1,000 Israeli Soldiers to Arrive in Honduras to Train Troops, Police on Border Protection
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-09
A multilateral military treaty between Honduras, Israel, and the United States will see the deployment of 1000 Israeli soldiers at Honduras. They will train the Armed Forces of Honduras (FFAA) and National Police (PN). | The main mission of the troops …
globalresearch.ca/1000-israeli-soldiers-arrive-honduras-train-troops-police-border-protection/5677019

Video: Syrian Army Liberates Another Town in Northwestern Hama
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-09
By May 8, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies had repelled a series of counter-attacks by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led forces keeping control of all the positions captured in northwestern Hama. Especially intense clashes took place near Tell Ottman …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-army-liberates-another-town-northwestern-hama/5677003

Moscow Victory Parade, Commemorating May 9, 1945: Surrender of the Government of the Third Reich
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-09
On February 2nd, 1943, the 6th German Army, under the command of Field Marshall Von Paulus, and elements of the 4th Panzer Army, surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad. This stunning victory is considered the turning point in …
globalresearch.ca/moscow-victory-parade-commemorating-may-9-1945-surrender-of-the-government-of-the-third-reich/5677015

A Chinese Caribbean? Washington Not Happy About "New China Focus" in Cuba, Venezuela and Panama
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-09
As it becomes clear that the Trump Administration support, so far unsuccessful, for regime change in Venezuela is also very much about targeting the huge financial presence of China with the Maduro government, recent news of a major Chinese oil …
globalresearch.ca/washington-not-happy-new-china-focus-central-america/5676966

Venezuela Accuses UK of Denying Venezuelans Food, Healthcare by Blocking Gold Deposits
Press TV | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-09
Britain is denying millions of Venezuelans food and healthcare by blocking access to the South American country's gold deposits at the Bank of England, says Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza. | Speaking during a visit to Moscow, the Russian capital, …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-accuses-uk-denying-venezuelans-food-healthcare-blocking-gold-deposits/5677062

Pandering to Israel Means War with Iran
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-09
The United States is moving dangerously forward in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to provoke a war with Iran, apparently based on threat intelligence provided by Israel. The claims made by National Security Advisor John Bolton and …
globalresearch.ca/pandering-israel-means-war-iran/5677074

How Major Banks Turned a Blind Eye to the Theft of Billions of Pounds of Public Money
Madlen Davies | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-09
Major banks enabled fraudsters to steal billions of pounds of public money through VAT scams, allege documents obtained by the Bureau. A decade later, tax authorities are still chasing the money through the courts. | Traders in London facilitated the so-called | …
globalresearch.ca/major-banks-turned-blind-eye-theft-billions-pounds-public-money/5677076

'Abhorrent' ambulance attack in Libyan capital imperils life-saving work, warns UN
United Nations | un.org | 2019-05-09
An attack on an ambulance in Tripoli on Wednesday that has critically injured the head of emergency services in Libya's war-torn capital, along with two paramedics, has been strongly condemned by UN humanitarians.
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UN Investigating UAE's Role in Libya Airstrikes
telesurenglish.net | 2019-05-09
United Nations officials announced Monday that they are currently conducting an investigation into the United Arab Emirates' role in a missile-strike offensive against Tripoli, Libya launched by the Libyan National Army. | RELATED: | Mayham Plagues Libyan Capital as Death Toll Rises to 432: WHO | An initial report was filed to the agency's Security Council noting that…
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Investigating-UAEs-Role-in-Libya-Airstrikes-20190509-0004.html

Macron: No Bet on Both Sides, France Supports Sarraj in Libya
telesurenglish.net | 2019-05-09
France's President Emmanuel Macron Wednesday called for an unconditional truce in Libya as Marshal Khalifa Haftar continues his armed offensive against Tripoli's government led by Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj. | RELATED: |
telesurenglish.net/news/Macron-No-Bet-on-Both-Sides-France-Supports-Sarraj-in-Libya-20190509-0008.html

The Melting of the Fortress of Solitude
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
The American dream is the eternal one: wealth by luck, power by wealth, and freedom from responsibility by power. The American nightmare is our most democratized experience: impoverishment by design, powerlessness by impoverishment, and the shackling of the powerless to responsibility for the crimes of wealth.We live in a mediocracy, the mark of failure is success. To be fully human is to fail at being a successfully commodified robot.
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/the-melting-of-the-fortress-of-solitude/

Biden Likes Republicans So Much Because He's So Much Like Them
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
Recent criticism of Joe Biden for praising Dick Cheney as "a decent man" and Mike Pence as "a decent guy" merely scratches the surface of what's wrong with the current frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. His compulsion to vouch for the decency of Republican leaders — while calling Donald Trump an "aberration" — is…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/biden-likes-republicans-so-much-because-hes-so-much-like-them/

Kick the Cows Out of Point Reyes National Seashore
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
Point Reyes National Seashore was established in the 1960s by the purchase of private ranches. The public paid fair market value for these lands. Livestock operations were to removed over a 25-grace period. But time and again the ranchers refused to leave OUR property. Surprisingly Representative Jared Huffman, ordinarily good on environmental issues, has sponsored…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/kick-the-cows-out-of-point-reyes-national-seashore/

Metal and Rubber with Your Chicken? No Problem Says Tyson
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
Rubber and metal are some of the recent surprise "ingredients" found in Tyson chicken. In January, 36,420 pounds of Tyson chicken nuggets were recalled due to rubber contamination. In March, a recall for possible metal contamination of ready-to-eat Tyson chicken strip products began which continues–now encompassing 12 million pounds. Tyson Foods is the world's second…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/metal-and-rubber-with-your-chicken-no-problem-says-tyson/

Why Government Jobs Stats are Inaccurate
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
Reply to Doug Henwood's Apology & Defense of Government Reports In his reply to my just published article, 'What's Wrong with Government Job Statistics', Doug Henwood, a 'left' New York intellectual who has for years accepted without question government reported stats as 'gospel truth', has taken the opportunity to challenge my analysis. The nub of…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/why-government-jobs-stats-are-inaccurate/

Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power
Joshua Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
If you wait tables for a living, chances are that the website Yelp has affected how you think about and even perform your work. Restaurant managers and owners regularly, sometimes daily, pore over their Yelp reviews and — depending on the content of those reviews — praise, reprimand, and even fire servers who can be identified from customers' online comments.
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/yelp-and-the-myth-of-consumer-power/

The Double Scapegoating of Ilhan Omar
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
The Double Scapegoating of Ilhan Omar Nazis scapegoat Jews This isn't news. And neither is this: Scapegoats' deaths Protect the rich, And help the status quo — The order wreaking reeking Rotten poverty for most, And chopping to pieces, And cooking, the globe — Or didn't you know? The rich are protected when rage is…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/on-the-double-scapegoating-of-ilhan-omar/

Boondoggle, Inc.: Making Sense of the $1.25 Trillion National Security State Budget
William Hartung — Mandy Smithburger | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
In its latest budget request, the Trump administration is asking for a near-record $750 billion for the Pentagon and related defense activities, an astonishing figure by any measure. If passed by Congress, it will, in fact, be one of the largest military budgets in American history, topping peak levels reached during the Korean and Vietnam…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/boondoggle-inc-making-sense-of-the-1-25-trillion-national-security-state-budget/

Stuck in Yellowstone With the Grizzly Sardine Can Blues Again
David Mattson | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
We can't support any more bears. We've got bears coming out of our ears. We've reached carrying capacity. Such is the purported state of grizzly bears in Yellowstone. Sound familiar? It should. For those of you who have been paying attention to the rhetoric relentlessly voiced by agency spokespeople for the last 6 years, you…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/stuck-in-yellowstone-with-the-grizzly-sardine-can-blues-again/

A Matter of Independence: Equinor and Drilling the Great Australian Bight
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-09
Such companies advertise themselves as slick and professional, the best in the business, all things to men, women and everyone in between. They insist that we can all have that vast cake of wealth and eat it too. Equinor, a Norwegian multinational beast of an energy company with its headquarters in Stavanger, has been doing…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/a-matter-of-independence-equinor-and-drilling-the-great-australian-bight/

AG Barr hit with new subpoena as Dems struggle to extract unredacted Mueller report
rt.com | 2019-05-09
Attorney General William Barr is facing a second House subpoena, this one from intelligence committee chair Adam Schiff, as Democrats double down on their quest for the unredacted Mueller report and the evidence behind it. | …
rt.com/usa/458834-barr-subpoena-contempt-mueller-report/

House Panel Holds Barr in Contempt as Trump Claims Executive Privilege
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-05-09
The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress over his refusal to turn over the unredacted Mueller report and the underlying evidence to lawmakers. Meanwhile, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has issued a subpoena to the Justice Department for the unredacted report. This all came after the White House invoked executive privilege to prevent the full report's release to Congress and to bar former White House counsel Don McGahn from providing documents to Congress related to the Mueller probe. We speak with Ian Millhiser, a columnist for Thi…
truthout.org/video/house-panel-holds-barr-in-contempt-as-trump-claims-executive-privilege/

House Panel Votes to Hold AG Barr in Contempt
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-05-09
WASHINGTON — The Latest on Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report (all times local): | 10: 50 p.m., May 8, 2019 | The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. | The vote Wednesday capped a day of ever-deepening dispute between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump, who invoked executive privilege to block lawmakers from the full report on Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. | Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York declared the action by Trump's Justice Department a clear new sig…
truthdig.com/articles/house-panel-votes-to-hold-ag-barr-in-contempt/

Trump ratchets up anti-immigrant campaign
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-05-09
While much of the media continues to focus on the Mueller report and the squabbles between the White House and the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, US President Donald Trump's real crimes are scarcely addressed or are ignored altogether. | This column will take up one of these crimes, Trump's intensification of his racist war on immigrants. He is not alone on this — the ultra-right throughout Europe and elsewhere have similar anti-immigrant policies. | In recent weeks Trump has appointed new officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
greenleft.org.au/content/trump-ratchets-anti-immigrant-campaign

A Constitutional Crisis? House Panel Holds AG Barr in Contempt as Trump Claims Executive Privilege
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-05-09
The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress over his refusal to turn over the unredacted Mueller report and the underlying evidence to lawmakers. Meanwhile, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has issued a subpoena to the Justice Department for the unredacted report. This all came after the White House invoked executive privilege to prevent the full report's release to Congress and to bar former White House counsel Don McGahn from providing documents to Congress related to the Mueller probe. We speak with Ian Millhiser, a columnist for ThinkP…
www.democracynow.org/2019/5/9/a_constitutional_crisis_house_panel_holds

Venezuela's Public, Private Banks To Exchange Currencies
plenglish.com | 2019-05-09
Caracas, May 9 (Prensa Latina) By derogating the Foreign Exchange Law and the new economic policy of opening to free exchange in Venezuela, public and private banks will carry out operations with legal currencies, reported on Thursday MP Jesus Faria.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=41790&SEO=venezuelas-public-private-banks-to-exchange-currencies