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Dakota Jablon: After 3 More Mass Shootings, Momentum Builds to Strengthen Nation’s Gun Laws; Georgina Gustin: UN Climate Panel on Land Use Details Actions to Avert Increased Carbon Emissions & Food Shortages; C.J. May: China’s Rejection of Recycling Waste From Abroad, Creates Opportunity for U.S. Green Jobs; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

Vast majorities of Americans support serious regulation of guns, but corporate media debate still seems to revolve around the supposed “rights” of the few, rather than the right of the many to live a life free from this scourge. Also: Monsanto didn’t find any factual errors in Carey Gillam’s book, Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science, or in her reporting for Reuters about the agrochemical behemoth’s products or practices. That didn't stop Monsanto's war on the right to know.

While Trump was forcing himself on El Paso, a city that wanted no part of him, he sent his immigration officials to several Mississippi food processing plants where they terrorized thousands of workers. This ICE operation should be considered an act of terror committed against working families by the Trump administration, acting under the guise of profoundly unjust immigration laws inspired by racist and xenophobic contempt against people from Mexico and Latin America. Raids targeting workers who are fighting every day to care for their families are a waste of public resources that could otherwise be spent combatting the white nationalist terrorism that has claimed the lives of so many over the years, including the other week in Texas.

Ellsberg had just been able to publish his most recent book: The Doomsday Machine, Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. He had been unable to find a publisher. He now says that US nuclear strategy has not fundamentally changed since the eras of late Eisenhower and early Kennedy. Ellsberg says that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization–and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration–threatens our survival. The US is now planning on spending $1-1.6 trillion on nuclear weapons in the next 30 years.

Our host interviews David Himbara, Economist and author of "Kagame's Economic Mirage." Paul Kagame still has the backing of the Western powers, and moves around the world to rub elbows with political celebrities. But back in Rwanda, the grim economic numbers do not change. And now he has closed borders with neighboring states, and African leaders are not anxious to be seen with him.

In a two-part investigation, Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit went undercover to expose France's far right and revealed secret links between violent activists and one of the country's biggest political parties.In this week's episode of The Take, we revisit Imtiaz Tyab's conversation with journalist David Harrison about the investigation, which prompted a police probe and arrests.

The financial markets signaled the possibility of a U.S. recession this week, sending a jolt of anxiety to investors, companies and consumers. That’s on top of concerns over Trump’s plans to impose punishing tariffs on goods from China and word from the United Kingdom and Germany that their economies are shrinking. Though a pre-election recession here is far from certain, a downturn would be a devastating blow to the president, who has made a strong economy his central argument for a second term. ...

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets of 211 cities on August 13 to protest far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s austerity cuts and privatization plans for the public university system. It was the third in series of national education strikes, dubbed “the Education Tsunamis,” ... (I)t seemed like the perfect feel-good event for newspapers like the Guardian and the New York Times to share with their liberal readers. But they barely mentioned it.