India Involved in China-Vietnam Dispute in the South China Sea?
Andrew Korybko | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-08-01
asia-pacificresearch.com/india-shouldnt-get-involved-bilateral-disputes-south-china-sea/5628800
Psychotechnology: How Artificial Intelligence Is Designed to Change Humanity
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
Psychotechnology is a word coined by William Ammerman, although the word may also have been coined by others and share multiple meanings. Ammerman defines the word as "technology that influences people psychologically by deploying artificial intelligence through digital media." …
globalresearch.ca/psychotechnology-how-ai-designed-change-humanity/5685258
5G Agriculture — Food from Frankenstein Farming
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
The director of development at Ericsson, Marcin Sugak, is excited. He has a new toy to sell to agribusiness farmers. This particular toy, he claims, is going to 'overcome' all the difficult new challenges facing agriculture today. It will be …
globalresearch.ca/5g-agriculture-food-frankenstein-farming/5685244
Idlib and NATO's War of Terror against the Syrian People
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
UN Bullies in meticulous suits have launched another hospitals bombing psywar campaign to support NATO's last terrorists in Idlib. It should be scandalous, international news, that key members of the United Nations continue to ignore the Geneva Agreements on hospitals, …
globalresearch.ca/un-hospitals-bombing-psywar-save-natos-last-stronghold-idlib/5685250
Bolsonaro's Clearcut Populism."The Barbarism has Begun"
Asad Ismi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
"The barbarism has begun," declared the Pankarurú Indigenous nation after Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's neofascist president, won fraudulent elections in October 2018 amidst accusations of breaking financing rules and shamelessly spreading fake news. The Pankarurú inhabit a northeastern part of | …
globalresearch.ca/bolsonaros-clearcut-populism-the-barbarism-has-begun/5685261
Erdogan's Risky Geopolitical Pirouette. Turkey's Economy in "Troubled Waters"
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
Turkey's economy has been in increasingly difficult straits for months, especially since the failed July 2016 coup attempt. The latest move by President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan to fire his central bank head and replace him with a more amenable loyalist …
globalresearch.ca/erdogans-risky-geopolitical-pirouette-turkeys-economy-in-troubled-waters/5685245
The National Security State Needs an Enemy: Senator Warren Warns About "White Supremacist" Threat
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
The national security state requires a roster of enemies to justify its existence. Beginning in the late 1940s, it was the Commies, not simply the Soviet Union but Commies everywhere–in the State Department, the neighborhood PTA, even under your bed….
globalresearch.ca/state-needs-enemy-warren-warns-about-white-supremacist-threat/5685241
Is India Preparing to Unleash "Weapons of Mass Migration" in Kashmir?
Andrew Korybko | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-08-01
asia-pacificresearch.com/india-preparing-unleash-weapons-mass-migration-kashmir/5628798
Romanticism and Literature: Serving Human Liberty?
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
"Swift has sailed into his rest; | Savage indignation there | Cannot lacerate his breast. | Imitate him if you dare, | World-besotted traveller; he | Served human liberty." | W. B. Yeats translation of Jonathan Swift's Latin epitaph. | Introduction | In this continuing series on the …
globalresearch.ca/romanticism-literature-serving-human-liberty/5685247
Intimacies from an Awful War. "For Sama" by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-01
If you think you've seen enough of conflict, especially the war in Syria, you haven't. From love of nation and loathing of military rule, from inchoate hope of redemption and improbable determination, indebted to lost friends and seeded in the …
globalresearch.ca/intimacies-awful-war-sama-waad-al-kateab-edward-watts/5684715
Hands Off UESF Teacher Margaret Reyes! Protest At SF Court Hearing
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-08-01
SFUSD UESF teacher Margaret Reyes was being bullied by her principal and then after she turned 40 she was placed in the PAR program with a coach being her principal who was bullying her. She refused to go into PAR and was fired with illegal Skelly hearings. She challenged the improper hearings in SF Superior Court without the support of her union UESF.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/30/18825066.php
Mass protests erupt after Sudan's military junta guns down school children
wsws.org | 2019-08-01
Six people were killed, including four young students, and more than 60 injured. The junta has now closed down all the nation's schools in an effort to shut down demonstrations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/01/suda…
When Japanese print workers resisted war
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-01
Against the Storm: How Japanese Print-Workers Resisted the Military Regime, 1935-1945 | By Masao Sugiura | Translated by Kaye Broadbent & Masa Sato | Interventions, Melbourne | 2019, $24.95 | "In doing what is normal for any trade union activist today –recruiting, arguing and organising — my comrades and I were made to suffer persecution, imprisonment and death," writes Masao Sugiura. | When researching Japanese working-class resistance to World War II, Kaye Broadbent discovered in a Japanese university archive Sugiura's 1964 memoirs detailing the formation and activities of the Shuppanako Kurabu…
greenleft.org.au/content/when-japanese-print-workers-resisted-war
Video: Syrian Army Advancing in Northern Hama
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
On the evening of July 28 the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces and their allies renewed their advance on militant positions in northern Hama. In the ensuing series of clashes, government troops eliminated at least 5 units of …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-advancing-northern-hama/5685213
Trump Replaces Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats with Right Wing Extremist Rep. John Ratcliffe
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
Most often when White House officials step down, they were sacked, usually allowed to submit a resignation letter — likely the fate of former senator/Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats. | His departure is effective on August 15, right-wing …
globalresearch.ca/trump-replaces-director-of-national-intelligence-dan-coats-with-right-wing-extremist-rep-john-ratcliffe/5685178
Hard times in the climate denial business for the Heartland Institute
Justin Mikulka | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-31
Last week, the Heartland Institute was again trumpeting climate science denial at its 13th "International Conference on Climate Change" at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. But by a number of measures, the Chicago-based free-market think tank's science denial doesn't exactly seem to be a growing — or cohesive — movement at this point. That's even with more media coverage than five years ago, and with friends in high places. In …
nationofchange.org/2019/07/31/hard-times-in-the-climate-denial-business-for-the-heartland-institute/
Tulsi Gabbard vs Google Goliath
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
Introduction | The Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign has filed a major lawsuit against Google. This article outlines the main points of the lawsuit and evidence the the social media giant Google has quietly acquired enormous influence on public perceptions and has …
globalresearch.ca/tulsi-gabbard-vs-google-goliath/5685139
Why Karl Marx was right about capitalism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-31
From the moment Karl Marx put pen to paper, pro-capitalist political commentators and academics have attempted to bury his ideas. But successive generations of political activists have continually turned to Marx's ideas, from the best working class fighters who joined the various communist and socialist parties in the early 20th century to the student radicals […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/31/why-karl-marx-was-right-about-capitalism/
12th Round of Sino/US Trade Talks Falls Flat. US Rage for Global Dominance
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
Over a year of Sino/US trade talks failed to resolve major differences because of unacceptable Trump demands. | On matters of statecraft, China, Russia, Iran, and other countries have outwitted the US. | Sino/US disagreements have little to do with the trade …
globalresearch.ca/12th-round-of-sinous-trade-talks-falls-flat-us-rage-for-global-dominance/5685174
The Rise of the American Gestapo: Has It Already Happened Here?
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
" Adolf Hitler is alive and well in the United States, and he is fast rising to power."–Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, on the danger posed by the FBI to our civil liberties | Despite the …
globalresearch.ca/american-gestapo/5685130
"We Don't Want Another Obama": Immigration Activist Urges Democrats to Be Bold
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-31
| Democratic candidates sparred on immigration policy, from decriminalizing border crossing to providing healthcare to undocumented immigrants. We hear excerpts of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, as well as Montana Governor Steve Bullock. Plus we speak to Erika Andiola, chief advocacy officer for RAICES, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. | TRANSCRIPT: | JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We're also joined by Erika Andiola of RAICES. Erika, I wanted to…
truthout.org/video/we-dont-want-another-obama-immigration-activist-urges-democrats-to-be-bold/
States and Capitalist Society
Leo Panitch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
The illusions of the neoliberal era — that the market should or even could be freed from the state, or that an unstoppable process of capitalist globalization was bypassing even the most powerful of states — have suddenly dissipated. One …
globalresearch.ca/states-capitalist-society/5685190
Turkish-Chinese relations: fighting back against Western hegemony
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-31
Turkey and China are attracting attention due to their political past and their recent actions in the economic sphere. Emre Demir, a senior researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the TED University (Turkish Educational Association) commented on the current situation in Turkish-Chinese relations after President Erdogan's recent visit to China. …
uwidata.com/4570-turkish-chinese-relations-fighting-back-against-western-hegemony/
Toxic Mine Waste. The Dangers of Copper Sulfide Mining
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
A few months ago, the Trump administration's Bureau of Land Management renewed the previously cancelled mineral exploration leases to Antofagasta, the Chilean mining giant that owns Twin Metals, the Canadian penny-stock company that has been doing the groundwork for Antofagasta's …
globalresearch.ca/lessons-polluted-superfund-copper-mine-used-dry-stacking-method-toxic-mine-tailings-storage/5685161
That time Boris Johnson's special adviser spilled the beans on the real Tory Party
James Wright | thecanary.co | 2019-07-31
Boris Johnson's special adviser once spilled the beans on his new boss and the wider Conservative Party. | They "do not care": | Speaking at a behavioural science festival in 2017, Dominic Cummings said: People think, and by the way I think most people are right: 'The Tory party is run by people who bas…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/07/31/that-time-boris-johnsons-special-adviser-spilled-the-beans-on-the-real-tory-party/
The Injustice of Economic Warfare
Daniel Larison | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
The AP reports on the harmful effects of sanctions on the availability of medicine in Iran: | "Our biggest concern is that channels to the outside world are closed," said Dr. Arasb Ahmadian, head of the Mahak Children's Hospital, which | …
globalresearch.ca/injustice-economic-warfare/5685211
Video: The War on Syria and the Next Loop of the Great Game
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
After the defeat of ISIS, the war in Syria entered a low intensity phase. However, the conflict is in no way near its end and the country remains one of the main points of instability around the world. | In August | …
globalresearch.ca/video-syria-2018-2019-next-loop-great-game/5685124
Mauna Kea Protectors vs. the science of colonizers
Stephanie Hedgecoke | workers.org | 2019-07-31
This article is based on a talk given at the July 25 Workers World Party meeting. The long-smoldering fight of the KƒÅnaka Maoli people to save sacred Mauna Kea in Hawai'i blew up like a volcano on July 17 when work crews arrived to begin construction on the Thirty Meter . . . | Continue reading Mauna Kea Protectors vs. the science of colonizers at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/30/mauna-kea-protectors-vs-the-science-of-colonizers/
Ukraine: Language-laws Are Not Purely Symbolic
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
On February 22nd 2014 Oleksandr Turchynov, on his first day as speaker of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, made his now infamous speech concerning the disestablishment of the Russian language as a state language in Ukraine. What people who were …
globalresearch.ca/ukraine-language-laws-not-purely-symbolic/5685150
As US Beefs Up Military Presence in the Gulf, Yemen's Houthis Turn to Russia for Support
Ahmed AbdulKareem | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
Houthi attempts to engage the UN to broker a peaceful solution to the war on Yemen have stalled. Now, out of options, the movement may have found a willing partner in Moscow. | *** | Yemen's Houthi movement has reacted with concern …
globalresearch.ca/us-beefs-up-military-presence-gulf-yemen-houthis-turn-russia-support/5685195
Will Shake Up at IAEA Impact Iran? Washington's Abuse of International Institutions
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano's passing has stirred up suspicion and further tensions amid US-Iranian tensions. | Amano was 72 years old and as of mid July 2019 had already begun preparing to step down due to …
globalresearch.ca/will-shake-up-iaea-impact-iran/5685127
The Research Is In: Stop Fracking ASAP
Barbara Gottlieb | commondreams.org | 2019-07-31
We all face harm from fracking's impact on the climate. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/07/31/research-stop-fracking-asap?cd-origin=rss
Bolsonaro Announces Greater Budget Cuts in Brazil
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, announced on Wednesday a cut to the federal budget of 82.5 million dollars, representing the largest reduction in recent years in the country. | The new economic policy mainly affects education and social welfare programs, whose resources will be blocked by an unofficial decree of the Executive. | RELATED: | Brazilians Protest Bolsonaro's Threats Against Glenn Greenwald | Between 2016-2019 Brazil has experienced a reduction in its gross domest…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolsonaro-Announces-Greater-Budget-Cuts-in-Brazil-20190731-0021.html
Rapidly increasing Lyme disease cases 'may be three times official estimate'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-31
Cases of Lyme disease have "increased rapidly" in the UK and may be three times more common than the current annual estimate, a study of GP records suggests. | Lyme disease was found in every UK region, with Scotland having the highest number of cases, followed by the south-west and south of England. | Researchers from the UK and Germany looked at a primary care database holding anonymised records of 8.4 million people registered with GP practices between 2001 and 2012 — about 8% of the general population. | Some 4,083 cases of Lyme disease were detected among 4,025 patients, 56 of whom appeared to have bee…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/07/31/rapidly-increasing-lyme-disease-cases-may-be-three-times-official-estimate/
"We Don't Want Another President Obama": Activist Urges Democrats to Reframe Immigration Debate
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-31
Democratic candidates also sparred on immigration policy, from decriminalizing border crossing to providing healthcare to undocumented immigrants. We hear excerpts of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, as well as Montana Governor Steve Bullock. Plus we speak to Erika Andiola, chief advocacy officer for RAICES, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/31/cnn_democ…
CNN Tried to Derail Sanders and Warren Last Night. It Failed
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-31
| Tuesday night's Democratic debate was a CNN-engineered center-right ambush of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that was so ham-fisted in its conception and execution, it could have been drawn up by Donald Trump himself. | "Is Bernie Sanders Too Extreme?" was an actual discussion topic. Zero-polling candidates like Rep. John Delaney and Sen. Amy Klobuchar were encouraged to take swipes at Medicare for All, student debt forgiveness, and other big-box ideas put forth by the two progressive fro…
truthout.org/articles/cnn-tried-to-derail-sanders-and-warren-last-night-it-failed/
China's Proposed "Code of Conduct" for Antarctica
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
The Czech Republic hosted the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting from July 1 to 10 to discuss the future of the world's seventh continent, during which China proposed a code of conduct for all nations' active on the landmass, though it …
globalresearch.ca/china-proposed-code-conduct-antarctica-deserves-fair-hearing/5685183
Trump administration is making 'explicit attempts' to suppress climate change science
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-31
The Trump administration "has sidelined scientists and experts, flattened the morale of the career staff, and by all accounts is bent on hollowing out the agency."
nationofchange.org/2019/07/31/trump-administration-is-making-explicit-attempts-to-suppress-climate-change-science/
British Pound Faces a Two-year Low as "Back Door Johnson" Prepares UK for "No Deal Brexit"
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
'Back door Boris' — the latest nickname for the UK Prime Minister, who can add it to a long line of other derogatory titles he has received over the years. The term was coined after Boris Johnson decided to exit …
globalresearch.ca/british-pound-faces-two-year-low-johnson-prepares-uk-no-deal-brexit/5685179
Headlines for July 30, 2019
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-30
Gilroy, CA Shooter Touted White Supremacist Text, Posted Racist Content Before Massacre, Trump Renews Attacks on Rep. Cummings, Lashes Out at Al Sharpton, Senate Fails to Override Trump Vetoes on Bills Blocking Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, Saudi Air Raids Kill At Least 10 in Northern Yemen, 5 Teenage Students Killed by Security Forces in Sudan, Brazil: At Least 57 Killed in Prison Riot, 164 Environmental Activists Killed in 2018, Indigenous Activists Protest Real Estate Development in New Zealand, Greenland's Ice Sheet at Risk of Record Melting, CNN and MSNBC to Host Climate Crisis-Centered Events, Kamala Harris R…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/30/headlines
The NYT's six percent solution for student debt
Jim Naureckas | mronline.org | 2019-07-30
Why are Democratic candidates going on about student loan debt? Why, the problem is practically solved already! | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/30/the-nyts-six-percent-solution-for-student-debt/
New report reveals employers, other details about troubled J-1 summer work travel program
splcenter.org | 2019-07-29
The students from the Dominican Republic were told that they could experience American culture while working at resorts and ice cream shops.
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/30/new-report-reveals-employers-other-details-about-troubled-j-1-summer-work-travel-program
Alaska Governor Demolishes Climate Research
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-29
"The University of Alaska Fairbanks ("UAF") is a hub for Arctic climate research, and a magnet for top scientists and international collaborations– and it's in trouble."1 UAF's International Arctic Research Center sits at the pinnacle of worldwide climate research…
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/alaska-governor-demolishes-climate-research/
New bill looks set to overturn NSW's archaic abortion law
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-28
A decades-long feminist campaign to remove abortion from the anti-woman NSW Crimes Act is likely to take one more step towards victory with debate on a pro-choice private members' bill to begin in state parliament on August 6. | Independent MP for Sydney Alex Greenwich introduced the Reproductive Health Reform Bill 2019 on August 1. His bill has the support of the Coalition's health minister Brad Hazzard. | This is a strong indicator that the NSW Coalition has the numbers to pass the bill, even though it will give its MPs a conscience vote (as will Labor). | The bill is being co-sponsored by MPs from th…
greenleft.org.au/content/new-bill-looks-set-overturn-nsw-archaic-abortion-law
Hawaii Protectors Block the TMT Telescope to Respect Tradition and Science
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-28
What are the implications of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project that is at the center of the growing protest in Hawaii for indigenous Hawaiians, and for science? We discuss the issue with Katie Kamelamela, who is informing the conversation in Hawaii…
therealnews.com/stories/hawaii-protectors-block-the-tmt-telescope-to-respect-tradition-and-science
Child Separation & Prison Camps: China's Campaign Against Uyghur Muslims Is "Cultural Genocide"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-26
Chinese authorities have been accused of systematically separating Muslim children from their families in the far western region of Xinjiang. According to a new report commissioned by the BBC, China is rushing to build boarding schools where children, mostly from the Uyghur community, are deliberately removed from their families, as well as their language and culture. This comes as an estimated 1 million adults from the Uyghur community are being imprisoned in camps that China claims are "vocational training centers" designed to combat extremism. We speak with independent researcher Adrian Zenz, who did the resea…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/26/china_xin…
When Kicking Around an Orange Gets You On Probation
aclu.org | 2019-07-26
I was in 8th grade. I just didn't want to get in more trouble, so I signed the papers, like I was told to. | I was in 8th grade when it happened. I'll never forget the feeling of those cold, clanky pairs of metal constraints. I was being handcuffed in front of my friends and classmates. | As a lot of middle school students do, I was fooling around with my friends outside at lunch. We found an orange and started kicking it around like a soccer ball. It turns out I picked a bad day to fool around, and a bad person to tick off. A school resource officer — basically a cop — was stationed in the cafeteria,…
aclu.org/blog/juvenile-justice/when-kicking-around-orange-gets-you-probation
This County Criminalized Students for Bad Grades — Until Now
aclu.org | 2019-07-25
Today, we filed a landmark settlement that will end the relationship between the probation department and school districts in Riverside. | Since 2001, the Riverside County, California probation department has been needlessly funneling young people struggling with grades, behavior, trauma, and mental health into the criminal justice system. | This direct line to the criminal system is the product of a partnership between local school districts and the county probation department called the Youth Accountability Team (YAT). Instead of counselors or other school and community-based supports stepping in to support and…
aclu.org/blog/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/county-criminalized-students-bad-grades-until-now
No Place at Northeastern: students, community members rally against DHS
Malcolm Clark | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-25
Students university complicity with repression during flash flood.
liberationnews.org/no-place-at-northeastern-students-community-members-rally-against-dhs/
What the Research Gets Wrong About State Takeovers of Public Schools
Rann Miller | progressive.org | 2019-07-24
When studies like these are released, without mentioning the unevenness of the results, especially for children of color, it prompts me to question the authors' intentions.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/research-gets-wrong-state-takeovers-miller-190724/