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Posted: 15 Jul 2019 10:34 PM PDT

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Posted: 15 Jul 2019 09:15 PM PDT

في معرض تعليقها على محاولة الانقلاب التي شهدتها تركيا يوم 15 تموز عام 2016، قالت ممثلة الشؤون الخارجية للاتحاد الأوروبي، فيديريكا موغيريني،"الجميع يتذكر المحاولة الانقلابية التي نحيي ذكراها السنوية الثالثة، تضامننا مع الشعب التركي لا شك فيه".

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تحيي تركيا، الاثنين، الذكرى السنوية الـ 3 للمحاولة الانقلابية الفاشلة التي شهدتها البلاد ليلة 15 يوليو/تموز 2016 ونفذتها عناصر محدودة من الجيش تتبع منظمة "فتح الله غولن" الإرهابية.

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Good night and good luck; Trump's smears; 'this is who he is;' late night TV reactions; CNN's Assange exclusive; Alberta's book; Tuesday planner

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Reading President Trump's racist tweets and hearing him claim that some Democrats "hate" America and watching him say they can leave if they don't like it here, Edward R. Murrow comes to mind.
In his famous commentary from March 9, 1954, he said Joseph McCarthy's primary achievement "has been in confusing the public mind" about communism. Then he said: "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular."

"This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve," Murrow said. "We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

Do you remember how Murrow's commentary ended? This way: He said McCarthy's actions "have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it – and rather successfully. Cassius was right. 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.' Good night and good luck."

Scroll down for more words of wisdom from Murrow...
 

 

"Go back," day two


Here are the top headlines from four news homepages at 10pm ET Monday:

AP: "Trump digs in on racist tweets: 'Many people agree with me'"

WaPo: "'They hate our country': Trump steps up attacks on Democrats"

NYT: "After Trump accuses congresswomen of hating the U.S., they push back"

FoxNews.com: "Progressive Dems slam WH 'occupant' Trump as president hits back with new tweets"

 

Most news outlets are now calling the tweets "racist"


In yesterday's newsletter I showed that most of the country's most popular news outlets were refraining from calling Trump's tweets "racist" -- CNN being the biggest exception.

But on Monday this changed in a big way. Outlets like The AP and CBS stopped attributing the word "racist" to "critics" and stated it as a fact, in an institutional voice. This evolution was evident throughout the day: The morning show on CBS leaned on "critics," but the network's evening newscast said "racist tweets." Notably, it was on Norah O'Donnell's debut as the new "Evening News" anchor. Over on NBC, correspondent Hallie Jackson said Trump was "deploying a racist trope meant to marginalize people of color."

Correction: In last night's newsletter I botched one of the quotes attributed to ABC anchor Tom Llamas. On Sunday night he did not say "Democrats" were calling Trump's remarks racist, he said "critics" were. On Monday morning, ABC's institutional stance apparently changed: George Stephanopoulos repeatedly referred to Trump's "racist attack." ABC declined my request for comment about the change...

 

Sullivan: Not directly calling out racism a "dereliction of duty"

 
Oliver Darcy emails: "Tiptoeing around Trump's racism is a betrayal of journalistic truth-telling." That was the headline on Margaret Sullivan's latest piece for WaPo. Sullivan conceded that it "makes good sense for media organizations to be careful and noninflammatory in their news coverage." But she also noted that "a crucial part of being careful is being accurate, clear and direct." Sullivan concluded, "When confronted with racism and lying, we can't run and hide in the name of neutrality and impartiality. To do that is a dereliction of duty." Amen...

 

Notes and quotes


 -- "This is who he is" was Anderson Cooper's lead on "AC360" Monday night. "President Trump has shown yet again that he is a demagogue.."

 -- New W.H. press secretary Stephanie Grisham waded into this mess on Monday evening and said the "media and Dems" are attacking Trump "for speaking directly to the American people." That's definitely not why Trump is being scrutinized right now. "His message is simple," she said: "the U.S.A. is the greatest nation on Earth, but if people aren't happy here they don't have to stay." Again, that's not what his Sunday morning tweets said...

 -- Geraldo Rivera said on Fox, about POTUS, "I feel embarrassed for him and by him..."

 -- Ezra Klein tweeted: "Trump going full racist and unifying House Democrats when their internal divisions were erupting is your latest evidence that there's no strategy here, only authentically reactionary impulses, blurted out whenever a microphone is nearby..."

 -- Some GOP lawmakers "are feeling the pressure" and denouncing Trump's tweets, but "many leaders in the party are so far not weighing in publicly." CNN has a list of the statements here...

 

Will Kellyanne Conway be asked about this?


And if not, why not? Her husband George Conway is out with a piercing new op-ed for the Washington Post titled "Trump is a racist president."

He says Trump's "go back" tweets were "racist to the core." And "by virtue of his office, he speaks for the country." So, Conway says, "what's at stake now is more important than judges or tax cuts or regulations or any policy issue of the day. What's at stake are the nation's ideals, its very soul."

 

"Many people agree with me"


Credit to Fox's John Roberts for asking Trump this question at Monday's surprise Q&A session: Does it concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist AND that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point?" The Q prompted Trump to say, "It doesn't concern me because many people agree with me..."

 

Trevor Noah: "Imagine if Hitler was..."


On Monday night's "Daily Show," Trevor Noah played that clip of Roberts and Trump, then said, "I don't know where to begin. First of all, just because many people agree with you doesn't mean you aren't being racist, okay. Imagine if Hitler was like, 'I know everybody says I'm bad, but have you seen how many people are waving at me in the streets? Yeah? If I was racist, they would say something, yeah? They would say something, yeah.'"
 --> More late-night TV lines: Here's the clip from Stephen Colbert's monologue about Trump's tweets -- "a new personal best at being the worst..."
 
 

Correcting some of Trump's smears


During Trump's aforementioned Q&A that was carried live on cable, he falsely accused Ilhan Omar of praising al Qaeda. I wonder if there have been sufficient fact-checks of this smear on the channels where it aired live. As CNN's Daniel Dale and Sarah Westwood explained here, Trump was "referring to an Omar comment that has circulated this year in conservative media, including Fox News." Even that short clip "does not include Omar praising Al Qaeda in any way." Details here...

 --> A close-up photo of Trump's prepared notes showed that the word "Alcaida" was written in black ink at the top. Presumably this is his misspelling of al Qaeda... 
 


Fox's "The Five" can't stop laughing

 
One more from Oliver Darcy: On Monday afternoon Shepard Smith called Trump's tweets a "misleading and xenophobic eruption of distraction and division."

The panelists of "The Five" either weren't watching or weren't persuaded. The panelists couldn't seem to stop themselves from laughing as they discussed Trump's racist comments. Greg Gutfeld, in particular, appeared to find the whole situation amusing. Gutfeld read Trump's reprehensible tweets in a jovial fashion, laughing and joking throughout. The segment was especially striking, given the criticism Fox received on Sunday when the network's "Fox & Friends Weekend" hosts were skewered for laughing off Trump's comments...
 

Tucker's framing


Almost a week ago, Tucker Carlson was in the news for demonizing Omar and saying immigrants like her "undermine" America. I see a pretty straight line between his anti-Omar commentaries and Trump's attacks. But on Monday Carlson didn't reference his own recent controversy. And he reiterated his view that Trump shouldn't tweet. His banner said that "RADICAL DEMS ARE DESTROYING THE PARTY" while he claimed to give advice to the Dems. "When Omar is talking," he said, "Democrats are losing," and that's true for all four members of "the squad." Extremely online Dems don't know that yet, but "they'll find out," Carlson asserted.

Carlson went on to say that "it's pretty obvious that they are becoming, with the help of CNN and MSNBC, the face of the Democratic Party." This is a fascinating claim to make, given that Fox never passes up a chance to cover Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and co. Carlson's guest Richard Goodstein quipped, "this network does a pretty nice job of elevating her." Carlson conceded the point and called AOC a moron. "It's not just Fox promoting these people," Carlson said. "They have a constituency and over time they will define what the Democratic party is in the minds of voters." Sounds like that's what he wants...
 
 

Ken Cuccinelli claimed he hadn't seen Trump's racist tweet. Alisyn Camerota reminded him otherwise

 
Oliver Darcy emails: Ken Cuccinelli, who is currently the acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, tried claiming he hadn't seen Trump's racist tweet when asked about it during a Monday morning interview with Alisyn Camerota. "Well, I didn't see that tweet actually," he claimed after Camerota asked for his thoughts on them.
 
But Cuccinelli wasn't being truthful. He had also spent part of his weekend appearing on "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper, where Trump's racist tweets had been a subject of his interview. A few minutes into the interview, Camerota brought that up. "Did my colleague Jake Tapper read that tweet yesterday on the air?" she asked. "Yes, he did," replied Cuccinelli. "So you have heard this tweet -- and you have had 24 hours to process it," Camerota pointed out. Cuccinelli's response? "So what? So what?" Uhh…
 
 

Twitter says Trump's racist tweets don't break its rules

 
Donie O'Sullivan emails: Twitter told me today that Trump's racist tweets don't break its rules, a conclusion that appears to be contradicted by Twitter's own policies. "We are committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice or intolerance, particularly abuse that seeks to silence the voices of those who have been historically marginalized," Twitter's policy reads. 🤔
 
Twitter is in a difficult spot. Clearly, removing the tweets of the leader of the free world could cause some problems. So... as a potential solution to that, Twitter said last month it would label, not remove, tweets sent by world leaders that broke its rules. But there are no labels on these Trump tweets, so according to Twitter there's nothing to see here... 🤷‍♂️

 --> Donie will be talking about this on CNN's "New Day" Tuesday morning...
 

TUESDAY PLANNER

 -- On Tuesday, the House will take up a resolution condemning Trump's remarks...

 -- Tim Alberta's "American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump" could not have been more perfectly timed. The book comes out on Tuesday... Stories like this one continue to reveal shocking new excerpts... (NYT)

 -- Alberta will be on CNN's "New Day" and "Cuomo Prime Time" on Tuesday...
 


Another big hearing about Big Tech


House Judiciary's antitrust subcommittee will call execs from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple Tuesday at 2pm ET... There's likely to be a live stream available here. 

Antitrust attorney Tim Wu and others will also testify in opposition to the concentrated power of Big Tech. CNN's Brian Fung will have a full report from the hearing room afterward...
 


Emmy nominations day


The Television Academy will reveal this year's nominees at 11:30am ET Tuesday.

Brian Lowry emails with his preview: The Emmys always wrestle with a balance between old and new, but the final seasons of several high-profile series and past winners — including three-time champs "Game of Thrones" and "Veep," as well as Jim Parsons of "The Big Bang Theory" — could tip the scales more toward sentiment/career achievement when the nominations are announced...


FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE

 -- Speaking of the Emmys... Andrea Mitchell "will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 40th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards" this September... (NBC)

 -- ProPublica immigration reporter Hannah Dreier, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, is joining WaPo as a staff writer for National Enterprise... 

 -- And The AP's Susannah George is joining WaPo as the paper's next Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief...

 -- "Jason Klarman, who helped launch Fox News Channel and was a marketing exec at the cable news network until moving on to top positions at the likes of USA Cable, Bravo, Oxygen and Fullscreen Media, is officially returning" as EVP Marketing at Fox News Media... (Deadline)

 -- Michael Calderone's latest: Bernie Sanders' campaign staffers are "unusually vocal in calling out coverage they dislike, fueling frustration once again among the senator's supporters about whether he's getting a fair shot at the White House..." (Politico)
 
 

Lippman departs Playbook


"Daniel Lippman will probably be awake at dawn this morning, but it won't be to help to slip Politico Playbook into your inbox," Washingtonian's Andrew Beaujon wrote Monday. "After more than five years at the famous DC newsletter, Lippman will leave Playbook to concentrate on full-time reporting on the White House and Washington for Politico." Read their Q&A here... 
 

FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO

By An Phung:

 -- Marshall Cohen, Kay Guerrero and Arturo Torres' exclusive for CNN: "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received in-person deliveries, potentially of hacked materials related to the 2016 US election, during a series of suspicious meetings at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London..." (CNN)

 -- Michael de Adder, the Canadian cartoonist who lost his job shortly after depicting Trump playing golf over the bodies of two drowned migrants, wrote a column for NBC and made this point: "Editorial cartoons have never been more important, and with social media, they have an increasingly broad reach. In a sense, they are a more powerful tool than they have ever been. Newspapers are cutting one of their best assets when they are at their most vulnerable. And in turn, democracy is losing one of its most treasured safeguards..." (NBC News)
 
 -- Two male historians and a male host who appeared on NPR to talk about tobacco regulation failed to credit Sarah Milov's book "The Cigarette" even though it was the source for the material in the segment. "Every single word they said was from my book," Milov said. "Then I got to the end of a nearly 10-minute segment and did not hear myself credited at all." The people involved have now expressed regret... (The Lily)
 
 

A link between screen time and depression in young people?


"For every additional hour young people spend on social media or watching television, the severity of depressive symptoms they experience goes up, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics on Monday," CNN's Jacqueline Howard reports.

The study did have some limitations. "More research is needed to see whether there is a causal relationship between screen time and depression in young people. If there is, we need to know how this is happening and how to prevent depression in young people," Dr. Michael Bloomfield, who was not involved in the study, told Howard...
 

FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE

 -- Trump's favorite pseudonymous meme-maker, known as Carpe Donktum, "adopted a fake name" to go on the pro-Trump cable channel OANN last week. "Viewers had no idea it was a fake name, and OANN didn't see a problem with it," Craig Silverman writes. Here's his full story, co-bylined with Jeremy Massler... (BuzzFeed News)

 -- "The BBC has agreed to conditions set by the Islamic Republic of Iran to not share reporting materials it gathers in Iran with its Persian-language channel, BBC Persian," Yashar Ali reports, citing an internal email. "The agreement represents a capitulation to a government that has been hostile to press freedom..." (HuffPost)

 -- "A recent high school graduate -- who cultivated an online following, particularly among gamers, by posting selfies -- was killed over the weekend," Saeed Ahmed and Scottie Andrew report. The suspect then shared graphic photos of her dead body on the gaming chat app Discord... (CNN)
 

The Fox 2000 team lands at Sony


"Elizabeth Gabler is joining Sony Pictures Entertainment in an innovative media deal that will see the veteran executive produce film and TV content based on HarperCollins books," Variety's Matt Donnelly and Brent Lang scooped on Monday. "Gabler was the longtime steward of Fox 2000, which was shuttered after the Walt Disney Company acquired much of 21st Century Fox in March. She will bring her entire development team of Erin Siminoff, Marisa Paiva, Nikki Ramey and Molly Saffron to Sony at the end of August."

Brian Lowry emails: As WaPo's Steven Zeitchik noted, it could be a shrewd move by Sony — largely bereft of major movie franchises other than its Marvel deal on Spider-Man — to carve out a niche in the sort of mid-sized films that the Disney and Warner Bros.'s of the world have little interest in making...
 

"Why Is Everyone So Scared of Disney?"


Brian Lowry adds: On that latter point, Variety critic Owen Gleiberman wrote an interesting if not wholly convincing column about Disney's franchises over the weekend, suggesting that there's less to fear from the bulked-up, franchise-heavy studio because the best days of Marvel and "Star Wars," specifically, are behind them. There's some truth in that, but it risks downplaying the enormous arsenal that Disney possesses, as its long-delayed animated sequels have demonstrated.
 
 

Quentin Schaffer leaving HBO after 39 years


HBO's head of corporate communications Quentin Schaffer is departing in August. THR's Lesley Goldberg said "Schaffer revealed the news via a heartfelt internal memo," and you can read it here.

Schaffer is a legend in TV showbiz circles. "HBO has been an amazing place to work alongside the brightest and most creative people I've ever come across, particularly the communications team," he said Monday. "What made it special was that we always had an enviable slate of programming to work with. In looking back, I feel lucky to have had the greatest temporary job in the business. For 39 years." Citing the new arrival of Kevin Brockman, he said, "with Kevin now here, the team is in good hands and I can feel comfortable moving on."

Brian Lowry's take: All things come to an end, but Schaffer's departure as HBO PR chief continues the institutional brain drain that WarnerMedia is experiencing with its management shift at the pay network, including the relationships and hard-earned trust that go with it...
 

FOR THE RECORD, PART FIVE

By Lisa Respers France:

 -- Kelly Clarkson has an idea for Taylor Swift's feud with Scooter Braun...

 -- Pink has responded to criticism over her kids running through the Holocaust memorial in Berlin...

 -- Kim Kardashian West shared a photo of sons Saint and Psalm...
 
 

Austin Butler will play Elvis in a biopic from Baz Luhrmann


Whitney Friedlander writes: "After a long search, Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley movie has crowned Austin Butler as its King. Luhrmann, who is directing and co-writing the biopic, shared the news on social media by tweeting Presley's infamous mugshot next to a red carpet photo of Butler..."
 

LAST BUT NOT LEAST...
 

O'Donnell invokes Murrow on her first "Evening" newscast


Norah O'Donnell concluded her debut broadcast by bringing up the storied history of CBS News, and quoted the aforementioned Edward R. Murrow: "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful."

"To Mr. Murrow," she said, "we will try to use it well – and with integrity. For all of us at CBS Evening News, I'm Norah O'Donnell. Goodnight."
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The squad won’t be baited

Posted: 15 Jul 2019 05:08 PM PDT

TicToc Tonight
Bloomberg

Greetings, TicToc readers! Monday's almost over. Here's what's happening:

But first...

Don't take Trump's bait, 'squad' says

The "squad" of Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib want Trump to know one thing: They won't be baited by his attacks. The four women said Trump's recent attacks to "go back" to where they came from, denounced widely by Democrats and partially by some Republicans as racist, won't distract them from their agenda. Earlier, Trump stood by his comments, insisting they were not racist, saying the women "hate our country" and "can leave."

More:

  • Pelosi said Trump's comments were "xenophobic, meant to divide" and said the House will vote on a resolution to censure him. 
  • Republicans, including Sen. Tim Scott, who is black, decried Trump's "unacceptable personal attacks," and Rep. Mike Turner, who is white, said they "were racist and he should apologize."
  • Theresa May called Trump's tweets "completely unacceptable" and Justin Trudeau said, "that is not how we do things in Canada."

Headlines from around the world

Amazon kicked off its annual Prime Day online deals blitz, as employees protested working conditions and rival retailers offered deals of their own

Central American migrants may be denied U.S. asylum after the White House declared those who first pass through another country ineligible.

Carrie Lam praised Hong Kong police's "restraint when attacked by rioters," after clashes with anti-government protesters in a shopping mall.

Emily Hartridge's death in the U.K.'s first fatal e-scooter crash is highlighting safety concerns amid a boom in global scooter use.

China's economy slowed to the weakest pace in almost three decades, amid the ongoing trade standoff with the U.S.

Data of the day

Preventing a trash-pocalypse. Humans generated 2.01 billion tons of solid waste in 2016 and by 2050, that could rise to 3.4 billion tons, according to the World Bank. Here's how the world could solve it. 

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Cancun has a nasty seaweed problem. Thousands of tons of algae is turning beaches into a slimy, brown eyesore that smell of rotten eggs.

Two of Egypt's oldest pyramids re-opened for business. Tourists can explore the Bent Pyramid and its satellite for the first time since 1965. 

Baby food is too sugary. A third of its calories are often from sweeteners, and it's falsely advertised as suitable for infants, the WHO found.

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BREAKING NEWS: House Democrats introduce resolution condemning Trump after ‘racist’ comments

Posted: 15 Jul 2019 04:56 PM PDT

House Democrats have introduced a resolution condemning President Donald Trump's "racist comments directed at Members of Congress."

The resolution, drafted by Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), could be voted on as early as Tuesday.

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Posted: 15 Jul 2019 02:57 PM PDT

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will vote on a resolution condemning President Donald Trump for his Twitter attacks on four female Democratic lawmakers, all persons of color. When asked whether he was concerned that white nationalists backed his remarks—deemed racist by Democrats and a few Republicans—Trump said "it doesn't concern me because many people agree with me." —David E. Rovella

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A technology rally drove the Nasdaq-100 Index to a fresh record at the start of a busy week for corporate earnings and economic data. The Dow and S&P 500 hit records last week.

Children living in states with strict firearm laws are less likely to die from gun violence than those in states with lax restrictions, a new study shows.

Matteo Salvini, the euroskeptic strongman of Italian politics, can't seem to shut down a scandal over alleged illegal financing from Russia.

Everyone is coming after Google, but Bloomberg Businessweek says there's an easier way to break up its monopoly on search.  

Uber and Lyft ridership fell in May after the companies decided to pass the cost of the nation's first minimum wage rule for drivers onto customers.

Timothy L. O'Brien, reflecting on Trump's targeting of four progressive U.S. representatives nicknamed "The Squad," wrote in Bloomberg Opinion that "if there was ever any doubt that the president is a racist and a bigot and is willing to pander to racists and bigots to continue holding office, the tweets he aimed at 'The Squad' on Sunday should put all of that to rest."

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Trudeau avoids using "racist" to describe Trump’s latest racist rant

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Amazon’s Prime Day pain soothed by all the money

Posted: 15 Jul 2019 01:46 PM PDT

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Big Tech's Prime Advantages

Unhappy Prime Day, everybody.

Amazon.com Inc.'s fake holiday celebrating itself has not been as joyful this year as those Prime Days we once loved, when we'd gather 'round the Prime Day Voice-Activated Tree and swap memories of what it was like to go to "bookstores" and "outside." Some Amazon workers were on strike, protesting conditions in warehouses. And the e-commerce leviathan is in hot water with the right and left over its wealth and power – which manifests itself in ways shoppers don't always realize.

For example, Amazon keeps squeezing ever greater amounts of money from the merchants advertising products on its site, notes Shira Ovide. This helps the company offset a general slowdown in shopping growth. In a way, it's a fairly normal business practice, and most merchants don't mind. But it also looks a little – "icky" is Shira's technical term – considering how much vast market power Amazon has.

Amazon isn't the only tech goliath with absurd influence over its advertisers. Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google basically run every phase of an opaque process, notes Alex Webb, as illustrated by this cool Elaine He chart:

This helps them wring more money from their advertisers. When people talk about breaking up big tech, they often refer to its power over our personal data and experiences. Their ad power may need a look too.

Trump's Racist Tweets

In 2013, five years after America elected its first black president, the Supreme Court decided racism was so under control it could gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965. We have since learned racism may actually still be a problem in America; and if you had any doubt, then President Donald Trump's tweets this weekend telling American-born congresswomen of color to go back to where they "originally came from" should remind you, Tim O'Brien writes. Trump has long used race to stir up a racist voting base, and he's not quitting any time soon.

This isn't surprising, of course, given Trump's public remarks since, oh, the 1980s, along with his White House policies, notes Jonathan Bernstein. But when he has previously veered into blatant white supremacy, somebody on the Republican side has usually pushed back, Jonathan writes. That's not happening this time, which makes this episode more disturbing than most.

Of course, other presidents, including Democrats, have said and done racist stuff in recent decades, but Trump's latest rants may be the worst, writes Stephen Carter. And unlike those other presidents, we can't expect Trump to change his tune or his ways.

China's Long Game

Observers of Trump's trade war with China have long feared he'll drop substantive complaints about China's trade practices in exchange for promises to simply buy more stuff. And with good reason: He seems weirdly obsessed with the trade deficit and enjoys easily quantifiable wins. Michael Schuman points out China has been mollifying foreign antagonists in this way for thousands of years, going back to the early days of the Han Dynasty. Like Trump, the Xiongnu invaders in 200 B.C. were easily satisfied by mountains of swag, which pacified them until China bulked up enough to repay the Xiongnu for humiliating it. History could be repeating itself.

China is hamstrung for the moment by a weak economy, as new GDP data showed yesterday. One big reason it's struggling is that private companies are starved for credit as Beijing squeezes lending, writes Dinny McMahon.

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Citigroup Inc.'s second-quarter trading woes suggest it was a hard quarter all around for banks, writes Brian Chappatta.

Bank loan-loss reserves are back down to where they were before the crisis, Mark Whitehouse warns. A new rule would make banks provision more, but lobbyists have convinced some in Congress to roll it back.

One fracker's selling itself at rock-bottom prices shows just how bad things are for the oil exploration and production industry, writes Liam Denning.

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The European Commission's possible next president was selected in a messy, opaque process. She should make changing that a priority. – Bloomberg's editorial board 

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BREAKING NEWS: Cummings threatens to hold Kellyanne Conway in contempt for defying subpoena

Posted: 15 Jul 2019 01:31 PM PDT

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings threatened to hold White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway in contempt after she defied a subpoena to testify Monday.

Cummings previously subpoenaed Conway to discuss her alleged violations of the Hatch Act.

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Iran’s Response to Britain’s Tanker Seizure (Nadimi | PolicyWatch 3152)

Posted: 15 Jul 2019 01:19 PM PDT

IRAN'S RESPONSE TO BRITAIN'S TANKER SEIZURE
by Farzin Nadimi

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July 15, 2019

Recent Iranian rhetoric and actions point to further retaliation, but taking that route may lead to the same strategic miscalculations and international intervention that cost the country so dearly in the 1980s.

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On July 4, British Royal Marines took control of the Grace 1, a fully laden Panamanian-flagged super tanker suspected of carrying crude oil from Iran to Syria’s Baniyas refinery in defiance of European Union sanctions against the Assad regime. They used a helicopter to board the 330-meter, 300,000-ton ship in the middle of the night. Iran’s reaction reveals much about its potential response options against Western interests—and the limitations thereof.

INITIAL RESPONSE

Tehran reacted angrily to the seizure, with President Hassan Rouhani and other civilian and military officials threatening to respond in kind at the Strait of Hormuz if the tanker was not released promptly. Some even called for banning British vessels from the strait altogether, while the Iranian parliament introduced legislation that could lead to a tolling system for ships of certain nationalities—an unlawful discriminatory measure.

On July 8, Defense Minister Amir Hatami called the seizure an act of piracy. A day later, Armed Forces General Staff chairman Mohammad Bagheri promised to retaliate at the right time and place, and in line with the “direct, transparent, and brave” operation that shot down an American drone on June 20. He also reiterated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s strategy of “no to negotiations, and no to war,” describing it as “active resistance” and implying that Iran’s armed forces have been directed to unmistakably demonstrate their deterrent power. Another proponent of open-ended resistance is Gen. Hossein Salami, who advocated the notion for years and is now in a position to implement it as head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). On June 18, he stated that victory is closer than ever because that the enemy is tired and reluctant.

Iran made good on its threat of active resistance on July 10, when five IRGC speedboats attempted to stop the tanker British Heritage while it was transiting the outbound section of a traffic separation zone that lies mostly in Iran’s Persian Gulf waters leading to the Strait of Hormuz. Although the effort was thwarted by a shadowing British warship operating out of Bahrain, there are other British tankers in the Fujairah anchorage and elsewhere that are still vulnerable to sabotage operations.

IRAN’S PERCEIVED ADVANTAGES

The IRGC believes it holds a distinct geographical advantage in carrying out this strategy. From its point of view, Iran dominates the northern and eastern portions of the Persian Gulf and the entire Strait of Hormuz, one of the busiest shipping routes in the world with as many as fifteen oil tankers passing through every day (including three to four super tankers).

Tehran also believes that its actions are legally permissible. The regime claims control over maritime traffic through Iranian waters and includes the Strait of Hormuz in this definition, despite it being designated as an international strait under the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Although Iran is a conditional signatory to UNCLOS, it never ratified the document, and its own maritime law does not recognize international straits. Under Article 24 of UNCLOS, a coastal state can temporarily suspend innocent passage in specific areas of its territorial seas for security reasons, but not in a discriminatory fashion against specific states. More important, this provision does not apply to international straits (paragraph 2 of Article 45).

CHARTING IRAN’S NEXT MOVE

Iran has not yet responded to British overtures for releasing Grace 1 in exchange for promises that it will not head for Syria. Apparently, Tehran does not want to establish that precedent.

Following the IRGC’s failed intercept of the British Heritage and London’s decision to arrest the Indian captain and executive officer of the Grace 1, Iran can be expected to take further action, even amid diplomatic outreach efforts such as Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s visit to New York this week. A more forceful attempt at seizing a British-linked ship would be the first option, but Iran might decide to launch covert operations against such vessels as well, or even against British business assets and support services in the region’s energy market. For example, BP currently has major investments in Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, while Saudi Aramco recently rewarded another British company with co-development rights in the Marjan offshore oil field (notably, Iran owns part of this field).

Tehran might also ask its Houthi friends in Yemen to harass commercial shipping in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, using both Iranian-supplied equipment and intelligence gained using the Saviz staging ship anchored north of the strait. There is precedent for such operations: last year, IRGC general Nasser Shabani claimed that Iran had ordered the July 24 Houthi attack against a Saudi super tanker, possibly using an explosive-laden boat.

Meanwhile, senior cleric Kazem Sedighi threatened the British with a “powerful slap” on July 12; he then reminded his listeners how Iranian missiles landed near American frontline positions in Syria’s Deir al-Zour province last October. If the IRGC aims to fulfill this prophecy, it could fire ballistic or cruise missiles near HMS Jufair, the British Royal Navy base in northeast Bahrain. It might also release sea mines or suspicious-looking objects in waters approaching the base.

The specific forces involved in such operations would vary depending on location, since the IRGC Navy has five districts in the Persian Gulf. A potential ship seizure would most likely occur at the western approaches to the Strait of Hormuz, which lies within the IRGCN’s 5th District (as in the latest case). This area is home to an elite unit called the Aba-Abdullah Special Operations Brigade (aka Sepah Navy Special Force, or SNSF), commanded by Sadegh Amooie. They operate out of Faror Island, located twenty-four kilometers from the Iranian coast, 200 kilometers from the center of the Strait of Hormuz, and 138 kilometers from Dubai. This was the unit that landed on the mockup of a U.S. aircraft carrier in dramatic fashion during the 2015 Great Prophet 9 naval exercise.

The IRGC could also use one or two of its five naval Mi-171 helicopters to land a boarding party on a targeted tanker similar to how the British seized the Grace 1. Given their lack of night flying capability, they would almost certainly conduct any such operation in daylight, probably during the cooler early morning hours.

Whatever happens next, the failed British Heritage operation indicates that Tehran and the IRGC may not be concerned about catalyzing the formation of a Western-led coalition to protect regional shipping. Although this would be in line with the regime’s behavior during the 1980s, such a posture ignores the historical lessons from that period.

Prior to Operation Earnest Will in 1987, Tehran escalated the situation in the Persian Gulf by ordering the IRGCN to confront Western navies there amid the Iran-Iraq War. This decision backfired, giving Western governments justification for deeper involvement. Iran’s shipping attacks had little effect on the “Tanker War,” the protracted conflict with Iraq, or global oil markets. They did, however, escalate the confrontation with Western military forces, culminating in a major naval defeat at the hands of the U.S. Navy in 1988. Iran will arguably be much better prepared and equipped this time around, and able to inflict more short-term costs on Western countries and their allies, but the end result might not be very different.

CONCLUSION

To deter Iran from escalation, various actors should maintain a strong multinational naval presence in the area and empower it to intervene on behalf of freedom of navigation in the region’s strategic waterways. Such protective measures should include strengthening defenses against cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as hardening critical infrastructure against Iranian cyberattacks. Officials should also urge Iran to take concrete steps (including legislative) toward recognizing the Strait of Hormuz as an international strait.

Perhaps most important, Iranian leaders should be made to understand that taking a belligerent stance in these vital waterways would seriously harm their own economy and national interests, as happened in the late 1980s when attacks on nonbelligerent shipping contributed to internationalization of the conflict with Iraq. The IRGC is attempting to depict these historical deeds as instrumental to strategic success, and Western countries are understandably bracing for further tanker attacks, perhaps involving greater damage. Yet those past deeds were in fact very costly at a time when Iran’s most important national interests were at stake, and that would no doubt be the case again today.

Farzin Nadimi is an associate fellow with The Washington Institute, specializing in the security and defense affairs of Iran and the Gulf region.



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BREAKING NEWS: Pelosi announces resolution condemning Trump for racist tweets

Posted: 15 Jul 2019 09:36 AM PDT

House Democrats are drafting a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump's racist tweets against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other high-profile freshman congresswomen.

"This weekend, the President went beyond his own low standards using disgraceful language about Members of Congress," Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in a letter to House Democrats announced the party's plans.

"This morning, the President doubled down on his attacks on our four colleagues suggesting they apologize to him," she added. "Let me be clear, our Caucus will continue to forcefully respond to these disgusting attacks."

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On July 16-18, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will host the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, providing a much-needed forum to address the plight of frequently overlooked minorities in Iran, among other countries. What are the consequences of the Islamic Republic's massive, systematic campaign to spread disinformation about religious minorities through social and traditional media? How can the United States and its partners confront the regime's wider effort to deprive minorities of their citizenship and human rights? To discuss these questions, The Washington Institute is pleased to hold a Policy Forum with Simin Kargar, Azadeh Pourzand, and Hamid Gharagozloo. 

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مع ازدياد الضغوط الأمريكية.. الجدل بشأن الحجاب يتصاعد في إيران

Posted: 15 Jul 2019 07:59 AM PDT

نساءٌ آثرن الخروج سافرت الرأس، وهنّ قلّة، وأخرياتٌ وضعن أوشحةً ملوّنة على رؤسهن تُظهر أكثرَ مما تخفيه...
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نساءٌ آثرن الخروج سافرت الرأس، وهنّ قلّة، وأخرياتٌ وضعن أوشحةً ملوّنة على رؤسهن تُظهر أكثرَ مما تخفيه من الشعر، وتلكن عددهنّ ليس بالقليل في المدن...   إقرأ أكثر، للمزيد
 
 
 
 
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