PATRICK LAWRENCE: Why the Dust Won't Settle After Mueller's Report
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-19
It won't be "full and thorough" and Democrats will continue to look for political payoff from Russia-gate, writes Patrick Lawrence. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Last week gave us mounting indications that Robert Mueller has finished his two-year… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/19/patrick-lawrence-why-the-dust-wont-settle-after-muellers-report/

Marty Gottesfeld: Another Whistleblower in Solitary Confinement
John Kiriakou | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-19
Last year I wrote about a whistleblower from New England who took direct action to save a child's life and who paid for it with his freedom. Marty Gottesfeld is now serving 10 years in prison for trying to save Justina Pelletier from abuse at the hands of her doctors at Children's Hospital in Boston. | At the age of 14, Justine developed searing stomach pain and inexplicable digestive problems. Her parents took her to a series of doctors until a metabolic geneticist at…
mintpressnews.com/marty-gottesfeld-another-whistleblower-in-solitary-confinement/256331/

The US Is Pushing Lebanon into the Arms of Iran and Russia: US Sanctions Affect the Local Economy
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-19
Lebanon is expecting the visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week at a time when the Lebanese economic-political map is being redrawn and while Lebanon is suffering its most serious economic downturnin recent history. | Reasons for the …
globalresearch.ca/us-lebanon-iran-russia-us-sanctions-affect-local-economy/5671929

ACLU: The U.S. Is Acting Like an Authoritarian Regime by Barring ICC Officials Probing War Crimes
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-19
The Trump administration has barred International Criminal Court investigators from entering the United States. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday that the U.S. will start denying visas to members of the ICC who may be investigating alleged war crimes by the U.S. military in Afghanistan. In September, national security adviser John Bolton threatened U.S. sanctions against ICC judges if they continued to investigate alleged war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. A 2016 ICC report accused the U.S. military of torturing at least 61 prisoners in Afghanistan during the ongoing war. The report…
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/19/aclu_the_us_is_acting_like

Bolsonaro Visits CIA Before Meeting Trump on First US Visit
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-19
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro showed the world who's really the boss by visiting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters in Virginia Monday prior to meeting President Donald Trump, on his first official visit to the U.S. | RELATED: | 'Bolsonaro is a Murderer' Signs Greet Brazilian President in US | "No Brazilian president had ever paid a visit to the CIA," Celso Amorim, who served as foreign minister under former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, told AP, addi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Far-Right-Homage-Bolsonaro-Visits-CIA-Before-Meeting-Trump-on-First-US-Visit–20190318-0027.html

Among Questions Raised by Pompeo's Faith-Based Only Press Call: 'How Many Muslim Reporters Invited?'
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-03-19
A secretive State Department briefing for faith-based reporters is raising questions among reporters about access and secrecy."Usually we see a transcript or at least know who was invited. Why not this time?" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/pompeo.press_.christian.jpg…
commondreams.org/news/2019/03/19/among-questions-raised-pompeos-faith-based-only-press-call-how-many-muslim-reporters?cd-origin=rss

ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Immigration Detention Ruling
commondreams | commondreams.org | 2019-03-19
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/03/19/aclu-comment-supreme-court-immigration-detention-ruling?cd-origin=rss

Mueller had search warrant for Michael Cohen's emails a year before FBI office raid
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-19
Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained search warrants to read former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's emails nearly a year before his office was raided by the FBI, newly unsealed court documents have revealed. | …
rt.com/usa/454208-mueller-search-warrant-cohen/

Venezuela Tops CIA's Agenda for Brazil's President
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-03-19
On his first visit to the U.S., President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro eagerly receives his instructions from the CIA and Trump's foreign policy team. Alex Main of CEPR analyzes the visit…
therealnews.com/stories/venezuela-tops-cias-agenda-for-brazils-president

NSA's Domestic Spying Program Needs to End–Permanently
Sarah St.Vincent | progressive.org | 2019-03-18
The U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly mothballed a large domestic spying program, but discontinuation of is not necessarily permanent. Now's a good time to look at the program's potential for abuse.
progressive.org/op-eds/nsa-domestic-spying-must-end-st.vincent-190318/

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Another Whistleblower in Solitary Confinement
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-18
Marty Gottesfeld is a reminder of the Justice Department's determination to silence truthtellers, writes John Kiriakou. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News Last year I wrote about a whistleblower from New England who took direct action to save a child's… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/18/another-whistleblower-in-solitary-confinement/

Kept Secret for 17 Years: Intel Memo Warned Bush's Iraq Invasion to Create "Perfect Storm"
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-18
A newly declassified US intelligence memo has been unearthed this week and featured in a bombshell Wall Street Journal report. It proves that the year prior to the Bush administration's 2003 invasion of Iraq the White House was expressly warned …
globalresearch.ca/intel-memo-warned-bushs-iraq-invasion-create-perfect-storm/5671850

Can Prosecutors Dismiss Jurors for Agreeing With the O.J. Simpson Verdict?
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-18
California's highest court ruled that the O.J. verdict question was "race neutral." The Supreme Court now has a chance to weigh in. | Gov. Gavin Newsom's moratorium on executions in California has highlighted the pernicious role race has played in who gets the death penalty in that state. In a case now awaiting review, the U.S. Supreme Court will have an opportunity to examine whether discriminatory tactics in jury selection in a California capital case can stand. | It has long been settled that prosecutors may not dismiss cit…
aclu.org/blog/capital-punishment/racial-disparities-and-death-penalty/can-prosecutors-dismiss-jurors-agreeing

'One of the World's Most Respected Intelligence Agencies': Bolsonaro's Bring-Your-Son-to-the-CIA Day
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-03-18
Nearly 55 years after the CIA backed a coup d'√©tat that overthrew Brazil's democratically-elected government, the nation's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro raised eyebrows on Monday with an unusual and unannounced trip to the U.S. spy agency's headquarters in Virginia. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/jb_gettyimages-1054594570.png…
commondreams.org/news/2019/03/18/one-worlds-most-respected-intelligence-agencies-bolsonaros-bring-your-son-cia-day?cd-origin=rss

Israeli Court Bans Jewish Power Party's Ben-Ari From Contesting
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-18
Israel's top court disqualified Sunday a far-right Jewish politician from next month's national election and approved the candidacy of a disputed Arab party, overturning decisions by the election board from March 6, a court statement said. | OPINION: | Why The Outrage? 'Jewish Power' Party Is New Norm in Israeli Politics | The Supreme Court rulings were widely expected and unlikely to shake Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to craft a rightist alliance that mig…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israeli-Court-Bans-Jewish-Power-Partys-Ben-Ari-From-Contesting-20190318-0017.html

Is Ilhan Omar Wrong…About Anything?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-15
It has been clear for some time that Ilhan Omar owes no one any apologies for her remarks on AIPAC and those who tow its line; quite to the contrary, apologies are owed her. Developments over the past several weeks underscore how important it is to drive that point home. Before the 2008 publication of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, the subject was, for all practical purposes, taboo. Everything had to be kept hush hush, just as it did with the NSA (no such agency), the massive signals intelligence operation at Fort Meade. Everybody who cared knew that it was there and…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/15/is-ilhan-omar-wrong-about-anything/

Misguided Spying and the New Zealand Massacre
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-15
While intelligence agencies were looking in all the wrong places, a conspicuous target slipped through the cracks, writes Suzie Dawson. By Suzie Dawson Special to Consortium News Now that the bodies of 49 innocent human beings are lying in a… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/15/misguided-spying-and-the-new-zealand-massacre/

Watch the 20th Vigil for Assange
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-15
With Chelsea Manning still in jail for refusing to testify about Julian Assange, who remains arbitrarily detained in London, the 20th webcast vigil for Assange took place on Friday. Among the guests were Australian broadcaster Mary Kostakidis, James Cogan of the… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/15/watch-the-20th-vigil-for-assange-here-live-at-4-pm-est/

Chelsea Manning jailed again and not a squeak from the Democrats
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-14
Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier who blew the whistle on US war crimes, and spent four years in an army stockade from 2013 as a result, is back in prison again. | This time it is because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks that seeks to bring its founder Julian Assange from his refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to the US to put him on trial and send him to prison. | In 2010, Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of documents about the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She first tried to get mainstream media to publish them, to no avail, before turning to Wikileaks, which did p…
greenleft.org.au/content/chelsea-manning-jailed-again-and-not-squeak-democrats

WestConnex ground slippage another headache for Berejiklian
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-14
Satellite imaging analysis released for the first time on March 13 shows much greater ground settlement and potential property damage from WestConnex tunnelling than predicted by the NSW Coalition government and the environmental impacts statements for the project. | The data from tech start-up Otus Intelligence Group shows tunnelling for the controversial toll road has damaged homes and land up to 300 metres away from construction sites. Previously the government claimed the zone of influence was only 50 metres. | Of particular concern is the land beneath the gas tanks at Sydney Airport's international terminal,…
greenleft.org.au/content/westconnex-ground-slippage-another-headache-berejiklian

SPLC joins civil rights groups in friend-of-the-court brief urging Supreme Court to uphold fair, non-partisan redistricting principles
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-03-07
The U.S. Supreme Court this month will hear oral arguments in two cases that will test the court's readiness to tackle the issue of partisan gerrymandering.
splcenter.org/news/2019/03/07/splc-joins-civil-rights-groups-friend-court-brief-urging-supreme-court-uphold-fair-non