| America in mourning; anti-Latino hate crime; Univision's prime time special; Carlson's framing; new info on Dayton shooter; Disney earnings preview Posted: 05 Aug 2019 08:23 PM PDT Are Latino voices being fully incorporated into news coverage? Are news reports acknowledging the long history of anti-Latino attacks? An anti-Latino hate crime
The El Paso suspect said he wanted to stop a "Hispanic invasion of Texas." He drove all the way across Texas to the Walmart a short distance from the border. So this was a mass shooting, yes. And this was a white nationalist terror attack. But it was also, a bit more specifically, a brutal example of an anti-Latino hate crime.
So on Monday I examined how news outlets, both in English and Spanish, are covering this angle. Are Latino voices being fully incorporated into news coverage? Are news reports acknowledging the long history of anti-Latino attacks and the climate of fear in many communities? Or is the coverage being whitewashed?
We need more of this: | | CBS has been calling Saturday's shooting "the worst attack on Latinos in modern American history." On the "CBS Evening News," correspondent David Begnaud visited a local Catholic church and interviewed residents. "We're not all rapists and animals" the way "someone has depicted us," Ruben Torres told Begnaud.
These two headlines from the Los Angeles Times also caught my attention: "For Latinos, El Paso is a devastating new low in a Trump era" and "'We were safe until he started talking': El Paso residents respond to President Trump." Both stories featured local voices through and through.
And CNN's teams in El Paso have been interviewing residents at vigils across the city. Reporter Nicole Chavez, who calls El Paso home, also wrote about the Walmart and how it has "united Americans and Mexicans in El Paso for decades." She captured the city beautifully...
--> In an email message on Monday night, Chavez pointed out to me that "this was not only an attack in El Paso. As with pretty much everything in this city, this attack is crossing borders. Hurting families on both sides of the border. Juarez and El Paso have always been one and this attack highlights that." At least eight Mexican nationals were killed...
Univision's prime time special
 Univision preempted its usual 9 p.m. programming for a news special on Monday night. Jorge Ramos and Patricia Janiot hosted "Hispanos en la Mira," or "Hispanics in the Crosshairs," from El Paso.
That title says it all.
Not surprisingly, some of the guests on the special were very critical of President Trump. Former Congressman Luis Gutierrez said "we cannot believe this president. He now says that we have to fight racism, prejudice. If so, then we have to get rid of him because he's the main promoter of hate in the US. He should condemn himself..."
Historical context
Tanzina Vega, the host of "The Takeaway" radio program, has been calling out the media's all-too-frequent failure to represent Latinos. On Monday she led a segment about the "dark history of anti-Latino violence in the U.S." She said "historians estimate that between 1910 to 1920, around 5,000 people of Mexican descent were killed or vanished in the U.S."
Irene Sanchez has a new CNN.com op-ed about this same subject...
NAHJ's guidance
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists put out guidance and resources on Monday. The group's president Hugo Balta said it's important "to be culturally sensitive and sensible in the portrayal of communities under attack." Read on...
FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE
-- Timely: On Monday the Knight Foundation "made a $1.2 million investment in a new diversity, equity and inclusion transformation program at the Maynard Institute..." (Medium)
-- NBC and Telemundo anchor José Díaz-Balart on MSNBC's "Nation in Crisis" special Monday night: "We're sick and tired of being labeled anything but patriotic Americans, people who are here to make this country better. We're here so that this country can progress, that our children have a better life. That's what we want to hear."
-- One-topic monologues are rare for Stephen Colbert, but that's what he did on Monday, addressing the violence over the weekend... The video will be up on YouTube around midnight ET...
-- I'll be on "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon" in the 11pm hour talking about the similarities between the suspect's manifesto and the messages conveyed by right-wing talk show hosts...
"Keep our hearts from breaking"
Chris Cuomo's message to President Trump at the end of Monday's "Cuomo Prime Time:"
"You are right to say we must come together. You and our leaders in Congress must start. Take us to a better place. Pass the laws to protect us from these white nationalist terrorists. Do what the people call for -- make us safer from guns in the wrong hands. Come back. Do your job. Keep our hearts from breaking. Please."
Two networks, two different realities
When I was channel-flipping during the 8 p.m. hour, I noticed this banner on Fox Business: "TRUMP CONDEMNS HATRED & RACISM." And this one on MSNBC: "President Trump refuses to take responsibility for past comments after multiple mass shootings." Both technically accurate, but which one told the bigger truth?
Treating Trump as a "normal" president?
Did you feel like some members of the media were straining to treat Trump as a "normal" president on Monday, after his ten-minute address about the mass murders? I heard from numerous Trump detractors who felt the coverage was ridiculous. This came to a head on Monday night when the first edition of the NYT's Tuesday morning front page came out. The main headline said "TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM," and it was savaged. Beto O'Rourke called the headline "unbelievable." Olivia Nuzzi said "the president's speech writers should not be dictating our headlines." Former Obama aide Ben Rhodes tweeted that "this consistent framing on Trump's terms / trying to cover him as a normal US President is hugely beneficial to him."
The second edition had an updated main headline -- "ASSAILING HATE BUT NOT GUNS" -- but it was also criticized right away. George Conway called it "strike two..."
FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO
-- Also on Page One of Tuesday's Times, there's this a very smart story by Alex Burns: He said the gun violence debate that usually dominates after a mass shooting is "giving way to a reckoning on extremism..." (NYT)
-- The Toledo Blade's headline from Monday morning's presidential speech: "Trump refers to mass shooting in Toledo, not Dayton" (Blade)
-- A new essay by Jeff Jarvis: "We live in unusual times so usual methods will not suffice. We need new strategies to report on new dangers or we will be complicit in the result." (Medium)
-- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a Twitter thread about what she'd do if she worked in the news biz... Starting with "interview actual experts on white supremacy & give them space..." (Twitter)
-- Since January, Trump 2020 has posted "more than 2,000 ads on Facebook that include the word 'invasion' — part of a barrage of advertising focused on immigration, a dominant theme of his re-election messaging," Thomas Kaplan reports... (NYT)
-- On Monday the Congressional Hispanic Caucus asked Trump to "commit to no longer using the language of 'invasion' to describe our Hispanic communities, immigrants, or any refugees to our nation..." (House.gov)
Two recommended reads
CNN's Chris Boyette flagged these two columns...
"I've Seen the Limits of Journalism," writes John Temple, the director of UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program, in this new piece for The Atlantic. Twenty years ago, he says he was convinced the shootings he covered at Columbine would change everything. But "I can't say anymore that I believe we learn from terrible things. I can say that I've seen the limits of journalism—and of hope. And I'm struggling with what to do about it."
Jon Marcus writing for Nieman Reports: "Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that 'strategic silence' be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?"
Inside the Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso
Megan Thomas emails: A pediatrician doing a hospital visit with newborns in El Paso got called into service on Saturday. He shared some of what he observed with The New Yorker.
"Usually there are one or two people at these kinds of centers who are ready to deal with escalating trauma, but this was unprecedented," Jorge Sainz said. "There is civil trauma and then there is military trauma, the stuff that happens at war. Ninety per cent of them die at the scene; maybe ten per cent survive. This was getting close to military trauma. This guy wasn't shooting a .22 or a little rifle. I was seeing scooped-out flesh. It kept coming. And coming."
FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE
-- Joe Biden's first national interview since the shooting sprees was with Anderson Cooper... The sit-down aired on Monday night... (CNN)
-- Acting Homeland Security secretary Kevin McAleenan will be interviewed by Anthony Mason on Tuesday's "CBS This Morning..."
-- CNN has scheduled a Wednesday night town hall, titled "America Under Assault: The Gun Crisis," to be hosted by Chris Cuomo... (CNN)
-- Via Donie O'Sullivan, here's the latest on 8chan and how it's "struggling to stay online..." (CNN Business)
NOW, FROM EL PASO TO DAYTON...
Dayton shooter had leftist Twitter feed
"A Twitter account that appears to belong to Dayton shooter Connor Betts re-tweeted extreme left-wing and anti-police posts as well as tweets supporting the violent protest group Antifa," CNN's Paul Murphy and Konstantin Toropin reported Monday night. On the day of the shooting, he retweeted someone else's post that said "Millennials have a message for the Joe Biden generation: hurry up and die." He also retweeted support for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Chilling detail: "In the hours before the Dayton shooting, the account 'liked' several tweets about the El Paso shooting including one supporting gun control and others that called the El Paso shooting suspect a 'terrorist,' and a 'white supremacist.' The account also re-tweeted posts against ICE agents, including one that said, 'these people are monsters,' as well as multiple posts condemning police, and supporting Antifa. There were also many tweets of selfies, photos with a friend and ordinary memes and non-political content."
So far, authorities have not said that this attack was politically motivated in any way, nor have they described it as a domestic terrorism case. But I'm already seeing lots of Twitter arguments between people who are equating the El Paso and Dayton killers...
Tucker Carlson's framing
"Nobody really believes this is about Donald Trump or assault weapons. If only. If only it were that simple," Tucker Carlson said Monday night. Then he quoted from this essay by James Howard Kunstler: "This is exactly what you get in a culture where anything goes and nothing matters. Extract all the meaning and purpose from being here on earth, and erase as many boundaries as you can from custom and behavior, and watch what happens, especially among young men." Kunstler called them "young men trained on video slaughter games," but Carlson left out that last bit.
The problem, Carlson said, stems from young men who feel angry and alone. The graphic on screen said AMERICA'S REAL CRISIS. "We have a huge problem with young American men, and no one wants to deal with it," Carlson said...
A deceptive talking point emerges in right-wing media
Oliver Darcy emails: A talking point bubbling up in right-wing media is that the suspected terrorist in El Paso was not actually a member of the right. To make this argument, some conservative personalities have pointed to the rhetoric in suspected killer's essay in which he assails consumer culture, corporations, and the pollution of the environment. Some of these talking points have even made their way to those with loud microphones. Rush Limbaugh, for instance, told his audience on Monday that the suspect's racist screed is "filled with Democratic talking points." And the narrative even found its way to Fox News.
But for anyone who has studied the alt-right, none of this is the least bit surprising. It's no secret that those who belong to the alt-right often assail free market principles, contending the commercialization of society is ruining culture, and that it's more important to preserve culture than the free market. Suggesting the El Paso suspect is a leftist because he espoused such ideas just shows how naïve -- or disingenuous -- some of these pro-Trump personalities really are.
FOR THE RECORD, PART FOUR
-- "Reporting from the scene on Monday, Brooke Baldwin of CNN counted to 30 to demonstrate just how quickly the Dayton shooter was able to carry out so much violence..." (Vox)
-- Fox's Shep Smith: "Yet again in America..." He said "we search our souls for answers, beg our leaders for solutions that thus far have not come..." (TVNewser)
-- How the world sees us: NBC has a recap of headlines from papers outside the United States... (NBC)
-- Mail bomber Cesar Sayoc "was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release," CNN's Susan Scutti wrote. "I am beyond so very sorry for what I did," Sayoc said in court... (CNN)
-- "YouTube has removed the account of Soph, a 14-year-old girl who accumulated nearly a million followers through racist and anti-Muslim videos, after she uploaded an anti-LGBTQ video on July 31..." (BuzzFeed News)
| | Bill de Blasio to face off with Hannity
Oliver Darcy emails: Bill de Blasio will appear Wednesday on Sean Hannity's Fox show. As Politico's Michael Calderone noted, the appearance will take place exactly one year following the NYC mayor saying America "would be in an entirely different place" if it were not for Fox News and Rupert Murdoch's media empire. So Wednesday's interview ... should be an interesting conversation, to say the least. Stay tuned...
IN OTHER NEWS...
Disney reports earnings on Tuesday
Disney stock closed down 2.4% on Monday, mirroring the Dow's overall 2.9% decline. The Mouse House will report earnings after the close on Tuesday. Per Zacks' Benjamin Rains, "the positive impact of its $71 billion Fox FOXA deal, along with its controlling stake in Hulu, looks poised to see Disney post impressive revenue growth. Meanwhile, Disney's bottom-line is projected to slip again as it continues to spend heavily on its streaming TV future..."
What the Gannett/GateHouse deal will mean
The merger was announced on Monday afternoon... Oliver Darcy has the details here. The combined company will be called Gannett and be based at Gannett's HQ in McLean, VA.
As the WSJ notes, the deal combines the "largest owner of U.S. newspapers by titles and the largest newspaper group by circulation."
The companies are promising to find $275 to $300 million in annual synergies -- which sounds like a warning about serious layoffs to come. As WaPo put it, "the efficiencies wrought by the merger may also result in publications that rely less on local reporters and more on USA Today-type stories produced or edited remotely and published in dozens of the company's publications."
"We're afraid of that big number: $300 million," reporter and union leader Andrew Pantazi told the Post...
Murdoch and Marchese's deal for Tribeca Enterprises
"James Murdoch's investment firm is getting into the film festival business," THR's Erik Hayden wrote Monday. "Lupa Systems — the new venture company led by the former 21st Century Fox CEO — has partnered with investor Joe Marchese's Attention Capital to acquire a majority stake in Tribeca Enterprises, which puts on the annual festival... The Lupa-led group acquired the stake from the Madison Square Garden Company, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff and other prior investors." No word on the terms of the deal...
FOR THE RECORD, PART FIVE
-- David McCabe is jumping from Axios to the NYT to cover "how policymakers are scrutinizing tech, and how tech is trying to shape the debate..." (Twitter)
-- And in case you missed it, this is the new cover of New York mag, which harkens back to the famous "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD" cover of the NYDN... (NYMag) | | FOR THE RECORD, PART SIX
By Lisa Respers France:
-- Khalid has announced a benefit concert for his adopted city of El Paso, a place he has credited with helping launch his career...
-- Afton Williamson quit ABC's "The Rookie" series over the weekend citing allegations of harassment, assault and racism...
-- Fresh out of a Swedish jail, rapper A$AP Rocky attended Kanye's Sunday Service...
ABC's news from TCA
Via Sandra Gonzalez and Whitney Friedlander, here are some of the headlines from ABC's day at the TCA Press Tour on Monday:
-- Jimmy Kimmel said his show tackles politics because "politicians don't seem to care what we think anymore..."
-- ABC president Karey Burke commented on the lack of diversity among "Bachelor" leads...
-- ABC will air a live, stage version of animated classic "The Little Mermaid" on November 5...
-- Kimmel and Norman Lear plan two more "Live in Front of a Studio Audience' specials...
Strange bedfellows?
Brian Lowry writes: Karey Burke offered an impassioned defense of broadcast TV and downplayed the impact of streaming services in the process. One small problem: Parent company Disney's major initiative right now is the upcoming launch of its streaming service, Disney+, this fall. It's a small thing, emblematic of the understandable frustration traditional TV programmers feel over the disproportionate media attention that the streamers are receiving, and some of the junky data about their viewership, like this Variety story about "demand expression" for the "Orange is the New Black" finale. But it's also indicative of how tangled it can get for studios when they are in multiple businesses at once, some of which are in competition with each other...
Kimmel and Burnett's "Generation Gap"
Whitney Friedlander writes: Jimmy Kimmel and Mark Burnett are partnering on a new game show for ABC called "Generation Gap." If that news sounds odd, given the reality TV producer's connections to Trump and the late-night host's frequent criticism of the president, Kimmel is here for it. "There's no way Mark Burnett has the vision that he imagined that this monster one day becomes president," he told journalists at TCA. "If he does know that, I think we should pay more attention to everything he does."
"Generation Gap" is a quiz show that requires members of extended families to work together to answer questions from other generations. A host and a premiere date have yet to be announced...
"The OA" is over at Netflix
"Netflix's sci-fi mystery drama 'The OA' won't get another season," Sandra Gonzalez reports. "The show, which was co-created by star Brit Marling and director Zal Batmanglij, centered on a woman who turns up alive after having been missing for seven years. It premiered in 2016 and aired for two seasons..."
New York Comedy Festival headliners...
The list includes Nate Bargatze, Nicole Byer, Stephen Colbert, Vir Das, Kathleen Madigan, Bill Maher, Demetri Martin, Norm McDonald, Trevor Noah, Randy Rainbow, Tom Segura, Benito Skinner, Jenny Slate, Kevin Smith and Jay Mewes. Here's the full story by Marianne Garvey...
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| إجابة على: قردة إنسان الغاب -- الجرافات تجتاح المنطقة! Posted: 05 Aug 2019 07:45 PM PDT مرحباً مرة أخرى، تتحرك الجرافات حالياً باتجاه هذه البقعة من الغابات المطيرة-- دعونا نعزز هذه الحملة من أجل إنقاذ آخر قردة إنسان الغاب! ١. للمشاركة عبر الفيسبوك الفيسبوك <ملاحظة: يمكنك أن تزيد من أثر مشاركتك من خلال عمل "تاغ" لأصدقائك -- هكذا تزيد نسبة رؤيتهم ومشاركتهم ٢. للمشاركة عبر واتساب واتساب ٣. أو نشر الرابط التالي عبر السوشال ميديا https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/ar/save_the_tapanuli_orangutans_loc/?tSSPcnb&v=500536602&cl=16097817007&_checksum=690ef47a94b3fe6e5020bb5c946d3550f744ddd3dbfd4554053831037c1fdfef ٤. يرجى مشاركة الإيميل أدناه مع كل معارفك بالأمل، مايك وفريق آفاز --------  أصدقاءنا الأعزاء، إنهم يصارعون من أجل البقاء. فيهذه اللحظة، هناك جرافات تعمل على تدمير بقعة من الغابة المطيرة بمن عليها من كائنات حية، ومن ضمنها آخر٨٠٠ قرد منقردة إنسان الغاب التابانولي على الكوكب. يتم تدمير تلك البقعة من أجل بناء سد للطاقة الكهرمائية، لكن ذلك سيؤدي إلى انقراض هذا النوع من القردة. يملك الرئيس الأندونيسي القدرة على وقف بناء السد، وهو يرغب في أن يكون رئيساً جماهيراًمحبوباً من قبل الناس.لذلك، من الممكن لحملة ضخمة مدعمة بتغطية إعلامية كثيفة أن تدفعه إلى اتخاذ مثل هذا القرار. لا يوجد متسع من الوقت -- شاركوا في الحملة الآن قبل أن تقضي الجرافات على المأوى الطبيعي الأخير لهذه الكائنات. معاً لننقذ آخر قردة إنسان الغاب التابانولي - وقعوا الآن تماكتشاف قردة إنسان الغاب التابانولي قبل بضعةأشهر فقط، وتبين وجود ٨٠٠ قرد فقط منهذا النوع على الأرض. وهي من أكثر أنواع القردة المهددةبالانقراض.مأواهاالطبيعي الوحيد هو بقعة في الغابات المطرية في إندونيسيا، تتقلص مساحتها شيئاً فشيئاً لصالح بناء سد في قلب موطن هذه الكائنات. وقد رفضت معظم المصارف التنموية تمويل هذا المشروع لأسباب تتعلق بحماية التنوع البيولوجي، ما يدلل على أهمية تلك البقعة. قردة إنسانالغاب هيفي الواقع جزء من سلالتنا نحن البشر -نشتركمعهم في 97%منالحمض النووي (DNA). هي كائنات تتفاعل بالضحك على المزاح وتجهش بالبكاء عندما تحزن، وهي تعي تماماً معنى وجود آلات التحطيب وإزالة الأشجاء في مناطقها الطبيعية. لانستطيع تركهم وحيدين في مواجهة ما سيقضيعلى وجودهم إلى الأبد.علينا التحرك قوراً من أجل إنقاذ هذه الكائنات من الانقراض. دعونانطلق حملة كبيرة للتوعية ولفضح ما يجري أمام أنظار العالم بأسره، من خلال دعم الصحفيين الراغبين في تغطية القضية، وإطلاق حملات إعلامية وإعلانية ضخمة للضغط على الرئيس الإندونيسي من أجل دفعه نحو وقف بناء السد وإنقاذ هذه القردة.وقعوا على العريضة وانشروها أينما كان: معاً لننقذ آخر أورانغوتان تابانولي - وقّع/ي الآن يرىالعلماء أننا نعيش الحقبة السادسة منالانقراض الجماعي، والإنسان هو من يتحملمسؤولية ذلك.لكننافي الوقت نفسه لدينا قدرة لا يمكن الاستهانةبها من حيث الاستجابة للأزمات وإحداثالتغيير.يمكنناتحقيق ذلك بسرعة وجعل صوتنا مسموعاً.لننقذكائنات الأرض قبل فوات الأوان! مع الأمل والإصرار، مايك، بيرت، ليزا، سارة، سبيرو، إيلانا، سمير وكامل فريق آفاز للمزيد من المعلومات: العثور على النوع الثالث من إنسان الغاب في إندونيسيا (العرب اليوم) https://www.arabstoday.net/499/034700-العثور-على-النوع-الثالث-من-إنسان-الغاب-في-إندونيسيا اكتشاف نوع جديد من إنسان الغاب، ولكنه في مأزق كبير (العلوم للعموم) https://www.popsci.ae/اكتشاف-نوع-جديد-من-إنسان-الغاب،-ولكنه-ف/ :باللغة الإنجليزية سد صيني يهدد آخر قرد ضخم في العالم (الغارديان) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2018/apr/23/worlds-newest-great-ape-thr... علماء يحثون الرئيس الاندونيسي على وقف السد في موطن قردة إنسان الغاب (مونجاباي) https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/scientists-urge-indonesian-president-to-nix-dam-in-orangutan-habit... شركات صينية داعمة لسد ضخم تهدد بقاء كائنات إنسان الغاب (مؤسسة ليوناردو دي كابريو) https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/chinese-companies-backing-megadam-threaten-survival-of-new-oranguta... مشهد توأم قردة إنسان الغاب التبانولي يمنح الأمل بإنقاذ الفصيل (صحيفة جاكرتا الصباحية) http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/07/11/sighting-of-twin-baby-tapanuli-orangutans-brings-conse...
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| “Do something!” Posted: 05 Aug 2019 03:55 PM PDT TicToc Tonight | Greetings, TicToc readers! Here's your Monday debrief so you can step into tomorrow smarter: But first...  At least 31 dead after weekend of violence After a 13-hour period in which the U.S. suffered two mass shootings, the death toll climbed to a total of 31 after two victims of the attack at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart died in the hospital.
Highly quotable "Do something!:" A crowd interrupted Ohio governor Mike DeWine when he spoke at a vigil to honor those who were killed in the Dayton shooting.
"Those who perished in Toledo:" Trump incorrectly said Toledo, instead of Dayton, Ohio, in his speech about the weekend's mass shootings.
"We are not helpless here:" President Obama shared his thoughts on gun violence in America. $ignificant figures 3%: That's how much the S&P 500 dipped today, the biggest decline of the year so far.
1,000 tons: That's how much garbage enters Bosnia's environment every day.
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| Treasury labels China a currency manipulator, ratcheting up trade war Posted: 05 Aug 2019 03:21 PM PDT The Trump administration designated China as a currency manipulator, ratcheting up its trade war by slapping the world's No. 2 economy with a label no U.S. president has used since 1994. The move by the Treasury Department, following a series of sharp tweets from President Donald Trump earlier today, comes after China allowed the yuan to tumble — triggering a sharp sell-off in the U.S. stock market. For full coverage, see https://politi.co/2M4D3fA
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| American carnage Posted: 05 Aug 2019 02:44 PM PDT Evening Briefing There were two mass shootings within 24 hours in America this weekend. The first occurred Saturday in the border town of El Paso, where a suspect killed 22 people with an assault rifle after posting a manifesto laced with words and phrases President Donald Trump has used to attack immigrants and journalists. The second occurred Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, where another shooter clad in body armor murdered nine people before being shot dead. Democrats blamed Trump's racially divisive and anti-immigrant rhetoric for inciting the violence. Firearms stocks spiked. —Josh Petri Here are today's top storiesDon't let this moment pass, Michael R. Bloomberg writes of the two mass-shootings in Bloomberg Opinion. These new atrocities need to change the political dynamic, he said. U.S. stocks plunged the most this year as China responded to Trump's latest tariff threats. The yield curve blared its loudest U.S. recession warning since 2007. Bitcoin, an unlikely safe haven, approached $12,000. The trade war Trump triggered with China could include more land mines for an already weakening global economy. Hong Kong protesters moved to shut down the city with a general strike after a ninth straight weekend of unrest tied to China's tightening grip on the Asian financial hub. The world is awash in dirty money. After years of scandals and billions of dollars in fines, banks are struggling to keep up. Silicon Valley's latest unicorn is run by a 22-year old. Alexandr Wang's Scale AI is trying to streamline the process of improving artificial intelligence. What's Joe Weisenthal thinking about? The Bloomberg news director thinks the anxiety currently surrounding a no-deal Brexit may prove to be an interesting test of Modern Monetary Theory. It's often caricatured as stating that governments can spend and print money like crazy without any consequences. In reality, MMT adherents make a much narrower claim: that in advanced economies issuing their own currencies, government debt doesn't carry credit risk. What you'll need to know tomorrow What you'll want to read in BusinessweekNaturally fizzy mineral water Topo Chico has been bottled from the same underground source in northeastern Mexico since 1895, but it never made it much further than Texas until Coke acquired the brand in 2017. As beverage behemoths move away from sugary drinks, it's finally getting its turn in the spotlight.  Like Bloomberg's Evening Briefing? Subscribe to Bloomberg.com. You'll get our unmatched global news coverage and two premium daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close, and much, much more. See our limited-time introductory offer. Even before the trade war, China was the world 's biggest story. Sign up to get our Next China email, a weekly dispatch on where China stands and where it's headed next. Download the Bloomberg app: It's available for iOS and Android. | |   |
| It’s gunmakers and the NRA. Full stop. Posted: 05 Aug 2019 01:48 PM PDT Bloomberg Opinion Today Today's Agenda  It's Always About the Guns On December 14, 2012, 20 young children and six adults were shot to death in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The massacre was so horrific that many hoped politicians would finally do something about America's gun problem. They didn't. Since then, there have been 52 mass shootings in America, in which 426 people have died. Two took place in the span of just 24 hours this weekend. Meanwhile, some 36,000 Americans die of gunshots, including suicides, every year. Predictably, as they do after every mass shooting, gun advocates say the problem is not gun ownership. It's mental health, or video games, or something, anything but the fact that there are an estimated 390 million guns in America – enough to arm every man, woman and child and still have 70 million guns left over. Contrary to the fear-mongering of the gun lobby, gun-control advocates don't want to confiscate these guns. All they want is common-sense controls on who can own them, notes Bloomberg LP founder Michael Bloomberg. In fact, there's a bill awaiting Senate approval right now that includes background checks and closes a common loophole exploited by mass killers. These fixes enjoy wide popular support. But Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump, who has vowed to veto that bill, stand in the way. How long will they get away with this inaction? How many more will die in the meantime? Trump's Rhetoric Is a Problem Too One of the weekend's shootings, in a Walmart in El Paso, was motivated by hatred of immigrants, according to the shooter's manifesto, which borrowed anti-immigrant language Trump has used for years. This morning, with all the vigor of a hostage forced to recite a ransom note, Trump read a statement condemning white supremacy (and confusing Dayton, Ohio, for Toledo). But his long record of cheerleading bigotry and violence opened the door to El Paso and other white-supremacist terrorist acts, Tim O'Brien writes. A look at this history shows he is not the person to close it. Some Republicans have condemned white nationalism in the past 48 hours and should be commended for it. But the party has indulged Trump's brand of bigotry for far too long, writes Jonathan Bernstein. It still has a lot of work to do to prove it's serious about opposing it. Trade Wars: China Strikes Back Oh, meanwhile, markets around the world are melting down, including a 3% drop in U.S. stock indexes today, as Trump and China settle in for a long, ugly trade war. China, possibly waiting for Monday morning to maximize the market impact, struck back at Trump's tariff threat of last week by letting the yuan weaken and stopping imports of American agricultural products. China's currency devaluation is probably just a warning rather than the start of a new tactic, but it shows Beijing is getting smart about how it fights this war, writes Shuli Ren. It reminds Trump that China can outlast him in a currency war, given its ability to easily coordinate fiscal and monetary policy. Trump only wishes he had that kind of power, as he constantly hounds the Fed to do his bidding. He's obviously itching for a currency war, but he should be careful what he wishes for, writes Brian Chappatta: A strong dollar fuels America's endless orgy of borrowing. China shutting down agricultural imports is another smart move by China, writes David Fickling. It's a low-cost bargaining chip Xi Jinping can use to avoid more-painful concessions in any deal. It also hits Trump in his heartland base, just in time for the 2020 election. Democrats are struggling with how to run against an economy that is so far doing fine, writes Ramesh Ponnuru. But Trump seems bound and determined to solve that problem for them. Further Currency War Reading: Telltale Charts Stocks are set up for much more pain, with historically high prices, artificially inflated earnings and blaring recession signals, warns John Authers.  Off-price brands such as T.J. Maxx parent TJX Cos. are built to thrive in a prolonged trade war with China, writes Sarah Halzack.  Further Reading Warren Buffett's star power lets Berkshire Hathaway Inc. gloss over details. – Tara Lachapelle Elizabeth Warren's plan to make private equity owners liable for the debts of companies they acquire would kill the industry. – Noah Smith India's crackdown on Kashmir is dangerous and undemocratic. – Mihir Sharma The Hong Kong protests are a rebellion of an ultra-rich society beset by inequality. Wall Street should take notice. – Andrew Browne's "Turning Points" newsletter Tech companies should consider the environmental impact of plowing up the deep sea for minerals. – Adam Minter ICYMI The yield curve gives its loudest recession warning since 2007. Russia is slowly ditching the dollar. A 22-year-old runs Silicon Valley's latest unicorn. Kickers Metallica repels cougars, area woman learns. Recycling center recovers man's shoebox with $23,000 in cash. Indonesians build a village on a 10-story-high roof. (h/t Scott Kominers for the first three kickers) The hunt is on for Alpha Centauri's planets. Note: Please send Metallica and complaints to Mark Gongloff at mgongloff1@bloomberg.net. New to Bloomberg Opinion Today? Sign up here and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. | |   |
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| NEWS ALERT: Actor Rainn Wilson: 'Angry, white men with guns' are 'biggest threat to Americans' Posted: 05 Aug 2019 11:13 AM PDT NEWS ALERT: Actor Rainn Wilson: 'Angry, white men with guns' are 'biggest threat to Americans' Actor Rainn Wilson responded Sunday to the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio by declaring that "the biggest threat" Americans face are "angry, white men ... | |  The Washington Times | NEWS ALERT | | | | | Monday, August 5, 2019 2:11 PM EDT | | | | | NEWS ALERT Actor Rainn Wilson responded Sunday to the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio by declaring that "the biggest threat" Americans face are "angry, white men with guns." Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If you don't want to receive these emails unsubscribe | | 3600 New York Avenue NE Washington, DC 20002 | |   |
| Most Social: Who is the 24-year-old man police say killed 9 - including his own sister - in Dayton, Ohio? Posted: 05 Aug 2019 10:01 AM PDT | Connor Betts, from Bellbrook, Ohio, has been identified as the shooter who killed nine people, including his sister, Megan Betts, in Dayton, Ohio. | |    |
| Trump to Betray Base, Take Our Guns? Posted: 05 Aug 2019 09:35 AM PDT | | Alex Jones Here! Start Your Week Informed Today! In the wake of the weekend tragedies, President Trump is raising concern among his fiercest advocates with his anti-gun rhetoric! Watch today’s LIVE BROADCAST to hear my exclusive message to the president! Don’t miss this!Start your week informed with toady’s LIVE BROADCAST to also hear from ex-Satanist Mark Passio delivering cutting-edge insight on the weekend’s tragic shootings via his knowledge of occult secrets. Tune into infowars.com/show Monday-Friday from 11AM-3PM Central and Sunday 4-6 PM Central to watch the most banned broadcast in the world with breaking news and commentary exclusively from me and other great Infowars hosts and guests!Tell your friends and family to tune into infowars.com/show to watch today's broadcast and beat the Big Tech censors! As Infowars faces unprecedented censorship, it's more important than ever that you spread this link. Remember – if you’re receiving this email, you are the resistance. | | |  |
| Hezbollah’s U.S. Sleeper Cells Waiting for Iran’s Signal (Levitt | Haaretz) Posted: 05 Aug 2019 08:57 AM PDT INSIDE HEZBOLLAH'S AMERICAN SLEEPER CELLS: WAITING FOR IRAN'S SIGNAL TO STRIKE U.S. AND ISRAELI TARGETS by Matthew Levitt Haaretz
August 4, 2019 If hostilities break out with the United States, Tehran may try to minimize risk to its most important assets in the Middle East by drawing on black ops units further abroad instead. READ THIS ARTICLE ON OUR WEBSITE
After Iran shot down an American drone in the Gulf last month, U.S. forces were reportedly ten minutes away from firing missiles at Iranian targets when the President suddenly called off the attack. The missile strikes would have killed too many Iranians, he later said, adding he was in no hurry to attack Iran but that “our military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go.” U.S. officials insist that a “full range of options” remain on the table to deal with Iran’s malign activities, including military options. But those military options could have significant implications for the security of Washington’s allies in the region, including Israel, especially as they relate to the activities of Iran’s increasingly capable proxies. As tensions spike between Iran and the West—especially over oil sanctions and freedom of navigation in the Gulf—Iran has been able to draw upon its network of militant proxies to carry out attacks on Iran’s behalf. In the words of former IRGC commander Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari, “The upside of the recent (conflicts) has been the mobilization of a force of nearly 200,000 armed youths in different countries in the region.” Overseen by the IRGC’s Qods Force, this informal “Shia Liberation Army” includes Iraqi Shia militias, Yemeni Houthi rebels, and of course Lebanese Hezbollah. Houthi rebels have targeted Saudi airports, border towns, oil facilities, and even targeted a Saudi warship using an Iranian-designed remote-controlled boat filled with explosives. Meanwhile, Iraqi militias have fought in Syria, reshaped the Iraqi political and security landscape in Iran’s favor, fired rockets at U.S. diplomatic and military facilities in Iraq, and carried out a drone attack targeting Saudi oil facilities. Iran loaded rockets into launchers on Iranian commercial boats in the Gulf in May, just weeks after U.S. intelligence determined Tehran told its proxies to prepare to take a more confrontational approach to the U.S. Israel is very much within these proxies’ crosshairs as well. “If the U.S. attacks us, only half an hour will remain of Israel’s lifespan,” threatened Mojtaba Zolnour, chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. Hyperbole aside, Iran has reportedly begun providing Iraqi Shia militia groups with precision missiles capable of hitting targets anywhere in Israel, perhaps to compensate for the attack platforms Iran lost in Syria as a result of Israeli airstrikes. Recently, press reports claim Israeli jets targeted Iranian missile shipments in Iraq that were meant to be transferred on to Hezbollah. Indeed, Hezbollah is clear that if it comes to an American war with Iran, it wants in on the fight. Interviewed on the group’s own al-Manar TV, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah asked and answered his own rhetorical question about what the group would do in the event of a war between Iran and the United States: “Are we going to sit back and watch? Iran won’t be alone in the war, that is clear.” In the unlikely event of a truly full-scale war with Iran, Hezbollah would surely target Israel with salvos of artillery, missile and rocket bombardments. Nasrallah recently bragged that this arsenal has “doubled or tripled” since the 2006 war and that it includes weapons capable of hitting anything from the northern border to Eilat. Nasrallah claims Hezbollah could attack northern Israel for as long as any conflict persisted, but also stressed the vulnerability of Israeli population centers and critical infrastructure along the coast from Netanya to Ashdod. “This is the Stone Age,” Nasrallah concluded. “We shall see who will turn the other into the Stone Age.” But for all his rhetoric, Nasrallah does not want war with Israel at the present time—especially now that Israel exposed and destroyed Hezbollah attack tunnels burrowing into Israel, and given Israel’s continued offensive against Hezbollah’s budding military and intelligence buildup on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. Moreover, in the context of any conflict short of all-out war, Tehran is unlikely to want to put at risk the most tangible achievement of its proxy strategy, namely the strong military, political and social position of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran may still want Hezbollah to act under such circumstances, and Nasrallah was clear that Hezbollah would not sit back and watch. Which is where Hezbollah’s external operations apparatus, the Islamic Jihad Organization or Unit 910, comes into play. Over the past several years, Hezbollah IJO activities have been on the rise. The uptick began in 2008 as a means of avenging the assassination of Hezbollah arch terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, and later continued as a factor of Iran’s shadow war with the West over Tehran’s nuclear program. Hezbollah’s last successful attack targeted Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria, in 2012. But a long list of other plots have since been foiled around the world in places as far afield as Bolivia, Cyprus, Peru, Thailand and the United Kingdom. Hezbollah preoperational surveillance occurred in Canada, Panama, the U.S., and elsewhere. The most alarming case took place in the United States and Canada. According to U.S. prosecutors, two U.S.-based Hezbollah IJO operatives—Ali Kourani and Samer el Debek—were tasked with carrying out pre-operational surveillance for potential Hezbollah attacks in the United States and Panama. Authorities allege Debek was sent to Thailand to shut down a Hezbollah explosives lab, and that Ali Kourani was directed to identify Israelis in New York who could be targeted by Hezbollah and to find people from whom he could procure arms that Hezbollah could stockpile in the area. Kourani also conducted surveillance of New York and Toronto airports as well as of FBI, Secret Service and U.S. military facilities in New York City. The case also offers unique insight into how and when Iran might ask Hezbollah IJO cells to carry out attacks. During one of Kourani’s meetings with the FBI, an interviewing agent recalled, Kourani “sat back in his chair, squared his shoulders and stated, ‘I am a member of 910, also known as Islamic Jihad or the Black Ops of Hezbollah. The unit is Iranian-controlled.’” Within Hezbollah, the unit reports directly to Nasrallah, according to Kourani, but Iran oversees the unit’s operations. Kourani went on to describe himself to the FBI as being part of a “sleeper cell,” and explained, “There would be certain scenarios that would require action or conduct by those who belonged to the cell.” Kourani said that in the event that the United States and Iran went to war, the U.S. sleeper cell would expect to be called upon to act. And if the United States were to take certain unnamed actions targeting Hezbollah, Nasrallah himself, or Iranian interests, Kourani added, “in those scenarios the sleeper cell would also be triggered into action.” In the event of war with Iran, Qods Force allies around the region could fire rockets or carry out other attacks targeting Israel. Iran appears to have brokered an agreement with Hamas whereby the group would carry out attacks targeting Israel from Gaza in the event that hostilities break out along Israel’s northern borders. Iraqi militants could fire rockets at Israel from Western Iraq, or help Iran transport missiles to Lebanon for Hezbollah’s use there. Hezbollah operatives could target Israel from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, or across the Lebanese border. But any of these scenarios invite fierce Israeli retaliation, while terrorist attacks by covert cells often present no easy targets for retaliation. Israeli preemptive measures targeting Iranian proxies’ weapons shipments, attack tunnels, and logistics and financing streams are proving effective at undermining their capabilities and denying them various attack options. But if hostilities do break out between Washington and Tehran, both America and Israeli interests are likely to be targeted by Iranian proxy groups, including the “Black Ops of Hezbollah.” Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute.
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| NEWS ALERT: Bill Maher: 2020 Democrats 'blowing it' with 'left-wing extremism' Posted: 05 Aug 2019 07:54 AM PDT NEWS ALERT: Bill Maher: 2020 Democrats 'blowing it' with 'left-wing extremism' Late-night host Bill Maher said on his show Friday that the Democrats are "blowing" their chances at coming off "less crazy" than President Trump ahead ... | | The Washington Times | NEWS ALERT | | | | | Monday, August 5, 2019 10:48 AM EDT | | | | | NEWS ALERT Late-night host Bill Maher said on his show Friday that the Democrats are "blowing" their chances at coming off "less crazy" than President Trump ahead of the 2020 election. Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If you don't want to receive these emails unsubscribe | | 3600 New York Avenue NE Washington, DC 20002 | |   |
| BREAKING NEWS: Trump calls for action on mental health laws, video games after shootings Posted: 05 Aug 2019 07:25 AM PDT President Donald Trump on Monday called for reforms to mental health laws and criticized violent video games after a pair of mass shootings over the weekend, saying he had also asked the FBI to identify resources needed to disrupt domestic terrorism. Trump did not repeat his call for stronger background checks, as he tweeted earlier Monday. "Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun," Trump said in a televised address. "I am open and ready to listen and discuss all ideas that will actually work and make a very big difference." Read more here: https://politi.co/2KqoDmD
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| Growing Anti-Syrian Sentiment in Turkey (PolicyWatch 3159) Posted: 05 Aug 2019 06:43 AM PDT GROWING ANTI-SYRIAN SENTIMENT IN TURKEY by Soner Cagaptay and Deniz Yuksel PolicyWatch 3159
August 5, 2019 Refugees are being blamed for the country's economic and social troubles, resulting in online hate speech, vigilante violence, and further pressure on the government to change the status quo in north Syria. READ THIS ITEM ON OUR WEBSITE
On June 22, the office of provincial governor Ali Yerlikaya announced that Syrian nationals who are not registered in Istanbul would have to leave the city by August 20. The area is now closed to further registration of such nationals, half a million of whom reside in Istanbul city alone. Coming from the office of an official appointed by the central government, the announcement highlights the country’s growing political tensions over the refugee issue. MAJORITY OPPOSITION TO SYRIAN PRESENCE According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Turkey currently hosts 3,614,108 Syrians. This figure constitutes nearly two-thirds of the entire Syrian refugee community worldwide, and a 4.4% addition to Turkey’s population of 82 million citizens as of 2018. For the most part, the government has cared for these refugees using its own resources, with some assistance from the European Union. The Istanbul governor’s decision comes at a time of increasing public resentment toward these Syrians, whom the central government does not formally recognize as refugees, classifying them as “under temporary protection status” instead. In a poll conducted earlier this year, 68% of Turkish respondents expressed discontent with the Syrian presence, compared to 58% in 2016. Turks are sharply divided on many issues, with one bloc tending to oppose President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies and an equal-size bloc ardently supporting him. Yet dissatisfaction with the decision to welcome Syrian refugees since 2011 is a rare exception to that rule, garnering majority criticism across party lines. Around 60% of those who back Erdogan’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) express discontent with the Syrian presence, together with 64% from the AKP-allied Nationalist Action Party (MHP); on the opposition side, the figures are 62% from the IYI Party, 71% from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and 83% from the Republican People’s Party (CHP). DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT The arrival of Syrian refugees is Turkey’s most significant demographic shift since its “population exchange” with Greece in the 1920s. According to official Turkish figures, only around 100,000 of them remain sheltered in camps; the vast majority have settled in cities and towns among the broader population. Most of them (3.2 million, or 88%) are concentrated in fourteen of Turkey’s eighty-one provinces: namely, the Syrian border provinces of Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Mardin, and Sanliurfa; the nearby southern provinces of Adana, Mersin, and Kahramanmaras; and the demographically and economically larger provinces of Ankara, Bursa, Istanbul, Izmir, Kayseri, and Konya. Istanbul has the largest number—547,479, or nearly 4% of the province’s 2018 population. Yet the demographic impact on the country’s smaller southern provinces is even more significant. Syrians equal 27% of the population in Hatay, 22% in Gaziantep, 21% in Sanliurfa, and a whopping 81% in Kilis. ECONOMIC CHALLENGES TO INTEGRATION Although these “protected” Syrians enjoy basic public services like healthcare and education, their temporary status does not allow them to work legally in Turkey. Ankara has long hoped that they will one day go back to Syria and has therefore shied away from taking steps that might help them become permanent residents. Syrians are encouraged to apply for residency permits to obtain legal employment, but the accompanying bureaucratic requirements and restrictions make this very difficult. So far, only around 200,000 refugees have been granted citizenship, residency, or work permits allowing them legal employment. Consequently, many of the 2.1 million working-age refugees have resorted to informal and irregular employment, usually for scant pay far below Turkey’s minimum wage. According to a July study by the Brookings Institution, between 500,000 and one million Syrians continue to provide informal labor despite poor working conditions and rampant exploitation, mostly in the textile, services, construction, and education sectors. Last year, the Germany-based Institute of Labor Economics found that this influx of Syrian workers did not drive down wages outside Turkey’s informal and part-time labor sectors. Nevertheless, many citizens believe that Syrians are to blame for rising unemployment and low wages across all sectors. Unemployment was at 14% as of March, up from 9% in 2011. Put another way, the number of jobless Turks has nearly doubled to 4.5 million since the government first began admitting Syrian refugees. Meanwhile, sharp increases in consumer prices have dramatically increased the cost of living for the average citizen. Inflation held just under 20% in March after reaching a record 25% last year, and wage boosts have not compensated for the price spike. For at least some citizens whose earnings have been hit hard, the meager 120 lira ($20) per month in aid given to registered Syrian families looks increasingly like unfair treatment, especially for those who wrongly believe that this and other EU-financed programs are funded by Turkish taxpayers. According to a July report by Al-Monitor, some locals also claim that Syrians have unfair economic advantages because they can open unlicensed businesses, and because they are not subject to the tax requirements imposed on citizens. RISING TENSIONS The Syrian presence is also being blamed for many of Turkey’s social troubles. Emerging opinion leaders with large online followings have been especially important in normalizing anti-Syrian attitudes. Dismissed MHP parliamentarian Sinan Ogan, who boasts over a million Twitter followers, attracted thousands of interactions with a July post claiming that Syrian and Afghan refugees rape women and boys, and that “chopping heads” is a part of Syrian culture. Similarly, a recent article by popular opposition journalist Yilmaz Ozdil alleged that Syrians are “invading” Istanbul “street by street,” causing disturbances and forcing Turks to move out of their neighborhoods. He also accused them of setting up illegal businesses, forming gangs, and stockpiling prescription drugs, claiming that “Syrians are free to commit crimes.” Yet official statistics cited by Euronews indicate that Syrians were involved in only 853 of 32,553 criminal incidents in Istanbul last year. In other words, the city suffered 153 incidents per 100,000 Syrians, significantly less than the 210 incidents that occurred per 100,000 Turks. Despite these numbers, widespread incitement has produced a dangerous cycle of online hate leading to violence offline. Popular accounts often disseminate such statements with the hashtag “#SuriyelilerDefoluyor” (“Syrians get out”). And accounts owned by public figures or anonymous individuals frequently spread false stories about Syrians harassing, raping, and even murdering Turkish citizens. Some consumers of this content have used social media to organize and carry out violence against Syrians, with attacks against individual refugees increasingly erupting into mass violence. This February, for example, an argument between residents and refugees in Istanbul transformed into large-scale clashes. And on June 29, dozens of vigilantes attacked Syrian businesses in Istanbul’s Kucukcekmece district after a Syrian man was falsely accused of molesting a young girl. CONCLUSION Turkey’s growing anti-Syrian sentiment appears to be one of several factors eroding public support for President Erdogan, even to the point of bringing the pro- and anti-Erdogan blocs together. Well aware of this trend, Erdogan is doing whatever he can to repatriate as many refugees as possible back to Syria. The government has already transferred hundreds of thousands of refugees to Turkish-controlled enclaves in northwest Syria. Attempting to further this model, Erdogan has been pushing Washington to create a joint “safe zone” in northeast Syria and repatriate more refugees there. He may even be willing to strike a grand bargain with the Assad regime, recognizing it as Syria’s legitimate government in return for Damascus allowing refugees to return to their homes. At the very least, he would likely demand that Turkey retain control over its enclaves in north Syria in order to facilitate the return of more refugees. Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow at The Washington Institute and author of the forthcoming book Erdogan’s Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East. Deniz Yuksel is a research assistant at the Institute. They would like to thank Institute intern Yagiz Sullu for his help in researching this PolicyWatch.
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