RT (2019-08-31). At least 5 killed, gunman dead in mass drive-by shootings in Texas. rt.com Up to 30 people have reportedly been shot in Texas in two separate locations in Midland and Odessa. Police say there are two shooters in two vehicles involved. Manhunt is ongoing. | In Odessa, active shooter situation was reported near a Home Depot. The rifle-wielding gunman shot a state trooper and then opened fire on civilians from a vehicle. 20 people have been shot in total, according to CBS News. | Midland Police Department then reported that there were two shooters in two separate vehicles in Midland. One of the alleged gunmen is driving a gold-white Toyota truck and the second had reportedly hijacked a…

Staff (2019-08-31). Colombia\'s President \"Wants War,\" FARC Dissidents Comply. therealnews.com Colombian activist Manuel Rozental explains that the flawed 2016 peace agreement with the FARC rebels was an important step forward, but now FARC dissidents are giving in to the government\'s push for more war…

Mazda Majidi (2019-08-31). Will Rouhani meet Trump? liberationnews.org Washington\'s foreign policy establishment is dominated by \"Iran Hawks,\" headed by National Security Adviser John Bolton.

RT (2019-08-31). Fakes for me, not for thee: US govt to use false social media profiles to monitor immigrants. rt.com US Citizenship and Immigration officers can now use fake social media accounts to surveil foreigners seeking visas and citizenship, even after years of US lawmakers blasting foreign rivals for supposedly doing the same. | Officers have until recently been banned from creating fictitious profiles, but a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) privacy review dated July 2019 but posted online on Friday has reversed that ban. According to the review, officers with the department\'s…

RT (2019-08-31). \'CA has decriminalized illegal alien crime\': Outrage as Kate Steinle\'s killer\'s conviction tossed. rt.com A California appeals court has thrown out the conviction of an illegal immigrant who shot a woman on a San Francisco pier after escaping deportation due to the city\'s sanctuary policy, triggering further outrage. | Jose Ines Garcia Zarate\'s conviction on charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun was thrown out by a California state appeals court on Friday, reviving the furor over a case that has defined the immigration debate. The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled the judge failed to offer the jury the option of acquitting the Mexican national on the theory he only possessed the weapon \"for a…

Jon Schwarz (2019-08-31). The Best Movie Ever Made About the Truth Behind the Iraq War Is \"Official Secrets\" theintercept.com \"Official Secrets,\" which opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles, is the best movie ever made about how the Iraq War happened. It\'s startlingly accurate, and because of that, it\'s equally inspiring, demoralizing, hopeful, and enraging. Please go see it. | It\'s been forgotten now, but the Iraq War and its abominable consequences — the hundreds of thousands of deaths, the rise of the Islamic State group, the nightmare oozing into Syria, arguably the presidency of Donald Trump — almost didn\'t happen. In the weeks before the U.S.-led invasion on March 19, 2003, the American and British case for war was…

Vijay Prashad (2019-08-31). Hungering for the language of class war. mronline.org Dark skies persist over coastal Brazil, where the country\'s major population centres are to be found. This year, there have been 40,341 fires in the Amazon, the highest since 2010. | Source

Eds. (2019-08-31). Announcing the 2019 Food Sovereignty prize honorees. mronline.org The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance is very excited to announce the winners of the 2019 Food Sovereignty Prize. Urban Tilth (Richmond, CA) is the domestic honoree, and Plan Pueblo a Pueblo (Plan People to People; Venezuela) is the international honoree. | Source

RT (2019-08-31). At least 10 teenagers injured after gunfire erupts at high school football game in Alabama. rt.com At least six teenagers received gunshot wounds after unidentified assailants opened fire at the end of a high school football game in Mobile, Alabama. | Mobile Police Chief Lawrence Battiste told local media that two individuals were detained in connection with the attack. He said that 10 people were injured in total, but four of the injuries were not gunshot wounds. The victims ranged in age from 15 to 18 years old. Their conditions were not immediately clear. | Witnesses say there was a fight in the stands several minutes before the end of the game. | Footage taken after the shooting shows police cars swarmi…

Glen Ford (2019-08-31). Is Warren talented enough to betray the people as masterfully as Obama? mronline.org Elizabeth Warren is seen as a counter Bernie Sanders, but she will melt (like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris) if she stops raising Democrats\' expectations to bust corporate power. | Source

Miko Peled (2019-08-31). Matan Kahana: Will Ultra-Right Candidates Upset Netayahu\'s Re-Election Plans? mintpressnews.com It is hard to imagine what it means to be to the \"right of the Likud\" or the \"right of Netanyahu.\" However, Matan Kahana claims that he and his party are just that and so a vote for them will ensure a strong right-wing voice in the Israeli Knesset, as though that is what is missing from Israeli politics.

Labor Video Project (2019-08-31). SF Journalists Protest Detention Camps And Terror Against Immigrants. indybay.org Journalists spoke out against the detention camps and racist attacks on immigrants and migrants. Journalists are threatened by major corporate media not to take political stands or face termination. The San Francisco Chronicle prohibits journalists and photograpers from marching in rallies. The use ] of \"objective\" journalism by the bosses is to shutdown free speech.

Anya Parampil (2019-08-31). Hausmann hypocrisy: Guaido coup official raked in dollars from dictators and banking behemoths while promoting \'democracy\' for Venezuela. thegrayzone.com Ricardo Hausmann slammed banks for doing business with Venezuela\'s elected government. But financial disclosure forms filed with Harvard show the…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-08-31). Heroin Addiction in America Spearheaded by US-led War on Afghanistan. globalresearch.ca Afghanistan under US military occupation produces approximately 90% of the World\'s illegal supply of opium which is used to produce heroin. The production of opium in Afghanistan has registered a 49 fold increase since 2001.

Fight Back (2019-08-31). FARC-EP calls for renewed armed struggle. fightbacknews.org In a video released on August 29, 2019, Iván Márquez, former lead peace negotiator for the FARC-EP in the peace talks in Havana, Cuba, announced that a sector of the FARC party (name of the successor party to the FARC-EP that was founded after the signing of the peace agreement in 2016) were returning to the armed struggle under the banner of the revolutionary guerrilla organization the FARC-EP (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia- Ejército del Pueblo). Iván Márquez read the FARC-EP\'s new manifesto dressed in military fatigues surrounded by armed companions, including the famous FARC-EP commanders El Pais…

teleSUR (2019-08-31). Cuba and Norway Ratify Their Commitment to Peace in Colombia. telesurenglish.net Through a statement released on Friday, Cuba and Norway, the guarantor countries of the table of talks between Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People\'s Army (FARC-EP), ratified their commitment to peace in the South American nation. | RELATED: | Colombia: President Duque Announces Major Attack on Former FARC | \"The Republic of Cuba and the Kingdom of Norway, guarantor countries of the table of conversations between the Government of Colombia and the FA…

Oakland Peace Center (2019-08-31). Mind+Body Fun-raiser + ZUMBATHON. indybay.org Oakland Peace Center | 111 Fairmount Avenue (enter on 29th St.) | Oakland, CA 94611…

End the Genocide in Yemen (2019-08-31). During Global Month of Action For Yemen, SF Protesters Make Demands of Pelosi. indybay.org As separatists and government-backed forces battle for control of the Yemeni capital, innocent civilians suffer. Yemeni-Americans and allies gathered in front of San Francisco\'s federal building on August 16 with a message for Nancy Pelosi. | PHOTOS: Please credit the photographer as noted | Cornelia Grimes, Pro Bono Photo.

SF Demo (2019-08-31). Anti-War Protest: U.S. Out of Yemen. indybay.org As separatists and government-backed forces battle for control of the Yemeni capital, innocent civilians suffer. Yemeni-Americans and allies gathered in front of San Francisco\'s federal building on August 16 with a message for Nancy Pelosi. | PHOTOS: Please credit the photographer as noted | Terry Scussel, Pro Bono Photo.

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-31). GOP Hardliners Want China Sanctioned. globalresearch.ca Time and again, the US, its key NATO allies and Israel blame their victims for wrongdoing committed against them. | According to the Daily Beast, Republicans are pushing for sanctions on China over how Hong Kong authorities are handling months …

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-31). America\'s Economic Dark Side. Widening Social Inequality, Rising Poverty and Joblessness. globalresearch.ca This incisive ad timely article was first published in October 2013 | Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich explained, saying: | \"Of all developed nations, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income, and we\'re surging towards every greater …

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-31). US/North Korea Talks Undermined by Pompeo and Bolton. globalresearch.ca Trump\'s \"fire and fury like the world has never seen\" remark about North Korea shifted to the appearance of friendship with Kim Jong-un, DJT saying \"(h)e wrote me beautiful letters and we fell in love.\" | Two summits and Trump\'s …

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-31). Monster Hurricane Dorian. globalresearch.ca Currently at Category 4 strength, defined as having sustained winds of from 130 — 156 mph, gusts up to 30% stronger, Dorian is expected hit Florida\'s Atlantic coast on Tuesday, precisely where unclear so far. | On August 31, the National …

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2019-08-31). Amazon Fires Will Have Global Consequences. The UN Must Act. globalresearch.ca The Amazon is burning. Nearly 75,000 fires have started in the iconic Brazilian rainforest this year to date, an 84 percent increase from the year before. Since August 10, a spate of intentionally set fires have been raging in the …

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2019-08-31). Neoliberal Globalization: Is There an Alternative to Plundering the Earth? globalresearch.ca Is there an alternative to making war? Is there an alternative to destroying the planet? No one asks these questions because they seem absurd…

Shane Quinn (2019-08-31). Reckless Path to Nuclear Weapons Leaves Us Looking Over the Edge. globalresearch.ca After two years of analysis and inquiries, Roosevelt formally established America\'s nuclear program on 19 January 1942, called the Manhattan Project — with a final $2 billion budget supporting it ($36 billion today) and employing over 130,000 people.

South Front (2019-08-31). Video: Yemen\'s Houthis Carry Out Drone Strike on Saudi Capital. globalresearch.ca The Ansar Allah movement carried out a new series of strikes on Saudi Arabia in the framework of their operations to oppose the Kingdom-led intervention of Yemen. | On August 25, Yemeni forces fired 10 short-range ballistic missiles at military sites …

Julie Lévesque (2019-08-31). 9/11: Facts, Fiction and Censorship. globalresearch.ca The commemoration of 9/11 on September 11, 2019 is fast approaching. | The following text (including a selection of articles) was first posted seven years ago on September 12, 2012. | *** | Whoever dares raise questions about the official 9/11 narrative, will …

Claire Edwards (2019-08-31). 5G Wireless Technology Is War against Humanity. globalresearch.ca This important article was first published in February 2019. | Disclosure about 5G — and its considerable risk for humanity — is occurring within the United Nations. This is thanks to longtime UN staff member and whistle-blower Claire Edwards, who recently …

Ellen Brown (2019-08-31). The Key to a Sustainable Economy Is 5,000 Years Old. globalresearch.ca We are again reaching the point in the business cycle known as \"peak debt,\" when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be paid. Student debt, credit card debt, auto loans, business debt and sovereign debt …

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2019-08-31). A Conspiracy Theory That Became a \"Conspiracy Fact\": The CIA, Afghanistan\'s Poppy Fields and America\'s Growing Heroin Epidemic. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research in July 2016 | The heroin epidemic resembles the days when \"Crack cocaine\" became the major drug that destroyed communities across the United States and other parts of the world including the Caribbean that began in …

South Front (2019-08-31). Video: Syrian Army Further Advances in Greater Idlib. globalresearch.ca The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies responded to recent militant attacks near Abu Dail with a limited offensive in the area. | In the first phase of the offensive, SAA units liberated Khuwayn al-Kabir, Ard al-Zurzur, the Aghir hilltop, …

Bill Nicholov (2019-08-31). Macedonia Is Macedonian — Common Sense Dictates It. globalresearch.ca If an ethnic group told you that a certain name used to describe them is deeply offensive, would you continue to use that name and even try to convince them that it is not offensive? | No. So stop calling me …

Global Research News (2019-08-31). Mozart Piano Concerto No 15: Yeol Eum Son, the World\'s Most Outstanding Pianist. globalresearch.ca Forget geopolitics and the World financial crisis. | Music gives us hope. Listen carefully. | By far Yeol Eum Son is among the World\'s most outstanding pianists. | It is not only musical excellence and talent. | She translates her feelings into music. Her …

Nikolai Malishevski (2019-08-31). The Pentagon\'s Map of Afghanistan: An Eldorado of Mineral Wealth and Natural Resources. globalresearch.ca Of relevance to an understanding America\'s military and economic agenda in Afghanistan. First published in August 2012 | Curious information surfaced in the media [2012] — based on space reconnaissance, the US Department of Defense put together a map of Afghanistan …

Andre Vltchek (2019-08-31). Subitamente o Ocidente já nà£o consegue derrubar \"regimes\" globalresearch.ca Costumava ser feito regularmente e funcionava: o Ocidente identificava um país como seu inimigo, desencadeava sua propaganda profissional contra ele, a seguir administrava uma série de sanàßàµes, esfaimando e assassinando crianàßas, idosos e outros grupos vulneráveis. Se o país nà£o …

Prof. James Petras (2019-08-31). The Recolonization of Latin America and the War on Venezuela. globalresearch.ca The US struck first at the \'weakest link\' of the decolonization process. The US backed coups in Honduras and Paraguay. Then Washington turned to converting the judiciary and congress as stepping stones for launching a political attack on the strategic regimes in Argentina and Brazil.

teleSUR (2019-08-31). U.S. Presidential Hopeful Bernie Sanders Backs Lula\'s Freedom. telesurenglish.net The United States democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders made statements in favor of Brazil\'s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva release during a political rally held in Florence, South Carolina, on August 30. | RELATED: | Brazil Supreme Court Judge Says Lula Deserves Retrial | At the event stage designated to answer questions from the audience, a young man asked the Democrat senator on his opinion regarding the emergence of far-right governments around the world. | One o…

teleSUR (2019-08-31). \'It\'s Too Much Land For So Few Indians\', Jair Bolsonaro Holds. telesurenglish.net Brazil\'s President Jair Bolsonaro made new statements on Friday against the demarcation of indigenous lands in the Amazon saying he intends to review the areas previously assigned to ancestral communities. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro Calls On Trump To Help Put Out Amazon Fires | \"It is too much land for so few Indians, and without lobbying. What are the interests behind this…

Olivia Rosane (2019-08-31). Brazil announces 60-Day ban on clearing land with fire. nationofchange.org \"What we are experiencing is a genuine crisis which could become a tragedy foretold with much larger fires than the ones we are now seeing if they are not immediately halted.\"

Staff (2019-08-31). What Happens to Carbon Offsets When the Amazon Is on Fire? truthout.org | | Tropical Forest Standard, which, if approved, would likely expand to countries throughout the world. | Now that record fires are engulfing the Amazon, started by humans seeking to log, mine and farm on the land, supporters are using the international emergency to double down on their case for offsets. The Environmental Defense Fund

Afroze Fatima Zaidi (2019-08-31). The Pakistani PM needs to realise that nuclear warfare is never the answer. thecanary.co In an op-ed in the NY Times, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has addressed the situation in Kashmir. With India\'s military crackdown in Kashmir still ongoing, Khan has made an appeal to world leaders, and India in particular, to open dialogue on the issue. | The bulk of the a…

Justin Mikulka (2019-08-31). Bernie Sanders\' plan to phase out nuclear power draws attacks — here\'s why they\'re wrong. nationofchange.org Attacks on the Sanders\' climate plan appear to have less to do with the ongoing viability of nuclear power as a legitimate climate solution and more to do with an ongoing effort to convince the public to subsidize another unsuccessful sector of the energy industry.

Staff (2019-08-31). A New Novel Transcends Space and Time to Illustrate Historical Struggle. truthout.org | | No one writes like Peter Linebaugh. Perhaps no one would dare to write like Linebaugh, a singular quality that will be found on virtually every page of his 2019 volume Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard . | This is…

John Atcheson (2019-08-31). Neoliberals\' Attack on Sanders\' GND Plan Is a Clear and Present Danger. commondreams.org Last week Bernie Sanders released his version of the Green New Deal—a $16.3 trillion 10-year plan to get down to zero carbon in the power industry and in transportation. Right on schedule, the neoliberal establishment pounced on it as \"too expensive,\" not \"realistic\" and not \"prudent.\"

Ruth Milka (2019-08-31). Trump to open 16.7 million acres of Alaska rainforest for drilling. nationofchange.org As the Amazon rainforest burns, President Donald Trump is opening a rainforest right here in the United States corporate interests. This week Trump ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska\'s Tongass National Forest for logging, energy, and mining projects. The Tongass National Forest is the world\'s largest intact temperate rainforest. As reported by …

Ellen Brown (2019-08-31). The key to a sustainable economy is 5,000 years old. nationofchange.org We are again reaching the point in the business cycle known as \"peak debt,\" when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot be paid. Student debt, credit card debt, auto loans, business debt and sovereign debt are all higher than they have ever been. As economist Michael Hudson writes in his provocative 2018 book, \" …and forgive them their debts,\" debts that can\'t be paid won\'t be paid. The question, he says, is…

WSWS (2019-08-31). Home video security systems increasingly linked to US police departments in violation of democratic rights. wsws.org More than 400 police department partnerships have been established by Amazon\'s Ring home security system across the US over the past year.

Anon-E-Moose (2019-08-31). People\'s Park: AntiFascism and Park Defense. indybay.org After anti-fascists announced plans for a rally in People\'s Park, the UCB chancellor sent out a press release that the UC is determined to move forward on their plans to eradicate the park.

The Canary (2019-08-31). Street lights glow red to help bats cross the road. thecanary.co A stretch of \"bat-friendly\" street lighting has been switched on in what is believed to be a UK first.The LED lights, which emit a red glow, will provide bats with a 60-metre-wide crossing area on the A4440, near to Worcester\'s Warndon Wood nature reserve.Worcestershire County Council has described the lighting as an innovative approach to a much-needed highway crossing with a greatly reduced impact on local wildlife.It said research shows some species of bat are light shy and will not cross roads lit by white lights, which can stop them accessing food supplies and water.Standard street lights also attract insect…

Melvin Goodman (2019-08-30). The Great Cost and Myth of U.S. Defense Spending. counterpunch.org Journalists and pundits regularly refer to U.S. defense spending as greater than the next seven or eight countries. Nonsense! U.S. defense spending when correctly tabulated exceeds the defense spending of the rest of the global community. Current defense spending is greater than $1 trillion and the bipartisan support for U.S defense spending assures continued increases. Many of the largest spenders on defense, moreover, are our treaty allies. More

Pierre Sprey, Chuck Spinney and Winslow T. Wheeler (2019-08-30). Bankrupt and Irrelevant: the Presidential Debates and Four Recent Studies on Pentagon Spending. counterpunch.org In the almost 12 hours of Democratic Party presidential primary debates on June 26-27 and July 30-31, the words \"Pentagon budget\" or \"defense spending\" were not uttered, except for a fleeting, unanswered comment from Senator Bernie Sanders. Nor did any of the cable news moderators ask a single question about the more than $1.25 trillion More

Sam Husseini (2019-08-30). Film Official Secrets Is Tip of Mammoth Iceberg. fair.org by Sam Husseini | Two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley is known for being in period pieces such as Pride and Prejudice, so her playing the lead in the new film Official Secrets, released in the US on Friday, August 30, may seem odd at first. That is, until one considers that the time span depicted—the early 2003 run-up to the invasion of Iraq—is one of the most dramatic and consequential periods of modern human history. | It is also one of the most poorly understood, in part because the story of Katharine Gun, played by Knightley, is so little known. I should say from the outset that having follo…

Siddika Degia (2019-08-30). Roots of the Kashmir conflict. workers.org The writer is a Muslim woman born in a rural village in Gujarat, India. India, one of the oldest civilizations, fell under British colonial rule starting in the late 1700s. With British imperialism came the reinforcement of dividing people by religious groups, castes, languages spoken and nationalities, so that the . . . | Continue reading Roots of the Kashmir conflict at Workers.org

Marwa Osman (2019-08-30). Trump Hits Lebanon Bank with His Favorite Econo-Political Battering Ram. mintpressnews.com The fact that the U.S. sanctions countries whenever its president pleases could in itself be considered a hostile act. Even in wartime, these sorts of collective punishments are illegal under the Geneva Conventions.

Paul Atwood (2019-08-30). Making a Killing From Killing. counterpunch.org Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury. — Cato the Elder Though I encounter students and other young people who have never heard the term I hope most Americans are aware of the \"Military Industrial Complex.\" In his final speech to the nation President Eisenhower, More

Joe Piette (2019-08-30). Justice demanded for \"comfort women\" workers.org Three young activists, biking across the U.S. from Los Angeles to New York City, stopped in Philadelphia on Aug. 26 to raise awareness about the issue of justice for women once held in military sexual slavery by Japan. As part of the Triple A Project to educate the public about . . . | Continue reading Justice demanded for \"comfort women\" at Workers.org

RT (2019-08-30). Trump targets China\'s century-old debt in latest trade war maneuver — report. rt.com The Trump administration may be eyeing long-defaulted Chinese bonds as a weapon in its ongoing trade war with Beijing, according to people who hold the antique debt and say they\'ve met with the president to discuss it. | Trump\'s top trade warriors are \"studying\" the possibility of calling in century-old debts incurred by China before the nation went communist, according to a Bloomberg report published on Thursday. China doesn\'t recognize the debt, of course, and decades of attempts to collect by owners of the aging bonds (which sell on eBay as collectors\' items) have amounted to naught, but with a full-blown e…

RT (2019-08-30). Trump\'s personal assistant resigns after caught leaking information to media — report. rt.com Madeleine Westerhout, Trump\'s personal assistant and \'veteran\' of the administration, has reportedly stepped down after she was accused of sharing details about the Trump family and the White House\'s inner workings with media. | The scoop on Westerhout\'s exit through the Trump administration\'s revolving door was reported by the New York Times on Thursday. | Also on rt.com | | \'Leaks real, the news is fake\': Reporters hit out at Trump trashing of media | US President Donald Trump was reportedly made aware of Westerhout\'s \'betrayal\' on Thursday. The woman…

Stephen Cooper (2019-08-30). Judge Marks and Mass Incarceration in the Middle District of Alabama. counterpunch.org In 2016, together with former colleague Assistant Federal Public Defender Donnie W. Bethel, I wrote, \"eople of all persuasions, political parties, and philosophies have awakened to the terrible toll the crises of overcriminalization and mass incarceration have wrought on America.\" Then, a year later, highlighting the \"criminalization of addiction,\" I wrote about Benny King — one of Bethel\'s clients — More

The Canary (2019-08-30). Google says hackers have been putting \'monitoring implants\' in iPhones for years. thecanary.co Hackers have been using compromised websites to install \"monitoring implants\" in iPhones for years, according to researchers at Google.The malicious software gathers users\' images, contacts and other information.Ian Beer, from Google\'s Project Zero, said in a blog post that the hacked sites had received thousands of visitors each week.Beer said: There was no target discrimination; simply visiting the hacked site was enough for the exploit server to attack your device, and if it was successful, to install a monitoring implant.Project Zero is the technology company\'s team for examining new security vulnerabilities.B…

Staff (2019-08-30). Is it Cynical to Believe the System is Corrupt? therealnews.com While a new poll shows most US citizens believe the political and economic system is rigged against them, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren also echo this sentiment. Some conservatives are now pushing back. But what says the evidence? Bill Black analyzes the situation…

Andrew Levine (2019-08-30). Let\'s Make the Next Debates Good for Something. counterpunch.org Do we really need three-ring circus \"debates\" to figure out that the only two candidates in the running for president who should be taken seriously are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren? Perhaps with Joe Biden still leading the pack; the sooner he is put back out to pasture, the better. Perhaps with Kamala Harris running More

RT (2019-08-30). Stunning but deadly: Satellite imagery shows Hurricane Dorian sparkling as it approaches US (VIDEO). rt.com As Hurricane Dorian makes its way to the US, a meteorologist has shared stunning satellite snaps of the \"extremely dangerous\" storm\'s brightly colored lightning eruptions amid swirling clouds that look like a fireworks display. | Hurricane Dorian putting on a lightning show tonight. | Spectacular imagery. pic.twitter.com/cdrs22PZqe— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) August 30, 2019 | Meteorologist Dakota Smith shared the footage on Twitter and explained that the flashes seen in the…

RT (2019-08-30). American service member killed in Afghanistan as Trump vows US will \'always\' stay there. rt.com An American serviceman was killed in Afghanistan in combat operations, NATO said in a statement. The news comes just a day after President Trump announced there would \"always\" be a US presence in the country. | The soldier died on Thursday during a combat mission, the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan announced in a statement on Friday, but withheld the serviceman\'s identity, per the organization\'s policies. | Also on rt.com | | \'We\'ll always have a presence\': Trump says 8,600 US troops will stay in Afghanistan | The serviceman is the third American fa…

RT (2019-08-30). \'Good luck determining what happened\': Trump says US not involved in Iranian satellite \'incident\'. rt.com US President Donald Trump denied any American involvement after reports of a failed Iranian satellite launch, in which a rocket is said to have exploded on a launch pad. Iran, meanwhile, has not issued any accusations of the sort.

RT (2019-08-30). \'Good luck determining what happened\': Trump says US not involved in Iranian satellite \'incident\'. rt.com

Staff (2019-08-30). Venezuela\'s Press Is More Free Than You\'d Think. therealnews.com Opposition figures regularly speak their mind on talk shows and news programs in Venezuela, undermining the notion that freedom of the press is highly restricted, says Joe Emersberger…

Staff (2019-08-30). Press Freedom in Venezuela: Much Freer Than Most Believe. therealnews.com Even a cursory glance at Venezuelan private television, shows that opposition figures regularly speak their mind on talk shows and news programs, undermining the notion that freedom of the press is highly restricted, says Joe Emersberger…

Ramzy Baroud (2019-08-30). Humanity Denied: What Is Missing from the Omar, Tlaib Story. counterpunch.org Israel\'s decision to bar two United States Democratic Representatives, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, from entering Israel and visiting Palestine has further exposed the belligerent, racist nature of the Israeli government. But our understanding of the Israeli decision, and the massive controversy and discussion it generated, should not stop there. Palestinians, who have been at More

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2019-08-30). The Amazon Inferno. counterpunch.org One of the lasting highlights of my teaching at the University of New Orleans in 1991-1992 was my travel to Brazil in January 1992 for a conference on climate change. This was a rehearsal for the June 1992 Earth Summit on Climate Change in Rio. My conference took place in Fortaleza, a beautiful town in More

Rob Urie (2019-08-30). The Rise of the \'Rise of the Global Right\'. counterpunch.org In the U.S., Donald Trump remains among the least popular presidents in modern history. Given the buoyant state of the U.S. economy, at least relative to the widespread misery of the prior decade, this unpopularity reinforces the political disillusion reflected in the 2016 election results. Only Jimmy Carter, who engineered a vicious recession in the More

Nick Pemberton (2019-08-30). Karl Marx and Religion. counterpunch.org Karl Marx is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated theorists of human history. Marx was above all a scientist. He used the term historical materialism to explain that it was the material state of society that produced human relations. Today, perhaps especially in the United States, the mainstream tends to tell us it More

Christopher Brauchli (2019-08-30). Trump\'s Camps: the Odious Comparison. counterpunch.org That the comparison can be made is odious—so are the conditions. So is the one imposing them. He is the most odious of all and his stench pervades the country. He wasn\'t the first one to implement it when confronted by those he has made helpless. It happened in Hitler\'s Germany. It was not a More

R.R. (2019-08-30). Emergency Palantir Mass Mobilization to Stop ICE Terror. indybay.org An angry group of activists mobilized on August 23 at the headquarters of Palantir Technologies in Palo Alto. Just 3 days earlier Palantir renewed its ICE Investigative Case Management contract that enables ICE to track the every move of undocumented immigrants until 2022; protesters responded quickly and loudly. | Photos by Jack Owicki, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.

Staff (2019-08-30). Over 1,100 Congregations Have Agreed to Provide Sanctuary to Migrants. truthout.org | | It\'s a hot, humid Wednesday in July but the doors of Manhattan\'s Holyrood Episcopal Church are wide open. A rainbow flag flies high above the entryway and a table covered with bilingual pro-immigrant leaflets greets all who enter. The leaflets explain the rights of immigrants, outline important precautions for immigrants to take, and offer tips to allies who want to help stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. | But the church has also done much more than this, providing in-churc…

Staff (2019-08-30). Public Charge Rule Is an Attempt to Impose a White Nationalist Vision of America. truthout.org | | Janine Jackson: It\'s long been obvious, to anyone with a passing acquaintance with white supremacy, that Donald Trump and his ilk\'s stance on immigration was never any more about \"legality\" than it was about all immigrants. | In the face of such an unprincipled and frankly hateful administration, a focus on the law as a bastion against irrationality is perhaps understandable. But that shoul…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-08-30). Does the US Military \"Own the Weather\"? \"Weaponizing the Weather\" as an Instrument of Modern Warfare? globalresearch.ca Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, \"offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary\", capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes…

Joseph Natoli (2019-08-30). A Voting Calculus. counterpunch.org \"Reality is not always probable, or likely\" Borges tells us, but we are yet, presumptuously and foolishly, driven to find a logic and its calculus, especially regarding U.S. presidential elections. And so: Immigration: \"If the number of voters who do not want to discourage but welcome the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, More

Robert Norse (2019-08-30). City Attorney Stonewalls Homeless Activists on Settlement Conference. indybay.org After leveling the Ross Camp, sending its 200-300 residents fleeing into the parks, greenbelt, downtown, and neighborhoods, and fencing off the area, the City is now refusing to sit down and work out compromise settlement terms as suggested by Judge Edward Devila. It apparently prefers to incur more costs.at the expense of its homeless residents.

teleSUR -EF (2019-08-30). Ecuador: Ola Bini Faces New Charges Similar to Prior Ones. telesurenglish.net Ola Bini was called to appear at a court hearing in Quito on Thursday by Ecuador state prosecutors who now say they want to change the charges against the Swedish expert in open software development who has been under investigation by the government since April for supposedly \"hacking\" state computer systems. | RELATED: | Ecuadorean Tribunal Court Upholds Prison Order for Swedish Privacy Rights Activist Ola Bini | The hearing to change the charges…

Fight for What\'s Right (2019-08-30). Protesters Force Palantir to Empty HQ. indybay.org Palantir, the secretive $20 billion data-analysis company whose work with ICE has even led some of its own employees to make a fuss, succumbed to the power of protesters on August 23. The main office at 100 Hamilton, Palantir\'s world headquarters, was emptied in advance of the arrival of demonstrators. | Photo credit: Cornelia Grimes, Pro Bono Photo…

SF Demo (2019-08-30). Anti-War Protest: U.S. Out of Yemen. indybay.org As separatists and government-backed forces battle for control of the Yemeni capital, innocent civilians suffer. Yemeni-Americans and allies gathered in front of San Francisco\'s federal building on August 16 with a message for Nancy Pelosi. | PHOTOS: Please credit the photographer as noted | Terry Scussel, Pro Bono Photo.

WSWS (2019-08-30). Hong Kong mass rally banned as Chinese troops deployed in show of force. wsws.org Beijing is well aware that the protracted protests are being driven by underlying student and working class concerns about escalating social inequality.

End the Genocide in Yemen (2019-08-30). During Global Month of Action For Yemen, SF Protesters Make Demands of Pelosi. indybay.org As separatists and government-backed forces battle for control of the Yemeni capital, innocent civilians suffer. Yemeni-Americans and allies gathered in front of San Francisco\'s federal building on August 16 with a message for Nancy Pelosi. | PHOTOS: Please credit the photographer as noted | Cornelia Grimes, Pro Bono Photo.

South Front (2019-08-30). Video: Militants\' Failed Terror Attack in Eastern Idlib Ends in Disaster. globalresearch.ca On August 27, joint forces of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other militant groups launched an attack on positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the town of Abu Dali in southern Idlib. Clashes between the SAA and militants erupted …

WSWS (2019-08-30). India crows over US support for its assault on Kashmir. wsws.org For almost four weeks, Jammu and Kashmir has been under a state of siege, with cell phone and internet service suspended, thousands held without charge, and security forces terrorizing the population.

Philip A Farruggio (2019-08-30). What About Me … I Feel The Future Trembling, Like a Stranger In the Land Where I was Born. globalresearch.ca Just about 50 years ago the West Coast rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service recorded \"What About Me\". Sadly, in this America 2019 the lyrics are more relevant. | Fifty years later! Let\'s analyze certain parts of the song: | What About Me…

Edward Curtin (2019-08-30). Get to It. \"The sweet smell of success. From an ignorant child you\'d never learn it\" globalresearch.ca From an ignorant child you\'d never learn it. | Yet the sophisticated know it is work | That is the secret of the good life. God forbid, | Not labor that breaks your back, picking | Vegetables, cleaning toilets, laying down | That steaming hot …

Peter Koenig (2019-08-30). G7 — The Cost of Uselessness. globalresearch.ca The G7 Summit is an obsolete, useless talking shop, as Finnian Cunningham so adroitly says. RT calls it The Unbearable Pointlessness of G7. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the United States constitute the G7 gang. It should …

Andrew Korybko (2019-08-30). Are Russia and India Global Partners? The Brahmos Supersonic Missiles, The Russia-China Relationship. globalresearch.ca The announcement that the Brahmos supersonic missiles jointly produced by Russia and India will soon be exported to third countries that are on friendly relations with both increases the odds that their historic Vietnamese partners might receive these game-changing weapons….

Peter Koenig (2019-08-30). Iran: The Lifting of Sanctions, Is a Rouhani-Trump Meeting Imminent? globalresearch.ca Tehran and Washington have been locked in a dispute since last year when the US unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear agreement and re-imposed crippling sanctions on Iran. On Monday, President Donald Trump said he is ready to meet his …

Cheikh Amma Diop (2019-08-30). Reality Check: Bank of England Governor Criticizes the Petrodollar! globalresearch.ca GR Editor\'s Note. | Mark Carney is a Canadian citizen and former senior official at Goldman Sachs before becoming Governor of the Bank of Canada (2008-2013). | He was the first foreign national since the founding of the Bank of England in …

Nyla Ali Khan (2019-08-30). Kashmiri Pride and Dignity: My Grandfather\'s Dream Will Not Be Forgotten. counterpunch.org In Kashmir, dissenting voices, even those of legislators and parliamentarians of opposition parties, have been muzzled. And with the lack of accountability suspension of phone and internet services in the Valley, the populace of Kashmir continues to remain incommunicado. In doing so, the federal government has ignored constitutional checks and balances that ought to prevent More

Michael T. Klare (2019-08-30). The Pentagon\'s New Missile Drive Is Bringing Armageddon Closer. thenation.com The Pentagon\'s New Missile Drive Is Bringing Armageddon Closer…

Press TV (2019-08-30). Is a Rouhani-Trump Meeting Imminent? dissidentvoice.org PressTV Interview Transcript www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsp1UcXqEo&feature=youtu.be Peter Koenig 29 August 2019 Background Tehran and Washington have been locked in a dispute since last year when the US unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear agreement and re-imposed crippling sanctions on Iran. On Monday, President Donald Trump said he is ready to meet his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani within …

WSWS (2019-08-30). US alarmed over end to South Korea-Japan intelligence sharing. wsws.org Seoul\'s decision to withdraw from a key intelligence-sharing agreement with Tokyo is part of the deepening rift between Washington\'s two military allies in North East Asia over economic and strategic issues.

WSWS (2019-08-30). Johnson\'s proroguing of Parliament: The British ruling class declares war on democratic rights. wsws.org The move by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to prorogue the \"Mother of all Parliaments\" and govern by executive fiat is part of a turn toward dictatorial forms of rule by the ruling classes throughout the world.

Chris Wright (2019-08-30). Capitalism, Socialism, and Existential Despair. dissidentvoice.org Decades ago, Edward Said remarked that contemporary life is characterized by a \"generalized condition of homelessness.\" Decades earlier, Martin Heidegger had written that \"Homelessness is coming to be the destiny of the world.\" Around the same time, fascists were invoking the themes of blood and soil, nation, race, community, as intoxicating antidotes to the mass …

WSWS (2019-08-30). New Jersey Democrats authorize bonds to cover up Newark water crisis. wsws.org A bond issue of $120 million was pushed through before residents were given an opportunity to attend hearings or scrutinize details of the proposal to replace all lead service lines in the city.