On Medicare's 54th Birthday, Another Year Closer to Winning Medicare for All
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare Act. Within a year, and without the aid of computers, the United States provided more than 19 million seniors with health coverage. Before the law existed, over half of the elderly in …
globalresearch.ca/medicare-54th-birthday-another-year-closer-winning-medicare-all/5685686

Trump's Firearm and Immigration Reform Proposal Is a Risky Political Gamble
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
Trump's trying to portray himself as the Uniter-in-Chief following two devastating terrorist attacks over the weekend, but his proposal to marry firearm and immigration reforms into a single bill is a risky political gamble, though one that might ultimately pay …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-firearm-immigration-reform-proposal-risky-political-gamble/5685704

Prescription drugs may be polluting our drinking water
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-06
Prescription drugs are more expensive than many people can afford and have caused thousands of years of life lost due to addiction but now they may even be polluting our drinking water. | Researchers at the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found that there are traces of prescription medications in water two miles from Milwaukee's treated wastewater outfalls, reports the Wisconsin Examiner. | Unused prescription medications that are disposed of either via trash or flushed out to Lake Michigan are becoming a serious problem for drinking water. Opioids especially, of which 1.
nationofchange.org/2019/08/06/prescription-drugs-may-be-polluting-our-drinking-water/

More Money, Fewer Jobs: The Stubborn Truth About Employment and the Defense Industry
Nia Harris | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it's not a movie star; it's Marillyn Hewson, the head of Lockheed Martin, the nation's top defense contractor and the largest weapons producer in the world. In …
globalresearch.ca/more-money-fewer-jobs-stubborn-truth-about-employment-defense-industry/5685712

Trump Turns Sanctions Against Venezuela into an Embargo
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on assets of the Venezuelan government, according to an executive order published on Monday. | "All property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States … are | …
globalresearch.ca/trump-turns-sanctions-against-venezuela-embargo/5685695

2020 Presidential Elections: Feeding the Israel Lobby
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
If you have been wondering when the twenty Democratic aspirants for the presidency will begin a serious discussion of American foreign policy in the Middle East, where Washington has been bogged down in both current and impending wars, you are …
globalresearch.ca/feeding-israel-lobby/5685706

Black Sites, Secret Prisons, Rendition: More British Complicity Exposed in Latest 'CIA Torture Unredacted' Report
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
The latest report about kidnappings, rendition, 'black sites' and torture is a remarkable piece of investigative work. It provides us with nothing less than a litany of shocking evidence and testimony and at 403 pages it makes for truly grim …
globalresearch.ca/more-british-complicity-exposed-latest-cia-torture-unredacted-report/5685575

An Attack on Iran Would be an Attack on Russia
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
Russia is meticulously advancing Eurasian chessboard moves that should be observed in conjunction, as Moscow proposes to the Global South an approach diametrically opposed to Western sanctions, threats and economic war. Here are three recent examples. | Ten days ago, via …
globalresearch.ca/attack-iran-attack-russia/5685675

Saudi Arabia's 'Strategic Plan' to Take Turkey Down
David Hearst | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
Saudi Arabia has begun implementing a "strategic plan" to confront the Turkish government, after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman decided he was being "too patient" with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder. | The …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-arabias-strategic-plan-take-turkey-down/5685701

Leaked: UK's New Trade Secretary Met with US Pressure Groups to Discuss Weakening Regulations
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
In 'off the record' meetings last September, Liz Truss sought lessons from Donald Trump's radical program of deregulation and tax cuts. The new international trade secretary, Liz Truss, met with hard-right pressure groups in Washington DC last year to …
globalresearch.ca/leaked-uks-new-trade-secretary-met-us-pressure-groups-discuss-weakening-regulations/5685693

Women We Are Fighting for
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
There are stories that are unrelated to the news, but can explain much better than many combat reports, why people like me are fighting against the Empire and imperialism, with such determination and vehemence. Not all stories are 'big' or …
globalresearch.ca/women-we-fighting/5685698

Video: Disaster Capitalism on the Horizon? Trumponomics on the Eve of 2020 Presidential Election
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
By way of introduction, it should be noted that the US economy is showing many signs of a classical bubble, starting with the incredibly over-valued US stock market. Only slightly more than a decade ago, at the peak of the …
globalresearch.ca/video-apocalypse-later-trumponomics-eve-2020-presidential-election/5685664

I am a Syrian Living in Syria: "It Was Never a Revolution nor a Civil War. The Terrorists Are Sent by Your Government"
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
The majority here loves Assad. He has never committed a crime against his own people…the chemical attack was staged by the terrorists helped by USA and UK etc..Everyone knows that here.
globalresearch.ca/i-am-a-syrian-living-in-syria-it-was-never-a-revolution-nor-a-civil-war-the-terrorists-are-sent-by-your-government/5544450

Police are more likely to kill men and women of color
Frank Edwards | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-06
Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, five years ago. Since then, U.S. police have killed more than 5,000 people. | Researchers and activists only know about these deaths because journalists do what the federal government has not: collect detailed information on police-involved fatalities. | Because the government has not collected systematic data on police killings, the public doesn't have definitive numbers that, once interpreted, will show how likely people are to be killed…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/06/police-are-more-likely-to-kill-men-and-women-of-color/

From 2006 to 2019: After Failures in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen, War Is No Longer an Option for Israel
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
During the summer war of 2006, Israel managed to destroy a large number of Hezbollah's rocket and missile stocks. Most Hezbollah missile units were destroyed and, in the suburb of the capital Beirut, over 250 buildings (mainly but not exclusively …
globalresearch.ca/2006-2019-after-failures-syria-iraq-palestine-yemen-war-no-longer-option-israel/5685691

Reparations and the Student Debt Wars
John O'Kane | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-06
The public college and university system in California was tuition-free during the sixties and into the seventies when the baby boomers were attending college in record numbers. Favorable budgets helped stoke the demand and new campuses were built to accommodate this explosion, propelled by an inclusive ethos special to this left-liberal era where a different…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/06/reparations-and-the-student-debt-wars/

Israeli Minister To be Indicted for Shielding Pedophile Teacher
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-06
Police in Israel recommended Tuesday indictment of the deputy health minister on suspicion he tried to bolster the case of a former Australian school principal pleading mental illness as an argument against extradition to face child molestation charges. | RELATED: | Israeli Far-right Ministers Attend Event Honoring Rabbi Who Praised Palestinian Massacre | Yaakov Litzman, who is also chair of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ), is suspected of obstruc…
telesurenglish.net/news/israel-minister-pedophile-teacher-australia-sexual-abuse-20190806-0008.html

More than one in 10 registered deaths in 2018 due to dementia and Alzheimer's
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-06
Dementia and Alzheimer's disease accounted for more than a tenth of the registered deaths in England and Wales in 2018, new figures show.Last year saw the highest number of deaths for 10 years, with 541,589 deaths registered in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.But the organisation said mortality rates have remained generally stable since 2011, when taking into account the size and age of the general population.(PA Graphics)Deaths from dementia and Alzheimer's disease continued to increase, accounting for 12.8% of all registered deaths.They were the leading cause of death for women,…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/08/06/more-than-one-in-10-registered-deaths-in-2018-due-to-dementia-and-alzheimers/

Selected Articles: 'CIA Torture Unredacted' Report
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-06
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globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-more-british-complicity-exposed-latest-cia-torture-unredacted-report/5685710

'What a Life. What a Remarkable Remarkable Life': Nation Mourns Passing of US Literary Icon Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-06
"I know it seems like a lot, but I really only do one thing. I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It's one job." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/06/what-life-what-remarkable-remarkable-life-nation-mourns-passing-us-literary-icon?cd-origin=rss

Sri Lanka: Colombo University students call for release of Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-08-06
"American imperialism is now seeking its revenge against Assange because he told the truth."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/06/assl…

How Joe Biden's Privatization Plans Helped Doom Latin America and Fuel the Migration Crisis
Max Blumenthal | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden has boasted of his role in transforming Colombia and Central America through ambitious economic and security programs. Colombians and Hondurans tell The Grayzone about the damage his plans did to their societies. | *** | While …
globalresearch.ca/how-joe-bidens-privatization-plans-helped-doom-latin-america-fuel-migration-crisis/5685639

Trump's Trade War with China: Imagine What Would Happen if China Decided to Impose Economic Sanctions on the USA?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
In formulating these veiled threats, the Trump administration should think twice. These measures would inevitably backlash on the U.S. economy. China is not dependent on US imports. Quite the opposite. America is an import led economy with a weak manufacturing base, heavily dependent on imports from the PRC.
globalresearch.ca/imagine-what-would-happen-if-china-decided-to-impose-economic-sanctions-on-the-usa-2/5598941

Email fraud warning issued to students ahead of A-Level results
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-05
UK students are at risk from email scams because many top universities are not following best practices to block fraudulent emails, new research has claimed. | According to a report by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, 65% of the UK's top 20 universities were not using any form of an industry-recommended email authentication tool. | It says this could enable cybercriminals to imitate the universities in question easily, placing students applying for higher education after receiving their A-Level results at greater risk of email fraud. | The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) recor…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/05/email-fraud-warning-issued-to-students-ahead-of-a-level-results/

Newsflash: Trump and DeVos Do Not Want to Get Government Out of For-Profit College Industry
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-05
It is far too common for progressives to accept the right's framing of economic issues. In the standard story, the right portrays itself as the champion of free markets. The image is of the rugged individualist who struggles against the current to come out ahead. They want to be able to make their way in…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/05/newsflash-trump-and-devos-do-not-want-to-get-government-out-of-for-profit-college-industry/

More Fake News and US Statistics About Payroll Jobs. The Trend Towards Part-Time Employment
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
Yesterday's column referred to a "falling labor force participation rate." | One of the main points of the article is that the number of payroll jobs are not the same thing as the number of employed Americans. Jobs have been trending …
globalresearch.ca/more-fake-news-jobs-part-2/5685519

Death and Extinction of the Bees. The Role of Monsanto?
Joachim Hagopian | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
This article was originally published in March 2014. What has been the role of Monsanto in the loss of of the global honeybee population. | It is only recently that this issue has been the object of mainstream media coverage. | Scientists …
globalresearch.ca/death-and-extinction-of-the-bees/5375684

Cheering a New Arms Race: The End of the INF
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
US President Donald Trump is a master of the withdrawal method. That said, it is often forgotten that the United States remains that most fickle of creatures, joining, or abandoning international regimes that might be seen to jar with the …
globalresearch.ca/new-arms-race-end-inf/5685627

Democracy Threat? Trump Demands 'Realignment of British Politics'. The Americanization of Britain
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
I said that this moment would come. It has almost arrived. I warned that Britain is to become a European outpost of America (READ: The global alliance taking over Britain) and if ever proof was needed, it is the …
globalresearch.ca/democracy-threat-trump-demands-realignment-of-british-politics-the-americanization-of-britain/5685635

Omission of Atrocities Committed by the Venezuelan "Opposition" Discredits UN Human Rights Report
Carla Stea | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
Former lawyer for the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Alfred de Zayas stated: | "As a former staffer of the Office of the High Commissioner For Human Rights, I know how things work. There are people with prejudices. They have | …
globalresearch.ca/omission-atrocities-committed-venezuelan-opposition-discredits-un-human-rights-report/5685622

World War II: US Military Destroyed 66 Japanese Cities Before Planning to Wipe Out the Same Number of Soviet Cities
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
The number of Japanese cities destroyed was the exact figure that the Pentagon compiled when finalizing plans, in mid-September 1945, to eviscerate the Soviet Union. Indeed, 66 Soviet cities were earmarked to be wiped out — with 204 atomic bombs — less than 2 weeks after Japan's surrender.
globalresearch.ca/us-military-destroyed-66-japanese-cities-before-planning-wipe-out-same-number-soviet-cities/5680934

Trade War Intensifies: Yuan Weakens, Markets Hit Year-Low
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-05
The tit-for-tat trade war between China and the United States escalated Monday after the People's Bank of China announced that the yuan weakened past the seven-per-dollar level, its lowest in 11 years as a result to U.S. threats of further tariffs. | RELATED: | China Vows to Retaliate if Trump Imposes New Tariffs | A researcher with the international financial research institute in the Bank of China, Wang Youxin, regarded the currency devaluation as a normal response to external changes.
telesurenglish.net/news/Trade-War-Intensifies-China-Yuan-Weakens-Markets-Hit-Year-Low-20190805-0019.html

The Silencing of Independent Media: Global Research Needs Your Help
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
Dear Readers, | An increasing number of search engines implement algorithms which are negatively biased against independent news and analysis websites such as Global Research. Our website gets filtered out from their results, making our articles harder to find, which reduces …
globalresearch.ca/silencing-of-independent-media-global-research-needs-your-help/5621041

Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif Drives Trump to Insanity
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
At a time when the Trump administration has no problem negotiating with the secretary of the Russian national security council Nikolai Patrushev, who is technically under US sanctions since April 2018, the cut and thrust of Washington's move to …
globalresearch.ca/irans-zarif-drives-trump-insanity/5685632

Is the Rise in Lyme Disease Due to Weaponized Ticks?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-05
Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases affects 400,000 Americans each year, and the reported cases are rising. Did the pentagon weaponized ticks and unleash them on an unsuspecting public? We discuss the possibility with science writer Kris Newby…
therealnews.com/stories/is-the-rise-in-lyme-disease-due-to-weaponized-ticks

What the New Deal can teach us about winning a Green New Deal: Part I
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2019-08-05
The New Deal has recently become a touchstone for many progressive efforts, illustrated by Bernie Sanders' recent embrace of its aims and accomplishments and the popularity of calls for a Green New Deal. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/05/what-the-new-deal-can-teach-us-about-winning-a-green-new-deal-part-i/

Charter School Apologia
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-05
The frenzied promotion of illusions about charter schools by the rich reflects their growing fear of losing the power to impose their narrow interests on the public. Mounting internal and external criticism of privately-operated nonprofit and for-profit charter schools rightly has charter school advocates and their wealthy supporters anxious. In this fractured context, it is …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/charter-school-apologia/

Victorian teachers' union votes to support Climate Strike
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-05
The Australian Education Union's (AEU) Victorian branch has voted to support a student-initiated call for a Climate Strike on September 20. The internationally coordinated strike, which will be held just days before a United Nations Emergency Climate Summit, is seeking to pressure governments to take serious action to address the climate crisis. | The motion, which was passed unanimously at the union's August 2 state council meeting, calls on AEU officials to negotiate with the state government "to ensure students participating in the student strike planned for Sept 2019 and future actions are afforded thei…
greenleft.org.au/content/victorian-teachers-union-votes-support-climate-strike

Selected Articles: Venezuela: US Blockade Is Next?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
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-us-aggression-towards-venezuela-blockade-next/5685545

The Canaries That Sang "Things Suck"
Jack Tucker | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-03
Don't get me wrong. I am not foul-mouthed or in any way vulgar, having been trained in the niceties of academic discretionary writing and research. I apologize for the title and even for using the personal pronoun "I." As "one" knows, to write as if you are a person with values and beliefs is very …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/the-canaries-that-sang-things-suck/

The Persistence of School Segregation
Alexandria Millet | progressive.org | 2019-08-03
Students are still isolated in their own schools because almost no one looks like them, or they are concentrated in schools in which almost everyone does.
progressive.org/dispatches/persistence-school-segregation-millet-190803/

Four Truths About For-Profit Charter Schools
Peter Greene | progressive.org | 2019-08-02
2020 Democratic candidates taking a stand against for-profit charters is like bravely standing up in opposition to yeti attacks.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/four-truths-about-for-profit-charter-schools-Greene-190802/

10 reasons to join the September 20 Climate Strike
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-02
School Strike 4 Climate outline just 10 of many reasons why you should join students when they go on strike to save the climate on September 20. | 1. Millions of people will be striking around the world with us. Beat the fear of missing out and make a plan to be there. | 2. Australia's climate pollution has never been higher than it is right now. We're on track to be responsible for almost one-fifth of the world's climate pollution by 2030. | 3. The people who did the least to contribute to this are being hit first and worst by climate impacts. And that is deeply unfair. | 4. This is only the biggest challenge hu…
greenleft.org.au/content/10-reasons-join-september-20-climate-strike-0

Homage to OSPAAAL, the organisation of solidarity for the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-08-02
Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research. A few days ago, the 9th Asia Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba came to a close. At the final meeting, Prachanda–the co-chair of the Nepal Communist Party–articulated a sentiment that is shared by billions of people around the world. Cuba, he said, 'is […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/02/homage-to-ospaaal-the-organisation-of-solidarity-for-the-peoples-of-asia-africa-and-latin-america/

"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…

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/

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

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

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/

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