Staff (2019-08-06). Parents of Parkland Victim Planned to Unveil a Mural in El Paso. Then Another Mass Shooting Happened. democracynow.org During this weekend\'s deadly gun violence in El Paso, Texas, Manuel and Patricia Oliver were in the vicinity because they were planning on commemorating what would have been the 19th birthday of their son, Joaquin Oliver. Joaquin was one of the 17 people gunned down during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine\'s Day last year. Manuel and Patricia had traveled to Ciudad Juárez, across the U.S. border into Mexico, to visit an immigrant shelter in honor of their deceased son, saying no child should ever be separated from their parents by either gunfire or immigration ag…

Susan Gosman (2019-08-06). New Year\'s Eve reminiscing with lifelong communist Mary Gosman Scarborough. peoplesworld.org My great-aunt Mary Gosman Scarborough was born in Russia \"at the time of the Czar\" and was sent by her parents to America with a man, a family friend, when she was only twelve. They neglected to tell her that he was to be her husband, which exacerbated an already difficult life. Mary was a …

RT (2019-08-06). US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman submits resignation. rt.com US Ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman, has resigned from his post effective October 3. Huntsman has been ambassador since 2017.

Staff (2019-08-06). \"Fascism Will Not Go Away by Itself\": George Ciccariello-Maher on Confronting White Supremacy. democracynow.org Just before the mass shooting at a crowded El Paso Walmart this weekend, the gunman wrote in a lengthy manifesto saying that the massacre was in response to what he described as a \"Hispanic invasion of Texas.\" He also prompted a white supremacist conspiracy theory known as \"great replacement\" that has been cited by other mass shooters. From Mexico City, we speak with George Ciccariello-Maher, visiting scholar at NYU\'s Hemispheric Institute. In December 2017, Ciccariello-Maher resigned from Drexel University after a year of harassment and death threats from right-wing white supremacists. The threats stemmed from a…

Staff (2019-08-06). \"We Can\'t Wait for McConnell\": Advocates Call for Bold Action to Curb Gun Violence Epidemic. democracynow.org The death toll in Saturday\'s anti-immigrant shooting rampage at a Walmart in El Paso has risen to 22, after two more injured victims died Monday. Just before the shooting, the gunman published a manifesto claiming his actions were being done in response to what he described as a \"Hispanic invasion of Texas.\" Most of the dead in El Paso were Latino, including eight Mexican nationals. Thirteen hours after the massacre in El Paso, a gunman in Dayton, Ohio, killed nine people, including his own sister, after opening fire outside a bar. We speak with Kris Brown, president of Brady, formerly the Brady Campaign to Preve…

Jack Rasmus (2019-08-06). China-US Trade War: From Buenos Aires to Osaka and Beyond. counterpunch.org This past June 29, 2019 Trump and China president, Xi, met again at the G20 in Japan in the midst of a potential further escalating trade war. Has anything changed as a result of their meeting? Or is it just deja vu of their prior G20 meeting in Buenos Aires on December 2, 2018? In More

Michael Hudson (2019-08-06). Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy. counterpunch.org Control of oil has long been a key aim of U.S. foreign policy. The Paris climate agreements and any other Green programs to reduce the pace of global warming are viewed as threatening the aim of dominating world energy markets by keeping economies dependent on oil under U.S. control. Also blocking U.S. willingness to help stem global warming is the oil industry\'s economic and hence political power. Its product is not only energy but also global warming, along with plastic pollution. More

Eric Draitser (2019-08-06). Fear and Loathing at the Pow-Wow. counterpunch.org It\'s summertime but the living feels too urgent. There\'s something heavy about the air; humidity and fear, the sweat of not knowing. You can see the heat radiating from the rocks and loose gravel as you drive up the makeshift rows in the stony parking lot at Harriman State Park in New York\'s Hudson Valley. More

John O\'Kane (2019-08-06). Reparations and the Student Debt Wars. counterpunch.org The public college and university system in California was tuition-free during the sixties and into the seventies when the baby boomers were attending college in record numbers. Favorable budgets helped stoke the demand and new campuses were built to accommodate this explosion, propelled by an inclusive ethos special to this left-liberal era where a different More

Robert Hunziker (2019-08-06). Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland. counterpunch.org Greenland is one of the biggest targets for global warming, in part, because it\'s so big it\'s hard to miss. And sure enough, only recently crazy halting weather with inordinate hot temperature hit Greenland bull\'s-eye, dead-on with one helluva meltdown. That\'s bad news for pretty much everybody on the planet. On the hottest days, the More

Tony Pecinovsky (2019-08-06). 2020 elections and organizational questions dominate Democratic Socialists of America convention. peoplesworld.org ATLANTA—Over 1,000 members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the fastest growing and largest socialist organization in the United States, convened their 2019 National Convention here over the weekend. Their goal: To forge a path forward for 2020 and beyond. DSA has seen dramatic growth since Bernie Sanders\' 2016 campaign to win the Democratic Party\'s …

Staff (2019-08-06). \'John Bolton Tried to Assasinate Me\'. truthdig.com In a new interview with The Grayzone Project\'s Max Blumenthal, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro sits down to discuss Washington\'s plots against him, crippling U.S. sanctions on food distribution and allegations of corruption within his administration. He also reflects on what he considers a campaign within corporate media to malign his democratically elected government. Watch the full video of their conversation above.

Kevin Zeese (2019-08-06). On Medicare\'s 54th Birthday, Another Year Closer to Winning Medicare for All. globalresearch.ca In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare Act. Within a year, and without the aid of computers, the United States provided more than 19 million seniors with health coverage. Before the law existed, over half of the elderly in …

Andrew Korybko (2019-08-06). Trump\'s Firearm and Immigration Reform Proposal Is a Risky Political Gamble. globalresearch.ca Trump\'s trying to portray himself as the Uniter-in-Chief following two devastating terrorist attacks over the weekend, but his proposal to marry firearm and immigration reforms into a single bill is a risky political gamble, though one that might ultimately pay …

Frank Edwards (2019-08-06). Police are more likely to kill men and women of color. nationofchange.org Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, five years ago. Since then, U.S. police have killed more than 5,000 people. | Researchers and activists only know about these deaths because journalists do what the federal government has not: collect detailed information on police-involved fatalities. | Because the government has not collected systematic data on police killings, the public doesn\'t have definitive numbers that, once interpreted, will show how likely people are to be killed…

teleSUR (2019-08-06). War With Iran Will Be \'Mother Of All Wars\': Rouhani. telesurenglish.net Any war with Iran will be the \"mother of all wars,\" Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday in a speech broadcast live on state TV, warning once again that shipping might not be safe in the Strait of Hormuz oil waterway. | RELATED: | Iran Says Will Not Tolerate \'Offenses\' in Gulf as UK Joins US-led Maritime Security Patrol | \"Peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, war with Iran is the mother of all wars,\" Rouhani said at the Foreign Minis…

Staff (2019-08-06). Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison Dead at 88. truthdig.com NEW YORK — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in \"Beloved,\" ‚Ä≥Song of Solomon\" and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88. | Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Morrison\'s family issued a statement through Knopf saying she died after a brief illness. | \"Toni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends,\" the family announced. \"She wa…

Ted Rall (2019-08-06). Here is Exactly Why Congress Won\'t Act on Gun Violence, Climate Change, Impeaching Trump or Anything Else. counterpunch.org I\'m from Dayton so I\'m thinking about this today: Why hasn\'t Congress done anything to address our national epidemic of mass shootings, namely reviving the assault weapons ban? People—Democrats and not a few Republicans—ask me that all the time. I bet all left-leaning pundits get that question. The answer is simple. But it\'s not something most people want to More

Pepe Escobar (2019-08-06). An Attack on Iran Would be an Attack on Russia. globalresearch.ca Russia is meticulously advancing Eurasian chessboard moves that should be observed in conjunction, as Moscow proposes to the Global South an approach diametrically opposed to Western sanctions, threats and economic war. Here are three recent examples. | Ten days ago, via …

Philip Giraldi (2019-08-06). 2020 Presidential Elections: Feeding the Israel Lobby. globalresearch.ca If you have been wondering when the twenty Democratic aspirants for the presidency will begin a serious discussion of American foreign policy in the Middle East, where Washington has been bogged down in both current and impending wars, you are …

Phyllis Bennis (2019-08-06). In the US Killing Fields, We\'re Now Way Past \"Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough\" commondreams.org Yamileth Lopez holds a photo of her deceased friend Javier Amir Rodriguez at a makeshift memorial for victims outside Walmart, near the scene of a mass shooting which left at least 22 people dead, on August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. Rodriguez was a sophomore at Horizon High School and was killed in the shooting. A 21-year-old white male suspect remains in custody in El Paso, which sits along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/in_the_killing_field.jpg …

Staff (2019-08-06). Elections Are Treated as Political Consumerism and Democracy Is Suffering. truthout.org | | The displacement of meaningful civic engagement by political consumerism and lurid media spectacle is suffocating U.S. democracy. In the record $6.5 billion 2016 election cycle, a total that excludes untraceable dark money, the consumerist conquest of civic life became nearly complete, with empty partisan noise reverberating 24/7 through global media echo chambers in inverse proportion to the shriveling substance of daily civic l…

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Israeli Minister To be Indicted for Shielding Pedophile Teacher. telesurenglish.net Police in Israel recommended Tuesday indictment of the deputy health minister on suspicion he tried to bolster the case of a former Australian school principal pleading mental illness as an argument against extradition to face child molestation charges. | RELATED: | Israeli Far-right Ministers Attend Event Honoring Rabbi Who Praised Palestinian Massacre | Yaakov Litzman, who is also chair of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ), is suspected of obstruc…

South Front (2019-08-06). Video: Disaster Capitalism on the Horizon? Trumponomics on the Eve of 2020 Presidential Election. globalresearch.ca By way of introduction, it should be noted that the US economy is showing many signs of a classical bubble, starting with the incredibly over-valued US stock market. Only slightly more than a decade ago, at the peak of the …

Nia Harris (2019-08-06). More Money, Fewer Jobs: The Stubborn Truth About Employment and the Defense Industry. globalresearch.ca A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it\'s not a movie star; it\'s Marillyn Hewson, the head of Lockheed Martin, the nation\'s top defense contractor and the largest weapons producer in the world. In …

Telesur (2019-08-06). Trump Turns Sanctions Against Venezuela into an Embargo. globalresearch.ca U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on assets of the Venezuelan government, according to an executive order published on Monday. | \"All property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States … are …

David Hearst (2019-08-06). Saudi Arabia\'s \'Strategic Plan\' to Take Turkey Down. globalresearch.ca Saudi Arabia has begun implementing a \"strategic plan\" to confront the Turkish government, after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman decided he was being \"too patient\" with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of journalist Jamal Khashoggi\'s murder. | The …

Andre Vltchek (2019-08-06). Women We Are Fighting for. globalresearch.ca There are stories that are unrelated to the news, but can explain much better than many combat reports, why people like me are fighting against the Empire and imperialism, with such determination and vehemence. Not all stories are \'big\' or …

Elijah J. Magnier (2019-08-06). From 2006 to 2019: After Failures in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen, War Is No Longer an Option for Israel. globalresearch.ca During the summer war of 2006, Israel managed to destroy a large number of Hezbollah\'s rocket and missile stocks. Most Hezbollah missile units were destroyed and, in the suburb of the capital Beirut, over 250 buildings (mainly but not exclusively …

Mark Taliano (2019-08-06). I am a Syrian Living in Syria: \"It Was Never a Revolution nor a Civil War. The Terrorists Are Sent by Your Government\" globalresearch.ca The majority here loves Assad. He has never committed a crime against his own people…the chemical attack was staged by the terrorists helped by USA and UK etc..Everyone knows that here.

True Publica (2019-08-06). Black Sites, Secret Prisons, Rendition: More British Complicity Exposed in Latest \'CIA Torture Unredacted\' Report. globalresearch.ca The latest report about kidnappings, rendition, \'black sites\' and torture is a remarkable piece of investigative work. It provides us with nothing less than a litany of shocking evidence and testimony and at 403 pages it makes for truly grim …

True Publica (2019-08-06). Leaked: UK\'s New Trade Secretary Met with US Pressure Groups to Discuss Weakening Regulations. globalresearch.ca In \'off the record\' meetings last September, Liz Truss sought lessons from Donald Trump\'s radical program of deregulation and tax cuts. The new international trade secretary, Liz Truss, met with hard-right pressure groups in Washington DC last year to …

Alice Slater (2019-08-06). Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia and to Ban the Bomb. commondreams.org Let us tell the truth about what happened between the US and Russia that brought us to this perilous moment and put the responsibility where it belong. (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_vlad_0.jpeg …

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Trump Won\'t Allow S-400 Deal to Harm Turkish-US Ties: Erdogan. telesurenglish.net Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stated on Tuesday that he believes his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump will not allow Turkey\'s S-400 deal with Russia to harm Washington\'s relationship with Ankara. | RELATED: | US Removes Turkey from International F-35 Fighter Jet Program | Part of Washington\'s concern with Turkey\'s acquisition of the S-400 is the latter\'s membership in NATO and the threat posed by the missile system towards the new F-35 jets. | \"There is no concrete evidence sh…

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Arreaza: US Blockade Violates Rights But Won\'t Break Venezuela. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza deplored Tuesday the total economic blockade imposed by the U.S. government of Donald Trump a day earlier in an executive order. | RELATED: | Venezuelan VP Rejects US Blockade, Calls for Unity | At a press conference, Arreaza said that the order includes seven decrees and makes them into law in order to restrict the commercial, financial and economic capacities of the Venezuelan government led by President Nicolas Maduro, in a bid to oust him from p…

Winslow Myers (2019-08-06). We Need to Talk. counterpunch.org Big media today is all about monetizing the non-conversation of outrage and division and using them to consolidate power. The Limbaughs and Hannitys have been strategically intensifying ginned-up divisions for decades, encouraging an uncivil public square and shredding a shared vision of national purpose that might otherwise surface. Discourse is cheapened by their model of More

Paul Edwards (2019-08-06). Tainted Meat Market. counterpunch.org The Democratic Livestock Sales signal the start of our Presidential election root canal with its pimps and whores money scramble, evoking the pathos of a 4H sale of prize hogs and heifers. 4-H stock is pure blue ribbon, though, which can\'t be said of this sad herd of pampered bipeds, bawling and bellowing through their More

John Feffer (2019-08-06). The GOP\'s Sinister New Nationalism. counterpunch.org The worst thing you could be in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s was a \"rootless cosmopolitan.\" The epithet sometimes came with a death sentence. The Soviet Communist Party, under the strong guiding hand of Joseph Stalin, had long turned its back on the internationalism of its founders and their commitment to world revolution. More

William Gudal (2019-08-06). Rolling Snake Eyes? counterpunch.org The endless blather about previous and potential software fixes to the Boeing 737 Max seems absurd to the point of disbelief. Can any software be expected to save this airplane? Do fliers really believe software is the way to fly an airplane? Boeing, responding to intense competitive pressures in the race to develop new commercial More

Habib Ahmadzadeh (2019-08-06). This Iranian War Vet Has Some Advice for Trump: Don\'t Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess. commondreams.org Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran on August 5, 2019. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/iranians_trump_zarif.jpg …

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Venezuelan VP Rejects US Blockade, Calls for Unity. telesurenglish.net The Venezuelan government has rejected the blockade ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said Tuesday and defined the blockade as an attack against the entire country. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces the \'Imperialist\' Total Blockade by US | \"He has taken the most dangerous steps against our country to lay the foundations for absolute suffocation against Venezuela,\" Vice President Rodríguez warned. | She went on to say that although the o…

United Nations (2019-08-06). Colombia offers nationality rights to Venezuelan children born there: UN hails \'very important step\'. un.org The UN migration agency, IOM, has welcomed Colombia\'s decision on Monday to grant nationality status to more than 24,000 Venezuelan babies born inside the country after their parents fled across the border.

Staff (2019-08-06). Headlines for August 6, 2019. democracynow.org Trump Condemns White Supremacy After El Paso Massacre Despite His Own Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, Trump Supporter Who Sent Pipe Bombs to CNN and Democrats Sentenced to 20 Years, Tensions Mount over Kashmir as Pakistan Reacts to Revocation of Special Status, Puerto Rican Senate, San Juan Mayor Sue over Pierluisi\'s Appointment as Governor, China Weakens Currency, Halts U.S. Crop Imports as Trade War Ratchets Up, U.S. Imposes Economic Embargo Against Venezuela, Drone Attack Kills 42 People in Libya, R. Kelly Charged with Prostitution and Solicitation of a Minor, Galveston Police Apologize for Shocking Photo Showing Mou…

United Nations (2019-08-06). \'€1 million\' fines for rescue boats prompts UN concern for future sea operations. un.org A move by Italian lawmakers to impose fines of up to €1 million on vessels and organizations carrying out search and rescue operations off the country\'s coastline, sparked a new warning on Tuesday from the UN that the measure risks deterring future lifesaving efforts in the Mediterranean.

United Nations (2019-08-06). \'Cataclysmic events\' in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, began \'global push\' against nuclear weapons says Guterres, honouring victims. un.org Paying homage to those who perished as the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, as well as the many others whose lives were devastated in the years that followed, UN chief António Guterres on Tuesday underscored their \"courage and moral leadership\" in reminding the world of \"the human cost of nuclear war\".

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Toni Morrison, First Black Woman Nobel laureate, Dies at 88. telesurenglish.net U.S. author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel \"Beloved\" about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 88, her publisher said on Tuesday (August 6). | Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for the publishing company Alfred A. Knopf, announced the death but did not provide an immediate cause. | \"Beloved\" was set during the U.S. Civil War and based on the true story of a woman who killed her 2-year-old daughter so she would not become a slave. The woman was captured before she could kill he…

Bill Lueders (2019-08-06). Take Away My Employer-Based Health Insurance. Please. commondreams.org Don\'t pretend that most Americans have warm fuzzies for their employer-based health insurance plans. They don\'t. (Photo: The Progressive) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bills.jpeg …

Robert Hunziker (2019-08-06). Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland. dissidentvoice.org Greenland is one of the biggest targets for global warming, in part, because it\'s so big it\'s hard to miss. And sure enough, only recently crazy halting weather with inordinate hot temperature hit Greenland bull\'s-eye, dead-on with one helluva meltdown. That\'s bad news for pretty much everybody on the planet. On the hottest days, the …

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Trade War: China Suspends Purchases of US Agricultural Products. telesurenglish.net China\'s Commerce Ministry announced Tuesday that the Asian country will suspend the purchase of U.S. agricultural goods in response to the recent announcement that the President Donald Trump administration will increase tariffs to Chinese exports. | RELATED: | Trade War Intensifies: China\'s Yuan Weakens, Markets Hit Year-Low | \"It has been agreed that the State Coun…

Mohammed Harun Arsalai, Mohsin Khan (2019-08-06). Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Keep Climbing During the ICC\'s Summer Break. thenation.com Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Keep Climbing During the ICC\'s Summer Break…

Adrienne Pine (2019-08-05). The End of a Cocaine-Fueled Presidency? Juan Orlando Hernandez Faces Regime Change in Honduras. mintpressnews.com Honduras has been the epicenter of the Central American exodus and northward migration since the U.S.-backed coup 10 years ago and the ultra-violent repression by President Juan Orlando Hernandez\'s regime, as well as its ultra-neoliberal policies.

Conn Hallinan (2019-08-05). Rivers of Dust: Water and the Middle East. counterpunch.org Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt\'s relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank. More

Jon Schwarz (2019-08-05). We Desperately Need Marianne Williamson\'s Message. It\'s Ominous That We\'re Only Getting It From Marianne Williamson. theintercept.com It\'s alarming that only someone given to wild flights of irrationality believes that America can hear the truth about itself and respond rationally.

The Canary (2019-08-05). \'Threat to life\' still priority in Whaley Bridge dam drama, residents warned. thecanary.co A minority of people refusing to leave their homes amid fears of a damaged dam bursting are \"taking their lives into their own hands\", a police chief has warned.Thirty-one residents, including a \"small number\" who were initially evacuated but have since returned to their homes, remain in 22 properties in the evacuation zone in the town of Whaley Bridge despite warnings of catastrophic consequences if the the dam at Toddbrook Reservoir collapses.On Monday, Derbyshire\'s police and crime commissioner, Hardyal Dhindsa, acknowledged that locals had faced a \"big disruption\" as the around-the-clock operation to return t…

Eve Ottenberg (2019-08-05). The Case for Socialism. counterpunch.org Anyone doubting the arguments for socialism, should read Bhaskar Sunkara\'s \"The Socialist Manifesto.\" It presents old rationales in new clothes; the clothes are simple and attractive, while the rationales are sound. They come, however, with a big warning. \"We certainly don\'t want to repeat the last century\'s attempts, whether in Russia or China, to impose More

RT (2019-08-05). Dayton shooter was apparently a self-professed \'leftist,\' Warren & Sanders fan. rt.com Judging by his supposed activity on Twitter, the Dayton shooter appears to have held views opposite to those of the El Paso gunman from hours earlier. A now-suspended account, allegedly his own, implies he was a die-hard leftist.

Rachel M. Cohen (2019-08-05). Amid Conservative Assault on Organized Labor, Democratic Lawmakers Are Advancing Laws to Expand Workers\' Rights. theintercept.com Nevada and Delaware passed laws this summer giving public-sector workers the right to collectively bargain. Colorado is expected to follow suit next year.

Susie Day (2019-08-05). The War on Drugs in Mexico is Also a War on Journalists. counterpunch.org What is press freedom and how do we know what it looks like? While we in the United States are absorbed in Julian Assange-related quandaries about just who is a journalist, and whether leaked information can or should compromise national security, reporters in Mexico are harassed and killed daily for covering a \"drug war\" launched in More

RT (2019-08-05). US President Trump proposes tighter gun control tied to immigration reform. rt.com US legislators should pass tougher gun control laws and possibly \"marry\" them to immigration reform, President Donald Trump tweeted. It comes ahead of an announcement on gun violence which he promised to deliver later on Monday.

Natasha Lennard (2019-08-05). The El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can\'t Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle. theintercept.com On Aug. 4, 2019, a man places an American flag on a makeshift memorial outside the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, where a mass shooting occurred the previous day. | The four-page manifesto believed to be written by suspected El Paso mass shooter Patrick Crusius abounds with Trumpian racist nationalism. \"This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas,\" notes the text, published shortly before Saturday\'s massacre. The manifesto, which decries \"race-mixing,\" states, \"some people will blame the president or certain presidential candidates for the attack. This is not the case,\" noting that the autho…

Robert Fisk (2019-08-05). Lies and buffoonery: How Boris Johnson\'s fantasy world casts dark shadows in the Middle East. counterpunch.org I\'ve worked out that in the past week, I\'ve been told to wait \"only five minutes\" at least four times. In the Arab world, any interview that is delayed will always be accompanied by the assurance that I will only have to wait for five minutes. Or I will be called back on the phone More

Staff (2019-08-05). After Dayton Shooting, Gun Violence Reporter Says Misogyny \"Clear Link\" Between Many Mass Shootings. democracynow.org Over the span of 13 hours, the country was shaken by two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, where a total of 29 people were killed. Shortly before the attack, the El Paso gunman posted an anti-immigrant manifesto on the far-right message board 8chan, while there is still no clear motive for the Dayton shooting. Senator Bernie Sanders and other Democratic leaders are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to hold a special session of the Senate to vote on two gun safety bills recently passed in the House. This all comes as the National Rifle Association is imploding. We speak with Alex…

Eds. (2019-08-05). Arctic fires: \"You have to go to a different planet to find a more persistent type\" mronline.org Here\'s a sentence for you: The Arctic is burning. Yes, that Arctic—the traditionally cold and wet one, large swaths of which are being consumed by an astonishing number of wildfires, from Russia to Greenland to Alaska. | Source

Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (2019-08-05). Venezuela: Delcy Rodríguez denuncia golpe de Estado jurídico desde EEUU. peoplesworld.org La vicepresidenta ejecutiva de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, denunció este lunes una gran operación internacional que implica un golpe de Estado jurídico dirigido desde Estados Unidos (EEUU) mediante el cual se busca despojar al país de todos sus activos. \"Es un golpe jurídico para apropiarse de todos los activos que tiene Petróleos …

Dean Baker (2019-08-05). Newsflash: Trump and DeVos Do Not Want to Get Government Out of For-Profit College Industry. counterpunch.org It is far too common for progressives to accept the right\'s framing of economic issues. In the standard story, the right portrays itself as the champion of free markets. The image is of the rugged individualist who struggles against the current to come out ahead. They want to be able to make their way in More

Priti Gulati Cox (2019-08-05). Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Part 2 of Uncountable. counterpunch.org What do Shahed Amer al-Bayoumi, Abdel-Raouf Salha, Arafat Jaradat, Ayoub Asaleya, Mohammed Suleiman, Sawsan Ali Dawud Mansour, Mohammad H., Isma\'il Muslem Hamad Abu Bteihan, Ala Ziad Abu \'Aasi, Fadi al-Darbi, Atef al-Maqousi, Jaber Ibrahim Abu Hweige,Fadiyah Jaber Abu Hweigeand MuhammadJaber Abu Hweigehave in common? They are Palestinians between the ages of 9 and 69 who More

Thomas Knapp (2019-08-05). Afghanistan: In Search of Monsters to Not Destroy. counterpunch.org America, John Quincy Adams said in 1821, \"goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.\" That\'s as good a summary ever spoken of the non-interventionist position. US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) disagrees. He More

Howard Lisnoff (2019-08-05). Two Foxes and a Hen: Sexual Assault in the Military. counterpunch.org This is now a nation governed by thugs, a government in many ways reminiscent of right-wing authoritarian societies throughout history. It\'s a smiling version of authoritarianism unless a person happens to be an immigrant. There aren\'t death camps or gulags here, unless you\'re an immigrant, or in some cases a prisoner in a place like the federal More

Staff (2019-08-05). Trump Vows Action After Shootings but Gives Few Details. truthdig.com The president has suggested a new bill could be paired with immigration reform without explaining how or why the two issues are related.

Chris Hedges (2019-08-05). The Artist as Prophet. truthdig.com Where is America headed? As the question is endlessly argued, especially during the presidential campaign, potential answers tend to inhabit political realms. However, Chris Hedges, in this column from May 29, 2017, suggests that we also look elsewhere in seeking answers: to our artists. A new article from Hedges will appear next Monday after he returns from vacation. | The Israeli writer and dissident Uri Avnery asked an Egyptian general how the Egyptians managed to surprise the Israelis when they launched the October 1973 war. The general answered: \"Instead of reading the intelligence reports, you should have r…

Max Blumenthal (2019-08-05). How Joe Biden\'s Privatization Plans Helped Doom Latin America and Fuel the Migration Crisis. globalresearch.ca On the campaign trail, Joe Biden has boasted of his role in transforming Colombia and Central America through ambitious economic and security programs. Colombians and Hondurans tell The Grayzone about the damage his plans did to their societies. | *** | While …

Staff (2019-08-05). Headlines for August 5, 2019. democracynow.org White Supremacist Kills 20 People After Hate-Fueled Gun Rampage in El Paso, Gunman with Misogynistic Past Kills 9 People in Dayton, OH Shooting Spree, General Strike Grips Hong Kong as Protesters Refuse to Back Down, India Revokes Kashmir\'s Special Status as Tensions Mount in Disputed Region, Iran Seizes Tanker as Tensions Between Iran and U.S. Remain High, Russian Police Arrest 800+ Protesters as Crackdown on Dissent Continues, Sudan\'s Military Rulers and Opposition Leaders Sign Transition Agreement, 3 Mexican Journalists Killed in Under a Week, Pierluisi Sworn In as Puerto Rico\'s New Governor as San Juan Mayor…

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-05). Trump Regime Aiming to Blockade Iran and Venezuela? globalresearch.ca International law is clear. Blockades are undeclared acts of war. | No nation may legally use this tactic against another state unilaterally or with coalition partners. | UN Charter provisions are binding international law. Article 39 authorizes the Security Council alone to …

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-05). Mass Shootings in America. The US is a \"Gun Society\" globalresearch.ca They happen with disturbing regularity, two over the weekend. More on them below. | *** | Gun Violence Archive maintains a database of reported shootings in the US, information gotten from law enforcement, media, and government sources. | In 2019, it reported 33,028 …

Renee Parsons (2019-08-05). Tulsi Gabbard, the Mainstream Media and Treason. globalresearch.ca In case you had not noticed, there is an existential crisis going on within both the MSM and Democratic party that has been on full display during the June and July DNC sponsored presidential debates — and today the DNC …

Eva Bartlett (2019-08-05). A Syrian Leader Tells His Country\'s Story: An Interview with SAA General Hassan Hassan. mintpressnews.com For years, international headlines spotlighting Syria have claimed that the Syrian government, army, and its allies were guilty of a variety of atrocities. Yet as time has passed, many of the accusations levied at government and its allies have been shown to have been either falsified, staged (as in the case of allegations of chemical attacks in eastern Ghouta), or actually committed by the myriad terrorist groups operating in the country. | For their part, Syrian leadership has maintained from the start that the uprising…

Andrew Korybko (2019-08-05). Nobody Will Stop the US if It Blockades Venezuela. globalresearch.ca The US has full escalation dominance in the Hybrid War on Venezuela, so while it would be internationally illegal and morally wrong, neither Caracas nor its partners in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran would do anything of substance to stop Washington …

Cassie Miller and Hatewatch Staff (2019-08-05). El Paso Massacre Galvanizes Accelerationists. splcenter.org The domestic terror incident this past weekend in El Paso has energized the growing \"accelerationist\" bloc of the white power movement, which argues violence is the only way to achieve its goal of creating a white, non-Jewish ethnostate.

Staff (2019-08-05). NPR Has Disgraced Itself in Its Venezuela Coverage. truthdig.com The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the US terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua. | As Greg Grandin writes, Otto Reich, head of the administration\'s Orwellian propaganda outfit known as the Office of Public Diplomacy, informed the public network that his office had contracted \"a special consultant service [to listen] to all NPR programs\" on Central America. Dependent on state funding, NPR promptly buckled under pressure, reassigning reporters viewed as \"too easy on the Sandinistas,\" and hir…

Staff (2019-08-05). Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing Are Chapters in the Same Manifesto. truthout.org | | This weekend, after two mass shooters killed and injured dozens of people in Texas and Ohio, Rep. Steve Cohen tweeted, \"You want to shoot an assault weapon? Go to Afghanistan or Iraq. Enlist!\" | Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, apparently did not take issue with the El Paso shooter\'s desire to slaughter people of color — he merely wanted to redirect his bullets toward people of color outside of the United States. His tweet was a chilling reminder of how the United…

teleSUR (2019-08-05). Brazilian Inmate Tries Jailbreak Disguised as Teenage Daughter. telesurenglish.net A masked Rio de Janeiro inmate dressed as a woman tried to break out of a Brazilian jail this weekend in a surreal act of derring-do, only to be thwarted on the cusp of freedom by state prison authorities. | RELATED: | Brazil Prison Riot Kills 52, with 16 Decapitated | Clauvino da Silva, a drug dealer from the city of Angra dos Reis, was caught by prison guards at the Bangu jail complex in Rio state on Saturday, as he tried to exit via the front door after visiting hours. The Rio state prison au…

True Publica (2019-08-05). Democracy Threat? Trump Demands \'Realignment of British Politics\'. The Americanization of Britain. globalresearch.ca I said that this moment would come. It has almost arrived. I warned that Britain is to become a European outpost of America (READ: The global alliance taking over Britain) and if ever proof was needed, it is the …

Shane Quinn (2019-08-05). World War II: US Military Destroyed 66 Japanese Cities Before Planning to Wipe Out the Same Number of Soviet Cities. globalresearch.ca The number of Japanese cities destroyed was the exact figure that the Pentagon compiled when finalizing plans, in mid-September 1945, to eviscerate the Soviet Union. Indeed, 66 Soviet cities were earmarked to be wiped out — with 204 atomic bombs — less than 2 weeks after Japan\'s surrender.

Erin Schwartz (2019-08-05). The Dirtbag Magnetism of Phoebe Waller-Bridge\'s \'Fleabag\'. thenation.com The Dirtbag Magnetism of Phoebe Waller-Bridge\'s \'Fleabag\'

teleSUR (2019-08-05). Trump Says Fake News, Not His Hate Speech, Behind Shootings. telesurenglish.net U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that his country must \"condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy\" after a gunman killed 20 people in an attack in Texas that authorities said appeared to be a racially motivated hate crime. | Trump did not directly address accusations that his anti-immigrant and racially charged comments have contributed to a rise in hate crimes. | \"These sinister ideologies must be defeated,\" he said in remarks at the White House. \"Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul.\" | Trump said he was directing the Department of Justice to…

Nick Beams (2019-08-05). Trump\'s Trade War Measures Hit the Financial Markets. globalresearch.ca Financial markets around the world fell on Friday as a result of the shock wave from US President Trump\'s surprise announcement Thursday that he intended to impose a 10 percent tariff from September 1 on a further $300 billion worth …

Staff (2019-08-05). Stocks Plunge 3% in Worst Loss of Year as Trade War Escalates. truthdig.com Rattled U.S. investors react to China letting its currency, the yuan, drop to its lowest level against the dollar in more than a decade.

Daniel Larison (2019-08-05). A Blockade of Venezuela Must be Opposed. globalresearch.ca When Trump said he was considering a blockade of Venezuela yesterday, it was possible to dismiss it as a meaningless statement that would have no policy implications. Unfortunately, Trump seems to have meant what he said: | Donald Trump is …

The Canary (2019-08-05). Email fraud warning issued to students ahead of A-Level results. thecanary.co UK students are at risk from email scams because many top universities are not following best practices to block fraudulent emails, new research has claimed. | According to a report by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, 65% of the UK\'s top 20 universities were not using any form of an industry-recommended email authentication tool. | It says this could enable cybercriminals to imitate the universities in question easily, placing students applying for higher education after receiving their A-Level results at greater risk of email fraud. | The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) recor…

Prof. Mel Gurtov (2019-08-05). The Dangerous New US Consensus on China and the Future of US-China Relations. globalresearch.ca The trade war and technological competition with China are symptomatic of a much larger issue: a dangerous gridlock in US-China relations that may become permanent, with dire consequences not just for the two countries\' economies but also for the global …

Richard Galustian (2019-08-05). Is There a Third Way in Libya? What can Break the Deadlock in Libya\'s Civil War? globalresearch.ca What can break the deadlock in Libya\'s civil war? | Ghassan Salame, the UN\'s point man for Libya began his analysis and brief to the Security Council last week by emphasising that the armed conflict in Libya \"shows no signs …

Ed Sykes (2019-08-05). John McDonnell takes new chancellor Sajid Javid to the cleaners with scathing letter. thecanary.co On 5 August, Labour\'s John McDonnell shared a damning letter which takes Boris Johnson\'s new chancellor Sajid Javid to the cleaners. | Javid involved with \"financial weapons of mass destruction\": | The shadow chancellor wrote to Johnson on 31 July calling for \"two investigations into Mr Javid\'s past conduct in matters of financial stewardship and decision-making\". McDonnell said tha…

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2019-08-05). More Fake News and US Statistics About Payroll Jobs. The Trend Towards Part-Time Employment. globalresearch.ca Yesterday\'s column referred to a \"falling labor force participation rate.\" | One of the main points of the article is that the number of payroll jobs are not the same thing as the number of employed Americans. Jobs have been trending …

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2019-08-05). The Global Currency War Has Begun. China\'s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band. Why is The Dollar Rising? globalresearch.ca Over this weekend, China\'s Yuan currency broke out of its band and devalued to more than 7 to $1. At the same time China announced it would not purchase more US agricultural goods. The Trump-US Neocon trade strategy has just …

United Nations (2019-08-05). Monday\'s Daily Brief: Independent UN experts on Myanmar, UN chief renounces attacks in US, Libyan airport violence, UN spokesperson on Kashmir, and FAO and Italy on development. un.org Our main stories today: Myanmar companies bankroll \'brutal operations\' of military; UN chief renounces shootings in the United States; \'Repeated indiscriminate\' shelling of Libyan airport raises concern; UN voices \'concern\' over Kashmir; and new UN agriculture chief reaffirms commitment with Italy on development…

Binoy Kampmark (2019-08-05). The Retainer Solution: the European Union, Libya and Irregular Migration. counterpunch.org There is a venom in international refugee policy that refuses to go away: officials charged with their tasks, passing on their labours to those who might see the UN Refugee Convention as empty wording, rather than strict injunction carved upon stone. They have all become manifest in the policy of deferral: humanitarian problems are for More

Global Research (2019-08-05). The Silencing of Independent Media: Global Research Needs Your Help. globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | An increasing number of search engines implement algorithms which are negatively biased against independent news and analysis websites such as Global Research. Our website gets filtered out from their results, making our articles harder to find, which reduces …

Philip A Farruggio (2019-08-05). The Resurgence of the \"Absentee Landlord\" Beast. globalresearch.ca No politician from either of the Two Party/One Party imbroglio will ever mention anything about this Absentee Landlord disgrace. Sadly, absentee landlords have been with us since time in memoriam. These people were even mentioned in the story of Jesus …

EWG (2019-08-05). Europe Says \'No Safe Level\' of Brain-Damaging Pesticide Trump EPA Refused to Ban. globalresearch.ca European food safety regulators have found there is no safe level of exposure for a brain-damaging pesticide President Trump\'s Environmental Protection Agency recently refused to ban. | The European Food Safety Authority said today that chlorpyrifos, widely used on fruits and …