JULY
1 THROUGH 12
 JULY
13, 2020 National
Review Is Trying to Rewrite its Own Racist History . ... Stuart Stevens, who has
gone from running Mitt Romney’s campaign for president in 2012 to a perch
as a leading Never Trumper, is out with a new book: his mea culpa of sorts, It
Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. Intercept
Trump’s
Leadership Is Tested In Time Of Fear, Pandemic. ... The Trump show may be losing
its allure, exposing the empty space once filled by the empathy and seriousness
of presidents leading in a crisis. HuffPost
Democracy
and the Illusion of Choice. ... The neoliberal logic of everything for the rich
is now so deeply embedded in American political economy that its base assumptions
appear untouchable, except in rare and extraordinary circumstances. CounterPunch
ELECTION
NEWS Florida
Democratic Candidates Organize to Protest Florida Democratic Party. Intercept
The
Corporate Media Convinced Millions That Bernie Was “Unelectable”. ...
There is overwhelming evidence a surge of mostly older, Trump-fearing voters decided
the Democratic primary — and that Bernie Sanders failed to counter an establishment
messaging campaign that Trump would beat him in a general election. Jacobin
We
Must Understand the Sordid History of Voter Suppression to End Its Use. TruthOut
Conservative
group backing Colorado’s national popular vote measure fueled by out-of-state
money, tied to Democrats ... The campaign manager for Conservatives for Yes on
National Popular, which is running ads in Colorado in support of the controversial
law, declined to name a Republican in the state who has endorsed the measure.
Colorado
Sun Supreme
Court says presidential electors may be forced to support winner of popular vote.
... Thirty-two states have laws addressing 'faithless electors', though only 16
of those penalise or cancel such votes. Independent
Foreign
Election Interference: Who is to Blame?. ... Ever since the Russian election interference
in 2016, the New York Times has been blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin
for the new Cold War with the United States. CounterPunch
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US
News Falsely Reports That North Korea Threatened to Nuke US. FAIR
The
utterly shameless Betsy DeVos. Digby
Is
the Latest Purge of Journalists an Attempt to Appease Netanyahu? ... Even if the
prime minister isn’t behind the firings, the atmosphere of suspicion serves
him well. Haaretz
'Completely
Out of Control': China Says 'US Epidemic' Threat to Rest of the World. ... 'In
the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more
countries and regions will be forced to suffer because of the US.' CommonDreams
Fox
News Edits Trump Out Of Jeffrey Epstein Photo -- Leaves In Melania Trump once
called him a “terrific guy” who likes them on the “younger side.”
HuffPost
Facebook and Its Big Tech Cronies Are Upgrading Their Anti-Union Tools.
TruthOut
Open
Letter: An Anti-Racist West Point Is Possible. ... We hope Academy leadership
will agree we are espousing the same values West Point seeks to instill in its
graduates. ScheerPost
Trump’s
Niece Says He Paid a Friend to Take the SAT For Him in High School. TruthOut
MONDAY
JULY 13, 2020
REBELLION NEWS ‘Reject
the lies of history’: Washington reckons with tributes to racist past. ...The
US capital is adorned with monuments to American history, but as schools change
names and statues are toppled, legacies are under scrutiny. Guardian
On
Disposability and Rebellion: Insights From a Rank-and-File Insurgency. CounterPunch
George
Floyd told officers 'I can't breathe' more than 20 times, transcripts show. ...
Derek Chauvin, the officer kneeling on his neck, replied: ‘It takes a heck
of a lot of oxygen to talk’ Guardian
Civil
Rights Groups Sue NC City Over Law That 'Effectively Bans Any Protest'. ... Ordinance
in city of Graham "sends a clear message that racist monuments are valued
more highly than Black lives and our constitutional rights.” CommonDreams James
Averhart Oversaw Chelsea Manning’s Brutal Imprisonment. Now He’s Running
for Congress as a Democrat. ... James Averhart led a push to track down and punish
soldiers who deserted the Vietnam War in an attempt to stop similar desertions
in Iraq and oversaw Chelsea Manning's brutal imprisonment at a Quantico jail.
He's now vying for an Alabama House of Representatives seat -- as a Democrat.
Jacobin
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OF JULY 10-12, 2020 Weekend
Read: Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party by Ted
Rall ... There’s a split in the Democratic Party. Progressives are surging
with ideas and candidates like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez. 72 percent of Democratic voters are progressives. But centrists
like Tom Perez and the Clintons still run the DNC party apparatus–and they
don’t want to compromise. Intraparty warfare exploded into the open in 2016.
It’s even bigger now. Rall.com
The
Pathology of the Rich - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself. YouTube
Part 1. Part
2 Trump
Threatens to Cut Funding for Schools If They Don’t Reopen in the Fall. TruthOut
What
Buddhism and science can teach each other – and us – about the universe
The
Conversation WEEKEND
JULY 10-12, 2020
ENVIRONMENT Dominion
(2018) - The definitive documentary on the multi-faceted evils of animal agriculture.
Everyone should at least be informed about their choices and the reality of the
industries which our governments protect: YouTube
Energy
Companies Cancel $8 Billion Appalachian Trail Pipeline Project. .. The Atlantic
Coast Pipeline was going to be built under the Appalachian Train through West
Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. HuffPost
Biosphere Warming in Numbers. CounterPunch
New
Report Finds Economic Benefits of Protecting 30% of Planet's Land and Ocean Outweigh
the Costs 5-to-1. ... "Protecting
nature halts biodiversity loss, helps fight climate change, and lessens the chance
of future pandemics. This is sound public policy, economically, ecologically,
and morally." Commondreams
How
Black & Indigenous Groups Won the Fight to Stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
DemocracyNow
Related: “A Dream That Comes True”: Standing Rock Elder
Hails Order to Shut Down DAPL After Years of Protest. DemocracyNow
How
We Stopped Trump From Trashing a Critical Montana Roadless Area in Grizzly Habitat.
CounterPunch
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As
Colleges Resort to Online Learning, ICE Issues 'Needlessly Cruel' Rule Pushing
International Students Out of US. ... "The Trump administration is using
ICE to threaten universities into teaching in person by threatening international
students with deportation if they're all online."
CommonDreams An
Interview with Nancy Pelosi Challenger Shahid Buttar and a Look at the History
of Fascist Movements in the U.S. Intercept
It’s
Now Ghislaine Maxwell’s Turn. CounterPunch
The
mechanics of Israel’s annexation in the West Bank. ... How will annexation
impact the legal status of Israeli settlers and the Palestinians that live in
the areas that are annexed? Mondoweiss
Trump
Health Secretary Says US Healthcare Workers 'Don't Get Infected' With Covid-19
(94,000 Have Contracted the Virus). ... While the true toll Covid-19 has taken
on healthcare workers is not yet known, one investigation found that more than
760 have died from the virus. Commondreams
The
Problem With Israel’s Annexation Is Its Brutality, Not Its Optics. ... We
need strong condemnation of Israel’s annexation plans, not handwringing over
bad P.R. ITT
WEEKEND
JULY 10-12, 2020
REBELLION NEWS If
Governments Believe So Much in Nonviolence, They Should Try It. TruthOut
Is
free speech under threat from 'cancel culture'? Four writers respond. ... Nesrine
Malik, Jonathan Freedland, Zoe Williams and Samuel Moyn/ Guardian
Trump
Campaign Ads Mislead Viewers About Black Protesters Who Stopped Violence. Intercept
“California
Is Ripe for a Revolution”. ... Jackie Fielder, a Democratic Socialists of
America–backed candidate for California’s State Senate, is refusing
to take money from police unions, real-estate interests, and the fossil fuel industry.
For her, the connection between capital and police violence is clear: “Our
communities face intense repression from the state because it is profitable.”
Jacobin
Two
more car ramming attacks target Black Lives Matter protests. ... Violent incidents
in New York and Indiana follow a deadly car ramming in Seattle – and other
vehicular attacks at recent protests. Independent
Three
Books on the 2020 Presidential Election and Their Relevance to the Black Live
Matter Protests. CounterPunch
Far
Right Reading List Shows Link Between Its Literature and Real-World Violence.
TruthOut
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JULY
9, 2020 Will
the ICC Investigation Bring Justice for Palestine? CounterPunch
The
Pathology of the Rich - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself. YouTube Part
1 Part
2 The
US Should Stop Lying About Its History. ... Not only should statues celebrating
Columbus be removed, but textbooks should reflect his murderous legacy. TRN
JULY
9, 2020
WAR
IS WHAT DEFINES US The
War on Logic: Contradictions and Absurdities in the House’s Military Spending
Bill. CounterPunch
US
News Falsely Reports That North Korea Threatened to Nuke US. FAIR
Afghanistan:
What is to be Done? CounterPunch
Key
U.S. Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme. AntiWar
US
approves $7.5 billion in foreign weapons sales in one day Defense
News Afghanistan
and the Endless War Caucus. ... The immediate response to a story that U.S. forces
were being targeted is to keep fighting a losing conflict. AntiWar
On
Contact: Hedges and Maj. Danny Discuss New Investigation of Patriotism. ... Sjursen's
latest book asks whether there is a proper space for patriotism that renounces
entitled exceptionalism and narcissistic jingoism. ScheerPost
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Annexation
is going forward, and Democratic/European opposition is toothless without concrete
penalties. MondoWeiss Fearing
Israeli sanctions, banks refuse to pay out Palestinian terror stipends. ... Military
decree set to take effect, applying anti-terror law to West Bank and holding banks
liable for PA payments to attackers and their families. The
Times of Israel You
Are Not Guilty. ... America, let’s talk. ... you can stop hiding your face
in shame: you are not guilty. Trump didn’t win in 2016. And I’m not
talking about Trump losing the popular vote. Greg
Palast Supreme
Court Says Employers May Deny Birth Control Coverage Over Religious Objections.
... The case concerns Obamacare’s birth control mandate, which requires most
private health insurance plans to cover contraceptives without a copay. HuffPost
US
officially notifies World Health Organization of its withdrawal. ... Trump administration
letter comes despite virtually no international support for the move amid pandemic.
Guardian Personal
Protective Gear For Medical Workers Fighting Coronavirus Runs Low -- Again “We’re
five months into this and there are still shortages of gowns, hair covers, shoe
covers, masks, N95 masks,” said the president of National Nurses United.
HuffPost
“A
Dream That Comes True”: Standing Rock Elder Hails Order to Shut Down DAPL
After Years of Protest. DemocracyNow Antiracism
Must Be a Priority in Every Newsroom. TruthOut 'A
Shameful Moment': Trump Announces Formal Withdrawal From WHO as Covid-19 Cases
Climb. ... "This won't protect American lives or interests—it leaves
Americans sick and America alone." CommonDreams
JULY
9, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Tucker
Carlson Accused Of Echoing White Supremacist Talking Points On Fox News
Fox
News host’s on-screen graphic is being compared to the infamous “14
words.” HuffPost
Trump’s
Racism May be Blatant, But the Culture He Defends Comes Out of the Civil War and
Goes Well Beyond Racial Division. CounterPunch/Cockburn
Cop
Pulled A Gun On Woman’s Unarmed Son, Then Used Facebook Posts Against Her
In Court. ... Erica Hamlett's fight for accountability for an off-duty officer
who pulled a gun on her child while he waited for a bus. TRN
Two
more car ramming attacks target Black Lives Matter protests. ... Violent incidents
in New York and Indiana follow a deadly car ramming in Seattle – and other
vehicular attacks at recent protests. Independent
What
does community control of police look like?. GrayZone
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JULY
8, 2020 CIA
Manual on trickery and deception. Internet
Archive Centenarian
study suggests living environment may be key to longevity. ... Washington State
University Summary: Where you live has a significant impact on the likelihood
that you will reach centenarian age, suggests a new study. New research suggests
that people who live in highly walkable, mixed-age communities may be more likely
to live to their 100th birthday. Science
Daily JULY
8, 2020 - FACIAL RECOGNITION Algorithmic
Justice League. ... Technology Should Serve all of us . Not just the privileged
Few. AJL Facial
Recognition Legislation in the Hopper. GovTrack
Boston Bans
Gov't Use of Face Surveillance. EFF
Statewide
Moratorium on Use of Facial Recognition Technology. EFF
EFF Positions
on COVID-19 Policy. EFF
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The
Invasion of America. .. The Age of Disappointment? Or How the American Century
Ends. Tom
Dispatch The
War Zone Is America. ... The threat of armed violence shapes the major life decisions
of so many people of color today. ScheerPost Uranium
Mining at Grand Canyon: Havasupai Sacred Site & Diné Communities Face
Imminent Threat. Clean
up the Mines The
Politics of Contraband (from Gangster Planet). MadCow
2020
is our last chance to avert climate catastrophe, says energy chief. ... The International
Energy Agency releases its Sustainable Recovery Plan and says governments have
a 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to reduce global emissions. Independent
Armed
Extremist Groups Aren’t Lone Wolves ... They Were Galvanized by the GOP.
TruthOut
JULY
8, 2020
REBELLION NEWS No,
We’re Not All Antifa Now. But We Should Be. CounterPunch What
We Know About the Killing of Elijah McClain. The
Cut
The
Pathology of the Rich - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself YouTube
Part 1 Part
2 White
woman who called police over black birdwatcher is charged. ... Amy Cooper charged
with filing a false report. Guardian
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JULY
7, 2020 Julian
Assange extradition hearing with Marjorie Cohn
Chris
Hedges 'A
Scandal': Contracts Show Trump Giving Big Pharma Free Rein to Price Gouge Taxpayer-Funded
Coronavirus Drugs. ... "The amount of money the government is throwing at
companies is unprecedented. Normally when you write bigger checks, you should
have more leverage, not less leverage." CommonDreams
JULY
7, 2020 EASY MONEY
It's all about cash Federal
Regulators Are Mortgaging The Country To Wall Street. ... What could possibly
go wrong? ... Federal regulators quietly shredded the most significant banking
reform enacted after the 2008 financial crisis last month. When they were done,
they patted banks on the back for continuing to shovel cash to their shareholders.
HuffPost
Wall
Street billionaire talks Trudeau into changing course to benefit private investors.
Rabble
'The
Swamp Is Alive and Well': Trump-Connected Lobbyists Raked in $10 Billion in Covid-19
Aid for Corporate Clients. CommonDreams
As
Markets Crashed, DeVos Sold Shares in Secretive Cayman Island Fund. ... Billionaire
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sold up to $5 million in securities through an
offshore fund that appears in the Paradise Papers. Sludge As
Covid-19 Takes Toll, DeVos Denounced for New 'Craven' Public School Privatization
Scheme. ... "With our country dealing with a pandemic, an economic recession,
and structural racism, she's spied an opening to exploit this crisis to resuscitate
her failed agenda." CommonDreams
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Chief
Justice John Roberts Is Carrying Out Corporate America’s Long-Term Plan Perfectly.
... In 2005, Chief Justice John Roberts was nominated to the Supreme Court because
the business lobby believed he would turn the court into a corporate weapon —
and that's precisely what he has been doing ever since. Jacobin
Connecting
the Dates – US Media Used To Stop The ‘Threat’ of Peace. CounterPunch Fourth
of July Musings: The Curse of Exceptionalism and the Perils of Patriotism. ..
Our messianic belief that we are the chosen nation has been disastrous for so
many here and abroad. ScheerPost
In
the Name of Anti-Trumpism, Media Elevate a Lying Warmonger. FAIR
Revolutionary
Possibilities: Could U.S. Capitalism Turn Nationalist?. CounterPunch
JULY
7, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Voices
from an uprising. ... Portraits from Los Angeles’ Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
HCN
The
People Must Rise Up and Remove Trump-Pence From This Horror Show Handling of the
Pandemic. ... The citizenry must quickly mount irresistible pressure for Trump
and Pence to step aside. CommonDreams/Nader
NYPD’s
Culture of Impunity Sees an Officer Repeatedly Accused of Physical and Sexual
Abuse Rising Through the Ranks. ... On a late January morning in 2015, Carletto
Allen was sitting in a car parked in front of his house in the Bronx, when two
men ran up to the car, guns drawn. Intercept
Police
Reform Hasn’t Stopped the Killings Before. It Won’t Now Either. TruthOut
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JULY
6, 2020 Federal
Regulators Are Mortgaging The Country To Wall Street. ... What could possibly
go wrong? ... Federal regulators quietly shredded the most significant banking
reform enacted after the 2008 financial crisis last month. When they were done,
they patted banks on the back for continuing to shovel cash to their shareholders.
HuffPost
Ghislaine
Maxwell arrested by FBI on charges related to Jeffrey Epstein. .. Maxwell
had kept a low profile and her whereabouts were unknown since Epstein’s arrest
last July on sex trafficking charges. Guardian
Related: FBI tracked Ghislaine Maxwell as she ‘slithered away’
to luxury New Hampshire property. ... Prosecutors say they would ‘welcome
Prince Andrew coming in to talk to us’ as charges handed down . Independent
ELECTION
NEWS The
Data is Clear: Progressives Should Boycott Biden. ... Once again the Democratic
Party is asking progressives to vote for a presidential nominee who says he disagrees
with them about every major issue. CounterPunch
Killer Lines, Killer Cops, and Trump’s Vote-Heist Dress Rehearsal. ... The
hidden, ugly story of the new Jim Crow tactics tested in the recent primaries
-- and coming soon to a state near you. Craig
Palast The
Corruption of the Democratic Party: Talking to Ted Rall about his new book. CounterPunch
Alumni
of George W. Bush administration launch pro-Biden super PAC. TheHill
Beware
of Anti-Trump Republicans Who Endorse Joe Biden. TruthOut
Democratic
Senate Candidates Are Lining Up Against The Filibuster. ... Every leading candidate
in a race targeted by the Democratic Party is at least open to reforming the Senate’s
60-vote threshold. HuffPost
New
COVID Infections Surge in US as Trump Fixates on His Election Prospects.
TruthOut Beware
of Anti-Trump Republicans Who Endorse Joe Biden. TruthOut Scroll
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Chelsea
Clinton denies she was ever close friends with Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged
‘madam’. ... The former First Daughter joins her father in attempting
to distance herself from the disgraced financier and his associates, Mercury
News
How
the UK Labour Party Lost the Working Class. ... More low-income voters backed
the Tories than the Labour Party in the 2019 election for the first time ever.
Labour’s decision to side with the establishment rather than the voters over
Brexit pushed them into the Tories’ arms. Jacobin
The
‘Threat’ of Peace and Media Dupes: Connecting the Dates on Russia Bounties
Bombshell. ... Leave a Comment on The ‘Threat’ of Peace and Media Dupes:
Connecting the Dates on Russia Bounties Bombshell. Peace seems to have exceedingly,
ridiculously, laughably bad timing, this latest time in Afghanistan. ScheerPost
In
‘Russian Bounty’ Story, Evidence-Free Claims From Nameless Spies Became
Fact Overnight. FAIR
There’s
a War Going On Over Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia Page, with Unflattering Elements
Vanishing. Intercept: Cattle-feed
crops, which end up as beef and dairy products, account for 23% of water consumption
in the US. Guardian
Ron
Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen: The Great Con of American Patriotism. ... The two
veterans trace the United States' violent trajectory since the Vietnam War. ScheerPost
New
studies show that men are worried masks are not masculine. Are masks becoming
the ‘condoms of the face’? Guardian
MONDAY
JULY 6, 2020
REBELLION NEWS
1
Dead After Car Hits 2 Seattle Protesters On Closed Freeway. ... A 27-year-old
man was taken into custody for the early morning incident that left a second woman
hospitalized. HuffPost
Baltimore
Protesters Tear Down Christopher Columbus Statue, Dump It In The Harbor. ... A
spokesman for the mayor said it was part of a “reexamination” of monuments
and statues that may “represent different things to different people.”
HuffPost
Police
Unions Are Racist Power Brokers in Opposition to Movement for Black Lives. TruthOut
Police
Foundations Scrub Corporate Partners and Board Members From Their Websites. ...
In at least four major U.S. cities, foundations affiliated with police departments
have taken down information on their partners and board members after activists
began calling on them to cut ties. Sludge
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Weekend
of July 3-5, 2020 Weekend
Read: Propaganda and the Public Mind by Noam Chomsky. In this collection of
interviews with David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky interrogates the institutions that
shape the public mind in the service of power and profit. Whether discussing U.S.
military involvement in Colombia, the attack on Social Security, the rise of HMOs,
or growing inequality worldwide, Chomsky shows how ordinary citizens have the
power to make meaningful change. Alternative
Radio Important
Feb 2013 documentary:
Obey':
Film Based on Chris Hedges' 'Death of the Liberal Class' by Temujin Doran. YouTube The
Kafkaesque Imperium: Julian Assange and the Second Superseding Indictment. CounterPunch
Related: US Government Expands Assange Indictment To Criminalize Assistance
Provided To Edward Snowden. ShadowProof As
COVID Burns Through the South and West, Trump Fans the Flames. TruthOut Chomsky:
We Must Not Let Masters of Capital Define the Post-COVID World. TruthOut WEEKEND
JULY 3-5, 2020
ENVIRONMENT
The
Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full
List.. NY
Times
Trump
To Nominate Anti-Environment Extremist As Permanent Public Lands Chief. ... William
Perry Pendley says his personal views and past actions are “irrelevant”
when it comes to leading an agency that manages more than one-third of all federal
land. HuffPost Arctic
Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues. ... Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs’
controversial film Planet of the Humans (Rumble Media) serves as an opening salvo,
exposing a green movement that has turned a light shade of brown. The film paints
a painful picture of a movement that, in certain instances, has gone off the rails.
CounterPunch Siberian
Heat Wave Is A ‘Warning Cry’ From The Arctic, Climate Scientists Say
“This is what this heat wave is doing: It makes much more fuel available
to burn, not just vegetation, but the soil as well.” HuffPost The
secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US. ... Wildlife
Services kills thousands of animals at ranchers and farmers’ behest. But
it operates with little oversight – and critics describe it as out of control.
Guardian Conservation
Groups Sue Trump Administration to Halt Massive Logging in Steelhead Critical
Habitat. CounterPunch
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Hundreds
Of Former Bush Officials Form New Super PAC To Help Elect Joe Biden. ... Republicans
who served in the George W. Bush administration unite to form 43 Alumni for Biden.
HuffPost
Saudis
Bankroll Taliban, Even as King Officially Supports Afghan Government. NY
Times Biden
Compared Indicted War Criminal to “George Washington” CounterPunch Sanders
Files Amendments to Force Pentagon to Pass Clean Audit, Require Mass-Production
of Free Masks for All. ... "National security," said Sen. Bernie Sanders,
"means doing everything we can to improve the lives of our people, many of
whom have been abandoned by our government decade after decade." CommonDreams Trolling
Trump, the Lincoln Project Also Peddles Militarism. ... The Never Trump super
PAC makes entertaining ads that get under the president’s skin—but progressives
should take a closer look at their agenda. The
Nation When
US Backed A Mass Murder Program In Indonesia: Interview With Vincent Bevins On
‘The Jakarta Method’. ShadowProof
Biden
Now Up To 106 Billionaire Donors; Trump Has 93. ... Joe Biden extended his lead
over Donald Trump in the race for the most billionaire donors in May, according
to a review of documents filed with the Federal Election Commission Forbes Giant
Pandas Finally Mate After Being Married In Catholic Ceremony. Onion Plague
Journal #15: What Bats Can Teach Us. ... Solving overwhelming problems begins
with repairing the damage done. ScheerPost Big
Pharma Trade Group Blasted as 'Morally Bankrupt' for Suing to Block Minnesota
Insulin Affordability Law. ... The law is named for Alec Smith, an uninsured 26-year-old
who died in 2017 after rationing his insulin. CommonDreams NYT
Erases US Occupation’s Role in Prolonging Taliban Insurgency. NY
Times WEEKEND
JULY 3-5, 2020
REBELLION NEWS
The
Police Aren’t Very Good At Their Main Job: Solving Crimes. .. What the statistics
-- and my personal experiences -- show about how little we should expect when
we are crime victims. HuffPost
Congress
Urged to Repeal Program That Transfers 'Weapons of War' to Local Police. ... "In
response to the national outrage, armored vehicles, assault weapons, and military
gear once again filled our streets and communities, turning them into war zones."
CommonDreams
De-Militarizing
the United States. CounterPunch
What
Defunding the Police Can Look Like. ScheerPost
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July
2, 2020 (2012)
Chomsky on Civil Liberties, Obama and the Future of Progressive Politics. CounterPunch
'Deplorable
Act in Face of Global Crisis': Trump Condemned as US Buys Up Nearly Entire Supply
of Covid-19 Drug. ... "It's a very concerning precedent because if we see
the vaccine coming from a U.S. company, we're likely to see the same type of behavior
and hoarding by the U.S. and other developed countries." CommonDreams
De-Militarizing
the United States. CounterPunch
JULY
2, 2020
WAR
IS WHAT DEFINES US
Sanders Files Amendments to Force Pentagon to Pass Clean Audit, Require Mass Production
of Free Masks for All. ... "National security," said Sen. Bernie Sanders,
"means doing everything we can to improve the lives of our people, many of
whom have been abandoned by our government decade after decade." CommonDreams
Afghanistan Bounties:
Pot, Meet Kettle (and Turn Off the Stove!). CounterPunch Trump’s
Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts, and Broken Promises. ... Donald
Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the
course of his first term, he has come closer to starting new wars than ending
the wars he inherited. Jacobin The
War That Time Forgot. ... The most crucial decision of this century was the vote
to go to war against Iraq. ... At a minimum, the US is spending about $52 billion
a year waging war in Afghanistan. CounterPunch
Biden
Bashes Trump For Being Too Soft on Regime Change in Venezuela. ... Joe Biden criticized
President Trump’s willingness to meet with Venezuelan president Maduro, attacking
him from the right and showing that U.S. imperialism is a bipartisan affair. Left
Voice The
Korean War Atrocities No One Wants to Talk About. ... For decades they covered
up the U.S. massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri and elsewhere. This is why we never
learn our lessons. American
Conservative Bill
Clinton’s Serbian War Atrocities Exposed in New Indictment. CounterPunch
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Puerto
Rico’s Troubled Utility Is A Goldmine For U.S. Contractors. ... Billions
of dollars in contracts have been awarded to politically connected Americans,
even as Puerto Ricans suffer electricity outages. HuffPost
In
Buried Report, U.S. Government Admits Major Failures in Confronting Domestic Terrorism.
Intercept
For
Many Young People, Socialism Is as American as Apple Pie. ... Bernie Sanders may
never make it to the White House, but, just when we need them most, socialists
like “Bigger than Bernie” co-author Megan Day have picked up his torch.
ScheerPost
Related: (2015) What It Means to Be a Socialist. TruthDig
Bombing
People Is Not Feminist, No Matter How You Spin It. FAIR
Revealed:
Covid-19 outbreaks at meat-processing plants are being kept quiet. ... Testing
has found positive cases at North Carolina facilities, but officials refuse to
release the information. Guardian
Trump’s
Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts, and Broken Promises. ... Donald
Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the
course of his first term, he has come closer to starting new wars than ending
the wars he inherited Jacobin
Supreme
Court Rules State’s Denial Of Funding For Religious Schools Violates Constitution.
... The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, concerned a school choice
program that provided taxpayer dollars for private school scholarships. HuffPost
JULY
2, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS "You
become fatalistic, you strive against a monolithic evil knowing that whatever
you achieve is Pyrrhic, that the system flourishes despite your efforts. And yet,
what binds you, what keeps you going, are these relationships." Victory!
Boston Bans Government Use of Face Surveillance. EFF
After
Weeks of Allowing 'Autonomous Zone,' Seattle Police Clear CHOP Amid Violence,
Growing Complaints. ... As the city's police chief said, "Enough is enough,"
one organizer lamented that "it didn't end how it started and that's the
tragedy of the situation." CommonDreams Scroll
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July
1, 2020 Bill
Clinton’s Serbian War Atrocities Exposed in New Indictment. ... President
Bill Clinton’s favorite freedom fighter just got indicted for mass murder,
torture, kidnapping, and other crimes against humanity CounterPunch
Bolton
and the Pandemic. ... The corporate media is obsessing over John Bolton’s
views with regard to Donald Trump, but it is worth examining what they’re
not asking. CounterPunch
Apologizing
for Solidarity with the Palestinians Has Only Fed the Smears Against the Labour
Left. Jacobin
Economic
Update: Dark Times, Hard Truths. Video
COVID
NEWS Absolute
Robbery': Gilead Announces $3,120 Price Tag for Covid-19 Drug Developed With $70
Million in Taxpayer Support. ... "Taxpayers provided funding for the development
of this drug. Now Gilead is price-gouging off it during a pandemic. Beyond disgusting,"
said Sen. Bernie Sanders. CommonDreams
The
Airline Industry Blocked Disclosure of Trade Data, Helping Conceal the Airlift
of N95 Masks From the U.S. to China. Intercept
'Not
Even Close to Being Over': WHO Chief Says Despite Some Progress, 'Pandemic Is
Actually Speeding Up'. ... The warning from Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus came
after global Covid-19 cases topped 10 million and the death toll passed 500,000.
CommonDreams
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Trump
used looted Venezuelan public money to build border wall with Mexico. ... Around
$24 billion of Venezuelan public money has been looted, and the Trump administration
has used at least $601 million of it to construct a militarized wall on the US-Mexico
border. GrayZone
Related: Is the Deep State Attempting a Hybrid War in Mexico? CounterPunch
The
Blundering British Political Class has Shown the Same Incompetence in Both Fighting
Wars and Coronavirus. CounterPunch/Cockburn
We’ve
got to learn how to take care of our own vote. ... If we want to ensure our ballots
count in November, we’re going to have to learn how to take care of our own
vote. Craig
Palast Even
AIPAC: Mainstream U.S. Jewish Groups Struggling to Defend Israeli Annexation.
... Having argued for decades in favor of a two-state solution and no unilateral
moves, AIPAC, ADL and AJC are facing a potential Israeli move that could scupper
both of those claims. Haaretz
On
“White Fragility” ... A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1
guide to egghead racialism. Taibbi JULY
1, 2020
REBELLION NEWS Western
police are geared up for war
But who’s the enemy? HCN
Infiltrating
Black Lives Matter: Cops, Feds, and White Supremacists. CounterPunch Aurora
Police in full riot gear end up pepper spraying peaceful protestors. ... Police
in Colorado were seen walking into a peaceful protest to remember Elijah McClain
wearing full riot gear and spraying protesters with pepper spray. Times
Famous Whole
Foods Is Quietly Telling Workers Not to Show Black Lives Matter Support. TruthOut
'Outrageous
and Chilling': Police Condemned for Charging Peaceful Environmentalists With 'Terrorizing'
in Louisiana. ... "This is a clear instance of the law and law enforcement
being used to protect corporations, profit, and property over people." CommonDreams
Related: Louisiana Environmental Activists Charged
With “Terrorizing” for Nonviolent Stunt Targeting Plastics Giant. Intercept
Trump
Shares Video of Couple Pointing Semi-Automatic Weapon at Protesters. TruthOut
Livin’
on Tulsa Time: Infiltrating ‘Trump Country’ to Fly a Different Flag.
ScheerPost
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JULY
22, 2020 Donald
Trump Listens to His Gut. And It’s the Gut of a Racist.. Mother
Jones Trump
consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree. ... John
Yoo wrote memo used to justify waterboarding. Trump keen to use executive orders
and circumvent Congress. Guardian
22%
of Mail-In Votes Never Get Counted
Jim Crow is Hiding in the Mailbox. Craig
Palast The
UK and US are Starting a New Cold War with Russia and China, So What are These
Governments Trying to Hide? CounterPunch
America
faces a historic choice -- "ugly corporate tyranny" or revolution. Salon
Trump
Won’t Say Whether He Will Accept 2020 Election Results: ‘I Have To See’.
... During an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” the presiden. HuffPost
Trump
Administration Wants to Deprive Cubans of Food. CounterPunch
Veteran
Black Panther: Links Between Capitalism and Racism Are in Plain Sight. TruthOut
Attack
On Federal Judge’s Family Came Amid Growing Threats To The Judiciary. ...
The U.S. Marshals Service said it needs help assessing when to employ “scarce
protective resources” to keep federal judges like Esther Salas safe. HuffPost
Arundhati Roy: Our Task is to Disable the Engine. ... Storied author and
PI Council member Arundhati Roy on Covid-19 and the "super-surveillance"
state. Progress
International JULY
22, 2020
REBELLION NEWS Chris
Hedges Warns That The George Floyd Protests May be The Last Chance to Save America
From Corporate Tyranny and Neo-Fascism. Truth
Report “Camouflaged
Goon Squads”: Outrage, Legal Challenges in Portland as Federal Agents Snatch
Protesters. DemocracyNow
'No
Tactics... Just Seemed Like a Gang': Navy Veteran Speaks Out After Attack by Secret
Police in Viral Video Viewed Nearly 10 Million Times. ... "They just started
whaling on me with batons, and I let them," said Christopher David. CommonDreams
Worker-Run
News Outlets Are Good News for the Labor Movement. TruthOut
Federal
Agents In Portland Used Tear Gas Against Protesters, Police Say
House Democrats
are seeking an investigation into the Trump administration’s use of force
against anti-racism demonstrators. HuffPost
Federal
agencies can do what they want: True Tyranny Defined: Bush Admin. v. Jose Padilla
(written 2005) Greenwald
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Legislation
in Congress Would Require Flying Flag With Pentagon on It. CounterPunch
Georgia
Governor Orders Statewide Ban on Science. New
Yorker JULY
21, 2020 EASY MONEY
It's all about cash Warnings
Grow: “We are in a Massive Economic Downturn” CounterPunch
Steve
Mnuchin Already Wants To Forgive Billions In PPP Loans. ... The Treasury secretary
would like to skip compliance checks and automatically turn the loans into grants.
HuffPost
Banks
Stand to Make $18 Billion in PPP Processing Fees From CARES Act. Intercept
Joe
Kennedy, a Top Recipient of Hedge Fund Cash, Declined to Back Tax Fairness Act.
... Unlike his Democratic Senate primary opponent Sen. Ed Markey, Rep. Joe Kennedy
has declined in multiple sessions to co-sponsor legislation to end the carried
interest tax loophole. Sludge
Why
Government Mostly Helps People Who Need It the Least…Even During a Crisis.
CounterPunch On
Tax Day, Analysis Shows Billionaire Wealth Growth Since Start of Pandemic Exceeds
Total Budget Deficits of 23 US States. ... "Billionaire wealth is booming
during the pandemic while states are drowning in red ink." CommonDreams
Company
that gave six figures to pro-Trump super PAC got PPP loan worth at least $5 million
OpenSecrets
How Trump Is
Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic. .. The secretive titan behind one of America’s
largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors,
is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to
strip workers of protections. New
Yorker White
House Pushes 'Pure Giveaway' to Rich Investors While Urging Cut to Pandemic Unemployment
Aid. ... Recipients of the enhanced unemployment benefit could see the aid slashed
by more than 50% under a plan being discussed by the Trump administration and
GOP. CommonDreams
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Congress
Urged to Reject 'Hostage-Taking' as Trump Threatens to Veto Any Covid-19 Bill
That Doesn't Cut Social Security. ... "Beware of the payroll tax cut! It
is just the administration's attempt to cut Social Security and Medicare."
CommonDreams
Trump
Now Has Free Rein to Cook the Books When It Comes to COVID. TruthOut
Trump
will cling to power. To get him out, Biden will have to win big. ... Only a Democratic
landslide can ward off the nightmare prospect of this president simply refusing
to leave office. Guardian
FBI
Tore Apart NYT Report On Trump-Russia Contacts In Newly Declassified Memo. Daily
Caller The
Life-Saving Covid-19 Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (and Why). CounterPunch
Masks
Off: How the Brothers Who Fueled the Reopen Protests Built a Volatile Far-Right
Network. Intercept
Did
you protest recently? Your face might be in a database. ... In the United States,
at least one in four law enforcement agencies are able to use facial recognition
technology. The implications are troubling. Guardian
The
GOP’s “Southern Strategy” Shows How White Supremacy Fuels Class
Exploitation. TruthOut JULY
21, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS 
Portland
Protesters: Federal Cops In Unmarked Vans Are Grabbing Us Off The Street. ...
Oregon’s governor is accusing President Donald Trump of blatantly abusing
his power. HuffPost
The
most glaring, indisputable and direct attack on free speech in the US is the dozens
of states legally barring Americans who advocate a boycott of Israel from receiving
government contracts, along with related sanctions on campuses. That notably receives
very little attention. Jacobin
Portland
Mayor Warns Trump: Keep Your Troops in Federal Buildings or 'Leave Our City'.
News
Week Federal
Agents Invade Portland, Citing Trump’s Executive Order Protecting Statues.
Mother
Jones
After
Trump Deploys Secret Police in Portland, 'Imagine What Happens If He Gets Four
More Years'. ... "They want to see what they can get away with before launching
into other parts of the country." CommonDreams
President
Trump Says Portland Police Are Incapable Of Managing Protests. OPB
RS Reports: Progressive City, Brutal Police. ... The paradox of Portland, Oregon,
shows why the fight to change police culture takes more than liberal values and
good intentions. RollingStone
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JULY
20, 2020 John
Lewis: The Purest of the Pure. ScheerPost
Homeland
Security Official Defends Portland ‘Kidnappings’ Amid Calls For Investigation.
... Unidentified federal agents in military-style gear are jumping out of unmarked
vans to detain protesters, according to videos and personal accounts. HuffPost
It’s
Going to be a Long, Hard Recession. CounterPunch/Baker
ELECTION
NEWS Defend
Ilhan Omar. Jacobin
The
Republicans and Democrats: Two Wings, Same Bird. CounterPunch
Trump
Back To The ‘Swamp’ To Pick Up Another $10 Million In Big Checks. ...
Five years after claiming he didn’t want rich donors’ money, the president
and the GOP have collected hundreds of millions of dollars from them. HuffPost
The
People Who Will Draft the Democratic Platform Have a Conflict of Interest Problem.
... Next up after the Biden-Sanders task forces? The Democratic platform drafting
committee—and progressives have their work cut out for them. ITT
Brett
Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Got a Big Boost From a Mysterious Individual Donation
of $15.9 Million. ... When Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court
was under fire, a dark money group called Judicial Crisis Network came to his
aid. According to recently obtained documents, more than half of JCN’s funding
came from one mysterious, unnamed donor who gave $15.9 million towards the effort.
Jacobin
Where
Have All the Demos Gone? Cappies Killed ‘Em, One By One. CounterPunch
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Calling
all NUJ Members. Craig
Murray Trump
and GOP Weighing Plan to 'Punish' Schools That Don't Reopen by Withholding Covid-19
Funds. ... "This is getting really dark. The White House and Senate GOP now
want to blackmail states and localities into full reopening of schools."
CommonDreams
In
the 1970s, a Soft Coup Removed Australia’s Left-Wing Prime Minister. ...
The 1975 “dismissal” of Gough Whitlam by the Queen’s representative,
Sir John Kerr, is one of the defining moments in Australia’s modern history.
It also forms part of a Cold War history that saw left-wing governments around
the globe punished for daring to break with US hegemony. Jacobin
Majority
of Americans Oppose Trump’s Threats to Defund Schools That Don’t Reopen.
TruthOut
Time’s
Up Israel: Get Your Knee Off Palestine’s neck. CounterPunch
Related: The U.S. Struggle for Justice for Palestine Begins a New Chapter.
CounterPunch
After
settlers establish outpost, Israeli army blocks road to Palestinians. ... Israeli
forces build three-meter dirt mound to cut off Palestinian farmers from their
land while violently dispersing protests against new West Bank outpost. 972
Good
News from Washington: AIPAC, Israel Losing to Progressive Democrats. ... While
the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support
for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded
language, the kind of ‘strategic ambiguity’ that offers full support
to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace. CounterPunch
The
U.S. Struggle for Justice for Palestine Begins a New Chapter. CounterPunch
Beautiful
Hagia Sophia: Between the Sacred and the Profane; Turkey Is Condemned, While Israel
Gets a Pass. CounterPunch
Disturbing
Memo Reveals Trump’s USPS Chief Has Slowed Delivery. TruthOut
JULY
20, 2020
REBELLION NEWS Chomsky
- Future Government (more militarization) a 1970 speech. Helps to explain how
Federal Secret Goons Squads end up snatching peodple off the street. Download.mp3 Trump’s
Federal Police Are Kidnapping and Brutalizing Protesters in Portland. TruthOut
Trump
Condemned for Authoritarian 'Abuse of Power' as Secret Federal Police Snatch Protesters
Off Portland Streets. ... "Authoritarian governments, not democratic republics,
send unmarked authorities after protesters. These Trump/Barr tactics designed
to eliminate any accountability are absolutely unacceptable." CommonDreams Federal
officers respond to Portland protests with gas, munitions Thursday amid growing
attention from Trump administration. Oregon
Live Chris
Hedges: America faces a historic choice -- "ugly corporate tyranny"
or revolution. ... These are "the good times," says Hedges, compared
to what may lie ahead. But there's real hope in the streets. Salon
A
New Generation of Protest Holds Great Promise for America. CounterPunch/Jackson
Leaked
Documents Show Police Knew Far-Right Extremists Were the Real Threat at Protests,
not “Antifa” Intercept
87
Breonna Taylor Protesters Arrested During Sit-In Outside Kentucky AG’s Home.
... The demonstrators face felony charges for trying to “intimidate”
the prosecutor, the police said. HuffPost
How
Protester Occupations Can Succeed. CounterPunch
Hack
of 251 Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Data of 700,000 Cops. Intercept
COVID-Stricken
Marc Lamont Hill: New Floyd Video Shows Familiar Ritual of Racist Police Terror.
DemocracyNow
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WEEKEND
OF JULY 17-19, 2020 Weekend
Read: Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner.
Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among
some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for
life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and
soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused
many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national
reckoning with a monolithic industry. Indie
Bound Trump
Elevates a Game Show Host’s Views on COVID While Stifling Fauci. TruthOut
Assange’s
father speaks out, calls oppression of WikiLeaks founder a “great crime of
21st century”. ... An extended interview with Julian Assange’s father
John Shipton, who condemns the US, UK, and Australian governments for their “11
years of ceaseless psychological torture” of the WikiLeaks publisher. Gray
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JULY 17-19, 2020
ENVIRONMENT 'We
Will Sue,' Vow Green Groups After Trump Guts Nation's Key Environmental Law. ..."We're
not going to sit back and allow a decision that could harm public health during
a public health crisis go unscathed," said Earthjustice. "We'll be seeing
them in court." CommonDreams
Wolf culls do
not protect caribou, new study suggests. ... Habitat degradation inflicts far
greater harm on caribou populations than wolves, say researchers. Guardian
'Privatize the
Profit, Socialize the Mess': Abandoned Fracking Wells Left Spewing Climate-Killing
Methane Nationwide. ... "Are we going to be responsible for the mess that
these companies leave behind?" CommonDreams
Capitalism, Coronavirus
and the Road to Extinction. The
Bullet Trump
To Gut Key Environmental Law That Gives Communities Of Color A Voice. ... The
new rule is expected to limit public input on infrastructure projects and allow
federal agencies to ignore how development impacts climate change. HuffPost
Failing Test
for Green Recovery, Tracker Shows G20 Nations Pumping $151 Billion Into Fossil
Fuel Industry Amid Pandemic. ... "G20 leaders keep lying to themselves and
their citizens as they prop up coal, oil, and gas with public money in the name
of private financial return." CommonDreams
Shrink-Wrapped:
Plastic Pollution and the Greatest Economic System Jesus Ever Devised. CounterPunch
Species Extinction
List Signals 'Urgent Action Needed to Save Life on Earth'. CommonDreams
New Report Finds
Economic Benefits of Protecting 30% of Planet's Land and Ocean Outweigh the Costs
5-to-1. ... "Protecting nature halts biodiversity loss, helps fight climate
change, and lessens the chance of future pandemics. This is sound public policy,
economically, ecologically, and morally." CommonDreams
Back on the List:
A Big Win for Yellowtone Grizzlies and the Endangered Species Act, a Big Loss
for Trump and Its Enemies. CounterPunch
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Forging
Greater Israel: Annexation by Any Other Name. CounterPunch
Senate
Democrats’ Machine Spent $15 Million To Destroy Progressive Primary Candidates.
... The Democratic establishment has successfully blocked progressive Senate candidates
in primaries, with the help of labor unions, Wall Street tycoons and corporate
interests. Sirota
Moment
of Clarity: New Proof Oil Industry Collapsing. ... The latest example being that
Dominion & Duke Energy decided to cancel the Atlantic Coast Pipeline simply
for economic reasons. ScheerPost
Trump
Stuns Observers as His Press Conference Goes off the Deep End: ‘Self-destruction
of the President’. Smirking
Chimp 'Beans
for Brains': Critics Say Trump Photo Promoting Goya Makes Clear Ivanka's Tweet
Was No Mistake. ... "This is an official campaign by the Trump administration
to support Goya." CommonDreams
Trump
Now Has Free Rein to Cook the Books When It Comes to COVID. TruthOut
How
to Debate Libertarians on Taxes -- And Destroy Them. ... On Tax Day, here’s
a guide to arguing with libertarians about redistribution. Jacobin
Warnings
of Possible Cover-Up in Progress as Trump Orders Hospitals to Stop Sending Coronavirus
Data to CDC. ... "While many governments suppress the virus, the U.S. suppresses
information about the virus." CommonDreams
Republicans
Are Afraid to Attend Their Convention But Want Your Kids in School. TruthOut
CNN’s
Jim Acosta: Trump White House ‘Down to Kool-Aid Drinkers and Next of Kin’.
... “Is there anyone around the president who shakes their head when they
hear rambling in the Rose Garden like this?” Anderson Cooper wondered aloud.
Daily
Beast Deregulated
Under Trump, Nursing Homes Are Becoming COVID Morgues. TruthOut
The
Real Masters of ‘Cancel Culture’ – The Pro-Israel Lobby. The
Bullet WEEKEND
JULY 17-19, 2020
REBELLION NEWS
Revealed: Phoenix officer
brutalized woman during minor traffic stop, then took her to jail. ... Body-cam
footage shows an officer with a history of misconduct claims slammed 23-year-old
Mariah Valenzuela to the ground within seconds of traffic stop. Guardian
The
Revolutionary Life of Paul Robeson: Scholar Gerald Horne on the Great Antifascist
Singer, Artist and Rebel. Intercept
For
Immediate Release, Statement by Kailee Scales, Managing Director of BLM Global
Network. BLM
Homeland
Security Worries Covid-19 Masks Are Breaking Facial Recognition, Leaked Document
Shows. Intercept
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JULY
16, 2020 Damage
to the Soul. ... The imprisonment of Julian Assange has been a catalogue of gross
injustice heaped upon gross injustice, while a complicit media and indoctrinated
population looks the other way. Craig
Murray Trump
Shares Tweet Calling CDC, Doctors Liars After Surpassing His 20,000th Lie. TruthOut
JULY
16, 2020
WAR IS WHAT DEFINES US Foreign
Correspondent: Libya, the Forgotten War. ... Though it has disappeared from headlines,
Libya’s humanitarian crisis continues unabated. ScheerPost
How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved
a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan. Intercept
The
BBC World War Two Porn Page. Craig
Murray How
Congress Maintains Endless War - System Update with Glenn Greenwald. YouTube
Biden’s
vision for Venezuela is virtually indistinguishable from Trump’s ... A campaign
event demonstrated that when it comes to Venezuela, policies of regime change,
sanctions, and refusal to engage in dialogue, Biden and Trump are two sides of
the same coin. Gray
Zone Trump
Is Trying to Hide US and Israeli War Crimes by Attacking the International Criminal
Court. TruthOut
How
the Pentagon failed to sell Afghan government’s bunk ‘Bountygate’
story to US intelligence agencies. ... Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell
turns out to be a dud, as dodgy stories spun out by Afghan intelligence and exploited
by the Pentagon ultimately failed to convince US intelligence agencies. Gray
Zone NYT
Acknowledges Coup in Bolivia -- While Shirking Blame for Its Supporting Role.
FAIR
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Attempted
Murder of Your Post Office': Outrage as Trump Crony Now Heading USPS Moves to
Slow Mail Delivery. ... "The deliberate delaying of Americans' mail delivery
would be a stunning act of sabotage against our Postal Service." CommonDreams
Boris
Johnson’s “Blundering Brilliance”…Now Only the Blundering
Remains. CounterPunch
“Release
Is Only Way to Save Lives”: Migrant Families Face Separation as COVID Spreads
in ICE Jails. DemocracyNow
The
COVID-19 Crisis Is Exploding Inside ICE Detention Centers. ... Thousands of guards
and detainees are testing positive in facilities where safety and social distancing
are impossible. HuffPost
Embedding
Trump’s tweets into news stories could boost his voter support, study finds.
Journalist's
Resource There’s
absolutely every need to swear, the science proves it. ... Swearing is even older
than human beings, in fact some researchers believe it’s our version of a
dog’s yelping, and it helps, it really does. Independent
“The
Ruling Elite Has Lost All Legitimacy”. w/Chris Hedges. YouTube/Dore
Ayanna
Pressley to Betsy DeVos: ‘I Wouldn’t Trust You to Care for a House Plant
Let Alone My Child’ The
Nation
JULY
16, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Sound
of the police: how US law enforcement uses noise as a weapon. ... Potentially
harmful military-grade weapons such as flashbangs are being utilized with accelerating
regularity at US protests. Guardian
The
Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud.
Intercept
How
the Medieval Jacobins of Bohemia Fought Against -- and Terrified -- Europe’s
Aristocracy. Jacobin
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JULY
15, 2020 The
Far-Right Revolution Was Waiting for an Opportunity. Now, It’s Here. Intercept
Israel
Hawks Are Spending Big To Unseat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. ... They’re fundraising
for Antone Melton-Meaux, Omar’s primary challenger. HuffPost
JULY
15, 2020 - CANCEL CULTURE (What
started it all) -
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate. Harper's
Chris
Hedges: Don’t be Fooled by the Cancel Culture Wars.... The politically correct
speech and symbols of inclusiveness, without a concerted assault on corporate
power, will do nothing to change the system. ScheerPost
Canceling
the Cancel Culture: Enriching Discourse or Dumbing it Down?. ... The “cancel
culture” has been all the rage in U.S. media over the last week. Depicting
colleges as hotbeds of intolerance, Donald Trump threatened to remove their tax-exempt
status if they don’t stop engaging in “radical left indoctrination.”
CounterPunch
Max
Blumenthal: ‘Cancel Culture’ hypocrites cancel open debate and foreign
countries. ... (he) says that signatories of the “Cancel Culture” letter
fail to practice what they preach, while fueling an internecine liberal debate
that sidelines vital issues and cancels foreign lives. Gray
Zone Should
We Cancel “Cancel Culture”?. CounterPunch
‘Cancel
Culture’ Letter is About Stifling Free Speech, Not Protecting It. CounterPunch
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A
Professional Weighs In on Donald Trump’s Alarming Mental Condition. ... His
Malignant Narcissism Is a Problem for All of Us. DC
Report Trump
Has Only Had One Job In His Entire Life: Celebrity. Will It Work For Him in November?
Thom
Hartman Boris
Johnson Should not be Making New Global Enemies When His Country is in a Shambles.
CounterPunch
Donald
Trump’s Corruption Is Killing Americans
The government’s coronavirus
response is just another example of quid pro quo. Mother
Jones New
report alleges deep co-operation between Microsoft, Google, Amazon and US military.
... Microsoft has reportedly thousands of subcontracts with law enforcement, while
Amazon and Google have several hundred each. Independent
Trump
Is Trying to Hide US and Israeli War Crimes by Attacking the International Criminal
Court. TruthOut
Outcry
from environmentalists as Brazil fires official monitoring deforestation. ...Dismissal
came days after release of new data showing increasing deforestation in the Brazilian
Amazon. Guardian
Under
Trump, Federal Watchdogs Get Muzzled
The administration is purging inspectors
general from U.S. agencies. But these oversight officials have faced a slow strangling
since Trump took office. HuffPost
Sanders
Had Already Endorsed Biden’s Candidacy -- Now He’s Endorsed Biden’s
Program. Left
Voice A
Niece’s Book Reveals the Donald Trump That Only His Family Has Ever Seen.
... Lying, Cheating, Amoral to His Core; Still a Child Fearing a Wrathful Father.
DC
Report Bill
Richardson undertakes private mission after State Dept abandons families of mercenaries
detained in Venezuela invasion. ...The brother of Luke Denman, a former Green
Beret detained after a failed invasion of Venezuela told The Grayzone ex-US diplomat
Bill Richardson has embarked on a private mission after the State Department failed
to assist his family. Gray
Zone JULY
15, 2020
REBELLION NEWS I
was arrested, jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist
in Trump’s America. ... In his 30-year career, The Independent’s Chief
US Correspondent Andrew Buncombe has filed dispatches from across the world. Last
week, while reporting on protests in Seattle, he was arrested for the first time.
What he saw next throws the spotlight on a broken criminal justice system. Independent
Solidarity
Should Be the Basis of White Anti-Racism, Not “Allyship” ... The great
black freedom struggles of the past have been joined by many white people —
not just out of a sense of moral obligation or sympathy for the oppressed, but
out of a sense of shared interest and a desire for collective liberation. That
spirit of solidarity should be central to anti-racist struggle today. Jacobin
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JULY
14, 2020 Chris
Hedges: Don’t be Fooled by the Cancel Culture Wars.... The politically correct
speech and symbols of inclusiveness, without a concerted assault on corporate
power, will do nothing to change the system. ScheerPost
COVID-19
Exposes the Weakness of a Major Theory Used to Justify Capitalism. CounterPunch
JULY
14, 2020 EASY MONEY
It's all about cash Donald
Trump's labor secretary Eugene Scalia has been busy lately: 1. helping money managers
shift workers’ retirement savings into high-risk private equity schemes to
enrich Wall Street, 2. relaxing rules dictating that money managers work in clients'
best interests, and 3. stopping the moving of workers’ savings into low-risk,
environmentally sustainable investments. Jacobin
Company
that gave six figures to pro-Trump super PAC got PPP loan worth at least $5 million
OpenSecrets
Charter
Schools May Have Double-Dipped as Much as $1 Billion in PPP Loans. ... One network
alone, the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), appears to have pulled somewhere
between $28 million and $69 million in taxpayer dollars. TruthOut
'An
Absolute Outrage': Sanders Rips 'Wealthy Tax Cheats' as CBO Estimates $381 Billion
in Annual Unpaid Taxes. ... "The richest 1% is responsible for 70% of all
unpaid taxes ... Congress is leaving hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes
uncollected from the wealthy." CommonDreams
Banana Republic Corruption ... The Ayanda Capital contract to supply £250
million of PPE to the NHS has not caused anything like the stir it should, because
UK citizens appear to have come to accept that we live in a country with a Banana
Republic system of capitalism. Craig
Murray The
Catholic Church Siphoned Away $30 Million Paid to Native People for Stolen Land.
... Free, government-funded schools were rarely built on reservations -- meaning
that for many Native families, Catholic mission schools were the only option.
ITT
Evangelical
Megachurch With Close Ties To Trump Approved for Millions In Pandemic Aid. ...
Religious organizations -- mostly Christian -- received a total of $7.3 billion
in pandemic aid from the Small Business Administration. CommonDreams
Monopoly
Mayhem: Corporations Win, Workers Lose. SmirkingChimp
EXPOSED:
Reps Pass Bills That Benefit Their Own Private Companies. ... Nearly 100 House
representatives hold positions at private companies. There's nothing stopping
them from using their legislative power to pad their bottom lines. Sludge
Jared
Kushner, Trump’s Golf Buddy and McConnell’s In-Laws Cashed In on PPP
Loans. ... The White House released figures this week detailing which businesses
received funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), revealing a number
of controversial payments made to lobbyists, political organizations, and Trump-linked
businesses. TruthOut
Justin ‘No Bailouts’ Amash’s Company Received Up To $2
Million in Coronavirus Bailout Funds. ... Amash was one of the only representatives
to oppose the CARES Act, which established the PPP program. He also voted against
the TRUTH Act, which sought to increase transparency around companies that receive
PPP funds. Sludge
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International
Racketeering: ‘Godfather’ Donald’s Mafia War on the ICC. ... Faced
with an investigation of possible U.S. war crimes, the administration’s 'enforcers'
retaliated with textbook mob tactics. ScheerPost
10
Reasons I Won’t Vote for Biden. Ted
Rall The
Pandemic's Lesson About Capitalism.
Democracy
at Work 'An
Outrage': Trump-Appointed Head of Global News Agency Won't Extend Visas for Foreign
Journalists. ... "It is appalling that the VOA's new boss could be so reckless
about the safety of journalists," said PEN America. CommonDreams
The
Long Goodbye to Organized Religion. ... It was the notice of an online meeting
of a local chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace that made me think of my long and
troubled relationship with organized religion. CounterPunch
California
Bill to Establish Nation's Second Public Bank Applauded as 'Historic Challenge
to Wall Street Domination' ... "If
California is serious about addressing racial and income inequities, we must create
a banking system that centers people not profits." CommonDreams
“I
Could Live With That”: How the CIA Made Afghanistan Safe for the Opium Trade.
CounterPunch
JULY
14, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Racism
in America: Police Choke-hold is Not the Issue. CounterPunch
Police
Surveilled George Floyd Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr.
Intercept
Lincoln’s
Paramilitaries, the “Wide Awakes,” Helped Bring About a Political Revolution.
... Throughout the 1860 election, the Wide Awakes, a novel paramilitary-style
organization, held mass rallies, marches, and demonstrations to combat slave power.
These “young working-men for Lincoln” successfully combined new media
and unrepentant partisanship to mobilize hundreds of thousands against the Southern
planter class. Jacobin
Chris
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23 THROUGH 31
WEEKEND
OF JULY 31 - AUGUST 3, 2020 Weekend
Read: Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner.
Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among
some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for
life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and
soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused
many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national
reckoning with a monolithic industry. Indie
Bound Noam
Chomsky: Decades of “the Neoliberal Plague” Left U.S. Unprepared for
COVID-19 Outbreak. DemocracyNow
Trump
Suggests Delaying Presidential Election Due To Mail-In Voting. ... President Donald
Trump floated delaying the November presidential election -- which he can’t
do -- warning that mail-in voting will create a “fraudulent election.”
... President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested delaying the November presidential
election while baselessly warning that mail-in voting will lead to “the most
inaccurate and fraudulent election in history.” HuffPost
WEEKEND
JULY 31-AUGUST 3, 2020
ENVIRONMENT Grim
Report Shows How Many Environmental Activists Were Killed Last Year. Four people
die defending planet Earth every week, a new Global Witness study finds. HuffPost
Paying The Land.
Popular
Resistance How
bad can deep sea mining be? Coronavirus is going to look like a picnic compared
with what's coming. Guardian
Record
212 land and environment activists killed last year. ... Global Witness campaigners
warn of risk of further killings during Covid-19 lockdowns. Guardian
Trump’s
War on the Environment and Its Inhabitants. CounterPunch
Ocean plastic
could triple by 2040 and outnumber fish by 2050, study says. ... The volume of
plastic entering the ocean annually could nearly triple in the next 20 years and
by 2050 lead to more plastic in the planet's waters than fish, according to new
analysis. . Independent
Fracking
at greater depths can lead to ten times the risk of earthquakes, study finds.
... Earthquakes linked to fracking have been triggered around the world, including
in multiple US states. Independent
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Crisis
in Portland Did Not Start with Trump’s Shock Troops — And Likely Won’t
End As They Leave. ScheerPost
This
Week, Democratic Leaders Rejected Medicare for All Again. ... This past week,
the committee in charge of setting the Democratic Party's platform decisively
rejected Medicare for All — even as millions of Americans are poised to lose
their health insurance. It's just another sign pointing to the moral bankruptcy
of the political order. Jacobin
Wisconsin’s
Voter Suppression Could Swing 2020 Election in Trump’s Favor. TruthOut
Chomsky
on Cuba’s “Internationalist” Response to Pandemic & Need to
Make Vaccine Globally Accessible. DemocracyNow
Think
federal cops in Portland are scary? Cops use 'jump-out boys' all the time. ...
Plainclothes police ‘jump-out boys’ terrorize American cities. Sometimes
they become all-out criminal gangs. Guardian
Why
It Matters That Seth Rogen Spoke Out Against Israel. ... Seth Rogen grabbed headlines
this week for saying he thinks the state of Israel “makes no sense.”
He’s right -- and his strident words signal a broader shift among young American
Jews against Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. Jacobin
Chomsky
on Israel’s Hindering of Palestinian Pandemic Response & Threat to Annex
Occupied West Bank. DemocracyNow
Trump’s
Secret Police Are Waging a War on American Cities. Jacobin
WEEKEND
JULY 31-AUGUST 3, 2020
REBELLION NEWS Federal
agents show stronger force at Portland protests despite order to withdraw. HuffPost
Abusive
Fed Officers to Leave Courthouse, Joe Biden's Pick Coming Soon, and Trump Vows
to "Clean Out" Portland. Portland
Mercury “Unrest”
Is Not the Enemy. Fascism Is. TruthOut
I
want to stand up to Trump’: Portland protesters unleash fury over BLM, Covid-19
and economy. Guardian
The
Heart Of Darkness In Portland. Popular
Resistance DHS
agents have reportedly injured at least 30 journalists in Portland. FPF
Hateful
incidents against Americans of color surge amid pandemic. ... Four in 10 Black
and Asian adults reported increase racial tension since the pandemic began. Guardian
Outcry
in New York after police force protester into unmarked van. ... Video shows plain-clothes
officers carrying the protester away while uniformed police stand guard, actions
criticised as ‘abusive and indefensible’ Guardian
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JULY
30, 2020 Democratic
Leaders Have Blocked Real Healthcare Reform for Decades. Time to Give ‘Em
Hell. CounterPunch
Pompeo’s
Commission on “Unalienable Rights” Prioritizes Property Over People.
TruthOut
JULY
30, 2020
WAR IS WHAT DEFINES US Churchill’s
secret chemical war. ... Had the German invasion of Britain gone ahead in 1940
– with Churchill deploying mustard gas – the Second World War would
have taken a very different turn. Independent/Cockburn
The Pentagon
Confronts the Pandemic: Or How to Make War, American-Style, Possible Again. CounterPunch
US Deploys B-1B
Bombers to Guam Bombers participated in joint operations with Japan en route.
Anti-War
Time to Stop
Bankrolling War and the Wealthy. ... A jubilee moment in pandemic America? The
poetry of a movement to change this country. ScheerPost
The U.S.-Supported
Coup in Bolivia Continues to Produce Repression and Tyranny, While Revealing How
U.S. Media Propaganda Works. Intercept
Day After Voting
Down 10% Pentagon Cut, 37 Senate Dems Join GOP to Approve $740 Billion War Budget.
... "I don't want to hear anyone tell me that we can't afford to expand enhanced
unemployment benefits when we spend more on endless wars than the next ten countries
combined," said Rep. Ro Khanna. CommonDreams
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No
Paper Trail: Migrant Children Secretly Held in Hampton Inn Hotels Before Expulsion
from U.S. DemocracyNow
New
GOP Stimulus Bill Shows McConnell and Trump Are Perfectly Happy to Watch You Die.
TruthOut
Bolivia’s
Coup Government Just Suspended Elections for the Third Time. Jacobin
Now
is the Time for All Good Men… Craig
Murray Venezuela
Moves Toward Elections: US Seeks To Undermine Them. ... Venezuela will be holding
its legislative elections on December 6, 2020. The US government and their puppet,
Juan Guaido, are doing all they can to undermine the election. Popular
Resistance Gaza
2020: Worsening conditions lead more Palestinians to take their own lives. ...
An increase in suicides in the first half of 2020 illustrates the dire psychological
impact of the Israeli siege on Gaza residents. MEE
JULY
30, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Operation
Diligent Valor: Teargassing Nurses, Shooting Medics, Attacking Veterans Who've
Seen Their Own Atrocities, Thanks. CommonDreams
Feds
Attack! Trump’s Paramilitaries Invade American Cities. CounterPunch
Ex-Philadelphia
Cop Charged With Assault For Pepper-Spraying Kneeling Protesters. ... Richard
Paul Nicoletti was fired after he was filmed removing one protester’s goggles
before spraying her in the face. HuffPost
The
Portland Military Policing Model Isn’t the Beginning of a Trend — It’s
the Culmination of One. Jacobin
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JULY
29, 2020 The
Media Manipulator: Why Trump’s Distractions May Not Save Him This Time. CounterPunch/Cockburn
Tom
Cotton Thinks Slavery Was a “Necessary” Evil. Here Are Some Others.
... By calling slavery necessary, Cotton was following in the banal footsteps
of apologists for all of history’s worst acts. Intercept
JULY
29, 2020 - DEMOCRATS The
DNC platform proposal that was overwhelmingly rejected -- the one conditioning
aid to Israel on not annexing the West Bank -- also included the word "occupation."
So the DNC refuses to describe Israel's Palestine policy the way the whole world
does. ... Biden has *refused to comment* on whether or not Israel is in occupation
of Palestine! Joe
Biden's campaign removes 'racist' anti-Palestinian language from platform. ...
Passage saying BDS lets Palestinians 'off the hook for their choices' has disappeared
from Biden's plan for Jewish-American communities. Middle
Eastern Eye 'History
Will Not Judge This Kindly': DNC Platform Committee Votes Down Medicare for All
Amendment. CommonDreams
Even
If Biden Wins in a Blowout, the Economy Still Isn’t Coming Back CounterPunch
The
Democratic Party’s Most Confounding Primary
$20 million has been poured
into a race for a solidly blue seat between Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy
in Massachusetts. Are they really that different? Intercept
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Many
Terms That Are Frequently Used to Describe Capitalism Simply Don’t Hold Up
Under Scrutiny. CounterPunch/Wolff
Killing
Democracy in America. ... This country’s 'forever wars' have become a kind
of global pandemic all their own and, like a cytokine storm, are strangling the
vital organs of democracy. ScheerPost
What
if Trump loses but refuses to leave office? Here's the worst-case scenario. ...
The risk of an electoral meltdown is ordinarily rather small, but this November
promises a combination of stressors that could lead to epic failure and chaos.
Guardian
Progressives
Applaud AOC Proposal to Ban 'Insidious Practice' of Military Recruiting in Schools....
"It's important that our youth understand that joining the military isn't
the only way to pay for college or find stability in life." CommonDreams
Trump’s
Federal Police Surge Could Provoke an Election Day Constitutional Crisis. ...
If courts don’t stop Trump’s police, feds could bolster the ranks of
50,000 poll watchers or be called upon if he loses. TruthOut
JULY
29, 2020
REBELLION NEWS White
House continues building 13-foot high ‘anti climb’ wall after protests.
... Twice as high fences will reduce views from iconic Pennsylvania Avenue, one
month after anti-protest barricades. Independent
If
We Don’t Want Armed Feds Occupying Our Cities, We Must Hit the Streets. TruthOut
Ex-Philadelphia
Cop Charged With Assault For Pepper-Spraying Kneeling Protesters. ... Richard
Paul Nicoletti was fired after he was filmed removing one protester’s goggles
before spraying her in the face. HuffPost
Police
Declare Seattle Protest A Riot, At Least 45 Arrested. ... Thousands of protesters
had initially gathered peacefully in a show of solidarity with fellow demonstrators
in Portland, Oregon. HuffPost
The Supreme Court Built America’s Broken Policing System And It’s
Working Just As Intended. ... For over 50 years, the court has provided “super
powers” to American police that free them to stop and frisk, use deadly force
and evade accountability. HuffPost
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JULY
28, 2020 The
Unbearable Violence of Being American. ...Generations of US soldiers have been
funnelled through unwinnable wars. Some come home with an urgent new perspective
to share. ScheerPost
Lawless
State: Go Ask Donald, Joe, and Barack. CounterPunch/Street
JULY
28, 2020 EASY MONEY
It's all about cash Elon
Musk's growing empire fueled by $4.9Billion in government subsidies - LA Times Fed
Guarantees Unproductive Debt and Perilous Speculation. CounterPunch/Nader
Police
Punish And Wall Street Profits. ... Taxpayers are paying double for police brutality
settlements thanks to local governments buying bonds from Wall Street to cover
payouts. San Diego cop watcher Kat from Irate Productions discusses recent police
harassment of unarmed residents. TRN
The
Pentagon Is Giving Billions to Corporate Criminals. ... As the Senate considers
defense budget cuts, a new government report says the Pentagon is giving billions
to companies “cited for willful or repeated safety, health or fair labor
standards violations.” Jacobin
Major
Trump Donors Received At Least $41 Million In PPP Loans For Their Companies
The
15 donors gave Trump and the GOP $1.4 million this spring, in a process that critics
say lacked basic transparency. HuffPost
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Credible
Messengers. ... Baltimore’s Violence Interrupters Confront Shootings, the
Coronavirus, and Corrupt Cops. Intercept
The
Ugly Terror of a Fascist Abyss Lurks in the Background of This Pandemic. TruthOut
The
Media Manipulator: Why Trump’s Distractions May Not Save Him This Time. CounterPunch
An
inside look at Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution on its 41st anniversary.
... The Grayzone reports from inside Nicaragua’s capital on the 41st anniversary
of the Sandinista Revolution, covering a speech by President Daniel Ortega, showing
how the leftist government has responded to the coronavirus pandemic, and surveying
the rising tide of US and corporate media disinformation. Gray
Zone If
you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention.
... Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer journalist who
broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal -- – and the world is a sicker place
for it. Guardian
How
a police spy’s stunning testimony threatens the official US-Israeli AMIA
bombing narrative
Revelations by a former police spy upend the official story
blaming Iran for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires,
and suggest a cover-up by dirty war elements may have let the real culprits off
the hook. Gray
Zone Sky
News Miss the Story. Craig
Murray Reform
Prosecutor in Kansas Excluded From “Objective” Task Force on Policing.
Intercept
The
Food Industry Puts Profits Over Public Health Using Big Tobacco’s Playbook.
TruthOut
JULY
28, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS Homeland
Security Claims Shields And Gas Masks Are Weapons. ... DHS’ Acting Deputy
Secretary Ken Cuccinelli claimed that defensive tools like Shields and Gas Masks
were evidence that protesters were making “preparations for violence.”
Jacobin
Seattle
protests: Nurse hit with pepper spray while trying to help man pushed over by
police. ... 'I've seen footage from Hong Kong of how you have to get people away
from the cops because once they get them, they arrest them, they brutalise them,
they beat them'. Independent
Before
Portland, Trump’s Shock Troops Went After Border Activists. Intercept
Trump’s
Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers. TruthOut Marjorie
Cohn on Portland Secret Police. Some corporate media appear agog that militarized
federal agents—deployed with a mission reflected in Defense Secretary Mark
Esper’s comment that city streets are a “battlespace,” filled with
what acting Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf called “violent mobs”—would
go ahead and tear gas protesters in Portland, Oregon, even though Portland’s
Democratic mayor, Tom Wheeler, was among them.FAIR
Chad
Wolf: who is the Trump official leading the crackdown in Portland? ... Trump’s
fifth homeland security secretary has denied there’s a systemic problem in
US law enforcement and overseen extreme immigration restrictions. Guardian
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JULY
27, 2020 AOC’s
Anti-Sexism Speech Yesterday Was a Triumph. ... AOC's
blistering speech powerfully connected her experience of sexism with the broader
issues of patriarchy and workplace harassment. It was proof, once again, that
it’s very nice having democratic socialists in office. Jacobin Related:
AOC Gave The Most Important Feminist Speech In A Generation. ... Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks were an eloquent dismantling of the playbook men
have used to keep women in their place for centuries. HuffPost
Noam
Chomsky on Trump’s Troop Surge to Democratic Cities & Whether He’ll
Leave Office if He Loses. ... “President Trump is desperate,” says world-renowned
dissident Professor Noam Chomsky in an extended interview that begins with President
Trump’s vow to send a “surge” of federal agents into major Democrat-run
cities across the United States. “His entire attention is this one issue
on his mind: that’s the election. He has to cover up for the fact he is personally
responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans. It’s impossible to
conceal that for much longer.” DemocracyNow
ELECTION
NEWS New
Mexico secretary of state worries Trump's federal troops will disrupt the elections.
DailyKos
William
Barr is already subverting the 2020 elections. News
Day MSNBC
Analyst Says Feds in Portland a 'Trial Run' to 'Steal the Election'. PJ
Media Fascism
Expert Warns Trump’s Deployment of Feds Could Suppress Election Turnout.
TruthOut
McConnell
Accused of 'Doing Everything He Can to Suppress the Vote' by Proposing $0 in Election
Assistance. ... "It is outrageous that this proposal contains not one penny
to help states conduct safe elections during a global pandemic." CommonDreams
Trump
Administration Redacts Meeting Minutes on the Presidential Transition. ... “If
there’s anything that needs to be redacted that’s a sign that there’s
something that shouldn’t be going on,” said New York University’s
Paul Light. Government
Executive “How
Trump Stole 2020?— An Interview With Greg Palast. CounterPunch
Revealed:
US spends millions of taxpayer dollars on ineffective voting restrictions. ...
The Guardian has found that millions have been spent to implement and defend laws
widely regarded to be discriminatory. Guardian
Trump
Threat to Unleash Secret Police in Other US Cities Slammed as Scheme to 'Steal
the November Election' CommonDreams
22%
of Mail-In Votes Never Get Counted
Jim Crow is Hiding in the Mailbox. Craig
Palast The
People Who Will Draft the Democratic Platform Have a Conflict of Interest Problem.
... Next up after the Biden-Sanders task forces? The Democratic platform drafting
committee -- and progressives have their work cut out for them. ITT
Twenty-One
State Attorneys General File Suit to Stop 'Illegal' Effort by Trump to Skew the
Census for Political Gain. ... The effort by the president to thwart the counting
by excluding undocumented immigrants, said New York AG Letitia James, is "another
election-year tactic to fire up his base by dehumanizing immigrants and using
them as scapegoats for his failures as a leader." CommonDreams
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Noam
Chomsky: Trump Is Using Pandemic to Enrich Billionaires as Millions Lose Work
& Face Eviction. DemocracyNow
The
Pentagon Is Giving Billions to Corporate Criminals. ... As the Senate considers
defense budget cuts, a new government report says the Pentagon is giving billions
to companies “cited for willful or repeated safety, health or fair labor
standards violations.” Jacobin
Tech-enabled
'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped.
... Terror capitalism uses tools such as facial recognition to extract profits
from marginalized people. Big tech and governments are collaborating. Guardian
Trump
and DeVos’s Plan to Reopen Schools Hides a Sinister Agenda. Turning schools
into hotbeds of infection is in line with Betsy DeVos’s plan to undermine
the public school system. Intercept
Dems
Voting Against Pentagon Cuts Got 3.4x More Money From the Defense Industry. ...
The Pocan amendment, rejected by defense-backed Democrats and all Republicans,
would have cut next year's military budget by 10%. Sludge
JULY
27, 2020
REBELLION NEWS 
Massive
Protests in Portland Continue After Judge Denies Request for Restraining Order
Against Federal Agencies. ... "If the state of Oregon does not have standing
to prevent this unconstitutional conduct by unidentified federal agents running
roughshod over her citizens, who does?" CommonDreams
Armed
militias converge in downtown as Louisville protests continue. Courier
Journal
Police
in riot gear clear New York's Occupy encampment in dawn raid. ... Officers with
helmets and shields entered City Hall Park shortly before 4am and arrested at
least seven people. CommonDreams
“Her
Front Teeth Were Knocked Out”: Chicago Teen to Sue Police Officer Who Hit
Her at a Protest. DemocracyNow
Trump
is using federal agents as his 'goon squad', says Ice's ex-acting head. ... John
Sandweg says the deployment of homeland security officials is a ‘manufactured
crisis’ stemming from ‘a failure of leadership’. Guardian
These
officers used to terrorise immigrants. Now they go after US citizens. ... Long
before US Customs and Border Protection agents targeted Portland moms, they stalked
immigrant communities. This escalation is no surprise. Guardian
Paramilitary-Style
Tactics in Portland Mirror Decades of U.S. Violence on the Border & Abroad.
DemocracyNow
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WEEKEND
OF JULY 24-26, 2020
Weekend
Read: Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information
Act. ... A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about
the modern Freedom of Information Act – FOIA – and the horrifying, decades-old
government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most
celebrated writers. IndieBound New
Mexico’s thin blurred line. ... Police in the state have long flirted with
radical right-wing vigilantism. HCN
'Cruelty
of the Occupation Knows No Bounds': Israel Demolishes Covid-19 Clinic in Epicenter
of West Bank Outbreak. ... "There is no humanity in destroying grassroots
attempts to support an already deprived health system suffocated by occupation."
CommonDreams
Bill
Binney on Russian “Hacking". ... former Technical Director of the and
the world’s foremost expert in cyber-surveillance, explains why it is impossible
that Russia hacked the DNC and Podesta emails for Wikileaks. Graig
Murray DeAnna
Lorraine Claims That ‘God Does Not Want Us Wearing Masks’ Right
Wing Watch WEEKEND
JULY 24-26, 2020
ENVIRONMENT It’s
Always the Ranchers. CounterPunch
Save the Saffel
Wolf Pack. ... There’s an old saying about the definition of insanity: doing
the same thing over and over and expecting different results. In the West, this
could easily apply to public lands ranching and predator management. CounterPunch
The Forest Service
Has Failed to Protect Wilderness. CounterPunch
Charlie Russell,
Grizzly Whisperer. ... Charlie Russell had a magical way with grizzly bears. In
his presence, wild grizzlies seemed to shed their wariness of humans, some even
napping beside him or leaving their offspring with him to tend. CounterPunch
Global Warming
and Ocean Acidification Accelerate. CounterPunch
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Israel’s
Annexation Plan Is the Latest Stage in a Long History of Violent Dispossession.
... Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has missed its first deadline for annexing
part of the West Bank, but this Trump-backed scheme for land theft is still firmly
on the table. The goal of Netanyahu and his US sponsors is simple: they want to
liquidate Palestinian national aspirations. Jacobin
103
Democrats Join GOP in Voting Down Omar Amendment to Accelerate US Withdrawal From
Afghanistan. ... "There are people saying that we shouldn't be too hasty
in leaving. Too hasty? It's been two decades.". CommonDreams
Weak
State: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Exposed America’s Dysfunctional Democracy.
Intercept Chris
Hedges: America’s Social Hell. ScheerPost
WEEKEND
JULY 24-26, 2020
REBELLION NEWS CBP
has deployed 2,174 personnel, 46 aircraft and 2 drones to assist dozens of police
departments across the country since June, per CBP document Moment
of Supreme Danger: Trumpism-Fascism Rears its Head. ... “What He Wishes He
Had: Total Power” CounterPunch
Trump’s “Shockingly
Dangerous” Fed Squads Expand Their Reach. TruthOut
Indefinite
Detention, Endless Worldwide War and the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.
... On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA), codifying indefinite military detention without charge or trial into
law for the first time in American history. The NDAA’s dangerous detention
provisions would authorize the president -- and all future presidents -- to order
the military to pick up and indefinitely imprison people captured anywhere in
the world, far from any battlefield. ACLU
NYPD
Disappeared Black Lives Matter Protesters Into Detention For Days at a Time. Lawmakers
Want to End the Practice. Intercept
Philadelphia
DA Says Trump’s Police Will Be Arrested If They Assault Protesters. TruthOut Portland
Protests Grow Despite Violent Crackdown from Militarized Federal Agents &
Local Police. DemocracyNow
Trumpfen
Sturmabteilung (Trump’s Stormtroopers). CounterPunch
Policing
the Police Is a Strategy Doomed to Failure. ... Prior restrictions and checks
on police behavior have failed completely and police power is greater today than
ever. ScheerPost
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JULY
23, 2020 “Credible Open Source
Reporting”, the Intelligence Services and Scottish Independence. Craig
Murray State Dept-funded Transparency
International goes silent on jailed transparency activist Julian Assange. ...
For over a year, the West’s top anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International,
has not said a word about the world’s most prominent jailed transparency
activist, Julian Assange. Is UK and UK government funding a factor in the organization’s
silence? Gray
Zone JULY
23, 2020
WAR
IS WHAT DEFINES US Bats
With Napalm Vests and Other Great American Innovations. CounterPunch
The
UK and US are Starting a New Cold War with Russia and China, So What are These
Governments Trying to Hide?. CounterPunch/Cockburn
Pentagon’s
Own Map of U.S. Bases in Africa Contradicts Its Claim of “Light” Footprint.
Intercept
Hiroshima
and Nagasaki as Collateral Damage. CounterPunch
Collateral Murder
video. ... Hedges talks to journalist, Dean Yates, who, 13 years ago, was the
head of Reuters’ Baghdad bureau. On July 12, 2007, Yates learned two of his
employees, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, had been fired on and killed by
the US Army. Their deaths, and those of others, were the focus of the now-infamous
video Collateral Murder, leaked by Chelsea Manning and released by Wikileaks.
Chris
Hedeges or YouTube
The Pentagon
Confronts the Pandemic: Or How to Make War, American-Style, Possible Again. CounterPunch
Robert M. Gates’
“Exercise Of Power”: More Confessions From a Windsock. CounterPunch
The Iraq War
Is the Skeleton Key. ... Bush’s war on Iraq is central to understanding our
world today. Yet the war has largely been flushed down the memory hole. Remembering
how we came to start the war and who sold us it is critical to stopping us from
being dragged into similar bloody conflicts in the future. Jacobin
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Trump Administration
Wants to Deprive Cubans of Food. CounterPunch
"The Fight Isn't Over," Say
Anti-War Groups as 139 House Democrats Vote With GOP to Reject 10% Pentagon Budget
Cut. ... "Though our amendment didn't pass, progressive power is stronger
than ever. We will keep fighting for pro-peace, pro-people budgets until it becomes
a reality," said Rep. Mark Pocan. CommonDreams
America faces a historic choice -- "ugly
corporate tyranny" or revolution. Salon
Trump Won’t Say Whether He Will
Accept 2020 Election Results: ‘I Have To See’ .. During an interview
with “Fox News Sunday,” the president. HuffPost
Influential DC-based Ukrainian think
tank hosts neo-Nazi activist convicted for racist violence. ... The US-Ukraine
Foundation hosted notorious neo-Nazi militant Diana Vynohradova in a webinar this
month. While legitimizing Ukrainian white supremacists, the think tank has forged
close ties with foreign policy elites in Washington. Gray
Zone Joe Kennedy, a Top Recipient
of Hedge Fund Cash, Declined to Back Tax Fairness Act. ... Unlike his Democratic
Senate primary opponent Sen. Ed Markey, Rep. Joe Kennedy has declined in multiple
sessions to co-sponsor legislation to end the carried interest tax loophole enjoyed
by hedge fund and private equity managers. Sludge
Arundhati Roy: Our Task is to Disable
the Engine. ... Storied author and PI Council member Arundhati Roy on Covid-19
and the "super-surveillance" state. Progress
International JULY
23, 2020 - REBELLION NEWS
Portland is the New Crimea: Trump's Little Green Men. ... The Trump/Barr administration
has been deploying federal law enforcement officers in Portland without approval
of local or Oregon state authorities, without clearly identifying who they are,
and without a clear law enforcement mandate. Dorf
on Law As
Trump Threatens Secret Police Deployment Nationwide, Democrats Debate Expanding
Surveillance Powers and New Money for DHS. Intercept
Federal
Agents, Local Streets: A ‘Red Flag’ In Oregon. ... Constitutional law
experts said the federal officers’ actions are a “red flag” in
what could become a test case of states’ rights. HuffPost
Protesting
Native Deaths by Police. ... Amid protests against police violence nationwide,
a march was held in remembrance of a Native man who died in police custody while
suffering a mental health crisis. ITT
Chris
Hedges Warns That The George Floyd Protests May be The Last Chance to Save America
From Corporate Tyranny and Neo-Fascism. Truth
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