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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

Last Process: 50 Postees: 2019-08-07 18:48 GMT (14:48 EST)

2019-08-06: News Headlines

Jack Rasmus (2019-08-06). China-US Trade War: From Buenos Aires to Osaka and Beyond. counterpunch.org 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 More

Susan Gosman (2019-08-06). New Year's Eve reminiscing with lifelong communist Mary Gosman Scarborough. peoplesworld.org 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 …

RT (2019-08-06). US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman submits resignation. rt.com US Ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman, has resigned from his post effective October 3. Huntsman has been ambassador since 2017.

Staff (2019-08-06). Hong Kong Democracy Protestors Launch General Strike. therealnews.com Thousands took part in protests that shut down roads, public transportation and cancelled hundreds of flights…

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Republican Supporters Use AOC Cutout for Groping Practice. telesurenglish.net United States Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) slammed supporters of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell who were seen kissing, groping, and chocking a cardboard cutout of her. | RELATED: | AOC: Criticizing Israel Isn't Anti-Semitism, It's About Rights | "Hey Senate Majority Leader—these young men look like they work for you," AOC wrote on Twitter after a photo of a group of young men wearing "Team Mitch" t-shirt with her cutout went viral on social media. | The c…

Staff (2019-08-06). Ocasio-Cortez Responds to Photo of McConnell Supporters Groping Cutout. truthout.org | | "Hey Senate Majority Leader — these young men look like they work for you." | That was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response on Monday to a photo of several young men in "Team Mitch" t-shirts kissing, groping, and choking a cardboard cutout of the New York congresswoman. | The caption of the photo of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) backers, originally posted on Instagram, reads: "Break me off a piece of that." | "Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping…

teleSUR (2019-08-06). War With Iran Will Be 'Mother Of All Wars': Rouhani. telesurenglish.net Any war with Iran will be the "mother of all wars," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday in a speech broadcast live on state TV, warning once again that shipping might not be safe in the Strait of Hormuz oil waterway. | RELATED: | Iran Says Will Not Tolerate 'Offenses' in Gulf as UK Joins US-led Maritime Security Patrol | "Peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, war with Iran is the mother of all wars," Rouhani said at the Foreign Minis…

Pepe Escobar (2019-08-06). An Attack on Iran Would be an Attack on Russia. globalresearch.ca Russia is meticulously advancing Eurasian chessboard moves that should be observed in conjunction, as Moscow proposes to the Global South an approach diametrically opposed to Western sanctions, threats and economic war. Here are three recent examples. | Ten days ago, via …

Philip Giraldi (2019-08-06). 2020 Presidential Elections: Feeding the Israel Lobby. globalresearch.ca If you have been wondering when the twenty Democratic aspirants for the presidency will begin a serious discussion of American foreign policy in the Middle East, where Washington has been bogged down in both current and impending wars, you are …

Elijah J. Magnier (2019-08-06). From 2006 to 2019: After Failures in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen, War Is No Longer an Option for Israel. globalresearch.ca During the summer war of 2006, Israel managed to destroy a large number of Hezbollah's rocket and missile stocks. Most Hezbollah missile units were destroyed and, in the suburb of the capital Beirut, over 250 buildings (mainly but not exclusively …

Jeff Halper (2019-08-06). The Meaning of Israel's Massive Housing Demolitions in East Jerusalem. thenation.com The Meaning of Israel's Massive Housing Demolitions in East Jerusalem…

Habib Ahmadzadeh (2019-08-06). This Iranian War Vet Has Some Advice for Trump: Don't Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess. commondreams.org Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran on August 5, 2019. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/iranians_trump_zarif.jpg …

Mohammed Harun Arsalai, Mohsin Khan (2019-08-06). Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Keep Climbing During the ICC's Summer Break. thenation.com Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Keep Climbing During the ICC's Summer Break…

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Trump Won't Allow S-400 Deal to Harm Turkish-US Ties: Erdogan. telesurenglish.net Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stated on Tuesday that he believes his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump will not allow Turkey's S-400 deal with Russia to harm Washington's relationship with Ankara. | RELATED: | US Removes Turkey from International F-35 Fighter Jet Program | Part of Washington's concern with Turkey's acquisition of the S-400 is the latter's membership in NATO and the threat posed by the missile system towards the new F-35 jets. | "There is no concrete evidence sh…

Alice Slater (2019-08-06). Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia and to Ban the Bomb. commondreams.org Let us tell the truth about what happened between the US and Russia that brought us to this perilous moment and put the responsibility where it belong. (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_vlad_0.jpeg …

Ather Zia (2019-08-06). There Is Reason to Fear for the Safety of Every Kashmiri in India. commondreams.org Indian security personnel stop people during restrictions in Srinagar, August 5, 2019 (Photo: Danish Ismail/Reuters) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/motor.jpeg …

teleSUR (2019-08-06). China Warns US Against Missile Deployment in Asia. telesurenglish.net China has issued a stern warning on Tuesday to the United States about deploying missiles to Asia amid their ongoing economic rift. | RELATED: | Trade War Intensifies: China's Yuan Weakens, Markets Hit Year-Low | In a statement on Tuesday, the Chinese governmet warned the White House against moving forward with plans to deploy their intermediate-range missiles in Asia after the collapse of a Cold War-era treaty regulating their use. | "China will not stand idly by and will be f…

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Trade War: China Suspends Purchases of US Agricultural Products. telesurenglish.net 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. | RELATED: | Trade War Intensifies: China's Yuan Weakens, Markets Hit Year-Low | "It has been agreed that the State Coun…

Mark Taliano (2019-08-06). I am a Syrian Living in Syria: "It Was Never a Revolution nor a Civil War. The Terrorists Are Sent by Your Government" globalresearch.ca The majority here loves Assad. He has never committed a crime against his own people…the chemical attack was staged by the terrorists helped by USA and UK etc..Everyone knows that here.

David Hearst (2019-08-06). Saudi Arabia's 'Strategic Plan' to Take Turkey Down. globalresearch.ca Saudi Arabia has begun implementing a "strategic plan" to confront the Turkish government, after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman decided he was being "too patient" with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder. | The …

Staff (2019-08-06). Headlines for August 6, 2019. democracynow.org Trump Condemns White Supremacy After El Paso Massacre Despite His Own Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, Trump Supporter Who Sent Pipe Bombs to CNN and Democrats Sentenced to 20 Years, Tensions Mount over Kashmir as Pakistan Reacts to Revocation of Special Status, Puerto Rican Senate, San Juan Mayor Sue over Pierluisi's Appointment as Governor, China Weakens Currency, Halts U.S. Crop Imports as Trade War Ratchets Up, U.S. Imposes Economic Embargo Against Venezuela, Drone Attack Kills 42 People in Libya, R. Kelly Charged with Prostitution and Solicitation of a Minor, Galveston Police Apologize for Shocking Photo Showing Mou…

Peter Bolton (2019-08-06). Watch Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein take down the smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn. thecanary.co The Canary has been consistently exposing the shameless use of antisemitism as a political football to attack Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. In recent weeks, for example, ex-MP Clare Short and Jewish-Canadian psychol…

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Israeli Minister To be Indicted for Shielding Pedophile Teacher. telesurenglish.net Police in Israel recommended Tuesday indictment of the deputy health minister on suspicion he tried to bolster the case of a former Australian school principal pleading mental illness as an argument against extradition to face child molestation charges. | RELATED: | Israeli Far-right Ministers Attend Event Honoring Rabbi Who Praised Palestinian Massacre | Yaakov Litzman, who is also chair of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ), is suspected of obstruc…

Nia Harris (2019-08-06). More Money, Fewer Jobs: The Stubborn Truth About Employment and the Defense Industry. globalresearch.ca A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it's not a movie star; it's Marillyn Hewson, the head of Lockheed Martin, the nation's top defense contractor and the largest weapons producer in the world. In …

teleSUR (2019-08-06). Toni Morrison, First Black Woman Nobel laureate, Dies at 88. telesurenglish.net U.S. author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel "Beloved" about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 88, her publisher said on Tuesday (August 6). | Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for the publishing company Alfred A. Knopf, announced the death but did not provide an immediate cause. | "Beloved" was set during the U.S. Civil War and based on the true story of a woman who killed her 2-year-old daughter so she would not become a slave. The woman was captured before she could kill he…

International Labor Solidarity Committee of D (2019-08-06). Doro-Chiba Labor Comm On Growing Threat Of Dictatorship, Xenophobia & War. indybay.org The Labor Solidarity Committee of Japan Railway Workers Union Doro-Chiba statment on the growing threat of dictatorship, xenophobia and imperialist war.

Leon Kunstenaar (2019-08-06). Code Pink Action On The Sausalito Ferry. indybay.org

Oakland Asian Cultural Center (2019-08-06). Readings from Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the SF Bay Area. indybay.org Oakland Asian Cultural Center | 388 9th St., Suite 290 | Oakland, CA 94607…

WSWS (2019-08-06). Jailed Sri Lankan writer Shakthika Sathkumara defends Julian Assange. wsws.org "The system that has put Assange behind bars is the same system responsible for putting me behind bars in Sri Lanka."

WSWS (2019-08-06). Sri Lanka: Colombo University students call for release of Julian Assange. wsws.org "American imperialism is now seeking its revenge against Assange because he told the truth."

WSWS (2019-08-06). India's Hindu supremacist government abrogates Kashmir's autonomy. wsws.org Yesterday's actions will enflame tensions with Pakistan, and constitute a further stage in the Indian ruling elite's turn toward authoritarian forms of rule and promotion of Hindu communal reaction.

WSWS (2019-08-06). Labour-controlled Tower Hamlets council refused to host Palestinian charity event, citing "anti-Semitism" fears. wsws.org The decision is a blatant attack on free speech and confirms that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism provides a mechanism for censoring, silencing and even criminalising individuals and organisations that oppose Israel's brutal suppression of the Palestinians, while slandering the entire left as "anti-Semitic."

WSWS (2019-08-06). Tens of thousands of workers strike throughout Hong Kong. wsws.org The ruling class throughout the world is deeply fearful of the spread of social discontent as the working class moves into open struggle for its democratic and social rights.

WSWS (2019-08-06). US Secretary of State demands greater Australian involvement in war drive against China. wsws.org The support for Pompeo's aggressive remarks in Canberra is a warning that behind its back, the Australian population has been placed on the frontline of a confrontation with China that threatens a catastrophic nuclear war.

WSWS (2019-08-06). US-China trade conflict escalates to currency war. wsws.org Stock markets fell sharply around the world yesterday, amid fears of a currency war, after China allowed its currency, the renminbi, to pass through the benchmark of 7 to the US dollar.

Conn Hallinan (2019-08-05). Rivers of Dust: Water and the Middle East. counterpunch.org Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt's relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank. More

Staff (2019-08-05). The Forgotten Rohingya Refugees. therealnews.com Existence is resistance: a quarter of a million Rohingya refugees live in Malaysia with no legal rights or protections…

Thomas Knapp (2019-08-05). Afghanistan: In Search of Monsters to Not Destroy. counterpunch.org America, John Quincy Adams said in 1821, "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." That's as good a summary ever spoken of the non-interventionist position. US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) disagrees. He More

Eve Ottenberg (2019-08-05). The Case for Socialism. counterpunch.org Anyone doubting the arguments for socialism, should read Bhaskar Sunkara's "The Socialist Manifesto." It presents old rationales in new clothes; the clothes are simple and attractive, while the rationales are sound. They come, however, with a big warning. "We certainly don't want to repeat the last century's attempts, whether in Russia or China, to impose More

Eds. (2019-08-05). Arctic fires: "You have to go to a different planet to find a more persistent type" mronline.org Here's a sentence for you: The Arctic is burning. Yes, that Arctic—the traditionally cold and wet one, large swaths of which are being consumed by an astonishing number of wildfires, from Russia to Greenland to Alaska. | Source

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-08-05). Trump's Trade War with China: Imagine What Would Happen if China Decided to Impose Economic Sanctions on the USA? globalresearch.ca In formulating these veiled threats, the Trump administration should think twice. These measures would inevitably backlash on the U.S. economy. China is not dependent on US imports. Quite the opposite. America is an import led economy with a weak manufacturing base, heavily dependent on imports from the PRC.

Staff (2019-08-05). Headlines for August 5, 2019. democracynow.org White Supremacist Kills 20 People After Hate-Fueled Gun Rampage in El Paso, Gunman with Misogynistic Past Kills 9 People in Dayton, OH Shooting Spree, General Strike Grips Hong Kong as Protesters Refuse to Back Down, India Revokes Kashmir's Special Status as Tensions Mount in Disputed Region, Iran Seizes Tanker as Tensions Between Iran and U.S. Remain High, Russian Police Arrest 800+ Protesters as Crackdown on Dissent Continues, Sudan's Military Rulers and Opposition Leaders Sign Transition Agreement, 3 Mexican Journalists Killed in Under a Week, Pierluisi Sworn In as Puerto Rico's New Governor as San Juan Mayor…

Eva Bartlett (2019-08-05). A Syrian Leader Tells His Country's Story: An Interview with SAA General Hassan Hassan. mintpressnews.com For years, international headlines spotlighting Syria have claimed that the Syrian government, army, and its allies were guilty of a variety of atrocities. Yet as time has passed, many of the accusations levied at government and its allies have been shown to have been either falsified, staged (as in the case of allegations of chemical attacks in eastern Ghouta), or actually committed by the myriad terrorist groups operating in the country. | For their part, Syrian leadership has maintained from the start that the uprising…

Shane Quinn (2019-08-05). World War II: US Military Destroyed 66 Japanese Cities Before Planning to Wipe Out the Same Number of Soviet Cities. globalresearch.ca The number of Japanese cities destroyed was the exact figure that the Pentagon compiled when finalizing plans, in mid-September 1945, to eviscerate the Soviet Union. Indeed, 66 Soviet cities were earmarked to be wiped out — with 204 atomic bombs — less than 2 weeks after Japan's surrender.

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2019-08-05). Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif Drives Trump to Insanity. globalresearch.ca At a time when the Trump administration has no problem negotiating with the secretary of the Russian national security council Nikolai Patrushev, who is technically under US sanctions since April 2018, the cut and thrust of Washington's move to …

Staff (2019-08-05). Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing Are Chapters in the Same Manifesto. truthout.org | | This weekend, after two mass shooters killed and injured dozens of people in Texas and Ohio, Rep. Steve Cohen tweeted, "You want to shoot an assault weapon? Go to Afghanistan or Iraq. Enlist!" | Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, apparently did not take issue with the El Paso shooter's desire to slaughter people of color — he merely wanted to redirect his bullets toward people of color outside of the United States. His tweet was a chilling reminder of how the United…

Andrew Emett (2019-08-05). U.S. imposes 2nd round of sanctions against Russia for poisoning ex-spy. nationofchange.org The United States is announcing a second round of sanctions on Russia for its use of a 'novichok' nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal.

teleSUR (2019-08-05). If the US Develops New Nuclear Missiles, We Will Too: Putin. telesurenglish.net Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Monday that Moscow would start developing short and intermediate-range land-based nuclear missiles if the United States does so as well. | RELATED: | US Withdraws From 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty | "If Russia obtains reliable information that the United States has finished developing these systems and started to produce them, Russia will have no option other than to engage in a full-scale effort to develop similar m…

Tom H. Hastings (2019-08-05). Election annulment please. nationofchange.org Russia hacked and attacked our 2016 presidential election and installed Donald Trump. This requires annulment. Trump didn't even come close on the actual popular vote, losing to Clinton by some three million votes, and yet seized the White House by the arcane and anti-democratic electoral college, but only due to Russian illegal interference. This makes …

Murtaza Hussain (2019-08-05). India Moves to Strip Kashmir of Autonomy, Potentially Setting Up Conflict in Disputed Territory. theintercept.com The change to Kashmir's status as an autonomous state, which both India and Pakistan lay claim to, comes after an unexpected lockdown in the province.

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