Liberals Are Digging Their Own Grave With Russiagate
Robert Scheer | truthdig.com | 2019-03-08
"This new Cold War [is] more dangerous than the preceding Cold War," Professor Stephen Cohen tells Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer in the latest installment of "Scheer Intelligence." Cohen, a professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University, has a new book out that addresses the possibility of a U.S.-Russia armed conflict in the near future. Part of the current rejection of the Kremlin that has brought the two nations to this dangerous brink, according to Cohen, is rooted in the U.S. political elites' desire to maintain their ability to determine the world order. When V…
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A Peaceful, Democratic Solution to Venezuela's Crisis Requires Fact-based Analysis and Advocacy
Washington Office on Latin America | commondreams.org | 2019-03-08
With the backing of the Trump administration, opposition leader Juan Guaid√≥ declared himself "interim president" earlier this year. (Photo: Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/venezuela_1.jpg…
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Attacks on Venezuela Lead to 'Law of the Jungle,' China Warns
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-08
At his annual news conference Friday, China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, stressed that his country favors the rules of international law, respect for the sovereignty of Venezuela and negotiations without foreign interference to peacefully resolve the situation of the South American country. | RELATED: | Venezuelan VP: Marco Rubio Behind Nation-Wide Blackout Sabotage…
telesurenglish.net/news/Attacks-on-Venezuela-Lead-to-Law-of-the-Jungle-China-Warns-20190308-0011.html

Debate over Ilhan Omar Highlights New Willingness in U.S. to Question Power of Pro-Israeli Lobby
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-08
Following a week of debate surrounding Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar's comments about U.S. foreign policy in Israel, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Thursday condemning anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim discrimination, white supremacy and other forms of hate. We host a discussion with Gideon Levy, Haaretz columnist and member of the newspaper's editorial board; Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies who serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace; and Remi Kanazi, a Palestinian-American poet, writer and organizer based in New York City.
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/8/debate_over_ilhan_omar_highlights_new

Encountering Peace: The world according to Bibi
Gershon Baskin | zcomm.org | 2019-03-08
It is clear that getting back to the issues will depend first and foremost on replacing Netanyahu with someone else…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/encountering-peace-the-world-according-to-bibi/

A Peek into the Horrific Findings of the UN Report on Israel's Massacre of Gaza Protesters
Robert Inlakesh | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-08
The commission found serious human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity and called on Israel to "Lift the blockade on Gaza with immediate effect.
mintpressnews.com/a-peek-into-the-horrific-findings-of-the-un-report-of-israel-massacre-of-gaza-protesters/256003/

ACT for America Tries To Distance Themselves From One of Their 'Most Influential Activists'
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-03-08
An ACT for America chapter leader made national headlines last week for a display at the West Virginia Capitol that appeared to equate Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/03/08/act-america-tries-distance-themselves-one-their-most-influential-activists

Refusing to "Snitch," Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Becomes Two-Time Political Prisoner
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-08
"I will not participate in a secret process that I morally object to, particularly one that has been historically used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech." — Chelsea Manning…
mintpressnews.com/refusing-to-snitch-whistleblower-chelsea-manning-becomes-two-time-political-prisoner/256031/

Michael Cohen Scooped by Julian Assange
Ann Garrison | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
Press and citizenry continue to discuss former Trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen's testimony before Congress on February 27. | Russiagate skeptics and supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are taking particular note of what Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie said …
globalresearch.ca/michael-cohen-scooped-julian-assange/5670722

Roaming Charges: Flag Humpers
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-08
+ It's now a thought-crime in DC for the powerless to speak about the power of an organization which exists to leverage its power in a town which only responds to power. + Palestinians are the one ethnic group that everyone has a license to hate. In fact, in the US congress, it's almost an…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/roaming-charges-flag-humpers/

Venezuela in the US Press – Interviews with Chesa Boudin, Dan Beeton, Laura Carlsen, Mark Weisbrot, Miguel Tinker Salas and Alfredo Lopez
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2019-03-08
Media…
fair.org/home/venezuela-in-the-us-press/

US Taxpayers On the Hook for Nearly $1 Billion in Saudi Arabia's Recent Missile Defense Purchase
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-08
The U.S. government continues to scramble to keep its allies from buying its THAAD missile defense system's top competitor, the Russian S-400. Unfortunately for them, it's the U.S. taxpayers who are footing the bill.
mintpressnews.com/us-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-nearly-1-billion-in-saudi-arabias-recent-missile-defense-purchase/256040/

Oxfam: Starving Yemeni Families Selling Daughters as Young as Three into Marriage
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-08
The fact that girls as young as three have been sold is shocking and a testament to the severity of the humanitarian crisis, particularly the country's burgeoning famine, that many Yemenis face.
mintpressnews.com/oxfam-report-starving-yemen-families-selling-daughters-as-young-as-three-into-marriage/256053/

As the World Burns
Paul Street | zcomm.org | 2019-03-08
Hurtling Towards an Unlivable Planet…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/as-the-world-burns/

As the World Burns: Hurtling Towards an Unlivable Planet
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-08
If the global warming cataclysm — already significantly underway in vast swaths of the planet — isn't averted and soon, then nothing else we care about is going to matter all that much. We'll just be arguing about how to fairly slice up a badly overheated pie — how to turn an overcooked world upside down (or right-side up) and how to properly manage a living Hell. You'd hardly know this from the reigning U.S. media and politics culture, where the climate crisis and other critical environmental issues are pushed to the margins of public discussion. It is chilling (no ironic pun intended) to behol…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/as-the-world-burns-hurtling-towards-an-unlivable-planet/

Brazil: Bolsonaro Says Democracy, Liberty Depend on Military
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-08
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday the country's armed forces, which led the country under a military dictatorship for over two decades, are the ultimate arbiters of democracy. | RELATED: | 'Sambistas' Harshly Rebuke Bolsonaro's Attack on Carnival | Speaking at a naval event in Rio de Janeiro alongside some of the form…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Bolsonaro-Says-Democracy-Liberty-Depend-on-Military-20190308-0012.html

Video: Syrian Army Delivers Massive Strike on Terrorist Infrastructure in Idlib Province
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
On March 6, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) delivered a massive rocket strike on positions of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) in Jisr al-Shughur in the northwestern part of Idlib province. This was the first such strike in this area …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-army-delivers-massive-strike-terrorist-infrastructure/5670704

ICE Is Terrorizing Iraqi-American Communities
Chris Gelardi | thenation.com | 2019-03-08
ICE Is Terrorizing Iraqi-American Communities…
thenation.com/article/ice-iraq-chaldeans/

Idlib — Reportage from the Last Terrorist Stronghold in Syria
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
For a while, all the guns have fallen silent. | I am near Idlib, the last stronghold of the terrorists in Syria. The area where the deadliest anti-government fighters, most of them injected into Syria from Turkey, with Saudi, Qatari and …
globalresearch.ca/idlib-last-front-syria/5670719

America Created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS Terror Group
Garikai Chengu | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
Incisive article originally published by GR in September 2014. | Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran's growing influence in the …
globalresearch.ca/america-created-al-qaeda-and-the-isis-terror-group/5402881

Ten Points I Just Can't Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
I still do not know what happened in the Skripal saga, which perhaps might more respectfully be termed the Sturgess saga. I cannot believe the Russian account of Boshirov and Petrov, because if those were their real identities, those identities …
globalresearch.ca/official-skripal-narrative/5670772

Russian Women Against Militarism: Act II
Nadia Azhgikkina | thenation.com | 2019-03-08
Russian Women Against Militarism: Act II…
thenation.com/article/russia-putin-war-women/

Venezuela Wins Round One Against the Empire
Manuel E. Yepe | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-08
Havana. The clash between Venezuela and the Empire last weekend ended with a humiliating defeat for Elliott Abrams, the alleged designer of the operation. What the neocons initially planned may never be known, but what is known is that they could not culminate in an invasion or another false flag operation. The most notable facet…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/venezuela-wins-round-one-against-the-empire/

An Open Letter on US Effort to Overthrow Venezuelan Government
Various Contributors | zcomm.org | 2019-03-08
We believe that the Trump administration's regime change effort in Venezuela is wrong in every way: morally, legally, and politically…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/an-open-letter-on-us-effort-to-overthrow-venezuelan-government/

Rubio Demands US Initiate "Widespread Unrest" in Venezuela
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
Predictably during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Thursday, Republican chairman Marco Rubio condemned Venezuela's Maduro as a "clear danger" and a "threat to the national security of the US." To be expected the hearing was filled with …
globalresearch.ca/rubio-demands-us-initiate-widespread-unrest-venezuela/5670753

Washington's Escalation for Venezuela's Oil
Nino Pagliccia | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-08
If we listen to Washington's threats to Venezuela there is always a military component to everything they do to undermine the legitimate Maduro government. "All options are on the table", is the repeated slogan that is now also heard from the self-appointed "president", Juan Guaidó, as if he were referring to another country and not…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/washingtons-escalation-for-venezuelas-oil/

Venezuelans Go About Their Day as Power Gradually Restored
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-08
People in the Venezuelan capital Caracas reported Friday that electricity is being restored gradually in different zones of the city after a sabotage attack against the electric system of the country that took place Thursday evening. | RELATED: | Venezuelan VP: Marco Rubio Behind Nation-Wide Blackout Sabotage | As the government implements actions to restore the service in the remaining areas of the country, people have chosen to go about their daily activities as usual, either…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuelans-Go-About-Their-Day-as-Power-Gradually-Restored-20190308-0014.html

Senator Marco Rubio: US Must Initiate Widespread Unrest in Venezuela
ZeroHedge | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-08
During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Thursday, Republican chairman Marco Rubio condemned Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro as a "clear danger" and a "threat to the national security of the U.S." As was to be expected, the hearing was filled with plenty of threats and talk of flipping "military elites" and enforcing tougher sanctions. | But perhaps unexpected was just how out in the open and brazen Rubio's own admissions of how far he's willing to go in promoting regime change in Caracas…
mintpressnews.com/us-senator-marco-rubio-the-us-must-initiate-widespread-unrest-in-venezuela/256024/

Venezuelan Government Denounce New Attack on Electric System
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
The Electric Energy Minister Dominguez denounced that this loss of power is due to sabotage in the area of electric generation and transmission in Guri, in the eastern Bolivar state. | *** | The Minister of Popular Power For Electric Energy, Luis | …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelan-government-denounce-new-attack-on-electric-system/5670759

The Conflict of Our Time: U.S. Imperialism vs the Rule of Law
Nicolas J S Davies | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-08
The world faces many overlapping crises: regional political crises from Kashmir to Venezuela; brutal wars that rage on in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia; and the existential dangers of nuclear weapons, climate change, and mass extinction. But beneath the surface of all these crises, human society faces an underlying, unresolved conflict about who or what…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/the-conflict-of-our-time-u-s-imperialism-vs-the-rule-of-law/

Regime change is urgently needed…in Washington
Andre Vltchek | mronline.org | 2019-03-08
It is not Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Iran that are in dire and crucial need of 'regime change'. It is the United States of America, it is the entire European Union; in fact, the entire West. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/03/08/regime-change-is-urgently-neededin-washington/

U.S. Gears Up for War on Venezuela
Jeff Mackler | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-08
The relentless U.S. imperial beast has embarked on a full-scale, openly declared, bipartisan regime-change war aimed at overthrowing Venezuela's democratically elected government headed by President Nicolás Maduro. Top U.S. officials–from President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser John Bolton and special envoy Elliot Abrams of Iran/Contra infamy, to Democratic House Speaker Nancy…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/u-s-gears-up-for-war-on-venezuela/

Another Failed Coup in Venezuela?
George Ciccariello-Maher | zcomm.org | 2019-03-08
The Venezuelan opposition and its backers in Washington may have underestimated the Chavista grassroots…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/another-failed-coup-in-venezuela/

Progressives Condemn U.S.-Backed Regime Change in Venezuela
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-03-08
Over a dozen progressive House Democrats on Thursday condemned the Trump administration's "unacceptable" push for regime change in Venezuela. | The comments came in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and signed by Reps. Ro Khanna (Calif.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), and 13 other House Democrats. | "President Donald Trump and other senior United States (U.S.) officials have generated alarm in Venezuela and throughout the region with actions and statements–such as the recent threat that 'all op…
truthdig.com/articles/progressives-condemn-u-s-backed-regime-change-in-venezuela/

Venezuelan VP: Marco Rubio Behind Nation-Wide Blackout Sabotage
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-08
Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced late Thursday that President Nicolas Maduro ordered schools and offices be shut on Friday in order to speed up the repairs of the Venezuelan electric system, which was attacked by far-right groups Thursday afternoon. | RELATED: | Venezuelan Government Denounce New Attack On Electric System | "President Nicolas Maduro has suspended work and school activities on Friday so as to facilitate the necessary repair works on the country…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuelan-VP-Marco-Rubio-Behind-Nation-Wide-Blackout-Sabotage-20190308-0006.html

Nationwide Blackout In Venezuela -Venezuelanalysis On the Ground Coverage Affected
Katrina Kozarek, Venezuelanalysis | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-03-08
Venezuela suffered a nationwide blackout in the afternoon on Thursday, March 7. Government officials denounce sabotage and promise to restore the country to 100 percent electrical service over the coming hours. | On the ground reporters for Venezuelanalysis.com currently without means of presenting updates until electricity is restored.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14373

We Are Being Lied Into War Again
Lee Camp | commondreams.org | 2019-03-08
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" to give host Jake Tapper the Trump administration's take on Venezuela. (Photo: CNN screen shot) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/popeo.jpeg…
commondreams.org/views/2019/03/08/we-are-being-lied-war-again?cd-origin=rss

Trump Moves the World Closer to Wars
Brian Cloughley | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-08
President Trump has recently flown out of Hanoi, having failed to reach any agreement in negotiations with President Kim of North Korea, who went back home by train, with his tail up and wagging — having laid a wreath at the mausoleum commemorating Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese leader who led his country's fight for…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/trump-moves-the-world-closer-to-wars/

The Trump/Kim Bromance: It's Gross, But Let's Hope It Leads to a Third Date
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-08
Of all the bizarre things that Donald Trump utters — the lies, the garbled words, the fanciful stories — his comments on his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are in a category by themselves. "I was really tough and so was he, and we went back and forth," Trump told a crowd…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/the-trump-kim-bromance-its-gross-but-lets-hope-it-leads-to-a-third-date/

The Bloody Sunday Massacre (1972) in Northern Ireland: Comments by "Toxic Clown Boris" Johnson
Eamonn McCann | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
The toxic clown Boris Johnson has told the Daily Telegraph that "it feels sickening" that charges might be brought against some of the paratroopers who killed or wounded 28 unarmed people in Derry on Bloody Sunday in 1972. He's become …
globalresearch.ca/bloody-sunday-boris/5670710

Women's Day 2019: From Afghanistan to Syria: Women's Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA
Julie Lévesque | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.
globalresearch.ca/from-afghanistan-to-syria-womens-rights-war-propaganda-and-the-cia/5329665

India's State of Sikkim Banishes All Pesticides and GMO, Watches Both Wildlife and Tourism Flourish
Nick Meyer | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
The organic movement has been seen as a fad and a trend by many, but others call it a necessity in a changing world where toxic chemicals are increasingly killing life from the bottom of the food chain up, including …
globalresearch.ca/indias-state-of-sikkim-banishes-all-pesticides-and-gmo-watches-both-wildlife-and-tourism-flourish/5670717

The Complete History of Monsanto, "The World's Most Evil Corporation"
E Hanzai | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
First published by Waking Times, posted by Global Research in May 2014, this article provides a historical viewpoint. It is of particular relevance in relation to the Monsanto-Bayer merger. Monsanto-Bayer is relentlessly pushing the Worldwide adoption of glyphosate, which is …
globalresearch.ca/the-complete-history-of-monsanto-the-worlds-most-evil-corporation/5387964

Women's Day 2019: Women's Rights in Afghanistan, "A Justification for War"
Felicity Arbuthnot | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
Remember the deluge of political concern over the subjugation of Afghan women at the time of the October 2001 invasion? The tsunami of documentaries, articles, books on their plight, contributing to the justification of another invasion…
globalresearch.ca/international-womens-day-and-the-mullahs-of-whitehall-pioneering-afghan-sportswomen-denied-uk-entry/5327098

US Shifts Weapons from Iraq to Syria
Jack Detsch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
The Pentagon rerouted millions of dollars' worth of weapons and vehicles from Iraq to Syria in the second half of 2018, Al-Monitor has learned, as US-backed forces cornered the last remnants of the Islamic State (IS). | In a series of …
globalresearch.ca/us-shifts-weapons-iraq-syria/5670765

Is the Trump Administration "Owned by the State of Israel". Ted Cruz: Accessory to Israeli Grand Larceny
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-08
In the United States, as Rep Omar pointed out, politicians on both sides of the aisle in both Houses routinely fall over themselves to pledge fealty and taxpayer dollars to Israel. | The Trump administration is virtually owned by the state …
globalresearch.ca/ted-cruz-israeli-grand-larceny/5670701

Trump Administration Announces Stripping Gray Wolf Protections Across Country