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/

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

'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/

Hong Kong Protesters Are Collectively Punishing the Peaceful Population
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Thousands of demonstrators held an unlawful assembly in Hong Kong International Airport on Monday and prompted the cancellation of all flights for the day out of safety concerns. This marks a dramatic escalation in the weeks-long demonstrations against a now-suspended …
globalresearch.ca/hk-protesters-collectively-punishing-peaceful-population/5686272

Iran Might be About To Change Its Approach Towards India
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Iran had hitherto allowed India to make a fool out of it without uttering even the faintest protest in response, yet the Islamic Republic's previously servile attitude might be changing if two recent statements by its leadership are any indication …
globalresearch.ca/iran-about-change-approach-towards-india/5686211

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

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

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/

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

US Walks Away from Southeast Asia Summit Empty-Handed
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
A recent meeting of the 10 member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) convened in Bangkok, Thailand and attended by representatives from China, Russia and even the United States, provides us with a clear indicator of how power and influence …
globalresearch.ca/us-walks-away-southeast-asia-summit-empty-handed/5686306

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

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

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/

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/

Unequal Justice: John Roberts' Dark Legacy of Voter Suppression
Bill Blum | progressive.org | 2019-08-13
Plaintiffs are litigating voting rights cases in Alabama, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, and several other states. Some will succeed, some will fail, but all will be more uncertain and expensive thanks to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
progressive.org/dispatches/unequal-justice-john-roberts-dark-legacy-of-voter-suppression-blum-190812/

Video: Syrian Tiger Forces Crush Al Qaeda Militants' Defense in Southern Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Over the past weekend, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces have continued their advance on positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies in northwestern Hama and southern Idlib. | By August 12, government forces had liberated the …
globalresearch.ca/video-tiger-forces-crush-militants-defense-southern-idlib/5686261

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

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

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/

Yemen's Houthis Launch Attack on Saudi Airport
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Yemen's Houthis Movement announced on Tuesday that their forces launched a new attack on a Saudi airport in the kingdom's Abha province. | RELATED: | Yemen: Saudi-led Forces Attack UAE-Backed Separatists in Aden, 40 Killed | According to their statement via Masirah TV, the Houthis attacked the Abha Regional Airport in southern Saudi Arabia using their armed drones. | There was no mention of the attack in Saudi Arabia's official media and Saudi officials could not immed…
telesurenglish.net/news/Yemens-Houthis-Launch-Attack-on-Saudi-Airport-20190813-0003.html

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/

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

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/

Persecuted Sri Lankan writer released on bail
wsws.org | 2019-08-13
Although Shakthika Sathkumara is out on bail, the threat to his freedom of expression and that of other artists remains.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/13/sath-a13.html

Establishment figures welcome renewed anti-China hysteria in Australia
wsws.org | 2019-08-13
The ruling elite requires Australia's incorporation into US war preparations to be accompanied by slandering any public opposition as the product of "Chinese interference."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/13/auch-a13.html

US Delays Tariff on Some Chinese Goods Like Laptops Till Dec 15
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
The Trump administration Tuesday delayed imposing a 10% import tariff on laptops, cell phones, video game consoles and a wide range of other products made in China, in an abrupt pull-back from a hardline stance on Chinese trade. | RELATED: | As US-China Trade War Escalates, Argentinians To Be Hit Hard | The U.S. Trade Representative's Office (USTR) action was published just minutes after China's Ministry of Commerce said Vice Premier Liu He conducted a phone call with U.S. trade o…
telesurenglish.net/news/united-states-delays-tariff-on-some-chinese-goods-like-laptop-phones–20190813-0015.html

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/

China Hysteria Down Under
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-13
The blinkered security establishment is standard fare in politics. From Washington to Manila, we hear of terrors and concerns which tend to more spectral than not. Legitimate concerns such as catastrophic environmental failure, or a nuclear accident, are treated with a sigh, its warners doomsday advocates rather than reasoned citizens. It is the unseen demon…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/13/china-hysteria-down-under/

Selected Articles: India's Kashmir Crisis
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis provided by Global Research on a daily basis? | Click to | * * * | | Iran Might be About To …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-how-can-india-kashmir-crisis-resolved/5686318

One Killed After Man Goes on Stabbing Rampage in Sydney
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
A man went on a stabbing rampage in the Australian city of Sydney Tuesday, killing one woman and wounding another bystander, local police said in a statement. | RELATED: | Australia Will Not Host US Missiles | According to the Sydney police report, the 21-year-old-man was restrained by several people who witnessed him stab two women on Tuesday morning. | The Sydney police said they are currently not treating this case as an act of terrorism. | The 21-year-old man, who police did not name, was carrying…
telesurenglish.net/news/One-Killed-After-Man-Goes-on-Stabbing-Rampage-in-Sydney-20190813-0004.html

Toni Morrison: The remarkable life of a remarkable woman
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-13
African-American novelist Toni Morrison — winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1988), the Nobel Prize for Literature (1993), and many other awards — died on August 5 at the age 88. Following the announcement, Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the civil rights organisation NAACP, remarked: "Rest in power to #ToniMorrison, one of the most prolific writers of our time." | "It is with profound sadness we share that, following a short illness, our adored mother and grandmother, Toni Morrison, passed away peacefully last night surrounded…
greenleft.org.au/content/toni-morrison-remarkable-life-remarkable-woman

India's Kashmir crackdown poses risk of war
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-13
On August 5, India's Hindu nationalist government unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, while flooding the region with troops, imposing a curfew and shutting down all communications. | The state is to be broken in two, with the eastern portion (Ladakh) under direct rule by New Delhi. | The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi shut down internet connections, mobile phone services and land-line phones in the besieged region. The fragmentary news that has trickled out speaks of arrests of leading politicians and widespread fear among the region's 12 million inhabitants. | Present…
greenleft.org.au/content/india-kashmir-crackdown-poses-risk-war

Indian left condemns dismantling of Jammu and Kashmir
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-13
The following joint statement was issued by Indian left parties on August 5, condemning the dismantling of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and the assault on India's Constitution, democracy and federalism. | *** | The Modi government has dealt a severe blow to our constitutional order by unilaterally scrapping Article 370 and other provisions of the Constitution and dividing the state of Jammu and Kashmir. | The special provisions guaranteed by the Indian Constitution to the state of Jammu and Kashmir were the result of the princely state signing the instrument of accession to the Indian union in the face of Pakis…
greenleft.org.au/content/indian-left-condemns-dismantling-jammu-and-kashmir

Philippines: Precarious work, extreme inequality persist a year after historic strike
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-13
The Philippines' labour movement commemorated the first anniversary of the historic Pacific Plaza Towers workers' strike on August 6. | The workers, all members of Pacific Plaza United Action of Labor (PUNYAL), had long been exploited by the condominium's managers. | Half the workforce were employed on short-term contracts, via dubious third-party job contractors (labour hire), paid starvation wages, and deprived of their right to join a union and collectively bargain for higher wages. | These workers live in squalor in the Palar slum area. Their workplace, located a couple of kilometres away, is one of the ritzi…
greenleft.org.au/content/philippines-precarious-work-extreme-inequality-persist-year-after-historic-strike

Jews Join Forces to Denounce Trump's Deportation Machine
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2019-08-12
Despite his support for Israel–which some see as a shield Donald Trump uses against accusations of anti-Semitism–progressive Jews are horrified by the president's immigration policies, particularly those targeting undocumented immigrants. In the last month, thousands have taken to the streets, to detention centers, even to businesses they see as siding with the a…
truthdig.com/articles/jews-join-forces-to-denounce-trumps-deportation-machine/

The World is Uniting for International Law, against US Empire
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-12
"We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures." That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/the-world-is-uniting-for-international-law-against-us-empire/

The World Is Uniting for International Law, Against US Empire
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-12
"We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures." | That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become …
globalresearch.ca/world-uniting-international-law-against-us-empire/5686144

The world is uniting for international law, against US empire
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-12
"We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures." | That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony "interim president" Juan Guaido are saying the US has gone too far. | All of the countries listed above and…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/12/the-world-is-uniting-for-international-law-against-us-empire/

Hong Kong Grounds Flights as Mass Sit-in Shuts Down Airport
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-12
| All departing flights were grounded as chaos engulfed the Hong Kong International Airport Monday, after thousands of pro-democracy protesters filled the travel hub to protest police brutality. Many eventually left the airport, fearing threats of more police action, but hundreds of activists remain. The latest escalation follows a weekend of bloody clashes between the police and protesters. Confrontations turned especially violent on Sunday night as riot police fired tear gas inside a subway station and we…
truthout.org/video/hong-kong-grounds-flights-as-mass-sit-in-shuts-down-airport/

US-Taliban Peace Talks End With No Deal, Sept. 1 Deadline Looms
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-12
The latest round of talks between the Taliban and the United States ended early Monday in Doha without a peace deal for war-torn Afghanistan, as both sides said they would consult with their leaderships on the next steps. | RELATED: | US-Taliban Deal To Precede Intra-Afghan Talks in Peace Process | U.S. envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, said the eighth round of talks that began on Aug. 3 in Qatar was "productive" and that he was heading to Washington for consultations. W…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Taliban-Peace-Talks-End-With-No-Deal-Sept-1-Deadline-Looms-20190812-0021.html

Mass Protests in Moscow and the US Media's Failings on Russia Coverage
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-12
| New School professor Nina Khrushcheva talks about this weekend's mass protests in Moscow and the failings of the U.S. media when it comes to covering Russia. She also discusses the increasing nuclear tensions between the United States and Russia. The U.S. recently pulled out of the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Last week, seven Russians, mostly nuclear scientists, died in an explosion in the White Sea during a suspected test of a nuclear-powered cruise missile. The blast cau…
truthout.org/video/mass-protests-in-moscow-and-the-us-medias-failings-on-russia-coverage/

Hong Kong protests continue into a tenth week
wsws.org | 2019-08-12
Protests yesterday took place in a number of different places in Hong Kong, with riot police using tear gas and batons.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/12/hong-a12.html

Rattling the Nuclear Cage: India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran and the US
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-12
The word "nuclear" is not just a harmless adjective. Look at the old photographs of the blisters on the dying Japanese of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Iran itself suffered the horrors of gas warfare when Iraq — supported at the time by the US — used chemicals on Iranian soldiers and civilians. I saw their gas-gangrene wounds with my own eyes in the late 1980s and they reminded me of the Hiroshima snapshots. The Iranians really do know the effects of "weapons of mass destruction".
counterpunch.org/2019/08/12/rattling-the-nuclear-cage-india-pakistan-israel-iran-and-the-us/

The Kashmir Crisis Has Become a Geopolitical Pandora's box
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-08-12
The long-standing dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir threatens to turn into an all-out armed conflict. The issue has become a bargaining chip countries to use in order to negotiate profitable deals. Can the crisis be mitigated, and who could effectively negotiate a compromise? Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since it …
uwidata.com/4847-the-kashmir-crisis-has-become-a-geopolitical-pandoras-box/

Hair-trigger Nuclear Alert over Kashmir
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-12
Two of the world's most important powers, India and Pakistan, are locked into an extremely dangerous confrontation over the bitterly disputed Himalayan mountain state of Kashmir. Both are nuclear armed. | Kashmir has been a flashpoint since Imperial Britain divided India …
globalresearch.ca/hair-trigger-nuclear-alert-over-kashmir/5686209

Bulletin For The Comfortable Class: Mass Murder Was Americana Before Trump Was Born!
Frank Scott | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-12
The U.S. air war in Japan was one of the most ruthless and barbaric killings of non-combatants in all history. — General Bonner Fellers, MacArthur's Intelligence Chief, from Cultures Of War: Pearl Harbour/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower, 2011, pp. 195-96. The recent anniversary of the mass murder that took place in Hiroshima, followed three days …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/bulletin-for-the-comfortable-class-mass-murder-was-americana-before-trump-was-born/

Trump: Out of the Graveyard and Into the Pyre?
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-12
Afghanistan has long been touted as the "graveyard of empires." The British and the Soviets certainly discovered that lesson to their great regret. Perhaps future historians will judge the failure of the United States to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan over a two-decade period as a critical factor in the loss of American hegemony as…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/12/trump-out-of-the-graveyard-and-into-the-pyre/

"Opposition" or Terrorists? Who Is Syria and Russia Targeting in Idlib?
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-12
Scott Lucas — a professor at the University of Birmingham UK — would decry with the rest of the Western media — resumed joint military operations carried out by Syria and Russia in and around the northwestern governorate of Idlib….
globalresearch.ca/opposition-terrorists-who-syria-russia-bombing-idlib/5686183

Really? McFaul 'plants US flag' in Twitter to claim it as free speech sanctuary
rt.com | 2019-08-12
Michael McFaul says he can say whatever he wants on Twitter because it's an American platform. Yeah, the very same Twitter that 'shadowbans,' silences alternative media, and hosts fake Russian bots that meddle in US elections. | …
rt.com/usa/466304-mcfaul-twitter-freedom-speech/