EE.UU.: °Fuera de Irán!
Editor | workers.org | 2019-05-22
Como si la pandilla de la Casa Blanca se sintiera incompleta simplemente nivelando las amenazas económicas contra China, haciendo comentarios hostiles sobre Rusia e imponiendo sanciones ilegales –ilegales porque equivalen a un castigo colectivo de las poblaciones– sobre Venezuela, Cuba y Corea del Norte, una vez más han puesto la . . . | Continue reading EE.UU.: °Fuera de Irán! at Workers.org…
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U.S. war threats intensify on Iran
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2019-05-22
May 20 — Another U.S. initiated crisis reached an ominous level this past week with President Trump's announcement that Iran suddenly presented a new, unspecified threat, serious enough to send a U.S. Naval aircraft carrier battle group churning toward the Persian Gulf, along with U.S. B-52 Stratofortress bombers and plans . . . | Continue reading U.S. war threats intensify on Iran at Workers.org…
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Venezuela, Cuba Strengthen Relations Despite US Meddling
plenglish.com | 2019-05-21
Caracas, May 21 ( Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza assured on Tuesday that Venezuela and Cuba are strengthening their cooperation relations and respect for sovereignty, despite the meddling actions and economic suffocation imposed by the United States.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42225&SEO=venezuela-cuba-strengthen-relations-despite-us-meddling
What's Really Happening in Venezuela
Laura Wells | indybay.org | 2019-05-21
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Tuesday's Daily Brief: Libya civil war, African displacement, global trade tensions, terrorists' children 'secretly detained', and more
United Nations | un.org | 2019-05-21
Tuesday's stories include: Libya facing "permanent division", regional war; Africa event highlights forcible displacement; terrorists' children 'secretly detained' in Syria; Venezuelans need protection; global trade tensions rise.
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Venezuela in "Misery": Lies and Deceit by the Media
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-05-21
To the Editor in CHIEF New York Times — 18 May 2019 Venezuela's Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say Subtitle: Butchers have stopped selling meat cuts in favor of offal, fat shavings and cow hooves, the only animal protein many of their customers can afford. This introduction is accompanied by …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/venezuela-in-misery-lies-and-deceit-by-the-media/
Trump's War In Venezuela Could Be Che's Revenge
Nicky Reid | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-21
Che Guevara had a dream. After decades of chasing the American Empire into guerrilla street fights from Guatemala to the Congo, Che dreamed of drawing that dreadful beast into an unwinnable quagmire on the graves of its first victims in the heart of Latin America, the treacherous mountain forests of Bolivia where the Conquistadors first…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/21/trumps-war-in-venezuela-could-be-ches-revenge/
Venezuelans' Repatriation Advances Despite International Blockade
plenglish.com | 2019-05-21
Caracas, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza assured on Tuesday that the government"s repatriation program "Return to Homeland" is moving forward despite the international blockade sponsored by the US government.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42241&SEO=venezuelans-repatriation-advances-despite-international-blockade
Forum: Eyewitness Venezuela with Gloria La Riva
ANSWER Coalition | indybay.org | 2019-05-21
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Venezuela Ratifies Commitment to Dialogue as a Road to Peace
plenglish.com | 2019-05-21
21 de mayo de 2019, 11: 21Caracas, May 21 (Prensa Latina) President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, reaffirmed Tuesday that dialogue and understanding is the best path to peace as a mechanism for the peoples" development.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42218&SEO=venezuela-ratifies-commitment-to-dialogue-as-a-road-to-peace
Venezuela Debates Whether to Eliminate Parliamentary Immunity
plenglish.com | 2019-05-21
Caracas, May 21 (Prensa Latina ) The Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly (ANC) is debating a bill to eliminate the parliamentary immunity automatically when a national lawmaker commits an offensive action to the interests of the country, said local legislator Marelis Perez here Tuesday.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42237&SEO=venezuela-debates-whether-to-eliminate-parliamentary-immunity
Hoping memories of Iraq have faded, U.S. hawks push new war with Iran
Ian Goodrum | peoplesworld.org | 2019-05-21
You could set a watch to it, or maybe a countdown timer. After being frustrated by Venezuela's resistance against a Washington-backed coup attempt, President Donald Trump and his favored attack dog, National Security Advisor John Bolton, have trained their sights on a new target: Iran. Earlier this month, an aircraft carrier strike group and bomber …
peoplesworld.org/article/hoping-memories-of-iraq-have-faded-u-s-hawks-push-new-war-with-iran/
Nationwide tour visits 35 cities to dispel U.S. lies on Venezuela
Marissa Sanchez | liberationnews.org | 2019-05-21
To help break the U.S. media/government blockade and offensive against Venezuela, PSL organizer and Liberation News reporter Gloria La Riva traveled across the country.
liberationnews.org/nationwide-tour-visits-35-cities-to-dispel-u-s-lies-on-venezuela/
Venezuelan Mothers Demand Cessation of Economic Blockade
plenglish.com | 2019-05-21
21 de mayo de 2019, 10: 49Caracas, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The U.S.-imposed economic blockade to Venezuela prevents on Tuesday that several children of this South American nation can receive specialized medical assistance in Argentina, a diplomatic source said.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42214&SEO=venezuelan-mothers-demand-cessation-of-economic-blockade
Venezuela Foreign Minister Meets Top Cuban Authorities
plenglish.com | 2019-05-21
Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Cuban leaders Raul Castro Ruz and Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez discussed bilateral issues in Havana with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza on Monday night, Granma newspaper reports on Tuesday.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42201&SEO=venezuela-foreign-minister-meets-top-cuban-authorities
Venezuelan opposition extremist, a US military veteran and 'aid volunteer,' sends death threat to embassy defenders
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-05-21
Far-right Venezuelan opposition activist Luis Medina, a former US Marine and volunteer for Juan Guaido's aid stunt, told CODEPINK embassy…
thegrayzone.com/2019/05/21/venezuelan-opposition-luis-medina-death-threat-embassy-defenders/
We will Defend Venezuela in ALBA-TCP, Diaz-Canel Says
plenglish.com | 2019-05-21
Havana, May 21 ( Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel assured on Tuesday that the Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People"s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) will defend Venezuela.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42203&SEO=we-will-defend-venezuela-in-alba-tcp-diaz-canel-says
Maduro Gives Trump a Lesson in Ethics and Morality
Manuel E. Yepe | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-21
In clear violation of the Vienna Convention, the United States police entered by force, after 37 days of resistance, the premises that housed the Venezuelan Embassy and arrested the four activists protecting the diplomatic headquarters from the terrorist vandalism of the so-called "Venezuelan opposition. "The Venezuelan government will respond to the invasion of its embassy…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/21/maduro-gives-trump-a-lesson-in-ethics-and-morality/
Venezuela has the Means to Defeat the US Blockade
telesurenglish.net | 2019-05-21
The Venezuelan Ambassador to Russia, Carlos Rafael Faría Tortosa, said Tuesday that despite the ongoing blockade by the United States, his country has found ways to defeat them and continue to advance his nation's economic development. | RELATED: | Chavistas March in Caracas to Mark Nicolas Maduro's Re-election | In an interview with the Russian agency RT, Tortosa said that "when our president announced that the gold production in the country has been recovering, the U.S. gove…
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A China Food Crisis More Dangerous than Trade War? The African Swine Fever (ASF) Outbreak
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
China faces a threat to its agriculture that could do far more damage to her political stability and economy than the escalating USA tariff war. In recent months cases of deadly African Swine Fever (ASF) among the pig population of …
globalresearch.ca/china-food-crisis-more-dangerous-than-trade-war/5677967
Tulsi Gabbard: "I Don't" Buy Report that Iran Wants to Strike U.S. Forces, Trump Looking for "Pretext" for War
Rep Tulsi Gabbard | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic presidential candidate, said she doesn't buy reports saying Iran poses a new threat to U.S. personnel in Iraq in an interview Sunday with ABC's "This Week." | *** | GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You resigned your DNC post …
globalresearch.ca/tulsi-gabbard-u-s-forces-trump-looking-pretext-war/5678106
Money, media and the climate crisis
John Scales Avery | nationofchange.org | 2019-05-21
Immediate action is needed to save the future | : | The central problem which the world faces in its attempts to avoid catastrophic climate change is a contrast of time scales. In order to save human civilization and the biosphere from the most disastrous effects of climate change, we need to act immediately. But it is difficult to mobilize public opinion behind urgently needed action because the most severe effects of global warming belong to the long-term future. | However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Ckimate Change, in their October 2018 report, used strong enough language to wake up at least par…
nationofchange.org/2019/05/21/money-media-and-the-climate-crisis/
US warships provocatively challenge China's claims in South China Sea
wsws.org | 2019-05-21
The so-called freedom of navigation operation underscores the danger that trade war with China will escalate into military conflict as the US seeks to ensure its global domination.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/21/scse-m21.html
US-Iran Showdown Is One False-Flag Attack Away from Global Calamity
Robert Bridge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Hypocritical to the core, the execution of false-flag events spare aggressive states the ignominy of appearing in public as the warmongering psychopaths they are, lest their subjects get the wrong idea as to exactly who is governing over them. | The …
globalresearch.ca/us-iran-showdown-one-false-flag-attack-away-global-calamity/5678057
27th weekly "yellow vest" rally in France: Protesters defend Assange, denounce war
wsws.org | 2019-05-21
Tens of thousands of "yellow vests" continue to defy police crackdowns and the French government's provocative claims that it has satisfied all their demands.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/21/yell-m21.html
Regulatory Rollbacks Defied Public Opinion to Reward Big Corporations
commondreams.org | 2019-05-21
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As Iran Tensions Rise, Congress Moves to Curb Trump's War Powers
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-05-21
The House Appropriations Committee voted to advance an amendment to a defense spending package on Tuesday that would sunset the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) issued after the 9/11 attacks. The bipartisan legislation would provide Congress with new tools for containing the Trump administration as it meddles in foreign conflicts and stokes military tensions with Iran. | Rep. Barbara Lee and other House Democrats are expected to announce a new push to repeal the 2001 AUMF on Wednesday. The latest effort in Congress to scrap the longstanding authorization comes as lawmakers react to the escal…
truthout.org/articles/as-iran-tensions-rise-congress-moves-to-curb-trumps-war-powers/
Trump's Iran Trap
Jan Oberg | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-21
Remember President Trump's tweet and accompanying statements by the Trump administration officials concerning Iran — as reported here by CNN on May 19, 2019. Trump's statement amounts to a de facto declaration of war on Iran. Objectively speaking, it is a lie that Iran threatens the US. It is a lie that the US sends…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/21/trumps-iran-trap/
Video: Donald Trump Threatens to Destroy Iran
Ken Stone | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
US President Donald Trump on Sunday ratcheted up his rhetoric toward Iran, warning that a fight with the United States would "be the official end of Iran." | Watch the interview with Canada's antiwar activist and geopolitical analyst Ken Stone below….
globalresearch.ca/video-donald-trump-threatens-to-destroy-iran/5678081
ISIS donor? Facebook scam convinces people they've funded terrorists
rt.com | 2019-05-21
The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about an elaborate scam in which victims are told they have accidentally funded terrorists, before being rescued by a scammer posing as a lawyer. | …
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Warren and Sanders Understand the Power of 'The Bad Guy'
Adam H. Johnson | truthdig.com | 2019-05-21
Progressive activist Norman Solomon offers a succinct description of neoliberalism: an ideology that sees victims but never victimizers. Bad things just happen. They're the product of mysterious, unaccountable and ill-defined "market forces." Factories just close, endless wars just "erupt," the Nasdaq just crashes and our 401K and home equity just evaporate. No one specifically is responsible. And when someone is, around the margins, it's a handful of faceless Arabs off in a cave somewhere or, increasingly, anonymous "Russians." Our military and intelligence services are off fighting those Bad Guys. Trust us. | B…
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Minneapolis: Jamar Clark family deserves settlement equal to white woman killed by cops
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-05-21
Minneapolis, MN – Community and family members gathered May 20 for a press conference to demand that the city of Minneapolis give the family of Jamar Clark a settlement equal to that awarded to the family of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. The Jamar Clark's family has brought a civil suit against the city after the 2015 police murder, and mediation will take place May 21 inside the federal courthouse where the press conference was held. | Mediation comes after a May 3 decision by the Minneapolis city council to reject a settlement with the Clark family. On that same day, the city council announced a $20 million settleme…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/5/21/minneapolis-jamar-clark-family-deserves-settlement-equal-white-woman-killed-cops
Libya on verge of civil war, threatening 'permanent division', top UN official warns Security Council
United Nations | un.org | 2019-05-21
The damage done to Libya will already take "years to mend" but unless fighting around the capital Tripoli stops, the country risks "descending into a civil war which could lead to the permanent division of the country".
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Beware Trump's Sneak Attack on Social Security
Nancy J. Altman | commondreams.org | 2019-05-21
President Donald Trump plans to switch to the chained CPI to index the federal definition of poverty. "If he succeeds," warns Altman, "the impact will be that over time, fewer people will meet the government's definition of poverty—even though in reality, they will not be any less poor." (Photo: Tetra Images/Flickr) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/social-security_0.jpg…
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Iran, China-US trade war, Australia election, S-500
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-05-21
Is the US mobilizing the armed forces against Iran? The situation in the Persian Gulf heated up dramatically this week. The United States has increased its military presence in the region and advised their citizens in Arab countries to remain vigilant. On the 6th of May, the US sent a naval strike group (the aircraft …
uwidata.com/3479-iran-china-us-trade-war-australia-election-s-500/
Syria War Report: Hama Ceasefire Initiative Failed. Clashes Ongoing
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
On May 17 and May 18, the Syrian Air Defense Forces (SADF) intercepted several unidentified aerial objects over Damascus and the southern part of the country. In both cases, the intercepted targets came from the southern Syria border, near the …
globalresearch.ca/syria-war-report-hama-ceasefire-initiative-failed-clashes-ongoing/5677964
Selected Articles: Backlash in US-China Trade War. China Defies Sanctions against Iran
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer". | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-china-food-crisis/5678110
American corporations are helping fund the war on women
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-05-21
Despite using rhetoric to suggest otherwise, American corporations are giving big to extremist politicians that have a hand in pushing abortion bans in states such as Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri. | Revealed by journalist Judd Legum, formerly of ThinkProgress, mega-corporations like AT&T, Walmart, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, and Aetna are backing these politicians that fight against reproductive rights. Although these corporations publicly promote equality and women's rights, behind closed doors they seem to do be doing the opposite. | "In their corporate literature, these companies prese…
nationofchange.org/2019/05/21/american-corporations-are-helping-fund-the-war-on-women/
62 Organizations to Congress: Halt a March to War with Iran
commondreams.org | 2019-05-21
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Why is Barack Obama the best?
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2019-05-21
In a recent poll, Americans rated Barack Obamas the best President in their life-time. The question is: why? | An easy way to examine the presidents is to look at the Wikipedia summary of many ratings done of them over the years. Start with Woodrow Wilson, #28. Notice that he has mostly blue ratings with two green. This means that most of his ratings are in the top quarter, with two in the second quarter. Then go down to #29, Warren G. Harding. All his ratings are red, which means that he i…
nationofchange.org/2019/05/21/why-is-barack-obama-the-best/
Human Rights Defender Paula Rosero Killed in Colombia
telesurenglish.net | 2019-05-21
Human rights defender Paula Andrea Rosero Ordóñez was murdered Monday night by a group of strangers in the department of Nariño, in southwestern Colombia, official sources said. | Rosero Ordóñez, 47 years old, was the representative of the Public Ministry of the town of Samaniego, in Nariño, and had previously warned she was receiving threats against her life. | According to a police report, the lawyer was approached by two hit men, who shot her at close range. | Although she was given first aid almost immediately, it was impossible to save his life, the reports said. The Attorney General of the Nation and t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Human-Rights-Defender-Paula-Rosero-Killed-in-Colombia-20190521-0015.html
Don McGahn Defies Subpoena for Testimony, Faces Contempt Vote
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-05-21
WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler gaveled open a Trump-Russia hearing Tuesday with an empty witness chair and a stern warning that former White House Counsel Don McGahn will be held in contempt for failing to appear in defiance of the committee's subpoena. | "Our subpoenas are not optional," Nadler said. The panel will hear from McGahn "one way or another," he said. "This committee will have no choice but to enforce the subpoena against him." | Democrats are facing yet another attempt by President Donald Trump to stonewall their investigations. This time they're blocked from hearing from…
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NYC remembers Al Nakba
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-05-21
New York, NY – Over 100 people gathered in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn on May 15 to commemorate 71 years since the Nakba, or "catastrophe." The Nakba marks the 1948 anniversary of Israel's expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their land. | The rally was organized by Within Our Lifetime – United for Palestine (WOL) with speakers from other Palestinian and solidarity organizations. | The speakers emphasized that despite 71 years of occupation, the fight remains strong and that Palestine will one day be free. | Jessica Schwartz from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression echoed the call for continuou…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/5/21/nyc-remembers-al-nakba
'We Will Not Be Complicit': Protesting Assault on Yemen, Italian Dock Workers Refuse to Load Saudi Weapons Vessel
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-05-21
"No EU state should be making the deadly decision to authorize the transfer or transit of arms to a conflict where there is a clear risk they will be used in war crimes." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/italy_workers_saudi.jpg…
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Iran Eggs on Trump With Historical Reminder of Failed Invasions
telesurenglish.net | 2019-05-21
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to end Iran if they were to engage the American forces in combat. The Iranian diplomat reminded Trump of his country's history and several of the empires that failed to conquer ancient Persia. | RELATED: | War With The US Will Be The End Of Iran: Trump | In his tweet directed at Trump, the Iranian Foreign Minister said: "Goaded by #B_Team, @realdonaldTrump hopes to achieve what Alexander, Genghis & o…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Eggs-on-Trump-With-Historical-Reminder-of-Failed-Invasions-20190521-0003.html
Israel's War Criminals in Their Own Words
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Israel's public face, sustained and propagated by a wealthy and powerful diaspora that has significant control over the media, insists that the country is the Middle East's only true democracy, that is operates under a rule of law for all …
globalresearch.ca/israels-war-criminals-in-their-own-words/5678072
How the West's War in Libya Spurred Terrorism in 14 Countries
consortiumnews.com | 2019-05-21
The first to suffer was Syria and since then the gruesome effects have been spreading in the region and beyond, to Africans and Europeans, writes Mark Curtis. By Mark Curtis British Foreign Policy Declassified Eight years on from NATO's war in… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/05/21/how-the-wests-war-in-libya-spurred-terrorism-in-14-countries/
War With Iran Must Be Stopped at All Costs
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-05-21
America stands on the brink of a conflict that threatens the very future of our republic. The time has come for patriotic dissent.
truthdig.com/articles/war-with-iran-must-be-stopped-at-all-costs/
Subpoena war rages, Democratic leaders call for impeachment inquiry
John Wojcik, Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-05-21
WASHINTON–Leading Democrats used a meeting of their party's leadership team last night to push Speaker Nancy Pelosi to allow the House Judiciary Committee to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. One of their main arguments, according to various media reports, was that it will allow them to obtain documents and testimony the president …
peoplesworld.org/article/subpoena-war-rages-democratic-leaders-call-for-impeachment-inquiry/
Fire the Nutcases Leading Us to War
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
President Donald Trump claimed this week that he does not want war with Iran. If he really believes this, the president ought to look into what his subordinates are doing. | Among their bellicose actions are deployment of the 'Abraham Lincoln …
globalresearch.ca/fire-nutcases-leading-us-war/5678064