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North Korea: Achievements in Health and Education
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
North Korea's "health system is the envy of the developing world" according to the World Health Organization: WHO director-general Margaret Chan said the country had "no lack of doctors and nurses"
globalresearch.ca/north-korea-their-health-system-sucks-do-they-have-schools-and-hospitals-in-america-weve-got-medicare-2/5604293

Roger Waters, socialists say no to Bernie and AOC's positions on Venezuela
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-03-05
As socialists rally in the United States over their country's backing of a right wing coup in Venezuela, the supposedly socialist members of Congress–Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)–are hitting talking points that worry critics like Roger Waters and activists in the streets alike. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/03/05/roger-waters-socialists-say-no-to-bernie-and-aocs-positions-on-venezuela/

PATRICK LAWRENCE: It Was Kim That Walked Away
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-05
There are two sides to the story about why the second North Korea peace summit fell apart last week, writes Patrick Lawrence. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News The abrupt and unexpected failure of the second Trump–Kim summit last… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/04/patrick-lawrence-it-was-kim-that-walked-away/

Hanoi Summit: So close, yet so far from peace
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-03-05
In today's episode of International Round-up, NewsClick editor, Prabir Purkayastha, talks about the reasons behind the failure of the Hanoi Summit, where the US and North Korea could not arrive at a lasting agreement. He also discusses the changing dynamics and the possibilities that the inter-Korean peace process has augured.
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/03/05/hanoi-summit-so-close-yet-so-far-from-peace/

Human Rights Orgs: End Canadian Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
CFJPIME | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) joined eleven other human rights organizations to send a letter calling the Canadian government to immediately suspend arms sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The letter pointed out that …
globalresearch.ca/end-canadian-arms-sales-saudi-arabia/5670461

The Trump-Kim Summit: What Really Happened in Hanoi?
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
While the western media has written off last weekend's summit in Hanoi as a failure, the talks did help to burnish Kim Jong-un's reputation as a sincere statesman committed to peacefully resolving the nuclear issue. This is a significant …
globalresearch.ca/what-happened-hanoi/5670438

Hugo Chavez's Memory Lives on in the Hearts of Latin Americans
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-05
Six years since his passing and the memory of Hugo Chavez still remains not only in the hearts of Venezuelans but of Latin Americans around the globe. | RELATED: | John Pilger: The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies | His leadership and legacy revolutionized the state of Venezuela, like no other administration in the nation's history, cutting the chord from imperialist countries in the north, taking the reins and changing South America's future. | After centuries of passivity, under Cha…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hugo-Chavezs-Memory-Lives-on-in-the-Hearts-of-Latin-Americans-20190304-0024.html

Israel is Playing a Big Role in India's Escalating Conflict with Pakistan
Robert Fisk | zcomm.org | 2019-03-05
When I heard the first news report, I assumed it was an Israeli air raid on Gaza. Or Syria. Airstrikes on a "terrorist camp" were the first words. A "command and control centre" destroyed, many "terrorists" killed. The military was retaliating for a "terrorist attack" on its troops, we were told. An Islamist "jihadi" base had been Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/israel-is-playing-a-big-role-in-indias-escalating-conflict-with-pakistan/

Israel is Playing a Big Role in India's Escalating Conflict with Pakistan
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
When I heard the first news report, I assumed it was an Israeli air raid on Gaza. Or Syria. Airstrikes on a "terrorist camp" were the first words. A "command and control centre" destroyed, many "terrorists" killed. The military was retaliating for a "terrorist attack" on its troops, we were told. An Islamist "jihadi" base had been…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/israel-is-playing-a-big-role-in-indias-escalating-conflict-with-pakistan/

Revolution in Venezuela: what is really happening?
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-03-05
On February 23, Venezuela broke diplomatic and political relations with Colombia. In addition, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gave the staff of the Colombian Embassy in Caracas 24 hours to leave Venezuela. At the same time, Venezuela temporarily closed three bridges on the border with Colombia. The decision was taken after it came to light that …
uwidata.com/2555-revolution-in-venezuela-what-is-really-happening/

Watch: The US Humanitarian Aid Ploy to Venezuela Explained
Kei Pritsker | grayzoneproject.com | 2019-03-05
Washington's claim that Venezuela's government has refused humanitarian aid is a gigantic lie. Kei Pritsker explains how the US deployed…
grayzoneproject.com/2019/03/05/watch-the-us-humanitarian-aid-ploy-to-venezuela-explained/

Russia on Venezuela: U.S. mercenaries and direct military intervention
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-03-05
We are certainly worried about the U.S. plans to arm militants in order to destabilise the situation in Venezuela and, frankly speaking, invade this sovereign country. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/03/05/russia-on-venezuela-u-s-mercenaries-and-direct-military-intervention/

"Political racism is why West has not given a chance to Venezuelan process"
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-03-05
Venezuelan ambassador to Ecuador, Carol Delgado Arria, talked to Peoples Dispatch about how political racism has affected the treatment of Venezuela and Bolivarian leaders such as Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/03/05/political-racism-is-why-west-has-not-given-a-chance-to-venezuelan-process/

Financial Imperialism: the Case of Venezuela
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
Invasion of Venezuela by US and its proxies is just around the corner! This past week vice-president Pence flew to Colombia once again–for the fifth time in recent weeks–to provide final instructions to US local forces and proxy allies there for the next step in the US regime change plan. Evidence that the 'green light'…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/financial-imperialism-the-case-of-venezuela/

Conflict in Kashmir: U.S. Imperialism's Playground
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-03-05
Last week saw a geopolitical explosion; something that seemed to many a sudden and terrifying threat of nuclear war on the Indian Subcontinent. For the first time since 1971, Pakistan and India engaged in active combat in the contested muslim-majority territory of Kashmir. The confrontation began with India's aerial bombing of an alleged terrorist camp …
uwidata.com/2564-conflict-in-kashmir-u-s-imperialisms-playground/

Uruguayan Football Club Launches Bid to Fight Gender Violence
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-05
"The numbers to which we turn our backs" is the name of the campaign Danubio F.C. have chosen as the Uruguayan football club aim to contribute toward the fight against gender violence. | RELATED: | Study Reports 536 Women Assaulted Every Hour in Brazil | Danubio F.C. will wear jersey's that will contain different slogans on their jersey's in support to end gender violence. For example, above and below the number on the back will be a message specifically relating to the mistreatment of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Uruguayan-Football-Club-Launches-Bid-to-Fight-Gender-Violence-20190305-0002.html

It Is Time to Indict Israel
Norman Finkelstein | zcomm.org | 2019-03-05
Interview on the growing push for ICC to file War Crimes charges…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/it-is-time-to-indict-israel/

WaPo Warns Dems That Progressive Policies Could Bring Them Many Victories
Jeff Cohen | commondreams.org | 2019-03-05
commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-03-05_at_9.56.40_am.png…

Why Wait for 2021? End the Federal War on Marijuana Now!
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
The Boston Globe's Naomi Martin and James Pindell report that all of 2020's formally declared "major party" presidential candidates say they support legalizing marijuana at the federal level. Yes, that includes President Trump. Great idea! But why should the nearly 2/3 of Americans who want marijuana legalized spend the next 20 months listening to these…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/why-wait-for-2021-end-the-federal-war-on-marijuana-now/

WaPo Warns Dems Progressive Policies Could Bring Many Victories
Jeff Cohen | zcomm.org | 2019-03-05
Centrist bias sometimes takes the form of inaccurate critiques of broadly popular progressive policies that are quite defensible–such as Medicare for All or raising the minimum wage…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/wapo-warns-dems-progressive-policies-could-bring-many-victories/

Trump's Plot Against America: It Can Happen Here
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
When Philip Roth wrote The Plot Against America (2004), I instinctively recoiled at Roth's fictional account of a neo-Nazi political party coming to power in the U.S. with figures such as Charles Lindbergh at its helm. When a Nazi document surfaced just recently ("Nazi blueprint for North American Holocaust acquired by Canada archive," Guardian, January 25, 2019), that outlined…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/trumps-plot-against-america-it-can-happen-here/

Will Trump Take Action Against OPEC?
Nick Cunningham | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
Brent is creeping back up towards the high-$60s per barrel, prompting a scolding of OPEC by President Trump via tweet earlier this week. | Trump's irritability with high oil prices is well-known, but the tweet suggests that he sees oil prices …
globalresearch.ca/trump-opec/5670466

A Collectible Corporate Income Tax
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
Bill Niskanen was the rarest of all creatures, an honest libertarian. He actually believed in libertarian ideas, rather than just using them as an excuse for policies to redistribute income upward. He headed the Cato Institute for more than two decades, from 1985 until 2008. While CATO generally took conservative views, it also followed Niskanen's…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/a-collectible-corporate-income-tax/

Key Progressives Demand End to America's Forever Wars
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-03-05
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were among the first members of Congress to sign a new pledge vowing to end America's " forever wars." | "The United States has been in a state of continuous, global, open-ended military conflict since 2001," reads the pledge, which the veterans group Common Defense launched on Monday. "Over 2.5 million troops have fought in this 'Forever War' in over a dozen co…
truthdig.com/articles/key-progressives-demand-end-to-americas-forever-wars/

Abolish the Prison System
David D'Amato | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
America is the authoritarian carceral state par excellence, ignominious the world over for the zeal with which she imprisons her citizens, for the absurdity of her criminal charges and sentences, for the stark racial disparities that characterize her cynical applications of "justice." It is ironic that the United States should bear the honorific title "land of the free"
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/abolish-the-prison-system/

A Swiftian Modest Proposal for the President
Tom Engelhardt | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
Call me crazy, if you want, but I think I see how to do it! We have two intractable issues, one intractable president, and an intractable world, but what if it weren't so? What if those two intractable problems could be swept off the table by a single gesture from that same intractable man? As…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/a-swiftian-modest-proposal-for-the-president/

Make America Normal Again?
John G. Russell | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. –Walt Whitman "We're better than this," Congressman Elijah Cummings sternly told his colleagues at the conclusion of Michael Cohen's public congressional hearing, exhorting them and all Americans "to get back to normal," to, as it were, Make America Normal…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/make-america-normal-again/

Three Days in LA: Tales of a Reluctant Tourist
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/three-days-in-la-tales-of-a-reluctant-tourist/

Nigeria: More than 50 reported missing after the oil pipeline explosion in Niger Delta
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-03-05
Hundreds of Nigerians in the Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa on the Niger Delta were forced to flee their villages after one of the numerous oil pipelines in the region exploded around 4 am on Friday morning. | According to a local chief, a " huge inferno" rose along the course of this pipeline which runs across six local communities in the region. According to reports, at least 50 people have gone missing in the stampede that ensued as people scrambled to run away from the blaze. | The pipeline is currently owned by t…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/03/05/nigeria-more-than-50-reported-missing-after-the-oil-pipeline-explosion-in-niger-delta/

Video: Al Qaeda Strikes Back. Major Escalation in Syria's Northern Hama
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
In the morning of March 3, fighters of the al-Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Tawhid carried out a major attack on several positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the town of Masasneh in northern Hama. A military source told SouthFront …
globalresearch.ca/major-escalation-northern-hama/5670422

The US Wants to Sanction Away Russia's "Great Society"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
Latest round of proposed US sanctions is intended to offset Putin's legacy-defining socio-economic development program known as the "Great Society" | *** | Congress is deliberating whether to promulgate the so-called " Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2019″ …
globalresearch.ca/us-wants-sanction-away-russias-great-society/5670456

Tommy Robinson and the Ultra Right-wing Jihadists of America
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
globalresearch.ca/tommy-robinson-and-the-ultra-right-wing-jihadists-of-america/5670444

SNC Lavalin Scandal Blowback from Corrupt Canadian Foreign Policy
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
Canada's corrupt foreign policy practices have come home to roost on Parliament Hill. | Justin Trudeau's government is engulfed in a major political scandal that lays bare corporate power in Ottawa. But, SNC Lavalin's important role in Canadian foreign policy …
globalresearch.ca/snc-lavalin-scandal/5670443

An Unholy Alliance: Did the US-Backed UAE Fly ISIS Leaders into Yemen's Killing Fields?
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-05
The de facto alliance between the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, AQAP, and now allegedly ISIS in Yemen has led to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history,…
mintpressnews.com/us-backed-uae-accused-of-flying-isis-leaders-into-yemens-killing-fields/255884/

Islamic State Group Begin to Surrender Last Territory in Syria
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-05
In a report from Al Jazeera, thousands of people, including armed fighters, have left the last area held by ISIL in Syria, a spokesperson for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said. | RELATED: | Islamic State Group Faces Final Defeat by Kurdish-Led Force | Mostafa Bali of the SDF tweeted that about 3,000 people had come out of the village of Baghouz in eastern Syria on Monday through a humanitarian corridor established by the Kurdish-led group for those who choose to le…
telesurenglish.net/news/Islamic-State-Group-Begin-to-Surrender-Last-Territory-in-Syria-20190305-0004.html

Volunteer Day with the AMLT Native Stewardship Corps
Amah Mutsun Land Trust | indybay.org | 2019-03-05
Año Nuevo State Park, Whitehouse Canyon Road and Cabrillo Highway, Davenport, CA, 94060…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/04/18821655.php

Protests Hit Brazil During Carnival
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-03-05
It is generally assumed that Carnival in Brazil is mostly just a big party. However, as Mike Fox reports from Brazil, it actually has its origins in politically motivated concerns and this is true now more than ever…
therealnews.com/stories/the-politics-of-brazils-carnival

The political lessons of the March 3 Free Assange rally
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-05
The demonstration in Sydney won broad support on the basis of mobilising the working class to defend democratic rights and class war prisoners such as Julian Assange.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/05/pers-m05.html

Michael Cohen and the Devil in the Details
Michael Winship | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-05
My writer friend Gail, who lives in London but is fluent in all things American, has been closely following our daily travails. We're in touch often, sharing our mutual, grim, and often bleakly funny stories about Trump here and Brexit there. Wednesday, just before Michael Cohen began his testimony before the House Committee on Oversight…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/05/michael-cohen-and-the-devil-in-the-details/

Big Brother Steps Closer as Parents Shackle Teens to Ankle Monitors
Shared by Anton Woronczuk | truthout.org | 2019-03-05
A perfect example of George Orwell's terrifying view of a society under government surveillance has arrived in the form of ankle monitors for your teens. | For parents who "need to keep track of [their] teenager at all times," Tampa Bay Monitoring in Clearwater, Florida, is selling GPS tracking?similar to the shackles used to track those on parole?billed as a way for parents to have "peace of mind" and for so-called troubled teens to have "protection." Never mind that these monitors function as a form of private s…
truthout.org/articles/big-brother-steps-closer-as-parents-shackle-teens-to-ankle-monitors/

How award-winning Palestinian poet found her 'magic pen' in an Israeli jail
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-05
Four months after her release from an Israeli prison, Palestinian poet and photographer Dareen Tatour received the Oxfam Novib PEN Award for Freedom of Expression in The Hague in January. Oxfam Novib, the Dutch affiliate of the international charity Oxfam, said it awarded Tatour the prize to highlight "the growing repr…
greenleft.org.au/content/how-award-winning-palestinian-poet-found-her-magic-pen-israeli-jail

Universities on the Foreign Payroll
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2019-03-05
After the Central Intelligence Agency found that the crown prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia likely ordered the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced it would be reviewing its "Institute-level engagements" with the Kingdom. The fallout from the murder of Khashoggi has put a spotlight on Saudi Arabia's extensive financial connections to universities acro…
truthout.org/articles/universities-on-the-foreign-payroll/

Algerian protests continue after Bouteflika launches presidential bid
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-05
Speaking for the former colonial power, Le Monde published an editorial demanding that Bouteflika step down and warning that the situation risks spinning out of control.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/05/alge-m05.html

Enjoy Your High, But Not at the Expense of Palestinian Human Rights
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2019-03-05
Medical cannabis is considered the next up-and-coming miracle drug, with very few side effects. But with Israeli companies bursting onto the international market, medical cannabis exported from Israel may soon have to come with a new warning. Beware: purchase of this product may contribute to violations of Palestinian human rights. | The Israeli medical cannabis industry, as it is currently set up, whitewashes Israeli war crimes, provides legitimacy and profits for people responsible for past massacres in Gaza, and supports Israel's illegal settlement, a direct cause of Palestinian suffering. | On December 28,…
truthout.org/articles/enjoy-your-high-but-not-at-the-expense-of-palestinian-human-rights/

Guaidó returns to Venezuela for next stage of US regime-change operation
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-05
The US-backed "interim president" staged a five-nation tour of Latin America, shepherded by the CIA, to drum up support for the coup in Venezuela.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/05/vene-m05.html

German Left Party congress backs imperialist campaign against Venezuela
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-05
The Left Party's European election congress last month sent a clear message: the bourgeoisie can rely on the Left Party's support for war and attacks on the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/05/link-m05.html

Em Camp Darby, as Foràßas Especiais Italianas
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
A notícia nà£o é oficial, mas já é badalada: a partir de Outubro, em Camp Darby irá ondular a bandeira italiana. Será que os Estados Unidos està£o para fechar o seu maior arsenal no mundo, fora da mà£e Pátria, restituindo …
globalresearch.ca/em-camp-darby-as-forcas-especiais-italianas/5670480

Robert Fisk Exposes Israel's Hidden Role in the India-Pakistan Conflict
Whitney Webb | theantimedia.com | 2019-03-05
(MPN Op-ed) — Well-known British journalist Robert Fisk recently wrote a very telling and troubling article in The Independent regarding the outsized role of the state of Israel in the burgeoning tensions between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers. The story — despite its importance, given the looming threat of nuclear war between the two countries …

Robert Fisk Exposes Israel’s Hidden Role in the India-Pakistan Conflict

A Camp Darby le forze speciali italiane
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-05
La notizia non è ufficiale ma già se ne parla: da ottobre su Camp Darby sventolerà il tricolore. Gli Stati uniti stanno per chiudere il loro più grande arsenale nel mondo fuori dalla madrepatria, restituendo all'Italia i circa 1000 ettari …
globalresearch.ca/a-camp-darby-le-forze-speciali-italiane/5670465

France's Macron Moves to Equate Anti-Semitism with Anti-Zionism
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-03-05
Sonia Fayman of the Union of French Jews for Peace discusses President Macron's efforts to blur the difference between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism…
therealnews.com/stories/frances-macron-moves-to-equate-anti-semitism-with-anti-zionism

Last Process: 50 Postees: 2019-03-05 16:10 GMT (11:10 EST)

2019-03-04: News Headlines

Chris Hedges (2019-03-04). Giving the Bomb to Saudi Arabia's Dr. Strangelove. truthdig.com The most dangerous foreign policy decision of the Trump administration—and I know this is saying a lot—is its decision to share sensitive nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia and authorize U.S. companies to build nuclear reactors in that country. I spent seven years in the Middle East. I covered the despotic, repressive kingdom as the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. And I, along with most Arabists in the United States, have little doubt that giving a nuclear capability to Saudi Arabia under the leadership of the ruthless and amoral Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would see it embark…

Chris Hedges (2019-03-04). Giving the Bomb to Saudi Arabia's Dr. Strangelove. commondreams.org On March 14, 2017, Trump, along with Kushner, met with Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office. (Photo: The White House/flickr) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/vanka.jpg…

Democracy Now! (2019-03-04). Headlines for March 4, 2019. democracynow.org House Dems to Probe Trump's Allies, DOJ in Wake of Cohen Testimony, Sen. Rand Paul Likely to Oppose Nat'l Emergency in Decisive Vote, Deported Central American Parents Seek Reunification with Children, W. Virginia GOP Under Fire After Poster Linking Rep. Omar to 9/11 Causes Outrage, U.S. and South Korea Roll Back Joint Military Exercises, Shelling in Kashmir Kills 7 as Pakistan & India Appear to Ease Tensions, Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinians After Reported Car Ramming, Venezuelan Opposition Leader Guaidó Set to Return to Country, Algeria: Pres. Says He Will Not Serve Full Term, If Elected, as Protests Continue…

Democracy Now! (2019-03-04). U.N. Finds Israel Intentionally Shot Children, Journalists & the Disabled During Gaza Protests. democracynow.org A United Nations inquiry has found Israeli forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by targeting unarmed children, journalists and the disabled in Gaza. The report, released by the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday, looked at Israel's bloody response to weekly Great March of Return demonstrations, launched by Palestinians in Gaza nearly a year ago, targeting Israel's heavily militarized separation barrier. The report found Israeli forces have killed 183 Palestinians—almost all of them with live ammunition. The dead included 35 children. Twenty-three thousand people were injured,…

teleSUR (2019-03-04). Egypt's Award Winning Photojournalist Released After 5 Years. telesurenglish.net Egyptian authorities released a photojournalist Monday who was imprisoned in 2013 for covering a protest that ended with security forces killing hundreds of protesters. | RELATED: | Uproar in Egypt After Arrest of Protestor at Tahrir Square | Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as Shawkan, after being released, posted a picture on Twitter with the hashtag "hello…

SouthFront (2019-03-04). John Bolton Defends Monroe Doctrine as Juan Guaido Lobs New Threats at Venezuela Gov't. mintpressnews.com Self-proclaimed Venezuelan president Juan Guaido is to return to the country on March, 4 to lead new protests against President Nicolas Maduro's government. In returning he is risking arrest, as he was prohibited from leaving the country by the Venezuelan Supreme Court.

John Pilger (2019-03-04). The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother. counterpunch.org Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no natural light. The air is still and fetid. This is Room 101. Before I enter Room 101, I must surrender my passport and phone. My pockets and possessions are examined. The food I bring is inspected. More

John Pilger (2019-03-04). John Pilger: From Room 101 the Prisoner Says No to Big Brother. mintpressnews.com Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no natural light. The air is still and fetid. | This is Room 101. | Before I enter Room 101, I must surrender my passport and phone. My pockets and possessions are examined. The food I bring is inspected. | The man who guards Room 101 sits in what looks like an old-fashioned telephone box. He watches a screen, watching Julian. There are others unseen, agents of the state, watching and listen…

Carl Boggs (2019-03-04). The War That Never Ends. counterpunch.org After Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un left their Summit meeting in Vietnam resigned to diplomatic impasse, it's worth asking whether a time of peace and conciliation on the Korean peninsula might still be in sight. Given nearly insuperable roadblocks, could even the most congenial negotiations lead to full denuclearization of the North Korean regime? Is the United States, with all its imperial resources and leverage, willing to concede vital North Korean interests — above all, relief from economic sanctions and peace treaty to end the Korean War 65 years after military stalemate ended with a "temporary truce"?

V. Arun Kumar (2019-03-04). [VIDEO] Peoples' Assembly calls for global action on March 16 against imperialist intervention in Venezuela. peoplesdispatch.org The four-day International Peoples' Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, which concluded on February 27, has called for mobilizations across the world for an International Day of Struggle for Peace in Venezuela and the cessation of the economic blockade. The assembly was attended by around 500 delegates from five continents, representing 181 people's movements and organizations.

Whitney Webb (2019-03-04). Robert Fisk Exposes Israel's Hidden Role in the Brewing India-Pakistan Conflict. mintpressnews.com Israel's export of Zionist nationalism and neocolonialism — and the accompanying oppression that in practice actually helps to create many of the very terrorist groups they fight against — is just as dangerous as its export of arms.

Rep. Ron Paul (2019-03-04). Did Bolton Blow North Korea? globalresearch.ca President Trump's second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un last week was criticized by both parties in Washington long before Air Force One even touched down in Hanoi. Washington's political class seemed terrified that the nearly 70 year state …

Stephen Lendman (2019-03-04). Positive Political Change in Chicago? globalresearch.ca Is the city of many nicknames ready for political change for the better, serving its residents more equitably? | Familiar nicknames include the Windy City, referring to political, not atmospheric, wind; Second City (to NY), Sinatra's My Kind of Town, That …

John Wojcik (2019-03-04). Trump-Kim de-nuclearization talks were doomed to fail from the start. peoplesworld.org The chance that North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons approximate the chance of survival a snowball has in hell. Whatever one thinks about the leadership of North Korea, with 100 percent certainty we can say the North Koreans act based on what they see the United States actually do as opposed to any …

Democracy Now! (2019-03-04). It Is Time to Indict Israel: Norman Finkelstein on Growing Push for ICC to File War Crimes Charges. democracynow.org Israeli forces have killed 183 Palestinians since weekly Great March of Return demonstrations began in Gaza nearly a year ago targeting Israel's heavily militarized separation barrier. That's according to a new United Nations inquiry that found Israeli forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by targeting unarmed children, journalists and the disabled in Gaza. The report was released by the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday. We speak with Norman Finkelstein, scholar and author of "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom," and Sara Hossain, a member of the U.N. independent commission that l…

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2019-03-04). On Home Ground in a Distant Land. counterpunch.org We are all Greeks These were the heartfelt words of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821: "Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece" (The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley,501). Shelley was one of the friends of Greece (philhellenes) who fought alongside the Greeks during their War of Independence More

Jacob F. Lee (2019-03-04). Venezuela and the Long History of U.S. Imperialism. counterpunch.org In April 1846, U.S. Army Colonel Seth Thornton led 80 dragoons toward the Rio Grande. Just above the river, they encountered 1,600 Mexican cavalrymen heading north from Matamoros. The Mexican cavalry quickly overpowered the much smaller U.S. force. Eleven Americans were killed, and forty-nine others were captured. When President James K. Polk received news of More

Kristine Mattis (2019-03-04). There's Nothing Radical about the Green New Deal. counterpunch.org We are at the precipice of ecological collapse. There are no two ways about it. And despite what you hear, it is about far more than just catastrophic climate change. In a nutshell, our current biological predicament is the result of overuse of natural resources beyond their capacity to regenerate, the creation and mass production More

Eric Zuesse (2019-03-04). Gallup Poll: US Global Approval Rating Plunges but Americans Believe the Opposite. mintpressnews.com The plunge in the global rating of America's leadership could reasonably cause a person to expect a decline in the American public's view of America's national image in foreign countries, but it's not showing up, at all, but the exact contrary is being displayed in the recent data.

Yves Engler (2019-03-04). Understanding How Canadian Diplomats Shape the News. counterpunch.org Canadian diplomats abroad seek to shape coverage of their work. And the more nefarious their actions the harder they toil to "spin" what they're doing as something positive. During a recent interview Real News Network founder Paul Jay described how Canadian officials in Caracas attempted to shape his views of the country's politics. Jay noted: More

Peter Koenig (2019-03-04). The Trump — Kim Summit in Hanoi: Was Trump Forced to Walk? globalresearch.ca Yes, Mr. Trump had to walk. As he didn't get his way, he had the audacity to get up and walk out of a meeting with Kim Jong-un, the President of the DPRK, of North Korea. As arrogant as …

Carl Boggs (2019-03-04). The War That Never Ends. zcomm.org The current trajectory seems to be moving away from the likelihood of broader denuclearization. There is even rising clamor in both Washington and Seoul for redeployment of American nukes to South Korea…

STAFF (2019-03-04). Cohen Hearing May Have Hurt North Korea Talks, Trump Says. truthdig.com In a new Twitter salvo, the president accuses Democrats of trying to sabotage his negotiations with Kim Jong-un during their Hanoi summit.

teleSUR (2019-03-04). Report: Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Sues Canadian Government. telesurenglish.net Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese technology company Huawei, is suing the Canadian government, its border agency and the national police force over her high-profile detention. Meng claims they detained, searched and interrogated her before telling her she was under arrest. | RELATED: | Canada Moves Forward With Huawei Exec Extradition Case | Meng's lawyers said Sunday they had filed a notice of civil claim in the supreme court in British Columbia. | Meng, the daugh…

Prof. Vera Mackie (2019-03-04). Remembering the Grandmothers: The International Movement to Commemorate the Survivors of Militarized Sexual Abuse in the Asia-Pacific War. asia-pacificresearch.com …

Ayyaz Mallick (2019-03-04). Pakistan-India Crisis: The Machinery of Images and the (Post-)Modern War. globalresearch.ca On 14 February, 20-year-old Adil Ahmed Dar rammed a vehicle fill of explosives into a bus full of reserve police force personnel in Indian Occupied Kashmir. The attack killed over 40 soldiers and was claimed by militant organization Jaish-e-Muhammad …

STAFF (2019-03-04). Teachers in Oakland Approve Contract Ending Strike. truthdig.com OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland teachers will be back in their classrooms Monday after union members voted to approve a contract deal with district officials. | The Oakland Education Association voted in favor of the deal on Sunday after postponing the vote for a day. The agreement must also be ratified by the Oakland Unified School District. | "We look forward to being in our classrooms again after having to strike to bring our Oakland students some of the resources and supports they should have had in the first place," union president Keith Brown said in a statement. | The agreement was reached after 3,000 teac…

Robert Borosage (2019-03-04). Democrats Need to Think Big for 2020. commondreams.org Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and former vice president Joe Biden. (Photo: Screenshot) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/the_2020_field_0.jpg…

Eds. (2019-03-04). Elliott Abrams, Washington's 'new' Cold Warrior, plots regime change in Caracas. mronline.org The Trump administration set a 23 February deadline for Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to bow to U.S. demands and cede power to self-appointed "president" Juan Guaidó. | Source

ArlingtonWestFilm (2019-03-04). Video: Arlington West: Military Families Whose Children Were Killed in Iraq. globalresearch.ca 105 heartfelt interviews with U.S. Soldiers traveling to and from war zones, Military Families whose children were killed in Iraq, Veterans, and Youth. Intimately documented on film by Artists Sally Marr and Peter Dudar. | Arlington West is a 74-minute Art …

Edward Curtin (2019-03-04). Those Who Symbolize Power: The Fascinating Spell Cast by Weasels. globalresearch.ca "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style." — Albert Camus, The Fall | To be fascinated by …

Kirill Vyshinsky (2019-03-04). "They Just Want Me in Prison": Eva Bartlett Interviews Jailed Ukrainian Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky. globalresearch.ca The Ukraine courts are still dependent on political authorities, and the special service is used to carry out political schemes and to fight inconvenient points of view and dissent, rather than to protect national security. — Imprisoned Ukrainian-Russian journalist Kirill …

Rothamsted Research (2019-03-04). Earthworm Research Spurs Farmers to Act. globalresearch.ca A study of England's farmland has found key earthworm types are rare or absent in two out of five fields and has led to the majority of farmers affected vowing to change the way they farm. | The results indicate widespread, …

Mumia Abu-Jamal (2019-03-04). Mumia's Speech to Yale Rebel Law Students Conference. globalresearch.ca Mumia gave a speech to the Yale Rebel Law Students Conference through a recording from his prison cell. You may listen to it right below. Full transcript is also presented below. | . | . | . …

Tony Cartalucci (2019-03-04). OPCW Syria Report Cripples Western "Chemical Weapons" Narrative. globalresearch.ca The OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) has presented its final report regarding an alleged chemical weapons attack on Douma, Syria on April 7, 2018. Despite attempts by the Western media to hail it as "proof" that the …

Richard Gale (2019-03-04). How We, the People, Can Save the Planet. The Green New Deal. globalresearch.ca The recent release of the proposed Green New Deal is a template, an outline identifying some of the most crucial issues facing the nation regarding climate change and a wish list of measures to address those issues. It contains a …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-03-04). British Labour's Fractious Jaunt: The Politics of the Independent Group. globalresearch.ca They could not hold on. A small — and in the scheme of things negligible group — split from the British Labour mothership last month in an effort to salvage some self-described form of credibility. In truth, they were the …

Ma'an news (2019-03-04). Corbyn Calls for UK to Freeze Arms Sales to Israel after UN Report. globalresearch.ca Jeremy Corbyn, head of the British Labor Party, over the weekend, called for the British government to freeze arms sales to Israel and to condemn it for the killing of Palestinians. | Corbyn's remarks came after a United Nations report, …

Ray McGovern (2019-03-04). Sorry, Russia-gaters; WikiLeaks Got the DNC Emails from Insider, Not Russia. globalresearch.ca VIPSers Binney & Johnson use the forensics that the FBI avoided doing. (See this) | Thinking back, President Barack Obama dropped a huge hint two days before he left office, using his last press conference to point out that the …

T. K. Hernández (2019-03-04). Che Guevara Exhibit at the UN Human Rights Council. globalresearch.ca The home of United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva is showcasing a poster-sized photograph of the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in its exhibition hallways. | In 2013, UNESCO, a branch of the U.N., included the "The Life and Works of …

Kurt Nimmo (2019-03-04). Video: Pablo Allende and the Truth About Venezuela. globalresearch.ca In just under six minutes, the grandson of the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende (murdered in a US-sponsored coup), tells the real story on Venezuela. | You'll never see Pablo Allende on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. The American people—mostly …

Robin Mathews (2019-03-04). SNC-Lavalin: The Tip of an Enormous "Deep State" Iceberg. Attack on the Rule of Law in Canada. globalresearch.ca SNC-Lavalin, the large Canadian engineering firm at the centre of the present Liberal government crisis engendered by the treatment of former Attorney General/Minister of Justice and Minister of Veterans Affairs, Jody Wilson-Raybould, is merely the tip of an enormous …

Conan Milner (2019-03-04). Wi-Fi in Schools: Experimenting with the Next Generation. globalresearch.ca The internet has unleashed human knowledge. Never before has it been so easy to learn so much. Of course, it has also drowned us in distraction and created a breeding ground for trolls and misinformation, but if the internet is …

Elliot Sperber (2019-03-04). America Doesn't Exist. counterpunch.org America doesn't exist If you think that you live there Guess what, you've been tricked You're not even thinking, You're only believing In borders, and orders That blossom from myth That is, from delusion, or nonsense Or illness, contagious, indeed And violent, yes But not at all real, or true For falsehoods can't ever be More

Colin Todhunter (2019-03-04). Crocodile Tears for Venezuela: From Late Victorian Holocausts to 21st Century Imperialism. counterpunch.org On 26 February, Stephen Hickey, UK political coordinator at the United Nations, delivered a statement at the Security Council briefing on Venezuela that put the blame for the situation in that country on its government. He said that years of misrule and corruption have wrecked the Venezuelan economy and that the actions of the "Maduro More

Max Wilbert (2019-03-04). Anti-Racist Strategy for a World in Crisis. counterpunch.org In his book Capitalism and Slavery, Trinidadian historian Dr. Eric Williams writes that "Slavery was not born of racism: rather, racism was the consequence of slavery." Williams, like many others, argues that racism was created by the powerful to justify subjugation that was already in progress. In other words, the desire to exploit came first, More

Binoy Kampmark (2019-03-04). Glorious Bitchery: Yorgos Lanthimos and "The Favourite" counterpunch.org Yorgos Lanthimos likes his subjects deranged and troubled. He likes seeing queens in the slap, servants in the lurch, and women in mud. But that is just one side. The Favourite is a film of exotic, exorbitant bitchery, filmed with aesthetic relish. It has been dubbed by Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian "punk Restoration romp". It is More

Peter Turner (2019-03-04). Oakland Teachers' Contract: Let's Do the Math and Learn the Lessons. counterpunch.org The original demand of the union, the Oakland Teachers' Association, was for a 12% raise over three years. Management, the Oakland Unified School District, countered with a raise of 8.5%. Rounding to two decimal places of a percent, management's offer amounted to 2.83% per year, while the union's demand was 4% per year. The settlement More

Kei Pritsker (2019-03-04). Watch | The US Humanitarian Aid Ploy to Venezuela Explained. mintpressnews.com As you watch this video, nearly 40 million Americans are experiencing poverty. Every single penny spent on meddling in Latin American affairs instead of American healthcare, education, jobs, and infrastructure is an attack on the poor and working class of this country.

teleSUR (2019-03-04). Post-IMF Deal, Ecuador Fires 10000 Public Officials in 3 Days. telesurenglish.net From Feb. 27 to Mar. 1, nearly 10 thousand government employees were fired according to local media reports. | RELATED: | Ecuador: IMF Loan Yet to Be Granted, Austerity Measures a Condition for Agreement | This came after the Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno signed a deal of US$4.2 billion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Feb. 20. | On Feb. 21, thr…

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