2019-07-31: Social Media Postees

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Pakistani Journalists Protest Media Blackout, Censorship
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Pakistani opposition parties and journalists have accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of intimidating broadcasters into a blackout on television coverage of his critics after several TV channels were briefly taken off-air and opposition protests and news conferences passed unreported. | RELATED: | US Labels Anti-Pakistan Baloch Army a 'Terrorist' Organization…
telesurenglish.net/news/Pakistani-Journalists-Protest-Media-Blackout-Censorship-20190731-0011.html

Videos of Chinese 'Crackdown' in Hong Kong Are Fake: AFP
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
A fact-check investigation by AFP published Tuesday has debunked a number of images and videos purporting to show repression carried out by Chinese troops in Hong Kong. These images were circulated widely on social media, some of them being viewed over a million times, yet many were fake or old. | Different country: | | These are images from a video, posted by opposition activists in Hong Kong, claiming to be the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA…
telesurenglish.net/news/Videos-of-Chinese-Crackdown-in-Hong-Kong-Revealed-as-Fake-by-AFP-Investigation-20190731-0005.html

Warren Backs "No First Use" Nuclear Policy as Buttigieg Calls for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-31
While most of Tuesday's debate focused on domestic issues, Democratic candidates were briefly asked about nuclear weapons policy and the war in Afghanistan. Senator Elizabeth Warren defended her "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons, despite criticism from Montana Governor Steve Bullock. Meanwhile, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper sparred on whether the U.S. should withdraw from Afghanistan after 18 years of war.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/31/cnn_debate_foreign_policy_mehdi_hasan

12th Round of Sino/US Trade Talks Falls Flat. US Rage for Global Dominance
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
Over a year of Sino/US trade talks failed to resolve major differences because of unacceptable Trump demands. | On matters of statecraft, China, Russia, Iran, and other countries have outwitted the US. | Sino/US disagreements have little to do with the trade …
globalresearch.ca/12th-round-of-sinous-trade-talks-falls-flat-us-rage-for-global-dominance/5685174

Warren Backs "No First Use" Nuclear Policy
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-31
| While most of Tuesday's debate focused on domestic issues, Democratic candidates were briefly asked about nuclear weapons policy and the war in Afghanistan. Senator Elizabeth Warren defended her "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons, despite criticism from Montana Governor Steve Bullock. Meanwhile, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper sparred on whether the U.S. should withdraw from Afghanistan after 18 years of war. | TRANSCRIPT: | AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, de…
truthout.org/video/warren-backs-no-first-use-nuclear-policy/

As US Beefs Up Military Presence in the Gulf, Yemen's Houthis Turn to Russia for Support
Ahmed AbdulKareem | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
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. | *** | Yemen's Houthi movement has reacted with concern …
globalresearch.ca/us-beefs-up-military-presence-gulf-yemen-houthis-turn-russia-support/5685195

Hong Kong Authorities Called to 'Do What Needs to Be Done' to Quell Protests
Donald Kaufman | truthdig.com | 2019-07-31
After weeks of demonstrations in Hong Kong, local and Chinese officials are taking a harder line in their rhetoric.
truthdig.com/articles/hong-kong-authorities-called-to-do-what-needs-to-be-done-to-quell-protests/

Iran simply won't let itself be hemmed in by the U.S. and UK
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-07-31
The United States is leading a process to create a naval force that would patrol the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. has said it will send "command and control" ships to coordinate the escort naval vessels from different countries. But there are cracks in the coalition. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/30/iran-simply-wont-let-itself-be-hemmed-in-by-the-u-s-and-uk/

Hong Kong's Crisis as Microcosm of the World's Future
Thomas Hon Wing Polin | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
Hong Kong, with its Sino-Western heritage, lies on the fault line of the intensifying confrontation between the Western Empire and China. The conflict is likely to be the defining international affair of our time. That's a fundamental reason the former British colony and current Chinese special administrative region has been wracked by turmoil the past…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/31/hong-kongs-crisis-as-microcosm-of-the-worlds-future/

China's Proposed "Code of Conduct" for Antarctica
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
The Czech Republic hosted the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting from July 1 to 10 to discuss the future of the world's seventh continent, during which China proposed a code of conduct for all nations' active on the landmass, though it …
globalresearch.ca/china-proposed-code-conduct-antarctica-deserves-fair-hearing/5685183

The Way Forward in Hong Kong
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
I am in Hong Kong, never having been there before. But having been to mainland China several times a year in the past decade, the urge to draw comparisons is irresistible. Of course, unlike the mainland which never was a part of the British empire, the vestiges of Hong Kong's colonial past are everywhere–from the…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/31/the-way-forward-in-hong-kong/

Is India displaying signs of neo-fascism?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-31
Property rights of people are protected under neo-fascism, except those racially, communally, sexually, or politically targeted whose properties are often confiscated. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/31/is-india-displaying-signs-of-neo-fascism/

Israel Approves 6,000 New Settler Homes in West Bank
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Israel will build 6,000 new homes for Jewish settlers and 700 new homes for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | Israel Will Pay $14M to Countries in Exchange for Moving Embassy to Jerusalem | The news was announced by an unnamed Israeli official Wednesday, days ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushn…
telesurenglish.net/news/israel-6000-new-illegal-settlement-palestine-west-bank-jared-kushner-20190731-0009.html

Netanyahu May Survive This Political Crisis, but Israel's Left Will Not
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-31
JERUSALEM, OCCUPIED PALESTINE — Like a pack of hyenas surrounding a weakened and wounded lion, Israeli politicians are ganging up on an injured, weakened Benjamin Netanyahu. With over ten years in office, Netanyahu is now the longest-reigning prime minister in the history of the State of Israel. Comparisons are being drawn between him and the man who is now second only to Netanyahu, the man considered to be the Founding Father of Israel, Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. | Th…
mintpressnews.com/netanyahu-may-survive-political-crisis-israel-left-will-not/261058/

With Criticism Crushed in the West, Israel Can Enjoy Its Impunity
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/31/with-criticism-crushed-in-the-west-israel-can-enjoy-its-impunity/

What's Wrong with Corey Stapleton?
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
Three shocking events concerning foreign interference in state and national elections were revealed last week. The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report detailing "unprecedented" Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election in all 50 states; Robert Mueller testified before two House committees that Russia and other foreign nations were…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/31/whats-wrong-with-corey-stapleton/

US Court Rules for Canadian Firm To Collect $1.4B of Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
With United States backing, self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido, and the Venezuelan right have been conducting an illegal operation to confiscate the Venezuelan public's wealth and assets, Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said Wednesday. | RELATED: | Russia To 'Abstain' Attending Int'l Talks on Venezuela in Lima | According to r…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Will-Take-Crystallex-Case-to-High-Court-Rodriguez-20190731-0015.html

Ukraine: Language-laws Are Not Purely Symbolic
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
On February 22nd 2014 Oleksandr Turchynov, on his first day as speaker of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, made his now infamous speech concerning the disestablishment of the Russian language as a state language in Ukraine. What people who were …
globalresearch.ca/ukraine-language-laws-not-purely-symbolic/5685150

The Injustice of Economic Warfare
Daniel Larison | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
The AP reports on the harmful effects of sanctions on the availability of medicine in Iran: | "Our biggest concern is that channels to the outside world are closed," said Dr. Arasb Ahmadian, head of the Mahak Children's Hospital, which | …
globalresearch.ca/injustice-economic-warfare/5685211

US Imposes Sanctions on Iran's Foreign Minister
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control said on its website. | The Treasury Department said it was imposing sanctions on Zarif for acting on behalf of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | RELATED: | Trump Claims Iran has Never Won a War in New Twitter Rant | "Javad Zarif implements the reckless agenda of Iran's Supreme Leader, and is the regime's pri…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Imposes-Sanctions-on-Irans-Foreign-Minister-20190731-0013.html

Iran to Europe: Fix INSTEX or Will Reduce Deal Commitments
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lamented Wednesday, on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting in Teheran that France, Britain, and Germany are not abiding by the terms of the multilateral nuclear deal they signed in 2015. | RELATED: | US Imposes Sanctions on Iran's Foreign Minister | The deal is not being respected, or the responsibility of these European countries, to find a solution to the consequences of the United States' leaving the accord, officially called the Joint Comprehen…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-to-Europe-Fix-INSTEX-or-Reducing-Deal-Commitments-Again-20190731-0016.html

Will Shake Up at IAEA Impact Iran? Washington's Abuse of International Institutions
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano's passing has stirred up suspicion and further tensions amid US-Iranian tensions. | Amano was 72 years old and as of mid July 2019 had already begun preparing to step down due to …
globalresearch.ca/will-shake-up-iaea-impact-iran/5685127

Video: Syrian Army Advancing in Northern Hama
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
On the evening of July 28 the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces and their allies renewed their advance on militant positions in northern Hama. In the ensuing series of clashes, government troops eliminated at least 5 units of …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-advancing-northern-hama/5685213

Video: The War on Syria and the Next Loop of the Great Game
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
After the defeat of ISIS, the war in Syria entered a low intensity phase. However, the conflict is in no way near its end and the country remains one of the main points of instability around the world. | In August | …
globalresearch.ca/video-syria-2018-2019-next-loop-great-game/5685124

Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Could Blow Saudi Arabia's Role in Attacks Wide Open
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-31
He's reportedly ready to spill the beans on Saudi Arabia's involvement in the worst terror attack to ever take place on American soil.

Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Could Blow Saudi Arabia's Role in Attacks Wide Open

'Secret Embargo': Saudi Arabia Stops Turkish Exports From Entering Kingdom
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-31
Saudi authorities blocked 80 Turkish trucks which were transporting textile products and chemicals into Saudi Arabia.

'Secret Embargo': Saudi Arabia Stops Turkish Exports From Entering Kingdom

Millions displaced and hundreds killed by monsoonal floods in South Asia
wsws.org | 2019-07-31
South Asian governments have responded with apathy and indifference toward the poverty-stricken people severely impacted by the floods.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/flod-j31.html

Hong Kong Protests: A Reaction to Beijing's Growing Effort for Control
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-31
Protesters have expanded their demands, after China's central government has conceded to their initial demand of cancelling an extradition law. As the protests continue in Hong Kong, Adam Ni says it is unlikely they will expand to the mainland…
therealnews.com/stories/hong-kong-protests-a-reaction-to-beijings-growing-effort-for-control

Second Democratic Debate, Part One: The Moderate/Progressive Divide Came Through (1/3)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-31
The first part of the second democratic debate showed a non-rancorous divide on how to beat Trump and fresh discussions first-use of nuclear weapons and for getting out of Afghanistan…
therealnews.com/stories/second-demcoratic-debate-part-one-the-moderate-progressive-divide-came-through-1-3

Is nothing sacred? For WaPo, hamburgers have 'hidden Russia connection'
rt.com | 2019-07-31
There is no food so quintessentially American as hamburgers, which of course makes them a perfect target for disparagement by the woke clickbait media. The newest twist is that they have a 'hidden Russia connection.' | …
rt.com/usa/465513-wapo-hamburgers-trump-russia-connection/

Second Demcoratic Debate, Part One: The Moderate/Progressive Divide Came Through (1/3)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-31
The first part of the second democratic debate showed a non-rancorous divide on how to beat Trump and fresh discussions first-use of nuclear weapons and for getting out of Afghanistan…
therealnews.com/stories/second-demcoratic-debate-part-one-the-moderate-progressive-divide-came-through-1-3

Indian protest marks seven years of legal vendetta against jailed Maruti Suzuki workers
wsws.org | 2019-07-31
The sole "crime" of the 13 jailed auto workers was to challenge the poverty-wages and repressive sweatshop conditions at Maruti Suzuki.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/maru-j31.html

Fukushima 2020 Olympics Nightmare: Is PM Abe Criminally Insane?
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-07-31
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/28/18825018.php

Conspiracy theorists watch out: Body of world-famous bank robber John Dillinger to be exhumed
rt.com | 2019-07-31
The remains of the infamous 1930s bank robber John Dillinger are due to be exhumed and reburied in September, 85 years after he was shot dead by the FBI. Conspiracy theories persist that he was not actually buried in his grave. | …
rt.com/usa/465459-john-dillinger-remains-exhumed-indiana/

No, YOU are 'Russian asset': Meme war turns tables on Washington Post
rt.com | 2019-07-31
With the Washington Post stuck in a mud-slinging meme war with Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump, the capital's paper of record has found itself on the receiving end of internet trolls' meme-cannons. | …
rt.com/usa/465431-trump-washington-post-russian-asset/

How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-30
For over ten years, Wikipedia has been a key focus of right-leaning, pro-Israel groups that have effectively weaponized the online encyclopedia as a means of controlling the narrative when it comes to the state of Israel's more than 50-year-long military occupation of Palestine.
mintpressnews.com/pro-israel-activists-blacklist-mintpress-wikipedia/261022/

Four Immigrants Have Died at Stewart ICE Facility in Georgia
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-30
| A 44-year-old immigrant from Mexico died last week at Stewart Detention Center, one of the largest immigration jails in the United States and one that has been plagued by allegations of neglect and abuse for years. Pedro Arriago-Santoya was the fourth person to die at Stewart in just two years and the seventh person to die while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement since October. An immigration judge had ordered Arriago-Santoya be deported in June. Instead, he was transferred to Stewart…
truthout.org/video/four-immigrants-have-died-at-stewart-ice-facility-in-georgia/

Hong Kong Protesters, Chinese Workers Point the Way to New Internationalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-30
| Just as the "Made in China" label insinuated itself into our retail stores in the 1980s, China today insinuates itself into most of our mainstream news coverage, as one of the largest global markets, the top carbon emitter, the biggest workforce, and the biggest geopolitical rival to the United States in recent memory. For Americans, seeing U.S. dominance in the headlines displaced by an upstart rival superpower can be humbling — or terrifying. | As Max Elbaum and Calvin Cheung-Mia…
truthout.org/articles/hong-kong-protesters-chinese-workers-point-the-way-to-new-internationalism/

US Stealing Syrian Oil. Controls About 30% of Syrian Territory
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Imperial adventurism is grand theft on a global scale — seizing, controlling, and looting the resources of targeted nations, along with exploiting their people. | Operating from illegally constructed military bases in northern and southern parts of Syria, platforms for war …
globalresearch.ca/us-stealing-syrian-oil-controls-about-30-of-syrian-territory/5685056

St. Kitts and Nevis Officially Recognizes Palestine
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
The government of the Carribean island of St. Kitts and Nevis announced Monday that it will formally recognize the state of Palestine, joining 135 countries around the world, predominantly in the global south. | RELATED: | Caricom Unites Behind Goals of Prosperity, Innovation | The announcement was made following a meeting between St. Kitts and Nevis' Foreign Minister Mark Brantley and his Palestinian counterpart Riyad Al-Maliki. Brantly said his country "formally recognizes the State o…
telesurenglish.net/news/St.-Kitts-and-Nevis-Officially-Recognizes-Palestine-20190730-0015.html

Israel Has "the Most Moral Army in the World"?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Eight days ago eleven Palestinian buildings containing seventy family apartments located in the illegally Israeli occupied East Jerusalem village of Wadi al-Hummus were demolished in a military-led operation by more than 1,000 Israeli soldiers, policemen and municipal workers using bulldozers, …
globalresearch.ca/israel-has-most-moral-army-world/5685063

Standing room only at Nashville immigrant and refugee rights forum
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-30
"I am a woman. I am a Mexican. My family lives in fear every single day"- Veronica Zavaleta NASHVILLE — Veronica Zavaleta, a homeowner, a business owner, mother, and immigrant gave a moving account of her feelings of terror at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Her narrative was given at a public …
peoplesworld.org/article/standing-room-only-at-nashville-immigrant-and-refugee-rights-forum/

India: Rape Victim of BJP Lawmaker Injured in Shady Accident
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Protesters stepped up demands Tuesday for India's far-right ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to sack a state lawmaker accused by a young woman of raping her, holding several demonstrations just days after the survivor was critically injured in a highway collision. | RELATED: | India: 49 Intellectuals Write to PM Modi, Condemns Lynching of Minorities…
telesurenglish.net/news/india-unnao-rape-case-victim-car-crash-bjp-narendra-modi-20190730-0012.html

Bassam Shakaa: The Making of a Palestinian 'Organic Intellectual'
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/30/bassam-shakaa-the-making-of-a-palestinian-organic-intellectual/

Four Immigrants Have Died at Stewart ICE Jail in Georgia. Advocates Want It Shut Down
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-30
A 44-year-old immigrant from Mexico died last week at Stewart Detention Center, one of the largest immigration jails in the United States and one that has been plagued by allegations of neglect and abuse for years. Pedro Arriago-Santoya was the fourth person to die at Stewart in just two years and the seventh person to die while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement since October. An immigration judge had ordered Arriago-Santoya be deported in June. Instead, he was transferred to Stewart on July 10 as his removal proceedings continued. Two weeks later he was pronounced dead at a Georgia hospital.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/30/pedro_arriago_santoya_ice_custody_death

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