believe. It was a political act to begin the Cold War, deliberately carried out by American leaders to assert U.S. hegemony against the Soviet Union…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/07/hiroshima-nagasaki-75-years-on-washington-still-playing-terror-card/

Hiroshima and the Backlash Against Historical Truth
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-07
On the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1995 historians at the Smithsonian tried to present a truthful accounting of that U.S. decision-making but were stopped by right-wing politicians who insist on maintaining comforting myths, recalls Gary G. Kohls. | Gary G. KOHLS | Last week was the 67th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the whole truth continues to be heavily censored and mythologized, starting with the news of the event that created understandable joy because of the end of that awful war. | Most Americans took in, as gospel truth, the heavily edited stories about the en…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/07/hiroshima-and-the-backlash-against-historical-truth/

The impact of lockdown on the climate crisis will be tiny unless there's a 'green recovery'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-07
The global lockdown will have a "negligible" impact on rising temperatures but a green recovery could avert dangerous climate breakdown, a study has said. | Lockdowns to stop the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) caused huge falls in transport use, as well as reductions in industry and commercial operations, cutting the greenhouse gases and pollutants caused by vehicles and other activities. | The impact is only short-lived, however, and analysis shows that even if some lockdown measures last until the end of 2021, global temperatures will only be 0.01C lower than expected by 2030. | But if countries choose a "str…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/07/the-impact-of-lockdown-on-the-climate-crisis-will-be-tiny-unless-theres-a-green-recovery/

Record-breaking summers due to climate chaos 'a danger to human health'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-07
Having record-breaking summers will become a certainty due to the climate crisis, experts have warned, as the UK begins to swelter in what could be the hottest day of the year so far.Just a week after Britain recorded the third warmest day on record on 31 July, with 37.8C (100.04F) recorded in Heathrow, Friday could see temperatures rise to — and possibly surpass — 37C (98.6F) in London and the South East.Michael Byrne, lecturer in earth and environmental sciences at the University of St Andrews, warned that two near-record temperatures so closely spaced is "unusual". | Exceptional heat in the southeast…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/07/record-breaking-summers-due-to-climate-chaos-a-danger-to-human-health/

Chancellor resists calls to extend furlough scheme with targeted response
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-07
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is resisting calls to extend the furlough scheme with targeted measures to stave off widespread job losses, saying the support cannot go on "indefinitely". | The scheme that has so far cost £33.8bn supporting the payrolls of 9.6 million workers during the coronavirus crisis has begun tapering off before ending completely in October. | But opposition parties are calling for the government to extend it for the hardest-hit sectors and those plunged into local lockdown, warning the end to the scheme is a "grave mistake". | Sunak visited Glasgow on Friday to praise the benefits the program…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/07/chancellor-resists-calls-to-extend-furlough-scheme-with-targeted-response/

London coronavirus mortuary to become wildflower habitat
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-07
A temporary London mortuary used to store bodies at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic is being dismantled to make way for a new wildflower habitat.The site, opened in April at Wanstead Flats in east London, was one of six emergency mortuaries set up to deal with deaths.But as the death rate has fallen, the four-acre site near Epping Forest "will be reseeded with native species" and expected to open to the public next summer, said the City of London Corporation, which owns the land.The temporary mortuary was set up at the height of the pandemic (Victoria Jones/PA)Graeme Doshi-Smith, chair of the corporation's E…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/07/london-coronavirus-mortuary-to-become-wildflower-habitat/

Even senior Tories condemn government's 'unfair' lack of clarity on quarantine
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-07
Senior Tories have condemned the government for their "unfair" lack of clarity over the possible implementation of further quarantine restrictions.Chairperson of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs Graham Brady and former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith have called for a "proper testing regime for air travellers" to be implemented as quickly as possible, and for regional air corridors to be considered.It comes as chancellor Rishi Sunak warned holidaymakers of the risk of travelling abroad during the coronavirus crisis amid concerns France may be the next nation to be added to the quarantine list.
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/07/even-senior-tories-condemn-governments-unfair-lack-of-clarity-on-quarantine/

Jeremy Corbyn likely set to accuse Labour of trying to sabotage 2017 election
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-07
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership team have accused their party officials of trying to sabotage the 2017 election out of hostility towards him, reports say.It is believed that Corbyn, former shadow chancellor John McDonnell and seven other former shadow ministers and aides have made a submission saying there is "overwhelming evidence" of sabotage from certain staff members in Labour's headquarters.According to the Guardian, the document suggests that it is not impossible that Corbyn might now be in his third year as a Labour prime minister "were it not for the unauthorised, unilateral action t…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/07/jeremy-corbyn-likely-set-to-accuse-labour-of-trying-to-sabotage-2017-election/

Right-Wing Groups Took Millions in COVID Aid and Spent It Lobbying Against Aid
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-07
Conservative groups whose board members have taken in tens of millions in coronavirus relief from Congress have spent millions to lobby lawmakers to cut aid for unemployed workers. | Negotiations over the next phase of much-needed coronavirus relief have stalled, largely because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans have i…
truthout.org/articles/right-wing-groups-took-millions-in-covid-aid-and-spent-it-lobbying-against-aid/

Students Suspended for Taking Pictures of Crowds in Georgia School's Reopening
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-07
A high school in Paulding County, Georgia, is facing steep criticism for how it has handled reopening its schools after several images on social media revealed a lack of social distancing and mask-wearing among the student body. | But rather than addressing these concerns or taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the district instead appears to be disciplining students that have shared these images on social media. | Hannah Watters, a 15-year-old student at North Paulding High…
truthout.org/articles/students-suspended-for-taking-pictures-of-crowds-in-georgia-schools-reopening/

Navajo Nation's Shortage of Clean Water Is Impeding Efforts to Control COVID
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-07
Growing up in Vanderwagen, an arid, mountainous checker-board region of the Navajo Nation near the Arizona-New Mexico border, Sunny Dooley learned from an early age that safe, clean water was as precious as a rare mineral, and just as hard to find. | Because of naturally occurring uranium and arsenic in the groundwater, the nearest clean well was two miles away. Dooley and her family used to make the trip on foot with steel buckets they would drop down the well before lugging them back, a trai…
truthout.org/articles/navajo-nations-shortage-of-clean-water-is-impeding-efforts-to-control-covid/

Book: Pentagon Officials Withheld Options From Trump for Fear He May Start a War
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-07
A new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto details how several officials were reticent to provide President Donald Trump with military options out of fears he could have responded to international events by starting new wars. | The book by Sciutto, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World, includes several interviews with former Trump administration officials w…
truthout.org/articles/book-pentagon-officials-withheld-options-from-trump-for-fear-he-may-start-a-war/

US Has Lost 12,881,000 Jobs Since February. Lowest-Paid Workers Are Hit Hardest
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-07
The July employment report showed the economy adding another 1,761,000 jobs in July. This follows gains of 2,725,000 in May, and 4,791,000 in June, leaving the economy down 12,881,000 jobs from its February level. | The unemployment rate fell from 11.1 percent to 10.2 percent, while the employment to population ratio (EPOP) rose from 54.6 percent to 55.1 percent. These gains likely overstate the true improvement from June, since the Bureau of Labor Statistics has largely fixed a misclassification p…
truthout.org/articles/economy-creates-1-8-million-jobs-in-july-production-workers-wages-fall/

Mary Trump on Her Uncle, President Trump, and Why He Must Be Ousted
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-07
"In my family, being kind was considered being weak," says Mary Trump, President Trump's niece, a clinical psychologist and author of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. We spend the hour with Mary Trump, discussing her book the president doesn't want people to read, in which she describes his upbringing in a dysfunctional family that fostered his greed, cruelty and racist and sexist behaviors — which he is now inflicting on the world. Mary Trump also disc…
truthout.org/video/mary-trump-on-her-uncle-president-trump-and-why-he-must-be-ousted/

Young People Are Leading the Growing Movement for Police-Free Schools
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-07
In this moment of transformative possibility, amid activists' growing calls to defund and abolish the police, young people across the country are leading a movement to remove police officers from schools. They are demanding that city and school district leaders reallocate funding for police into services and resources for students, including counseling, social workers and restorative justice programming. | The movement for police-free schools has a long hi…
truthout.org/articles/young-people-are-leading-the-growing-movement-for-police-free-schools/

Is Netanyahu Serious About Annexing Jordan Valley?
Evelyn Leopold | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
On July 1, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised he would annex part of the Jordan Valley. He did not, but he may still do so before U.S. elections in November and while President Donald Trump is still in office. It could be his legacy. Trump's challenger, former vice president Joseph Biden, has joined the…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/is-netanyahu-serious-about-annexing-jordan-valley/

Giants and Warriors Give Their Workers the Boot
Marc Norton | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
I got the email firing me from my job at the Giants ballpark on Monday evening, July 27. On Tuesday evening I learned from the San Francisco Examiner website that I was also being fired from my job at the Warriors new stadium, and that there were 2,154 other food service workers being shown the door at these two sports venues. That…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/giants-and-warriors-give-their-workers-the-boot/

Britain's National Health Service workers demand pay rise amid COVID-19 crisis
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
Hundreds of health workers demonstrated in London last week and dozens of protests are scheduled in cities across the country this Saturday, organised by Facebook groups.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/heal-a07.html

Canada: Last Intact Ice Shelf Collapses Due to Global Warming
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-07
The last intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic collapsed and lost a large part of his area due to extremely high temperatures, according to the Canadian Ice Service (CIS), as reported on Friday. | RELATED: | India: A Plane Crashes At Landing During Monsoon Season | "Above normal air temperatures, offshore winds and open water in front of the ice shelf are all part of the recipe for ice shelf break up," the CIS tweeted. | According to Luke Copland, a Glaciologist at the University of…
telesurenglish.net/news/canada-last-intact-ice-shelf-collapsed-due-to-global-warming–20200807-0017.html

Top Turkish officials due in Lebanon after huge blast
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Turkey's top officials will visit Lebanon's capital on Saturday following a massive deadly explosion shaking Beirut this week, according to Turkish authorities.Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu are expected to meet Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Hassan Diab, the office of the vice president said on Friday.A fire at a warehouse at the Port of Beirut led to a huge blast on Tuesday causing massive material damage in several neighborhoods of the capital. At least 154 people were killed and around 5,000 others injured in tragic in…
yenisafak.com/en/news/top-turkish-officials-due-in-lebanon-after-huge-blast-3536379

Giants and Warriors Give their Workers the Boot
Marc Norton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-07
Photo by Marc Norton I got the email firing me from my job at the Giants ballpark on Monday evening, July 27. On Tuesday evening I learned from the San Francisco Examiner website that I was also being fired from my job at the Warriors new stadium, and that there were 2,154 other food service …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/giants-and-warriors-give-their-workers-the-boot/

Landslide kills 15 in southern India, more than 50 feared trapped
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
A landslide caused by torrential rains killed at least 15 tea garden workers in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Friday, and rescue workers were searching for more than 50 people thought to be trapped under soil and debris, officials said.The landslide hit in the early hours as workers slept, in Idukki district, district collector H Dineshan told Reuters.Fifteen bodies had been recovered so far and another 51 people were feared to be trapped, he said."One team of National Disaster Relief Force have reached the site. Helicopters cannot be deployed as the climate is very misty," he added.Nearly 20 cm (7.9 inc…
yenisafak.com/en/news/landslide-kills-15-in-southern-india-more-than-50-feared-trapped-3536374

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Grim forecast for U.S.Nearly 300,000 Americans could be dead from COVID-19 by Dec. 1, University of Washington health experts forecast, although they said 70,000 lives could be saved if people were scrupulous about wearing masks.The latest predictions from the university's widely cited Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) came as top White House infectious disease advisers warned that major U.S. cities could erupt as new coronavirus hot spots if officials there were not vigilant with counter-measures."We're seeing a rollercoaste…
yenisafak.com/en/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-coronavirus-right-now-3536361

Coronavirus cases in Africa surpass 1 million mark
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Coronavirus cases in Africa exceeded the 1 million mark on Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, as the continent recorded 14,656 new cases over the last 24 hours.The death toll from the virus in Africa reached 22,066, while recoveries rose to 690,436.Southern Africa has confirmed a total of 565,100 cases, of which South Africa alone took by far the greater proportion that stood at 538,200.North Africa has 170,200 cases, West Africa 136,800, East Africa 85,600 and Central Africa 49,600.At least 10,200 people lost their lives to the virus in Southern Africa, 7,000 in North A…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-cases-in-africa-surpass-1-million-mark-3536357

Russia offers to supply Philippines with COVID-19 vaccine
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Russia is willing to supply a coronavirus vaccine to the Philippines, or team up with a local firm to mass produce it, its ambassador to Manila said on Friday, as infections in the Southeast Asian nation surge.Russia is expecting regulatory approval for its first potential COVID-19 vaccine this month, with doses to be administered to frontline health workers first.But the frenetic race globally to develop a COVID-19 vaccine is raising some concern that speed could compromise safety and that some countries could be putting national prestige before solid science."We are ready to supply vaccines to the Philippines,"
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Turkey's first martyred pilot: Cengiz Topel
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
The first martyr of the Turkish Air Force, Pilot Captain Cengiz Topel, was remembered on Friday, 56 years after his plane was shot down on Aug. 7, 1964, during a warning flight on Greek Cypriot soldiers opening fire on Turkish civilians on the island.Topel was among the Turkish civilians' first line of defense against the Greek Cypriot soldiers, amid attacks that would escalate over the coming decade until Turkey's peace intervention against a Greek Cypriot coup attempting to topple the internationally recognized government of the Republic of Cyprus.Topel's legacy lives on both in Turkey and the Turkish Republic…
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WHO appeals for $15 million aid for Lebanon after Beirut blast
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
The blast, which killed more than 150 and injured more than 5,000, also destroyed 17 containers holding WHO medical supplies including personal protective equipment, the agency's regional office for the Middle East said in a statement late on Thursday.Five hospitals in the area affected by Tuesday's blast are either not functioning or partially functioning, and early reports indicate that many health centres and primary care facilities are also damaged or out of action, it said.Up to 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes and need food or shelter, which "also risks accelerating the spread of COVID-19…
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Another PKK terrorist surrenders to Turkish forces
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
One more PKK terrorist surrendered to security forces in southeastern Turkey, the National Defense Ministry said on Friday. | The PKK terrorist fleeing from the shelter areas in northern Iraq surrendered to the border post in the Cizre district of Sirnak province, the ministry said on Twitter. | "While the operations of the Turkish Armed Forces against the PKK terrorist group continue without slowing down, escapes from the organization continue," the statement added. | On Monday, the Turkish Interior Ministry announced that a total of 123 terrorists have turned themselves in to Turkish security forces in 2020.
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