If war is an industry, how can there be peace in a capitalist World?
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-04-26
On 26 April 1937, twelve bombers of the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria flew low over the Basque country of Spain in the midst of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). They tore down over the small town of Guernica, where they let loose their fiery arsenal. Almost two thousand people died in […] | Source…
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Appeals Court Decision Upholds First Amendment Rights Of Undocumented Immigrants
Kevin Gosztola | shadowproof.com | 2019-04-26
In a victory for undocumented immigrants who engage in activism, a federal appeals court found activist Ravi Ragbir had a valid claim against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which attempted to deport him in retaliation for his political speech.
shadowproof.com/2019/04/26/appeals-court-decision-first-amendment-ravi-ragbir-undocumented-immigrants/
Collective protects Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C
Morgan Artyukhina | liberationnews.org | 2019-04-26
Activists from across the country, including a group of tenants staying inside the embassy as the invited guests of the legitimate government, have working around the clock to prevent the illegal seizure of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. by opposition forces loyal to coup leader Juan Guaido.
liberationnews.org/collective-protects-venezuelan-embassy-in-washington-d-c/
Activists Remain In Venezuelan Embassy With Gratitude From Foreign Ministry
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-26
Embassy protectors pack the Hugo Chavez library for an event with John Kiriakou (Photo by Margaret Flowers) Washington, DC — Thursday, April 25, the day activists anticipated the Secret Service might evict them from the Venezuelan embassy, turned into a day of growing support for and attention to the embassy protection efforts. Activists are making …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/activists-remain-in-venezuelan-embassy-with-gratitude-from-foreign-ministry/
Death Can be a Slow Traveler: Peltier, Mumia and Rap Brown
Stanley Cohen | mintpressnews.com | 2019-04-26
While movements such as the Black Panther Party, the BLA, AIM and MOVE still resonate among some in a new generation of activists, many of their former members, now riddled with poor health and buried in prison, have been all but lost to the passage of time.
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Results of the Syria peace talks in Nur-Sultan
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-04-26
The twelfth round of the Syria negotiations (the so-called "Astana format") was held in Kazakhstan`s capital Nur-Sultan. On Thursday, the Ritz Carlton hosted a closed meetings of participants. Delegations from Russia, Turkey and Iran (the guarantors of the "Astana" process) held intensive talks in a bilateral and trilateral format. Representatives of Damascus, the Syrian opposition …
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Climate Destruction — Bearing Witness with Dahr Jamail
Lesley Docksey | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-26
"The question is not are we going to fail. The question is how?" Stephen Jenkinson, author and storyteller. | Water, glaciers, oceans, food, forests and fires — all of these things are part of global warming under the magnifying glass of | …
globalresearch.ca/climate-destruction-bearing-witness-with-dahr-jamail/5675741
Watch Americans defend Venezuela's embassy in DC from takeover by coup forces
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2019-04-26
An inside look at the grassroots Embassy Protection Collective comprised of Americans who have gathered from across the country to…
thegrayzone.com/2019/04/26/americans-venezuelas-embassy-coup-guaido/
Never Satisfied: Willie Dixon Refused to Serve…Anything But the Blues
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
His momma was weeping by now and Willie knew it. That's why he couldn't tell her, couldn't look Miss Daisy in the eye and let her know he was leaving for Chicago. It would hurt too much–him more than her, maybe. So he left while she was at church. He stuffed some clothes in a pillowcase and ran to the rail yards with his friend Shedrick, never looking back. He couldn't look back. Willie Dixon had to get out of Mississippi.
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Joe Biden: An Imperial Corporatist Wrapped in the Bloody Flag of Charlottesville
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
Besides being a grabby old coot who needs to stop joking about complaints over his serially inappropriate touching of females, Joe Biden is a grinning neoliberal sell-out who stands well to the right of majority progressive public opinion. No elegantly crafted three-and-a-half minute campaign launch video on the horrors of Charlottesville and Donald Trump can…
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Consortium News' Record on Russiagate–How CN Covered the 'Scandal': No. 7: 'Russiagate Is No Watergate or Iran-Contra'
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-04-26
Many comparisons have been made between Russiagate and the earlier scandals of Watergate and Iran-Contra, but the similarities are at best superficial, explained Robert Parry on June 28, 2017. On CNN last week Carl Bernstein astonishingly said that the Mueller… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/04/26/russia-gate-is-no-watergate-or-iran-contra/
War on Iran and Calling America's Bluff
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-26
The Trump administration once again has graphically demonstrated that in the young, turbulent 21st century, "international law" and "national sovereignty" already belong to the Realm of the Walking Dead. | As if a deluge of sanctions against a great deal …
globalresearch.ca/war-iran-calling-americas-bluff/5675750
Tina Vasquez on Covering Immigration, Sina Toossi on Iran Sanctions
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2019-04-26
Media…
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What's Driving Bolton's Attacks on the "Troika of Tyranny"?
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
If you're in the market for a troika of tyranny, Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo certainly fit the bill. Or, if you'd rather focus on countries not individuals, you might single out Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt as the three most likely candidates. Perhaps, if you're in a confessional mood,…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/whats-driving-boltons-attacks-on-the-troika-of-tyranny/
Trump and False Consciousness
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
Pres. Donald Trump is a media magician, able to artfully distort and/or deny the factual "truth" of an event or news report that exposes his failings or falsehoods. He is currently playing his grand political fan dance over information revealed in the redacted Mueller report. In late-March, his loyal-henchman, AG Bill Barr, first spun the hokum…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/trump-and-false-consciousness/
The Mueller Report Indicts the Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory
Aaron Maté | thenation.com | 2019-04-26
The Mueller Report Indicts the Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory…
thenation.com/article/russiagate-trump-mueller-report-no-collusion/
Video: The Veto. The Western Media's Propaganda Campaign against Syria
Rafiq Lutf | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-26
The Veto tracks the evolution of the propaganda campaign waged by Western media against Syria. From Baba Amr in Homs 2011/2012 until the modern day "propaganda construct" — the NATO-member-state funded White Helmets. | It honours Russia and China's vetoes that …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-veto-the-western-medias-propaganda-campaign-against-syria/5675694
Clouds Gather Above the Middle East: War or No War?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-26
In recent years, Israel has proved capable of reading between the lines to assess accurately the politico-military situation in the Middle East, exploiting timely opportunities to hit targets of its enemies in Syria and Iraq. Domestic, regional and unlimited US …
globalresearch.ca/middle-east-war-or-no-war/5675752
SPLC Action Fund: Fla. communities endangered by unconstitutional immigration enforcement bill
Scott McCoy, Senior Policy Counsel, SPLC Action Fund | splcenter.org | 2019-04-26
The Florida Senate approved Senate Bill 168 today. It requires local law enforcement to assist in federal immigration enforcement.
splcenter.org/news/2019/04/26/splc-action-fund-fla-communities-endangered-unconstitutional-immigration-enforcement-bill
Want to Expand Medicare? Then Answer the $5 Trillion Questions
Mike Konczal | thenation.com | 2019-04-26
Want to Expand Medicare? Then Answer the $5 Trillion Questions.
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$220,000 for Every Man, Woman and Child — America Is Now 72 Trillion Dollars in Debt
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-26
Are you ready to cough up $220,000 to pay your share? One of the reasons why a day of reckoning for the U.S. economy is inevitable is because we are in way too much debt. The 22 trillion dollar debt …
globalresearch.ca/america-now-72-trillion-dollars-debt/5675760
The Style Section Meets State Craft: Amal Clooney and the Foreign Policy Influencers
Jennifer Matsui | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
Even on a slow news day, the appointment of Amal Clooney as UK Special Envoy for Press Freedom wouldn't have elicited much more than a glance at a headline to a gossip column item of little relevance to anyone outside her immediate circle of Royals, war criminals, and fashion editors. After all, the once globetrotting…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/the-style-section-meets-state-craft-amal-clooney-and-the-foreign-policy-influencers/
A Look at the Talent in the Room
David Macaray | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
The case can be made that there are five–and only five–reasons why anyone runs for U.S. president. In ascending order, going from most frivolous to least frivolous, here are those reasons: 1. Nothing more than a glorified, masturbatory "stunt" to get your name in the news and, later, when you're dead, have it mentioned in…
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Coming of Age at the End of History
John Whitlow | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
In 1989, in the midst of the collapse of the Soviet Union and just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama argued, famously, that we had reached…
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How Chicago Police Infiltrated, Spied on Anti-NATO Organizers
Andy Thayer | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
Chicago Police here infiltrated the main anti-NATO summit organizing coalition shortly after its 2011 formation, and maintained that infiltration until shortly after the summit ended in May 2012, according to Chicago Police Department documents recently released under a Freedom of Information Act request. On January 11, 2012, Michael J. Mealer, Commander of the CPD's Intelligence…
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Why Left Wing Populism Is Not Enough
Vincent Navarro | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
The considerable advances that the labor movements made in the period 1945–1978 (known as "The Golden Age of Capitalism"), and the considerable expansion of social, labor, and political rights that these movements achieved on both sides of the North Atlantic (North America and Western Europe), generated a response from the economic and financial establishments–as well as from the political and media establishments which they influence enormously–that had an extensive impact. These establishments developed the anti-labor movement policies, known internationally as neoliberal policies, that signif…
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The Earth for Their Possession
Peter Linebaugh | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
I was in Hawaii to discuss 'history from below' together with that powerful practitioner of said history, scholarly abolitionist, writer, and colleague, Marcus Rediker. How is 'history from below' to be distinguished from similar forms of history writing, such as people's history, radical history, labor history, social history, not to mention African American history, or women's history? One distinction is that since 'below' implies 'above,' this practice of history always carries with it a notion of relationship as in, for example, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle."
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Hating the Homeless
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
Being rousted by the cops is hardly if ever a good thing. Back in 1982 I was sleeping under some trees in a park in Kansas City when I heard approaching footsteps. Dawn had barely broken. It was midsummer and I was hazily watching the dew turn to steam while I slowly woke from a…
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Demonizing the Few to Alienate and Sway the Many
John O'Kane | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
The only media fixation that's more irritating than the saturation coverage of candidates running for an office nearly two years ahead of the election instead of discussing issues, is the punditry of phrase-pinning, the constant refrain that certain candidates are "socialist" and therefore untouchables. George Stephanopoulos recently destroyed what burgeoning relevance had surfaced about this…
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The College Admissions Scam Isn't About Education
Ruth Fowler | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
What's most surprising to me about the College Admissions Scam where fifty affluent and influential people were charged with bribery and fraud to get their unqualified children into top US colleges, is that these people actually thought that a college degree would help their children even more than their evident power and influence. Reading through…
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Sri Landa and New Zealand: The Real Link
Chandra Muzaffar | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
The carnage in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday has been condemned by people everywhere. Individuals and groups from different faith traditions have not ceased to emphasize that the mass slaughter of at least 321 persons in churches attending Easter services and in hotels on 21st April is a heinous crime in the eyes of any…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/sri-landa-and-new-zealand-the-real-link/
Corruption and Mismanagement at USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service's Put Consumers at Risk, Whistleblower Says
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), which operates under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and employs more than 10,000 people, is tasked with ensuring the safety and proper labeling of U.S. meat, poultry and eggs. FSIS inspectors are present at over 6,200 U.S. slaughter, food processing and import facilities to check for diseased animals, compliance…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/corruption-and-mismanagement-at-usdas-food-safety-and-inspection-services-put-consumers-at-risk-whistleblower-says/
How Obama Defanged the EPA Before Trump Gutted the Agency
Joshua Frank | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
It was a tumultuous tenure, productive by some accounts, lackluster by most, but one thing is for certain, Lisa Jackson's short time as administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency was anything but dull. On December 27, 2012 the often-fiery Jackson announced she was not going to return for a second term, and it is surely…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/how-obama-defanged-the-epa-before-trump-gutted-the-agency/
Measuring National Power
Jonathan Power | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
Let's make America great again! Or as the prime minister of France said: Let's make France great again. Or, as President Donald Trump conceded, let every nation in the world announce that they are going to be great again. But what makes for greatness? Over that there is a big dispute. Strategists say that power…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/national-power-new-and-old/
Continual Confrontation in the South China Sea
Brian Cloughley | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
In a display of groveling sycophancy the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has decided to name an illegal Jewish settlement in the occupied Golan Heights after Donald Trump. (Trumpen-lebensraum, perhaps?) This follows an equally bizarre proposal by Poland's President Duda to call a US military base Fort Trump, which The Economist observed "struck many Poles as toe-curlingly crass". It is intriguing to speculate…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/continual-confrontation-in-the-south-china-sea/
Turkey: Revenge of the Kurds
Conn Hallinan | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
After 18 years of unchallenged power and success, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suddenly finds himself in the middle of several domestic and foreign crises with no obvious way out. It is unfamiliar ground for a master politician who has moved nimbly from the margins of power to the undisputed leader of the largest economy…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/turkey-revenge-of-the-kurds/
Coming of Age at the End of History
John Whitlow | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
In 1989, in the midst of the collapse of the Soviet Union and just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama argued, famously, that we had reached…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/coming-of-age-at-the-end-of-history/
Death Can be a Slow Traveler: Peltier, Mumia and Rap Brown
Stanley L. Cohen | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-26
When the history of our times is recorded, any volume on domestic political prisoners must, per force, begin with the legendary ones of conscience. To these icons of principle, determination and courage we owe much. It is, after all, not by mere default that they risked, and often paid, all to demand the gale of change sweep away generations of ignorance, hatred and greed that have long fed on communities of color and poverty, from coast to coast, in the United States. For them, it was never about personal risk for they knew all too well the price that can be exacted for such integrity. For them, the alternative…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/death-can-be-a-slow-traveler-peltier-mumia-and-rap-brown/
Venezuela: Arreaza Slams US for 'Criminal' Blockade
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-26
The United States Treasury sanctioned Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Arreaza Friday, who condemned the move and denounced what he described as "criminal" acts by the U.S. against the oil-rich Latin American country. | RELATED: | US Sanctions Killed Over 40,000 Venezuelans Since 2017 | The Office of Foreign Assets Control, a financia…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Arreaza-Slams-US-for-Criminal-Blockade-20190426-0015.html
Stop U.S. sanctions!
Editor | workers.org | 2019-04-26
The gang that announces Washington's policies has laid out a program of punishment, aimed at populations of countries on three continents. Any honest international court would charge them with crimes against humanity. Marchers in New York join millions who reject U.S. sanctions on Venezuela.WW photo: Brenda Ryan Secretary of State . . . | Continue reading Stop U.S. sanctions! at Workers.org…
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For NYT, Israel Is Always Nearing 'Apartheid,' but Never Quite Gets There
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2019-04-26
by Gregory Shupak The New York Times' warning ( 4/11/19) that Israel/Palestine is "on a trajectory to become what critics say will be an apartheid state" echoed predictions that the Times has been making since the first years of the 21st century. | Following Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election as Israeli prime minister earlier this month, the New York Times' editorial board ( 4/11/19) wrote: Under Mr. Netanyahu…
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U.S. Withdrawing From Global Arms Trade Treaty, Trump Says
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-04-26
WASHINGTON–The Latest on President Trump and the National Rifle Association (all times local): | 1 p.m. | President Donald Trump says the U.S. has decided to withdraw its support for a treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade. It's the latest example of the Trump administration's dislike of international pacts. | Trump said Friday that he has decided to revoke the United States' status as a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty regulating international trade in conventional weapons, including small arms, battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships. | He says America is "rejecting this treaty"
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"A Shameful Week for the U.S.": Trump Admin Guts U.N. Resolution to End Rape as Weapon of War
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-04-26
The Trump administration is under fire after the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution to end rape as a weapon of war on Tuesday that excluded any mention of sexual and reproductive health. The resolution was gutted after the U.S. threatened to veto the measure altogether unless language referencing reproductive health was taken out due to the Trump administration's belief that the language was code for abortion. The watered-down measure also weakened references to the International Criminal Court, making it harder for women and girls to seek justice. We speak with Jessica Neuwirth, director of the…
www.democracynow.org/2019/4/26/a_shameful_week_for_the_us
BAXTER, NAACP AND THE ALLIANCE FOR HOME DIALYSIS EXPAND PROGRAM TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF KIDNEY CARE AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2019-04-26
Partnership focuses on educating at-risk individuals about kidney disease and treatment options so they are inspired to make informed choices DEERFIELD, Ill., April 26, 2019 — Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX), a global leader in renal care, along with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Alliance for Home Dialysis, today announced that the Dialysis Health Imperative for Access, Choice, and Equity (ACE) program will be expanded for …
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'Crustacean Jung v Cocaine Hegel': Zizek-Peterson debate blowout sparks meme war
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-04-26
In the wake of Saturday's debate between intellectual superstars Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson, an onslaught of mockery has appeared online satirizing the clash between the highly-memeable thinkers. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/04/26/crustacean-jung-v-cocaine-hegel-zizek-peterson-debate-blowout-sparks-meme-war/
Unequal Justice: As the Next Census Approaches, Will the Supreme Court Side with Trump in his War on Immigrants?
Bill Blum | commondreams.org | 2019-04-26
The U.S. census sets the number of votes each state is accorded in the electoral college, the number of seats states are allocated in the House of Representatives, and determines how some $880 billion per year in federal funds are distributed throughout the country. (Photo: US Census Bureau) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-04-26_at_1.42.28_pm.png…
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Debunking Myths of 'Red-Brown' Alliances
Max Parry | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-26
Recently, a certain political concept has been resurrected that warrants interrogation. The notion of a 'red-brown' alliance has been thrown around so ubiquitously as a form of political slander that any substantive meaning to the term has been evacuated. Rather than accurately designating any associations that may exist between the left and far right, the …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/debunking-myths-of-red-brown-alliances/
Filipina Journalist Maria Ressa Helped Expose Duterte's Deadly Drug War; He's Now Trying to Jail Her
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-04-26
The award-winning Filipina journalist Maria Ressa has been arrested twice in recent months by the Philippines government as President Rodrigo Duterte cracks down on critics and the media. In February, she was detained in a cyber libel case that's widely seen as politically motivated. She was arrested again in late March for allegedly violating a ban on foreign media ownership. Duterte has long attempted to shut down Rappler, which has published groundbreaking work on Duterte's deadly war on drugs that has killed thousands. Duterte has repeatedly described the site as fake news outlet. We speak with Maria Ressa, t…
www.democracynow.org/2019/4/26/filipina_journalist_maria_ressa_helped_expose
Will the Supreme Court Side With Trump in His War on Immigrants?
Bill Blum | truthdig.com | 2019-04-26
A new case to determine whether a citizenship question can be added to the 2020 census carries grave implications for the entire country.
truthdig.com/articles/will-the-supreme-court-side-with-trump-in-his-war-on-immigrants/
"I'm a Capitalist," Says Warren…But Why?
Frances Moore Lappé | commondreams.org | 2019-04-26
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks to members of the media after the She The People Presidential Forum at Texas Southern University on April 24, 2019 in Houston, Texas. Many of the Democrat presidential candidates are attending the forum to focus on issues important to women of color. (Photo: Sergio Flores/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/warren_capitalism.jpg…
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