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Matthew Hoh: Trump Blame on Iran for Saudi Oil Infrastructure Attack Could Trigger Destabilizing Regional War; Amanda Skinner: Trump Forces Planned Parenthood Out of Federal Title X Health Care, Patients Suffer; Alexandria Villaseñor: Global Climate Strike Youth Leadership Provides Hope for the Future; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

The whole idea of the “terrorist watchlist,” created in a context of anti-Islamic bias and ignorance, is untenable, and the whole frame of Muslims vs. national security needs to be upended. Also: Purdue Pharma, of OxyContin fame, has filed for bankruptcy. ... What if we decided to stop trusting for-profit companies with our health?

"On June 6, 2019 Joanna Macy, the environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism and Deep Ecology was one of two keynote speakers at The New School at Commonweal’s Resilience Project in Bolinas, California. A longtime San Francisco/Bay Area resident – she had just celebrated her 90th birthday. The question, that the participants at the Commonweal event had come to explore, was: Is resilience a possible response in the face of climate change and civilizational collapse. And what might resilience look like. ..."

Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the dark art of vote stealing is on steroids. Last year alone, 14 million voters were improperly purged from the voter rolls. Among the tricks used: first and last name matching with out-of-state voters; the 2-year-nonvoting rule; and postcards requiring responses but designed to not reach voters who have moved. As Palast has discovered, this changes elections, because its not just anyone's vote that gets expunged. ...

One of our missions is to expose the machinations and effects of the Israeli lobby, especially how it operates in the United States. Today we take a look at how the lobby operates in Virginia and what a courageous group, the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights, is doing to combat its infiltration into the state's economy and public education system. We get a real picture of the depth and breadth of the Israeli Lobby’s reach into the fabric of American Society. In this forum, 3 members if the coalition speak in Washington DC about their programs to counter the Israeli lobby.

Why are the media telling you fairy tales about the real death toll in the Bahamas? We talk about the deadly storm Dorian with Canadian scientist Paul Beckwith. But what about the Siberian fires? Mark Parrington, Senior Scientist on the Copernicus project, “Europe’s eyes on Earth” reports they tracked over 100 big wildfires in the Arctic Circle, just since June. Then Beckwith and I return to analyzing public insanity and the unthinkable risks of changing the climate.

Russell Gray grew up in Kansas City, graduated from college in 2017 and took a banking regulation job with the U.S. government. He left that job in November 2018 to help start the climate group Extinction Rebellion (extinctionrebellion.us) in the United States. He’s now working to shut down DC on September 23rd (see strikedc.org) as a follow up to the September 20th global climate strike and a lead up to further climate strike actions around the globe.