Daily News 07/15

Daily News 07/15

15 July Long March in ‘Azad’ Kashmir: all power to the committees!The mass movement in Pakistan-administered Kashmir led by the Awami Action Committee (AAC) has arrived at a decisive point, as the leadership has announced that the Long March will once again recommence on 15 July. At the moment, around 100,000 people are gathered in six different sit-ins around the city of Rawlakot, where there is a heavy presence of security forces. There is a complete strike across Azad Kashmir in which there is no transport running and no shops or offices are open. The state authorities have tried their best to break the movement but have failed on all occasions. On 12 July, there was heavy fighting in the small town of Arja in which two youngsters were killed by the security forces, while on the morning of 11 July a heavy fight took place on Shuajabad road linking the cities of Rawlakot and Bagh, in which at least two more youngsters were killed. But despite the brutality of the state authorities, the morale of the masses is high and they are ready to break through every obstacle. The parting words of a crying mother to her departed son at his funeral yesterday were, “congratulations, my son, congratulations”. This is the spirit of almost all mothers across Azad Kashmir who have shown more determination and resolve than anyone else, and who are ready to sacrifice everything for this movement.

World imperialism continues to exploit its’ former Colonies!: Developing countries spend more repaying foreign debt than on education, UN reveals Unesco report shows children lost out to servicing debt in 113 countries, with 18 spending five times more on loans
The War Machine, and the War Budget, Are Out of Control. Let’s Change That.Much of the time, it seems as if the war machine runs on autopilot. Indeed, the United States has been engaged in warfare for almost the entirety of our 250-year history. It feels overwhelming to most people to attempt to intervene, yet we are all involved, as our tax dollars feed endless wars, interventions, and weapons transfers fueling violent conflict around the world, (and at home, as evidenced by the murders of US citizens by ICE). So, intervene we must, if we want our government to pursue more productive, life-affirming policies and priorities. This week, the Senate will vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets war policies and priorities for the next fiscal year. The Trump Administration, enabled by many in Congress, is proposing an outrageous 66% increase in Pentagon and related spending, to over $1.5 trillion per year. While this is a boon to weapons manufacturers, it is detrimental to everyone and everything else. We must stop this madness.

US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal Government had been forced to pay back duties to companies that imported goods into the US that were hit by Trump’s tariffs

The Exploitation of America’s FarmworkersFarmworkers are the backbone of America, but this country has a long history of exploiting the very people on whose labor we depend. Under the Trump administration, so many ICE agents have shown up at farms that farmworkers have stopped showing up to work, crops have gone bad, and — no surprise — food prices have soared. This March, the administration’s answer to consumer concerns was to expand the guest worker program, permitting U.S. farms to hire more temporary workers, while doubling down on its deportation efforts and putting traditional legal pathways to citizenship on hold. The result: a more vulnerable, lower-paid workforce, with no rights, no representation and no voice. The same logic structured the infamous Bracero Program in the 1940s.

Trump claims US will reinstate Iranian blockade and charge fee for ships crossing strait of Hormuz – Middle East crisis live US president says strait will remain open ‘with or without’ Iran and there will be a 20% rate charged on all cargo shipped

‘Impeachment Is Next,’ Says Senate Dem After Judge Strikes Down Trump Slush Fund

Fom the United States to the Rest of the World the Trump Administration’s Murders Continue: Anti-ICE protest in Maine after person killed during immigration operation

REBECCA NAGLE ON THE BOOMERANG OF EMPIRE What we’re seeing in this moment is those arms of our government that we thought could be authoritarian towards some people coming back home and coming back to impact everybody.” Last spring, President Donald Trump issued the “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order, taking aim at federal parks, monuments, museums, and sites that have cast the United States’s “founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.” On the Fourth of July this year, the White House published its 162-page “Saving America’s Story,” attacking the Smithsonian Institution directly for “anti-white activism,” “illegal alien activism,” “transgender activism,” and more broadly for adopting “an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.” “We’re in this moment where we are fighting over how America tells its past,” journalist Rebecca Nagle tells The Intercept Briefing. “It can be scary in a moment when it feels like the stakes are really high to really interrogate the myths that we all carry, that we all hold about who our country is and where it started because it’s really tempting to want to think, ‘OK, if we just wind the clock back 10 years, if we just go back a few election cycles, we’ll be back to a democracy that’s strong, that’s stable, that’s solid, and we’ll all be fine.’ It’s much more scary to say, ‘Oh, actually, if we want to talk about where authoritarianism comes from in the United States, it’s actually at the foundation.’”

Masked, Protected and Growing Bolder: The White Supremacists Marching Through America

Dennis Kucinich Warns Congress Is Quietly Merging the U.S. and Israeli War Machines

The Transition From the Democratic Fascade to Open 1% Rule!: Trump officials accused of stacking top chemical safety board with industry ‘mouthpieces’ Public health advocates warn of conflicts of interests and say panel likely to provide justification for key rollbacks

Melting Icebergs Can Weaken a Massive, Far-Off Ocean Current System From the Pacific to the Atlantic, Iceberg Melt Weakens an Ocean System that Regulates the Global Climate From the Pacific to the Atlantic, Iceberg Melt Weakens an Ocean System that Regulates the Global Climate Melting and breaking icebergs in the far-off, northeastern region of the Pacific Ocean can weaken a massive current system in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a University of California, Davis study published in Nature Communications. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, regulates the global climate by acting as a massive conveyor belt, moving warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic. Responsible for 70% of oceanic heat transport across the equator, AMOC influences global climate by redistributing heat and energy. Melting icebergs in the North Atlantic Ocean were previously considered the primary drivers of AMOC weakening during Earth’s last ice age, leading to global climate shifts, including cooling in the Northern Hemisphere and warming in Antarctica. Scientists refer to these events and their time periods as Heinrich stadials.

Hello from the outside: heat domes impeding radio and other signals in US midwestHigher temperatures can cause radio, TV and microwave signals to travel hundreds of miles farther, upsetting communications

What Happens If Lake Mead Runs Dry Over 25 million people in Nevada, Arizona, and California would lose their primary water supply. The Hoover Dam would cease to generate hydroelectric power. Millions of acres of farmland across the American Southwest could lose access to irrigation supplied by the Colorado River. Many flora and fauna that inhabit the lake would lose crucial habitat. These are not inherent doomsday scenarios, but rather outcomes that would occur if Lake Mead runs dry. Lake Mead is currently approaching levels where dead pool becomes a concern, in which water levels are so low that it can no longer flow downstream. With drought worsened by climate change drawing more water out of the Colorado River, federal forecasters project the reservoir could fall to record lows over the next several years, deepening a crisis that has been building for over two decades.

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Big Energy Frackers Keep on Fracking With Their Own Private Water Supplies During Drought

In Israel’s prisons, torture and death have become a norm that it barely tries to hide