Refugees seek safe haven in the 'beautiful game'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-05-16
Refugees are using football as a way to build communities of resistance. | "For me it makes no difference where I play as long as it makes me happy." These are words from Mahdi, a 19-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, living in Germany. | Mahdi plays for German football team FC Lampedusa St Pauli in Hamburg, a team made solely out of refugees and migrants. The team name stems from refugees who came to Hamburg via Lampedusa a few years ago. About 380 refugees stayed in the St Pauli church at that time and some of them reached out to coaches to find opportunities to play football. | That is how FC Lampedusa St Paul…
greenleft.org.au/content/refugees-seek-safe-haven-%E2%80%98beautiful-game%E2%80%99

Over 33 million People Vaccinated against Flu in Brazil
plenglish.com | 2019-05-16
Brasilia, May 16 (Prensa Latina) More than 33 million people were vaccinated against the flu in Brazil and the number now represents 56 percent of the population defined by the Health Ministry for the year ¥s immunization campaign.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42049&SEO=over-33-million-people-vaccinated-against-flu-in-brazil

New Protests in Brazil against Education Fund Cuts
plenglish.com | 2019-05-16
Brasilia, May 16 ( Prensa Latina) The National Union of Students (UNE) has scheduled new protests for May 30 in Brazil against the decision of Jair Bolsonaro"s government to cut funds in education, announced leaders of the organization on Thursday.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42043&SEO=new-protests-in-brazil-against-education-fund-cuts

Iranian Communists rally progressive forces to prevent war
Steve Sweeney | peoplesworld.org | 2019-05-16
Iranian Communists have called for unity among the country's progressives striving for peace in response to U.S. saber-rattling intent on provoking war with Tehran. The Tudeh Party noted "a very worrying rise of tensions between the racist, pseudo-fascist, and reactionary Trump administration and the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran" in recent days. It …
peoplesworld.org/article/iranian-communists-rally-progressive-forces-to-prevent-war/

Who's Behind the Pro-Guaidó Crowd Besieging Venezuela's D.C. Embassy?
Jeb Sprague | mintpressnews.com | 2019-05-16
The intimidation tactics by the pro-coup embassy besiegers not only failed to deter the peace activists around the embassy, they left Venezuela's D.C.-based opposition with a serious PR problem. After a week of hateful outbursts, a handful of marketing strategists emerged as de facto spokespeople for the mob.
mintpressnews.com/whos-behind-the-pro-guaido-crowd-besieging-venezuelan-embassy-in-dc/258533/

UN Wishes Peaceful Solution at Venezuelan Embassy in Washington
plenglish.com | 2019-05-16
United Nations, May 16 (Prensa Latina) U.N. Secretary-General spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Thursday that the United Nations hopes the situation at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington can be resolved peacefully.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42081&SEO=un-wishes-peaceful-solution-at-venezuelan-embassy-in-washington

Meeting with Venezuela's President Maduro
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-05-16
Fight Back! interviews noted anti-war activist Sarah Martin, of the Minnesota-based Women Against Military Madness. Martin traveled to Venezuela on a solidarity delegation organized by the U.S. Peace Council, March 11-18. | Fight Back!: The corporate media says Venezuela's government, headed by President Maduro and the national democratic Bolivarian Revolution, has little popular support. What were your impressions? | Sarah Martin: This is one of the many lies told by the media, who once again are spewing the U.S. administration's propaganda for a U.S.-orchestrated coup. Maduro is a democratically elected preside…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/5/16/meeting-venezuela-s-president-maduro

UN Security Council Holds Session on Joint Force in Sahel
plenglish.com | 2019-05-16
United Nations, May 16 (Prensa Latina) The UN Security Council is holding on Thursday a session on peace and security in Africa dedicated to the joint force of the so-called Group of Five for the Sahel States (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger).
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42038&SEO=un-security-council-holds-session-on-joint-force-in-sahel

'The time for action is now' senior UN peacekeeping official says, urging support for regional force combating Sahel terrorism
United Nations | un.org | 2019-05-16
The five-year-old force working to stabilize Africa's Sahel has shown great potential, but needs more support from the international community to reach full operational capacity, a top UN peacekeeping official said on Thursday, calling for enhanced political and economic solutions to help tackle the strife-torn region's myriad challenges.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/05/1038641

Venezuelan Government Denounces US Seizure of Embassy, Arrest of Peace Activists as Violation of Vienna Convention
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-05-16
Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Ron on Thursday urged the Trump administration not to hand over the country's embassy in Washington, D.C. to leaders of an attempted coup after U.S. law enforcement forcibly removed peace activists who have lived there for since last month as guests of President Nicol√°s Maduro's government. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/embassy.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/05/16/venezuelan-government-denounces-us-seizure-embassy-arrest-peace-activists-violation?cd-origin=rss

Who's behind the pro-Guaido mob that besieged Venezuela's embassy in Washington?
Jeb Sprague | thegrayzone.com | 2019-05-16
The intimidation tactics by the pro-coup embassy besiegers not only failed to deter the peace activists around the embassy, they…
thegrayzone.com/2019/05/16/guaido-mob-venezuelan-embassy/

Venezuelan Embassy: Peace Activists Put US Mission on Notice
Lauren Smith | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
Yesterday evening activists from the International Action Center (IAC) and No War on Venezuela.org delivered a letter to the United States Mission to the United Nations in NYC from the Embassy Protection Collective (EPC). Telemundo was on the scene and | …
globalresearch.ca/peace-activists-put-us-mission-notice/5677619

The battle for rights of nature heats up in the Great Lakes
Valerie Vande Panne | nationofchange.org | 2019-05-16
This article was produced by Local Peace Economy, a project | of the Independent Media Institute. | In February, the voters of Toledo, Ohio, passed a ballot initiative that gives Lake Erie and those who rely on the lake's ecosystem a bill of rights. The idea is to protect and preserve the ecosystem so that the life that depends on it — humans included — can have access to safe, fresh drinking water. | On the surface, it seems pretty logical: Humans need water to survive, and if an ecosystem that is relied on for water — in this case, Lake Erie — is polluted (in this case, with algae), t…
nationofchange.org/2019/05/16/the-battle-for-rights-of-nature-heats-up-in-the-great-lakes/

Police Attacks Berkeley
Vaughn | indybay.org | 2019-05-16
Officer Aranus of UC Berkeley police, grabs peaceful person by neck, throwing them to the ground on UCB campus, March 12, 6pm.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/14/18823422.php

Towards a Culture of World Peace
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
"Towards a Culture of World Peace" constitutes a commitment to Human Livelihood. It consists in confronting the UU-NATO discourse in support of war and military intervention. It requires reviving a Worldwide anti-war movement, nationally and internationally as well as establishing a resolve by the governments of sovereign nation states to reject this Worldwide process of militarization.
globalresearch.ca/towards-a-culture-of-world-peace/5675866

Undermining Trump-Bolton War Narrative, British General Says No Evidence of 'Increased Threat' from Iran
Jake Johnson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
A British general threw a wrench into the Trump administration's narrative that Iran is plotting attacks on American troops in the Middle East by telling reporters gathered at the Pentagon Tuesday that "there's been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces" …
globalresearch.ca/british-general-says-no-evidence-increased-threat-iran/5677606

Truth, Justice and Declassification: Secret Archives Show US Helped Argentine Military Wage 'Dirty War' that Killed 30,000
Prof. Rut Diamint | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
History books may never tell the full story of the dictatorship that terrorized Argentina from 1976 to 1984. | But newly declassified United States military and intelligence documents recently delivered to Argentina offer new details about the country's brutal military junta….
globalresearch.ca/secret-archives-show-us-helped-argentine-military-wage-dirty-war-killed-30000/5677632

These 28 Companies Are Building Nuclear Weapons
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
ICAN and its partner organisation Pax have released a report with full profiles of 28 companies connected to the production of nuclear weapons. | Here are the 28 companies on ICAN's Red Flag list. Download the full report here. | Aecom | …
globalresearch.ca/companies-building-nuclear-weapons/5677638

Fantasies of Humanity: The Christchurch Pledge and a Regulated Internet
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
It had to come. A massacre, broadcast in real time and then shared with viral automatism; the inevitable shock, and the counter from the authorities. The Christchurch shootings, inflicting fifty-one deaths upon worshippers at two mosques in quiet New Zealand | …
globalresearch.ca/christchurch-pledge-regulated-internet/5677594

Video: Syria Al Qaeda Militants Lose More Territory after Failed Counter-attack
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
Clashes between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led coalition of militant groups continue in northwestern Hama and northern Lattakia. | 4 SAA soldiers were killed and 7 others were injured in a failed attack on Hayat Tahrir …
globalresearch.ca/militants-lose-more-territory-failed-counter-attack/5677641

Monsanto's "Rain of Death" on Canada's Forests
Joyce Nelson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
First Nations in Ontario have run out of patience. For 43 years, the forest industry has been conducting aerial spraying of glyphosate herbicide on Indigenous lands — a "rain of death" used in forest management practice that has slowly been …
globalresearch.ca/monsantos-rain-death-forests/5677614

Trump Considering Replacing John Bolton: Report
Press TV | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
US media reports suggest that President Donald Trump is considering replacing his hawkish National Security Adviser John Bolton over his plans to push the United States towards a military conflict with Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. | Bolton "is headed for …
globalresearch.ca/trump-considering-replacing-john-bolton-report/5677649

Russia's Nord Stream II Concerns Reveal Its Severe Systemic Vulnerabilities
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
Putin actually sounded pretty concerned about the future of Nord Stream II for the first time ever during Tuesday's press conference with his Austrian counterpart, strongly suggesting that Pompeo might have delivered a serious message to him during Monday's meeting …
globalresearch.ca/russias-nord-stream-ii-concerns-reveal-severe-systemic-vulnerabilities/5677626

"The Globalization of War" and "Towards a World War III Scenario"
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-16
The Globalization of War: America's "Long War" against Humanity, by Michel Chossudovsky | America's hegemonic project in…
globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-war-and-towards-a-world-war-iii-scenario-two-books-by-michel-chossudovsky/5437767

Trump Administration Waives Laws to Build 100 Miles of Border Wall Across Arizona National Monument, Wildlife Refuges