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
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/
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
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
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
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/
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
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/
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
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
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
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/
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/
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
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
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
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
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
"It's Going To Be Carnage" — Deutsche Begins Culling 18,000 Employees
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Update (9 am ET): Deutsche Bank shares have continued to sell off ahead of the US market open. They were recently off 5% at a new session low, as the bank's shareholders have apparently realized that DB won't be able …
globalresearch.ca/its-going-carnage-deutsche-begins-culling-18000-employees/5683229
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
John Bolton and the Trump Derangement Syndrome
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
CNN's Jake Tapper's anti-Donald vendetta, amplified by the Trump Derangement Syndrome, demonstrates just how disingenuous a corporate script-reader can be. | It's true, Bolton wasn't on the Trump neocon team during the campaign, but this is largely irrelevant. | From the very …
globalresearch.ca/jake-tapper-john-bolton-trump-derangement-syndrome/5683162
Israel's Scheme to Bury the Nakba. "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Israel's 1947-48 Nakba against the Palestinian people was and remains one of history's great crimes — what Ilan Pappe called "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" in his book by this title. | Establishment of the Jewish state came at the expense …
globalresearch.ca/israels-scheme-bury-nakba/5683236
"Wars Come About As a Result of Lies." Selected Radio Shows
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
"When we understand that wars come about as a result of lies peddled to the British public and the American public and the publics all over Europe and other countries then who are the war criminals? It is not …
globalresearch.ca/wars-come-about-as-a-result-of-lies-selected-radio-shows/5683159
The Environmental Fallout of Toxic Plastics
Louisiana will hold a public hearing on issuing 15 air permits for Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics. The massive proposed complex would be one of the largest and most toxic plastic production facilities in the world. | On Tuesday, July 9, at …
globalresearch.ca/louisiana-hold-hearing-massive-formosa-plastics-toxic-chemical-complex/5683227
If You Provoke the Entire World, Something May Happen
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
The United States believes that it is so invincible, exceptional and so frightening that no one would ever dare to protest, let alone defend its people against constant humiliation, economic embargos and military threats. | It used to be like this …
globalresearch.ca/if-you-provoke-the-entire-world-something-may-happen/5683232
How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed
Ellen Brown | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-10
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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/how-to-pay-for-it-all-an-option-the-candidates-missed/
The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. The Right to Know. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket
Environmental Health Trust | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
A landmark Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the City of Berkeley's cell phone right to know ordinance rejecting industries argument that the ordinance violates the first amendment. The Berkeley ordinance requires retailers to inform consumers that cell phones emit …
globalresearch.ca/the-dangers-of-cell-phone-radiation-the-right-to-know-dont-put-in-your-shirt-pocket/5683223
Selected Articles: Towards a Banking Crisis?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
In spite of online censorship efforts directed against the independent media, we are happy to say that readership on globalresearch.ca has recently increased. We wish to thank all of you who share our articles far and wide. | We cover a …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-iran-rightfully-increases-uranium-stockpiles-and-enrichment-beyond-jcpoa-limits/5683238
Chilean union bureaucracy pleads with teachers to end five-week strike
wsws.org | 2019-07-10
Teachers striking in defense of public education are being told by the union to "pull our movement back, end the strike, and go back to school before vacations."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/10/chil…
'Court banned me from teaching son basic rules for boys' — father of 7yo slated for transition
rt.com | 2019-07-10
Jeff Younger, who is locked in a court battle with his ex-wife over whether their son should undergo transition to a girl, says a court order bans him from discussing things like religion or the need to be respectful to girls. | …
rt.com/usa/463826-court-battle-boy-transition/
Mystery of sex change in fish unlocked, scientists say
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-10
The mystery of how some fish change their sex has been unlocked, scientists say.Around 500 species such as clownfish made famous by Finding Nemo, the kobudai from Blue Planet II, and the Caribbean bluehead wrasse, routinely change their sex in adulthood as a natural part of their life cycle.Most bluehead wrasses begin life as females, but can become males later in life in a process that takes 10 to 21 days, researchers say.Sex change in the bluehead wrasse: Loss of a dominant male signals sex change in a female (Er…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/07/10/mystery-of-sex-change-in-fish-unlocked-scientists-say/
Tuesday's Daily Brief: #GlobalGoals progress, essential meds, updates from Cox's Bazar, Sudan and DR Congo
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-09
This Tuesday's UN top stories are: high-level discussions on the progress made towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals; falling behind on universal education dream; the UN list of essential medicines updated; life-threatening floods in Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh; and human rights in Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042101
Don't Be Charter-Fooled
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-09
Major problems in the charter school sector have been detailed by many researchers and writers over the years. In the last year or two, however, persistent charter school problems have been exposed with much greater depth, breadth, and regularity by more individuals and organizations. It has become abundantly clear to more people that the charter …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/dont-be-charter-fooled/
"Go Forth and Lie" Israel Rolls Out Mandatory Course for Students Travelling Abroad
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-09
Israel new course to prepare high school students traveling overseas to be good "ambassadors" includes training on how to combat BDS, claims of apartheid and…
mintpressnews.com/israel-mandatory-course-students-abroad/260240/
Call to Action: Close the Concentration Camps Now!
Arun Gupta and Juan Carlos Ruiz | progressive.org | 2019-07-09
We are calling on all people of conscience to shut down the concentration camps on the US-Mexico border through any nonviolent means necessary.
progressive.org/dispatches/call-to-action-Gupta-190709/
Threat from petty criminals who turn to terrorism, a growing concern, Security Council hears
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-09
The less predictable threats represented by small-time criminals who have opportunistically embraced terrorism, are a source of growing concern, the UN Security Council heard on Tuesday. That warning came from Tamara Makarenko, an International Consultant, who works with the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), speaking at an open debate on threats to international peace and security.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042111
Homicide kills far more people than armed conflict, new UN study shows
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-08
Some 464,000 people across the world were victims of homicidal violence in 2017, more than five times the number killed in armed conflict over the same period, UN researchers said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1041981
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
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/
Chicanos protest raids and deportations
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-05
Los Angeles, CA – A protest on June 29, at the busy intersection of Soto Street and César E. Chávez in Boyle Heights, demanded an end to ICE raids and deportations. Attended by 30 people, the participants included students, parents and Centro CSO. The protest was energetic and extremely well-received by locals, people driving by, public transportation bus drivers and everyone in between. | Chanting, "When I say, 'Stop the raids' you say, 'Now!' Stop the raids! Now! Stop the raids! Now!" and "Dump! Trump!" the energetic protest gathered much support. One Boyle Heights resident joined after hearing the chant, " &de…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/7/5/chicanos-…
Over 1000 union educators protest Houston Detention Center
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-05
Houston, TX – July 4 saw union educators push for freedom for refugees and undocumented families. After a daylong meeting of the annual National Education Association's annual Representative Assembly, a massive group of educators demonstrated their anger at Trump's concentration camps for children and families. | Rank-and-file education workers organized the protest within less than 48 hours of arriving at the convention. The group marched around a detention center located in downtown Houston, holding signs reading "Free the children!" and "Close the camps!" As they marched, they chanted "Up up with education! Do…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/7/5/over-1000…
Education Reformers Still Don't Understand Racism
Rann Miller | progressive.org | 2019-07-05
"Those of us actually working in education tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to tell you."
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/education-reformers-still-dont-understand-racism-Miller-190705/
Venezuela: Amid crisis and sanctions, LGBTI activists continue to demand change
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-05
One of the sectors hardest hit by Venezuela's economic crisis is the nation's LGBTI community. Lacking access to life-saving medicines and denied certain rights, activists say there is still much to be done within the revolution. | A recent report by the Washington-based Centre for Economic and Policy Research found that there are more than 300,000 people at risk of death in Venezuela due to a lack of access to medicines or treatment. This includes about 80,000 people living with HIV, many of whom are LGBTI or sexual and gender diverse — the term commonly used in Venezuela. | United States sanctions ha…
greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-amid-crisis-and-sanctions-lgbti-activists-continue-demand-change
Brazil: Millions strike against Bolsonaro's pension reforms
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-05
The streets answered with a resounding "no" to Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's pension reform proposition, to his intentions of restraining rights, and to the continuity of attacks against the people since former president Michel Temer's coup d'etat in 2016. | The protests, part of a general strike called by national union organisations, mobilised millions of people in 360 cities from north to south, across 26 states and the Federal district. | The general strike on June 14 developed out of the unified struggle of national unions, popular movements and progressive sectors fighting for public education and ag…
greenleft.org.au/content/brazil-millions-strike-against-bolsonaro%E2%80%99s-pension-reforms
Labor votes for Coalition's billions in tax cuts for the rich
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-05
It is an image that captured Labor's class betrayal on July 3, the first day of the new federal parliament. | A division had been called in the House of Representatives over the Coalition government's bill for huge tax cuts, which will disproportionately benefit the rich, erode progressive income tax by making marginal tax rates flatter, and force more cuts to public health, education and welfare. | On one side sat the sole Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent MP Andrew Wilkie. On the other, Labor and Coalition MPs. | The tax cuts then passed through the Senate the following day, with only Greens senators voting…
greenleft.org.au/content/labor-votes-coalitions-billions-tax-cuts-rich
Dallas protesters march against Trump's concentration camps
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-04
Dallas, TX – About 100 protesters gathered at Dealey Plaza in Dallas in the evening of July 2 to demand an end to the Trump administration's immigrant concentration camps. After the rally, the protesters marched through downtown Dallas. | The protest was organized by North Texas Action Committee, North Texas Dream Team, Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Monsignor Romero Community Center, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization. | Signs demanded an end to the concentration camps and legalization for all. Chants included "Down, down deportations, up, up, education," and "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA.
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/7/3/dallas-pr…