Juggling with Kim and Moon: Donald Trump's Diplomatic Copy Book
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
Cue the shots, take the snaps: US President Donald Trump was back entertaining his fetish with firm handshakes proclaiming the making of history in the last round of discussions with Kim Jong-un. The press were, despite periodic attacks of …
globalresearch.ca/juggling-with-kim-and-moon-donald-trumps-diplomatic-copy-book/5683375
"The Globalization of War" and "The Globalization of Poverty" — Two Books by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
Special Price: $29.00 for two books!: | Click here to order! | The Globalization of War: America's "Long War" against Humanity by Michel Chossudovsky | America's hegemonic project in…
globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-war-globalization-of-poverty-two-books-by-michel-chossudovsky/5436244
Skull of Death: Mass Media, Inauthentic Opposition, and Eco-Existential Reality in a Pre-Fascist Age of Appeasement
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair | Alongside and consistent with other privilege- and power-serving missions, so-called mainstream corporate media's role is to keep the populace focused as best it can on relatively trivial matters and diverted from the most urgent topics of our time. | Kamala Harris Wants to Kill Your Health Insurance | Two Sundays ago, in a fit of masochistic media research, I watched some cable news talking heads do their weekly news roundups. CNN had a panel of know-it-all neoliberals who reflected on the Democratic Party's first two presidential debates. Everyone agreed that Kamala Harris had…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/skull-of-death-mass-media-inauthentic-opposition-and-eco-existential-reality-in-a-pre-fascist-age-of-appeasement-2/
Donald Trump, The Manchurian Candidate and The Russia Probe. The Rosenstein Comey Mueller Intrigue
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
Trump's Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was to organize the so-called Russia Probe pertaining to alleged Kremlin interference in the November 2016 elections. Rosenstein's first step consisted in the firing of FBI Director James Comey & appointing former FBI Director Robert Mueller to lead the Russia Probe.
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-the-manchurian-candidate-and-the-russia-probe-rod-rosenstein-james-comey-and-robert-mueller/5655073
Political Agreement in Sudan Sets Stage for Interim Governing Council
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
What has been hailed as an historic pact between the Forces for Freedom Change (FFC) and the Transitional Military Council (TMC) in the Republic of Sudan, the two major entities vying for state power, has left out some important interests …
globalresearch.ca/political-agreement-sudan-sets-stage-interim-governing-council/5683383
Iran vs. Spineless Europe. How far will US-western Threats Go?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
Iran announced the second step in reducing her commitment under the 2015 so-called Nuclear Deal, officially known as The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), by exceeding the limit set by agreement of 3.67% uranium enrichment and 300 kg of …
globalresearch.ca/iran-vs-spineless-europe-how-far-will-us-western-threats-go/5683369
The US Wants Sri Lanka to Become Its "Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier in South Asia"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
The US' interest in replacing the 1995 Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Sri Lanka stems from its desire to turn the island nation into its unsinkable aircraft carrier in South Asia and possibly even the base of a prospective …
globalresearch.ca/us-wants-sri-lanka-become-its-unsinkable-aircraft-carrier-south-asia/5683391
5G Threatens Weather Forecasting. Devastating Health Impacts
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
It comes as no surprise that the American public remains oblivious to a not-so-slight glitch in the 5G Race with China as the US strives to be the first, the best and most technologically advanced country in the world with …
globalresearch.ca/5g-threatens-weather-forecasting-devastating-health-impacts/5683373
How to Pay for Major Progressive Programs: Add New Money to the System
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-12
The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another to help the poor, the disadvantaged and the struggling middle class. Proposals ranged from a Universal Basic Income to Medicare for All to a Green New Deal to student debt forgiveness and free college tuition. The problem, as Stuart Varney observed on FOX Business, was that no one had a viable way to pay for it all without raising taxes or taking from other programs,…
truthout.org/articles/how-to-pay-for-it-all-an-option-the-candidates-missed/
"Go Forth and Lie" Israel Rolls Out Mandatory Course for Students Travelling Abroad
Miko Peled | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
While Israel tries to portray a friendly face to the outside world, internally it is promoting racism and violence at levels that are more alarming than ever before. A course to prepare young high school students traveling overseas to be …
globalresearch.ca/go-forth-lie-israel-rolls-out-mandatory-course-students-travelling-abroad/5683371
The Young Cree Man from Saskatchewan. Without Truth There Is No Reconciliation: Two Colten Boushie Stories
Marjaleena Repo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
This important article was first published on GR in March 2018. | It seems there are two versions of the August 2016 death of Colten Boushie, the young Cree man from Saskatchewan. | The most repeated one is that he and …
globalresearch.ca/young-cree-man-from-saskatchewan-without-truth-there-no-reconciliation-two-colten-boushie-stories/5631849
OIL: The Missing Three-Letter Word in the Iran Crisis
Michael T. Klare | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
It's always the oil. While President Trump was hobnobbing with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G-20 summit in Japan, brushing off a recent U.N. report about the prince's role in the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal …
globalresearch.ca/oil-the-missing-three-letter-word-in-the-iran-crisis/5683398
While climate breakdown destroys one of the ocean's most important ecosystems, a new study shows there may be some hope
Glen Black | thecanary.co | 2019-07-12
Back-to-back heatwaves in the central Indian Ocean killed more than two-thirds of corals in two years, a study has shown. But research by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) suggests some corals were more resilient to the high sea temperatures, which could provide hope for the important habitat as the planet warms. | Heatwave statistics: | Scientists studied reefs in the remote Chagos Archipelago of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2019/07/12/while-climate-breakdown-destroys-one-of-the-oceans-most-important-ecosystems-a-new-study-shows-there-may-be-some-hope/
India Doubles Down on Its Military Alliance with Israel
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
India's $100 million purchase of 1,000 Barak-8 medium-range surface-to-air missiles and an as-yet unknown number of anti-tank Spike missiles proves that the South Asian state is doubling down on its military alliance with "Israel" and giving its old partner Russia …
globalresearch.ca/india-doubles-down-its-military-alliance-israel/5683387
GBM Brain Tumor Cancer Rising. Impacts of RF Radiation from Wireless Devices?
Microwave News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
New government data, released in May by a member of the Danish Parliament, show a near doubling of this fatal brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, since the year 2000. You can see the trend by following the orange line in …
globalresearch.ca/gbm-brain-tumor-cancer-rising-impacts-of-rf-radiation-from-wireless-devices/5683395
Grassroots Activist Diamonte Brown Confirmed as Victor in Teachers Union Election
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-12
An internal report obtained by The Real News found that educator activist Diamonte Brown was rightfully elected as the president of the Baltimore Teachers Union…
therealnews.com/columns/grassroots-activist-diamonte-brown-confirmed-as-victor-in-teachers-union-election
Grassroots Activist Diamonté Brown Confirmed as Victor in Teachers Union Election
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-12
An internal report obtained by The Real News found that educator activist Diamonte Brown was rightfully elected as the president of the Baltimore Teachers Union…
therealnews.com/columns/grassroots-activist-diamonte-brown-confirmed-as-victor-in-teachers-union-election
States Tackle Student Debt and For-Profit Colleges Rise
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2019-07-12
Washington, DC – As Democratic presidential candidates debate student debt, States attempt to tackle what they see as a debt problem impacting their economies.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/12/18824643.php
Venezuela and International Law
Urs P. Gascha | indybay.org | 2019-07-12
International law professors explain a US military incursion in Venezuela would violate the UN Charter. "All nations must desist from any threat or use of force in their international relations. The media and governments denounce violations of international law very selectively. International norms promote peaceful coexistence, not the right of the stronger.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/10/18824567.php
I Still Can't Get No Satisfaction. Relentless War Propaganda
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
I can't get no satisfaction | I can't get me no satisfaction | And I try and I try and I try t-t-t-t-try try | I can't get no I can't get me no | When I'm riding in my car | And a man …
globalresearch.ca/i-still-cant-get-no-satisfaction-relentless-war-propaganda/5683271
Chilean Teachers Continue Strike, Plan National Assembly Friday
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-11
The College of Teachers of Chile convened Thursday a national assembly for July 12 after they declined to accept the proposal of the Ministry of Education and decided to continue the indefinite strike. | RELATED: | Chileans Take to Streets to Defend Public Health System | The president of the Teachers' Association, Mario Aguilar said they have to analyze and t…
telesurenglish.net/news/chile-striking-teachers-call-national-assembly-20190711-0011.html
Joe Biden Didn't Just Vote for the 2003 Iraq Invasion–He Helped Lead the March to War
Branko Marcetic | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
As the Trump administration's saber-rattling toward Iran threatens another disastrous war in the Middle East, foreign policy has gained newfound focus in the 2020 presidential race. And former Vice President Joe Biden's 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq …
globalresearch.ca/joe-biden-didnt-just-vote-iraq-invasion-he-helped-lead-march-war/5683314
Iran Declares War on the USA's Covert Influence in Iraq
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
When US officials visited Baghdad and met with the Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, they had two requests: first, to close all commerce and financial exchanges with Iran to strangle the Iranian economy and bring it to its knees. …
globalresearch.ca/iran-declares-war-usas-covert-influence-iraq/5683333
Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
Tamara Starblanket's book, Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State (with a foreword by Ward Churchill and an afterword by Sharon H. Venne), does what she declares it to do in the first chapter: | "… …
globalresearch.ca/suffer-the-little-children-genocide-indigenous-nations-and-the-canadian-state/5683311
Many Democrats are Now Opposed to US-Israel "Friendship": Senator Elizabeth Warren
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
The faux "conservative" and corporate radio and TV propagandist Sean Hannity "caught" Senator Elizabeth Warren telling two American Jews she would like to see Israel end its occupation of Palestine. | A post on Hannity's website puts the word "occupation" in …
globalresearch.ca/faux-conservative-hannity-busts-faux-progressive-warren-support-palestine/5683269
US to Be the World's Second Spanish-Speaking Country in 2060
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-11
By 2060 the United States will become the second most numerous Spanish-speaking country after Mexico, according to "The future of the Spanish Language in the World", a study released Thursday by the Cervantes Institute in Madrid, Spain. | RELATED: | Record Number of Women Legislators Join US Congress | According to this research, potential users of Spanish exceed 580 millon, a figure which includes native speakers, limited competition speakers and foreign language learners. This prospect…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-to-Be-the-Worlds-Second-Spanish-Speaking-Country-in-2060-20190711-0010.html
Ongoing Atrocities in Syria. Missile Attacks Directed against Civilians
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
9 July was a particularly lethal day for Syrians in their homeland. As is their tendency, the choreographs of the warmongering, military industrial complex media have busily diverted eyes on the undiplomatic row between Trump and newly resigned British ambassador; …
globalresearch.ca/ongoing-atrocities-in-syria-missile-attacks-directed-against-civilians/5683283
Canada Joins Campaign to Stifle Criticism of Israel
John Clarke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
On June 25, Canada's Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism announced that the Trudeau government's new anti-racism strategy would include the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. The Co-Chair of the Centre for Israel and …
globalresearch.ca/canada-joins-campaign-stifle-criticism-israel/5683337
Photo ID is Obsolete and Unnecessary. Facial Recognition Technology Makes It Dangerous
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-11
In mid-May, San Francisco, California became the first American city to ban use of facial recognition surveillance technology by its police department and other city agencies. That's a wise and ethical policy, as a July 7 piece at the Washington Post proves. Citing documents gathered by Georgetown Law researchers,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/11/photo-id-is-obsolete-and-unnecessary-facial-recognition-technology-makes-it-dangerous/
The Forthcoming Eastern Economic Forum: Of Geostrategic Significance, Russia's Vision of the "Asian Sea Arc"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
September's Eastern Economic Forum in Russia's Far East city of Vladivostok will see the participation of the Indian, Japanese, Malaysian, and Mongolian leaders with whom Moscow is attempting to advance its vision of the "Asian Sea Arc" by integrating itself …
globalresearch.ca/eastern-economic-forum-advance-russias-vision-asian-sea-arc/5683304
Debunking the Indo-Pacific Myth
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
The Trump administration is obsessively spinning the concept of a "free and open Indo-Pacific". Apart from a small coterie of scholars, very few people around the world, especially across the Global South, know what that means since the then incipient …
globalresearch.ca/debunking-indo-pacific-myth/5683301
How to pay for it all: An option the candidates missed
Ellen Brown | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-11
The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another to help the poor, the disadvantaged and the struggling middle class. Proposals ranged from a Universal Basic Income to Medicare for All to a Green New Deal to student …
nationofchange.org/2019/07/11/how-to-pay-for-it-all-an-option-the-candidates-missed/
Activists, students protest outside largest ICE prison in California
Cristian Alcaraz | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-11
Demonstrators call for the abolition of ICE, closure of concentration camps.
liberationnews.org/activists-students-protest-outside-largest-ice-prison-in-california/
How to Pay for It All: Central Banking Asia Style
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another to help the poor, the disadvantaged and the struggling middle class. Proposals ranged from …
globalresearch.ca/how-pay-it-all-option-candidates-missed/5683275
Russia-India China (RIC) on "Indo-Pacific": Resolving Strategic Problems. India's Military Alliance with the U.S. Remains an Impediment
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
The upcoming meeting that Russian, Indian, and Chinese (RIC) authorities plan to hold on the "Indo-Pacific" will help each Great Power find common ground on this originally US-envisaged concept in an attempt to sort out their strategic problems and regain …
globalresearch.ca/rics-indo-pacific-powwow-will-attempt-sort-out-their-strategic-problems/5683321
Video: Prospects of War in the Persian Gulf Region
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
Since Donald Trump has been in office, Iran and the United States have faced the worst crisis in their relations since the fall of the pro-American Shah regime in 1979. The situation escalated in early May, when US sanctions came …
globalresearch.ca/video-prospects-war-persian-gulf-region/5683272
The Death of Privacy: Government Fearmongers to Read Your Mail
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
It is discouraging to note just how the United States has been taking on the attributes of a police state since 9/11. Stories of police raids on people's homes gone wrong are frequently in the news. In one recent incident, …
globalresearch.ca/death-privacy-government-fearmongers-read-your-mail/5683328
Chilean Teachers Continue Strike, Plan National Assembly Friday
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-11
The College of Teachers of Chile convened Thursday a national assembly for July 12 after they declined to accept the proposal of the Ministry of Education and decided to continue the indefinite strike. | RELATED: | Chileans Take to Streets to Defend Public Health System | The president of the Teachers' Association, Mario Aguilar said they have to analyze and t…
telesurenglish.net/news/chile-striking-teachers-call-national-assembly-20190711-0011.html
Controversial Justice Department Inspector General Russiagate Report, FBI "Willingness" to Damage Trump's Presidential Campaign
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
Michael Horowitz serves as Justice Department inspector general (IG). | His 2016 — 2018 probe into Hillary's unsecured private server use for official State Department business — including easily hacked documents marked "classified," "secret" and "top secret" was damning. | Horowitz found …
globalresearch.ca/controversial-justice-department-inspector-general-russiagate-report-fbi-willingness-to-damage-trumps-presidential-campaign/5683327
As 2020 Primary Nears, Candidates Struggle with Positions on Charter Schools
Jake Jacobs | progressive.org | 2019-07-11
After years of avoidance, Democrats are being forced to take a stand charter schools–and most are straddling both sides.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/2020-candidates-struggle-charter-schools-jacobs-190711/
Can Amy McGrath Take Down Mitch McConnell? Maybe Not — But Democrats Still Could
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-11
Former fighter pilot Amy McGrath's Tuesday announcement that she would run against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Kentucky seat R-Ky., was welcomed by more than $2.5 million in donations in the first 24 hours — and near-universal dismissal from election forecasters and political pundits. | As New York Times statistician Dave Wasserman tweeted: "Folks, there is just no amount of $$$ that is going to elect a Dem to federal office next…
truthout.org/articles/can-amy-mcgrath-take-down-mitch-mcconnell-maybe-not-but-democrats-still-could/
Brexit: British Lorries to be Turned Back at Dover by Shipping Companies
Pà∂là∂s Zsófia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
British lorries that do not have proper documentation will not be able to reach France after a no-deal Brexit because shipping companies will not allow them to board their ships in Dover. These trucks are going to be turned back | …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-british-lorries-turned-back-dover-shipping-companies/5683319
We're invited to support student strikers
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-11
The Socialist Alliance National Council voted on June 30 to encourage its members and supporters to support of the September 20 climate strike and put motions along the following lines to their trade unions and other community-based organisations. | * * * | The School Strike 4 Climate has asked adults worldwide to come out onto the streets alongside them and make our voices heard. | To do that we too must strike for climate action. We must break with business as usual, leave our workplaces and rally with the students. | Yes, we will then cross a line. The rules do not let us strike when we want, for what we need…
greenleft.org.au/content/were-invited-support-student-strikers
Venezuela and International Law
Urs P. Gascha | indybay.org | 2019-07-11
International law professors explain a US military incursion in Venezuela would violate the UN Charter. "All nations must desist from any threat or use of force in their international relations. The media and governments denounce violations of international law very selectively. International norms promote peaceful coexistence, not the right of the stronger.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/10/18824567.php
Stop Immigrant Arrests, Close the Camps, Transform Immigration Policy
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
Public awareness of the brutal repression against immigrants seeking entry to the United States, the reasons for their migration, and terrorism against immigrants living in the US are reaching levels that make them hard to ignore. The current immigration crisis …
globalresearch.ca/stop-immigrant-arrests-close-camps-transform-immigration-policy/5683281
Maritime Union backs student-led climate strike
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-11
The following motion was passed unanimously at the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Sydney Branch monthly member's meeting on June 25. | * * * | The MUA Sydney Branch welcomes the call from the School Strike 4 Climate movement for workers to join their next global strike. We will build for the widest possible stoppage of work to join demonstrations on September 20. We call on our national union to support this action and campaign for stoppages across the global union movement. | We note with anger that the climate crisis is already affecting millions in Australia and around the world. We reaffirm MUA policy that…
greenleft.org.au/content/maritime-union-backs-student-led-climate-strike
Selected Articles: Geopolitical Crisis in the Middle East
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
Global Research has over 50,000 subscribers to our Newsletter. | Our objective is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-geopolitical-crisis-in-the-middle-east-monetary-system-no-deal-brexit/5683340
Turkey's Erdogan Meet's China's Xi: Sultan Shines in the Court of the Dragon King
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
The graphic image of Turkey pivoting away from NATO towards the Russia-China strategic partnership was provided, in more ways than one, by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing right after the G20 in Osaka. | Turkey …
globalresearch.ca/sultan-shines-court-dragon-king/5683189
Trump Wants His Friend Boris Johnson to Win the Tory Leadership Race
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Whoever leaked the British Ambassador to the US' diplomatic telegrams to London did so with the intent that the resultant tiff that it predictably provoked with Trump would probably make Boris Johnson win the Tories' leadership vote with a landslide….
globalresearch.ca/trumps-tiff-british-ambassador-will-make-boris-win-landslide/5683193
China's Belt and Road, Trump's Trade War and the Future of the Global Economy
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan told the audience at this year's World Peace Forum that "development is the key to resolving all issues", remarking in the run-up to his conclusion that "China's development can't shut out the rest of the …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-belt-and-road-trumps-trade-war-and-the-future-of-the-global-economy/5683192