En defensa de Palestina
Editor | workers.org | 2019-08-27
La cuestión de la Palestina ocupada volvió a ocupar un lugar central en la prensa mundial cuando dos mujeres miembros de la Brigada del Congreso -Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) y Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)- le fueron negadas inicialmente el derecho a entrar a Israel por su fascista Primer Ministro Benjamin Netanyahu el . . . | Continue reading En defensa de Palestina at Workers.org…
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Trump Pressures Israel to Deny Entry to Two Members of Congress
Calvin Trillin | thenation.com | 2019-08-27
Trump Pressures Israel to Deny Entry to Two Members of Congress…
thenation.com/article/tlaib-omar-israel-entry/

The G7 Countries Look Feeble—Iran and Brazil Could Shore Them Up
Vijay Prashad | commondreams.org | 2019-08-27
Macron's liberalism—like that of Canada's Justin Trudeau—is on thin ice. (Photo: Rita Franca/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-1164296903.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/27/g7-countries-look-feeble-iran-and-brazil-could-shore-them?cd-origin=rss

'Complete political deadlock' over Middle East peace risks more violence, regional escalation, warns UN envoy
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-27
Tangible steps "can, and must, be taken" to urgently reverse the "negative trajectory" of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and revive the peace process, a senior United Nations envoy told the Security Council on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1045011

Peace Journalism for the Koreas Negotiations
Jake Lynch | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-27
"Do not demonise North Korea. Demons do not negotiate. If there are no negotiations, there will be war." The words of Chung-in Moon to journalists who gathered for the Korea Press Foundation journalism conference in Seoul, last October, as diplomatic efforts were being stepped up for a second summit meeting between Kim Jong Un and…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/27/peace-journalism-for-the-koreas-negotiations/

Taunting the Dragon: Background to US-China Trade War and Hong Kong Protests
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
The Hong Kong protests are escalating, just as the US-China trade war is also escalating. None of this is out of the blue. For quite some time now, the US has been shifting the focus of its hegemonic and imperial …
globalresearch.ca/us-china-trade-war-hong-kong-protests/5687335

Hong Kong and the Audacity of the United States
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-27
People often ask and hint at the similarities between the Hong Kong protests and the French Yellow Vests. The former started on 31 March and are approaching their 19th week. The Yellow Vests (YV) have celebrated last weekend their 40th week of protests. As of recently some voices of Macron-infiltrates into the YV movement — …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/hong-kong-and-the-audacity-of-the-united-states/

Hong Kong: Their Head-Bashers … and "Ours"
Thomas S. Harrington | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-27
I don't claim to know enough about the situation Hong Kong to render a definite opinion about the true sources of the citizen uprising there. My sense, however, is that while the roots of protest movement are probably largely indigenous, the US has opportunistically latched itself on to the cause of the protestors, and is probably providing them with logistical aid, because it sees this as a way of giving its prime geopolitical rival a big black eye.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/27/hong-kong-their-head-bashers-and-ours/

Israel's Infamous USS Liberty Attack
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
Throughout Israel's history, its ruling authorities have been responsible for virtually every form of indignity, degradation, barbarity, and other high crimes of war and against humanity imaginable. | Palestinians suffered most from the theft of 78% of their historic homeland in …
globalresearch.ca/israels-infamous-uss-liberty-attack/5687348

G7 Nations at Odds on Iran? Macron to Lead G7 Discussions with Tehran in Defiance of Washington?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
The short answer is yes and no. | G7 nations Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and US are united in one respect. They're profoundly undemocratic while pretending otherwise. | They're united for privileged interests over beneficial social change. They operate …
globalresearch.ca/g7-nations-at-odds-on-iran-macron-to-lead-g7-discussions-with-tehran-in-defiance-of-washington/5687246

Does Israel Interfere in American Elections?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
Does anyone remember what the Mueller investigation was all about? It was to determine whether the team surrounding candidate and then president-elect Donald Trump had colluded with a foreign power, presumed to be Russia. | It did not discover any such …
globalresearch.ca/does-israel-interfere-american-elections/5687279

New campaign website calls for a boycott of Turkey
Tom Anderson | thecanary.co | 2019-08-27
A new website is calling for a boycott of Turkey in solidarity with the Rojava revolution and the Kurdish Freedom movement. | Boycott 'Turkish fascism': | Turkey has long been oppressing its Kurdish population, as well as other minorities who do not identify as Turk…
thecanary.co/opinion/2019/08/27/new-campaign-website-calls-for-a-boycott-of-turkey/

The Week Trump Hit Peak Megalomania
Peter Bolton | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-27
The fact that Trump is an egomaniac hardly constitutes news. Before becoming president his professional life was characterized by a succession of attention-seeking vanity projects. Through his career as a property developer, he oversaw the construction of a series of gaudy buildings, which stand as monuments to kitsch in locations as diverse as Panama, Uruguay,…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/27/the-week-trump-hit-peak-megalomania/

Landmark victory: Johnson & Johnson forced to pay $572 million for their role in the opioid epidemic
Alexandra Jacobo | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-27
With still thousands of cases pending against Big Pharma companies for their role in the opioid epidemic, a landmark ruling in Oklahoma is holding one company accountable. | A judge in Oklahoma, where the first lawsuit filed against opioid makers and distributors went to trial, has ruled that Johnson and Johnson must pay $572 million for its part in flooding the state with opioids. | The state of Oklahoma had previously settled with other drug manufacturers Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceutical earlier this year. | "Those actions compromised the health and safety of thousands of Oklahomans," said Judge Thad Ba…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/27/landmark-victory-johnson-johnson-forced-to-pay-572-million-for-their-role-in-the-opioid-epidemic/

Stripped of Their Rights
aclu.org | 2019-08-27
In 2011, guards at an Illinois prison violated the constitution when they carried out a mass strip-search of incarcerated women. | In March 2011, a tactical team of guards at a state prison in Lincoln, Illinois gathered 200 women and ushered them into a gymnasium, where they were brought in small groups into a separate room nearby. Inside that room, they were told to strip naked in plain view of other guards, cadets, and civilians, without any explanation. Women on their periods were ordered to remove their tampons and sanitary pads. One-by-one, each woman was ordered to lift her breasts, cough and squat, and dis…
aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/women-prison/stripped-their-rights

Timor-Leste (East Timor): From Genocide to Democracy
Pamela Sexton | indybay.org | 2019-08-27
Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825734.php

Israel has attacked Lebanon and Syria: So what?
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-27
On August 25th, 2019, Israel attacked Lebanon. It has done it again. Just as it attacked Syria, the same night. RT reported the same day: Israeli drone flights were "an open attack on Lebanese sovereignty" and an assault on UN Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, Hariri said on Sunday, just hours after …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/israel-has-attacked-lebanon-and-syria-so-what/

Video: Military Escalation in the Middle East. Israel Carries Out Strikes on Syria, Lebanon and Iraq
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
The situation in the Middle East is once again escalating. | On August 24, Israeli warplanes bombed what the Israeli military described as 'Iranian targets' near the town of Aqraba south of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The Syrian air-defense forces intercepted …
globalresearch.ca/video-israel-carries-out-strikes-syria-lebanon-iraq/5687283

Israel launches airstrikes against Iraq, Syria and Lebanon
wsws.org | 2019-08-27
The wave of attacks across the region is linked to both the US offensive against Iran and Netanyahu's re-election campaign.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/27/isra-a27.html

Israeli attacks provoke Iran, Hezbollah — and could help jihadists
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-27
With its bombings of Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, is Israel trying to stop an attack from Iran and its allies,…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/27/israeli-attacks-provoke-iran-hezbollah-and-could-help-jihadists/

Orangutans 'could hold key to how human speech evolved'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-27
Orangutans can control their voice in a similar way to humans, with new research suggesting they may hold the key to how human speech evolved. | Scientists from the University of St Andrews and Indianapolis Zoo gathered a unique insight into the language similarities while studying great apes. | They worked alongside animal care staff at the zoo in the state of Indiana, home to one of the largest groups of orangutans in any American zoo, to analyse 11-year-old Rocky and 36-year-old Knobi. | Both orangutans were given a basic music instrument — a membranophone, such as a kazoo — and used their voice to…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/08/27/orangutans-could-hold-key-to-how-human-speech-evolved/

US Steel to lay off 150 workers in Indiana as Trump administration escalates trade war
wsws.org | 2019-08-27
The announcement of the layoffs in East Chicago follows US Steel's declaration earlier this month that up to 200 workers will lose their jobs at its Great Lakes Works facility outside Detroit.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/27/usst-a27.html

India's Kashmir Gambit Fulfills the Hindu Nationalist Agenda
Amitabh Pal | progressive.org | 2019-08-27
"Now Modi is the leader of a billion people who stand solidly with him."
progressive.org/dispatches/indias-kashmir-gambit-fulfills-hindu-nationalist-agenda-pal-190826/

India's Kashmir Gambit Fulfills the Hindu Nationalist Agenda
Amitabh Pal | commondreams.org | 2019-08-27
The rightwing populist project beleaguering our planet is taking its toll around the world. (Photo: gSrikar) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/modi.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/27/indias-kashmir-gambit-fulfills-hindu-nationalist-agenda?cd-origin=rss

The US announces provocative arms sale to Taiwan
wsws.org | 2019-08-27
The $8 billion sale of 66 F-16V fighter jets is the first such deal since the administration of President George H.W. Bush approved the sale of 150 fighter jets to Taiwan in 1992.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/27/taiw-a27.html

Will Netanyahu annex Jewish Settlements prior to September elections?
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-08-27
Israelis will go to ballot boxes, on September 17 snap elections, to elect the 120 members of the Knesset. In the prior elections in April 2019, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to secure a relative majority and did not succeed in forming a coalition government, the first such failure in Israel's history. Now Netanyahu …
uwidata.com/5093-will-netanyahu-annex-jewish-settlements-prior-to-september-elections/

Jewish professor Norman Finkelstein explains the weird love affair between antisemites and Israel
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2019-08-27
Correction: We deleted the original version of this article at 11.30am on 23 August, after it had been published the previous evening. We made the extremely rare decision to take the article down because we got the original headline — Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein says 'Israel is a nation of murderers' loved by the far right — very wrong. This decision was triggered during an internal review by senior editors. | Specifically, we felt it was wrong to use Professor Finkelstein's quote in the headline without context or challenge. It gave the impression that all Israeli citizens were culpable for the a…
thecanary.co/exclusive/2019/08/27/jewish-professor-norman-finkelstein-explains-the-weird-love-affair-between-antisemites-and-israel/

Donald Trump's Anti-Semitism and the Media's Own
Jacob Bacharach | truthdig.com | 2019-08-27
When it comes to American Jews critical of Israel, the political press has more in common with the president than it might care to admit.
truthdig.com/articles/donald-trumps-anti-semitism-and-the-medias-own/

France upstages Trump at G7 by inviting Iran to salvage nuclear deal
Juan Cole | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-27
Trump breached the Iran deal in 2017, slapped severe sanctions on Iran and then went around the world strong-arming countries not to buy Iran's petroleum.
nationofchange.org/2019/08/27/france-upstages-trump-at-g7-by-inviting-iran-to-salvage-nuclear-deal/

In a Major Shift, South Korea Defies Its Alliance With Japan
Tim Shorrock | thenation.com | 2019-08-27
In a Major Shift, South Korea Defies Its Alliance With Japan…
thenation.com/article/south-korea-japan-cold-war/

The Putin-Erdogan Summit Will Influence the Syrian End Game
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
Turkish President Erdogan's visit to Moscow on 27 August will see him and his Russian counterpart hashing out the details of the Syrian end game. | The kinetic (military) phase of the War on Syria is rapidly drawing to a close | …
globalresearch.ca/putin-erdogan-summit-influence-syrian-end-game/5687286

Upshots and Unintended Consequences of Africa's Nuclear Energy Ambitions
Gerard Boyce | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
Earlier this month, cash-strapped Zimbabwe announced that it had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia to engage in uranium exploration and enrichment with a view to the possibility of generating nuclear energy in future. In so doing, it joined | …
globalresearch.ca/upshots-unintended-consequences-africa-nuclear-energy-ambitions/5687338

Russia launches floating nuclear power plant amid new "scramble for the Arctic"
wsws.org | 2019-08-27
The launching of the Akademik Lomonosov platform is part of an effort by the Kremlin to significantly expand its infrastructure in the region.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/27/arct-a27.html

Anti-China Witch-hunt Targets Australian Universities
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
On August 21, the Australian government convened a "crisis meeting" with representatives of the universities and the intelligence agencies, as part of a hysterical campaign alleging pervasive "Chinese influence" throughout society. | Little has been revealed about what was discussed at …
globalresearch.ca/anti-china-witch-hunt-targets-australian-universities/5687241

Annual Chicano Moratorium program set for August 29
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-27
Los Angeles, CA – A commemoration event honoring the 1970 Chicano moratorium will take place in Boyle Heights, Thursday, August 29, 6 to 9 p.m., at Self Help Graphics, 1300 E. First Street, Los Angeles. | The event marks the August 29, 1970 Chicano moratorium, which included over 30,000 Chicanos and supporters marching against the Vietnam War. The large march ended with a rally at Laguna Park – now known as Ruben Salazar Park. The moratorium was against the Vietnam War, against the high casualty rate of Chicanos, against police terror and against racism. East LA Sheriffs and the LAPD would turn the Chicano Morato…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/27/annual-chicano-moratorium-program-set-august-29

Hong Kong & The Termination of Cathay's Flight Attendant Ass. Pres. Rebecca Sy
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-08-27
Rebecca Sy, president of Cathay Dragon's Flight Attendants Association discusses her firing and the growing repression against working people in Hong Kong. She. also discusses the social conditions of the working class in Hong Kong.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825713.php

Rejecting Idea of 'Photo Op' Diplomacy With Trump, Iran's Rouhani Says No Talks Unless US Sanctions Lifted
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-27
"It's possible with PhotoShop—but not in reality. Unless the U.S. removes all the sanctions—then there will be a new situation for us to consider." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/rouhani_lift_sanctions.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/27/rejecting-idea-photo-op-diplomacy-trump-irans-rouhani-says-no-talks-unless-us?cd-origin=rss

The Myth America Tells Itself About Afghanistan
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-08-27
This piece originally appeared on antiwar.com. | Here we go again. The typically underreported non-news of Orwellian America. This week, two more U.S. soldiers — Green Berets — were killed in a firefight with the Taliban in Faryab province, just another hopeless corner of rural Afghanistan. The two posthumously promoted Master Sergeants represented the 15th and 16th American deaths in the country…
truthdig.com/articles/the-myth-america-tells-itself-about-afghanistan/

We Are Not Fooled By The Hong Kong Protests
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-26
Agnes Chow and Nathan Law accept the 2018 Lantos Human Rights Prize on behalf of Joshua Wong in Washington, DC. (Facebook) Update: Protests continued in Hong Kong this weekend. The protesters returned to the use of violence and the police responded. The South China Morning Post reported: In a now familiar pattern, the protesters threw …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/we-are-not-fooled-by-the-hong-kong-protests/

Foreign Correspondent: What is the U.S. Role in the Hong Kong Protests?
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2019-08-26
Despite legitimate concern over economic inequality there, the movement has pro-Western elements and has been encouraged by Washington in familiar, odious ways.
progressive.org/dispatches/foreign-correspondent-us-role-hong-kong-protests-erlich-190826/

Hong Kong protests continue into twelfth week
wsws.org | 2019-08-26
Clashes with police took place involving for the first time the use of water cannon as well as tear gas and batons as police attempted to disperse protesters.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/26/hong-a26.html

"Hereby Ordered": On Trump, Capital, Fascism, and China in a World on Fire
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-26
I am hearing whispers from lefties that "the ruling class is finally done with Trump." It's "the China stuff" that's doing the trick. Sure, the argument goes, the corporate and financial powers that be haven't been all that happy with Trump's open white nationalism, racism, narcissism, and sexism. It's not their style. But they've been willing to put up with Trump's noxious nonsense because he's rewarded them with plutocratic tax cuts and de-regulation. The presidents' immigrant-bashing awfulness has kept his "heartland" base loyal to a president who knows (despite all his insanity) which constituency matters mos…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/26/hereby-ordered-on-trump-capital-fascism-and-china-in-a-world-on-fire/

US and Israeli Collectors Buy Up What Remains of Yemen's Ancient Heritage
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-26
Saada's old city, which is among the world's oldest human-carved landscapes, once consisted entirely of historic, centuries-old multi-story homes. Now, it has been wiped out, after Saudi Arabia declared it a military zone — even the city's hand-carved wooden doors have been reduced to ashes.
mintpressnews.com/us-israel-collectors-buy-yemen-ancient-historic-sites/261519/

Britain sold more than £6 billion in arms for Saudi-led coalition's deadly war in Yemen
wsws.org | 2019-08-26
British-built aircraft, bombs and missiles have been used to target civilians in breach of the UK arms export law that bans the sale of arms or munitions to a state that is at "clear risk" of committing serious violations of international humanitarian law.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/26/arms-a26.html

The End of the Greater Middle East Project: The Case of Kurdistan
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-08-26
Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential elections has had dire implications for the American "Greater Middle East" project which has guided US foreign policy in the Middle East since it was first put forward in 2003. Trump's reorientation toward internal US problems (migration, economy, protectionism), the emergence of new geopolitical rivals (China and Iran) …
uwidata.com/5067-the-end-of-the-greater-middle-east-project-the-case-of-kurdistan/

'They've got it all wrong!' Trump says entire G7 laughing at US 'fake news'
rt.com | 2019-08-26
With their 'inaccurate' coverage of his meetings with world leaders, the US 'fake news' media have become the laughing stock of the G7 summit in France, US President Donald Trump has claimed. | "In France we are all laughing at how knowingly inaccurate the US reporting of events and conversations at the G-7 is," Trump tweeted on Sunday evening. "These Leaders, and many others, are getting a major case study of Fake News at it's (sic) finest!" | They've got it all wrong, from Iran, to China Tariffs, to Boris! | In France we are all laughing at how knowingly inaccurate the U.S. reporting of events and conversati…
rt.com/usa/467281-trump-fake-news-g7/

Germany: A politically motivated verdict in Chemnitz refugee trial
wsws.org | 2019-08-26
A 24-year-old refugee from Syria has been jailed for years, so that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the extremist mob, which rampaged in Chemnitz last summer, can claim their victim.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/26/alaa-a26.html

Trump and the Climate Crisis–a Crime Against Humanity
Mel Gurtov | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-26
The President of the United States is a criminal. I'm not referring to the twenty-odd investigations of him currently underway for violations of the Constitution, obstruction of justice, and collaboration with the Russian election attack, among other misdeeds. No, I'm referring to his and his administration's intentional and reckless pursuit of national policies that condemn…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/26/trump-and-the-climate-crisis-a-crime-against-humanity/

Sri Lankan authorities must work 'vigorously' to ease simmering ethno-religious tensions, urges UN rights expert
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-26
A United Nations human rights expert warned on Monday that Sri Lankan authorities must take urgent action to strengthen respect for freedom of religion or belief and address simmering ethno-religious tensions.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1044931

"The Situation Was Very Bad": Feminist Activist Kavita Krishnan on What She Saw in Kashmir
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-26
In Kashmir, residents have entered their fourth week of a severe lockdown after India revoked the special status of the Indian-controlled part of the Muslim-majority territory. On August 5, India imposed a curfew and cut off all communications to the region. More than 4,000 people, including many political leaders, have been detained, while local residents report facing increasing shortages of food and medicine. Over the weekend, India blocked a delegation of Indian opposition politicians from visiting Kashmir, including Rahul Gandhi, the former president of the Indian National Congress. India's actions have led…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/26/kavita_krishnan_india_kashmir_special_status