Ramzy Baroud (2019-07-10). The Book of Palestine: National Liberation vs Endless Negotiations. counterpunch.org Those who are still hoping that the new American agenda on Palestine and Israel is temporary, or reversible, should abandon this false hope. Washington\'s complete adoption of Israel\'s messianic, extremist policies regarding Occupied Palestine has been a long time in the making. And it is here to stay. Despite the unmistakable clarity in the American More

John Bachtell (2019-07-10). A turning point moment to save people and planet. peoplesworld.org This is part 1 of the full main report, \"Unity to save people and planet; For full equality, democracy, peace, and green socialism,\" which was delivered to the 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in Chicago, Ill., June 21-23, 2019. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA …

Vijay Prashad (2019-07-10). Why Trump caved to China and Huawei. mronline.org This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Everything about the trade war between the United States and China is bewildering. The world\'s two largest economies entered a titanic struggle with harsh words and high tariffs, sending shudders through the global economy. Hundreds of billions of dollars of goods on […] | Source

Andre Vltchek (2019-07-10). If You Provoke the Entire World, Something May Happen. globalresearch.ca The United States believes that it is so invincible, exceptional and so frightening that no one would ever dare to protest, let alone defend its people against constant humiliation, economic embargos and military threats. | It used to be like this …

Mallika Khanna (2019-07-10). Climate change is a working-class and poor people\'s issue. peoplesworld.org If you\'ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you\'ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe. Recently in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, more than 40 people were killed by a severe heat …

Staff (2019-07-10). John Carlos Frey: America\'s Deadly Stealth War on the Mexico Border Is Approaching Genocide. democracynow.org John Carlos Frey\'s new book, \"Sand and Blood: America\'s Stealth War on the Mexico Border,\" chronicles how the U.S.-Mexico border became a war zone through decades of deadly bipartisan immigration policy. But it also examines the border through the personal history of his family. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Frey moved to the U.S. with his family when he was a toddler in 1965. He grew up in southern San Diego, California, where he witnessed the effects of American immigration policy on the borderlands every day. His father was an American citizen. His mother was a Mexican immigrant. Frey\'s book is dedicated \"To my mot…

Thomas Hon Wing Polin (2019-07-10). Hong Kong: New Epicenter of the Empire\'s Smear Campaign Against China? counterpunch.org Photograph Source: 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests by Studio Incendo — CC BY 2.0 | As the Western Empire ramps up its full-spectrum war on the Chinese, its latest target is Hong Kong, China\'s premier special administrative region (SAR). Even the latest wave of media assaults confirms it. | An essential adjunct to an Imperial attack on any designated victim is a sustained campaign of demonization, conducted through mainstream media and supported by associated local media. Such a drive had been onging in Hong Kong, since the former Britis…

Eric A. Gordon (2019-07-10). \'Scraps\': A forceful play about slavery\'s legacy in West Coast premiere. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES— In 2009, just as the Barack Obama presidency began and following more than three decades of producing multiple award-winning work for the stage, Matrix Theatre Company founder/artistic director Joseph Stern resolved to redirect the company\'s focus to the exploration of race issues in contemporary society. Recently at the Matrix People\'s World reviewed August …

Ociel Alí López (2019-07-10). Norway, Bachelet, and the Twilight of Guaido\'s Insurrection. mintpressnews.com Venezuelanalysis — Guaido\'s uprising is going through its terminal phrase. He does not yet appear to have reached his end as leader, as he still produces and consolidates an important consensus among the opposition. What has decisively failed is his attempt to form a government without elections with the backing of the hawks in Washington. In almost six months since his self-swearing in as \"interim president,\" it has become palpable that his governing is truly impossible. The coup de grace was de…

Mark Gruenberg (2019-07-10). At NEA, Democratic candidates weave pro-teacher messages into campaign themes. peoplesworld.org HOUSTON—From Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to Beto O\'Rourke and Julian Castro, Democratic presidential hopefuls weaved pro-teacher, pro-education messages into their general campaign themes at a 2-hour-long one-by-one q-and-a on the evening of July 5 at the convention of the National Education Association, the nation\'s largest union. There were few mentions of President Donald Trump, …

Mirinda Crissman (2019-07-10). Acts of solidarity with migrants grow. workers.org The United States government is waging a white-supremacist, imperialist, neocolonial war on multiple fronts. While this war on oppressed people rages on, people across the country and the world are taking a stand against state violence. Violence abroad can take many forms like resource extraction, economic sanctions and regime change. . . . | Continue reading Acts of solidarity with migrants grow at Workers.org

Morning Star (2019-07-10). Israel\'s illegal apartheid wall turns 15. peoplesworld.org

Stephen Lendman (2019-07-10). Israel\'s Scheme to Bury the Nakba. \"The Ethnic Cleansing oF Palestine\" globalresearch.ca Israel\'s 1947-48 Nakba against the Palestinian people was and remains one of history\'s great crimes — what Ilan Pappe called \"The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\" in his book by this title. | Establishment of the Jewish state came at the expense …

Eric Walberg (2019-07-10). Barack Obama: \"Turns Out I\'m Really Good At Killing People\" dissidentvoice.org In Obama\'s Unending Wars, Kuzmarov has brought together many telling proofs, nuggets, of just how horrible the world is, and just how responsible the US and its henchmen around the world are. A kind of who-does-it. Kuzmarov is that rare analyst (Belen Fernandez is another) who respects footnotes, leaving fascinating bits there that would otherwise …

Staff (2019-07-10). Appeals Court Sides With Trump in Hotel Lawsuit. truthdig.com RICHMOND, Va.—A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel, handing Trump a significant legal victory on Wednesday. | A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the ruling of a federal judge in Maryland who said the lawsuit could move forward. | The state of Maryland and the District of Columbia sued in 2017, claiming Trump has violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution…

Staff (2019-07-10). The National Security State Is Eating America Alive. truthdig.com Put up with me for just a moment while I wax literary. It turns out that, if French novelist Marcel Proust lived today, he might have had to retitle his Remembrance of Things Past as Remembrance of Things Present, or even more sadly, Things Future. As an ex-military man who lived through part of the Cold War in uniform, let me make my point, in terms of the Pentagon and an ever-growing atmosphere of American militarism, this way: I love used bookstores. I\'ve been browsing in them since my teens. I was, then, an early fan of Stephen King, the famed horror-story writer. Admittedly, today I\'m more likely to browse t…

Staff (2019-07-10). The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Is Not New. It\'s a Key Part of a Decades-Old Bipartisan Policy. democracynow.org More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in immigration jails, reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions for asylum seekers are continuing. In Clint, Texas, the Border Patrol station that garnered international attention for jailing hundreds of migrant children without access to sufficient food, water, beds or medical care now has a spreading outbreak of scabies, shingles and chickenpox, according to border agents. In Yuma, Arizona, NBC reports that jailed migrant children have been subjected to mistreatment and sexual…

Staff (2019-07-10). Immigrant Rights Activists Renew Push Against Palantir to Cancel ICE Contract. truthout.org Organizers with Mijente, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, the Tech Workers Coalition, and other groups mobilized in New York and Washington D.C. to demand Palantir Technologies, a surveillance company, cancel its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). | In New York, people stood outside the Palantir office and chanted, \"Immigrants are welcome here! Time to cancel, Palantir!\" | Activists with Mijente, an immigration and Latinx-focused organization, attempted to give workers entering the New York office a flier that ur…

Ben Norton (2019-07-10). The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson. thegrayzone.com Britain\'s leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…

Andrew Korybko (2019-07-10). China\'s Belt and Road, Trump\'s Trade War and the Future of the Global Economy. globalresearch.ca Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan told the audience at this year\'s World Peace Forum that \"development is the key to resolving all issues\", remarking in the run-up to his conclusion that \"China\'s development can\'t shut out the rest of the …

Nick Turse (2019-07-10). Pentagon Document Shows U.S. Knew of \"Credible\" Reports of Civilian Casualties After Its Attacks in Somalia. theintercept.com U.S. Africa Command claimed no civilians were hurt in its attacks in Somalia — but its own internal assessment shows this isn\'t true.

Staff (2019-07-10). How the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Central Americans Out of Their Homes Toward the U.S. democracynow.org As the U.S. continues to crack down on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, we look at one of the underreported driving factors leading people to flee their home countries: the climate crisis. John Carlos Frey, author of \"Sand and Blood: America\'s Stealth War on the Mexico Border,\" spent time with Central American climate refugees traveling in a caravan toward the United States. He says, \"If this drought continues, we\'re looking at all-out famine from Central America. …That\'s one of the major reasons why they\'re coming. … The government doesn\'t even acknowledge the fact that there is a climate c…

Staff (2019-07-10). Headlines for July 10, 2019. democracynow.org Children Recount Mistreatment, Sexual Abuse at Yuma, AZ Migrant Jail, Scabies, Shingles & Chickenpox Spreading Among Children at Clint, TX Migrant Jail, Jewish Activists Arrested After Protesting Migrant Detention on Capitol Hill, Judge Rejects DOJ Move to Replace Legal Team Charged with Census Citizenship Battle, Court Says Trump Cannot Block Critics on Twitter, U.K. Ambassador Resigns After Leaked Cables Scandal, Afghan Peace Talks Close as Deadly Attacks Continue, Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act, Megan Rapinoe to Trump: \"Your Message Is Excluding People\", Calls Grow fo…

George Ochenski (2019-07-10). Speaking Truth to Power. counterpunch.org Last week Rep. Justin Amash, formerly a very conservative Republican member of Congress and the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, declared he\'s no longer a member of either the party or the caucus. He is also the only Republican member of Congress to call for the impeachment of president Trump after he actually read the entire More

Walden Bello (2019-07-10). Elections in the Era of Charismatic Politics. counterpunch.org Elections are often regarded as the quintessential expression of democracy. Yet elections can have undemocratic outcomes. The carefully choreographed election designed to give a fig leaf to an authoritarian regime is something everyone is familiar with. But there is also the paradoxical case where a relatively free and fair election ends up bringing the winner More

Jonah Raskin (2019-07-10). NORML\'s Deputy Director Paul Armentano Speaks Volumes. counterpunch.org \"Passing Prop 64 in California was just the beginning. We\'ll go on tinkering with cannabis rules and regulations for a long time and we\'ll also have to address life style issues. In many part of the country marijuana is still associated by and large with hippies. The culture wars will go on.\" — Paul Armentano, More

Michael Doliner (2019-07-10). Piddling in the Think Tank. counterpunch.org So let\'s see if I\'ve got this straight. Obama signed the JCPOA with Iran and other countries to get out of a tight spot. He was on the verge of being forced to go to war with Iran. That would have been a disaster. Signing this agreement was supposed to relax the tension. The agreement More

Fred Baumgarten (2019-07-10). We are the Losers: Played Again by King Donald. counterpunch.org I spent last weekend considering the latest word salad plated by our Accidental President and enjoying some of the endless satirical memes about Revolutionary air forces and such, until they became tiresome and predictable—which was in about five minutes. (Still to come: John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, and a thousand other talk show hosts More

Laura Pangallozzi (2019-07-10). At least 2% of U.S. public water systems are like Flint\'s — Americans just don\'t hear about them. nationofchange.org More than five years after Flint\'s water crisis first hit the news, the city has successfully lowered the lead levels in its water. The most recently available testing, from the second half of 2018, puts the lead in Flint\'s water at 4 parts per billion. That\'s well below the level, 15 ppb, that the federal …

Tanya Rawal-Jindia (2019-07-10). How Multinationals Pad Their Budgets With the Wealth of Developing Countries. commondreams.org In 2015, Global Financial Integrity (GFI) published a study revealing that in 2013 an astounding US$1.1 trillion was stolen annually—or nearly $3 billion a day—from developing countries due to trade mispricing. (Photo: The Weekly Bull/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/economists.jpeg …

Staff (2019-07-10). Another Billionaire Running for President? truthout.org One might have thought that the election of celebrity businessman Donald Trump would have put an end to the stale old trope that we\'d be better off if \"the government were run like a business.\" It\'s a silly idea since the American government\'s only resemblance to a business is the fact that it employs a lot of people to do certain tasks and, like most big organizations, it\'s managed in a hierarchical framework. | Other than that, they are very different systems with very different purposes. The most important distinction being that a business is an autocracy which exists to make a profit while the government i…

teleSUR (2019-07-10). French Senior Diplomat in Iran to Salvage Nuclear Deal. telesurenglish.net French President Emmanuel Macron\'s top diplomatic advisor held Wednesday high-level talks in Tehran aimed at saving the 2015 nuclear deal and easing tensions between Iran and the United States. | RELATED: | Iran Increases Uranium Production Beyond Nuclear Deal\'s Limit | Emmanuel Bonne met Rear-Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran\'s Supreme National Security Council, and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his deputy Abbas Araghchi. | Bonne\'s mission is \"to try and…

Sarah Abed (2019-07-10). Iran Rightfully Increases Uranium Stockpiles and Enrichment Beyond JCPOA Limits. globalresearch.ca Iran recently increased its enriched uranium stockpiles and uranium enrichment levels beyond JCPOA limits in response to Washington\'s unilateral withdrawal and increased sanctions. | Fourteen months ago, Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the United States out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive …

teleSUR (2019-07-10). Iran Warns US Over Plans of Military Coalition in Gulf Waters. telesurenglish.net The United States hopes to enlist allies over the next two weeks or so in a military coalition to safeguard strategic waters off Iran and Yemen, where Washington blames Iran and Iran-aligned fighters for attacks, a top U.S. general said Tuesday. | RELATED: | UK Navy Seizes Tanker Filled With \'Iranian Oil\' Meant for Syria | Under the plan, which has only been finalized in recent days, the United States would provide command ships and lead surveillance efforts for the military c…

Crofton Black (2019-07-10). CIA Torture Unredacted: Four-Year Investigation Reveals What Was Hidden in US Senate Torture Report. commondreams.org New report is the most comprehensive public account of one of the most disturbing elements of America's so-called 'War on Terror\' | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/unredacted_torture_report.jpg …

Benjamin Neimark (2019-07-10). US Military Is a Bigger Polluter than as Many as 140 Countries — Shrinking this War Machine Is a Must. globalresearch.ca The US military\'s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our …

Pepe Escobar (2019-07-10). Turkey\'s Erdogan Meet\'s China\'s Xi: Sultan Shines in the Court of the Dragon King. globalresearch.ca The graphic image of Turkey pivoting away from NATO towards the Russia-China strategic partnership was provided, in more ways than one, by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing right after the G20 in Osaka. | Turkey …

Joshua Funnell (2019-07-10). Momentum launches pre-emptive strike on BBC Panorama\'s \'hatchet job\' on antisemitism. thecanary.co Tonight (10 July) the BBC airs its long-anticipated Panorama documentary, Is Labour Anti-Semitic? with reporter John Ware.But one of the Labour left\'s largest grassroots organisations, Momentum, has expressed…

Jessica Piper (2019-07-10). Trade group airs ads to boost five senators facing reelection. nationofchange.org A trade group representing chemical companies will spend more than $150,000 on advertising during July in support of four Republican senators and one Democrat, all of whom face reelection in 2020. The American Chemistry Council, which represents nearly 200 companies including DuPont, Chevron Phillips and ExxonMobil, is running TV and radio ads in Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana and South Dakota …

Staff (2019-07-10). The US\'s Deadly Stealth War on the Mexico Border Is Approaching Genocide. truthout.org John Carlos Frey\'s new book, Sand and Blood: America\'s Stealth War on the Mexico Border, chronicles how the U.S.-Mexico border became a war zone through decades of deadly bipartisan immigration policy. But it also examines the border through the personal history of his family. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Frey moved to the U.S. with his family when he was a toddler in 1965. He grew up in southern San Diego, California, where he witnessed the effects of American immigration policy on the borderlands every day. His father was an American citizen. His mother was a Mexican immigrant. Frey\'s book is dedicated \"To my mo…

John McEvoy (2019-07-10). Read Labour\'s full complaint to the BBC as tensions flare over Panorama\'s antisemitism episode. thecanary.co The BBC is due to air an episode of Panorama called Is Labour Anti-semitic? at 9pm on 10 July. Ahead of the show, the Labour Party has issued a multi-point complaint. It claims Panorama presenter John Ware is \"unsuitable\" and asks the BBC to \"suspend and reconsider\" airing the programme. | Summary: | The compl…

The Canary (2019-07-10). Government has \'Dad\'s Army\' approach to coping with climate impacts. thecanary.co The Government has a \"ramshackle, Dad\'s Army\" approach to making sure England can cope with the impacts of rising temperatures, its climate advisers warn. | And UK action to slash the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change is lagging far behind what is needed, even before the Government set a tougher new target to cut pollution to zero overall by 2050. | In its annual progress report to Parliament, the advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said the Government had to show it was serious about tackling the problem in the next 12 to 18 months. | And it warned that action to prepare homes, businesses an…

Michael Welch (2019-07-10). \"Wars Come About As a Result of Lies.\" Selected Radio Shows. globalresearch.ca \"When we understand that wars come about as a result of lies peddled to the British public and the American public and the publics all over Europe and other countries then who are the war criminals? It is not …

Angus Satow (2019-07-10). Only a mass movement can bring about a Green New Deal. nationofchange.org Ours is an age of crisis. Britain faces a crisis of inequality, with the Tories\' brutal austerity program leaving schoolchildren eating from bins and 14 million people living in poverty, whilst the obscene riches of the 1% accumulate yet further. At the same time, we face planetary collapse, with just 11 years left to stop runaway warming. …

teleSUR (2019-07-10). Brazil: Glenn Greenwald Invited to Students Union Event. telesurenglish.net More than 18,000 delegates from universities are gathering Wednesday in Brasilia to attend the 57th edition of the National Union of Students (UNE) Congress, an event whose central theme is the defense of education, employment and social security. | RELATED: | Sergio Moro Asks for a 5-Day Leave During Lava Jato Case | \"In times of crisis, when there are attempts to restrict political participation, attacks on acquired rights and other setbacks happening across the country, Brazilian…

John Shafthauer (2019-07-10). The winner of the leadership TV debate declared to be \'people who didn\'t watch\'. thecanary.co Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt debated on 9 July. But who won? Well, as the Tory membership has already decided to go Johnson or go home — the winner was whoever avoided watching. | State of affairs : | Hunt continued his strategy of answering as if every question was \'what do the Tory membership want to hear?\' This meant responses like: I\'m… tough on crime? I\'m tough on Iran? I\'ll be firm with Trump? I\'ll do whatever Trump wants? I\'ll dress like a giant chicken and practice auto-erotic asphyxiation? I\'ll cull squirrels to reduce TB in postmen? I\'ll gentrify Hadrian\'s wall? | Johnson, meanwhile, con…

United Nations (2019-07-10). UN experts voice \'deep concern\' over Iran\'s \'consistent pattern\' of denying life-saving medical treatment to detainees. un.org Despite repeated calls, Iran continues to deny medical treatment to detainees in what amounts to \"a consistent pattern\", according to eight UN human rights experts, in a statement on Wednesday.

Billy Briggs (2019-07-10). In Pictures: The Devastated City of Mosul Two Years On. globalresearch.ca More than 300,000 people are unable to return to their homes in Mosul two years after the end of a military operation to retake Iraq\'s second largest city from Islamic State. | An estimated 138,000 houses were damaged or destroyed in …

Environmental Health Trust (2019-07-10). The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. The Right to Know. Don\'t Put in Your Shirt Pocket. globalresearch.ca A landmark Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the City of Berkeley\'s cell phone right to know ordinance rejecting industries argument that the ordinance violates the first amendment. The Berkeley ordinance requires retailers to inform consumers that cell phones emit …

Andrew Korybko (2019-07-10). Trump Wants His Friend Boris Johnson to Win the Tory Leadership Race. globalresearch.ca Whoever leaked the British Ambassador to the US\' diplomatic telegrams to London did so with the intent that the resultant tiff that it predictably provoked with Trump would probably make Boris Johnson win the Tories\' leadership vote with a landslide….

Peter Bolton (2019-07-09). Deconstructing Elliott Abrams on Venezuela. counterpunch.org On June 26, the Trump administration\'s so-called \"Special Representative for Venezuela,\" Elliott Abrams gave a five-minute update to reporters about the development of the coup attempt against the government of Nicolas Maduro, followed by a brief Q&A session. The event, held at the US State Department in Washington, was textbook Abrams: full of lies, loaded More

plenglish (2019-07-09). Venezuela Advocates for Peace in Political Dialogue with Opposition. plenglish.com Caracas, Jul 9 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan government ratified on Tuesday its commitment to a peaceful solution to the dialogues with the opposition, led by Norway based in Barbados.

plenglish (2019-07-09). Venezuelan Gov\'t Arrives in Barbados for Talks with Opposition. plenglish.com Caracas, July 9 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan Government\"s delegation arrived in Barbados to continue the political dialogue with the opposition representatives, sponsored by Norway since May 14.

Joseph Mangano (2019-07-09). High Cost of Nukes Even Higher If Medical Expenses Included. counterpunch.org Nuclear reactors are shutting in the U.S, and across the world. Reactors have always been dangerous, but over time they have also become more expensive than ever. A 2017 report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates U.S. reactors lose $2.9 billion per year in operations overall. Eight American reactors have closed permanently since 2013, and most of the remaining 97 units are very old and costly. More

Bernard Marszalek (2019-07-09). When Nature\'s Feedback Loops Fail. counterpunch.org Civilization Critical: Energy, Food, Nature and the Future by Darrin Qualman (Fernwood Publishing. Halifax, Winnipeg 2019) The title of Darrin Qualman\'s book, Civilization Critical, can easily be mistaken for an apocalyptic climate change tract. Given the weekly deluge of this grim genre in our bookstores, it is understandable. Regrettably, I believe, publishers in an effort More

Howard Lisnoff (2019-07-09). The D.O.A. Peace Movement Ain\'t Marching Much Anymore, But We Did. counterpunch.org We won\'t be erased or airbrushed out of history. Even though there appears to be no life in anything resembling a vibrant antiwar movement, especially on college campuses, the endless wars the U.S. now fights go on with lives lost and trillions of dollars of so-called national treasure thrown away. In 2018, I received an email from More

Dean Baker (2019-07-09). Why Aren\'t the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research? counterpunch.org Many of the leading Democratic candidates, especially Sanders and Warren, have been putting forward bold progressive plans in a wide variety of areas. Sanders and Warren have both supported a quick transition to a universal Medicare program, with no premiums, co-pays, or deductibles. Several candidates have supported a Green New Deal, which in some versions More

Medea Benjamin, Ann Wright (2019-07-09). Dogs of War Howl for Blood in Iran While Americans Cheer US Bombers on July 4. counterpunch.org President Trump\'s order to the Pentagon to have an aerial parade of military aircraft over Washington, DC on July 4 provided a history lesson of America\'s war mongering in the past two decades, and a terrifying view of what might appear in the skies of Iran if John Bolton gets his way. The combat aircraft More

Binoy Kampmark (2019-07-09). The US Imperium Comes Out. counterpunch.org The United States of Amnesia has occasionally found expression amongst those despairing at the state of historical consciousness in Freedom\'s Land. Gore Vidal remains something of its high priest, his writings a pertinent scolding about what went wrong in the creation of a New Rome in the Americas. From Pilgrim\'s Progress to the National Security More

Dan Corjescu (2019-07-09). Thinking About Fully Automated Luxury Communism. counterpunch.org Another world is possible and it is coherently presented in Aaron Bastani\'s new book entitled Fully Automated Luxury Communism: a Manifesto (Verso). The revolution is here and its main protagonist is technology. Bastani writes with almost messianic verve on how capital is about to transform itself into labor. It\'s all about humanity accelerating the possible practices More

John O\'Kane (2019-07-09). America First and Diverse. counterpunch.org What alliance of political voices will decide who the deserving are and what skills are needed? Should this task be left to the private sector, specific profit-driven companies that serve their own constituents first, to make it happen? Enlightened wonks sustained by the clout of peer-driven, but far-from-neutral research? How will the formula be constructed for determining how many should be processed? What\'s too little; too many? More

Patrick Cockburn (2019-07-09). The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions. counterpunch.org The seizure of an Iranian oil tanker allegedly bound for Syria by British Royal Marine commandos off Gibraltar is the latest episode in the long and disastrous history of economic sanctions in the Middle East. The UK claims that it is implementing EU sanctions on Syria, but the act will be seen by Tehran — and most other states — as the British enforcing US sanctions on Iran that the EU said it opposes. An Iranian official said a British tanker should be seized in retaliation. More

Thomas Knapp (2019-07-09). Marianne Williamson is Right About American Elections. counterpunch.org Self-help guru Marianne Williamson isn\'t likely to win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, despite having probably served the American public more ably than any of her opponents (among other things, her Project Angel Food delivers millions of meals to the seriously ill). Good works aside, she\'s a little too \"New Age,\" spiritual, and individualist/voluntarist-oriented for More

teleSUR (2019-07-09). Iran Warns UK That Oil Tanker Seizure Won\'t Go \'Unanswered\'. telesurenglish.net Britain\'s seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar last week will not be \"unanswered\", Iran\'s armed forces chief of staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. | RELATED: | Iranian DM Says UK\'s Seizure of Tanker was \'Maritime Robbery\' | \"Capture of the Iranian oil tanker based on fabricated excuses … will not be unanswered and when necessary Tehran will give appropriate answer,\" Bagheri said. | British Royal Ma…

WSWS (2019-07-09). US steps up threats as Iran exceeds uranium enrichment cap. wsws.org Iran\'s government deliberately breached the agreement to pressure remaining signatories to the nuclear accord to counter crippling US economic sanctions.

Dan Lieberman (2019-07-09). It is not the Non-existent Iranian Bomb; it is the Other Existing Bombs. dissidentvoice.org United States (US) demands that Iran promise to halt pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile developments distract from the real intent of the US actions. Knowing that the Islamic Republic is not pursuing nuclear weapons and will react aggressively to sanctions, the US ploy deters other nations from establishing more friendly relations with Iran …

Halligan Agade (2019-07-09). South African parliament to clamp down on illegal land invaders. cgtn.com Illegal land invaders in South Africa have been put on notice with the parliament now saying it will take stern action against those implicated. | This coming in the wake of reports of attacks and invasion of a 7,500-hectare farm in KwaZulu-Natal Province over the weekend, where \"violent thugs\" torched the farm and allegedly threw the farm manager into a fire. | The manager was hospitalized with burns. | \"We must do all in our power to stem illegal farm invasions and ensure that such acts of criminality do not d…

teleSUR (2019-07-09). Far-Right Activist Tommy Robinson Begs Trump for Asylum. telesurenglish.net The vocal right-wing media personality, Tommy Robinson, has publicly begged U.S. President Donald Trump to grant him asylum ahead of his sentencing hearing in a contempt of court case. The so-called \'anti-Islamification\' activist is begging for asylum in the U.S. because he alleges that he will be killed in prison because U.K. jails are \"controlled by jihadi gangs.\" | RELATED: | Democrats Subpoena Trump Over Foreign Payments | \"I beg Donald Trump, I beg the American government, to look at my c…

WSWS (2019-07-09). Strong support for Julian Assange at Sri Lanka\'s Jaffna University. wsws.org SEP and IYSSE campaigners campaigned for a July 10 picket that will be held in defence of the WikiLeaks founder in the war-ravaged city.

WSWS (2019-07-09). Part 2: Stalinism, communism and anti-Semitism. wsws.org Hanebrink\'s false equation of Stalinism with communism leads to a significant and misleading omission in his discussion of the reemergence of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe after World War II and internationally today.

Jonathan Cook (2019-07-09). Entry Ban at Israeli City Park provokes Apartheid Warnings. dissidentvoice.org The barring of a lawyer and her infant from a public park in the Galilee last week has triggered a legal battle over whether local authorities in Israel can segregate citizens on a racial basis. Human rights groups have warned that the ban marks a growing trend by local authorities representing the Jewish majority towards …

RT (2019-07-09). Pentagon solicits virtual reality tech to prep soldiers for \'battlefield nuclear warfare\'. rt.com The Pentagon has put out a call for virtual reality training environments with \"radiological/nuclear considerations\" — another sign that the US\' unhealthy obsession with nuclear warfare isn\'t going away anytime soon.

The Canary (2019-07-09). \'Tommy Robinson\' encouraged \'vigilante action\' in trial broadcast, judges find. thecanary.co Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson) encouraged \"vigilante action\" against defendants in a criminal trial when he filmed them and broadcast the footage on social media, High Court judges have found.The former English Defence League (EDL) founder, was found to have committed contempt of court at the end of a two-day hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday.Dame Victoria Sharp and Mr Justice Warby found Yaxley-Lennon was in contempt in three respects when he filmed men accused of the sexual exploitation of young girls and live-streamed the footage, in breach of a reporting ban, outside Leeds Crown Court in May 201…

DJ Mouse (2019-07-09). 7-6-19 Julian Assange and Press Freedom forum. indybay.org Wikileaks: the Global Fourth Estate author Nozomi Hayase and award winning reporter Ann Garrison defended Julian Assange at last Saturday\'s \'Suds, Snacks and Socialism\' at the Starry Plough…(142 min.)…

WSWS (2019-07-09). Global conflict situations, poverty lead to rise in mental health crises. wsws.org US imperialism and its allies bear principal responsibility for the wars and military interventions that have wrought devastation throughout the world.

Repost, Democracy Now! (2019-07-09). Japanese American Internment Survivors Protest Plan to Jail Migrant Kids at Prison Camp. indybay.org Japanese Americans, including at least one from San Francisco, demonstrated at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma on June 22, one day after President Trump directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct a mass roundup of migrant families that have received deportation orders. They were met by uniformed military police who told them they did not have permission to congregate and might face arrest. \"You need to move right now!\" one of the officers shouted. \"What don\'t you understand? It\'s English: Get out.\"

teleSUR (2019-07-09). Bolsonaro\'s Approval Rating is Brazil\'s Lowest in Last 30 Years. telesurenglish.net Brazil\'s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro\'s has witnessed a recent surge in his disapproval rating as his month-over-month number has risen by three percent. | RELATED: | Brazil Crowned After Defeating Peru in Copa America Final | According to the polling company Datfolha, Bolsonaro\'s disapproval rating has jumped from 30 percent in April to 33 percent in the month of May. | The poll showed 33 percent of those surveyed considered Bolsonaro\'s government bad or very bad, up from 30 percent in th…

San Jose Peace & Justice Center (2019-07-09). The Coming Renewable Energy Revolution. indybay.org San José Peace and Justice Center | 48 South 7th Street | San José, CA 95112 | Bus routes: 22, 522, 23, 11, 63, 64, 72, 73, 81, Hwy 17 Express, MST 55, Dash, LRT, 181…

teleSUR (2019-07-09). Democrats Subpoena Trump Over Foreign Payments. telesurenglish.net A group of more than 200 Democratic Party lawmakers said in a statement that as part of lawsuit in federal court they had issued 37 subpoenas the Trump Organization and other entities, seeking information about foreign government payments accepted by properties in his real estate empire. | RELATED: | Pompeo Launches Commission to Study Human Rights Role | The subpoenas also seek information about trademarks granted to Trump businesses by foreign governments. | \"Our goal is simple and s…

Halligan Agade (2019-07-09). Oxfam report: Income inequality reaches crisis level in West Africa. cgtn.com There will be a high demand for food, which will be forced from fewer land and water resources. Image courtesy: The Trent | West African Governments have been blamed for the worsening poverty and inequality levels in their countries. According to the Oxfam and Development Finance International report published Tuesday, inequality is at crisis levels in West Africa. | The report said the divide between the wealthy and the poor continues to increase as a small number of people become extremely ric…

Halligan Agade (2019-07-09). Funding gaps derailing universal education in Africa. cgtn.com UNESCO is raising a red flag that the world and specifically sub-Saharan Africa is likely to miss a key deadline for ensuring universal education. | UNESCO in its findings says that progress in achieving universal education has stagnated mostly in low-income countries due to a halt in additional aid. | \"Four years ago, global leaders agreed that by 2030 all girls and boys should be able to complete free quality primary and secondary education, but funding gaps are holding back progress,\" a new report by the UN\'s educat…

WSWS (2019-07-09). Trump, Democratic presidential candidates raise more than $100 million. wsws.org The stage is being set for the most expensive campaign in US—and world—history, with estimates that ad spending could top $10 billion for the 2020 elections.

Jerry Omondi (2019-07-09). President Museveni awards Cranes one million dollars for AFCON 2019 show. cgtn.com Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has congratulated the country\'s national football team for their performance at the 2019 Africa cup of Nations, pledging $1 million to appreciate the work they put in. | The Uganda Cranes reached the Roound of 16 stage where they lost to Senegal by a solitary goal. | In the group stage, the East Africans beat DR Congo 2-0, drew with Zimbabwe 1-1 before losing 2-0 to hosts Egypt. | \"I\'m very happy the @UgandaCranes went up to the last 16. I know we will perform better next time. I will organize 1m dollars with the government to distribute it among the players and officials. Of…

Jerry Omondi (2019-07-09). UN Women welcomes Bosco Ntaganda\'s conviction. cgtn.com The United Nations Women has welcomed the conviction of Bosco Ntaganda by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes he committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2002 and 2003. | The Hague-based court found the former rebel leader, nicknamed the \'Terminator\', guilty on 13 counts of war crimes and 5 counts of crimes against humanity, including rape, sexual slavery, displacement of civilians, and enlisting and conscripting child soldiers under the age of 15 and using them to participate actively in hostilities. | \"The conviction is significant because, if the verdict is upheld on appeal, it wi…

Nino Pagliccia (2019-07-08). Faulty by Design: the UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela. counterpunch.org Following Michelle Bachelet visit to Venezuela last June the official report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR ) on the situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was released on July 4, a day before initially scheduled. Judging by the quick review I made, the mainstream media is More

Stephen Lendman (2019-07-08). US and Europe to Iran: Do as We Say, Not as We Do — Or Else! globalresearch.ca The US considers itself master of the universe, demanding submissiveness from all other nations. | Its bipartisan ruling authorities tolerate no independent states or social democracies like Venezuela, no military or economic superpowers like Russia and China respectively — what hegemonic …

teleSUR (2019-07-08). Russian-Made S-400 Air Defense System is En Route to Turkey. telesurenglish.net Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday morning that Russia\'s S-400 air defense missiles are currently being prepared to be flown to Turkey. | RELATED: | Cuba, Turkey to Attend Venezuela\'s Transplant Patients | Speaking to reporters before leaving for Bosnia on Monday, Erdogan wouldn\'t say, however, when the Russian missile defense system would reach Turkey or where they will be deployed. | \"The preparations for the journey, the loading (of the S-400) is continuing ..

Max Blumenthal (2019-07-08). \'We\'re worse than Venezuela!\': Hondurans in US-backed regime speak out. thegrayzone.com Average Hondurans in the capital Tegucigalpa\'s central park tell Max Blumenthal their humanitarian crisis is much worse than Venezuela\'s. The…

Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz (2019-07-08). Venezuela: Dialogue Resumes in Barbados as Guaido Vows to Return to US-led Military Pact. venezuelanalysis.com Self-proclaimed \"Interim President\" walked back promises not to sit down with the government.

Peter Koenig (2019-07-08). Venezuela — The Bachelet \"Human Rights Lie\" globalresearch.ca \"American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela\'s economy and thereby lead to regime change. It\'s a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people.\"

teleSUR (2019-07-08). Venezuelan Delegation in Barbados for Dialogue With Opposition. telesurenglish.net A Venezuelan delegation arrived in Barbados on Monday to continue the process of peace dialogue with the opposition, which has been supported by the Government of Norway since last May 14. | RELATED: | Venezuelan Gov\'t and Opposition to Continue Negotiation Talks in Barbados | The sectoral vice president of Communication, Tourism and Culture, Jorge Rodríguez, through an official statement, disclosed on his Twitter account about the arrival of this group to the Caribbean nation to a…

Global Research News (2019-07-08). Selected Articles: UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela Faulty by Design. globalresearch.ca A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media \"NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize\", and where \"nuclear weapons and wars make us safer\". | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …

United Nations (2019-07-08). UN agencies welcome regional road map to help integrate \'continuing exodus of Venezuelans\'. un.org A new road map adopted by Latin American and Caribbean countries, to help better integrate refugees and migrants from crisis-hit Venezuela into new host societies, drew a warm welcome from two UN agencies on Monday.

Ricardo Vaz (2019-07-08). Venezuelan Government Slams \'Biased\' UN Human Rights Report. globalresearch.ca The Venezuelan government has disputed the findings of a report released by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). | Having seen the report in advance of its publication, Caracas issued a 70-point statement pointing towards …

Peter Koenig (2019-07-08). Venezuela: The Bachelet Lie. dissidentvoice.org When reading the Bachelet Report on Human Rights, following HR High Commissioner\'s 3 day visit to Venezuela, published on Venezuela\'s National Holiday, 5 July, I saw that it makes hardly any reference to the deadly sanctions and blockades imposed by the United States. How is that possible? The High Commissioner for Human Right does not …

Mike Garrity (2019-07-08). Conservation Groups Challenge Logging and Burning Project in Idaho Roadless Area. counterpunch.org The Caribou-Targhee National Forest just approved the Rowley Canyon Wildlife Enhancement Project that would cut and burn 1,666 acres of sagebrush, juniper, maple, and mountain mahogany trees with mechanized, track-based, mastication equipment. But nothing about this project even marginally enhances habitat for wildlife. If the Forest Service accurately labeled the project, it would have been More

Renee Parsons (2019-07-08). 5G Complexities and National Security. counterpunch.org In case you missed the kickoff, there is an unprecedented \'must win\' wireless race for the US to cross the 5G finish line before China as alluded to during the recent Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing on the Federal Commerce Commission. The details were thin with no real discussion on the need for 5G or More

Kollibri terre Sonnenblume (2019-07-08). Do We Need a Dictatorship to Respond to Climate Change? counterpunch.org Globally, June 2019 was the hottest June on record. Though it is tricky to attribute any particular event to anthropogenic climate change, scientists estimate that the likelihood of the month\'s extreme heat was made five times more likely by human contributions. This heat is no anomaly. The top ten hottest years on record globally have all More

Elliot Sperber (2019-07-08). The Ethics Lesson (or: To Kill a Shark). counterpunch.org The Ethics Lesson (or: To Kill a Shark) For some it\'s more important To make money, turn a profit, Than to kill a shark — to slice its fins off And toss it back into the water To drown, slowly, on the sea floor And, for some, it\'s more important That that shark should live More

Binoy Kampmark (2019-07-08). Going Nuclear in the Antipodes: Australia\'s Megadeath Complex. counterpunch.org The antipodes has had a fraught relationship with the nuclear option. At the distant ends of the earth, New Zealand took a stand against the death complex, assuming the forefront of restricting the deployment of nuclear assets in its proximity. This drove Australia bonkers with moral envy and strategic fury. The New Zealand Nuclear Free More