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

Trump's Tantrum Against TikTok Is No Laughing Matter
Ari Paul | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
Trump lashing out at some youngsters making music videos is indeed the kind of absurdity his administration has employed that makes satire almost impossible, but the free speech and anti-Asian repercussions of this move are real and dangerous…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-tantrum-against-tiktok-is-no-laughing-matter/

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

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

At a time of a global crises, the United States is weaponizing its humanitarian aid
Houssem Chammam | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
These policies condemn many of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people to a bleak and violent future; the type of mistakes that often find their way back to the United States…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/at-a-time-of-a-global-crises-the-united-states-is-weaponizing-its-humanitarian-aid/

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

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

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

Tribute to the outstanding communist Ka Fidel V. Agcaoili
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-08
On what would have been the 76th birthday of Ka Fidel V. Agcaoili, Freedom Road Socialist Organization joins in paying tribute to this great revolutionary and fighter for the liberation of the Philippines. Every communist can learn from his example and from his many contributions to the international communist movement. His passing is a cause for sadness among all of us who are working to end exploitation and oppression. | Ka Fidel was a revolutionary who devoted the whole of his life to the struggle for national liberation and socialism. He came from a privileged background, took up the science of Marxism, and i…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/8/tribute-outstanding-communist-ka-fidel-v-agcaoili-0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Friday Night Massacre' at US Postal Service as Postmaster General—a Major Trump Donor—Ousts Top Officials
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
"America is in a dead sprint to authoritarianism. The man is pulling out all the stops to prevent the citizens of this country from holding a legitimate election in which he might face removal from office." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/friday_night_massacre_postal_service.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/07/friday-night-massacre-us-postal-service-postmaster-general-major-trump-donor-ousts?cd-origin=rss

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

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

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

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

Trump Scuttles Economic Stimulus Negotiations What Next?
Jack Rasmus | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
The McConnell-Trump strategy is not to bail out state and local governments. It's about making the high urban population centers–located largely in 'blue' states–to bear the brunt of the continuing economic crisis…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-scuttles-economic-stimulus-negotiations-what-next/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Five graphic novels and cartoons to politicise and criticise
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-08
Comics, graphic novels, narrative drawing, illustrated fiction–call it what you like–is a growing arena for serious social and political commentary.
mronline.org/2020/08/08/five-graphic-novels-and-cartoons-to-politicise-and-criticise/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-graphic-novels-and-cartoons-to-politicise-and-criticise

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

NYC educators fight life-threatening reopening plan
Aya Salem | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-08
"We will not die so the economy can get back to work"
liberationnews.org/nyc-educators-fight-life-threatening-reopening-plan/

Señalan falta de disposición para evitar explosiones en El Líbano
Prensa Latina | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-08
BEIRUT–Las autoridades de El Líbano carecieron de disposición para prevenir las explosiones del puerto de Beirut, al desoír al menos 10 alertas sobre el almacenaje sin seguridad de material explosivo, resaltan hoy medios informativos locales. En los últimos seis años se dieron varias veces alarmas sobre las dos mil 750 toneladas de nitrato de amonio …
peoplesworld.org/article/senalan-falta-de-disposicion-para-evitar-explosiones-en-el-libano/

Alba TV's new model for communication: A conversation with Pablo Kunich
Cira Pascual Marquina | mronline.org | 2020-08-08
The coordinator of a media platform that works with social movements talks to VA about the history and challenges of popular communication.
mronline.org/2020/08/08/alba-tvs-new-model-for-communication-a-conversation-with-pablo-kunich/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alba-tvs-new-model-for-communication-a-conversation-with-pablo-kunich

Beirut blasts intensify economic and political crisis in Lebanon
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-08
Decades of neoliberal policies have made Lebanon among the most unequal societies in the world, and social and economic discontent is expected to grow following the blasts…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/08/beirut-blasts-intensify-economic-and-political-crisis-in-lebanon/

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

Georgia highschoolers use social media to expose disastrous conditions as schools reopen
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
Two students from Georgia's North Paulding High School were suspended after photos of hallways packed with crowds of unmasked students went viral on social media.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/geor-a08.html

Autoworkers denounce bipartisan drive to reopen schools
wsws.org | 2020-08-08
Opposition is growing among autoworkers and other workers to the back-to-school campaign, which is threatening the health of teachers, students and their families.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/08/auto-a08.html

Concessions Are Back. So Are the Flashbacks
Chris Townsend | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
It is a flashback that the only way to oppose concessions is to oppose concessions–and all who embrace them, push them, or surrender to them…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/concessions-are-back-so-are-the-flashbacks/

Building a green economy, brick by brick
news.un.org | 2020-08-08
In Uruguay, thousands of families earn a precarious livelihood making bricks, using traditional methods that are often inefficient and harmful to the environment. A UN project, in collaboration with the Uruguayan government, aims to make the industry less polluting, whilst preserving jobs for the many artisans who depend on it.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069772

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday 8/28: A Bay Area Free of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure: Virtual Summit
Janet S Johnson | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
Zoom event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835727.php

Thursday 8/27: America's First Suffrage March and the San Francisco Women Who Led It
San Francisco Public Library | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
Online webinar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835726.php

Wednesday 8/26: Bridging the Divide: A Reflection on Race and Equity
San Jose Spotlight | indybay.org | 2020-08-08
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835724.php

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

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

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

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

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

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

General Strike: The Eviction Crisis Escalates
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
With an estimated 17 to 40 million people at risk of losing their homes by the end of September, and with the failure of the federal government to pass an eviction moratorium or an unemployment benefits extension, the greatest eviction and foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression is now upon us. In some states in the Southeast, as many as 60% of renters are at risk of being evicted, and people of color are likely to be hit disproportionately hard. The Census Bureau's Household Pulse survey in July, for example, highlighted that 42% of Black renters felt little to no confidence in their ability to pay rent th…
popularresistance.org/general-strike-the-eviction-crisis-escalates/

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

Beirut: Explosion Was 'An Accident Caused By Negligent Governments'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-08
After the first news and the stupor generated by the violent explosions in the port of Lebanon, all kinds of rumors and false news began to circulate, trying to further poison the atmosphere of pain in which had fallen on the people of that country. In addition to the very high number of deaths (around 100) and thousands of injured, a strategic port of the Lebanese nation was destroyed. To be able to monitor the situation and the consequences of what happened, we spoke with Wafica Ibrahim, a journalist for Al Mayadeen TV and correspondent for Resumen Latinoamericano, in the Middle East…
popularresistance.org/beirut-explosion-was-an-accident-caused-by-negligent-governments/

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

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

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

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

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

'Too much pot brownie': Clinton slams NYT's Maureen Dowd over claim it's been 36 YEARS since a man & woman ran on Dem ticket
rt.com | 2020-08-08
Hillary Clinton and thousands of others roasted a now-corrected story and tweet from the New York Times claiming the last time there was a mixed-gender presidential ticket for the Democratic Party was in the '80s. | "It's hard to fathom, but it has been 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket," the New York Times' Opinion Twitter account wrote, linking to an article by columnist Maureen Dowd, which included the same quote. | How does an error this significant get past an editor? pic.twitter.com/yiCKdXDXLY– Yashar Ali ü&…
rt.com/usa/497484-new-york-times-hillary-clinton-maureen-dowd/

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

MSNBC Dissident Proves the Mainstream Media Cannot Change
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-08
It is always exciting when some insider breaks away from an organization to spill all the dirty details of what is happening deep in its guts. Recently an MSNBC producer's life story "defected" over the border onto Fox News' territory to be used to tell the tales of hypocrisy and manipulation that are ever present at MSNBC. For some readers these revelations may seem shocking but they are a natural part of working in news media, that is very hard to change as the causes are inherent to the medium. Let's break down what producer Ariana…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/08/msnbc-dissident-proves-the-mainstream-media-cannot-change/

Pubs are 'perfect storm' for spreading coronavirus warning from academics
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
Pubs create the "perfect storm" for spreading coronavirus (Covid-19) and carry more risk than planes, according to academics. | Punters drinking together in an indoor pub are potentially subjecting themselves to a build-up of infected droplets caused by poor ventilation and people having continuous conversations, often speaking more loudly to be heard over the din of a noisy bar, the experts warn. | The comments come after households mixing in pubs and homes was blamed for a rise in Covid-19 cases in Preston, resulting in it being the latest area to have lockdown restrictions reimposed. | Aberdeen was also placed…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/08/pubs-are-perfect-storm-for-spreading-coronavirus-warning-from-academics/

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

Rapper Wretch 32 slams police for 'over-policing and under-protecting' Black communities
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-08
Rapper Wretch 32, whose father was Tasered by police officers, has said that Black people are "over-policed and under-protected".The musician was speaking as he stood next to his father Millard Scott, at a demonstration outside Tottenham Police Station, north London. The protest was held on the ninth anniversary of Mark Duggan's death. Duggan was fatally shot by police officers.Watched by uniformed officers, hundreds of people turned up in the scorching temperatures at the police station to suppo…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/08/rapper-wretch-32-slams-police-for-over-policing-and-under-protecting-black-communities/

[Comment] Optimal therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV
Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Christine Sekaggya-Wiltshire, Desta Kassa | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
The dual epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV have had a substantial toll on health outcomes, service delivery, and economies in many countries. Additionally, diagnosis of tuberculosis remains a challenge, especially with HIV infection, where the commonly used smears are of limited benefit; compounded by limitations of detecting drug-resistant tuberculosis.1…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31688-3/fulltext?rss=yes

Turkey ready to rebuild Port of Beirut: Turkish VP
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
Ankara is ready to send more medical assistance and food aid to help Lebanon during its time of need, Turkey's vice president said on Saturday.Fuat Oktay, who is visiting the Lebanese capital along with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, said all of Turkey's hospitals and air ambulances are at Lebanon's service, as the country deals with the devastating fallout of Tuesday's massive blast at the port of Beirut.He said Ankara has told Lebanon that it can use Turkey's Mersin port until the Beirut port is rebuilt."Turkey is ready to help rebuild the heavily damaged Beirut port and nearby buildings," the vice…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-ready-to-rebuild-port-of-beirut-turkish-vp-3536400

Italy approves new post pandemic aid package
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-08
The new stimulus measures are the third tranche of a government plan aimed at supporting Italy's fragile economy brought to its knees by the strict lockdown imposed nationwide to stem the spread of coronavirus.In total, the three emergency decrees approved by the Italian government since March released funding to the tune of ‚Ǩ100 billion. | "The new decree aims at supporting workers, businesses, and local institutions," Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said at a press conference on Friday evening, detailing the new measures.The package includes an 18-week extension of public funding for workers un…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italy-approves-new-post-pandemic-aid-package-3536406

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

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

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

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

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

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

Week in Review: 2nd to 8th August
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-08-08
Editor — Review of the Week The whole month of July saw the Boris Johnson government immersing itself in mismanagement and corruption of just about everything it put its hand to. It ended the month nicely with nominations to the House of Lords that was astonishingly shameless in its nepotism. It is, unfortunately, representative of …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/week-in-review-2nd-to-8th-august/

Will Climate Break Through in Big Media's Elections Coverage?
Mark Hertsgaard | commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
Young people and their allies across the world took part in the largest global climate protests in history on September 20, 2019, demanding globale leaders act immediately and urgently to stop the climate crisis. (Photo: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate_media_action.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/08/will-climate-break-through-big-medias-elections-coverage?cd-origin=rss

Trump Just Admitted on Live Television He Will 'Terminate' Social Security and Medicare If Reelected in November
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-08
One progressive critic called the president's promise "a full-on declaration of war against current and future Social Security beneficiaries." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_vows_to_cut_social_security_medicare.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/08/trump-just-admitted-live-television-he-will-terminate-social-security-and-medicare?cd-origin=rss

[Perspectives] Together in a time of physical distancing
Sandro Galea | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Could there be a stranger time for a book about social connections than during a period when we have seen the most dramatic global effort ever to keep people away from one another? In the first half of 2020, the world was in the grip of fear about the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries instituted some form of physical distancing for their whole populations to mitigate the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Emerging data from this period showed that reports of loneliness and attendant depression and anxiety increased compared with 2019.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31642-1/fulltext?rss=yes

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

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

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

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

[Correspondence] COVID-19–a very visible pandemic — Author's reply
Johan Giesecke | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Let me express thanks to the many colleagues who have provided valuable feedback. I will not address each of these responses individually, but give a collective answer.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31677-9/fulltext?rss=yes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Correspondence] Recurrence of breast cancer after anaesthesia
Masashi Ishikawa, Atsuhiro Sakamoto, Daqing Ma | thelancet.com | 2020-08-08
Daniel Sessler and colleagues1 compared regional (paravertebral blocks and propofol) with general (sevoflurane and opioid-based analgesia) anaesthesia on breast cancer recurrence in their randomised controlled trial. They concluded that regional anaesthesia did not reduce cancer recurrence after surgery for primary breast cancer compared with general anaesthesia.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30488-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Poor People's Campaign, Black civic groups condemn McConnell's obstructionism
Various Contributors | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
On the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival and Black civic organizations representing millions of people worldwide announced a covenant to resurrect the protections of the Voting Rights Act…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/poor-peoples-campaign-black-civic-groups-condemn-mcconnells-obstructionism/

Progressive Prosecutor Movement Makes Major Gains in Democratic Primaries
Ryan Grim | zcomm.org | 2020-08-08
Reformers in Arizona, Michigan, Missouri, and New Mexico won their primaries for district attorney on Tuesday night…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/progressive-prosecutor-movement-makes-major-gains-in-democratic-primaries/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ranking the Infinite Greed, Power and Controls of Giant Corporations
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
This combination of file photos shows Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. (Photo: DSK/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ceos.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/07/ranking-infinite-greed-power-and-controls-giant-corporations?cd-origin=rss

Our Planet's Missed Opportunity to unite and fight Side by Side against the Pandemic
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-07
It is time to stop irresponsible finger-pointing. All over the world, as this essay is being written, well over 17 million COVID-19 cases have been reported, and 676,000 people died. And instead of concentrating on serious research, trying to save human lives and attempting to stop the global calamity, 'residents' of the White House are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/our-planets-missed-opportunity-to-unite-and-fight-side-by-side-against-the-pandemic/

Bolstering Case for Transformational Green Recovery, New Study Finds Lockdown Emissions Had 'Negligible' Effect on Climate Crisis
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
"We still need far more serious measures to make a difference—we need structural change." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/time-running-out.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/07/bolstering-case-transformational-green-recovery-new-study-finds-lockdown-emissions?cd-origin=rss

"Let's Make It Happen!" Declares Jayapal of Medicare for All After Single-Payer in Canada Lauded as Shield Against Pandemic
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
"It is worth fighting for a system that puts public health ahead of profits: Medicare for All," said a doctor touting Canadian system. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/make-this-happen.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/07/lets-make-it-happen-declares-jayapal-medicare-all-after-single-payer-canada-lauded?cd-origin=rss

Intimidation and Censorship Campaign against Online Independent Media
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
The heated debate within Western governments about the best way to fight what they regard as "propaganda" has recently taken a disturbing turn towards intimidation of the outlets accused of peddling such information products and even discussions about their possible …
globalresearch.ca/media-literacy-not-intimidation-censorship-best-way-fight-propaganda/5720487

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explosion à Beyrouth : Qui est responsable?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Beirut Explosion: Who is responsible?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Smartest Guy in His West Point Class
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-07
The imaginary inner world of a fool is a dangerous place, especially if he happens to be the Secretary of State of the United States of America. | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's July 23 speech on U.S. policy with China exposes the vast empty realm between his two ears. This man, who also served as a veteran congressman and ran the CIA for a year and a half reveals himself as so ignorant of diplomacy, history, competence and commonsense that in assessing his comments and their dire consequences it is difficult to know where to start. | First, Pompeo imagines that the United States, guided of course by him can "c…
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War and Pandemic Journalism: The Truth Can Disappear Fast
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-07
The polio epidemic in Cork supposedly ended abruptly in mid-September 1956 when the local press stopped reporting on it, but that was at least two weeks before many children like me caught it. In a similar fashion, right now, wars in the Middle East and north Africa like the ongoing disasters in Libya and Syria that once got significant coverage now barely get a mention much of the time.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/07/war-and-pandemic-journalism-the-truth-can-disappear-fast/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russia offers to supply Philippines with COVID-19 vaccine
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Russia is willing to supply a coronavirus vaccine to the Philippines, or team up with a local firm to mass produce it, its ambassador to Manila said on Friday, as infections in the Southeast Asian nation surge.Russia is expecting regulatory approval for its first potential COVID-19 vaccine this month, with doses to be administered to frontline health workers first.But the frenetic race globally to develop a COVID-19 vaccine is raising some concern that speed could compromise safety and that some countries could be putting national prestige before solid science."We are ready to supply vaccines to the Philippines,"
yenisafak.com/en/world/russia-offers-to-supply-philippines-with-covid-19-vaccine-3536359

Turkey's first martyred pilot: Cengiz Topel
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
The first martyr of the Turkish Air Force, Pilot Captain Cengiz Topel, was remembered on Friday, 56 years after his plane was shot down on Aug. 7, 1964, during a warning flight on Greek Cypriot soldiers opening fire on Turkish civilians on the island.Topel was among the Turkish civilians' first line of defense against the Greek Cypriot soldiers, amid attacks that would escalate over the coming decade until Turkey's peace intervention against a Greek Cypriot coup attempting to topple the internationally recognized government of the Republic of Cyprus.Topel's legacy lives on both in Turkey and the Turkish Republic…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-first-martyred-pilot-cengiz-topel-3536375

WHO appeals for $15 million aid for Lebanon after Beirut blast
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
The blast, which killed more than 150 and injured more than 5,000, also destroyed 17 containers holding WHO medical supplies including personal protective equipment, the agency's regional office for the Middle East said in a statement late on Thursday.Five hospitals in the area affected by Tuesday's blast are either not functioning or partially functioning, and early reports indicate that many health centres and primary care facilities are also damaged or out of action, it said.Up to 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes and need food or shelter, which "also risks accelerating the spread of COVID-19…
yenisafak.com/en/news/who-appeals-for-15-million-aid-for-lebanon-after-beirut-blast-3536360

Another PKK terrorist surrenders to Turkish forces
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
One more PKK terrorist surrendered to security forces in southeastern Turkey, the National Defense Ministry said on Friday. | The PKK terrorist fleeing from the shelter areas in northern Iraq surrendered to the border post in the Cizre district of Sirnak province, the ministry said on Twitter. | "While the operations of the Turkish Armed Forces against the PKK terrorist group continue without slowing down, escapes from the organization continue," the statement added. | On Monday, the Turkish Interior Ministry announced that a total of 123 terrorists have turned themselves in to Turkish security forces in 2020.
yenisafak.com/en/news/another-pkk-terrorist-surrenders-to-turkish-forces-3536350

Top Pakistan diplomat speaks with Lebanese counterpart
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
According to a statement by Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, Shah Mehmood Qureshi expressed grief over the loss of many lives, injuries and extensive material damaged.On Tuesday, a fire at a warehouse at the Port of Beirut led to a huge blast leaving 154 dead and around 5,000 injuries and causing massive material damage in several neighborhoods of the capital."At this difficult time, Pakistan stood in strong support and solidarity with the brotherly Lebanese people," Qureshi told Charbel Wehbe.Qureshi also informed his counterpart that Islamabad has sent 8 tons of relief assistance consisting of medical and food supp…
yenisafak.com/en/news/top-pakistan-diplomat-speaks-with-lebanese-counterpart-3536378

'Fluctuations in macroeconomic indicators don't reflect Turkey's reality'
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Fluctuations in macroeconomic indicators do not reflect the reality of the Turkish economy, the country's industry and technology minister said on Friday.Turkey's economy is on the path of production, employment, and innovation, Mustafa Varank wrote on Twitter."We will take Turkey to the levels it deserves with steps to boost the investment appetite for development," he said.His remarks came after the Turkish lira lost ground to other currencies.Late Thursday, the dollar/lira exchange rate hit an all-time high of over 7.30.After the Central Bank took steps Friday to tighten liquidity conditions, the exchange rate…
yenisafak.com/en/news/fluctuations-in-macroeconomic-indicators-dont-reflect-turkeys-reality-3536372

Turkey rushes to help Lebanon amid deadly explosion
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Turkey got mobilized both with state-run aid organizations and charity foundations to heal the wounds of the Lebanese capital Beirut, which was rocked with a catastrophic explosion on Tuesday.A massive blast took place in a warehouse containing explosives at the Port of Beirut, causing widespread damage in several surrounding suburbs of the capital, leaving at least 154 people dead and injured thousands.Following the incident, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call extended his condolences to his counterpart Michel Aoun and the Lebanese people, noting that Turkey stands by Lebanon and is ready to provide…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-rushes-to-help-lebanon-amid-deadly-explosion-3536377

Turkey seizes 28,000 packets of smuggled cigarettes
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Turkish security forces on Friday seized more than 28,000 packets of smuggled cigarettes hidden in two trucks in the country's southeast, according to security sources.Provincial gendarmerie forces stopped the trucks in the Ceylanpinar district of Sanliurfa province as part of anti-smuggling efforts, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.They searched the trucks and found 28,040 packets of contraband cigarettes.Police arrested two suspects, who were later remanded in custody by a court.* Writing by Gozde Bayar…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-seizes-28000-packets-of-smuggled-cigarettes-3536353

Mosques in Germany receive threat letters
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
At least two mosques in the central German state of Hesse received threat letters this week, local Muslim community representatives said on Friday. | Suspected neo-Nazis sent threat letters to mosques in the small town of Fuerth and the nearby district Wahlen, Salih Ozkan, a representative of the Turkish-Muslim umbrella group DITIB, told local media. | He said the letters contained threats of violence against Muslims, and were signed by a group calling itself "NSE 2020". | He called on the police to carry out a serious investigation and provide greater protection for the mosques. | It was not immediately clear wh…
yenisafak.com/en/world/mosques-in-germany-receive-threat-letters-3536376

Beirut port blast: Death toll rises to 154, nearly 5,000 wounded
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
The death toll from Tuesday's huge blast in Lebanon rose to 154, the country's health minister confirmed on Friday.Hamad Hasan told the state-run National News Agency that around 5,000 people were injured in the blast at the Port of Beirut, with 20% of them in need of medical treatment in hospitals.He also said that 120 of injured are currently in critical condition and many others require delicate surgeries.A fire at a warehouse at the Port of Beirut led to a huge blast on Tuesday causing massive material damage in several neighborhoods of the capital.The Lebanese government announced the formation of an investi…
yenisafak.com/en/news/beirut-port-blast-death-toll-rises-to-154-nearly-5000-wounded-3536356

Dangerous conditions in Melbourne quarantine hotels helped cause Australia's COVID-19 resurgence
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
Victoria's state Labor Party government presided over the hiring of poorly-paid security guards with no infection control training.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/quar-a07.html

Revisiting the Idea of Pigou Wealth Tax in the Time of Covid-19
Kavaljit Singh | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), a British economist, is well known for his contributions to welfare economics. One of the most prolific writers of his time, Pigou wrote over a dozen books and more than 100 articles and pamphlets dealing with both theoretical and practical aspects of welfare economics. His writings cover a wide range of…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/revisiting-the-idea-of-pigou-wealth-tax-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

As Biden Mulls VP Pick, Pundits Vie for Most Substance-Free Forecast
Julie Hollar | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on stage during the Democratic presidential debate at Texas Southern University's Health and PE Center on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/warren_harris.jpg …
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Billionaires Should Pay for Needed Health Protections
commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/08/07/billionaires-should-pay-needed-health-protections?cd-origin=rss

How COVID-19 Is Normalizing an eLearning-Industrial-Complex in US Higher Education
Nafisa Tanjeem, Michael J. Illuzzi | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
"One of the increasingly popular survival mechanisms for struggling universities is to succumb to the eLearning market," write Tanjeem and Illuzzi. (Photo: iStock/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/elearning_industrial_complex.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/07/how-covid-19-normalizing-elearning-industrial-complex-us-higher-education?cd-origin=rss

Analysis Shows Rapid and Reckless Reopenings Not Only Bad for Public Health—But the Economy Too
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
"There is no way around it: getting the economy back on track means controlling the pandemic." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/essential.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/07/analysis-shows-rapid-and-reckless-reopenings-not-only-bad-public-health-economy-too?cd-origin=rss

Remind Me, What Was the Civil War About, Anyway?
Mike Lofgren | commondreams.org | 2020-08-07
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) enters a Senators Only elevator before attending the Weekly Senate Policy Luncheon on June 25, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tom Brenner/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/cotton-fascist-oped.jpg …
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THE LAST BIG GULP — Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School Of Medicine
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/the-last-big-gulp-jello-biafra-and-the-guantanamo-school-of-medicine/

Selected Articles: 75 Years after the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. The Danger of Nuclear War
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
If you look to Global Research as a resource for information and understanding, to stay current on world events, or to experience honesty and transparency in your news coverage, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. Your …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-75-years-after-atomic-bombing-hiroshima-danger-nuclear-war/5720441

The NCAA Finally Faces a Reckoning
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2020-08-07
The NCAA Finally Faces a Reckoning…
thenation.com/article/society/ncaa-strike-covid/

Portraits of a Pandemic
Steve Brodner | thenation.com | 2020-08-07
Portraits of a Pandemic…
thenation.com/article/society/portraits-pandemic-steve-brodner/

CLDC Fighting Corporate-Fueled Legal Persecution Of Human Rights Lawyer
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
For several years now, human rights attorney Steven Donziger has been in the fight of his life and career after Chevron vowed to destroy him for winning a $9.5 billion judgment for indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon that had been poisoned by the company's oil drilling. From buying off judges and experts in Ecuador to filing trumped up racketeering charges in the U.S. and getting the inappropriately sympathetic federal judge Kaplan to demand that Mr. Donziger turn over his laptop, cell phone, and attorney-client communications with his extremely vulnerable indigenous clients, Chevron will stop at noth…
popularresistance.org/cldc-fighting-corporate-fueled-legal-persecution-of-human-rights-lawyer/

Covid Aid, Relief and Economic Security. The CARES Act: Is the Money is Going the More Prosperous Neighbourhoods?
Bart Naylor | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Ann Garrison spoke to Bart Naylor, financial policy advocate with Public Citizen, about the stimulus bill passed on March 25th and the one now pending. | *** | Ann Garrison: Most of us have heard that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, …
globalresearch.ca/we-need-national-industrial-commission-permanent-one/5720368

No Extradition: New Documentary On Julian Assange
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
On the eve of the premiere of his documentary about the founder of WikiLeaks, British-Chilean filmmaker Pablo Navarrete said Thursday in London: "I want people to have an idea of the injustice being done to Julian Assange." | RELATED: | Assange Suffers Political Persecution, Lawyer Garzon Says | The filmmaker and journalist followed John Shipton, Assange's father, over several months as he campaigned to prevent his son from being extradited to the United States (U.S.) and secure his…
telesurenglish.net/news/No-Extradition-New-Documentary-On-Julian-Assange-20200806-0024.html

Why the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ben Becker | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-06
The following article first appeared in the August 2005 issue of Socialism and Liberation magazine . The 75th anniversaries of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Japan are Aug. 6 and 9 of this year. August 6 and 9 of this year mark the 60th anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
liberationnews.org/u-s-dropped-nuclear-bombs-hiroshima-nagasaki/

Document exposes new U.S. plot to overthrow Nicaragua's elected socialist gov't
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
A disturbing new document outlines plans for a U.S. regime-change scheme against Nicaragua's elected leftist government, overseen by USAID, to bring about a "market economy" and a purge of Sandinistas.
mronline.org/2020/08/06/document-exposes-new-u-s-plot-to-overthrow-nicaraguas-elected-socialist-govt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=document-exposes-new-u-s-plot-to-overthrow-nicaraguas-elected-socialist-govt

Hiroshima: A "Military Base" according to President Harry Truman
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
"The World will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.."(President Harry S. Truman in a radio speech to the Nation, August 9, 1945).
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-a-military-base-according-to-president-harry-truman-2/5602782

Revealed: How U.S. Gov't & Hollywood Secretly Worked Together to Justify Atomic Bombings of Japan
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-06
On the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, when the United States became the only country ever to use nuclear weapons in warfare, we look at how the U.S. government sought to manipulate the narrative about what it had done — especially by controlling how it was portrayed by Hollywood. Journalist Greg Mitchell's new book, "The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood — and America — Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," documents how the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki triggered a race between Hollywood movie studios to tell a sanitized version of the story in a major motion picture.
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/6/greg_mitchell_atomic_bomb_hollywood

"The Beginning of Our End": On 75th Anniversary, Hiroshima Survivor Warns Against Nuclear Weapons
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-06
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. "The shaking was so huge," she recalls. "I remember the sensation, the color and the smell like yesterday." Tamura Snider describes her harrowing journey through a shattered city, suffering radiation sickness following the attack, and her message to President Trump.
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/6/hideko_tamura_snider_hiroshima_75th_anniversary

Israel strikes 'underground terror infrastructure' in Gaza in retaliation for 'explosive balloons' (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-06
The Israel Defense Forces have announced they had targeted multiple "underground terror infrastructure" installations in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for several "explosive balloons" launched into Israel earlier in the day. | "Terrorists in Gaza launched explosive balloons into Israel throughout the day. In response, our aircraft just struck Hamas underground terror infrastructure in Gaza," the IDF tweeted following Thursday's strikes, adding that it wouldn't allow the group to "terrorize Israeli civilians." | Video of the IDF strike on Hamas' position in response to launching incendiary/IED balloons from
rt.com/news/497311-israel-gaza-hamas-strikes/

The ACLU Has Never Done a Damn Thing for Me
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
It's actually worse than that in terms of the ACLU. When I was a school counselor in a public high school, the ACLU screwed me royally, even though I had helped them with the case of a student. A federal district court found for the student in a freedom of speech case, and I was a…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-aclu-has-never-done-a-damn-thing-for-me/

'Sea-Watch 4' to Resume Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Sea Watch charities will resume humanitarian rescue operations in the central Mediterranean using their new ship, the Sea-Watch 4. | RELATED: | Italy: Salvini Will Go to Trial for Blocking the Open Arms Ship | This German-flagged vessel, which is a former oceanographic research vessel, is on Spanish territory preparing to sail from the Burriana Port on August 15. | It will leave for the coasts near Libya, an African country where the civil…
telesurenglish.net/news/Sea-Watch-4-to-Resume-Rescue-Operations-in-the-Mediterranean-20200806-0010.html

Rouhani voices Iran's readiness for helping Lebanese people
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held a phone talks with the Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday, voicing Iran's readiness for any humanitarian cooperation and assistance with Lebanon.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161969/Rouhani-voices-Iran-s-readiness-for-helping-Lebanese-people

Document Exposes US Plot To Overthrow Nicaragua's Elected Government
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
A newly released document exposes a US government operation to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government in Nicaragua. | The plot is administered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a regime-change vehicle that uses the pretense of "humanitarian aid" to advance Washington's aggressive foreign-policy interests. | The document (PDF) details the creation of a new "task order" called Responsive Assistance in Nicaragua (RAIN) and its plan for "Nicaragua's transition to democracy"…
popularresistance.org/document-exposes-us-plot-to-overthrow-nicaraguas-elected-governmentt/

Document Exposes US Plot To Overthrow Nicaragua's Elected Governmentt
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
A newly released document exposes a US government operation to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government in Nicaragua. | The plot is administered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a regime-change vehicle that uses the pretense of "humanitarian aid" to advance Washington's aggressive foreign-policy interests. | The document (PDF) details the creation of a new "task order" called Responsive Assistance in Nicaragua (RAIN) and its plan for "Nicaragua's transition to democracy"…
popularresistance.org/document-exposes-us-plot-to-overthrow-nicaraguas-elected-governmentt/

Iran sends aid to Lebanon over explosion at Beirut port
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
The devastating tragedy in Beirut on Tuesday has drawn tremendous outpouring of shock and grief around the world with many countries, including Iran, coming forward with offers of help.Iran, one of Lebanon's key allies in the region, dispatched the second shipment of humanitarian aid to Beirut on Thursday, following the first shipment late on Wednesday.The consignment of humanitarian aid includes mainly food and medical supplies, said Mohammad Baqer Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS).Iran has also set up a field hospital in Beirut and sent a 37-member medical team comprising gen…
yenisafak.com/en/news/iran-sends-aid-to-lebanon-over-explosion-at-beirut-port-3536252

Coalition to March on the DNC responds to Biden's decision to stay home
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-06
Milwaukee, WI – While Joe Biden shelters himself from COVID-19 and the movement for Black lives in Milwaukee, the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be in the streets. Regardless of whether Biden comes to Milwaukee or not, the Democrats will hear from the people on the front lines fighting police crimes, especially the families who have lost loved ones to killer cops. | "Our main goal as a group is to defeat Donald Trump. He is the key figure in promoting racist killings of Black, Latino and indigenous people, whether by vigilantes or the police," said Ryan Hamann, one of the co-…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/coalition-march-dnc-responds-biden-s-decision-stay-home

Coalition to March on the DNC responds to Biden's decision to stay home
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-06
Milwaukee, WI – While Joe Biden shelters himself from COVID-19 and the movement for Black lives in Milwaukee, the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be in the streets. Regardless of whether Biden comes to Milwaukee or not, the Democrats will hear from the people on the front lines fighting police crimes, especially the families who have lost loved ones to killer cops. | "Our main goal as a group is to defeat Donald Trump. He is the key figure in promoting racist killings of Black, Latino and indigenous people, whether by vigilantes or the police," said Ryan Hamann, one of the co-…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/coalition-march-dnc-responds-biden-s-decision-stay-home

Native Americans Win Historic Victories in U.S. High Court Rulings
Talli Nauman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Heat on the U.S. Presidential election campaign thermometer reached new highs during the dog days of summer 2020, with the final rulings of the Supreme Court calendar year favoring indigenous causes diametrically opposed to those of incumbent candidate Donald Trump. The highest court in the land ruled in favor of the exercise of Native American…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/native-americans-win-historic-victories-in-u-s-high-court-rulings/

Right-wing violence against Mapuche people in Chile widely condemned
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
Social movements are demanding that urgent actions be taken against the Carabineros and that the interior ministers be removed from his position for their complicity in the violence against the Mapuche Indigenous community…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/right-wing-violence-against-mapuche-people-in-chile-widely-condemned/

Tuesday 8/11: Indigenous Leadership in the U.S. Environmental and Climate Justice Movements
Climate Reality Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
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Tane Chatfield's family: 'We deserve justice'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-08-06
Indigenous Rachel EvansIssue 1275 Australia Aboriginal deaths in custody SydneyAugust 6, 2020The mother and father of Tane Chatfield spoke in the front of Lidcombe Coronial Court on July 17, the…
greenleft.org.au/content/tane-chatfield%E2%80%99s-family-we-deserve-justice

US GDP Collapses and Economic Rebound Fades
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
This past week US economy collapsed in the 2nd quarter by 32.9% at annual rate and nearly 10% just for the April-June period. Never before in modern US history–not even in the worse quarters of the 1930s great depression–has the US economy contracted so quickly and so deeply! All the major private sectors of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/us-gdp-collapses-and-economic-rebound-fades/

America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo
Justin Podur | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Joe Emersberger interviewed Justin Podur regarding his new book about a conflict few understand thanks to, among other things, "Africanist" scholars.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/americas-wars-on-democracy-in-rwanda-and-the-dr-congo/

Another Hiroshima Is Coming
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Above photo: A human nuclear blast 'shadow' formed on bank steps after the explosion of the atom bomb in Hiroshima (1945).i.imgur.com. Unless we stop it now. In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five 'ground zeros' for nuclear weapons — from Hiroshima to …
popularresistance.org/another-hiroshima-is-coming/

A Reversal in the Name of Human Survival
Kathy Kelly | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Mourners carry the coffin of a child at the funeral procession for those killed in an airstrike on a bus carried out last week by a warplane of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition on August 13, 2018 in Saada, Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-10184929881_0_0.jpg …
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Cuba: President Rejects Lawfare Against Leftist Leaders
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel highlighted on Thursday the use of the judiciary in politics as a colonizing weapon over the peoples of Latin America. | RELATED: | The US Increases Risk of War in South America, Lula Warns | On his official Twitter account, the president maintained that the case of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, "proves how far the enemies go" in applying those tools. | "The use of the judiciary against left-wing leaders is an imperial m…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-President-Rejects-Lawfare-Against-Leftist-Leaders-20200806-0015.html

Democrats drifting to extreme left because they are 'owned by George Soros,' claims former House speaker Gingrich
rt.com | 2020-08-06
The Democrat Party continues to drift radically leftward, and its leadership will never rebuke militant elements like Antifa, because it's controlled by billionaire leftist George Soros, former US House speaker Newt Gingrich said. | "All of these Democrats are now basically owned by the left," Gingrich said on Wednesday in an interview on Fox News. "They are not going to pick any fights. They are owned by people who are financed by George Soros." | Gingrich made his comments after Democrats in a US Senate hearing on Tuesday refused to directly criticize the conduct of Antifa, whose members have been accused of…
rt.com/usa/497220-gingrich-democrats-soros-antifa/

Biden says Latinos are 'incredibly diverse,' UNLIKE BLACK VOTERS
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took time out from a question asked by a Latina reporter to state that while black voters all think alike (with "notable exceptions"), Latino voters are "incredibly diverse" in opinion. | In the midst of answering a question on whether he would extend protected status for Venezuelan immigrants during a Wednesday town hall, Biden veered off on a self-congratulatory tangent touting his supposed knowledge of the Latino community. | What you all know but most people don't know, unlike the African American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an i…
rt.com/usa/497306-biden-black-latino-alike-fail/

A Message to the Swing State
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Trump is waging a war on truth, decency, our planet, and on working people. If Biden wins, we'll be at his door on day one, demanding the kinds of structural reforms that advance racial, economic, and environmental justice. But before that, we have to #VoteTrumpOut in swing states…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-message-to-the-swing-state/

Why the Left Must Reject and Elect Biden at the Same Time
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
To make a progressive future possible, beating Trump is absolutely necessary while very far from sufficient. To organize against a government headed by Trump is to push against a thick stone wall. To organize against a government headed by Biden holds out the real potential of progressive breakthroughs.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-the-left-must-reject-and-elect-biden-at-the-same-time/

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

War and Pandemic Journalism
Patrick Cockburn | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Health workers greet people as they arrive in cars at a mobile Covid-19 testing site at the Westside Community Center in the Goldsboro neighborhood of Sanford, Florida on April 23, 2020. (Photo: Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/coronavirus-not-war_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/06/war-and-pandemic-journalism?cd-origin=rss

"Conspiracy Theory" — What Is It?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Being blamed for disseminating "conspiracy theories" and therefore being a "conspiracy theorist", is an extraordinarily and smart tactic used by the true conspirators against the truth seekers. | It works most of the time with often more than 90% of the …
globalresearch.ca/conspiracy-theory-what-is-it/5720261

"Conspiracy Theory" — What Is It?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Being blamed for disseminating "conspiracy theories" and therefore being a "conspiracy theorist", is an extraordinary and smart tactic used by the true conspirators against the truth seekers. | It works most of the time with often more than 90% of the …
globalresearch.ca/conspiracy-theory-what-is-it/5720261

Voting Fraud Is Real: The U.S. Electoral System Is Vulnerable
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
The United States national election is now only three months away and it should be expected that the out-and-out lies emanating from both parties will increase geometrically as the polling date nears. One of the more interesting claims regarding the …
globalresearch.ca/voting-fraud-real-electoral-system-vulnerable/5720435

US Contracts Out Its Regime Change Operation In Nicaragua
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Masaya, Nicaragua – An extraordinary leaked document gives a glimpse of the breadth and complexity of the US government's plan to interfere in Nicaragua's internal affairs up to and after its presidential election in 2021. | The plan,[1] a 14-page extract from a much longer document, dates from March-April this year and sets the terms for a contract to be awarded by USAID (a "Request for Task Order Proposal"). It was revealed by reporter William Grigsby from Nicaragua's independent Radio La Primerisima[2] and describes the task of creating what the document calls "the environment for Nicaragua's transition to dem…
popularresistance.org/us-contracts-out-its-regime-change-operation-in-nicaragua/

Video: War Drums Beat in the Middle East and the Beirut Explosion
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
On the evening of August 4th, a massive explosion rocked the port of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, causing devastating damage and leaving thousands of casualties. The explosion sent a shockwave across the city and blew out windows up to …
globalresearch.ca/video-war-drums-beat-middle-east-after-thousands-casualties-beirut-explosion/5720374

Can Trump Legally Suspend Payroll Taxes by Executive Order?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Trump pushed the dubious scheme earlier. | Again this week, he claimed to have "a lot of…executive powers," adding: | "(W)e're looking…very seriously" at suspending payroll taxes. | The US Constitution's Article II covers executive powers. They include nothing about circumventing matters over …
globalresearch.ca/can-trump-legally-suspend-payroll-taxes-executive-order/5720421

Dreamers' Children: Up to 200,000 American Kids Could be Left Parentless
Robin Valenzuela | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Immigration rights activists take part in a rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 12, 2019. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-11818855831_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/06/dreamers-children-200000-american-kids-could-be-left-parentless?cd-origin=rss

Nigel Farage sinks to a humiliating low in his latest attack on refugees
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Nigel Farage launched an attack on refugees ( again) on 6 August. Or rather, he screeched at his Twitter followers that refugees had mounted an attack on Britain. A "shocking invasion" had happened, apparently. He even invoked the language of World War II, describing the refugees as making a "beach landing". | Farage also included what he said was "exclusive footage" of the alleged offensive. And what did it show? Around a dozen or so people, including women and children, pulling themselves fr…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/08/06/nigel-farage-sinks-to-a-humiliating-low-in-his-latest-attack-on-refugees/

War crimes in Afghanistan covered up by UK Ministry of Defence
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
Documents, written by SAS officers and military personnel, provide evidence of war crimes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/afgh-a06.html

Retired Federal Probation Officer: Stop Sending People to COVID-Filled Prisons Unnecessarily
Mark Buckwalter | aclu.org | 2020-08-06
In early April, the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City suffered its first coronavirus death: Michael Tyson. Mr. Tyson, 53, had been arrested in late February not because he had committed a crime, but for a technical violation of his parole. As a retired federal probation officer, I can tell you that incarcerating someone for a technical rule violation should be a last resort. But during a pandemic, it should be ceased completely. Our federal, state, and local probation and parole systems…
aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/retired-federal-probation-officer-stop-sending-people-to-covid-filled-prisons-unnecessarily

Tracking Apps are Unlikely to Help Stop COVID-19
Jay Stanley | aclu.org | 2020-08-06
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 for contact tracing or exposure warnings from the beginning, but it is clearer than ever that such tools are unlikely to work, and that the debate over such trac…
aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-apps-are-unlikely-to-help-stop-covid-19

Security Council condemns 'heinous and cowardly' terrorist attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
news.un.org | 2020-08-06
Members of the UN Security Council have condemned "in the strongest terms" the terrorist attack at a prison complex in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday, that left at least 29 people — including civilians — dead.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069622

Study: Billionaires That Donated to Gates-Buffet Giving Pledge Now Richer Than Ever
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-06
As the assets of the billionaire class in the US swell to $3.5 trillion amid the pandemic, a new study of philanthropic giving reveals that many of America's wealthiest are using charitable donations to stay rich and get richer.
mintpressnews.com/study-billionaires-donated-gates-buffet-giving-pledge-now-richer-than-ever/270128/

PDF of August 6 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-08-06
Download the 12-page PDF. Boston school workers blast 'reopening plans' WORLD: Brazil; China; Fidel Agcaoili °presente! ALSO: John Lewis & Selma legacy; Disabled people: 'Part of the working class'; #SEIUDropTheCops; Pandemic relief sabotaged; Sahara dust cloud; Heat waves & socialism. BLACK LIVES MATTER: Remembering Garrett Foster, anti-racist fighter; Pensacola solidarity; . . . | Continue reading PDF of August 6 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50481/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-august-6-issue

Brazil's Money Laundering Scandal from Hell
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Two decades after a political earthquake, a powerful aftershock that should be rocking Brazil apart is being met with thunderous silence. | What is now termed "the Banestado leaks" and "CC5gate" is straight out of vintage WikiLeaks: a list, published for …
globalresearch.ca/brazil-money-laundering-scandal/5720383

Huawei and 5G Technology. US-China Confrontation
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
This informative article focusses on the China-US confrontation regarding 5G. it does not address the impacts of 5G on health. | *** | First-generation mobile technology offered only analogue calls and no browsing, data transfer or SMS. Even though today's 4G long-term …
globalresearch.ca/huawei-bans-delay-global-access-5g-technology/5720367

Trump's cold war with China is heating up
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-06
The world's largest economic powers are in a battle for dominance complicated by the pandemic and Trump's escalation.
therealnews.com/stories/trump-cold-war-with-china-is-heating-up

A review of Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
What can a virus tell us about climate breakdown, in its causation and in humanity's response?>…
mronline.org/2020/08/06/a-review-of-andreas-malms-corona-climate-chronic-emergency-war-communism-in-the-twenty-first-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-review-of-andreas-malms-corona-climate-chronic-emergency-war-communism-in-the-twenty-first-century

Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos
Mel Gurtov | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
"Normal" isn't good, as in the following warning in November 2019:…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/falling-behind-covid-climate-change-and-chaos/

Trump Insists on Virus Disappearance and Children Immunity
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
In his latest attempt to encourage the reopening of schools, President Donald Trump Wednesday insisted that the coronavirus will disappear and children are almost immune to it. | RELATED: | Trump Fires Two Tennessee Valley Authority Board Chairmen | "It's going away. It'll go away. Things go away. No question in my mind that it will go away," he said. | "Children are able to throw it off very easily… They may get it, but they get it and it doesn't have much of an impact on them,"
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Insists-on-Virus-Disappearance-and-Children-Immunity-20200806-0005.html

Transport for London coronavirus bailout prepares tube privatisation
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
The bailout, only half the sum requested, spearheads an assault on TfL's workforce, in stark contrast to the generous packages offered to the privatised passenger rail franchises.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/trfl-a06.html

State of Pandemic Disaster: Melbourne Moves to Stage Four
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Being in control of a sinking ship is not enviable. Regulations previously passed have a museum feel to them, distinctly obsolete. Directions, once dictated with confidence, lack timbre. Coronavirus is serving as that most wily and cheeky of agents, with the most appropriate of accomplices: Homo sapiens. Human beings are fed up, munching on conspiracy…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/state-of-pandemic-disaster-melbourne-moves-to-stage-four/

COVID-19 outbreaks at four workplaces in Swindon, UK
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
Local officials in Wales and England have sought to minimise any disruption to the operations of the corporations as outbreaks of the virus have flared up.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/swin-a06.html

I'm a Dirty Thievin' Bastard
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
Most corporate retailers rely and count on maintaining constant environments of mistrust, fear and turnover of the people they employ to boost their profitability. By avoiding anything resembling allegiance among their staff, these barons of modern day capitalism turn and burn personnel while avoiding costly expenditures such as benefits and pay increases, instead transferring that …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/im-a-dirty-thievin-bastard/

Ireland and Slavery: Debating the 'Irish Slaves Myth'
Brian Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Over recent months, social media in Ireland and the United States has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about 'Irish slaves' and a broader controversy about Irish complicity in the transatlantic slave trade. The timing of the 'debate' is far from coincidental: a series of false and malicious assertions that the American far Right have…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/ireland-and-slavery-debating-the-irish-slaves-myth/

Time to Empower the Invisibles: India Awaits a Mental Health Revolution
Priyanka Singh — Sujeet Singh | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Mental health is an inherent and the most paramount aspect of our well being, without it a qualitative life is barren to imagine. These 'Covidnary Times' are extremely turbulent, where 'Normality' will be more sidelined with 'Abnormality.' The side-effects of Covid-19 will keep hunting our World for ages to come. Surging mass layoffs, transcendental change…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/time-to-empower-the-invisibles-india-awaits-a-mental-health-revolution/

An Unbelievably Disastrous State of Affairs
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Like most of the rest of the U.S. population, Montanans are wondering how we're going to get out of the very serious and growing problems afflicting our state and nation right now. They are also, on an increasing basis, growing very angry that our Republican president and his snarling pack of enablers are ignoring the…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/an-unbelievably-disastrous-state-of-affairs/

Reverse the New Nuclear Arms Race
Howie Hawkins, Madelyn Hoffman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
August 6 is the 75th anniversary of the only time any nation in the world dropped an atomic bomb on people. On August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman ordered Fat Man dropped on Hiroshima. 210,000 people were killed instantly. Three days later, Little Boy was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 more people instantly. Now would…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/reverse-the-new-nuclear-arms-race/

How the Fascists Won World War II
H. Bruce Franklin | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Come you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks –"Masters of War," Bob Dylan This is a mystery story.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/how-the-fascists-won-world-war-ii/

"Man Attacks Grizzly" and Other Leading Bleeding Stories
David Mattson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
My Google Alerts inbox has been flooded during the last week by an article making the rounds among national and regional media outlets with a title that virtually screams "Official: 7 Grizzly Bear Attacks This Year." More matter-of-factly, the article leads off with the observation that…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/man-attacks-grizzly-and-other-leading-bleeding-stories/

The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled
Robert Jacobs — Ran Zwigenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
In August 1945, the United States attacked two cities in Japan with nuclear weapons in the last days of World War Two. The US used weapons of mass destruction against a primarily civilian population, instantly killing over 100,000 human beings, with tens of thousands of wounded and irradiated people who would die in the subsequent…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-american-narrative-of-hiroshima-is-a-statue-that-must-be-toppled/

Suffrage: The Myth of Sisterphus
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." — The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Woman is the nigger of the world Yes, she is If you don't believe me, take…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/suffrage-the-myth-of-sisterphus/

ECLAC: Latam Goods And Exports To Decrease By 23 Percent
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean forecast on Thursday that the value of goods and exports in America Latina will fall by 23 percent this year as a result of a decline in prices and volumes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Venezuela Poses a New Vision of Growth for the 'New Normality' | "The decrease in imported volume would reach 18%, so that it would be somewhat greater than that registered in 2009 during the world financial crisis and similar…
telesurenglish.net/news/ECLAC-Latam-Goods-And-Exports-To-Decrease-By-23-Percent-20200806-0023.html

Bangladesh: Monsoon Season Widens Fear of New Disease Outbreaks
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
Bangladesh's Emergency Health Operations Control Room Spokesman Ayesha Akther said that at least 145 people have died and over five million have been affected in flood-related incidents since June 30. | RELATED: | Bangladesh: Internet Ban Risks Rohingya Lives Amid Pandemic | The current situation increases the risk of causing outbreaks of deadly diseases and threaten to worsen the COVID-19 pandemic | "These are the longest floods we have seen in years, but the water has already re…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bangladesh-Monsoon-Season-Widens-Fear-of-New-Disease-Outbreaks-20200806-0011.html

What We Can Learn from Cuban Health Care
Paul Buhle | progressive.org | 2020-08-06
Though it has had its fair share of failures, the country's approach to world health proves to be successful, especially as a response to COVID-19.
progressive.org/dispatches/learn-from-cuba-health-care-buhle-200806/

Beaches and Airports Ready to Open in Latin America
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
Latin American countries are preparing to open beaches and airports despite the COVID-19 advancing in the region, which has become the world's epicenter of the pandemic with 4.7 million cases and over 160.000 deaths. | RELATED: | Haiti: Gov't Resume International Fligths Amidst the Pandemic | Although Ecuador has registered 87,963 COVID-19 cases and 5,808 deaths so far, President Lenin Moreno's administration ordered the opening of beaches in five provinces. | "The reactivation o…
telesurenglish.net/news/Beaches-and-Airports-Ready-to-Open-in-Latin-America-20200806-0003.html

Cross-border links between terrorists, organized crime, underscore need for coherent global response
news.un.org | 2020-08-06
The nexus between terrorism and organized crime took centre stage in the Security Council on Thursday, with experts raising fresh concerns over opportunistic alliances emerging among belligerents who share a hostility towards national authorities, and seek to exploit vulnerabilities created by the COVID-19 crisis.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069672

The Covid-19 Pandemic, Does It Exist? The Truth is Being Obliterated. The Global Elite's Campaign Against Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
The COVID-19 virus. Does it exist? Is it a novel virus? Is there a Pandemic? | If you ask any doctor or scientist in the world to show you a scientifically-verified proof, they will not be able to show you one….
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-does-not-exist-global-elite-campaign-terror-against-humanity/5720214

Progress in the Age of COVID-19
Jim Hightower | progressive.org | 2020-08-06
America's inequality crisis–now made much worse by our "leaders" mishandling the pandemic–cannot be met by small-ball political tinkering and legalistic tweaks to failed systems.
progressive.org/magazine/progress-in-age-of-covid-hightower/

Seafarers face a tough challenge amid COVID-19
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
The worsening morale and mental health of hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded aboard ships across the globe due to COVID-19- related lockdowns has been described as a "ticking time bomb." This might lead to dangerous consequences if not immediately addressed. | As per a report published by The Mission to Seafarers on July 29, uncertainty over when they can reunite with their families and the perpetual fear of getting infected has begun to exert a heavy toll on seafarers. Many fear that if infected, they will be unable to a…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/seafarers-face-a-tough-challenge-amid-covid-19/

Far-right protest against COVID-19 restrictions in Berlin: A put-up job
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
The protest in Berlin was a predictable, put-up job, which closely resembled the scenario of the Pegida demonstrations held five years ago.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/demo-a06.html

The chicken or the egg?
Thomas Magstadt | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-06
What the Covid-19 pandemic says about the US…
nationofchange.org/2020/08/06/the-chicken-or-the-egg/

Public Health vs. Politics
Katherine Eban | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
White House Scrapped Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Plan to Hurt Blue States…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/public-health-vs-politics/

Black Healthcare Workers More Vulnerable to COVID, Study Says
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
U.S. and U.K. black healthcare workers are more vulnerable to COVID-19 and more likely to die due to the virus than their non-black colleagues and patients, according to a Harvard Medical School study. | RELATED: | Nigeria: Government to Enforce a New Quarantine Extension | "If you think to yourself, 'Healthcare workers should be on equal footing in the workplace,' our study really showed that's definitely not the case," Harvard professor and study author Dr. Andrew Chan said. | Th…
telesurenglish.net/news/black-healthcare-workers-more-vulnerable-to-covid-study-says-20200806-0016.html

Two Florida teenagers die from COVID-19 as schools push to reopen
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
These harrowing deaths come a month after a 9-year-old, Kimora Lynum, from Putman County, became the youngest child added to Florida's COVID-19 death toll.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/flod-a06.html

Bolivia: Senate Legalizes Chlorine Dioxide as COVID Treatment
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
Bolivia's Senate has passed a bill that includes chlorine dioxide in the COVID-19 treatment protocol on Wednesday, despite World Health Organization warnings. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Health Workers Go on Hunger Strike Amid Pandemic | The bill allows public and privately owned labs to produce a chlorine dioxide solution, under pharmaceutical quality regulations. | Besides, physicians can administrate the drug with the consent of the patients or sufferer's relatives. According to the no…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-senate-legalizes-chlorine-dioxide-as-covid-treatment–20200806-0017.html

Global cooperation is our only choice against COVID-19, says WHO chief
news.un.org | 2020-08-06
With more than 18.5 million cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide as of Thursday, and 700,000 deaths, the UN's top health official again appealed to countries to unite in the fight against the disease…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069702

Raise, Don't Stabilize and Don't Reduce Social Costs
Collective 20 | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
We seek radical social transformation. But short of that, our actions should not only force elites to respond to our demands they should also expand democracy and plant the seeds of a new future in the present…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/raise-dont-stabilize-and-dont-reduce-social-costs/

Dossier 31: 'The Politic of Blood': Political Repression in South Africa
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
In his famous speech from the dock in April 1964, Nelson Mandela spoke of 'revolutionary democracy' rooted in precolonial forms of collective deliberation and decision making.
mronline.org/2020/08/05/dossier-31-the-politic-of-blood-political-repression-in-south-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dossier-31-the-politic-of-blood-political-repression-in-south-africa

Legacies of African American Struggle: Rev. C.T. Vivian and Rep. John Lewis Efforts to Dismantle "Legalized Segregation"
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Two luminaries in the African American struggle which emerged during the 1950s and 1960s, Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis, passed away on July 17. | Both figures played a prominent role in the efforts to destroy legalized segregation,…
globalresearch.ca/legacies-c-t-vivian-john-lewis-secured-while-ruling-class-promotes-revisionist-history/5720378

On the Enduring Significance of Hiroshima after 75 Years
Canadian Peace Congress | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Seventy-five years ago, an act of international criminality and infamy took place, the consequences of which have posed an existential threat to humanity ever since. For the first time ever, a species had created the capacity to not only bring …
globalresearch.ca/enduring-significance-hiroshima-after-75-years/5720437

Global Research Newsletter Temporarily Suspended
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Dear Readers, | Due to technical issues, our daily newsletter sent out via e-mail is currently suspended. We will be able to resume the send-out within the next week or so. We thank you for your patience. | In the meantime, as …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-newsletter-temporarily-suspended/5720341

Trump Administration Approves the "Stealing" of Syria's Oil
TRT World | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Months after US president Donald Trump…
globalresearch.ca/trump-administration-approves-stealing-syria-oil/5720409

Nuclear War or Invasion: The False Dichotomy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Brett Wilkins | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Like other dark chapters in U.S. history, the official narrative of the decision to unleash the most destructive weapon humanity has ever known upon an utterly defeated people is deeply flawed. | *** | Seventy-five years ago, the United States waged the …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-war-false-dichotomy-hiroshima-nagasaki/5720403

"Weapons of Mass Radiation": Hundreds of 5G Spy Satellites Launched into the Ionosphere
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Keeping us preoccupied with a phony virus which was supposed to kill millions and landed-up causing no more deaths than the normal winter flu, sure was a useful way of directing attention away from the earthly and upward deployment of …
globalresearch.ca/musk-5g-spy-satellite-megalomania/5720290

The Lessons We Haven't Learned
Dr. Helen Caldicott | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
My birthday is August 7, sandwiched between the anniversary dates for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively). I was six years old when the first bomb fell. My course in life was …
globalresearch.ca/lessons-we-have-not-learned/5720417

Watch Enormous Beirut Blast from 15 Synchronized Camera Angles as Mystery Surrounding Its Cause Persists
RT News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Videos of the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut that left over 70 people dead and thousands wounded continue to emerge, painting a comprehensive picture of the destruction — though shedding no light on its cause. | A mega-compilation of | …
globalresearch.ca/watch-enormous-beirut-blast-15-synchronized-camera-angles-mystery-surrounding-cause-persists/5720390

There Is No Political Solution to the Syrian Conflict
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, of the Obama administration, created a mantra for the media: "There is no military solution to Syria." He said it so many times, he seemed to convince everyone. However, after 9 years of …
globalresearch.ca/no-political-solution-syrian-conflict/5720404

Wearing the Mask is Mandatory in Quebec: The Legault Government's Legitimacy Questioned
Dr. Micheline Ladouceur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
globalresearch.ca/wearing-the-mask-is-mandatory-in-quebec-the-legault-governments-legitimacy-questioned/5720346

Seeking peace on the Korean Peninsula
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
Although the date drew little notice in the U.S. media, July 27, 2020 marked the 67th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement, an agreement that ended the fighting but not the war between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
mronline.org/2020/08/06/seeking-peace-on-the-korean-peninsula/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeking-peace-on-the-korean-peninsula

Nigeria: Government to Enforce a New Quarantine Extension
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
Nigeria Secretary of the Federation Boss Mustapha Thursday announced a quarantine extension for the next four weeks, in an attempt to restrain the contagion. | RELATED: | Bangladesh: Monsoon Season Widens Fear of New Disease Outbreaks | "I'm pleased to inform you that Mr. President has carefully considered the 5th Interim Report of the PTF and has accordingly approved that, except for some modifications to expatiate upon later, the Phase Two of the eased lockdown be extended b…
telesurenglish.net/news/nigeria-government-to-enforce-a-new-quarantine-extension–20200806-0013.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our Planet's Missed Opportunity to unite and fight Side by Side against the Pandemic
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-07
It is time to stop irresponsible finger-pointing. All over the world, as this essay is being written, well over 17 million COVID-19 cases have been reported, and 676,000 people died. And instead of concentrating on serious research, trying to save human lives and attempting to stop the global calamity, 'residents' of the White House are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/our-planets-missed-opportunity-to-unite-and-fight-side-by-side-against-the-pandemic/

Intimidation and Censorship Campaign against Online Independent Media
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
The heated debate within Western governments about the best way to fight what they regard as "propaganda" has recently taken a disturbing turn towards intimidation of the outlets accused of peddling such information products and even discussions about their possible …
globalresearch.ca/media-literacy-not-intimidation-censorship-best-way-fight-propaganda/5720487

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leftist groups urge Danish government to receive more refugees
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-07
Leftist groups in Denmark have demanded the social democrat-led government to raise the country's refugee quota and receive at least 500 refugees annually, which was the case before 2016…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/07/leftist-groups-urge-danish-government-to-receive-more-refugees/

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

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Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2020-08-07
If they hurt Trump, mail-in ballots are fraudulent.
progressive.org/dispatches/maga-mail-fiore-200807/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explosion à Beyrouth : Qui est responsable?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Police violence meets spiritual resistance in the struggle over DAPL
Harold C. Frazier and John Willis | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-07
An appeals court overruled the shutdown of DAPL, pending a full environmental review. The fight against a pipeline that provoked unprecedented resistance continues.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/07/police-violence-meets-spiritual-resistance-in-the-struggle-over-dapl/

New York state Attorney General sues to smash the gun lobby
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-07
NEW YORK–The leaders of the notorious radical right gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, are corrupt. They've pilfered tens of millions of dollars from its till to line their own pockets. And they, especially head honcho Wayne LaPierre, run a crooked enterprise which should be smashed. In plain English, that's the message from New York …
peoplesworld.org/article/new-york-state-attorney-general-sues-to-smash-the-gun-lobby/

Beirut explosion: The battle now is between the people and the vultures
Marco Carnelos | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-07
Massive port blast could be the spark that incites a revolution, or the final nail in the country's coffin | The massive blast that destroyed Beirut's port and part of the city on 4 August was among the most powerful explosions ever recorded, drawing comparisons to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic explosions of 1945. This gives a sen…

Beirut explosion: The battle now is between the people and the vultures

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

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

Mainstream media misses damning evidence in Blueleaks police data dump
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-07
The massive document dump reveals a troubling trend the mainstream media has overlooked: Tech companies monetizing criminal surveillance.
therealnews.com/stories/blueleaks-data-breach-mainstream-media-misses-damning-evidence

In the wake of Portland, calls to abolish DHS grow
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-07
As with almost anything in the country's increasingly bought and paid for political system, there are powerful interests that will use their influence over politicians to protect the activities and funding of both ICE and DHS.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/07/in-the-wake-of-portland-calls-to-abolish-dhs-grow/

Hope and Despair
Badri Raina | zcomm.org | 2020-08-07
Hope has most meaning when Despair sees hope depart. Elixir needs for storing A hollow in the heart. Despair is a street that ends In a strangled cul de sac. Hope travels a long but fruitful road, Unfazed by ruin and wrack. Despair most inhabits minds That do not look beyond To hope Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/hope-and-despair/

Unregulated capitalism drives 'The Business of Drugs'
Brian W. Major | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-07
Much of the world is facing a crisis around the use and abuse of various sorts of substances. Headlines around the world show many deaths each day due to overdoses. In the U.S., approaches to this issue have typically involved prohibition, enforcement, and corrections. Other jurisdictions such as the Netherlands and Portugal have successfully tried …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-business-of-drugs-tv-miniseries-in-review/

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

The World on Fire
Robert Hunziker | zcomm.org | 2020-08-07
"Looking at the geologic record, we don't think we've ever seen CO2 levels this high in about 5 million years… We are in uncharted territory"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-world-on-fire/

New US unemployment claims top 1 million for 20th straight week
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
Indifferent to the plight of millions of jobless workers and their families, senators from both parties adjourned Thursday with no agreement on extending expired unemployment benefits.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/unem-a07.html

Subtle Matter: Where the Physical and Spiritual Unite
William T. Hathaway | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-07
Dr. Klaus Volkamer's new book, Weighing Soul Substance, builds bridges across the gulf that has separated science from spirituality, materialism from mysticism. It confirms the reality of auras, clairvoyance, remote viewing, psychokinesis, telepathy, and precognition, and presents empirical evidence that these phenomena have a material aspect. By using newly developed measuring technologies Volkamer detected changes …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/subtle-matter-where-the-physical-and-spiritual-unite/

Postmaster General, a Trump crony, admits slowing the mail
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-07
Trump's Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, admitted yesterday, in a closed-door meeting with lawmakers, that he is behind the wave of mail delays rolling across the country in recent weeks. The delays have already endangered the lives of people from coast to coast who depend upon…
peoplesworld.org/article/postmaster-general-a-trump-crony-admits-slowing-the-mail/

Letter from economists: to rebuild our world, we must end the carbon economy
Various Contributors | zcomm.org | 2020-08-07
The carbon economy amplifies racial, social and economic inequities, creating a system that is fundamentally incompatible with a stable future…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/letter-from-economists-to-rebuild-our-world-we-must-end-the-carbon-economy/

None Of The World's Worst People Are In Prison: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-07
Exactly zero of the world's worst people are in prison. | ~ | The main obstacle to humanity forming a collaborative relationship with each other and our ecosystem isn't because of "human nature", it's because manipulative psychopaths keep working their way into power. Finding a way to deal with psychopathy would solve most of our problems. | ~ | Some people find it offensive that I say Trump is no worse than his predecessors. I find it offensive that they ignore the barbarism of Trump's predecessors. | ~ | The way politicians pretend to despise their opponents' depraved actions and then get all cuddly later prove…

None Of The World’s Worst People Are In Prison: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Death From the Sky: Hiroshima and Normalised Atrocities
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-07
When US President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by another on Nagasaki a few days later, he was not acting as an agent untethered from history. In the wheels of his wearied mind lay the battered Marines who, despite being victorious, had …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/death-from-the-sky-hiroshima-and-normalised-atrocities/

Mainstream media misses damning evidence in Blueleaks police data dump
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-07
The massive document dump reveals a troubling trend the mainstream media has overlooked: Tech companies monetizing criminal surveillance.
therealnews.com/stories/blueleaks-data-breach-mainstream-media-misses-damning-evidence

Economy Creates 1.8 Million Jobs in July, Production Workers' Wages Fall
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-08-07
There is no evidence that generous unemployment benefits are making it difficult to find workers. The July employment report showed the economy adding another 1,761,000 jobs in July. This follows gains of 2,725,000 in May, and 4,791,000 in June, leaving the economy down 12,881,000 jobs from its February level. The unemployment rate fell from 11.1 …
cepr.net/jobs-2020-08/

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

The Beirut Explosion: Who is responsible?

Crossing the Creepy Line: Google, Deception and the ACCC
Binoy Kampmark | zcomm.org | 2020-08-07
For a company so proud of its pursuit of a transparent information environment, Google has remained committedly opaque about informing customers on the way it gathers user data…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/crossing-the-creepy-line-google-deception-and-the-accc/

Seven Ways to Volunteer in the 2020 Election
Michael Laser | progressive.org | 2020-08-07
With traditional campaigning techniques off the table, here's how volunteers can still support their favorite candidates from home.
progressive.org/dispatches/seven-ways-to-volunteer-election-laser-200807/

Beirut blast: Here's how you can help the UN aid Lebanon's recovery
news.un.org | 2020-08-07
After a devasting blast ripped through Beirut Port in Lebanon on Tuesday, wounding thousands and rendering hundreds of thousands homeless, the UN moved rapidly to step up its relief effort.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069782

Let the Banks Go Under and Put Money Into the Real Economy
Michael Hudson | zcomm.org | 2020-08-07
Interview on a debt jubilee and why it may be the best way out…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/let-the-banks-go-under-and-put-money-into-the-real-economy/

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

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

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

Layer of nanoparticles could improve LED performance and lifetime
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-08-07
Adding a layer of nanoparticles to LED designs could help them produce more light for the same energy, and also increase their lifetime.
imperial.ac.uk/news/201573/layer-nanoparticles-could-improve-led-performance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EPIC Win For Mendocino National Forest at the Ninth Circuit
Environmental Protection Information Center | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
In a major victory, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) in a case impacting fragile post-fire forest in the Mendocino National Forest.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835697.php

Friday 8/28: A Bay Area Free of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure: Virtual Summit
Janet S Johnson | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Zoom event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835727.php

Food Not Bombs needs volunteers to help serve food to the hungry masses
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Older Photo Of Some Hungry People In Line To Get A Free Meal From Food Not Bombs At People's Park In Berkeley. Photo By Lydia Gans.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835690.php

Thursday 8/27: America's First Suffrage March and the San Francisco Women Who Led It
San Francisco Public Library | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Online webinar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835726.php

Benchlands Cleared for Double Fenced Containment Camp
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Yesterday (Wednesday August 5) most of the remaining tents on both sides of the expanded Containment Camp run by the County in the San Lorenzo Benchlands was stripped of survival campers. Police reportedly with little or no notice gave those in tents "the option" to leave, face citation or arrest, or accept the concentrated residency of the new temporary govt. camp.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835711.php

Thursday 8/6: Communities of Color: Communicating Safe Voting Options for November
NAACP, Human Rights Campaign & others | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Online via livestream at Human Rights Campaign Facebook…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835707.php

Friday 8/7: US Census Car Caravan / Parade by the City of South San Francisco
City of South San Francisco | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835704.php

Wednesday 8/26: Bridging the Divide: A Reflection on Race and Equity
San Jose Spotlight | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835724.php

Thursday 8/6: Mitch Better Have My Money! Day of Action
CFPDAO | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Actions online, by phone, or by fax…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/18835701.php

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

Saturday 8/15: 11th Annual GLIDE Legacy Gala, A Virtual Gathering
GLIDE | indybay.org | 2020-08-07
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835694.php

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Black August And Black Liberation: 'Study, Fast, Train, Fight.'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
Each August since 1979, the surviving sectors of the Black Liberation Movement, our supporters, and the new entrants into the ranks of resistors to the ongoing oppression against the African/Black masses and colonized peoples of this territory now called the United States and its settler state, have paid homage to our fallen freedom fighters and those incarcerated for decades in the cages of this country. | The struggle for African/Black freedom in the United States began with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to this territory in 1619. The tradition of resistance to the settler state is different from t…
popularresistance.org/black-august-and-black-liberation-study-fast-train-fight/

As New York Eviction Moratorium Ends, Tension Escalates
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-07
Dozens of New Yorkers marched through the streets of Brooklyn Wednesday morning before entering two landlord attorney firms buildings and Brooklyn Borough Hall calling for a ban on evictions and cancellation of rent in the Big Apple. | The demonstration comes just hours before New York's residential eviction moratorium expires, leaving thousands of tenants vulnerable to homelessness. | Fears are mounting over how many residents will manage to keep a roof over their heads as dismal research released at the end of July revealed almost half of New York renters were unable to pay rent.
popularresistance.org/as-new-york-eviction-moratorium-ends-tension-escalates/

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

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

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

'Baseless & politically motivated': NRA counter-sues New York AG who seeks to shut down pro-gun organization
rt.com | 2020-08-07
The National Rifle Association has filed its own lawsuit after New York's attorney general sued the group for fraud, hoping to put it out of business. The pro-gun org says the AG's case is politically motivated and frivolous. | Responding to a suit brought by New York state Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday — which accused top executives in the pro-Second Amendment group of misusing funds — the NRA filed a federal countersuit claiming James' case is based on a "rank political vendetta," rather than any "sincere belief" that the organization broke the law. | "This was a baseless, premeditated…
rt.com/usa/497318-nra-lawsuit-baseless-political/

'National security threat'? Trump signs executive orders on TikTok & WeChat, bans transactions with Chinese owners in 45 days
rt.com | 2020-08-07
US President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders addressing what he dubbed a technological national emergency, barring all transactions with the Chinese owners of social media apps TikTok and WeChat after 45 days. | Citing the "threat posed by TikTok," the president signed an order on Thursday prohibiting "any transaction by any person… subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with ByteDance Ltd.," the Beijing-based tech firm that owns the platform. | BREAKING: President Trump just issued an executive order "on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok." It takes effect in 45 days, proh…
rt.com/usa/497316-trump-executive-order-tiktok/

Manhattan suffers MASSIVE power outage, huge portions of NYC plunged into darkness (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-07
A massive power outage early Friday morning left a large portions of Manhattan in the dark. According to local media, the electricity came back up for most of the area after half-an-hour. | The outage comes shortly after tropical storm Isais battered the US East Coast, wreaking havoc in its path and cutting power to at least 1.3 million customers. | Here's a look at the moment the power goes out in upper Manhattan this morning at 5: 17AM @News12NJ pic.twitter.com/39bcEkWJ4s– Jeremy Settle (@JeremySettle)
rt.com/usa/497369-manhattan-massive-power-outage/

Manhattan suffers MASSIVE power outage, huge portions of NYC plunged into darkness (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-07
A massive power outage early Friday morning left a large portions of Manhattan in the dark. According to local media, the electricity came back up for most of the area after half-an-hour. | The outage comes shortly after tropical storm Isais battered the US East Coast, wreaking havoc in its path and cutting power to at least 1.3 million customers. | @News12NJ pic.twitter.com/39bcEkWJ4s– Jeremy Settle (@JeremySettle) August 7, 2020 | There appears to be a significant
rt.com/usa/497369-manhattan-massive-power-outage/

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

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

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

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

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

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

No Confidence? EU Should Reinvent Itself Now Before the Inevitable Rot Sets In
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-07
The EU is facing a crisis like never before. Even its own fanatic supporters are talking about an end game after recent concessions over a corona rescue plan have exposed how little grip Brussels has left. It's all hidden in the small print. | Failed talks with the UK over a Brexit deal are just one of a handful of examples of why now pro-EU experts are all sounding the alarm over the EU's stability. Along with the Corona bailout, there is a new impetus of 'euro-scepticism' from many member states signalling the end of the EU as we know it. | Talks between EU negotiators and Britain's Brexiteers might as well hav…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/07/no-confidence-eu-should-reinvent-itself-now-before-inevitable-rot-sets-in/

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

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

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

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

Three in 10 people 'uncomfortable' attending A&E if advised to by doctor
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-07
Around three in 10 adults would not feel comfortable attending A&E for urgent care if they needed it, a survey suggests.Some 61% of adults said they would feel comfortable to attend a hospital appointment if their doctor asked them to, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.Almost a quarter (23%) said they would feel uncomfortable with this, while 29% said they would feel uncomfortable about going to hospital for emergency treatment.Just over half (55%) said they would feel comfortable about visiting the emergency department if advised.And 14% said they would not feel comfortable seeing a healthcare profes…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/07/three-in-10-people-uncomfortable-attending-ae-if-advised-to-by-doctor/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russia offers to supply Philippines with COVID-19 vaccine
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Russia is willing to supply a coronavirus vaccine to the Philippines, or team up with a local firm to mass produce it, its ambassador to Manila said on Friday, as infections in the Southeast Asian nation surge.Russia is expecting regulatory approval for its first potential COVID-19 vaccine this month, with doses to be administered to frontline health workers first.But the frenetic race globally to develop a COVID-19 vaccine is raising some concern that speed could compromise safety and that some countries could be putting national prestige before solid science."We are ready to supply vaccines to the Philippines,"
yenisafak.com/en/world/russia-offers-to-supply-philippines-with-covid-19-vaccine-3536359

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

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

Turkey's first martyred pilot: Cengiz Topel
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
The first martyr of the Turkish Air Force, Pilot Captain Cengiz Topel, was remembered on Friday, 56 years after his plane was shot down on Aug. 7, 1964, during a warning flight on Greek Cypriot soldiers opening fire on Turkish civilians on the island.Topel was among the Turkish civilians' first line of defense against the Greek Cypriot soldiers, amid attacks that would escalate over the coming decade until Turkey's peace intervention against a Greek Cypriot coup attempting to topple the internationally recognized government of the Republic of Cyprus.Topel's legacy lives on both in Turkey and the Turkish Republic…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-first-martyred-pilot-cengiz-topel-3536375

WHO appeals for $15 million aid for Lebanon after Beirut blast
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
The blast, which killed more than 150 and injured more than 5,000, also destroyed 17 containers holding WHO medical supplies including personal protective equipment, the agency's regional office for the Middle East said in a statement late on Thursday.Five hospitals in the area affected by Tuesday's blast are either not functioning or partially functioning, and early reports indicate that many health centres and primary care facilities are also damaged or out of action, it said.Up to 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes and need food or shelter, which "also risks accelerating the spread of COVID-19…
yenisafak.com/en/news/who-appeals-for-15-million-aid-for-lebanon-after-beirut-blast-3536360

Another PKK terrorist surrenders to Turkish forces
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
One more PKK terrorist surrendered to security forces in southeastern Turkey, the National Defense Ministry said on Friday. | The PKK terrorist fleeing from the shelter areas in northern Iraq surrendered to the border post in the Cizre district of Sirnak province, the ministry said on Twitter. | "While the operations of the Turkish Armed Forces against the PKK terrorist group continue without slowing down, escapes from the organization continue," the statement added. | On Monday, the Turkish Interior Ministry announced that a total of 123 terrorists have turned themselves in to Turkish security forces in 2020.
yenisafak.com/en/news/another-pkk-terrorist-surrenders-to-turkish-forces-3536350

Top Pakistan diplomat speaks with Lebanese counterpart
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
According to a statement by Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, Shah Mehmood Qureshi expressed grief over the loss of many lives, injuries and extensive material damaged.On Tuesday, a fire at a warehouse at the Port of Beirut led to a huge blast leaving 154 dead and around 5,000 injuries and causing massive material damage in several neighborhoods of the capital."At this difficult time, Pakistan stood in strong support and solidarity with the brotherly Lebanese people," Qureshi told Charbel Wehbe.Qureshi also informed his counterpart that Islamabad has sent 8 tons of relief assistance consisting of medical and food supp…
yenisafak.com/en/news/top-pakistan-diplomat-speaks-with-lebanese-counterpart-3536378

Beirut port blast: Death toll rises to 154, nearly 5,000 wounded
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
The death toll from Tuesday's huge blast in Lebanon rose to 154, the country's health minister confirmed on Friday.Hamad Hasan told the state-run National News Agency that around 5,000 people were injured in the blast at the Port of Beirut, with 20% of them in need of medical treatment in hospitals.He also said that 120 of injured are currently in critical condition and many others require delicate surgeries.A fire at a warehouse at the Port of Beirut led to a huge blast on Tuesday causing massive material damage in several neighborhoods of the capital.The Lebanese government announced the formation of an investi…
yenisafak.com/en/news/beirut-port-blast-death-toll-rises-to-154-nearly-5000-wounded-3536356

Turkey rushes to help Lebanon amid deadly explosion
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Turkey got mobilized both with state-run aid organizations and charity foundations to heal the wounds of the Lebanese capital Beirut, which was rocked with a catastrophic explosion on Tuesday.A massive blast took place in a warehouse containing explosives at the Port of Beirut, causing widespread damage in several surrounding suburbs of the capital, leaving at least 154 people dead and injured thousands.Following the incident, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call extended his condolences to his counterpart Michel Aoun and the Lebanese people, noting that Turkey stands by Lebanon and is ready to provide…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-rushes-to-help-lebanon-amid-deadly-explosion-3536377

Turkey seizes 28,000 packets of smuggled cigarettes
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Turkish security forces on Friday seized more than 28,000 packets of smuggled cigarettes hidden in two trucks in the country's southeast, according to security sources.Provincial gendarmerie forces stopped the trucks in the Ceylanpinar district of Sanliurfa province as part of anti-smuggling efforts, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.They searched the trucks and found 28,040 packets of contraband cigarettes.Police arrested two suspects, who were later remanded in custody by a court.* Writing by Gozde Bayar…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-seizes-28000-packets-of-smuggled-cigarettes-3536353

'Fluctuations in macroeconomic indicators don't reflect Turkey's reality'
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Fluctuations in macroeconomic indicators do not reflect the reality of the Turkish economy, the country's industry and technology minister said on Friday.Turkey's economy is on the path of production, employment, and innovation, Mustafa Varank wrote on Twitter."We will take Turkey to the levels it deserves with steps to boost the investment appetite for development," he said.His remarks came after the Turkish lira lost ground to other currencies.Late Thursday, the dollar/lira exchange rate hit an all-time high of over 7.30.After the Central Bank took steps Friday to tighten liquidity conditions, the exchange rate…
yenisafak.com/en/news/fluctuations-in-macroeconomic-indicators-dont-reflect-turkeys-reality-3536372

Putin and Lukashenko discuss Belarus' detention of 33 Russians: Kremlin
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin expressed confidence on Friday that tensions over the detention of 33 Russian citizens in Minsk can be resolved, the Kremlin said.The arrests further strained relations between the two traditional allies, already soured this year by a dispute over oil, in the run-up to a presidential election in Belarus on Sunday, seen as Lukashenko's toughest political challenge in years.The two leaders spoke by telephone, the Kremlin added.
yenisafak.com/en/news/putin-and-lukashenko-discuss-belarus-detention-of-33-russians-kremlin-3536358

Mosques in Germany receive threat letters
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
At least two mosques in the central German state of Hesse received threat letters this week, local Muslim community representatives said on Friday. | Suspected neo-Nazis sent threat letters to mosques in the small town of Fuerth and the nearby district Wahlen, Salih Ozkan, a representative of the Turkish-Muslim umbrella group DITIB, told local media. | He said the letters contained threats of violence against Muslims, and were signed by a group calling itself "NSE 2020". | He called on the police to carry out a serious investigation and provide greater protection for the mosques. | It was not immediately clear wh…
yenisafak.com/en/world/mosques-in-germany-receive-threat-letters-3536376

4-year-old Palestinian girl killed by 'stray' bullet
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
A minor Palestinian girl on Friday lost her life after being hit by a "stray" bullet in East Jerusalem, Israeli media reported.According to daily Haaretz, Haneen Zaloum, 4, was at her home in the neighborhood of Silwan when she received a bullet injury in her head.Zaloum was pronounced dead at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, it said.According to the Israeli police, sources in Silwan said gunshots were heard in the neighborhood, adding that the area has witnessed several armed clashes between families.On Wednesday, gunfights occurred between families in the neighborhoods of Isawiyah and Shoafat in Ea…
yenisafak.com/en/world/4-year-old-palestinian-girl-killed-by-stray-bullet-3536373

Lebanon to probe Beirut blast for foreign interference
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-07
The president of Lebanon on Friday said the causes of a massive explosion in the capital Beirut's port had yet to be determined, without ruling out the possibility of foreign interference.Michel Aoun said in a press conference in the presidential palace that he asked French President Emmanuel Macron to provide photos of the blast via satellite.He added that if such photos were not available with France, he would ask other countries, without naming them.Aoun said the investigation into the blast would include port officers and that no legal cover would be offered to any person found to be responsible.A fire at a w…
yenisafak.com/en/world/lebanon-to-probe-beirut-blast-for-foreign-interference-3536370

Dangerous conditions in Melbourne quarantine hotels helped cause Australia's COVID-19 resurgence
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
Victoria's state Labor Party government presided over the hiring of poorly-paid security guards with no infection control training.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/quar-a07.html

Woolworths workers win wage parity after lockout
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-08-07
Workers & unions Kathy FairfaxIssue 1275 Australia United Workers Union Woolworths WyongAugust 7, 2020More than 500 workers at th…
greenleft.org.au/content/woolworths-workers-win-wage-parity-after-lockout

Revisiting the Idea of Pigou Wealth Tax in the Time of Covid-19
Kavaljit Singh | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), a British economist, is well known for his contributions to welfare economics. One of the most prolific writers of his time, Pigou wrote over a dozen books and more than 100 articles and pamphlets dealing with both theoretical and practical aspects of welfare economics. His writings cover a wide range of…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/revisiting-the-idea-of-pigou-wealth-tax-in-the-time-of-covid-19/

THE LAST BIG GULP — Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School Of Medicine
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-07
counterpunch.org/2020/08/07/the-last-big-gulp-jello-biafra-and-the-guantanamo-school-of-medicine/

Selected Articles: 75 Years after the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. The Danger of Nuclear War
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-07
If you look to Global Research as a resource for information and understanding, to stay current on world events, or to experience honesty and transparency in your news coverage, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. Your …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-75-years-after-atomic-bombing-hiroshima-danger-nuclear-war/5720441

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna wins election setting the stage for an eruption of working-class struggles
wsws.org | 2020-08-07
While President Rajapakse hopes that an absolute parliamentary majority and new dictatorial measures will allow him to take on the working class, the eruption of militant struggles will assume revolutionary proportions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/07/slel-a07.html

The NCAA Finally Faces a Reckoning
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2020-08-07
The NCAA Finally Faces a Reckoning…
thenation.com/article/society/ncaa-strike-covid/

Portraits of a Pandemic
Steve Brodner | thenation.com | 2020-08-07
Portraits of a Pandemic…
thenation.com/article/society/portraits-pandemic-steve-brodner/

Trump Supports Housing Segregation–and So Do a Lot of White Liberals
Kali Holloway | thenation.com | 2020-08-07
Trump Supports Housing Segregation–and So Do a Lot of White Liberals…
thenation.com/article/society/trump-housing-segregation/

Believing 'Wall Street Journal' Op-Eds Can Be Deadly
Eric Alterman | thenation.com | 2020-08-07
Believing 'Wall Street Journal' Op-Eds Can Be Deadly…
thenation.com/article/society/wall-street-journal-opinion-conspiracies/

Gun Lovers Should Be Thanking Tish James for Suing the NRA
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-08-07
Gun Lovers Should Be Thanking Tish James for Suing the NRA…
thenation.com/article/society/nra-corruption-lawsuit/

Russia Needs a New Gorbachev
Nadezhda Azhgikhina | thenation.com | 2020-08-07
Russia Needs a New Gorbachev…
thenation.com/article/world/russia-putin-furgal/

CLDC Fighting Corporate-Fueled Legal Persecution Of Human Rights Lawyer
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
For several years now, human rights attorney Steven Donziger has been in the fight of his life and career after Chevron vowed to destroy him for winning a $9.5 billion judgment for indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon that had been poisoned by the company's oil drilling. From buying off judges and experts in Ecuador to filing trumped up racketeering charges in the U.S. and getting the inappropriately sympathetic federal judge Kaplan to demand that Mr. Donziger turn over his laptop, cell phone, and attorney-client communications with his extremely vulnerable indigenous clients, Chevron will stop at noth…
popularresistance.org/cldc-fighting-corporate-fueled-legal-persecution-of-human-rights-lawyer/

Covid Aid, Relief and Economic Security. The CARES Act: Is the Money is Going the More Prosperous Neighbourhoods?
Bart Naylor | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Ann Garrison spoke to Bart Naylor, financial policy advocate with Public Citizen, about the stimulus bill passed on March 25th and the one now pending. | *** | Ann Garrison: Most of us have heard that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, …
globalresearch.ca/we-need-national-industrial-commission-permanent-one/5720368

No Extradition: New Documentary On Julian Assange
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
On the eve of the premiere of his documentary about the founder of WikiLeaks, British-Chilean filmmaker Pablo Navarrete said Thursday in London: "I want people to have an idea of the injustice being done to Julian Assange." | RELATED: | Assange Suffers Political Persecution, Lawyer Garzon Says | The filmmaker and journalist followed John Shipton, Assange's father, over several months as he campaigned to prevent his son from being extradited to the United States (U.S.) and secure his…
telesurenglish.net/news/No-Extradition-New-Documentary-On-Julian-Assange-20200806-0024.html

Why the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ben Becker | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-06
The following article first appeared in the August 2005 issue of Socialism and Liberation magazine . The 75th anniversaries of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Japan are Aug. 6 and 9 of this year. August 6 and 9 of this year mark the 60th anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
liberationnews.org/u-s-dropped-nuclear-bombs-hiroshima-nagasaki/

Document exposes new U.S. plot to overthrow Nicaragua's elected socialist gov't
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
A disturbing new document outlines plans for a U.S. regime-change scheme against Nicaragua's elected leftist government, overseen by USAID, to bring about a "market economy" and a purge of Sandinistas.
mronline.org/2020/08/06/document-exposes-new-u-s-plot-to-overthrow-nicaraguas-elected-socialist-govt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=document-exposes-new-u-s-plot-to-overthrow-nicaraguas-elected-socialist-govt

Hiroshima: A "Military Base" according to President Harry Truman
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
"The World will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.."(President Harry S. Truman in a radio speech to the Nation, August 9, 1945).
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-a-military-base-according-to-president-harry-truman-2/5602782

"The Beginning of Our End": On 75th Anniversary, Hiroshima Survivor Warns Against Nuclear Weapons
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-06
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. "The shaking was so huge," she recalls. "I remember the sensation, the color and the smell like yesterday." Tamura Snider describes her harrowing journey through a shattered city, suffering radiation sickness following the attack, and her message to President Trump.
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/6/hideko_tamura_snider_hiroshima_75th_anniversary

Revealed: How U.S. Gov't & Hollywood Secretly Worked Together to Justify Atomic Bombings of Japan
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-06
On the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, when the United States became the only country ever to use nuclear weapons in warfare, we look at how the U.S. government sought to manipulate the narrative about what it had done — especially by controlling how it was portrayed by Hollywood. Journalist Greg Mitchell's new book, "The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood — and America — Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," documents how the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki triggered a race between Hollywood movie studios to tell a sanitized version of the story in a major motion picture.
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/6/greg_mitchell_atomic_bomb_hollywood

Israel strikes 'underground terror infrastructure' in Gaza in retaliation for 'explosive balloons' (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-06
The Israel Defense Forces have announced they had targeted multiple "underground terror infrastructure" installations in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for several "explosive balloons" launched into Israel earlier in the day. | "Terrorists in Gaza launched explosive balloons into Israel throughout the day. In response, our aircraft just struck Hamas underground terror infrastructure in Gaza," the IDF tweeted following Thursday's strikes, adding that it wouldn't allow the group to "terrorize Israeli civilians." | Video of the IDF strike on Hamas' position in response to launching incendiary/IED balloons from
rt.com/news/497311-israel-gaza-hamas-strikes/

The ACLU Has Never Done a Damn Thing for Me
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
It's actually worse than that in terms of the ACLU. When I was a school counselor in a public high school, the ACLU screwed me royally, even though I had helped them with the case of a student. A federal district court found for the student in a freedom of speech case, and I was a…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-aclu-has-never-done-a-damn-thing-for-me/

'Sea-Watch 4' to Resume Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Sea Watch charities will resume humanitarian rescue operations in the central Mediterranean using their new ship, the Sea-Watch 4. | RELATED: | Italy: Salvini Will Go to Trial for Blocking the Open Arms Ship | This German-flagged vessel, which is a former oceanographic research vessel, is on Spanish territory preparing to sail from the Burriana Port on August 15. | It will leave for the coasts near Libya, an African country where the civil…
telesurenglish.net/news/Sea-Watch-4-to-Resume-Rescue-Operations-in-the-Mediterranean-20200806-0010.html

Rouhani voices Iran's readiness for helping Lebanese people
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held a phone talks with the Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday, voicing Iran's readiness for any humanitarian cooperation and assistance with Lebanon.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161969/Rouhani-voices-Iran-s-readiness-for-helping-Lebanese-people

Document Exposes US Plot To Overthrow Nicaragua's Elected Government
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
A newly released document exposes a US government operation to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government in Nicaragua. | The plot is administered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a regime-change vehicle that uses the pretense of "humanitarian aid" to advance Washington's aggressive foreign-policy interests. | The document (PDF) details the creation of a new "task order" called Responsive Assistance in Nicaragua (RAIN) and its plan for "Nicaragua's transition to democracy"…
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Document Exposes US Plot To Overthrow Nicaragua's Elected Governmentt
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
A newly released document exposes a US government operation to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government in Nicaragua. | The plot is administered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a regime-change vehicle that uses the pretense of "humanitarian aid" to advance Washington's aggressive foreign-policy interests. | The document (PDF) details the creation of a new "task order" called Responsive Assistance in Nicaragua (RAIN) and its plan for "Nicaragua's transition to democracy"…
popularresistance.org/document-exposes-us-plot-to-overthrow-nicaraguas-elected-governmentt/

Iran sends aid to Lebanon over explosion at Beirut port
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
The devastating tragedy in Beirut on Tuesday has drawn tremendous outpouring of shock and grief around the world with many countries, including Iran, coming forward with offers of help.Iran, one of Lebanon's key allies in the region, dispatched the second shipment of humanitarian aid to Beirut on Thursday, following the first shipment late on Wednesday.The consignment of humanitarian aid includes mainly food and medical supplies, said Mohammad Baqer Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS).Iran has also set up a field hospital in Beirut and sent a 37-member medical team comprising gen…
yenisafak.com/en/news/iran-sends-aid-to-lebanon-over-explosion-at-beirut-port-3536252

Coalition to March on the DNC responds to Biden's decision to stay home
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-06
Milwaukee, WI – While Joe Biden shelters himself from COVID-19 and the movement for Black lives in Milwaukee, the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be in the streets. Regardless of whether Biden comes to Milwaukee or not, the Democrats will hear from the people on the front lines fighting police crimes, especially the families who have lost loved ones to killer cops. | "Our main goal as a group is to defeat Donald Trump. He is the key figure in promoting racist killings of Black, Latino and indigenous people, whether by vigilantes or the police," said Ryan Hamann, one of the co-…
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Coalition to March on the DNC responds to Biden's decision to stay home
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-06
Milwaukee, WI – While Joe Biden shelters himself from COVID-19 and the movement for Black lives in Milwaukee, the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be in the streets. Regardless of whether Biden comes to Milwaukee or not, the Democrats will hear from the people on the front lines fighting police crimes, especially the families who have lost loved ones to killer cops. | "Our main goal as a group is to defeat Donald Trump. He is the key figure in promoting racist killings of Black, Latino and indigenous people, whether by vigilantes or the police," said Ryan Hamann, one of the co-…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/coalition-march-dnc-responds-biden-s-decision-stay-home

Native Americans Win Historic Victories in U.S. High Court Rulings
Talli Nauman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Heat on the U.S. Presidential election campaign thermometer reached new highs during the dog days of summer 2020, with the final rulings of the Supreme Court calendar year favoring indigenous causes diametrically opposed to those of incumbent candidate Donald Trump. The highest court in the land ruled in favor of the exercise of Native American…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/native-americans-win-historic-victories-in-u-s-high-court-rulings/

Right-wing violence against Mapuche people in Chile widely condemned
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
Social movements are demanding that urgent actions be taken against the Carabineros and that the interior ministers be removed from his position for their complicity in the violence against the Mapuche Indigenous community…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/right-wing-violence-against-mapuche-people-in-chile-widely-condemned/

Tuesday 8/11: Indigenous Leadership in the U.S. Environmental and Climate Justice Movements
Climate Reality Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/18835673.php

Tane Chatfield's family: 'We deserve justice'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-08-06
Indigenous Rachel EvansIssue 1275 Australia Aboriginal deaths in custody SydneyAugust 6, 2020The mother and father of Tane Chatfield spoke in the front of Lidcombe Coronial Court on July 17, the…
greenleft.org.au/content/tane-chatfield%E2%80%99s-family-we-deserve-justice

US GDP Collapses and Economic Rebound Fades
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
This past week US economy collapsed in the 2nd quarter by 32.9% at annual rate and nearly 10% just for the April-June period. Never before in modern US history–not even in the worse quarters of the 1930s great depression–has the US economy contracted so quickly and so deeply! All the major private sectors of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/us-gdp-collapses-and-economic-rebound-fades/

America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo
Justin Podur | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Joe Emersberger interviewed Justin Podur regarding his new book about a conflict few understand thanks to, among other things, "Africanist" scholars.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/americas-wars-on-democracy-in-rwanda-and-the-dr-congo/

Another Hiroshima Is Coming
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Above photo: A human nuclear blast 'shadow' formed on bank steps after the explosion of the atom bomb in Hiroshima (1945).i.imgur.com. Unless we stop it now. In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five 'ground zeros' for nuclear weapons — from Hiroshima to …
popularresistance.org/another-hiroshima-is-coming/

A Reversal in the Name of Human Survival
Kathy Kelly | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Mourners carry the coffin of a child at the funeral procession for those killed in an airstrike on a bus carried out last week by a warplane of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition on August 13, 2018 in Saada, Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-10184929881_0_0.jpg …
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Cuba: President Rejects Lawfare Against Leftist Leaders
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel highlighted on Thursday the use of the judiciary in politics as a colonizing weapon over the peoples of Latin America. | RELATED: | The US Increases Risk of War in South America, Lula Warns | On his official Twitter account, the president maintained that the case of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, "proves how far the enemies go" in applying those tools. | "The use of the judiciary against left-wing leaders is an imperial m…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-President-Rejects-Lawfare-Against-Leftist-Leaders-20200806-0015.html

Democrats drifting to extreme left because they are 'owned by George Soros,' claims former House speaker Gingrich
rt.com | 2020-08-06
The Democrat Party continues to drift radically leftward, and its leadership will never rebuke militant elements like Antifa, because it's controlled by billionaire leftist George Soros, former US House speaker Newt Gingrich said. | "All of these Democrats are now basically owned by the left," Gingrich said on Wednesday in an interview on Fox News. "They are not going to pick any fights. They are owned by people who are financed by George Soros." | Gingrich made his comments after Democrats in a US Senate hearing on Tuesday refused to directly criticize the conduct of Antifa, whose members have been accused of…
rt.com/usa/497220-gingrich-democrats-soros-antifa/

Biden says Latinos are 'incredibly diverse,' UNLIKE BLACK VOTERS
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took time out from a question asked by a Latina reporter to state that while black voters all think alike (with "notable exceptions"), Latino voters are "incredibly diverse" in opinion. | In the midst of answering a question on whether he would extend protected status for Venezuelan immigrants during a Wednesday town hall, Biden veered off on a self-congratulatory tangent touting his supposed knowledge of the Latino community. | What you all know but most people don't know, unlike the African American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an i…
rt.com/usa/497306-biden-black-latino-alike-fail/

A Message to the Swing State
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Trump is waging a war on truth, decency, our planet, and on working people. If Biden wins, we'll be at his door on day one, demanding the kinds of structural reforms that advance racial, economic, and environmental justice. But before that, we have to #VoteTrumpOut in swing states…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-message-to-the-swing-state/

Why the Left Must Reject and Elect Biden at the Same Time
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
To make a progressive future possible, beating Trump is absolutely necessary while very far from sufficient. To organize against a government headed by Trump is to push against a thick stone wall. To organize against a government headed by Biden holds out the real potential of progressive breakthroughs.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-the-left-must-reject-and-elect-biden-at-the-same-time/

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

War and Pandemic Journalism
Patrick Cockburn | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Health workers greet people as they arrive in cars at a mobile Covid-19 testing site at the Westside Community Center in the Goldsboro neighborhood of Sanford, Florida on April 23, 2020. (Photo: Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/coronavirus-not-war_0.jpg …
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"Conspiracy Theory" — What Is It?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Being blamed for disseminating "conspiracy theories" and therefore being a "conspiracy theorist", is an extraordinary and smart tactic used by the true conspirators against the truth seekers. | It works most of the time with often more than 90% of the …
globalresearch.ca/conspiracy-theory-what-is-it/5720261

"Conspiracy Theory" — What Is It?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Being blamed for disseminating "conspiracy theories" and therefore being a "conspiracy theorist", is an extraordinarily and smart tactic used by the true conspirators against the truth seekers. | It works most of the time with often more than 90% of the …
globalresearch.ca/conspiracy-theory-what-is-it/5720261

Voting Fraud Is Real: The U.S. Electoral System Is Vulnerable
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
The United States national election is now only three months away and it should be expected that the out-and-out lies emanating from both parties will increase geometrically as the polling date nears. One of the more interesting claims regarding the …
globalresearch.ca/voting-fraud-real-electoral-system-vulnerable/5720435

US Contracts Out Its Regime Change Operation In Nicaragua
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Masaya, Nicaragua – An extraordinary leaked document gives a glimpse of the breadth and complexity of the US government's plan to interfere in Nicaragua's internal affairs up to and after its presidential election in 2021. | The plan,[1] a 14-page extract from a much longer document, dates from March-April this year and sets the terms for a contract to be awarded by USAID (a "Request for Task Order Proposal"). It was revealed by reporter William Grigsby from Nicaragua's independent Radio La Primerisima[2] and describes the task of creating what the document calls "the environment for Nicaragua's transition to dem…
popularresistance.org/us-contracts-out-its-regime-change-operation-in-nicaragua/

Video: War Drums Beat in the Middle East and the Beirut Explosion
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
On the evening of August 4th, a massive explosion rocked the port of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, causing devastating damage and leaving thousands of casualties. The explosion sent a shockwave across the city and blew out windows up to …
globalresearch.ca/video-war-drums-beat-middle-east-after-thousands-casualties-beirut-explosion/5720374

Can Trump Legally Suspend Payroll Taxes by Executive Order?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Trump pushed the dubious scheme earlier. | Again this week, he claimed to have "a lot of…executive powers," adding: | "(W)e're looking…very seriously" at suspending payroll taxes. | The US Constitution's Article II covers executive powers. They include nothing about circumventing matters over …
globalresearch.ca/can-trump-legally-suspend-payroll-taxes-executive-order/5720421

Dreamers' Children: Up to 200,000 American Kids Could be Left Parentless
Robin Valenzuela | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Immigration rights activists take part in a rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 12, 2019. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-11818855831_0.jpg …
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Nigel Farage sinks to a humiliating low in his latest attack on refugees
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Nigel Farage launched an attack on refugees ( again) on 6 August. Or rather, he screeched at his Twitter followers that refugees had mounted an attack on Britain. A "shocking invasion" had happened, apparently. He even invoked the language of World War II, describing the refugees as making a "beach landing". | Farage also included what he said was "exclusive footage" of the alleged offensive. And what did it show? Around a dozen or so people, including women and children, pulling themselves fr…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/08/06/nigel-farage-sinks-to-a-humiliating-low-in-his-latest-attack-on-refugees/

War crimes in Afghanistan covered up by UK Ministry of Defence
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
Documents, written by SAS officers and military personnel, provide evidence of war crimes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/afgh-a06.html

Tracking Apps are Unlikely to Help Stop COVID-19
Jay Stanley | aclu.org | 2020-08-06
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 for contact tracing or exposure warnings from the beginning, but it is clearer than ever that such tools are unlikely to work, and that the debate over such trac…
aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-apps-are-unlikely-to-help-stop-covid-19

Retired Federal Probation Officer: Stop Sending People to COVID-Filled Prisons Unnecessarily
Mark Buckwalter | aclu.org | 2020-08-06
In early April, the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City suffered its first coronavirus death: Michael Tyson. Mr. Tyson, 53, had been arrested in late February not because he had committed a crime, but for a technical violation of his parole. As a retired federal probation officer, I can tell you that incarcerating someone for a technical rule violation should be a last resort. But during a pandemic, it should be ceased completely. Our federal, state, and local probation and parole systems…
aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/retired-federal-probation-officer-stop-sending-people-to-covid-filled-prisons-unnecessarily

Security Council condemns 'heinous and cowardly' terrorist attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
news.un.org | 2020-08-06
Members of the UN Security Council have condemned "in the strongest terms" the terrorist attack at a prison complex in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Monday, that left at least 29 people — including civilians — dead.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069622

Study: Billionaires That Donated to Gates-Buffet Giving Pledge Now Richer Than Ever
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-06
As the assets of the billionaire class in the US swell to $3.5 trillion amid the pandemic, a new study of philanthropic giving reveals that many of America's wealthiest are using charitable donations to stay rich and get richer.
mintpressnews.com/study-billionaires-donated-gates-buffet-giving-pledge-now-richer-than-ever/270128/

PDF of August 6 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-08-06
Download the 12-page PDF. Boston school workers blast 'reopening plans' WORLD: Brazil; China; Fidel Agcaoili °presente! ALSO: John Lewis & Selma legacy; Disabled people: 'Part of the working class'; #SEIUDropTheCops; Pandemic relief sabotaged; Sahara dust cloud; Heat waves & socialism. BLACK LIVES MATTER: Remembering Garrett Foster, anti-racist fighter; Pensacola solidarity; . . . | Continue reading PDF of August 6 issue at Workers.org…
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Brazil's Money Laundering Scandal from Hell
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Two decades after a political earthquake, a powerful aftershock that should be rocking Brazil apart is being met with thunderous silence. | What is now termed "the Banestado leaks" and "CC5gate" is straight out of vintage WikiLeaks: a list, published for …
globalresearch.ca/brazil-money-laundering-scandal/5720383

Trump's cold war with China is heating up
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-06
The world's largest economic powers are in a battle for dominance complicated by the pandemic and Trump's escalation.
therealnews.com/stories/trump-cold-war-with-china-is-heating-up

Huawei and 5G Technology. US-China Confrontation
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
This informative article focusses on the China-US confrontation regarding 5G. it does not address the impacts of 5G on health. | *** | First-generation mobile technology offered only analogue calls and no browsing, data transfer or SMS. Even though today's 4G long-term …
globalresearch.ca/huawei-bans-delay-global-access-5g-technology/5720367

A review of Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
What can a virus tell us about climate breakdown, in its causation and in humanity's response?>…
mronline.org/2020/08/06/a-review-of-andreas-malms-corona-climate-chronic-emergency-war-communism-in-the-twenty-first-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-review-of-andreas-malms-corona-climate-chronic-emergency-war-communism-in-the-twenty-first-century

Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos
Mel Gurtov | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
"Normal" isn't good, as in the following warning in November 2019:…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/falling-behind-covid-climate-change-and-chaos/

Transport for London coronavirus bailout prepares tube privatisation
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
The bailout, only half the sum requested, spearheads an assault on TfL's workforce, in stark contrast to the generous packages offered to the privatised passenger rail franchises.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/trfl-a06.html

State of Pandemic Disaster: Melbourne Moves to Stage Four
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Being in control of a sinking ship is not enviable. Regulations previously passed have a museum feel to them, distinctly obsolete. Directions, once dictated with confidence, lack timbre. Coronavirus is serving as that most wily and cheeky of agents, with the most appropriate of accomplices: Homo sapiens. Human beings are fed up, munching on conspiracy…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/state-of-pandemic-disaster-melbourne-moves-to-stage-four/

Trump Insists on Virus Disappearance and Children Immunity
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
In his latest attempt to encourage the reopening of schools, President Donald Trump Wednesday insisted that the coronavirus will disappear and children are almost immune to it. | RELATED: | Trump Fires Two Tennessee Valley Authority Board Chairmen | "It's going away. It'll go away. Things go away. No question in my mind that it will go away," he said. | "Children are able to throw it off very easily… They may get it, but they get it and it doesn't have much of an impact on them,"
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Insists-on-Virus-Disappearance-and-Children-Immunity-20200806-0005.html

I'm a Dirty Thievin' Bastard
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
Most corporate retailers rely and count on maintaining constant environments of mistrust, fear and turnover of the people they employ to boost their profitability. By avoiding anything resembling allegiance among their staff, these barons of modern day capitalism turn and burn personnel while avoiding costly expenditures such as benefits and pay increases, instead transferring that …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/im-a-dirty-thievin-bastard/

COVID-19 outbreaks at four workplaces in Swindon, UK
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
Local officials in Wales and England have sought to minimise any disruption to the operations of the corporations as outbreaks of the virus have flared up.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/swin-a06.html

The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled
Robert Jacobs — Ran Zwigenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
In August 1945, the United States attacked two cities in Japan with nuclear weapons in the last days of World War Two. The US used weapons of mass destruction against a primarily civilian population, instantly killing over 100,000 human beings, with tens of thousands of wounded and irradiated people who would die in the subsequent…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-american-narrative-of-hiroshima-is-a-statue-that-must-be-toppled/

An Unbelievably Disastrous State of Affairs
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Like most of the rest of the U.S. population, Montanans are wondering how we're going to get out of the very serious and growing problems afflicting our state and nation right now. They are also, on an increasing basis, growing very angry that our Republican president and his snarling pack of enablers are ignoring the…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/an-unbelievably-disastrous-state-of-affairs/

How the Fascists Won World War II
H. Bruce Franklin | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Come you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks –"Masters of War," Bob Dylan This is a mystery story.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/how-the-fascists-won-world-war-ii/

Ireland and Slavery: Debating the 'Irish Slaves Myth'
Brian Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Over recent months, social media in Ireland and the United States has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about 'Irish slaves' and a broader controversy about Irish complicity in the transatlantic slave trade. The timing of the 'debate' is far from coincidental: a series of false and malicious assertions that the American far Right have…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/ireland-and-slavery-debating-the-irish-slaves-myth/

Time to Empower the Invisibles: India Awaits a Mental Health Revolution
Priyanka Singh — Sujeet Singh | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Mental health is an inherent and the most paramount aspect of our well being, without it a qualitative life is barren to imagine. These 'Covidnary Times' are extremely turbulent, where 'Normality' will be more sidelined with 'Abnormality.' The side-effects of Covid-19 will keep hunting our World for ages to come. Surging mass layoffs, transcendental change…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/time-to-empower-the-invisibles-india-awaits-a-mental-health-revolution/

Suffrage: The Myth of Sisterphus
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." — The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Woman is the nigger of the world Yes, she is If you don't believe me, take…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/suffrage-the-myth-of-sisterphus/

"Man Attacks Grizzly" and Other Leading Bleeding Stories
David Mattson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
My Google Alerts inbox has been flooded during the last week by an article making the rounds among national and regional media outlets with a title that virtually screams "Official: 7 Grizzly Bear Attacks This Year." More matter-of-factly, the article leads off with the observation that…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/man-attacks-grizzly-and-other-leading-bleeding-stories/

Reverse the New Nuclear Arms Race
Howie Hawkins, Madelyn Hoffman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
August 6 is the 75th anniversary of the only time any nation in the world dropped an atomic bomb on people. On August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman ordered Fat Man dropped on Hiroshima. 210,000 people were killed instantly. Three days later, Little Boy was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 more people instantly. Now would…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/reverse-the-new-nuclear-arms-race/

Bolivia: Senate Legalizes Chlorine Dioxide as COVID Treatment
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
Bolivia's Senate has passed a bill that includes chlorine dioxide in the COVID-19 treatment protocol on Wednesday, despite World Health Organization warnings. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Health Workers Go on Hunger Strike Amid Pandemic | The bill allows public and privately owned labs to produce a chlorine dioxide solution, under pharmaceutical quality regulations. | Besides, physicians can administrate the drug with the consent of the patients or sufferer's relatives. According to the no…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-senate-legalizes-chlorine-dioxide-as-covid-treatment–20200806-0017.html

Global cooperation is our only choice against COVID-19, says WHO chief
news.un.org | 2020-08-06
With more than 18.5 million cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide as of Thursday, and 700,000 deaths, the UN's top health official again appealed to countries to unite in the fight against the disease…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069702

Cross-border links between terrorists, organized crime, underscore need for coherent global response
news.un.org | 2020-08-06
The nexus between terrorism and organized crime took centre stage in the Security Council on Thursday, with experts raising fresh concerns over opportunistic alliances emerging among belligerents who share a hostility towards national authorities, and seek to exploit vulnerabilities created by the COVID-19 crisis.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069672

Seafarers face a tough challenge amid COVID-19
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
The worsening morale and mental health of hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded aboard ships across the globe due to COVID-19- related lockdowns has been described as a "ticking time bomb." This might lead to dangerous consequences if not immediately addressed. | As per a report published by The Mission to Seafarers on July 29, uncertainty over when they can reunite with their families and the perpetual fear of getting infected has begun to exert a heavy toll on seafarers. Many fear that if infected, they will be unable to a…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/seafarers-face-a-tough-challenge-amid-covid-19/

Two Florida teenagers die from COVID-19 as schools push to reopen
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
These harrowing deaths come a month after a 9-year-old, Kimora Lynum, from Putman County, became the youngest child added to Florida's COVID-19 death toll.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/flod-a06.html

The Covid-19 Pandemic, Does It Exist? The Truth is Being Obliterated. The Global Elite's Campaign Against Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
The COVID-19 virus. Does it exist? Is it a novel virus? Is there a Pandemic? | If you ask any doctor or scientist in the world to show you a scientifically-verified proof, they will not be able to show you one….
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-does-not-exist-global-elite-campaign-terror-against-humanity/5720214

Public Health vs. Politics
Katherine Eban | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
White House Scrapped Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Plan to Hurt Blue States…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/public-health-vs-politics/

What We Can Learn from Cuban Health Care
Paul Buhle | progressive.org | 2020-08-06
Though it has had its fair share of failures, the country's approach to world health proves to be successful, especially as a response to COVID-19.
progressive.org/dispatches/learn-from-cuba-health-care-buhle-200806/

ECLAC: Latam Goods And Exports To Decrease By 23 Percent
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean forecast on Thursday that the value of goods and exports in America Latina will fall by 23 percent this year as a result of a decline in prices and volumes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Venezuela Poses a New Vision of Growth for the 'New Normality' | "The decrease in imported volume would reach 18%, so that it would be somewhat greater than that registered in 2009 during the world financial crisis and similar…
telesurenglish.net/news/ECLAC-Latam-Goods-And-Exports-To-Decrease-By-23-Percent-20200806-0023.html

Progress in the Age of COVID-19
Jim Hightower | progressive.org | 2020-08-06
America's inequality crisis–now made much worse by our "leaders" mishandling the pandemic–cannot be met by small-ball political tinkering and legalistic tweaks to failed systems.
progressive.org/magazine/progress-in-age-of-covid-hightower/

Beaches and Airports Ready to Open in Latin America
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
Latin American countries are preparing to open beaches and airports despite the COVID-19 advancing in the region, which has become the world's epicenter of the pandemic with 4.7 million cases and over 160.000 deaths. | RELATED: | Haiti: Gov't Resume International Fligths Amidst the Pandemic | Although Ecuador has registered 87,963 COVID-19 cases and 5,808 deaths so far, President Lenin Moreno's administration ordered the opening of beaches in five provinces. | "The reactivation o…
telesurenglish.net/news/Beaches-and-Airports-Ready-to-Open-in-Latin-America-20200806-0003.html

Far-right protest against COVID-19 restrictions in Berlin: A put-up job
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
The protest in Berlin was a predictable, put-up job, which closely resembled the scenario of the Pegida demonstrations held five years ago.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/demo-a06.html

The chicken or the egg?
Thomas Magstadt | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-06
What the Covid-19 pandemic says about the US…
nationofchange.org/2020/08/06/the-chicken-or-the-egg/

Bangladesh: Monsoon Season Widens Fear of New Disease Outbreaks
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
Bangladesh's Emergency Health Operations Control Room Spokesman Ayesha Akther said that at least 145 people have died and over five million have been affected in flood-related incidents since June 30. | RELATED: | Bangladesh: Internet Ban Risks Rohingya Lives Amid Pandemic | The current situation increases the risk of causing outbreaks of deadly diseases and threaten to worsen the COVID-19 pandemic | "These are the longest floods we have seen in years, but the water has already re…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bangladesh-Monsoon-Season-Widens-Fear-of-New-Disease-Outbreaks-20200806-0011.html

Black Healthcare Workers More Vulnerable to COVID, Study Says
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
U.S. and U.K. black healthcare workers are more vulnerable to COVID-19 and more likely to die due to the virus than their non-black colleagues and patients, according to a Harvard Medical School study. | RELATED: | Nigeria: Government to Enforce a New Quarantine Extension | "If you think to yourself, 'Healthcare workers should be on equal footing in the workplace,' our study really showed that's definitely not the case," Harvard professor and study author Dr. Andrew Chan said. | Th…
telesurenglish.net/news/black-healthcare-workers-more-vulnerable-to-covid-study-says-20200806-0016.html

Dossier 31: 'The Politic of Blood': Political Repression in South Africa
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
In his famous speech from the dock in April 1964, Nelson Mandela spoke of 'revolutionary democracy' rooted in precolonial forms of collective deliberation and decision making.
mronline.org/2020/08/05/dossier-31-the-politic-of-blood-political-repression-in-south-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dossier-31-the-politic-of-blood-political-repression-in-south-africa

Raise, Don't Stabilize and Don't Reduce Social Costs
Collective 20 | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
We seek radical social transformation. But short of that, our actions should not only force elites to respond to our demands they should also expand democracy and plant the seeds of a new future in the present…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/raise-dont-stabilize-and-dont-reduce-social-costs/

Watch Enormous Beirut Blast from 15 Synchronized Camera Angles as Mystery Surrounding Its Cause Persists
RT News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Videos of the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut that left over 70 people dead and thousands wounded continue to emerge, painting a comprehensive picture of the destruction — though shedding no light on its cause. | A mega-compilation of | …
globalresearch.ca/watch-enormous-beirut-blast-15-synchronized-camera-angles-mystery-surrounding-cause-persists/5720390

The Lessons We Haven't Learned
Dr. Helen Caldicott | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
My birthday is August 7, sandwiched between the anniversary dates for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively). I was six years old when the first bomb fell. My course in life was …
globalresearch.ca/lessons-we-have-not-learned/5720417

There Is No Political Solution to the Syrian Conflict
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, of the Obama administration, created a mantra for the media: "There is no military solution to Syria." He said it so many times, he seemed to convince everyone. However, after 9 years of …
globalresearch.ca/no-political-solution-syrian-conflict/5720404

On the Enduring Significance of Hiroshima after 75 Years
Canadian Peace Congress | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Seventy-five years ago, an act of international criminality and infamy took place, the consequences of which have posed an existential threat to humanity ever since. For the first time ever, a species had created the capacity to not only bring …
globalresearch.ca/enduring-significance-hiroshima-after-75-years/5720437

Wearing the Mask is Mandatory in Quebec: The Legault Government's Legitimacy Questioned
Dr. Micheline Ladouceur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
globalresearch.ca/wearing-the-mask-is-mandatory-in-quebec-the-legault-governments-legitimacy-questioned/5720346

Trump Administration Approves the "Stealing" of Syria's Oil
TRT World | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Months after US president Donald Trump…
globalresearch.ca/trump-administration-approves-stealing-syria-oil/5720409

"Weapons of Mass Radiation": Hundreds of 5G Spy Satellites Launched into the Ionosphere
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Keeping us preoccupied with a phony virus which was supposed to kill millions and landed-up causing no more deaths than the normal winter flu, sure was a useful way of directing attention away from the earthly and upward deployment of …
globalresearch.ca/musk-5g-spy-satellite-megalomania/5720290

Nuclear War or Invasion: The False Dichotomy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Brett Wilkins | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Like other dark chapters in U.S. history, the official narrative of the decision to unleash the most destructive weapon humanity has ever known upon an utterly defeated people is deeply flawed. | *** | Seventy-five years ago, the United States waged the …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-war-false-dichotomy-hiroshima-nagasaki/5720403

Global Research Newsletter Temporarily Suspended
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Dear Readers, | Due to technical issues, our daily newsletter sent out via e-mail is currently suspended. We will be able to resume the send-out within the next week or so. We thank you for your patience. | In the meantime, as …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-newsletter-temporarily-suspended/5720341

Legacies of African American Struggle: Rev. C.T. Vivian and Rep. John Lewis Efforts to Dismantle "Legalized Segregation"
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Two luminaries in the African American struggle which emerged during the 1950s and 1960s, Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis, passed away on July 17. | Both figures played a prominent role in the efforts to destroy legalized segregation,…
globalresearch.ca/legacies-c-t-vivian-john-lewis-secured-while-ruling-class-promotes-revisionist-history/5720378

Seeking peace on the Korean Peninsula
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
Although the date drew little notice in the U.S. media, July 27, 2020 marked the 67th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement, an agreement that ended the fighting but not the war between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
mronline.org/2020/08/06/seeking-peace-on-the-korean-peninsula/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeking-peace-on-the-korean-peninsula

Nigeria: Government to Enforce a New Quarantine Extension
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
Nigeria Secretary of the Federation Boss Mustapha Thursday announced a quarantine extension for the next four weeks, in an attempt to restrain the contagion. | RELATED: | Bangladesh: Monsoon Season Widens Fear of New Disease Outbreaks | "I'm pleased to inform you that Mr. President has carefully considered the 5th Interim Report of the PTF and has accordingly approved that, except for some modifications to expatiate upon later, the Phase Two of the eased lockdown be extended b…
telesurenglish.net/news/nigeria-government-to-enforce-a-new-quarantine-extension–20200806-0013.html

Apocalyptic Scenes from the Site of the Deadly Beirut Blast
MintPress News Desk | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-06
A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city's port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 100 people are feared dead and thousands injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said. | It was not clear what caused the blast, which struck with the force of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake, according to Germany's geosciences center GFZ, and was heard and felt as far away as Cyprus more than 200 kilometers (180 miles) across the Mediterranean. Lebanon's interior minister said it appeared that a large cache of ammonium nitrate i…
mintpressnews.com/in-photos-apocalyptic-scenes-from-site-of-deadly-beirut-blast/270143/

Mexico: People Demand 'Justice and Memory' for Missing Persons
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
In Mexico, the missing persons' relatives Wednesday performed a "Walk for Memory and Justice", a demonstration that asks President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) for answers on the disappearance of over 73,000 people in the country. | RELATED: | Mexico: Another Two Journalists Murdered In Michoacan | "Victims have the right to be looked for and to be found," Patricia Manzanares said and recalled that she is looking for her son, a federal police officer Juan Hernandez, who disappear…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-People-Demand-Justice-and-Memory-for-Missing-Persons-20200806-0009.html

75 years after Hiroshima, the clock is ticking
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To this day, we are under the threat of nuclear war.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/75-years-after-hiroshima-the-clock-is-ticking/

75 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
The anniversary's significance has never been greater. Behind the backs of the people of the United States and the world, US imperialism is steadily building up a massive nuclear arsenal and pursuing a doctrine of aggressive nuclear war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/pers-a06.html

75 Years Since Hiroshima: Nuclear Sword of Damocles Hangs Over Humanity
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
"Some fell to the ground and their stomachs already expanded full, burst and organs fell out. Others had skin falling off them and others still were carrying limbs. And one in particular was carrying their eyeballs in their hand." The above is an account by a Hiroshima survivor talking about the fate of her schoolmates. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/75-years-since-hiroshima-nuclear-sword-of-damocles-hangs-over-humanity/

UN to Urge Denuclearization on Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
In a video message delivered at an annual ceremony in Hiroshima, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the risk of nuclear weapons being used was growing and urged all nations to renew their commitment to achieving a world free of them. | RELATED: | The Pandemic Enhances Unequal Access to Education, UN Warns | "Division, distrust and a lack of dialogue threaten to return the world to unrestrained strategic nuclear competition," Guterres said for Thursday's 75th…
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Urge-For-Denuclearization-On-Anniversary-Of-Hiroshima-Bombing-20200806-0022.html

GOP fiddles as jobless cavalcade continues and pandemic rages
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
WASHINGTON–Congressional Republicans fiddled and made no moves to help the unemployed, as the cavalcade of jobless workers continued in the week ending August 1. And the fiddling may come back to haunt them in November, polls show. In those seven days ending August 1, another 984,192 people sought state jobless benefits, the Bureau of Labor …
peoplesworld.org/article/gop-fiddles-as-jobless-cavalcade-continues-and-pandemic-rages/

Mounting opposition by teachers against drive to reopen schools
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
Evidence is growing that the reopening of schools will lead to a massive resurgence of the pandemic, with deadly consequences for teachers and students.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/usco-a06.html

Smoking Gun: Crisis? What Crisis?
progressive.org | 2020-08-06
A timeline of the pandemic warning signs ignored by the Trump Administration.
progressive.org/magazine/smoking-gun-crisis-timeline-200514/

Staring into the Economic Abyss
Max Elbaum | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
It will take an across-the-board combination of militant protest, get out the vote, and doing whatever is necessary to protect the results to best position partisans of justice, peace and saving the planet for the bitter battles that lie beyond November…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/staring-into-the-economic-abyss/

Fight to jail Long Island killer cops & corrupt DA continues
Danny Towle | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-06
"Say his name! Kenny Lazo!" This chant and many others could be heard as a crowd of 60 Long Island residents marched down Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore, New York, July 25. The protesters marched on the Suffolk County Police Department Third Precinct building, where Kenny Lazo died in police custody 12 years ago after …
liberationnews.org/fight-to-jail-long-island-killer-cops-corrupt-da-continues/

Artists, writers and human rights groups urge Egypt to release Sanaa Seif
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
Sanaa Seif has been held in pre-trial detention since June for protesting the illegal detention of her brother, activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. She was abducted from outside the prosecutor general's office where she had gone to file a complaint…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/artists-writers-and-human-rights-groups-urge-egypt-to-release-sanaa-seif/

FAO: World Food Prices Rise Again In July
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
World food prices increased for the second consecutive month in July as well as the demand for vegetable oils and dairy products, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. | RELATED: | South Sudan: UNICEF Appeals To Breastfeeding On Food Insecurity | The FAO said that its food price index, which is based on prices of foodstuffs most frequently traded, rose to 94.2 points in July, a 1.2 percent increment compared to June. | On the other hand, F…
telesurenglish.net/news/FAO-World-Food-Prices-Rise-Again-In-July-20200806-0018.html

Chile: Mapuche Political Prisoners Begin "Dry" Hunger Strike
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The Communities in Resistance of the Malleco province at Araucania Chilean region and the Relatives of the Mapuche Political Prisoners announced that the hunger strikers in the jail of Angol, capital of Malleco, began an indefinite "dry" hunger strike. | RELATED: | Chile: Mapuches Occupy Mayor's Office In Tirúa, Bio-Bio Region | Through a statement issued Wednesday night, they deeply regretted that the Chilean Government persists in its political intransigence, of not establishing…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Mapuche-Political-Prisoners-Began-A-Dry-Strike-In-Angol-20200806-0019.html

Beirut Blast: Authorities Confirm 137 Dead, Over 5,000 Injured
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
Lebanon's Health Minister Hamad Hasan confirmed that the explosion in downtown Beirut on Tuesday has caused 137 deaths and over 5,000 injuries so far. | RELATED: | Lebanon: Port Officials In House Arrest with Inquiries Underway | His government, which is coordinating with Arab and European countries to ensure medical aid, continues to search for survivors among the rubble. | On Tuesday, in a warehouse in the port of Beirut, 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate generated an explosion…
telesurenglish.net/news/Beirut-Blast-Authorities-Confirm-137-Dead-Over-5000-Injured-20200806-0002.html

DR Congo: Ebola Cases Raise to 74
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday announced that 74 Ebola virus cases have been recorded in the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | RELATED: | Democratic Republic Of Congo: WHO Reports A New Ebola Outbreak | On June 25, DRC authorities announced the end of the tenth Ebola outbreak, which had been hitting the North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri provinces since August 2018. | In those territories, the WHO registered 3,463…
telesurenglish.net/news/DR-Congo-Ebola-Cases-Raise-to-74-20200806-0008.html

US: New York Authorities Sue The National Rifle Association
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit on Thursday aimed at dissolving the National Rifle Association (NRA) after evidence emerged of the organization's illegal conduct and misuse of funding coming from charities to personal use. | RELATED: | US Senate Hearing Unveils Trump's Plans Against Venezuela | "The NRA's influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets," said Attorney…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-New-York-Authorities-Suit-The-National-Rifle-Association-20200806-0021.html

Mexican State Bans The Selling Of Junk Food To Children
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The Mexican state of Oaxaca banned on Thursday the sale of sugary drinks and high-calorie snacks to children, an unprecedented decision aimed at tackling obesity. | RELATED: | Mexico: People Demand 'Justice and Memory' for Missing Persons | The state congress approved the reform to article 20 of the children and adolescents' rights law, with a majority of 31 votes. The decision turns Oaxaca in the first state ever in Mexicos' history to legally prevent the consumption of junk food…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexican-State-Bans-The-Selling-Of-Junk-Food-To-Children-20200806-0014.html

US Senate Hearing Unveils Trump's Plans Against Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-06
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday held a hearing to discuss Donald Trump administration's policy towards Venezuela. The U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliot Abrams was summoned to answer questions about it. | RELATED: | The US Is 'Desperate' to Provoke Government Change in Venezuela | At the meeting, Republican Senator Mitt Romney and other Democratic lawmakers referred to the failure of the U.S. actions carried out to prompt a government change i…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Senate-Hearing-Unveils-Trumps-Plans-Against-Venezuela-20200806-0001.html

Germany: Right-wing terror in Erfurt
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
On August 1, three Guineans were brutally attacked by neo-Nazis in Erfurt and had to be taken to hospital.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/nazi-a06.html

Fast and Furiously Nonviolent
Extinction Rebellion | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Whether the virus spreads or shrinks, without action our world will continue to burn. We need to keep confronting a self-destructive system that is spiraling out of control…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/fast-and-furiously-nonviolent/

Beirut port fire: A crime against Lebanese workers
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
The blast is a damning indictment of Lebanon's political elite, which allowed vast quantities of highly explosive ammonium nitrate to be stored in a wharfside warehouse for years without proper safety controls.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/beir-a06.html

Connecticut activists take up Hiroshima mayor's call: "Unite against all threats"
Joelle Fishman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
NEW HAVEN, Conn.–"Civil society must reject self-centered nationalism and unite against all threats," warned Mayor Kazumi Matsui of Hiroshima, Japan on the 75th commemoration of the horrific devastation of its people when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city and three days later on the city of Nagasaki. The mayor's statement was read as …
peoplesworld.org/article/connecticut-activists-take-up-hiroshima-mayors-call-unite-against-all-threats/

Neil Young sues Trump campaign, slamming use of famous tunes
Larry Neumeister | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Young sued President Donald Trump's reelection campaign Tuesday for copyright infringement, saying he doesn't want his music used as a theme song for a "divisive un-American campaign of ignorance and hate." The Grammy-award winning Canadian-born musician filed the lawsuit through his lawyers in Manhattan federal court, seeking up to $150,000 …
peoplesworld.org/article/neil-young-sues-trump-campaign-slamming-use-of-famous-tunes/

Yemen: Human rights violations against journalists, coming 'from all quarters'
news.un.org | 2020-08-06
Unparalleled rights violations and abuses against journalists are being carried out by all parties to the armed conflict in Yemen, the UN human rights chief said on Thursday…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069652

Yemen: Human right violations against journalists, coming 'from all quarters'
news.un.org | 2020-08-06
Unparalleled rights violations and abuses against journalists are being carried out by all parties to the armed conflict in Yemen, the UN human rights chief said on Thursday…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1069652

The Heat: The new normal — millions working remotely due to global pandemic
Mike Walter | america.cgtn.com | 2020-08-06
In the wake of the global pandemic millions now work remotely. It's a seismic shift that could have profound economic implications.
america.cgtn.com/2020/08/06/the-heat-the-new-normal-millions-working-remotely-due-to-global-pandemic

Value of petrochemical products to reach $ 37bn by March 2024
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Iranian Oil Minister said that with the operation of 27 petrochemical projects by March 21, 2021and with an investment of $17 billion, the total value of petrochemical products will reach $37 billion by March 21, 2024.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161964/Value-of-petrochemical-products-to-reach-37bn-by-March-2024

Army unveils 'Order of Sacrifice'
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — The 'Order of Sacrifice' of Imam Ali Officers' University was unveiled on Thursday morning in the presence of Deputy Coordinator of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Army Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/161962/Army-unveils-Order-of-Sacrifice

Iran to stand by Lebanese government, people: Velayati
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Top Adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution for International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati said that as always, Iran will stand by the Lebanese government and people.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161967/Iran-to-stand-by-Lebanese-government-people-Velayati

Tehran, Baku stress expansion of bilateral coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Social Welfare Mohammad Shariatmadari and Azerbaijan's Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population Sahil Babayev stressed on the expansion of bilateral cooperation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161968/Tehran-Baku-stress-expansion-of-bilateral-coop

US, Israeli nukes threaten region: Zarif
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Stating that the US was the first and only user of nuclear weapons, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that today, the US and Israeli nukes threaten our region.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161966/US-Israeli-nukes-threaten-region-Zarif

Buying home in Montreal with Iranian Real Estate Agt's help
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Buying property in Canada and the city of Montreal and purchasing a shop in Canada are some of the most common ways to get permanent residency in Canada.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161957/Buying-home-in-Montreal-with-Iranian-Real-Estate-Agt-s-help

Coalition Calls for Shut Down of Calpella Wood Pellet Plant
Bradley Allen | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Local tribes, activists and statewide organizations are joining forces to demand closure of the Calpella wood pellet plant during the COVID-19 pandemic.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835692.php

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

A fair and solid crisis financing
Philipp Gerhartinger and Joseph Woss | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
The contrast between the EU and the US in COVID financing could hardly be greater. McDonald's operators, Marathon Oil (over $400 million), Exxon, Chevron and Sea World received relief and will reduce their future tax payments. Tax gifts charac terize the US way of corruption and contradict these recommendations.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835678.php

Thursday 8/6: Hiroshima Nagasaki Accord for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons Livestream
United Religions Initative | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via livestream & restream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835700.php

Hunger Striker At KPFA Calls For More Programming On Testing/tracing & Worker Safety
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
An artist and KPFA member John Sheridan spoke out in front of KPFA about the need to have more programming on the need for mass testing and tracing to stop the pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/18835699.php

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

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

Does The US Military Assassinate Journalists?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
As the cries of United States' 'exceptionalism' are heard from the hallowed halls of Congress, one of the alleged hallmarks is freedom of the press. No nation, the breathless masses are told, protects press freedom like the United States. This belief is similar to Santa Claus: pleasant, comforting, but having no basis in truth. | The government only allows news to be reported that is favorable to the U.S. Censorship has accompanied all its major wars, with the government actually writing articles for news outlets. Historian William Clayton Mullendore, in commenting on censorship during World War I, said…
popularresistance.org/does-the-us-military-assassinate-journalists/

Nuclear War Can Be Stopped Before It Begins
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Nuclear weapons have been posing a threat to humanity for 75 years — ever since the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. | These days, our focus is understandably on the COVID-19 virus and the threat it poses to human life. But as we commemorate the anniversary of these bombings, it is important to acknowledge that unlike the coronavirus, nuclear weapons can only be remediated with prevention. Millions of people could be killed if a single nuclear bomb were detonated over a large city, and the added threats of radiation and retaliation could endanger all life on Earth.
popularresistance.org/nuclear-war-can-be-stopped-before-it-begins/

Our Planet Missed The Opportunity To Unite Against The Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
It is time to stop irresponsible finger-pointing. | All over the world, as this essay is being written, well over 17 million COVID-19 cases have been reported, and 676,000 people died. And instead of concentrating on serious research, trying to save human lives and attempting to stop the global calamity, 'residents' of the White House are spending all the energy on their own political survival, as well as on the survival of the regime. | In the U.S., both the establishment and opposition are buzzing with phantasmagoric conspiracy theories. Everyone is shouting, and no one is listening.
popularresistance.org/our-planet-missed-the-opportunity-to-unite-against-the-pandemic/

First Person: Sick And Afraid Inside San Quentin
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Death Row San Quentin Prison – We men and women who unfortunately have been sentenced to death and sent to death rows here at San Quentin State Prison (for men) and the Central California Women's Facility at Chowchilla have often been referred to as the "walking dead" or "Dead Man Walking," as made famous by the 1995 movie, starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon, about a death row inmate. | We were called these names long before the COVID-19 pandemic came upon us all, seemingly out of nowhere. After it came on the scene, we death row inmates got a double dose of death.
popularresistance.org/first-person-sick-and-afraid-inside-san-quentin/

Belarus president claims he was INTENTIONALLY infected with Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Days after the puzzling announcement that he's been fighting Covid-19 without leaving his post, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told a Ukrainian journalist that someone had intentionally infected him with the virus. | The extraordinary claim appeared in the 2.5-hour-long interview Lukashenko gave to the popular Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon. | We're leaning towards [the version] that someone planted the coronavirus on me. I'm now looking into when it might've happened. | Lukashenko added that he won't name his suggestions publicly for now. | The president also revealed that he ignored doctors' p…
rt.com/news/497275-lukashenko-covid-intentionally-infected/

Norway halts reopening, reimposes 10-day quarantine for 3 European states
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Norway is halting its planned easing of coronavirus restrictions and will likely reimpose others to prevent a full lockdown of society, Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Thursday. "We need to slow down now to avoid a full stop down the road," Solberg told reporters. | Earlier, Norway said it will reimpose a 10-day quarantine from Saturday for all travelers from France, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in those countries. | Norway will also reimpose quarantine for people traveling from Monaco and from certain regions in neighboring Sweden, while lifting quarant…
rt.com/newsline/497268-norway-restrictions-halts-reopening/

October surprise? Trump says Covid-19 vaccine possible before Election Day
rt.com | 2020-08-06
US President Donald Trump has stepped up the already-improbable timetable on a potential coronavirus vaccine, hinting one might be ready "much sooner" than the end of the year – even before Election Day in November. | Asked by radio host Geraldo Rivera when the much-hyped Covid-19 jab will be available to Americans, Trump promised "Sooner than the end of the year, could be much sooner" on Thursday's show. | Also on rt.com | | 'Harmful Covid-19 misinformation': Facebook scrubs Trump post stating children 'virtually immune' to coronavirus | When R…
rt.com/usa/497280-trump-covid-vaccine-election-promise/

Austria's Foreign Ministry warns against travel to Spain except Balearic & Canary islands
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Austria's Foreign Ministry has warned against trips to Spain except for the Balearic and Canary Islands. The measure will take effect from Monday, and people returning to Austria will be required to present a negative test for coronavirus. | The measures are the latest blow to Spain's tourism-dependent economy. Britain, Germany and Switzerland recently warned their citizens against summer holidays on Spanish beaches or at least in certain regions of the country. | New coronavirus cases in Spain have started rising again and hit a post-lockdown record of 1,772 new infections on Wednesday, Reuters reports. | The…
rt.com/newsline/497255-austria-travel-spain-citizens/

'You're breaking the law!' LA mayor vows to CUT WATER & POWER to homes that host 'large parties'
rt.com | 2020-08-06
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has warned that residents hosting large home gatherings can expect their water and power utilities to be cut, a sharp escalation of the city's strict Covid-19 measures amid a series of recent house parties. | Starting on Friday, Garcetti said that the city's Department of Water and Power (DWP) would shut off service to properties where there are "egregious" violations of local health orders, pointing to house parties in the Hollywood Hills and Calabasas in recent weeks, which he said were held in "flagrant" defiance of the law. | "While we have already closed all bars and nightclubs, the…
rt.com/usa/497222-la-cut-water-power-gatherings/

'The Moscow consensus': as West's centuries-long hegemony comes to an end, Russia & other emerging markets have ideas of their own
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Russians and Americans often seem like they are talking over each other. Both sides have their own view of the world, and increasingly, are able to agree on very little. | The Western view is that Russia is our enemy. It is trying to destabilize the international order and undermine democracy so that its president, Vladimir Putin, can re-establish the USSR for the benefit of his corrupt cronies. Against him stand those of the civilized world, who believe in the values of democratic individual freedoms, justice and the rule of law. | Is that a fairly accurate picture of how many governments and commenters see R…
rt.com/russia/497296-west-hegemony-end-russia-ideas/

Russians & Iranians SPAMMED with State Dept's promises of riches after US offers $10mn for HACKERS 'interfering with election'
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Russian and Iranian citizens are receiving text messages hyping a $10 million bounty the US State Department has offered for information on anyone interfering in US elections on behalf of foreign governments. Desperate much? | Reports of unsolicited messages talking up the cyber-bounties began pouring out of Russian cities on Thursday as residents who received them deluged their local news outlets with screenshots of the bizarre spam. A number of Iranians also received the odd messages Thursday night. | | The message reads: The US State Department is offering $10mln for information on the interference into t…
rt.com/news/497279-bounties-hackers-russians-us-elections/

Sergey Furgal for President? LDPR leader refuses to rule out choosing ousted Khabarovsk governor as 2024 presidential nominee
rt.com | 2020-08-06
The former Governor of Khabarovsk, Sergey Furgal, won't be excluded from the opposition LDPR party,even if found guilty, and could stand for Russian President if acquitted of murder, according to its leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. | Furgal, who was elected to his post in September 2018, was arrested on July 9 on suspicion of ordering three murders –two successful and one failed– in the mid-2000s. Following his detention, he was flown to Moscow, where he is currently awaiting trial. | "We won't rule it out. He's still ours. We will keep him in the ranks of the LDPR, we will support him, we will give hi…
rt.com/russia/497302-sergey-furgal-for-president-ldpr/

'These are killers': Giuliani blasts BLM as 'terrorist group' that 'hate white people'
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, has slammed Black Lives Matter as a "domestic terrorist organization" full of "killers" who "hate white people" and want to "overthrow our way of life." | Trump and officials from his administration have been critical of aspects of the BLM protests happening across the country, but none have gone as far as Giuliani did on Thursday's 'Fox & Friends.' | The former New York City mayor compared BLM to the left-wing Antifa group, labeling both "domestic terrorist organizations." | Do you know who knows that best? African-Americans. I've actually had them tell me,…
rt.com/usa/497308-rudy-giuliani-black-lives-matter-terrorists/

Portland protester violence continues, spreads to suburbs despite claim that 'if feds leave, we'll leave' (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Despite claims to the contrary, protests and violence have continued in Portland following the withdrawal of federal police. Tear gas and flashbang grenades were used to disperse crowds that have now moved to the city's suburbs. | Local authorities declared a riot for the second night in a row on Wednesday, as violence continued in the city for the 70th consecutive night since the death of Geroge Floyd in police custody. | A crowd of approximately 100 people gathered outside the Portland Police East Precinct s…
rt.com/usa/497227-portland-violence-continues-federal-withdrawal/

Greece & Egypt sign deal on exclusive economic zone amid tensions with Turkey
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Egypt and Greece signed an agreement on Thursday, designating an exclusive economic zone in the eastern Mediterranean between the two countries, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said. The area contains promising oil and gas reserves. | Shoukry made the announcement after meeting his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Cairo, Reuters reports. The agreement is within the framework of international law and contributes to security and stability in the region, Dendias said. | Cairo and Athens are at odds with Turkey, which last year angered the two states by signing a maritime delimitation agreement with the…
rt.com/newsline/497297-greece-egypt-economic-turkey/

Trump Says Biden 'Totally Disparaged and Insulted Black Community'
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-06
The president referred to an earlier video of Biden, where the former vice president used the word "junkie" towards a reporter and claimed the Latino community is more diverse than the black one.
sputniknews.com/us/202008061080088374-trump-says-biden-totally-disparaged-and-insulted-black-community/

Ex-Venezuelan Official Charged in Bribery, Money Laundering Scheme, US Justice Department Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-06
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A former official at Citgo Petroleum Corporation, a Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned energy company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, has been charged with involvement in a bribery and corruption scheme, the US Department of Justice said in a news release on Thursday.
sputniknews.com/us/202008061080088188-ex-venezuelan-official-charged-in-bribery-money-laundering-scheme-us-justice-department-says/

Daesh 'Exploited' COVID-19 Restrictions, Ramped Up Attacks in Iraq – IG Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-06
Daesh forces stepped up attacks in Iraq during the holy month of Ramadan while also managing to exploit COVID-19 restrictions that have impacted Iraqi security forces, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and US-led coalition forces, according to a new report issued from the US Department of Defense Inspector General's Office.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008061080088573-daesh-exploited-covid-19-restrictions-ramped-up-attacks-in-iraq—ig-report-/

US Still Enduring First Wave of COVID-19 Despite Plateauing Cases, Experts Warn
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-06
Despite the fact that new COVID-19 infections in some US states are plateauing, the country still has a long way to go to contain the pandemic, according to experts.
sputniknews.com/us/202008061080088623-us-still-enduring-first-wave-of-covid-19-despite-plateauing-cases-experts-warn/

Ex-Saudi Official Sues MBS in US Court, Claims Crown Prince Sent 'Team of Hunters' to Silence Him
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-06
A senior aide to the ousted crown prince of Saudi Arabia has alleged in a lawsuit filed in a US court that the present crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has tried to kill him. Saad al-Jabri claims bin Salman "dispatched a team of hunters and killers" to murder him just weeks after another Saudi exile, Jamal Khashoggi, was killed in Istanbul.
sputniknews.com/us/202008061080088416-ex-saudi-official-sues-mbs-in-us-court-claims-crown-prince-sent-team-of-hunters-to-silence-him/

The Department of Homeland Security: The Ideal Authoritarian Tool
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-06
Bymelvin GOODMAN | In the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration made a series of blunders that have created havoc in U.S. governance. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the worst of these decisions, but not far behind was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DHS has turned out to be the perfect authoritarian tool in the hands of a corrupt administration, and there is ample evidence of the department's role in degrading public life in America in the past several weeks. The department has become Trump's tool for targeting "anti-fascists," the label that he has broadly applied to all protesto…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/06/department-homeland-security-ideal-authoritarian-tool/

Twitter introduces new labels for government and state-linked media accounts
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Twitter is to begin adding labels to the accounts of government officials and state-affiliated media groups to provide more context on who the account represents.The new feature will initially focus on senior political officials who are the voice of their state abroad and accounts belonging to state-backed media, its editors and senior staff.The social media platform said that for political figures, the labels would currently only be applied to accounts from the countries that make up the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — China, France, Russia, the UK and the US.Personal accounts of heads o…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/06/twitter-introduces-new-labels-for-government-and-state-linked-media-accounts/

Artwork explores Hiroshima and Nagasaki in context of climate change and racism
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Two London-based artists explore the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in new perspectives, including in the context of climate change and racism, with their digital artwork.I Saw The World End, by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston, reflects on the impact of the events from the points of view of the British artist and Japanese designer.The 10-minute video includes script from letters written by Albert Einstein and J Robert Oppenheimer during the Second World War, as well as first-hand testimonies from the survivors of the bombings.The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities on 6 and 9 Aug…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/08/06/artwork-explores-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-in-context-of-climate-change-and-racism/

Number of families affected by benefit cap surges due to Covid-19, figures show
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
The number of families affected by the benefit cap, which limits how much any one household can receive in total benefits, rose by 93% from February to May due to coronavirus (Covid-19), the government has confirmed.Statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that 154,000 households had their benefits capped in May, and that the rise from February represents the biggest single increase in the number of capped households since the policy was launched in April 2013.Of those now affected by the cap, 52,000 are single parents with at least one child under five years old.The DWP said this wa…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/06/number-of-families-affected-by-benefit-cap-surges-due-to-covid-19-figures-show/

Thousands of NHS workers to protest this weekend over pay
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Thousands of NHS workers are expected to take to the streets this weekend demanding a pay rise.Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, said it is supporting those wishing to attend the socially-distanced protests so that the government can see the depth of discontent and frustration among NHS staff.A demonstration is organised in London on Saturday morning, while protests will also take place in other towns and cities across the UK.NHS workers march from St Thomas' Hospital to Downing Street to demand a pay rise on 29 July (Yui Mok/PA)Health workers are in the final year of a three-year deal and a…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/06/thousands-of-nhs-workers-to-protest-this-weekend-over-pay/

Johnson defends decision not to suspend Tory MP accused of rape
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Boris Johnson has defended the decision not to suspend a senior Tory MP who was arrested on suspicion of rape. | The prime minister insisted on Thursday that the allegation is being taken "extremely seriously" after the Conservatives defied calls to remove the whip from the former minister. | Johnson, in his first comments about the arrest, said a decision will be made when the police investigation is concluded. | "I think it's very, very important that we take all these cases extremely seriously and we will continue to do so," he told reporters during a visit to Warrington. | "I think we've got to wait for the p…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/06/johnson-defends-decision-not-to-suspend-tory-mp-accused-of-rape/

New York attorney general sues National Rifle Association in bid to dissolve it
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
New York's attorney general has sued the National Rifle Association (NRA), seeking to put the gun advocacy organisation out of business.Letitia James's lawsuit, filed in state court in Manhattan on Thursday after an 18-month investigation, alleges high-ranking executives diverted millions of dollars for lavish personal trips, no-show contracts for associates and other questionable expenditures.The NRA's long-time leader Wayne LaPierre is accused of awarding himself a $17m (£12.9m) post-employment contract.Wayne LaPierre is accused of diverting millions of dollars for personal benefit (Jose Luis Magana/AP)Si…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/08/06/new-york-attorney-general-sues-national-rifle-association-in-bid-to-dissolve-it/

New Sanders Bill Would Tax "Obscene" Pandemic Windfall of Billionaires
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-06
Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to introduce legislation Thursday that would heavily tax the "obscene wealth gains" America's billionaires have accumulated during the Covid-19 crisis to help fund the U.S. recovery from the pandemic and resulting economic collapse. | In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sanders said "if we taxed 60 percent of the windfall gains these billionaires made from March 18th until August 3rd, we could raise over $420 billion." | "That's enough revenue to allow Medicare to pay…
truthout.org/articles/new-sanders-bill-would-tax-obscene-pandemic-windfall-of-billionaires/

Fossil Fuel Industry Funds Racist Policing and Pollutes Communities of Color
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-06
As movements for racial and environmental justice escalate across the US, these struggles — which, as groups like the National Black Environmental Justice Network point out, must be seen as one — have a common foe: the fossil fuel industry. The same companies that drive environmental racism in Black and Brown communities through toxic and climate-changing poll…
truthout.org/articles/fossil-fuel-industry-funds-racist-policing-and-pollutes-communities-of-color/

Fauci Is Getting Death Threats After a White House Campaign to Discredit Him
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-06
White House coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that he and his family have faced harassments and threats from individuals who are angry about his medical advice on COVID-19. | The threats made have been so extreme, Fauci said, that he's had to hire security to protect his family. | "The unseemingly things that crises bring out in the wor…
truthout.org/articles/fauci-is-getting-death-threats-after-a-white-house-campaign-to-discredit-him/

Social Media Sites Pull Trump's Posts for Violating COVID Misinformation Rules
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-06
Two social media sites took bold action against accounts belonging to President Donald Trump and his presidential election campaign for sharing videos of an interview in which he made false statements about coronavirus. | "Team Trump," the president's official campaign Twitter account, was temporarily suspended after it had shared the video of T…
truthout.org/articles/social-media-sites-pull-trumps-posts-for-violating-covid-misinformation-rules/

Trump Isn't "Failing" on COVID Testing. He's Carrying Out a Brutal Plan
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-06
The still-potent remnants of a dying hurricane rumbled up from the south on Tuesday night and landed a big wet haymaker on my little corner of the northern woods. Electricity, phones — land and cell — and internet were gone with the crash of falling trees and the howl of a humid wind, and for about 40 hours it was the 19th century around here. | For someone in the RIGHT NOW news biz, this was an unnatural state of affairs, but there was little I could do; I had to drive 25 minutes over brok…
truthout.org/articles/trump-isnt-failing-on-covid-testing-hes-carrying-out-a-brutal-plan/

On 75th Anniversary, Hiroshima Survivor Warns Against Nuclear Weapons
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-06
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. "The shaking was so huge," she recalls. "I remember the sensation, the color and the smell like yesterday." Tamura Snider describes her harrowing journey through a shattered city, suffering radiation sickness following the attack, and her message to President Trump.
truthout.org/video/on-75th-anniversary-hiroshima-survivor-warns-against-nuclear-weapons/

Over 1,100 Policing Agencies in the U.S. Have Bought Drones Capable of Recording
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-06
In early June, Julie Weiner was at a Black Lives Matter rally in downtown Yonkers, New York, when she spotted a small drone in the sky, monitoring the protest. Weiner, a long-time Yonkers resident, immediately asked her city councilperson, Shanae Williams, who had organized the rally, whether the drone was being operated by the Yonkers police. Williams went over to talk to a group of police and returned to report that, yes, the drone belonged to the Yonkers Police Department. | "That's a pro…
truthout.org/articles/police-drones-dont-just-watch-protests-they-record-them-with-little-oversight/

Conservationists to Federal Agencies: Restore Protections for Imperiled Wildlife in the Flathead National Forest
CounterPunch News Service | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Flathead Forest Plan favors resource extraction over grizzly bears, Canada lynx, wolverine, and bull trout MISSOULA, MT–Four conservation groups have filed their opening salvos in a lawsuit to require the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore proven safeguards for the protection and recovery of imperiled grizzly bears, Canada lynx, wolverine, and bull…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/conservationists-to-federal-agencies-restore-protections-for-imperiled-wildlife-in-the-flathead-national-forest/

Quebec to appeal acquittal of fascist, but only on lesser charges
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
In a brazen attempt to intimidate the media, neo-Nazi Raphaà´l Lévesque led an invasion of the editorial offices of Vice Quebec .
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/queb-a06.html

Capacity to confront blast impact 'limited': Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
Lebanon's financial capacity to deal with the impact of the port warehouse explosion is "very limited," the country's economy minister said Thursday. | Raoul Nehme told a TV channel that damages of the devastating explosion, which killed at least 137 people and injured about 5,000 others in the capital Beirut on Tuesday, are estimated to be in billions of dollars. | "The capacity of the state is very limited, and so is that of the central bank and the banks," he said. "Grain silos [structures for storing bulk materials] have been completely destroyed, and we need time to evaluate the damages." | The Port of Beiru…
yenisafak.com/en/news/capacity-to-confront-blast-impact-limited-lebanon-3536249

Coronavirus claims another 174 lives in Iran
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
A total of 2,634 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, raising the tally to 320,117, according to ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari.She said more than 277,000 patients have recovered so far, while 4,156 are still hospitalized in critical condition. "Over 2.6 million tests have been conducted in Iran to date," Lari added.The surge in daily fatalities has increased the fears of a collapse of Iran's already overwhelmed health care system.Since appearing in China last December, the virus has spread to at least 188 countries and regions, according to figures compiled by the US' Johns Hopkins U…
yenisafak.com/en/news/coronavirus-claims-another-174-lives-in-iran-3536256

Two Palestinians contract coronavirus in Israeli prisons
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
Two more Palestinian detainees have been infected with coronavirus in Israeli prisons in Ramallah, occupied West Bank. In a statement Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), a non-governmental organization, said: "The administration of the Israeli prison of Ofer — western Ramallah — announced that Naim Abu Turki, 38, has been infected with coronavirus."Abu Turki, arrested at his home in Hebron, has been under detention for the last four days. The PPS warned of further spread of coronavirus among the Palestinian prisoners. | Earlier in the day, the Palestinian Authority Prisoners' Affairs Com…
yenisafak.com/en/world/two-palestinians-contract-coronavirus-in-israeli-prisons-3536251

'India not releasing jailed critics despite virus risk'
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
India is among several countries where human rights defenders and activists imprisoned for criticizing the government have been kept in jail despite the risk of COVID-19, Amnesty International said in a report released on Thursday.The new briefing, Daring to Stand up for Human Rights in a Pandemic, states that India is one of the countries that has "left prisoners of conscience to languish in appalling conditions despite widely publicized prisoner release programs."According to the report, 131 people who speak up for human rights have been harassed, prosecuted, killed, or imprisoned on COVID-19-related pretexts i…
yenisafak.com/en/news/india-not-releasing-jailed-critics-despite-virus-risk-3536253

Ebola cases in DR Congo rise to 74 in latest outbreak
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
At least 74 Ebola virus cases have been recorded in the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization announced Thursday.So far there are 74 cases, with 70 confirmed and four probable, 32 deaths and 28 recoveries from the 11th Ebola virus outbreak in Mbandaka, Equateur province, the WHO African Region tweeted.For several months, the DRC has been battling with several diseasing including, Cholera, Ebola, Measles.Last month the WHO office in the Central African country said that a total of 12,959 people have been vaccinated since the start of the 11th Ebola outbreak in ear…
yenisafak.com/en/news/ebola-cases-in-dr-congo-rise-to-74-in-latest-outbreak-3536250

French president urges to prioritize aid to Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
French President Emmanuel Macron stressed on Thursday to prioritize aids for blast-hit Lebanon without any condition.Following his arrival in Beirut, Lebanon's capital, Macron met with his Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun and the two leaders visited the site of massive explosion at the Port of Beirut.Macron said: "Lebanon is not alone … and we are fully aware that Lebanon's crisis is massive."He also vowed to secure and coordinate international aid to Lebanon, including medical supplies and medicine.The massive blast that rocked the Port of Beirut on Tuesday has left so far at least 135 dead and around 5,000 in…
yenisafak.com/en/news/french-president-urges-to-prioritize-aid-to-lebanon-3536254

Australia: Victorian hospital admissions soar amid warnings COVID-19 surge will continue for weeks
wsws.org | 2020-08-06
It is clear that the Victorian government only introduced sharper lockdown measures, after the state was already on the precipice of a healthcare catastrophe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/06/vict-a06.html

"A Perpetual Motion Machine of Killing"
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
On August 1, a rare in-depth investigative piece appeared on the BBC News website based on credible and serious allegations that UK Special Forces had executed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. The BBC article was produced in tandem with a report, '"Rogue SAS Afghanistan execution squad" exposed by email trail', published by the Sunday Times. Special …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/a-perpetual-motion-machine-of-killing/

Taxing the Rich. Imposing A "Pigou Wealth Tax" in the Time of COVID-19
Kavaljit Singh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), a British economist, is well known for his contributions to welfare economics. One of the most prolific writers of his time, Pigou wrote over a dozen books and more than 100 articles and pamphlets dealing with …
globalresearch.ca/pigou-wealth-tax-time-covid-19/5720370

Biden Says He Won't Stand in Way of Possible Future Prosecution of Trump
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
"I will not interfere with the Justice Department's judgment of whether or not they think they should pursue the prosecution of anyone that they think has violated the law." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/biden_time.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/06/biden-says-he-wont-stand-way-possible-future-prosecution-trump?cd-origin=rss

Sen. Sanders' Bill Would Tax Billionaires' Pandemic Wealth Gains to Fund Healthcare
commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
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As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections a Third Time, Media Continue to Ignore Coup
Bryce Greene | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Supporters of Evo Morales demonstrate in Cochabamba, Bolivia in November of 2019. (Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/evo_0.jpeg …
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Analysis Finds Counties Not Ready to Inform Their Residents about Hurricane Evacuation Procedures under COVID-19
commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
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Saying ICE Has 'Lost the Right to Be Trusted,' Federal Judge Orders Mandatory Testing at Detention Center Hit by Covid-19
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Court order follows an outbreak at the Mesa Verde Detention Center and evidence that officials opted not to test detainees for fear of positive test results. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-08-06_at_3.13.56_pm.png …
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Republican Gov. DeWine Tests Positive for Covid-19 as Virus Sweeps Across Ohio Ahead of Trump Visit
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
The announcement comes as teachers and parents criticize the state's school reopening plans. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1058491072-dewine_comp.jpg …
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Election Theft and the Reluctant Democracy
Robert C. Koehler | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Board of Election employees and volunteers wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) assist voters at the Brooklyn Museum polling site for the New York Democratic presidential primary on June 23, 2020. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/election_funding.jpg …
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Life Under the Bomb Means a Life of Resistance
Rev. John Dear | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
"Our message over the years has been simple and urgent: Nuclear weapons have totally failed us. They don't make us safer; they don't provide jobs; they don't make us more secure—these are age-old lies. Instead they bankrupt us, economically and spiritually." (Photo: Courtesy of Rev. John Dear) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/seek_peace_no_nukes.jpg …
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'Self-Centered Nationalism' Could Lead to War and Nuclear Disaster, Hiroshima Mayor Warns on 75th Anniversary of Attacks
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
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'Still Here': Honoring Hibakusha 75 Years After
Robert Dodge | commondreams.org | 2020-08-06
Japanese people pray in front of the Cenotaph for the Bomb Victims before the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on the day of the 71th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 2016 in Hiroshima, Japan. Japan marks the 71th anniversary of the first atomic bomb that was dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing an estimated number of 70,000 people instantly with many thousands more dying over the following years from the effects of radiation. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, ending World War II. (Photo…
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki Survivors Remember
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
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