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July 04, 2019

Jared Kushner should be ignored – but we should remember this startling US Middle East plan from 100 years ago
By Robert Fisk
The US state department today has neither spine, nor skull nor any other bodily form of existence. Trump long ago eviscerated the poor old thing.   - Continue

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‘More AIPAC Than J Street’: Kamala Harris Runs to the Right on Foreign Policy
By Stephen Zunes
Harris is effectively giving license to aggressors worldwide to conquer and occupy their neighbors with impunity.  - Continue

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The Plot to Keep Jeremy Corbyn Out of Power
By Jonathan Cook
Our minds have been occupied with myths, fears and narratives that turned us into the turkeys that keep voting for Christmas.   - Continue

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The un-submersible US-Iran stalemate
By Pepe Escobar
China continues to buy Iranian crude, and bilateral trade is being settled in yuan and rial.   - Continue

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Iranians Are Not Our Enemies
By Patrick Hiller
Congress needs to make stopping war with Iran a priority and exercise its authority to oppose a war of choice with Iran.   - Continue

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We’re Not the Good Guys: Why Is American Aggression Missing in Action?
By Tom Engelhardt
In short, when it comes to provocation and aggression, the world is our oyster.   - Continue

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Remember: The Goal Is Always To Make Dissident Ideas Mainstream
By Caitlin Johnstone
If you want to pour your energy into making real change, there is an easy target for you to fix your gaze on.  - Continue

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O, Say, Can You See
By Paul Edwards
From infancy we are indoctrinated with the fairy tale of our own magnificence.  - Continue

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Jingoistic Military Fetishization Is As American As Bald Eagle McNuggets
By Caitlin Johnstone
The military hardware parade is taking place at the behest of President Bolton’s social media assistant Donald Trump   - Continue

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Unhappy Thoughts For the Fourth of July
By Paul Craig Roberts
No one on the coming 4th of July will call for an uprising against our easily identified oppressors.  The reason is that everyone allowed to speak publicly is in the pay of our oppressors.   - Continue

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It’s Time to Declare Your Independence from Tyranny, America
By John W. Whitehead
There is always a price to be paid for remaining silent in the face of injustice. That price is tyranny.   - Continue

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American Concentration Camps, Then and Now
By Harry Blain
Let’s not forget that this is America. Whenever you see suffering, you can safely assume someone is profiting from it.   - Continue

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MIDDLE EAST

18 IS militants killed in Iraq in anti-IS operations, airstrikes

Iraqi troops & coalition warplanes kill 8 terrorists west of Iraq

No suprise: Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher acquitted of killing ISIS prisoner

200 corpses found in mass grave in Syria's Raqa: "They were shackled and shot in the head," said Khamees, who heads a team of first responders.

Four killed, several wounded in Syria motorcycle bomb attack

An act of war: British Marines Seize Oil Tanker Headed For Syria In "Aggressive" Operation

Nine wounded in Yemen rebel attack on Saudi airport — coalition

Ballistic missile hit Yemen's Marib governor house, Houthi rebels blamed

Rouhani: Iran will enrich uranium to ‘any amount we want’

Trump administration lays broad legal grounds for attack on Iran: Trump administration has opened the door to virtually every legal authority it might use to justify an attack, from tying Iran to al-Qaeda, to President Trump’s assertion that it “wouldn’t last very long.”

Robert Fisk: No one is innocent in the Gulf of Oman debacle – but Trump’s ‘evidence’ of Iran’s role is dodgy at best

Provoking World War III with Iran and a U.S. history of provocation

Poll: Voters back Trump's decision not to strike Iran : 57 percent of voters said they were against military confrontation with Iran if the U.S. was not directly attacked by the country

US sanctions on Iran are 'unlawful,' Russian energy minister says: Russian Energy Minister says that Iran is not at fault for instability in the Persian Gulf.

Watch: US officials join bizarre Iranian cult MEK in rallying for regime change

‘Large-scale riots’: Israeli police cracking down on violent protests over killed Ethopian teen

Germany threatens journalist with prison for speaking about Palestine

Activists shut down UK-based Israeli arms factories ‘in solidarity with Palestinian people’

Palestinian scientist based in the U.S. in danger of being subjected to torture in ‘Israel’

George Galloway: Time to say ‘this far & no further’ to using anti-Semitism as a weapon

Watch: It's a Trick, We Always Use It (calling people anti-Semitic)

Watch: How Israel Censors the Internet

Turkey says delivery of Russian S-400 systems to start next week

AFRICA

Libya: Up to 80 killed in attack on migrant detention centre in Tripoli

CIA asset: Haftar forces admit to Libya migrant camp airstrike: Pro-Haftar forces claim Tripoli-based GNA "brought migrants to what was previously military brigade base, arms depot"

Migrants 'fired upon after fleeing air strikes'

Libya: 82 people missing as migrant boat sank: The U.N. migration agency says a boat carrying 86 migrants from Libya sank in the Mediterranean overnight, and just three people on board survived, with 82 missing.

IS claims Niger attack that killed 18 soldiers

ASIA

Afghan forces kill 17 militants in Afghanistan eastern Ghazni province

Afghan Special Forces kill 9 ISIS Khurasan militants in Kunar province

India kills five Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir

The Indian state where farmers sow the seeds of death; Cancer rates are the highest in the country, drug addiction is rife, and 900 farmers have killed themselves in two years. How did Punjab turn toxic?

Et tu, Dalai Lama?: Have you forgotten that as a Tibetan Monk you and your followers fled Tibet

Pakistan PM Imran Khan to meet US President Donald Trump for talks on improving ties

John Bolton shoots down report of 'nuclear freeze' with North Korea

North Korea: Trump tries to undermine peace with sanctions: North Korea said Wednesday that while the US is talking about dialogue it is "more and more hell-bent" on hostile acts.

Plan by U.S. to turn Sri Lanka into an American military colony.

Beijing insists all US tariffs should be removed for a trade deal to happen

EUROPE

14 killed in fire on Russian deep submersible – MoD

‘What about Assange?’: UK Foreign Office video calling for press freedom shamed for hypocrisy

AMERICAS

Venezuela Issues 70 Objections to UN's Human Rights Report:

Horrific Detention Center Conditions Expose Trump’s True Immigration Policy: Unmitigated, Unrelenting Cruelty

House Democrats give $4.6 billion for Trump’s concentration camps

Thousands protest immigrant concentration camps across US

A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis: Those seeking asylum today inherited a series of crises that drove them to the border

Watch: Protesters Take to the Streets in Washington DC During Trump's Independence Day Speech

Exclusive Interview: Trump sits down with Tucker Carlson

'We have a predator living in the White House': Harris sharpens attacks on Trump

Must Watch: Kamala Harris LOUDLY Pushes Trump To War

Most top military chiefs skipping Trump's July Fourth fest

Trump Approval Remains in Low 40s: Attitudes are flipped on impeachment: 53% opposed, 45% in favor

Mike Gravel Interview: 2020 Campaign, Military Industrial Complex Run Amok

Supreme Court: Police Can Forcibly & Warrantlessly Carry Out Blood Draws on Unconscious Drivers

 

 

 

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