Why Has Haiti Risen up Once Again?
Ashley Smith | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
The Haitian masses have mobilized a new wave of protest against the corrupt government of President Jovenel MoàØse. It began with demonstrations last summer in July and August, re-emerged in November and December, and exploded again in the first two weeks of February when hundreds of thousands marched in all the major cities of the…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/why-has-haiti-risen-up-once-again-2/
Why the Outrage? "Jewish Power" Party is the New Norm in Israeli Politics
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
Immediately after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forged an alliance with the fringe political group, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), a widespread outrage ensued. The anger did not emanate only from the Center, Left and Arab parties, but from some in the Right as well. Even the pro-Israel lobby in the US, known for its hawkish…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/why-the-outrage-jewish-power-party-is-the-new-norm-in-israeli-politics/
Trump Breaks Another Promise: Troops Will Remain in Syria
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-06
It was a mere two months ago the president of the United States declared he would leave Syria and bring home the troops. | "Our boys, our young women, our men, they're all coming back," Trump said. "And they're coming back | …
globalresearch.ca/troops-remain-syria/5670508
Sacramento Police Who Killed Stephon Clark Won't Be Charged
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-03-06
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's attorney general announced Tuesday that he won't charge two Sacramento police officers who fatally shot an unarmed black man last year, joining a local prosecutor in finding that the officers reasonably believed Stephon Clark had a gun as he moved toward them. | Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the results of a nearly yearlong investigation after telling Clark's mother privately. He acknowledged that it was not what Clark's family wanted but said the evidence showed the officers had reason to believe their lives were in danger, though investigators found only a cel…
truthdig.com/articles/sacramento-police-who-killed-stephon-clark-wont-be-charged/
The Recolonization of Latin America and the War on Venezuela
Prof. James Petras | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-06
Introduction | Not since the US pronounced the Monroe Doctrine proclaiming its imperial supremacy over Latin America, nearly 200 years ago, has a White House regime so openly affirmed its mission to recolonize Latin America. | The second decade of the 21st …
globalresearch.ca/recolonization-latin-america-war-venezuela/5670545
Another War for Oil on the Agenda? Thank Ted Cruz
Joyce Nelson | zcomm.org | 2019-03-06
Very important identical bills were introduced in the U.S. Senate and House in late February, but you've likely not heard of them — even though they could literally blow up the Middle East and take the world much closer to World War III…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/another-war-for-oil-on-the-agenda-thank-ted-cruz/
Another War for Oil on the Agenda? Thank Ted Cruz
Joyce Nelson | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
Very important identical bills were introduced in the U.S. Senate and House in late February, but you've likely not heard of them — even though they could literally blow up the Middle East and take the world much closer to World War III. On February 26, Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tom Cotton (R-AK) introduced…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/another-war-for-oil-on-the-agenda-thank-ted-cruz/
The beginning of a social "Stalingrad" in Europe: the Yellow Vests against the totalitarian Empire of Finance
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-03-06
Back to the Future! Elated, with the single-mindedness of the "We" of the many, suddenly aware of its power, the crowd pours out of the narrow street in which it was crammed, to the spacious Place de la Republiquewhile singing the Marseillaise. It is by far the most popular song among Yellow Vests. The second …
uwidata.com/2580-the-beginning-of-a-social-stalingrad-in-europe-the-yellow-vests-against-the-totalitarian-empire-of-finance/
Global Warming Is Here–Just Ask Fishers
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-03-06
Global warming has already begun to affect fishing worldwide as fish flee warmer seas, a new study says. | In the last 80 years, there has been an estimated drop of more than 4% in sustainable catches for many kinds of fish and shellfish. That is the average. In some regions — the East China Sea, for instance, and Europe's North Sea — the estimated decline was between 15% and 35%. | In the course of the last century, global average temperatures…
truthdig.com/articles/global-warming-is-here-just-ask-fishers/
On the 88th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-03-06
The following statement was published today, March 5, by the Communist Party of Venezuela and was written by Freddy Subdiaga, a Party leader in the state of Anzoátegui. The statement was written in Spanish and translated by Fight Back! staff. | This March 5, 2019, when our Venezuelan nation faces the most criminal U.S.-European imperialism stalking humanity, the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) will be completing 88 years of combat for the emancipation of the working class from capitalism, the system of the exploiter; guided by the scientific methods of Marxism-Leninism and the integral thinking of the Liberato…
fightbacknews.org/2019/3/5/88th-anniversary-communist-party-venezuela-pcv
UPS record profits mean more exploitation and automation
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-03-06
Tampa, FL – United Parcel Service released their fourth quarter earnings last month, beating Wall Street's expectations with almost $5 billion in profit for 2018. Through a combination of opening new automated sorting facilities, purchasing more air cargo planes, and exploiting employees with low pay and long hours, UPS had an extremely profitable holiday season. The company is optimistic for profits in 2019 and moving into the future. For workers, however, the future does not look so bright. | In October 2018, UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) successfully pushed an incredibly unpopular co…
fightbacknews.org/2019/3/5/ups-record-profits-mean-more-exploitation-and-automation
The Sacredness of Donald Trump
Dan Corjescu | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
Emile Durkheim in his The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, revealed the profound insight that society under the guise of religion worships itself. Thus, Egyptian pyramids, Greek temples, Roman basilicas, Medieval cathedrals, Renaissance churches, and many other religious artifacts of all times and places are testaments to humanity's thinly veiled delusions of self-love. But what of…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/the-sacredness-of-donald-trump/
The UK Labour Party's "Antisemitism Crisis" and the Likud Supporters in Its Leadership
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
Labour's leadership has tried appeasing its critics, but this has not worked. Appeasement has only emboldened these critics. Jeremy Corbyn's detractors, both inside and outside the party, are adept at moving the goalposts, and will never be satisfied until he is gone as leader, and Labour once again becomes a "natural" home for opportunists like Tony Blair and his followers, and their friends in the Zionist lobby.
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/the-uk-labour-partys-antisemitism-crisis-and-the-likud-supporters-in-its-leadership/
The Politics of the Independent Group
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
They could not hold on. A small — and in the scheme of things negligible group — split from the British Labour mothership last month in an effort to salvage some self-described form of credibility. In truth, they were the original sceptics of Jeremy Corbyn, the pro-New Labour grouping indifferent, even disbelieving, about the predations…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/the-politics-of-the-independent-group/
Anti-Semitism Versus Anti-Zionism in Today's France
Lawrence Davidson | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
We are at a new stage of the fight to realize Palestinian rights and free both Palestinians and Jews from the consequences of Zionist racism. There was a time when very few in the West understood the racist nature of the Israeli state. For a long time the Zionists controlled the public relations message and…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/anti-semitism-versus-anti-zionism-in-todays-france/
Let's Change Europe From the Ground Up
Yanis Varoufakis | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
The 2008 global financial crisis — the modern 1929 crash — set off a vicious chain reaction across Europe. By 2010 it had irreparably damaged the foundations of the eurozone, causing the establishment to bend its own rules and commit crimes against logic in order to bail out its banker friends. By 2013 the neoliberal ideology…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/lets-change-europe-from-the-ground-up/
Dereliction of Congressional Duty
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
Last week's congressional testimony by Michael Cohen riveted the nation as President Trump's long-time lawyer, fixer and co-conspirator spilled the beans on his former boss. But Montana's Republican congressional members, Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Greg Gianforte, told reporters they were too busy "meeting with Montanans all day" to watch or listen to the hearings.
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/dereliction-of-congressional-duty/
India and Pakistan stoke chauvinism, exchange threats
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-06
Although cross-border shelling has reportedly declined since Sunday, continuing tensions between South Asia's rival nuclear-armed states have left the region on the brink of a catastrophic war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/06/inpk-m06.html
Study: Loss of Stratocumulus Clouds Could Precipitate Extreme Global Warmingd
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-03-06
Professor Tapio Schneider discusses a new study examining the relationship between stratocumulus cloud formation and high levels of atmospheric CO2…
therealnews.com/stories/study-loss-of-stratocumulus-clouds-could-precipitate-extreme-global-warming
SEP meetings launch Tamil edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-06
The meetings at Hatton in Sri Lanka's central plantation district and Jaffna, in the war-ravaged north, attracted important layers of workers and youth.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/06/tlun-m06.html
'Time to declare victory!' US senators seek to end 'forever war' in Afghanistan
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-06
Senators Rand Paul and Tom Udall have introduced a bill to end the ruinously expensive conflict in Afghanistan, declaring 'victory' in the longest war in US history after 18 years, some $6 trillion and over 100,000 dead. | …
rt.com/usa/453120-rand-paul-end-afghanistan-war/
Bread, Circuses, and Duct Tape: How to Make Border Porn
Greg Grandin | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-06
On February 15th, Donald Trump declared a state of national emergency in order to fund his "great, great" border wall without having to go through Congress. There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy. In speech after speech, including his declaration of that emergency, he has told the same story: the United States needs a border wall to prevent sex traffickers from driving women into the country, bound with duct tape.
counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/bread-circuses-and-duct-tape-how-to-make-border-porn/
Clapper claims he 'didn't lie' about NSA spying on Americans, but 'didn't understand' the question
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-06
NSA director-turned-cable-news-pundit James Clapper is still insisting he wasn't lying when he told a congressional panel the NSA wasn't spying on American citizens — three months before Edward Snowden told everyone it was. | …
rt.com/usa/453118-clapper-denies-perjury-nsa-spying/
Top US General Seeks More Troops in Europe to Confront Russia
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-03-06
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander-Europe, argued that the US needs to send even more troops and warships to Europe to "stay ahead of Russia." Even though Russia's military spending is actually scheduled to decrease in the next few years, Gen. Scaparrotti argued that the "growing" …
Top US General Seeks More Troops in Europe to Confront Russia
Venezuela Update: Guaidó Returns, US Continues Threats
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-03-06
Self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó returned to Venezuela without incident, despite having violated a travel ban. NSC chair John Bolton continued his threats against Maduro, warning him not to arrest Guaidó and reaffirming the US's right to intervene in Latin America…
therealnews.com/stories/venezuela-update-guaido-returns-us-continues-threats
Five and Two Others Curated by Mildred Howard
Creativity Explored | indybay.org | 2019-03-06
Creativity Explored | 3245 Sixteenth Street | San Francisco, CA 94103…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/05/18821695.php
Yes, Let's Defeat or Impeach Donald Trump. But What If He Refuses to Leave the White House?
Mehdi Hasan | theintercept.com | 2019-03-06
Donald Trump doesn't care about laws and warned as a 2016 candidate that he might not accept the vote tally. His surrogates have warned of violence.
theintercept.com/2019/03/06/donald-trump-impeachment-2020/
Warrior Women Screening with Madonna Thunder Hawk
Resource Center for Nonviolence | indybay.org | 2019-03-06
Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/05/18821681.php
The assault on Jeremy Corbyn is a warning that must be heeded
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-06
The March 3 attack on the Labour Party leader is the latest in a series of far-right provocations in Britain, pointing to the clear and present danger posed by the growth of far-right and fascist parties throughout Europe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/06/pers-m06.html
North Korea: Achievements in Health and Education
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
North Korea's "health system is the envy of the developing world" according to the World Health Organization: WHO director-general Margaret Chan said the country had "no lack of doctors and nurses"
globalresearch.ca/north-korea-their-health-system-sucks-do-they-have-schools-and-hospitals-in-america-weve-got-medicare-2/5604293
Roger Waters, socialists say no to Bernie and AOC's positions on Venezuela
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-03-05
As socialists rally in the United States over their country's backing of a right wing coup in Venezuela, the supposedly socialist members of Congress–Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)–are hitting talking points that worry critics like Roger Waters and activists in the streets alike. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/03/05/roger-waters-socialists-say-no-to-bernie-and-aocs-positions-on-venezuela/
Human Rights Orgs: End Canadian Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
CFJPIME | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) joined eleven other human rights organizations to send a letter calling the Canadian government to immediately suspend arms sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The letter pointed out that …
globalresearch.ca/end-canadian-arms-sales-saudi-arabia/5670461
The Trump-Kim Summit: What Really Happened in Hanoi?
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
While the western media has written off last weekend's summit in Hanoi as a failure, the talks did help to burnish Kim Jong-un's reputation as a sincere statesman committed to peacefully resolving the nuclear issue. This is a significant …
globalresearch.ca/what-happened-hanoi/5670438
Hanoi Summit: So close, yet so far from peace
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-03-05
In today's episode of International Round-up, NewsClick editor, Prabir Purkayastha, talks about the reasons behind the failure of the Hanoi Summit, where the US and North Korea could not arrive at a lasting agreement. He also discusses the changing dynamics and the possibilities that the inter-Korean peace process has augured.
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/03/05/hanoi-summit-so-close-yet-so-far-from-peace/
PATRICK LAWRENCE: It Was Kim That Walked Away
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-05
There are two sides to the story about why the second North Korea peace summit fell apart last week, writes Patrick Lawrence. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News The abrupt and unexpected failure of the second Trump–Kim summit last… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/04/patrick-lawrence-it-was-kim-that-walked-away/
Israel is Playing a Big Role in India's Escalating Conflict with Pakistan
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
When I heard the first news report, I assumed it was an Israeli air raid on Gaza. Or Syria. Airstrikes on a "terrorist camp" were the first words. A "command and control centre" destroyed, many "terrorists" killed. The military was retaliating for a "terrorist attack" on its troops, we were told. An Islamist "jihadi" base had been…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/israel-is-playing-a-big-role-in-indias-escalating-conflict-with-pakistan/
Why the Outrage? "Jewish Power" Party is the New Norm in Israeli Politics
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-05
Otzma Yehudit's (Jewish Power Party) platform only reinforces the existing "core values" of Israel, the same values that AIPAC itself champions without the slightest regard for human rights, international law and the principles of true democratic values argues Ramzy Baroud.
mintpressnews.com/outrage-jewish-power-party-new-norm-israeli-politics/255906/
An Open Letter to the Washington Office on Latin America About Its Stance on US Effort to Overthrow Venezuelan Government
commondreams | commondreams.org | 2019-03-05
Greg Grandin, Noam Chomsky, Sujatha Fernandes, Daniel Hellinger, et al. | U.S. Vice President of United States Mike Pence and Venezuelan opposition leader and declared acting president by the National Assembly Juan Guaid√≥ meet during the Lima Group Summit on February 25, 2019 in Bogota, Colombia. The meeting occurs after Nicol√°s Maduro blocked humanitarian aid in the border with Colombia in C√∫cuta. (Photo: Luis Ramirez/Vizzor Image/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/pence_guiado_venezuela.jpg…
commondreams.org/views/2019/03/05/open-letter-washington-office-latin-america-about-its-stance-us-effort-overthrow?cd-origin=rss
Removing "Arab" from the Syrian Arab Republic Would "Balkanize" the Country
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
The Syrian Kurds are committed to changing their country's name. | One of the group's representatives told Sputnik that they insist on changing the constitutional name of the Syrian Arab Republic to the "Syrian Republic" so as to supposedly make the …
globalresearch.ca/removing-arab-syrian-arab-republic-balkanize-country/5670453
Video: Al Qaeda Strikes Back. Major Escalation in Syria's Northern Hama
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
In the morning of March 3, fighters of the al-Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Tawhid carried out a major attack on several positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the town of Masasneh in northern Hama. A military source told SouthFront …
globalresearch.ca/major-escalation-northern-hama/5670422
Venezuela — Interview with Union Leader Stalin Pérez Borges: It Will Be Very Difficult to Defeat Us
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-03-05
In this conversation with the union leader, he examines the current conjuncture and the working class struggle in the Caribbean nation.
venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14363
An Unholy Alliance: Did the US-Backed UAE Fly ISIS Leaders into Yemen's Killing Fields?
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-05
The de facto alliance between the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, AQAP, and now allegedly ISIS in Yemen has led to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history,…
mintpressnews.com/us-backed-uae-accused-of-flying-isis-leaders-into-yemens-killing-fields/255884/
The War on Iraq : Five US Presidents, Five British Prime Ministers, More than Thirty Years of Duplicity, and Counting
Felicity Arbuthnot | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. He had walked into possibly the biggest trap in modern history…
globalresearch.ca/the-war-on-iraq-five-us-presidents-five-british-prime-ministers-thirty-years-of-duplicity-and-counting/20510
Nigeria: More than 50 reported missing after the oil pipeline explosion in Niger Delta
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-03-05
Hundreds of Nigerians in the Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa on the Niger Delta were forced to flee their villages after one of the numerous oil pipelines in the region exploded around 4 am on Friday morning. | According to a local chief, a " huge inferno" rose along the course of this pipeline which runs across six local communities in the region. According to reports, at least 50 people have gone missing in the stampede that ensued as people scrambled to run away from the blaze. | The pipeline is currently owned by t…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/03/05/nigeria-more-than-50-reported-missing-after-the-oil-pipeline-explosion-in-niger-delta/
Conflict in Kashmir: U.S. Imperialism's Playground
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-03-05
Last week saw a geopolitical explosion; something that seemed to many a sudden and terrifying threat of nuclear war on the Indian Subcontinent. For the first time since 1971, Pakistan and India engaged in active combat in the contested muslim-majority territory of Kashmir. The confrontation began with India's aerial bombing of an alleged terrorist camp …
uwidata.com/2564-conflict-in-kashmir-u-s-imperialisms-playground/
Inside the Secretive U.S. Air War in Somalia: How Many Civilians Have Died as Strikes Escalate?
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-05
The Trump administration is rapidly escalating a secretive air war in Somalia. According to the think tank New America, at least 252 people have been killed in around two dozen U.S. airstrikes in Somalia so far this year. The U.S. has already carried out more strikes in Somalia in 2019 than in any single year under President Obama. In addition to the air war, the Pentagon reportedly has about 500 U.S. troops on the ground in Somalia, including many special operations forces. For years, the U.S. has attempted to aid the Somali government by targeting members of al-Shabab, but the effort has increased dramatically…
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/5/inside_the_secretive_us_air_war
Russia on Venezuela: U.S. mercenaries and direct military intervention
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-03-05
We are certainly worried about the U.S. plans to arm militants in order to destabilise the situation in Venezuela and, frankly speaking, invade this sovereign country. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/03/05/russia-on-venezuela-u-s-mercenaries-and-direct-military-intervention/
The US Wants to Sanction Away Russia's "Great Society"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
Latest round of proposed US sanctions is intended to offset Putin's legacy-defining socio-economic development program known as the "Great Society" | *** | Congress is deliberating whether to promulgate the so-called " Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2019″ …
globalresearch.ca/us-wants-sanction-away-russias-great-society/5670456
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate
The Nation | thenation.com | 2019-03-05
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate…
thenation.com/article/katrina-vanden-heuvel-stephen-cohen-russiagate/
The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran
Jim Miles | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
Western mainstream media (MSM) typically present Iran as a degenerate and impoverished society under the sway of Islamic terrorist fundamentalists. Alternate media and seriously investigated works present a much different picture. Dan Kovalik's The Plot to Attack Iran highlights | …
globalresearch.ca/plot-attack-iran-cia-deep-state-conspired-vilify-iran/5670427