(2019-07-10). Headlines for July 10, 2019. democracynow.org Children Recount Mistreatment, Sexual Abuse at Yuma, AZ Migrant Jail, Scabies, Shingles & Chickenpox Spreading Among Children at Clint, TX Migrant Jail, Jewish Activists Arrested After Protesting Migrant Detention on Capitol Hill, Judge Rejects DOJ Move to Replace Legal Team Charged with Census Citizenship Battle, Court Says Trump Cannot Block Critics on Twitter, U.K. Ambassador Resigns After Leaked Cables Scandal, Afghan Peace Talks Close as Deadly Attacks Continue, Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act, Megan Rapinoe to Trump: "Your Message Is Excluding People", Calls Grow fo…
(2019-07-10). U.K. Ambassador to U.S. Quits Days After Leaked Cables on Trump. truthdig.com 
Kim Darroch, representative of one of the U.S.'s closest allies, says he can no longer do his job after the president cut off contact with him.
(2019-07-10). Iran Warns US Over Plans of Military Coalition in Gulf Waters. telesurenglish.net The United States hopes to enlist allies over the next two weeks or so in a military coalition to safeguard strategic waters off Iran and Yemen, where Washington blames Iran and Iran-aligned fighters for attacks, a top U.S. general said Tuesday. | RELATED: | UK Navy Seizes Tanker Filled With 'Iranian Oil' Meant for Syria | Under the plan, which has only been finalized in recent days, the United States would provide command ships and lead surveillance efforts for the military c…
(2019-07-10). Venezuela: US Trying to Destroy Political Dialogue in Barbados. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza Wednesday denounced that the U.S. President Donald Trump administration is seeking to "destroy" the negotiations being carried out by President Nicolas Maduro's delegates and the Venezuel…
(2019-07-10). UK Ambassador to US Quits After Calling Trump Admin 'Inept'. telesurenglish.net Britain's ambassador to Washington resigned Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump labeled him "stupid" and "wacky" following the release of confidential memos from the envoy in which he branded the Trump administration inept. | RELATED: | Democrats Subpoena Trump Over Foreign Payments | Memos from Kim Darroch were leaked to a British Sunday newspaper, infuriating Trump w…
(2019-07-10). Trump Wants His Friend Boris Johnson to Win the Tory Leadership Race. globalresearch.ca Whoever leaked the British Ambassador to the US' diplomatic telegrams to London did so with the intent that the resultant tiff that it predictably provoked with Trump would probably make Boris Johnson win the Tories' leadership vote with a landslide….
(2019-07-10). Backlash after Johnson refuses to guarantee ambassador's future over Trump row. thecanary.co Boris Johnson has faced a backlash after refusing to guarantee that he would keep the UK's ambassador to Washington in post following the leak of sensitive diplomatic messages about Donald Trump. | The former foreign secretary sidestepped questions over whether he would allow Sir Kim Darroch to remain in the job until he is due to retire later this year, insisting it was "vital" the civil service is not politicised. | The leak of the diplomatic dispatches has soured relations with the Trump administration and prompted a Twitter tirade from the US president, who described Darroch as a "pompous fool" and a "very st…
(2019-07-10). US-British relations hit bottom following ambassador's leaked Trump criticism. wsws.org Trump's attack on May over Brexit is the latest broadside supportive of her likely successor Boris Johnson and of the breakup of the European Union.
(2019-07-10). US cancels Brexit trade talks with UK amid ambassador scandal. rt.com 
Long-scheduled talks between US and UK trade officials were suddenly called off amid a scandal involving British Ambassador to the US Kim Darroch and his scathing criticism of President Donald Trump revealed in private memos. |
(2019-07-10). Mission Accomplished for Far-Right Brexiteers? After Leaked Memos, UK Ambassador Who Called Trump 'Inept' Resigns. commondreams.org "We're on course to become the 51st state of Donald Trump's USA, with Boris Johnson as his consul," tweeted Guardian columnist Owen Jones | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_farage_johnson.jpg …
(2019-07-10). British Ambassador critical of the Trump Government Resigns. plenglish.com London, July 10 (Prensa Latina) The ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States, Kim Darroch, resigned today, after the controversy unleashed by the leak of messages in which he launched strong criticism of the government of President Donald Trump.
(2019-07-10). Faith in humanity restored after fellow passengers kicked a man off a bus for being a massive racist. thecanary.co 
Passengers "ejected" a man from a bus because of his reportedly "vile racist" behaviour. And while police are still searching for the abuser, the online response shows the strength of community action. | "The woman… remained calm and collected": | Brighton and Hove News reported that passengers "ejected" a man from a bus in Brighton for launching a racist tirade. The man, who hasn't yet been identified, shouted: "f***ing Syrian…
(2019-07-09). Should universities care about the truth? mronline.org 
Regardless of whether universities ideally should be engaged in the fact-checking business, they may anyway be drawn into it. It is therefore as well to be aware of both the opportunities and the risks. | Source
(2019-07-09). "Go Forth and Lie" Israel Rolls Out Mandatory Course for Students Travelling Abroad. mintpressnews.com 
Israel new course to prepare high school students traveling overseas to be good "ambassadors" includes training on how to combat BDS, claims of apartheid and more.
(2019-07-09). The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions. counterpunch.org 
The seizure of an Iranian oil tanker allegedly bound for Syria by British Royal Marine commandos off Gibraltar is the latest episode in the long and disastrous history of economic sanctions in the Middle East. The UK claims that it is implementing EU sanctions on Syria, but the act will be seen by Tehran — and most other states — as the British enforcing US sanctions on Iran that the EU said it opposes. An Iranian official said a British tanker should be seized in retaliation. More
(2019-07-09). Tommy Robinson begs Trump to make him the UK ambassador to the US. thecanary.co Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) has ' begged' Trump to give him political asylum. When people made fun of him for his previous stance on asylum seekers, Yaxley-Lennon had a better idea. He's now asking: Please Mr Donald, sir, president, pal — make me the UK ambassador to the US! | International man of mockery: | The timing has worked out well for little Stevie. Trump is currently refusing to speak to our m…
(2019-07-09). Trump Takes the Bait, Lashing Out at U.K. Ambassador Whose Private Notes Were Leaked. theintercept.com Donald Trump's tweet, lashing out Britain's ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, for writing private assessments of the American president's shortcomings, arrived on Monday with all the inevitability of a cuckoo popping out of a clock to announce the progress of time. | In fact, the president's angry denunciation of the previously obscure diplomat — with whom, he wrote, "We will no longer deal" — was so predictable, it looked to some observers like the intended outcome of a plot, hatched in London, to depose the amba…
(2019-07-09). Cuba Denounces US Fight on Terrorism As Politically Motivated. telesurenglish.net Cuba's government rejected Tuesday to the United Nation's Security Council acts of aggression to undermine national sovereignty and meddle in internal affairs, committed by other nations in the name of the fight against transnational organized crime and terrorism. | RELATED: | Bolton a Pathological Liar, Cuban Doctors Help Worldwide: Cuban FM | The Cuban ambassador Humberto Rivero expressed his objection against double standards, political selectivity, and the unilateral acts of certain States to "a…
(2019-07-08). US will 'no longer deal with' British ambassador following leaks scandal — Trump. rt.com 
Washington will cut its ties with British ambassador Kim Darroch, President Donald Trump has announced. According to leaked cables, Darroch called the Trump administration "dysfunctional," "inept," and "incompetent." |
(2019-07-07). Syria: At least seven children killed in yet another airstrike. un.org According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), at least seven children were killed in an airstrike against displaced civilians on Saturday on the village of Mhambel, in the outskirts of Idlib, in northwest Syria. News reports state that over 20 civilians were killed in this attack led by Government forces using missiles and barrel bombs.
(2019-07-05). Iran Threatens Seizure of UK Oil Tanker if Iranian Oil Tanker Not Released. theantimedia.com (ZH) — Iran has called for the "immediate release" of its oil tanker after British Royal Marines boarded and seized it off Gibraltar a day ago after it took a long 90-day trek around the tip of Africa, presumably to evade sanctions enforcement en route to Syria. Authorities had accused the Grace 1 supertanker of illegal smuggling …
(2019-07-04). Voices from Syria's Rukban Refugee Camp Belie Corporate Media Reporting. mintpressnews.com 
Eva Bartlett visited refugees in Syria escaping the horrid conditions in the Rukban Refugee Camp, a desolate outpost in the US administered deconfliction zone. What she found was very different than the 'reality' depicted by the Western press.
(2019-07-04). British Marines Seize Oil Tanker Suspected of Bringing Iranian Oil to Syria. theantimedia.com British Royal Marines have seized an oil tanker they suspected was headed to Syria, which would be a violation of US and EU sanctions.