Presidential Candidates Kamala Harris or Tulsi Gabbard
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
It has been decades since a bona fide anti-war candidate ran for US President; that is, a candidate who \'felt\' peace in their bones rather than a political calculation to be exploited. By my reckoning, that last campaign would be …
globalresearch.ca/kamala-tulsi/5684695

The War on Drugs in Mexico Is Also a War on Journalists
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-27
| 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 2006 by President Felipe Calderón, but abetted by the U.S. governme…
truthout.org/articles/the-war-on-drugs-in-mexico-is-also-a-war-on-journalists/

Northeast Ohio says \"Never again\"
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2019-07-27
Over 100 members of the Jewish community and allies demonstrated July 23 in northeast Ohio outside the Geauga County Safety Center, used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants. Among them were Holocaust survivors and their children, doctors, educators and many youth, including organizer Lexi Stovsky. Protesters chanted \"Never . . . | Continue reading Northeast Ohio says \"Never again\" at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/27/northeast-ohio-says-never-again/

Demonstrators arrested ahead of Moscow election protest
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-27
Russian police have been arresting people outside the Moscow mayor\'s office ahead of an election protest demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for the city council.The dispute comes as the Kremlin is struggling with how to deal with strongly opposing views in its own sprawling capital of 12.6 million people.OVD-Info, an organisation that monitors political arrests, said at least 26 people had been detained by police 30 minutes before the protest against the exclusion of opposition candidates from September\'s ballot was to start.There was no immediate information on what charges the detainees migh…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/07/27/demonstrators-arrested-ahead-of-moscow-election-protest/

North Korea Tests New Missile in Warning Message to South Korea
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-27
The firing of two \"new-type tactical\" weapons from the DPRK has prompted worries from South Korea and the United States. But Washington said it still wants \"diplomatic engagement.\" | RELATED: | US Jeopardizes Peace Talks With North Korea Over New Drills | In a report released Friday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the DPRK move a d…
telesurenglish.net/news/North-Korea-Tests-New-Missile-in-Warning-Message-to-South-Korea-20190727-0008.html

Trump Regime Pressuring Turkey to Keep Its S-400s Nonoperational
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
Pompeo reportedly warned Turkey that it faces \"more (US) sanctions\" if its Russian S-400 air defense missiles become operational. | What\'s the point of them if not able to protect against potential aerial threats. In 2018, US and Ankara officials discussed …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-pressuring-turkey-keep-its-s-400s-nonoperational/5684733

A Syrian Mother\'s Letter to Her Daughter, \"For Sama\" Shows War in an Unusually Intimate Light
Sarah Aziza | theintercept.com | 2019-07-27
For the majority of Western audiences, the region known as \"the Middle East\" is conceived as a vast swath of constant and inscrutable chaos. In this imagination, diverse conflicts, insurgencies, and civilian revolutions are flattened into a single horrorscape, represented by ubiquitous images of billowing smoke and colorless destruction. Violence, it would appear, is endemic to the region, as natural and inevitable as the endless, hostile desert. | This lack of historicity — and subsequent denial of responsibility — can be partly blamed on Western media that rewards sensationalist, reductionist headli…
theintercept.com/2019/07/27/syria-war-documentary-for-sama/

\"The U.S. got scared\" voices of the resistance in post-coup Honduras
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-27
Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup — and the Neoliberalism it brought with it — have impacted their country. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/27/the-u-s-got-scared-voices-of-the-resistance-in-post-coup-honduras/

China, Philippines Reach Consensus on South China Sea
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-27
China and the Philippines have reached an important consensus on bilateral ties: the South China Sea issue and regional development cooperation. The agreements were made during the 22nd diplomatic consultation between the two countries, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday. | RELATED: | US Sanctions Chinese State-Run Energy Company Over Iranian Oil | Spokesperson Hua Chunying told reporters that this diplomatic meeting in Manila was the first to take place af…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Philippines-Reach-Consensus-on-South-China-Sea–20190727-0009.html

At least 6 people killed in mob lynching incidents in Bihar in past week
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-27
Not just that, a dozen more incidents of mob violence have also been reported in which people were attacked, thrashed, injured, abused and humiliated by mobs for alleged crimes or no crimes in some cases. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/27/at-least-6-people-killed-in-mob-lynching-incidents-in-bihar-in-past-week/

Addressing the Climate Crisis, Worldwide Reforestation and Industrial Hemp
Adelaide Mena | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. So states a July 4 article in The Guardian, citing a new analysis published in the journal Science…
globalresearch.ca/cheapest-way-save-planet-grows-like-weed/5684658

As risky finances alienate investors, fracking companies look to retirement funds for cash
Sharon Kelly | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-27
A year ago, Chesapeake Energy, at one time the nation\'s largest natural gas producer, announced it was selling off its Ohio Utica shale drilling rights in a $2 billion deal with a little-known private company based in Houston, Texas, Encino Acquisition Partners. | For Chesapeake, the deal offered a way to pay off some of its debts, incurred…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/27/as-risky-finances-alienate-investors-fracking-companies-look-to-retirement-funds-for-cash/

\'Stop police terror, from Philly to Philippines\'
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2019-07-27
Dozens of people braved 99Àö weather to rally in front of Philadelphia\'s City Hall on July 21. They gathered to demand \"U.S. stop funding terror in the Philippines\" and instead \"Fund jobs, health care, housing and education, not imperialist wars.\" Speakers included Cero Parel and Jeeva of BAYAN-USA, Nora Kerrich . . . | Continue reading \'Stop police terror, from Philly to Philippines\' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/27/stop-police-terror-from-philly-to-philippines/

The Caracas Manifesto: Proposal and Promise at the Sao Paulo Forum 2019
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
The 25th Annual Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum is taking place July 25-28 in Caracas, Venezuela. The first meeting was held in 1990 in Sà£o Paulo, Brazil, with 48 political organizations and social movements led by Fidel Castro…
globalresearch.ca/caracas-manifesto-proposal-promise-sao-paulo-forum-2019/5684703

Highlights: Watch House Republicans Tear Mueller Apart at Hearing
Jamie White | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
Former FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday over the findings of his report into so-called \"Russian collusion,\" and Republicans took him to the woodshed. | Throughout the hearing, Republican members of the committee exposed …
globalresearch.ca/highlights-watch-house-republicans-tear-mueller-apart-hearing/5684705

Report on Hassan Diab\'s Illegal Extradition from Canada. The Segal Report
Hassan Diab Support Committee | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
We were informed that the Department of Justice will release tomorrow (Friday July 26) the findings of an external review of Dr. Hassan Diab\'s extradition to France in 2014. | The external review was conducted by Murray Segal, former …
globalresearch.ca/hassan-diab-press-conference-parliament-hill-friday-july-26-3pm-respond-segal-report/5684670

Who Invented the Internet — A Full History
BroadbandSearch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
The internet has become a staple of modern life. We use it to shop for what we need and want, talk to friends and family, run businesses, meet new people, watch movies and TV, and pretty much everything you can …
globalresearch.ca/who-invented-internet-full-history/5684683

Agricultural Literacy: A Solution to Youth Idleness and Unemployment
Anya Karaman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
At a juvenile detention center in Fes (Morocco), it feels like summer camp is all year round. There, \"maximum security\" is an open, white building complex, \"delinquents\" are watering plants and planting seeds, and the only guard in sight, if …
globalresearch.ca/agricultural-literacy-solution-youth-idleness-unemployment/5684676

The Malaysian Airlines MH17 Tragedy, Suppression and Tampering of the Evidence. New Documentary
John Helmer | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
A new documentary from Yana Yerlashova and Max van der Werff, the leading independent investigator of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster, has revealed breakthrough evidence of tampering and forging of prosecution materials; suppression of Ukrainian Air Force radar …
globalresearch.ca/mh17-evidence-tampering-revealed-malaysia-fbi-attempt-seize-black-boxes-dutch-cover-up-forged-telephone-tapes-ukrainian-air-force-hid-radar-records-crash-site-witness-testimony-misreport/5684692

The U.S. Has No Place in Stirring Up China-Vietnam Relations
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
American diplomats were trying to stir up trouble in Chinese-Vietnamese relations by making aggressive statements regarding Hanoi\'s request that Beijing cease conducting seismic research in part of the South China Sea region that lies within the nine-dash line. A survey | …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-has-no-place-stirring-up-china-vietnam-relations/5684610

Australia\'s Mack Horton\'s Anti-Drug Stance
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
The first rush of enthusiasm on looking at this is clear: a high-achieving swimmer on the circuit — the Australian Mack Horton — decides to take a stance. It\'s not about refugees, Donald Trump or climate change. Unlike other sportspeople …
globalresearch.ca/australias-mack-hortons-anti-drug-stance/5684680

For a new world
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-27
Basking in record-breaking high tempertures, slowly barbecuing ourselves, Britons may well welcome the benefits of global warming. Don\'t fool yourselves. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/27/for-a-new-world/

Free speech advocate Jacob Rees-Mogg is literally banning his staff using certain words
John Shafthauer | thecanary.co | 2019-07-27
As Jacob Rees-Mogg takes his place in Boris Johnson\'s new cabinet, it\'s been revealed that he has a style guide and a list of banned words. They\'re as backwards and weird as you\'d expect. People had fun with it, but some of Rees-Mogg\'s writerly demands are troubling.It turns out the free speech advocate…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/07/27/free-speech-advocate-jacob-rees-mogg-is-literally-banning-his-staff-using-certain-words/

Stranger Things, Season 3: Nostalgia for the 1980s meets anti-Russian hysteria
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
Stranger Things, created by the Duffer Brothers, continues with its tribute to the 1980s, science fiction and horror themes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/stra-j27.html

Australian central bank chief fearful of rising global tensions
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
\"When businesses are nervous, they don\'t want to invest,\" Philip Lowe warned a corporate lunch audience.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/lowe-j27.html

The mass drownings off Libya and the fight to defend refugees
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
The ongoing wave of atrocities against refugees demonstrates that it is impossible to defend immigrants without a mass, international movement against capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/pers-j27.html

Rally: Defend the Amazon & Support Brasil\'s Indigenous Women\'s March!
Brasil Solidarity Network & others | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
Brazilian Consulate, 300 Montgomery St, San Francisco 94104-1901…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/25/18824996.php

Troubled nuclear fuel plant in S. Carolina kept radioactive trash in LEAKY & RUSTY container
rt.com | 2019-07-27
A rusty shipping container full of uranium-tainted trash was found to be seeping contaminated sludge into the soil at Westinghouse fuel rod factory in S. Carolina, adding another radiation spike to the facility\'s list of troubles. | …
rt.com/usa/465179-westinghouse-nuclear-waste-leak/

FTC imposes $5 billion fine on Facebook for \"deceiving users\" about data privacy
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
The settlement is part of a concerted effort by the US government to implement regulations and control over social media platforms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/face-j27.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, both members of the Democratic Socialists of America, voted for a bill that includes a record $738 billion for the military.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/budg-j27.html

AIPAC\'s Anti-BDS Resolution Easily Wins Bipartisan Support
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
Palestine remains the litmus test issue and once again, the Democrats showed their true colors on July 23, 2019 with 209 Democrats joining 189 Republicans in voting for pro Zionist Israel AIPAC\'s HRes 246, Roll Call 497 opposing the Boycott Divest Sanctions Movement of the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. See https: //clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll497.xml. The bill may be found at www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/246/all-actions?overview=closed&q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/24/18824957.php

German government uses 75th anniversary of plot to kill Hitler to promote rearmament and war
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
It is only logical that the German ruling class hails the assassins of July 20, who were extreme nationalists and deeply involved in Nazi crimes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/germ-j27.html

Insect invasion: Massive grasshopper swarms strike Las Vegas (PHOTO, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2019-07-27
Las Vegas has been invaded by thousands of swarming grasshoppers that descended en masse on the tourist-filled strip. | …
rt.com/usa/465217-grasshoppers-invade-las-vegas-videos/

Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
In this commentary from the World Socialist Web Site, Patrick Martin describes how a recent viral video helps expose fundamental lies behind doomsday predictions of an America on the brink of race war.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/25/18824968.php

Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Nuclear Weapons Protest Rally & March at Livermore Labs
Tri Valley Cares & Co-sponsors | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
Livermore Lab, Vasco Rd & Patterson Pass Rd, Livermore, California…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/27/18825006.php

Salvini Orders Italian Coast Guard Not to Rescue 135 Migrants
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Italy\'s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini Friday announced that 135 migrants, who remain at an Italian Coast Guard vessel, will not disembark in his country unless European countries agree to welcome them. | RELATED: | 115 Migrants Feared Dead as Boat Capsizes off Libya | \"The European Commission has been officially requested to coordinate the distribution operations of immigrants…
telesurenglish.net/news/Salvini-Orders-Italian-Coast-Guard-Not-to-Rescue-135-Migrants-20190726-0002.html

Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace
Reese Erlich | commondreams.org | 2019-07-26
\"Warren\'s foreign policy positions have shifted a fair amount in recent years, particularly during the past few months.\" (Photo: Marc Nozell/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/warren_11.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/07/26/elizabeth-warren-war-and-peace?cd-origin=rss

Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-26
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq\'s photograph, lying face down on the road, was circulated on social media. His untimely death is heartbreaking. | Tariq\'s innocent blood must not go in vain. For this to happen, we are morally obliged to understand the nature of Jewish settler violence, which cannot be viewed in isolation from the inherent racism in Israeli society as a whole. | We a…
mintpressnews.com/killing-tariq-violence-racism-israel-society-jewish-settlers/260774/

As US Beefs Up Military Presence in the Gulf, Yemen\'s Houthis Turn to Russia for Support
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-26
Houthi attempts to engage the UN to broker a peaceful solution to the war on Yemen have stalled. Now, out of options, the movement may have found a willing partner in Moscow.
mintpressnews.com/us-beefs-up-military-gulf-yemen-houthis-turn-to-russia/260792/

Records Show Palantir Made $60 Million Contracting with ICE for Mobile App
Eric Draitser | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Palantir, the secretive data company founded by billionaire Trump surrogate and well-known Silicon Valley techno-goblin Peter Thiel, has come under fire in recent months for its work with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other government agencies involved in implementing Trump\'s racist anti-immigrant policies. Protests organized both from within the tech community and from immigrants\'…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/records-show-palantir-made-60-million-contracting-with-ice-for-mobile-app/

Voices of Afghan women \'must be heard at the table in the peace process and beyond\' UN deputy chief tells Security Council
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-26
Afghan women have \"paid a high price\" during their country\'s nearly four decades of conflict, the United Nations deputy chief said on Friday, addressing the Security Council a day after Kabul had been hit with a fresh round of \"horrific\" bomb attacks.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1043321

Political and constitutional crisis: The extreme-right threat to democracy
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-26
This is part 4 of the full main report, \"Unity to save people and planet; For full equality, democracy, peace, and green socialism,\" to the 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in Chicago, Illinois, June 21-23, 2019. Other installments available here. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA …
peoplesworld.org/article/political-and-constitutional-crisis-the-extreme-right-threat-to-democracy/

Only Civic Driven Voter Turnout Can Defeat Tweeter Trump
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Does the Democratic Party know how to defeat the foul-mouthed, bigoted, self-enriching crony capitalist Donald Trump? Trump pretends to be a populist. In reality he does the bidding of Wall Street instead of Main Street and weakens or repeals governmental health and safety programs. Defeating corrupt, disgraceful, disastrous Donald should be easy. He is, on…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/only-civic-driven-voter-turnout-can-defeat-tweeter-trump/

Corporate Media\'s Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
In 2016, we learned that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, even before the primary season began, conspired to sabotage the campaign of her leading opponent for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The conspiracy, that ranged from obtaining campaign debate questions in advance for Clinton and front-loading primaries in states…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/corporate-medias-trashing-of-bernie-sanders-starts-anew/

Colombia: Ex-Farc Killed, Justice Protests Staged Around World
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Six bullets ended the life of a former guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Thursday night, Colombian police reported Friday. | RELATED: | 100s of Cities Around World Join to \'Defend Peace in Colombia\' | Carlos Alberto Montaño Mosquera was ambushed outside a welding workshop in Cali, Valle del Cauca by armed men riding motorcycles. | \"It all happened when a subject arrived on a motorcycle, called him to the front yard and triggered six shots,\" said Sant…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Ex-Farc-Killed-Justice-Protests-Staged-Around-World-20190726-0014.html

Foreign Correspondent: Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2019-07-26
Warren\'s troubling foreign policy history includes uncritical support of Israel, supporting sanctions on Venezuela, and vilifying Russia and China as national security threats. But her views are also evolving.
progressive.org/dispatches/foreign-correspondent-elizabeth-warren-on-war-and-peace-erlich-190726/

Destabilizing Pakistan: Bookending Washington\'s China Policy
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Much is being said of US activities aimed at China. Recent protests in Hong Kong together with a US-led propaganda campaign aimed at Beijing\'s attempts to quell a growing terrorist threat in Xinjiang are aimed at pressuring the nation to …
globalresearch.ca/destabilizing-pakistan-bookending-washingtons-china-policy/5684659

The Acid-Washed Witch Hunt Hoax Apple
Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2019-07-26
Mueller? Boring! The real story is the psycho lovers . . .
progressive.org/dispatches/the-acid-washed-witch-hunt-hoax-apple-fiore-190726/

Hong Kong and Puerto Rico: Two Colonies Doomed to 2nd-Class Status and Remote Central Government Control
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Two photos speak volumes about the striking similarity between Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, one an island and peninsular former colony of Britain, which conquered and held onto it since the Opium War in 1841, now returned to China, but still existing in a kind of neo-colonial relationship to that country, the other an island…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/hong-kong-and-puerto-rico-two-colonies-doomed-to-2nd-class-status-and-remote-central-government-control-2/

US Foreign Policy in Shambles: NATO and the Middle East. How Do You Wage War Without Allies?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Israel is obviously a major partner of the US and NATO. But there\'s another element in US-Israeli relations. Israel also has an unspoken and unofficial alliance with Russia, where Netanyahu has a personal relationship with Putin.
globalresearch.ca/us-foreign-policy-shambles-nato-middle-east/5684713

Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
While Iran\'s seizure of a British tanker near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday was a clear response to the British capture of an Iranian tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar on July 4, both the UK and U.S. governments | …
globalresearch.ca/did-john-bolton-light-fuse-uk-iranian-tanker-crisis/5684665

How the People Change History
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
The Electoral College is a far greater obstacle to democracy in the United States than the laughably minor problem of \"Russian interference in our [supposed great] democracy\" — the matter that Democrats and their many media allies sadly chose to roil the nation about, dangling the threat of impeachment, for the last two and half years.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/how-the-people-change-history/

Records Show Palantir Made $60 Million Contracting with ICE for Mobile App
Eric Draitser | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Palantir Has Made More than $60 Million Collaborating with ICE on Just One Product Palantir\'s $60 Million ICE Profit Is Just the Beginning Palantir-ICE Partnership Worth More than $60 Million US Government Records Show Palantir Made More than $60 Million Contracting with ICE for Just One Mobile App By Eric Draitser Palantir, the secretive data…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/records-show-palantir-made-60-million-contracting-with-ice-for-mobile-app/

Corporate Media\'s Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
In 2016, we learned that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, even before the primary season began, conspired to sabotage the campaign of her leading opponent for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The conspiracy, that ranged from obtaining campaign debate questions in advance for Clinton and front-loading primaries in states…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/corporate-medias-trashing-of-bernie-sanders-starts-anew/

Foreign Correspondent: Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2019-07-26
Warren\'s troubling foreign policy history includes uncritical support of Israel, supporting sanctions on Venezuela, and vilifying Russia and China as national security threats. But her views are also evolving.
progressive.org/dispatches/foreign-correspondent-elizabeth-warren-on-war-and-peace-erlich-190726/

Hong Kong and Puerto Rico: Two Colonies Doomed to 2nd-Class Status and Remote Central Government Control
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Two photos speak volumes about the striking similarity between Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, one an island and peninsular former colony of Britain, which conquered and held onto it since the Opium War in 1841, now returned to China, but still existing in a kind of neo-colonial relationship to that country, the other an island…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/hong-kong-and-puerto-rico-two-colonies-doomed-to-2nd-class-status-and-remote-central-government-control-2/

Corporate Media\'s Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
In 2016, we learned that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, even before the primary season began, conspired to sabotage the campaign of her leading opponent for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The conspiracy, that ranged from obtaining campaign debate questions in advance for Clinton and front-loading primaries in states…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/corporate-medias-trashing-of-bernie-sanders-starts-anew/

Hong Kong and Puerto Rico: Two Colonies Doomed to 2nd-Class Status and Remote Central Government Control
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Two photos speak volumes about the striking similarity between Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, one an island and peninsular former colony of Britain, which conquered and held onto it since the Opium War in 1841, now returned to China, but still existing in a kind of neo-colonial relationship to that country, the other an island…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/hong-kong-and-puerto-rico-two-colonies-doomed-to-2nd-class-status-and-remote-central-government-control-2/

Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq\'s photograph, lying face down on the road, was circulated on social media. His untimely death is heartbreaking. Tariq\'s innocent blood must not go in vain. For this to happen,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/killing-tariq-why-we-must-rethink-the-roots-of-jewish-settlers-violence/

Southeast Asia Was Hit by a Record-Breaking Disaster; It Was Called the United States
David Swanson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
In my town in the United States — as is not especially unusual — we have big memorials in prominent public places marking some of the most catastrophically immoral actions of the past. Unfortunately, all five of these major monuments …
globalresearch.ca/southeast-asia-was-hit-record-breaking-disaster-called-united-states/5684755

Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-26
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq\'s photograph, lying face down on the road, was circulated on social media. His untimely death is heartbreaking. | Tariq\'s innocent blood must not go in vain. For this to happen, we are morally obliged to understand the nature of Jewish settler violence, which cannot be viewed in isolation from the inherent racism in Israeli society as a whole. | We a…
mintpressnews.com/killing-tariq-violence-racism-israel-society-jewish-settlers/260774/

Activists Confront 2020 Candidates in Iowa About Drones and War
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-26
| In late July, the MQ-9 Reaper drone, the U.S.\'s foremost killer drone, will enter the Iowa presidential primary contest in a cable TV ad that challenges 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to pledge to end all U.S. drone attacks, close U.S. drone bases and work for a global ban on weaponized drones. | The ad, due to appear on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, will urge support for the End Drone War Pledge campaign plann…
truthout.org/articles/activists-confront-2020-candidates-in-iowa-about-drones-and-war/

The Acid-Washed Witch Hunt Hoax Apple
Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2019-07-26
Mueller? Boring! The real story is the psycho lovers . . .
progressive.org/dispatches/the-acid-washed-witch-hunt-hoax-apple-fiore-190726/

Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq\'s photograph, lying face down on the road, was circulated on social media. His untimely death is heartbreaking. Tariq\'s innocent blood must not go in vain. For this to happen,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/killing-tariq-why-we-must-rethink-the-roots-of-jewish-settlers-violence/

Venezuela recovers from blackout as Guaido \'approves\' military treaty reincorporation
Ricardo Vaz | mronline.org | 2019-07-26
Caracas blamed the blackout on an \"electromagnetic attack\" while recovery was faster than before. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/26/venezuela-recovers-from-blackout-as-guaido-approves-military-treaty-reincorporation/

Witness for the Non-Prosecution: Mueller, Pelosi and Trump\'s Likely Triumph
Chris Floyd | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Robert Mueller\'s testimony on Wednesday was the very definition of anti-climax. After months of frantic build-up by the \'Resistance\' (\"At last, Mueller is going to nail Trump to the wall!\") Mueller merely noted — mildly, haltingly but rightly — that his report laid out evidence of obstruction of justice, and that is up to the House of Representatives to decide whether to use this evidence to impeach the president or not. This is precisely what we knew months ago.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/witness-for-the-non-prosecution-mueller-pelosi-and-trumps-likely-triumph/

It\'s About the Benjamins — Trump\'s Smearing of Congresswomen Demonstrates Israel\'s Influence in US Politics
Philip Weiss | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Donald Trump has brought up Israel again and again in his racist tweets aimed at the four Congresswomen he says should leave the country. He says that \"the Radical Left Congresswomen\" \"hate\" Israel and the United States and should \"apologize\" …
globalresearch.ca/its-about-benjamins-trumps-smearing-congresswomen-demonstrates-israel-influence-us-politics/5684662

With Pakistan\'s Prime Minister at His Side, Trump Threatens to Wipe Afghanistan \"Off the Face of the Earth\"
Sampath Perera | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
US President Donald Trump threatened to \"kill 10 million\" Afghans in \"a week\" so as to win a quick victory in America\'s longest war, at a joint White House press conference Monday with Imran Khan, Pakistan\'s prime minister. | The US …
globalresearch.ca/pakistans-prime-minister-trump-threatens-wipe-afghanistan-off-earth/5684674

The Demonization of Slobodan Milosevic
Michael Parenti | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
This article was originally published in 2003. | U.S. leaders profess a dedication to democracy. Yet over the past five decades, democratically elected governments–guilty of introducing redistributive economic programs or otherwise pursuing independent courses that do not properly fit into the …
globalresearch.ca/demonization-slobodan-milosevic/763

The Dogma that 5G Wireless Radiation is Absolutely Safe
Microwave News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Last Tuesday (July 16), the New York Times devoted most of the front page of its science section to Bill Broad\'s latest attack on those who challenge the dogma that wireless radiation is absolutely safe. | \"The 5G Health Hazard …
globalresearch.ca/fact-free-hit-5g-critic/5684752

Johnson\'s Westminster Cabinet Is Far to the Right of Thatcher
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
I can only imagine that the media people who are saying this is the most right wing cabinet since the 1980\'s were not sentient in the 80\'s. Thatcher never had a Home Secretary remotely as illiberal as Pritti Patel, …
globalresearch.ca/johnsons-westminster-cabinet-far-right-thatcher/5684750

Birthright Does Not Apply to Palestinians in Jerusalem
Daoud Kuttab | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Life has been difficult as a stateless person in Jerusalem for Mustafa Kharouf. He had the unfortunate case of being born to Jerusalem parents while they were in Algiers. His parents brought him back to Jerusalem but the Israelis …
globalresearch.ca/birthright-does-not-apply-palestinians-jerusalem/5684759

Britain Watches as Europe Braces for Trump Trade War
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Brussels is once again bracing itself for a new round of U.S. tariff threats. And Britain is in the trade war firing line. | Just under a year after U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker struck a …
globalresearch.ca/britain-watches-europe-braces-trump-trade-war/5684740

Dozens of bodies recovered after refugee boats capsize off Libya
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-26
Libya\'s coast guard recovered dozens of bodies of Europe-bound refugees who perished at sea as search operations continued on Friday, a day after up to 150 people, including women and children, went missing and were feared drowned after their boats capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.A top UN official described Thursday\'s shipwreck as \"the worst Mediterranean tragedy\" so far this year.Also on Friday, Libyan authorities transferred dozens of people rescued from the disaster to a detention centre near Tripoli that was hit by an airstrike earlier this month despite UN objections to such a move, the UN refugee agency s…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/07/26/dozens-of-bodies-recovered-after-refugee-boats-capsize-off-libya/

A Fateful Tug of War
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Tug-of-war is an innocent sport and, if there\'s no heat wave such as now in the USA and Europe, it can be fun for all the players. But in world politics it may be a dangerous game, especially if played like some old Vikings did — across a fiery pit awaiting the losers. On the…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/a-fateful-tug-of-war/

Genocide from Kissinger to Trump
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Donald Trump\'s statement earlier this week that he could win the US war in Afghanistan but he doesn\'t want to kill ten million Afghans was both revealing and appalling. Like so many other of Trump\'s statements, his remark revealed the genocidal nature of US foreign policy. It is a policy that considers human lives as…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/genocide-from-kissinger-to-trump/

Government committee admits the UK is not prepared for climate crisis as travellers face another day of delays
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-26
The Government\'s advisory Committee on Climate Change has warned the UK is not prepared for the increase in heatwaves that is expected with global warming.Rail passengers are being urged to avoid unnecessary travel as efforts continue to repair damage to the network caused by record-breaking July temperatures.There are also delays and cancellations at Heathrow, the UK\'s biggest airport because of \"extreme weather conditions across Europe\".Network Rail is urging commuters planning to use the Midland Main Line between St Pancras and Sheffield to check before travelling due to reduced service levels. | ?&#6503…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/07/26/government-committee-admits-the-uk-is-not-prepared-for-climate-crisis-as-travellers-face-another-day-of-delays/

Genocide from Kissinger to Trump
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Donald Trump\'s statement earlier this week that he could win the US war in Afghanistan but he doesn\'t want to kill ten million Afghans was both revealing and appalling. Like so many other of Trump\'s statements, his remark revealed the genocidal nature of US foreign policy. It is a policy that considers human lives as…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/genocide-from-kissinger-to-trump/

Jeremy Corbyn backs Mersey tidal power project
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-26
A Labour government will invest £3.5 billion in a major project to harness the power of the River Mersey to generate electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes, Jeremy Corbyn has promised. | The Labour leader will confirm his support for the Mersey Tidal Power Project during a visit to Liverpool on Friday. | The scheme aims to utilise the power of the Mersey and Liverpool Bay to produce clean, renewable energy for up to a million homes while creating thousands of jobs | Labour said its support for the project was part…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/07/26/jeremy-corbyn-backs-mersey-tidal-power-project/

Ohio Republicans Balked at a Nuclear Bailout, so the Industry Elected New Republicans — and Walked Away with $1.1 Billion
Ryan Grim | theintercept.com | 2019-07-26
A newly elected state legislature, backed by a dark-money effort linked primarily to the nuclear industry, overcame years of opposition to pass the bailout.
theintercept.com/2019/07/26/ohio-billion-dollar-nuclear-bailout-firstenergy/

The Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed
Ellen Brown | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-26
Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. So states a Guardian article, citing a new analysis published in the journal Science. The author explains: As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon dioxide emissions that are driving global heating. New …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/the-cheapest-way-to-save-the-planet-grows-like-a-weed/

Extinction is Stalking Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-26
I have previously written a summary of the interrelated psychological, sociological, political-economic, military, nuclear, ecological and climate threats to human survival on Earth which threaten human extinction by 2026. Rather than reiterate the evidence in the above article, I would like to add to it by focusing attention on three additional threats — geoengineering, medical …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/extinction-is-stalking-humanity/

The Empty Gaze of Mike Pence
Coco Das, Sarah Roark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
When people are not seen as human beings, but as a \"storage\" problem, the final solution becomes the \"logical\" solution. Are we going to let that happen? In the 2001 movie, The Conspiracy, Nazi officials gather at a stately home to discuss what to do about the Jewish population, which for the most part has…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/the-empty-gaze-of-mike-pence/

Boris Johnson as British PM: Olive Reincarnations and Elvis on Mars
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
The BBC World Service took its listeners to the English cathedral town of Ely, set in picturesque Cambridgeshire, during the course of a hot July 23 in an effort to take the pulse of the country. Well, at least that particular, erratic pulse. It found, for the most part, a certain enthusiasm for Boris Johnson,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/boris-johnson-as-british-pm-olive-reincarnations-and-elvis-on-mars/

How NAFTA Killed the Green New Deal
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
In a fundamental way, the 2020 election will be about unfinished business. The neoliberal order that emerged from the 1970s remained viable until 2008. Since then it has retained legitimacy in the centers of power, due no doubt to the highly stratified economic outcomes it produces. However, its social logic was never evident in the hinterlands. This distance reframed the adversarial posture of the political parties as an insider\'s game that is largely unrelated to the public interest.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/how-nafta-killed-the-green-new-deal/

Trump: the GOP\'s Exterminating Angel
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Anyone with normal sensibilities who does not tune the world out completely cannot help but find the Trump presidency disorienting and upsetting — not only because the fate of the planet is in the hands of an illiberal, willfully ignorant, inept, sleaze ball with a Mussolini smirk, whose modus operandi is to stir up racial…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/trump-the-gops-exterminating-angel/

Ecological Limits and the Working Class
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
In the latest issue of Catalyst Magazine that is published by Bhaskar Sunkara, there is an article titled \"Ecological Politics for the Working Class\" by Syracuse University professor Matt Huber, which argues for the need to abandon the \"middle class\" orientation of the ecologists whose worldview was shaped by the 1960s radicalization. (I guess that…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/ecological-limits-and-the-working-class/

Germany and France: Old Demons
Patrick Howlett-Martin | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
The suspension of arms sales is a classic instrument of diplomacy. It has been wielded on a number of occasions against nations whose governments and armed forces are accused of flagrant human rights violations. In May 1977, the U.S. administration under Jimmy Carter suspended arms sales to the Argentine military junta after the coup of…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/germany-and-france-old-demons/

The Tragic Inevitability of Boris Johnson PM
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Boris Johnson (BoJo) is an MP for Uxbridge. Born into wealth and privilege, the millionaire once described his £250,000 a year salary as a columnist for The Telegraph as \"chicken feed.\" In his role as Brussels correspondent, he spread what one Telegraph editor described as fake news about the European Union.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/the-tragic-inevitability-of-boris-johnson-pm/

My First Cousin Odysseus
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
When I first started reading to my young daughter Corinna in the late 1970s, I said to her, \"I am the first cousin of Odysseus.\" Homer and Odysseus This was more than bragging to a little girl. I love Homer and Odysseus. They have been my heroes. They speak to me and they speak to…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/my-first-cousin-odysseus/

ERA Back From the Grave?
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
\"It\'s been an especially rough few years for women in America,\" John Oliver began his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, on Sunday, June 10th. \"Yeah, no shit, Zazu.\" In his highly-charged rant, Oliver reminded viewers that Pres. Donald Trump\'s two-plus years in office have been a terrible period for women. He and his administration have led the charge…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/era-back-from-the-grave/

Coming Out in Rural America
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
I went to graduate school thinking I was straight. Then I realized I wasn\'t. I came out of the closet almost two years ago, right after deciding to do my graduate research in Montana. Suddenly, I had an extra consideration on my plate: What would it be like to be gay in Montana? What will…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/coming-out-in-rural-america/

Vote Blue for Better Wage Slavery
Jason Hirthler | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Democrats of all stripes continue to funnel workers into dead-end reformism Some night soon, after you\'ve finished clanging your pots and pans in the streets, calling for regime change in Washington, take a stroll through your local chain bookstore. If you look in the right places, you\'ll find quality reading, of political, literary, and spiritual…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/vote-blue-for-better-wage-slavery/

ERA Back From the Grave?
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
\"It\'s been an especially rough few years for women in America,\" John Oliver began his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, on Sunday, June 10th. \"Yeah, no shit, Zazu.\" In his highly-charged rant, Oliver reminded viewers that Pres. Donald Trump\'s two-plus years in office have been a terrible period for women. He and his administration have led the charge…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/era-back-from-the-grave/

Boris Johnson as British PM: Olive Reincarnations and Elvis on Mars
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
The BBC World Service took its listeners to the English cathedral town of Ely, set in picturesque Cambridgeshire, during the course of a hot July 23 in an effort to take the pulse of the country. Well, at least that particular, erratic pulse. It found, for the most part, a certain enthusiasm for Boris Johnson,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/boris-johnson-as-british-pm-olive-reincarnations-and-elvis-on-mars/

Combatting Surveillance Capitalism: An Orwellian Lesson in History from Ford to Google
Michael Barker | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Close scrutinization of the daily lives of workers has always played an important role in enabling capitalists to squeeze greater profits from their workforce. The relentless surveillance of employees, whether it be on the factory floor or in the workers\' homes, was something that the anti-Semitic industrialist, Henry Ford, was proud to have honed to…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/combatting-surveillance-capitalism-an-orwellian-lesson-in-history-from-ford-to-google/

By Any Other Name: American \"Frustrationism\"
John G. Russell | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
\"C\'mon, of course the President\'s not racist, but he\'s frustrated like so many Americans are.\" — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Well, I certainly do not think the President\'s a racist. I believe the President shares a lot of American\'s frustration with Congress, particularly those four women congressmen….\" –Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky).
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/by-any-other-name-american-frustrationism/

Coming Out in Rural America
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
I went to graduate school thinking I was straight. Then I realized I wasn\'t. I came out of the closet almost two years ago, right after deciding to do my graduate research in Montana. Suddenly, I had an extra consideration on my plate: What would it be like to be gay in Montana? What will…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/coming-out-in-rural-america/

Northern Ireland and Brexit: Where History and Fantasy Collide
Tom Clifford | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Almost 100 years on since the formation of the Northern Irish state, it is still the Irish question that is bedeviling politics in the United Kingdom. Brexit is not about Europe. It is about the Tories and increasingly about Ireland. First the Tories. Ironically the term for members of the Conservative and Unionist Party, to…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/northern-ireland-and-brexit-where-history-and-fantasy-collide/

UK: Boris Johnson selects extreme right cabinet
wsws.org | 2019-07-26
Johnson\'s is a class war government, with all the main positions filled by representatives of the extreme right of a very right-wing party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/26/bori-j26.html