2019-07-20: News Headlines

RT (2019-07-20). That funny smell: 4.5mn-gallon sewage spill shuts Washington beaches. rt.com Power glitches at the two biggest sewage treatment plants in Washington state's King County have resulted in the uncontrollable discharge of millions of gallons of wastewater into the ocean, causing several beaches to close.

Chauncey K. Robinson (2019-07-19). Thought police: Growing censorship of comics threatens education. peoplesworld.org "It is only through the imagination that we reinvent ourselves and our relation to others. [In the era of neoliberalism] education has been instrumentalized…reconceived as a means of acquiring more—more money, more commodities, more and more…. Knowledge at its best is about transforming our world—making life more habitable for humans and other beings, and about …

Caitlin Johnstone (2019-07-19). Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account In Response To Backlash. dissidentvoice.org After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange activism account @Unity4J. After the account was suspended without any explanation being presented to its operators, Assange supporters drew a clear line in the sand against internet censorship and began making a big …

Paul Craig Roberts (2019-07-19). CNN: Propaganda and Disinformation. dissidentvoice.org CNN abandoned journalism and became a propaganda ministry for the Democratic National Committee and the corrupt upper echelons of the CIA and FBI. After three years of telling the most outrageous lies ever associated with an alleged news organization in an alleged democracy, CNN's viewership collapsed. CNN turned propaganda ministry saw its prime time viewers …

Peter Koenig (2019-07-19). The World is Dedollarizing. dissidentvoice.org What if tomorrow nobody but the United States would use the US-dollar? Every country, or society would use their own currency for internal and international trade, their own economy-based, non-fiat currency. It could be traditional currencies or new government controlled crypto-currencies, but a country's own sovereign money. No longer the US-dollar. No longer the dollar's …

Staff (2019-07-19). Why the Mainstream Media Has Failed to Tell Truths About Psychiatry. truthout.org | | In April, journalist Robert Whitaker wrote an article titled, " The New Yorker Peers into the Psychiatric Abyss… And Loses Its Nerve." Whitaker, who personally knows the woman featured in a recent New Yorker article about her psychiatric treatment, was bothered be…

Eds. (2019-07-18). An extraordinary Twitter exchange with Richard Tol. mronline.org 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

Andre Vltchek (2019-07-18). Why the West is Determined to Ignore China's Success. dissidentvoice.org It used to be comical, but suddenly it is not, anymore. In the past, blind hatred towards China could had been attributed to ignorance, or at least to indoctrination by the Western propaganda and mass media outlets. But now? China's tremendous leap forward, its excellent, humane social policies and determined people-oriented scientific research, as well …

Alex Anfruns (2019-07-18). An Interview with Daniel Kovalik. dissidentvoice.org In his last book on Venezuela, Daniel Kovalik, a lawyer and a long standing friend of Latin American people in countries such as Colombia and Central America, is tearing away the veil of war propaganda: "The humanitarian part of the intervention is now barely a fig leaf for the real and usual intention — the …

Ricardo Vaz (2019-07-18). Venezuela: Trump Diverts Central America Aid to Guaido as EU Threatens More Sanctions. venezuelanalysis.com Guaido's team is receiving over $40 million to fund salaries, travel, training, propaganda and technical assistance.

Debbie Weingarten (2019-07-18). How a black farming community found justice. nationofchange.org Shirley Sherrod co-founded New Communities, a Black farming community in rural Georgia. But at one time, she wanted to leave farming far behind. As a teenager, Sherrod dreamed of leaving the South. Her mind traveled North—away from the White sheriff, known as "The Gator," who ruthlessly and violently patrolled the area's Black residents. Away from her …

Alexis Grenell (2019-07-18). Should We Have a Right to Troll Politicians on Twitter? thenation.com Should We Have a Right to Troll Politicians on Twitter?

pip.hinman (2019-07-18). Broken Hill: 'Give us our river back'. greenleft.org.au The Murray-Darling river system is the lifeblood of Australian agriculture, but it is now in serious crisis. | The river system is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, and with mass fish deaths in the headlines and farmers struggling to survive, the water crisis is deepening. | But the current crisis has long-term roots in a river system that for years has been controlled by big business and corrupt governments. | In early July, we travelled to the far-western NSW towns of Broken Hill and Menindee and spoke to a number of Aboriginal and non-Indigenous locals who are at the forefront of the fight to s…

RT (2019-07-18). '4 horsewomen' of Dem 'squad' poll low amid Trump tweetfest, but their party is doing even worse. rt.com 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."

Staff (2019-07-16). "Our Squad Is Big": Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley Condemn Trump's Racist Attack. democracynow.org 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.

John Perry (2019-07-16). A year after Nicaragua coup attempt, the media's regime-change deceptions are still unraveling. thegrayzone.com Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua's government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises…

Ben Norton (2019-07-10). The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson. thegrayzone.com Britain's leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…