External Powers Fuel Bloodshed in Libya
STAFF | therealnews.com | 2019-04-06
General Khalifa Haftar of Libya has been a very disruptive force for the formation of the UN's unity government, says Vijay Prashad, the author of the book, Arab Spring Libyan Winter…
therealnews.com/stories/external-powers-fuel-bloodshed-in-libya
Oil Politics Drive Turmoil in Libya
STAFF | therealnews.com | 2019-04-06
With two of the largest oil producers, Iran and Russia, under U.S. sanctions, all profiteering eyes of the west turn to oil rich Libya, says Vijay Prashad, the author of the book, Arab Spring Libyan Winter…
therealnews.com/stories/oil-politics-drive-turmoil-in-libya
Committee Votes to Move David Bernhardt's Nomination as Interior Secretary to Full Senate Vote
Dan Bacher | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-06
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on April 4 voted 14-6 to move the nomination of Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, a former Westlands Water District and oil industry lobbyist, to a full Senate vote, setting the stage for a contentious and heated debate. In his lobbying disclosures, Bernhardt has listed…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/06/committee-votes-to-move-david-bernhardts-nomination-as-interior-secretary-to-full-senate-vote/
Healthcare Workers Fall Victim to Yemen's Latest Cholera Epidemic
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-04-06
The deliberate attacks on water wells and water treatment facilities in Yemen are causing some in the country to wonder if the U.S.-backed Saudi coalition is attempting to intentionally trigger another cholera epidemic.
mintpressnews.com/healthcare-workers-fall-victim-to-yemens-latest-cholera-epidemic/257041/
The Madness Driving Climate Catastrophe
H. Patricia Hynes | truthdig.com | 2019-04-06
"Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption" | A book by Simon Pirani | The Great Acceleration: This is the designation given to the last 70 years during which industrial countries and a handful of newly rich developing countries extracted and consumed fossil fuels at a reckless rate. While accurate, the metaphor might suggest progress rather than the ominous atmospheric, terrestrial and oceanic climate trends ensuing. | The 20 hottest years on record have occurred since 1995, almost in tandem with the impotent U.N. climate negotiations begun in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and followed by the Kyoto Protoc…
truthdig.com/articles/the-madness-driving-climate-catastrophe/
US to Declare Iran's Revolutionary Guards as Terrorist Group
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-04-06
(MEE) — The United States will designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, an unprecedented move that will ramp up pressure on the elite force, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The newspaper, citing unidentified officials, said President Donald Trump's administration will announce the decision as soon as Monday and that concerned defence officials were …
US to Declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as Terrorist Group
Discussion: The Mueller Report, Trump's Response, and the Interests of the People
Revolution Books | indybay.org | 2019-04-06
Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/03/18822510.php
Socialist Analysis "Collapse of the Trump-Russia Hoax & the Bankruptcy of Liberalism"
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-04-06
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indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/03/18822505.php
Trump visits border to step up attack on immigrants
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-06
Trump's visit took place two days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 280 immigrant workers in a raid on an electronics plant in Texas.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/06/trum-a06.html
Mass Popular Mobilization in Venezuela on April 6
plenglish | plenglish.com | 2019-04-06
Caracas, Apr 5 (Prensa Latina) The speaker of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, called on Thursday to a mass popular mobilization in this capital on April 6 to defend the Bolivarian Revolution.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=40603&SEO=mass-popular-mobilization-in-venezuela-on-april-6
Mass Popular Mobilization in Venezuela on April 6
plenglish | plenglish.com | 2019-04-06
Caracas, Apr 4 (Prensa Latina) The speaker of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, called on Thursday to a mass popular mobilization in this capital on April 6 to defend the Bolivarian Revolution.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=40564&SEO=mass-popular-mobilization-in-venezuela-on-april-6
Supporters oppose eviction of Julian Assange outside London's Ecuadorian embassy
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-06
Defenders of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gathered outside the Ecuadorian embassy in central London yesterday, after a warning that he faces eviction from the building where he sought political asylum in 2012 "within hours to days."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/06/lond-a06.html
America the Barbaric
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-06
If the conditions that exist in US prisons were exposed in Russia or China, there would be a hue and cry in the press and the halls of Congress for economic sanctions and "humanitarian" military intervention.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/06/pers-a06.html
Nobody is Above the Law Rally Release Mueller Report
Move on | indybay.org | 2019-04-06
at the Powell & Market cable car turnaround…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/04/18822524.php
Restaurants and Retailers Warned Against Illegal Sales of Foie Gras
Animal Legal Defense Fund | indybay.org | 2019-04-06
California businesses alerted they must comply with the law banning sale of cruelly-produced "gourmet" delicacy…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/02/18822494.php
Netanyahu embraces Brazil's Bolsonaro during Israel visit
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-06
Under Netanyahu, Israel has become a pole of attraction for right-wing ideologues, ultra-nationalists and neo-fascists the world over.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/06/isra-a06.html
San Rafael Activists Demand Release of Entire Mueller Report
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2019-04-06
Hundreds of Protesters excoriate Attorney General Barr for hiding Mueller's report on Trump's alleged crimes and violations of his oath of office. Steve Disenhof and Leon Kunstenaar, Pro Bono Photo…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/05/18822531.php
The Globalization of War. America's "Long War" against Humanity
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-05
America's hegemonic project in…
globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-war-americas-long-war-against-humanity/5426125
The Syrian American Council's Pressure Campaign to Censor One of Its Major Critics
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-04-05
The Syrian American Council and a collection of pro-war lobbyists have led an intimidation campaign aimed at bullying a major Washington-based bookstore, Politics and Prose, into canceling award-winning journalist and author Max Blumenthal's launch event for his new book The Management of Savagery. | And it appears to have worked. Politics and Prose announced that it would "postpone" the event, citing "concerns" over the event's "format, substance, … [and] security" in a tweet. In a testament to the ferocity of the harassment campaign ag…
mintpressnews.com/how-a-pro-war-lobby-strong-armed-a-bookstore-into-censoring-one-of-their-biggest-critics/256991/
Terms of Asylum and Distraction: Moreno's Assange Problem
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
Political asylum is an accepted if often ignored right. It is also at the mercy of those interests that grant it. Ecuador's repeated insistence on conditioning Julian Assange's stay in its London abode is tantamount to corroding the idea of asylum to vacuity. You are granted asylum as a political dissident, but political dissident you…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/terms-of-asylum-and-distraction-morenos-assange-problem/
Ecuador Twists Embarrassing INA Papers into Pretext to Oust Assange
Defend Wikileaks | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-05
On 26 March, WikiLeaks' Twitter account announced that President Moreno is being investigated by Ecuador's Congress for corruption, sparked by the INA Papers leak. The same tweet referenced President Moreno's attempt to surrender Assange in exchange for US debt relief, …
globalresearch.ca/ecuador-ina-papers-pretext-oust-assange/5673682
Protecting Julian Assange: A Must for People of Conscience
Kim Petersen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-05
A high level source within the Ecuadorian state has told Wikileaks that Julian Assange will be expelled within 'hours to days.' — WikiLeaks on Twitter. | The Mueller investigation of an alleged collusion between Donald Trump and Russia to influence the …
globalresearch.ca/protecting-julian-assange/5673698
With Extradition Imminent, the Implications of Assange's Persecution for Journalism and Democracy
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-04-05
In light of Wikileaks tweeting that Julian Assange will be forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in a matter of "hours or days, MPN brings you a piece by Whitney Webb first published last June on the dangerous implications of the persecution of the Wikileaks founder.
mintpressnews.com/the-implications-of-juilian-assange-persecution-for-journalism-and-democracy/244339/
Reluctant Soldier, Confused Peacenik
Eric Walberg | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-05
Bowe Bergdahl captured the American imagination in 2009 when he disappeared from what had become his living hell. His battalion commander, Lt Baker, was not only an obnoxious tyrant (handing out Field-Grade Article 15s, just short of a court martial, supposedly for being out of uniform, but in fact for complaining about the mission to …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/reluctant-soldier-confused-peacenik/
Minnesotans honor MLK and say yes to peace, no to NATO
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-04-05
St. Paul, MN – On April 4, 80 people gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol building to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to use his words to analyze the militarism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Both MLK and NATO are connected to the date of April 4. | On April 4, 1967, Dr. King delivered his "Beyond Vietnam" anti-war speech at the Riverside Church in New York City. He would tragically be assassinated exactly one year later, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. | On April 4, 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed marking the inception of the military allia…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/4/5/minnesotans-honor-mlk-and-say-yes-peace-no-nato
Venezuela Today — Part 2: People power resists U.S. threats
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2019-04-05
The following is Part 2 of an excerpted talk given March 21 at a Workers World Party meeting in New York City. The writer, the co-director of the International Action Center, was part of the March 9-18 delegation to Venezuela organized by the U.S. Peace Council. Venezuela's conflict with imperialism . . . | Continue reading Venezuela Today — Part 2: People power resists U.S. threats at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/04/04/venezuela-today-part-2-people-power-resists-u-s-threats/
U.S.-Mexico border delegation hears from immigrant women stuck in Nogales, tours border wall and Sonoran Desert
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-04-05
Nogales, Sonora, Mexico – The second day of the Legalization for All Network delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border on March 31 was intense and emotional. The delegation divided into three groups for the day, which allowed them to gain a wider range of experiences. | One group of delegation members crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Nogales to visit the organization HEPAC (Hogar de Esperanza y Paz – Home of Hope and Peace) and hear testimonies from women fleeing horrific situations and trying to seek asylum in the U.S. Another group accompanied the humanitarian organization Tucson Samaritans deep into the Arizona…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/4/5/us-mexico-border-delegation-hears-immigrant-women-stuck-nogales-tours-border-wall-and-sonor
Lies our Senators Tell Us, or, Whither Congress?
Matthew Pappalardo | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
Last month, a group of student activists from various Bay Area climate justice groups visited Senator Feinstein's office in California to deliver a letter urging her to support the Green New Deal. While the students may have held out some hope Feinstein would see the light after agreeing to meet them without a scheduled appointment,…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/lies-our-senators-tell-us-or-whither-congress/
Thinking About Russia: Pigeonholing Doesn't Work
Peter Crowley | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
Black-and-white thinking rarely works and certainly not about Russia. Consider the following. Only days ago, about 100 Russian troops landed in Venezuela to deter a U.S. invasion. At home, Russian security forces continue to repress pro-democracy movements, dissidents and LGBT rights activists. The Russian military has long aided the Bashar al-Assad regime, which is responsible…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/thinking-about-russia-pigeonholing-doesnt-work/
Chicago elections and what's coming next
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-04-05
Chicago, IL – The corporate media has missed what is most important about Chicago's April 2 elections. Its focus on the uninspiring mayoral contest between Toni Preckwinkle and Lori Lightfoot helped contribute to the lowest voter turnout ever. Only 29% of registered voters went to the polls. | What this election did see was a record number of young candidates challenging incumbents, and the greatest amount was in the Black wards of the city. According to Aislinn Pulley, an organizer with Black Lives Matter-Chicago, "What was significant were the young activists – mostly Black and Latino – that fought neighborhood…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/4/4/chicago-elections-and-what-s-coming-next
'The Essence of Being Palestinian': What the Great March of Return is Really About
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
The aims of the Great March of Return protests, which began in Gaza on March 30, 2018 are to put an end to the suffocating Israeli siege and implementing the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees who were expelled from their homes and towns in historic Palestine 70 years earlier. But there is much more…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/the-essence-of-being-palestinian-what-the-great-march-of-return-is-really-about/
Robert Reich: Closing the Border to Mexico is "Insane"
STAFF | therealnews.com | 2019-04-05
$1.5 billion dollars per day cross the US-Mexico border and closing it, as Trump has proposed (and recently backtracked), would be "cataclysmic," says former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, whom Laura Carlsen interviewed in Mexico…
therealnews.com/stories/robert-reich-closing-the-border-to-mexico-is-insane
Something About Butte
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
September, 2004. Butte, Montana isn't a mining town. It's a mined town. The core of the city is hollow, tunneled out. Beneath the shattered surface of the Hill, there are more than 10,000 miles of underground passages and thousands of shafts, glory holes descending deep feet into the bedrock. Every now and then, holes will…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/something-about-butte-2/
Trump Administration Demands that Turkey Cancel Purchase of Russian S-400 Air Defense Missiles
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-05
The Trump regime demands Turkey cancel its planned purchase of Russian S-400 air defense missiles. | Technologically superior to US long-range surface-to-air Patriot missiles, nothing in the West matches their effectiveness. | S-400s can destroy multiple hostile aircraft, ballistic missiles, and …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-demands-turkey-cancel-purchase-russian-s-400-air-defense-missiles/5673569
IDF General: Israel Behind Coup That Installed Al-Sisi Dictatorship in Egypt
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-04-05
Al-Sisi's government, widely considered a military dictatorship despite a pale sheen of democracy, has forged increasingly close ties with Israel ever since he came to power in the 2013 coup.
mintpressnews.com/idf-general-israel-behind-coup-that-installed-al-sisi-dictatorship-in-egypt/257002/
Guaido set to enact uprising rooted in U.S. Regime-change operations manual
Whitney Webb | mronline.org | 2019-04-05
With its hands tied when it comes to military intervention, only covert actions–such as those described in the RED Team document–are likely to be enacted by the U.S. government, at least at this stage of its ongoing "regime change" effort in Venezuela. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/04/05/guaido-set-to-enact-uprising-rooted-in-u-s-regime-change-operations-manual/
"The Owner": The Rise of Eduardo Elsztain and the Coming End of Argentina's Democracy
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-04-05
With the backing and funding of the global elite, Eduardo Elsztain and his closest associates have taken control of Argentina's real estate, electricity, agriculture, and finance industries. His next target? Argentina's election system.
mintpressnews.com/the-owner-the-rise-of-eduardo-elsztain-and-the-coming-end-of-argentinas-democracy/256959/
Identity Rules: A Report from Reddening Chicago
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
Fake-Progressive Identity Cloaking Beyond the identity-politicized excitement of Chicago electing its first Black female chief executive and becoming the largest U.S. city to have a Black female mayor (and to have a gay mayor), there wasn't all that much for a leftist to choose from between victor Lori Lightfoot and her opponent Toni Preckwinkle. Mayor-Elect…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/identity-rules-a-report-from-reddening-chicago/
"Corporate Homicide": Ralph Nader Demands Boeing Recall Jets After Ethiopia Crash Kills His Niece
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-04-05
A wrongful death case was filed against Boeing on the same day that a preliminary investigation into last month's Ethiopian Airlines crash revealed damning details about the aircraft manufacturer and raised new questions about whether it gave pilots proper instructions for navigating new software. The findings were released Thursday in Ethiopia, based on the analysis of a team of 18 investigators, less than a month after the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash killed all 157 people on board. The report found similarities in the technical issues experienced by pilots on both the Ethiopian Airlines flight and Octob…
www.democracynow.org/2019/4/5/corporate_homicide_ralph_nader_demands_justice
Foreign Correspondent: Ukraine Elections, Putin, and Trump
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2019-04-05
Will the next president of Ukraine pursue reconciliation with Russia?
progressive.org/dispatches/ukrainian-elections-putin-and-trump-erlich-190405/
The Veto: Documentary Film Exposing Western Media Propaganda War Against Syria
Vanessa Beeley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-05
I met journalist and friend Rafiq Lutf and cameraman Abdul-Mun'aim Arnous in January 2018 and I was honoured when Rafiq asked me to work with him on his film project, The Veto. | As Dr Shaaban said to me in August …
globalresearch.ca/veto-film-exposing-cnn-al-jazeera-channel-4-western-media-propaganda-war-syria/5673628
Pity About No Collusion, But They've Still Got the Cold War to Heat Up
Brian Cloughley | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
Donald Trump is a narcissistic boor who tells lies with a casual indifference that might be regarded with amusement ("My father is German, was German, born in a very wonderful place in Germany") were he not a malevolent poseur with all the style and attraction of a sock full of wet spaghetti. He is a spiteful mendacious…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/pity-about-no-collusion-but-theyve-still-got-the-cold-war-to-heat-up/
Paradise Lost: Reflections on the Camp Fire
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
I just visited the town of Paradise located on the slopes of the Cascade Range near Chico, California. The Camp Fire burned through Paradise last November (2018) killing 87 people, mostly older residents. Plus destroying 14000 homes and another 4800 structures (like commercial buildings). Another 637 structures were "damaged" bringing the total estimate by CAL…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/paradise-lost-reflections-on-the-camp-fire/
The Death Penalty is Getting Crueler
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
For years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. In 2005, another ruling held that the U.S. cannot execute anyone for…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/the-death-penalty-is-getting-crueler/
The Case Against the CIA's Censors
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
I have joined in a lawsuit with four former federal employees to end the government's censorship of our writings on national security issues. The current publications review system of our military and intelligence agencies is dysfunctional, inhibiting our ability to participate in national security debates. The government has a legitimate interest in protecting bona fide secrets, but the review system is opaque, exceeding legitimate national security boundaries and compromising free speech.
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/the-case-against-the-cias-censors/
America Enters the Twilight Zone
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think." –Rod Serling Have you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone? Only instead of Rod Serling's imaginary "land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas," we're…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/america-enters-the-twilight-zone/
The Privatization of Wildlife: How Ted Turner Scored Yellowstone Bison
Joshua Frank | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
The following is an excerpt from The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink. It is just one more battle in the century-and-a-half-old range wars, where land and wildlife have come into direct conflict with selfish, private interests. It's also a story of privileged ethnocentrism, where a once proud indigenous culture and the wild species it…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/the-privatization-of-wildlife-how-ted-turner-scored-yellowstone-bison/
Warren's Plan to Rein in Tech Companies
Jeff Hauser | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
America's cops on the competition beat have grown lazy. They are not enforcing antitrust laws passed during the first Gilded Age to level a playing field tilted by powerful corporations for their own benefit; that's why America is stuck in a second Gilded Age of economic inequality. These officials have been lulled to sleep by…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/warrens-plan-to-rein-in-tech-companies/
The Anti-Semitic Con
Paul Edwards | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
With the Putin/Russia Collusion Fairytale debunked, the undeniable cancer of real foreign interference in our government demands an honest airing. Since American politics is mortally corrupt, one might wonder why bother to expose one prime cause of its ethical degeneracy. If the beast is dead, what use is determining what killed it? Well, it isn't…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/the-anti-semitic-con/
Iraq's WMDs Found…In Russia
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-05
In late 2017, actor Morgan Freeman announced in a video created by a who's who of senior U.S. Intelligence officials that Russia had attacked the United States and that 'we' were at war. Freeman, whose net worth is said to be about a quarter-billion dollars, claimed that ex-Soviet 'authoritarian' Vladimir Putin, bitter about the dissolution of 'his' country, was behind the attack. The terms 'attack' and 'war' were not qualified as metaphors.
counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/iraqs-wmds-found-in-russia/