Climate, crude, and COVID devastate Ecuador's Amazon
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-11
Unprecedented flooding, the COVID-19 pandemic, and catastrophic oil spills are wreaking havoc in Ecuador's Amazon and its Indigenous communities, one of the groups hardest hit by the climate-related emergencies fueled by unbridled drilling for oil and mining for minerals. | In April, as COVID-19 began to overwhelm the healthcare system, both of Ecuador's transnational oil pipelines ruptured, dumping thousands of barrels of oil into the Coca river and its tributaries that provide fresh water and livelihoods to native communities. Regarded as Ecuador's worst spill in a decade, the collapsed pipelines are still not…
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crude-and-covid-devastate-ecuadors-amazon

End Torture and Medical Neglect of Julian Assange
Dr. C. Stephen Frost | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
Repost, first published on February 11, 2020 | On Nov 22, 2019, we, a group of more than 60 medical doctors, wrote to the UK Home Secretary to express our serious concerns about the physical and mental health of Julian Assange.1 …
globalresearch.ca/end-torture-medical-neglect-julian-assange/5704006

Twitter spreads paid U.S. gov't propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2020-08-11
Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, U.S. government propaganda organs like Voice of America's VOA Persian pay the social media corporation huge sums of money to spread disinformation against Iran and other foreign adversaries.
mronline.org/2020/08/11/twitter-spreads-paid-u-s-govt-propaganda-while-falsely-claiming-it-bans-state-media-ads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=twitter-spreads-paid-u-s-govt-propaganda-while-falsely-claiming-it-bans-state-media-ads

Towards a US-China War? The Creation of a Global Totalitarian System, A "One World Government"?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
If we step back from the details of daily headlines around the world and try to make sense of larger patterns, the dominant dynamic defining world geopolitics in the past three years or more is the appearance of a genuine …
globalresearch.ca/remake-1941-hitler-stalin-great-war/5720769

Ilhan Omar speaks at Minneapolis celebration of NO BAN Act passage In House
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-11
Minneapolis, MN – A small crowd gathered in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood on August 10 for a press conference celebrating the passage of the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. | The bill would repeal President Trump's racist travel ban that has prevented immigration from a list of Muslim-majority and African countries. It would also strengthen prohibitions against discrimination on visa applications, permanently barring the executive branch from banning people from entering the United States on the basis of religious affiliation. Approv…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/11/ilhan-omar-speaks-minneapolis-celebration-no-ban-act-passage-house

'Day of Judgment' Protesters Occupy Gov't Buildings, Banking Assn., Forcing New Elections
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
Angry about the criminal government negligence that led to the destruction of Beirut's port and part of the city by ammonium nitrate stores, they occupied the offices of the ministry of the economy, the ministry of energy, the ministry of the environment, and the foreign ministry…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/day-of-judgment-protesters-occupy-govt-buildings-banking-assn-forcing-new-elections/

Era of US Domination of Latin America Coming to an End
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-11
Marcha en Venezuela contra las sanciones de Trump (Reuters) Despite its failings at home, the United States intervenes in countries across multiple continents seeking to control their governments and resources. This week, we look at the US' latest efforts in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Bolivia to undermine their independence and force them to serve the interests of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/era-of-us-domination-of-latin-america-coming-to-an-end/

Radical historian challenges traditional Marxist view of 'so-called' American Revolution
Jamal Rich | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-11
WASHINGTON–The 'so-called' American Revolution of 1776 was not a bourgeois-democratic uprising for liberty as the common view would have it. Instead, it was a settler-colonialist revolt, a reactionary event aimed at blocking the impending abolition of slavery. That according to radical historian Gerald Horne, who is challenging both mainstream as well as traditional Marxist narratives about …
peoplesworld.org/article/radical-historian-challenges-traditional-marxist-view-of-so-called-american-revolution/

Evo Morales denounces latest coup plot, warns of an immanent massacre
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-11
Last minute information, I denounce that General Ivan Ortiz Bravo, head of the third department of the Armed Forces Command, on the instruction of the commander in chief of the Armed Forces, General (Sergio Carlos Orellana), has a coup d'état plan. — Former Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma…
mronline.org/2020/08/11/evo-morales-denounces-latest-coup-plot-warns-of-an-immanent-massacre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evo-morales-denounces-latest-coup-plot-warns-of-an-immanent-massacre

Meatpackers fired for asking for COVID precautions, organize a picket to fight back
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-11
Franklin, WI – On the morning of August 7, a crowd of around 80 people marched outside a Strauss Brands meatpacking facility located in the small town of Franklin just south of Milwaukee. In the crowd were workers from United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1473 (UFCW 1473) and their families, and members of other unions and community groups; most visibly immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera. | The crowd was gathered to call for justice for 31 line workers who had been fired for organizing for better COVID-19 protections. Strauss fired these Latino workers with Social Security No Match letters from the S…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/11/meatpackers-fired-asking-covid-precautions-organize-picket-fight-back

U.S. and China Will Not Go to War Before the Presidential Elections as Some Speculate
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
Wang Yunfei, a recently retired Chinese naval officer announced online that U.S. President Donald Trump could launch a "controlled" military conflict with China in the South China Sea to increase his chances in the upcoming presidential election. Some analysts …
globalresearch.ca/us-china-not-go-war-before-presidential-elections-some-speculate/5720767

Defund Fascism, Blue and Orange
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
The American ruling class says it is opposed to "big government." It isn't. The wealthy Few are only against what the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called "the left hand of the state" — those parts of government that reflect the victories of past and ongoing social movements by serving the common good, regulating Big Business,…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/defund-fascism-blue-and-orange/

Global Destruction, 
The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic and Social Impacts
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
Planned Destruction of World-wide Economy | What we have to realize is that the global, country-by-country destruction — happening simultaneously — is not a coincidence. | It has been planned for decades. Thousands of pages were written alone for the preparation of …
globalresearch.ca/global-destruction-%e2%80%a8the-covid-19-lockdown-economic-and-social-impacts/5719422

Horror in Beirut. A Critical Examination. The Catastrophe in A Broader Context
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
The Establishment explanation for what occurred in Beirut's port on August 5th is that the horrific series of explosions that killed hundreds, injured thousands and left hundreds of thousands homeless was a terrible accident that came about due to …
globalresearch.ca/horror-beirut/5720787

Why Capitalism is in Constant Conflict With Democracy
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage beyond the rich who possessed capital. Only mass pressures from below forced repeated extensions of voting rights until universal suffrage was achieved–at least legally. To this day, capitalists…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/why-capitalism-is-in-constant-conflict-with-democracy/

Why a growing force in Brazil is charging that President Jair Bolsonaro has committed crimes against humanity
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-11
Trade unions in Brazil have taken to the International Criminal Court to charge President Jair Bolsonaro with crimes against humanity over his mismanagement of the pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/11/why-a-growing-force-in-brazil-is-charging-that-president-jair-bolsonaro-has-committed-crimes-against-humanity/

Tracking Apps Are Unlikely to Help Stop COVID-19
Jay Stanley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
Proposals to use the tracking capabilities of our cell phones to help fight COVID-19 have probably received more attention than any other technology issue during the pandemic. Here at the ACLU, we have been skeptical of schemes to use apps …
globalresearch.ca/tracking-apps-unlikely-help-stop-covid-19/5720788

Trump and Biden, Two Ignoble Minds Here O'erthrown
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
At the presidential level and perhaps down-ticket too, this year's electoral circus will be a spectacle well calculated to cause disgust and despair — thanks mainly to Donald Trump's unprecedented machinations, but also because, at least in the presidential contest, the main contenders, both of them, are embarrassingly unfit to serve. For kindness sake, one…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/trump-and-biden-two-ignoble-minds-here-oerthrown/

How the Pandemic Defeated America: Ed Yong on How COVID-19 Humiliated Planet's Most Powerful Nation
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-11
As the world passes a grim milestone of 20 million coronavirus cases, we look at how the pandemic humbled and humiliated the world's most powerful country. Over a quarter of the confirmed infections and deaths have been in the United States, which has less than 5% of the world's population. Ed Yong, a science writer at The Atlantic who has been covering the pandemic extensively since March, says existing gaps in the U.S. social safety net and the Trump administration's "devastatingly inept response" made for a deadly combination.
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/11/atlantic_ed_yong_coronavirus_us_response

"Prisons Are Not Fit for Human Occupation": San Quentin Prisoners Speak Out as Virus Deaths Reach 25
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-11
California's notorious San Quentin State Prison is experiencing the worst coronavirus outbreak in the United States. At least 2,200 prisoners have been infected, and 25 have died. More than 260 staff members have also been infected. We hear from two people incarcerated at San Quentin about conditions inside and the punitive measures authorities have taken against prisoners campaigning for better safety measures, and speak with James King, a member of the Stop San Quentin Outbreak Coalition. "The conditions at San Quentin are horrific," says King, who was incarcerated at San Quentin from 2013 until December 2019.
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/11/san_quentin_worst_outbreak_in_us

Lebanon's Gov't Resigns Amid Public Rage over Beirut Blast, But Protesters Demand Structural Change
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-11
After days of protests, Lebanon's government has resigned following the devastating explosion at the Port of Beirut that killed 200 people and injured thousands. The port blast, the source of which was 2,700 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate left unattended in a warehouse for more than six years, occurred as Lebanon was already facing political, economic and public health crises. We speak with Ziad Abu-Rish, a historian and research fellow at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies and co-director of Bard College's Masters of Arts program in human rights and the arts, who says despite public outrage toppli…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/11/ziad_abu_rish_lebanon_govt_resigns

8 Afghan policemen killed in Nangarhar Province
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Eight members of Afghan local police forces were killed by Taliban in Nangarhar Province on Tuesday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162150/8-Afghan-policemen-killed-in-Nangarhar-Province

New Alternative Left Alliance Forms In Venezuela
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
Merida – Two major Venezuelan left-wing parties have announced that they will not be backing government candidates in the upcoming December 6 parliamentary elections. | For the first time, the Homeland for All Party (PPT) and Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) are set to lead a broad alternative coalition for the 277 seats up for grabs. Apart from the two parties, the inaugural Popular Revolutionary Alternative(APR) will look to incorporate trade unions, social movements, LGBTIQ groups, communes and campesinos organisations, as well as a range of smaller leftist currents.
popularresistance.org/new-alternative-left-alliance-forms-in-venezuela/

UFO hunter claims to have unearthed 'alien underground bases' in South Carolina
rt.com | 2020-08-11
A self-proclaimed UFO expert claims to have discovered the entrances to five different underground bases in South Carolina. The alien hunter says he believes that the alleged bases have secret passages that lead to the sea. | Scott Waring of ET DataBase says he discovered the alien outposts hiding in plain sight in South Carolina's Pee Dee Island while trawling through Google Earth. The features in question are five oval-shaped depressions, which appear to line-up perfectly in the satellite image. | This striking formation was enough to convince Waring that the ovals hide underground alien bases and prompted h…
rt.com/usa/497730-ufo-hunter-discovers-alien-bases-carolina/

Why Capitalism is in Constant Conflict With Democracy
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-11
Richard D. WOLFF | The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage beyond the rich who possessed capital. Only mass pressures from below forced repeated extensions of voting rights until universal suffrage was achieved–at least legally. To this day, capitalists develop and apply all sorts of legal and illegal mechanisms to limit and constrain suffrage. Among those committed to conserving capitalism, fear of universal suffrage runs deep. Trump and his Republicans ex…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/11/why-capitalism-is-in-constant-conflict-with-democracy/

The Green New Deal Just Won a Major Union Endorsement. What's Stopping the AFL-CIO?
Mindy Isser | commondreams.org | 2020-08-11
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten greets a crowd of striking teachers in Grand Park on January 22, 2019 in downtown Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-08-11_at_2.41.42_pm.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/11/green-new-deal-just-won-major-union-endorsement-whats-stopping-afl-cio?cd-origin=rss

Coronavirus Is the New 'Terrorism'
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed the next multi-trillion dollar "coronavirus relief" spending bill that will support testing, tracing, treatment, isolation, and mask policies that have been part of a "national strategic plan" she has been advocating. The Trump administration …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-new-terrorism/5720808

The Rise of Nationalism Has Led to the Increased Repression of Minorities
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
We live in an era of resurgent nationalism. From Scotland to Sri Lanka, from China to Brazil, governments rely on nationalism as a source of communal identity and a vehicle for common action. In countries where religious identity appears to dominate, as with Islam in Turkey and Hinduism in India, religion has bonded with nationalism.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/the-rise-of-nationalism-has-led-to-the-increased-repression-of-minorities/

Video: Chaos in Lebanon, Marked by Start of New Round of Israeli-Iranian Standoff
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
The explosion in the port of Beirut in early August that caused thousands of casualties became a trigger point for the further development of the already existing crisis in Lebanon. | In the following week days after the August 4 explosion, …
globalresearch.ca/video-chaos-lebanon-start-new-round-israeli-iranian-standoff/5720773

No Extradition: New film documents Julian Assange's plight for freedom
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2020-08-11
On Thursday 13 August, the new documentary No Extradition: Julian Assange's Father & The Struggle for His Son's Freedom will premiere. It's about the ongoing extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange. The 32-minute film, which also screens on Saturday 15 August, features exclusive interviews with Assange's father John Shipto…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/08/11/no-extradition-new-film-documents-julian-assanges-plight-for-freedom/

The "Election Interference" Fearmongers Think You're Stupid
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
Xi Jinping and Ali Khamenei prefer Joe Biden to Donald Trump. Vladimir Putin prefers Donald Trump to Joe Biden. That's according to William Evanina, Director of the US National Counterintelligence and Security Center. "Many foreign actors," he says,…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/the-election-interference-fearmongers-think-youre-stupid/

Some Come, Others Go
Victor Grossman | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
The pressure to move instead towards diplomacy, détente and demilitarization — to safeguard our troubled world — now on Trump, after January 20 hopefully on Biden, must grow and grow…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/some-come-others-go/

The Flaw in the US Plan to Rally Democracies Against China
Sholto Byrnes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called last week for "a new alliance of democracies" to fight what he called "the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party". In a speech delivered at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California, Mr …
globalresearch.ca/flaw-us-plan-rally-democracies-against-china/5720793

Two years of Duque's Colombia: deepening neoliberalism, increased violence and a public health crisis
Zoe PC | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-11
Colombian social leader Milena Ochoa analyses the past two years of Iván Duque's government and explains how its functioning has been completely in favor of big business, landowners, paramilitaries and the corrupt…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/11/two-years-of-duques-colombia-deepening-neoliberalism-increased-violence-and-a-public-health-crisis/

Utah teachers challenge state's reopening plans
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-08-11
By Alyssa Faith and Summer Autumn School districts across Utah are planning to open with in-person classes for the start of the new school year, despite the state having twice the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus as they did when schools closed in March. Governor Gary Hubert requested school . . . | Continue reading Utah teachers challenge state's reopening plans at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50496/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=utah-teachers-challenge-states-reopening-plans

Is Big Pharma more Interested in Profiteering than Protecting us from Coronavirus?
F. Douglas Stephenson | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
Forty years of private corporatist Big Pharma and oligarch control of our economy has left the public totally exposed and ill-prepared to face the public health crisis of COVID-19…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-big-pharma-more-interested-in-profiteering-than-protecting-us-from-coronavirus-2/

Coping With a Deadly Virus, a Social One, Too
Parth M.N. | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
It didn't matter that all but one of them had tested negative for coronavirus. The sarpanch, in agreement with the villagers, had issued a diktat. The family couldn't leave their home for a month — though the mandatory quarantine period was 14 days. One of them had been infected with the virus. To make things…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/coping-with-a-deadly-virus-a-social-one-too/

Chart of the day
David Ruccio | mronline.org | 2020-08-11
The American economy gained 1.8 million jobs last month, even as the coronavirus surged in many parts of the country and newly reintroduced restrictions caused some businesses to close for a second time.
mronline.org/2020/08/11/chart-of-the-day-9/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chart-of-the-day-9

Student-athletes organize for health, Black Lives Matter, labor rights
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-08-11
Since March 12, the coronavirus has impacted every sector of U.S. society, not only health but also social life. With all the suffering going on and with no national public health care system in the U.S., different sectors of society are seeking to protect themselves by preventing the spread of . . . | Continue reading Student-athletes organize for health, Black Lives Matter, labor rights at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50517/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=student-athletes-organize-for-health-black-lives-matter-labor-rights

Left-progressive Cori Bush makes her mark–On the neoliberal agenda
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-11
Racial justice activist Cori Bush's stunning upset against a Congressional Black Caucus-backed incumbent in Missouri underscores the power of the growing movement against racism and corporate greed.
therealnews.com/stories/left-progressive-cori-bush-makes-her-mark-on-neoliberal-agenda

Trump's Presidency is a Death Cult
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
When President Donald Trump was challenged by Axios national political correspondent Jonathan Swan to respond to the fact that, "a thousand Americans are dying a day" due to COVID-19, the president responded as though the grim tally was perfectly acceptable, saying, "They are dying, that's true. And it is what it is." While observers were…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/trumps-presidency-is-a-death-cult/

Pushing GMO Crops into India: Experts Debunk High-Level Claims of Bt Cotton Success
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
On 6 July 2020, an article extolling the benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops appeared on the BloombergQuint website based on an interview with Dr Ramesh Chand, a member of the key Indian Government think tank Niti Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) . On 17 July, another piece that placed a positive spin on GM crops…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/pushing-gmo-crops-into-india-experts-debunk-high-level-claims-of-bt-cotton-success/

34 Attorneys General Call to Bust Gilead's Pharma Monopoly on COVID Treatment Remdesivir
Alex Lawson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
On August 4, nearly three dozen attorneys general representing nearly 60 percent of the U.S. population published an open letteraddressing top federal health officials. Even by the standards of an increasingly heated and high-stakes debate over drug prices, the letter is a remarkable document. With clarity and urgency, the signatories push the federal government to…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/34-attorneys-general-call-to-bust-gileads-pharma-monopoly-on-covid-treatment-remdesivir/

COVID-19 surges in Florida after data whistleblower fired
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-11
"Somebody needs to put a muzzle on [Trump] before he gets another 100,000 people killed. The United States does not have this under control."
therealnews.com/stories/covid-19-surges-in-florida-after-data-whistleblower-fired

Video: The Great Reset: Covid-19 and the WEF Plan to Impose A New World Order
Michael J. Matt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
Michael J. Matt takes a look at some good news regarding the Covid recovery rate before exploring what's really going on with the global pandemic. | To understand this, he takes us to Switzerland–to the World Economic Forum–where the movers and …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-great-reset-covid-19-and-the-wef-plan-to-impose-a-new-world-order/5720760

Jobless workers will get little or no help from Trump's executive orders
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-11
San José, CA – On Saturday, August 8, President Trump signed four executive orders that he declared would "take care of, pretty much, the entire situation." But jobless workers will get little or no help from the triple whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis and the recent loss of the additional $600 a week in unemployment benefits, known as the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, of FPUC. | Instead, Trump ordered $400 a week in additional payments, calling the cut in benefits "generous." But he ordered the money to come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA. There is only enough mon…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/jobless-workers-will-get-little-or-no-help-trump-s-executive-orders-0

Jobless workers will get little or no help from Trump's executive orders
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-11
San José, CA – On Saturday, August 8, President Trump signed four executive orders that he declared would "take care of, pretty much, the entire situation." But jobless workers will get little or no help from the triple whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis and the recent loss of the additional $600 a week in unemployment benefits, known as the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, of FPUC. | Instead, Trump ordered $400 a week in additional payments, calling the cut in benefits "generous." But he ordered the money to come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA. There is only enough mon…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/jobless-workers-will-get-little-or-no-help-trump-s-executive-orders-0

Cuba's doctors to the rescue
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-11
The efforts by Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade have been the most significant example of medical internationalism during the COVID-19 pandemic. The brigade was set up in 2005 by Fidel Castro.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/11/cubas-doctors-to-the-rescue/

Sweden Debunks the Covid Hysteria: No Lockdown, No Masks, No Vaccine
Jordan Schachtel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
Here in the United States, we have become inundated with tales of COVID-19 doom and gloom. In America, the mainstream narrative is rife with hopelessness. | We are told that there is simply no way to stop this virus without repetitive …
globalresearch.ca/sweden-success-kryptonite-lockdown-mask-advocates/5720802

Democracy — We've had the Russia Report, now where is the America Report?
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-08-11
By Rob Woodward — TruePublica: The long-awaited Russia report was published with a call for "immediate action" by the government and intelligence services to tackle the threat from just one country — Russia. The reality was that while Russia may have been meddling at the edges of Britain's democracy, America has been actively involved in …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/democracy-weve-had-the-russia-report-now-where-is-the-america-report/

Bolivians brave repression, continue struggle for democracy
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-11
The national strike and road blockades have intensified across Bolivia. The Bolivian Workers' Center (COB) called for these actions to oppose…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/11/bolivians-brave-repression-continue-struggle-for-democracy/

Don't Stigmatise the Nuke! Opponents of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
It would seem a logical step, at least from an existential perspective: to ban something so utterly horrendous to life; to forbid its use in any circumstances, whatever rationale employed to justify its use. But the nuclear weapon has its …
globalresearch.ca/dont-stigmatise-nuke-opponents-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty/5720780

America's Political Crisis: Organized Riots and the Economic Lockdown
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
In case you missed it, not one member of the Democratic hierarchy: not the DNC Chair, not one Democratic Member of Congress, Governor or Mayor, has spoken out to criticize the myriad of riots occurring across US cities or …
globalresearch.ca/americas-political-crisis-organized-riots-and-the-economic-lockdown/5720782

Invasion of the New Normals
C.J. Hopkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-11
They're here! No, not the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. We're not being colonized by giant alien fruit. I'm afraid it is a little more serious than that. People's minds are being taken over by a much more destructive and less otherworldly force … a force that transforms them overnight into aggressively …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/invasion-of-the-new-normals/

Christian Nationalists and Christian Zionists March Lockstep to Secure Another Four Years for Trump
Kathryn Shihadah | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-11
Christian Nationalists and their cousins, Christian Zionists — have made their way into the halls of power, and may be the key to another four-year term for arguably the most catastrophic president in US history.
mintpressnews.com/christian-nationalists-christian-zionists-secure-another-four-years-for-trump/270259/

US, Israeli Media Scramble to Blame Hezbollah for Deadly Beirut Explosion
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-11
Pundits in the US and Israel are sounding the trumpets of war and trying to blame Hezbollah for the massive explosion in the port of Beirut. But a closer look at the stories being promulgated turn up the same old propaganda by the usual suspects…
mintpressnews.com/us-israeli-media-blame-hezbollah-deadly-beirut-explosion/270284/

Murder charges sought against deputy for shooting death of Andres Guardado
Paul Krehbiel | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-11
COMPTON, Calif. — Community pressure is mounting on authorities to bring murder charges against Los Angeles Sheriff Deputy Miguel Vega for murdering Andres Guardado on June 18 in broad daylight, near Gardena and West Compton in Los Angeles County. Deputy Vega shot the 18-year-old Guardado in the back five times when the youth was kneeling …
peoplesworld.org/article/murder-charges-sought-against-deputy-for-shooting-death-of-andres-guardado/

Don't Stigmatise the Nuke! Opponents of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-11
It would seem a logical step, at least from an existential perspective: to ban something so utterly horrendous to life; to forbid its use in any circumstances, whatever rationale employed to justify its use. But the nuclear weapon has its admirers. There are those who continue to worship its sovereign properties, and those who leave …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/dont-stigmatise-the-nuke-opponents-of-the-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty/

Cops out of unions! Solidarity with the righteous rebellion!
| workers.org | 2020-08-11
On July 7 the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, United Steelworkers Local 8751, passed "Resolution in solidarity with the righteous rebellion against racism, police brutality and white supremacy." Included was a demand to "Expel all so-called 'police unions' from the AFL-CIO!" USW Local 8751 Trustee Fred Floreal speaking at Mass . . . | Continue reading Cops out of unions! Solidarity with the righteous rebellion! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50507/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cops-out-of-unions-solidarity-with-the-righteous-rebellion

Autonomous zones get the goods
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-11
The next temporary autonomous zone could connect the history of public property as protest and centering the work of current activists for a more impactful zone.
therealnews.com/stories/autonomous-zones-get-the-goods

Sudanese protest against continuing atrocities by Rapid Support Forces militia
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-11
The Rapid Support Forces militia has reportedly engaged in brutal violence in the States of South and West Darfur, as well as the State of South Kordofan, over the past few weeks.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/11/sudanese-protest-against-continuing-atrocities-by-rapid-support-forces-militia/

Violence in Sudan's Western Darfur forces 2,500 into Chad, reports UN refugee agency
news.un.org | 2020-08-11
Recent clashes in Sudan's Western Darfur region has driven more than 2,500 people across the border into neighbouring Chad, the United Nations refugee agency has reported.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069962

US Attorney General Barr gives fascistic tirade against Antifa, Black Lives Matter
wsws.org | 2020-08-11
Barr made a political amalgam connecting the Democratic Party, Black Lives Matter, Antifa and terrorism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/11/barr-a11.html

The Paranoid President
Gregory P. Williams | mronline.org | 2020-08-11
Trump's rhetoric adheres to a longstanding tradition of political paranoia. To understand it, twenty-first century radicals could benefit from an unlikely source:…
mronline.org/2020/08/11/the-paranoid-president/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-paranoid-president

'Beirut is burning': Lebanese youth leader says country in trouble before blast
Robin Talbot, Ewan Simpson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-11
Following the devastating Beirut explosion, Robin Talbot and Ewan Simpson of the Young Communist League of Britain spoke to Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth (ULDY) president Adnan Al-Mokdad about his organization's response and the fast-moving political situation in Lebanon. The following article detailing their conversation is an edited version of an article that originally appeared …
peoplesworld.org/article/beirut-is-burning-lebanese-youth-leader-says-country-in-trouble-before-blast/

Teaching Torture: The Death and Legacy of Dan Mitrione
Brett Wilkins | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
Although Dan Mitrione has been dead for half a century, his legacy lives on in the words and deeds of a new generation of US torturers…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/teaching-torture-the-death-and-legacy-of-dan-mitrione/

Minneapolis: Proposed charter amendment on police won't be on November ballot
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-11
Minneapolis, MN – The Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar (TCC4J) was joined by community supporters and Jamar Clark's family for a press conference demanding community control of the police and a Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC). After working on CPAC for years, organizing has been kicked into high gear by the uprising for George Floyd and empty responses from local politicians. Two months after nine Minneapolis City Council members declared a "commitment to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department," even their empty promises have stalled out. | One such response was a city charter amendme…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/11/minneapolis-proposed-charter-amendment-police-won-t-be-november-ballot

Authorities Visit Loring Park Tent Encampment, Bring Eviction Scare
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-08-11
Minneapolis, MN — On Monday afternoon, authorities visited the Loring Park Sanctuary to speak with residents of the outdoor tent community, stoking fears of another clearing of the park. | Three weeks ago, law enforcement bulldozed dozens of tents in Powderhorn Park, arrested about 20 people,…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/authorities-visit-loring-park-tent-encampment-bring-eviction-scare/

Portugal mourns death of leading cultural worker Fernanda Lapa
Special to People's World | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-11
The well-known actress and director Fernanda Lapa, a major personality in Portuguese culture and theater, died at the age of 77 on August 6 in Cascais, not far from her home. The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) issued a moving statement of mourning. Born in Lisbon in 1943, Fernanda …
peoplesworld.org/article/portugal-mourns-death-of-leading-cultural-worker-fernanda-lapa/

Trump's Threat to Press Freedom Is Global
Malkia Devich-Cyril | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
Attacks on the press are part of a broader effort to breed a level and type of confusion that forces a power vacuum which centralizes authority over U.S. institutions into the hands of the executive branch…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-threat-to-press-freedom-is-global/

Both Parties Honor the Dark Side
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-11
Stir Crazy! Episode 77: Today we are joined by the Outreach Director for Rent Strike 2020 Holly Blue and Detroit Action's Director Brandon Snyder. Hosted by Kim Brown. If you have comments or suggestions email us at stircrazy@therealnews.com…
therealnews.com/stories/both-parties-honor-the-dark-side

S.F. judge: Uber, Lyft drivers are 'employees' with worker rights, not 'contractors'
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-11
SAN FRANCISCO–The big ride-sharing apps Uber and Lyft break California law by misclassifying their drivers as "independent contractors," not "employees" with worker rights. Now a San Francisco judge is ordering them to follow it. Not only that, but the state Labor and Industries Department decided the same day as the judge ruled to sue the …
peoplesworld.org/article/s-f-judge-uber-lyft-drivers-are-employees-with-worker-rights-not-contractors/

Chicago mayor locks down business district after police shooting sparks looting
wsws.org | 2020-08-11
Democratic officials responded by deploying more police, threatening more aggressive prosecutions and cutting off nighttime access to the Loop.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/11/chic-a11.html

Rebellion reignites in Chicago
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-11
Chicago, IL – Chicago police shot a 20-year-old Black man, Latrell Allen, in the Englewood neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, August 9. His mother told the media that he was shot five times, and she and an eyewitness both said he didn't have a gun at the time. | Community members angrily challenged the police. In response, the cops became brutal. One eyewitness, Joseph Williams, described on social media, "When I came out, the police were literally whupping a young man. One of them even kicked him in the face, which led to the blood on the ground," as he pointed to a stain on the pavement. | The police escalated.
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/rebellion-reignites-chicago

Voter intimidation? GOP sending 'poll monitors' to watch who votes
Eric Tucker, Nicholas Riccardi | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-11
WASHINGTON (AP)–Since 1937, the state of Pennsylvania has had strict rules about who can stand in polling stations and challenge the eligibility of voters. The restrictions are meant to limit the use of "poll monitors" long sent by both parties to look out for voting mishaps but at times used to intimidate voters. In June, …
peoplesworld.org/article/voter-intimidation-gop-sending-poll-monitors-to-watch-who-votes/

The Backstory to Portland? Two Decades of 'Homeland Security'
Khury Petersen-Smith | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
The calls for oversight and demands that federal agents be withdrawn from our cities are urgent. The move to deploy these forces in brazen contempt for civil rights is escalating repression to a frightening new level…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-backstory-to-portland-two-decades-of-homeland-security/

Boston school bus drivers: 'No reopening without safety first!'
| workers.org | 2020-08-11
By USWA Local 8751 On July 29, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, United Steelworkers Local 8751 issued the statement below, which President Andre Franàßois read on the August 6 Workers World Party webinar. Left to right, USW Local 8751 Chief Steward Frantz Cadet, Trustee Fred Floreal, and President Andre . . . | Continue reading Boston school bus drivers: 'No reopening without safety first!' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50501/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boston-school-bus-drivers

Rebellion reignites in Chicago
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-11
Chicago, IL – Chicago police shot a 20-year-old Black man, Latrell Allen, in the Englewood neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, August 9. His mother told the media that he was shot five times, and she and an eyewitness both said he didn't have a gun at the time. | Community members angrily challenged the police. In response, the cops became brutal. One eyewitness, Joseph Williams, described on social media, "When I came out, the police were literally whupping a young man. One of them even kicked him in the face, which led to the blood on the ground," as he pointed to a stain on the pavement. | The police escalated.
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/rebellion-reignites-chicago

Pro-Labor Candidates Are Upending New York Politics–Where Are the Unions?
Sam Lewis | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
If this year's results are any indication, unions should worry less about their relationships with a political establishment that just keeps losing, and instead embrace the opportunity to elect working class people with a bold pro-worker agenda…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/pro-labor-candidates-are-upending-new-york-politics-where-are-the-unions/

Rural Organizing Pays Off
Jordan Green | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
"Organizing in rural spaces with progressive, multiracial solidarity messaging is the future. Either we get there first or white supremacists get there first."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/rural-organizing-pays-off/

Lebanese government resigns amid mounting anger over port blast
wsws.org | 2020-08-11
While the blast's immediate cause has not been confirmed, the disaster was the result of criminal neglect and callous indifference by successive governments and Lebanon's ruling elite.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/11/leba-a11.html

Debt cancellation is vital for global recovery
Claudia Webbe | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
Cancelling debt for poor countries is desperately needed to shore up public health systems, social protections and address global structural inequality…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/debt-cancellation-is-vital-for-global-recovery/

Historic win for labor: California child care workers unionize
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-08-11
In a stunning victory for the U.S. labor movement, childcare workers in California voted nearly unanimously to unionize. The successful election came after public sector unions conducted a 17-year campaign aimed at pressuring state legislators to permit these workers to bargain collectively. Election results were announced July 27. California childcare . . . | Continue reading Historic win for labor: California child care workers unionize at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50511/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=historic-win-for-labor-california-child-care-workers-unionize

The Heat: Race for White House as Trump battles Democrats
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-08-11
The race for the White House heats us as Trump and Democrats battle over economic aid.
america.cgtn.com/2020/08/11/the-heat-race-for-white-house-as-trump-battles-democrats

Trump, Kushner promised money by MBS: Prof. Askari
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia, believes that the US will be reducing its footprint in the Middle East and China will be poised to fill the vacuum.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162106/Trump-Kushner-promised-money-by-MBS-Prof-Askari

Over 331K people infected by COVID-19, death toll at 18,800
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Iran's Health Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday that 184 more Iranians have died from coronavirus (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours, bringing the total deaths to 18,800.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162135/Over-331K-people-infected-by-COVID-19-death-toll-at-18-800

Iran to continue efforts to produce COVID-19 vaccine strongly
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that efforts to produce coronavirus, COVID-19, vaccine and drugs will continue vigorously until the final result is achieved.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162154/Iran-to-continue-efforts-to-produce-COVID-19-vaccine-strongly

Regional states should strengthen coop. in combating COVID19
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Health Saeed Namaki held talks with WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al-Mandhari on the expansion of regional cooperation in the fight against coronavirus via videoconference.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162144/Regional-states-should-strengthen-coop-in-combating-COVID19

Russia 1st country to register COVID-19 vaccine, says Putin
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — According to President Vladimir Putin, Russia has become the first country in the world to register a vaccine against COVID-19.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162141/Russia-1st-country-to-register-COVID-19-vaccine-says-Putin

Iran's Intelligence Min. arrests five spy teams
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Deputy Counterintelligence Ministry of Intelligence said that forces of the ministry nabbed five intelligence teams of foreign countries and thwarted their conspiracies waged against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162151/Iran-s-Intelligence-Min-arrests-five-spy-teams

Stock market beats housing sector in attracting liquidity
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — In the first four months of the current Iranian year (March 21-July 21), the Iranian stock market could attract 840bn rials ($3.7mn) of liquidity beating its rival, the housing sector, which absorbed 600bn rials ($2.6mn).
en.mehrnews.com/news/162142/Stock-market-beats-housing-sector-in-attracting-liquidity

Iran exports $153.7mn worth of dairies in four months: IRICA
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) said that the country exported $153.7 million worth of dairy products in the first four months of the current year (from March 21 to July 22).
en.mehrnews.com/news/162134/Iran-exports-153-7mn-worth-of-dairies-in-four-months-IRICA

Saudi Arabia abusing old regulatory gap in IAEA: Mousavi
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said that Saudi Arabia continues to refuse to accept IAEA inspections, despite currently pursuing a comprehensive nuclear program.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162128/Saudi-Arabia-abusing-old-regulatory-gap-in-IAEA-Mousavi

Beirut Blast, chance for great unity in Lebanon
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Leaving a note in the memorial notebook of Lebanon, an Iranian politician considered the threat caused by the recent blast in Beirut as an opportunity for reaching a great unity among the diverse Lebanese nation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162131/Beirut-Blast-chance-for-great-unity-in-Lebanon

Honey extraction in Daryan, NW Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
DARYAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Some 15.025 tons of honey are produced per annum from 1,391,679 hives in East Azarbaijan Province, northwest Iran. The images show the process of honey extraction in Daryan Village in Shabestar County.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162111/Honey-extraction-in-Daryan-NW-Iran

Extending arms embargo on Iran lacks legal basis
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — A Chinese diplomat at the UN said that extending the Arms Embargo on Iran in whatever form lacks legal basis and will undermine efforts to preserve the Nuclear Deal.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162152/Extending-arms-embargo-on-Iran-lacks-legal-basis

Iran, Russia discuss on broadening bilateral media coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA)- Spokespersons of Iranian and Russian Foreign Ministry discussed about ways to expand bilateral cooperation in the field of media and to counter unrealistic atmosphere created by western states through video conference on Tue.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162153/Iran-Russia-discuss-on-broadening-bilateral-media-coop

Police bust over 750kg of opium in southeastern Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 12 (MNA) — Police forces of the Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran, have busted a big haul of opium in Iranshahr, weighing over 750 kilograms.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162122/Police-bust-over-750kg-of-opium-in-southeastern-Iran

3rd Iranian film week opens in Japan
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — The third Iranian Film Week opened in Japan on Monday and was welcomed by a large number of Japanese enthusiasts on the first day.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162136/3rd-Iranian-film-week-opens-in-Japan

19th edition of 'Mehr Vision' addresses Post-Corona Order
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-11
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — The latest edition of 'Mehr Vision' rounds up international thinker's view on…
en.mehrnews.com/news/162137/19th-edition-of-Mehr-Vision-addresses-Post-Corona-Order

The global impact of Imperial's COVID-19 Response Team
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-08-11
Imperial's COVID-19 Response Team have been working with health services and governments around the world to help plan responses to the pandemic.
imperial.ac.uk/news/198737/the-global-impact-imperials-covid-19-response

Santa Cruz for Bernie Endorses Brown, Hill and Kumar for Santa Cruz City Council
Santa Cruz News Network | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Santa Cruz County for Bernie Sanders has announced their organization is endorsing three progressive candidates for Santa Cruz City Council in the November 2020 election: Sandy Brown, Kelsey Hill, and Kayla Kumar.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835817.php

Tuesday 8/18: Tackling the A-Z Impacts of Plastic: Impact on Climate (Part 1 of 2)
People Over Petro | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/11/18835853.php

Thursday 8/20: Tackling the A-Z Impacts of Plastic: Impact on Climate (Part 2 of 2)
People Over Petro | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/11/18835855.php

How South Korea's past informs Moon Jae-In's civil rights policy
Michael Owens | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
President Moon Jae-In is the current president of South Korea. His presidency began without the typical two-month adjustment period, coming out of the previous scandal involving President Park Geun-hye. His justice minister pick became embroiled in a scandal, and the country's economy and unemployment rate have taken a turn for the worse. His approval rates have fallen to record lows, as protestors take to the streets. What actions is President Moon taking to bolster his candidacy? Let's examine how South Korea's political history has informed President Moon Jae In's public policy.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835823.php

Saturday 8/15: Love, Peace and Justice
Martha Hubert | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Highland Avenue Bridge @ Arlington, over the San Jose Ave. exit/entrance to Interstate 280, in the Bernal/Mission/Noe/Glen Park vicinity.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835819.php

In SF, Low Riders Join Day to Demand "Shut Down CA Concentration Camps"
PIMHCH | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
First there was a rally at Justin Herman Plaza, then a caravan led by Roberto Hernandez of the SF Low Rider Council in his classic white convertible. On August 8, during a statewide day of action to end ICE detention camps, over 1,000 marched behind the caravan of low riders in San Francisco. The culmination of the protest was at ICE headquarters on San Francisco's Sansome St. where demonstrators left red colored handprints to say, "ICE….you have blood on your hands."
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835824.php

Eviction crisis across the nation threatens 30-40 million people
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Protesting Tenants Demanding That The Rent Must Be Cancelled:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835848.php

Saturday 9/5: San Francisco: Nationwide Mass Protest to Demand Trump Pence Out Now!
Refuse Fascism Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
San Francisco: Rally Embarcadero Plaza, Market St & Steuart St, then March to San Francisco City Hall…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835792.php

Federal Review of Columbia River Dams Fails to Protect Salmon, Orcas
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Dam Removal Not Chosen Despite Scientific Support…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835803.php

Saturday 8/22: Stop the Racist Attacks! Black Incarcerated Lives Matter!
Judy Greenspan | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
The event will be held in front of the gates of Soledad State Prison CTF off Highway 101 in Soledad, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835802.php

Tuesday 8/11: Defund the Police; Refund the Community
Food Not Bombs, SC Homeless Union, HUFF | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Santa Cruz Town Clock…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835811.php

Saturday 8/29: #AllOut Against Racist 'Hate-Pride' Anti-LGBT Rally in Modesto
DEFEND 209 | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
1431 McHenry Ave, Planned Parenthood Parking lot.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/11/18835850.php

Saturday 8/29: Silicon Valley Pride 2020: A Digital Celebration
Silicon Valley Pride | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835785.php

Another Toxic S.C. City Council Meeting Today
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
I wrote a letter to Justin Cummings last week about the upcoming "public" City Council meeting. On the agenda are the usual rubberstamping of City Manager Bernal's diktats, new police funding, denying claims against the police, the zombie resurrection of an anti-Vending law, inadequate "controls" on facial technology use, and a sell-out CACH homeless report.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/11/18835859.php

Sunday 8/16: Anarchist Black Cross – Virtual Political Prisoner Support
Direct Action Monterey Network | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835795.php

Friday 8/14: Giants and Warriors Workers Fight Back
Marc Norton | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Willie Mays statue, 3rd and King Streets, Giants ballpark (Oracle Park)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835790.php

Feds: High Extinction Risk for All Seven Leatherback Sea Turtle Populations
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Atlantic Population Faces 50% Drop by 2050, Pacific Declining 5% Annually…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835808.php

Thursday 8/13: How Citizen Science Can Help Save the Bees
Earth Day Network | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Online via livestream & Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/11/18835857.php

National nurse survey reveals devastating impact of reopening too soon
National Nurses United | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Photo: NNU press conference to release results of first national nurse survey – March 5, 2020…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835800.php

BREAKING: Reina Robinson Launches Campaign for Vallejo City Unified School District Trustee
Reina Robinson | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Reina Robinson announced her candidacy for the Vallejo City Unified School District's newly created Trustee Area 2 today, along with a major community endorsement from Vallejo Girls Youth Empowerment Group. Her candidacy for VCUSD Trustee Area 2 comes nearly two years after the City of Vallejo was found to be in violation of the California Voting Rights Act.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835797.php

Saturday 8/15: Demand Justice for Brutalized Black Prisoners!
Tasha Williams | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
In front of Soledad State Prison CTF, off Highway 101 in Soledad, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835806.php

Sunday 8/30: Silicon Valley Pride 2020: A Digital Celebration (Aug. 30)
Silicon Valley Pride | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835787.php

Wednesday 8/26: Women Take The Stage: Rally & Concert Honoring the 19th Amendment's Centennial
Women Take The Stage | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Online via livestream (free)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835845.php

Wolf Update: California's Lassen Pack Grows
Environmental Protection Information Center | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
California's only known gray wolf family welcomes a minimum of eight new pups this year.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835844.php

Friday 9/18: Juneteenth Holiday Education Symposium
Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Historic Gold Mining Town | Negro Bar, California | Historic Folsom District…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835849.php

Wednesday 9/30: District 11 San Francisco Board of Supervisors Candidate Forum
LWVSF | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835816.php

Santa Barbara County to Vote on ExxonMobil Plan to Restart Offshore Platforms, Truck Oil in California
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Final Environmental Study Released, Project Approval Hearings Announced…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835801.php

Shark vs. Human: Who Is More Dangerous?
Animal Welfare Institute | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Washington, DC, August 10, 2020 — As Shark Week kicks off this week, more than 200 restaurants across the United States and Canada are exacerbating the rapid decline in shark species by continuing to serve an expensive soup made from their butchered fins.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835807.php

Thursday 8/13: No Place to Grow (Film + Q&A)
Watsonville Film Festival | indybay.org | 2020-08-11
Via Zoom: | us02web.zoom.us/j/82849541440?pwd=ZFBGbC84N3dqNEdMZXpLcHhoOFdVdz09 | Meeting ID: 828 4954 1440 | Passcode: VWFF2020 | One tap mobile: +16699009128…
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If Trump Wins, Russia Did It, If Biden Wins, It Was China And Iran
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
Mass media throughout the western world are uncritically passing along a press release from the US intelligence community because that's what passes for journalism in a world where God is dead and everything is stupid. | The press release, from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and authored by National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina, claims that Russia wants Donald Trump to win re-election in November and is pushing to advance than goal, while China and Iran are doing the same with Joe Biden. What this completely unsubstantiated narrative means, of course, is th…
popularresistance.org/if-trump-wins-russia-did-it-if-biden-wins-it-was-china-and-iran/

China To Sanction US Senators, NED And NGO Chiefs Over Hong Kong
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
China on Monday announced sanctions on a group of 11 Americans, including lawmakers and top executives of American NGOs, in retaliation for US sanctions on a group of Hong Kong and mainland Chinese officials. | Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular press conference that Beijing would impose sanctions on Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, and Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey, all of whom are Republicans.
popularresistance.org/china-to-sanction-senators-ned-and-ngo-chiefs/

School Bus Drivers: 'No Reopening Without Safety First!'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
Boston school bus drivers say, "No school reopening without Union-planned and -designed health and safety procedures!" | Teachers, nurses, bus drivers and monitors, custodians, paraprofessionals, food workers demand a seat at the planning table, now! | First step: Nurses in every school, bus yard, and food and nutrition facility to ensure frontline Emergency COVID-19 Worksite Standard Operating Procedures. | Transdev: Stop the fraud! Hire professional bus and facility disinfecting companies, now!
popularresistance.org/school-bus-drivers-no-reopening-without-safety-first/

The AFL-CIO Aided US Interference in Venezuela
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Solidarity Center has a long history of working hand in glove with the U.S. government in undermining democracy and left labor movements throughout the world. | The center emphasizes it has shifted away from these Cold War tactics in recent years. But newly obtained documents show that the Solidarity Center has worked closely with the US to undermine the Venezuelan government in the recent past. Across much of the world, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) acted as an international a…
popularresistance.org/the-afl-cio-aided-us-interference-in-venezuela/

Land Defenders Rebuild Camp Despite New Injunction
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
After several arrests last week and a new court order, land defenders are digging in their heels and rebuilding 1492 Land Back Lane, a name they've given McKenzie Meadows, a disputed site of a proposed housing development in Caledonia, Ont. that borders Six Nations of the Grand River's eastern border. | "We are under constant threat of OPP invasion of our unceded Haudenosaunee territory," said community member Skyler Williams in a Facebook post on Sunday. "Despite all of this, we continue to work on and build our community here at Land Back Lane."
popularresistance.org/land-defenders-rebuild-camp-despite-new-injunction/

Disabled Iraq Veteran Faces Prison In Alabama For Legal Medical Marijuana
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
Worsley's ordeal began in 2016 when he and his wife, Eboni, were arrested late one night after stopping for gas. They were traveling through the state on their way to North Carolina, where they were planning on helping Sean's grandmother repair extensive damage to her home after Hurricane Matthew flooded her community. | "We [were] not being competitive, we were being completely compliant," Eboni Worsley told Fox News. "We're being very cooperative, so not thinking that there's going to be a major issue. … I show him I don't want trouble, don't mean any harm."
popularresistance.org/disabled-iraq-veteran-faces-prison-in-alabama-for-legal-medical-marijuana/

Newly Released Video Shows Jailed Black Man Died In Custody
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
Newly released video footage shows a Black man in custody in medical distress, repeatedly telling corrections officers he couldn't breathe as officers struggled to detain him after he experienced a medical event in a North Carolina jail two days before he died. | Five corrections officers and one nurse have since been fired and charged with involuntary manslaughter for their role in the death of a 56-year-old James Elliott Neville, who died on December 4, 2019. The video, released this week as part of a judge's order, depicts events that occurred at the Forsyth County Jail on December 2, 2019, two days before his…
popularresistance.org/newly-released-video-shows-jailed-black-man-died/

Lebanon Cabinet Resigns
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
Prime Minister Hassan Diab addressed the nation to formally announce the government's resignation | Lebanon cabinet has resigned, AP reported the health minister saying today, amid mounting criticism over the government's response to the explosion which rocked Beirut last week. The move comes after the Minister for the Environment Damianos Katter and Minister for Information Manal Abdel Samad submitted their resignations yesterday while Minister for Justice Marie-Claude Najm stepped down this morning. | Later today local media reported Minister of Finance Ghazi Wazni had arrived at the Grand Serail for today's ca…
popularresistance.org/lebanon-cabinet-resigns/

'Dialogue' Called by Añez In Bolivia Failed; New Election Date Set
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-11
After more than five hours of dialogue between the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and the Bolivian social movements, a consensus was not reached to define a new intermediate date for the general elections, which would bring political and social stability in the country run by an interim government, Xinhua reported. | "There was no agreement and Salvador Romero, president of the TSE, did not accept an intermediate date, our fight is with the Electoral Tribunal," said the executive secretary of the COB, Juan Carlos Huarachi, leaving the meeting. He explained to journalists that…
popularresistance.org/dialogue-called-by-anez-in-bolivia-failed-new-election-date-set/

Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as running mate
rt.com | 2020-08-11
2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden has announced his running mate. The Democratic challenger picked former California Senator and former prosecutor Kamala Harris, after promising to select a woman of color for the role. | Biden announced his pick on Tuesday, with Harris previously considered a front-runner for…
rt.com/usa/497742-joe-biden-vice-president/

Americans give up citizenship in record-smashing numbers as expats find 'pandemic & political climate too much to bear' — report
rt.com | 2020-08-11
Americans are ditching their US citizenship in droves thanks to an unbearable political atmosphere and the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, new research shows, indicating that both residents and expats are cutting ties in record numbers. | More than 5,800 Americans renounced their citizenship in the first half of 2020, according to a report by Bambridge Accountants New York, a firm that specializes in US expat tax compliance, a dramatic 1,210-percent spike compared to the last six months of 2019.
rt.com/usa/497650-americans-give-up-citizenship-record/

Mrs Nevada pageant interrupted MIDWAY after officials swoop on venue citing coronavirus guidelines violation (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-08-11
Police and officials showed up at a Mrs Nevada beauty contest on Sunday, though it was not their appreciation for beauty that drove them there, but rather an order to shut down the event due to the presence of more than 50 people. | …
rt.com/usa/497652-nevada-pageant-coronavirus-police/

Sky-high care home death toll in New York has actually been UNDERCOUNTED, new data reveals
rt.com | 2020-08-11
New York nursing home deaths at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic may have been undercounted by as much as two-thirds, according to new federal data. Already the highest in the US, the tally likely omits thousands. | The state's official count of care home pandemic deaths — 6,600 — may be vastly undercounted, according to data from federal regulators revealed in a report from news agency AP on Tuesday that suggests the state deliberately omitted from its totals nursing home residents who died in hospital.
rt.com/usa/497723-nursing-homes-undercount-cuomo-hospitals/

Seattle's 1st black female chief RESIGNS after city council chops police budget & officers' salaries
rt.com | 2020-08-11
Seattle police chief Carmen Best has announced her resignation following a city vote to slash law enforcement budgets, including her own salary. Best, who was on the force for 28 years, described the cuts as "punitive." | Seattle's city council approved legislation to enact significant cuts in a 7-1 vote on Monday, which will eliminate some $4 million from the police department's $400 million yearly budget, including a sizable reduction of $800,000 to the PD's recruitment spending. Among other measures, the 2020 budget package will also cap Best's salary at $275,000, reduced from $294,000. | August 11, 2020
rt.com/usa/497653-seattle-police-chief-resign/

Whose convention is it again? MSNBC uses Republican backdrop to promote Democratic convention
rt.com | 2020-08-11
A graphical blunder by MSNBC demonstrates two facts about modern America: that fact-checking takes second seat to pizzazz, and that neither party has a monopoly on red, white, and blue pageantry. | In a series of graphics announcing the speaker schedule for next week's Democratic National Convention, MSNBC on Tuesday listed the names over a photograph of the Republican Party's 2012 convention — where Mitt Romney accepted his party's nomination in a shower of red, white, and blue balloons. | The gaffe was quickly picked up by hawk-eyed Twitter users, who mocked the network for its sloppiness. Among the fir…
rt.com/usa/497741-democratic-convention-backdrop-msnbc/

Seattle's 1st black female chief RESIGNS after city council chops police budget & officers' salaries
rt.com | 2020-08-11
Seattle police chief Carmen Best has announced her resignation following a city vote to slash law enforcement budgets, including her own salary. Best, who was on the force for 28 years, described the cuts as "punitive." | Seattle's city council approved legislation to enact significant cuts in a 7-1 vote on Monday, which will eliminate some $4 million from the police department's $400 million yearly budget, including a sizable reduction of $800,000 to the PD's recruitment spending. Among other measures, the 2020 budget package will also cap Best's salary at $275,000, reduced from $294,000. | Chief Best has bee…
rt.com/usa/497653-seattle-police-chief-resign/

Swarm of subsea quakes near San Andreas fault reignites doomsday prophecies, fears of impending 'Big One'
rt.com | 2020-08-11
A swarm of dozens of minor earthquakes hit just south of the San Andreas Fault in a matter of mere hours, prompting concerns that California might be hit by a megaquake in the near future. | The largest temblor in Monday's swarm was a magnitude 4.6, while there were multiple magnitude 3 quakes, all of which struck in an area known as the Brawley Seismic Zone, wedged between the San Andreas Fault and the Imperial Fault which goes all the way south to Mexico. | Salton Sea earthquake swarm update: So far there's been 90+ quakes since 8: 56am PT with three quakes >M4. Largest in the sequence so far is still the…
rt.com/usa/497684-swarm-earthquakes-san-andreas-fault/

'Tone deaf' WaPo blogger Jennifer Rubin roasted for 'bunker' joke after Trump escorted from press briefing due to shooting at WH
rt.com | 2020-08-11
The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin was shredded online for quipping that it was time for a "bunker inspection" after the Secret Service rushed the president out of a press briefing, seemingly elated that he might be in danger. | Following President Trump's abrupt evacuation from a White House press conference on Monday,…
rt.com/usa/497651-jennifer-rubin-roasted-bunker/

How the Guardian Betrayed Not Only Corbyn but the Last Vestiges of British Democracy
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-11
It is simply astonishing that the first attempt by the Guardian — the only major British newspaper styling itself as on the liberal-left — to properly examine the contents of a devastating internal Labour party report leaked in April is taking place nearly four months after the 860-page report first came to light.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/11/how-guardian-betrayed-not-only-corbyn-but-last-vestiges-of-british-democracy/

Prince Peter Kropotkin and the Murder of the Liberator Tsar
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-11
Why did London host a convention of anarchists in July 1881 less than three months after they had murdered the Liberator Tsar of Russia? | The International Anarchist Congress of London, from July 14 to July 20, 1881 was highly unusual in many ways, though it has almost totally been forgotten by history, save as a curiosity. | It was the last such gathering to be held for more than a quarter of a century until the International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam in August 1907. During that time, there were four other unsuccessful attempts to call international congresses, in Geneva in 1882, in Paris in 1889, in Chic…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/11/prince-peter-kropotkin-and-murder-of-liberator-tsar/

75 Anniversary of the Nuclear Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-11
2020 marks the 75 anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States still remains the only nation to use atomic weapons on its enemies. But was incinerating untold numbers of Japanese really necessary? The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a political act to begin the Cold War, deliberately carried out by American leaders to assert U.S. hegemony. Watch the video and read more in the Editorial article.
strategic-culture.org/video/2020/08/11/75-anniversary-of-the-nuclear-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/

New Zealand reports first cases of coronavirus for 102 days
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-11
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said four coronavirus (Covid-19) cases have been found in one Auckland household from an unknown source.The new infections are the first reported cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days. | Ardern said Auckland, the nation's largest city, will be moved to Alert Level 3 from midday on Wednesday until midnight on Friday, meaning that people will be asked to stay at home, while bars and many other businesses will be closed."These three days will give us time to assess the situation, gather information, make sure we have widespread contact tracing so we can…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/11/new-zealand-reports-first-cases-of-coronavirus-for-102-days/

Coronavirus vaccine registered in Russia, says Putin
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-11
Russian president Vladimir Putin says a coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine developed in the country has been registered for use and one of his daughters has already been inoculated.Putin emphasised that the vaccine underwent the necessary tests and has proven efficient, offering a lasting immunity from coronavirus.However, scientists have been sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before Phase 3 trials — which normally last for months and involve thousands of people — could backfire.Speaking at a government meeting, Putin emphasised that the vaccine has undergone proper testing and p…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/11/coronavirus-vaccine-registered-in-russia-says-putin/

Government defends test-and-trace service amid cuts to contact tracers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-11
The government has defended its test and trace programme after it was criticised as nowhere near "world-beating".Labour said there were "growing concerns" about outsourcing giant Serco's role in the programme amid reports call centre contact tracers were being "paid to watch Netflix".The party also said the service was nowhere near "world-beating" and was unable to tackle local outbreaks.The government has announced it was strengthening regional test-and-trace powers in England while axing 6,000 national contract tracers.It means people who have been in contact with confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases may get…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/11/government-defends-test-and-trace-service-amid-cuts-to-contact-tracers/

Stephen Lawrence's parents will never give up hope of getting justice
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-11
The parents of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence have said they will never give up hope of getting justice for their son as the investigation into his death was shelved by police.Doreen and Neville Lawrence have campaigned tirelessly since the 18-year-old was murdered by racists in Eltham, south east London in April 1993. | Two of the 18-year-old's killers, Gary Dobson and David Norris, were jailed for murder in 2012, but three remain at large.Two of the three remaining suspects, brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt, have since served jail time for drug dealing, while Luke Knight has remained free.Gary Dobson and Davi…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/11/stephen-lawrences-parents-will-never-give-up-hope-of-getting-justice/

Police force use of facial recognition technology ruled unlawful
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-11
The use of facial recognition technology by police did interfere with privacy and data protection laws, the Court of Appeal has ruled. | Civil rights campaigner Ed Bridges brought a legal challenge against South Wales Police arguing their use of automatic facial recognition (AFR) had caused him "distress". | He had his face scanned while he was Christmas shopping in Cardiff in 2017 and at a peaceful anti-arms protest outside the city's Motorpoint Arena in 2018. | In a ruling on Tuesday, three Court of Appeal judges ruled the force's use of AFR was unlawful, allowing Bridges' appeal on three out of five grounds he…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/11/police-force-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-ruled-unlawful/

UK-Japan trade talks hit blue cheese block
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-11
The terms of trade for Stilton have emerged as some of the remaining obstacles to a UK-Japan deal.Both sides in the negotiations are committed to a trade deal being largely agreed by the end of August, but access for food and agricultural products is one of the outstanding issues.A post-Brexit deal with Japan would build on the existing EU agreement, but the UK has reportedly pushed for better terms for blue cheese.A report by Japanese media group Nikkei said the UK was seeking more preferential terms for blue cheeses, but Japan wanted to keep to the existing EU tariffs.Under the EU deal tariffs of almost 30% on…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/08/11/uk-japan-trade-talks-hit-blue-cheese-block/

Government urged to increase ambition for renewables as costs fall
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-11
Britain should accelerate the roll-out of renewables so they generate two-thirds of electricity by 2030, government advisers have said.The National Infrastructure Commission, which provides the government with independent advice on major long-term infrastructure challenges, has upped its recommendation for renewables in light of falling costs.It now says Britain should aim to generate 65% of its electricity from renewables by 2030, an increase on its previous recommendation of 50% generation from the clean technologies by that date.The commission said falling prices of wind and solar meant that upping the ambitio…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/11/government-urged-to-increase-ambition-for-renewables-as-costs-fall/

DNC Delegates: Biden Team 'A Horror Show' of 'Disastrous' Foreign Interventionism
Barbara Boland | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice is rumored to be near the top of Joe Biden's short list for vice presidential candidates. A new letter attacking Rice's "poor judgment" is being widely circulated among delegates to the Democratic National …
globalresearch.ca/biden-team-horror-show-disastrous-foreign-interventionism/5720790

Philippines: Condemnation of the murder of Randall Echanis
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-11
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by Jose Maria Sison, National Democratic Front of the Philippines Chief Political Consultant. | In the strongest terms, I condemn the murder of Randall (Randy) Echanis and his neighbor who were unarmed. Randall was a peaceful social activist. He was a mild-mannered man of 71 years. He had a consistent modest personality with a high level of education and intellect. He had long dedicated himself to his social advocacy and had made tremendous sacrifices for many decades. | He was outstanding as an advocate of genuine land reform, rural development and n…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/philippines-condemnation-murder-randall-echanis

Philippines: Condemnation of the murder of Randall Echanis
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-11
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by Jose Maria Sison, National Democratic Front of the Philippines Chief Political Consultant. | In the strongest terms, I condemn the murder of Randall (Randy) Echanis and his neighbor who were unarmed. Randall was a peaceful social activist. He was a mild-mannered man of 71 years. He had a consistent modest personality with a high level of education and intellect. He had long dedicated himself to his social advocacy and had made tremendous sacrifices for many decades. | He was outstanding as an advocate of genuine land reform, rural development and n…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/philippines-condemnation-murder-randall-echanis

Is Trump Sabotaging U.S. Postal Service Ahead of Election as Part of His Attack on Mail-in Voting?
Mark Dimondstein | zcomm.org | 2020-08-11
Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration is sabotaging the United States Postal Service ahead of the November election, when a record number of votes are expected to be cast by mail…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-trump-sabotaging-u-s-postal-service-ahead-of-election-as-part-of-his-attack-on-mail-in-voting/

Put lives and livelihoods ahead of profits
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-08-11
Healthcare George ZangalisIssue 1276 Australia aged care COVID-19 MelbourneAugust 11, 2020The tragedy for the coronavirus victims in aged ca…
greenleft.org.au/content/put-lives-and-livelihoods-ahead-profits

Mealy-Mouthed Universities: Academic Freedom and the Pavlou Problem Down Under
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
A sorry state of affairs has descended upon Australian academic institutions like a suffocating cloak. Vice-Chancellors and their overly remunerated toadies are getting human relations departments to scribble their apologias for sins against thought. Overt political opinions, notably when expressed in a manner that might threaten brands and compromised lines of funding, are being hunted…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/mealy-mouthed-universities-academic-freedom-and-the-pavlou-problem-down-under/

Maritime union win over Alcoa's effort to cut skilled workforce
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-08-11
Workers & unions Kerry SmithIssue 1276 Australia Maritime Union of Australia (MUA). MV PortlandAugust 11, 2020The Maritime Union of Australia has won an important victory as the Federal Court ruled on August 9 that seafarers who organised a t…
greenleft.org.au/content/maritime-union-win-over-alcoas-effort-cut-skilled-workforce

Firm that ran fake news advertising for Brexit campaign is rebranded as 'safety tech' expert
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-08-11
A government department has described the UK as a " world-leader" for "safety tech". Such technology, the department suggests, will help ensure "the UK is the safest place in the world to go online". But in a list of companies that form this s…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/08/11/firm-that-ran-fake-news-advertising-for-brexit-campaign-is-rebranded-as-safety-tech-expert/

How the Guardian Betrayed not only Corbyn but the Last Vestiges of British Democracy
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-11
It is simply astonishing that the first attempt by the Guardian — the only major British newspaper styling itself as on the liberal-left — to properly examine the contents of a devastating internal Labour party report leaked in April is taking place nearly four months after the 860-page report first came to light. If you are a Labour party …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/how-the-guardian-betrayed-not-only-corbyn-but-the-last-vestiges-of-british-democracy/

Progressive Groups Pressure Biden and Trump to Include Nuclear Disarmament in Campaign Platforms
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-11
"The United States urgently needs a leader who will have the courage to look at, think hard about, and speak openly about the dire perils posed by our country's vast nuclear arsenal." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/cropped-gettyimages-871194038_0_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/11/progressive-groups-pressure-biden-and-trump-include-nuclear-disarmament-campaign?cd-origin=rss

Will October Surprise Be Trump-Provoked War With Iran?
Bob Dreyfuss | commondreams.org | 2020-08-11
"Consider it beyond irony if, this October," writes Dreyfuss, "the latest election 'surprise' were to take us back to the very origins of the term in the form of some kind of armed conflict that could only end terribly for everyone involved." (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/no-war_with_iran_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/11/will-october-surprise-be-trump-provoked-war-iran?cd-origin=rss

Why the Stimulus Deal Should Include Free College
Margot Rathke | commondreams.org | 2020-08-11
"Even before the pandemic, the exorbitant cost of higher education was holding our country back. That's especially true now." (Image: via Inequality.org/IPS) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-08-11_at_1.57.58_pm.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/11/why-stimulus-deal-should-include-free-college?cd-origin=rss

Look! (A Bit of) Journalisting!
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-11
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Martin's Boat — A Film By Pete McBride
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-11
counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/martins-boat-a-film-by-pete-mcbride/

UN official Expects More Allegations about Khashoggi-style Murders by Saudis
Press TV | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-11
The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings says she expects more allegations to surface about Khashoggi-style murders by Saudi death squads. Agnes Callamard was reacting to a Washington Post article that detailed a lawsuit filed in the US by Saad al-Jabri, a former Saudi spy. The plaintiff said, a hit squad was sent to …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/un-official-expects-more-allegations-about-khashoggi-style-murders-by-saudis/

Cosa fa l'Italia per il disarmo nucleare?
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
Nel 75 ∞ anniversario del bombardamento atomico di Hiroshima e Nagasaki, il presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella ha ribadito che ´l'Italia sostiene con forza l'obiettivo di un mondo libero da armi nucleari ª. Gli ha fatto eco il presidente della Commissione Difesa …
globalresearch.ca/cosa-fa-litalia-per-il-disarmo-nucleare/5720836

Covid-19 Does Not Have to Be a Problem
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-11
Here is the presstitute CNN's report on US Covid-19 cases– www.cnn.com/2020/08/09/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html . | According to the report, the US has the most cases of all countries and the highest number of deaths. If this is correct, it says something about our health care system and the quality of leadership at CDC and NIH. Normally, CNN is very supportive of both. | There are people who, for whatever reason, claim that the pandemic is a hoax and that no one has died, much less the 1,000 daily deaths…

Covid-19 Does Not Have to Be a Problem

How Video and Online Reading Is Undermining Cognition. Protecting and Sustaining Classroom Teaching
Prof. Robert Abele | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
As the Coronavirus rages uncontrolled in the United States and elsewhere, in education we are once again relying on online delivery of courses. That of course is really the only sensible alternative we have. However, as we ramp up for …
globalresearch.ca/how-video-online-reading-hurting-cognition/5720775

Selected Articles: Five Ways "The New Normal" Is Getting Worse and Worse
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-11
We hope that by publishing diverse view points, submitted by journalists and experts dotted all over the world, the website can serve as a reminder that no matter what narrative we are presented with, things are rarely as cut and …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-five-ways-new-normal-getting-worse/5720818

Sri Lankan election exposes historic crisis of capitalist rule
wsws.org | 2020-08-11
The election is not a "people's victory," but an electoral win by a party preparing for authoritarian rule under President Rajapakse who has already appointed a host of generals to his administration.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/11/sril-a11.html

How Did the Internet Get So Bad?
Lisa Borst | thenation.com | 2020-08-11
How Did the Internet Get So Bad?
thenation.com/article/culture/joanne-mcneil-lurking-review/

It's Time to Abolish Nursing Homes
Sara Luterman | thenation.com | 2020-08-11
It's Time to Abolish Nursing Homes…
thenation.com/article/society/abolish-nursing-homes/

Trump Appoints Disgraced Iran-Contra Hawk Elliott Abrams as Iran Envoy
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
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. | *** | The Trump administration has appointed disgraced neoconservative hawk Elliott …
globalresearch.ca/trump-appoints-disgraced-iran-contra-criminal-elliott-abrams-iran-envoy/5720649

New Report Reveals US Special Forces Active in 22 African Countries
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-10
A new report published in South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian has shed light on the opaque world of the American military presence in Africa. Last year, elite U.S. Special Operations forces were active in 22 African countries. This accounts for 14 percent of all American commandos deployed overseas, the largest number for any region besides the Middle East. American troops had also seen combat in 13 African nations. | The U.S. is not formally at war with an African nation, an…
mintpressnews.com/report-us-special-forces-active-22-countries-africa/270270/

COVID-19: A blessing for Bezos and a nightmare for workers
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
While workers fight for safe working conditions and adequate pay, Amazon has taken advantage of the business opportunities opened up by COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/amaz-a10.html

Privacy Advocates Demand Ban on Facial Recognition in Schools in Response to Damning Study on the Technology
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
A new publication warns that the surveillance technology in schools could exacerbate racial biases. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/facialrecog_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/10/privacy-advocates-demand-ban-facial-recognition-schools-response-damning-study?cd-origin=rss

Assange: "Send Him Back" to Australia
John Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-10
Australia's the kind of place where, after twenty years here, you can wake up one morning to a sucker-punch epiphany — wow! This is what it would be like if the South had won the Civil War. No slavery, but a mindset, sometimes an arrogance that comes at you like Dylan's twisty freight train. Not …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/assange-send-him-back-to-australia/

Twitter spreads paid US gov't propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-08-10
Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like Voice of America's VOA Persian…
thegrayzone.com/2020/08/10/twitter-us-state-media-ads-voa-persian/

Western media's favorite Hong Kong 'freedom struggle writer' is American ex-Amnesty staffer in yellowface
Max Blumenthal | mronline.org | 2020-08-10
A prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist named Kong Tsung-gan has become a go-to source for Western media. An investigation by The Grayzone confirms Kong as a fake identity employed by an American teacher who's a ubiquitous figure at local protests.
mronline.org/2020/08/10/western-medias-favorite-hong-kong-freedom-struggle-writer-is-american-ex-amnesty-staffer-in-yellowface/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=western-medias-favorite-hong-kong-freedom-struggle-writer-is-american-ex-amnesty-staffer-in-yellowface

Chris Hedges: America's Death March
Chris Hedges | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-10
Princeton, New Jersey ( Scheerpost) — The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. The political rot and depravity will continue to eat away at the soul of the nation, spawning what anthropologists call crisis cults — movements led by demagogues that prey on an unbearable psychological and financial distress. These crisis cults, already well established among followers of the Christian Right and Donald Trump, peddle magical thinking and an infantilism that promises…
mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-hypernationalism-crisis-cults-signs-united-states-decline/270236/

Elliott Abrams' Appointment as the Next U.S. Special Representative for Iran. Spells Disaster
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
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 …
globalresearch.ca/codepink-denounces-elliott-abrams-appointment-next-us-special-representative-iran/5720647

Lebanese Gov't Faces Collapse Amid Rage-Filled Protests over Blast, Economic Crisis & Corruption
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-10
The Lebanese government may be on the verge of collapse amid protests over the massive port explosion that devastated much of Beirut and killed at least 200 people and injured thousands. At least four ministers and nine members of Parliament have resigned. "The dominoes are falling," says Dion Nissenbaum, a Beirut-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal, who led an investigation into the official neglect that preceded last week's explosion, and says it has intensified public outrage over long-standing government dysfunction, calling it "the straw that's broken the camel's back here."
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/10/lebanon_government_collapse_beirut_port_explosion

Millions Facing Eviction and Joblessness Get No Immediate Help from Trump's New Executive Orders
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-10
President Trump's latest executive orders to extend unemployment benefits and defer payroll taxes may be unconstitutional. Democrats had hoped to extend a program to give unemployed workers an additional $600 in weekly benefits and to extend a federal moratorium protecting some renters from evictions, but failed to overcome opposition from Republican lawmakers. Under Trump's order, unemployed workers would continue receiving an additional $400 a week, but only once states put up a quarter of the money and set up a new system to distribute the payments — a process that could take months. Trump also signed an…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/10/trump_executive_orders

Is Trump Sabotaging U.S. Postal Service Ahead of Election as Part of His Attack on Mail-in Voting?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-10
Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration is sabotaging the United States Postal Service ahead of the November election, when a record number of votes are expected to be cast by mail. Since taking office, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — a major Trump donor — has instituted a number of cost-cutting measures that have slowed down the delivery of mail, and overhauled the leadership of the agency in a move that critics say will give him more power. This comes as President Trump continues to attack mail-in voting, claiming…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/10/usps_postmaster_general_mail_delay_ballots

Don't Delay Military Withdrawal from the Middle East
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The Quincy Institute's " New Paradigm for the Middle East" calling for a definitive end to the disastrous policy the United States has pursued in the region for nearly two decades offers the first coherent analysis of what is …
globalresearch.ca/dont-delay-military-withdrawal-middle-east/5720645

Revolutionaries Living in a System of Growing Fascism
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Watching the documentary The Weather Underground (2002) (see Independent Lens review, PBS) is a painful experience. Included with this award-winning documentary about Vietnam-era revolutionaries is the smaller and separate interview with David Gilbert, who remains imprisoned in New York for his part in the 1981 Brinks robbery in which some of those involved in the robbery killed two policemen…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/revolutionaries-living-in-a-system-of-growing-fascism/

The Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Human Rights Emergency is Not a Photo-Op for Ivanka Trump
Lynnette Grey Bull | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
We need to be clear about what is needed to address this crisis, and it is not a photo-op where our sacred symbols of high office are degraded by being used as props by Ivanka Trump. Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, accurately called MMIWG "an unconscionable human rights emergency," and the response must…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/the-murdered-and-missing-indigenous-women-human-rights-emergency-is-not-a-photo-op-for-ivanka-trump/

From colonialism to COVID-19, Indigenous peoples show resilience in the face of evictions
Joan Carling and Mike Taylor | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
With special emphasis this year on resilience in the face of COVID-19, it's time to turn the spotlight on the strength and dignity of Indigenous peoples and acknowledge the contribution they make protecting our planet.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/from-colonialism-to-covid-19-indigenous-peoples-show-resilience-in-the-face-of-evictions/

As Indigenous Peoples, We Are Resilient
Galina Angarova | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Today, we celebrate the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples and all Indigenous leaders who have been fighting for our rights. Today, we remember the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations that took place in …
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-peoples-resilient/5720675

The 'Wall of Vets' Continues Long Legacy Of Veteran Activism
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Military veterans have long been resisting war, promoting positive peace, and defending human and civil rights against state violence and other forms of oppression. They have made significant contributions to the antiwar and peace and justice movements over many decades. | Their participation in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is no different. Veterans have been highly visible in supporting the racial justice demands of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. The disturbing truth, which a great number of veterans recognize, is that white supremacy, systemic racism and police brutality at…
popularresistance.org/the-wall-of-vets-continues-long-legacy-of-veteran-activism/

Trump's Executive Orders: EOs as PR and FUs
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Less than 24 hours after Trump broke off negotiations on the economic stimulus package with Congressional Democrat leaders, Pelosi and Shumer, last Friday August 7, Trump issued a series of Executive Orders (EOs) that he had been signaling and threatening all last week well before the break up. Almost certainly the legal crafting of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/trump-scuttles-economic-stimulus-negotiations-what-next/

Reuters Ecuador Headlines since "Auditor General" Pablo Celi demands elimination of party allied with Rafael Correa
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
There are 22 articles on Reuters website about Ecuador since the country's super shady "auditor genera" Pablo Celi began demanding (on June 22) that various political parties be banned from participating in the 2021 elections. One of the four parties Celi targeted was Fuerza Compromiso Social which Correa and his allies have joined in order Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/reuters-ecuador-headlines-since-auditor-general-pablo-celi-demands-eliminating-party-allied-with-rafael-correa/

Reuters Ecuador Headlines since "Auditor General" Pablo Celi demands elimination of party allied with Rafael Correa
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
21 articles on Reuters website that mention Ecuador since the country's super shady "auditor genera" Pablo Celi began demanding (on June 22) that various political parties be banned from participating in the 2021 elections. One of the four parties Celi targeted was Fuerza Compromiso Social which Correa and his allies have joined in order to Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/reuters-ecuador-headlines-since-auditor-general-pablo-celi-demands-eliminating-party-allied-with-rafael-correa/

Era of US Domination of Latin America Coming to an End: Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Despite its failings at home, the United States intervenes in countries across multiple continents seeking to control their governments and resources. | This week, we look at the US' latest efforts in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Bolivia to undermine their independence and …
globalresearch.ca/us-domination-latin-america-coming-end/5720713

Lawmakers Demand Removal of Postmaster General DeJoy
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
On the heels of a " Friday Night Massacre" at the U.S. Postal Service that deeply alarmed lawmakers, activists, and ordinary citizens nationwide, two House Democrats are demanding the immediate removal of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy…
truthout.org/articles/lawmakers-demand-removal-of-postmaster-general-dejoy/

New guidance for protecting migrant workers during the coronavirus pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
As migrant workers continue to be on the front lines of the collective response to COVID-19, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) are releasing new employer guidance for measures to protect them.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069862

Pandemic poses fresh challenges for vulnerable migrant workers in Middle East
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
Amidst reports that many migrant workers in the Middle East are being made destitute, due to an economic crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN is calling on governments and employers to respect their rights, and show solidarity with their plight.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069922

Brown Berets of Minnesota hold protest honoring Mario Sanchez
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Minneapolis, MN – On August 9, over 100 people gathered on the corner of 35th Street and Chicago Avenue, the site where Mario Sanchez was killed during community violence on July 27. The protest was called by the newly-formed Minnesota chapter of the Brown Berets, the broader immigrant rights and Black liberation movements, and the American Indian Movement. Family and organizers believe the case has remained uninvestigated by the Minneapolis Police Department due to its proximity to the site where George Floyd was murdered Memorial Day weekend and because of Sanchez's immigration status. | In spite of the everch…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/brown-berets-minnesota-hold-protest-honoring-mario-sanchez-0

Brown Berets of Minnesota hold protest honoring Mario Sanchez
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Minneapolis, MN – On August 9, over 100 people gathered on the corner of 35th Street and Chicago Avenue, the site where Mario Sanchez was killed during community violence on July 27. The protest was called by the newly-formed Minnesota chapter of the Brown Berets, the broader immigrant rights and Black liberation movements, and the American Indian Movement. Family and organizers believe the case has remained uninvestigated by the Minneapolis Police Department due to its proximity to the site where George Floyd was murdered Memorial Day weekend and because of Sanchez's immigration status. | In spite of the everch…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/brown-berets-minnesota-hold-protest-honoring-mario-sanchez-0

Free Them All! Care Not Cages! March & Rally In SF Against ICE & Republicrats
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Activists protested at the ICE office in San Francisco against the imprisonment of children in cages and the ICE terrorism against immigrants and people of color. They also attacked California Governor Newsom, Pelosi and the Democrats for supporting these policies.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835770.php

Migrants still landing in UK as govt takes tougher line
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
A small boat carrying 20 Syrian migrants was met by the British Border Force off the coast of Dover, local media reported on Monday.Between Thursday and Sunday, almost 700 migrants landed in the UK via the Channel, according to Sky News.The British government has taken a tougher line on migration via the Channel in recent days.Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his willingness to work with French authorities to stop the channel crossings and ensure that migrants "understand that this isn't a good idea, this is a very bad and stupid and dangerous and criminal thing to do"."But then there's a second thing we've…
yenisafak.com/en/news/migrants-still-landing-in-uk-as-govt-takes-tougher-line-3536528

Ranking the Infinite Greed, Power and Controls of Giant Corporations
Ralph Nader | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
At the end of the day, we are all paying the price of the full measure of the infinite avarice spiraling from these corporate supremacists and their private governments of controls…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/ranking-the-infinite-greed-power-and-controls-of-giant-corporations/

Donald Trump is Defeating Himself
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/donald-trump-is-defeating-himself/

Biden's Ukrainegate Problem
Gerald Sussman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Joe Biden's role in the Ukraine regime change, as Victoria Nuland put it, was to "midwife" the new government into existence and thereby incorporate another eastern European satellite into America's orbit. This is what the neocons call "democracy promotion." His efforts in Ukraine, however, proved disastrous.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/bidens-ukrainegate-problem/

After 300 Years, It's Time To End Capitalism, Not Reform It
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
The United States is facing multiple crises with no signs of improvement on the horizon – a deep recession, high unemployment, millions of people soon to be displaced from their homes, a failed healthcare system in the midst of a pandemic, the climate crisis and more. We speak with Professor Richard Wolff, an economist and the author of "Democracy at Work", about the history of capitalism and how it is inherently unstable. Prof. Wolff posits that the United States is now in a situation where capitalism is unlikely to survive. He describes why that is and the lessons we must learn from the fatal mistakes made when…
popularresistance.org/after-300-years-its-time-to-end-capitalism-not-reform-it/

How Socialists Won Our Democratic Rights
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
The myth of modern democracy is that it was handed down from on-high. In fact, the ruling class resisted extending the franchise at every turn — and it was socialists who fought them for the right to vote. | Since the advent of the modern state, ruling classes have tried to restrain the voting power of workers and those not "well-born." Contrary to the mainstream story that capitalism naturally gave rise to democracy, establishment powers in nineteenth-century Europe restricted the vote for as long as they possibly could. Only when faced with mass mobilization — or when continent-wide war wiped out wo…
popularresistance.org/how-socialists-won-our-democratic-rights/

Lebanon: President Macron Pushes "Neo-expansionism"
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The current geopolitical position of France is shaped by a variety of factors. As one of the key actors in the Mediterranean region, Paris is now primarily a European leader in countering Turkey's expansionist policy. Relations between the two countries …
globalresearch.ca/lebanon-president-macron-pushes-neo-expansionism/5720699

Trump's Payroll Tax Deferral Aims to Weaken and Kill Social Security and Medicare
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
All politicians lie. Rare exceptions prove the rule. | Trump is Exhibit A, a serial liar never to be trusted, a menace to virtually everything just societies hold dear. | Last February 8 he tweeted: "We will not be touching your Social …
globalresearch.ca/trump-payroll-tax-deferral-aims-weaken-kill-social-security-medicare/5720690

Trump Usurps Congressional Appropriations Authority
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
On Saturday, Trump unconstitutionally breached exclusive congressional appropriations authority. | Under Article I, section 9, clause 7 of the US Constitution (the appropriations clause), "(n)o money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." | Congress …
globalresearch.ca/trump-usurps-congressional-appropriations-authority/5720659

Not Just a Bad President, Trump is a "Holmesian Bad Man." Act Accordingly
Russell Pearce | aclu.org | 2020-08-10
"If you want to know the law, you must look at it as a bad man does, who cares only for the material consequences," wrote legendary Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience." , , Donald Trump is a Holmesian bad man, and an even worse president, pushing the bounds of corruption and authoritarianism, unbound by norms, the rule of law, a sense of shame, or even care for others. To deal with such a bad man and bad president — one who truckles to adversaries like Russian P…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/not-just-a-bad-president-trump-is-a-holmesian-bad-man-act-accordingly

US Supreme Court defends deadly jail conditions in California
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The high court decision denies inmates their right to safety during a deadly pandemic and at the same time shows contempt for the lives of the poor.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/pris-a10.html

Venezuela Sentences Former US Green Berets to 20 Years in Jail
Manuela Solé | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-08-10
Venezuelan authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a third former soldier who orchestrated a failed coup attempt.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14964

Venezuela Parliamentary Elections: PCV & PPT Build 'Alternative' Left Alliance
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-08-10
The Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR) looks to include grassroots movements but not the ruling PSUV.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14963

How the U.S. Failed at Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela
Vijay Prashad — Érika Ortega Sanoja | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/how-the-u-s-failed-at-its-foreign-policy-toward-venezuela/

How the U.S. Failed at Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela
Vijay Prashad — Érika Ortega Sanoja | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/how-the-u-s-failed-at-its-foreign-policy-toward-venezuela/

The Internationalist Lenin. Self-determination and anti-colonialism
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-08-10
In 1913, Lenin published an article in Pravda with a curious title, 'Backward Europe and Advanced Asia'.[1] The opening of the article accepts the paradoxical nature of the title, for it is Europe–after all–that has advanced it forces of production and it is Asia that has had its forces of production stifled.
mronline.org/2020/08/10/the-internationalist-lenin-self-determination-and-anti-colonialism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-internationalist-lenin-self-determination-and-anti-colonialism

War Crimes in Afghanistan Covered up by UK Ministry of Defence
Jean Shaoul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The government has been caught out lying about evidence on the killing of civilians in Afghanistan by the elite Special Air Service (SAS). | Three years into a civil case in the High Court brought by Saiffulah Yar into the deaths …
globalresearch.ca/war-crimes-afghanistan-covered-uk-ministry-of-defence/5720639

Hong Kong: 'Freedom'… to Subvert
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-10
The arrest of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has sent Western news outlets into a tizzy. We are told that "free speech" is under attack by the Chinese authorities who are supposedly rolling back democracy on the semiautonomous island city. | Lai was arrested in the offices of his media company and led away in handcuffs by police officers. He is charged with "colluding with foreign powers" in undermining Beijing's sovereign authority. Western media are claiming that his arrest i…

Hong Kong: ‘Freedom’… to Subvert

Cognitive Without Conscience
Rev. William Alberts | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
President Trump took a cognitive test, and touted his performance as "amazing." The test: he repeated "Person, Woman, Man, Camera and TV" in that order. It is a dementia test that measures memory, not morality, the capacity to recall, not intelligence. Seventy-four-year-old Trump proposed that his 2020 presidential opponent, seventy-seven-year-old Joe Biden take the test…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/cognitive-without-conscience/

Bernie and colleagues introduce Make Billionaires Pay Act
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-10
"As our country faces vast economic and health needs, billionaires continue to display their appetite for greed."
nationofchange.org/2020/08/10/bernie-and-colleagues-introduce-make-billionaires-pay-act/

How Trump Plans to Win Wisconsin
Roger Bybee | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
The Badger State, for Trump and Biden, is ground zero for November's election.
progressive.org/magazine/trump-plans-win-wisconsin-bybee/

Biden's blueprint for a right-wing presidency: Part one
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Despite media claims that the Democratic Party has "moved to the left," Joe Biden is running on a thoroughly right-wing program based on the defense of Wall Street and the global interests of American imperialism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/bide-a10.html

A good news storyline: Trump repudiated, Biden steady but insufficient. Enter systemic reformers
Robert S. Becker | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-10
Biden is no FDR. To expect systemic reform from Biden is naive but to envision him as a stepping stone is good progressive strategy.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/10/a-good-news-storyline-trump-repudiated-biden-steady-but-insufficient-enter-systemic-reformers/

Caleb Reed, a youth activist in Chicago, falls victim to gun violence
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Most recently Reed opposed Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot's budget that starves schools of resources while flooding the Police Department with billions of dollars.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/cale-a10.html

German government continues to boost military spending and cover for fascists
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The billion-euro armament projects are aimed at expanding Germany's ability to make war, including the upgrading of the elite KSK force, which is riddled with fascists.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/germ-a10.html

The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-10
~ | The fact that the Phoenix Program existed is by itself an unassailable argument for permanently dismantling the entire CIA. | ~ | A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent is a political establishment that should not exist. | A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent can never and will never lead to a sane world. | A political establishment which thinks it'…

The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-10
Governments have obscenely well-funded intelligence agencies that are literally dedicated to orchestrating secret conspiracies around the world, but if you say they might be conspiring in some part of the world people call you a mentally ill conspiracy theorist. | ~ | The fact that the Phoenix Program existed is by itself an unassailable argument for permanently dismantling the entire CIA. | ~ | A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent…

The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

The rise of the Middle Kingdom in the Middle East: China's Belt and Road Initiative
Arhama Siddiqa | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stands as the most prominent example of the pivotal shift in Chinese foreign policy from Deng Xiaoping's "bide and hide" philosophy to the current ambitious endeavors…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-rise-of-the-middle-kingdom-in-the-middle-east-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative/

Climate official pushing controversial sun-blocking plan resigns
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-10
Welcome back to TRNN's Climate Crisis News Roundup. | In recent weeks, this column has focused heavily on the intersection between COVID-19 and the climate crisis, and that will continue as the pandemic sweeps the world. | This week, with the presidential election just over three months away, President Donald Trump is down in the polls, but was up for a speech at a fracking rig in a COVID-19 hotspot, one with no masks in sight. As he spoke, a company with operations nearby and ambitions to boost an obscure drilling technique joined a legion of other companies who have declared bankruptcy. | If you have a story…
therealnews.com/columns/climate-official-pushing-controversial-sun-blocking-plan-resigns

Fanon and the 'rationality of revolt'
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-10
Fanon's idea that the measure of time not be that of the moment but that of the rest of the world takes on urgent significance as climate extinction meets global pandemic.
mronline.org/2020/08/10/fanon-and-the-rationality-of-revolt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fanon-and-the-rationality-of-revolt

Rising popular anger over Nepali government's response to COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The Kathmandu government has reacted to youth protests over its failure to contain the coronavirus pandemic by arresting demonstrators.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/nepa-a10.html

WHO chief points to 'green shoots of hope' in COVID-19 pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
Although COVID-19 cases are on track to hit 20 million worldwide this week, and 750,000 deaths, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has pointed to "green shoots of hope" amidst the global crisis, while urging both governments and people everywhere to work to suppress the new coronavirus.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069842

Is Big Pharma More Interested in Profiteering Than Protecting Us From Coronavirus?
F. Douglas Stephenson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Gainesville, Florida April 12, 1955 stands out as the brightest day in the history of vaccine development and public health when news of the discovery by Jonas Salk of a vaccine for the poliovirus was made public. The most venerated medical scientist of the 20th century, Jonas Salk, M.D., was hailed as a miracle worker.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/is-big-pharma-more-interested-in-profiteering-than-protecting-us-from-coronavirus/

6 Questions an Honest, Intelligent Reporter Would Ask Dr. Fauci About COVID-19
Stacey Lennox | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
If you had been going down the rabbit hole of COVID-19 research for long enough, a few things would be astounding to you. First, how uninformed, uncurious, or deceptive reporters in the corporate media are on a matter of life …
globalresearch.ca/6-questions-honest-intelligent-reporter-would-ask-dr-fauci-about-covid-19/5720718

Why We Oppose Golden Rice
The Stop Golden Rice Network | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
The push for corporate-led solutions to hunger and malnutrition is alarming. In particular, Golden Rice is now being proposed as a solution to the worsening hunger and malnutrition associated with the pandemic. Agrochemical transnationals (TNCs) and collaborating institutions such as the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) are using concerns over food security during the pandemic…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/why-we-oppose-golden-rice/

'Cancel the Rent'–Tenants pressure D.C. city council and corporate landlords
Jamal Rich | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
WASHINGTON–On Saturday, July 25, a major rally hosted by D.C. Jobs With Justice, Reclaim Rent Control D.C., and the D.C. Tenants Union was held at Columbia Heights Plaza with hundreds of organizers and tenants from the D.C. metropolitan area who are struggling to pay rent amidst the economic fallout from the pandemic, an expiration of …
peoplesworld.org/article/cancel-the-rent-tenants-pressure-d-c-city-council-and-corporate-landlords/

Authors William I. Robinson and Peter Phillips Discuss Corporate-Directed Changes in the Economy
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-08-10
Sociologist and author William I. Robinson returns to the program to speak about his forthcoming book, "The Global Police State," from Pluto Press. Also on the program is sociologist and…
projectcensored.org/authors-william-i-robinson-and-peter-phillips-discuss-corporate-directed-changes-in-the-economy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=authors-william-i-robinson-and-peter-phillips-discuss-corporate-directed-changes-in-the-economy

Politicizing Fear Through the News Media
David Altheide | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
News coverage of fear, threat, and violence continues to influence and be manipulated by politicians attuned to network TV criteria for coverage. President Trump sent armed federal agents to several cities, to battle "terrorists" because he says some cities run by Democrats, are out of control.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/politicizing-fear-through-the-news-media/

Geneva: The Home of Lost Causes
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Anniversaries call for celebrations. The 75th anniversary of the United Nations was supposed to be the event of 2020 for the multilateral system. The list of scheduled events and publications is too long to mention. Should we celebrate? What is there to celebrate? A global pandemic with no multilateral response? Increasing economic and social inequality…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/geneva-the-home-of-lost-causes/

Death From the Sky: Hiroshima and Normalised Atrocities
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
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 the wheels of his wearied mind lay the battered Marines who, despite being victorious, had…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/death-from-the-sky-hiroshima-and-normalised-atrocities/

After Nagasaki, the U.S. Did Not Choose Peace
Michael D. Knox | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
On August 9, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, I attended a ceremony at Ashley Pond, Los Alamos, New Mexico. This is the place, geographically, where the first atom bombs were constructed. As I prepared my remarks, I realized a personal connection that had never registered before. On this date in 1945, our…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/after-nagasaki-the-u-s-did-not-choose-peace/

The Money Plague
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
I am not an economist and I have a bad taste for money. No doubt Plato and Aristotle had something to do with my economic views. Economy and civilization Since childhood I have not paid much attention to money. However, since we live in a society, country, and world run by money, I had to…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/the-money-plague/

The Police Force Stampede in Portland on August 8, 2020
Mike Hastie | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
I was in attendance of another BLM demonstration in Portland, Oregon this weekend. I say attendance, because eventually if there is going to be any real changes in this country, we need more attendance. If there is going to be real Police Reform in the U.S. then the resistance calling for that reform has to be constant, or shall we say relentless. That is why the demonstrations have been going on every night in Portland for the past 70 + days. There are certainly a lot of different opinions as to how that should be played out. It is hard to tell where this is all going in Portland, or any other major city across…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/the-police-force-stampede-in-portland-on-august-8-2020/

Some Come, Others Go
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
Some come and others go, to the applause of some and regret of others. On Saturday, crowds came to Berlin from all over Germany for a huge mass 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…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/some-come-others-go/

What Racism Smells Like
Sharon Lerner | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
Ravaged by Covid-19, Polluted Communities Demand Environmental Justice…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-racism-smells-like/

Iranian oil workers mount wave of strikes as COVID-19 rages across the country
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
According to reports, at least 10,000 workers have participated in walkouts at nearly 30 oil and petrochemical facilities, including the Abadan, Parsian and Qeshm refineries.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/iran-a10.html

US hits five million COVID-19 cases as testing declines and schools reopen
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The number of daily COVID-19 tests in the US has dropped significantly in recent weeks in line with the increasingly feverish drive to reopen the schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/coro-a10.html

COVID as a Pretext to Prevent the Reopening of Schools: Deceit and Demagoguery in Montgomery County, Maryland
James Bovard | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Across the nation, politicians and bureaucrats have invoked the COVID pandemic to seize dictatorial power to ban activities they disapprove. One of the most brazen examples recently occurred in super-lefty Montgomery County (MoCo), Maryland, where local health czar Travis Gayles…
globalresearch.ca/deceit-demagoguery-montgomery-county-maryland/5720664

Masks Aren't Helpful in Beating COVID-19: Europe's Top Health Officials
Jon Miltimore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. | That's less than one-third of the number of Danes who …
globalresearch.ca/europe-top-health-officials-say-masks-arent-helpful-beating-covid-19/5720652

Delay school reopening: Tallahassee car-noise rally outside of school board meeting
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Tallahassee, FL – Around 50 people gathered outside of the Leon County School Board meeting on the afternoon of August 4. The group met in front of the building where the Leon County School Board was meeting to discuss the district's plans to reopen schools for in-person lessons on August 31. This action came shortly after the community learned that the second of two staff members at a local school had died after contracting COVID-19. | Organized by Leon For a Safe Return to Campus, the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) and Graduate Assistants United FSU, the action was an opportunity to show school b…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/delay-school-reopening-tallahassee-car-noise-rally-outside-school-board-meeting

It could have been different
Tom Engelhardt | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-10
And keep in mind, when assessing this world I'm going to leave behind to those I hold near and dear, that Covid-19 is hardly the worst of it. Behind that pandemic is something so much worse.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/10/it-could-have-been-different/

Delay school reopening: Tallahassee car-noise rally outside of school board meeting
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Tallahassee, FL – Around 50 people gathered outside of the Leon County School Board meeting on the afternoon of August 4. The group met in front of the building where the Leon County School Board was meeting to discuss the district's plans to reopen schools for in-person lessons on August 31. This action came shortly after the community learned that the second of two staff members at a local school had died after contracting COVID-19. | Organized by Leon For a Safe Return to Campus, the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) and Graduate Assistants United FSU, the action was an opportunity to show school b…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/delay-school-reopening-tallahassee-car-noise-rally-outside-school-board-meeting

Georgia teachers and students force temporary closure of North Paulding High School over COVID-19 outbreak
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The cluster of COVID-19 cases at the school emerged as a direct consequence of the decision to reopen schools for in-person instruction amid a surge in infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/geor-a10.html

Workers have a right to know about COVID-19 in their plants!
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Autoworkers are being deprived of the most basic information about the spread of infections in their workplaces.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/auto-a10.html

Local lockdowns in West Yorkshire following UK workplace outbreaks
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The Kirklees area has had several workplace-based outbreaks of COVID-19, including at the Kober meat processing plant in Cleckheaton.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/kirk-a10.html

Fiat Chrysler workers speak out on COVID-19 outbreak at Belvidere Assembly Plant
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
The company's so-called "safety measures," implemented with the support of the UAW, have been completely ineffective at halting the spread of the virus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/belv-a10.html

The Fight for Democracy in Wisconsin
Douglas M. Poland | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
State Republicans have set out to reverse the state's progressive legacy–by commandeering its mechanisms of governance.
progressive.org/magazine/fight-for-democracy-wisconsin-poland-mandell/

Tensions rise in Bolivia as far-right groups mobilize against national strike
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-10
Over 140 major highways and roads have been blocked by protesters across Bolivia to demand that the general elections be held on September 6 and for the de facto president, Jeanine àÅñez, to resign immediately…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/10/tensions-rise-in-bolivia-as-far-right-groups-mobilize-against-national-strike/

The Jakarta Method: How the U.S. Used Mass Murder to Beat Communism
Daniel Larison | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The so-called Long Peace after 1945 was covered in the blood of innocent people. Americans generally prefer to remember the Cold War as a mostly peaceful triumph punctuated by a handful of debacles, but for many of the people living …
globalresearch.ca/jakarta-method-how-us-used-mass-murder-beat-communism/5720697

Brent Scowcroft: Could He Have Stopped the 2003 Invasion Of Iraq?
Ray McGovern | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Brent Scowcroft badly served his friend George H. W. Bush on Iraq by not doing all he could to stop Bush's son from committing a war of aggression, writes Ray McGovern, who used to brief H.W. | *** | Some of the …
globalresearch.ca/what-scowcroft-failed-do/5720722

Experts Debunk False Claims that GM Bt Cotton in India Has Been a Grand Success
Prof. Andrew Paul Gutierrez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
"By nearly all measures, hybrid GM Bt cotton in India is a failure." | Three eminent experts have joined forces to debunk claims by a member of two influential think tanks that GM Bt cotton in India has been a resounding …
globalresearch.ca/experts-debunk-false-claims-gm-bt-cotton-india-grand-success/5720673

Video: The NATO Conquest of Eastern Europe
G2MIL | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
General Dwight Eisenhower was the first NATO supreme allied commander. | After assuming that post in 1951, General Eisenhower wrote about NATO's goal: | "If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned | …
globalresearch.ca/nato-conquest-eastern-europe/5720668

US Crimes Against Humanity at Home and Abroad
Bill Hackwell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
This month marks the second year since former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced to the world a campaign promoted by a group of Latin American writers and academics to declare August 9 as International Day of US Crimes …
globalresearch.ca/us-crimes-against-humanity-home-abroad/5720684

Hiroshima and the Glorification of American Militarism
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
This article was originally published in 2012, on the 67th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | August 6, 9, 2012 was the 67th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the whole truth of which has been …
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-glorification-american-militarism/32377

Macron Takes Advantage of Explosion to "Conquer Lebanon"
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
All relevant events on the international stage have some geopolitical effects. Terrorist attacks, natural catastrophes, accidents and other tragedies also have implications for the power game between nations. In fact, any atypical event can completely change the way of relations …
globalresearch.ca/macron-takes-advantage-explosion-conquer-lebanon/5720689

Who Profits from the Beirut Blast?
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
The narrative that the Beirut explosion was an exclusive consequence of negligence and corruption by the current Lebanese government is now set in stone, at least in the Atlanticist sphere. | And yet, digging deeper, we find that negligence and corruption …
globalresearch.ca/who-profits-beirut-blast/5720678

Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a "New Middle East"
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Towards the balkanization (division) and finlandization (pacification) of the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/3882

Nicaragua — Singing in the Rain. The USAID Project to Destroy the Sandinista Movement
Stephen Sefton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Only the most perverse kind of ideology-derived inertia explains the stupidity, incompetence and criminality of current US foreign policy towards Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Stupid for being based on the insane messianic 19th Century Monroe Doctrine vision of Manifest Destiny, …
globalresearch.ca/nicaragua-singing-rain/5720681

Corona and the End of the Neoliberal Era?
Marc Vandepitte | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
For 40 years they hurled their neoliberal dogmas at us. The financial crisis seriously shook the belief in those beliefs, but eventually the system survived. This time things are different. The corona crisis and the socio-economic measures for saving the …
globalresearch.ca/corona-end-neoliberal-era/5720706

Ukraine's Complex Historical Background and The Contemporary Era
Prof. John Ryan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
Ukraine has a complex historical background and most people have little knowledge of this. The western part of Ukraine known as Galicia has an especially complex history. Going back for more than a thousand years, this region had been settled …
globalresearch.ca/ukraine-historical-background-current-status/5720635

Pushing GMO Crops into India: Experts Debunk High-Level Claims of Bt Cotton Success
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
On 6 July 2020, an article extolling the benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops appeared on the BloombergQuint website based on an interview with Dr Ramesh Chand, a member of the key Indian Government think tank Niti Aayog (National | …
globalresearch.ca/pushing-gmo-crops-india-experts-debunk-high-level-claims-bt-cotton-success/5720670

Unending "9/11s", "A Sad Kind of Freedom.": "Dear USA, Your 9/11 is our 24/7."
Felicity Arbuthnot | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
This article was published by GR ten years ago in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. | On September 12, 2001, The Atlantic Council meeting in Brussels invoked article 5 of the Washington Treaty. An Attack against one member state …
globalresearch.ca/unending-9-11s-a-sad-kind-of-freedom/26478

Worker's death sparks historic oil and gas strike in Iran
Jane Green | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
peoplesworld.org/article/workers-death-sparks-historic-oil-and-gas-strike-in-iran/

1000 march for community control of Chicago police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Chicago, IL – About 1000 people gathered at two locations August 9 and marched to Diversey and Halsted for a rally aimed at getting North Side Aldermen to sponsor the ordinance establishing an all-elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC). | The focus was on the 2nd, 32nd, 43rd, and 44th Wards and Aldermen Brian Hopkins, Scott Waguespack, Michele Smith and Tom Tunny. | The action is part of the nationwide protests over unrelenting killings of Black and Latino people by police in Chicago and the United States, especially since the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks. | Sponsor…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/1000-march-community-control-chicago-police

1000 march for community control of Chicago police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-10
Chicago, IL – About 1000 people gathered at two locations August 9 and marched to Diversey and Halsted for a rally aimed at getting North Side Aldermen to sponsor the ordinance establishing an all-elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC). | The focus was on the 2nd, 32nd, 43rd, and 44th Wards and Aldermen Brian Hopkins, Scott Waguespack, Michele Smith and Tom Tunny. | The action is part of the nationwide protests over unrelenting killings of Black and Latino people by police in Chicago and the United States, especially since the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks. | Sponsor…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/10/1000-march-community-control-chicago-police

Young people have a major role to play in ridding the world of nuclear weapons
news.un.org | 2020-08-10
Nuclear weapons are still one of the most serious threats to mankind, and the dangers are growing. Young people can play an important role in ensuring that they are eliminated once and for all, says the UN's top disarmament official, ahead of International Youth Day on 12 August.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069722

US: Crimes against Humanity at Home and Abroad
Bill Hackwell and Alicia Jrapko | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-10
Photo Credit: Albert Eisenstaedt This month marks the second year since former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced to the world a campaign promoted by a group of Latin American writers and academics to declare August 9 as International Day of US Crimes against Humanity. Appropriately the day is to remember the second nuclear bomb …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/us-crimes-against-humanity-at-home-and-abroad/

Smoking Gun: Crisis? What Crisis?
progressive.org | 2020-08-10
A timeline of the pandemic warning signs ignored by the Trump Administration.
progressive.org/magazine/smoking-gun-crisis-timeline-200514/

Unions' big lie to Quebec health care workers battling the pandemic: "The government will protect you"
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
With the unions unable and unwilling to defend them, health care workers must take matters into their own hands, to protect their own health and lives and those of the public.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/queb-a10.html

Robin Kelley on love, study, and struggle
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-10
Hosted by Paul Holdengrà§ber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
mronline.org/2020/08/10/robin-kelley-on-love-study-and-struggle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=robin-kelley-on-love-study-and-struggle

Virtual march on Livermore Lab caps Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
LIVERMORE, Calif.–As the world observed the 75th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, a virtual rally focusing on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory here kicked off two days of nationally broadcast virtual programming put together by over 160 peace and disarmament organizations under the auspices …
peoplesworld.org/article/virtual-march-on-livermore-lab-caps-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombing-anniversaries/

Episode 101 — A 3rd Reconstruction And Critical Environmental Media Literacy w/Professor Jeff Share
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-08-10
On today's episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon host University of Los Angeles' Jeff Share. Along The Line is a non-profit, education-based podcast that provides listeners…
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As statewide cases hit half a million, opposition mounts in Florida to school reopening
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Teachers from across Florida marched on Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' mansion Saturday to protest his statewide mandate for fully in-person instruction.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/flor-a10.html

Massive protests continue in Lebanon following Beirut blasts
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-10
Protests against the government gained steam after the blasts last week that claimed more than 150 lives and injured 6,000 others. The protesters are demanding the resignation of the government…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/10/massive-protests-erupt-continue-in-lebanon-following-beirut-blasts/

Asian Network Mounts Week-long Protest vs Golden Rice
Stop Golden Rice Network | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-08-10
asia-pacificresearch.com/asian-network-mounts-week-long-protest-golden-rice/5629187

The Killing that Awakened the City that Never Sleeps
Ed Rampell | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
A new documentary reflects on the killing of a Black teenager in 1989, drawing parallels to today's Black Lives Matter protests.
progressive.org/dispatches/killing-awakened-city-never-sleeps-rampell-200810/

Lebanese prime minister Hassan Diab resigns following massive protests
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-10
Protests against the government gained momentum after the blasts last week that claimed close to 200 lives and injured 6,000 others. The resignation of Hassan Diab was one of the key demands of the protesters…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/10/massive-protests-erupt-continue-in-lebanon-following-beirut-blasts/

Lynching Is Not a Relic of a Jim Crow Past. It's a Modern Form of Racial Terror
Terry Anne Scott | zcomm.org | 2020-08-10
Some things have changed, however. These brutal deaths have engendered an unprecedented call for reform…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/lynching-is-not-a-relic-of-a-jim-crow-past-its-a-modern-form-of-racial-terror/

The Caldwells: Father-Son Duo Team Up on a Portion of Historic Minneapolis Mural
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-08-10
Minneapolis, MN — When Kenneth Caldwell got tagged on a Facebook post about participating in making a Black Lives Matter mural in North Minneapolis, he jumped at the opportunity. | The well-known local artist teamed up with his father, Charles Caldwell, another prolific artist, to create…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/the-caldwells-father-son-duo-team-up-on-a-portion-of-historic-minneapolis-mural/

A Path Forward for Wisconsin
Mandela Barnes | progressive.org | 2020-08-10
If we learned anything from 2016, it's that we cannot rely solely on an anti-Trump vote in order to win the Electoral College and the presidency.
progressive.org/magazine/path-forward-for-wisconsin-barnes/

Outrage at demolition of mural in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-10
On Thursday, July 23 the iconic Roxbury Love Mural was demolished by Cruz Companies with little warning to the community that had cherished it for years. In its place will be built condos well out of the price range of current residents. As outrage spread at this brazen act of gentrification, the Boston branch of …
liberationnews.org/outrage-at-demolition-of-mural-in-bostons-roxbury-neighborhood/

Is the Partition of Lebanon now on the table?
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-10
Following the end of the 1975 civil war in Lebanon, the Taef agreement (one of the worse agreements on record) was signed between the belligerents. It delivered the country into the hands of the civil warlords who today rule Lebanon along with their children. Since then they have been frenetically diligent in stealing public wealth, mismanaging the country and offering precious little infrastructure to the inhabitants. They shelter behind the religious leaders, who are keen to offer protection to these lords… as long as they guard the governmental position allocated to each of the 18 Lebanese religions, accordi…

Is the Partition of Lebanon now on the table?

Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan transit corridor operational
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — The pilot project of the Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan transit corridor became operational under the TIR system with two trucks starting transporting goods from Iran to Afghanistan and finally to Uzbekistan on Monday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162082/Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan-transit-corridor-operational

Iran-Eurasia trade reaches $2.6 billion in 9 months
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union trades reached $2.6 billion in the nine months since October 27, 2019 — when the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) was inked between Islamic Republic of Iran and Eurasian Economic Union.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162088/Iran-Eurasia-trade-reaches-2-6-billion-in-9-months

Iran records 2,132 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected 2,132 people and claimed 189 lives in Iran in the past 24 hours, a senior health official said.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162089/Iran-records-2-132-COVID-19-cases-in-24-hours

Pharmaceutical industry discussed under Covid-19 pandemic
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Mehr news agency, on Monday, hosted the head and members of the Iranian Pharmaceutical Industries Syndicate in a meeting to investigate the condition of the domestic pharmaceutical industry under the coronavirus pandemic.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162100/Pharmaceutical-industry-discussed-under-Covid-19-pandemic

Anibar Animation Festival to screen 'Eaten' from Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian animation 'Eaten', directed by Mohsen Rezapour, will be screened at the 2020 edition of the Anibar International Animation Festival.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162081/Anibar-Animation-Festival-to-screen-Eaten-from-Iran

UNSC facing major test to show independence: Vaezi
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian President's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said that the members of UN Security Council are facing a major test to show their independence and react negatively to US pressure on Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162087/UNSC-facing-major-test-to-show-independence-Vaezi

Swiss financial channel to facilitate cereals, pharmaceutical
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Chairman of Iran-Switzerland Joint Chamber of Commerce said that Swiss financial channel with the Islamic Republic of Iran will facilitate trade of cereals and pharmaceuticals.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162063/Swiss-financial-channel-to-facilitate-cereals-pharmaceutical

Iranian animation 'Crab' competing at Animafest Cyprus
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian short animation 'Crab' directed by Shiva Sadegh Asadi is present at the international competition film program of the 19th Countryside Animafest Cyprus, the official animation event of the country, August 9-12.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162078/Iranian-animation-Crab-competing-at-Animafest-Cyprus

Beirut Blast to change political arrangement in Lebanon
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian ex-ambassador to Germany said that It seems when the Beirut tensions end, the political arrangement of the forces in Lebanon will change and some political groups will turn to Hezbollah.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162090/Beirut-Blast-to-change-political-arrangement-in-Lebanon

Iran' Mahiroud Market exports over 13 million $ goods
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) –The Director-General of South Khorasan Customs administration said, "The definite export from Mahiroud Market in the first quarter of the current year has been 13 million and 112 thousand and 97 dollars."
en.mehrnews.com/news/162066/Iran-Mahiroud-Market-exports-over-13-million-goods

"Hormuz Peace Endeavor" can only be sustained strategically
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute believes that "The "Hormuz Peace Endeavour" can only be sustained strategically.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162105/Hormuz-Peace-Endeavor-can-only-be-sustained-strategically

Iran, Azerbaijan set roadmap for development of coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Social Welfare announced that Iran and Republic of Azerbaijan have set a roadmap for the development of cooperation between the two countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162083/Iran-Azerbaijan-set-roadmap-for-development-of-coop

Iran to adopt various methods to unblock frozen assets
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the Islamic Republic of Iran will adopt various methods to unblock its frozen assets in other countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162098/Iran-to-adopt-various-methods-to-unblock-frozen-assets

Iran, Iraq underscore expansion of mutual ties
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — In a Monday meeting between the ambassador of Iran to Iraq and the Iraqi minister of justice the two sides underlined the significance of improving bilateral ties between the two countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162097/Iran-Iraq-underscore-expansion-of-mutual-ties

Iran not officially notified of ship seizure off Pakistan
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — In reaction to reports that an Iranian oil tanker was seized in the port of Karachi, Iranian Ambassador to Islamabad said that the Iranian embassy has not received any official report from Pakistani authorities.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162067/Iran-not-officially-notified-of-ship-seizure-off-Pakistan

Leader condoles demise of Hojatoleslam Mousavian
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Leader of the Islamic Revolution has expressed condolences over the demise of Hojatoleslam Seyyed Abbas Mousavian, an expert on issues related to Islamic economy.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162086/Leader-condoles-demise-of-Hojatoleslam-Mousavian

VIDEO: Police, protesters clash in Belarus
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) — Riot police clashed with protesters in Belarus overnight following a declared 80.23 percent victory for long-time president Alexander Lukashenko in Sunday's elections.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162076/VIDEO-Police-protesters-clash-in-Belarus

KAC HQ's strategic plans, 'symbol of failure of sanctions'
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-10
TEHRAN, Aug. 11 (MNA) — Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters Saeed Mohammad said that strategic plans of the Headquarters are a symbol of failure of enemy's sanctions imposed against the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162102/KAC-HQ-s-strategic-plans-symbol-of-failure-of-sanctions

Social Security & Medicare Cut to Be Permanent if Nazi Trump Reelected
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
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

Tuesday 8/18: Bi-Weekly Community On Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835769.php

Saturday 9/5: San Francisco: Nationwide Mass Protest to Demand Trump Pence Out Now!
Refuse Fascism Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
San Francisco: Rally Embarcadero Plaza, Market St & Steuart St, then March to San Francisco City Hall…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835792.php

San Francisco March Demands State Shut Down Concentration Camps
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
ICE building covered with "bloody" hands as part of state wide protest.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835744.php

Friday 8/14: Giants and Warriors Workers Fight Back
Marc Norton | indybay.org | 2020-08-10
Willie Mays statue, 3rd and King Streets, Giants ballpark (Oracle Park)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/09/18835790.php

Era Of US Domination Of Latin America Coming To An End
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Despite its failings at home, the United States intervenes in countries across multiple continents seeking to control their governments and resources. | This week, we look at the US' latest efforts in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Bolivia to undermine their independence and force them to serve the interests of the US government and transnational corporations. | In all three countries, the US has displayed a lack of understanding of the people and their support for their revolutionary processes, and as a result, is failing. As US empire fades, so might the Monroe Doctrine come to an end.
popularresistance.org/era-of-us-domination-of-latin-america-coming-to-an-end/

The Neoliberal Virus
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Neoliberalism can be characterized, amongst other things, by a doctrinaire preoccupation with market deregulation and accompanying mythology, with all the supporting evidence of children's fairy tales, that market mechanisms left to themselves can best guarantee social happiness and prosperity. | In reality, neoliberals fear checks on the absolute power of capital. Not making a distinction between being criticized and being attacked, and habitually conflating their own grotesque class privileges with individual freedoms, the transnational corporate capitalist class who sponsor this ideology and defend its hegemon…
popularresistance.org/the-neoliberal-virus/

US Crimes Against Humanity At Home And Abroad
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
The US crimes against humanity did not begin or end with the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Japan. As militant civil rights leader Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) pointed out years ago, "Violence is as American as cherry pie." Since its inception, the US has been ingrained with a motor force of violent oppression against everyone and every country that stood in its way of its expansion for control of resources and its entitlement to a limitless accumulation of vast wealth for a few. | The original thirteen colonies that rebelled against England were not motivated solely by being taxed without rep…
popularresistance.org/us-crimes-against-humanity-at-home-and-abroad/

'Execute Them': Lebanon Protesters Demand Revenge After Blast
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Mock gallows nooses tied to brooms: Lebanese protesters on Saturday clamored for bloody revenge against a leadership they blame for the massive blast that engulfed their capital. | "There is hatred and there is blood between us and our authorities," said Najib Farah, a 35-year-old protester in central Beirut. "The people want revenge." | On a street leading to parliament, young men lobbed stones at security forces who replied with tear gas, a familiar sight in Lebanon since last October. | Thousands of young men and women earlier revived the main camp of a months-long protest movement, some of them carrying portr…
popularresistance.org/execute-them-lebanon-protesters-demand-revenge-after-blast/

Lebanese Protesters Occupy Government Buildings As Army Uses Live Ammunition
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Massive demonstrations rippled through Beirut on 8 August as protesters took to the streets calling for revenge on the politicians who bear collective responsibility for the huge explosion at the port on 4 August. Protesters stormed the Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Economy, the Ministry of the Environment and set the Association of Banks headquarters on fire. "This is the heart of corruption. The centre of fraud and plunder", commented one of the demonstrators as he filmed inside the Ministry of Energy.
popularresistance.org/lebanese-protesters-occupy-government-buildings-as-army-uses-live-ammunition/

Memorials, Protests On The 6th Anniversary Of Michael Brown's Death
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
People gathered in a Ferguson street Sunday to mark the sixth anniversary of the shooting death of local teenager Michael Brown by a police officer — an event that not only resonated throughout the community but came to ignite a national movement and conversation around racial inequalities and injustice. | Sunday's memorial service — held in front of an apartment complex on a painted and flower-strewn patch of pavement on Canfield Drive, where the 18-year-old died — featured speeches from local leaders, as well as Brown's friends and family members. | It was made clear that, even as the years pa…
popularresistance.org/memorials-protests-on-the-6th-anniversary-of-michael-browns-death/

Trump's Executive Orders Are Public Relations Stunts
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-10
Trump, Meadows, Mnuchin and McConnell cleverly set up and sucked in Pelosi and Shumer into negotiations last week, never planning to conclude a deal by Friday, in the process getting them to reveal their priority demands and securing from them major concessions worth $1 trillion–for which the Democrat leaders apparently got nothing in return. | A day later, Trump dropped the hammer and issued his EOs, which are designed more as PR for his election campaign. They certainly won't provide anything remotely necessary as fiscal stimulus to confront the US economy's emerging fading rebound in recent weeks. | Upon…
popularresistance.org/trumps-executive-orders/

KGB of Belarus says it stopped 'assassination' plot against opposition candidate Tikhanovskaya
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Belarusian security services said that opposition politician Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who called for annulling the presidential election, was targeted in an assassination plot. The opposition denied asking for police protection. | Tikhanovskaya has contested the results of Sunday's election, which officially saw her getting 10 percent of the vote to the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko's almost 80 percent. Protests that erupted after the results were announced saw 3,000 people detained by police. | KGB chairman Valery Vakulchik told reporters on Monday that the security service intercepted a phone call talking ab…
rt.com/news/497629-kgb-belarus-opposition-assassination/

Victim of 'systemic racism'? Biden's Ferguson anniversary tweet flops… as his own DOJ justified Michael Brown shooting
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden seemingly forgot what was made clear by his own administration when he was vice president under Obama: Evidence shows that Michael Brown was killed while assaulting a police officer. | That was the conclusion of a US Department of Justice investigation in 2015, during the Obama-Biden administration, when the feds exonerated former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson in the August 2014 sho…
rt.com/usa/497548-biden-ferguson-systemic-racism/

'Give them soy lattes and foot massages' — Ted Cruz roasted for mocking pandemic payments
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Republican Senator Ted Cruz was hammered online after he mocked a Democrat colleague's calls for higher coronavirus payments to Americans. Cruz's brand of 'let them sip soy' humor went down like a lead balloon. | Though President Donald Trump recently signed a slew of executive orders extending unemployment benefits, pausing evictions, deferring student loan payments and implementing a payroll tax cut, the American people have yet to receive another stimulus check from the federal government. | With Congress set to debate a second round of checks in the coming days, some Democrats have called for a more genero…
rt.com/usa/497641-ted-cruz-soy-lattes-stimulus/

Greece to require coronavirus test for entry from Sweden, Spain & 3 other states
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Visitors to Greece arriving from Sweden, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic will need proof they have tested negative for the coronavirus to gain entry, the government has said. | Tightening controls after a recent spike in coronavirus infections, the government said on Monday the requirement will go into effect from August 17. The required test cannot be older than 72 hours prior to entry. | On Sunday, Greece reported its highest daily tally of coronavirus infections, 203 cases, since the start of the outbreak, Reuters reports. | The government in Athens also moved to suspend public gather…
rt.com/newsline/497621-greece-test-entry-controls/

Face masks become mandatory in Paris amid W. Europe heatwave
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Face masks became compulsory in tourist hotspots in Paris on Monday amid warnings of a resurgence of coronavirus cases. | The requirement came as France along with much of Western Europe sweltered in a heatwave, with temperatures soaring above 35 degrees Celsius (95 F), AFP reports. The heat sent crowds flocking to beaches at the weekend despite health warnings about the risk of infection. | In the Paris region, people aged 11 and over are now required to wear masks in crowded areas and tourist hotspots. These include the banks of the Seine River and more than 100 streets in the French capital. | Several Frenc…
rt.com/newsline/497623-face-masks-mandatory-paris/

'Give them soy lattes and foot massages' — Ted Cruz roasted for mocking pandemic payments
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Republican Senator Ted Cruz was hammered online after he mocked a Democrat colleague's calls for higher coronavirus payments to Americans. Cruz' brand of 'let them sip soy' humor went down like a lead balloon. | Though President Donald Trump recently signed a slew of executive orders extending unemployment benefits, pausing evictions, deferring student loan payments and implementing a payroll tax cut, the American people have yet to receive another stimulus check from the federal government. | With Congress set to debate a second round of checks in the coming days, some Democrats have called for a more generou…
rt.com/usa/497641-ted-cruz-soy-lattes-stimulus/

Millions of tourists & overcrowded hospitals: Crimea advertises for doctors as hospitals struggle to cope with Covid-19 infections
rt.com | 2020-08-10
With the summer holiday season in full swing, some tourists seem to have taken coronavirus with them to the coast. That's prompted Crimea to search for more doctors as infections in crowded resorts are overloading local hospitals. | With Russia's international borders partially closed, the Black Sea peninsula is experiencing a mass influx of travelers looking to have a domestic warm-weather beach holiday. In July, 1.43 million tourists visited Crimea, and hotels and boarding houses reported that they were 80 percent occupied. | According to official data, Crimea recorded 32 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, a…
rt.com/russia/497614-crimea-covid19-doctors-advertise/

What could it mean? Twitter erupts with sarcastic suggestions after Trump refers to himself as 'President T'
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Donald Trump has sparked yet another Twitter drama after referring to himself as 'President T' in a post questioning the loyalty of a senator, prompting users to make sarcastic suggestions of what the 'T' could possibly stand for. | In the Monday tweet, Trump accused Republican Senator Ben Sasse of "going rogue" after he sharply criticized the president's executive orders aimed at providing coronavirus relief while bypassing Congress. | RINO Ben Sasse, who needed my support and endorsement in order to get the Republican nomination for Senate from the GREAT State of Nebraska, has, now that he's got it (Thank yo…
rt.com/usa/497625-president-t-twitter-trump/

Explosions reported as Iraqi Shiite militia targets US military convoy near Kuwait border — security forces
rt.com | 2020-08-10
An explosion has rocked a convoy carrying US military gear in Iraq near the border with Kuwait, according to Iraqi security services, who say a Shiite militia group is behind the attack. | The blast reportedly targeted a convoy near the Jraischan crossing on the Iraq-Kuwait border late on Monday after a militia group smuggled an explosive device into the area, Reuters reported, citing security sources. | The Iraqi military later denied that any attack had taken place, while the US Embassy in Kuwait refrained from confirming the incident, saying it would investigate. | Footage purporting to show the moment of t…
rt.com/news/497642-iraqi-militias-explosion-us-base/

Massive 'dragon-shaped' windstorm headed for Chicago
rt.com | 2020-08-10
An enormous "derecho" storm cluster with winds up to 100mph has taken shape in the midwestern US, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake and heading straight for Chicago – as if the Windy City doesn't have enough problems. | The devastating storm – given the rare classification of "Particularly Dangerous Situation" by government meteorologists – is expected to pummel northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin with winds of up to 100mph (160kph) through 7pm local time, according to the US Storm Prediction Center. | The likelihood of a Derecho impacting IA, IL, IN, and WI this afternoon has prompted an upgrade…
rt.com/usa/497640-derecho-wind-storm-chicago-dragon/

Rules for thee but not for me: Pompeo denounces proposed Russian law as 'burdensome' limitation on US propaganda outlets
rt.com | 2020-08-10
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has voiced his opposition to a proposed Russian rule that would require labeling of propaganda content, saying it would burden "independent" information work by outlets such as Voice of America. | "This decree will impose new burdensome requirements that will further inhibit RFE/RL's and VOA's ability to operate within Russia," Pompeo said Monday, commenting on the draft rule published by the media regulator Roskomnadzor. | Pompeo called VOA and its sist…
rt.com/usa/497647-pompeo-voa-russia-rules/

Lebanese PM Hassan Diab announces resignation of entire government amid protests triggered by Beirut explosion
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Lebanese PM Hassan Diab has officially announced the resignation of his entire government following days of protests sparked by the catastrophic explosion which levelled parts of Beirut last week. | Earlier, Health Minister Hamad Hassan confirmed to reporters that the resignation would be imminent. | Addressing the nation on Monday evening, Diab said he was with the people calling for responsibility for the "crime." Diab said the explosion was the result of endemic corruption. | I thought I could remedy th…
rt.com/news/497619-hassan-diab-government-resigns/

Belarus on the brink? Unloved in Moscow, a pariah again in the West & facing protests at home, Lukashenko is running out of road
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Alexander Lukashenko will likely ride out the gathering storm across Belarus. However, he cannot remain the president forever. Which means Russia needs to work out a realistic long term strategy toward its closest ally. | There is little that Russia's leaders like less than political instability. The 2016 Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation uses the word 'stability' no fewer than 24 times, and the term has appeared regularly in the speeches of Russia's President Vladimir Putin throughout the 21 years he has been either president or prime minister. Given a choice between revolution and the status q…
rt.com/russia/497634-lukashenko-moscow-belarus-protests-putin/

One KILLED during massive protests in Minsk as demonstrators clash with Belarus police
rt.com | 2020-08-10
A protester in Minsk has died from injuries caused by an explosive device he tried to throw at police, Belarusian authorities said, as mass demonstrations against the results of the presidential election continued. | The Interior Ministry of Belarus confirmed the death of a man in Minsk on Monday evening, after a clash with riot police that tried to remove the barricade set up by protesters across Pritytsky Avenue, in the western part of the capital. | "One of the protesters tried to throw an unidentified explosive device at law enforcement officers. It exploded in his hand" and caused "injuries incompatible w…
rt.com/news/497643-belarus-protester-killed-minsk/

Beirut protesters tell RT they won't leave streets until ENTIRE PARLIAMENT steps down after PM's resignation
rt.com | 2020-08-10
The resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab along with his cabinet hasn't quelled public anger in Beirut. Protesters told RT they'll continue pushing for a "revolution" until the entire parliament steps down. | Diab announced his resignation on Monday, nearly a week after a devastating explosion ripped through Beirut, killing more than 200 people, wounding 6,000, and reducing large swathes of the Lebanese capital to rubble. Since the explosion, protesters had clamored for Diab's resignation, after it emerged that 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in unsafe conditions by officials triggered the b…
rt.com/news/497624-beirut-protests-continue-parliament-resigns/

Police shoot grenades and tear-gas at protesters against presidential election results in Belarus
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Demonstrators in Minsk and other cities in Belarus continuing to protest against the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko have been met with tear gas and flash-bang grenades, as police seek to disperse and arrest them. | On Monday evening, protesters gathered in small groups around the Victory Square, the epicenter of last night's rallies, which is surrounded by various public buildings. A strong police presence was documented in the area. More than a hundred opposition supporters assembled at a nearby hotel and police were arresting some of them, local media reported. | Elsewhere in Minsk, crowds bloc…
rt.com/news/497627-belarus-election-protests-arrests/

Russian watchdog says Apple abused dominance of mobile app market, orders US tech giant to stop restricting competition
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Apple has been found guilty of exploiting its app market dominance by Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). The investigation began after leading anti-virus software developer Kaspersky Lab lodged a complaint last year. | The Russian company insisted that Apple's policy in the parental control applications market for mobile devices with its iOS operating system was unfair. | Monday's ruling follows criticism from Telegram founder Pavel Durov over the predatory practices of Silicon Valley's kingpins. "Apple and Google impose an insane 30 percent sales tax on all digital goods sold on every mobile phone i…
rt.com/russia/497636-apple-abused-app-dominance-russia/

'It's not brotherly': Russian Foreign Ministry condemns neighboring Belarus for violent police attacks on journalists
rt.com | 2020-08-10
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has criticized Belarusian law enforcement agencies for their "disproportionate actions" against Russian journalists working in Minsk, covering Sunday's controversial election. | While reporting on Sunday's hotly contested Belarusian presidential election – in which incumbent Alexander Lukashenko officially won 80 percent of the vote – several Russian media personnel were detained. Among them were multiple journalists from TV Rain, Maxim Solopov from Riga-based Meduza, and Semyon Pegov, a Russian war correspondent and founder of the WarGonzo project. Earlier,…
rt.com/russia/497616-russia-condemns-belarus-journalists-attack/

Biden Reportedly Done With VP Interviews, Set to Announce Pick in Coming Days
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-10
As the 2020 Democratic National Convention approaches, and candidate Joe Biden is expected to be confirmed as his party's presidential candidate, speculation has emerged that his choice has narrowed to either Senator Kamala Harris or Barack Obama's former national security adviser, Susan Rice.
sputniknews.com/us/202008101080127817-biden-reportedly-done-with-vp-interviews-set-to-announce-pick-in-coming-days/

US Commissioner Warns 'Substantial Chance' of No Results on Election Night for 2020 Race
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-10
US Federal Election Commission (FEC) Commissioner Elle Weintraub warned on Monday that there's a "substantial chance" the results of the 2020 presidential election may not be known on the night of the contest because it could take time to count mail-in ballots, of which there are expected to be more than normal amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
sputniknews.com/us/202008101080127057-us-commissioner-warns-substantial-chance-of-no-results-on-election-night-for-2020-race/

Tehran Claims European Insurers Responsible for Compensation of Downed Ukraine Jet
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-10
The head of Iran's Central Insurance Organization is arguing that European insurance companies, rather than Tehran, should be responsible for covering costs related to the Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) plane downed shortly after takeoff by Iranian military personnel on January 8.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008101080127616-tehran-claims-european-insurers-responsible-for-compensation-of-downed-ukraine-jet/

Chicago Mayor Declares Lockdown for 'Foreseen Days' Until US City Becomes 'Safe' in Wake of Looting
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-10
Earlier on Monday, Chicago police arrested at least 100 people in the wake of widespread overnight looting and rioting in the central US city, where over a dozen police officers were injured during clashes. Riots erupted in the early hours of Monday following a police shooting a day earlier that wounded a young man.
sputniknews.com/us/202008101080127468-chicago-mayor-declares-lockdown-for-foreseen-days-until-us-city-becomes-safe-in-wake-of-looting/

Trump Falsely Claims That Spanish Flu Ended Second World War
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-10
During a news conference on Monday, US President Donald Trump falsely said the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic had a likely role in ending World War II, which did not begin until 1939.
sputniknews.com/world/202008101080127588-trump-falsely-claims-that-spanish-flu-ended-second-world-war/

Coronavirus Is the New 'Terrorism'
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-10
Ron PAUL | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed the next multi-trillion dollar "coronavirus relief" spending bill that will support testing, tracing, treatment, isolation, and mask policies that have been part of a "national strategic plan" she has been advocating. The Trump administration is not opposing Pelosi's plan on principle. Instead, it is haggling over the price. | But, even if the strategic plan could be implemented at little or no monetary cost, it would still impose an unacceptable cost in lost liberty. | Pelosi's plan will lead to either a federal mask mandate or federal funding of state and local…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/10/coronavirus-new-terrorism/

Neoliberalism and the Beirut Explosion
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-10
Back when people were still allowed to say such things, the famous defense attorney Clarence Darrow used to confess that he liked filling his juries with Irishmen because, no matter how heinous the crime, they'd look at the accused, cross themselves, and mutter, "There but the grace of God go I." | Darrow's story is worth keeping in mind now that a massive ammonium-nitrate blast has leveled much of Beirut. Although terrorism can't be entirely dismissed, it looks like the cause is something more prosaic, i.e. years of government neglect and decay. Ammonium nitrate is a compound used to make both fertilizers and ex…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/10/neoliberalism-and-the-beirut-explosion/

Lebanon Bomb Might Focus the Minds of Regional Powers to Why Lebanon Matters
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-10
Macron has said he will throw his weight behind a political initiative to help Lebanon rebuild itself after an entirely corrupt government pushed the country towards an abyss. But will he suggest resignations of present leaders as a good start? And will he use his influence in the EU to get Brussels engaged? | The dust has settled in Lebanon now, after what might be described as its largest explosion to date in the troubled country. But while hordes of so-called analysts pour over the scarce details of what we know as fact, many will speculate about whether the explosion was indeed an accident — and, of cou…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/10/lebanon-bomb-might-focus-minds-regional-powers-to-why-lebanon-matters/

Widespread calls for PM to boost testing as he prepares for schools reopening
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-10
Boris Johnson is facing widespread calls to boost coronavirus testing and tracing in order to safely reopen schools to all pupils without imposing further restrictions on businesses or social lives.The prime minister said it is the "national priority" to get children back in class in England next month, but he has been warned by scientific advisers that "trade-offs" may be necessary to keep transmission down. | Teachers, scientists, opposition politicians and the children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield have all called for improvements to testing before pupils return.Longfield welcomed Johnson's commitm…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/10/widespread-calls-for-pm-to-boost-testing-as-he-prepares-for-schools-reopening/

Plan for more nursing apprenticeships falls short, union warns
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-10
A multi-million pound government plan to train more apprentice nurses falls short of what is needed, the Royal College of Nursing has said.The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said a package worth up to £172m will enable healthcare employers to take on up to 2,000 nursing degree apprentices every year over the next four years.The NHS and other healthcare employers will receive £8,300 per placement per year for both new and existing apprenticeships. | The government said the funding will enable employers to meet the costs of taking on apprentices, including staffing costs while apprentices a…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/10/plan-for-more-nursing-apprenticeships-falls-short-union-warns/

Climate Activists Push Biden to Cut Ties With Industry-Friendly Energy Advisers
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
With President Trump's poll numbers sinking, he is increasingly turning to the fossil fuel industry for support. Rallying oil patch workers and executives during a stop at a fracking rig in West Texas's Permian Basin in late July, the president stood in front of stacked oil drums and declared "victory" over spring's historic crash in oil prices that continues to throttle most of the U.S. oil and gas ind…
truthout.org/articles/climate-activists-push-biden-to-cut-ties-with-industry-friendly-energy-advisers/

Trump Executive Action on Unemployment Insurance Deliberately Leaves Out Poorest
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
On top of serious questions about the directive's legality and workability, experts are warning that President Donald Trump's executive action to extend the federal unemployment insurance boost at $400 per week — using $44 billion in funds meant for disaster relief — leaves out the poorest Americans by design. | The language of Trump's…
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ALEC Works to Pass Industry-Backed COVID Liability Shields at the State Level
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has long fought for restrictions on individuals' right to sue in civil court because of unsafe workplaces or products. | It is no surprise, then, that ALEC has joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Independent Businesses, and Senate Republicans to push for sweeping limits on the civil liability of employers for coronavirus-rel…
truthout.org/articles/alec-works-to-pass-industry-backed-covid-liability-shields-at-the-state-level/

When Things Feel Dire, Remember Real Change Begins at the Grassroots Level
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
Right now feels like a challenging time to be an American fighting for equality, fighting for justice. We have COVID-19, an economic crisis, and the violence against Black Americans and anti-Blackness in the foreground. But we also have people across the nation rising up to say, in the words of Ella Baker, "We who believe in freedom cannot rest." | This is our moment to make sure we do what we can, where we are, with what we have. | We don't have to do it all. There's a saying that goes, "many h…
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Trump's Social Security Sleight of Hand Is Another Scam. Don't Fall for It
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-10
We begin with a foundational premise, a stone-bound axiom learned the hardest of hard ways after three long years: Donald Trump does not care about you, or me, or anyone on this planet. Donald Trump cares only about Donald Trump, full stop, end of file. Do not let the triumphant-sounding weekend headlines about his executive orders fool you; those orders are made of soap bubbles. Yes, friends, it's yet another scam. | House Democ…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-social-security-sleight-of-hand-is-another-scam-dont-fall-for-it/

San Francisco Giants and Golden State Warriors give stadium workers the boot
Marc Norton | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-10
I got the email firing me from my job at the Giants ballpark Monday, July 27. The following evening, I learned from the San Francisco Examiner that I would also get fired from my second job at the new Golden State Warriors stadium, and a combined 2,154 other food service workers were also being shown …
peoplesworld.org/article/san-francisco-giants-and-golden-state-warriors-give-stadium-workers-the-boot/

Gambia's health system near collapse amid pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
The Gambia has seen over a 70% rise in coronavirus cases last week, and its health sector is crumbling under the weight of the deadly virus.The total number of confirmed cases in the country as of Aug. 7 stood at 1,235, with 23 deaths and 221 recoveries, according to the latest Health Ministry data released on Sunday. The Gambia's reporting of cases is two days behind due to lack of capacity to deal with the surge.The situation is "alarming" in the small West African country of around 2.4 million people, according to Modou Touray, communications director of the Gambia Red Cross Society, as the number of COVID-19…
yenisafak.com/en/world/gambias-health-system-near-collapse-amid-pandemic-3536512

Eurasia countries report new COVID-19 cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Coronavirus cases and fatalities continued to rise across Eurasian and Central Asian countries on Monday.- UkraineHealth Minister Maksym Stepanov said 1,008 more people tested positive for the virus over the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 81,957.He said 25 more fatalities raised the death toll to 1,922 while recoveries increased by 387 to reach 44,359. | Stepanov urged the public to strictly follow the government's COVID-19 restrictions, which have been extended until Aug. 31. | – KazakhstanKazakhstan reported 741 more virus cases, raising the total to 99,442, as recoveries rose by 250 to reach the total of…
yenisafak.com/en/world/eurasia-countries-report-new-covid-19-cases-3536509

Iran's real virus figures higher than announced: Expert
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
The coronavirus figures announced by the Iranian authorities are one-twentieth of the real numbers, a member of an anti-virus taskforce said Monday."There was no transparent flow of information regarding the numbers. Authorities announce official numbers by considering political and security concerns", Mohammad Reza Mahboubfar told the Iranian Jahanesanat news website. | Mahboubfar said despite all the warnings, President Hassan Rouhani's statement that the mourning ceremonies of Ashura will be celebrated with enthusiasm revealed serious disagreements between the taskforce members and the government. | Despite an…
yenisafak.com/en/world/irans-real-virus-figures-higher-than-announced-expert-3536507

Turkish expert weighs in on importance of face masks
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
The slight discomfort that comes from wearing a mask on a hot summer day is a small price to pay for protecting oneself from the coronavirus, Turkey's pandemic task force member has said. Dr. Afsin Emre Kayipmaz, a member of Turkey's Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board, told Anadolu Agency that a rise in coronavirus cases was witnessed after the four-day Eid al-Adha holiday as people used the opportunity to flock to beaches and attend wedding ceremonies, flouting social distancing rules.Cases have risen 1.3 times compared to May when lockdown was still imposed in many parts of the country, Turkey's Health Minis…
yenisafak.com/en/life/turkish-expert-weighs-in-on-importance-of-face-masks-3536524

Turkish official warns of mental impact of COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
A Turkish official, who has recovered from COVID-19, warned of psychological impact of the disease as well as its biological impact on human body."It is really troublesome psychologically. So take your measures," Osman Bilgin, the governor of northwestern Kirklareli province, told Anadolu Agency.Bilgin was diagnosed with the disease caused by the novel coronavirus on March 31 and he recovered on April 17."Some citizens are not aware because they did not experience it. But when you do, there are both biological and psychological impacts of the disease," Bilgin stressed.Recounting the ordeal, he said he was so sad…
yenisafak.com/en/life/turkish-official-warns-of-mental-impact-of-covid-19-3536505

Iraq reports highest-ever daily virus case count
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
With 3,484 new coronavirus cases, Iraq on Monday reported the highest-ever daily COVID-19 infections, according to the Health Ministry.Meanwhile, the ministry reported 72 additional fatalities from the virus.Monday's figures bring the total case count to 153,599 and the number of fatalities to 5,464, along with 109,790 recoveries.Health centers in Iraq face shortages of oxygen supplies and protective equipment, prompting the Higher Committee for Health and National Safety to direct the Health Ministry to provide support for investors wishing to build medical oxygen production plants.Security forces have also been…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iraq-reports-highest-ever-daily-virus-case-count-3536527

WHO urges action to contain virus as cases near 20M
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Behind the rising numbers of registered novel coronavirus cases and deaths — both expected this week to reach 20 million and 750,000, respectively — is "a great deal of pain and suffering," and leaders need to embrace new measures to turn the outbreak around, the top official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday.Addressing a bi-weekly COVID-19 webinar for journalists Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "I know many of you are grieving and that this is a difficult moment for the world.""But I want to be clear, there are green shoots of hope and no matter where a country, a…
yenisafak.com/en/news/who-urges-action-to-contain-virus-as-cases-near-20m-3536529

Southeast Asia reports over 8,800 new coronavirus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
With 8,887 new coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia, the tally of cases in the region has crossed 333,300, authorities said Monday.The death toll in the region has hit 8,291, while recoveries are at 212,507.In Phillippines, the worst-hit in the region, total infections climbed to 136,638 after the country's health authority confirmed 6,958 new cases.The archipelago nation reported 24 more virus-related fatalities, raising the nationwide death toll to 2,292, while recoveries jumped by 633 to reach 68,306.Indonesia reported 42 more fatalities from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/southeast-asia-reports-over-8800-new-coronavirus-cases-3536530

Coronavirus: Iran reports 189 more fatalities
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
As many as 189 new coronavirus-related fatalities have raised the death toll in Iran to 18,616, the Health Ministry sai…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-iran-reports-189-more-fatalities-3536513

Russian tourists return to sunny Turkish beaches
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
After Turkey and Russia negotiated a resumption of flights between the two countries, Russian tourists once again chose the resort city of Antalya for their "safe vacation" amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.Turkey ranked first among countries visited by Russian nationals for tourism last year with nearly 7 million tourists coming to the country. This year, in line with measures taken to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Turkey once again began to host Russian tourists.After five months of pause, tourists from Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport took off for Turkey's Antalya province where they landed…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/russian-tourists-return-to-sunny-turkish-beaches-3536506

Some tourists confused by new COVID-19 mask rules in Paris
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
The wearing of masks in some crowded areas around Paris became compulsory on Monday as part of a drive to stem a sharp rise in COVID-19 infections, but some tourists appeared perplexed about where the new rule is meant to apply.A detailed list of more than 100 mandatory mask-wearing zones includes the popular Montmartre district, with its narrow streets, and the banks of the River Seine but excludes other famous tourist destinations such as the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysees and the huge shopping area of Les Halles."It's not clear at all. We're tourists so we don't know in which zones we're required to wear a m…
yenisafak.com/en/world/some-tourists-confused-by-new-covid-19-mask-rules-in-paris-3536523

Israel says ready for war with Lebanon: Gantz
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Monday Israel is ready for a war with Lebanon if such war is imposed on Tel Aviv. | In his briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Gantz warned that such war would have serious consequences on Lebanon. | "While [Hezbollah leader Hasan] Nasrallah is our biggest enemy in the north, he is Lebanon's biggest problem." He said. | Gantz also said that the situation in the Middle East in the past decade was fragile and uncertain, stressing that Israel will continue efforts to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear power, and from operati…
yenisafak.com/en/news/israel-says-ready-for-war-with-lebanon-gantz-3536504

Oil prices slightly up on optimism over Asian demand
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Oil prices slightly up on Monday backed by Saudi optimism about Asian demand and an Iraqi commitment to speeding up production cuts to offset overproduction in the previous months.International benchmark Brent crude was trading at $44.89 per barrel at 0840 GMT for a 0.05% increase after closing Friday at $44.66 a barrel.American benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was at $41.94 a barrel at the same time for a 0.21% increase after ending the previous session at $41.80 per barrel.Chief Executive of Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser, said on Sunday that he sees oil demand growing in Asia as economies slowly open up afte…
yenisafak.com/en/world/oil-prices-slightly-up-on-optimism-over-asian-demand-3536510

Lebanese gov't resigns after protests in wake of deadly Beirut blast
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
On Sunday, Information Minister Manal Abdel-Samad and Environment Minister Damianos Kattar stepped down. Six lawmakers have also resigned from the 128-member parliament in protest over the blasts.Two explosions rocked the Beirut port last Tuesday after a neglected stockpile of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse there ignited.Ammonium nitrate is a chemical substance often used to make bombs and commonly used in fertilizer. Terrorism has been ruled out as a probable cause of the blasts.The blasts rocked Beirut to its core, registering 3.5 on the Richter scale and shattering buildings miles in the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/lebanese-govt-resigns-after-protests-in-wake-of-deadly-beirut-blast-3536532

Ancient bathhouse, gymnasium unearthed in Izmir, Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
Archeologists have unearthed a Roman bathhouse and gymnasium, as part of excavations in Turkey's western province of Izmir.The excavations were carried out by researchers from the Izmir Katip Celebi University in the ancient Smyrna city's Ikicesmelik area.Experts found the remains of a building from the 2nd century, which was used for physical, social and cultural activities.The structure is believed to be from the era of Roman Emperor Hadrian.Akin Ersoy, head of the excavation team, told Anadolu Agency on Monday that bathhouses and gymnasiums were common in the Roman era.Bathhouses, he said, were used as social…
yenisafak.com/en/news/ancient-bathhouse-gymnasium-unearthed-in-izmir-turkey-3536511

SunExpress beefing up German flights to Turkish resorts
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-10
With tourists flocking to several popular Turkish coastal resorts again, Turkish-German joint venture SunExpress is adding capacity to ferry German holidaymakers.The Turkish-German carrier is offering a 15% capacity rise in Antalya flights and 20% rise in Izmir flights this month, said a Monday statement by SunExpress, a joint venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, the countries' flag carriers.The move follows last week's decision by Germany to lift travel warnings for the Turkish resort cities of Antalya, Izmir, Mugla (including Fethiye), and Aydin. The move came as Turkish resorts and destinations nationwid…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/sunexpress-beefing-up-german-flights-to-turkish-resorts-3536508

Twenty percent of Australian health workers lack PPE as infections in the sector soar
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Some 400 more health workers in Victoria have contracted COVID-19 over the past two weeks, prompting warnings of a looming staffing crisis in the hospital system.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/vict-a10.html

Australian Kmart warehouse workers in Melbourne strike over COVID-19 safety
wsws.org | 2020-08-10
Warehouses, like meatworks and nursing homes, have become dangerous places for workers in this pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/10/aust-a10.html

Five Ways "The New Normal" Is Getting Worse and Worse. Curfew, Masks at Home, Immunity Passports,
Kit Knightly | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-10
It's been a big few days for the New Normal narrative and, through the deliberately cultivated haze of confusion, it's not hard to see the world they want to build is taking shape. | 1. Australia's curfew | The state of Victoria, …
globalresearch.ca/5-ways-new-normal-getting-worse/5720643

Citing 'Years of Chaos and Impunity,' ACLU Calls for Breakup of Department of Homeland Security
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
"We have to remove the loaded weapon that sits on the proverbial coffee table in the Oval Office." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/getty-blm_portland_orecrop.jpg …
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Weeks After Voting for $740 Billion Pentagon Budget, Ted Cruz Says 'Magic Money Tree' Isn't Available to Struggling Families
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
Sen. Ed Markey led the charge on Monday against his colleague, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, after Cruz mocked the notion of providing robust financial assistance to Americans during the coronavirus pandemic as the nation faces a Great Depression-level unemployment crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1226458384_1.jpg …
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'We Are Expecting the Worst': Alarm Over Eco Crisis Grows Amid Fears Ship Leaking Oil Near Mauritius Could Break in Two
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
Climate campaigers charge that "this oil leak is not a twist of fate, but the choice of our twisted addiction to fossil fuels." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1227940355.png …
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Trump Trade Policies and Mishandling of Coronavirus Pandemic Have 'Wiped Out' US Manufacturing Jobs: Economist
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
"Trump's erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative rhetoric." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_19_0.jpg …
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Within Healthcare USA, Risk and Reward Have Never Been More Out of Kilter
Sam Pizzigati | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
Members of National Nurses United, the largest nurses union in the United States, protest in front of the White House April 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/nurses_white_house_coronavirus_0.png …
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'Impossible to Stay Quiet': With Nearly 100,000 Kids Infected by Covid-19 in Just Two Weeks, Medical Experts Warn Against Hasty Return to School
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
"Rushing to reopen our schools will directly jeopardize the lives of our students and educators, and that is a risk we cannot take," said Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/getty-schoolgirl_in_mask_in_mirror-crop.jpg …
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Tracking Apps Are Unlikely to Help Stop Covid-19
Jay Stanley & Jon Callas | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
"The sensitive privacy and trust issues that human contact tracers face are likely to be amplified in the technology realm." (Photo: Roger Brown Photography/Shutterstock.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/contact-tracing.jpg …
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It Could Have Been Different
Tom Engelhardt | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
"Why are peace and nonviolence impossible to embrace as national values?" (Photo: Rudi Riet/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/americanflag-peace-rudiriet-flickr-cc_0.jpg …
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BP Plans to Keep It in the Ground, Sort Of
Robin Tress | commondreams.org | 2020-08-10
Greenpeace activists delivered 500 solar panels with a total area of over 800 square meters to BP's London headquarters in St. James Square Feb. 5, 2020. Activists locked to oil barrels blocked all six office doors around the building. (Photo: Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bp_protesters.jpg …
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Lebanese Gov't Faces Collapse Amid Rage-Filled Protests
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-10
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Flight from New York
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-10
New York City is in Serious trouble. Indeed, all diverse US cities are in trouble, especially those ruled by Democrats. The combination of coronavirus and unchecked rioting and looting have undermined their economies. | Working at home has taught businesses that they do not need to accumulate employees in office complexes. Working at home saves money for businesses and employees. With profits and raises harder to come by, dispensing with office complexes and commutes is cost effective. | High income people who no longer need to work in office complexes do not need expensive Manhattan brownstones and apartments. T…

Flight from New York

6 Superheroes Who Could Totally Save Us From Covid-19
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
6 Superheroes Who Could Totally Save Us From Covid-19…
thenation.com/article/society/superheroes-coronavirus/

Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19?
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19?
thenation.com/article/society/superheroes-coronavirus/

Cuomo's Administration Faces Questioning Over Its Handling of Nursing Home Covid Deaths
Ross Barkan | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
Cuomo's Administration Faces Questioning Over Its Handling of Nursing Home Covid Deaths…
thenation.com/article/politics/cuomo-covid-nursing-homes/

Julian Bond's Life in Protest and Politics
Robert Greene II | thenation.com | 2020-08-10
Julian Bond's Life in Protest and Politics…
thenation.com/article/culture/julian-bond-race-man-review/

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

Western Media's Favorite Hong Kong 'Freedom Struggle Writer' Is American ex-Amnesty Staffer In Yellowface
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-09
A prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist named Kong Tsung-gan has become a go-to source for Western media. An investigation by The Grayzone confirms Kong as a fake identity employed by an American teacher who's a ubiquitous figure at local protests. | Max BLUMENTHAL | An American man with ties to Amnesty International and key Hong Kong separatist figures has been posing online as a Hong Kong native named Kong Tsung-gan. Routinely cited as a grassroots activist and writer by major media organizations and published in English-language media, the fictitious character Kong appears to have been concocte…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/09/western-media-favorite-hong-kong-freedom-struggle-writer-american-ex-amnesty-staffer-yellowface/