RT (2019-07-25). \'Algorithms don\'t write themselves\': Google whistleblower on Big Tech merging with politics. rt.com A senior Google software engineer has dismissed the idea that Big Tech can be politically neutral and called out his company as \"very biased,\" joining Project Veritas\' growing stable of whistleblowers.

RT (2019-07-25). Time to forget the word Russiagate & look into FBI-gate instead — Ron Paul. rt.com The Democrats\' dream of impeaching President Trump over the Russiagate scandal has \"totally failed,\" its fate confirmed by special counsel Robert Mueller\'s disastrous showing in Congress, former congressman Ron Paul told RT.

Celisa Calacal, Acacia Handel, Molly Minta (2019-07-24). AOC Went Back to Where She Came From: New York City. thenation.com Celisa Calacal, Acacia Handel, Molly Minta AOC Went Back to Where She Came From: New York City…

Staff (2019-07-24). Facebook and FTC: Hammer or Slap on the Wrist? truthdig.com The Federal Trade Commission\'s record $5 billion fine and new oversight of Facebook don\'t go as far as many critics would have liked.

Jonah Raskin (2019-07-24). A Whale of a Time on the California Coast. counterpunch.org With stones, rocks, flowers, chants, songs and their own bodies, about 200 mourners gathered on a recent Saturday morning at Dillon Beach—near the border that separates Marin from Sonoma Counties—to commemorate the death this year of at least 70 Gray Whales, all stranded on the shore and visible at low tide. At Dillon Beach, the More

Stephen Lendman (2019-07-24). \"Brand Boris\": Britain\'s Clown Prince New Prime Minister. globalresearch.ca Boris Johnson succeeded Theresa May as new Tory prime minister — chosen by Britain\'s power elite, ordinary Brits having no say over their new leader. | UK democracy in action resembles America\'s — pure fantasy, not the real thing. | Johnson is …

Celisa Calacal, Acacia Handel, Molly Minta (2019-07-24). AOC Went Back to Where She Came From: Queens. thenation.com Celisa Calacal, Acacia Handel, Molly Minta AOC Went Back to Where She Came From: Queens.

teleSUR-EF (2019-07-24). Ghana: Wildcat Gold Miners Perish From Mercury Seeking Riches. telesurenglish.net Mercury is killing the wildcat miners in Ghana to feed the need in the UAE (United Arab Emirates). | RELATED: | Ghana: May Day Protesters Plead for Pension Reform | A Reuters special report finds that since 2003, the UAE has importing about US$10.6 billion worth of illicitly-mined Ghanaian gold, meaning it was excavated by wildcat miners who, as they go for gold (and a decent wage) they poison the environment and themselves. | Mercury takes over: | Miners inhale fumes from explosives use…

Staff (2019-07-24). Noam Chomsky: To Make the US a Democracy, the Constitution Itself Must Change. truthout.org | | Why do so many people in the U.S. today find Trump\'s racist rants and authoritarian mindset appealing? What are the political checks and balances — or lack thereof — that can ward off the impact of the Republican leadership\'s disastrous policies? Is a constitutional crisis on its way? And how do we face the consequences of an administration that is essentially competing for the title of most dangerous organization in human history? In this exclusive Truthout interview, Emeri…

Staff (2019-07-24). Democrats to Seek More Russia Probe Information. truthdig.com WASHINGTON — The Latest on former special counsel Robert Mueller\'s congressional testimony on the Russia probe (all times local): | 6: 35 p.m. | House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler says his panel will file lawsuits this week to obtain more information about special counsel Robert Mueller\'s report and to enforce a subpoena against former White House counsel Donald McGahn. | Democrats have been preparing the lawsuits for weeks and were waiting until after Mueller\'s testimony on Wednesday. They will seek to obtain secret grand jury…

teleSUR (2019-07-24). Suicide Attack in Somalia: Mayor Wounded, Officials killed. telesurenglish.net At least six people were killed and the mayor of Mogadish, Abdirahman Omar Osman, wounded Wednesday in a suicide bomb attack, during a meeting in the mayor\'s office, according to officials. | RELATED: | Ilhan Omar Was Right on \'Black Hawk Down\' Events in Somalia Despite Right-wing Media\'s Lies | \"The mayor was wounded in the b…

Helena Norberg-Hodge (2019-07-24). Local is Our Future. counterpunch.org For our species to have a future, it must be local. The good news is that the path to such a future is already being forged. Away from the screens of the mainstream media, the crude \'bigger is better\' narrative that has dominated economic thinking for centuries is being challenged by a much gentler, more More

Binoy Kampmark (2019-07-24). WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Decoding the National Security Commentariat. counterpunch.org The Fourth Estate, that historical unelected grouping of society\'s scrutineers, has become something of a rabble, and, as a confederacy of strewn dunces and the ongoing compromised, is ripe for analysis. An essential premise in the work of WikiLeaks was demonstrating, to a good, stone-throwing degree, how media figures and practitioners had been bought by More

Staff (2019-07-24). Headlines for July 24, 2019. democracynow.org Robert Mueller Testifies Before Congress, Trump Rails Against Squad, Mueller Report in Speech to Teenagers, Disgraced Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló Expected to Step Down, ORR Says Unaccompanied Migrant Children Could Be Detained for Years, Immigration Agents Detain Texas Teen for 3+ Weeks Despite Being a U.S. Citizen, Tennessee Community Blocks ICE from Taking Neighbor by Forming Human Chain, Trump Threatens Guatemala with Tariffs and Other Penalties After Failure of Immigration Deal, DOJ Pursues Antitrust Probe into Big Tech, Reports: FTC to Accuse Facebook of Misleading Consumers on Personal Data Use, F…

CFJPIME (2019-07-24). Canada Must Condemn Israeli Demolition of Palestinian Homes. globalresearch.ca Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is deeply concerned by Israel\'s demolition of Palestinian housing units in East Jerusalem. Yesterday, Israeli Occupation Forces entered the Palestinian East Jerusalem village of Sur Bahir in the middle of …

teleSUR (2019-07-24). Russia Advocates for Integral Peace in Yemen. telesurenglish.net Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said an integral peace agreement, with the mediation of the United Nations, was necessary in Yemen after meeting with a Yemeni delegation. | RELATED: | War in Yemen May Actually Come to an End: UN | The Foreign Ministry added in a statement that such a deal should include the Stockholm agreement reached in December 2018, stressing the need for a peaceful and political option. | He added that urgent measures should be implemented to address the humanitarian…

The Global Research Team (2019-07-24). Global Research: Information and Analysis for Societal Change. globalresearch.ca Global Research is a small team that believes in the power of information and analysis to bring about far-reaching societal change.With tensions mounting all over the world, we are more committed than ever to the struggle for Peace and the …

Staff (2019-07-24). Mueller: I Did Not Clear Trump of Obstruction of Justice. truthdig.com WASHINGTON — Robert Mueller on Wednesday bluntly dismissed President Donald Trump\'s claims of total exoneration in the federal probe of Russia\'s 2016 election interference. The former special counsel told Congress he explicitly did not clear the president of obstructing his investigation. | The televised Capitol Hill appearance, Mueller\'s first since wrapping his two-year Russia probe last spring, unfolded at a moment of deep divisions in the country, with many Americans hardened in their opinions about the success of Donald…

Vijay Prashad (2019-07-24). The U.S.-Iran standoff can only end when the U.S. accepts Iran\'s right to have a nuclear energy program. mronline.org The U.S. objection to Iran is not based on international law, but merely based on its political objectives. This is clearly illustrated by open U.S. support for nuclear energy and nuclear weapon development in India; and nuclear weapon stockpiling in Israel, which the U.S. has always fully backed. | Source

Staff (2019-07-24). Climate Change Is Impacting Every Aspect of Modern Life, But the Press Fails to \"Connect the Dots\" democracynow.org July is slated to become the hottest month in recorded history, as extreme weather fueled by global warming wreaks havoc across the globe, from extreme heat waves in Europe and the U.S. to deadly monsoon flooding in South Asia. Severe rains have killed at least 660 people across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan in a monsoon that is expected to continue throughout the week. A record heat wave is hitting Europe for the second time this summer, with Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam all at risk of hitting all-time high temperatures, and Spain facing the threat of severe fires. We speak with climate scientist Michae…

Nozomi Hayase (2019-07-24). In Crisis of Democracy, We Must All Become Julian Assange. counterpunch.org The US government\'s indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange marked the worst attack on press freedom in modern history. Assange has been charged with 18 counts, including 17 violations of the Espionage Act. James Goodale, former general counsel of The New York Times, who urged the paper to publish the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon More

Marc Levy (2019-07-24). A Discomforting Letter From a Comfortable Town. counterpunch.org Once, on a good day in a bad war, as we lay in wait, four young men, unsuspecting of what lay ahead, walked into the perfect ambush, and we took no casualties. After we scavenged the bodies for souvenirs, silently, we marched away. An hour later, a colonel had eight gallons of ice cream flown out to us by chopper, and like children, we sheltered beneath the jungle canopy and devoured the rare treat, knowing the enemy could not harm us. More

Lawrence Davidson (2019-07-24). Democratic Party Dilemmas. counterpunch.org The rise to power of Donald Trump destroyed the traditional Republican Party. Most of the moderate conservatives fled into the ranks of the independents and were replaced by a radical right amalgamation of racists, misogynists, conspiracy theorists, assorted \"tea party\" types and warmongers. In the background also exists support from religious fundamentalists yearning for Armageddon. More

Marjorie Cohn (2019-07-24). Trump Will Soon Obliterate the Right to Asylum. truthdig.com This piece first appeared on Truthout. | Since his inauguration, Donald Trump has effectuated 600 unilateral changes in immigration policy, more than any president in recent memory. | Pursuant to its \" zero tolerance policy,\" the administration arrested undocumented immigrants who cross…

teleSUR-EF-mrs (2019-07-24). Ghana: Wildcat Gold Miners Perish From Mercury Seeking Riches. telesurenglish.net Mercury is killing the wildcat miners in Ghana to feed the need in the UAE (United Arab Emirates.) | RELATED: | Ghana: May Day Protesters Plead for Pension Reform | A Reuters special report finds that since 2003, the UAE has importing about US$10.6 billion worth of illicitly-mined Ghanaian gold, meaning it was excavated by wildcat miners who, as they go for gold (and a decent wage) they poison the environment and themselves. | Mercury takes over: | Miners inhale fumes from explosives use…

Barrett Brown (2019-07-24). This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets — or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications. counterpunch.org It is my cheerful duty to announce the acquisition of around 85 gigabytes of leaked emails, phone calls, faxes, and other documents originating from the London-based tax shelter firm Formations House, best known to the public for the assortment of often colorful scandals involving such figures as former Ukranian president Viktor Yanukovych, and best known to the global kleptocracy as a cheap and discreet option by which to avoid taxes or steal them altogether. These materials, which cover fifteen years from the company\'s founding in 2001, were recently obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets, the transparency o…

Robert Fisk (2019-07-24). It\'s Trump Who Needs to be Deterred From War Not Iran. counterpunch.org It\'s about time we wised up to what is going on in this utterly farcical \"crisis\" in the Gulf, this charade of lies and pomposity which Trump and his doggies in London are presenting to us. An American president who is a racist, misogynist, dishonest and psychologically disturbed man — assisted by two vicious More

Stephen F. Cohen (2019-07-24). Peace in Ukraine? thenation.com Peace in Ukraine?

Staff (2019-07-24). Eventually, We Will All Be Climate Refugees. truthout.org | | While I was in Iraq reporting on the occupation from 2003 to 2013, the man who was my primary interpreter was named Harb. Harb\'s son miraculously managed to escape war-torn Baghdad and move to the U.S. with his wife and children. Both doctors, the courageous couple has managed to create a safe home and life for themselves and their children, along with Harb\'s wife. (Harb is now deceased.) They live in Tampa, Florida. | My head swims while pondering the multilayered irony of Harb and his family. They all had to flee Bag…

Ryan Grim (2019-07-24). Joe Biden\'s New Foreign Policy Adviser Supported Iraq War and Dubbed Edward Snowden a \"Traitor\" theintercept.com Nicholas Burns worked under presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush before leaving public service and becoming a lobbyist.

Pepe Escobar (2019-07-24). Trump\'s Demented Foreign Policy: How to Kill Ten Million Afghans and Not Win… globalresearch.ca \"We\'re like policemen. We\'re not fighting a war. If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan and win it, I could win that war in a week. But I don\'t want to kill 10 million people. Afghanistan could be …

Jake Johnson (2019-07-24). Trump Says He Could Kill 10 Million People, Wipe Afghanistan Off Face of the Earth. theantimedia.com \"I have plans on Afghanistan that, if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the Earth.\"

teleSUR (2019-07-24). 14th Latin American Film Festival Starts in Sao Paulo. telesurenglish.net The 14th Latin American Film Festival of Sao Paulo, one of the largest exhibitions of the region\'s film industry, kicked off Wednesday and for seven days, until July 31, will exhibit a record of 148 films from 17 countries. | RELATED: | Brazilian Film Wins Prestigious Award at Cannes, \'Sends a Message of Hope\' | \"This is another important showcase for national cinema, the festival promotes cultural exchange between Brazil and neighboring countries, highlighting the bes…

teleSUR (2019-07-24). Insects Replace Pesticides in Spain\'s \'Sea of Plastic\'. telesurenglish.net \"They work for me night and day,\" smiles Antonio Zamora, standing in his greenhouse. His minuscule employees are bugs that feed on the parasites threatening his peppers. | RELATED: | Brazil Increased Harmful Pesticides Since Bolsonaro Took Power | Zamora, like most of his colleagues, no longer sprays his crops with pesticides, instead hanging small bags of mites on the plants, leaving them to attack parasites while sparing his produce. | He owns two hectares in the so-called \"

teleSUR (2019-07-24). Maduro Declares Army Drills to Defend Venezuelan Sovereignty. telesurenglish.net To mark the birthday of Simon Bolivar, President Nicolas Maduro announced the start of new military exercises so as to strengthen the country\'s efforts to defend their sovereignty, amid increasing U.S. aggression. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces New Incursion by US Aircraft | \"I give the order for the start of the Simon Bolivar Liberation Campaign Military Exercises 2019, operations for the defense of our seas, our rivers, our airspace and the entire territory of the Bolivarian Republic of…

Glen Black (2019-07-24). The Arctic has been burning for nearly two months and, yes, it\'s because of climate breakdown. thecanary.co The Arctic is on fire. Forests and peatland are burning across Siberia, Greenland and Alaska. And the cause of these \"unprecedented\" events is clear. | Years of carbon within months: | The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said wildfires began at the start of June. And b…

teleSUR (2019-07-24). Mueller Hearing: Trump Would be Indicted if He Weren\'t President. telesurenglish.net Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller Wednesday told a U.S. congressional hearing he had not exonerated President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice and indicated he would have sought his indictment were it not for a Justice Department policy against bringing charges against a sitting president. | RELATED: | Chomsky: Fixation on Russia May Have Handed Trump a 2020 Win | Democratic Representative Ted Lieu asked Mueller if the reason he did not bring a criminal indictment agains…

Staff (2019-07-24). WATCH: Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller Testifies on Capitol Hill. truthout.org | | Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is testifying on Capitol Hill today for the first time about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections.

Brian Cloughley (2019-07-24). The US-NATO Military Alliance Continues Confrontation Along Russia\'s Borders. globalresearch.ca The Pentagon and its sub-office in Brussels, HQ NATO, in its new billion dollar building, are intent on maintaining military pressure around the globe. The US itself is much more widely spread, having bases tentacled from continent to continent, with …

Bryant Brown (2019-07-24). Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning. globalresearch.ca At a time when Russiaphobia is increasing in the United States, the thought that the US could be losing the arms race is far from what most Americans believe. Their dramatic game day fly pasts, hand over the heart anthems …

Michael Doliner (2019-07-24). Russiagate: the Cherry on Top. counterpunch.org How about Russiagate, dude? It doesn\'t get much better than that. The whole thing is a carpet of smoke under which to kick the contents of the purloined DNC e-mails. If just one so-called MSM journalist took a gander at those digital pearls he might have twigged that the DNC took a dump on its More

Staff (2019-07-24). Rep. Lieu\'s Recap During Mueller Testimony Makes Obstruction Case Against Trump. truthout.org | | Amid congressional testimony on Wednesday in which former special counsel Robert Mueller reiterated publicly that President Donald Trump \"was not exculpated\" of wrongdoing in his report, Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu of California also provided a succinct recap of why the only reason Mueller did not recommend charges against the president was because of an exis…

Barrett Brown (2019-07-24). This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets — or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications. counterpunch.org It is my cheerful duty to announce the acquisition of around 85 gigabytes of leaked emails, phone calls, faxes, and other documents originating from the London-based tax shelter firm Formations House, best known to the public for the assortment of often colorful scandals involving such figures as former Ukranian president Viktor Yanukovych, and best known to the global kleptocracy as a cheap and discreet option by which to avoid taxes or steal them altogether. These materials, which cover fifteen years from the company\'s founding in 2001, were recently obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets, the transparency o…

Elliot Sperber (2019-07-24). The Parable of the Flax Seed. counterpunch.org The Parable of the Flax Seed Slick, black flax seed In your teeth — get your toothpick pick it free And stick it in a small, wet hole — In deep black loam to bloom and grow In purple flowered fields of flax And strip and weave these into slacks — For linen\'s coolest these More

J.P. Linstroth (2019-07-24). Why Indigenous Lives Should Matter. counterpunch.org In the United States, we live in a \"post-genocide\" society, whether or not we are cognizant of this fact or not. What do I mean by that? In order for the United States to have fulfilled its so-called \"Manifest Destiny\"—the divine right to conquer the lands west of the Mississippi River—we needed to wipe out More

Philip A Farruggio (2019-07-24). The Cleaning Lady. globalresearch.ca She works hard for her money, as the song relates. She\'s the cleaning lady, the one who gets on her knees and scrubs your toilet of all the things that none of us would ever wish to look at, let …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-07-24). Boris Johnson Becomes British PM: Will he Restrain Himself, or be Unduly Foolish on the World Stage? globalresearch.ca The BBC World Service took its listeners to the English cathedral town of Ely, set in picturesque Cambridgeshire, during the course of a hot July 23 in an effort to take the pulse of the country. Well, at least that …

Andrew Korybko (2019-07-24). Resignation of Kosovo\'s Prime Minister Might Give Fresh Impetus To \"New Balkans\" Plan. globalresearch.ca The resignation of the NATO-occupied Serbian Autonomous Province of Kosovo & Metohija\'s so-called \"Prime Minister\" in reaction to his unexpected summoning by an international court as a suspect in an ongoing war crimes investigation opens up the possibility of infusing …

John W. Whitehead (2019-07-24). Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order. globalresearch.ca \"But these weren\'t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don\'t …

Andrew Korybko (2019-07-24). US-Pakistan Relations: The Top Six Takeaways From The Trump-Khan Summit. globalresearch.ca The press conference that was held before the summit of the Pakistani and American leaders covered a lot of ground and lasted quite a while, but here are the most important takeaways for those who didn\'t have time to watch …