(2019-04-28). Genetically Modified Babies. The Genetic Editing of Human Life. globalresearch.ca Last November, He Jiankui, a Chinese biology Associate Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Shenzhen (Guangdong Province) announced that he and his team had created the World's first "genetically edited babies": twin babies Lula …
(2019-04-28). Sudan's Military, Opposition Reach Agreement On Ruling Council. telesurenglish.net The Sudanese military council and the country's opposition alliance have reached an agreement to form a new governmental body to run the country until the next election. | RELATED: | African Summit Urges Sudan 'Democratic Transition' in 3 Months | According to Al-Jazeera, the military council and opposition alliance reached the agreement during a meeting between the ruling Military Transitional Council (MTC) and the Declaration of Freedom and Changes Forces, an umbrella organisa…
(2019-04-28). Two Primary Suspects In Sri Lanka Terrorist Attacks Detained. telesurenglish.net The Sri Lankan police have arrested two brothers that are believed to be the main suspects behind a series of terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday, the news portal Ada Derana reported, citing local police. | RELATED: | Sri Lanka: At Least 15 Dead After Police Gunbattle With Militants Linked to Easter Bombings | According to Ada Derana, the two brothers, Mohammad Saadik Abdul Haq and Mohammad Saahid Abdul Haq, were arrested in the Nawalapitya area. Two…
(2019-04-28). Canada Gets Cozy with Repressive Middle East Monarchies. globalresearch.ca While Justin Trudeau's government embraces repressive Middle East monarchies, they want us to believe their campaign to oust Venezuela's government is motivated by support for democracy and human rights. | On a tour of the Middle East last week Defence Minister …
(2019-04-28). US Wants To Carve Up Venezuela Like Syria and Libya: Russia. telesurenglish.net Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin accused Western countries, including the United States, of "carving Venezuela up like Libya and Syria" in order to destabilize the Latin American region. | RELATED: | Venezuelans Celebrate The Country's Official Exit From OAS | Naryshkin told the audience at the 8th Moscow Conference on International Security Thursday that the U.S. and its allies are using military force to further promote their interests in Lati…
(2019-04-28). Trump's Crusaders March to War. globalresearch.ca The world is still reeling in horror from the deadly Sri Lanka bombings that may have been the work of Islamic State madmen. Poor Sri Lanka has suffered so much after three decades of civil war and communal strife. We …
(2019-04-28). The Undeniable Links Between Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. truthdig.com One person is dead and three are wounded after a shooting at a synagogue in San Diego, which the mayor has branded a "hate crime." | The attack came a day after an Iraq War veteran was arraigned in Sunnyvale, Ca. in the north of the state for running over 8 persons, some of whom he incorrectly believed to be Muslims. | Back to yesterday: a nineteen-year-old community college nursing student in…
(2019-04-28). Why "Change UK" Loves War. globalresearch.ca The "Independent Group" of MPs has now launched itself as a political party under the name "Change UK." | Given its support for capitalism, corporate power, Nato and Trident, a more accurate name might be "Keep Things Pretty Much The Same …
(2019-04-28). US Has Resources To Stop Iran's Actions: Centcom Commander. telesurenglish.net The chief of the U.S.' Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie, told Sky News Arabia on Saturday that the American forces would deploy their necessary resources to counter any dangerous action from Iran. | RELATED: | Big Tech Censors Iranian Media Yet Again | "We're gonna continue to reach out to our partners and friends in the region to ensure that we make common cause against the threat of Iran," McKenzie, on an official visit to the Gulf region, was quoted as saying by Sky News Arabia. "I beli…
(2019-04-28). Mercedes Has No Idea How North Korea Got Their Limos. telesurenglish.net The German-owned Daimler AG automotive company said this weekthat it had no idea how North Korea got their armored Mercedes limousines. | RELATED: | North Korean Leader Enters Russia To Meet With Putin | Daimler AG denied any dealings with the North Korean government, adding that they were suprised to see the nation's leader, Kim Jung Un, using these vehicles. | "We have absolutely no idea how those vehicles were delivered to North Korea," Daimler spokeswoman Silke Mockert said in a wr…
(2019-04-28). Trump's "Deal of the Century" For the Middle East? Which Century? globalresearch.ca There is great speculation about the "Deal of the Century" for the Middle East, about which very little is known. What is known is that the Trump administration formulated the plan basically through bilateral talks with the Israeli government, as …
(2019-04-28). 4 people killed as giant crane crashes down on under-construction Google campus, cars (PHOTOS). rt.com 
Four people have died and four others have been injured after a crane collapsed onto a street in Seattle, slamming into a Google office building under construction and trapping people inside cars.
(2019-04-28). Judge fines pipeline company $3.3 million for 2015 Santa Barbara oil spill. indybay.org Missing from the press releases from the Santa Barbara County DA's Office, Attorney General's Office and environmental groups and the superficial press coverage of the spill, the investigation, the jury trial and sentencing is one of the biggest and most ironic stories regarding the Refugio Oil Spill. In a classic example of the deep regulatory capture that pervades what passes for "marine protection" in California, the head of the oil industry trade association, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), that lobbies for the Plains All American Pipeline corporation happens to be the very same "marine guard…
(2019-04-28). 'Death by algorithm': Maddow inconsolable after YouTube recommends RT interview on Mueller report. rt.com 
Russiagate guru Rachel Maddow has caught wind of the latest Kremlin-linked outrage: YouTube recommended an RT video about the Mueller report! And now social media users have lined up to laugh at her.
(2019-04-28). Anne Lamott: Almost Everything & conversation with John Dear on peace. indybay.org Grace Cathedral | 1100 California Street | San Francisco, CA 94108…
(2019-04-27). Disrupting Elliott Abrams. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ariel-gold-codepink-955px.jpg…
(2019-04-27). "Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT). The Ongoing Planning of War against Iran. globalresearch.ca "Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT) has identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a "Shock and Awe" Blitzkrieg, which is now in its final planning stages.
(2019-04-27). Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Arreaza addresses NYC activists. fightbacknews.org New York, NY — More than 50 people gathered at The People's Forum, on the evening of April 25 for a talk by the Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Arreaza. Arreaza was part of a Venezuelan delegation visiting the United Nations to demand an end to U.S. sanctions against their country. The sanctions have completely frozen Venezuelan assets and have stalled government activities meant to help the population. | In the last few months, the United States has heightened the attacks on the democratically elected government of Nicolás Maduro. While the U.S. has always attempted to meddle in Venezuelan aff…
(2019-04-27). To Conjure the Future We Want, We Need a Revolution of the Heart. truthout.org On the evening of October 21, 1967, a "ragtag" group of hippies, counterculture enthusiasts, artists and anti-Vietnam War demonstrators descended upon the Pentagon to perform a ritual exorcism with the goal of levitating the building 3 feet above the ground. While no one claims to have seen the Pentagon rise, the event became a unique example of using spiritual rituals toward political ends in the public eye and cultural consciousness. | I first learned of this ritual exorcism during a workshop facilitated by activist and…
(2019-04-27). Ecuador Embassy Staff Contradicts Allegations Against Assange. telesurenglish.net Ecuador's president Lenin Moreno made a number of allegations against Julian Assange, including accusing the whistleblower of being disrespectful towards embassy staff. However, Ecuadors consul at the time has dispelled Moreno's accusations, calling them a "smokescreen". | RELATED: | Assange Was Put Through 'Hell' At Ecuadorean Embassy: Narvaez | Fidel Narvaez was the consul in London for 6 of the 7 years that Julian Assange stayed at the embassy, speaking to Russian outlet RT he s…
(2019-04-27). Colombia's JEP Orders Capture of Former FARC, 'El Paisa'. telesurenglish.net The Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP) made the decision Thursday to order the capture of Hernan Dario Velasquez, "El Paisa," a former leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for breaching the 2016 Colombian Peace Accords. | RELATED: | Colombian Anti-Gov't Protests Turn Violent, 35 Arrested | Judge Catalina Diaz Gomez read the 90-page dec…
(2019-04-27). Racism in Venezuela: "People Who Never had a Voice Now Have One and will Never Give it up Again" globalresearch.ca Last night (April 25th) I gave a talk on some of what I had seen in Venezuela, March-April, sharing photos and clips—with an emphasis of allowing people to hear voices our media generally silences or pretends don't exist. | In Q …
(2019-04-27). Venezuelan Government announces arrests over electrical blackouts. mronline.org 
The government issued an arrest warrant request for the ex-security chief of the Guri Complex, who allegedly fled to the US following the March blackouts. | Source
(2019-04-27). Climate Destruction: Bearing Witness with Dahr Jamail. dissidentvoice.org 
The question is not are we going to fail. The question is how? — Stephen Jenkinson, author and storyteller. Water, glaciers, oceans, food, forests and fires — all of these things are part of global warming under the magnifying glass of Dahr Jamail in his book The End of Ice. Jamail is a first class …
(2019-04-27). The Coming of American Fascism, 1920—1940. dissidentvoice.org 
Fascism is usually thought of as a quintessentially and almost exclusively European phenomenon, as having begun with Mussolini, culminated with Hitler, and been eradicated in World War II. The U.S., in particular, is thought to have been largely immune to it, given the absence of mass movements similar to Nazism or Italian Fascism. But there …
(2019-04-27). South Africa Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Freedom Day. telesurenglish.net South Africa is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its first democratic elections in which the victory of Nelson Mandela banished the apartheid's racial segregation and served to found a new country, recalled President Cyril Ramaphosa during an official ceremony in Makhanda. | RELATED: | South Africa Commemorates Winnie Mandela | "On this day, 25 years ago, we, as South…
(2019-04-27). Canada Gets Cozy with Repressive Middle East Monarchies. dissidentvoice.org While Justin Trudeau's government embraces repressive Middle East monarchies, they want us to believe their campaign to oust Venezuela's government is motivated by support for democracy and human rights. On a tour of the Middle East last week Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan met his United Arab Emirates counterpart Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi in …
(2019-04-27). Canada and the Propaganda War on Venezuela. globalresearch.ca "I have ground zero information on everything that happens there. And trust me, what the Canadian public, and the American public and the international community are watching is a huge Hollywood show." | — Venezuelan in Canada, from an interview…
(2019-04-27). Voices from Inside the Besieged Venezuelan Embassy. mintpressnews.com "If [the U.S. invades the Venezuelan Embassy] tomorrow, it will send a message to the world that no embassy is safe in the United States… it's a message that 'if you don't bow down to us, do what we tell you, put in the government that we'd like, we will take your embassy." – Kevin Zeese…
(2019-04-27). I Witnessed How Close South Africa Came to Civil War, 25 Years Ago Today. commondreams.org Former President Nelson Mandela takes the oath on May 10, 1994, during his inauguration at the Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/mandela-inauguration-1994.jpg…
(2019-04-27). Corporate Joe: Biden Enters the Presidential Race. dissidentvoice.org Values, values and more values. Another dreary dish added to the smorgasbord of Democratic hopefuls for the White House. This one is a bit cured and worn, smoked by history. Biden, having performed the role of Vice President for Barack Obama and senator for Delaware, is making his third attempt to not so much gallop …
(2019-04-27). Philippines 78-foot Dead Whale Sculpture Aims to Halt Pollution. telesurenglish.net A Filipino artist has built a 23.8 meter sculpture of a dead whale made out of trash, in a campaign to raise awareness on using single-use plastics. | RELATED: | Philippines: Canada Has a Week to Take Back Trash or Else | Biboy Royong gathered bottles, garbage bags, straws and other plastic wastes from various establishments in the Philippine capital for his…
(2019-04-27). A Vote for Joe Biden Is a Vote for "Economic Asphyxiation" and Never Ending War. globalresearch.ca Soon after deep insider and favored water carrier for the financial elite, Joe Biden, announced his candidacy the corporate propaganda media ramped up its support and floated a meme that Trump is petrified of a Biden challenge next year….
(2019-04-27). Minnesota Takes Steps Towards Banning Conversion Therapy. telesurenglish.net Conversion therapy is on its way out of the U.S. midwestern state of Minnesota, officials said Saturday, after introducing a bill to declare the practice illegal. | RELATED: | Google's LGBT-Friendly Rank Drops Due to Conversion Therapy App | Nearly 40 states, 24 over the last year, have filed similar bills in an effort to eradicate the highly controversial form of "therapy," which endeavors to force an individual to change their secual orientation or gender identiy. | With a…
(2019-04-27). Towards Russia-China Economic Integration: Interpreting President Putin's Speech at the 2019 Beijing BRI Forum. globalresearch.ca President Putin left nothing to doubt when he proudly proclaimed that Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union regional integration organization that it leads are strategically merging with China and its Belt & Road Initiative, with this process having unprecedentedly far-reaching …
(2019-04-27). Trump's Crusaders March to War on Iran. commondreams.org Iranians new pastime is to visit Nature Bridge(or Pol-e Tabiat) in the afternoons and evening to enjoy a stroll on this new creation of municipality, the view over the city's skyline, and evidently taking selfies on March 28, 2016 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-tehran-selfies-955px.jpg…
(2019-04-27). What You Don't Know About 5G but Will Find Out When Its Too Late. globalresearch.ca The first eight months of WWII with no fighting — was called The Phoney War. Using millimetre waves as a fifth-generation or 5G wireless communications technology is a phoney war of another kind. | *** | This phoney war is also silent, …
(2019-04-27). Government report indicates signs of weakness in economy. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Friday, April 26, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its first report on economic growth in 2019. The country's Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, which measures the total production of goods and services, grew at a 3.2% annual rate during the first three months of the year (January to March). This was stronger than most economists expected. | But much of the growth was made up of one-time events, and inside the report there were continuing signs of economic weakness. The biggest contributor to growth was a large drop in imports. During the second half of 2018 many companies pushed forwar…
(2019-04-27). The President's Executive Privilege Strategy Could Mean a Messy Fight. truthdig.com WASHINGTON — Since George Washington's time, presidents have used executive privilege to resist congressional inquiries in the name of protecting the confidentiality of their decision-making. | President Donald Trump threatened this past week to broadly assert executive privilege to block a number of current and former aides from testifying, including some who have cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. It's a strategy that could lead to a messy, protracted legal fight, but even if the White House is eventually defeated in court, the president and his allies could have the ch…
(2019-04-27). Trump's Torrent of Twisted Claims on Russia. truthdig.com WASHINGTON — Russia keeps reverberating even with special counsel Robert Mueller's report now part of history. | As much as President Donald Trump says he wants the United States to move on, he's found it hard to turn away himself, as seen in a torrent of tweets and remarks railing against Democrats, trashing Mueller and painting his own actions in a saintly light. | There is little truth to be found in these statements. | A review of a week of Russia-heavy rhetoric from Trump and his team, also touching on the census and the economy: | RUSSIA | TRUMP: "No Collusion, No Obstruction — there has NEVER be…
(2019-04-27). China Challenges US Sanctions, Invites Syria to Belt and Road Project. globalresearch.ca The Chinese government has invited its Syrian counterpart to the global summit for the Chinese flagship Belt and Road initiative taking place in Beijing April 25 through April 27 among 120 countries. | Syria's invitation, attendance, and contribution in the mega …
(2019-04-27). Bolsonaro Fears A Kirchner Win in Argentine Elections. telesurenglish.net Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro expressed fear that Argentina will reelect former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in the polls this October and tried to blame the Argentine two-year economic downspiral on Macri's "timid" implementation of austerity measures. | RELATED: | Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner Leads Electoral Polls in Argentina
(2019-04-27). Pete Buttigieg — Manufactured U.S. Presidential Candidate. globalresearch.ca I think that I have something of a head-start over others, including many Americans, so far as the Democratic presidential aspirant Pete Buttigieg is concerned. As one who takes note of a wide range of figures on what is termed …
(2019-04-27). . telesurenglish.net Iranian owned HispanTV has been censored from Youtube for the third time via its parent company, Google. | RELATED: | After teleSUR Social Media Page, HispanTV's Accounts Blocked | Another Iranian outlet, PressTV, has also suffered the same fate. U.S. tech giant Google has been consistently blocking these outlets. Both HispanTV and PressTV provide coverage critical of U.S. foreign policy in places such as the Middle East and Latin America. Some have raised concerns that this could…
(2019-04-27). Sri Lanka Militants Set Off Bombs During Raid, Killing 15. truthdig.com AMPARA, Sri Lanka — Militants linked to Easter suicide bombings opened fire and set off explosives during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces on a house in the country's east, leaving behind a grisly discovery Saturday: 15 bodies, including six children. | The gun battle that began Friday night and the carnage that followed come amid widespread fear of more attacks as officials hunt for militants with explosives believed to still be at large after the coordinated bombings of churches and luxury hotels that killed more than 250 people nearly a week ago. | Raids and police curfews have shut down areas of eas…
(2019-04-27). SPLC statement on antisemitic shooting at Congregation Chabad in California. splcenter.org Today we saw another horrific act of antisemitic hate at Congregation Chabad in Poway, California, six months to the day after the deadly shooting that killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
(2019-04-27). These punk bands are uniting to fight sweatshop labour. thecanary.co In April 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed. 1,134 people were killed. The building contained several garment factories. | On the day of the collapse, garment workers were ordered to go to work despite the fact that cra…
(2019-04-27). Trump Administration Waives Environmental Laws to Build Border Walls in New Mexico, Arizona. globalresearch.ca The Trump administration announced today that it will waive dozens of environmental laws to speed construction of 18- to 30-foot-tall border walls across 80 miles of borderlands in Arizona and New Mexico. The bollard-style barriers will block the natural migrations …
(2019-04-27). Tackling the 'Impossible': Ending Violence. globalresearch.ca Whenever, in ordinary circumstances, the subject of violence comes up, most people throw up their hands in horror and comment along the lines that it is 'in our genes', 'nothing can be done about it' or other words that reflect …
(2019-04-27). Corporate Joe: Biden Enters the Presidential Race. globalresearch.ca Values, values and more values. Another dreary dish added to the smorgasbord of Democratic hopefuls for the White House. This one is a bit cured and worn, smoked by history. Biden, having performed the role of Vice President for Barack …
