Brazil: Poisonous Agrotoxin Found Over 80% of Breast Milk Samples in Urucui
teleSUR/jc-CM | telesurtv.net | 2018-08-09
"The presence of glyphosate in breast milk indicates direct contamination by this agro-toxin," said researcher Inacio Pereira Lima.
www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-Poisonous-Agrotoxin-Found-Over-80-of-Breast-Milk-Samples-in-Urucui-20180809-0008.html

Rashida Tlaib Is Running for Congress on a Mission to Expand Civil-Rights Protections
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2018-08-09
Rashida Tlaib Is Running for Congress on a Mission to Expand Civil-Rights Protections appeared first on The Nation.
thenation.com/article/rashida-tlaib-running-congress-mission-expand-civil-rights-protections/

The Coming Thunder of the Climate Change Voter
Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-08-09
I believe human-caused climate change is real and presents a direct and deepening threat to life on Earth as we know it. I believe the air, the food and the water are all in grave peril. I can't believe saying that remains controversial, because the evidence of it is literally on fire in front of us. The images are broadcast into our homes each night by the nightly news shows, whose anchors are at long last uttering the words, now that it might be too late. | Moses had the burning bush to show him the way; we have, among other things, the Mendocino Complex fire — the largest conflagration in California's recorded history. Fires in Europe are 43 percent above the norm, and Greece along with much of the Mediterranean region is projected to transform into a desert within…
truthout.org/articles/the-coming-thunder-of-the-climate-change-voter/

Experts: If We Don't Stop Climate Change, CA Fires "Will Seem Mild In Comparison to What's Coming"
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-09
The Mendocino Complex Fire in Northern California is now the largest wildfire ever recorded in California's history. It started burning in July–the state's hottest month on record. Of the 20 largest wildfires in California history, 15 have occurred since 2000. This year's fires have already burned nearly three times as many acres as the same time last year. Experts say climate change has increased the length of fire season. In Oakland, California, we speak with Michael Brune, the director of the Sierra Club. We also speak with Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State Univer…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/9/experts_if_we_don_t_stop

Drones Over Caracas: the Bolivaran Revolution has been Strengthened
Manuel E. Yepe | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-09
The foiled assassination attempt against President Nicolás Maduro Moros on August 4 in Caracas will decisively strengthen the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela and make it invincible. It would seem that such a crime was all that was left for the Venezuelan counterrevolution to completely lose the credibility it has enjoyed among the few sectors of…
counterpunch.org/2018/08/09/drones-over-caracas-the-bolivaran-revolution-has-been-strengthened/

Is Oily Econo-Politics Behind Saudis' Crude Canadian Diplomacy?
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2018-08-09
For such an ugly and bizarre international fistfight to spring full-blown from a single critical tweet strains credulity. Underlying the Saudis hostile anti-Canadian actions may be a desire to signal the world to stay blind to the kingdom's internal repressions. Or it may be an economic play with Canadian oil. | The post Is Oily Econo-Politics Behind Saudis' Crude Canadian Diplomacy? appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/is-oily-econo-politics-behind-saudis-crude-canadian-diplomacy/247325/

Want to create jobs? Reduce fossil fuel use
Basav Sen | peoplesworld.org | 2018-08-09
We've all heard claims that fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas are major job creators. President Trump says so all the time. But it turns out that developing and installing the technology to reduce fossil fuel use–known in the industry as "energy efficiency"–creates many more jobs…
peoplesworld.org/article/want-to-create-jobs-reduce-fossil-fuel-use/

Standing Rock: Tribes await court ruling due August 10
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2018-08-08
Expect another ruling by the infamous U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., in the ongoing Standing Rock struggle by August 10, according to the latest court schedule. This baneful jurist will be deciding whether the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers adequately considered the detrimental effects on the Standing…
peoplesworld.org/article/standing-rock-tribes-await-court-ruling-due-august-10/

Selected Articles: The Next Financial Crash? Climate Change
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-08
For almost seventeen years, Global Research, together with partner independent media organizations, has sought Truth in Media with a view to eventually "disarming" the corporate media's disinformation crusade. | To reverse the …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-the-next-financial-crash-climate-change/5649984

Perpetual War: Nations and Border Walls
Jack Random | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-08
By far the most irredeemable conflict on earth is the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. It does not matter what position you hold or where you fall on the political continuum, there is and can be no solution as long as humans are humans and nations are nations. In aftermath of the great world…
counterpunch.org/2018/08/08/perpetual-war-nations-and-border-walls/

Hothouse Earth: Demise of the Planetary Life Support System?
Dr. Andrew Glikson | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-08
In a key paper titled "Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene", published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Science (6.8.2018), a group of 17 climate and …
globalresearch.ca/hothouse-earth-demise-of-the-planetary-life-support-system/5649902

Japan's Hashima Island: Brutal History and the Most Haunted Island on Earth
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-08
Featured image: Gunkunjima — Battleship Island | Do you want to see perhaps the spookiest island on earth – Hashima (also known as Gunkanjima – the Battleship Island) — which is located …
globalresearch.ca/japans-hashima-island-brutal-history-and-the-most-haunted-island-on-earth/5649933

The Geopolitics of Oil: America's About to Unleash Its "NOPEC Superweapon" Against the Russians and Saudis
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-08
The US Congress has revived the so-called "NOPEC" bill for countering OPEC and OPEC+. | Officially called the " No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act", NOPEC is the definition of …
globalresearch.ca/the-geopolitics-of-oil-americas-about-to-unleash-its-nopec-superweapon-against-the-russians-and-saudis/5649892

US launches economic war on Iran, roils Mideast and world geopolitics
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-08-07
Trump signed an executive order Monday re-imposing sweeping US economic sanctions against Iran that were suspended in 2016 as part of the Iran nuclear deal.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/07/iran-a07.html

Almost 100 confirmed dead after Indonesian earthquake
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-08-07
Many of the flattened structures on Lombok were not earthquake resistant, and the rescue effort has been hampered by a lack of equipment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/07/indo-a07.html

Trump and the Russian Hand
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-06
The 2016 presidential election was the first one since 1965 where non-white voters were not under the protection of the VRA. The VRA was used effectively against a long history of anti-democratic means employed to suppress the Black, Asian, Native America and Latino vote. Just after the election, the Election Protection Coalition reported that it had logged 35,000 complaints for voter intimidation, changes of voting sites without notice and long lines. This was the tip of the iceberg.
counterpunch.org/2018/08/06/trump-and-the-russian-hand/

"Earth Will Be Annihilated": On 73rd Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing, a Warning Against Nuclear War
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-06
Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the United States' atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, which killed 140,000 people and seriously injured another 100,000. In remembrance, we turn to the words of a Hiroshima survivor, or hibakusha. Koji Hosokawa was 17 years old when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. His 13-year-old sister Yoko died in the bombing. He gave us a tour of the city when Democracy Now! was in Japan in 2014. He spoke to us near the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, one of the few structures in the city that survived the atomic blast.
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/6/earth_will_be_annihilated_on_73rd

Winning an Arms Race in Space Remains a Futile Fight
Consortiumnews.com | consortiumnews.com | 2018-08-06
Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president to want to militarize life beyond Earth. But that is a bankrupt approach, believes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Special to Consortium News When Donald Trump declared it was time to Make… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/08/05/winning-an-arms-race-in-space-remains-a-futile-fight/

Trump's Art Of The Deal And Iran Sanctions
M. K. Bhadrakumar | iranian.com | 2018-08-05
An amicable formula seems to be emerging between the Trump administration on the one hand and China and India on the other hand as regards the impending US sanctions on Iran's oil exports. Below-the-radar consultations are going on between Washington and Beijing and New Delhi. The Trump administration initially threatened collateral damage to countries such […] | The post Trump's Art Of The Deal And Iran Sanctions appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/08/05/trumps-art-of-the-deal-iran-sanctions/

Venezuela's President Maduro Survives Assassination Attack On Live TV
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-08-05
Six arrests have already been made in the dramatic foiled terrorist attack.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/13976

Fighting for a Way of Life in the Arctic
Debbie S. Miller | progressive.org | 2018-08-04
The coastal plain, opened for oil drilling by the Trump Administration, is the birthplace and nursery for the Porcupine caribou herd, and land that the Gwich'in call, "The Sacred Place Where Life Begins."
progressive.org/dispatches/fighting-for-a-way-of-life-in-the-arctic-180804/

Body of Olivia Lone Bear Found in N. Dakota as Native Women Face Crisis of Murders, Disappearances
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-03
After an agonizing 9-month search, the body of Olivia Lone Bear was found Tuesday in a pickup truck submerged in a lake right by her house on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The mother of five went missing in late October in New Town, North Dakota. Her disappearance has sparked renewed attention to the disproportionately high rates of disappearance, rape and murder of Native American women across the United States. These already-alarming rates are particularly high in areas of oil extraction, like North Dakota's Bakken Shale, which is the origin point for the Dakota Access pipeline. We speak with Olivia Lone Bear'…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/3/body_of_olivia_lone_bear_found

Rob Nixon: Gov't Inaction on Climate Change Is "Slow Violence" That Hits World's Poor the Hardest
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-02
With unprecedented fires, floods and heat waves sweeping the globe, 2018 is on track to be the fourth-hottest year on record. The regions most affected by the disastrous effects of global warming are overwhelmingly not the countries that have contributed the most to climate change. According to the 2018 Global Climate Risk Index released by the public policy group Germanwatch, the nine countries most affected by climate change in the past 20 years are developing nations, including Honduras, Haiti, Burma, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The Indian government says more than 500 people have died as a result of flooding and…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/2/rob_nixon_govt_inaction_on_climate

"Losing Earth": How Humanity Came to Understand Climate Change & Failed to Act in Time
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-02
"Losing Earth." That's the title of The New York Times Magazine article by Nathaniel Rich published August 1 in a special edition of the magazine dedicated entirely to climate change. The story tracks the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989, the decade Rich claims that humankind first came to a comprehensive understanding of climate change but failed to address its extreme dangers while there was still time. The story was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center. We speak with Nathaniel Rich, writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine.
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/2/losing_earth_how_humanity_came_to

Extreme Weather Is Exploding Around the World. Why Isn't the Media Talking About Climate Change?
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-02
Major corporate broadcast networks reported on July's 2-week global heat wave at least 127 times, but mentioned climate change only once. That's according to a report by Media Matters, which tracked coverage of the extreme weather by ABC, CBS and NBC. We host a panel discussion on the media's role in the climate change crisis, the fossil fuel industry and global warming-fueled extreme weather across the globe. We speak with Nathaniel Rich, writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. His piece "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change" was published August 1 in a special edition of The New Yo…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/2/extreme_weather_is_exploding_around_the

Noam Chomsky: Survival of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Due to Climate Change & Nuclear Weapons
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-07-30
At least eight people have died in California as climate change-fueled wildfires rage statewide. In total, firefighters are battling 17 wildfires blazing across California, engulfing more than 200,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations, including in Yosemite National Park. The fires come amid a surge of deadly extreme weather worldwide, including in India, where more than 500 people have died as a result of flooding and heavy rains in recent weeks. Scientists have linked increased flooding and rainfall to climate change. For more, we speak with world-renowned political dissident, author and linguist Noam Chomsky.
www.democracynow.org/2018/7/30/noam_chomsky_survival_of_organized_human

Noam Chomsky on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Spectacular" Victory & Growing Split in Democratic Party
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-07-27
The 2018 midterm election season has been roiled by the internal divisions between the Democratic Party's growing progressive base and the more conservative party establishment. In New York City, this division came to a head with the most shocking upset of the election season so far, when 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez handily defeated 10-term incumbent Representative Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House. Ocasio-Cortez ran a progressive grassroots campaign as a Democratic Socialist advocating for "Medicare for All" and the abolition of ICE. For more on her victory and what it means for the…
www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_alexandria_ocasio_cortezs

Venezuela: Maduro Announces Economic Reforms Including Monetary Reconversion, Tax Breaks & Currency Control Changes
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-07-26
The measures also transfer an entire oilfield from PDVSA to the Central Bank.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/13967

Trump Admin Closes Venezuela Sanctions Loophole in Favour of US Bondholders
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-07-20
The measure opens the way for seizures of Venezuela's US-based oil assets should the Maduro government default on PDVSA bond payments.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/13955

Glimmers of Economic Recovery amid Mixed Reports about Venezuelan Oil Production
Cira Pascual Marquina | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-07-20
Lower levels of oil production have been reportedly offset by rising prices and reduced domestic consumption.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/13958

Venezuela's Defunct National Assembly Attempts to Privatise Oil Industry
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-07-12
Grassroots movements have frequently denounced de facto back-door privatisation in PDVSA.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/13935

China Approves US$5Bn Loan for Venezuelan Oil Development
TEV | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-07-05
Venezuelan officials said Chinese cooperation opens up alternative networks outside the sanctions of the United States.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/13918