Immigration time bomb is ticking
Teresa Gutierrez | workers.org | 2019-08-02
The foremost motivation of Donald Trump\'s immigration policy is racist terror, blatant cruelty and the promotion of social divisions so ominous they can only be characterized as white supremacist. Im/migrant workers have historically been victims of super exploitation. They have been used by the capitalists as cheap, exploitable and vulnerable . . . | Continue reading Immigration time bomb is ticking at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/08/01/immigration-time-bomb-is-ticking/

The Geopolitical Wrecking Ball Trump Regime. \"MAGA Gone Mad\"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-02
Wall Street and other monied interests love Trump for handing them a bonanza of riches. Weapons and munitions makers support him and bipartisan congressional war party members for waging endless wars of aggression. | Big Oil, Big Pharma, other corporate predators, …
globalresearch.ca/geopolitical-wrecking-ball-trump-regime/5685441

Syria\'s \"Opposition\" Fails to Represent Syrians
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-02
The Syrian population residing in Syria is suffering from having barely survived eight years of war. They didn\'t leave for camps in Turkey, Jordan or Lebanon, or they are those who have returned to Syria from having been in camps. …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-opposition-fails-represent-syrians/5685456

Climate System \"Getting Unhinged\" as Massive Heat Wave Causes Record Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-02
The massive heat dome that shattered all-time temperature records across much of Europe last week has settled in over Greenland, driving temperatures across the vast region to as much as 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. In July, Greenland\'s ice sheet lost 197 billion tons of ice, the equivalent of around 80 million Olympic swimming pools. This comes as the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday that July was the warmest month in recorded human history. It followed the hottest June on record, as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels climbed to a record high of 415 parts per million earlier this year. We sp…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/2/greenland_melting_climate_crisis_jason_box

US Federal Court Exposes Democratic Party Conspiracy Against Assange and WikiLeaks. Judge Dismisses DNC Lawsuit
Eric London | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-02
In a ruling published late Tuesday, Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York delivered a devastating blow to the US-led conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. | In his ruling, Judge Koeltl, …
globalresearch.ca/judge-dismisses-dnc-lawsuit-us-federal-court-exposes-democratic-party-conspiracy-against-assange-wikileaks/5685410

What \'abolish ICE\' really means
Rachel Hodes | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-02
As I stepped inside the Cannon House Office Building on a Tuesday in July, I felt like I was taking a step towards a more just world. The night before, when I told my mother I planned to participate in a \"Never Again\" protest as part of #JewsAgainstICE, she had one question: \"What exactly are …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/02/what-abolish-ice-really-means/

War on humanity: Inside the refugee camps of Ciudad Juárez
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-02
People\'s World correspondent Al Neal spent the summer of 2019 in the field reporting from sites all along the U.S.-Mexico border. In his dispatches, you get a view of the towns and people caught up in Trump\'s \"border crisis.\" This is the first half of an article detailing his visit to a refugee camp in …
peoplesworld.org/article/war-on-humanity-inside-the-refugee-camps-of-ciudad-juarez/

No, Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Is Not \"Assad Apologist\"
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-02
With nearly two dozen declared candidates competing for the 2020 Democratic Presidential primary field and the opportunity to run against Donald Trump in the general election, it\'s no surprise that candidates are trying their best to \"destroy\" their opponents during …
globalresearch.ca/no-democratic-congresswoman-tulsi-gabbard-not-assad-apologist/5685451

Guardianship System Eased, but Saudi Arabia Still Oppresses Women
Medea Benjamin | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
The Saudi government announced it will be eliminating part of the male guardianship system, finally granting women the right to obtain passports and travel (if 21 years of age or over), and obtain family identification cards without the need for male authorization. The change comes in the context of the bad publicity that Saudi Arabia…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/guardianship-system-eased-but-saudi-arabia-still-oppresses-women/

Guardianship System Eased, But Saudi Arabia Still Oppresses Women
Medea Benjamin | commondreams.org | 2019-08-02
While the easing of the guardianship system is indeed welcome news, Saudi Arabia remains one of the world\'s most repressive societies for women. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-1053361226.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/02/guardianship-system-eased-saudi-arabia-still-oppresses-women?cd-origin=rss

What Bernie Sanders Gets Wrong About Healthcare
Peter Bolton | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
Ever since Bernie Sanders became a nationally known figure during the 2016 Democratic primary race, his proposal to bring European-style publicly-provided universal healthcare to the US has become firmly entrenched in the country\'s political mainstream. Sometimes called \"single-payer healthcare,\" the idea is to take private healthcare companies out of the equation and have the government…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/what-bernie-sanders-gets-wrong-about-healthcare/

Let\'s Just Let Trump Spend the Whole War Department Budget on Building Walls
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
Liberals are upset that the new Supreme Court, packed with conservatives, has decided President Trump can have $2.6 billion of the Pentagon\'s new FY 2020 $738 billion budget to build some wall along the Mexican border. But I think they\'re thinking all wrong about this. Instead of complaining and fighting a losing battle against Trump\'s…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/lets-just-let-trump-spend-the-whole-war-department-budget-on-building-walls/

Guardianship System Eased, but Saudi Arabia Still Oppresses Women
Medea Benjamin | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-02
The Saudi government announced it will be eliminating part of the male guardianship system, finally granting women the right to obtain passports and travel (if 21 years of age or over), and obtain family identification cards without the need for male authorization. The change comes in the context of the bad publicity that Saudi Arabia …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/guardianship-system-eased-but-saudi-arabia-still-oppresses-women/

This is How Spanish Social-Democracy Ends
Victor Lasa | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
It was never going to happen. Three months of agonizing inaction by current Spanish President, Pedro Sanchez, has resulted in no coalition agreement to create a progressive government for Spain between his PSOE and Unidas Podemos, the amalgamation of parties and social movements sourced off the Indignados protests in 2011 [1]. Nothing seems to have…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/this-is-how-spanish-social-democracy-ends/

Debating Democrats, Please, No Fighting in the War Room
Michael Winship | commondreams.org | 2019-08-02
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/02/debating-democrats-please-no-fighting-war-room?cd-origin=rss

Democrats, How Do I Hate Thee?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
How do I hate thee? Counting the ways would be a fool\'s errand; there are too many ways. They have to do with your hypocrisy, cowardice, and servility. Circumstances change, but these traits have been constant themes in Democratic Party politics seemingly from time immemorial.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/democrats-how-do-i-hate-thee/

Tulsi Gabbard Challenges Foreign-Policy Assumptions and Moves the Overton Window
Ali A. Taj | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-02
Tulsi Gabbard has moved the Overton window on what is acceptable discussion when it comes to U.S. foreign policy. She has punctured the rose-tinted narrative being constructed around establishment favorites like Senator Kamala Harris.
mintpressnews.com/tulsi-gabbard-foreign-policy-assumptions-overton-window/261103/

2nd Dem Debate Pt 2: Discusses the Climate Crisis, Tackles Endless War and Regime Change (3/4)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-02
The deep divide between candidates is clear as they clash over issues appearing for the first time in presidential debates. With Jacqueline Luqman, Dharna Noor, and Marc Steiner as host…
therealnews.com/stories/2nd-dem-debate-pt-2-discusses-the-climate-crisis-tackles-endless-war-and-regime-change-3-4

The US\'s Immigration Crackdown Began Decades Ago Under Clinton
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-02
| The scenes at the southern border — of terrified families and isolated children huddled in dreary makeshift jails — suggest that the federal immigration regime is reaching an unprecedented level of cruelty under Trump. But the border crackdown that is being continued by the Trump administration in the present moment actually began long ago on Capitol Hill in 1996, with the passage of sweeping laws that swelled federal powers to incarcerate and deport migrants through the criminal courts.
truthout.org/articles/the-uss-immigration-crackdown-began-decades-ago-under-clinton/

Ex-Health Insurance Exec: Industry Is Using Decades-Old Scare Tactics to Fight Medicare for All
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-02
The Democratic presidential candidates remain deeply divided on how to expand healthcare to the tens of millions of Americans who are uninsured or underinsured. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both pushed for abolishing private health insurance and establishing a Medicare for All system. Their rivals have pushed a number of different, more incremental approaches. During the first night of the latest debates, Sanders pointed out that the country has taken sweeping action before to expand health coverage to millions of Americans, referring to the 50th anniversary of the creation of Medicare and Me…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/2/u_s_healthcare_medicare_medicaid_history

CNN\'s Attempted Hit Job on Sanders and Warren
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
I was unable to watch all the CNN Democratic presidential candidates\' debate last Tuesday night, but every time I looked in it was stuck on one of the three following themes: #1. Conservative CNN \"moderators\" and absurdly marginal corporate Democrat pseudo-candidates like John Hickenlooper and John Delaney attacking the mildly social-democratish neo-New Deal progressive Bernie…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/cnns-attempted-hit-job-on-sanders-and-warren/

The Big Lie Democratic Centrists Are Telling About 2018
Doug Johnson Hatlem | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
Dave Wasserman of Cook Political Report tweeted it in response to Nancy Pelosi\'s attack on The Squad. John Hickenlooper unloaded a flatly false version of it during the first night of this week\'s Democratic debates. David Axelrod stated this falsehood as fact on CNN before the start of the second night of debates. Nate Silver…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/the-big-lie-democratic-centrists-are-telling-about-2018/

Over 100 Killed in Another Mediterannean Shipwreck as Europe Watches
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-02
Frédéric Penard discusses the efforts of small NGOs to rescue refugees crossing the Mediterranean, against the efforts of European governments to block the entry of people fleeing war and famine…
therealnews.com/stories/over-100-killed-in-another-mediterannean-shipwreck-as-europe-watches

U.S. to Test New Weapon as Arms Treaty With Russia Dies
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-02
Washington and Moscow walked out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty that Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed in 1987.
truthdig.com/articles/u-s-to-test-new-weapon-as-arms-control-treaty-with-russia-dies/

Video: Game Changer: What\'s Behind US-Turkish Conflict over S-400 Deal
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-02
According to the Turkish National Defense Ministry, receipt of the first batch of Russian S-400 missile defense systems was completed on July 25th. Besides making headlines all around the world and causing a harsh response from the US, …
globalresearch.ca/video-game-changer-whats-behind-us-turkish-conflict-s-400-deal/5685372

The Retainer Solution: The European Union, Libya and Irregular Migration
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/european-union-libya-irregular-migration/5685406

The Retainer Solution: The European Union, Libya and Irregular Migration
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-02
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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/the-retainer-solution-the-european-union-libya-and-irregular-migration/

Melville Our Contemporary
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
I spent a good part of August 1, 2019, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Herman Melville, by doing what every red-blooded American ought to have done: I reread Moby-Dick, that \"staggering work of genius.\" Dave Eggers used that phrase as a part of the title for his own memoir, which was published in 2000.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/melville-our-contemporary/

An American Jew Looks at the Palestine Question
Jeff Cooper | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
I am Jew, a non-religious Jew of European origin, living in the U.S.A. What is my connection to Israel and what right do I have to speak? It can be tempting to distance myself from the conflicts of Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, enacted far away. But as a Jew, I do have, for more…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/an-american-jew-looks-at-the-palestine-question/

Sidelined US Embassy and Mystery Illnesses Spell Trouble for Cuba
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
President Obama on December 17, 2014 announced a U.S. opening to Cuba. Months later there was a U.S. embassy in Havana. Beginning in late 2016, however, some diplomats there –CIA agents among them — experienced strange noises, hearing loss, headaches, impaired memory, confused thinking, dizziness, impaired vision and more. Expressing safety concerns, the State Department…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/sidelined-us-embassy-and-mystery-illnesses-spell-trouble-for-cuba/

Coming to Terms with the Past by Honoring Historical Truth: The Case of Fulbright University Vietnam
Mark Ashwill | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
No man in the whole world can change the truth. One can only look for the truth, find it and serve it. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Thanks to a Google Alert, I learned that Dam Bich Thuy, founding president of Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV), was at Carthage College, a small liberal arts institution in Wisconsin, to deliver…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/coming-to-terms-with-the-past-by-honoring-historical-truth-the-case-of-fulbright-university-vietnam/

Trump and Black Misleadership Class: Collaborators in the Defense of White Power
Ajamu Baraka | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
In a case that finally started to receive national attention over the last few weeks, Baltimore prosecutors finally achieved their desired goal after three attempts, a conviction of Keith Davis Jr, a young Black working class resident of Baltimore, who his supporters say, was set up by Baltimore police, for the murder of Kevin Jones.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/trump-and-black-misleadership-class-collaborators-in-the-defense-of-white-power/

Fires in Arctic Ice, Exposed on Mountains of the Heart
Kenn Orphan — Phil Rockstroh | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
PR: Recently, the temperature in Paris rose to 108.7 F (42.6 C) surpassing the previous record by 4 F (2.2 C) set on July 28, 1947 of 104.7 F (40.4 C). Shortly thereafter, during an email exchange with an old friend, a prominent (if the term prominent can still be applied to the professionally marginalised…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/fires-in-arctic-ice-exposed-on-mountains-of-the-heart/

Dr. Raouf Halaby: \"All the Gulf Arabs Are Sleeping in The Same Bed with Israel\"
Mohsen Abdelmoumen | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
Mohsen Abdelmoumen: How do you analyze the unconditional support of the United States for Israel\'s criminal Zionist entity? Dr. Raouf Halaby: Unfortunately, American politics has been plagued with bribery in the form of political campaign contributions. Money buys power, access to media, and the ownership of media centers. Whether newspapers or TV, access to and ownership of these…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/dr-raouf-halaby-all-the-gulf-arabs-are-sleeping-in-the-same-bed-with-israel/

Trump\'s Plan to Cut the Public Out of Public Lands Decisions
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
When I was a kid, one of the favorite games we played in elementary school was \"dodge ball.\" In the game, a circle is made around a person who attempts to \"dodge\" a ball thrown by the other kids. You get to stay in the middle of the ring until a ball hits you, and…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/trumps-plan-to-cut-the-public-out-of-public-lands-decisions/

The MEK: Illusion vs. Reality
Robert Fantina | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
The oddly named People\'s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (known as the MKO or MEK), whose sole purpose is the overthrow of the people\'s government of Iran, has been busy. Some of their members, who seem to be mainly elderly, are technologically savvy, and use social media to further their disgraceful cause. But they don\'t just…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/the-mek-illusion-vs-reality/

Ship of Fools: Britain, America and the Iranian Oil Tanker Incidents
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
Taking over from Britain\'s colonial role in exploiting the country, the US has bullied and tried to intimidate Iran for decades. The ongoing pretext for strangling Iran economically is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. The UN\'s International Atomic Energy Agency repeatedly finds no evidence for this repeated US-led lie. Then-US President Barack Obama\'s Task…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/ship-of-fools-britain-america-and-the-iranian-oil-tanker-incidents/

The Last of the Adults on Trump\'s National Security Team
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
The first 24 hours of the Trump presidency were marked by a bizarre inauguration speech (\"American Carnage\"), frenzied claims of record inauguration crowds, and an unusual appearance at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency where the new president proclaimed his political brilliance. The shock of these 24 hours led pundits and politicians alike to…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/the-last-of-the-adults-on-trumps-national-security-team/

You Don\'t Save Money By Forcing People to Go Hungry
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
The Trump administration has proposed a rule that will cut an estimated 3 million eligible people off food stamps while depriving half a million eligible children of school lunch. I\'ve been on food stamps. I spent most of my life with mental illness, and it was not diagnosed until a few years ago. Not knowing…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/you-dont-save-money-by-forcing-people-to-go-hungry/

One Day in August
Paul Tritschler | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
\"The bomb burst on this bright morning over what President Truman described as a military target — a hospital.\" Every Sunday, my father took me somewhere on a tram. Mystery tours, rattling across a sprawling, jumbling, clanking weave-work of metal sunk into cobbled streets that ran for miles. Boarding at Glasgow Cross, sometimes we rattled…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/one-day-in-august/

State Legislature in the \'Koch Belt\' Denies Wisconsin Healthcare and Return of Taxpayer Dollars from DC
Jeffrey Sommers | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
\"Please Sir, I want some more,\" Oliver Twist meekly asks the ogre overseer of the orphanage set in Charles Dickens\' famous novel of greed gone wild in Victorian England. Oliver\'s request was rejoined by an indignant, \"Whaaaat!\" And, so this tale of austerity continues to be reprised under GOP rule as healthcare is withheld from…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/state-legislature-in-the-koch-belt-denies-wisconsin-healthcare-and-return-of-taxpayer-dollars-from-dc/

The Environmental Crimes of the Trump Administration
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-02
The word environment usually refers to what is around us: air, water, house, trees, grass, town. However, with the broadening of human understanding about the effects of pollution and industry on human health and wildlife, environment received the philosophical and legal definition of human responsibility of protecting both human health and the health of the…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/the-environmental-crimes-of-the-trump-administration/

Prohibiting Maintenance of Tanker Off Yemeni Coast, Saudis Risk Explosion and Environmental Disaster
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-02
mintpressnews.com/maintenance-fso-safer-tanker-yemen-saudi-arabia-oil-spill/261112/

UAE Withdrawal from Yemen. Turning Point. Did the Ansar Allah Just Win the Yemeni War?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-02
The announcement that the UAE is in the process of a large-scale military drawdown in Yemen has been met with rapturous applause by the Ansar Allah\'s supporters who believe that this unofficially acknowledges their victory in the conflict, but these …
globalresearch.ca/did-ansar-allah-really-just-win-yemeni-war/5685403

A Mother, Six Newborns Die Every Two Hours in Yemen
Daily Sabah | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-02
As the world approaches the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), mothers and children continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing Saudi-led war in Yemen. The brutal conflict continues to cost the lives …
globalresearch.ca/mother-six-newborns-die-every-two-hours-yemen/5685436

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon struggle for justice
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-02
This guest statement on the Lebanese government\'s recent restrictions on work permits for Palestinian and Syrian refugees is by Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition.
liberationnews.org/palestinian-refugees-in-lebanon-struggle-for-justice/

Video: Al Qaeda Idlib \"Militants\" Rescued by Another \"Ceasefire\", Israeli Airstrikes against Syrian Army Positions
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-02
On August 1, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies continued their advance on militants\' positions in northern Hama liberated the villages of Mushairifah, Aziziah, Abu Raeida Gharbi and Abu Raeida. | According to local sources, SAA units also pushed …
globalresearch.ca/video-al-qaeda-idlib-militants-rescued-by-another-ceasefire-israeli-airstrikes-against-syrian-army-positions/5685452

\'We cannot keep handing over billions to military-industrial complex,\' says Sanders as senate passes massive pentagon budget
Jake Johnson | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-02
Sen. Bernie Sanders said the United States cannot continue pouring massive sums into the Pentagon at the expense of domestic priorities after the Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday approved a sweeping budget deal that includes $1.48 trillion in military spending over the next two years. \"The Pentagon is set to grow by $90 billion and reach $738 billion next year. …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/02/we-cannot-keep-handing-over-billions-to-military-industrial-complex-says-sanders-as-senate-passes-massive-pentagon-budget/

Heathrow workers \'reject\' pay offer and are done being \'given crumbs while shareholders pocket billions\'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-02
Indications from a ballot of thousands of workers at Heathrow Airport on whether to accept a pay offer point to an \"overwhelming rejection\", union leaders have said. | Around 4,000 members of Unite, including security guards, firefighters and engineers, have been voting on a revised pay deal, with the result expected later on Friday. | Planned strikes were suspended while the workers voted on the offer, but industrial action on dates throughout August remain, with Unite saying walkouts next Monday and Tuesday look likely to go ahead. | The union warned Heathrow against opting to pay millions of pounds in compensa…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/02/heathrow-workers-reject-pay-offer-and-are-done-being-given-crumbs-while-shareholders-pocket-billions/

In July, Greenland Lost 80 Million Olympic Swimming Pools Worth of Ice
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-02
| The massive heat dome that shattered all-time temperature records across much of Europe last week has settled in over Greenland, driving temperatures across the vast region to as much as 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. In July, Greenland\'s ice sheet lost 197 billion tons of ice, the equivalent of around 80 million Olympic swimming pools. This comes as the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday that July was the warmest month in recorded human history. It followed the hottest June on…
truthout.org/video/in-july-greenland-lost-80-million-olympic-swimming-pools-worth-of-ice/

\'Never Again is Now\' protest shuts down ICE in Minneapolis
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-01
Minneapolis, MN – A few hundred protesters blocked off all roads outside of the Whipple Federal Building here at a \'Never Again is Now\' protest July 30, shutting down business as usual to demand that the government close the concentration camps at the U.S.-México border. | Hundreds of cars were blocked from leaving the building where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is housed for several hours at the end of the work day. At the end of the action around 30 people were cited and released by Hennepin County cops. | The protest was organized by Jewish community members opposed to the camps at the U…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/7/31/never-again-now-protest-shuts-down-ice-minneapolis

Democrats\' Divisions Test Biden\'s Front-Runner Strength
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-01
DETROIT–The ideological divisions gripping the Democratic Party intensified on Wednesday as presidential candidates waged an acrimonious battle over health care, immigration and race that tested the strength of early front-runner Joe Biden\'s candidacy. | The former vice president was repeatedly forced to defend his decades-old political record against pointed attacks from his younger, diverse rivals, who charged that Biden\'s eight-year relationship with President Barack Obama was not reason enough to earn the Democratic nomination. | The attacks on Biden in the second presidential debate were most vivid com…
truthdig.com/articles/democrats-divisions-test-bidens-front-runner-strength/

Yemen\'s Houthi Attack Military Parade in Aden: 32 Killed
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-01
Yemen\'s Houthi Movement launched this morning a drone and missile attack on a pro-government military parade in the port-city of Aden. | RELATED: | Saudi Forces Kill 13 in \'Massacre\' at Yemen Market | According to a report from the Houthi-aligned Military Media, the attack was carried out on a military parade at the Al-Jalaa Camp in the Buraiqa District of Aden. | The Medecins Sans Frontieres tweeted that tens of wounded were hospitalized, while other reports claimed that 32 were killed, in…
telesurenglish.net/news/Yemens-Houthi-Attack-Military-Parade-in-Aden-32-Killed-20190801-0002.html

Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man at Gaza Border
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-01
A Palestinian man was killed on Thursday morning while attempting to carry out an operation to break the siege on the Gaza region, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. | RELATED: | Palestine Energy Initiative: Use Biomass to be Self-Sufficient | According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the operation was carried out by Hani Abu Salah, a Palestinian man in his twenties from the Gaza region. | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced shortly after the attack that thre…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israeli-Forces-Kill-Palestinian-Man-at-Gaza-Border-20190801-0001.html

Rouhani Accuses US of \'Childish Behavior\' Over New Sanctions
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-01
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursdayslammed the U.S. Treasury\'s recent decision to sanction Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, describing the move as puerile and senseless. | RELATED: | Iran to Europe: Fix INSTEX or Will Reduce Deal Commitments | According to the state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency, Rouhani accused the U.S. of \"childish behavior\", especially after the Trump administration expressed an interest to meet with the Iranian government in Tehra…
telesurenglish.net/news/Rouhani-Accuses-US-of-Childish-Behavior-Over-New-Sanctions-20190801-0004.html

US Sanctions Iran\'s Foreign Minister; Move Seen as Rebuke of Diplomatic Offer
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-08-01
The latest US sanctions on Iran are very specific, hitting FM Javad Zarif, blocking all property and financial interests he has in the US.
theantimedia.com/us-sanctions-iran-rebuke-diplomatic-offer/

Intimacies From an Awful War
B. Nimri Aziz | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
If you think you\'ve seen enough of conflict, especially the war in Syria, you haven\'t. From love of nation and loathing of military rule, from inchoate hope of redemption and improbable determination, indebted to lost friends and seeded in the birth of your child, comes an intimate demonstration of how war happens to you and…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/intimacies-from-an-awful-war/

Intimacies from an Awful War. \"For Sama\" by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
If you think you\'ve seen enough of conflict, especially the war in Syria, you haven\'t. From love of nation and loathing of military rule, from inchoate hope of redemption and improbable determination, indebted to lost friends and seeded in the …
globalresearch.ca/intimacies-awful-war-sama-waad-al-kateab-edward-watts/5684715

Idlib and NATO\'s War of Terror against the Syrian People
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
UN Bullies in meticulous suits have launched another hospitals bombing psywar campaign to support NATO\'s last terrorists in Idlib. It should be scandalous, international news, that key members of the United Nations continue to ignore the Geneva Agreements on hospitals, …
globalresearch.ca/un-hospitals-bombing-psywar-save-natos-last-stronghold-idlib/5685250

The National Security State Needs an Enemy: Senator Warren Warns About \"White Supremacist\" Threat
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
The national security state requires a roster of enemies to justify its existence. Beginning in the late 1940s, it was the Commies, not simply the Soviet Union but Commies everywhere–in the State Department, the neighborhood PTA, even under your bed….
globalresearch.ca/state-needs-enemy-warren-warns-about-white-supremacist-threat/5685241

How fast is the climate changing?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-01
Are recent weather patterns a prescient warning that Climate Change is upon us? Yes, according to John Molyneux, and time is running out. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/01/how-fast-is-the-climate-changing/

Bolsonaro\'s Clearcut Populism.\"The Barbarism has Begun\"
Asad Ismi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
\"The barbarism has begun,\" declared the Pankarurú Indigenous nation after Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil\'s neofascist president, won fraudulent elections in October 2018 amidst accusations of breaking financing rules and shamelessly spreading fake news. The Pankarurú inhabit a northeastern part of | …
globalresearch.ca/bolsonaros-clearcut-populism-the-barbarism-has-begun/5685261

Astana, Kazakhstan: the City of the Future?
Sufyan Bin Uzayr | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
Continuing my travels through the ex-Soviet states, I reached Astana (now, Nur-Sultan City) from Tashkent. Ever wondered what would happen if someone were to play Minecraft in real life? Like, build stuff from the ground up? Meet Astana, now known as Nur-Sultan City. This approx 1-million strong city happens to be the capital of Kazakhstan.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/astana-kazakhstan-the-city-of-the-future/

Presidential Racism: Shining Example of America\'s Somber Status Quo
Linn Washington Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
Trump trumpets the low unemployment rate among blacks as proof that his body contains no racist \"bones.\" | But what Trump doesn\'t say (and what the media doesn\'t report adequately) is that the current unemployment rate for blacks remains about twice that of whites. The June 2019 national unemployment rate for whites was 3.3 percent compared to 6 percent for blacks. The June 2000 rate was 3.6 percent for whites and 7.8 percent for blacks.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/presidential-racism-shining-example-of-americas-somber-status-quo/

An Encounter in Pershing Square
Michael Doliner | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
I was sitting at one of the cheap plastic tables in Pershing Square when a woman who had already stowed more than a couple under her belt fell into the next chair. She took out a wineskin and two glasses, poured a glass for each of us, and asked me what I did for a…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/an-encounter-in-pershing-square/

Moving Beyond a Propensity For Pretentiousness
Clark T. Scott | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
I have, for much of my life, had a propensity for mimicking birds. Most of my attempts have had little noticeable effect, but some of my vocalizations led to what seemed to occasionally be emotional rebuttals. I sometimes have wondered if this propensity of mine is an attempt to acquire an identity beyond the limited…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/moving-beyond-a-propensity-for-pretentiousness/

Water Not Oil: Battle Cry Of The Blue Planet
Jerome Irwin | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
It\'s Mother Earth\'s battle cry inspired by the world\'s dire climate crisis that has been sung by many for years yet still hasn\'t yet resolutely been taken up by the world as a whole. So the cry remains: what ultimately is more important: Water or Oil? The Human World is starved for both. But which…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/water-not-oil-battle-cry-of-the-blue-planet/

Grizzly Twister and Other Games that Scientists Play
David Mattson | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
Those of you who were born after 1970 probably don\'t remember a game made by Milton Bradley called Twister that in 1966 exploded onto the national stage and into America\'s living rooms and dens. Its popularity was considerably enhanced when Johnny Carson leaned scandalously over Eva Gabor\'s partially clad buttocks during a live demonstration of…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/grizzly-twister-and-other-games-that-scientists-play/

Missing Issues on the Economics of a Fed Rate Cut
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
A Washington Post piece on the issues surrounding a rate cut this week by the Federal Reserve Board missed many important points. First, and most importantly, it never once mentioned that inflation has been persistently below the Fed\'s 2.0 percent target. This matters both for the Fed\'s credibility and more importantly as a protection policy…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/missing-issues-on-the-economics-of-a-fed-rate-cut/

We Fall, Divided
Wim Laven | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
On Sunday July 28th\"the world\'s greatest summer food fair\" came to a tragic end. A \"really angry\" 19 year-old-white-supremacist snuck into the Gilroy Garlic Festival and committed a mass shooting, killing three people and injuring 15 more. I followed closely as the events were reported; I had flashbacks to the worst mass shooting in recent…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/we-fall-divided/

Calls to \"Send Them Back\" are Mainstream in Israel
Harry Blain | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
President Trump and his supporters have exploited the state of Israel for two shifty rhetorical maneuvers: accusing their opponents of racism, and concealing their own. The rebuttal to Trump\'s many flirtations with anti-Semitism and anti-Semites is his overflowing love for the Jewish State, while the Muslim women mildly supporting Palestinian rights in Congress are smeared…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/calls-to-send-them-back-are-mainstream-in-israel/

How Slick Consulting Firms Get Us on Drugs
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
Ninety-one people a day die from opioids and 1000 visit ERs in the US according to the CDC. How did opioid makers get such a deathly grip on the US population? Recently, the New York Times reported that the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company had a big hand in these morbid figures. McKinsey advised…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/how-slick-consulting-firms-get-us-on-drugs/

Should I Speak of Distant Oppression?
Andrés Castro | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-01
Should I Speak of Distant Oppression? Generations of my people were never butchered for their land or turned into roaming refugees; my elders were not tortured for talking back; I was not forced to see a sister or mother raped; my son and daughter never ran for their lives; they could simply walk to school…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/should-i-speak-of-distant-oppression/

5G Agriculture — Food from Frankenstein Farming
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
The director of development at Ericsson, Marcin Sugak, is excited. He has a new toy to sell to agribusiness farmers. This particular toy, he claims, is going to \'overcome\' all the difficult new challenges facing agriculture today. It will be …
globalresearch.ca/5g-agriculture-food-frankenstein-farming/5685244

Romanticism and Literature: Serving Human Liberty?
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
\"Swift has sailed into his rest; | Savage indignation there | Cannot lacerate his breast. | Imitate him if you dare, | World-besotted traveller; he | Served human liberty.\" | W. B. Yeats translation of Jonathan Swift\'s Latin epitaph. | Introduction | In this continuing series on the …
globalresearch.ca/romanticism-literature-serving-human-liberty/5685247

Psychotechnology: How Artificial Intelligence Is Designed to Change Humanity
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
Psychotechnology is a word coined by William Ammerman, although the word may also have been coined by others and share multiple meanings. Ammerman defines the word as \"technology that influences people psychologically by deploying artificial intelligence through digital media.\" …
globalresearch.ca/psychotechnology-how-ai-designed-change-humanity/5685258

Erdogan\'s Risky Geopolitical Pirouette. Turkey\'s Economy in \"Troubled Waters\"
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
Turkey\'s economy has been in increasingly difficult straits for months, especially since the failed July 2016 coup attempt. The latest move by President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan to fire his central bank head and replace him with a more amenable loyalist …
globalresearch.ca/erdogans-risky-geopolitical-pirouette-turkeys-economy-in-troubled-waters/5685245

Russiagate as organized distraction
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-01
Oliver Boyd-Barrett looks at who benefits from having the corporate media suffocate their public with a puerile narrative for over two years. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/01/russiagate-as-organized-distraction/

When Japanese print workers resisted war
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-01
Against the Storm: How Japanese Print-Workers Resisted the Military Regime, 1935-1945 | By Masao Sugiura | Translated by Kaye Broadbent & Masa Sato | Interventions, Melbourne | 2019, $24.95 | \"In doing what is normal for any trade union activist today –recruiting, arguing and organising — my comrades and I were made to suffer persecution, imprisonment and death,\" writes Masao Sugiura. | When researching Japanese working-class resistance to World War II, Kaye Broadbent discovered in a Japanese university archive Sugiura\'s 1964 memoirs detailing the formation and activities of the Shuppanako Kurabu…
greenleft.org.au/content/when-japanese-print-workers-resisted-war

Poetry to Close the Camps
Norma Smith | indybay.org | 2019-08-01
630 Sansome St (Immigration and Customs Enforcement HQ)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/29/18825055.php

Socialist Analysis & Discussion \"Money for War, But Can\'t Feed the Poor\"
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-08-01
2969 Mission St., near 26th St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/31/18825086.php

Julian Castro, Cory Booker Not Allowing Biden to Avoid Responsibility for Obama Administration Immigration Policies
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-01
\"One of us has learned the lessons of the past, and one of us hasn\'t.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/castro_kills.png …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/31/julian-castro-cory-booker-not-allowing-biden-avoid-responsibility-obama?cd-origin=rss

Gilroy Shooter Touted White Supremacist Text, Posted Racist Content Before Massacre
Democracy Now! | indybay.org | 2019-08-01
In California, police have identified the gunman who killed three people–including two children–at a mass shooting Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival as 19-year-old Santino William Legan. He was fatally shot by police at the scene. Authorities say they are still determining a motive for the attack, but the gunman\'s social media activity shows him promoting a manifesto on white supremacy just moments before the rampage. He also wrote in a post Sunday,…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/31/18825088.php

Gunboat diplomacy in the Persian Gulf
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-01
The United States and Britain are ensuring that tensions remain high in the Straits of Hormuz as they continue beating the drums of war against Iran. | A second British warship arrived in the Strait of Hormuz on July 29, tasked with escorting British-flagged commercial vessels between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. | This latest escalation follows a number of incidents since June 13 when two oil tankers (one Japanese, the other Norwegian) were hit by explosives and caught fire. The US immediately blamed Iran for the attacks, accusing it of trying to disrupt oil supplies. | A few days later a US spy drone…
greenleft.org.au/content/gunboat-diplomacy-persian-gulf

German politicians and media urge military action in the Persian Gulf
wsws.org | 2019-08-01
The more the US pushes ahead with its preparations for war against Iran, the louder the voices will become in Europe that are pushing for military action.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/01/gulf-a01.html

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Loom Large in Night 2 of Dem Debates as Healthcare Again Dominates the Conversation
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-01
\"The winners of this health care debate are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/warrensanders.png …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/31/bernie-sanders-and-elizabeth-warren-loom-large-night-2-dem-debates-healthcare-again?cd-origin=rss

Labour slams the government\'s \'Neo-police state\' plans for traffic officers in no-deal \'chaos\'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-01
Lorry drivers and haulage firms face increased fines in the event of a no-deal Brexit, with Labour comparing new powers for traffic officers to a \"neo-police state\". | According to Sky News, the Department for Transport has set out proposals for Highways England traffic officers to be given the power to demand and check drivers\' documentation in a consultation. | John Howarth, Labour MEP for the South East region, which covers Dover, said the Government is secretly seeking to give draconian powers to traffic officers. | He added: \"I am alarmed by the reports of secret plans for unprecedented summary powers for tr…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/01/labour-slams-the-governments-neo-police-state-plans-for-traffic-officers-in-no-deal-chaos/

Vigil to Expose Monsanto
San Francisco-Bay Area Veterans For Peace | indybay.org | 2019-08-01
Union Square, Downtown San Francisco. Bordered by Geary Blvd. and Post Street; and Powell and Stockton Street.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/31/18825112.php

No Concentration Camps! No Fascist USA! Trump/Pence Must Go!
Curt Wechsler | indybay.org | 2019-08-01
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | 630 Sansome Street, San Francisco | This event is part of 30 Days of Action to Close the Camps…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/31/18825114.php

Body of Steve Caniàßo, killed in police raid, found in France\'s Loire River
wsws.org | 2019-08-01
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe shamelessly declared that \"no link\" could be established between the police raid and Caniàßo\'s death.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/01/fran-a01.html

Seventh anniversary of the Rojava Revolution
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-01
July 19 marked the seventh anniversary of northern Syria\'s Rojava Revolution. On that day in 2012 the nascent People\'s Protection Units (YPG) took control of the Kurdish-majority city of Kobanê. The outnumbered forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad surrendered and were allowed to depart (without their weapons). Other Kurdish cities and towns in the north were soon liberated as well. | From these beginnings, the liberated zone has grown into the General Council of the Self Administration in Northern and Eastern Syria (NES). Together with civic councils in towns liberated from the Islamic State (Manbij, Tabqa,…
greenleft.org.au/content/seventh-anniversary-rojava-revolution

Trump wants to strip medals from Navy lawyers who failed to convict SEAL of war crimes
rt.com | 2019-08-01
US President Donald Trump has demanded the Navy strip military prosecutors who failed to convict SEAL Eddie Gallagher on murder charges of the medals they were awarded after losing the case, calling the awards \"ridiculous.\" | …
rt.com/usa/465521-trump-rescinds-medals-navy-prosecutors-seal/

Legendary anti-war singer to headline Sydney Folk Festival
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-01
Legendary Scottish-Australian folk singer Eric Bogle, best known for his anti-war classics \"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda\" and \"The Green Fields of France\", will headline the Sydney Folk Festival this month. | Although headlined by Bogle, whose career has spanned decades, the festival being held on August 16-18 aims to highlight new music in \"a massive celebration of the best and most adventurous in today\'s new generation of folk\", according to the festival\'s director, Warren Fahey. | Fahey said the festival will \"totally blow away\" any outdated stereotypes of \"old school\" folk. | \"For quite a while folk m…
greenleft.org.au/content/legendary-anti-war-singer-headline-sydney-folk-festival

Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Build Nuclear Weapons
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2019-08-01
NPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/30/18825071.php

Rojava Revolution celebrated in Sydney
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-01
Kurdish community members and supporters gathered on July 27 to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria. | Greens MLA for the seat of Balmain Jamie Parker addressed the function along with the Socialist Alliance\'s Susan Price. | Parker pledged to continue supporting the campaign to remove the Kurdistan Workers\' Party (PKK) from the Australian government\'s list of proscribed terrorist organisations and recognise them as an organisation fighting for freedom. | Price praised the Rojava Revolution as a \"beacon of hope\" in the Middle East, and remembered the martyrs from the People\'s P…
greenleft.org.au/content/rojava-revolution-celebrated-sydney

How much has been spent on Brexit so far?
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-01
Before today\'s announcement of an additional £2.1 billion of Brexit funding, a total of £4.2 billion had already been allocated by the Government to prepare for the UK\'s departure from the EU. | Spending began in autumn 2016, a few months after the referendum, when £400 million was earmarked for Brexit. | This was followed in the 2017 Budget by a further £3 billion to be spent during 2018/19 and 2019/20. | £250 million was drawn from the UK\'s reserves in 2017/18 for Brexit spending, and at the 2018 Budget another £500 million was made available. | The Treasury has published a b…
thecanary.co/uk/2019/08/01/how-much-has-been-spent-on-brexit-so-far/

Video shows Dallas, Texas police joking as a 32-year-old man dies in their custody
wsws.org | 2019-08-01
Disturbing body camera footage was only released after all charges were dropped and the three officers who killed Tony Timpa in 2016 returned to active duty earlier this year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/01/poli-a01.html

Thanks Miranda Devine, but we will win abortion reform
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-01
Thank you Miranda Devine for your wild overreaction to the bill before NSW parliament to treat abortion as a health issue (\"Vote Libs, get Greens\", Daily Telegraph, July 31), as it will no doubt lose you and News.com support. | It must also surely rank as top fake news of the week. Far from being \"one of the most dangerous radical abortion bills on the planet\", the bill is modelled on existing Queensland and Victorian law. | Moreover, your view that Coalition MPs\' support for basic health care for women is somehow a Labor-Green plot is equally bizarre. This bill is not about late-term abortions, as you suggest. I…
greenleft.org.au/content/thanks-miranda-devine-we-will-win-abortion-reform

Latest Proof Trump \'Unwilling and Incapable\' of Engaging in Peace Talks as US Sanctions Iran\'s Top Diplomat
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-01
\"Again, President Trump has chosen an action to push Iran away from the negotiating table, isolate America on the world stage, and take diplomatic options off the table.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/javad_zarif.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/01/latest-proof-trump-unwilling-and-incapable-engaging-peace-talks-us-sanctions-irans?cd-origin=rss

New twist in Butina case possible after FBI informant denied she posed threat to US — lawyer to RT
rt.com | 2019-08-01
A new development in the case of the Russian gun activist Maria Butina has emerged after an FBI informant, with whom she had an affair, revealed that he repeatedly told the agency that the woman posed no threat to the US. | …
rt.com/usa/465546-butina-fbi-informant-lawyer/