(2019-07-29). Israeli Deadly Force Against Palestinian Civilians. globalresearch.ca For over half a century, Occupied Palestine has been and remains a deadly undeclared free fire war zone. | Time and again, Israeli forces gun down Palestinians engaged in peaceful demonstrations threatening no one. | Gazans under more than 12 years of …
(2019-07-29). For a Peaceful and United Korea. counterpunch.org 
I have watched live on TV all three meetings between Chairman Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump: the first one in Singapore on June 12, 2018, the second one in Hanoi (where I live) on 27-28 February 2019, and the last one at the DMZ on June 30, 2019. All three meetings were moments More
(2019-07-29). Bassam Shakaa: The Making of a Palestinian 'Organic Intellectual'. mintpressnews.com 
Between his birth in Nablus in 1930 and his death, Bassam Shakaa fought a relentless struggle for Palestinian rights. He challenged Israel, the PA, US imperialism and reactionary Arab governments. Throughout this arduous journey, he survived exile, prison and an assassination attempt.
(2019-07-29). From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes. counterpunch.org Many believe the Jewish Holocaust was planned by the Nazis at a Berlin lakeside villa at Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Most historians still think the Armenian Holocaust was hatched up by the Ottoman Turks in Istanbul in 1915. Of course, we've long known that the mass slaughter of Europe's Jews began the moment the Germans crossed the Polish border on 1 September 1939 — and carried on across the Soviet Union in 1941, seven months before Wannsee. More
(2019-07-29). Russia Arrests Nearly 1,400 at Opposition Protest as Leading Activist Is Possibly Poisoned in Jail. democracynow.org 
Police in Moscow used violent force to stop an opposition protest on Saturday, arresting nearly 1,400 people in what's been described as the largest mass arrest in Russia in a decade. Meanwhile, Alexei Navalny—one of Russia's most prominent opposition figures—has been hospitalized after suffering an acute allergic reaction in jail. Navalny's doctor said he may have been exposed to "some toxic agent." Saturday's protest was organized to denounce the recent barring of opposition candidates from running in an upcoming election for Moscow City Council. We speak with Samuel Greene, director of the Russia I…
(2019-07-29). From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes. counterpunch.org 
Many believe the Jewish Holocaust was planned by the Nazis at a Berlin lakeside villa at Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Most historians still think the Armenian Holocaust was hatched up by the Ottoman Turks in Istanbul in 1915. Of course, we've long known that the mass slaughter of Europe's Jews began the moment the Germans crossed the Polish border on 1 September 1939 — and carried on across the Soviet Union in 1941, seven months before Wannsee. More
(2019-07-29). The Media Is Reluctant to Report Israel Boasts of Killing Iranians. globalresearch.ca It is rare that a high official in a government will admit that his country has been killing foreigners without any declaration of war or being subjected to an imminent threat, but that is exactly what Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister …
(2019-07-29). At Least 20 Killed in Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan. telesurenglish.net Several people were killed on Sunday when a suicide bombing was carried out inside Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, the government said in a statement on Monday morning. | RELATED: | US-Taliban Deal To Precede Intra-Afghan Talks in Peace Process | According to reports, t least 20 people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Sunday in a suicide bombing and gun battle at vice presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh's office. | Saleh, a running mate of A…
(2019-07-29). Headlines for July 29, 2019. democracynow.org Baltimore Pushes Back After Trump Calls City "Rodent Infested Mess" and Attacks Rep. Cummings, Gunman Kills 3, Injures 15 at Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California, Shooting at Brownsville, Brooklyn, Block Party Kills 1, Injures 11, SCOTUS OKs Trump Plan to Use Military Funds for Border Wall, U.S. and Guatemala Sign Controversial Immigration Deal Despite Widespread Opposition, Dir. of National Intelligence Dan Coats Resigns, Brazilian President Bolsonaro Threatens Glenn Greenwald with Imprisonment, Miners Raid Tribe in Brazil, Killing Leader as Amazon Suffers Mass Deforestation by Illegal Loggers, Russian…
(2019-07-29). US/UK Militarization of Persian Gulf Waters Risks War. globalresearch.ca Britain is an appendage of Washington's belligerent imperial agenda. Israel, the Saudis, UAE, and other regional regimes hostile to peace operate the same way. | Sending more US and UK warships to Persian Gulf waters has nothing to do with regional …
(2019-07-29). Why Should Iran be Cherished and Defended? globalresearch.ca As I pen this short essay, Iran is standing against the mightiest nation on earth. It is facing tremendous danger; of annihilation even, if the world does not wake up fast, and rush to its rescue. | Stunning Iranian cities are …
(2019-07-29). Tanker Seizures and the Threat to the Global Economy from "Resurgent Imperialism" globalresearch.ca The British seizure of the Iranian tanker off Gibraltar was illegal. There is no doubt of that whatsoever. The Iranian response to the seizure of its tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar, by the seizure of a British Tanker in …
(2019-07-29). Iran Increases Economic and Political Collaboration with Latin American Allies. globalresearch.ca After spending a week in New York for high level meetings at the UN, Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif made his way on July 20th to South and Latin America to attend a few conferences and meetings in Venezuela, Nicaragua, …
(2019-07-29). Iran Rejects Talks With Pompeo in Tehran. telesurenglish.net U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Sunday that Iran has rejected his offer to travel to Tehran for direct talks with the Iranian people. | RELATED: | Iran Nuclear Deal Parties Meet, No Solution Reached Yet | "I recently offered to travel to Tehran and speak directly to the Iranian people. The regime hasn't accepted my offer," he tweeted. | He added that Washington was not afraid of Iranian officials coming to the United States. | "We aren't afraid of @JZarif [Irani…
(2019-07-29). Police advised the victim of a hunt dog attack 'not to go to the press' about it. thecanary.co A woman from the Isle of Wight said she was attacked by a dog linked to a local hunt. And when she reported it to the police, her husband claimed the police told them not to go to the press about it. | "Savagely attacked": | Local paper the Isle of Wight County Press reported on 26 July that a woman was "savagely attacked" by a hunt terrier. Th…
(2019-07-29). Mueller and Trump: Blah Blah Blah. counterpunch.org When I first heard about the possibility that Russians had interfered with our election and were the cause of Trump's win, I thought it absurd and laughed aloud. 'Playing on the old American fear of the Russians, huh?' is what I thought, and didn't given it much thought. After noticing the media talking about it More
(2019-07-29). "CapitalGate" Is the Problem, Not "RussiaGate": The Imperial System of Global Capitalism is Under Threat. globalresearch.ca "Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent …
(2019-07-29). NATO Terrorists Bomb Syrian Towns, SAA Bombs NATO Terrorists. globalresearch.ca The flood of tears from NATO media journalists over the impending liberation of Idlib has completely blinded them to facts on the ground in Syria. Over the past weeks, they have missed the mortar, missile and IED attacks on civilians…
(2019-07-29). The Dragon Lays Out Its Road Map, Denies Seeking Hegemony. "China's National Defense in the New Era" globalresearch.ca The key merit of China's National Defense in the New Era, a white paper released by the State Council in Beijing, is to clear any remaining doubts about where the Middle Kingdom is coming from, and where it's going …
(2019-07-29). How America's Wars End (Messily). commondreams.org A dehydrated American infantryman receives trail-side intravenous therapy from U.S. Army field medics. (Photo: Norman Copley/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/afghanistan_1.jpg …
(2019-07-29). The Israel Anti-Boycott Act: The Bill that Could Imprison "Israel Boycotters" for 20 years. globalresearch.ca In a recent post on the Mondoweiss website, Journalist Philip Weiss examines the Israel Anti-Boycott Act that would punish those boycotting Israel with a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years …
(2019-07-29). With Criticism Crushed in the West, Israel Can Enjoy Its Impunity. globalresearch.ca Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions. | The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House …
(2019-07-29). Bernie Sanders Would Consider Cutting Military Aid to Israel. telesurenglish.net The 2020 Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said in an interview that he would consider cutting U.S. military aid to Israel. | RELATED: | Bernie Sanders Calls Out Netanyahu's 'Racist Government' | When asked if he would "ever consider using" the US$3.8 billion military aid "as leverage to get the Israeli government to act differently," the senator answered, "Absolutely" during an interview for the "Pod Save America" podcast published Friday. | Sanders clarified in the interview that…
(2019-07-29). Sur Baher Home Demolitions illustrate a Vicious Spiral of Oppression in Palestine. dissidentvoice.org Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions. The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House two-and-a-half years ago has emboldened Israel as never before, leaving it free to unleash new …
(2019-07-29). The Continuing Denial of Rights and Justice to the Palestinian People. globalresearch.ca The right of resistance to occupation, by the Palestinian people, is grounded in international law. Freedom-loving people of the world must remember the words of Nelson Mandela: | "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the …
(2019-07-29). Sri Lankan president extends emergency rule for another month. wsws.org The real target of the emergency laws is the rising social unrest of workers, students and the poor.
(2019-07-29). 1,300 arrested in police crackdown on liberal opposition in Russia. wsws.org The crackdown testifies to the extreme nervousness of the Kremlin and was meant as a show of force and a demonstration of the state's readiness to violently repress any opposition, above all opposition coming from the working class.
(2019-07-29). Fukushima 2020 Olympics Nightmare: Is PM Abe Criminally Insane? indybay.org This documentary investigates and exposes the plans of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to bring the Olympics baseball games to contaminated Fukushima. Although there is over a million tons of tritium radioactive water in tanks surrounding the plan, thousands of contamined bags of waste and melted nuclear rods still in the broken plants Abe has claimed to the Olympic Committee and world that Fukushima has been decontaminated.
(2019-07-29). Protests in Hong Kong continue despite escalating police violence. wsws.org The participation of workers at Hong Kong's airport on Friday is an indication of the broader support for the protests in the working class.
(2019-07-28). When Will Ayanna Pressley Realize that "the Pain" She Feels Is the Identical Pain Palestinians Feel? globalresearch.ca When Michelle Alexander, a distinguished African-American scholar, wrote her now famous column in The New York Times, 'Time to Break the Silence on Palestine',her sympathetic words toward Palestinians received huge attention. Her article became a "watershed moment … with …
(2019-07-28). Turkey Deports Syrian Refugees to Idlib During Airstrikes. globalresearch.ca Syrian refugees in Turkey are facing an uncertain future. Turkey did not grant them citizenship, or permanent residency; but, instead a 'temporary guest' status, which can be revoked at any time. For many, that time has come, and hundreds have …
(2019-07-28). US-Taliban Deal To Precede Intra-Afghan Talks in Peace Process. telesurenglish.net The United States special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, announced Sunday that intra-Afghan negotiations between the government and key players will take place after the U.S. reaches a deal with the Taliban. | RELATED: | Kabul Seeks Explanation on Trump Talk of Wiping out Afghanistan | "To clarify, those negotiations will occur after we conclude our own agreements and they will take place between the Taliban and an inclusive and effective national negotiating team consisting of senior…
(2019-07-28). Child Detentions Are Part of a Terrifying Larger Plan. truthdig.com 
Lately, I've been thinking about the Grimms' fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. Terrified by cruel conditions at home, the brother and sister flee, winding their way, hungry and scared, through unknown woods. There, they encounter an old woman who lures them in with promises of safety. Instead, she locks one of them in a cage and turns the other into a servant, as she prepares to devour them both. | Written in nineteenth-century Germany, it should resonate eerily in today's America. In place of Hansel and Gretel, we would, of course, have to focus on girls and boys by the hundreds fleeing cruelty and hunger in Central…
(2019-07-28). America`s trap for Turkey. uwidata.com 
In his book "On China," Henry Kissinger explains the differences between Westerners and the Chinese in their approaches to strategy by comparing Chess and Wei qi (also known as "Go"): "If chess is about the decisive battle, Wei qi is about the protracted campaign. A chess player aims for a decisive victory, a Wei qi …
(2019-07-28). Bassam Shakaa: The Making of a Palestinian "Organic Intellectual" dissidentvoice.org It would be unfair to claim that Palestine has not produced great leaders. It has, and Bassam Shakaa, the former Mayor of Nablus, who passed away on July 22 at the age of 89, was living proof of this. The supposed deficit in good Palestinian leadership can be attributed to the fact that many great …
(2019-07-28). Iranian Monarchists Praise the Shah's Brutal Rule on the Anniversary of His Death. globalresearch.ca On July 27, 1980, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi finally succumbed to cancer in Cairo, Egypt. In 1953, he was installed as the dictator of Iran after the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. | There …
(2019-07-28). Iran Nuclear Deal Parties Meet, No Solution Reached Yet. telesurenglish.net An emergency meeting with parties to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal was constructive but there are unresolved issues and Tehran will continue to reduce its nuclear commitments if Europeans fail to salvage the pact, Iranian official Abbas Araqchi said Sunday. | RELATED: | Iran Says Arrested 17 CIA Spies , Some Sentenced to Death | "The atmosphere was constructive. Disc…
(2019-07-28). America Gone Rogue. commondreams.org US President Donald Trump meets with US Vice President Mike Pence(R) and US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin at the White House on June 24, 2019, before signing 'hard-hitting sanctions' on Iran's supreme leader. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump-iran-sanctions-955px.jpg …
(2019-07-28). How Biden's Secret 2002 Meetings Led to War in Iraq. truthout.org | | Even though former Vice President Joe Biden's favorability has declined following the first Democratic debate, he remains largely considered the frontrunner by many mainstream media outlets and pundits for the Democratic presidential nomination. | Early in the first debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders mentioned how Biden had supported the Iraq War and that he had voted against it.
(2019-07-28). Turkey Mulling (Another) Military Operation in Northeastern Syria. theantimedia.com (TM) — Turkey's top military brass and Defense Minister Hulusi Akar held a security meeting on Thursday and discussed a potential military operation in northeastern Syria, immediately after three days of talks with a US delegation over setting up a safe zone along the Turkish-Syrian border. The Anadolu news agency reported that the meeting took place …
(2019-07-28). Mueller Testimony Points to New Cold War as a Farce. dissidentvoice.org The Eighteenth Brumière of Louis Napoleon (1852), the great philosopher Karl Marx famously stated the history repeated itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. This prophecy is evident today with Russia Gate and the New Cold War. The first cold war was a genuine tragedy which resulted in the deaths of millions of civilians in …
(2019-07-28). Tanker-War: Everything Is Ideological. globalresearch.ca Ukraine's most senior military prosecutor, Anatoly Matios, announced yesterday that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) had seized the Russian tanker Nika Spirit at the port of Izmail and detained the crew, including at least 7 Russian nationals. Matios alleged …
(2019-07-28). Video: Russian, Syrian Warplanes Bomb Al Qaeda Positions in Western Aleppo. globalresearch.ca On July 25, warplanes of the Syrian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces bombed positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) and its allies near the villages of al-Bawabiya, al-Atarib, Qammari, al-Barqoum, Urem al-Kubra, and Kafr Halab, and …
(2019-07-28). Intimacies from an Awful War. "For Sama" by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts. globalresearch.ca If you think you've seen enough of conflict, especially the war in Syria, you haven't. From love of nation and loathing of military rule, from inchoate hope of redemption and improbable determination, indebted to lost friends and seeded in the …
(2019-07-28). Israel To Offer $14m to Countries for Embassy Move to Jerusalem. telesurenglish.net The Israeli government will pay foreign countries to relocate their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem according to a new initiative to be presented by Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz to the cabinet soon according to a report by Israel Hayom published Sunday. | RELATED: | Palestine Lauds Czech Refusal to Move Embassy to Jerusalem | The initiative is considered a "national, diplomatic and strategic objective of the highest order." Under it, Katz formed incentive packages to encourag…
(2019-07-28). New British PM Minister Boris Johnson Faced with Two Major Challenges: Brexit and Iran. globalresearch.ca The two most pressing issues on newly appointed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plate right now are Brexit and Iran. Will the UK leave the EU on October 31st regardless of whether they have a new deal, as …
(2019-07-28). New bill looks set to overturn NSW's archaic abortion law. greenleft.org.au A decades-long feminist campaign to remove abortion from the anti-woman NSW Crimes Act is likely to take one more step towards victory with reports that a pro-choice private members' bill will be introduced into state parliament this week.
(2019-07-28). Selected Articles: The Malaysian Airlines MH17 Tragedy. globalresearch.ca Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…
(2019-07-27). 'Stop police terror, from Philly to Philippines'. workers.org 
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
(2019-07-27). A Syrian Mother's Letter to Her Daughter, "For Sama" Shows War in an Unusually Intimate Light. theintercept.com 
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…