2019-06-01: Social Media Postees

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Support MH17 Truth: Machine Gun-Like Holes Indicate Shelling from a Military Aircraft. No Evidence of a Surface-to-Air Missile Attack
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
The West accuses Russia and the Donbass separatists of having brought down the plane with a Buk missile. IT'S A LIE. The evidence available in September 2014 –including a BBC report which the BBC decided to suppress– refutes the official story.
globalresearch.ca/support-mh17-truth-osce-monitors-identify-shrapnel-like-holes-indicating-shelling-no-firm-evidence-of-a-missile-attack/5394324

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Has Dismantled the West's Official Narrative About Malaysian Airlines MH17
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad surprised observers when he unexpectedly spoke out against the MH-17 cover-up and dismantled the West's official narrative blaming Russia for this tragedy. The nonagenarian leader raised questions that no non-Russian had hitherto dared to publicly …
globalresearch.ca/malaysia-dismantled-wests-official-narrative-mh-17/5679202

Venezuela Talks in Norway End as Mike Pence Telephones Juan Guaido
Venezuela Analysis | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-01
(VA) — The second round of dialogue between the Maduro government and the opposition concluded in Oslo on Wednesday. The Norwegian government issued a statement praising the "willingness" of both parties to "move forward in the search for an agreed-upon and constitutional solution for the country, which includes political, economic and electoral matters." Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Sà∏reide …

Venezuela Talks in Norway End as Mike Pence Telephones Juan Guaido

Haitian Court of Accounts Reveals Mismanagement of Public Funds
plenglish.com | 2019-06-01
Port-au-Prince, Jun 1 (Prensa Latina) The final report of the Superior Court of Accounts of Haiti on the investigation of Petrocaribe"s funds revealed mismanagement in the allotment and management of contracts for the execution of public projects.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42687&SEO=haitian-court-of-accounts-reveals-mismanagement-of-public-funds

"Manufacturing Dissent": The Anti-globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
The People's Movement has been Hijacked…
globalresearch.ca/manufacturing-dissent-the-anti-globalization-movement-is-funded-by-the-corporate-elites/21110

Your Facebook please: US begins demanding full social media background from visa applicants
rt.com | 2019-06-01
The US State Department has begun requiring visa applicants to submit five years' worth of social media history, threatening "serious immigration consequences" for those who attempt to conceal their accounts. | …
rt.com/usa/460784-us-social-media-history-visa/

The Policy of Creative Chaos: America's Project for a "Middle-East Holocaust"
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
The Project for a New Middle East[1] is a Project for a New Holocaust. It is happening now. The policy of "Creative Chaos"[2] underpins the holocaust. Empire willfully destroys the sovereignty and territorial integrity of prey nations such as Libya, …
globalresearch.ca/project-new-holocaust/5679214

France illegally arming Libyan coastguards to stop refugees from Africa
wsws.org | 2019-06-01
The policy has been condemned by multiple human rights organizations because of the prevalence of torture, rape, slavery and murder in the camps.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/01/pari-j01.html

The Bankers' "Power Revolution": How the Government Got Shackled by Debt
Ellen Brown | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-01
This article is excerpted from my new book Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age, available in paperback June 1. ***** The U.S. federal debt has more than doubled since the 2008 financial crisis, shooting up from $9.4 trillion in mid-2008 to over $22 trillion in April 2019. The debt is never paid off. …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/the-bankers-power-revolution-how-the-government-got-shackled-by-debt/

CODEPINK Monthly Golden Gate Bridge Walk for Peace
Toby Blome | indybay.org | 2019-06-01
Gather at the SF or Marin end of the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge. Parking available on all 4 "corners", just remember to take the last exit on hwy 101 as you approach the bridge, or the first exit after you leave the bridge. Arrive early for best parking. | Gather at 10: 45 am at either end of the bridge. | 11: 00 am Walk on the eastern walkway from the north or south ends, to converge in the middle. Short, silent vigil in the middle. | 12: 00 pm: Rally on SF side after the bridge walk. | BE GREEN AND CARPOOL | See http: //tripplanner.transit.511.org for public transit options. | Golden Gate Transit Bus…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/30/18823667.php

Sanders at top of Greenpeace bold climate action scorecard; Biden at bottom
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-01
"Show us you have the mettle to take on the oil executives standing in the way of progress towards the green, prosperous future our country deserves."
nationofchange.org/2019/06/01/sanders-at-top-of-greenpeace-bold-climate-action-scorecard-biden-at-bottom/

Apartment Tenants in Baltimore Link Up to Fix Deteriorating Living Conditions
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-01
Activists from the Bolton House Tenant Coalition urge Baltimore mayor Jack Young and city councilman Eric Costello to alleviate the deteriorating conditions at the Bolton House apartment complex…
therealnews.com/stories/apartment-tenants-in-baltimore-link-up-to-fix-deteriorating-living-conditions

How Mainstream U.S. Media Is Failing Us On Trump and Bolton's March To War With Iran
Ben Armbruster | commondreams.org | 2019-06-01
National security advisor John Bolton listens to President Donald Trump talk to reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on Feb. 12. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bolton_trump_iran_0_0.png…
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/01/how-mainstream-us-media-failing-us-trump-and-boltons-march-war-iran?cd-origin=rss

Venezuela begins Day of Attention to Victims of Economic War
plenglish.com | 2019-06-01
Caracas, Jun 1 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan government begins today the search house by house, as well as in public spaces, for vulnerable people who will be attended through the Integral Plan of Attention to Victims of the Economic War.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42677&SEO=venezuela-begins-day-of-attention-to-victims-of-economic-war

Capitalism, Fukushima, Creative Reconstruction & The History Of Olympics
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-01
Professor George Wright discusses the history of the Olympics and how privatization and control by the corporations of the world have led to in allowing the Olympics going to Japan and the contaminated Fukushima. The three broken nuclear reactors still have melted nuclear rods which must be cooled with water. He discusses the systemic corruption of the Olympic Committee and how it is now ignored the safety of the athletes and the public.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/27/18823644.php

U.S., South Korea, Japan Advocate Renewed Dialogue with DPRK
plenglish.com | 2019-06-01
Singapore, Jun 1 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of the United States, South Korea and Japan discussed on Saturday the need to reactivate dialogue with the Democratic People"s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in order to advance negotiations on denuclearization.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42689&SEO=u.s.-south-korea-japan-advocate-renewed-dialogue-with-dprk

An Unabashed Tribute to 'The Warriors' on Its 40th Anniversary
Allen Barra | truthdig.com | 2019-06-01
Roundly trashed by critics when the gang-themed film debuted in 1979, the cult classic's influences still creep into popular culture today.
truthdig.com/articles/in-unapologetic-praise-of-the-warriors/

Spectators, Shoppers and Voters… NOT Citizens!
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
I begin my column with the profound words from the great anti empire documentarian Paul Edwards, at the end of his fine new piece Idiocracy: | "The naive cry out for answers to our absurd paralysis, but there are none. …
globalresearch.ca/spectators-shoppers-and-voters-not-citizens/5679212

Youth Activists Holding Coordinated Press Conferences to Raise Awareness on Landmark Court Case
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-01
"Climate change is the most pressing issue for our generation." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/juliana_case.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/01/youth-activists-holding-coordinated-press-conferences-raise-awareness-landmark-court?cd-origin=rss

UK Labour Party's civil war blows up in aftermath of European election debacle
wsws.org | 2019-06-01
In the absence of any genuine attempt to overcome the divisions sown in the working class by the 2016 referendum, the European elections became a de facto plebiscite on Brexit.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/01/corb-j01.html

President Buhari pledges new tact in fight against terrorism
Jerry Omondi | cgtn.com | 2019-06-01
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says it is time for "a new way forward that completely removes the threat of terrorism from Lake Chad sub-region." | The Nigerian President made the remarks following a meeting with his Chadian counterpart Idris Deby on the sidelines of the 14th Islamic Summit, hosted by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. | According to the Nigerian presidency's spokesperson Garba Shehu, the two leaders agreed on the need for sub-regional leaders to sit down and agree on changing the strategy…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/01/president-buhari-pledges-new-tact-in-fight-against-terrorism/

At least 12 dead in Virginia Beach mass shooting
wsws.org | 2019-06-01
Mass shootings in America are a product of mounting social inequality at home and unending wars abroad.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/01/wvir-j01.html

Volunteer Group Launches Anti-Gun Violence Campaign to Protect Youth
David Howard | indybay.org | 2019-06-01
Louder than a Shot Volunteer Group Launches Anti-Gun Violence Campaign to Protect Youth | Program Launched in Advance of National Gun Violence Prevention Day, June 7th, 2019 #WearOrange…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/29/18823662.php

United Steelworkers authorize strike against Alcoa
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-06-01
Washington DC – On May 31, the United Steelworkers (USW) said that members of local unions representing more than 1,500 Alcoa (NYSE: AA) workers have granted their negotiating committee the authority to implement a strike if necessary at the company's facilities in Warrick, Ind.; Massena, N.Y.; Gum Springs, Ark.; Point Comfort, Texas; and Wenatchee, Wash. | The aluminum workers strike authorization votes were conducted during meetings at each location over the course of the past two weeks. USW members have continued to work under the terms and conditions of a contract that was set to expire on May 15, 2019, when…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/6/1/united-steelworkers-authorize-strike-against-alcoa

Trial begins for Scott Warren, facing 20 years for aiding migrants crossing desert
By Amy Liu | liberationnews.org | 2019-06-01
We demand that all charges be dropped immediately!
liberationnews.org/trial-begins-for-scott-warren-facing-20-years-for-aiding-migrants-crossing-desert/

On Thin Ice: March Warming in Alaska Led to Eight Deaths, Disrupted Fishing
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-01
commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/comparison-alaska-warming-1200x675_0.jpg…

Nature's Dangerous Decline: Animal and Plant Species Extinction Rates 'Accelerating'
IPBES | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on …
globalresearch.ca/natures-dangerous-decline-animal-and-plant-species-extinction-rates-accelerating/5679216

TEN-Forward >> A Fundraiser for the Future of ASG
Aggregate Space Gallery | indybay.org | 2019-06-01
Z Space Theater | 450 Florida St, San Francisco, CA 94110…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/30/18823677.php

Arch-communalist Modi sworn-in as India's prime minister for second time
wsws.org | 2019-06-01
Big business, reports the Economic Times, wants the government placed on a "war footing" to rapidly implement "investor friendly reforms."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/01/modi-j01.html

Rising Seas Could Generate 187 Million Climate Refugees by 2100
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-01
counterpunch.org/2019/06/01/rising-seas-could-generate-187-million-climate-refugees-by-2100/

There's a Simple Explanation for Racial Disparities in Terrorism Prosecutions: Racism
Maha Hilal | commondreams.org | 2019-06-01
A Black Lives Matter protest, November 2015. (Photo: Johnny Silvercloud, Flickr) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/blm_3.jpg…
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/01/theres-simple-explanation-racial-disparities-terrorism-prosecutions-racism?cd-origin=rss

Anti Police-Terror Project Statement on AB 392, the California Act to Save Lives
APTP | indybay.org | 2019-06-01
From our inception, the Anti Police-Terror Project has never subscribed to the belief that policing in America can be fixed. The system is not broken and thus cannot be made to right itself. Born of the slave trade, policing in America was then – and is now – about the catching, killing and incarcerating of Black and Indigenous bodies. We are an abolitionist organization committed to interrupting and rapidly responding to state violence, radically transforming the way in which we as a society define public safety and develop new practices to implement community security that are not rooted in race-based capitalis…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/31/18823688.php

President el-Sisi meets King Salman in Mecca
Jerry Omondi | cgtn.com | 2019-06-01
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Friday night met with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz on the sidelines of the 14th Islamic Summit, hosted by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Mecca city. | The two leaders held bilateral talks focusing on enhancing relations between the two nations, as well as the security situation in the Middle East. | The Egyptian presidency confirmed the meeting on Saturday, with spokesperson Bassam Rady noting that King Salman had expressed his appreciation for Egypt's leadership role in building strong cultural ties between the two sides. | ÿß&Yuml…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/01/president-el-sisi-meets-king-salman-in-mecca/

Pompeo Attends a Mysterious Meeting in Switzerland
plenglish.com | 2019-06-01
Berna, June 1 (Prensa Latina) The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, participates today in the annual meeting of the Bilderberg group, at the luxury resort in Montreux, Switzerland, along with more than a hundred European and American political and economic personalities .
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=42690&SEO=pompeo-attends-a-mysterious-meeting-in-switzerland

Cape Town targets new air routes to lift South African tourism
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-01
Clouds blow over Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo | Cape Town plans to add routes to Australia and South America after last month reaching a deal with United Airlines for its first direct flight to the United States, the head of air access for South Africa's top tourist city said. | South Africa is promoting tourism as a catalyst to help kick-start its struggling economy and aims to attract five million extra travellers, including four million international tourists, by 2021. | Travel and tourism contributed around 426 billion rand ($2…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/01/cape-town-targets-new-air-routes-to-lift-south-african-tourism/

Australian billionaires celebrate soaring wealth, while wage case leaves millions in poverty
wsws.org | 2019-06-01
The annual Rich List, along with the outcome of the latest minimum wage case, underscore the acceleration of social inequality in Australia and around the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/01/rich-j01.html

New Zealand budget delivers billions for the military, starves public services
wsws.org | 2019-06-01
The Labour Party-led coalition government's "well-being budget" deepens the program of austerity and militarism supported by all the parties in parliament.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/01/budg-j01.html

Fifty-five inmates killed in Brazilian prisons
wsws.org | 2019-06-01
This escalating slaughter has been caused by a 300 percent increase in the prison population in the last two decades.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/01/braz-j01.html

Explosion hits Cameroon's lone oil refinery in restive Anglophone region
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-01
An explosion hit Cameroon's lone refinery Friday night, causing serious damage. REUTERS/David M. Parrott/File Photo | An explosion hit Cameroon's lone refinery Friday night, causing serious damage and production suspension, according to a statement published Saturday by the refinery. | "We inform you of the occurrence of an explosion followed by a serious fire in our production units on May 31, 2019, around 9: 30 p.m., causing damage and an indefinite stop to production of all our units," Jean-Paul Simo Njonon, general manager of Cameroon's National Oil Refinery (SONARA), said in the statement. | No one was killed…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/01/explosion-hits-cameroons-lone-oil-refinery-in-restive-anglophone-region/

Brazilian Students Stage New Mass Protests Against Bolsonaro's Education Reform
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-01
As President Jair Bolsonaro's approval ratings plummet, students make a massive show of force, opposing his plans to drastically cut education budgets. Mike Fox reports from Brazil…
therealnews.com/stories/brazilian-students-stage-new-mass-protests-against-bolsonaros-education-reform

U.S. Imperialism and the Struggle for Venezuela's Future
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2019-06-01
Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Ave, at Prince St in Berkeley | Near Ashby BART…
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"Fort Trump": Permanent US Military Base in Poland
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
Polish authorities appear to have become obsessed with establishing the "Fort Trump" permanent military base in Poland, but the US does appear to be in no hurry to make any such deployment. | Moreover, periodically there are reports that Washington has …
globalresearch.ca/fort-trump-permanent-us-military-base-in-poland/5679249

US State Department's "Updated Maps" Show Golan Heights as Part of Israeli
Al-Masdar News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
The US State Department has changed its maps to show the disputed Golan Heights as Israeli territory, spokesperson Morgan Ortagus confirmed on Thursday, after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had received one of the updated versions. | "I know | …
globalresearch.ca/us-state-department-confirms-updated-maps-show-golan-heights-israeli/5679236

Findings of Torture: The UN Rapporteur and Julian Assange
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
Another crude and sad chapter, yet more evidence of a system's vengeance against its challengers. Julian Assange, like they dying Roman emperor Vespasian, may be transforming into a god of sorts, but the suffering of his mortal physical is …
globalresearch.ca/findings-torture-un-rapporteur-julian-assange/5679205

'Beyond Barbaric': Internal Government Report Reveals Migrants Forced to Stand on Toilets for Breathing Space at Overcrowded US Detention Center
Jake Johnson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
"This is insane. Not only can they not move, they can't breathe, they can't eat, they can't do anything like this. Children have died and will continue to die if this is not stopped now." | *** | A federal immigrant detention …
globalresearch.ca/internal-government-report-reveals-migrants-forced-stand-toilets-breathing-space-overcrowded-us-detention-center/5679220

Julian Assange and the Unrelenting State
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
We are seriously worried about the condition of Julian Assange. He was too unwell to appear in court yesterday, and his Swedish lawyer, Per Samuelson, found him in a state where he was unable to conduct a conversation …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-and-the-unrelenting-state/5679231

Political Upheaval in the United Kingdom
Dr. David Halpin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
Here in these beautiful isles there are many good people. Those not affected by class or university 'education' say 'We should have been out of the EU within a few weeks of the vote. The EU is a racket. We …
globalresearch.ca/bbc-state-broadcaster-propagandare-nero-motto-nation-shall-speak-truth-unto-nation/5679109

Assange Is Reportedly Gravely Ill, and Hardly Anyone's Talking About It
Caitlin Johnstone | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
Julian Assange's Swedish lawyer Per Samuelson has told the press that "Assange's health situation on Friday was such that it was not possible to conduct a normal conversation with him." | This jarring revelation has been reported by a small …
globalresearch.ca/assange-reportedly-gravely-ill-hardly-anyones-talking-about-it/5679207

UN Condemns the Psychological Torture Inflicted Upon Julian Assange. "Coordinated" by UK, US, Sweden and Ecuador
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-01
The UN Torture Expert, Nils Melzer, has strongly condemned the psychological torture inflicted upon WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange by a coalition of countries led by the United States and United Kingdom. | The WikiLeaks publisher has spent over 7 weeks …
globalresearch.ca/un-condemns-psychological-torture-inflicted-julian-assange-coordinated-international-attack-uk-usa-sweden-ecuador/5679209

MintCast Interviews Filmmaker Robbie Martin: The Neoconservative Endgame
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2019-05-31
MintCast co-hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb recently spoke to Robbie Martin ( @FluorescentGrey), a filmmaker whose recent documentary series A Very Heavy Agenda explores how prominent Bush-era neo-conservatives have continued to dominate the Washington foreign policy debate and have been instrumental in creating and fomenting Russiagate and Cold War 2.0. | Neoconservatives, or Neocons, have been a key force in Washington for decades and seem to maintain their…
mintpressnews.com/neoconservative-push-war-russia-iran-venezuela-robbie-martin/258908/

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2019-05-31: News Headlines

Moshe Adler (2019-05-31). Chinese Intellectual Property Theft: The Indictment of Huawei Is an Embarrassment. counterpunch.org With its criminal indictment at the beginning of the year the US government has successfully made Huawei…

unitedEditor (2019-05-31). Venezuela asks Turkey to serve as a "protecting power…" uwidata.com While speaking at a press conference at UN Headquarters, Venezuela's UN representative Samuel Moncada commented on US authorities' demand that embassy employees loyal to Nicolas Maduro vacate the premises so that they can be handed over to employees working on behalf of us-backed self-declared interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaido.According to Moncada, the United States …

CGTN Africa (2019-05-31). 149 refugees evacuated from Libya to Italy. cgtn.com Migrants are seen in a shelter after they were relocated from government-run detention centers, after getting trapped by clashes between rival groups in Tripoli, Libya August 30, 2018. REUTERS/Hani Amara | The UN Higher Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday that 149 refugees were evacuated from Libya to Italy, in cooperation with Libyan and Italian authorities. | "Amid violent clashes and a deteriorating security situation in Tripoli, 149 vulnerable refugees and asylum-seekers were evacuated to safety in Rome," UNHCR said in a statement. | The evacuated refugees are of different African nationalities, i…

United Nations (2019-05-31). World Food Programme accesses Yemeni frontline district for first time since conflict began. un.org Amid the world's largest humanitarian crisis still unfolding in Yemen, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has gained access to the rebel-held northern district of Nihm, for the first time since the war between Houthis and the Saudi-backed Government coalition escalated in 2015.

Ahmed Abdulkareem (2019-05-31). Mass Demonstrations Against Saudi Summit and US "Deal" Mark Quds Day in Yemen. mintpressnews.com Quds Day demonstrations condemned the so-called U.S. Deal of the Century and vowed to support Palestinians facing the prospect of losing their rights under the U.S.-brokered plan.

commondreams (2019-05-31). U.S.-led Coalition Admission of 1,300 Civilian Deaths in Iraq and Syria. commondreams.org ______________________________…

RT (2019-05-31). NSA targeting system now deployed along Mexican border, leaked docs reveal. rt.com A top-secret NSA targeting system which dramatically increased the civilian death toll in Afghanistan and Iraq has made its way back home, according to leaked documents boasting of its use on the US-Mexico border.

susan_p (2019-05-31). WikiLeaks: Assange indictments 'the gravest attack on press freedom'. greenleft.org.au In response to the news on May 24 that the United States government is seeking to lay multiple espionage charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the organisation accused US President Donald Trump's administration of launching "an unprecedented attack on the global free press". | The unsealed Espionage Act charges carry combined sentences of 175 years in prison and relate to disclosures of war crimes and human rights abuses by the US government, including the groundbreaking Collateral Murder video, Iraq War Logs, Afghan War Diaries, Cablegate, and the Guantanamo Bay Detainee Manuals, published in 2010 an…

Philip Weiss (2019-05-31). Israeli 'Intelligence' Is Fostering US Bellicosity Toward Iran — But 'Quietly'. globalresearch.ca As the U.S. risks a major conflict with Iran, many have pointed out that the U.S. intelligence on alleged Iranian attacks is reminiscent of the faulty intelligence leading up to the Iraq war. And several mainstream sources have said that …

James Wright (2019-05-31). Ex Labour MP breaks open the heart of the antisemitism smear campaign on BBC Newsnight. thecanary.co Former Labour MP Clare Short got right to the heart of the antisemitism smear campaign against the Jeremy Corbyn-led movement on 28 May. | "Widening of the definition": | Short, who resigned from Tony Blair's front bench over the invasion of Iraq, told Newsnight host Emma Barnett: What's happened is there's bee…

RT (2019-05-31). US to investigate reports N. Korea executed senior diplomat after Hanoi summit failure — Pompeo. rt.com Following a slew of reports that North Korea had executed a senior envoy who participated in the Hanoi peace summit with US President Donald Trump, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he's 'checking it out.'

plenglish (2019-05-31). Syria Describes As Unacceptable Declaration of Arab Summit on Iran. plenglish.com Damascus, May 31 (Prensa Latina) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Repatriated assured on Friday that Syria described as unacceptable the declaration of an Arab Summit in the Saudi capital on Iranian meddling and set out that the presence of Iran is legal since Damascus requested for it.

Middle East Eye (2019-05-31). Here's How Trump Bypassed Congress to Sell Weapons to Saudi Arabia. theantimedia.com (MEE) — Schoolchildren in the United States are taught from a young age that a separation of powers is the backbone of American democracy. The system also comes with checks-and-balances meant to limit the power that the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government can wield — to prevent overreach. Last week, however, President Donald Trump threw …

plenglish (2019-05-31). Iranian Foreign Minister Condemns Statement Issued in Saudi Arabia. plenglish.com Tehran, May 31 (Prensa Latina) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Yavad Zarif on Friday condemned an anti-Iran statement issued during a special summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Daniel Carmody (2019-05-31). Activists protest John Bolton's commencement speech at U.S. Coast Guard Academy. liberationnews.org Bolton has been unabashed in his campaign to launch new wars against Iran, North Korea, and now Venezuela.

Corinna Barnard (2019-05-31). John Bolton's Absurd 'Troika Tyranny'. consortiumnews.com The real tyrants are U.S. allies in the Middle East (not Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua), writes Danny Sjursen. By Danny Sjursen TomDispatch.com American foreign policy can be so retro, not to mention absurd. Despite being bogged down in more military… Read more →

Jake Johnson, staff writer (2019-05-31). Condemning Trump's "Racist Attacks on Immigrants," Sanders Calls for Bans on Mass Raids and For-Profit Detention Centers. commondreams.org "We have to end the dehumanization of undocumented people," the Vermont senator and presidential candidate said during a rally in Nevada | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bernie_sanders_immigration.jpg…

susan_p (2019-05-31). US activists vow to protect Venezuelan embassy. greenleft.org.au At 9.30am on May 16, police officers illegally entered the Venezuelan embassy in the Georgetown neighbourhood of Washington DC and arrested four activists lawfully living in the building since April 10, as guests of the legitimate Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro. | The four activists arrested were Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese (with the group Popular Resistance), Adrienne Pine (an academic) and David Paul (a CODEPINK member). They are part of a group called the Embassy Protection Collective. | According to the Embassy Protection Collective's attorney Mara Verheyden Hilliard, the activists were charged…

Staff (2019-05-31). Opposition Demand for Maduro's Resignation a Non-Starter, Says Norwegian Official. therealnews.com An unnamed Norwegian official with inside knowledge of the talks between the Venezuelan opposition and government in Oslo said the opposition "needs to be more realistic." We discuss the talks with Norwegian Venezuela specialist Eirik Vold…

Paul Dobson (2019-05-31). US Hints at Sanctions Against Venezuela CLAP Food Programme. Bolivarian Militia to Protect CLAP. globalresearch.ca Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced the incorporation of the National Bolivarian Militia into the subsidised CLAP (Local Supply and Production Committees) food programme. | The move comes as rumours circulate of upcoming US-led sanctions against the leaders of the programme, …

Eugene E Ruyle (2019-05-31). U.S. Imperialism and the Struggle for Venezuela's Future. indybay.org Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Ave, at Prince St in Berkeley | Near Ashby BART…

Yves Engler (2019-05-31). Canada's Trudeau Government Supportive of Venezuela Anti-democratic Hardline Elements. globalresearch.ca Not only has Canada financed and otherwise supported opposition parties in Venezuela, Ottawa has allied with some of its most anti-democratic, hardline elements. While the Liberal government has openly backed Voluntad Popular's bid to seize power since January, Ottawa has …

plenglish (2019-05-31). Venezuelan Government Invites EU Special Advisor to Visit the Country. plenglish.com Caracas, May 31 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has officially invited the European Union"s (EU) Special Advisor for Venezuela, Enrique Iglesias, to visit Venezuela in the near future.

plenglish (2019-05-31). Venezuela Seizes More Than 8,000 Kilograms of Drugs in 2019. plenglish.com Caracas, May 31 (Prensa Latina) The president of the National Antidrug Office (ONA), Juan Grillo, said on Friday that in the first semester of 2019, Venezuelan authorities seized 8,985 kilograms of different narcotics.

Yves Engler (2019-05-31). Canada Supports Most Hardline, Anti-Democratic Elements of Venezuela's Oppposition. dissidentvoice.org Not only has Canada financed and otherwise supported opposition parties in Venezuela, Ottawa has allied itself with some of its most anti-democratic, hardline elements. While the Liberal government has openly backed Voluntad Popular's bid to seize power since January, Ottawa has supported the electorally marginal party for years. Juan Guaidó's VP (Popular Will in English) …

Fight Back (2019-05-31). Minnesotans say "No coup! No war! Hands off Venezuela!" fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – 30 people held signs reading "Hands off Venezuela" and a big banner saying "No coup – no sanctions – no war – hands off Venezuela" on a bridge from Loring Park to the Walker Sculpture Garden over Interstate 94 in Minneapolis during rush hour, May 30. Ten lanes of traffic filled with rush hour traffic traveled underneath. The protesters heard hundreds of honks of agreement that the U.S. shouldn't intervene in Venezuela. | Afterwards protesters gathered to hear from Tracy Molm, a member of the MN Anti-War Committee, to hear an update from Venezuela, "Today we were seen by thousands of people in Mi…

plenglish (2019-05-31). Venezuela Moves Toward Delivery of Three Million Homes. plenglish.com Caracas, May 31 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan government is still delivering homes through the Gran Mision Vivienda Venezuela (GMVV), to reach the goal of three million.

Alan Macleod (2019-05-31). MintCast Interviews Filmmaker Robbie Martin: The Neoconservative Endgame. mintpressnews.com MintCast co-hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb recently spoke to Robbie Martin ( @FluorescentGrey), a filmmaker whose recent documentary series A Very Heavy Agenda explores how prominent Bush-era neo-conservatives have continued to dominate the Washington foreign policy debate and have been instrumental in creating and fomenting Russiagate and Cold War 2.0. | Neoconservatives, or Neocons, have been a key force in Washington for decades and seem to maintain their…

plenglish (2019-05-31). Venezuela Is on the Peace Path in Dialogue, Maduro Says. plenglish.com Caracas, May 31 (Prensa Latina) Today, dialogue represents the only way for stability in Venezuela within the Constitution, President Nicolas Maduro said.

Dave Lindorff (2019-05-31). Sri Lankan Refugee Family That Hid Snowden in Hong Kong Now Trapped in Limbo. counterpunch.org Hong Kong. The bipartisan vengeance of the US government and it's pervasive intelligence apparatus, on display currently in its rabid hounding of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, appears to know no bounds. But as ugly as the full-court effort to bag Assange, already trapped by US the combined efforts of complicity government in Britain and Sweden More

Paul Street (2019-05-31). Russiagate Trumps Environmental Catastrophe for the Dismal Democrats. counterpunch.org If historians still exist years from now, some of them will be struck by how Donald Trump's Democratic Party critics and their media allies obsessed over the 45th United States President's real and alleged connections to Russia while saying comparatively little about his enactment of a soulless anti-environmental agenda that accelerated humanity's march towards extinction in service to the United States' own homegrown corporate polluters. More

Judith Deutsch (2019-05-31). WWII Lessons for the Climate Emergency. counterpunch.org "The bad news is that if history teaches us one thing, it is that there never has been an energy transition….The history of energy is not one of transitions, but rather of successive additions . . ." Bonneuil and Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene The New Deal and World War II are reminders of More

Graham Peebles (2019-05-31). Global Rebellion to Save Our Planet. counterpunch.org "The greatest threat to the Earth is thinking someone else will save it." The responsibility is ours; politicians and governments are complacent, dishonest and buried in the ideology of the past. Despite repeated warnings nothing substantial has been done and time is running out. No one else is going to Save Our Planet; a global More

T.J. Coles (2019-05-31). May Plot? Did U.S. Concerns Over Huawei Hasten Theresa May's Departure? counterpunch.org Britain's PM Theresa May spent the last two years fighting off numerous Brexit-related coup attempts from within her Conservative (Tory) party. But the sudden announcement of her departure came just two weeks after US officials cautioned May not to award contracts to China's Huawei. Was this May's Gough Whitlam moment? GOUGH WHITLAM AND THE FIVE More

John O'Kane (2019-05-31). The Bush Leagues: the College Admissions Scam. counterpunch.org When I hear the phrase "college admission scam" I reach for my copy of George W. Bush's resume. This gem started to circulate not long after his first interviews when he ran for President, straining to recall the names of foreign leaders and stuttering through a series of painful contortions about the issues of the More

Ralph Nader (2019-05-31). Society Is In Decay — When the Worst is First and the Best is Last. counterpunch.org Plutocrats like to control the range of permissible public dialogue. Plutocrats also like to shape what society values. If you want to see where a country's priorities lie, look at how it allocates its money. While teachers and nurses earn comparatively little for performing critical jobs, corporate bosses including those who pollute our planet and More

Jill Richardson (2019-05-31). Dealing With Climate Fear. counterpunch.org I don't think I'm alone in feeling this way, but here goes: I can't deal with climate change. I can't read about it, I can't watch documentaries on it, and I can't think about it. I feel too powerless, and it hurts too much. The result feels like apathy, but it's not that I don't More

George Wuerthner (2019-05-31). Lessons From Yellowstone. counterpunch.org As we ponder the future of public lands in Montana, including what areas deserve protection as wilderness, it is worthwhile to look back in history to see how past protective measures were viewed. In 1872, with the establishment of Yellowstone National Park many Montana citizens were outraged. For example, the Helena Gazette opined: "We regard More

Jeffrey St. Clair (2019-05-31). Roaming Charges: Intimations of Imbecility. counterpunch.org + Every reporter, editor and publisher who used or cited any document published by Wikileaks should file an amicus brief opposing his indictment and extradition, since Assange is being indicted on their behalf. + Out of a total eleven prosecutions under the Espionage Act against government officials accused of providing classified information to the media, More

Bill Blunden (2019-05-31). Edward Who? The Snowden Affair Ends with a Whimper. counterpunch.org "Do not send to those who tout secure drops, Tor, crypto-comms — these are traceable, diagrammable via basic net transmission tech." —Cryptome It's been more than six years since Edward Snowden went public. After all the breathless headlines, Hollywood movies, book deals, Pulitzer prizes, and glossy primetime biopics. What, pray tell, has come of it? More

W. T. Whitney (2019-05-31). Values Are Weapons as Cuba Defends Doctors against US intervention. counterpunch.org The George W. Bush administration initiated the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program (CMPP) in 2006. The idea was to persuade overseas Cuban doctors to abandon their posts and relocate to the United States. Cuba's medical solidarity programs, in place for half a century, would suffer. President Obama ended the CMPP in January, 2017. Now the More

Charles Davis (2019-05-31). What Would Democratic Candidates Do About Syria? counterpunch.org Something peculiar happened along the way to stopping a war: in order to prevent U.S. soldiers from marching on Damascus—a real possibility according to people who don't seem to follow such things—some decided that the cause of what they call "peace" required turning a blind eye to several wars that already existed. Neoconservatives, forever on More

Jonathan Mazower (2019-05-31). Modi's Escalating War Against India's Forests and Tribal People. counterpunch.org The result of the biggest election in history, India 2019, is terrible news for tribal peoples in the world's biggest democracy. Politicians with authoritarian nationalist inclinations like India's newly invigorated Narendra Modi are in vogue around the world, and while many minority groups are feeling the impact of this surge to the right, the past More

Rob Urie (2019-05-31). White Nationalism and the Neoliberal Order. counterpunch.org Two related tendencies have sown confusion over the crisis of liberalism that continues to unfold across the U.S. and Europe. On the one hand, the forces of the political right are ascendant. Right-wing leaders are being elected as an apparent rebuke of the serial failures of neoliberalism. On the other, the will of the polity is increasingly irrelevant to the formulation and concerns of nominally public policies.In the U.S., the political establishment continues to put forward candidates which its functionaries appear to believe can best perpetuate this illusion of democracy. Befuddlement at the rise of reaction…

Robert Hunziker (2019-05-31). Ozone-Depleting CFCs Return. counterpunch.org In August of 1987 the world came together after a panic-attack over ongoing depletion of atmospheric ozone, aka: The Ozone Hole. Subsequently, global agreements to stop ozone depletion became the first ever "universally ratified treaties in UN history." The world banned CFCs. Thereafter, an era of good feelings about ozone restoration swept the world community More

Ron Jacobs (2019-05-31). Burlington, Vermont, Jared Kushner and the Conspiracy of Capital. counterpunch.org There's a hole in the heart of Burlington, Vermont's downtown. The result of a currently halted project to build a new shopping mall, it is currently a muddy hole that might well end up taking millions of dollars to fill. Many of those millions could well end up coming from the pockets of Burlington residents. More

Andrew Levine (2019-05-31). Chutzpah, Corporate Media Style. counterpunch.org American politics is awash in hypocrisy. It always has been, but the problem has become worse in recent years, mainly, but not only, since Donald Trump became president of the United States. The level of hypocrisy surrounding, say, charges of Russian "meddling" in the 2016 election is staggering, but it seldom rises to the level More

susan_p (2019-05-31). Turkey: Leyla Gàºven ends hunger strike. greenleft.org.au Peoples Democratic Party MP, Leyla Gàºven ended her 200-day hunger strike on May 26. Gàºven had been consuming only sugar and salt solutions and vitamins. | Gàºven, a member of the Turkish parliament, began her hunger strike in prison. She was arrested for criticising the Turkish invasion of Afrin, a predominantly Kurdish area of northern Syria. | Gàºven's hunger strike was a protest against the isolation of imprisoned PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) leader Abdullah àñcalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999 and has not been allowed visitors, including family members and lawyers, f…

kathy_f (2019-05-31). Victorian budget: Billions for prisons but nothing for housing. greenleft.org.au The Andrews' Labor government allocated $1.8 billion in the state budget on May 27, to build 1600 new prison cells in Victoria and less than one sixth of that amount — $209 million — for 1000 social housing units. | But the capital expenditure is just the tip of the iceberg. The annual recurrent cost of imprisoning a person in a Victoria is about $125,000, while housing a family in a public housing dwelling costs about $6400. | Victoria is in an acute housing crisis with more than 24,000 people homeless and 84,000 on waiting lists for social housing. At the same time, prisons are bursting at the seams…

Maureen McCue (2019-05-31). We Must Prevent War with Iran. progressive.org It is time for Congress and this administration to recommit to the deal between the United States, our allies, and Iran, to prevent unnecessary destruction, suffering, and death.

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