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Climate, crude, and COVID devastate Ecuador’s Amazon August 11, 2020
Caught between the pandemic, historic flooding, and governmental negligence, Ecuador’s Indigenous people have launched an international appeal to crowdsource rebuilding efforts. The post Climate, crude, and COVID devastate Ecuador’s Amazon appeared first on The Real News Network.
Jocelyn Dombroski
Left-progressive Cori Bush makes her mark—On the neoliberal agenda August 11, 2020
Racial justice activist Cori Bush’s stunning upset against a Congressional Black Caucus-backed incumbent in Missouri underscores the power of the growing movement against racism and corporate greed. The post Left-progressive Cori Bush makes her mark—On the neoliberal agenda appeared first on The Real News Network.
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COVID-19 surges in Florida after data whistleblower fired August 11, 2020
“Somebody needs to put a muzzle on [Trump] before he gets another 100,000 people killed. The United States does not have this under control.” The post COVID-19 surges in Florida after data whistleblower fired appeared first on The Real News Network.
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Autonomous zones get the goods August 11, 2020
The next temporary autonomous zone could connect the history of public property as protest and centering the work of current activists for a more impactful zone. The post Autonomous zones get the goods appeared first on The Real News Network.
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Climate official pushing controversial sun-blocking plan resigns August 10, 2020
A California official resigns as chair of a program promoting a controversial climate technofix. The post Climate official pushing controversial sun-blocking plan resigns appeared first on The Real News Network.
Jocelyn Dombroski
FNF August 7, 2020
Stir Crazy! Episode 76: Today we are joined by journalist, organizer, and founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism Jen Deerinwater, Miwok journalist and community organizer Desiree Kane, and journalist and community builder Johnnie Jae. Hosted by Kim Brown. The post FNF appeared first on The Real News Network.
Dwayne Gladden
Mainstream media misses damning evidence in Blueleaks police data dump August 7, 2020
The massive document dump reveals a troubling trend the mainstream media has overlooked: Tech companies monetizing criminal surveillance. The post Mainstream media misses damning evidence in Blueleaks police data dump appeared first on The Real News Network.
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California greenlights ‘Orwellian’ solar-powered fracking scheme August 7, 2020
California will allow Chevron and Goldman Sachs to use solar power for fracking in the name of fighting climate change. The post California greenlights ‘Orwellian’ solar-powered fracking scheme appeared first on The Real News Network.
Jocelyn Dombroski
Stomp Out the Establishment August 6, 2020
Stir Crazy! Episode 75: Today we are joined by sociologist Taure Brown, TRNN visual producer Andrew Corkery, and writer and organizer Jesse Myerson. With special guest Oluchi Omeoga who is an organizer with the Minneapolis based Black Visions Collective. Hosted by Kim Brown. The post Stomp Out the Establishment appeared first on The Real News […]
Dwayne Gladden
Trump’s cold war with China is heating up August 6, 2020
The world’s largest economic powers are in a battle for dominance complicated by the pandemic and Trump’s escalation. The post Trump’s cold war with China is heating up appeared first on The Real News Network.
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350 Action Responds to Biden’s Choice for Vice President, Kamala Harris August 11, 2020
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In 'Battle for the Soul of This Nation,' Biden Names Kamala Harris as Vice Presidential Running Mate August 11, 2020
Julia Conley, staff writer"All of us will need to do everything we can do defeat Donald Trump this November, and Joe Biden will need strong progressive energy to win," said the PCCC in response.
Joe Biden Chooses Kamala Harris as Running Mate - Greenpeace Response August 11, 2020
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PFAW Responds to Biden’s VP Selection: "We Are Proud to Give Biden and Harris Our Support" August 11, 2020
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Coalition Objects to 'Profoundly Inappropriate' Trump Plan to Accept GOP Nomination at 'Hallowed' Gettysburg Battlefield August 11, 2020
Jon Queally, staff writer"Our national parks should not be exploited for political gain. They are meant to be enjoyed by all Americans, regardless of party affiliation or politics."
Joint Statement from RootsAction.org and Progressive Democrats of America on the Selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as Vice Presidential Candidate August 11, 2020
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Labor and Environmental Groups File Legal Petition Demanding Trump Solve 'Unconscionable' Shortage of PPE for Essential Workers August 11, 2020
Julia Conley, staff writerA coalition of labor and environmental justice groups joined forces Tuesday on behalf of millions of essential workers who face shortages of personal protective equipment five months into the coronavirus pandemic, demanding the Trump administration provide the life-saving supplies.
The Green New Deal Just Won a Major Union Endorsement. What’s Stopping the AFL-CIO? August 11, 2020
Mindy IsserAmerican Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten greets a crowd of striking teachers in Grand Park on January 22, 2019 in downtown Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images)
Will October Surprise Be Trump-Provoked War With Iran? August 11, 2020
Bob Dreyfuss"Consider it beyond irony if, this October," writes Dreyfuss, "the latest election 'surprise' were to take us back to the very origins of the term in the form of some kind of armed conflict that could only end terribly for everyone involved." (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/via Getty Images)
Progressive Groups Pressure Biden and Trump to Include Nuclear Disarmament in Campaign Platforms August 11, 2020
Jessica Corbett, staff writer"The United States urgently needs a leader who will have the courage to look at, think hard about, and speak openly about the dire perils posed by our country's vast nuclear arsenal."

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Martin’s Boat – A Film By Pete McBride August 11, 2020
The post Martin’s Boat – A Film By Pete McBride appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Why Capitalism is in Constant Conflict With Democracy August 11, 2020
The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage beyond the rich who possessed capital. Only mass pressures from below forced repeated extensions of voting rights until universal suffrage was achieved—at least legally. To this day, capitalists […]
Richard D. Wolff
Defund Fascism, Blue and Orange August 11, 2020
The American ruling class says it is opposed to “big government.” It isn’t. The wealthy Few are only against what the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called “the left hand of the state” – those parts of government that reflect the victories of past and ongoing social movements by serving the common good, regulating Big Business, […]
Paul Street
Americans Scorned August 11, 2020
Trump administration orders shortening census taking by a month and slowing the activities of the United States Postal Service that may impact mail-in balloting have a common denominator: both scorn the American people. In both cases, Donald Trump, a rogue president, doesn’t want voters counted, either their ballots or their persons, especially if they’re Blacks, […]
Richard C. Gross
Trump and Biden, Two Ignoble Minds Here O’erthrown August 11, 2020
At the presidential level and perhaps down-ticket too, this year’s electoral circus will be a spectacle well calculated to cause disgust and despair – thanks mainly to Donald Trump’s unprecedented machinations, but also because, at least in the presidential contest, the main contenders, both of them, are embarrassingly unfit to serve. For kindness sake, one […]
Andrew Levine
The Rise of Nationalism Has Led to the Increased Repression of Minorities August 11, 2020
We live in an era of resurgent nationalism. From Scotland to Sri Lanka, from China to Brazil, governments rely on nationalism as a source of communal identity and a vehicle for common action. In countries where religious identity appears to dominate, as with Islam in Turkey and Hinduism in India, religion has bonded with nationalism. […]
Patrick Cockburn
Trump’s Presidency is a Death Cult August 11, 2020
When President Donald Trump was challenged by Axios national political correspondent Jonathan Swan to respond to the fact that, “a thousand Americans are dying a day” due to COVID-19, the president responded as though the grim tally was perfectly acceptable, saying, “They are dying, that’s true. And it is what it is.” While observers were […]
Sonali Kolhatkar
Pushing GMO Crops into India: Experts Debunk High-Level Claims of Bt Cotton Success August 11, 2020
On 6 July 2020, an article extolling the benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops appeared on the BloombergQuint website based on an interview with Dr Ramesh Chand, a member of the key Indian Government think tank Niti Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) . On 17 July, another piece that placed a positive spin on GM crops […]
Colin Todhunter
How Indigenous Peoples are Using Ancestral Organizing Practices to Fight Mining Corporations and Covid-19 August 11, 2020
As the effects of Covid-19 continue to be felt unequally around the globe, Indigenous peoples, such as the Xinka in Guatemala, are finding ways to organize and care for each other, while firmly rooting their response in ancestral practices that have sustained them throughout time. The Xinka people mostly live in southeastern Guatemala, in the […]
Valerie Croft
Tear Gas Ted Has a Tantrum in Portland August 11, 2020
The liberal landed gentry dripping with multi-generational wealth and entitlement, as represented by Tear Gas Ted Wheeler, has made a pronouncement: the good folks trying to burn down the police station there in outer east Portland the other night were guilty of “attempted murder,” as twenty defenseless, though heavily-armed, police officers inside cowered and shivered […]
David Rovics

Progressive activist Shaun King mocked on all sides for blatant flip-flop on Kamala Harris after Biden makes her running mate August 12, 2020
Social activist and writer Shaun King was ridiculed without mercy for a brazen about-face on his support for Kamala Harris, quickly cozying up to the senator after she became Joe Biden’s VP pick, despite criticizing her for years. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Wrong narrative? US mainstream media mum on murder of 5yo white boy allegedly shot by black man in his own front yard August 12, 2020
The story of a 5-year-old North Carolina boy who reportedly was killed when a man ran up to him and shot him in the head for no known reason apparently was not compelling enough to merit US mainstream media coverage. Read Full Article at RT.com
RT
‘Trust no one & have fun’: Sarah Palin embraced by libs as she comes out with words of encouragement for Biden’s VP pick Harris August 12, 2020
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who ran as VP on the McCain ticket in 2008, has been praised as a “class act” by her detractors after she gave Biden’s freshly-announced VP pick Kamala Harris a long list of do's and don'ts. Read Full Article at RT.com
RT
Baghdad summons Turkish ambassador after cross-border strike on Kurdish rebels kills 2 Iraqi commanders August 12, 2020
A Turkish drone strike that killed two senior Iraqi commanders has triggered a harsh reaction in Baghdad, with the government scrapping a high-level defense meeting and summoning Ankara’s ambassador to rebuke the attack. Read Full Article at RT.com
RT
Cure worse than disease: We filmed REAL BLM protesters burning a Bible. NY Times tried to ‘debunk’ it with actual FAKE NEWS August 12, 2020
Mainstream media have denounced Ruptly video of Portland protesters burning Bibles as ‘Russian disinfo’, countering the unaltered viral footage with fake news of their own in bad-faith ‘shoot the messenger’ gaslighting. Read Full Article at RT.com
RT
Kamala Harris got ‘destroyed’ by Tulsi Gabbard in Democrat debates, dropped out before primaries – and now might be president August 11, 2020
California Senator Kamala Harris crashed and burned early in the Democrat primary process, never recovering from the debate drubbing she took from Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. She became Joe Biden’s running mate anyway. Read Full Article at RT.com
RT
Trump launches scathing ad on ‘phony’ Kamala Harris as Democrats are torn over Biden’s VP pick August 11, 2020
President Donald Trump is having a field day with the choice of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate. While Democrat elites are rallying behind the ticket, frustrated progressives point to her problematic prosecutorial past. Read Full Article at RT.com
RT
‘Slap in the face’: Democrats score a self-own after leaving Asian-Americans off DNC speaker list while pushing identity politics August 11, 2020
The Democratic Party’s reliance on identity politics led to controversy Tuesday as the lineup of speakers for next week's Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee seemingly failed to include any politicians of Asian descent. Read Full Article at RT.com
RT
Clashes & arrests across Belarus as post-election turmoil enters 3rd night (VIDEOS) August 11, 2020
Belarusians angry with the outcome of Sunday’s presidential election, which the opposition denounced as rigged, have taken to streets for the third night in a row, facing off against police deployed en masse to quell the unrest. Read Full Article at RT.com
RT
Belarusian SWAT threaten bystanders with GRENADE after collaring teen in viral VIDEO August 11, 2020
As protests against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s re-election rage on in several cities, video footage has emerged showing the local riot police apparently deploying some heavy handed tactics against teenagers. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Thinking Outside the Social Media Echo Chamber August 12, 2020
Lately, it's been popular to refer to the increasingly narrow worldview that we receive this way as an "echo chamber.",,, Rather than picturing ourselves along a spectrum-defined by only two dimensions-we can envision ourselves in bubbles,,, This admits to being in a bubble, which is honest.
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
Teaching Torture: The Death and Legacy of Dan Mitrione August 12, 2020
Originally published at Antiwar.com and ZNet In the pre-dawn darkness of Monday, August 10, 1970, Dan Mitrione's bullet-ridden body was discovered in the back seat of a stolen Buick convertible in a quiet residential neighborhood of Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital. He had just turned 50, and he had recently started a new dream job, although"
Brett Wilkins
The pandemic is helping the rich get even richer. It's time to tax their obscene wealth August 11, 2020
We are in the middle of an extraordinary moment in American history: a public health crisis, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the existential threat of climate change and a president who is moving our country in an authoritarian direction.
Bernie Sanders
Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, Could Covert War With Iran Become Overt Before November 3rd? August 11, 2020
Was Donald Trump's January 3rd drone assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani the first step in turning the simmering Cold War between the United States and Iran into a hot war in the weeks before an American presidential election? Of course, there's no way to know, but behind by double digits in most national polls […]
Tom Engelhardt
Invasion of the New Normals August 11, 2020
DISCLAIMER: The preceding essay is entirely the work of our in-house satirist and self-appointed political pundit, CJ Hopkins, and does not reflect the views and opinions of the Consent Factory, Inc., its staff, or any of its agents, subsidiaries, or assigns. If, for whatever inexplicable reason, you appreciate Mr. Hopkins' work and would like to […]
CJ Hopkins
Former Israeli Soldier Sues Pro-Palestinian Toronto Restaurant August 11, 2020
As part of a well-organized, multilayered, Israel nationalist lobby bid to bankrupt a small left-wing restaurant a prominent Toronto interior designer sued Kimberly Hawkins for $800,000. Shai DeLuca is claiming the Foodbenders owner libeled him.
Yves Engler
Is Trump Sabotaging U.S. Postal Service Ahead of Election as Part of His Attack on Mail-in Voting? August 11, 2020
Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration is sabotaging the United States Postal Service ahead of the November election, when a record number of votes are expected to be cast by mail.
Democracy Now
"Lesser of Two ENEMIES" Perfectly Describes Biden August 11, 2020
I try to solve a conundrum Glenn Greenwald poses in response to Noam Chomsky. Namely, how do we vote for lesser-evil Democrats while derailing their smug ploy to EXTORT our votes by merely "not being Trump"?
Patrick Walker
Trump and Kodak August 11, 2020
The White House is distributing billions in subsidies and loans to select corporations -- enabling CEOs and boards to load up on stocks and stock options just before deals are announced, then rake in fat profits after stock prices surge.
Robert Reich
Toward a Kashmir Endgame? How India and Pakistan Could Negotiate a Lasting Solution August 11, 2020
Kashmir has once again emerged as a major flash point between South Asia's nuclear-armed rivals, India and Pakistan, says a report released by the US Institute of Peace on August 5. The Indian government's insistence on Kashmir being a purely domestic issue is "a fiction maintained only by a large security presence", said a USIP […]
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