[Articles] Carfilzomib, dexamethasone, and daratumumab versus carfilzomib and dexamethasone for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (CANDOR): results from a randomised, multicentre, open-label, phase 3 study
Meletios Dimopoulos, Hang Quach, Maria-Victoria Mateos, Ola Landgren, Xavier Leleu, David Siegel, Katja Weisel, Hui Yang, Zandra Klippel, Anita Zahlten-Kumeli, Saad Z Usmani | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
KdD significantly prolonged progression-free survival versus Kd in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma and was associated with a favourable benefit–risk profile.
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[Correspondence] Tranexamic acid for traumatic brain injury
Suzanne Goursaud, Thomas Gaberel | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
We read with interest about the CRASH-3 trial1 and congratulate the CRASH-3 trial collaborators for their outstanding work. On the basis of the results of a prespecified sensitivity subgroup analysis excluding patients who were predicted to have the worst outcome, the authors concluded that early administration of tranexamic acid within 3 h of traumatic brain injury reduces head injury-related death. However, the primary endpoint was 28-day mortality.
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[World Report] Cumberlege Review slams health care in England
Talha Burki | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
The Review describes a culture of denial, institutional resistance to responding to safety concerns, and an absence of accountability. Talha Burki reports.
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[Correspondence] Tranexamic acid for traumatic brain injury
Charles Reynard, Patricia van den Berg, Richard Body | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
We read with interest about the CRASH-3 trial.1 The trial is impressive because of its scale and the challenging setting. The authors conclude that tranexamic acid is "safe in patients with TBI [traumatic brain injury] and that treatment within 3 h of injury reduces head injury-related deaths".1…
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[Comment] The evolving clinical use of dexmedetomidine
Federico Bilotta, Francesco Pugliese | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
In patients having cardiac and non-cardiac surgery, new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation and postoperative delirium have been associated with several adverse long-term outcomes, including increased cardiovascular, renal, and cerebral complications, worsened postoperative cognitive function, increased mortality, longer length of stay in hospital, and increased medical costs.1–3 Identifying effective therapies and modifiable factors that might reduce the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation and postoperative delirium is paramount.
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[Correspondence] Tranexamic acid for traumatic brain injury — Authors' reply
Ian Roberts, Haleema Shakur-Still | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
We thank the many correspondents for their comments about the CRASH-3 trial.1…
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[Comment] The Lancet–Chatham House Commission on improving population health post COVID-19
Harry Rutter, Richard Horton, Theresa M Marteau | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
The health of populations across the planet is in a perilous state during the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 550‚Äà000 deaths worldwide as of July 10, 2020.1 The disease burden is falling mainly on the most disadvantaged groups worldwide and there are major impacts on health systems across high, middle, and low-income countries. In parallel with these direct health impacts, the economic effects of lockdowns are leading to an unprecedented global recession which will have ramifications well into the future.
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[World Report] New funds proposed to prevent pandemics
Ann Danaiya Usher | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
A new fund to prevent future pandemics has been proposed by the US Senate, and another by the World Bank. But some global health leaders have criticised the plans. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.
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[Articles] Dexmedetomidine for reduction of atrial fibrillation and delirium after cardiac surgery (DECADE): a randomised placebo-controlled trial
Alparslan Turan, Andra Duncan, Steve Leung, Nika Karimi, Jonathan Fang, Guangmei Mao, Jennifer Hargrave, Marc Gillinov, Carlos Trombetta, Sabry Ayad, Manal Hassan, Andrew Feider, Kimberly Howard-Quijano, Kurt Ruetzler, Daniel I Sessler, DECADE Study Group | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
Dexmedetomidine infusion, initiated at anaesthetic induction and continued for 24 h, did not decrease postoperative atrial arrhythmias or delirium in patients recovering from cardiac surgery. Dexmedetomidine should not be infused to reduce atrial fibrillation or delirium in patients having cardiac surgery.
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[Correspondence] Tackling corruption in global health
Antoine Dugast, Nathan Judais, Faith Nganyi, Huangjin Zhang | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
The fight against corruption, which is defined by the global anti-corruption body, Transparency International, as "an abuse of entrusted power for private gain", is a transversal theme of the Sustainable Development Goals that the UN member states aim to achieve by 2030. The health sector is highly affected by corruption, for reasons including the increasing demand for health services, the amount of public money spent on these services, and the consider ≠able scale and complexity of this sector, which has led to information asymmetry and entry barriers to accessing health care.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30307-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Tackling corruption in global health
Maimouna Bah, Ludmilla Charlier, Camilla Davila, Sophie Descousse, BenoàÆt Frimon-Richard, Sameh Hashem, Clara Leroy, Marie Minault, Violette Mouro, Rajiv Nillameyom, Louise Schlàºter, Manon Wailly | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
The Lancet Lecture by Patricia García1 on the pervasive yet invisible hand of corruption in global health pres ≠ents a compelling introduction to corruption and the various types that exist. Corruption truly is an "ignored pandemic"2 and we have no doubt that awareness needs to be raised; however, the Lecture does not present ways of raising awareness or specify a starting point. The recommendations to expand funding and adopt an integrated and multidisciplinary approach are incommensurate with the problem facing global health practitioners, the research community, and the public.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30310-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Tranexamic acid for traumatic brain injury
Patrick Schober, Edward J Mascha, Stephan A Loer, Lothar A Schwarte, Sebastiaan M Bossers | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
With great interest, we read about the CRASH-3 trial on the effects of tranexamic acid in patients with trau ≠matic brain injury,1 and congratulate the CRASH-3 trial collaborators on this notable contribution to traumatic brain injury management. We hope the finding of reduced mortality in patients with mild or moderate traumatic brain injury compared with the placebo group, which carries an increased risk of being a type I error2 in the absence of multiplicity adjustments for different subgroup analyses and outcomes, holds true in clinical practice.
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[Comment] Offline: COVID-19 and the dangers of Sinophobia
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
One of the most productive experiences editors at The Lancet have had during the past 6 months has been the intense collaborations with medical and public health scientists in mainland China and Hong Kong. Cooperation began early in the pandemic. During the last week of January, The Lancet published five research papers from mainland China and Hong Kong describing the clinical presentation of patients with COVID-19, human-to-human transmission, genomic relatedness to the SARS coronavirus, and the risks of a global pandemic.
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[Perspectives] Abolition medicine
Yoshiko Iwai, Zahra H Khan, Sayantani DasGupta | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
Who do you serve, who do you protect? Doctors and nurses are not soldiers. Antibiotics are not bombs, hospitals are not the front lines, hard-working medical trainees are not "gunners", and neither disease nor patients are "the enemy". Militarised language valorises aggression and violence in medical training and the clinical encounter while obfuscating the loyalties of health workers who serve and protect individuals and communities in need.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31566-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] COVID-19: Africa needs unprecedented attention to strengthen community health systems
Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy, Bernice Dahn, Rachel Saykpah, Mallika Raghavan | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
As the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Liberia, in March, 2020, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,1 among others,2 highlighted the need to adopt lessons learned from the response to the 2014–16 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa. Ebola claimed about 11‚Äà300 lives in 21 months across Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.3 Comparisons to Ebola benefit from remembering the key differences between the two viruses. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a respiratory virus and is infectious among asymptomatic carriers.
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[Correspondence] Tranexamic acid for traumatic brain injury
Davi J Fontoura Solla, Andres Mariano Rubiano, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira, Almir Ferreira de Andrade, Wellingson Silva Paiva | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
The CRASH-3 trial1 reinforces a growing body of evidence (such as the CRASH-22 and WOMAN3 trials) suggesting a treatment effect for early administration of tranexamic acid for life-threatening bleeding scenarios. Because the evidence presented in the trial could potentially change clinical practice, its landmark status as one of the few positive pharmacological trials in the acute setting of traumatic brain injury cannot be overemphasised.4 Still, some issues concerning the trial deserve attention.
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[Correspondence] Tranexamic acid for traumatic brain injury
Sebastian Bourn, Nick Dodds | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
We read about the CRASH-3 study1 with interest. The CRASH-3 collab ≠orators are to be congratulated for their endeavour and their integrated analysis. However, we ask, who exactly benefits from this treatment?
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[Articles] Urgent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with sphincterotomy versus conservative treatment in predicted severe acute gallstone pancreatitis (APEC): a multicentre randomised controlled trial
Nicolien J Schepers, Nora D L Hallensleben, Marc G Besselink, Marie-Paule G F Anten, Thomas L Bollen, David W da Costa, Foke van Delft, Sven M van Dijk, Hendrik M van Dullemen, Marcel G W Dijkgraaf, Casper H J van Eijck, G Willemien Erkelens, Nicole S Erler, Paul Fockens, Erwin J M van Geenen, Janneke van Grinsven, Robbert A Hollemans, Jeanin E van Hooft, Rene W M van der Hulst, Jeroen M Jansen, Frank J G M Kubben, Sjoerd D Kuiken, Robert J F Laheij, Rutger Quispel, Rogier J J de Ridder, Marno C M Rijk, Tessa E H Rà∂mkens, Carola H M Ruigrok, Erik J Schoon, Matthijs P Schwartz, Xavier J N M Smeets, B W Marcel Spanier, Adriaan C I T L Tan, Willem J Thijs, Robin Timmer, Niels G Venneman, Robert C Verdonk, Frank P Vleggaar, Wim van de Vrie, Ben J Witteman, Hjalmar C van Santvoort, Olaf J Bakker, Marco J Bruno, Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
In patients with predicted severe gallstone pancreatitis but without cholangitis, urgent ERCP with sphincterotomy did not reduce the composite endpoint of major complications or mortality, compared with conservative treatment. Our findings support a conservative strategy in patients with predicted severe acute gallstone pancreatitis with an ERCP indicated only in patients with cholangitis or persistent cholestasis.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30539-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Seven things organisations should be doing to combat racism
Esther Choo | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
In the USA, the racial disparities in COVID-19 health outcomes collided with national conversations about racism sparked by the police killing of George Floyd. These events stimulated many organisations, including health-care institutions, to scramble to vocalise their stances on racial equity. The coming years will show if these statements translate into fundamental, lasting change. There are seven actions I hope to see from health-care organisations committed to addressing structural racism and building equitable environments.
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[Obituary] Bertram S Brown
Geoff Watts | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
Influential leader in US mental health. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, USA, on Jan 28, 1931, and died of cardiovascular disease in Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA, on May 14, 2020, aged 89 years.
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[Comment] A candid view of CANDOR
Raija Silvennoinen, Caroline A Heckman | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
Investigations into new myeloma therapies have included combinations of up to four drugs containing a proteasome inhibitor, immunomodulating agent, monoclonal antibody, and dexamethasone.1,2 However, increasing efficacy requires careful balance with toxicity. In The Lancet, Meletios Dimopoulos and colleagues3 report the initial results of the randomised, phase 3 CANDOR study, investigating a three-drug combination excluding an immunomodulator; carfilzomib, daratumumab, and dexamethasone (KdD) was compared with carfilzomib and dexamethasone (Kd) for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who had rec…
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[Editorial] No more normal
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
Do you long for a return to normal after COVID-19?
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31591-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Tranexamic acid for traumatic brain injury
Angelos G Kolias, Daniel Horner, David K Menon, Mark Wilson, Peter J Hutchinson | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
We congratulate the CRASH-3 trial collaborators for completing their trial of tranexamic acid for patients with traumatic brain injury.1 Because the primary analysis is neutral (ie, the null hypothesis cannot be rejected), we think that the following points should be addressed to ensure the most appropriate implementation of tranexamic acid administration into traumatic brain injury guidelines, which we support.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30536-5/fulltext?rss=yes

U.K. and Hong Kong: Mutually Reinforced Ignorance
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-18
Three years ago, I visited Old Supreme Court Building in Hong Kong, also known as The Court of Final Appeal, together with my friend, an Afghan-British lawyer, who was on a personal mission of 're-discovering Asia.' Coming from a prominent, highly educated family in Afghanistan, my friend was extremely well aware that both the United …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/u-k-and-hong-kong-mutually-reinforced-ignorance/

Naomi Klein on Juice Podcast
Naomi Klein | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Interview on the lessons we're learning during this historic period, Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, and why the liberals are going to get us all killed…
zcomm.org/zvideo/naomi-klein-on-juice-podcast/

Why the Bill Gates Global Health Empire Promises More Empire and Less Public Health. Gates Foundation Owns the WHO!
Jeremy Loffredo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-18
Behind a veil of corporate media PR, the Gates Foundation has served as a vehicle for Western capital while exploiting the Global South as a human laboratory. The coronavirus pandemic is likely to intensify this disturbing agenda. | *** | President Donald …
globalresearch.ca/why-the-bill-gates-global-health-empire-promises-more-empire-and-less-public-health-gates-foundation-owns-the-who/5718367

What Lies Ahead: Permanent Job Losses, Poverty in America, Financial and Political Instability
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-18
On July 6, 2020 I posted my extended view and analysis why the 3rd quarter US GDP would falter–and lead to a W-shape recovery, as it typical of all Great Recessions. The current recession's scenario was compared with 1929-30 and …
globalresearch.ca/what-lies-ahead-permanent-job-losses-poverty-in-america-financial-and-political-instability/5718820

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's regular press conference on July 15, 2020
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-18
O'Brien should really read up on Marxist-Leninist works. The people's position is the fundamental political position of Marxist parties. People are the creators of history and the true driving force behind historical progress.
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Why Government Mostly Helps People Who Need It the Least–Even During a Crisis
Richard D. Wolff | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Government policies likely worsened the relative decline of small and medium businesses. Concentration and monopolization tendencies within U.S. capitalism strengthened…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-government-mostly-helps-people-who-need-it-the-least-even-during-a-crisis/

SEP candidates respond to California state officials in ballot access lawsuit
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz respond to California officials who would have Socialist Equality Party (SEP) signature gatherers run a deadly COVID-19 "minefield" to gain them ballot access in November. In federal court they argued that putting the signature gatherers and the public at risk during the pandemic is unconstitutional and unacceptable.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835147.php

What If All Native Treaties Were Upheld?
Alleen Brown | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision last week that altered the map of Oklahoma. The eastern half of the state, including much of Tulsa, is now, for legal purposes, Indian country…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-if-all-native-treaties-were-upheld/

Major conservation charity drops a bombshell, putting the trophy hunting industry on very thin ice
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-07-18
A bombshell dropped by the World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF) UK section has put the trophy hunting industry on very thin ice. The Times reports that following a backlash over the global organisation's effective support for trophy hunting, the UK-based part of the charity has "made a U-turn". The media outlet claims WWF-UK's stance against the practice is now "more hardline" than the UK government's, which it says has "committed in principle to ending it". | A public rejecti…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2020/07/18/major-conservation-charity-drops-a-bombshell-putting-the-trophy-hunting-industry-on-very-thin-ice/

COVID-19: Rot exposed by pandemic augurs a future of fear
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-07-18
Vijay Prashad raises deep questions about the exhaustion of the global capitalist system in a time of great human suffering.
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Israel 'relieved' as ICC adjourns war crimes probe
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
The Israeli government breathed a sigh of relief after a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to adjourn without opening an investigation against Tel Aviv over possible war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to Israeli media.The ICC pre-trial was supposed to assess if the court's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has the authority to open an investigation into war crimes by Israel along with defining the territorial boundaries within which the investigation will take place.In May, Bensouda said that there is a basis to launch an investigation into war crimes committe…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-relieved-as-icc-adjourns-war-crimes-probe-3534790

Several Palestinians Suffocate at Kufur Qaddoum, Nablus and Salfit Protests
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-18
Three major demonstrations were held by Palestinians, on Friday, to express their objection to Israel's continued colonial settlement activities in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces opened fire, on Friday afternoon, towards Palestinians during a peaceful protest north of Nablus city, in Asira Ash-Shamaliyya town, northern West Bank, according to …
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Paralysed companies rescued by an 'army' of volunteer workers
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-18
The 2270-strong Productive Workers' Army has recuperated 14 state-run firms that had been run into the ground.
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The "Russian Vaccine Hack" Is a 3-for-1 Deal on Propaganda
Kit Knightly | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-18
The Guardian, and all the other predictable voices, are currently reporting that Russian "state sponsored hackers" have been attempting to steal "medical secrets" from British pharmaceutical researchers. | At this stage they offer no substantiation, but it does serve as good …
globalresearch.ca/russian-vaccine-hack-3-1-deal-on-propaganda/5718799

A Multi-Racial Coalition Is Necessary For This Moment
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Interview on seizing this moment with a broad-based, multi-racial movement to change an 'impoverished democracy.'…
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What If We Actually Listened?
Jill Richardson | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Here's what I learned when I stopped trying to convince anyone of anything…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-if-we-actually-listened/

Brazil surpasses two million coronavirus cases as reopening drive continues
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
"We cannot continue suffocating the economy," President Jair Bolsonaro said, as Brazil suffered the highest single day death toll in the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/braz-j18.html

Australian medical experts call for workplace and school shutdowns as Victoria's COVID-19 surge escalates
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
Despite the highest spike in Australian coronavirus infections since the pandemic began, the Victorian Labor government has implemented a "lockdown" that leaves schools and most workplaces open.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/ausp-j18.html

Will the Biden-Sanders Economic Task Force Report Rattle the Rich?
Sam Pizzigati | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Wish-lists of progressive public policies never change the world. But they sometimes do excite the people who can…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/will-the-biden-sanders-economic-task-force-report-rattle-the-rich-2/

US escalates economic warfare against Russia and China
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
After securing a decision by the UK government to ban the Chinese firm Huawei from its 5G rollout, the US is pressuring the Merkel government in Germany to take the same decision.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/trad-j18.html

US hits record 74,987 new daily COVID-19 cases
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The number of daily new cases in the United States has tripled from a month ago amid a massive resurgence of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/viru-j18.html

Trump's Occupy Portland Gambit
Mel Gurtov | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The protests against this federal deployment by Oregon's state and local leaders are fulsome, but will the governor act to remove these play soldiers and let Donald Trump know that his test run at military occupation cannot stand?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-occupy-portland-gambit/

FROM THE FIELD: Frontline resilience in Somalia
news.un.org | 2020-07-18
One hundred thousand households in Somaliland in northwest Somalia have better access to water, protecting them not just from the ravages of climate change but also against the spread of COVID-19, thanks to a project supported by the UN Development Programme.
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The Sky Is Falling: Yes? No?
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-18
The sky is falling is one of the more disturbing thoughts in society today, as to whether climate change is on a fast track collision course with doomsday amidst a collapsing society. In that regard, according to the details of a scathing review by ScientistsWarning.org ("SW") of Jem Bendell's wildly popular "Deep Adaptation" the answer …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-sky-is-falling-yes-no/

Federal Agents Invade Portland, Citing Trump's Executive Order Protecting Statues
Dan Friedman | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The Border Patrol says it has authority to "conduct arrests" in Portland…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/federal-agents-invade-portland-citing-trumps-executive-order-protecting-statues/

'Inequality defines our time': UN chief delivers hard-hitting Mandela day message
news.un.org | 2020-07-18
Inequality, an issue which "defines our time", risks destroying the world's economies and societies, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a hard-hitting speech on Saturday.
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Fighting the Great Depression From Below
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The grassroots movements of workers and the unemployed formed a crucial part of the process that led instead to the emergence of the New Deal and the development of new and expanded forms of working-class organization…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/fighting-the-great-depression-from-below/

US: Trump Sends Undercover Police to Quell Portland's Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2020-07-18
U.S. Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) Thursday denounced that President Donald Trump has deployed federal agents in Portland, Oregon, dressed in camouflage but without any visible insignia, to round up and detain U.S. citizens. | RELATED: | Donald Trump "Has Plans" for Venezuela | "Multiple videos released on digital platforms show federal officials approaching people, arresting them and leaving without any explanation to justify the arrest," OPB said in a statement. | Since at least July 14, officials have dr…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-trump-sends-undercover-police-to-quell-portlandss-20200718-0001.html

Putting ethics before profits
Nicole Hassoun | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Ending the pandemic will take global access to COVID-19 treatment and vaccines…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/putting-ethics-before-profits/

1978: Ernest Mandel — Rosa Luxemburg and political economy
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-18
The Accumulation of Capital was published in 1913, and it was probably only after completing her magnum opus that Luxemburg resumed writing her Introduction to Political Economy. Interrupted once again, now by the outbreak of war, she continued to work on the Introduction during her stay in prison in Wronke, in the German province of …
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Unions thwart liquidation of South African Airways
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-18
The decision of stakeholders to approve a rescue plan for the crisis-ridden South African Airways ensures that it will not get liquidated as was feared earlier. Unions fought a long battle to prevent liquidation…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/18/unions-thwart-liquidation-of-south-african-airways/

Week in Review July 12th — 18th
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-07-18
Editor's Review Of The Week It's difficult announcing the biggest story of the week nowadays when there's so much to report. Take for instance the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill that has just had its second reading in the Commons. To all intents and purposes — its a power grab by the Tories. If the Bill is …
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Australia: Hundreds of health workers in Victoria contract COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
A national survey of 500 healthcare workers found that half were experiencing PPE shortages and some were having to source their own supplies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/vict-j18.html

8 Palestinians Detained by Israeli Forces, All Former Detainees
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-18
Israeli forces, Thursday evening, detained a Palestinian astro-physicist at the entrance of Anata town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, said Palestinian WAFA News Agency correspondent. He reported that Israeli soldiers ordered Imad Barghouthi, 56, an astrophysics professor at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, out of his vehicle at the entrance …
imemc.org/article/8-palestinians-detained-by-israeli-forces-all-former-detainees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=8-palestinians-detained-by-israeli-forces-all-former-detainees

Periodic "devastation" necessary for forest health
George Wuerthner | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The bottom line is that our forest health is dependent on episodic events that cause significant mortality. This is not only natural but required for "healthy forest ecosystems."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/periodic-devastation-necessary-for-forest-health/

VIDEO: Explosion at 'ArcelorMittal Plant' in NW Indiana
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — An explosion rocked the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana Thursday morning, sparking a fire and causing damage to equipment near a blast furnace.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161105/VIDEO-Explosion-at-ArcelorMittal-Plant-in-NW-Indiana

Parl. investigating withdrawal form UN 'additional protocol'
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — An MP informed on Saturday that the Parliament is investigating a new plan to have Iran out of the United Nations' additional protocol.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161103/Parl-investigating-withdrawal-form-UN-additional-protocol

Iran-China cooperation major challenge to US unilateralism
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Chinese TV in a report described Iran-China 25-year cooperation roadmap as the result of US maximum pressure, stressing it has posed major challenge to the US unilateralism in the international community.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161099/Iran-China-cooperation-major-challenge-to-US-unilateralism

Economic benefits needed for Iran's full compliance to JCPOA
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs said on Saturday that expecting Iran to fully comply with JCPAO obligations without having the country benefit from the economic advantages of the deal is not acceptable.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161113/Economic-benefits-needed-for-Iran-s-full-compliance-to-JCPOA

Iran-Syria military coop. to defeat Zionist Regime
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 17(MNA) — An Iranian Lawmaker said that military cooperation agreements must be signed between Iran and regional countries including Syria to strengthen Iran and the axis of Resistance and to defeat the Zionist Regime and other enemies.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161096/Iran-Syria-military-coop-to-defeat-Zionist-Regime

Iranian researchers produce antivirus hospital clothing
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Iranian researchers in a knowledge-based company designed and produced isolated antivirus hospital clothing, applicable in the fight against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in particular.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161100/Iranian-researchers-produce-antivirus-hospital-clothing

A different look at US recent fire incidents
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Since last week, the US has been a hotbed of major fire incidents, from the fire on board the USS Bonhomme Richard to Utah wildfire, all of which large-scale yet with no cause yet mentioned.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161122/A-different-look-at-US-recent-fire-incidents

Saudi sponsored TV channel showed utter obscenity: envoy
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Iran's Ambassador to UK Hamid Baeidinjad reacted to the live broadcast of the gathering of MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq) terrorist group on the Iran International Channel in his Twitter account.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161112/Saudi-sponsored-TV-channel-showed-utter-obscenity-envoy

Sixth Indian shipment to Afghanistan arrives at Iranian port
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
CHABAHAR, Jul. 18 (MNA) — India's sixth consignment of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan has arrived at Chabahar's Shahid Beheshti Port, the director-general of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Department said on Saturday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161104/Sixth-Indian-shipment-to-Afghanistan-arrives-at-Iranian-port

Admitting defeat against Iran better than foolish bluffs
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said accepting defeat against powerful Iran is better than foolish bluffs.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161115/Admitting-defeat-against-Iran-better-than-foolish-bluffs

Monday 7/20: Alameda County Strike for Black Health and Vitality
Alameda Health System SEIU & others | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
ALAMEDA COUNTY: | Highland Hospital, 1411 E 31st St, Oakland, CA 94602 | Fairmont Hospital, 15400 Foothill Blvd, San Leandro, CA 94578…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/18/18835158.php

Monday 7/20: Bay Strike for Black Lives in Oakland
The Fight for $15 | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Mosswood Park, 3612 Webster St, Oakland, CA 94609…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835151.php

Thousands of Elected Officials see a turning point, and rally against fossil fuel industry
Ramona du Houx | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
In this historic moment of reckoning for the energy future of America, elected officials join indigenous and front-lines organizers in celebrating victories over unjust and exploitative pipelines. With the tide of public opinion clearly opposed to carbon emissions and the oil industry's devastating reevaluations the vise-like grip of the fossil fuel industry's lobbying influence has begun to weaken.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835140.php

The 9 coffin nails of democracy
Roland Rottenfuss | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Democracy is an achievement and must be won anew, expanded and defended against attacks in every era… The political conformity of the mainstream press is a sad chapter. "Representative democracy" is a fine word, but who do the representatives actually represent today? Citizens want "representatives of the people."
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835152.php

TALES of THE RESISTANCE – San Francisco Mime Troupe – Interview with Michael Sullivan
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Interview with actor, playwright, director Michael Sullivan on the 61st season of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. "Tales of the Resistance" is a series of nine radio play podcasts from July to October, 2020.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835148.php

Friday 7/24: Orion's Awesome "Live No Jive Hamond b3 Organ Trio w Special Guests
Orion the elder | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Alameda Dog Park 1302 8th street alameda…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/18/18835157.php

Housing wage for 2 bedroom unit is $43.06 for Oakland-Fremont area
By Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
COVID-19 Guidance for Multifamily Residential Buildings:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835156.php

Military-garbed agents in unmarked vehicles at Martinez protest
Pika-Nonymous | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
During the July 12th protest in Martinez there were military-garbed agents, who arrived and left in unmarked civilian-looking vehicles.It is unclear what agency they are part of.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835154.php

Saturday 7/18: Emergency protest! No Trump Gestapo in Portland!
Refuse Fascism, Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
S.F. Federal Building, 7th St. @ Mission St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835153.php

Saturday 7/25: F*ck the UC: No cops, no firings, no layoffs
UC Students & Workers | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
UC Office of the President, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835144.php

Cops And Their Supporters Unite To Attack BLM Counterers
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
George Floyd's murder, along with the murders of Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and so many others, laid bare for the world how police are mandated by the state to terrorize people of color, especially Black people. The severe repression against protesters put this violence on display on a mass scale and showed the lengths the state is willing to go to keep its hold on "law and order." Yet, even as politicians, NGOs, and nonprofits try desperately to co-opt and pacify the movement, the most leftward expression of protesters' demands — from defunding and disbanding police departments to abolishing police a…
popularresistance.org/cops-and-their-supporters-unite-to-attack-blm-counterers/

Bolivians Take To The Streets Against The Añez Government
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
Bolivia's Workers Central (COB) Tuesday called for tens of thousands of people to hold a mass protest in several cities against the coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez. | "The Bolivian people, the Indigenous groups, and educational organizations raised their voice of protest today," the COB Secretary-General Juan Carlos Huarachi said in La Paz. | One of the demonstrators' main calls is the definitive confirmation of the general elections for September 6. | "We ask for a democratically elected government that resolves the country's economic and health crisis caused by COVID-19," Huarachi added, adding that citize…
popularresistance.org/bolivians-take-to-the-streets-against-the-anez-government/

Artists Install Anti-Trump Living Statues Around DC
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
Living statues were installed around Washington, D.C. on Friday depicting President Trump as a "destroyer of civil rights and liberties." | A group of artists known as the Trump Statue Initiative is behind the installations, including one that depicts Trump holding up a Bible while Black Lives Matters protesters are beaten and another showing him telling a masked child to "go back to school" while holding a golf club. | "The concept is that the history he's painting of himself right now, where his narcissistic or racist or self-serving moments abound, this is what he's leaving us with," filmmaker Bryan Buckley to…
popularresistance.org/artists-install-anti-trump-living-statues/

Trump says 'seldom seen niece' Mary Trump 'violated NDA' & 'broke the law' in 1st comment about her tell-all book
rt.com | 2020-07-18
US President Donald Trump has taken aim at his niece, Mary, soon after the publication of her highly critical book, insisting she made deceptive claims — and even ran afoul of privacy law — in his first comments on the memoir. | …
rt.com/usa/495136-trump-niece-book-broke-law/

CBP says Portland protester in viral 'kidnapping' clip was assault & vandalism suspect, denies officers wore no insignia
rt.com | 2020-07-18
The US Customs and Border Protection agency has taken credit for a Portland protester's hot-button arrest this week, saying the man was a criminal suspect, while refuting claims he was 'kidnapped' by agents wearing no insignia. | The CBP sought to address the incident in a statement on Friday, noting that the protester arrested one day prior was suspected of vandalism and attacks on agents amid anti-police brutality demonstrations, which it said were organized by "violent anarchists." | "CBP agents had information indicating the person… was suspected of assaults against federal agents or destruction of feder…
rt.com/usa/495138-portland-border-patrol-arrests/

Portland police 'retreat' after standoff with NAKED female protester (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-18
Police officers in Portland, Oregon were caught off guard after being approached by a nude female demonstrator, who lay down in the street and began performing yoga. The cops were then filmed "withdrawing." | A woman wearing nothing except a mask and a beanie approached a group of officers clearing out the downtown area in the early hours of Saturday. A line of police and federal agents were standing at an intersection when the naked woman seemingly appeared out of nowhere. | "Naked Athena appeared and the little boys didn't know what to do," joked Donovan Farley, a reporter on the ground who documented the ri…
rt.com/usa/495163-nakeder-portland-police/

As violent protests grip Portland for weeks, Dems call for an investigation of 'horrific' tactics by federal law enforcement
rt.com | 2020-07-18
With Portland plagued by weeks of violent protests, including attacks on police, Oregon's leaders are demanding an investigation into federal officers who they branded an "occupying" force assaulting "peaceful protesters." | Four Democratic lawmakers from the state — US Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, as well as US House members Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici — called for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to probe the "violent actions of federal forces in Portland" on Friday. | Like Mayor Ted Wheeler, who said on Tuesday that his biggest wo…
rt.com/usa/495137-portland-democrats-occupying-force/

Rep. John Lewis, iconic civil rights leader, dead at 80
rt.com | 2020-07-18
Longtime congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis has passed away at the age of 80 after a months-long battle with cancer, his family announced. | The Georgia Democrat, who served in Congress for more than three decades, was diagnosed in December with stage-four pancreatic cancer. "He dedicated his entire life to non-violent activism and was an outspoken advocate in the struggle for equal justice in America. He will be deeply missed," Lewis' family said in a statement announcing his death. | Lewis, a colleague of Martin Luther King Jr, was one of several keynote speakers at the 1963 March on Washington f…
rt.com/usa/495145-john-lewis-death-civil-rights/

Leader of radical black-only militia NFAC 'believes in violence' & wants a real-life Wakanda for every black person in America
rt.com | 2020-07-18
NFAC, the masked, armed black militia that recently marched through a park in Georgia, deems violence and killing an acceptable response to oppression. Their end goal is to break away from the US as their own black-only nation. | The NFAC (Not F*cking Around Coalition) grabbed plenty of attention on social media with a high-profile public debut on July 4. The sight of an all-black militia, clutching rifles and handguns, marching in the heartland of the Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain caused plenty of ripples. | But very little is known about them, despite a frenzy of speculation. It's not even clear when they w…
rt.com/usa/495109-nfac-black-militia-blm/

Oregon attorney general files lawsuit against federal agencies amid reports that officers 'kidnapped' Portland protesters
rt.com | 2020-07-18
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is taking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies to court, after accusing federal officers of detaining Portland demonstrators without probable cause. | Rosenblum announced on Friday night that the Oregon Department of Justice had filed a lawsuit in federal court against the DHS, US Marshals Service, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Federal Protection Service. The suit claims federal law enforcement agencies have been wrongfully seizing protesters and seeks a temporary restraining order which would prohibit them from using such tactic…
rt.com/usa/495139-portland-lawsuit-dhss-oregon/

The Pendulum Swings Again: the Desecration of Hagia Sophia
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-18
The Turkish President should have consulted the prophecies of St. Paisius of the Holy Mountain rather than whatever kitaps he was reading before embarking on his risky provocation. In plain Greek, several decades ago St. Paisius was educating Turkish leaders about the sequence of events that the reconversion of Hagia Sophia would set in motion: "When the cathedral of Hagia Sophia is turned into a mosque, Turkey will disintegrate". He also added reassuringly, for the benefit of his audience, that "I will not see that happen, but you will." Th…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/18/pendulum-swings-again-desecration-of-hagia-sophia/

'Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine' Is the Dumbest Story Yet
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-18
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition. | "Russian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the U.S. and Britain said," reports The New York Times. | "Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, Britain's National Cyber…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/18/putin-hacked-our-coronavirus-vaccine-dumbest-story-yet/

How NATO-Member Turkey Reverted Back to Being an Islamic Dictatorship
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-18
The gradual process of Turkey's becoming an Islamic sharia-law country, again, is no longer so gradual. It has taken a sudden and sharp rightward turn, into Islamic-nationhood. Turkey's Hagia Sophia, which had been "the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520," has now been officially decl…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/18/how-nato-member-turkey-reverted-back-to-being-an-islamic-dictatorship/

Mayor demands that Trump remove federal police from Portland
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-18
The mayor of Portland has demanded that US president Donald Trump remove federal law enforcement from the city. Black Lives Matter protests have taken place in the city for nearly two months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May.Federal agents in green camouflage uniforms have reportedly arrested and detained protesters in the city. This happened after they were sent solely to protect federal property. Portland mayor Ted Wheeler told reporters: Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city.Federal officers deployed tear gas and fired less-lethal rounds into a crowd…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/18/mayor-demands-that-trump-remove-federal-police-from-portland/

Civil rights icon John Lewis dies aged 80
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-18
Civil rights hero John Lewis has died aged 80. It was Lewis's bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 that helped galvanise opposition to racial segregation,House speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis's passing late on Friday 17 July. She called the veteran politician "one of the greatest heroes of American history". Both Democrats and Republicans sent Lewis tributes when he announced in December 2019 that he had advanced pancreatic cancer.Civil rights activist: Lewis was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists. This was a group led by Martin Luther King Jr that had the…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/07/18/civil-rights-icon-john-lewis-dies-aged-80/

Trump Blocks CDC Experts From Testifying to Education Panel on School Reopenings
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-07-18
The Democratic chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee revealed Friday that the Trump administration is blocking Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials — including agency director Dr. Robert Redfield — from testifying at a congressional hearing next week on school reopenings as the White House continues its effor…
truthout.org/articles/trump-blocks-cdc-experts-from-testifying-to-education-panel-on-school-reopenings/

Trump's Federal Police Are Kidnapping and Brutalizing Protesters in Portland
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-07-18
On July 11, Donavan LaBella, 26, was shot in the head with an impact munition as he stood at a protest holding a speaker over his head. "It caused a pretty deep laceration, but he was bleeding from his nose, his mouth, his ears — it was pretty bad," Jessica Shifflett, a woman who helped LaBella after he was shot. Videos show protesters rushing to his side, while federal officers…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-federal-police-are-kidnapping-and-brutalizingers-in-portland/

George Yancy: To Be Black in the US Is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-07-18
What drives the current rift between white and Black America, and how as individuals can we effectively contribute to the fight against the worldmaking of whiteness? | Philosopher George Yancy, a leading public intellectual in the critical study of race who received backlash for pointing out the U.S.'s yoke of whiteness, argues that white supremacy bre…
truthout.org/articles/george-yancy-to-be-black-in-the-us-is-to-have-a-knee-against-your-neck-each-day/

US government executes third prisoner after 17-year hiatus
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
The U.S. Department of Justice executed a convicted murderer on Friday in the third federal execution within a week after a 17-year hiatus, according to a reporter serving as a media witness.Dustin Lee Honken, 52, was a dealer in illegal methamphetamine when he and his girlfriend murdered five people in Iowa in 1993, including two girls aged 10 and 6. He was convicted in 2004.Honken was pronounced dead at 4: 36 p.m. EDT at the Justice Department's execution chamber at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, the media witness said.
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-government-executes-third-prisoner-after-17-year-hiatus-3534796

Libya's oil firm calls for foreign mercenaries to leave
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Saturday called for the immediate withdrawal of foreign mercenaries from oil facilities in the country.In a statement, the NOC condemned the deployment of Russia's Wagner Group and Syrian and Janjaweed mercenaries in Libyan oil installations, most recently at Es Sidra port."NOC demands their immediate withdrawal from all facilities," it said, calling the UN to "send observers to supervise the demilitarization in the areas of NOC operations across the country.""There are currently large numbers of foreign mercenaries in NOC facilities who do not share this wish," the state…
yenisafak.com/en/world/libyas-oil-firm-calls-for-foreign-mercenaries-to-leave-3534786

Germany's military missing over 60000 rounds of ammunition
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
More than 100 weapons and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition have disappeared from the inventory of the German armed forces and police, the daily WELT newspaper reported Saturday.At least 60,000 rounds of ammunition have been unaccounted for in the German military and police force over the past 10 years.This figure does not include around 48,000 rounds that went missing from the army's elite Special Forces Command (KSK) unit, which lately made headlines after far-right extremism was exposed among its soldiers.The German Defense Ministry has reportedly launched an investigation into the incident.The exact r…
yenisafak.com/en/world/germanys-military-missing-over-60000-rounds-of-ammunition-3534795

UK pauses daily coronavirus death toll update over data concerns
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Britain said on Saturday it was pausing its daily update of the death toll from the coronavirus after the government ordered a review into the calculation of the data over concerns the toll might have been exaggerated.Academics have said the way that Public Health England (PHE), the government agency responsible for managing infectious disease outbreaks, calculates the figures in England means they may be distorted compared to other parts of the United Kingdom."Currently the daily deaths measure counts all people who have tested positive for coronavirus and since died, with no cut-off between time of testing and…
yenisafak.com/en/world/uk-pauses-daily-coronavirus-death-toll-update-over-data-concerns-3534791

Azerbaijanis on border stay put despite Armenia attacks
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Despite living with the sights, sounds, and danger of attacks from the Armenian army, Azerbaijanis living in villages along the border with Armenia are not going anywhere.For nearly a week now Armenian forces' attacks on Azerbaijan have aimed at seizing strategic heights along the border and targeted not only soldiers but also civilians.Many houses in the region have become unusable after attacks by artillery and mortar on the border villages of Azerbaijan's Tovuz province, but local civilians have not fled.The Azizovs are one of the families living within earshot of gunfire.They lost their uncle Aziz Azizov, 76,…
yenisafak.com/en/news/azerbaijanis-on-border-stay-put-despite-armenia-attacks-3534792

US swoops down on Portland protesters after Trump order to protect monuments
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Federal law enforcement officers are cracking down on protesters in Portland, Oregon, under the Trump administration's new executive order to protect U.S. monuments in what the state's Democratic governor has called "political theater."Multiple videos posted online show camouflage-clad officers without clear identification badges using force and unmarked vehicles to transport arrested protesters."It's kidnapping people!" one person said off-camera, as officers marched a protester away.A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokeswoman said on Friday agents had been deployed to Portland to support a newly laun…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-swoops-down-on-portlanders-after-trump-order-to-protect-monuments-3534787

UK coronavirus antibody test found to be a success
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Following successful trials, the British government is set to start distributing millions of free coronavirus antibody tests, local media reported on Saturday.The finger-prick tests can tell within 20 minutes if a person has been exposed to the virus and were found to be 98.6% accurate during human trials that took place in June.The test was developed under a partnership between Oxford University and leading diagnostics firms of the UK.Sir John Bell, professor of medicine at Oxford University and head of the government's antibody testing program, was quoted by The Telegraph as saying: "This rapid test appears to…
yenisafak.com/en/world/uk-coronavirus-antibody-test-found-to-be-a-success-3534794

Ethiopian premier in Eritrea to discuss regional issues
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Ethiopia's prime minister arrived in Eritrea on an official visit on Saturday.Abiy Ahmed was welcomed in the capital Asmara by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and other senior officials.The two leaders will confer on bilateral and regional issues, according to a statement by the Ethiopian premier's office.Relations between the neighboring countries were restored in June 2018 after two decades of mistrust and tensions.They fought a bloody war from 1998 to 2000 that claimed around 70,000 lives.Abiy won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for leading efforts to normalize Ethiopia and Eritrea's ties and for making regional…
yenisafak.com/en/world/ethiopian-premier-in-eritrea-to-discuss-regional-issues-3534789

Protest held against Armenia's border attacks in Hungary
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
The protest was organized by Azerbaijani associations based in Hungary.Carrying Azerbaijani, Turkish and Hungarian flags, the protesters chanted slogans.Ramiz Emirli, the head of the Azerbaijani-Hungarian Brotherhood Association, told Anadolu Agency that they organized the protests to announce in Europe that Armenia attacked Azerbaijan and martyred its soldiers.Armenian attacks since last Sunday have martyred a dozen Azerbaijani soldiers. However, they have since withdrawn after suffering losses following retaliation from the Azerbaijani military.Azerbaijan has blamed Armenia for the "provocative" actions, with T…
yenisafak.com/en/world/protest-held-against-armenias-border-attacks-in-hungary-3534797

The Downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17: The Quest for Truth and Justice. Review of the Evidence
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
The MH17 Inquiry has been conducted in an insidious fashion. Important pieces of evidence including eye witness reports, audio & video material transmitted through Ukraine Intelligence (SBU) have been manipulated or excluded from the Dutch inquiry, which largely endorses Washington's accusations directed against Moscow.
globalresearch.ca/the-downing-of-malaysian-airlines-mh17-the-quest-for-truth-and-justice/5684127

[Original Research] Socio-demographic heterogeneity in the prevalence of COVID-19 during lockdown is associated with ethnicity and household size: Results from an observational cohort study
Christopher A. Martin, David R. Jenkins, Jatinder S. Minhas, Laura J. Gray, Julian Tang, Caroline Williams, Shirley Sze, Daniel Pan, William Jones, Raman Verma, Scott Knapp, Rupert Major, Melanie Davies, Nigel Brunskill, Martin Wiselka, Chris Brightling, Kamlesh Khunti, Pranab Haldar, Manish Pareek, Leicester COVID-19 consortium | thelancet.com | 2020-07-17
In individuals presenting with suspected COVID-19, those from ethnic minority communities and larger households had an increased likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 PCR positivity. Pandemic control measures may have more rapid impact on slowing viral transmission amongst those of White ethnicity compared to ethnic minority groups, Research is urgently required to understand the mechanisms underlying these disparities and whether public health interventions have differential effects on individuals from ethnic minority groups.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30210-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Early use of low dose tocilizumab in patients with COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study with a complete follow-up
Nicola De Rossi, Cristina Scarpazza, Chiara Filippini, Cinzia Cordioli, Sarah Rasia, Chiara Rosa Mancinelli, Damiano Rizzoni, Giuseppe Romanelli, Stefania Cossi, Nereo Vettoretto, Sergio Bove, Silvano Manfredini, Eva Andrea Beindorf, Carlo Mosca, Vittorio Scipione, Gigliola Flamminio, Elena Albini Albini, Paola Giansiracusa, Ruggero Capra, Montichiari COVID-19 Study Group | thelancet.com | 2020-07-17
Early treatment with tocilizumab could be helpful to prevent excessive hyper-inflammation and death in COVID-19 related pneumonia. Low dose administration of tocilizumab is not associated with adverse events.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30203-0/fulltext?rss=yes

Saudi Coalition Attack on Yemen Wedding Party Leaves Over 30 Civilians Dead
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-17
United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths called for a transparent investigation into the attack, which comes just weeks after the UN took Saudi Arabia off its list of child killers.
mintpressnews.com/saudi-coalition-attack-yemen-wedding-party-leaves-30-civilians-dead/269555/

Portland Mayor Condemns Masked Federal Agents Abducting Protesters
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-17
Human rights groups, activists, and local politicians are decrying what appears to be the Trump administration's latest tactic to crush nationwide protests that erupted in late May over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police.
mintpressnews.com/portland-mayor-condemns-masked-federal-agents-abductingers/269548/

Does Sanders Have a Secret Deal with Biden?
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Though Bernie Sanders is less dishonest than any other of the U.S. political leaders who have contested in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential primary campaigns, no one should trust his endorsements of the DNC's choice (which was what it …
globalresearch.ca/does-sanders-have-secret-deal-biden/5718792

Thoughts on Bayard Rustin Nostalgia
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
A Dustin Guastella article on Nonsite dated July 9th generated controversy because it opposed defunding the cops. Like Bernie Sanders, another opponent of defunding, Guastella proposed reforms that would satisfy everybody since they would lead to less crime. If there were massive increases in federal social spending, there would be more jobs and hence less…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/thoughts-on-bayard-rustin-nostalgia/

Now Comes the Davos Global Economy "Great Reset". What Happens After the Covid-19 Pandemic?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
First published by GR on June 10, 2020 | For those wondering what will come after the Covid19 pandemic has successfully all but shut down the entire world economy, spreading the worst depression since the 1930s, the leaders of the premier …
globalresearch.ca/davos-great-reset/5715515

What Lies Ahead?
Jack Rasmus | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
Like another financial-banking crash, a major political instability event–domestic or foreign–could easily send an already weak US economy struggling in the midst of a Great Recession into the abyss of the first Great Depression of the 21st century…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-lies-ahead/

The Life-Saving Covid-19 Drugs You've Never Heard Of (and Why)
Lee Camp | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The American profit-based healthcare system impacts us in more ways than just our gargantuan bill at the excretion end of an emergency room visit. Right now, our lovable idiotic inhumane healthcare system is acting as a hurdle to the manufacture and procurement of the right drugs to treat Covid-19. One of the drugs currently trumpeted…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/the-life-saving-covid-19-drugs-youve-never-heard-of-and-why/

Deep organizing key to historic Flint Sit-Down Strike
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-07-17
These slightly edited remarks were given at a July 9 Workers World Party webinar on "Introduction to Revolutionary Deep Organizing." There is a medical definition for "inoculation": a set of methods of inducing immunity against various infectious diseases. The capitalists inoculate people against unionization. So what does it mean for . . . | Continue reading Deep organizing key to historic Flint Sit-Down Strike at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50061/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deep-organizing-key-to-historic-flint-sit-down-strike

Remembering Israel's Killing of Four Children on the Beach in Gaza
Muhammad Hussein | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
What: Israeli missile kills four children of the same family on a beach in Gaza | When: 16 July, 2014 | Where: The Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine | What happened? | Israel's military offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2014 — "Operation Strong Cliff" …
globalresearch.ca/remembering-israel-killing-four-children-beach-gaza/5718807

Germany's Presidency of the EU Will Determine if the Bloc Joins the New Multipolar World Order
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Relations between the U.S. and European powers like Germany and France are reaching a historic low. This is especially true after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew a large portion of the American military stationed in Germany to other European countries …
globalresearch.ca/germany-presidency-determine-bloc-joins-new-multipolar-world-order/5718762

Trump: White Bread Not Yet Toasted
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The Orange Fascist Death Machine Donald Trump is a fascist death machine. He's proved it again and again in numerous ways, including but not limited to these: the separation and caging of migrant children, hailing Nazi white supremacists as "fine people," pardoning sociopathic fascists and war criminals, holding regular white nationalist hate rallies, conveying far-right…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/trump-white-bread-not-yet-toasted/

China's Economy and Globalization: A Look into the Future
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
After the corona crisis, may the world be facing a monumental paradigm shift of power towards a more balanced civilization — more social justice and equity? The global almost total lockdown, chosen by most governments around the globe in response …
globalresearch.ca/china-economy-globalization-look-future/5718779

Turmoil at Home, Turmoil Abroad: Israel and the U.S. Escalate Their War Against Iran
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
As the combined impact of the corona virus and the wholesale destruction of America's history and culture, or at least the part of it that is white, continues, it is nice to see that other nations are getting into the …
globalresearch.ca/turmoil-home-turmoil-abroad-israel-us-escalate-war-against-iran/5718767

Why Government Mostly Helps People Who Need It the Least…Even During a Crisis
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
In January 2020, the NASDAQ stock market's index stood just under 10,000. In the March crash, it fell to 7,000. As of July 10, 2020, it hit 10,600. The U.S. government's economic policies produced a "recovery" for the rich who own the vast bulk of stocks. Their holdings are worth more now than before COVID-19 hit us. The other major benchmarks for securities, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard and Poor 500, show similarly dramatic, slightly smaller recoveries.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/why-government-mostly-helps-people-who-need-it-the-least-even-during-a-crisis/

Why government mostly helps people who need it the least–even during a crisis
Richard D. Wolff | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
The system is the problem.
mronline.org/2020/07/17/why-government-mostly-helps-people-who-need-it-the-least-even-during-a-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-government-mostly-helps-people-who-need-it-the-least-even-during-a-crisis

Video: Unidentified Warplanes Struck Turkish-led Forces in Syria. Turkish Spy Plane Crashed Near Iraqi Border
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Early on July 16, unidentified warplanes conducted at least 3 airstrikes on the Turkish-occupied town of al-Bab in the Syrian province of Aleppo. The strikes destroyed a large building in the town center and led to multiple casualties. Pro-Turkish sources …
globalresearch.ca/video-unidentified-warplanes-struck-turkish-led-forces-syria-turkish-spy-plane-crashed-near-iraqi-border/5718765

Sonia Shah: "It's Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus — Our Lives Depend on It"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-17
The United States hit an all-time high of 75,600 new COVID cases Thursday — the largest number recorded in a single day since the pandemic began. Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says the spike in cases resulted from states rushing to reopen their economies. We speak with investigative journalist Sonia Shah about the government's failed response, the false idea that the virus is a "foreign incursion," and "vaccine nationalism." In her latest piece for The Nation magazine, she argues, "It's Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus — Our Lives Depend on It."
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/17/sonia_shah_its_time_to_tell

"This Is Trump's War": U.S.-Backed Saudi Bombing in Yemen Continues as Coronavirus Spreads
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-17
As the coronavirus spreads in Yemen, where the population already devastated by the world's worst humanitarian crisis faces growing hunger and aid shortages, the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed coalition continues to drop bombs in the country. We speak to Yemeni scholar Shireen Al-Adeimi, who calls the ongoing crisis "Trump's war." "We're seeing death rates that are just astronomical," Al-Adeimi says. "The war continues, the bombing continues, the blockade is still enforced."
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/17/coronavirus_spread_yemen_us_backed_saudi

Philadelphia Delays Unhoused Encampment Eviction as CDC Says "Let Them Remain" & Stop COVID Spread
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-17
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says unhoused people living in encampments should be allowed to remain where they are to help stop the spread of COVID-19, we go to Philadelphia, where the mayor has postponed the eviction of an encampment planned for this morning. "The Philadelphia Housing Authority has about 5,000 vacant properties," notes Sterling Johnson, an organizer with Black and Brown Workers Cooperative, who joins us from the camp. "We want to use them to create a community land trust. What they want to do is auction them off to private developers." The move comes as many cities have cont…
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/17/philadelphia_delays_unhoused_encampment_eviction_as

An Ultimate Meaning of the Bernie 2020 Campaign: "Not Him. Us."
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
We've got to lead ourselves out of the capitalist wilderness…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835130.php

Amid Sri Lankan elections, YouTube censors Tamil-language WSWS posts
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Amid national elections, YouTube, the San Bruno, California subsidiary of Google, has been continually removing Sri Lankan World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party videos at its website.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835127.php

SEP candidates respond to California state officials in ballot access lawsuit
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz respond to California officials who would have Socialist Equality Party (SEP) signature gatherers run a deadly COVID-19 "minefield" to gain them ballot access in November. In federal court they argued that putting the signature gatherers and the public at risk during the pandemic is unconstitutional and unacceptable.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835147.php

Roaming Charges: The Meaning of BB King in the Age of BLM
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
In the summer of 1998, Alexander Cockburn and I spent a few days in North Richmond, California, a battered industrial city just outside of Berkeley. We had just published our book Whiteout on the CIA and drug trafficking and had been invited to speak at a black church about the horrific toll of the drug…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/the-meaning-of-bb-king-in-the-age-of-blm/

Chris Hedges: America Faces A Historic Choice — "Ugly Corporate Tyranny" Or Revolution
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
Time is broken in Donald Trump's America. Minutes feel like hours, hours feel like days. Weeks are months, and months are years. And there is an overwhelming sense of time warped by dread as the country careens towards a dangerous climax on Election Day — whatever the outcome. | Disorientation is a feature of life in a failing democracy where fascism is ascendant. | In a widely read conversation here at Salon during the first few weeks of the national pandemic lockdown and the implosion of America's economy, journalist and bestselling author Chris Hedges warned that, compared to what may lie ahead, "these w…
popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-america-faces-a-historic-choice-ugly-corporate-tyranny-or-revolution/

WATCH: Immigrant workers camp outside Bezos' NYC apartment as part of AOC-sponsored campaign to tax billionaires
rt.com | 2020-07-17
Dozens of immigrant workers have begun a joint 24-hour fast and sleep-out outside billionaire Jeff Bezos' $16 million penthouse in Manhattan, to lobby New York authorities to tax the wealthy to help the pandemic-affected poor. | High-profile Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among those behind a campaign to push New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to further tax the mega-rich in the state and use the revenue generated to help workers in need of assistance during the pandemic. | Eyewitness footage from the scene shows the workers, joined by city council members, set up camp on Fifth Avenue near the Amazon-o…
rt.com/usa/495024-workers-bezos-nyc-aoc/

Why Laos, Vietnam & China Have Beaten the Virus and India, Brazil and the U.S. Have Not
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-17
Vijay Prashad explores the differences between the pandemic responses of a few countries with socialist governments and others in the capitalist order. | Vijay PRASHAD | Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus; there are no confirmed deaths from Covid-19 in either country. Both of these Southeast Asian states border China, where the virus was first detected in late December 2019, and both have thriving trade and tourist relations with China. India is separated from China by the high Himalaya Mountains, while Brazil and the United States ha…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/17/why-laos-vietnam-china-have-beaten-virus-india-brazil-and-us-have-not/

Good News from Washington: AIPAC, Israel Losing to Progressive Democrats
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of 'strategic ambiguity' that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace. Trump's policies on Israel and Palestine have been damaging, culminating in…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/good-news-from-washington-aipac-israel-losing-to-progressive-democrats/

Dems and GOP to Debate Extended Stimulus Benefits Next Week
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Current federal unemployment benefits expire in days. | In May, House-controlled Dems narrowly passed a new $3 trillion stimulus package. | So-called Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) legislation extends current federal benefits through at least yearend. | Senate Majority Leader …
globalresearch.ca/dems-gop-debate-extended-stimulus-benefits-next-week/5718833

On the Separation of Church and State
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
Once again, the Supreme Court showed its undemocratic and misogynist colors. It came down against women, encouraging employers not to pay for birth control services. The Supreme Court is obviously catering to the fashionable superstitions of religious preachers who resent the struggle of women for dignity and equality. The judges are also woefully ignorant the planet has…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/on-the-separation-of-church-and-state/

Supreme Court Stopped One Million Floridians From Voting In November
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
The Supreme Court all but guaranteed that nearly 1 million Floridians will be unable to vote in the 2020 election because of unpaid court debts in a shattering order handed down on Thursday. Its decision will throw Florida's voter registration into chaos, placing a huge number of would-be voters in legal limbo and even opening them up to prosecution for casting a ballot. The justices have effectively permitted Florida Republicans to impose a poll tax in November. | Florida's ex-felons have a right to vote under both the state and federal constitutions. In 2018, a supermajority of residents approved a constitution…
popularresistance.org/supreme-court-stopped-one-million-floridians-from-voting-in-november/

At least 72 Taliban killed as violence rages in Afghanistan
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
As violence surges across the country, Afghan security forces on Friday said at least 72 Taliban militants, including four top commanders, have been killed in operations in three provinces.In a statement, the Afghan National Army said 32 more insurgents were also injured in ground and air offensives in northern Balkh, Faryab, and Sar-i-Pul provinces over the past 24 hours.Earlier this week, at least 36 security personnel were killed and over 60 others wounded in northern parts of the country amid a rise in Taliban-claimed attacks.On Sunday, the Taliban rejected growing calls for cease-fire by the Afghan governmen…
yenisafak.com/en/world/at-least-72-taliban-killed-as-violence-rages-in-afghanistan-3534718

Each Heartbeat Must Be Our Song; the Redness of Blood, Our Banner
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
This level of public action is simply not available in the advanced capitalist countries, where mass organisations have been tethered and voluntary action has become professionalised in non-profit organisations…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/each-heartbeat-must-be-our-song-the-redness-of-blood-our-banner/

Each heartbeat must be our song; the redness of blood, our banner
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus; there are no confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in either country.
mronline.org/2020/07/17/each-heartbeat-must-be-our-song-the-redness-of-blood-our-banner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=each-heartbeat-must-be-our-song-the-redness-of-blood-our-banner

Hong Kong Security Law Is Common Sense, Not Controversial
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
China's special administration region of Hong Kong saw the passing of a security law outlawing acts universally recognized as criminal and threats to any nation's security and sovereignty. | Despite what would appear to be common sense legislation, the Western media …
globalresearch.ca/hong-kong-security-law-common-sense-not-controversial/5718774

News about life behind the walls
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2020-07-17
Cruel and unusual: Lack of air conditioning exacerbates medical conditions Across the hottest places in the U.S., caged humans often face unbearable and sometimes lethal conditions behind the walls where air conditioning is not provided. The Prison Policy Initiative has found that famously hot states lack universal air conditioning in . . . | Continue reading News about life behind the walls at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50065/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-about-life-behind-the-walls

'Cancel culture' is a myth. So is the idea that the political right is under siege
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-07-17
An open letter in a major US current affairs magazine has provoked a storm of debate about so-called 'cancel culture'. The letter's general thrust is that today's public sphere has been severely damaged by a decline in open discourse due to a culture of political correctness. According to its proponents, this in turn poses a huge threat to 'free speech', or perhaps even to the foundations of open discourse itself. | There's certainly something superficially attractive about this argument. After all, who could possibly be against free speech an…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/07/17/cancel-culture-is-a-myth-so-is-the-idea-that-the-political-right-is-under-siege/

"The Bleeding Wound"
Tom Engelhardt | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
Osama bin Laden Won (Twice)…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-bleeding-wound/

COVID-19 — Remdesivir: License to Kill. Hydroxychloroquine: Prohibition to Cure
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Remdesivir's fight against Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is somewhat symbolic of the fight of medical journals, of corrupt institutions against field medicine, of the many general practitioners who are at the bedside. | Remdesivir is an expensive molecule, owned by a pharmaceutical company, …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-remdesivir-license-to-kill-hydroxychloroquine-prohibition-to-cure/5718844

The great American firewall: On the question of censorship
Danny Haiphong | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology.
mronline.org/2020/07/17/the-great-american-firewall-on-the-question-of-censorship/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-american-firewall-on-the-question-of-censorship

"The Russians Are Coming", Again! Poorly Understood Cybercrimes Play Perfectly into Political Agendas
Helen Buyniski | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Foreign hackers are determined as ever to steal technology, meddle in elections and skew foreign policy, but fear not! The CIA has apparently been authorized to deliver preemptive cyber-strikes based on partisan mythmaking. | US, UK and Canadian intelligence dropped a | …
globalresearch.ca/russians-coming-again-poorly-understood-cybercrimes-play-perfectly-political-agendas/5718829

The Sky Is Falling — Yes — No
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The sky is falling is one of the more disturbing thoughts in society today, as to whether climate change is on a fast track collision course with doomsday amidst a collapsing society. In that regard, according to the details of a scathing review by ScientistsWarning.org ("SW") of Jem Bendell's wildly popular "Deep Adaptation" the answer…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/the-sky-is-falling-yes-no/

Of Toddlers, Wolves, and Public Lands Ranchers
Samantha Bruegger | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
As I sit here thinking about wolves, my child is now peacefully sleeping in his room. I know he will awake tomorrow and much of his toddler fury will have subsided, creating a time for us to interact with each other positively. I can't help but think of the parallels between some bad-acting livestock producers, grazing on public lands across the West, and my raging pre-bedtime toddler. The evening meltdown ritual is full of entitlement, irrational beliefs, and a lot of whining. It is now in these precious hours of silence that I understand why these tantrums are so familiar. I hear the same chorus from stock grow…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/of-toddlers-wolves-and-public-lands-ranchers/

Rev. Dr. William Barber II: A Multi-Racial Coalition Is Necessary For This Moment
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-17
Poor People's Campaign Co-Chairs Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Rev. Dr. William Barber II want to seize this moment with a broad-based, multi-racial movement to change an 'impoverished democracy.'…
therealnews.com/stories/rev-dr-william-barber-multi-racial-coalition-necessary-for-this-moment

Human solidarity and a global health commons
Christian Laval | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
To protect ourselves against this pandemic, we need to consider health as a global commons, with solidarity as public health's first line of defense…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/human-solidarity-and-a-global-health-commons/

Soon, You Will Need to Wear a Mask to Enter Virtually Every Major Retail Store in America
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
If you are adamant about not wearing a mask, you are not going to like this news one bit. Coming into this week, Costco, Starbucks, Best Buy and Panera Bread were requiring customers to wear masks to come into their …
globalresearch.ca/you-will-need-wear-mask-enter-virtually-every-major-retail-store-america/5718806

20 Dictators Currently Supported by the US
Phil Armstrong | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
What nations say they stand for and what the evidence suggests they stand for can be — and frequently are — two entirely different things. This highly thought-provoking book puts the world's most powerful nation in the spotlight and compares …
globalresearch.ca/20-dictators-currently-supported-us/5718797

"Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine" Is The Dumbest Story Yet
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-17
Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition. | "Russian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the U.S. and Britain said," reports The New York Times. | "Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, Britain's National Cyber Security…

“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” Is The Dumbest Story Yet

PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (09– 15 July 2020)
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-07-17
Summary Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized with excessive use of force, assault, abuse and attacks on civilians. This week, a civilian was killed by Israeli forces while he was walking with his …
imemc.org/article/pchr-weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-09-15-july-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-09-15-july-2020

Michigan workers rally and march for unemployment extensions
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-17
Lansing, MI – 120 union members and supporters marched through downtown Lansing, July 15, chanting, "They say cut back! We say fight back!" The march stopped at a union worker statue where Nick Eaton of IATSE Local 247 spoke, "This statue represents the workers who built the new buildings you see in front of you. It also reflects the history of factory workers before deindustrialization left ugly scenes and empty lots, like many cities in the Midwest." | The marchers returned to the State Capitol building chanting about unemployment, "Extend to the end!" and "HEROES Act now!" Josh Roskamp with IATSE Local 26 expl…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/17/michigan-workers-rally-and-march-unemployment-extensions

Donald Trump Is Living Proof of Osama bin Laden's Success
Tom Engelhardt | thenation.com | 2020-07-17
Donald Trump Is Living Proof of Osama bin Laden's Success…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-bin-laden/

Behind the #MeToo Headlines with JoAnn Wypijewski
Susan Block | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The wise, compassionate and refreshingly sex-positive JoAnn Wypijewski has come out with a remarkable new book with a very long name, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life (Verso). The title's luxurious length underlines how important it is sometimes to discuss things fully, and how, when we…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/behind-the-metoo-headlines-with-joann-wypijewski/

øPor qué ganaron los beneficios de DACA?
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-07-17
La Corte Suprema por más de 230 años ha llevado a cabo los objetivos conservadores de sus creadores. Ha protegido la propiedad privada, incluida la "propiedad" de los seres humanos, y ha minimizado el derecho de los pobres a asociarse para la lucha unida. Actualmente, Corte Suprema de los Estados . . . | Continue reading øPor qué ganaron los beneficios de DACA? at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50058/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=por-que-ganaron-los-beneficios-de-daca

Trump's 'Plan' Is Simply to Make the Virus and Its Casualties Disappear
Sonali Kolhatkar | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
Source: Independent Media Institute When schoolchildren across the United States began their summer break, President Donald Trump had more than two months to bring the coronavirus crisis under control in time for schools to reopen for the fall. But, instead of tackling the virus' spread head-on, he did what most observers expected of him: Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-plan-is-simply-to-make-the-virus-and-its-casualties-disappear/

Apocalypse Rot, a quarantined poem
Ewuare X. Osayande | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-17
"Imperialism leaves germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well." –Frantz Fanon Who knew the apocalypse would come by way of cough? that a sneeze could kill you like a scene from the Walking Dead "avoid each other like the plague" is no longer …
peoplesworld.org/article/apocalypse-rot-a-quarantined-poem/

Cuba in the last stretch of the Pandemic
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
Cuba is only a few days away from ending its coronavirus quarantine. Except for Havana, all the other provinces are free of the contagion and have begun moving toward a new normality.
mronline.org/2020/07/17/cuba-in-the-last-stretch-of-the-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cuba-in-the-last-stretch-of-the-pandemic

To labor cheers, Virginia OKs emergency anti-coronavirus safety standard
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-17
RICHMOND, Va.–To cheers from Virginia workers and unions, the state Department of Labor and Industry went where GOP President Donald Trump's Occupational Safety and Health Administration won't: Imposing a statewide emergency standard ordering firms to immediately craft and put in place plans to protect their workers against the coronavirus pandemic. And if the firms don't …
peoplesworld.org/article/to-labor-cheers-virginia-oks-emergency-anti-coronavirus-safety-standard/

Economic Crisis and the Question of Capitalism
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
On the precipice of what will likely be the worst economic crisis in modern history, the question not being asked is: why capitalism? To date, temporary government payments– tilted largely toward the rich, have sustained some parts of the pre-pandemic economy through a state of suspended animation that ended in fits and starts with reopening.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/economic-crisis-and-the-question-of-capitalism/

As India approaches 1 million COVID-19 cases, Modi government continues to deny community transmission
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
The absurd claim that India is not experiencing significant community transmission is part of the government's reckless back-to-work drive and its criminal "herd immunity" policy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/17/inco-j17.html

A Proposed Origin for SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jonathan Latham — Allison Wilson | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
In all the discussions of the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, enormous scientific attention has been paid to the molecular character of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including its novel genome sequence in comparison with its near relatives. In stark contrast, virtually no attention has been paid to the physical provenance of those nearest genetic relatives, its…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/a-proposed-origin-for-sars-cov-2-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Angel Olsen and Hand Habits "Walls"
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/angel-olsen-and-hand-habits-walls/

Congress Has the Legal Power to Investigate Silicon Valley
Zephyr Teachout | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
Lawmakers are about to undertake their first major antitrust hearing in 50 years. They should make tech companies squirm…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/congress-has-the-legal-power-to-investigate-silicon-valley/

Donald Trump's Niece Dishes the Dirt
Katha Pollitt | thenation.com | 2020-07-17
Donald Trump's Niece Dishes the Dirt…
thenation.com/article/politics/mary-trump-book/

Cut the Pentagon Budget 10 Percent and Invest in Public Health
Lindsay Koshgarian | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
It feels like the world is falling apart. But with a pandemic raging and an eviction crisis looming, the Senate is preparing to spend three quarters of a trillion dollars… not on public health or housing, but on the Pentagon. The United States may be going down, but we're going down well-armed. At a time…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/cut-the-pentagon-budget-10-percent-and-invest-in-public-health/

Colorado wildfire causes over 1,000 evacuations
Olivia Rosane | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-17
More than 1,000 people were told to evacuate their homes when a wildfire ignited in the foothills west of Denver Monday, Colorado Public Radio reported. The Elephant Butte Fire sparked in Evergreen, Colorado, around 2: 30 p.m., KDVR reported. As of Tuesday morning, it had spread to 50 acres and was zero percent contained, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office …
peoplesworld.org/article/colorado-wildfire-causes-over-1000-evacuations/

Where Have All the Demos Gone? Cappies Killed 'Em, One By One
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The world's greatest democracy will lead a whole world of democracies. — Bill Clinton He can't even run his own life / I'll be damned if he'll run mine, sunshine — Jonathan Edwards There we were, two months in, lost at home, ball-and-chained to a virus, but finally, because we're a nation of 'rugged individualists,'…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/where-have-all-the-demos-gone-cappies-killed-em-one-by-one/

The 'strongmen' have failed
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
Three countries, the US, Brazil and India, lead the global COVID-19 case count. What connects them are their leaders -Trump, Bolsonaro and Modi – whose policies and polarizing ways have hindered efforts to combat the disease.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/17/the-strongmen-have-failed/

PDF of July 16 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-07-17
Download the 12-page PDF. Boston #SayHerName: Black women lead BLM march Down with white supremacy!: Rayshard Brooks Peace Center; Charleston school renamed; Cambridge Black youth sit-in. Revolution and proletarian democracy; SCOTUS undermines birth control; Trump's xenophobic attacks; Disabled people vs. police terror; Editorial 'Not above the law'; Reopening schools? TEAR . . . | Continue reading PDF of July 16 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50045/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-july-16-issue

Stir Crazy! Episode #68: The Secret Police Are Coming
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-17
On today's show: Managing Director for K-12 Education Policy at the Center for American Progress Dr. Khalilah Harris, Baltimore-based activist and recording artist Eze Jackson, and "Why You Should Give A F*ck" co-host Tunde Ogunfolaju. Hosted by Kim Brown. If you have comments/questions/suggestions email us at stircrazy@therealnews.com…
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-68-the-secret-police-are-coming

Vulgar Militarism: Expanding the Australian War Memorial
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-17
It was a decision both rash and indulgent. In November 2018, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, after being nudged incessantly by then Australian War Memorial director Brendan Nelson, committed to a redevelopment project intended to double the exhibition space in Campbell. The amount for the project would be just shy of a half-billion dollars and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/vulgar-militarism-expanding-the-australian-war-memorial/

Trump Now Has Free Rein to Cook the Books When It Comes to COVID
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
Trump has determined that, beginning today, his administration will commandeer the COVID-19 patient numbers, take full control of them, and maybe even get the National Guard involved in this astonishing and dangerous power grab…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-now-has-free-rein-to-cook-the-books-when-it-comes-to-covid/

Dark Army of Enablers
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
We are a culture rift with hypocrisy. We like to say that power comes from The People but in both corporate and governmental sectors power asserts and maintains itself through enablers, apologists, henchman, hired guns, attack dogs, spin doctors, Think Tank apologists, and loyal bloviators. President Donald J. Trump is surrounded by such a crowd.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/dark-army-of-enablers/

Neoliberal discourse on land harms livelihoods and environmental security: Oakland Institute report
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
Studying the cases of countries like Ukraine, Zambia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Brazil, the Oakland Institute report debunks some of the myths on development and land use propagated by mainstream economics, and calls for the preservation of commons.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/17/neoliberal-discourse-on-land-harms-livelihoods-and-environmental-security-oakland-institute-report/

We Treasure What We Measure
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
Transparency, transparency, transparency. The word has become a battle cry in Trump times, and there was another skirmish this week when the administration ordered hospitals to send their Covid-19 data not to the Centers for Disease Control, where it's publicly available, but rather to the Department of Health and Human Services, where it will be…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/we-treasure-what-we-measure/

The Left Remakes the World
Amna Akbar | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
On Canceling Rent, Defunding Police & Where We Go from Here…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-left-remakes-the-world/

America Declaring China's Territorial Claims Illegal Is All Bark & No Bite. The US Is Militarily & Economically Impotent
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Mike Pompeo's statement that Beijing's claims in the South China Sea are unlawful was seen by some as a dramatic step toward war. But it's little more than bluster as the US knows it is not yet capable of taking …
globalresearch.ca/america-declaring-china-territorial-claims-illegal-all-bark-no-bite-us-militarily-economically-impotent/5718813

"My Appetite is Justice": mother launches hunger strike after son's death in presence of police officers
Emily Hannon | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-17
On July 4, Dannielle Brown brought a rocking chair and a stool to Freedom Corner, the location of a monument in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh marking the spot where major civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s took place. She sat down in her rocking chair and would not leave or eat, beginning a …
liberationnews.org/my-appetite-is-justice-mother-launches-hunger-strike-after-sons-death-in-presence-of-police-officers/

It's time for white people to get off the plinth
Claud Fullwood | thecanary.co | 2020-07-17
On 15 July, Artist Marc Quinn filled the vacant plinth of slaver Edward Colston with a sculpture of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protester Jen Reid. | Many people greeted the statue with fierce joy. Dr Lola Solebo tweeted: | #MarcQuinn and team #FifthPlinth t.co/Q5KZ5IsZMo | — Dr Lola Solebo (@lolaeyedoc)

"The Great Reset" Fraud
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Like everyone, I would love to live in a pollution-free world. | I would love to see human civilization strike a balance with nature and at the risk of sounding like a naàØve idealist, I sincerely do believe that this is …
globalresearch.ca/great-reset-fraud/5718785

With Fear and Favor: The Russophobia of 'The New York Times'
David S. Foglesong | thenation.com | 2020-07-17
With Fear and Favor: The Russophobia of 'The New York Times'…
thenation.com/article/world/new-york-times-russia/

Diane Yentel on Eviction Crisis, Lisa Graves on USPS Under Attack
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-07-17
Media…
fair.org/home/diane-yentel-on-eviction-crisis-lisa-graves-on-usps-under-attack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=diane-yentel-on-eviction-crisis-lisa-graves-on-usps-under-attack

We cannot have the police viewing the people as the enemy
Joel Wendland-Liu | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-17
After the Black Lives Matter uprisings in May and June, which were prompted by the racist police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the slaying of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, few people in the world are unaware of the intensity of systemic racism in the U.S. From top to bottom, systemic racism dominates the …
peoplesworld.org/article/we-cannot-have-the-police-viewing-the-people-as-the-enemy/

Police Punish And Wall Street Profits
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-17
Taxpayers are paying double for police brutality settlements thanks to local governments buying bonds from Wall Street to cover payouts. San Diego cop watcher Kat from Irate Productions discusses recent police harassment of unarmed residents.
therealnews.com/stories/police-accountability-report-police-punish-and-wall-street-profits

Palestinian prisoner with cancer who tested positive for COVID-19 is in critical condition
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
Kamal Abu Wa'ar, who suffers from throat cancer, was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week. He is currently in the Assaf Harofeh medical center and in a critical condition according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/17/palestinian-prisoner-with-cancer-who-tested-positive-for-covid-19-is-in-critical-condition/

The Architecture of Domestic Repression in the United States
Donald Monaco | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Millions of Americans have awakened to the shocking realization that they are living in a veritable police state as they witness unarmed peaceful protesters for racial justice being confronted by a militarized police force replete with armored personnel carriers, assault | …
globalresearch.ca/domestic-repression-united-states/5718761

Now Is the Time for Free College
Margot Kidder | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
With youth unemployment and student debt skyrocketing, young people need free higher education…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/now-is-the-time-for-free-college/

The East-Bound Wind Causes a Storm in the West: Iran-China Sign Long-Term Trade Agreement
Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
A few months after the publication of his remarkable book, Adam Smith in Beijing, I had an illuminating conversation with Giovanni Arrighi about the significance of China in world history. The late sociologist was interested in knowing more about the subject of my scholarship–modern Iran and the Iranian revolution. When he saw my puzzled face,…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/the-east-bound-wind-causes-a-storm-in-the-west-iran-china-sign-long-term-trade-agreement/

Where is Facundo Astudillo? The evidence points to involvement of Buenos Aires police
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
Two and a half months after the disappearance of Facundo Astudillo, the justice investigates a possible forced disappearance and international organizations like the UN are pressuring the Argentine state to give responses…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/17/where-is-facundo-astudillo-the-evidence-points-to-involvement-of-buenos-aires-police/

Eric the Clapper tells us why he claps
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-17
LOS ANGELES — "Did you clap tonight?" my faraway husband in Mexico asks me almost every evening when we talk. He's stuck there for immigration reasons, and I'm stuck here for coronavirus reasons. We haven't seen each other since early January, except on Facetime. "Oh, yes," I answer, and he always likes to grasp the …
peoplesworld.org/article/eric-the-clapper-tells-us-why-he-claps/

After Years of Underfunding, Public School Teachers are Now Supposed to Save the Economy?
Jeff Bryant | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
"After 9/11, New York City police and firefighters were hailed as heroes," said Mary Parr-Sanchez, president of the New Mexico affiliate of the National Education Association, when I spoke with her about how educators have responded to the pandemic in her state.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/after-years-of-underfunding-public-school-teachers-are-now-supposed-to-save-the-economy/

Police Knew Far-Right Extremists Were Real Threat at Protests, not "Antifa"
Ryan Devereaux | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
While the White House beat the drum for a crackdown on a leaderless movement on the left, law enforcement offices across the country were sharing detailed reports of far-right extremists seeking to attack the protesters and police during the country's historic demonstrations…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/police-knew-far-right-extremists-were-real-threat-ats-not-antifa/

COVID-19 tightens its grip on the African continent
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent surpasses 600,000, the nature of the virus has taken on its own character. This happens while the global infection rate has surpassed 13 million cases, with the US, Brazil, India and Russia accounting for almost half of the confirmed COVID-19 cases globally. Irrespective of the seemingly low number of COVID-19 cases in Africa, confirmed cases vary dramatically from country-to-country, with South Africa reporting 40% of the continent's confirmed cases. While the virus is present in all African coun…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/17/covid-19-tightens-its-grip-on-the-african-continent/

Leaked documents show police knew far-right extremists were the real threat at protests, not "ANTIFA"
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
We've seen the way that the police responded to nonviolent civil disobedience at Standing Rock or in Ferguson versus the laissez-faire approach they've used in a number of these white supremacist riots. They clearly can regulate their behavior. Why they choose not to when it's groups protesting police violence is what I think local government …
mronline.org/2020/07/17/leaked-documents-show-police-knew-far-right-extremists-were-the-real-threat-ats-not-antifa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leaked-documents-show-police-knew-far-right-extremists-were-the-real-threat-ats-not-antifa

Health care workers take action to preserve lives as COVID-19 spreads throughout Africa
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
From the onset of the pandemic, health care workers across the continent sounded the alarm over the lack of staff as well as ventilators and ICU beds.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/17/afri-j17.html

Warnings Grow: "We are in a Massive Economic Downturn"
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
This week, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard gave a speech via webcast to the National Association for Business Economics. She warned, effectively, that the rosy spin coming out of the Trump administration needed to be weighed against the reality on the ground. Brainard raised the caution that credit downgrades on bonds and corporate defaults are…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/warnings-grow-we-are-in-a-massive-economic-downturn/

Philippine President Duterte signs 'Anti-Terrorism Bill' into law
Mark Andrews | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-17
Main photo: National Democratic activists and allies denounce the Anti-Terror Law. Credit: Anakbayan Silicon Valley On July 3, the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, signed into law the Anti-Terrorism Bill of 2020, commonly known as the "Anti-Terrorism Law." The bill, which broadens the definition of terrorism, takes effect July 18. Historical context The National …
liberationnews.org/philippine-president-duterte-signs-anti-terrorism-bill-into-law/

Class Disparities and Child Abuse in Ireland 2020
Kerron àì Luain | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The newly formed government of the Twenty-Six County state in Ireland has been in existence less than a month but is already mired in several controversies; the usual circuses thrown up by capitalist society with governments lurching from each to the next without any alteration to the status quo. One of them is worth looking…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/class-disparities-and-child-abuse-in-ireland-2020/

In Lockdown With Edward Hopper's Prophetic Paintings
Monika Zgustova | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
When I lived in Chicago, I often went to the Art Institute to admire the paintings of Edward Hopper, especially Nighthawks. Later on, I would do the same thing in New York, at the Whitney; both galleries have excellent Hopper collections. I remembered those visits when, in full lockdown, social media were flooded with images…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/in-lockdown-with-edward-hoppers-prophetic-paintings/

More than two hundred Mexican oil workers at PEMEX have died from COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
The state-owned oil company reported that 234 family members of workers have also died from coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/17/peme-j17.html

Freedom vs. Public Health: a False Dichotomy
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
There has been a new addition to the tedious U.S. culture wars: mask wearing. It didn't have to be this way. A simple tactic to protect oneself and also limit the spread of Covid-19 did not have to become a political hot potato. Wearing a mask did not have to mean one supports secular science…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/freedom-vs-public-health-a-false-dichotomy/

Of Toddlers, Wolves, and Public Lands Ranchers
Samantha Bruegger | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
As I sit here thinking about wolves, my child is now peacefully sleeping in his room. I know he will awake tomorrow and much of his toddler fury will have subsided, creating a time for us to interact with each other positively. I can't help but think of the parallels between some bad-acting livestock producers,…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/of-toddlers-wolves-and-public-lands-ranchers/

Indian poet and activist Varavara Rao shifted from prison to hospital due to deteriorating health
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
The health of the 79-year-old poet has deteriorated alarmingly over the past few weeks. He has been in prison since late 2018 in the Elgar Parishad case which critics say is aimed at silencing dissent in India.
mronline.org/2020/07/17/indian-poet-and-activist-varavara-rao-shifted-from-prison-to-hospital-due-to-deteriorating-health/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indian-poet-and-activist-varavara-rao-shifted-from-prison-to-hospital-due-to-deteriorating-health

Six Years on from Malaysia Airlines MH17 Destruction: A Clear Lack of Evidence that Moscow Was Behind It
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
The fighting that erupted in the east of Ukraine can be traced to a US-instituted coup d'état of February 2014 — confirmed by president Obama on CNN when he confided that Washington had "brokered a deal to transition power" in the country, forcing Viktor Yanukovych from office.
globalresearch.ca/five-years-mh17s-destruction-clear-lack-evidence-remains-moscow-culpable/5683793

Ontario: An Economic Recovery for Who?
Bruce Kecskes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
In the first week of July, the Ontario government announced the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act (Bill 197). The sweeping omnibus bill changes twenty pieces of existing legislation and introduces several new acts. There has been little discussion in …
globalresearch.ca/economic-recovery-who/5718835

UN's envoy to Yemen calls for probe into Saudi coalition strike that killed 11
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
The airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a house where people had gathered for a celebration led to the death of at least 11 people according to the UN humanitarian coordination office. Houthi sources said the death toll was 24…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/17/uns-envoy-to-yemen-calls-for-probe-into-saudi-coalition-strike-that-killed-11/

Will China be the New Russia?
Richard Falk | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
The Future of American Geopolitics…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/will-china-be-the-new-russia/

Trump turns to neo-Nazi symbols to attract racist votes
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-17
It's really no longer controversial to state that Donald Trump embraces the ideas and thinking of the racist right; he's been brandishing his bigoted credentials since long before he was elected. But the recent adoption of explicit neo-Nazi and white nationalist imagery and symbols by his campaign suggests Trump is going all out to attract …
peoplesworld.org/article/trump-turns-to-neo-nazi-symbols-to-attract-racist-votes/

Philippine President Duterte signs 'Anti-Terrorism Bill' into law
Mark Andrews | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-17
National Democratic activists and allies denounce the Anti-Terror Law. Photo: Anakbayan Silicon Valley On July 3, the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, signed into law the Anti-Terrorism Bill of 2020, commonly known as the "Anti-Terrorism Law." The bill, which broadens the definition of terrorism, takes effect July 18. Historical context The National Democratic movement …
liberationnews.org/philippine-president-duterte-signs-anti-terrorism-bill-into-law/

Farewell Ernest Wamba dia Wamba!
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
We bid farewell to one of Africa's greatest militant intellectuals Wamba dia Wamba on 15 July this week. Baba Wamba's legacy as a militant Pan Africanist intellectual and organiser will continue to live on through action of the thousands of people, particularly young people his teachings and practice influenced in the last years of his life. Up until the end, his depth of human resilience and rigor of organizing remained rooted in revolutionary praxis. | Baba Wamba was born in 1942 in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the brutal Belgian colonial rule. At the end of his secondary schooling in Swedish mission…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/17/farewell-ernest-wamba-dia-wamba/

Indian political prisoners, Varavara Rao and G.N. Saibaba face grave health risks
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
79-year-old Varavara Rao has contracted COVID-19 and G.N. Saibaba, who is 90% disabled, is in a prison where a large number of cases have been reported.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/17/indian-political-prisoners-varavara-rao-and-g-n-saibaba-face-grave-health-risks/

The Republicans and Democrats: Two Wings, Same Bird
Robert Fantina | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The Republican and Democratic conventions are still to come, but the election is already well underway. That is obvious from, among other things, the amount of solicitation emails this writer is receiving from Democratic candidates and organizations. These are all basically the same, and follow a pattern which clearly shows that these people and groups…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/the-republicans-and-democrats-two-wings-same-bird/

More than two hundred Mexican oil workers at PEMEX have died from COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
The state-owned oil company also reported that 234 family members of workers have also died from coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/17/peme-j17.html

Rights group blasts French 'complicit silence' in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
France's history of solely calling out Turkey's actions in Libya while turning a blind eye to steps taken by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates is "complicit silence" par excellence, Human Rights Watch said Friday."That Macron is only accusing Turkey– which supports the government recognized by the United Nations and, at least officially, by France itself– is perplexing, yet it reveals France's ambiguities regarding Libya," Bruno Stagno Ugarte, the group's deputy executive director for advocacy, said in a blog post.He was referring to French President Emmanuel Macron. "In singling out Ankara, Macron k…
yenisafak.com/en/news/rights-group-blasts-french-complicit-silence-in-libya-3534727

Majority of US states seeing rapid increase in COVID-19 transmission
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-17
The majority of US states are seeing a rapid increase in COVID-19 transmission, according to Imperial analysis.
imperial.ac.uk/news/199974/majority-us-states-seeing-rapid-increase

Imperial's COVID-19 vaccine moves to next phase
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-17
Clinical trials to test a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers at Imperial College London are progressing to the next phase.
imperial.ac.uk/news/199993/imperials-covid-19-vaccine-moves-next-phase

Menstrual matters and greenhouse gases: News from the College
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-17
Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/200033/menstrual-matters-greenhouse-gases-news-from

New membrane could cut emissions and energy use in oil refining
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-17
Imperial has co-developed the first synthetic membrane to separate crude oil and crude oil fractions, which could help reduce carbon emissions.
imperial.ac.uk/news/199934/new-membrane-could-emissions-energy-refining

Monday 7/20: Bay Strike for Black Lives in Oakland
The Fight for $15 | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Mosswood Park, 3612 Webster St, Oakland CA 94611, Oakland, CA 94609…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835151.php

Sunday 7/19: LaborFest 2020: Death and Dismissal of Mexican and US Workers
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
This is a free LIVE Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835139.php

Friday 7/17: Divorce Attorney for Men
Alice Pare | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
19737 Executive Park Cir, | Germantown, MD 20874…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835146.php

The 9 coffin nails of democracy
Roland Rottenfuss | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Democracy is an achievement and must be won anew, expanded and defended against attacks in every era… The political conformity of the mainstream press is a sad chapter. "Representative democracy" is a fine word, but who do the representatives actually represent today? Citizens want "representatives of the people."
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835152.php

G20 Must Act, Say Hundreds of Religious, Labor, Human Rights, Environmental and Developmen
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Washington DC – Ahead of Saturday's G20 Finance Minister meetings, a wide range of 213 organizations is pressing for more action to confront the global health and economic impacts of the coronavirus. The largest religious bodies in the United States and Africa were joined by the biggest labor unions, human rights, environmental and anti-poverty groups in letters sent to the G20, IMF and White House.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835133.php

Thursday 7/16: Saving Life on Earth: The Wall & Current Ecological Devastation of US-Mexico Borderlands
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835128.php

Saturday 7/18: Emergency protest! No Trump Gestapo in Portland!
Refuse Fascism, Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
S.F. Federal Building, 7th St. @ Mission St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835153.php

Thursday 7/23: Food Supply, Diet and the Environment in the age of COVID-19
Earth Day Network | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Online via livestream and Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835125.php

Friday 7/31: Outdoors While Black: Unpacking History, Reframing Safety, & Taking Action
One Earth Film Festival & other | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835124.php

Economic impact of corona lockdowns
Christian Kreiss | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Even before the current lockdown-induced economic depression, the assets of the lowest 20 percent of US households – between 2007 and 2019 – had fallen by about a third according to the Wall Street Journal, and their incomes had fallen by 2 percent in real terms in these 12 years. Then came the lockdown. It hit the bottom fifth of the US population correspondingly hard.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835122.php

Questions Still Unanswered
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
In late May, I wrote SCPD boss Andy Mills a lengthy letter reiterating questions asked him around three years ago that have largely been unanswered with any specificity. He responded ("An Updated Letter to SCPD Police Chief Mills in the Wake of the George Floyd Murder" at www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/29/18833367.php). This is my follow-up to his response written in mid-June. I received no answer to any of the follow-up questions…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835131.php

Monday 7/20: San Francisco City Hall Strike for Black Lives
SEIU Local 1021 | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835132.php

Singing Out & Standing Up For Freedom! Group Yorum Banned & Repressed By The Government
LaborFest.net | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
This documentary is about Group Yorum band from Turkey and their music of struggle against the system. They have been banned and repressed by the government.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/15/18835114.php

Wednesday 8/19: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Online via Zoom (see below)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835126.php

Wednesday 7/22: History of Alcatraz & Mass Incarceration In America Today
San Francisco Public Library | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835123.php

Thousands of Elected Officials see a turning point, and rally against fossil fuel industry
Ramona du Houx | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
In this historic moment of reckoning for the energy future of America, elected officials join indigenous and front-lines organizers in celebrating victories over unjust and exploitative pipelines. With the tide of public opinion clearly opposed to carbon emissions and the oil industry's devastating reevaluations the vise-like grip of the fossil fuel industry's lobbying influence has begun to weaken.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835140.php

TALES of THE RESISTANCE – San Francisco Mime Troupe – Interview with Michael Sullivan
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Interview with actor, playwright, director Michael Sullivan on the 61st season of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. "Tales of the Resistance" is a series of nine radio play podcasts from July to October, 2020.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835148.php

Saturday 7/25: F*ck the UC: No cops, no firings, no layoffs
UC Students & Workers | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
UC Office of the President, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/18835144.php

Thursday 7/23: LaborFest 2020: Community Colleges Under Attack and the Right to Higher Public Education
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
This is a free LIVE Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/18835138.php

No-fly zone: Pentagon effectively bans Confederate, LGBT and BLM flags from DoD property
rt.com | 2020-07-17
The Pentagon has effectively banned the Confederate flag at US military sites around the world, without explicitly saying so, in a new policy unveiled on Friday. | A Department of Defense memo has outlined the flags that are deemed acceptable to display in Department of Defense workplaces and common areas — and the Confederate flag is not among those listed. | The LGBT pride flag and Black Lives Matter banners are also absent from the list of acceptable emblems. | A draft version of the policy repor…
rt.com/usa/495103-pentagon-confederate-flag-ban/

Under the Tricolor Flag Flying at Camp Darby. US Military Hegemony in Italy Prevails
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
While many activities blocked by the lockdown are struggling to restart after the restriction's relaxation, there is something that never stopped, and is now accelerating: Camp Darby, the largest US arsenal in the world outside the motherland, which is located | …
globalresearch.ca/under-tricolor-flag-flying-camp-darby/5718787

Philadelphia Protest: 'Housing Is Dignity!'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
Residents of the James Talib-Dean tent encampment, set up on June 11 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, held a press conference July 13 to denounce city plans to evict them. Calling for housing now for people who are homeless, camp residents say they are not willing to leave. | Named in honor of a housing organizer who recently died, the JTD encampment brought together around 150 activists and houseless people to bring attention to the lack of affordable housing, poor conditions in city shelters and the need for permanent low-income housing. The city has posted notices outside the encampment that i…
popularresistance.org/philadelphia-housing-is-dignity/

Expropriation Or Bust
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
Election seasons bring with them a renewed interest in politics. For most that couldn't care less about such concerns, election season becomes, for at least a moment, a time to reflect on deeper issues. For those of us who spend a large portion of our lives thinking, writing, acting, and engaging in these larger-than-life matters, election seasons bring other questions: can we affect change through the electoral system, how effective is voting, and how can we overcome the corporate stranglehold over politics, to name a few. | However, beneath all of the political discussions lies an uncomfortable and overwhelming…
popularresistance.org/expropriation-or-bust/

Colombians Question Deployment Of US Security Forces
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
Colombian soldiers and military brass have been implicated in a string of human rights violations in recent weeks. On May 1, Semana magazine reported that the Colombian military illegally used U.S. military aid to spy on journalists and human rights defenders, including U.S. citizens. On June 4, Colombian armed forces carried out forced eradication of illicit crops and injured six farmers. On June 25, seven soldiers confessed to gang-raping a 13-year-old Emberá girl in Northern Colombia. | Yet the United States is only deepening its relationship with the Colombian military. On May 28, the U.S. Southern Command (S…
popularresistance.org/colombians-question-deployment-of-us-security-forces/

Nicaragua: The Revolution Won't Be Stopped
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
2019 was an amazing year in the search for peace in Nicaragua with The Amnesty Law and the promotion of reconciliation between neighbors in every corner of the nation. It was a year of life-giving advances in all aspects of wellbeing: poverty reduction, health, education, gender equity, recreation, culture and infrastructure; strengthened food security, and a new highway that joins Bluefields to the rest of the nation making the first paved transit route from the Caribbean to the Pacific. | And all this despite cruel US unconventional warfare against the Sandinistas that has gone on for decades and reached a peak…
popularresistance.org/the-revolution-wont-be-stopped/

The Great American Firewall: On The Question Of Censorship
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
The Great Firewall in China is a hot button subject that unites the most hawkish and militarist forces of the state with the so-called U.S. left. China's legal exclusion of Google, Facebook, and other American corporate media from acceptable consumption is often viewed as the most obvious example of "authoritarianism." Few in the U.S., even on the left, analyze censorship as a political question. Many instead debate the issue from the lens of American exceptionalism. Censorship is "bad" because it violates the right to "free speech"–which is supposedly a laudable feature of U.S. society. Yet the United Stat…
popularresistance.org/the-great-american-firewall-on-the-question-of-censorship/

Human Solidarity And A Global Health Commons
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us of the most fundamental features of the human condition: the solidarity that exists between humans across borders, between humans and all other living beings, as well as between living beings and their environments. This reminder, which obtuse nationalisms and competitive logics are already rushing to hush up, invites us to rethink what a true global political institution should be — what we will here call the "global commons of humanity." | The lessons from the pandemic also apply to other major problems that confront humanity, starting with global warming and the processio…
popularresistance.org/human-solidarity-and-a-global-health-commons/

Modi's 'New' India: Notch Or Knot On China's Belt (And Road Initiative)
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
File it in the rapidly-brimming "biggest-stories-of-2020-you-haven't-heard-about" folder. | Amidst the madness merger of pandemic and protests — both of which Trump's minions have blamed on China — there's been scant attention paid to a brewing conflict between two of the world's nine nuclear-armed powers (accounting for some 430 warheads between them). One is a rather flighty proxy — India — that Washington has long pursued with the oft-hopeless passion of a smitten suitor. The other, an "enemy" of "freedom," America, and apple pie everywhere: a Chinese dragon to whom new cold war enthusi…
popularresistance.org/modis-new-india-notch-or-knot-on-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative/

What's Up At NATO?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
You could be excused for having missed the fact that NATO is in the process of updating its nuclear strategy, including substantial and significant steps. These include technologically more ambitious weapons that can be used more easily. This is the implementation of a decision made at the NATO Warsaw Summit in 2016 to revise the nuclear strategy. In order to follow what's going on, you have to dig deep on the internet. While this is a little easier because of Covid-19, as a lot more is happening online and NATO is just a little bit more transparent than before the pandemic, it is still difficult because NATO dis…
popularresistance.org/whats-up-at-nato/

50 Nights Of Anti-Racist Protests Against Police Violence In Portland
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
In Portland, on July 16, protesters held their 50th straight night of demonstrations against police violence and racism. Oregon Live reports "Federal officers responded to one late-night demonstration downtown by using gas, smoke and impact munitions to press protesters away from two federal buildings." | Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler called on federal officers to leave Portland, but they remain and continue to use aggressive and violent tactics. Brown called the deployment of federal officers "political theater" and a "blatant abuse of power by the federal government." | Department of…
popularresistance.org/50-nights-of-anti-racists-against-police-violence-in-portland/

Chile: Night Of Fury To Demand The Withdrawal Of Pension Funds
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
From Tuesday night until early Wednesday morning, Chilean citizens took to the streets to support a pension-related bill and protest against President Sebastian Piñera. | Today the Lower House is expected to vote on a bill that will allow Chileans to withdraw the 10 percent of their savings that remain controlled by the repudiated Pension Fund Insurers (AFP), which are private companies that control pensions in this South American country since that time of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). | "This initiative is supported by a large majority of the people, which claims to have the freedom to dispose…
popularresistance.org/chile-night-of-fury-to-demand-the-withdrawal-of-pension-funds/

The Gates Foundation's "Green Revolution" In Africa
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
Fourteen years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with the stated goal of doubling productivity and incomes by 2020 for 30 million small-scale farming households while reducing food insecurity by half in 20 countries. AGRA claims success, but a broad-based civil society alliance has just published "False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)," in which they conclude that the number of Africans suffering extreme hunger has increased by 30 percent in the 13 countries that AGRA eventually focused on. I spo…
popularresistance.org/the-gates-foundations-green-revolution-in-africa/

The Life-Saving COVID-19 Drugs You've Never Heard Of (And Why)
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
The American profit-based healthcare system impacts us in more ways than just our gargantuan bill at the excretion end of an emergency room visit. Right now, our lovable idiotic inhumane healthcare system is acting as a hurdle to the manufacture and procurement of the right drugs to treat Covid-19. | One of the drugs currently trumpeted as our savior is remdesivir. Despite sounding like the name of a Hobbit in Middle Earth, some reports from the corporate media make it sound like the drug will thrust us face-first into a fresh world of happiness — water parks and restaurants and random no-holds-barred make-…
popularresistance.org/the-life-saving-covid-19-drugs-youve-never-heard-of-and-why/

Portland police say protesters threaten to BURN DOWN the precinct. Tensions between demonstrators and law enforcement mount
rt.com | 2020-07-17
Protesters in Portland, Oregon are said to have threatened to torch a police station, hours after law enforcement cleared out a street encampment. The acting Homeland Security chief has arrived in the city to assess the situation. | Demonstrators descended on several areas in downtown Portland on Thursday evening, with dozens of activists surrounding the Portland Police Bureau's Southeast Precinct building. Officers requested that demonstrators vacate the area after they "heard chants stating the crowd around Southeast Precinct wants to enter the property and burn down the precinct." The police force warned th…
rt.com/usa/495008-portland-policeers-dhs-videos/

'Toronto is in Canada, Laura': Internet goes wild after Laura Ingraham slams Biden & Trump for not caring about Canuck Catholics
rt.com | 2020-07-17
Fox News' Laura Ingraham has been mercilessly mocked for accusing Donald Trump and Joe Biden of not protecting religious liberty, after Catholic churches were advised to suspend communion during the Covid-19 pandemic… in Canada. | Ingraham tweeted on Friday that there is "not a prayer" of a chance that Democrat candidate Biden would do more to protect religious liberties than Trump if elected president. In…
rt.com/usa/495097-toronto-is-in-canada/

Avoid Big Apple 'due to crime': Nearby town issues TRAVEL ADVISORY over rising violence in New York City
rt.com | 2020-07-17
A council member in East Fishkill, a town up the Hudson River from New York City, has advised local residents to avoid four out of five NYC boroughs "due to crime," noting a drastic increase in shootings and homicides. | "Reconsider travel" to the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens "due to crime," reads the letter by Councilman Anil Beephan, made public on Friday. Violent crime is "widespread" in New York City, he added, and "armed criminals have been known to target and attack individuals, both pre-meditated and at random." | Upstate NY Councilman issues travel advisory for NYC because of skyrocketing viol…
rt.com/usa/495107-new-york-travel-advisory-crime/

Mary Trump tells Maddow she heard president use 'n-word' and 'anti-Semitic slurs,' but all too convenient timing instills doubt
rt.com | 2020-07-17
US President Donald Trump's niece, Mary, said she has personally heard her uncle use racial slurs, claiming they were "normal" in her family. Based on her word alone, however, the charge has been met with skepticism online. | The explosive allegation came on Thursday night in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who asked whether Mary had ever directly heard President Trump using "racist slurs." | "Oh, yeah, of course I did," Mary replied, adding "I don't think that should surprise anybody given how virulently racist he is today." | Pressed specifically about the "n-word" and "anti-Semitic slurs," Mary aga…
rt.com/usa/495004-mary-trump-racial-slurs/

Government-funded museum pulls 'racist' anti-white graphic from website
rt.com | 2020-07-17
A taxpayer-funded museum of black history and culture has removed a chart describing a list of wholesome behaviors as white supremacist microaggressions. However, the museum remains committed to "deconstructing" whiteness itself. | The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a Smithsonian institution, and received some $33 million in government funding last year. At least some of that money went toward illustrating a chart describing a number of American virtues — including hard work, timekeeping, the nuclear family and delayed gratification — as traits of "whiteness." | The Nation…
rt.com/usa/495102-museum-racist-anti-white/

CNN's Acosta mangles White House quote on science & reopening schools, corrects himself ONLY after misleading tweet goes viral
rt.com | 2020-07-17
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was lambasted online after relaying the president's support for reopening schools this fall, but a quote singled out by critics was deceptively stripped of all context. | The row was sparked during a White House presser on Thursday, after a reporter asked McEnany about how parents might approach the upcoming academic year, as a growing number of school districts around the country move to full-time virtual learning amid the coronavirus pandemic. | "The president has said unmistakably that he wants schools to open," McEnany replied. "I was just in the Oval talking to…
rt.com/usa/495002-press-secretary-quote-context/

Jamaal Bowman's victory over 16-term centrist continues Dems' drift leftward as fight over House Foreign Affairs chair heats up
rt.com | 2020-07-17
Progressive Jamaal Bowman's electoral victory over 16-term New York congressman Eliot Engel has been confirmed by the AP after a month of mail-in vote counting, kicking off a battle over Engel's foreign affairs post. | The AP called the election for Bowman on Friday after receiving absentee vote totals from Westchester County, a section of which comprises the richer, whiter portion of the state's 16th District. The totals showed Engel slightly ahead among mail-in voters, but not by nearly enough to overtake Bowman's election day landslide. The final results had Bowman ahead by 16 points. | Also on rt.com…
rt.com/usa/495113-bowman-victory-engel-foreign-policy/

'You've the biggest nose I've ever seen': Black Portland cop details racist abuse dished out by white BLM protesters
rt.com | 2020-07-17
Portland police officer Jakhary Jackson has detailed the stunning abuse he has faced during Black Lives Matter protests and blasted the "hypocritical" demonstrations for having fewer minorities than the police they're fighting. | In a wide ranging discussion Officer Jackson laid out some of his experiences on the frontline of the civil unrest which has unfolded in the city for nearly two months. | The cop reveals that he has been violently attacked with explosive devices, white protesters have hurled racist abuse at him and protesters routinely label white officers racists "without even knowing anything about…
rt.com/usa/495104-black-portland-cop-reveals-whiteers-racism/

Connecticut Catholic church defaced with SATANIC & ANARCHIST symbols, as spate of vandalism attacks targets Christian sites
rt.com | 2020-07-17
A Catholic church in Connecticut was vandalized sometime between Wednesday night and early Thursday, possibly becoming the latest casualty in a US culture war that has increasingly targeted Christian figures in recent days. | Masses and other activities were canceled at least through Thursday at St. Joseph's Church in New Haven as parish leaders assessed the damage, including what appear to be satanic and anarchist symbols painted on the building's doors, the Rev. John Paul Walker said in a Facebook post. Once ser…
rt.com/usa/495006-chuch-anarchist-satanic-symbols-vandals/

Twitter piles on 'Gestapo' tactics as DHS chief vows to never surrender Portland to 'violent extremists'
rt.com | 2020-07-17
The acting head of the Department of Homeland Security has praised federal officers who face off Portland protesters. Tensions in the city are high, as netizens repost images of unmarked agents, comparing them to the Gestapo. | "Our men and women in uniform are patriots. We will never surrender to violent extremists on my watch," Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf wrote on Twitter. | Sharing photographs of him meeting with law enforcement and inspecting vandalized buildings, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief said that police and federal officers would "prevail" against the "violent anar…
rt.com/usa/495075-portland-dhs-wolfers-extremists/

'We've seen this happening all over the country': Statue of Jesus BEHEADED inside Florida church in alleged hate crime
rt.com | 2020-07-17
A statue of Jesus has been left headless in the courtyard of a Catholic church in Kendale Lakes, Florida, after allegedly being vandalized. The Miami Archdiocese says it expects police to pursue the incident as a hate crime. | The statue of Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd had been resting behind the church for decades before meeting its end, allegedly decapitated by vandals overnight into Wednesday. | It's unclear who was behind the act, with church staff saying they found the statue early on Wednesday morning with its head already separated from its body, lying nearby on the ground. | Also on rt.com…
rt.com/usa/495003-jesus-statue-vandalism-attack/

Nazis are VICTIMS of hate crime? Police launch probe into graffiti on monument to SS soldiers, Canadians stunned it even exists
rt.com | 2020-07-17
News that graffiti on a memorial to Nazi soldiers is being treated as a "hate crime" has stunned many Canadians, who were not only baffled by the police's logic but also seemingly unaware that their country hosted such a monument. | The object in question, which was erected for Ukrainian nationalists who fought for the Nazis as part of the infamous 1st Galician Division of the SS during World War II, had been defaced in late June. | Located at the Saint Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery in Oakville, Ontario, the cenotaph reportedly had the words "Nazi war monument" painted on it some weeks ago — pretty accurat…
rt.com/news/495118-canada-nazi-memorial-hate-crime/

Losing the Plot Again… Trump's Anti-EU Rant Has Dangerous Implications for China
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-17
It was a barnstorming speech even by President Donald Trump's dubious standard when he gave a press conference this week from the White House Rose Garden. | In typical self-promotional style, he lashed out at everyone and everything under the sun, it seemed, from his Democrat presidential rival Joe Biden to China, from coronavirus to illegal immigrants, and much more besides. Here's the transcript. | It would be charitable to call Trump's electioneering rant "entertaining" so replete was it with vitri…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/17/losing-the-plot-again-trumps-anti-eu-rant-has-dangerous-implications-for-china/

The Real 'Russian Playbook' Is Written in English
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-17
I hadn't given The Russian Playbook much attention until Susan Rice, Obama's quondam security advisor, opined a month ago on CNN that " I'm not reading the intelligence today, or these days — but based on my experience, this is right out of the Russian playbook". She was referring to the latest U.S. riots. | Once I'd seen this mention of The Russian Playbook (aka KGB, Kremlin or Putin's Playbook), I saw the expression all over the place. Here's an early — perhaps the earliest –…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/17/real-russian-playbook-written-english/

VIDEO: Turmoil at Home, Turmoil Abroad: Israel and the U.S. Escalate Their War Against Iran
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-17
Iran has been under the threat of war ever since their Islamic revolution over 40 years ago. After decades of war threats, Washington may finally be starting the war… incrementally. Watch the video and read more in the article by Phil Giraldi.
strategic-culture.org/video/2020/07/17/video-turmoil-at-home-turmoil-abroad-israel-us-escalate-their-war-against-iran/

Conflict Looms for Egypt and Ethiopia Over Nile Dam
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-17
Ethiopia appears to be going ahead with its vow to begin filling a crucial hydroelectric dam on the Nile River after protracted negotiations with Egypt broke down earlier this week. There are grave concerns the two nations may go to war as both water-stressed countries consider their share of the world's longest river a matter of existential imperative. | Cairo is urging Addis Ababa for clarification after European satellite images showed water filling the Grand Ethiopian…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/17/conflict-looms-for-egypt-and-ethiopia-over-nile-dam/

Growing number of nurses thinking of leaving the profession, many due to low pay, according to poll
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-17
An increasing number of nursing staff are thinking of leaving the profession, with many citing pay as a reason, a poll suggests. A survey of 41,798 UK nursing staff by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) found 73% said higher pay would make them feel more valued.More than one in three (36%) are thinking of leaving their job, up from 27% in a similar poll at the end of 2019. Of those thinking of leaving, 61% cited pay as a factor.Other factors included the way nursing staff have been treated during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic (44%), low staffing levels (43%), and lack of management support (42%).Alarmin…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/07/17/growing-number-of-nurses-thinking-of-leaving-the-profession-many-due-to-low-pay-according-to-poll/

Leicester mayor hits out at lockdown measures being enforced on 'party political' lines
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-17
Leicester's mayor has criticised the government for taking a "sledgehammer approach" to the city's lockdown. It came after Matt Hancock announced only a partial relaxation of the measures imposed more than two weeks ago. | Hancock has announced changes to the lockdown boundary, with the restrictions only applying to the city of Leicester and the borough of Oadby and Wigston from 24 July. | #LockdownLeicester pic.twitter.com/MBUOtOFjly | — Leicester City Mayor (@CityMayorLeic) …
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/17/leicester-mayor-hits-out-at-lockdown-measures-being-enforced-on-party-political-lines/

Lloyds promises drive to hire more Black managers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-17
One of the UK's biggest banks has promised that at least 3% of its managers will be Black by the middle of the decade. | Lloyds said it plans to increase the number of Black people in senior management roles by around 400%, as it said that a focus on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) targets had not led to enough progress. | As of 2011, a census found that just over 3% of the UK's population were Black, but Black people only make up around 1.5% of Lloyds' total workforce and 0.6% of senior management. | "We aim to create a fully inclusive environment that is representative of modern-day Britain and where ev…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/17/lloyds-promises-drive-to-hire-more-black-managers/

What are the latest coronavirus lockdown measures to be eased in England?
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-17
Coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown measures are to be relaxed further from 1 August in England under new plans announced by prime minister Boris Johnson.Here is what will change and what measures will remain in place to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.(PA Graphics)Working from home | : Johnson said he would broadly lift the work-from-home guidance which has been in place for most people in the UK during lockdown.However he said it was up to individual employers, rather than the government or workers, to decide whether their staff should return to the office from 1 August.Employers "should be encouraging" workers…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/07/17/what-are-the-latest-coronavirus-lockdown-measures-to-be-eased-in-england/

Gaza closure is 'collective punishment': UN expert
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
A UN human rights expert said Friday Israel should immediately halt what amounts to "collective punishment" against Palestinian people, which is "most strikingly seen" in its continuing closure of Gaza."The extent of the devastating impact of Israel's collective punishment policy can be most strikingly seen in its ongoing 13-year-old closure of Gaza, which now suffers from a completely collapsed economy, devastated infrastructure, and a barely functioning social service system," Michael Lynk said.Lynk is the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967."Th…
yenisafak.com/en/news/gaza-closure-is-collective-punishment-un-expert-3534732

Turkish court remands nine PKK/KCK suspects
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
A Turkish court remanded nine suspects in the country's southeastern Gaziantep province over links to the PKK/KCK terror group, security sources said Friday.Those remanded include Musa Aydin, a provincial head of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), and two aldermen from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).Earlier, prosecutors had issued warrants for the suspects in a probe against the terror group, following which 33 were arrested on Thursday.In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and EU — has…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-court-remands-nine-pkk-kck-suspects-3534719

Handcuffs | are the new rings! Turkish couple get hitched with strange wedding | tradition
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
A Turkish couple, both of whom are police officers, were wed on Thursday and forever bound to each other with a pair of handcuffs, breaking from tradition at their wedding ceremony in northwestern Turkey. Groom Muhammed Mustafa Ayhan, who fell in love with the bride Merve Kƒ±lƒ±àß while they were students at the police academy, asked the love of his life via a police radio whether she wanted to marry him before the ceremony, and Kƒ±lƒ±àß once more replied "yes" through the walkie-talkie. After they were officially wed and had signed on the dotted line, t…
yenisafak.com/en/news/handcuffsare-the-new-rings-turkish-couple-get-hitched-with-strange-weddingtradition-3534734

Turmoil in Tunisia amid race for political power
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Elyes Fakhfakh's resignation as Tunisia's prime minister has sparked a crisis in a country already in the throes of economic and political turmoil.He stepped down on Wednesday after less than six months in office, facing a no-confidence vote amid allegations of wrongdoing from Tunisia's Anti-Corruption Commission.A government statement said the 48-year-old resigned "taking into consideration the national interest and to avoid more difficulties for the country."Troubles, though, seem to be in the offing for Tunisia as the controversy, dubbed by local media as "Fakhfakh Gate," is largely seen as just the tip of an…
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British PM Johnson: Normal life won't come until November at the earliest
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that normal life would not return in full until November at the earliest, cautioning that nightclubs and soft play areas needed to remain closed while wedding receptions would have to remain capped.Johnson said that from October, audiences at sports stadiums would be allowed. But he said that the government would look for a more significant return to normality from November.
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Erdogan says Hagia Sophia a matter of Turkey's sovereignty
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Converting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque is a matter of sovereignty, Turkey's president told reporters on Friday.Turkey does not see international reactions on the reopening of the Istanbul landmark to Muslim worship as binding, Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed.The first prayers will be held on July 24 for 1,000-1,500 worshipers at the same time, Erdogan added.- Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict"Turkey will never leave Azerbaijan alone," Erdogan said, following recent cross-border artillery fire by Armenia attack."Nakhchivan is under occupation. The Minsk trio has left the issue on the table for 25-30 years," he added.La…
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Cuba set to strengthen economic ties with Turkey: envoy
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Cuba wants to strengthen economic ties with Turkey and welcome more Turkish entrepreneurs following a range of new trade-facilitating measures in the Caribbean nation, country's ambassador to Turkey said Friday.Luis Alberto Amoros Nunez's remarks came during his visit to Anadolu Agency's Deputy Director-General and Editor-in-Chief Metin Mutanoglu in the agency's Ankara headquarters.The ambassador and Mutanoglu discussed ways to improve bilateral relations and Anadolu Agency's global operation.Noting that the US is trying to limit the third parties' ties with Cuba through embargoes, Amoros said Cuba has taken new…
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British tourists prefer Turkey for safe tourism
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
British tourists are enjoying summertime in Turkey thanks to top-notch measures taken against the coronavirus outbreak.Hosting a large number of foreign tourists, the Aegean province of Mugla has been the most preferred holiday destination of British tourists especially in recent years.Steven Dawlo, one of the tourists, told Anadolu Agency that they love Mugla so much that they visit twice a year."We really love Turkey, and we are glad we can fly now," he said, adding that they feel safer in Turkey than at home.Tommy Doffie, also a tourist, said they have chosen Turkey for holiday many times before.Doffie said th…
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Turkey retrieves two more migrant bodies, including child, from lake
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Two more bodies, including one of a child, from late last month's boat sinking incident were recovered Friday from a lake in eastern Turkey.Rescue teams continue efforts to recover the remaining bodies from Lake Van, where a boat carrying up to 60 people sank on June 27.The number of retrieved bodies reached 42. Efforts are underway to recover the remaining bodies.A total of five suspects have been remanded in custody over the incident.Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, the number of irregular migrants arriving in Turkey has declined.However, more than 21,000 migrants have reached Van so far this year,…
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Hajj cancelation due to COVID-19 hurting Somali farmers
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
With the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, or hajj, canceled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the socio-economic lives of Somalis have been dealt a serious blow.Livestock accounts for almost 80% of Somali export earnings, providing nutrition and income to more than 60% of the population, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization."I have to sell my animals whenever I hear there is a market right now. COVID-19 has really affected us who used to export animals all the way to Saudi Arabia for Hajj," livestock trader Cabdi Axmed told Anadolu Agency at an open-air Barwaaqo-sooraan ma…
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Pakistan extends lockdown in southern province
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Pakistan on Friday announced a lockdown in its southernmost province of Sindh amid rising coronavirus cases.According to an official notification by the provincial government, the lockdown will remain in place until Aug. 15.All public places including parks and restaurants will remain closed to curb the spread of the virus.Pakistan on Friday reported 2,085 new cases bringing the tally to 259,997, according to the Health Ministry.The country also recorded 49 more fatalities raising the death toll to 5,475.A total of 1,875 are in critical condition in hospitals.Meanwhile, the government claims there has been a decl…
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Germany calls for upholding Libya arms embargo
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Germany on Friday stressed the need to uphold the Libyan arms embargo in the wake of the latest threats by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to arm some of the Libyan tribes against the internationally recognized government.Speaking at a regular news briefing in Berlin, Christofer Burger, a deputy spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, made clear that the Libyan arms embargo "applied to all sides."The German diplomat called for an "immediate end" to foreign military support for the conflict parties in civil-war stricken Libya.Al-Sisi met on Thursday with the heads of Libyan tribes in the Egyptian capital Cairo,…
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Turkey distributes hygiene kits in Tanzania
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Turkey's state-run aid agency distributed hygiene kits to thousands of prisoners in Tanzania amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, the agency said in a statement on Friday.The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) dispatched the aid to assist the African nation.Sophia Mjema, district governor of Ilala, thanked TIKA for not forgetting prisoners and supporting the community health care.Tanzania has so far reported 509 coronavirus cases, 183 recoveries and 21 fatalities, according to figures compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University.The global pandemic has claimed over 590,600 lives in 188 countries…
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Turkey's Erdogan says Egypt's actions in Libya are illegal
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Egypt's actions in Libya and its support for the eastern-based forces of commander Khalifa Haftar were illegal.Erdogan was responding to a question about Egypt's possible intervention in Libya's conflict, where Ankara has helped the Tripoli administration force Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) to abandon an offensive on Tripoli.President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday that Egypt will not stand idle in the face of any direct threat to Egyptian and Libyan security, after lawmakers allied Haftar urged Cairo to intervene militarily in the country's civil war.
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Branded flamingo from France journeys to Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
A 30-year-old branded flamingo from France's Rhone river has made its journey to Turkey via Tunisia and Italy.The flamingo was branded in July 1990 and last seen in late June at Tuzgolu, Turkey's second-largest lake.Environmental conservation officials in Turkey have been monitoring the flamingo — currently the oldest on record in the country.Researching the specimen's history, Biologists Kiraz Erciyas Yavuz, Murat Dogan and Nizamettin Yavuz said the data showed it was seen in Tunisia at three years old and by the age of eight, it had traveled back to Italy, returning to Tunisia when it was 23 and 27.The distanc…
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'Armenia targets Azerbaijan's strategic infrastructure'
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Parliament member Ganira Pashayeva told Anadolu Agency that the only road connecting Azerbaijan with the West through Georgia passed through the country's Tovuz district, where Armenian forces violated a cease-fire with Azerbaijan last Sunday, martyring 12 soldiers, including high-ranking officers, and one civilian, besides wounding four other troops."If Armenia captures strategic points, with only one main road that connects Azerbaijan and Turkey, the two countries' joint energy and transportation lines may be shot at any moment by their armed forces. This is one of the aims of occupant Armenia in targeting Tovu…
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Hagia Sophia mosque coversion benefits tourists: Russia
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
Russia's official position on the Hagia Sophia status change is that it is Turkey's internal matter, but Moscow believes the decision will benefit tourists, the Kremlin's spokesperson said on Friday.In an interview with local broadcaster Avtoradio, Dmitry Peskov said people will now be able to visit the historical site for free, as opposed to buying "quite expensive tickets" when it was a museum.Last week, a top Turkish court annulled a 1934 Cabinet decree, under which Hagia Sophia was turned into a museum the following year, paving the way for its use again as a mosque after 85 years."[…] [Our] Turkish partner…
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