The Downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17: The Quest for Truth and Justice. Review of the Evidence
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
The MH17 Inquiry has been conducted in an insidious fashion. Important pieces of evidence including eye witness reports, audio & video material transmitted through Ukraine Intelligence (SBU) have been manipulated or excluded from the Dutch inquiry, which largely endorses Washington's accusations directed against Moscow.
globalresearch.ca/the-downing-of-malaysian-airlines-mh17-the-quest-for-truth-and-justice/5684127

Jackie Chan Vows to Defend China Flag amid Hong Kong Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Martial arts star Jackie Chan, a Hong Kong native, has vowed to defend China's national flag against opposition protesters. His recent declaration on social media site Weibo, and during a TV interview on Tuesday, has become a trending topic on social media in the mainland. | RELATED: | Hong Kong: US Flags-Wielding Protesters Occupy Airport, Assault Chinese Journalist | Jackie Chan says he spoke out due to an incident in early August, whereby Hong Kong protest…
telesurenglish.net/news/I-Love-My-Country-Jackie-Chan-Vows-to-Defend-China-Flag-amid-Hong-Kong-Protests-20190814-0008.html

Hong Kong Protest Withdraws From Airport, but Situation Remains far From Normal
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-14
The mostly leaderless movement for Hong Kong's democratization withdrew from the airport, allowing flights to resume, but the situation remains unresolved as long as protesters and government fail to come to an agreement on reforms. We speak to Sean Starrs in Hong Kong…
therealnews.com/stories/hong-kong-protest-withdraws-from-airport-but-situation-remains-far-from-normal

Hong Kong protests met with denunciations and threats
wsws.org | 2019-08-14
The muted response to the threats of Chinese intervention reflects fear in ruling circles internationally that events in Hong Kong could be replicated in cities around the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/14/hong-a14.html

Kashmir Could Become the New Palestine
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-14
On August 5, India's Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill in the Indian Parliament. The bill divides the Indian State into two parts: the Union Territory of Ladakh and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. | The Legislative Assembly in the state has been suspended. Its elected officials have been placed under house arrest. The press has been gagged, protests have been violently disbanded, and social media has been shut down. | A bill in parliament suggests the normal function of democracy; the actual situation on the ground in Jammu and Kashmir is undemocratic. | T.K. R…
truthdig.com/articles/kashmir-could-become-the-new-palestine/

John Bolton Visit — Forcing Britain's Hand over Huawei, Iran and China before Trade Deal
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
There were many public protests with the arrival of Donald Trump to the shores of Britain and contrary to his own beliefs, Trump is not well-liked at all by ordinary British citizens. What was strange though was the fact that …
globalresearch.ca/john-bolton-visit-forcing-britain-hand-over-huawei-iran-china-before-trade-deal/5686408

End the Genocide in #Yemen
Yemeni Alliance Committee | indybay.org | 2019-08-14
Outside Federal Building — office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi | 90 7th St. | San Francisco, CA 94103…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/13/18825458.php

United States and Turkey Agree to a Syrian "Safe Zone," Betraying the Kurds
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-14
Baris Karaagac discusses how the U.S allowed the Turkish government seize land in northern Syria to counter Russian and Iranian influence in spite of former Kurdish allies…
therealnews.com/stories/united-states-and-turkey-agree-to-a-syrian-safe-zone-betraying-the-kurds

Presidential Hopefuls Hit the Trail in Iowa: A Photo Essay
Norman Stockwell | progressive.org | 2019-08-14
Twenty-one candidates came through the Iowa State Fair for a weekend of "straw" polls, soapbox speeches, and a turkey leg or two.
progressive.org/dispatches/presidential-hopefuls-iowa-davis-stockwell-190814/

Cyntoia Brown — free at last!
Editor | workers.org | 2019-08-14
Cyntoia Brown, an African-American woman who was incarcerated for 15 years for the "crime" of self-defense, was finally freed Aug. 7 from a Nashville, Tenn., prison. Brown, now 31 years old, was granted clemency on Jan. 7 by former Gov. Bill Haslam. A Workers World article from Jan. 15 explains . . . | Continue reading Cyntoia Brown — free at last! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/08/14/cyntoia-brown-free-at-last/

Footage Captures NATO Intercept Attempt of Plane Carrying Russian Defense Minister
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Russia's Defense Ministry has published dramatic video Tuesday showing another close encounter between its military planes and NATO jets over the Baltic Sea, but this time it involved a dangerous intercept as the NATO aircraft came just off the wing …
globalresearch.ca/footage-captures-nato-intercept-attempt-plane-carrying-russian-defense-minister/5686410

Russian Blast Points to Danger of New Nuclear Arms Race
Jeremy Kuzmarov | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
On Thursday August 8th, an explosion at the Nenoksa Missile test site in northern Russia during testing of a new type of nuclear propelled cruise missile resulted in the death of at least seven people, including scientists and was followed by a spike in radiation in the atmosphere. Analysts in Washington and Europe are of the belief that the explosion may offer a glimpse of technological weaknesses in Russia's new arms program.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/14/russian-blast-points-to-danger-of-new-nuclear-arms-race/

It's Not Anti-Semitic to Criticize Israel: Bernie Sanders
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
To criticize the Israeli government does not make you antisemitic, United States Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire Wednesday. | RELATED: | 'United Struggle Against United Oppressors': Pro-Palestine BDS Stands in Solidarity With Kashmir | During the meeting, an audience member commented she felt "really let down by politicians who only represent a Jewish voice that is completely uncrit…
telesurenglish.net/news/Not-AntiSemitic-to-Criticize-Israel-Bernie-Sanders-20190814-0018.html

The Next Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nuclear Weapons and US — Japan — China Relations
Gregory Kulacki | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Japan was the first, the last and the only nation to be attacked with nuclear weapons. If it continues along the path set by Prime Minister Abe and the national security bureaucrats of his Liberal Democrat Party (LDP), it may …
globalresearch.ca/next-hiroshima-nagasaki/5686380

Why Gold Prices Are About to Skyrocket Even Higher
Charles Kennedy | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
The gold bears have finally caved under the deafening barrage of fiscal and geopolitical catalysts, from Fed hints to intensely brewing conflict with Iran. But there is one key trend that stands to push gold up beyond $1,700–regardless of the …
globalresearch.ca/why-gold-prices-about-skyrocket-even-higher/5686403

Australia's Pacific Play: Denying Climate Change and Boosting China's Threat
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Australia has always nursed a contradictory, repressive relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Being a satrap of great powers, it has performed the role of gate keeper and monitor of regional instability, a condescending, often paternalistic agent. At stages, it has …
globalresearch.ca/australias-pacific-play-denying-climate-change-boosting-china-threat/5686391

Coffee, Cacao Combat Chronic Heart Disease, Cancer
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Eating flavonoids, certain nutrients found in plants, might help humans live longer, especially those who smoke and drink, according to a new study by researchers at the Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia. | RELATED: | Trade War: China Suspends Purchases of US Agricultural Products | Scientists have been discovering the health benefits of flavonoids over the past two decades. However, this study, conducted by the ECU's School of Medical and Health Sciences, is the first…
telesurenglish.net/news/Coffee-Cacao-Combat-Chronic-Heart-Disease-Cancer-20190814-0016.html

The new Cold War against China
Fred Goldstein | workers.org | 2019-08-14
During the Cold War and the struggle that put the USSR and China on one side and imperialism, headed by Washington, on the other, revolutionaries used to characterize the conflict as a class war between two irreconcilable social systems. On one side was the socialist camp, based upon socialized property, . . . | Continue reading The new Cold War against China at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/08/14/the-new-cold-war-against-china/

Stacey Abrams Applauded for #FairFight2020 Initiative Against Voter Suppression
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-14
| After experiencing firsthand how voter suppression impacts elections in her narrowly unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial race against Republican Brian Kemp, Stacey Abrams on Tuesday launched an initiative aimed at bolstering voter protections nationwide ahead of the 2020 elections. | "There are only two things stopping us in 2020: that people have…
truthout.org/articles/stacey-abrams-applauded-for-fairfight2020-initiative-against-voter-suppression/

Saudi Woman Activist Refuses to Deny Torture in Prison
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Imprisoned women's rights activist Loujain Hathloul rejected Saudi Arabia's proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video statement denying reports she was tortured in custody, her family said Tuesday. | RELATED: | Nicki Minaj Cancels Saudi Concert Citing Women, LGBT Rights | Hathloul, along with at least a dozen other women's rights activists, was arrested over a year ago as Saudi Arabia ended a ban on women driving cars, which many of the detainees had lon…
telesurenglish.net/news/Saudi-Govt-Offer-to-Release-Woman-Activist-If-She-Keeps-Mum-on-Being-Tortured-20190814-0007.html

Why Kashmir is suddenly a potential global point of conflict
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-08-13
Before India's Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill in the Indian Parliament, his government sent tens of thousands of Indian troops into Kashmir. There is no official number, but it is often said that there are nearly 600,000 Indian troops in the state. That a population of 12 million people […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/13/why-kashmir-is-suddenly-a-potential-global-point-of-conflict/

'Debate me!' Ocasio-Cortez wades into Barstool Sports feud with unions
rt.com | 2019-08-13
A comic dispute between labor unions advocates and satirical Barstool Sports head Dave Portnoy vowing to 'crush' them took a serious turn when AFL-CIO and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got involved. | …
rt.com/usa/466432-twitter-barstool-unions-aoc/

Most US Citizens Do Not Support President Trump's Asylum Policy
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
A Pew Research Center poll found that most U.S. citizens reject President Donald Trump's measures against asylum seekers and 72 percent of them support granting legal status to immigrants. | RELATED: | Guatemala Cannot Be 'Safe Third Country,' US Congresswoman Says | According to this study, 65 percent of respondents believe that the U.S. government is per…
telesurenglish.net/news/Most-US-Citizens-Do-Not-Support-President-Trumps-Asylum-Policy-20190813-0005.html

Tuesday's Daily Brief: Hong Kong airport disruption, Geneva Conventions at 70, new Ebola drug breakthrough, French fighters face Iraq execution; Europe pushed on stranded migrants and Aden update
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-13
Our main stories today cover: Human rights chief on chaos at Hong Kong airport; Geneva Conventions have been 'limiting brutality' for 70 years; breakthrough drug in DR Congo Ebola fight; France pushed to repatriate nationals on death row in Iraq; 'Race against time" for migrants in Mediterranean…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1044181

Coming Into His Own, With Springsteen Leading the Way
Carrie Rickey | truthdig.com | 2019-08-13
Like most teens, Javed (Viveik Kalra) struggles to define himself and find his own voice. This is more challenging for him than for his schoolmates in the working-class borough of Luton, England, in 1987, when, prefiguring the present day in the U.S. and U.K., the rising tides of Thatcherism and British nationalism polarized the nation. | The anarchic voices in the classroom are worlds away from the Punjabi-inflected English spoken at home by his parents, immigrants from Pakistan. Whipsawed between the punk rebellion of his classmates and his father's insistence that he study medicine, Javed can't hear himself th…
truthdig.com/articles/coming-into-his-own-with-springsteen-leading-the-way/

'Act with restraint' UN human rights chief urges Hong Kong authorities and protestors, following airport disruption
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-13
After two consecutive days of chaos at Hong Kong International Airport, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Michelle Bachelet expressed her concern and condemned "any form" of violence or destruction of property and urged the demonstrators to "express their views in a peaceful way".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1044141

BDS movement condemns U.S. Congress' anti-BDS resolution
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-08-13
BDS movement condemns U.S. Congress' anti-BDS resolution: UpdateThe resolution is based on lies and aims to to demonize peaceful resistance to Israel's military occupation and apartheid. | Right To BoycottJuly 23, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
bdsmovement.net/news/bds-movement-condemns-us-congress-anti-bds-resolution

Protest sit-in shuts Hong Kong international airport
wsws.org | 2019-08-13
The closure of the world's eighth biggest airport, following on from last week's general strike, marks a significant deepening of the political crisis in Hong Kong.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/13/hong-a13.html

"The next step is the Kremlin": Why Moscow protests have Putin's government worried
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-13
Up to 60,000 protesters gathered Saturday in Moscow in the largest demonstration Russia has witnessed in years. Although the protest was officially authorized, dozens of protesters were arrested in the capital, and dozens more were also arrested in demonstrations across the country. 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 Nina Khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at The New School. She is the co-author of "In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/13/the-next-step-is-the-kremlin-why-moscow-protests-have-putins-government-worried/

Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong or US Color Revolution Attempt?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
As the saying goes, if it walks, talks, and quacks like a duck, chances are it is one. | What's been going on for months in Hong Kong has all the earmarks of a US orchestrated color revolution, aimed at destabilizing …
globalresearch.ca/civil-disobedience-hong-kong-us-color-revolution-attempt/5686298

Trade War With China Is Not Going So Well For Trump
Reese Erlich | commondreams.org | 2019-08-13
China has evolved from producing food and toys to creating sophisticated AI machinery and 5G phone networks. Here a Chinese chocolate factory. (Photo: Reese Erlich) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/china_trump_trade_war.png …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/13/trade-war-china-not-going-so-well-trump?cd-origin=rss

How Voice of America Persian Became a Trump Administration PR Machine
Jordan Michael Smith | theintercept.com | 2019-08-13
As an Iranian American journalist covering the Iran-U.S. relationship, Negar Mortazavi is accustomed to receiving vitriol on social media. Still, she found it unusual when she saw on Twitter that someone had called her a "treasonous criminal" and "a spy and an enemy of the people." The tweets got darker: "If the U.S. had laws of the Middle Ages like Iran, this mouthpiece of the corrupt regime would have been executed," one read, in Farsi. | What made the tweets unusua…
theintercept.com/2019/08/13/trump-voa-persian/

Southern separatists overrun Aden, exposing fraud of US, Saudi puppet regime in Yemen
wsws.org | 2019-08-13
The clashes in Aden after more than four years of murderous war in Yemen have laid bare the failure of the US-backed Saudi campaign to establish any viable regime.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/13/yeme-a13.html

The U.S.-Backed War on Yemen Is Collapsing
Juan Cole | truthdig.com | 2019-08-13
This piece originally appeared on Informed Comment. | Yemen, a country of 28 million and one of the poorest in the world, had already become a byword for misery over the course of the last four years of war. Now, believe it or not, things have abruptly worsened. | The strategic port of Aden has fallen to southern separatists, just as it did in 1967, when the Communists took over and created the People's Republic of South Yemen. | The Southern Transitional Council took over the strategic port of Aden with four hundred armed ve…
truthdig.com/articles/the-u-s-backed-war-on-yemen-is-collapsing/

From Hong Kong to Kashmir to the US, Authoritarianism Is Rising
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-13
| Over the past couple weeks, the global pattern of authoritarianism has become particularly visible, and particularly gut-wrenching. Global politics is changing quickly, with political discourse becoming increasingly degraded and dangerous in one country after the next. | In Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's ruling party boasted of the mass book burning and destruction that it has, apparen…
truthout.org/articles/from-hong-kong-to-kashmir-to-the-us-authoritarianism-is-rising/

MSNBC and the Next Election: Racism is the Issue
Gary Leupp | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-13
After Donald Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election, the Democrats and the mainstream media they shape sought to explain the disaster as a result of Russian meddling. Such meddling, which had been alleged for months, was documented in an (unconvincing) intelligence report prepared by the lame-duck Obama administration, made public Jan. 6, 2017; Congress followed …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/msnbc-and-the-next-election-racism-is-the-issue/

Explosions at Russian military facilities leave eight dead
wsws.org | 2019-08-13
Bound up with the accelerating global arms race, blasts at a nuclear weapons testing facility in Russia's far north and an ammunitions depot in Siberia have injured dozens.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/13/russ-a13.html

How Tehran Fits into Russia-China Strategy
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Complex doesn't even begin to describe the positioning of Iran-Russia in the geopolitical chessboard. What's clear in our current, volatile moment is that they're partners, as I previously reported. Although not strategic partners, as in the Russia-China tie-up, Russia-China-Iran …
globalresearch.ca/how-tehran-fits-russia-china-strategy/5686257

World Commemorates Fidel Castro's Birthday
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Governments and social movements around the world have come together to commemorate the birthday of revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, on what would have been his 93rd birthday. | RELATED: | 60 Years of Defending Cuba Against a Barbarous Empire | On Tuesday morning, members of China's Communist Youth attended an event at the Cuban embassy in Beijing to commemorate the Cuban revolutionary hero. Other Cuban embassies also hosted events. In Russia, there was a talk on Fidel along with an…
telesurenglish.net/news/World-Commemorates-Fidel-Castros-Birthday-20190813-0017.html

History: US-led Pressures on Japan Performed a Central Role Leading to Pearl Harbor
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
By 1920, America had become by far the world's richest country, whose strength held sway over much of the Western hemisphere, and was stretching further eastwards. As her influence expanded, the United States was posing a serious problem for the …
globalresearch.ca/years-us-led-pressures-japan-performed-central-role-leading-pearl-harbor/5686283

Honda Will Halt Car Production in Argentina in 2020
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Japan's Honda Motor Company announced Tuesday it will stop producing cars in Argentina in 2020 as part of a global shift in how it shares production between regions. | RELATED: | Argentina's Peso Collapses as Markets Fear Progressive Victory | The company said in a statement that its Campana plant in the province of Buenos Aires, which produces the HR-V model, will now solely make motorcycles. The assembly of the SUV corresponds to 40 percent of the production of the plant. | A…
telesurenglish.net/news/Honda-Will-Halt-Car-Production-in-Argentina-in-2020-20190813-0026.html

Tarantino's 'Dead Indians' and the Roots of American Violence
Nancy Marie Mithlo | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-13
My day job is as an American Indian Studies professor at a major university. Actually, like many educators, it is my day and night job. The luxury and the burden of being an academic is that you get to think about complex and weighty ideas ALL THE TIME. That is why I particularly relish going…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/13/tarantinos-dead-indians-and-the-roots-of-american-violence/

India's Constitutional Coup in Kashmir Is Sowing the Seeds of Renewed Rebellion
Barbara Crossette | thenation.com | 2019-08-13
India's Constitutional Coup in Kashmir Is Sowing the Seeds of Renewed Rebellion…
thenation.com/article/kashmir-india-modi-bjp-muslims/

Sea turtles are mistaking plastic pollution for food
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-13
Endangered green sea turtles are accidentally ingesting plastic that resembles their food source concludes a new study published in the journal ' Scientific Reports'. | Researchers at the University of Exeter and the Society for the Protection of Turtles studied 34 sea turtles who washed up on beaches on the island of Cyprus. The team was able to look at the gastrointestinal tracts of 19 of the turtles, all of which had ingested plastic. | The sea turtles had ingested plastic that was green, black or clear, which greatly…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/13/sea-turtles-are-mistaking-plastic-pollution-for-food/

UK Expected To Release Illegally Seized Iranian Tanker
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Iran is celebrating a diplomatic victory, as they claim the U.K. is expected to release the seized Iranian tanker, following negotiations. Iranian maritime authorities said Tuesday that they had been in talks with the U.K. government, and showed documents that prove that Iran did not violate sanctions against Syria, the reason given by the U.K. for the seizure. | RELATED: | UK Wants European Force to Police Persian Gulf | Jalil Eslami, deputy head of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization, s…
telesurenglish.net/news/UK-Expected-To-Release-Illegally-Seized-Iranian-Tanker-20190813-0009.html

Fordham's Students for Justice in Palestine Did More Than Win Club Status
Gunar Olsen | thenation.com | 2019-08-13
Fordham's Students for Justice in Palestine Did More Than Win Club Status…
thenation.com/article/fordhams-students-for-justice-in-palestine-did-more-than-win-club-status/

Imagining a free Palestine should be commonplace–that's why i wrote the novel 'Siegebreakers'
Justin Podur | mronline.org | 2019-08-13
The siege of Gaza is crushing the people who live under it, and it is crushing all of our imaginations. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/13/imagining-a-free-palestine-should-be-commonplace-thats-why-i-wrote-the-novel-siegebreakers/

The U.S. Government Doesn't Care About Afghan Women
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-08-13
In once, and to some extent still, relatively cosmopolitan Baghdad, Iraq, I once saw three young female college students from Mustansiriyah University walking home from class. They couldn't have been more differently clothed. One wore a full burqa that exposed only her eyes; another a hijab, a more modest head scarf without a facial veil, and a pair of jeans; the third sported a pink miniskirt and a revealing tank top with her long hair fully exposed. Still, they chatted like old friends. | By early 2007, this range of women's clothing was already highly rare in all but the safest Baghdad neighborhoods, yet it di…
truthdig.com/articles/the-u-s-government-doesnt-care-about-afghan-women/

Reality-Denial Among America's Democratic Party Faithful
Eric Zuesse | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-13
I used to be a Democrat, until the majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate voted in 2002 for George W. Bush's 2003 catastrophic invasion of Iraq, even though everything that Bush and his Administration were alleging the invasion to be based on were mere lies, by him and his Administration. A Senator or Representative …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/reality-denial-among-americas-democratic-party-faithful/

Thoughts on China's Currency
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-13
There is a conventional wisdom on China's currency that gets repeated almost everywhere and never seems to be challenged in the media. The basic story is that in the bad old days China 'manipulated" its currency, but that stopped years ago. At present, its currency controls are actually keeping the value of its currency up,…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/13/thoughts-on-chinas-currency/