Genetically Modified Babies. The Genetic Editing of Human Life
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-28
Last November, He Jiankui, a Chinese biology Associate Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Shenzhen (Guangdong Province) announced that he and his team had created the World's first "genetically edited babies": twin babies Lula …
globalresearch.ca/genetically-modified-babies-the-genetic-editing-of-human-life/5675809

Sudan's Military, Opposition Reach Agreement On Ruling Council
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-28
The Sudanese military council and the country's opposition alliance have reached an agreement to form a new governmental body to run the country until the next election. | RELATED: | African Summit Urges Sudan 'Democratic Transition' in 3 Months | According to Al-Jazeera, the military council and opposition alliance reached the agreement during a meeting between the ruling Military Transitional Council (MTC) and the Declaration of Freedom and Changes Forces, an umbrella organisa…
telesurenglish.net/news/Sudans-Military-Opposition-Reach-Agreement-On-Ruling-Council-20190428-0003.html

Two Primary Suspects In Sri Lanka Terrorist Attacks Detained
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-28
The Sri Lankan police have arrested two brothers that are believed to be the main suspects behind a series of terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday, the news portal Ada Derana reported, citing local police. | RELATED: | Sri Lanka: At Least 15 Dead After Police Gunbattle With Militants Linked to Easter Bombings | According to Ada Derana, the two brothers, Mohammad Saadik Abdul Haq and Mohammad Saahid Abdul Haq, were arrested in the Nawalapitya area. Two…
telesurenglish.net/news/Two-Primary-Suspects-In-Sri-Lanka-Terrorist-Attacks-Detained-20190428-0006.html

Canada Gets Cozy with Repressive Middle East Monarchies
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/canada-middle-east-monarchies/5675889

US Wants To Carve Up Venezuela Like Syria and Libya: Russia
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-28
Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin accused Western countries, including the United States, of "carving Venezuela up like Libya and Syria" in order to destabilize the Latin American region. | RELATED: | Venezuelans Celebrate The Country's Official Exit From OAS | Naryshkin told the audience at the 8th Moscow Conference on International Security Thursday that the U.S. and its allies are using military force to further promote their interests in Lati…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Wants-To-Carve-Up-Venezuela-Like-Syria-and-Libya-Russia–20190428-0005.html

Trump's Crusaders March to War
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-28
The world is still reeling in horror from the deadly Sri Lanka bombings that may have been the work of Islamic State madmen. Poor Sri Lanka has suffered so much after three decades of civil war and communal strife. We …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-crusaders-march-war/5675896

Why "Change UK" Loves War
Symon Hill | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-28
The "Independent Group" of MPs has now launched itself as a political party under the name "Change UK." | Given its support for capitalism, corporate power, Nato and Trident, a more accurate name might be "Keep Things Pretty Much The Same …
globalresearch.ca/change-uk-loves-war/5675876

The Undeniable Links Between Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-04-28
One person is dead and three are wounded after a shooting at a synagogue in San Diego, which the mayor has branded a "hate crime." | The attack came a day after an Iraq War veteran was arraigned in Sunnyvale, Ca. in the north of the state for running over 8 persons, some of whom he incorrectly believed to be Muslims. | Back to yesterday: a nineteen-year-old community college nursing student in…
truthdig.com/articles/the-undeniable-links-between-anti-semitism-and-islamophobia/

US Has Resources To Stop Iran's Actions: Centcom Commander
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-28
The chief of the U.S.' Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie, told Sky News Arabia on Saturday that the American forces would deploy their necessary resources to counter any dangerous action from Iran. | RELATED: | Big Tech Censors Iranian Media Yet Again | "We're gonna continue to reach out to our partners and friends in the region to ensure that we make common cause against the threat of Iran," McKenzie, on an official visit to the Gulf region, was quoted as saying by Sky News Arabia. "I beli…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Has-Resources-To-Stop-Irans-Actions-Centcom-Commander-20190428-0001.html

Mercedes Has No Idea How North Korea Got Their Limos
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-28
The German-owned Daimler AG automotive company said this weekthat it had no idea how North Korea got their armored Mercedes limousines. | RELATED: | North Korean Leader Enters Russia To Meet With Putin | Daimler AG denied any dealings with the North Korean government, adding that they were suprised to see the nation's leader, Kim Jung Un, using these vehicles. | "We have absolutely no idea how those vehicles were delivered to North Korea," Daimler spokeswoman Silke Mockert said in a wr…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mercedes-Has-No-Idea-How-North-Korea-Got-Their-Limos-20190428-0002.html

Trump's "Deal of the Century" For the Middle East? Which Century?
Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-28
There is great speculation about the "Deal of the Century" for the Middle East, about which very little is known. What is known is that the Trump administration formulated the plan basically through bilateral talks with the Israeli government, as …
globalresearch.ca/angry-arab-deal-century/5675875

4 people killed as giant crane crashes down on under-construction Google campus, cars (PHOTOS)
RT | rt.com | 2019-04-28
Four people have died and four others have been injured after a crane collapsed onto a street in Seattle, slamming into a Google office building under construction and trapping people inside cars. | …
rt.com/usa/457736-cran-crashes-cars-seatlle/

Judge fines pipeline company $3.3 million for 2015 Santa Barbara oil spill
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-04-28
Missing from the press releases from the Santa Barbara County DA's Office, Attorney General's Office and environmental groups and the superficial press coverage of the spill, the investigation, the jury trial and sentencing is one of the biggest and most ironic stories regarding the Refugio Oil Spill. In a classic example of the deep regulatory capture that pervades what passes for "marine protection" in California, the head of the oil industry trade association, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), that lobbies for the Plains All American Pipeline corporation happens to be the very same "marine guard…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/28/18823010.php

Anne Lamott: Almost Everything & conversation with John Dear on peace
Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service | indybay.org | 2019-04-28
Grace Cathedral | 1100 California Street | San Francisco, CA 94108…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/25/18822957.php

'Death by algorithm': Maddow inconsolable after YouTube recommends RT interview on Mueller report
RT | rt.com | 2019-04-28
Russiagate guru Rachel Maddow has caught wind of the latest Kremlin-linked outrage: YouTube recommended an RT video about the Mueller report! And now social media users have lined up to laugh at her. | …
rt.com/usa/457741-maddow-rt-video-russiagate/

Disrupting Elliott Abrams
Pat Elder | commondreams.org | 2019-04-27
commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ariel-gold-codepink-955px.jpg…

"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

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…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/4/27/venezuelan-minister-foreign-affairs-arreaza-addresses-nyc-activists

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/

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

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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

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…
commondreams.org/views/2019/04/27/i-witnessed-how-close-south-africa-came-civil-war-25-years-ago-today?cd-origin=rss

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/

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

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…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/4/27/government-report-indicates-signs-weakness-economy

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…
commondreams.org/views/2019/04/27/trumps-crusaders-march-war-iran?cd-origin=rss

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

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

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

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…
truthdig.com/articles/trumps-torrent-of-twisted-claims-on-russia/

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

Pete Buttigieg — Manufactured U.S. Presidential Candidate
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-27
I think that I have something of a head-start over others, including many Americans, so far as the Democratic presidential aspirant Pete Buttigieg is concerned. As one who takes note of a wide range of figures on what is termed …
globalresearch.ca/pete-buttigieg-manufactured-u-s-presidential-candidate/5675825

teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-27
Iranian owned HispanTV has been censored from Youtube for the third time via its parent company, Google. | RELATED: | After teleSUR Social Media Page, HispanTV's Accounts Blocked | Another Iranian outlet, PressTV, has also suffered the same fate. U.S. tech giant Google has been consistently blocking these outlets. Both HispanTV and PressTV provide coverage critical of U.S. foreign policy in places such as the Middle East and Latin America. Some have raised concerns that this could…
telesurenglish.net/news/Big-Tech-Censors-Iranian-Media-Yet-Again-20190427-0024.html