21 May 2019 — WSWS
Imagine the following scenario:
A dissident soldier in Iran, Venezuela, China or Russia leaks classified information on war crimes committed by his or her government, including video footage of soldiers mowing down innocent civilians, secret cables revealing plots to subvert governments around the world, and reports of suspects being indefinitely held and tortured in notorious prisons.
21 May 2019 — Voltaire Network
The US Press is spreading a false narrative of the events in Venezuela and the rise of tension between Washington and Teheran. Given the contradictory declarations of both sides, it is almost impossible to discern the truth. After having checked the facts, we need to deepen our analysis and take into account the opposition between the different political currents in these countries.
15 May 2019 — Rebel News
Ronnie Kasrils joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1960 after Sharpeville and later played a leading role in Umkhonte we Sizwe, the ANC’s armed wing. He served for a number of years as a minister in Nelson Mandela’s post-apartheid government as Deputy Minister of Defence and as Minister for Security. He has since become a major left critic of the ANC and its embrace of neo-liberalism. He is also known as an outspoken opponent of Apartheid Israel. Rebel is pleased to publish his assessment of the recent South African election here.
The best aspect of South Africa’s sixth national election since democracy in 1994 was that it was extremely peaceful, virtually incident free, fair, and credible. The top marks go to the 16 million who cast their votes, many in difficult rural terrain and some in cold, rainy conditions. The downside was that this was the lowest turnout of registered voters since that first seminal democratic election.
21 May 2019 — Dr Mercola
Written by Dr. Joseph Mercola – Fact Checked
20 May 2019 — Defend Wikileaks
Three weeks before the U.S. deadline to file its final extradition request for Assange, Ecuadorian officials are travelling to London to allow U.S. prosecutors to help themselves to Assange’s belongings.
20 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
Venezuela’s Maduro proposes early elections for opposition-held National Assembly
https://www.rt.com/news/459842-maduro-election-national-assembly/
US Foreign Policy is Nothing Short of Low-Intensity Warfare Against the Whole Planet by Finian Cunningham
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/05/20/us-foreign-policy-is-nothing-short-of-low-intensity-warfare-against-the-whole-planet-by-finian-cunningham/
20 May 2019 20:30 — The New Dark Age
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‘It would mark the end of Iraq’: Shia Clerics warn against US war with Iran
https://www.rt.com/news/459841-iraq-clerics-warn-war-iran/
US Foreign Policy is Nothing Short of Low-Intensity Warfare Against the Whole Planet by Finian Cunningham
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/05/20/us-foreign-policy-is-nothing-short-of-low-intensity-warfare-against-the-whole-planet-by-finian-cunningham/
20 May 2019 — FAIR
Presentacion-de-cifras-II-2018_05-12-2018.pdf
Time (4/16/19) joined in on the corporate media’s literary fad of fictionalized accounts of the Venezuelan crisis.
The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity with the facts in their Venezuela reporting, to the point that coverage of the nation’s crisis has become perhaps the world’s most lucrative fictional genre. Ciara Nugent’s recent piece for Time (4/16/19), headlined “‘Venezuelans Are Starving for Information’: The Battle to Get News in a Country in Chaos,” distinguished itself as a veritable masterpiece of this literary fad.
20 May 2019 — Mint Press
Amnesty International calls for justice about as often as it calls for punishment with the subtext that punishment of the Empire’s victims is justice writes Roger Harris.
20 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
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US’s moves against Huawei will spur on new tech development in China
https://www.rt.com/news/459840-huawei-google-/
Forevergate: The Pernicious Persistence of the Russian Collusion Delusion
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/forevergate-the-pernicious-persistence-of-the-russian-collusion-delusion/
20 May 2019 — WSWS
The Trump administration has reached an agreement with Canada and Mexico for the removal of tariffs on steel and aluminium and decided to put on hold a decision on whether to impose a 25 percent tariff on European and Japanese autos, and auto parts for at least six months.
20 May 2019 — Counter Currents
President Donald Trump’s use of the most vicious aspects of economic warfare prompt another examination of the politics of starvation.
After George W. Bush’s administration, Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump lessened Bush’s aggressive war policies and leaned to economic warfare. Sounds harmless when compared to exploding bombs, but it is not — economic warfare can crush an adversary without firing a shot. Gone to its extreme, economic warfare has the force of a neutron bomb; it disables the nation’s infrastructure and debilitates its population. Isolation from the international financial system, material embargos, and other sanctions reduce living standards and bring populations close to starvation The most serious aspects of economic warfare are major crimes and a form of terrorism.
20 May 2019 — Craig Murray
In Sweden, prosecutors have applied to the Swedish courts to issue a warrant for Julian’s arrest. There is a tremendous back story to that simple statement.
The European Arrest Warrant must be issued from one country to another by a judicial authority. The original Swedish request for Assange’s extradition was not issued by any court, but simply by the prosecutor. This was particularly strange, as the Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm had initially closed the case after deciding there was no case to answer, and then another, highly politically motivated, prosecutor had reopened the case and issued a European Arrest Warrant, without going to any judge for confirmation.
20 May 2019 — Global Research
According to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the premises of embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic facilities are inviolable territory — no one permitted inside without head of mission permission. Read more…
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19 May 2019 — TRNN
Vijay Prashad says the very dangerous statements, economic sanctions and military aggression unleashed by Washington this week against Iran was countered by cool headed diplomacy by Japan, Russia, EU and China (inc. transcript)
The likelihood of a U.S. war with Iran is increasing, despite alternately isolationist and provocative messages coming from Trump administration officials.
19 May 2019 — Truthout
Even before it gets worn once, that new T-shirt you bought is already dirtier than you can imagine. It’s soaked through with toxic waste, factory smog and plastic debris—all of which is likely just a few spin cycles away from an incinerator, or maybe a landfill halfway around the world. Our obsession with style rivals our hunger for oil, making fashion the world’s second-most polluting industry after the oil industry.
19 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
Trump-Bolton Aggression Against Iran Contained by Russia, Japan, China, and EU
https://williambowles.info/2019/05/19/trump-bolton-aggression-against-iran-contained-by-russia-japan-china-and-eu/
Iran and Why It Would be Insane for America to Go to War There
https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-why-insane-america-go-war-there/5677879
19 May 2019 — Moon of Alabama
During the last days a right wing politician in Austria was taken down by using an elaborate sting. Until Friday Christian Strache was leader of the far right (but not fascist) Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) and the Vice Chancellor of the country. On Friday morning two German papers, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Der Spiegel published (German) reports(English) about an old video that was made to take Strache down.
19 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Differences on Venezuela have no impacts on Russia-Argentina relations – Russian MP
http://tass.com/politics/1058983
Venezuela in “Misery” – Lies and Deceit by the Media Open Letter to the New York Times
http://thesaker.is/venezuela-in-misery-lies-and-deceit-by-the-media-open-letter-to-the-new-york-times/
19 May 2019 — TruthOut
Renewable energy is expanding rapidly all around the world. The energy capacity of newly installed solar projects in 2017, for instance, exceeded the combined increases from coal, gas and nuclear plants. During the past eight years alone, global investment in renewables was $2.2 trillion, and optimism has soared along with investments.
