The Florida GOP's Assault on Democracy
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2019-06-18
The Florida GOP's Assault on Democracy…
thenation.com/article/florida-gop-voter-suppression/

The Florida GOP's Assault on Democracy
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2019-06-18
The Florida GOP's Assault on Democracy…
thenation.com/article/florida-gop-voter-suppression/

Behind the Syrian network for human rights: how an opposition front group became Western media's go-to monitor
Max Blumenthal | mronline.org | 2019-06-18
Top media outlets turn to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) for figures on deaths and detentions, never noting the group's seamless connection to Syria's opposition, the support it receives from states that waged war on the country, or its open lobbying for US military intervention. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/18/behind-the-syrian-network-for-human-rights-how-an-opposition-front-group-became-western-medias-go-to-monitor/

The Management of Savagery — How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
Jim Miles | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-18
Even though the ending is known, Max Blumenthal's book The Management of Savagery draws the reader through an intriguing tale of media management, political management, financial management all with the goal of achieving the management of savagery. The title …
globalresearch.ca/management-savagery-how-americas-national-security-state-fueled-rise-al-qaeda-isis-donald-trump/5680944

The World Bank Helps Investors Choose the Law They Want (1/2)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-18
This is one of many examples that show how far the world has shifted from the paradigm of peace and social justice proposed in Philadelphia after WW2, to today's concept of 'Total Market' where human beings are like ammunition in a capitalist competition and financial markets are the final arbitrator and supreme legislator of human…
therealnews.com/stories/the-world-bank-helps-investors-choose-the-law-they-want-1-2

Mali's Civil War Fueled by Climate Crisis and Corporate Greed
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-18
Baba Aye discusses the failure of French and German peacekeepers in Mali and the real role they play, after almost one hundred people were killed in a Dogon village and Fulani are blamed for the attack…
therealnews.com/stories/malis-civil-war-fueled-by-climate-crisis-and-corporate-greed

Nicaragua Creates 2,000 'Reconciliation Commissions' for Peace
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
The Sandinista government of Nicaragua has established 2,000 "Reconciliation Commissions' around the country in a fresh bid to bring peace to the Central American country, one year on after right-wing protests calling for the ouster of President Daniel Ortega. | RELATED: | Nicaragua: New Law To Support Victims of Right-Wing Violence | "Nicaraguan families want security, work, prosperity, peace and we are winning it, it is the truth, because the majority of Nicaraguans want to l…
telesurenglish.net/news/Nicaragua-Creates-2000-Reconciliation-Commissions-for-Peace-20190618-0007.html

China is Tanzania's largest investor
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-18
China is leading in Tanzania with huge investments followed by Britain and the United States, the east African nation's investment watchdog said on Monday. | Geoffrey Mwambe, the Executive Director of the Tanzania Investment Center, said factors that made investors to invest in Tanzania included the prevailing peace and political tranquility, economic stability, investment guarantees and rich natural resources such as arable land, natural gas and tourism. | Speaking at a business dialogue in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Mwambe assured investors that the government will continue improving the business…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/18/china-is-tanzanias-largest-investor/

Koch-Oil Big Lies and Ecocide Writ Large in Canada
John McMurtry | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
As we know, big lies can run free across borders with few joining the dots.For example, no media reports that China's growing dispute with Canada is based on Canada's enforcement of the Trump administration's unilateral and illegal embargo against oil-competitor Iran. A cynical reply is that this is predictable. Canada attacks any designated US Enemy in junior partnership with global corporate command.But this time there is a new twist. Canada is attacking itself without knowing it.
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/koch-oil-big-lies-and-ecocide-writ-large-in-canada/

Bolton Wants to Fight Iran, But the Pentagon Has Its Sights on China
Michael T. Klare | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
The recent White House decision to speed the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf has led many in Washington and elsewhere to assume that the U.S. is gearing up for war with Iran. As in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials have…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/bolton-wants-to-fight-iran-but-the-pentagon-has-its-sights-on-china/

U.S. Sanctions: Economic Sabotage that is Deadly, Illegal and Ineffective
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman remains unsolved, it is clear that the Trump administration has been sabotaging Iranian oil shipments since May 2, when it announced its intention to "bring Iran's oil exports to zero, denying the regime its principal source of revenue."
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/u-s-sanctions-economic-sabotage-that-is-deadly-illegal-and-ineffective/

Opposition Research: It's Not Trump's Fault That Politics is a "Dirty" Game
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
In a June 12 interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, President Donald Trump freely admitted that he would listen to foreigners offering him "dirt" on his political opponents:…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/opposition-research-its-not-trumps-fault-that-politics-is-a-dirty-game/

Catch 2020 — Trump's Authoritarian Endgame
Yoav Litvin | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
On Thursday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed Iran was responsible for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, a version of events quickly challenged by Iran and the owner of the tanker. These accusations are reminiscent of similar charges lobbed at the Iranian regime in May, with some in the…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/catch-2020-trumps-authoritarian-endgame/

Marx and Walking Zen
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
In March 1866 (the year before Volume One of Das Kapital was published), the 48-year-old Marx was vacationing on the Dutch coast, at Margate. He wrote a letter to his cousin Antoinette Philips, daughter of Lion Philips, a tobacco merchant in nearby Zaltbommel. (Lion was the husband of a woman who had married Heinrich Marx,…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/marx-and-walking-zen/

Color Revolution In Hong Kong: USA Vs. China
Thomas Hon Wing Polin | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
Once again, the local government has "knelt down" before the forces of darkness. Mustering mass, violent protests, Hong Kong anti-Communists and their backers in the Anglo-American Empire have shown that they can grab the final say on crucial matters in China's premier Special Administrative Region (SAR). They have forced local authorities to shelve an important,…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/color-revolution-in-hong-kong-usa-vs-china/

The Wall Street Journal Doesn't Like Rent Control
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
We know that because of the way it presented the results of a study of the impact of rent control in New York City. The article showed the average savings on rent controlled units by borough, by income quartiles, and by race and ethnic group. It showed that the average savings were by far the…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/the-wall-street-journal-doesnt-like-rent-control/

Trump's Evidence About Iran is "Dodgy" at Best
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
The crackpot president of the United States of America has so snarled up the gangplank to truth these past 29 months that no matter how much "evidence" he and his crew produce to prove that the Iranians have been trying to blow up oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman — or not quite blow them up — the pictures have a kind of mesmeric quality about them.
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/trumps-evidence-about-iran-is-dodgy-at-best/

Bolton Wants to Fight Iran, But the Pentagon Has Its Sights on China
Michael T. Klare | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
The recent White House decision to speed the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf has led many in Washington and elsewhere to assume that the U.S. is gearing up for war with Iran. As in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials have…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/bolton-wants-to-fight-iran-but-the-pentagon-has-its-sights-on-china/

Catch 2020 — Trump's Authoritarian Endgame
Yoav Litvin | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-18
On Thursday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed Iran was responsible for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, a version of events quickly challenged by Iran and the owner of the tanker. These accusations are reminiscent of similar charges lobbed at the Iranian regime in May, with some in the…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/18/catch-2020-trumps-authoritarian-endgame/

Chavez, a mirror of the people: a conversation with Edgar Perez
Cira Pascual Marquina | mronline.org | 2019-06-18
An organizer and intellectual from Caracas' La Vega barrio talks about the dialectical relationship between Hugo Chavez and the popular movement. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/18/chavez-a-mirror-of-the-people-a-conversation-with-edgar-perez/

US to Begin Deporting 'Millions of Illegal' Immigrants: Trump
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the U.S. authorities will begin removing millions of immigrants who are in the United States illegally. | RELATED: | Trump Cuts Aid to Central America Over Migration, Warns Millions Will Be Deported | "Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States," Trump tweeted, referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement a…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-to-Begin-Deporting-Millions-of-Illegal-Immigrants-Trump-20190618-0001.html

UN Humanitarian Chief condemns bombings in Nigeria
Christine Maema | cgtn.com | 2019-06-18
UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria Edward Kallon (REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde) | The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, has condemned the multiple suicide bombings in the Borno State that killed 30 people and injured 40 others. | Through a statement released on Monday, Kallon said that it was a sad day for civilians in northwest Nigeria and for the humanitarians who are working to help them. Among the deceased was a community volunteer who was contributing to the humanitarian response in the area. | "The UN and its partners deplore these abhorrent acts of violence and call for those responsibl…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/18/un-humanitarian-chief-condemns-bombings-in-nigeria/

AFCON 2019 will be "like a war" — Alex Iwobi declares as Nigeria arrives in Egypt
Jerry Omondi | cgtn.com | 2019-06-18
Nigerian midfielder has likened the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations to a war, dismissing talk of the Super Eagles' having an easy ride in the Group stage. | "Everyone is always going to say that on paper that we should go through, that we should qualify with ease, but we know it's not going to be easy. Every team is in there to try and do their best, to try and win. It's going to be almost like a war. It's going to be a serious battle and fight. Every game is going to be really competitive," the 23-year-old said. | The 2019 AFCON will be Iwobi's first appearance at the elite continental competition, and he hope…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/18/afcon-2019-will-be-like-a-war-alex-iwobi-declares-as-nigeria-arrives-in-egypt/

Pentagon Has Emitted Over a Billion Metric Tons of Greenhouse Gases in Its War on Terror
Kevin Gosztola | mintpressnews.com | 2019-06-18
With over 800 military bases in more than 80 countries, the Pentagon remains the "world's largest institutional user of petroleum" and "producer of greenhouse gases."
mintpressnews.com/pentagon-emitted-billion-metric-tons-greenhouse-gases-war-terror/259324/

Brazil: Odebrecht to Avoid Bankruptcy Through Recovery Plan
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
The Brazilian construction conglomerate, Odebrecht (ODB), which has admitted to paying out about US$7.88 billion in bribes over the past 20 years to win public contracts in Latin American countries, requested to file for bankruptcy protection Monday before a Sao Paulo court. The measure would allow the corporation to negotiate "recovery plan" with its creditors with the hope to avoid a shutting its doors. | RELATED: | Another Senior Peruvian Politician Gets Jail For Corruption | G…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Odebrecht-to-Avoid-Bankruptcy-Through-Recovery-Plan-20190618-0005.html

Brazil: Odebrecht to Avoid Bankruptcy Through A Recovery Plan
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
The Brazilian construction conglomerate, Odebrecht (ODB), which has admitted to paying out about US$7.88 billion in bribes over the past 20 years to win public contracts in Latin American countries, requested to file for bankruptcy Monday before a Sao Paulo court. The measure would allow the corporation to negotiate "recovery plan" with its creditors with the hope to avoid a shutting its doors. | RELATED: | Another Senior Peruvian Politician Gets Jail For Corruption | Given the "e…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Odebrecht-to-Avoid-Bankruptcy-Through-A-Recovery-Plan-20190618-0005.html

Over 300,000 flee DR Congo ethnic clashes
Jerry Omondi | cgtn.com | 2019-06-18
More than 300,000 people have fled their homes in northern Democratic Republic of Congo since early June due to inter-ethnic violence, United Nations aid agencies said on Tuesday. | Local officials say that at least 161 people have been killed in the northeastern Ituri province in the past week, in an apparent resurgence of ethnic clashes between farming and herding communities. |…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/18/over-300000-flee-dr-congo-ethnic-clashes/

World War II: US Military Destroyed 66 Japanese Cities Before Planning to Wipe Out the Same Number of Soviet Cities
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-18
The extent of devastation inflicted upon Japan by the American military during World War II is not broadly known, even today. In reprisal for the attack over Pearl Harbor, which killed almost 2,500 Americans, US aircraft first began unloading bombs …
globalresearch.ca/us-military-destroyed-66-japanese-cities-before-planning-wipe-out-same-number-soviet-cities/5680934

World War II: US Military Destroyed 66 Japanese Cities Before Planning to Wipe Out the Same Number of Soviet Cities
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-18
The extent of devastation inflicted upon Japan by the American military during World War II is not broadly known, even today. In reprisal for the attack over Pearl Harbor, which killed almost 2,500 Americans, US aircraft first began unloading bombs …
globalresearch.ca/us-military-destroyed-66-japanese-cities-before-planning-wipe-out-same-number-soviet-cities/5680934

Morsi, Egypt's freely elected and imprisoned president, killed by regime
Aboulfotouh Kandil | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-18
After six years of solitary confinement at a secret prison, Egypt's legitimate president, Mohamed Morsi, died yesterday after the latest in a string of judges ignored pleas to deal with his failing health. He has suffered from numerous medical conditions including heart failure and diabetes for years and has had not received necessary medical attention …
peoplesworld.org/article/morsi-egypts-freely-elected-and-imprisoned-president-killed-by-regime/

Death Toll in Congo Climbs to 161 After Renewed Fighting
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
Nearly 161 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province over the past week, local officials said on Monday. | RELATED: | WHO: Congo's Ebola Outbreak Not International Emergency | According to the officials, the killings are reported to have been ethnically targeted in an apparent resurgence of clashes between farming and herding communities. | Although identities of the attackers has not been confirmed, fingers point to violence between Hema herders and…
telesurenglish.net/news/Death-Toll-in-Congo-Climbs-to-161-After-Renewed-Fighting-20190618-0003.html

Chinese President to Discuss Denuclearization With Kim Jung Un
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-18
The visit comes as the peninsula settlement process has reached a deadlock after the Hanoi summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump. While Washington demands that Pyongyang completely dismantle nuclear facilities in the country in order to get sanctions relief, North Korea wants part of restrictions to be lifted before denuclearization begins.
telesurenglish.net/news/Chinese-President-to-Discuss-Denuclearization-With-Kim-Jung-Un-20190618-0004.html

False Flags: The Process of "False Flagging" the World towards War. The CIA Weaponizes Hollywood
Larry Chin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-18
Almost all wars begin with false flag operations. The coming conflicts in North Korea and Russia are no exception. Mass public hysteria is being manufactured to justify aggression against Moscow and Pyongyang, in retaliation for acts attributed to the North Korean and Russian governments, but orchestrated and carried out by the CIA and the Pentagon.
globalresearch.ca/false-flagging-the-world-towards-war/5421649

People's Tribunal on War Crimes by South Korean Troops During the Vietnam War
Han Gil Jang | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-06-18
asia-pacificresearch.com/peoples-tribunal-war-crimes-south-korean-troops-during-vietnam-war/5628705

People's Tribunal on War Crimes by South Korean Troops During the Vietnam War
Han Gil Jang | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-06-18
asia-pacificresearch.com/peoples-tribunal-war-crimes-south-korean-troops-during-vietnam-war/5628705

US Sanctions Are Deadly, Illegal and Ineffective
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-18
While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman remains unsolved, it is clear that the Trump administration has been sabotaging Iranian oil shipments since May 2, when it announced its intention to "bring Iran's oil exports to zero, denying the regime its principal source of revenue." The move was aimed at China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey, all nations that purchase Iranian oil and now face U.S. threats if the…
truthout.org/articles/us-sanctions-are-deadly-illegal-and-ineffective/

The Trump-Bolton Duo Is Just Like the Bush-Cheney Duo: Warmongers Using Lies to Start Illegal Wars
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-18
[False flag operations: ] "The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, it's necessary to create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of others regardless of whether those others belong to a certain group of …
globalresearch.ca/trump-bolton-duo-like-bush-cheney-duo-warmongers-using-lies-start-illegal-wars/5680929

'If This Is True, They Are Even Bigger Lunatics Than We Realized': UN Officials Reportedly Believe Trump Planning 'Massive' Bombing Campaign in Iran
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-18
"There would be no going back from this. There's no such thing as a 'one and done' military strike on Iran." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/iran_trump_bolton_pompeo_0.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/18/if-true-they-are-even-bigger-lunatics-we-realized-un-officials-reportedly-believe?cd-origin=rss

Chi sono gli incendiari di petroliere
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-18
Mentre gli Stati uniti preparano una nuova escalation in Medio Oriente, accusando l'Iran di attaccare le petroliere nel Golfo di Oman, il vice-premier Matteo Salvini incontra a Washington il segretario di Stato Mike Pompeo, uno degli artefici di tale strategia, …
globalresearch.ca/chi-sono-gli-incendiari-di-petroliere/5681017

US preparing "assault" against Iran
wsws.org | 2019-06-18
The Jerusalem Post reported that the Trump administration is actively planning a "tactical assault" on Iran, involving a massive air attack on an Iranian nuclear facility.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/18/iran-j18.html

Iran's Ambassador: "Unfortunately We Are Heading Towards a Confrontation" With US
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-18
(ZH) — The Iranian Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeidinejad warned that the United States and Iran are "unfortunately headed toward a confrontation which is very serious for everybody in the region." In an interview with Christiane Amanpour, the Ambassador reacted to rapidly escalating tensions between the two countries — late on Monday the US announced …
theantimedia.com/iran-confrontation-with-us/

The Drumbeat for War With Iran Sounds All Too Familiar
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-06-18
From the U.S.S. Maine to the Gulf of Tonkin, the U.S. has a history of using alleged naval provocations as a pretext for military conflict.
truthdig.com/articles/the-drumbeat-for-war-with-iran-sounds-all-too-familiar/

Wilkerson: US Further Isolate Itself Over Iran
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-18
With the announcement that Iran will break the terms of its nuclear agreement, for stockpiling enriched uranium, the stage is set for a confrontation between the US and its European allies. The situation will contribute to greater US isolation, says Col. Wilkerson…
therealnews.com/stories/wilkerson-us-further-isolate-itself-over-iran

Iran at the Center of the Eurasian Riddle
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-18
With the dogs of war on full alert, something extraordinary happened at the 19th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) late last week in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. | Virtually unknown across the West, the SCO is the foremost Eurasian political, economic …
globalresearch.ca/iran-center-eurasian-riddle/5680947

UK: Tory government positions itself as most loyal US ally against Iran
wsws.org | 2019-06-18
One hundred UK Royal Marines will be deployed within weeks, where they will join naval ships operating from a new UK naval base in Bahrain.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/18/ukir-j18.html

Wilkerson: US Further Isolates Itself From Its Allies Over Iran Policy
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-18
With the announcement that Iran will break the terms of its nuclear agreement, for stockpiling enriched uranium, the stage is set for a confrontation between the US and its European allies. The situation will contribute to greater US isolation, says Col. Wilkerson…
therealnews.com/stories/wilkerson-us-further-isolates-itself-from-its-allies-over-iran-policy

Take Action Now: Stop Trump's Phony War With Iran
NationAction | thenation.com | 2019-06-18
Take Action Now: Stop Trump's Phony War With Iran…
thenation.com/article/take-action-now-stop-trumps-phony-war-with-iran/

I Funded My Own Twitter Troll With Taxpayer Dollars
Tara Sepehri Far | thenation.com | 2019-06-18
I Funded My Own Twitter Troll With Taxpayer Dollars…
thenation.com/article/iran-state-department-smear-campaign-twitter/

The U.S. Is Only Further Isolating Itself From Its Allies Over Iran
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-18
Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, assesses the Trump administration's dangerous brinksmanship in the Middle East.
truthdig.com/articles/the-u-s-is-only-further-isolating-itself-from-its-allies-over-iran/

Report: US Planning "Massive" Airstrike on an Iranian Facility
Caitlin Johnstone | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-18
(CJ Opinion) — According to a new article from English-language Israeli publication The Jerusalem Post, the Hebrew-language Israeli publication Maariv has reported that diplomatic sources in the UN are assessing a US plan to conduct a "massive" airstrike on "an Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program" in response to alleged attacks on two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman. "The sources …

Report: US Planning “Massive” Airstrike on an Iranian Facility