(2019-02-26). Statement by Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright of U.S. Peace Organization CODEPINK. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-02-26). Notes From the Streets of Venezuela—The People Are Resilient in the Face of Foreign Intervention. commondreams.org The word "Chavista" has a resonance. It refers to those women and men who are loyal to Chavez and to the Bolivarian Revolution. (Photo: Vijay Prashad) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/no._1.jpeg…
(2019-02-26). Shifting the Centre of Gravity: Julian Assange Receives His Passport. counterpunch.org In March 2008, one Michael Horvath of the US Army Counterintelligence Center within the Cyber Intelligence Assessments Branch considered the risks posed by WikiLeaks in a 32 page document. Created under the auspices of the Department of Defence's Intelligence Analysis Program. The overview suggests, importantly, the interest shown in Assange by the defence wing of More
(2019-02-26). Shifting the Centre of Gravity: Julian Assange Receives His Passport. globalresearch.ca In March 2008, one Michael Horvath of the US Army Counterintelligence Center within the Cyber Intelligence Assessments Branch considered the risks posed by WikiLeaks in a 32 page document. Created under the auspices of the Department of Defence's Intelligence …
(2019-02-26). Denver protest slams U.S. intervention in Venezuela. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – Some 30 anti-war activists gathered on the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver for a demonstration and informational picket, called by the Denver Peace Council, to protest the Trump administration's plans for a coup d'état in Venezuela. This action was part of the international day of action of February 23, called by a broad coalition of peace groups worldwide. | The date of February 23 is significant as it was the date given by the U.S. government as the last day for the Venezuelan government to accept U.S. 'humanitarian aid' on its Colombian border. This was despite the fact that the Venezuelan gov…
(2019-02-26). Dallas protesters say 'Hands off Venezuela'. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On February 22, protesters gathered at Dealey Plaza to demand an end to U.S. interference in Venezuela. The protest was called by the Dallas Peace and Justice Center and Veterans for Peace Chapter 106. | Protesters held signs that read "Hands off Venezuela" and "No more war for oil." One banner read "Support the Bolivarian Revolution." Local activist Hadi Jawad led chants such as "Trump, Bolton, Abrams, too, we don't want your stinking coup." | One speaker suggested Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special envoy to Venezuela, should be imprisoned for his role in the Guatemalan genocide, stating, "During…
(2019-02-26). Peace Action Applauds Legislation Calling for Peace Agreement to End the Korean War. peaceaction.org Washington, D.C. — February 26, 2019 — In response to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) introducing legislation to support diplomacy and the pursuit of peace on the Korean Peninsula, Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and Coordinator of the Korea Peace Network, released the following statement: "This legislation offers a common sense vision for achieving peace …
(2019-02-26). Peace Action Applauds Legislation Calling for Peace Agreement to End the Korean War. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-02-26). Video: Why There Will be No Full US Troops Withdrawal from Syria. globalresearch.ca A contingent of US troops will remain deployed in Syria even after the troops withdrawal declared by President Donald Trump. | On February 21, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced that "a small peacekeeping group of about 200" troops …
(2019-02-26). New Yorkers march on Wall Street to oppose U.S war on Venezuela. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – On February 23, approximately 300 New Yorkers took Wall Street in the Financial District to protest attempts at a U.S.-led coup against the popular and democratically-elected Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro. | The event was part of a global day of action where over 150 cities hosted events to demand "No U.S. War in Venezuela!" | The protesters gathered in front of one of President Trump's multiple towers under a banner that demanded "No war in Venezuela" in English and Spanish. The lively crowd chanted, "Hands off Venezuela" and "Chavez presente! Maduro Presidente!" | Several of the groups inv…
(2019-02-26). Trump's Democratic Opposition Endorses His Coup Attempt in Venezuela. mintpressnews.com Illustrating that the exception only proves the rule, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard stood virtually alone, tweeting: "The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don't want other countries to choose our leaders — so we have to stop trying to choose theirs."
(2019-02-26). The Christian Genocide During the Ottoman Empire Sounds a Dark Warning for the Future. counterpunch.org Israeli historian Benny Morris doesn't do things by half. The footnotes of his new book on the 30-year genocide of Christians by their Turkish rulers, cowritten with his colleague Dror Zeevi, take up more than a fifth of the 640-page work. "It was nine years, a long haul," he admitted to me this week, with an audible sigh over More
(2019-02-26). Trump Threatens a Second Embargo of Cuba. globalresearch.ca The Trump administration is threatening to unleash a flood of lawsuits involving Cuba, which no U.S. president has ever done. It has set a deadline of March 2 to announce whether it will create, in the words of the National …
(2019-02-26). Attacking Iran. Fake News About a Terrorist Connection Could Serve as a Pretext for War. globalresearch.ca Observers of developments in the Middle East have long taken it as a given that the United States and Israel are seeking for an excuse to attack Iran. The recently terminated conference in Warsaw had that objective, which was clearly …
(2019-02-26). The Coup Has Failed & Now the U.S. Is Looking to Wage War: Venezuelan Foreign Minister Speaks Out. counterpunch.org 
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(2019-02-26). The Bitter Fruit of Trump's China Bashing: Anti-Asian Racism. counterpunch.org 
Donald Trump's New Cold War with Beijing has caught Chinese foreign students at American universities in its crosshairs. His administration has tightened restrictions on their visas, accused them of spying for the Chinese state and its high tech giants, and in the process whipped up a climate of Anti-Asian racism. Trump's policies have yielded bitter More
(2019-02-26). Yes, The Paris Climate Agreement Sucks. counterpunch.org 
The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 was a big deal as 195 nations agreed to take steps to mitigate global temperatures to +2 ∞C, but preferably +1.5 ∞C, post-industrial or over the past 250 years. When temperatures exceed those levels, all hell breaks loose with our precious life-support ecosystems. Today, we're already more than halfway to that More
(2019-02-26). Of Insects and Men. counterpunch.org 
Insects are all over the world — in and over the waters at the edge of the seas, in and over the waters of lakes, rivers and creeks and swamps and irrigation ditches. They thrive in the forests, mountains, deserts, land, cities, villages, in the tropics and in the homes of the poor and the powerful. Their populations are the largest of all other species. They have been occupying the Earth for 400 million years. More
(2019-02-26). India Strikes Inside Pakistan After Deadly Kashmir Attack. truthdig.com 
BALAKOT, Pakistan — A pre-dawn airstrike inside Pakistan that India said targeted a terrorist training camp and killed a "very large number" of militants ratcheted up tensions on Tuesday between the two nuclear-armed rivals at odds over the disputed territory of Kashmir. | Islamabad said there were no casualties in the strike near the town of Balakot, close to the border with Pakistan's section of Kashmir, where residents said loud explosions woke them up, rattling their homes. | "It was the middle of the night, we were very scared," one resident, 20-year old Mohammad Abbas to The Associated Press. "We didn…
(2019-02-26). Editors' Pick: 28 Black-Owned Businesses We Love. naacp.org 
Black History Month might be drawing to a close, but the celebration of all things Black should be a year-long event. Taking into account that Nielsen estimates the Black buying power to be at $1.2 trillion, a great way to celebrate Black culture should be to put some of this money back into our communities. …
(2019-02-26). 'Green Book' wins best picture in an upset at multiracial Oscars. peoplesworld.org 
LOS ANGELES (AP)—The segregation-era road-trip drama Green Book was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards, delighting those who see the film as a feel-good throwback but disappointing others who ridicule it as an outdated inversion of Driving Miss Daisy. In a year when Hollywood could have made history by bestowing its top award …
(2019-02-26). Despite roadblocks Wisconsin Gov. Evers pushes forward. peoplesworld.org 
Nationally, the Democrats are fighting about how progressive should progressives be or if there is room for moderating instincts, for maneuvering cautiously toward the progressive promises that got you elected. The debate can be both severe and transient. Two months ago Nancy Pelosi was in the firing chamber for being too old or too stuck …
(2019-02-26). Scores of Civilians Left Dead in Wake of Saudi Air Campaign on Yemen-Saudi Border. mintpressnews.com 
Saudi Arabia has launched a vicious campaign to secure Jizan, its vulnerable southern border region with Yemen, which has been its Achilles heel in its brutal assault on its southern neighbor.
(2019-02-26). U.S. Accused of Trying to Unconstitutionally Strip Citizenship of U.S.-Born Woman Who Joined ISIS. democracynow.org 
With the self-proclaimed Islamic State on the verge of losing its last area of control in Syria, nations around the world are debating what do with the men and women who joined ISIS but now want to return home. Here in the United States, the debate centers on a 24-year-old U.S.-born woman who left her family in Alabama in 2014 and moved to Syria, where she lived in the ISIS-controlled caliphate. While in Syria, Hoda Muthana married a series of ISIS fighters, all of whom died in battle. Now she is living in a refugee camp in Syria with her 18-month-old son but is seeking to return to the United States, setting off…
(2019-02-26). Greg Craig: A Washington Insider May Be Headed to Jail for His Work in Ukraine. mintpressnews.com 
A quintessential DC insider is likely going to jail on a minor charge and it's good he's not getting away with it, says John Kiriakou.
(2019-02-26). Emergencies Do Not Trump the Constitution. globalresearch.ca After Congress rejected President Trump's request for 5.7 billion dollars for the border wall, the president declared a national emergency at the southern border. Present Trump claims this "emergency" gives him the authority to divert funds appropriated for other purposes …
(2019-02-26). Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Crisis of Online Feminism Today. counterpunch.org I heard this expression frequently when feminist groups would break down and a women would eventually exclaim exasperatingly, "This is why we can't have nice things." Over the past few months in feminist groups from the US to the UK, I have witnessed a train wreck of conflicting egos, political narratives that are deemed "incorrect" More
(2019-02-26). Venezuela's 23F: A Collective Victory for a Collective Future. counterpunch.org It was George W. Bush who invented the term: misunderestimating. And it's what imperialism continually does with Venezuela. I recall an Aló Presidente program in which Chávez was talking about the 2002 coup attempt. He said that the US thought it could easily replace him. "As simply as this," he said and demonstrated by moving More
(2019-02-26). Mueller Report: Secrecy Shouldn't be an Option. counterpunch.org As February draws to an end, rumors abound that we're about to see Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Or at least that someone — namely, newly confirmed US Attorney General William Barr — is about to see that report. The rest of us, maybe not so More
(2019-02-26). Historicizing the Special Status of Jammu and Kashmir. counterpunch.org The discourse of nationalism affects to make sense of the absurd loss of life that occurs. Human knowledge, however, is always tentative and arbitrary. We must learn to cross the frontiers of culture, nationality, language, and citizenship in order to make humanist responses to conflict situations. There is growing awareness among the people of Jammu More
(2019-02-26). Scurrying Fascist Cockroaches. counterpunch.org "Suppose it was discovered tomorrow that the greenhouse effects has been way underestimated, and that the catastrophic effects are actually going to set in 10 years from now, and not 100 years from now or something. Well, given the state of the popular movements we have today, we'd probably have a fascist takeover-with everybody agreeing More
(2019-02-26). The Open Veins of Venezuela. counterpunch.org John Bolton, Donald Trump's maniacal National Security Advisor of Fox News-fame, tweeted that the whole "world is watching" the US-staged drama in Venezuela. Elliot Abrams, Donald Trump's neocon "Special Representative for Venezuela," is the man on the scene, despite (or because of) his record as a war criminal from Ronald Reagan's war on Nicaragua, his role as More
(2019-02-26). Game Over? Report Card on Our Planet's Environment. counterpunch.org The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report for 2019 indicates that most experts point to environmental problems as being the most serious threats to global stability—just as they found in the previous two years. That report follows on one in October 2018 by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It said with "high More
(2019-02-26). Final Steps of the Multipolar Revolution: Containing the US in Europe. globalresearch.ca We discussed in the previous article how China and Russia are using diplomatic, economic and military means in areas like Asia and the Middle East to contain the belligerence and chaos unleashed by the United States. In this analysis, we …
(2019-02-26). Dangerous Escalation Between Nuclear-armed Rivals India and Pakistan. globalresearch.ca In a pre-dawn airstrike at 3: 30 a.m. on Tuesday, 12 Indian Mirage 2000 fighter jets intruded into Pakistan's airspace and dropped their payload on the top of a mountain at a terrorist training camp, allegedly belonging to a jihadist group …
(2019-02-26). Trump, Kim Facing Big Challenges After Big Welcome in Hanoi. truthdig.com HANOI, Vietnam— After long journeys to Vietnam, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are in place for their second summit to address perhaps the world's biggest security challenge: Kim's pursuit of a nuclear program that stands on the verge of realistically threatening targets around the planet. | Although many experts are skeptical Kim will give up the nuclear weapons he likely sees as his best guarantee of continued rule, there was a palpable, carnival-like excitement among many in Hanoi as the final preparations were made for the…
(2019-02-26). The Conservatives, "Nam-Nam Friction" and Nuclear Crisis in South Korea. globalresearch.ca Recently, the heads of five South Korean political parties visited Washington (February 12 to 14) with a mission to assure the supports of American politicians for the success of the second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi. | But, what is hard to …
(2019-02-26). France and Italy Are Involved in a Proxy War in Libya. globalresearch.ca The following is the full English-language interview that Andrew Korybko gave to RT (German) about the latest developments in Libya, which was published by the outlet in an abridged form under the title " Colonialism 2.0: France & Italy Are …
(2019-02-26). Alexander von Humboldt, Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution. globalresearch.ca "One cannot praise enough the intelligent legislation of Spanish America's new republics, which, since their inception, have been seriously concerned with slavery's total cessation. In that respect, this vast part of the earth has an immense advantage over the South …
(2019-02-26). Juan Guaido: A Traitor to His People. globalresearch.ca The self-proclaimed "Provisional President of Venezuela," Juan Guaidó, is an expert in dangerous actions, who — in pursuit of his unending ambition — will go down in history as a person that broke all the rules of decency and …
(2019-02-26). US Sanctions Four Venezuelan Governors as Lima Group Nixes Military Action. venezuelanalysis.com Despite Saturday's failure to force in "humanitarian aid," Pence warned that there is "no turning back."
(2019-02-26). Canadian 'Aid' to Venezuela Part of Plan to Overthrow Government. globalresearch.ca If more people understood that "aid" often goes hand in hand with military intervention there would be less uncritical support for it. | An important, though little acknowledged, principle of Canadian 'aid' policy is that military intervention elicits international assistance. Or, …
(2019-02-26). "Don't give additional time to Sri Lanka", mothers of disappeared persons tell the UN. peoplesdispatch.org Families of tens of thousands of Tamils are still waiting for justice for the mass atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan government during the civil war that lasted 26 years…
(2019-02-26). White Women Prospered on the Brutality of the Slave Economy. thenation.com White Women Prospered on the Brutality of the Slave Economy…
(2019-02-26). 2020 Democratic Hopefuls Embrace New Meaning of Reparations. truthdig.com Several Democratic presidential candidates are embracing reparations for the descendants of slaves — but not in the traditional sense. | Over the past week, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro spoke of the need for the U.S. government to reckon with and make up for centuries of stolen labor and legal oppression. But instead of backing the direct compensation of African-Americans for the legacy of slavery, the Democratic candidates are talking about using tax credits and other subsidies. | Long defined as so…
(2019-02-26). One in Five Children Live in a Warzone. thenation.com One in Five Children Live in a Warzone…
(2019-02-26). Workers reject Spanish firm's bid for Israeli settlement project. zcomm.org International human rights organizations and the United Nations have all warned against complicity in Israel's settlements through trade or business…
(2019-02-26). Is the Tide Turning on President Trump's War on Science? commondreams.org Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson questions NASA Administrator Charles Bolden during a House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology budget hearing, Wednesday, March 2, 2011, in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls via Flickr) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/5492156977_7203110088_z.jpg…
(2019-02-26). UK Aid to Yemen: The Best Thing May Can Do for Yemen Is to Stop Arming the Saudi Regime. globalresearch.ca Yesterday the Prime Minister, Theresa May pledged £200 million worth of aid for the people of Yemen. However, she has refused to stop arming and supporting the Saudi Arabian regime, which has caused much of the damage. The ongoing bombardment …
(2019-02-26). Highest number of civilians killed in Afghanistan in 2018: UN Report. peoplesdispatch.org A report by the UNAMA and UN Human Rights Office states that 3,804 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2018, the highest ever, and a majority of the killings were by the anti-government forces, including the Taliban and the Islamic State…