How Corporate Media Are Fueling a New Iran Nuclear Crisis
Gareth Porter | commondreams.org | 2019-07-18
Screen shot of a recent Fox Business report about U.S.-Iran relations. (Photo: Fox Business via YouTube) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-07-18_at_12.25.31_pm.png …
commondreams.org/views/2019/07/18/how-corporate-media-are-fueling-new-iran-nuclear-crisis?cd-origin=rss
An extraordinary Twitter exchange with Richard Tol
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-18
I had an extraordinary Twitter Exchange with Richard Tol over the last few days. I've written this post to preserve that exchange in case, at a future date, Tol decides to delete his tweets. They provide a superb window into the thinking that lies behind mainstream economic modelling of climate change, and why this has […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/18/an-extraordinary-twitter-exchange-with-richard-tol/
National Polls Don't Mean Much. Here's Why
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-18
"Here we go with the Fake Polls," President Donald Trump tweeted on July 15. "Just like what happened with the Election against Crooked Hillary Clinton." He's complaining about several polls that show him losing the national popular vote to various Democratic presidential aspirants, in some cases by double digits. He has a point. In 2016,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/18/national-polls-dont-mean-much-heres-why/
Right-wing Labour MPs use Trump's racism for their own advantage
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2019-07-18
Donald Trump and his supporters have sunk even further into vile racism. On 14 July, Trump issued a series of racist tweets. He told four progressive congresswomen of colour to "go back and help fix" their "broken and crime infested" countries. | Since then, his supporters have pushed the racist attacks against congresswo…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/07/18/right-wing-labour-mps-use-trumps-racism-for-their-own-advantage/
Vaccine Safety and Immunization: Suppressing Critique, Silencing Scientific Evidence
Richard Gale | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-18
During the past year there has been a deliberate assault on medical sanity by the Silicon Valley's internet giants and popular social media platforms to abolish and censor voices and websites challenging the orthodoxy of the CDC's vaccination policies. Last …
globalresearch.ca/vaccine-safety-and-immunization-suppressing-critique-silencing-scientific-evidence/5683705
Why I'm Glad About Trump's Latest Twitter Tirade
Sonali Kolhatkar | truthdig.com | 2019-07-18
People of color in the U.S. have experienced many variations of the "go back to where you came from" sentiment. In the wake of President Donald Trump's racist Twitter tirade aimed at "the Squad" of four recently elected women of color in Congress, the Los Angeles Times asked its readers to share their own stories. The anecdotes were painful to read and yet all too familiar to me. Social media threads are filled with similar stories, a…
truthdig.com/articles/why-im-glad-about-trumps-latest-twitter-tirade/
Beware Facebook's Libra: A Corporate Surveillance Leviathan With No Precedent Outside the Realm of Science Fiction
Robert Weissman | commondreams.org | 2019-07-18
David Marcus, Head of Calibra at Facebook, testifies about Facebook's proposed digital currency called Libra, during a Senate Banking, House and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 16, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/facebook_libra.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/07/18/beware-facebooks-libra-corporate-surveillance-leviathan-no-precedent-outside-realm?cd-origin=rss
Congress Hammers Big Tech on Competition, Money, Power
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-18
Big Tech faced tough questions this week as federal lawmakers focused on issues of potentially anticompetitive behavior by technology giants and expressed bipartisan skepticism over Facebook's plan for a new digital currency. | Companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon have long enjoyed nearly unbridled growth and a mythic stature as once-scrappy startups — born in garages and a dorm room and a road trip across the United States — that grew up to dominate their rivals. But as they've grown more powerful, critics have also grown louder, questioning whether the companies stifle competition an…
truthdig.com/articles/congress-hammers-big-tech-on-competition-money-power/
Dutch Airline KLM Restricts Breastfeeding on Flight
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-18
The Dutch airline KLM drew criticism by asking mothers to cover themselves while breastfeeding their babies on flights to "ensure that passengers from all backgrounds feel comfortable on board." | RELATED: | Black Jamaican Woman Asked to Get off German Airline Plane Cites 'Racism' | While responding to a question on Twitter about…
telesurenglish.net/news/klm-criticism-breastfeeding-on-flight-20190718-0012.html
Donald Trump, the Democrat Squad and Failed Impeachment
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-18
Twitter has become policy. It is platform, direction and determination. It has served one particular person well, a hazy mechanism to fog up the lenses of law makers. When President Donald Trump needs an air-wave filling distraction, a bilious splurge of interest in the blogosphere, he is always happy to lob a grenade of 280 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/donald-trump-the-democrat-squad-and-failed-impeachment/
Donald Trump, "the Democrat Squad" and Failed Impeachment
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-18
Twitter has become policy. It is platform, direction and determination. It has served one particular person well, a hazy mechanism to fog up the lenses of law makers. When President Donald Trump needs an air-wave filling distraction, a bilious splurge …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-democrat-squad-failed-impeachment/5683921
Should We Have a Right to Troll Politicians on Twitter?
Alexis Grenell | thenation.com | 2019-07-18
Should We Have a Right to Troll Politicians on Twitter?
thenation.com/article/troll-twitter-aoc-saladino/
'SEND HER BACK': Trump crowds have new MAGA chant after 'racist tweet' row
rt.com | 2019-07-18
The crowd at Donald Trump's campaign rally in North Carolina erupted in a raucous chant of 'Send her back!' after the US president fired a fresh broadside at Somali-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. | …
rt.com/usa/464432-send-back-omar-chant/
'4 horsewomen' of Dem 'squad' poll low amid Trump tweetfest, but their party is doing even worse
rt.com | 2019-07-18
The four Democratic congresswomen feuding with US President Donald Trump are not polling well nationwide, suggesting the president is right that "a lot of people love" his criticism of the women as anti-American "whack jobs." | …
rt.com/usa/464431-democrats-squad-poll-unfavorable/
Selected Articles: The Race for the Domination of Space
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-18
Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-race-domination-space/5683975
Congresswomen condemn White House racism
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2019-07-17
As we go to press, the House of Representatives passed a resolution saying that Trump's tweets were racist. All Democrats and four Republicans voted for the resolution. More to come. The white supremacist and misogynist Trump has opened up another vicious, racist verbal war. This time it is against four . . . | Continue reading Congresswomen condemn White House racism at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/17/congresswomen-condemn-white-house-racism/
Iran's Not the Aggressor, the US Is
Khury Petersen-Smith | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
It's easy to be confused about what's happening between the U.S. and Iran. On July 10, President Trump again accused Iran of violating the Obama-era nuclear deal, in a tweet that he concluded by promising to increase U.S. sanctions "substantially." Similarly, headlines — such as a recent New York Times article that originally proclaimed,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/17/irans-not-the-aggressor-the-us-is/
Retaking Everything: The Story of Identity Dixie
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-07-17
A small Facebook campaign predicated on keeping Confederate monuments in place has morphed into a group of more than 200 ardent, secretive separatists planning to make the South a separate nation. And Hatewatch has learned the identities of some of the group's leaders and members.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/07/17/retaking-everything-story-identity-dixie
CNN embraces white nationalist Richard Spencer in shared Trump-hate
rt.com | 2019-07-17
CNN tapped white nationalist Richard Spencer to join the Orange Man Bad choir in response to President Trump's 'racist' tweets, proving the enemy of their enemy could be their friend — and uniting the internet against them. | …
rt.com/usa/464350-cnn-spencer-trump-tweets-racist/
Trump would have to go back 'to hell' if he followed his own advice, Philly mayor says
rt.com | 2019-07-17
With Washington consumed by debate over whether US President Donald Trump's "go back to where you came from" tweets are racist, the mayor of Philadelphia suggested Trump should follow his own advice and go back… to hell. | …
rt.com/usa/464348-trump-hell-tweet-mayor/
'4 horsewomen of the apocalypse': Trump renews attack on 'Dem Squad'
rt.com | 2019-07-17
US President Donald Trump has tweeted out comments made by a Republican senator who branded the 'squad' of four freshman Democratic congresswomen who accused him of racism as "the four horsewomen of the apocalypse." | …
rt.com/usa/464377-dem-squad-trump-horsewomen-apocalypse/
"Our Squad Is Big": Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley Condemn Trump's Racist Attack
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-16
Congressmembers Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar condemned President Trump's spate of racist attacks against them in a news conference Monday. Their public rebuke followed Trump tweeting Sunday telling them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." The comments have been widely condemned as racist and xenophobic. We hear from the progressive congresswomen in their own words.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/16/trump_racist_attacks_congresswomen_of_color
Trump's Racist Tweets Fan Hatred, Defining the Coming Election
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Professors Gerald Horne and Kimberly Moffit examine how Trump's targeted tweet storm against progressive women of color who serve in Congress works to further divide the Democratic party, while dredging up America's racist settler-colonial past…
therealnews.com/stories/trumps-racist-tweets-fan-hatred-defining-the-coming-election
Main Twitter Account Defending Julian Assange Removed for No Reason
Caitlin Johnstone | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-14
The operators of the account report that they have been given no reason for its removal by Twitter staff, and no response to their appeals.
Main Twitter Account Defending Julian Assange Removed for No Reason
Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was a Member of Secret Facebook Group
Ryan Devereaux | theintercept.com | 2019-07-12
When news broke that thousands of current and former Border Patrol agents were members of a secret Facebook group filled with racist, vulgar, and sexist content, Carla Provost, chief of the agency, was quick to respond. "These posts are completely inappropriate and contrary to the honor and integrity I see — and expect — from our agents day in and day out," Provost said in a statement. "Any employees found to have violated our standards of conduct will be held accountable." | For Provost, a veteran of the Border Patrol who was named head of the agency in August 2018, the group's existence and content…
theintercept.com/2019/07/12/border-patrol-chief-carla-provost-was-a-member-of-secret-facebook-group/
SPLC statement on White House social media summit
splcenter.org | 2019-07-10
The Trump administration's social media summit today is a gathering of groups and individuals who have no business at the White House.
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/10/splc-statement-white-house-social-media-summit
Julian Assange to Face 5-Day Extradition Hearing in February 2020
Consortium News | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-17
(CN) — A decision on whether Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States to face charges under the Espionage Act will not come until the end of February 2020 at the earliest, the Westminster Magistrate's Court ruled on Friday. Tristan Kirk, the London Evening Standard's courts reporter, tweeted: Julian Assange will not face a full extradition …
Julian Assange to Face 5-Day Extradition Hearing in February 2020
Our Reality Can Beat Up Your Reality. Spreading False News Stories on Iran
Helen Buyniski | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-17
Twitter has declared victory over disinformation, deplatforming thousands of pro-Iranian Twitter accounts this week to coincide with US Secretary of State " Rapture Mike" Pompeo's evidence-free declaration that Iran had attacked two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. …
globalresearch.ca/our-reality-can-beat-up-your-reality-spreading-false-news-stories-on-iran/5680746
Perhaps you've heard
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-17
The Office of Special Counsel says Kellyanne Conway broke the law by disparaging Democratic candidates for president, both while appearing on T.V. in her official capacity as an adviser to the president and on her Twitter feed.
nationofchange.org/2019/06/17/perhaps-youve-heard/
'Shameful' Milestone: Congress Goes Record 3,615 Days Without Raising Federal Minimum Wage
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-17
"The federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr is a starvation wage. Every worker deserves a living wage of at least $15 an hour," tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/fight_for_15_2.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/17/shameful-milestone-congress-goes-record-3615-days-without-raising-federal-minimum?cd-origin=rss
WHO director-general meets Museveni to discuss Uganda's Ebola response
David Ochieng Mbewa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-17
The World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus poses for a photo with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in Entebbe. COURTESY: TWITTER/WHO | The World Health Organisation Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday held discussions on Uganda's response to the Ebola outbreak with officials from Uganda's Ministry of Health, the WHO's country branch and other partners following his arrival in the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo. | Ghebreyesus, like all travelers, had his temperature screened by a trained health worker, upon arrival, to ensure he was healthy eno…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/17/who-director-general-meets-museveni-to-discuss-ugandas-ebola-response/
Kansas police's 'humorous' tweet asking moms to snitch on dads for Father's Day implodes
rt.com | 2019-06-17
A Fathers' Day "joke" tweet by the Topeka, Kansas police encouraging mothers to turn in their baby-daddies if they've committed any crimes blew up in the department's face after it was perceived as somewhat less than humorous. | …
rt.com/usa/462097-topeka-cops-snitch-fathers-day/