This Iran War Vet Has Some Advice for Trump: Don't Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess
Habib Ahmadzadeh | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-07
War is not our business, but negotiations and diplomacy are. War is not our purpose. Peace is our mission. Peace is our philosophy in life, and you are right, diplomacy is our art.
mintpressnews.com/iran-war-vet-advice-trump-dont-play-checkers-grandmasters-chess/261160/
Will Mercenaries Fight America's Wars? Private Mercenary Army on Behalf of Venezuela "Opposition"
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
President Donald Trump's pre-election pledge to end America's useless wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan just might turn out to be somewhat less than what was promised if some political allies of the president have their way. For …
globalresearch.ca/will-mercenaries-fight-americas-wars/5685769
Dossier 19: Iranians will not forget. The hybrid war against Iran
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2019-08-07
It is impossible to predict what will happen in West Asia. Impossible to know whether the United States will conduct a military strike against Iran, which has already faced the full brunt of a U.S.-driven hybrid war against it for the past seven decades. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/07/dossier-19-iranians-will-not-forget-the-hybrid-war-against-iran/
Trade War: China Suspends Purchases of US Agricultural Products
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
China's Commerce Ministry announced Tuesday that the Asian country will suspend the purchase of U.S. agricultural goods in response to the recent announcement that the President Donald Trump administration will increase tariffs to Chinese exports. | "It has been agreed that | …
globalresearch.ca/trade-war-china-suspends-purchases-us-agricultural-products/5685799
Erdogan Announces Military Operation East of Euphrates River to Push Back Kurds, US Urges Him to Reconsider
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
In what would be Turkey's third cross-border military operation in Syria since the war began, in as many years, Erdogan announced on Sunday that he would be launching a military operation east of the Euphrates river, to push back Kurdish …
globalresearch.ca/erdogan-announces-military-operation-east-euphrates-river-push-back-kurds-us-urges-him-reconsider/5685820
India's Tryst with Destiny
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-07
Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego, anthropocentrism, speciesism and plunder. A system that is using up oil, water and other resources much faster than they can ever be regenerated. We have poisoned the rivers and oceans, destroyed natural habitats, driven wildlife species to (the edge …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/indias-tryst-with-destiny/
India's Tryst with Destiny: Freedom Struggle from Exploitation and Degradation Is Global
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego, anthropocentrism, speciesism and plunder. A system that is using up oil, water and other resources much faster than they can ever be regenerated. …
globalresearch.ca/indias-tryst-destiny-freedom-struggle-exploitation-degradation-global/5685759
India's Finding Out the Hard Way that It Isn't "America's Exclusive Ally"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
India hitherto thought that the US needed it more than the reverse and that's why took its nascent military-strategic alliance with it for granted by trying to play "hardball" in pressing for a better trade deal, yet it's now finding …
globalresearch.ca/india-finding-out-hard-way-it-isnt-us-exclusive-ally/5685793
The Skripal Poisoning: Anonymous' Revelations Point to UK Intelligence Motives
Karin Brothers | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Sergei Skripal was a former Russian double agent for Britain. After a high-profile spy swap in 2010, he lived in Salisbury, England, near his former MI6 handler, Pablo Miller, who he reportedly kept in touch with. | Late in the …
globalresearch.ca/skripal-poisoning-anonymous-revelations-point-uk-intelligence-motives/5685778
Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia
Alice Slater | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
August 6th and 9th mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Today, …
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-unlearned-time-tell-truth-about-us-relations-russia/5685824
Russia Needs Its Own Bernie Sanders
Nadezhda Azhgikhina | thenation.com | 2019-08-07
Russia Needs Its Own Bernie Sanders…
thenation.com/article/russia-bernie-sanders/
Land and Freedom
subMedia | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-07
ia601406.us.archive.org/32/items/trouble211080p/Trouble21_360p.mp4 From the genocidal aftermath of Columbus' accidental "discovery" of the New World, to the ever-deeper encroachments of Israeli settlements into the West Bank — five hundred years of European colonialism has cast a long shadow over this world. Colonization, in its supreme arrogance, carved up the globe according to the imperial logic of accumulation, …
Explosions in three states highlight dangers of aging fossil fuel infrastructure
Sharon Kelly | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-07
On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge's Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman, Lisa Denise Derringer, and injured at least five others. Flames towered 300 feet high when the 30-inch diameter pipe ruptured at 1 a.m. and forced at least 75 people to evacuate. "We …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/07/explosions-in-three-states-highlight-dangers-of-aging-fossil-fuel-infrastructure/
Wired's Gee-Whiz High-Tech Militarism
Julianne Tveten | fair.org | 2019-08-07
by Julianne Tveten | A deluge of major Western publications stated last month that the US destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman (e.g., New York Times, 7/18/19; NPR, 7/19/19; NBC News, 7/18/19). Citing unproven reports from Don…
fair.org/home/wireds-gee-whiz-high-tech-militarism/
"Toni Morrison will always be with us": Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni & Sonia Sanchez pay tribute
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-07
Toni Morrison, one of the nation's most influential writers, died this week at the age of 88 from complications of pneumonia. In 1993, Morrison became the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her classic work "Beloved." Much of Morrison's writing focused on …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/07/toni-morrison-will-always-be-with-us-angela-davis-nikki-giovanni-sonia-sanchez-pay-tribute/
"Toni Morrison Will Always Be with Us": Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni & Sonia Sanchez Pay Tribute
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-07
Toni Morrison, one of the nation's most influential writers, died this week at the age of 88 from complications of pneumonia. In 1993, Morrison became the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her classic work "Beloved." Much of Morrison's writing focused on the Black female experience in America, and her writing style honored the rhythms of Black oral tradition. Her work was deeply concerned with race and history, especially the sin of transatlantic slavery and the potentially restorative power of community. In 2012, President Obama awar…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/7/remembering_toni_morrison
China Just Went Nuclear in the Trade War, and There Is No Turning Back Now
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
When will Americans start to wake up and realize what is happening? At the end of last week, President Trump announced that the U.S. would be imposing a 10 percent tariff on 300 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports, and …
globalresearch.ca/china-just-went-nuclear-trade-war-no-turning-back-now/5685836
"On a Scale of 1-10, It's an 11" — Wall Street Reacts to China's Retaliation
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
One day after China finally snapped, and demonstratively refused to intervene and keep the CNH above 7.00 vs the dollar, escalating the trade war into a currency war, stocks are tumbling and Wall Street analysts — all of whom had …
globalresearch.ca/scale-1-10-its-11-wall-street-reacts-china-retaliation/5685801
Trump's China Trade War Increases Risk of Recession
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-07
Trump accuses China of currency manipulation because their currency devalued in the wake of his tariffs. However, as Bill Black explains, this accusation has no basis in fact. Instead, Trump's trade war only increases the likelihood of a recession…
therealnews.com/stories/trumps-china-trade-war-increases-risk-of-recession
This Iranian War Vet Has Some Advice for Trump: Don't Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess
Habib Ahmadzadeh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Dear President Trump, | In a recent Tweet, you claimed that "Iranians never won a war, but never lost a negotiation." As a world citizen and a veteran of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, I have firsthand experience with the bitterness of …
globalresearch.ca/iranian-war-vet-has-some-advice-trump-dont-play-checkers-grandmasters-chess/5685775
Will Germany Become the Military Power it Once Was?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-07
Annette Groth discusses the three demands by the U.S to Germany to increase its military power and presence overseas, and the new right-wing minister of defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. For now Germany is loathe to send troops or ships to Syria or Hormuz, but Kramp-Karrenbauer has already announced her intention to increase military spending to 2%…
therealnews.com/stories/will-germany-become-the-military-power-it-once-was
Syrian Security Confiscates Armored Vehicles, Weapons, Captagon, Drugs
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Syrian security units and Syrian Arab Army units operating in Hama northern countryside, northwest of Syria, and Daraa countryside, south of Syria, had a busy day busting, discovering, and confiscating large stashes of weapons, munition, gears, armored vehicles, illicit drugs …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-security-confiscates-armored-vehicles-weapons-captagon-drugs/5685732
Video: Collapse of Ceasefire, Syrian Military Vows to Resume Operations Against Al Qaeda Militants
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
The new ceasefire agreement designed to cease hostilities in northwestern Hama and southern Idlib has just collapsed. | On August 3, the leader of Hay'at Tahir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), Abu Mohammad al-Julani, announced that his group would not withdraw …
globalresearch.ca/video-collapse-of-ceasefire-syrian-military-vows-to-resume-operations-against-al-qaeda-militants/5685745
UN Afghan Mission 'outraged' by deadly Taliban attack in Kabul, as hardline group threatens election violence
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-07
The UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed outrage at a Taliban attack in Kabul, that led to "scores" of civilians casualties on Wednesday. In a Tweet, the Mission said that such "indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks in heavily populated civilian areas must stop".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043851
Caught in the Strait. Britain's Confrontation with Iran
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
It is clear that the United Kingdom could not have thought this through. Was it a touch of the Suez jitters, the haunting syndrome of 1956 leaving a false impression that the Old Empire still had it? To taunt a …
globalresearch.ca/caught-strait/5685794
General strike signals entry of working class into Hong Kong protests
wsws.org | 2019-08-07
The mass protests in Hong Kong, which have continued for more than two months, are part of the resurgence of the working class internationally.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/07/pers-a07.html
Layoffs in global auto industry hit Mexico, India, China and the US
wsws.org | 2019-08-07
Global automakers are destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs as sales fall and a brutal competition unfolds to dominate the market for electric vehicles and other new technologies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/07/jobs-a07.html
Sri Lankan parliamentary parties back extension of emergency rule
wsws.org | 2019-08-07
The endorsement came four days after President Sirisena declared that the railways and public transport were essential services, effectively banning strikes in those sectors.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/07/sril-a07.html
Britain to join US naval blockade of Iran
wsws.org | 2019-08-07
The decision signifies a further intensification of the drive to war against Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/07/iran-a07.html
Selected Articles: The US-China Trade War
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-what-future-us-china-trade-war/5685810
Readings from Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the SF Bay Area
Oakland Asian Cultural Center | indybay.org | 2019-08-07
Oakland Asian Cultural Center | 388 9th St., Suite 290 | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/05/18825224.php
Watch Susan Collins Drive Away as College Student Tells Her 'More Kids Are Going to Die' Without Gun Control Legislation
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-07
When asked directly by a college student whether she would take concrete action to push for gun control legislation that could prevent the deaths of more children in mass shootings, Sen. Susan Collins got into her car and drove away from the young woman. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-08-07_at_9.41.54_am.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/07/watch-susan-collins-drive-away-college-student-tells-her-more-kids-are-going-die?cd-origin=rss
The War on Syria: Lightning Flashes in the Dark Night of War Propaganda
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
The war on Syria is a war against children, and men, and women. | It is a war against Christians, and Muslims, and civilization itself. | It is a war for terrorism and sectarianism and extremist ideologies. | It is a war for …
globalresearch.ca/lightning-flashes-dark-night-war-propaganda/5685813
Boris Johnson's Slash And Burn Brexit Cabinet
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
Priti Patel (former lobbyist for the alcohol and tobacco industries), is Boris Johnson's pick for Home Secretary/interior minister. A member of Theresa May's cabinet, but was sacked when she held 12 undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials in an effort to channel UK aid to the Israeli military. Patel suggested the UK should use the potential of food shortages in Ireland as a bargaining chip against the hard-border backstop being introduced.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/boris-johnsons-slash-and-burn-brexit-cabinet/
Israel Approves 2,300 Settler Homes in Occupied West Bank
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-06
Israel's Higher Planning Committee (HPC) approved Monday and Tuesday the construction of 2,304 illegal housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli NGO Peace Now. | RELATED: | Israel Approves 6,000 New Illegal Settler Homes in West Bank | The organization reported that 838 housing units for validation (second and…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Approves-2300-Illegal-Settler-Homes-in-Occupied-West-Bank-20190806-0026.html
Hong Kong Democracy Protestors Launch General Strike
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-06
Thousands took part in protests that shut down roads, public transportation and cancelled hundreds of flights…
therealnews.com/stories/hong-kong-democracy-protestors-launch-general-strike
Pentagon: Any Operation by Turkey into Northern Syria 'Unacceptable'
Turkish Minute | theantimedia.com | 2019-08-06
(TM) — US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be "unacceptable" and that the United States would prevent unilateral incursions, as tensions between Washington and Ankara simmer, according to Reuters. On Sunday President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan said Turkey, which already has a foothold in northwest Syria, will carry out …
Pentagon: Any Operation by Turkey into Northern Syria ‘Unacceptable’
Intensified Al Qaeda and ISIL activity in Yemen 'deeply worrying', says UN Human Rights Office
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-06
Armed groups affiliated with the Al Qaeda and ISIL terror groups, appear to have intensified their activities in Yemen, Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) declared on Tuesday, describing the situation as an example of "deeply worrying developments" that have seriously impacted civilians over the past ten days.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043801
Controversial Indian vote on Kashmir could lead to war with Pakistan
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-06
Indian MPs have passed a bill that strips statehood from the Indian-administered part of Kashmir amid an indefinite security lockdown in the disputed territory. | The government of neighbouring Pakistan has warned that these actions in the Himalayan region could lead to war. | Indian PM Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist-led government had submitted the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill for a vote by the lower house of parliament, a day after the surprise measure was introduced alongside a presidential order. | That order dissolve…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/08/06/controversial-indian-vote-on-kashmir-could-lead-to-war-with-pakistan/
Hiroshima Mayor Urges Japan to Sign Nuclear Treaty, PM Refuses
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-06
Commemorating 74 years Tuesday since the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hiroshima's mayor, Kazumi Matsui, demanded Japan join the United Nations treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. | RELATED: | North Korea Tests New Missile in Warning Message to South Korea | "I urge Japan's leaders to manifest the pacifism of t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hiroshima-Mayor-Urges-Japan-to-Sign-Nuclear-Treaty-PM-Refuses-20190806-0027.html
The Meaning of Israel's Massive Housing Demolitions in East Jerusalem
Jeff Halper | thenation.com | 2019-08-06
The Meaning of Israel's Massive Housing Demolitions in East Jerusalem…
thenation.com/article/israel-occupation-palestine-housing-east-jerusalem/
New Year's Eve reminiscing with lifelong communist Mary Gosman Scarborough
Susan Gosman | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-06
My great-aunt Mary Gosman Scarborough was born in Russia "at the time of the Czar" and was sent by her parents to America with a man, a family friend, when she was only twelve. They neglected to tell her that he was to be her husband, which exacerbated an already difficult life. Mary was a …
peoplesworld.org/article/new-years-eve-reminiscing-with-lifelong-communist-mary-gosman-scarborough/
The end of the INF treaty is a blow to global disarmament
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-06
On August 2, the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was formalized. The treaty signed in 1987 had led to the destruction of over 2,600 missiles by the U.S. and Russia | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/06/the-end-of-the-inf-treaty-is-a-blow-to-global-disarmament/
US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman submits resignation
rt.com | 2019-08-06
US Ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman, has resigned from his post effective October 3. Huntsman has been ambassador since 2017. | …
rt.com/usa/465903-us-ambassador-russia-resigns/
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok suing government over firing for anti-Trump texts
rt.com | 2019-08-06
Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who worked on the Trump-Russia "collusion" probe and was dismissed after his personal anti-Trump texts were revealed, is suing the government over his firing. | …
rt.com/usa/465925-peter-strzok-suing-fbi/
China-US Trade War: From Buenos Aires to Osaka and Beyond
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-06
This past June 29, 2019 Trump and China president, Xi, met again at the G20 in Japan in the midst of a potential further escalating trade war. Has anything changed as a result of their meeting? Or is it just deja vu of their prior G20 meeting in Buenos Aires on December 2, 2018? In…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/06/china-us-trade-war-from-buenos-aires-to-osaka-and-beyond/
Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Keep Climbing During the ICC's Summer Break
Mohammed Harun Arsalai, Mohsin Khan Momand | thenation.com | 2019-08-06
Mohammed Harun Arsalai, Mohsin Khan Momand Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Keep Climbing During the ICC's Summer Break…
thenation.com/article/afghanistan-war-crimes-us-international-criminal-court/
China Isn't the Economic Manipulator in This Trade War. Trump Is
Jeffrey D. Sachs | commondreams.org | 2019-08-06
A bank employee counts US currency and Chinese currency notes at a bank on August 6, 2019 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province of China. The onshore exchange rate of the Chinese currency fell beyond 7 per US dollar on August 5. (Photo: Xu Jinbai/VCG via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/china_currency.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/06/china-isnt-economic-manipulator-trade-war-trump?cd-origin=rss
Philippines President to Raise South China Sea Issue With Xi
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-06
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced Tuesday he plans to discuss the 2016 ruling over the South China Sea with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping next time they meet. | RELATED: | China, Philippines Reach Consensus on South China Sea | "Remember that I said before that there will be a time when I will invoke that arbitral ruling," Salvador Panelo, a presidential spokesperson asked at a press briefing in Manila, quoting Duterte. | Duterte refers to a ruling by the Permanent Co…
telesurenglish.net/news/Philippines-President-to-Raise-South-China-Sea-Issue-With-Xi-20190806-0033.html
Venezuelan Military Under Cyber Spies Attack: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-06
A cyber-espionage group dubbed as Machete has been stealing files from the Venezuelan army, according to a report published Monday by IT security company, ESET. | RELATED: | Iran Says It Dismantled a US Cyber Espionage Network | ESET said it observed no less than 50 hacked computers between March and May within Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Colombia, but 75 percent of the computers infected by Machete servers were based in Venezuela. | The group has been active for nine years now a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuelan-military-Under-Cyber-Spies-Attack-Report-20190806-0024.html