"Freedom of Expression" and "The Battle of Ideas"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
Dear Readers, | This is a personal message. Please read carefully. | When Global Research was born in September 2001, we were convinced that "Freedom of Expression" and "The Battle of Ideas" would contribute to reversing the tide of war, while also …
globalresearch.ca/freedom-of-expression-and-the-battle-of-ideas/5679578
Trudeau Government Squeezes Cuba
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
Ottawa faces a dilemma. How far are Trudeau's Liberals prepared to go in squeezing Cuba? Can Canadian corporations with interests on the island restrain the most pro-US, anti-socialist, elements of the ruling class? | Recently, the Canadian Embassy in Havana closed …
globalresearch.ca/trudeau-government-squeezes-cuba/5679642
How US "Good Guys" Wiped Out an Afghan Family
Jessica Purkiss | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
It was 4am when Masih Ur-Rahman Mubarez's wife Amina called, an unusually early time for their daily chat. When he picked up the phone, he could hear the panic in her voice. | Amina was calling from the Afghan province of …
globalresearch.ca/how-us-good-guys-wiped-out-afghan-family/5679645
From Glyphosate to Front Groups: Fraud, Deception and Toxic Tactics
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and the British Medical Association Council Chairman, Chaand Nagpaul. | Her purpose is to not only draw attention to the impact of biocides, not least that …
globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-front-groups-fraud-deception-toxic-tactics/5679596
US Bans Educational and Recreational Travel to Cuba
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
As of June 5, U.S. citizens will be prohibited from making group educational and cultural trips known as "people to people" travel to Cuba, Secretary of Commerce Steve Mnuchin of the U.S. Treasury Department confirmed in a statement Tuesday. | According …
globalresearch.ca/us-bans-educational-recreational-travel-cuba/5679637
The EU Votes and the CIA Wins Again
Aidan O'Brien | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
The European Union voted last month but not one of its 21st century war crimes and war criminals were a topic of conversation. The real possibility of a nuclear war between the EU and Russia wasn't an issue either. The | …
globalresearch.ca/eu-votes-cia-wins-again/5679587
After the Fall of the Berlin War: Between Dystopia and Democratic Socialism
Andrew Jackson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread sense that liberal capitalism had triumphed in the battle of ideas, and that socialism as a plausible alternative was pretty much dead. But the many crises of contemporary …
globalresearch.ca/between-dystopia-democratic-socialism/5679657
Video: US-Sponsored Kurdish Militia Burn Wheat Fields in Northern Syria
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
The Kurdish separatist militia SDF and its affiliates from PYD and Asayish are burning wheat fields in the territories under their occupation northeast of Syria. | Some of the most fertile lands as well as territories rich with oil are under …
globalresearch.ca/us-sponsored-kurdish-militia-burn-wheat-fields-qamishli/5679629
From Glyphosate to Front Groups: Fraud, Deception and Toxic Tactics
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and the British Medical Association Council Chairman, Chaand Nagpaul. | Her purpose is to not only draw attention to the impact of biocides, not least that …
globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-front-groups-fraud-deception-toxic-tactics/5679596
The 75th Anniversary of the Allied D-Day Liberation of Nazi-Occupied Western Europe. A Civilizational Provocation, Russia was Not Invited
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
The decision not to invite President Putin to attend the 75th D-Day commemoration event was a civilizational provocation aimed at dividing the European Allies during World War II and reinforcing the historically revised notion that the Soviet Union was an …
globalresearch.ca/75th-d-day-commemoration-event-civilizational-provocation/5679619
The Ukrainian State's Interference in Church Affairs
Nadia Bazuk | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
The recent presidential elections in Ukraine ended quite unexpectedly — the comedian Volodymyr Zelensky whose bid for presidency hadn't been taken seriously by experts and voters in early 2019, defeated Petro Poroshenko and won a landslide victory. The margin between …
globalresearch.ca/another-proof-ukrainian-states-interference-church-affairs/5679590
The US-China Trade War Can be Traced Back to the Failed Tiananmen Square Color Revolution
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
The current "trade war" owes its origins to the US' failed Tiananmen Square Color Revolution that convinced the Chinese authorities that their late-Old Cold War-era American "allies" couldn't be trusted, which in turn inspired the Communist Party to use the …
globalresearch.ca/trade-war-traced-back-failed-tiananmen-square-color-revolution/5679624
Warring Against Sources: The Australian National Security State, Journalism and the Public Interest
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
"What's gone on this morning sends clear and dangerous signals to journalists and newsrooms across Australia. This will chill public interest reporting." — News Corp Australia spokesperson, The West Australian, June 4, 2019 | These are dark times for journalists …
globalresearch.ca/warring-against-sources-australian-national-security-state-journalism-public-interest/5679617
"The Lesson of the Soviet Union Is that the Bureaucracy Chooses Capitalist Restoration"
Eric Toussaint | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
Wilder Pérez Varona (WPV): My first question to you is about the issue of bureaucracy. | Before 1917 the issue of the socialist transition is one thing. The 1848 Revolution, the Paris Commune (which is a crucial episode, but of …
globalresearch.ca/lesson-soviet-union-bureaucracy-chooses-capitalist-restoration/5679655
Video: War Propaganda and US Military Buildup Against Iran
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
Tensions continue to grow in the Persian Gulf. | In early May, the US deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group as well as the USS Arlington amphibious transport dock, additional marines, amphibious vehicles, rotary aircraft, Patriot missiles and a bomber …
globalresearch.ca/war-propaganda-us-military-buildup-iran/5679593
EU Sued at International Criminal Court over Mediterranean Migration Policy — As More Die at Sea
Maurice Stierl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
In the same week that more migrant lives were lost at sea, the EU's migration policy in the Mediterranean has been brought to the attention of the International Criminal Court (ICC). | It emerged on June 3 that the ICC had …
globalresearch.ca/eu-sued-international-criminal-court-mediterranean-migration-policy-more-die-sea/5679633
Video: War Propaganda and US Military Buildup Against Iran
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
Tensions continue to grow in the Persian Gulf. | In early May, the US deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group as well as the USS Arlington amphibious transport dock, additional marines, amphibious vehicles, rotary aircraft, Patriot missiles and a bomber …
globalresearch.ca/war-propaganda-us-military-buildup-iran/5679593
Kushner-Trump Family Plan for an Enlarged Israel, Ridiculed as the 'Confidence Trick of the Century'
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
700,000 illegal settlers, economic migrants from Israel who have built temporary homes on Palestinian land, are proposed to be legitimised under a Kushner family plan dubbed the 'confidence trick of the century'. | The son-in-law of Donald Trump, Jared Kushner is …
globalresearch.ca/kushner-trump-family-plan-enlarged-israel/5679649
ISIS Remnants Regroup and Attack Syrian Army Posts in the Desert with U.S. Help
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-05
ISIS terrorists, defeated by the Syrian Arab Army in the major battles of Der Ezzor and Albukamal east of Syria, have regrouped and launched a new wave of attacks against the SAA posts in the dese…
globalresearch.ca/isis-remnants-regroup-attack-saa-posts-desert-us-help/5679627
It's Time to Move on From Mueller
Aaron Maté | thenation.com | 2019-06-05
It's Time to Move on From Mueller…
thenation.com/article/mueller-impeachment-russiagate-trump/
'Shock and awe' war on migrants and prisoners
Teresa Gutierrez | workers.org | 2019-06-05
In 2003, during the genocidal and criminal U.S. war against Iraq, the term "shock and awe" was propagated. The British Telegraph wrote 10 years later on March 19, 2013: "One expression above all others has become associated with the invasion of Iraq: 'shock and awe.' Developed at the Pentagon, . . . | Continue reading 'Shock and awe' war on migrants and prisoners at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/06/04/shock-and-awe-war-on-migrants-and-prisoners/
Abortion Bans; S.F. Anti-Abortion Marches; Free Abortion on Demand
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2019-06-05
As the United States gets ready to join the backward countries of the world with a ban on abortion, we must ask, how did we get to this point? Why have the Democrats been promoting anti-abortion candidates? How did at least 5 anti-abortion Supreme Court justices get confirmed? Why didn't Democrat Obama who had a Democratic majority Congress in both houses in his first two years sign a law legalizing abortion so we would not have to depend on a pro-abortion majority in the Supreme Court? What kind of society is this that allows constant wars on women and the right to abortion? Why don't we have free abortion on de…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/02/18823702.php
FARC leader Santrich freed, but peace is still held hostage in Colombia
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-05
Former FARC guerrilla commander Jesús Santrich, imprisoned on April 9, 2018, went free on May 30. Colombian authorities had held him pending extradition to the United Sates. Their plan violated the peace agreement signed in November 2016 between FARC guerrillas and Colombia's government. Santrich, born Seuxis Hernández Solarte, personifies the turmoil in Colombia stemming from …
peoplesworld.org/article/farc-leader-santrich-freed-but-peace-is-still-held-hostage-in-colombia/
Plutocracy V: Subterranean Fire
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-05
Plutocracy V: Subterranean Fire, written and directed by Scott Noble, continues the run of quality documentaries by Metanoia Films. The film provides the historical context that allows the viewer to understand why inequality reigns while social justice and peace lag today. The, at first blink, curious title stems from a quotation by the American labor …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/plutocracy-v-subterranean-fire/
Beware of Authoritarian Christians
Rev. William Alberts | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-05
Christianity and authoritarianism are commonly believed to be at opposite ends of the democratic-autocratic continuum. A commonly held belief is that Christians, guided by The Bible, are accepting and caring of each other and others, and are thus democratic. Yes, many Christians do good with-and-for others, inspired by Jesus' Sermon on the Mount's emphasis on mercy and forgiveness and peacemaking (Matthew 5: 1-10), his teaching that doing to others as you would have then do to you is the bottom line of religion (Matthew 7L 12), and his saying that the greatest commandments are to love God and one's neighbor as on…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/05/beware-of-authoritarian-christians/
Film Showing of "Pride" in celebration of 50th anniversary of Stonewall
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-06-05
San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/03/18823712.php
Trump Administration Asks Congress to Make Disrupting Pipeline Construction a Crime Punishable by 20 Years in Prison
Alleen Brown | theintercept.com | 2019-06-05
The proposed legislation would put anti-fossil fuel organizers at significant legal risk for providing training or support to peaceful protesters.
theintercept.com/2019/06/05/pipeline-protests-proposed-legislation-phmsa-alec/
Plutocracy V: Subterranean Fire
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-05
Plutocracy V: Subterranean Fire, written and directed by Scott Noble, continues the run of quality documentaries by Metanoia Films. The film provides the historical context that allows the viewer to understand why inequality reigns while social justice and peace lag today. The, at first blink, curious title stems from a quotation by the American labor …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/plutocracy-v-subterranean-fire/
PHOTOS: 'I Haven't Met Anybody in the Area Who Actually Wants to Take the Walls Down'
Mattias Lundblad, Johannes Frandsen | thenation.com | 2019-06-05
PHOTOS: 'I Haven't Met Anybody in the Area Who Actually Wants to Take the Walls Down'…
thenation.com/article/belfast-peace-lines-troubles-northern-ireland/
Massacre in Sudan: Revolutionaries vow to fight on despite deadly repression
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2019-06-05
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is outraged at the horrific massacre carried out on Monday by forces loyal to the high command of the Sudanese armed forces against peaceful protesters conducting a sit-in in Khartoum outside army headquarters. It is now estimated that at least 100 people were killed in the attack. The camp …
liberationnews.org/massacre-in-sudan-revolutionaries-vow-to-fight-on-despite-deadly-repression/
UN calls for global support to help Somalis displaced by drought
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-05
The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday warned of a growing climate-related displacement in Somalia where more than 2 million people are in need of food aid. | REUTERS — FILE PHOTO Climate change deepening Horn of Africa's hunger crisis, Oxfam says | In a statement issued ahead of the World Environment Day on Wednesday, the UNHCR called for urgent additional support to help people affected and displaced by drought in the horn of Africa nation. |…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/05/un-calls-for-global-support-to-help-somalis-displaced-by-drought/
UN calls for global support to help Somalis displaced by drought
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-05
The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday warned of a growing climate-related displacement in Somalia where more than 2 million people are in need of food aid. | REUTERS — FILE PHOTO Climate change deepening Horn of Africa's hunger crisis, Oxfam says | In a statement issued ahead of the World Environment Day on Wednesday, the UNHCR called for urgent additional support to help people affected and displaced by drought in the horn of Africa nation. |…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/05/un-calls-for-global-support-to-help-somalis-displaced-by-drought/
The Media Are Legitimizing a Century-Old Nazi Trope
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-05
When Norwegian right-winger Anders Breivik invoked "cultural Marxism" as the reason for his 77-person killing spree in 2011, many observers placed the notion in the same category as the killer–the fringe. But since the election of Donald Trump, Brexit and the rise and re-election of other far-right governments around the globe, "cultural Marxism" has become a well-known nationalist buzzword, alongside "globalism": Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro denounces it, and the media empire of former White House…
truthdig.com/articles/the-media-is-legitimizing-a-century-old-nazi-trope/
Brazilians Recover Vision in Bolivia thanks to Cuban doctors
plenglish.com | 2019-06-05
Beni, Bolivia, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of Brazilians recovered their vision thanks to the work of Cuban ophthalmologists based in the Bolivian town of Guayaramerin, where they are seeking a cure for pathologies such as cataracts and pterigium, experts confirmed this on Wednesday.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42867&SEO=brazilians-recover-vision-in-bolivia-thanks-to-cuban-doctors
Workers Party theorist pens diatribe against Brazilian "white trash"
wsws.org | 2019-06-05
The use of this reactionary term to describe poor whites exposes the anti-working class character of the PT.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/05/bols-j05.html
Brazil Regards China as Extremely Strategic Partner
plenglish.com | 2019-06-05
Brasilia, Jun 5 ( Prensa Latina ) The Brazilian government currently considers China an extremely strategic partner, according to Vice President Hamilton Mourao, who admitted having the mission of reactivating relations with this Asian power.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42840&SEO=brazil-regards-china-as-extremely-strategic-partner
The Media Is Legitimizing a Century-Old Nazi Trope
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-05
When Norwegian right-winger Anders Breivik invoked "cultural Marxism" as the reason for his 77-person killing spree in 2011, many observers placed the notion in the same category as the killer–the fringe. But since the election of Donald Trump, Brexit and the rise and re-election of other far-right governments around the globe, "cultural Marxism" has become a well-known nationalist buzzword, alongside "globalism": Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro denounces it, and the media empire of former White House…
truthdig.com/articles/the-media-is-legitimizing-a-century-old-nazi-trope/
Brazil had a Historic Record of 65,602 Murders in 2017
plenglish.com | 2019-06-05
Brasilia, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) Brazil had 65,602 people killed in 2017, revealed this Wednesday the Atlas of Violence, prepared by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and the Brazilian Public Security Forum.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42872&SEO=brazil-had-a-historic-record-of-65602-murders-in-2017
Brazilians Recover Vision in Bolivia Thanks to Cuban doctors
plenglish.com | 2019-06-05
05 de junio de 2019, 14: 34Beni, Bolivia, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of Brazilians have recovered their vision thanks to the work of Cuban ophthalmologists based in the Bolivian town of Guayaramerin, where they are seeking a cure for pathologies such as cataracts and pterigium, experts confirmed this Wednesday.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42865&SEO=brazilians-recover-vision-in-bolivia-thanks-to-cuban-doctors
Brazilian Prosecutor's Office Recommends Semi-open Regime for Lula
plenglish.com | 2019-06-05
05 de junio de 2019, 13: 13Brasilia, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) The Federal Public Ministry of Brazil on Wednesday recommended that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has served 424 days in prison for alleged corruption, benefit from a semi-open regime.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42857&SEO=brazilian-prosecutors-office-recommends-semi-open-regime-for-lula
Argentinean Organizations to Lead March against Bolsonaro
plenglish.com | 2019-06-05
Buenos Aires, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) Several social and political organizations in Argentina are calling a march on Wednesday to protest against the visit by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who will arrive on Thursday in this capital.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42836&SEO=argentinean-organizations-to-lead-march-against-bolsonaro
EU Could Fine Italy US$3.9 Billion Over Heavy National Debt
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-05
The European Commission (EC) has proposed to open an Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) against Italy for not having sufficiently reduced its public debt, which reached 132.2 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018. This EDP could lead to sanctions of up to US$3.9 billion. | RELATED: | US Tells Italy to Stay Away From China and Russia | "The 2018 Italian data is…
telesurenglish.net/news/EU-Could-Fine-Italy-US3.9-Billion-Over-Heavy-National-Debt-20190605-0005.html
Our Globally Warming Civilization
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-05
The 150 years of the Industrial Revolution (~1770-1920), with its catastrophic and bloody termination in World War I (1914-1918), had no noticeable effect on the global average temperature, which had hovered around 14.7 degrees Centigrade (C) since antiquity. The human population had taken 200,000 years (more or less) to grow to one billion (1B), in 1804, within the natural and majestic evolution of global climates during those 2000 centuries…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/05/our-globally-warming-civilization/
Lawmakers try to block Trump's latest 22 Saudi arms deals
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-05
WASHINGTON–A bipartisan group of senators will try to block President Donald Trump's latest $8.1 billion, in 22 separate arms sales, to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They challenge Trump's justification–the supposed threat from Iran–for invoking "emergency" arms sale law loopholes to aid the Saudis. One of the group, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., worries …
peoplesworld.org/article/lawmakers-try-to-block-trumps-latest-22-saudi-arms-deals/
Canada Closes Venezuelan Embassy as Guaido Promises Maduro Out This Year
Venezuela Analysis | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-05
(VA) — Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has announced the "temporary" closure of her country's embassy and the withdrawal of diplomatic personnel from Venezuela, claiming Ottawa had "no choice." In a Sunday press statement, Freeland accused the Maduro government of haven "taken steps to limit the ability of foreign embassies to function" by failing to renew visas for …
Canada Closes Venezuelan Embassy as Guaido Promises Maduro Out This Year
Canada Closes Venezuelan Embassy as Guaido Promises Maduro Out This Year
Venezuela Analysis | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-05
(VA) — Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has announced the "temporary" closure of her country's embassy and the withdrawal of diplomatic personnel from Venezuela, claiming Ottawa had "no choice." In a Sunday press statement, Freeland accused the Maduro government of haven "taken steps to limit the ability of foreign embassies to function" by failing to renew visas for …
Canada Closes Venezuelan Embassy as Guaido Promises Maduro Out This Year
The Dirty Truth About American Air Power
William J. Astore | thenation.com | 2019-06-05
The Dirty Truth About American Air Power…
thenation.com/article/american-air-power-bombing-afghanistan-iraq/
Australian Police Raid National Broadcaster Over Leaked Afghan War Crime Stories
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-05
(ZH) — Australian federal police officers raided the Sydney headquarters of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) over a series of 2017 reports known as The Afghan Files, which exposed crimes committed by special forces in Afghanistan based on hundreds of pages of leaked defense documents marked AUSTEO (Australian Eyes Only). The incident marks Australia's second such move against journalists in just …
theantimedia.com/australian-police-raid-national-broadcaster-leaked-afghan-files/
Australian police powers risking the criminalisation of public interest journalism
GetUp! | indybay.org | 2019-06-05
This is unprecedented. | As I write, the Australian Federal Police are crawling through the headquarters of our national broadcaster. Accessing private emails. Scouring hard-drives. Rounding up handwritten notes. They have the power to collect, decrypt, alter and delete whatever they want.1 | Why? Because the ABC dared to report on allegations that Australian soldiers unlawfully killed children in Afghanistan.2…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/05/18823743.php
Trump 'prepared' to handle responsibility of launching nukes
rt.com | 2019-06-05
If and when the time comes, Donald Trump is prepared for the "tremendous responsibility" of pressing the nuclear button, the US president has said as Washington locks horns with a growing number of states. | …
rt.com/usa/461104-trump-prepared-responsibility-nukes/