(2018-09-01). Brazil: Prosecutors Seek Deal Lifting Glyphosate Injunction. telesurtv.net Monsanto is facing legal backlash in the United States, with hundreds of cases alleging glyphosate causes cancer.
(2018-09-01). LIVE: Watch Online Vigil in Defense of Julian Assange. consortiumnews.com Join Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, on Saturday as he moderates a daylong chain of interviews in defense of WikiLeaks and its publisher Julian Assange beginning at 10 am EDT, 2 pm GMT. From 10 a.m EDT to 10… Read more →
(2018-09-01). 'India Will Not Completely Halt Iranian Oil Imports'. iranian.com India will not completely halt Iranian oil imports and will finalize its strategy on crude purchases from Tehran after a meeting with top U.S. officials next week, a senior government official said. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will hold high-level talks with India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence […]
(2018-09-01). Is the Mueller investigation preparing to indict WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange? wsws.org The claim that Assange was part of a conspiracy to manipulate the 2016 US presidential election is based on amalgams, distortions and outright lies.
(2018-09-01). Elissa Slotkin: A CIA Democrat runs for Congress in Michigan. wsws.org Slotkin puts herself forward not as a representative of a party, let alone an advocate for any specific program, but as a representative of the military-intelligence apparatus.
(2018-08-31). Saeed Moshfegh has been studying in the U.S. legally for 7 years. Bank of America froze his account anyway. iranian.com Saeed Moshfegh woke up earlier this month to discover the strangest thing: though he had plenty of money in his Bank of America account, he couldn't access it. An Iranian getting his Ph.D in physics at the University of Miami, Moshfegh used the account for everyday transactions. All he had to do to maintain the […]
(2018-08-31). Verdi's Mass for the Dead: 90 Minutes of Heavenly and Infernal Glory. counterpunch.org 
Verdi's Requiem lasts just under ninety minutes—the length of a soccer match. Yet the mighty choral work packs so much terror and serenity into its hour-and-a-half that the comparison with the beautiful game shows that the flashes of elation and despair offered up even by a World Cup final are mere pinpricks of sensation compared to More
(2018-08-31). Bob Mueller's Burgers. truthout.org Flipping 'em like nobody's business.
(2018-08-31). Here Are 6 Major Takeaways from the New Poll Revealing Trump's Embarrassingly Low Approval Numbers. alternet.org 
Things are not looking good for the president — or his party. | Just in time for Labor Day Weekend, the Republican Party has received some very bad news from two major media outlets: according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, only 36% of Americans approve of Donald Trump's performance as president, while 60% disapprove (with. . .
(2018-08-31). 'Yet Another Win for Bob Mueller': Former Prosecutor Says the New Guilty Plea Shows the Russia Probe Is Not Slowing Down. alternet.org 
After another week of Russia revelations, Guy Lewis has bad news for Trump: it is not going to stop soon. | On Friday, Sam Patten, a former associate of President Donald Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort, was charged by federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia with failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of Ukrainian. . .
(2018-08-31). Will Robert Mueller Drop More Indictments Before Election Season Heats Up? alternet.org 
There is no actual rule that says Robert Mueller can't issue reports, court documents, or indictments within a sixty-day window of the election. | There is no actual rule that says Robert Mueller can't issue reports, court documents, or indictments within a sixty-day window of the election. That's particularly true in this case, where exactly none of the principals involved in the investigation are on the ballot in November. The idea that M. . .
(2018-08-31). Trump's Disapproval Hits Record High After Manafort and Cohen News. truthout.org President Donald Trump's disapproval rating has reached a record high — and the number of Americans who support special counsel Robert Mueller over Trump is now greater than those who do not. | A new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that three out of five Americans (60 percent) disapprove of Trump's performance as president, with only 36 percent approving of how he has performed so far. Similarly 49 percent of Americans believe that Congress should start proceedings that might ultimately lead to Trump's removal from office, with only 46 percent saying they should not do so. Finally a whopping 53 percent of Americans believe that Trump's efforts to interfere with the Mueller probe counts as obstruction of justice, while only 35 percent say that this isn't the case. | Even on the issue of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who Trump has repeatedly…
(2018-08-31). US has already drafted list of targets for potential strike in Syria — report. rt.com 
The US military and intelligence have already compiled a list of preliminary targets they would strike in response to another chemical-weapons incident in Syria, CNN reported, citing US administration officials. |
(2018-08-31). Widespread opposition to Australian government ban on Chelsea Manning. wsws.org The attempt to prevent Manning visiting Australia followed a high-level meeting of the Five Eyes spying network, which called for a campaign against those who "sow discord."
(2018-08-31). Trump legal team to challenge Mueller probe legitimacy in counter-report. rt.com 
US President Donald Trump's legal team, led by his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, is working on a comprehensive report intended as a response to the conclusions of the "Russia collusion" probe, which are yet to be released.
(2018-08-30). With Reality Winner Sentenced, Does The Intercept Owe Answers? therealnews.com 
Reality Winner has been sentenced to five years for leaking an NSA document to The Intercept alleging a Russian cyber-operation targeting the U.S. voting system. Shadowproof's Kevin Gosztola joins Aaron Maté to discuss major questions surrounding The Intercept's handling of Reality Winner's document.
(2018-08-30). Oppose the ban on Chelsea Manning speaking in Australia! wsws.org The SEP demands that Manning be granted her visa and restates its demand for the unconditional freedom of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange.
(2018-08-29). Trump adviser who President 'allowed to cooperate' with Mueller to step down. rt.com 
White House Counsel Don McGahn is to step down this fall, President Trump has announced. News of McGahn's departure comes after it was revealed he was questioned by Robert Mueller's 'Russiagate' investigation. |
(2018-08-28). Media Continues Writing Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left. fair.org 
US News ( 8/8/18): "A band of far-left candidates have suffered a string of defeats in Democratic primaries this year." | The insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party, sometimes self-identified as democratic socialists and exemplified by rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and associated with groups like Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution, the Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), took some losses in primaries on August 7. These included high-profile candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for Michigan governor and Brent Welder in Kansas's 2nd district, along with losses by Cori Bush in Missouri's 1st district. Following the losses, corporate media outlets were quick to declare the Democratic left wing dead in the water: | "Bernie and His Army Are Losing 2018" (Politico, 8/8/18) | "Down Goes Socialism" (Politico, 8/8/18) | "Democratic Party's Liberal Insurgency Hits…
(2018-08-28). Facebook & Google Play the Censor: Are our Civil Liberties Endangered? therealnews.com 
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi joins us to examine the dangerous juncture our freedom finds itself in when Facebook, Twitter, and Google work with the government and its intelligence services to control what we see and hear
(2018-08-28). Headlines for August 28, 2018. democracynow.org U.N. Accuses U.S.-Backed, Saudi-led Coalition of Possible War Crimes in Yemen, North Korea Warns Denuclearization Talks in Jeopardy, Federal Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Gerrymandered Voting Map, U.S. Student Loan Watchdog Accuses Trump Administration of Siding with Predatory Lenders, Facebook Bans Burmese Army Commander-in-Chief After U.N. Genocide Report, U.S. and Mexico Reach Agreement to Revise Portions of NAFTA | , Trump Breaks Near-Silence on Death of Sen. John McCain, Study Links Air Pollution to Reduction in Intelligence, Bloomberg Reassigns Journalist Who Exposed Wells Fargo's Ties to Gun Industry…
(2018-08-28). How the Department of Homeland Security Created a Deceptive Tale of Russia Hacking US Voter Sites. consortiumnews.com The narrative about Russian cyberattacks on American election infrastructure is a self-interested abuse of power by DHS based on distortion of evidence, writes Gareth Porter. By Gareth Porter Special to Consortium News The narrative of Russian intelligence attacking state and… Read more →
(2018-08-28). 'Appalling politics' & 'phony science' is why Monsanto is still afloat — lawyer suing chemical giant. rt.com 
Monsanto has suppressed the facts about its 'probably carcinogenic' weed killer for years, pouring vast sums of money towards complicit 'democratic regimes', a lawyer suing the chemical giant in 16 cancer cases has told RT.
(2018-08-27). The Transatlantic Alliance Will Survive Trump. thenation.com The Transatlantic Alliance Will Survive Trump appeared first on The Nation.
(2018-08-27). Kansas residents drank contaminated water for six years while state sat on damning chemical tests. rt.com 
The state of Kansas failed to act on tests showing that groundwater in a Wichita suburb had been contaminated, allowing hundreds of residents to use tainted water wells for more than six years, before taking action. |
(2018-08-26). Beware the Race Reductionist. theintercept.com 
A hostage situation has emerged on the left. And progressive policies like "Medicare for All," a $15 minimum wage, free public education, a "Green New Deal," and even net neutrality, are the captives. | The captors? Bad-faith claims of bigotry. | According to an increasingly popular narrative among the center-left, a dispiriting plurality of progressives are "class reductionists" — people who believe that economic equality is a cure-all for societal ills, and who, as a result, would neglect policy prescriptions which seek to remedy identity-based disparities. | Of course, race and class are so interwoven that any political project that aims to resolve one while ignoring the other does a disservice to both. As Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., presumptive leader of the progressive movement, put it this spring when I asked him about the never-ending race versus class debates: "It's not…
(2018-08-25). Poll's 'insane' data shows 64% of Republicans think a 'good president' may still use the N-word. rt.com 
A new Economist/YouGov poll found 64 percent of Republicans think it is "possible that a person who used the 'N-word' while in office can still be a good president of the United States". |
(2018-08-25). Did CIA's Kremlin sources 'go quiet' or is NYT seeking excuses for lack of fresh 'meddling' rumors? rt.com 
US intelligence is 'in the dark' about Russian intentions towards the November midterm elections, the New York Times reports, offering some explanations as to why this might be the case, while ignoring the most obvious one.
(2018-08-24). James Risen: Reality Winner's Sentence Is One of the Worst Miscarriages of Justice in Recent History. democracynow.org 
NSA whistleblower Reality Winner was handed the longest sentence ever imposed in federal court for leaking government information to the media Thursday. She is the first person to be sentenced under the Espionage Act since President Trump took office. Winner was arrested by FBI agents at her home in Augusta, Georgia, on June 3, 2017, two days before The Intercept published an exposé revealing Russian military intelligence conducted a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software company just days before the U.S. presidential election. The exposé was based on a classified NSA report from May 5, 2017, that shows…
(2018-08-24). Headlines for August 24, 2018. democracynow.org Yemen: 31 Reportedly Killed in U.S.-Backed Airstrikes, Including 22 Children, National Enquirer Executives Had Safe Containing Dirt on Trump, New York City Prosecutor Opens Criminal Probe into Trump Organization, GOP Senators Give Trump Green Light to Fire AG Jeff Sessions, Rep. Duncan Hunter and His Wife Plead Not Guilty to Looting Campaign Funds, Prison Strike Against "Modern-Day Slavery" Spreads Nationwide, NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison, Hawaii: Flooding and Landslides Reported as Hurricane Lane Strikes, South Africa Rejects Trump Claim of "Large Scale Killing" of Farmers, A…
(2018-08-24). Mother of NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner: My Daughter Was "Nailed to the Door" by the Trump Admin. democracynow.org 
NSA whistleblower Reality Winner has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison—the longest sentence ever imposed in federal court for leaking government information to the media. Twenty-six-year-old Reality Winner is the first person to be sentenced under the Espionage Act since President Trump took office. Her sentencing Thursday came after she pleaded guilty in June to transmitting a top-secret document to a news organization. She had faced up to 10 years in prison. We speak with her mother, Billie Winner-Davis.
(2018-08-24). Distorting Past and Present: Reuters on Nicaragua's Armed Uprising. fair.org 
From April 18 until late July 2018, an armed insurrection in Nicaragua left hundreds of people dead. The uprising, backed enthusiastically by private media outlets in Nicaragua (in particular one of its largest circulating newspapers, La Prensa, and the TV network 100%Noticias), was also supported by local NGOs funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The Trump administration and others (the EU parliament, UN officials) publicly backed the opposition's version of events, as did Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his supporters were held responsible for the vast majority of the "protest"-related deaths, and Ortega (who had been re-elected in 2016) was pressured at first to resign outright, and later to hold "early elections." | I examined 45 Reuters news articles
(2018-08-20). Headlines for August 20, 2018. democracynow.org CNN: Bomb That Killed 40 Yemeni School Children Was Made by U.S. | , California: ICE Arrests Man Driving His Wife to the Hospital to Give Birth, ICE Agents Forcibly Reseparate Fathers from Sons at Karnes Detention Center | , Ex-CIA Director John Brennan May Sue Trump over Stripped Security Clearances | , NYT: White House Counsel Donald McGahn Cooperating with Mueller Probe | , Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians and Injure Hundreds More During Friday's Protests, Longtime Israeli Peace Activist Uri Avnery Dies at 94 | , Afghan President Offers Conditional Ceasefire with Taliban | , U.N.: Brazil Can't Bar Lula from…