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July 19, 2019

Op-Ed
 
Iran says captures British oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz
 
Breaking News
The vessel named "Stena Impero" had been confiscated when passing through the Strait of Hormuz.   - Continue
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A US Led Naval Coalition In The Persian Gulf Will Raise The Threat Of War
 
By Seyed Mohammad Marandi
Iran will respond to a limited military strike with a massive and disproportionate counterstrike targeting both the aggressor and its enablers.   - Continue
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UAE Pullout From Yemen Less About Peace, More About War With Iran
 
By Finian Cunningham
The Emiratis seem to be reconfiguring their forces do Washington's bidding for a war on Iran.   - Continue
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The World is Dedollarizing
 
By Peter Koenig
President Trump's trade war with China will eventually also have a dedollarization effect.   - Continue
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Israel's Right Wing Is Worse Than Europe's
 
By Zeev Sternhell
The Israeli right, which maintains the settlements with their racist, backward rabbis, is much worse that the European nationalist right.   - Continue
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Patriotism, Law, and Allegiance
 
By James Rothenberg
States are, by degree, adversaries to the people in them. Big Brother is not a relative.   - Continue
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Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
 
By Ramzy Baroud
It is as if the story of Oscar and Valeria began the moment they decided to cross a river between Mexico and the US, not decades earlier.   - Continue
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"Never again means never again. From Palestine to the USA-Mexico border."
 
By Robert Fisk
The Nazis believed that their Jews were not German - just as Trump clearly believes that the four congresswomen are not American.   - Continue
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Who's Afraid of William Barr?
 
By Stephen F. Cohen
Liberals and other Democrats seem to want to cover up the CIA's role in Russiagate.    - Continue
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The Lie Factory-CNN-Is Collapsing.  Thank God.
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
CNN became a propaganda ministry for the Democratic National Committee and the corrupt upper echelons of the CIA and FBI.    - Continue
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It's Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect the Right to Criticize the Government
 
By John W. Whitehead
To call out the government for its wrongdoing does not make me any less of an American.   - Continue
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Humanity Is Not Sleeping; It's In An Induced Coma
 
By Caitlin Johnstone
This is a crime against humanity which far surpasses all of the most egregious atrocities in any history book.   - Continue
 

 
HARD NEWS

MIDDLE EAST
 
 
 
One killed as drone bombs base used by pro-Iran forces in Iraq: The US immediately denied involvement in the attack, which took place in an ethnically and religiously mixed area north of Baghdad.
 
 
Saudi Arabia's dilemma as the UAE pulls out of Yemen:Besides the criticism of those leading the unwinnable war in Yemen, there are other reasons why the UAE withdrew from the coalition.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Watch: Iran releases video it says proves US did not destroy drone

 
Iran says U.S. may have shot down its own drone by mistake
 
Iran floats offer on nuclear inspections; U.S. skeptical: "If Trump wants more for more, we can ratify the Additional Protocol and he can lift the sanctions he set," Zarif said.
 
 
 
Prominent Saudi opposition figure says a revolt is waiting to happen: "The situation in Saudi Arabia could explode at any moment," he added.
 
After army's denial, rights group proves Israel soldier shot child in head with live fire: Nine-year-old 'Abd a-Rahman a-Shteiwi was shot in the head and remains in hospital.
 
 
 
 
 
 
AFRICA
 
 
 
ASIA
 
 
 
 
 
 
EUROPE
 
 
Extinction Rebellion launches London 'tax strike': Activists ask Londoners to withhold 22 percent of their council tax to protest slow action on 'climate emergency'.
 
GLOBE
 
 
 
Israel spyware firm can mine data from social media: FT; The NSO Group had "told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual's data from the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, according to people familiar with its sales pitch".
 
AMERICAS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pew: 91% Democrats see violence next in war of words:Nearly 8 of 10 Americans told the Pew Research Center that supporters for both sides could "act" on the politically charged rhetoric with violence.
 
Trump renews attacks on Democratic congresswoman Omar: - Somali-born U.S. congresswoman Ilhan Omar is "lucky to be where she is," President Donald Trump said on Friday
 
 
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case: Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day equivalents of organized crime.
 
"It's Going to Be Staggering, the Amount of Names": As the Jeffrey Epstein Case Grows More Grotesque, Manhattan and DC Brace for Impact:
 
These copycat bills on Sharia law and terrorism have no effect. So why do states keep passing them? A far-right think tank pushed model bills on Sharia law and terrorism in dozens of states. Civil rights groups say the goal was to stoke fear.
 
 
 
 
Parents Told They Could Lose Kids Over Unpaid School Lunches: A Pennsylvania school district is warning that children could end up in foster care if parents don't pay overdue school lunch bills.
 

 
Peace and Joy
 
Tom Feeley

Cost Of War
 
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,801


Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan :
3,430   

Total Cost of U.S. Wars Since 2001

4.85 Trillion - Spending $1 million an hour, non-stop, 24 hours a day, you won't run out of money for 411 years.
$ 4,856,619,162,861
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