Disrupting Elliott Abrams
Pat Elder | commondreams.org | 2019-04-27
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"Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT). The Ongoing Planning of War against Iran
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-27
"Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT) has identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a "Shock and Awe" Blitzkrieg, which is now in its final planning stages.
globalresearch.ca/theater-iran-near-term-tirannt/4888

Colombia's JEP Orders Capture of Former FARC, 'El Paisa'
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-27
The Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP) made the decision Thursday to order the capture of Hernan Dario Velasquez, "El Paisa," a former leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for breaching the 2016 Colombian Peace Accords. | RELATED: | Colombian Anti-Gov't Protests Turn Violent, 35 Arrested | Judge Catalina Diaz Gomez read the 90-page dec…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombias-JEP-Orders-Capture-of-Former-FARC-El-Paisa-20190427-0012.html

To Conjure the Future We Want, We Need a Revolution of the Heart
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-04-27
On the evening of October 21, 1967, a "ragtag" group of hippies, counterculture enthusiasts, artists and anti-Vietnam War demonstrators descended upon the Pentagon to perform a ritual exorcism with the goal of levitating the building 3 feet above the ground. While no one claims to have seen the Pentagon rise, the event became a unique example of using spiritual rituals toward political ends in the public eye and cultural consciousness. | I first learned of this ritual exorcism during a workshop facilitated by activist and…
truthout.org/articles/to-conjure-the-future-we-want-we-need-a-revolution-of-the-heart/

Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Arreaza addresses NYC activists
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-04-27
New York, NY — More than 50 people gathered at The People's Forum, on the evening of April 25 for a talk by the Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Arreaza. Arreaza was part of a Venezuelan delegation visiting the United Nations to demand an end to U.S. sanctions against their country. The sanctions have completely frozen Venezuelan assets and have stalled government activities meant to help the population. | In the last few months, the United States has heightened the attacks on the democratically elected government of Nicolás Maduro. While the U.S. has always attempted to meddle in Venezuelan aff…
fightbacknews.org/2019/4/27/venezuelan-minister-foreign-affairs-arreaza-addresses-nyc-activists

Ecuador Embassy Staff Contradicts Allegations Against Assange
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-27
Ecuador's president Lenin Moreno made a number of allegations against Julian Assange, including accusing the whistleblower of being disrespectful towards embassy staff. However, Ecuadors consul at the time has dispelled Moreno's accusations, calling them a "smokescreen". | RELATED: | Assange Was Put Through 'Hell' At Ecuadorean Embassy: Narvaez | Fidel Narvaez was the consul in London for 6 of the 7 years that Julian Assange stayed at the embassy, speaking to Russian outlet RT he s…
telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuador-Embassy-Staff-Contradicts-Allegations-Against-Assange–20190427-0020.html

Climate Destruction: Bearing Witness with Dahr Jamail
Lesley Docksey | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-27
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 Dahr Jamail in his book The End of Ice. Jamail is a first class …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/climate-destruction-bearing-witness-with-dahr-jamail/

Racism in Venezuela: "People Who Never had a Voice Now Have One and will Never Give it up Again"
Eva Bartlett | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-27
Last night (April 25th) I gave a talk on some of what I had seen in Venezuela, March-April, sharing photos and clips–with an emphasis of allowing people to hear voices our media generally silences or pretends don't exist. | In Q …
globalresearch.ca/racism-in-venezuela-people-who-never-had-a-voice-now-have-one-and-will-never-give-it-up-again/5675774

Corporate Joe: Biden Enters the Presidential Race
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-27
Values, values and more values. Another dreary dish added to the smorgasbord of Democratic hopefuls for the White House. This one is a bit cured and worn, smoked by history. Biden, having performed the role of Vice President for Barack Obama and senator for Delaware, is making his third attempt to not so much gallop …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/corporate-joe-biden-enters-the-presidential-race/

Canada Gets Cozy with Repressive Middle East Monarchies
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-27
While Justin Trudeau's government embraces repressive Middle East monarchies, they want us to believe their campaign to oust Venezuela's government is motivated by support for democracy and human rights. On a tour of the Middle East last week Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan met his United Arab Emirates counterpart Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi in …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/canada-gets-cozy-with-repressive-middle-east-monarchies/

What You Don't Know About 5G but Will Find Out When Its Too Late
Claire Edwards | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-27
The first eight months of WWII with no fighting — was called The Phoney War. Using millimetre waves as a fifth-generation or 5G wireless communications technology is a phoney war of another kind. | *** | This phoney war is also silent, …
globalresearch.ca/what-you-dont-know-about-5g-but-will-find-out-when-its-too-late/5668614

Venezuelan Government announces arrests over electrical blackouts
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-04-27
The government issued an arrest warrant request for the ex-security chief of the Guri Complex, who allegedly fled to the US following the March blackouts. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/04/27/venezuelan-government-announces-arrests-over-electrical-blackouts/

Minnesota Takes Steps Towards Banning Conversion Therapy
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-27
Conversion therapy is on its way out of the U.S. midwestern state of Minnesota, officials said Saturday, after introducing a bill to declare the practice illegal. | RELATED: | Google's LGBT-Friendly Rank Drops Due to Conversion Therapy App | Nearly 40 states, 24 over the last year, have filed similar bills in an effort to eradicate the highly controversial form of "therapy," which endeavors to force an individual to change their secual orientation or gender identiy. | With a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Minnesota-Takes-Steps-Towards-Banning-Conversion-Therapy-20190427-0021.html

I Witnessed How Close South Africa Came to Civil War, 25 Years Ago Today
Stefan Simanowitz | commondreams.org | 2019-04-27
Former President Nelson Mandela takes the oath on May 10, 1994, during his inauguration at the Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/mandela-inauguration-1994.jpg…
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Canada and the Propaganda War on Venezuela
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-27
"I have ground zero information on everything that happens there. And trust me, what the Canadian public, and the American public and the international community are watching is a huge Hollywood show." | — Venezuelan in Canada, from an interview…
globalresearch.ca/canada-and-the-propaganda-war-on-venezuela/5675843

Philippines 78-foot Dead Whale Sculpture Aims to Halt Pollution
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-27
A Filipino artist has built a 23.8 meter sculpture of a dead whale made out of trash, in a campaign to raise awareness on using single-use plastics. | RELATED: | Philippines: Canada Has a Week to Take Back Trash or Else | Biboy Royong gathered bottles, garbage bags, straws and other plastic wastes from various establishments in the Philippine capital for his…
telesurenglish.net/news/Philippines-78-foot-Dead-Whale-Sculpture-Aims-to-Halt-Pollution-20190427-0015.html

A Vote for Joe Biden Is a Vote for "Economic Asphyxiation" and Never Ending War
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-27
Soon after deep insider and favored water carrier for the financial elite, Joe Biden, announced his candidacy the corporate propaganda media ramped up its support and floated a meme that Trump is petrified of a Biden challenge next year….
globalresearch.ca/vote-biden-vote-economic-asphyxiation-never-ending-war/5675814

Trump's Crusaders March to War on Iran
Eric Margolis | commondreams.org | 2019-04-27
Iranians new pastime is to visit Nature Bridge(or Pol-e Tabiat) in the afternoons and evening to enjoy a stroll on this new creation of municipality, the view over the city's skyline, and evidently taking selfies on March 28, 2016 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-tehran-selfies-955px.jpg…
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Towards Russia-China Economic Integration: Interpreting President Putin's Speech at the 2019 Beijing BRI Forum
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-27
President Putin left nothing to doubt when he proudly proclaimed that Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union regional integration organization that it leads are strategically merging with China and its Belt & Road Initiative, with this process having unprecedentedly far-reaching …
globalresearch.ca/president-putins-speech-2019-bri-forum/5675801

Official: US Man Crashed Into People He Believed Were Muslims
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-27
California authorities have confirmed that the motive behind a U.S. driver who intentionally ran over several people, with a car, in Silicon Valley did so because he suspected some of them to be Muslims. | RELATED: | Sri Lanka Muslims Warned Officials About Group Behind Attack | "New evidence shows that the defendant intentionally targeted the victims based on their race and his belief that they were of the Muslim faith," the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety's Phan Ngo said.
telesurenglish.net/news/Official-US-Man-Crashed-Into-People-He-Believed-Were-Muslims-20190427-0006.html

The Coming of American Fascism, 1920–1940
Chris Wright | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-27
Fascism is usually thought of as a quintessentially and almost exclusively European phenomenon, as having begun with Mussolini, culminated with Hitler, and been eradicated in World War II. The U.S., in particular, is thought to have been largely immune to it, given the absence of mass movements similar to Nazism or Italian Fascism. But there …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/the-coming-of-american-fascism-1920-1940/

Government report indicates signs of weakness in economy
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-04-27
San José, CA – On Friday, April 26, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its first report on economic growth in 2019. The country's Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, which measures the total production of goods and services, grew at a 3.2% annual rate during the first three months of the year (January to March). This was stronger than most economists expected. | But much of the growth was made up of one-time events, and inside the report there were continuing signs of economic weakness. The biggest contributor to growth was a large drop in imports. During the second half of 2018 many companies pushed forwar…
fightbacknews.org/2019/4/27/government-report-indicates-signs-weakness-economy

Voices from Inside the Besieged Venezuelan Embassy
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-04-27
"If [the U.S. invades the Venezuelan Embassy] tomorrow, it will send a message to the world that no embassy is safe in the United States… it's a message that 'if you don't bow down to us, do what we tell you, put in the government that we'd like, we will take your embassy." – Kevin Zeese…
mintpressnews.com/voices-from-inside-the-besieged-venezuelan-embassy/257910/

Caffeine Significantly Boosts the Performance of Solar Cells
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-27
A new study by California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and Solargiga Energy in China revealed that caffeine improves the thermal stability of perovskite solar cells, which are viewed as the future of solar power. | RELATED: | Nigeria's Affordable Solar Energy-Using ISP Expands to Ghana | "The boiling point of caffeine is 300 ∞C, which is higher than the o…
telesurenglish.net/news/Caffeine-Significantly-Boosts-the-Performance-of-Solar-Cells-20190427-0002.html

Trump's Torrent of Twisted Claims on Russia
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-04-27
WASHINGTON — Russia keeps reverberating even with special counsel Robert Mueller's report now part of history. | As much as President Donald Trump says he wants the United States to move on, he's found it hard to turn away himself, as seen in a torrent of tweets and remarks railing against Democrats, trashing Mueller and painting his own actions in a saintly light. | There is little truth to be found in these statements. | A review of a week of Russia-heavy rhetoric from Trump and his team, also touching on the census and the economy: | RUSSIA | TRUMP: "No Collusion, No Obstruction — there has NEVER be…
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The President's Executive Privilege Strategy Could Mean a Messy Fight
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-04-27
WASHINGTON — Since George Washington's time, presidents have used executive privilege to resist congressional inquiries in the name of protecting the confidentiality of their decision-making. | President Donald Trump threatened this past week to broadly assert executive privilege to block a number of current and former aides from testifying, including some who have cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. It's a strategy that could lead to a messy, protracted legal fight, but even if the White House is eventually defeated in court, the president and his allies could have the ch…
truthdig.com/articles/the-presidents-executive-privilege-strategy-could-mean-messy-fight/

China Challenges US Sanctions, Invites Syria to Belt and Road Project
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-27
The Chinese government has invited its Syrian counterpart to the global summit for the Chinese flagship Belt and Road initiative taking place in Beijing April 25 through April 27 among 120 countries. | Syria's invitation, attendance, and contribution in the mega …
globalresearch.ca/china-challenges-us-sanctions-invites-syria-belt-road-project/5675817

Bolsonaro Fears A Kirchner Win in Argentine Elections
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-27
Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro expressed fear that Argentina will reelect former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in the polls this October and tried to blame the Argentine two-year economic downspiral on Macri's "timid" implementation of austerity measures. | RELATED: | Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner Leads Electoral Polls in Argentina…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolsonaro-Fears-A-Kirchner-Win-in-Argentine-Elections-20190427-0013.html

Corporate Joe: Biden Enters the Presidential Race
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-27
Values, values and more values. Another dreary dish added to the smorgasbord of Democratic hopefuls for the White House. This one is a bit cured and worn, smoked by history. Biden, having performed the role of Vice President for Barack …
globalresearch.ca/biden-enters-presidential-race/5675804

Trump Administration Waives Environmental Laws to Build Border Walls in New Mexico, Arizona