"The Russians are Still Coming" without RussiaGate. "Fake News" and US Foreign Policy under Trump
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
From one day to the next, following the release of the Mueller report, the shaky RussiaGate consensus created by the corporate media has collapsed. | What the Mueller investigation contends is that there is no proof that the Kremlin interfered …
globalresearch.ca/the-russians-are-still-coming-without-russiagate-fake-news-and-us-foreign-policy-under-trump/5672835

Pelosi and McConnell Are Inching Us Closer to Nuclear War
Norman Solomon | truthdig.com | 2019-03-28
Bipartisan reverence for NATO is matched by how dangerous the organization has become as it increases the chances of a conflict with Russia.
truthdig.com/articles/pelosi-and-mcconnell-are-inching-us-closer-nuclear-war/

It's Opening Day: Here Are Three Political Storylines to Watch in Baseball This Year
Eric Draitser | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
For many Americans, Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season elicits memories of childhood: playing with friends in the waning daylight hours, the crack of leather on leather as ball meets glove, and the feel of the sun on skin as it finally melts away the ossified remnants of the cold, dark winter. Baseball…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/its-opening-day-here-are-three-political-storylines-to-watch-in-baseball-this-year/

Venezuela Is in Economic Crisis, Not Humanitarian Crisis
STAFF | therealnews.com | 2019-03-28
Max Blumenthal describes his experience on the ground in Venezuela to host Paul Jay, and talks about how the depiction of the country in broad humanitarian crisis is being used as a rationale for intervention in its domestic politics…
therealnews.com/stories/venezuela-is-in-economic-crisis-not-humanitarian-crisis

CODEPINK Ranks the 2020 Presidential Candidates on War, Peace and Military Spending
Medea Benjamin | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-28
Medea Benjamin and Nicole Davies of CODEPINK look at a new crop of presidential candidates and examine their views — and, when possible, voting records — on issues of war and peace.
mintpressnews.com/codepink-ranks-2020-presidential-candidates-war-peace-military-spending/256700/

Rights Groups Urge UN to Protect Palestinians on 'Great March' Protest Anniversary
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
Almost 20 Palestinian rights groups — both regional and international — urged the United Nations to protect Gazans who participate in the anniversary of the "Great March of Return" protests this coming Saturday. | In a letter sent to UN Secretary-General …
globalresearch.ca/rights-groups-urge-un-protect-palestinians-great-march-protest-anniversary/5672913

When Taking a Walk At Night Was an Act of Civil Disobedience
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-28
Oregon remembers Minoru Yasui, a civil rights icon who broke the law to protest the curfews put on Japanese Americans at the start of World War II. | Seventy-six years ago, Minoru "Min" Yasui sat in a cell at the Multnomah County Jail in Oregon when he read a newspaper article detailing how Walter Pierce, the state's former governor and U.S. congressman, called for Japanese immigrants in the United States to be sent to Japan. Ever the racist and xenophobe, Pierce wasn't done. He even suggested revoking birthright citizens…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/when-taking-walk-night-was-act-civil-disobedience

San Francisco Art Institute hosts Hollywood Blacklist festival and panel
Special to PeoplesWorld | peoplesworld.org | 2019-03-28
SAN FRANCISCO–As the FBI makes headline news again, a San Francisco filmfest and panel recalls when, starting in 1947, the FBI and U.S. government persecuted artists and activists, driving many into exile during the Hollywood Blacklist/McCarthyism Cold War era. Despotic Senator Joe McCarthy's right-hand man was Roy Cohn–the young Donald Trump's attorney and mentor–who helped …
peoplesworld.org/article/san-francisco-art-institute-hosts-hollywood-blacklist-festival-and-panel/

Selected Articles: NATO's Anti-Democratic Roots
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer". | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …
globalresearch.ca/natos-anti-democratic-roots/5672944

After Debunking Lies About Humanitarian Aid" Trucks, NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela's Cuban Doctors
Lucas Koerner | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-28
After debunking Washington's lies about the burning of "humanitarian aid" trucks on the Venezuelan/Colombian border (more than two weeks after being scooped by independent journalists), the New York Times quickly reverted to form in an article by Nicholas Casey headlined "'It is Unspe…
mintpressnews.com/the-new-york-times-inverts-reality-on-venezuela-cuban-doctors/256708/

Syria's Rukban Now Little More Than a US-Controlled Concentration Camp — and the Pentagon Won't Let Refugees Leave
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-28
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a concentration camp is defined as "a place where large numbers of people are kept as prisoners in extremely bad conditions, especially for political reasons." It is undeniable that the Rukban camp fits this definition to the letter.
mintpressnews.com/syrias-rukban-little-more-than-a-u-s-controlled-concentration-camp-and-the-pentagon-wont-let-refugees-leave/256689/

Russia Rejects Trump Regime Demand to Leave Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
On Wednesday, Trump demanded around 100 Russian military forces leave the Bolivarian Republic, repeating his warning about "all options…open." | Moscow is undeterred by his threat, acting in support of Venezuela and President Maduro. | John Bolton repeated Trump's warning, saying "(a)s …
globalresearch.ca/russia-rejects-trump-regime-demand-to-leave-venezuela/5672957

Now It's Official: God, Not the Russians, Elected Trump
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
Governments that pride themselves on being either democratic or republican in nature claim that they are empowered by the will of the people, but the sad reality is that most regimes come to power based on promises that they have …
globalresearch.ca/god-not-russians-elected-trump/5672930

The Actual Collusion
Ted Rall | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
In 2002 and 2003 corporate media idiots speculated that secular socialist Saddam Hussein might give nukes that he didn't and couldn't have to radical Islamists who wanted to kill him. That story wasn't true. Worse than that, it couldn't have been true. I said it over and over and over. So did others. But we…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/the-actual-collusion/

Gaddafi Spy Chief — Libya Gave Ex-French President Sarkozy $8million Bribe
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
The Independent's multi-award-winning Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, reports that the execution order for Gadaffi's spymaster was simply a perversion of justice that suited the Western security services just fine. | "Shutting them up. That's what it's about. The hangman's drop, | …
globalresearch.ca/gaddafi-spy-chief-libya-gave-sarkozy-8million-bribe/5672901

Florida's Poll Tax is a New Low
Jesse Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
Until 2018, Florida — the state vital to the presidential victories of George Bush and Donald Trump — deprived one in 10 voters, and two in 10 African Americans, of the right to vote with a constitutional provision banning felons from voting, even after they had fulfilled their sentences. Many with nonviolent drug felonies, enforced by a…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/floridas-poll-tax-is-a-new-low/

Why the Mueller Investigation was Good for the Country
Stuart A. Newman | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
The Mueller investigation was fully worth it, despite its conclusions. In early 2017, with a clearly corrupt president in place, but both houses of Congress dominated by the Republicans, there would have been no way to launch a legislative-branch inquiry into his misdeeds. The Special Prosecutor's probe served as a fortuitous substitute. Even though it…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/why-the-mueller-investigation-was-good-for-the-country/

Bleeding Trees for Forest Health?
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation is arguing that we need more logging/thinning as a panacea for wildfire and forest health. It reminds me of the same approach that Medieval doctors took to illness. If a patient was sick, the solution was to "bleed" the "bad" blood from the individual. If the patient…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/bleeding-trees-for-forest-health/

My Favorite Conspiracy Theory
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
My favorite conspiracy theory — Which was Blaise Pascal's as well — is that The planet's not round And the planet's not flat The planet's not even a planet Goddamnit. What just may be the way things are's That you and I and everyone — Connie and Maury, and Robert Horry — We are all…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/my-favorite-conspiracy-theory/

Europe Confronts a Cliff
Conn Hallinan | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
As the campaigns for the European Parliament get underway, some of the traditional lines that formerly divided left, right, and center are shifting, making it harder to easily categorize political parties. In Italy, a right-wing coalition calls for a guaranteed income, larger pensions, and resistance to the heavy-handed austerity programs enforced by the European Union…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/europe-confronts-a-cliff/

Mueller's End Increases Pressure on Rep. Richard Neal to Request Trump's Taxes
Jeff Hauser | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
In the coming days, advocates and lawmakers will fight to ensure that the findings of Mueller's team are made public so that the American people may assess for themselves the results of the Special Counsel's two-year investigation. Even as this important work unfolds, however, we must also acknowledge the limitations of the Special Counsel's investigation.
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/muellers-end-increases-pressure-on-rep-richard-neal-to-request-trumps-taxes/

How to Make Yourself an Exception to the Rule of Law
Rebecca Gordon | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court Events just fly by in the ever-accelerating rush of Trump Time, so it's easy enough to miss important ones in the chaos. Paul Manafort is sentenced twice and indicted a third time! Whoosh! Gone! The Senate agrees with the House that the United States should…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/how-to-make-yourself-an-exception-to-the-rule-of-law/

Braceros Then and Now: Brutality and Pathological Dishonesty Greet Immigrants in the Age of Trump
Bruce Neuburger | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-28
Do a Google search of braceros and you'll find a picture of a line of shirtless young men being sprayed with DDT as they pass through a gate of a farm labor intake center. In another photo, naked men are lined up in a large room being inspected by men in white coats. The photos tell a story the name bracero (from the word brazos, or arms) itself implies.
counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/braceros-then-and-now-brutality-and-pathological-dishonesty-greet-immigrants-in-the-age-of-trump/

Documents Reveal Saudi-Backed Gov't in Yemen Granted Citizenship to Charlie Hebdo Attacker Peter Cherif
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-28
Cherif is just one of the dozens of foreigners — mostly former al-Qaeda and ISIS fighters — who have been granted Yemeni citizenship by the Coalition-allied Yemeni Passport Authority, under pressure from high-ranking leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
mintpressnews.com/documents-reveal-saudi-arabia-granted-yemeni-citizenship-to-charlie-hebdo-attacker-peter-cherif/256721/

FRSO mobilizes against U.S. wars and racism
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-03-28
Washington D.C. – The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is building for a rally and march against U.S. wars and racism in Washington D.C. this Saturday, March 30. | "Oppose NATO, War, and Racism! Oppose U.S. intervention in Venezuela!" is the theme for a rally starting at 1 p.m. across from the White House in LaFayette Park. | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is set to 'celebrate' 70 years on April 4. April 4 is also the anniversary of the day Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. So, a large coalition of anti-war, international solidarity, and anti-racist organizations are gathering to…
fightbacknews.org/2019/3/28/frso-mobilizes-against-us-wars-and-racism

Living through blackouts: Venezuelan government accuses opposition of 'sabotage'
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2019-03-28
The Canary is currently in Venezuela. This is the latest in our series of on-the-ground articles. According to authorities, Venezuela suffered a "double attack" at … | Read more Living through blackouts: Venezuelan government accuses opposition of 'sabotage' | By John McEvoy…
thecanary.co/feature/2019/03/28/living-through-blackouts-venezuelan-government-accuses-opposition-of-sabotage/

Russia Throws Down the Gauntlet to US on Venezuela
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova acknowledged in Moscow on Tuesday that Russian "specialists" are indeed in Venezuela within the ambit of a 2001 military-technical cooperation agreement with Caracas. Zakharova underscored that Russia's bilateral military cooperation with Venezuela is in …
globalresearch.ca/russia-throws-down-the-gauntlet-to-us-venezuela/5672909

Venezuelan Gov't Reveals Evidence Related to Electric Sabotage
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-28
Minister of Communication and Tourism Jorge Rodríguez gave a press conference Wednesday showing evidence related to the recent attacks on the national electricity system (SEN) which he said were intended to cause chaos by leaving the Venezuelan people without electricity for weeks. | "In the last two years, the Venezuelan fascist opposition has perpetrated more than 250 attacks on the National Electric System," said Rodríguez adding that such attacks have been foiled by the Venezuelan government on different occasions. | While the attack intended to leave the country with no electricity for weeks, the ministe…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuelan-Govt-Reveals-Evidence-Related-to-Electric-Sabotage-20190328-0018.html

Venezuela: Guaido Barred from Public Office as Maduro Announces Temporary Electricity Rationing
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-03-28
Workers from other industries have flocked to the Guri Dam to help repair the fire damage.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14409

Biggest Migrant Caravan Forming Amidst Broken US Border Patrol
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-28
A "mother of all caravans" is building up in Honduras, the federal interior secretary said Wednesday while the United States Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the immigration system at the U.S. southern border has reached a breaking point. | RELATED: | Negligence Leaves ICE Detention Facilities Overrun With Mumps |…
telesurenglish.net/news/Biggest-Migrant-Caravan-Forming-Amidst-Broken-US-Border-Patrol-20190328-0012.html

Brazil's Vale Activates Alarm Near Dams in Risk of Rupture
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-28
Brazilian mining company Vale SA activated alarms in areas below three tailings dams Wednesday night due to an elevated risk of rupture, amid a tense atmosphere in Minas Gerais state where a dam burst in January killed about 300 people. | RELATED: | Brazil: Another Vale Group Dam at 'Highest Threat' of Collapse | The company activated alarms in areas downstream of the B3/B4 dam and the Forquilha I and Forquilha III dams as a "preventative measure," after the structures failed to r…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazils-Vale-Activates-Alarm-Near-Dams-in-Risk-of-Rupture-20190328-0021.html

Never to Forget: 1999 — NATO's War on Yugoslavia. The 2019 Belgrade Declaration
Belgrade Forum | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
On the occasion of 20th anniversary of the aggression of NATO Alliance against Serbia (the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the FRY), on 22nd and 23rd March 2019 Belgrade was the venue of the International Conference under slogan …
globalresearch.ca/never-to-forget-1999-natos-war-on-yugoslavia-the-2019-belgrade-declaration/5672932

Video: Special Forces Hunt Down ISIS Terrorists that Killed 3 Russians
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
3 Russian service members were killed in a terrorist attack in Syria in late February, the Russian Defense Ministry said on March 25. The defense ministry added that following the attack the Russian Aerospace Forces and Special Operations Forces tracked …
globalresearch.ca/special-forces-hunt-down-terrorists-killed-3-russians/5672848

France Activates 7,000 Troops to Quell Yellow Vest "Terrorists"
Bill Wirtz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
Last week, France's Yellow Vest movement entered its 23rd week. While the movement's ranks have thinned, the government's reaction to hasten its demise have been Orwellian. On Saturday, things got worse. | Macron's Pain | The Yellow Vest (in French: "gilets jaunes") …
globalresearch.ca/france-activates-7000-troops-quell-yellow-vest-terrorists/5672905

America's "Medical Deep State". The Role of the CDC
Richard Gale | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
For over two decades, American families have faced an unscrupulous foe that threatens the public health and welfare. It is a rogue, unmanageable institution within our federal government, now seemingly beholden solely to private interests. Citizens have been horribly mistaken …
globalresearch.ca/cdc-medical-deep-state/5672873

On NATO's 70th Anniversary Important to Remember Its Anti-democratic Roots
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
" The power of the communists, wherever that power flourishes, depends upon their ability to suppress and destroy the free institutions that stand against them. They pi…
globalresearch.ca/natos-70th-anniversary-important-remember-its-anti-democratic-roots/5672923

Russia Should Take the US' "European Energy Security Act" More Seriously
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
Underestimating the potential of one's adversaries and expressing excessive self-confidence in one's own abilities oftentimes leads to the said party being unpleasantly surprised if events don't go exactly according to how they expect them to. | Russia would well to reconsider …
globalresearch.ca/russia-us-european-energy-security-act/5672917

The Making of a Monster: We're All Lab Rats in the Government's Secret Experiments
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
"But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around–they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't …
globalresearch.ca/the-making-of-a-monster-were-all-lab-rats-in-the-governments-secret-experiments/5672927

Believing the RussiaGate Conspiracy Tale: Are The Democrats Self-Destructing?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
The Democrats cannot stop making fools of themselves. Thom Hartmann is an example. He writes for Common Dreams and has a progressive talk radio program. During the George W. Bush regime I was a frequent guest on his program. It …
globalresearch.ca/believing-the-russiagate-conspiracy-tale-are-the-democrats-self-destructing/5672898

Cuba: The Revolution "Must be Fun"
Prof Susan Babbitt | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
Tony Perrottet's Cuba Libre! Che, Fidel and the improbable revolution that changed the world is a "colourful page turner".[i] Perrottet wanted a book that is "entertaining and readable, unsaturated by ideology". He succeeds in the first, not the second. | It…
globalresearch.ca/cuba-the-revolution-must-be-fun/5672954

Kosovo War at 20: How Britain and America Backed Jihadists Throughout Conflict
Kit Klarenberg | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-28
On 24 March 1999, NATO launched a 78-day-long bombing campaign against the then-Republic of Yugoslavia. Still hailed by the Western mainstream as a successful 'humanitarian intervention', the true story of the conflict's roots and legacy is far darker, and points | …
globalresearch.ca/kosovo-war-how-britain-america-backed-jihadists-throughout-conflict/5672887

Conflict of Interest, Corporations and the Environment: More than 160 Groups Urge Senate to Reject David Bernhardt for Top Interior Post