Ballooning Student Debt Debated by Presidential Hopefuls
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2019-07-08
Republicans and Democrats Propose Student Loan Relief Solutions…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/05/18824457.php
San Francisco Educational Outreach for the 2020 Flotilla to Gaza
Martha Hubert, Barbara Briggs-Letson | indybay.org | 2019-07-08
Ferry terminal in SF (at Market and the Embarcadero, behind the Ferry Building), and/or the ferry to Sausalito, and/or the ferry terminal in Sausalito…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/05/18824461.php
San Francisco Educational Outreach for the 2020 Flotilla to Gaza
Martha Hubert, Barbara Briggs-Letson | indybay.org | 2019-07-08
Ferry terminal in SF (at Market and the Embarcadero, behind the Ferry Building), and/or the ferry to Sausalito, and/or the ferry terminal in Sausalito…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/05/18824461.php
Offshoring and Industrial Relocation: Profits from Exploitation in Honduras. Transnational Companies are Impoverishing us All
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Imperialists employ myriad strategies to "open the veins" of prey countries. Economic warfare is one such strategy. Prolonged and sustained economic warfare against long-suffering Honduras advances the tentacles of the Big Monopolies as it impoverishes and destroys Honduras. Transnational companies, …
globalresearch.ca/gildan-activewear-inc-profits-exploitation-honduras/5682961
Abu Graib at Home in America
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
"This is not what America is about" argues a reporter referring to revelations of misogynist, violent, racist behavior by employees of the U.S. Border Patrol 'guarding' migrants held in detention centers. | Sorry Mr. Thompson (Propublica journalist who broke this story); …
globalresearch.ca/abu-graib-home-america/5682706
The Role of Debt and China's Shadow Banking System: Is Baoshang Bank China's Lehman Brothers?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The surprise collapse of a small Inner-Mongolia Chinese bank, Baoshang, has suddenly focused attention on the fragility of the world's largest and largely opaque banking system. The timing is very bad, as China struggles with a sharp domestic economic slowdown.
globalresearch.ca/baoshang-bank-chinas-lehman-brothers/5683006
Nobody Is Talking About the Sanctions Against Syria!
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
In the news: The smart US regime discovered an oil shipment heading from Iran to Syria and ordered their British ever-loyal servants to steal a large Iranian oil tanker carrying oil to Syria and crossing half of the world …
globalresearch.ca/nobody-talking-about-sanctions-against-syria/5682949
Netanyahu Compares Iranian Uranium Enrichment to Nazi Invasion of the Rhineland
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The prime minister of Israel would have the people of Europe believe Iran's recent decision to increase uranium enrichment–currently at a paltry 3.67 percent–is comparable to the German army marching into the Rhineland in March 1936. | . | . | Netanyahu: Iran's | …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-compares-iranian-uranium-enrichment-nazi-invasion-rhineland/5682957
US and Europe to Iran: Do as We Say, Not as We Do — Or Else!
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The US considers itself master of the universe, demanding submissiveness from all other nations. | Its bipartisan ruling authorities tolerate no independent states or social democracies like Venezuela, no military or economic superpowers like Russia and China respectively — what hegemonic …
globalresearch.ca/us-europe-iran-do-we-say-not-we-do/5683020
Cheated by the JCPOA, Iran No Longer Trusts Europe and Is Heading towards Full Withdrawal
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
For more than 14 months now, Europe has offered no solution to ease the crippling US sanctions on Iran, giving the "Islamic Republic" no valid reason to hold on the JCPOA nuclear deal. The Leader of the Revolution Sayyed Ali …
globalresearch.ca/cheated-jcpoa-iran-no-longer-trusts-europe-heading-towards-full-withdrawal/5682941
US Call for German Troops in Syria Angers Berlin
The New Arab | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Discord broke out in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition Sunday, after the United States urged the country to send ground troops to Syria as Washington looks to withdraw from the region. | "We want ground troops from Germany to | …
globalresearch.ca/us-call-german-troops-syria-angers-berlin/5682990
Venezuela — The Bachelet "Human Rights Lie"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
"American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela's economy and thereby lead to regime change. It's a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people."
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-bachelet-lie/5683019
Venezuelan Government Slams 'Biased' UN Human Rights Report
Ricardo Vaz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The Venezuelan government has disputed the findings of a report released by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). | Having seen the report in advance of its publication, Caracas issued a 70-point statement pointing towards …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelan-government-slams-biased-un-human-rights-report/5682993
Why Trump Is Dead Wrong About the Census
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to add to the U.S. Census a question as to whether the respondent is a U.S. citizen, but that would be illegal for him to do, at present, and not because the U.S. Supreme | …
globalresearch.ca/why-trump-dead-wrong-about-census/5682935
Is China's Debt Load the Locus of the Next Crisis?
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
A reader of this blog recently noted the magnitude of the debt problem in China and argued it will be the locus of the next debt-financial crisis–not Europe. Making good points in support of his view, my reply follows arguing …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-debt-load-locus-next-crisis/5682953
The JCPOA Crisis Isn't About Nukes at All. Embedding US Strategic Influence Worldwide
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The so-called "international community" can't proverbially "see the forest through the trees" and therefore fails to grasp the larger ambitions being pursued by the US through the JCPOA Crisis that it manufactured, which isn't about nukes at all actually but …
globalresearch.ca/jcpoa-crisis-isnt-about-nukes-at-all-actually/5682998
A Secret Meeting to Plot War?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
On June 5, 16 heads of Jewish organizations joined 25 Democratic senators in a private meeting, which, according to the Times of Israel, is an annual event. All of the Jewish organizations but one were openly declared advocates for …
globalresearch.ca/secret-meeting-plot-war/5682937
Selected Articles: UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela Faulty by Design
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer". | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-un-report-on-human-rights-in-venezuela-faulty-by-design/5683026
Could Trump's Tricks Boost His Ratings and Settle the Syrian Conflict?
Firas Samuri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Recently the U.S. President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign in front of a large crowd in Orlando, Florida. The campaign is gaining momentum. We have already seen the celebrities and politicians speeches, preliminary ratings and even the …
globalresearch.ca/could-trumps-tricks-boost-his-ratings-settle-syrian-conflict/5682988
USAID Anti-Russia Propaganda
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Both right wings of the US war party consider nonbelligerent Russia an existential threat. | The CIA, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Republican Institute (IRI), National Democratic Institute, USAID, right-wing US think tanks, the CIA/AFL and other large labor unions, …
globalresearch.ca/usaid-anti-russia-propaganda/5682938
Export License System Lets 'Illegal' Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Continue
Billy Briggs | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Bombs and missiles will still be exported to Saudi Arabia under a secretive licensing system that means business as usual for defence firms despite a landmark ruling that UK arms sales are illegal. | In a judgement on 20 June at …
globalresearch.ca/export-license-system-lets-illegal-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-continue/5683016
Swedish Prosecutors: 'It's Not on the Cards' to Interview Assange — After Hanging Arrest Warrant Over Him for Seven Years
Nina Cross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Swedish prosecutors have this week announced that for the time being they will not be issuing a European Investigation Order (EIO) to interview Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. According to Sweden's Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson,"…it …
globalresearch.ca/swedish-prosecutors-its-not-cards-interview-assange-hanging-arrest-warrant-over-him-seven-years/5682985
Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing Them (Part 3)
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-08
Irrationalism and disinformation manifest themselves in endless ways. While both have intensified greatly in the neoliberal period which began in the late 1970s, the public should brace for even more of both. The obsolete forces who have long benefitted from an outdated economic system that cannot provide for the needs of the people will surely …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/opposing-charter-schools-without-really-opposing-them-part-3/
Jewish group calls on Congress to make Holocaust education mandatory in US schools
rt.com | 2019-07-07
The World Jewish Congress is pushing US lawmakers to make Holocaust education mandatory in all schools, citing statistics from a 2018 poll revealing half of millennials can't name a single Nazi concentration camp. | …
rt.com/usa/463596-holocaust-education-congress-jwc/
Tupac Shakur's Commitment to Resistance and Revolution Began in Baltimore
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-07
In celebration of Black Music Month, we honored Tupac Shakur whose commitment to resistance and revolution was fostered in Baltimore. Interviews include Marc Steiner a former teacher of his and author John Potash about the FBI targeting of both Tupac Shakur and his mother Black Panther leader Afeni Shakur…
therealnews.com/stories/tupac-shakurs-commitment-to-resistance-and-revolution-began-in-balti
Increase in workplace sex discrimination claims, study suggests
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-07
The number of sex discrimination claims by workers has increased by 69% to a five-year high, new research suggests. | More than 9,300 claims were made in the past year, with women increasingly likely to come forward since the start of the MeToo movement, said employment lawyers GQ Littler. | Moves by companies to tackle sex discrimination, such as banning alcohol at work-related events, or discouraging hugging, are not preventing claims being made, said the law firm. | Hannah Mahon of GQ Littler said: The increase in…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/07/08/increase-in-workplace-sex-discrimination-claims-study-suggests/
Israel Is Disappearing the Proof That It Oppresses Palestinians
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-07
Hagar Shezaf at the Israeli newspaper of record, Haaretz ["The Land"], reveals that a secretive Israeli agency has been systematically going through the country's archives, including local repositories, and removing and classifying documents having to do with repressive and embarrassing Israeli actions toward Palestinians and Palestinian-Israelis. | One such disappeared document from 1948, a second copy of which nevertheless was located by Israeli researchers, estim…
truthdig.com/articles/israel-is-disappearing-proof-that-its-oppressing-palestinians/
Elizabeth Warren urges former FDA head to resign from Pfizer
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-06
In a recent letter to former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on him to immediately resign from his position on Pfizer's board of directors. In the letter, Sen. Warren warned Gottlieb that "this kind of revolving door influence-peddling smacks of corruption." | Serving as FDA Commissioner from May 11, 2017 to April 5, 2019, Gottlieb was later elected to Pfizer's board of directors in June. Gottlieb was also appointed to the Regulatory and Compliance Committee and the Science…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/06/elizabeth-warren-urges-former-fda-head-to-resign-from-pfizer/
Medicare for all means radical change, not just reforms
Esteban Guevara | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-06
Healthcare, along with education, jobs, and affordable housing, are essential human rights indispensable for everyone.
liberationnews.org/medicare-for-all-means-radical-change-not-just-reforms/
AFRICAN DIASPORA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURES SUNDAY SHOWING OF "GURUMBE: AFRO-ANDALUSIAN MEMORIES" ILLUSTRATING AFRICANS CONTRIBUTIONS TO FLAMENCO MUSIC
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-07-06
On Sunday, July 7, at 2: pm the African Diaspora International Film Festival will present Gurumbe: Afro-Andulusian Memories at Teachers College, Columbia University, at 525 west 120th street. This film explores the essential contributions Africans made to the development of Flamenco music. | Flamenco is synonymous with Spanish culture. Yet, since its inception, theorists have sidelined the fundamental contribution of Afro-Andalusians to this art form. | Commercial exploitation of the American colonies brought hundreds of Africans to Spain to be sold as slaves, forming a population which, over time, managed to gai…
www.blackstarnews.com/entertainment/movi…
Lawsuit Seeks to Block Colorado Coal Mine Expansion Threatening Climate, National Forest
WildEarth Guardians | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Five conservation groups sued the Trump administration late yesterday and called on a federal judge to block approval of Arch Coal's West Elk mine expansion, which would invade the wildlands of western Colorado's Gunnison National Forest. | The lawsuit and …
globalresearch.ca/lawsuit-seeks-block-colorado-coal-mine-expansion-threatening-climate-national-forest/5682873
Hypocrisies About Refugees
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Here are two visuals from the latest annual U.N. report about the world's refugee situation, "UNHCR Global Trends 2018", and though these images don't pack the emotional punch of a child's corpse that has just been washed upon a …
globalresearch.ca/hypocrisies-about-refugees/5682846
Is Deutsche Bank the Next 'Lehman Brothers'?
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Europe's biggest investment bank, Deutsche bank, is in big trouble. This Sunday it will announce a major restructuring. It's also a harbinger of a bigger problem with European banks in general, which are loaded with trillions of euros in non-performing …
globalresearch.ca/deutsche-bank-next-lehman-brothers/5682841
How USDA Climate Change Denial Threatens the South
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-06
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has withheld from the public dozens of climate-change related studies conducted by the department's principal research agency, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). | That's the finding of a recent Politico investigation, which documented "a persistent pattern in which the Trump administration refused to draw attention to findings that show the potential dangers and consequences of climate change." Though the ARS has reportedly completed at least 45 climate-related studies…
truthout.org/articles/how-usda-climate-change-denial-threatens-the-south/
Spiralling Health Costs: Trump's Executive Order in the Works on Lowering Drug Prices?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Since taking office, Trump reneged on his pledge to lower unacceptably high drug prices time and again. | More on this below and a reported White House executive order in the works on this issue. | The cost of healthcare in the …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-eo-works-lowering-drug-prices/5682854
Britain's Persecution of Chagossians: Help Steven Leelah
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
With a callousness that defies belief, the British government continues to pursue and persecute Chagossians in pursuit of the genocide they initiated on the community in 1971. This blog has been campaigning for the Chagossians for over ten years, but …
globalresearch.ca/britains-persecution-of-chagossians-help-steven-leelah/5682869
U.S. Militarism and the One-Sided Class War
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
While the Democratic presidential candidates rehearsed their anti-Trump lines for the debates, most of the Democrats in the Senate voted for Trump's record-breaking war spending bill. | "The lopsided vote indicates that Democrats have fully embraced this insane policy of first-strike."…
globalresearch.ca/u-s-militarism-sided-class-war/5682876
Power versus the Press: The Extradition Cases of Pinochet & Assange
Elizabeth Vos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
With Julian Assange facing possible extradition from Britain to the U.S. for publishing classified secrets, Elizabeth Vos reflects on the parallel but divergent case of a notorious Chilean dictator. | *** | Eight months from now one of the most consequential extradition …
globalresearch.ca/power-versus-press-extradition-cases-pinochet-assange/5682836
US Now Admits it is Funding "Occupy Central" in Hong Kong
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
This article first published almost five years ago on October 1, 2014 is of particular relevance to an understanding of recent developments in Hong Kong. | *** | Just as the US admitted shortly after the so-called "Arab Spring" began spreading chaos …
globalresearch.ca/us-now-admits-it-is-funding-occupy-central-in-hong-kong/5405680
Turkey's 'Middle Corridor' Looking to Integrate with China's 'Belt and Road' (BRI)
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
The visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to China on July 2 carries with it high hopes that progress will be made on integrating his country's "Middle Corridor" with BRI. The "Middle Corridor" is Turkey's vision of connecting with …
globalresearch.ca/turkeys-middle-corridor-looking-integrate-chinas-bri/5682401
Video: British Marines Seized Iranian Oil Tanker
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
On July 4, a detachment of Royal Marines and the authorities in Gibraltar seized a supertanker suspected of carrying oil to Syria on the belief it was breaching EU sanctions. 30 Royal Marines from 42 Commando were involved in the …
globalresearch.ca/video-british-marines-seized-iranian-oil-tanker/5682839
The IMF and World Bank: Partners in Economic Backwardness
Prof Michael Hudson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Michael Hudson discusses his seminal work of 1972, Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire, a critique of how the US exploits foreign economies through IMF and World bank debt; difference between the IMF and World Bank; World Bank …
globalresearch.ca/imf-world-bank-partners-backwardness/5682880
UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela Faulty by Design
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Following Michelle Bachelet visit to Venezuela last June, the official report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) on the situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was released on July 4, a day …
globalresearch.ca/un-report-human-rights-venezuela-faulty-design/5682848
Iran Calls UK Seizure of Its Oil Tanker "Maritime Piracy"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Throughout…
globalresearch.ca/iran-calls-uk-seizure-its-tanker-maritime-piracy/5682850
Trump Orders More Suffering on Syrian Civilians. US-EU Supported Terrorists' Control of Oil and Gas Wells
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
More suffering has been ordered up by the US President Trump for innocent Syrian civilians. The end of the war was in sight, and they could begin to rebuild their lives, but the US has ordered their only source of …
globalresearch.ca/trump-orders-more-suffering-on-syrian-civilians-us-eu-supported-terrorists-control-of-oil-and-gas-wells/5682862
Why a War Against Iran Will be the "Nail in a Coffin" for U.S. Hegemony in the Middle East
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
President Donald Trump was recently interviewed on Fox Business and was asked about Iran's President Hassan Rouhani's statement calling the White House "Mentally Retarded" and if the U.S. was going to have a war against Iran and he said …
globalresearch.ca/why-war-against-iran-will-nail-coffin-u-s-hegemony-middle-east/5682883
Chinese Investments in US Grind to Halt, Trade War Blamed
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Chinese foreign direct investments in the US, including new factories, has collapsed: down to just $5 billion last year, from $29 billion in 2017 and $46 billion the prior year, according to the Rhodium Group, a New York-based economic …
globalresearch.ca/chinese-investments-us-grind-halt-trade-war-blamed/5682864
Obama: Front Man for Washington's Imperialism
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Clarity Press is a good publisher for authors willing to provide real information in place of the officially sanctioned controlled explanations of our time. A current example is Jeremy Kuzmarov's assessment of Obama, Obama's Unending Wars. The forty-fourth president …
globalresearch.ca/obama-front-man-washingtons-imperialism/5682860
US Economic and Military Terrorism
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-06
Sanctions and tariffs are favored economic US weapons of war by other means, especially the former. They're used to inflict economic pain and collective punishment. | The Vienna-based International Progress Organization calls sanctions "an illegitimate form of collective punishment of the …
globalresearch.ca/us-economic-military-terrorism/5682702
Job growth bounces back in June, but unemployment edges upward
Dean Baker | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-06
The annualized rate of wage growth in the second quarter was just 2.7 percent. | The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 224,000 jobs in June, a sharp bounce back from the revised figure of 72,000 jobs reported for May. With a small downward revision to the April data, this brings the three-month average to 171,000. The average hourly wage is up 3.1 percent from the year-ago level. There is evidence of further slowing, with the annualized rate of increase from the first quarter to the second quarter at just 2.7 percent. | There was little change in the household survey. Unemployment edge…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/06/job-growth-bounces-back-in-june-but-unemployment-edges-upward/