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World Watching the Fate of Iranian Tanker
Prof. Vijay Prashad | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
At 11: 30pm on Sunday, August 18, the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya-1 left the shores of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. This ship had been detained about six weeks previous by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar officials. The …
globalresearch.ca/world-watching-fate-iranian-tanker/5686898

Six European Countries to Receive 356 Migrants Rescued at Sea
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-23
The Government of Malta confirmed Friday that Germany, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Romania will host 356 migrants on board the Ocean Viking, a Norwegian-flagged rescue vessel chartered by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and SOS Méditerranée. | RELATED: | Italy: Officials Finally Allow 'Open Arms' Migrants to Land | " [We] welcome [the fact] t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Six-European-Countries-to-Receive-356-Migrants-Rescued-at-Sea-20190823-0010.html

Our Vanishing World: Melting Glaciers
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Something is causing the worlds glaciers and mountain ice fields to melt. And, despite your first thought, it is not the ongoing climate catastrophe. | It does not matter where on Earth the glaciers and mountain ice fields are located, they …
globalresearch.ca/vanishing-world-glaciers/5687017

Boris Johnson Government's High Speed 2 (HS2) Rail Link Evaluation Fatally Flawed by Incompetent Ministers
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
It is inappropriate that the cost benefit analysis of the largest civil construction project in Europe, worth between £56 billion and £100 billion, is essentially in the hands of a newly appointed, inexperienced transport minister with a less than savoury …
globalresearch.ca/johnson-government-hs2-rail-link/5686886

"New Detente" Between Russia and The West? Impacts on the Russia-China Strategic Partnership
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Macron's Mediation | The dynamics of the New Cold War might undergo a dramatic transformation if the geopolitical game-changer of a "New Detente" between Russia and the West succeeds, which is becoming increasingly possible as proven by recent events. | President Putin's …
globalresearch.ca/new-detente-proceeding-apace-china-should-very-concerned/5686937

Giant 5G Drones in Hawaii Skies? Pushback Is Growing
Dr. Debra Greene | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
As we approach the 5G Crisis: Awareness & Accountability online summit, Dr. Debra Greene uncovers a crazy development in Hawaii, in her 4-min video above, or on YouTube here. Sign the petition to help stop the 5G drone development …
globalresearch.ca/giant-5g-drones-hawaii-skies/5686969

Trump Regime Threatens Illegal Sanctions on Nations Legally Buying Iranian Oil
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The US under both extremist right wings of its war party is a rogue state by any definition. | It operates extrajudicially at home and abroad. It's increasingly repressive and totalitarian, heading toward full-blown tyranny if the present trend continues unchecked….
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-threatens-illegal-sanctions-nations-buying-iranian-oil/5686908

U.S. to "Drown the World" in Oil
Nick Cunningham | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The U.S. could "drown the world in oil" over the next decade, which, according to Global Witness, would "spell disaster" for the world's attempts to address climate change. | The U.S. is set to account for 61 percent of all new …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-drown-world-oil/5687019

Risks to Health and Well-Being from Radio-Frequency Radiation (RFR) Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices
Anthony B. Miller | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
We bring to the attention of our readers this important scientific report on the health impacts of cellphone radio frequency radiation. | Below are relevant excerpts. To access the full report click here. | emphasis added | *** | Radiation exposure has long been | …
globalresearch.ca/risks-health-well-being-radio-frequency-radiation-emitted-cell-phones-other-wireless-devices/5687035

The "Lungs of the Earth" Are Literally Being Burned Away as Unprecedented Wildfires Absolutely Ravage Our Planet
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
We have never seen anything quite like this. This week the skies above Brazil's largest city turned black in the middle of the afternoon due to the massive wildfires that are currently raging in that country. But the wildfires aren't …
globalresearch.ca/unprecedented-wildfires-absolutely-ravage-planet/5687028

The Politicization of the US Justice System
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The American criminal justice system has long been a sharp painful thorn in the nation's consciousness as if to remind us of a major flaw in the American way of life. Mostly, that awareness has focused on the inequities of …
globalresearch.ca/politicization-justice/5686959

Eighty Years Ago… The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
In a remarkable book, 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, the Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley describes how, at the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union repeatedly tried, but finally failed, to …
globalresearch.ca/hitler-stalin-pact-august-23-1939/5687021

Why a Defense Agreement with Israel Would be a Disaster for Americans. Lindsey Graham's Blank Check
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Two world wars began because of unconditional pledges made by one country to come to assistance of another. On July 5, 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledged his country's complete support for whatever response Austria-Hungary would choose to make …
globalresearch.ca/lindsey-graham-defense-agreement-israel-disaster-americans/5686996

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Attack on Endangered Species Act
Earth Justice | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Environmental and animal protection groups today sued the Trump administration over its new regulations that dramatically weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Earthjustice filed the lawsuit on behalf of Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Natural …
globalresearch.ca/lawsuit-challenges-trump-administration-attack-endangered-species-act/5687031

Bolivia Orders World's Largest Air Tanker to Combat Amazon Fires
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Bolivia's President Evo Morales announced on Wednesday that Bolivia had contracted a Boeing 747 'Supertanker' to help extinguish huge forest fires in the Amazon that have that spilled over from Brazil. By Wednesday evening, the government confirmed that the tanker …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-orders-world-largest-air-tanker-combat-amazon-fires/5687023

If Statues Could Talk
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
A poem, (written by Emma Lazarus) that is highlighted on the base of the Statue of Liberty contains the following: | "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. …
globalresearch.ca/if-statues-could-talk/5686963

Indigenous People's Rights and Canada's 'Vampire' Pension Plan
Prof. James K. Rowe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Wet'suwet'en people have never ceded their land through treaty; like many Indigenous people they continue to practice relations of responsibility with the places and beings that give them life, including protecting them from ecological devastation. In January 2019, the RCMP …
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-peoples-rights-and-canadas-vampire-pension-plan/5686990

Trump Fine-tunes Peace Deal with Taliban
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The US President Donald Trump's remarks at the Oval Office in the White House on August 20 regarding the Afghan peace talks and related issues exuded an overall sense of satisfaction that the "endless war" is finally ending –although …
globalresearch.ca/trump-fine-tunes-peace-deal-taliban/5687038

Imperial Sentiments: Donald Trump, Greenland and Colonial Real Estate
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Haven't the critics worked it out yet? US President Donald Trump chugs to the coal of nonsense that may come in the wrapping of some sense. Initial mad-cat comments, when cobbled together, might reveal some pattern in time. | Take, for …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-greenland/5686993

One Woman's Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions, Seaweed, Wave Energy
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-23
Symbioses — prolonged associations between organisms often widely separated phylogenetically — are more common in biology than we once thought and have been neglected as a phenomenon worthy of study on its own merits. Extending along a dynamic continuum from antagonistic to cooperative and often involving elements of both antagonism and mutualism, symbioses involve pathogens, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/one-womans-research-on-aquatic-bioinvasions-seaweed-wave-energy/

California Tightens Restrictions of Police Use of Lethal Force to Counter Nationwide Outrage over Unarmed Civilian Murders
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
A new law passed on Monday in California and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom now allows police officers to only use lethal force when it is "necessary" in response to a threat instead of the existing "reasonable" standard. | Assembly bill …
globalresearch.ca/california-tightens-restrictions-police-use-lethal-force/5686941

US Navy "Ready" to "Restore Democracy" in Venezuela through Military Means?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
"I'm not going to detail what we're planning and what we're doing, but we're ready to implement policy decisions, and we're ready to act … | The United States Navy is the most powerful navy in the world. … | If there …
globalresearch.ca/us-navy-ready-to-restore-democracy-in-venezuela-through-military-means/5686890

Syria's SDF's Child Soldiers
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
In Syria news briefs today, two children were injured in another landmine blast; a child fleeing from US 'SDF' criminal militia was shot to death; Reconciliation continues; an increase in olive production is expected. | Two children were injured …
globalresearch.ca/sdf-child-soldiers-landmines-economy/5686946

Suddenly the West Is Failing to Overthrow "Regimes"
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If …
globalresearch.ca/west-failing-overthrow-regimes/5686967

Syrian Terrorists Cannot Hold Northern Hama Pocket for Long Time
Ahmad Al Khaled | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The Syrian army has managed to make significant progress in clashes with "opposition" groups in Northwestern Syria, taking the strategically important city of Khan Sheikhoun. The SAA also cut the highway located to the North from the city, blocking supply …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-rebels-cannot-hold-northern-hama-pocket/5687014

Kashmir and the US-Russia Power Play in South Asia
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Russia is reluctant to jeopardize its ultra-profitable arms relationship with India by strategically "balancing" South Asia, which is why the US decided to play this irreplaceable role instead by actively seeking to cut deals in both Afghanistan and Kashmir since …
globalresearch.ca/trump-south-asian-balancer/5686954

Video: Khan Shaykhun Liberated, Northern Hama Pocket — Next
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
On August 21, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces liberated the town of Khan Shaykhun and the areas of Khazanat and Tal Taeri, thus fully encircling remaining militants in northern Hama. | The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham strong points …
globalresearch.ca/video-khan-shaykhun-liberated-northern-hama-pocket-next/5686915

'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Is a Science Fiction Film
Jeet Heer | thenation.com | 2019-08-23
'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Is a Science Fiction Film…
thenation.com/article/tarantino-sly-science-fiction/

Seven Whispers of the White Dove
Iranian Students Association in America | indybay.org | 2019-08-23
Hertz Hall | 101 Cross-Sproul Path | University of California | Berkeley, CA 94720…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/23/18825645.php

Ontario teachers face threat of state repression, wage and job cuts in upcoming contract fight
wsws.org | 2019-08-23
The role of the teacher unions has been to hand the initiative to the Ford government, allowing the Tories to unveil a sweeping assault on teachers' wages and working conditions without their organizing any meaningful opposition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/23/onte…

Bill Frisell speaks with WSWS: "Music is like a teacher who opens your eyes to many things"
wsws.org | 2019-08-23
Virtuoso jazz guitarist Bill Frisell discussed some of the conceptions underpinning his musical approach and his forthcoming album during the Australian leg of his recent Asian tour.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/23/bfri…

'This is Not Berlin': South of the border like never before
Ed Rampell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-23
The young rebels also find themselves at demonstrations and fighting their parents, teachers and the police, as part of their cultural revolution against Mexico's middle-class mores. It's to the barricades, amidst lots of generation gap angst. Marina de Tavira (who was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress for portraying the mother in Roma) plays Carlos and Maud's mamacita, who may not be as un-hip as she appears to her kiddies. | Sama's film, which has been making the festival circuit–including Sundance, Tribeca, and Outfest (where I recently saw it, coincidentally sitting beside the director)[mda…
peoplesworld.org/article/this-is-not-berlin-south-of-the-border-like-never-before/

Top 1% up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% down $900 Billion
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-23
The insights of this new data series are many, but for this post here I want to highlight a single eye-popping statistic. Between 1989 and 2018, the top 1 percent increased its total net worth by $21 trillion. The bottom 50 percent actually saw its net worth decrease by $900 billion over the same period. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/23/top-1-up-21-trillion-bottom-50-down-900-billion/

On Those Downward Jobs Revisions
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that its benchmark revision to its job numbers shows that the economy created 501,000 fewer jobs between March of 2018 and March of 2019 than previously reported. There are a few points to be made about this number. First, there is nothing fishy here. Trump has zero to do…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/on-those-downward-jobs-revisions/

Video: Under the "Shield", US Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The NATO missile site at Deveselu in Romania (photo), which is part of the US Aegis "defence missiles" system, has finished its "update", begun last April. NATO's communique assures that it has added "no offensive capacity to the system", which …
globalresearch.ca/us-nuclear-weapons-europe/5686951

Selected Articles: The Geopolitics of the Kashmir Crisis
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-geopolitics-kashmir-crisis/5686917

The War on Libya, US-Turkey Power Play? Marshal Haftar vs Recep Erdogan
Yuri Veselov | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Marshal Haftar made this statement when speaking at the LNA TV channel from Benghazi for the first time after a long break. | "The Libyan National Army will defeat any plot to build foreign bases that support and finance terrorism in | …
globalresearch.ca/marshal-haftar-recep-erdogan/5686965

Al-Golani's Defiance of Turkey Leads to Syrian Government Control of Khan Sheikhoun
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
During the first week of this month of August, the ex-ISIS commander and current head of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra) Abu Mohammad al-Golani held a press conference in the occupied northern city of Idlib. He declared …
globalresearch.ca/al-golani-defiance-turkey-leads-syrian-government-control-khan-sheikhoun/5686903

New Poll Reflects Trump's Widespread Unpopularity
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-22
NEW YORK — About 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's overall job performance, according to a new poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which finds some support for the president's handling of the U.S. economy but gives him weak marks on other major issues. | Just 36% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president; 62% disapprove. | The numbers may be ugly for a first-term president facing reelection in 14 months, but they are remarkably consistent. Trump's approval rating has never dipped below 32% or risen above…
truthdig.com/articles/new-poll-reflects-trumps-widespread-unpopularity/

Is science failing the world's primates?
Michelle A. Rodrigues | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-22
There are more than 500 known primate species, but it would be hard to tell that by looking at recent research. Want to know how chimpanzees are doing across Africa? We can tell you plenty about them. But understanding how nocturnal pottos are doing across the same region? That may be more difficult. Here's why: …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/22/is-science-failing-the-worlds-primates/

Trump Regime's Hardball with China: A Losing Strategy
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
China is a major player on the world stage, geopolitical know-nothing Trump outclassed, outshined, and outwitted by its ruling authorities. | He's an embarrassment compared to other major world leaders, a laughing stock geopolitical wrecking ball. | His regime's unacceptable Indo/Pacific agenda …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-hardball-china/5686913

Defense Department kills multi-billion dollar missile contract with Boeing
rt.com | 2019-08-22
The Pentagon is scrapping a multi-billion dollar deal with Boeing to replace an outdated missile interceptor, citing years of delays and technical problems and jealously eyeing rivals' capabilities. | "Ending the program was the responsible thing to do," Michael Griffin, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said in a statement on Wednesday. | We decided the path we're going down wouldn't be fruitful, so we're not going down that path anymore. | The exact details of the project's failure would not be released "due to the classified nature of the program," a spokesman for the Pentagon's Missile D…
rt.com/usa/467020-pentagon-kills-boeing-contract/

"Seeds of Destruction" and "The Global Economic Crisis"
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
We are happy to offer you two important books from Global Research Publishers at discounted prices: | Seeds of Destruction, by F. William Engdahl: | "Control the food and you control the people." This is no ordinary book about the perils of …
globalresearch.ca/seeds-of-destruction-and-the-global-economic-crisis/5686919

UK Licensed £6.3bn Worth of Arms to Saudi-led Forces in First Four Years of Yemen Conflict
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The UK government licensed £6.3bn ($7.6bn) worth of arms to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen in the four years of the group's bombing campaign, according to a new report by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT). | According to new government …
globalresearch.ca/uk-licensed-arms-saudi-led-forces-first-four-years-yemen-conflict/5686889

Despite Devastating Crashes, Boeing Stocks Fly High
Andrew Cockburn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
In a turbulent world, some things remain stable, even to an irrational degree. One example is the price of Boeing stock, which, at $329 a share as of midday August 16, has barely moved–down just 1.6 percent–from a year ago. …
globalresearch.ca/despite-devastating-crashes-boeing-stocks-fly-high/5686901

US Unveils Warrant for Seizure of Iran-operated Grace 1
Press TV | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
According to a Press TV report: | "The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker a day after Gibraltar's Supreme Court confirmed the release of the vessel. On Thursday, Gibraltar's …
globalresearch.ca/us-unveils-warrant-seizure-iran-operated-grace-1/5686647

Trump's Science Record Is Already Worse Than Bush's
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-22
On July 19, President Trump hosted Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and their families, along with the family of their deceased colleague Neil Armstrong, at a White House event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon. | "Tomorrow will represent 50 years from the time we planted a beautiful American flag on the moon," Trump said. "And that was an achievement, possibly one of the great, considered one of the great achievements ever."
truthdig.com/articles/donald-trumps-attacks-on-science-already-surpass-two-bush-terms/

Students leading anti-gun crusade roll out comprehensive plan
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-22
Saying they're "taking matters into their own hands" because politicians have sat on theirs and produced "nothingness," the students who lead the nation's anti-gun violence crusade rolled out a comprehensive plan to cut the gun carnage in the nation's homes and on its streets, malls, theaters, and schools. Their objective: Cut the yearly gun murders …
peoplesworld.org/article/students-leading-anti-gun-crusade-roll-out-comprehensive-plan/

California 'Nazi High' forced to reopen probe after students caught throwing salutes in more videos
rt.com | 2019-08-22
Orange County high school students were caught on film giving Nazi salutes and singing Nazi marching songs, outraging the community after school administrators appeared to be trying to cover it up — until even more videos emerged. | About a dozen members of the Pacifica High School boys' water polo team are seen giving Nazi salutes in a banquet room in the first video, which went public on Monday. One begins to sing an obscure Nazi marching song and a few others join in before the clip ends. | A group of high-school athletes in Southern California reportedly gave a Nazi salute and sang a Nazi song during…
rt.com/usa/467022-california-students-nazi-salutes/

Children's Chorus Revitalizes Indigenous Language in Panama
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
Arranged in a circle from tallest to shortest, 20 children ages 6-12 breathe in unison and go through an exercise routine to relax their vocal muscles and make their voices clearer. | RELATED: | Panama Battles Childhood Obesity as Region Gains Weight | "Let go of all the tension and remember to breathe through your nose. Today we're going to start with 'Goe Machi,' " the group's teacher, Evelio Calvo tells the children while he gives instructions to the piano player to begin playing t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Childrens-Chorus-Revitalizes-Indigenous-Language-in-Panama-20190822-0017.html

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2019-08-22: News Headlines

Anis Shivani (2019-08-22). The Dream Is Dead Not Just for Dreamers, But for All Americans. commondreams.org How does one fight for freedom by locating oneself in the headquarters of the worst human rights violator for the last seventy years?(Photo: The Education Trust/Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

Lyn Neeley (2019-08-22). Bolivarian revolution and Black liberation. workers.org Portland's Hands Off Venezuela PDX sponsored a Skype teach-in on Aug. 17 with Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent, an assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, who spoke about the role of racism in Bolivarian Venezuela to a room of 25 Oregonians. She said, "Just as Haiti . . . | Continue reading Bolivarian revolution and Black liberation at Workers.org

ECOGLO (2019-08-22). It's About Time for Ethnic Studies in Our K-12 Schools. counterpunch.org "Why haven't we been taught this history before?" Students have asked us this question countless times over the past twenty-five years of teaching Latin America Studies and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Cal State Los Angeles, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University. The emotions triggering this question are usually the same. Students feel lied to and cheated. Some are frustrated and downright angry that ethnic studies has been excluded from their schooling. More

Mark Gruenberg (2019-08-22). Students leading anti-gun crusade roll out comprehensive plan. peoplesworld.org Saying they're "taking matters into their own hands" because politicians have sat on theirs and produced "nothingness," the students who lead the nation's anti-gun violence crusade rolled out a comprehensive plan to cut the gun carnage in the nation's homes and on its streets, malls, theaters and schools. Their objective: Cut the yearly gun murders …

Dan Corjescu (2019-08-22). The Metaphysics of Revolution. counterpunch.org Socrates was the first revolutionary. He opened up with a legendary oracular search the inner space from which the individual, as we understand him today, would eventually emerge. His "daemon" was that which spoke the necessary freedom and autonomy to become what we are. His was the first lesson. His student, Plato, brought on the More

RT (2019-08-22). California 'Nazi High' forced to reopen probe after students caught throwing salutes in more videos. rt.com Orange County high school students were caught on film giving Nazi salutes and singing Nazi marching songs, outraging the community after school administrators appeared to be trying to cover it up — until even more videos emerged. | About a dozen members of the Pacifica High School boys' water polo team are seen giving Nazi salutes in a banquet room in the first video, which went public on Monday. One begins to sing an obscure Nazi marching song and a few others join in before the clip ends. | A group of high-school athletes in Southern California reportedly gave a Nazi salute and sang a Nazi song during…

Mark Gruenberg (2019-08-22). Students leading anti-gun crusade roll out comprehensive plan. peoplesworld.org Saying they're "taking matters into their own hands" because politicians have sat on theirs and produced "nothingness," the students who lead the nation's anti-gun violence crusade rolled out a comprehensive plan to cut the gun carnage in the nation's homes and on its streets, malls, theaters, and schools. Their objective: Cut the yearly gun murders …

Staff (2019-08-22). Scientists Definitively Debunk the Biggest Climate Change Lie. truthdig.com European and US scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years, but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause. | Other historic changes — the so-called Medieval Warm Period and then the "Little Ice Age" that marked the 17th to the 19th centuries — were not global. The on…

Staff (2019-08-22). Trump's Science Record Is Already Worse Than Bush's. truthdig.com On July 19, President Trump hosted Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and their families, along with the family of their deceased colleague Neil Armstrong, at a White House event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon. | "Tomorrow will represent 50 years from the time we planted a beautiful American flag on the moon," Trump said. "And that was an achievement, possibly one of the great, considered one of the great achievements ever."

Jacob Sugarman (2019-08-22). New Poll Reflects Trump's Widespread Unpopularity. truthdig.com NEW YORK — About 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's overall job performance, according to a new poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which finds some support for the president's handling of the U.S. economy but gives him weak marks on other major issues. | Just 36% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president; 62% disapprove. | The numbers may be ugly for a first-term president facing reelection in 14 months, but they are remarkably consistent. Trump's approval rating has never dipped below 32% or risen above…

RT (2019-08-22). Defense Department kills multi-billion dollar missile contract with Boeing. rt.com The Pentagon is scrapping a multi-billion dollar deal with Boeing to replace an outdated missile interceptor, citing years of delays and technical problems and jealously eyeing rivals' capabilities. | "Ending the program was the responsible thing to do," Michael Griffin, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said in a statement on Wednesday. | We decided the path we're going down wouldn't be fruitful, so we're not going down that path anymore. | The exact details of the project's failure would not be released "due to the classified nature of the program," a spokesman for the Pentagon's Missile D…

EWG (2019-08-22). Hundreds of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Pollute Americans' Bodies. globalresearch.ca Hundreds of cancer-causing chemicals are building up in the bodies of Americans, according to the first comprehensive inventory of the carcinogens that have been measured in people. EWG released the inventory today. | EWG spent almost a year reviewing more than …

Andrew Korybko (2019-08-22). What's Russia Up to in the Iranian Port of Chabahar? The North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC). globalresearch.ca There have been wild reports over the past few weeks about Russia's activities in the Iranian port of Chabahar, with some sources even alleging that Moscow plans to open up a naval base there. | *** | An interesting sequence of events …

Deepal Jayasekera (2019-08-22). Indian Assault on Kashmir in Third Week, Thousands Arrested. globalresearch.ca The state of siege that India's Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has imposed on Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is now well into its third week. | Cell phone and internet access continue to be denied to many of …

Press TV (2019-08-22). US Unveils Warrant for Seizure of Iran-operated Grace 1. globalresearch.ca According to a Press TV report: | "The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker a day after Gibraltar's Supreme Court confirmed the release of the vessel. On Thursday, Gibraltar's …

John W. Whitehead (2019-08-22). American Apocalypse: The Government's Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working. globalresearch.ca "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out … without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is …

Tom Clifford (2019-08-22). The Beidaihe Political Summit: Is the "Chinese Dream" Still Viable? China's Debt Crisis. globalresearch.ca The resort town of Beidaihe has just held one of the world's most important, and secretive, political gatherings. Members of the public flock there in the summer months to relax on the beach gently lapped by the shallow waters of …

Ahmad Al Khaled (2019-08-22). No Agreement on Idlib: So-called "Militants" (aka Al Qaeda) Continue to Kill Syrian Civilians. globalresearch.ca The 13th round of negotiations on Syria in Astana format was held in the capital of Kazakhstan on the 1st and 2nd of August. As the result, three guarantor states — Russia, Turkey and Iran — accepted a statement which …

Melissa Dykes (2019-08-22). US Court Ruling: You Can Be "Too Smart" to Be a Cop. globalresearch.ca This article was first published on GR on December 18, 2014 | Can a person actually be "too smart" to be a cop in America? | A federal court's decision back in 2000 suggests that, yes, you actually can be. | Robert Jordan, …

Andrew Korybko (2019-08-22). Russia's UNSC Kashmir Stance Wasn't Influenced by India or Pakistan, but by China. globalresearch.ca Russia didn't want the issue of Kashmir to be brought before the UNSC at all, though it allowed China to go forward with the meeting out of respect for their strategic partnership but then remained conspicuously silent about India's threats …

Peter Koenig (2019-08-22). Europe on the Brink of Collapse? globalresearch.ca The Empire's European castle of vassals is crumbling. Right in front of our eyes. But Nobody seems to see it. The European Union (EU), the conglomerate of vassals — Trump calls them irrelevant, and he doesn't care what they think about him, they deserve to be collapsing.

Tony Cartalucci (2019-08-22). US Now Admits it is Funding "Occupy Central" in Hong Kong. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Global Research (2019-08-22). "Seeds of Destruction" and "The Global Economic Crisis" globalresearch.ca We are happy to offer you two important books from Global Research Publishers at discounted prices: | Seeds of Destruction, by F. William Engdahl: | "Control the food and you control the people." This is no ordinary book about the perils of …

Middle East Eye (2019-08-22). UK Licensed £6.3bn Worth of Arms to Saudi-led Forces in First Four Years of Yemen Conflict. globalresearch.ca The UK government licensed £6.3bn ($7.6bn) worth of arms to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen in the four years of the group's bombing campaign, according to a new report by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT). | According to new government …

Andrew Cockburn (2019-08-22). Despite Devastating Crashes, Boeing Stocks Fly High. globalresearch.ca In a turbulent world, some things remain stable, even to an irrational degree. One example is the price of Boeing stock, which, at $329 a share as of midday August 16, has barely moved—down just 1.6 percent—from a year ago. …

Philip A Farruggio (2019-08-22). The Woodstock Summer of Love? Fifty Years Ago. globalresearch.ca Goodness, how 50 years seemed to go like a blink in the eye of memory. Almost to the day, two sets of events harnessed the attention of our nation in August of 1969. On August 9th and 10th, what was …

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-22). Trump Regime's Hardball with China: A Losing Strategy. globalresearch.ca China is a major player on the world stage, geopolitical know-nothing Trump outclassed, outshined, and outwitted by its ruling authorities. | He's an embarrassment compared to other major world leaders, a laughing stock geopolitical wrecking ball. | His regime's unacceptable Indo/Pacific agenda …

Elijah J. Magnier (2019-08-22). Al-Golani's Defiance of Turkey Leads to Syrian Government Control of Khan Sheikhoun. globalresearch.ca During the first week of this month of August, the ex-ISIS commander and current head of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra) Abu Mohammad al-Golani held a press conference in the occupied northern city of Idlib. He declared …

Rodney Atkinson (2019-08-22). The Mad World of Theresa May Has Lured the EU into a Trap. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published in December 2018. | The British Prime Minister's Brexit has been so epically disastrous that it has trapped the EU into an ideal result for the UK. This is consistent with the upside down world she …

Michelle A. Rodrigues (2019-08-22). Is science failing the world's primates? nationofchange.org There are more than 500 known primate species, but it would be hard to tell that by looking at recent research. Want to know how chimpanzees are doing across Africa? We can tell you plenty about them. But understanding how nocturnal pottos are doing across the same region? That may be more difficult. Here's why: …

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2019-08-22). Subsidizing Underfunded Schools, US Teachers Spend $459 of Their Own Money Each Year on Classroom Supplies. commondreams.org As students, parents, and educators enter the start of a new school year, the think tank Economic Policy Institute published an analysis Thursday that American K-12 public school teachers spend an average of $459 on classroom supplies for which they are not reimbursed. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

Oscar Grenfell (2019-08-21). Australian Investigative Journalist Exposes Mainstream Media Betrayal of Assange. globalresearch.ca At a Sydney "Politics in the Pub" meeting on Thursday night, award-winning Australian journalist Mark Davis revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the …

Kurt Nimmo (2019-08-21). Omar, Tlaib, and the United States of Israel. globalresearch.ca I'm trying to remember when Israel wasn't the fifty-first state. It receives my tax money and a blank check by the United States government to torture, ethnically cleanse, and murder Palestinians. | Israelis are apparently more important and cherished than Americans, …

(2019-08-21). Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA's 200 Million-acre Expansion of Bee-killing Pesticide. globalresearch.ca The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety sued the Trump administration today over its July decision to approve use of the bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor across more than 200 million acres of crops. | The approval was granted despite …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-08-21). Fast Bowling, Concussions and Jofra Archer. globalresearch.ca We should all be cheering on some level. So much in this age of cricket favours the pampered bat over the stifled ball. The game of duration has suffered: five-day test matches are struggling before diminishing attention spans and ever …

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2019-08-21). What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China. globalresearch.ca The main problem with the US economy is that globalism has been deconstructing it. The offshoring of US jobs has reduced US manufacturing and industrial capability and associated innovation, research, development, supply chains, consumer purchasing power, and tax base of …

South Front (2019-08-21). Video: Syrian Tiger Forces Advance to Encircle Khan Shaykhun. globalresearch.ca Government forces are rapidly advancing in southern Idlib inflicting large casualties to radical militant groups. | During the weekend, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces and their allies have liberated the villages of Khirbat Abidin, Hursh al-Tawilah, Mughr Hunta, …

Zero Hedge (2019-08-21). Half a Billion Bees Drop Dead in Brazil Amid Jump in Pesticide Use. globalresearch.ca Bee apocalypse has unfolded in four of Brazil's southern states in 1Q19. More than half a billion bees died earlier this year, in a short period, experts are suggesting that pesticides are likely to be blamed, reported Bloomberg. ….

Shane Quinn (2019-08-21). History: US Encroachment Encouraged Japan To Support Hitler and Mussolini. globalresearch.ca During late September 1940, Japanese representatives like Sabur≈ç Kurusu flew to Berlin where they were greeted by the ruler of Europe, Adolf Hitler. Kurusu, an experienced career diplomat from Yokohama, could not help but notice the Nazi self-assurance at …

John Clarke (2019-08-21). A Nightmare of Homelessness: A Knapsack Full of Dreams. globalresearch.ca Cathy Crowe's book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse comes out of decades of witnessing and challenging a growing blight of destitution and poverty in Toronto that has developed with the advance of the neoliberal agenda. …

The Canary (2019-08-21). UK budget surplus misses forecasts as Government spending jumps before Brexit. thecanary.co The UK public purse delivered a smaller-than-expected surplus last month as public spending continued to increase. | The government posted a £1.3bn surplus in July, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), as it highlighted the budget restraints facing prime minister Boris Johnson amid significant Brexit-related spending commitments. | The surplus was £2.2bn smaller than in July 2018 and fell short of analyst forecasts of a £2.7bn surplus. | It's typical for the public finances to show a surplus in July, due to the boost from self-assessment income tax payments swelling the nationa…

Global Research News (2019-08-21). Selected Articles: Mainstream Media Betrayal of Assange. globalresearch.ca 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 …

RT (2019-08-20). 'Run, hide, or fight': Louisiana State University warns of 'armed intruder' in a tweet. rt.com The Louisiana State University's campus was temporarily placed on lockdown after a report of a gunman on its grounds. The university responded with a warning, telling its students in a tweet to "run, hide or fight." | The university first warned about an armed intruder on Tuesday afternoon, and soon followed up its initial tweet with advice to "Run: Exit the area and move away from danger. Hide: If escape is not possible, find a safe area to hide. Fight: This is an absolute last resort." | Run: Exit the area and move away from danger. | Hide: If escape is not possible, find a safe area to hide. | Fight: This i…

Fight Back (2019-08-20). Say no to the McCarthyite attack on Chicago teachers. fightbacknews.org As the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) find itself locked in tough contract negotiations and faces the possibility of a strike, corporate and right-wing media like the Chicago Tribune, Breitbart and others have launched a bizarre attack that seems like it is straight out of the 1950s red scare. Rather than addressing the real problems impacting teachers and students in Chicago schools, these reactionary pundits have decided the rant and rave about – of all things – a delegation of teachers that traveled to Venezuela earlier this summer. | Here are the facts of the matter. A group of teachers who are also members of…

Dan Corjescu (2019-08-20). The Metaphysics of Revolution. dissidentvoice.org Socrates was the first revolutionary. He opened up with a legendary oracular search of the inner space from which the individual, as we understand him today, would eventually emerge. His "daemon" was that which spoke the necessary freedom and autonomy to become what we are. His was the first lesson. His student, Plato, brought on …

Brad Bennett (2019-08-20). Maryland teacher incorporates hard lessons about slavery into public school curriculum. splcenter.org At a workshop for teachers about educating children on American slavery, one instructor grew angry and insisted that Thomas Jefferson — who fathered biracial children with an enslaved woman on one of his plantations — was an advocate for racial equality.

ACLU (2019-08-19). Trump is Taking More Money for Raids and Detention. Congress Should Stop Him. aclu.org Without congressional checks, ICE and CBP will continue to overspend and overstep. | The budget for Trump's turbo-charged immigration enforcement and border militarization is now larger than ever. And just last week, we learned that ICE plans to redirect even more money to further expand immigration detention and enforcement. The plan is currently being reviewed by congressional appropriato…

Fight Back (2019-08-19). Anti-War Committee denounces Israel's ban of Omar and Tlaib. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following August 15 statement from the Twin Cities based Anti-War Committee. | The Minnesota Anti-War Committee condemns the Israeli government's August 15 decision not to allow US Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering occupied Palestine, to which the Israeli state controls all access. Reps. Omar and Tlaib join the thousands of peace activists, human rights officials and people of conscience around the world who are denied entry over their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel and its Zionist policies of occu…

Brian Mier (2019-08-17). Media Blackout on Brazil's Anti-Bolsonaro Protests – Why are New York Times and Guardian downplaying resistance to Brazil's far-right president? fair.org August 13 protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Belo Horizonte, one of 211 cities where demonstrations took place (photo: Dowglas Silva). | Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets of 211 cities on August 13 to protest far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's austerity cuts and privatization plans for the public university system. It was the third in series of national education strikes, dubbed "the Education Tsunamis,…

splcenter (2019-08-17). SPLC Responds to FRC and ADF's Attack Op-Ed. splcenter.org On August 17, 2019, a former Family Research Council (FRC) staff member, who currently works at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) — two organizations designated as hate groups by the SPLC — attacked the SPLC in a USA Today OpEd for its hate group designations.

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