'India Will Not Completely Halt Iranian Oil Imports'
Terhan Times | iranian.com | 2018-09-01
India will not completely halt Iranian oil imports and will finalize its strategy on crude purchases from Tehran after a meeting with top U.S. officials next week, a senior government official said. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will hold high-level talks with India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence […] | The post 'India Will Not Completely Halt Iranian Oil Imports' appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/08/31/india-will-not-completely-halt-iranian-oil-imports/

2020 or Bust! Stop Climate Change NOW!
Dave | indybay.org | 2018-09-01
Opera Plaza Community Room | 601 Van Ness, San Francisco | San Francisco, California 94102…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/31/18817239.php

Aboriginal Elders Face Off With Uranium Mining Company in the Australian Outback
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-08-31
Members of one of Australia's most remote Aboriginal nations, the Tjiwarl, who live in the red heart of the Western Desert lands, are embroiled in a long running battle to protect their ancestral home from mining interests. | Last year, the government of Western Australia approved four new uranium projects in the state, despite warnings issued by the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority, and a global slump in the price of uranium. | Two of the projects, in Yeelirrie and Kintyre, belong to the Canadian mining giant Cameco. The other two are by Australia-based companies, Vimy Resources and Toro Energy. | While uranium use is banned in Australia it holds 33 percent of the world's uranium deposits, and, it is the world's third-largest producer of the mineral after Kazakhstan and Canada. Seen as controversial among Australian politicians and unpopular with electorates, uranium…
truthout.org/articles/aboriginal-elders-face-off-with-uranium-mining-company-in-the-australian-outback/

Trump's FTC Releases Nearly 500 Pages of Material on Conflicts of Interest — and Redacts It All
David Dayen | theintercept.com | 2018-08-31
There are a lot of questions to be asked about Andrew Smith, who was recently installed to head the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Given that Smith previously worked for four years at the law firm Covington & Burling, representing an enormous number of corporate clients, including companies under active investigation by the FTC — including Equifax, Uber, and Facebook — one of those questions is: How will the FTC ensure against conflicts of interest? | Smith's financial disclosure form, obtained by Public Citizen, lists his work on behalf of big banks, payday lenders, pawn shops, credit reporting companies, pharmaceutical firms, and perhaps worst of all, the Dallas Cowboys. | So Public Citizen filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all documents related to Smith's financial disclosure and potential conflicts of interest, as well as how the…
theintercept.com/2018/08/31/ftc-andrew-smith-conflict-of-interest/

Republican Candidates are Paying a Fossil Fuels Conglomerate for Voter Data Mining
Pam Martens | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-31
Koch Industries is a fossil fuels conglomerate with estimated revenues of more than $100 billion annually and 130,000 employees spread around the globe. It's one of the largest, private corporations in the world with a history of funding nonprofit front groups and political candidates who are climate change skeptics. Typically, political payments go in one direction from this behemoth: from the Koch Industries Super Pac (KochPac) to Republican political candidates or political committees. Now, quietly, political payments are going in both directions, effectively creating an Orwellian campaign finance model.
counterpunch.org/2018/08/31/republican-candidates-are-paying-a-fossil-fuels-conglomerate-for-voter-data-mining/

Who is Behind Nicaragua's Turmoil?
Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2018-08-31
This fourth part of the debate was cut out of the original debate due to length considerations. However we present the cut segment of the debate upon the request of Mary Ellsberg. It deals with the details of an analysis of who is responsible for the death of protesters in Nicaragua. Viewers who saw the… | The post Who is Behind Nicaragua's Turmoil? appeared first on
therealnews.com/stories/who-is-behind-nicaraguas-turmoil

Oil Change International Responds to Canada's Federal Court of Appeal's Quashing of Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline's Cabinet Approval
Oil Change International | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-31
Today, Canada's Federal Court of Appeal ruled that the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline's Cabinet approval was fatally flawed in not one but two ways: in failing to properly consult Indigenous peoples …
globalresearch.ca/oil-change-international-responds-to-canadas-federal-court-of-appeals-quashing-of-trans-mountain-expansion-pipelines-cabinet-approval/5652471

US Military to Train Saudi Pilots on American Soil Despite Outrage Over Yemen "War Crimes"
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2018-08-31
There are numerous indications besides the federal procurement request that Mattis' statements of caution to the Saudis were merely public theater aimed at reducing outrage over one of the Saudi-led coalition's latest atrocities. | The post US Military to Train Saudi Pilots on American Soil Despite Outrage Over Yemen "War Crimes" appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/us-military-to-train-saudi-pilots-on-american-soil-despite-outrage-over-war-crimes-in-yemen/248592/

Video: War in Syria, The Terrorists in Idlib Must be Fully Defeated
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-31
On August 28, ISIS militants carried out several positions of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the al-Azraq oil field area in eastern Deir Ezzor. According to the Syrian Observatory …
globalresearch.ca/video-war-in-syria-the-terrorists-in-idlib-must-be-fully-defeated/5652468

Want to know about new FTC head's conflicts of interest? Too bad, that's redacted
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-31
Corporate lawyer Andrew Smith's appointment to head the FTC's Bureau of Consumer protection raised some eyebrows earlier this summer. Now, a heavily redacted set of documents have done little to allay this concern.
rt.com/usa/437372-ftc-head-conflict-interest-redacted/

Pentagon seeking contractors to train Saudi pilots on US soil amid bloody Yemen air campaign
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-31
The Pentagon plans to hire private contractors to train Saudi military pilots on US soil, documents show. Human Rights Watch (HRW) called the move disturbing amid outcry over US involvement in Saudi Arabia's air campaign in Yemen.
rt.com/usa/437353-saudi-pilots-us-training/

Detroit Public Schools to Shut Off All Drinking Water After Tests Show Elevated Lead, Copper Levels
Emma Fiala | mintpressnews.com | 2018-08-30
While Michigan residents continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to clean water, it is unclear just how much bottled-water manufacturers, such as Nestle, profit from lead and other toxic contamination that forces residents, and now schools, to purchase great stores of their water. | The post Detroit Public Schools to Shut Off All Drinking Water After Tests Show Elevated Lead, Copper Levels appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/detroit-schools-lead/248525/

The Trump Administration's Spoiler Foreign Policy
Eric Ortiz | consortiumnews.com | 2018-08-30
U.S. strategy abroad is assuming a curious shape. Whether the president or his minders are running affairs, Patrick Lawrence sees the U.S. being reduced to playing a spoiler role in the Middle East and Northeast Asia. By Patrick Lawrence Special… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/08/30/the-trump-administrations-spoiler-foreign-policy/

Top Student Loan Watchdog Resigns over Trump Admin Doing Bidding of Predatory Lenders
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-29
As the school year begins this week across the United States, the top student loan watchdog has resigned in protest, accusing the Trump administration of siding with powerful predatory lenders over student loan borrowers. Seth Frotman worked as student loan ombudsman under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director, Mick Mulvaney. He wrote that under Mulvaney's leadership, "the Bureau has abandoned the very consumers it is tasked by Congress with protecting." This comes as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed new rules that would cut an estimated $13 billion in federal student loan relief for peopl…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/29/top_student_loan_watchdog_resigns_over

Words of Warning: The Top 10 'Nation' Articles on Climate Change
The Nation | thenation.com | 2018-08-29
Words of Warning: The Top 10 'Nation' Articles on Climate Change appeared first on The Nation.
thenation.com/article/words-of-warning-the-top-10-nation-articles-on-climate-change/

Headlines for August 29, 2018
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-29
Puerto Rico Increases Hurricane Death Toll to 2,975, Andrew Gillum, a Black Progressive Backed by Bernie Sanders, Wins Florida Gubernatorial Primary, Trump-Backed Martha McSally Wins Arizona GOP Senate Primary, Trump Warns of "Violence" If Democrats Win Control of Congress, Texas Police Officer Convicted for Killing 15-Year-Old African-American Student, Teachers in Washington State Begin Strike, U.N. Secretary-General: Report on Genocide Targeting Rohingya Needs Serious Consideration, India Carries Out Raids Arresting Critics of Modi Government, France's Environment Minister Resigns On-Air over Climate Change, De…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/29/headlines

Hatewatch Headlines 8/30/18
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2018-08-29
A U.S. Senate candidate will speak alongside extremists; another Trump administration official has ties to white nationalists; climate change and systemic racism, and…
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/08/30/hatewatch-headlines-83018

Establishment Candidates Teamed Up Against Zephyr Teachout in New York Attorney General Debate
Kate Aronoff | theintercept.com | 2018-08-29
Why is Sean Patrick Maloney — a sitting House member in a newly competitive New York congressional district that Donald Trump won in 2016 — running to be New York's next attorney general? | After last night's debate in New York City, between Democratic primary contenders Maloney, Letitia "Tish" James, Leecia Eve, and Zephyr Teachout, the answer doesn't seem any clearer — or perhaps it does. | Anybody who presumed that Maloney was in the race as a Teachout spoiler came away from Tuesday's attorney general debate with that impression only solidified. Teachout challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a primary in 2014 and performed especially well in the Hudson Valley, where Maloney is also an elected official. She also ran for Congress two years later in a neighboring district, NY-19, losing to Republican Jon Faso. Cuomo, meanwhile, is backing James, the New York…
theintercept.com/2018/08/29/new-york-attorney-general-debate-zephyr-teachout/

The Sun Does Not Revolve Around the US
Consortiumnews.com | consortiumnews.com | 2018-08-28
While visiting Galileo's house in Florence, Jean Ranc reflected on how America thinks the world revolves around it, as it was once falsely thought the sun revolves around the earth. By Jean Ranc Special to Consortium News On a sunny… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/08/28/the-sun-does-not-revolve-around-the-us/

Why Kyrie Irving's Connection to the Standing Rock Sioux Matters
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2018-08-27
Why Kyrie Irving's Connection to the Standing Rock Sioux Matters appeared first on The Nation.
thenation.com/article/why-kyrie-irvings-connection-to-the-standing-rock-sioux-matters/

Children Separated Under Trump's "Zero Tolerance" Policy Say Their Trauma Continues
Debbie Nathan | theintercept.com | 2018-08-26
On August 9, several reporters took a government-led tour through America's largest detention facility for immigrant parents and their children: the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Sprawling over 50 acres of a repurposed oil field workers' camp, Dilley, as the center is colloquially known, has room for 2,400 detainees. It currently holds about 1,500 people — all mothers and their children, including babies. | No interviews with the detainees were allowed, so reporters were left to record random sounds and observations: phalanxes of baby strollers, a salad bar in the cafeteria, and, as the Wall Street Journal noted, "a speaker blasting a Jimmy Buffett song." But The Intercept has been in contact with some of the occupants of Dilley by phone — many of them children — and the circumstances they're enduring are decidedly less sanguine than Buffett's tunes.
theintercept.com/2018/08/26/children-separated-under-trumps-zero-tolerance-policy-say-their-trauma-continues/

Earth, fire & water: NASA maps atmospheric aerosols in psychedelic image
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-25
A new NASA image outlining the various types of aerosols in the air shows that we may be getting more than we bargained for with every intake of breath.
rt.com/usa/436835-aerosols-earth-flow-nasa/

Foreign Correspondent: What Has Fifteen Years of U.S. Occupation Produced? Angry Iraqis
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2018-08-24
As militant protests roil the city of Basra in Iraq, two summer films give a fuller sense of what U.S. occupation there has wrought.
progressive.org/dispatches/foreign-correspondent-us-occupation-iraq-films-180824/

Trump Administration Admits 1,400+ More People Will Die Each Year Following Coal Plant Deregulation
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-22
President Trump rallied supporters Tuesday night in West Virginia to announce a massive rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations on coal-fired power plants and carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change. Trump's "Affordable Clean Energy" proposal would allow individual states to decide whether to curb emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency's own data shows the plan could cause up to 1,400 more premature deaths a year by 2030. The Washington Post reports the deregulation would also lead to the release of at least 12 times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the next decade.
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/22/trump_administration_admits_1_400_

Large Earthquake Off Northern Venezuelan Coast
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-08-22
According to the Venezuelan Foundation of Seismological Research, the quake registered at 6.9 on the Richter Scale and left parts of Trinidad and Tobago without electricity.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14014

Headlines for August 21, 2018
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-21
In Historic Letter, Pope Condemns Catholic Church Sex Abuse and Cover-Up, Trump to Announce Massive Rollback of Obama-Era Coal Regulations, In Racist Comment, Trump Says Hispanic Border Agent "Speaks Perfect English", Taliban Fires Rockets at Afghan Presidential Palace, India: Death Toll Rises to 400 in Kerala's Historic Flooding, French Oil Company Total Withdraws from Iran in Wake of U.S. Sanctions, Microsoft: Russian Hackers Targeting Conservative Think Tanks, Michigan Health Director Faces Involuntary Manslaughter Trial over Flint Water Crisis, NYT: #MeToo Leader Asia Argento Paid Off Her Sexual Assault Accus…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/21/headlines

As Trump Favors Asbestos, People Die
HVSJ | progressive.org | 2018-08-20
Donald Trump has been rolling back protections against exposure to asbestos, which kills an estimated 15,000 people each year in the United States alone.
progressive.org/dispatches/trump-favors-asbestos-as-people-die-180820/

What the 'Sensible Middle' Doesn't Get About Education
Peter Greene | progressive.org | 2018-08-14
There is no middle between facts and the story that the earth is flat.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/what-the-sensible-middle-doesnt-get-about-education-180814/

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

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