Free Advice for Democrats
Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2019-04-25
Now that the redacted Mueller report lays out what appears to be evidence of a president obstructing justice, it's up to Congress.
progressive.org/dispatches/free-advice-for-democrats-fiore-190425/

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on the Arrest of Julian Assange. Assault on First Amendment
Daniel Ellsberg | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-25
As Julian Assange awaits his fate, socked away in maximum security lockdown in Great Britain, his supporters and friends–many of whom believe he is one of the most significant publishers of our time–are vigiling, writing, and speaking out in support …
globalresearch.ca/daniel-ellsberg-speaks-arrest-julian-assange/5675618

Mueller Report: A Blueprint for Impeachment of Donald Trump?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-25
There's plenty about Trump to criticize, indisputable just cause to impeach him — for the right reasons, not the wrong ones, for high crimes of war and against humanity, for numerous other offenses harmful to the general welfare, for what …
globalresearch.ca/mueller-report-blueprint-impeachment/5675537

Julian Assange: Prisoner of Conscience
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-25
On April 11, Assange was illegally arrested, forcibly dragged from Ecuador's London embassy where he was given asylum by former President Rafael Correa in August 2012. | He's held under draconian solitary confinement conditions at London's high-security Belmarsh prison, Britain's Gitmo …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-prisoner-conscience/5675541

Here's a Handy Impeachment Refresher for Donald Trump
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-04-25
Here's a Handy Impeachment Refresher for Donald Trump…
thenation.com/article/impeachmenti-donald-trump-mueller-report/

Special Counsel Mueller: Disingenuous and Dishonest
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-04-25
Larry C. Johnson sees real meat on the bone for Barr's upcoming investigation of spying by law enforcement and intelligence on the Trump campaign. And Trump has tweeted about it. On Wednesday Donald Trump tweeted:…
consortiumnews.com/2019/04/24/special-counsel-mueller-disingenuous-and-dishonest/

Trump Plunges the US Deeper Into Forgotten Wars
Jesse Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-25
While Washington is consumed with reactions to the Mueller Report and the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump, America is descending deeper into largely forgotten wars. In the last month, the president has decided to sustain our involvement in the most unconscionable humanitarian crisis in the world in Yemen, and fueled even more violence in the civil…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/25/trump-plunges-the-us-deeper-into-forgotten-wars/

Leaked Report: Western Arms Are Essential to Saudi Arabia's War in Yemen
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-04-25
A French intelligence report reveals that Saudi Arabia and UAE depend on Western support for their war in Yemen. Just Foreign Policy co-director Hassan El-Tayyab speaks about the report and the need to override Trump's veto of the Yemen War Powers resolution…
therealnews.com/stories/leaked-report-western-arms-are-essential-to-saudi-arabias-war-in-yemen

A Dangerous global trend (part two)
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-04-25
The Belgian intelligence service (VSSE) had earlier warned that members of a far-right racist group, mainly based in Austria and Belgium, were "actively arming themselves." According to the VSSE, the far-right in Western Europe began to "call on their members to learn to shoot and acquire weapons both legally and illegally." This information, alongside a …
uwidata.com/3213-a-dangerous-global-trend-part-two/

NSA wants to drop mass surveillance program revealed by Snowden — report
RT | rt.com | 2019-04-25
The National Security Agency (NSA) has reportedly asked the White House to drop its phone surveillance program that gathers information on millions of Americans' calls and texts, revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013. | …
rt.com/usa/457563-nsa-stop-surveillance-program-snowden/

Trump's Attacks on Census Go Well Beyond Citizenship Question
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-04-25
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments as to whether or not the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the decennial census. The malicious intent of this question ought to be glaringly apparent. When a nativist administration — which has from the get-go hammered at the rights of immigrants, especially those who are poor and of color, and which has unleashed federal agencies to do their worst against vast numbers of people — asks such a question, it do…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-attacks-on-census-go-well-beyond-citizenship-question/

Joe Biden's Legislative History Under Scrutiny as He Enters 2020 Race
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-04-25
Former Vice President Joe Biden has entered the 2020 race for the White House, becoming the 20th Democrat to seek the nomination in the largest and most diverse field of Democratic candidates ever to run for president. Biden will face scrutiny for his long and checkered record in the coming weeks, including his 1994 crime bill, that helped fuel mass incarceration with financial incentives to keep people behind bars, and his handling of Anita Hill's sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991. Biden is also known for close ties to the financial industry and voting…
truthout.org/video/joe-bidens-legislative-history-under-scrutiny-as-he-enters-2020-race/

Protest in London's Parliament Square demands release of Julian Assange
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-25
The lively demonstration organised by the Julian Assange Defence Campaign was supported by the Socialist Equality Party and World Socialist Web Site.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/25/assa-a25.html

Buyer Beware: Hovercraft Ruling Deals a Major Blow to Land Conservation in Alaska
Dana Johnson | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-25
In a major blow to conservation efforts in Alaska, including efforts to protect over 56 million acres of Wilderness in the state, the U.S. Supreme Court held that John Sturgeon, a moose hunter, can "rev up his hovercraft in search of moose" on the Nation River–a river that flows through the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/25/buyer-beware-hovercraft-ruling-deals-a-major-blow-to-land-conservation-in-alaska/

Unequal Justice: As the Next Census Approaches, Will the Supreme Court Side with Trump in his War on Immigrants?
Bill Blum | progressive.org | 2019-04-25
The idea for reinstating the citizenship question came from discussions including White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, both of whom have long histories as proponents of anti-immigrant policies.
progressive.org/dispatches/unequal-justice-census-supreme-court-voting-blum-190425/

The Australian government must act to free Julian Assange
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-25
Assange's brutal arrest and the attempts to extradite him to the US are an attack on the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/25/parr-a25.html

From Crime Bill to Iraq War Vote, Biden's Legislative History Under Scrutiny as He Enters Race
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-04-25
Former Vice President Joe Biden has entered the 2020 race for the White House, becoming the 20th Democrat to seek the nomination in the largest and most diverse field of Democratic candidates ever to run for president. Biden will face scrutiny for his long and checkered record in the coming weeks, including his 1994 crime bill, that helped fuel mass incarceration with financial incentives to keep people behind bars, and his handling of Anita Hill's sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991. Biden is also known for close ties to the financial industry and voting to…
www.democracynow.org/2019/4/25/from_crime_bill_to_iraq_war

Workshop "Wikileaks, Whistleblowers and the Right to a Free Press"
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-04-25
2969 Mission St., near 26th St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/25/18822958.php

'Glaring inaccuracies': Georgian businessman claims he was misquoted in Mueller report
RT | rt.com | 2019-04-25
A Georgian businessman requested a correction to a footnote in special counsel Robert Mueller's final report, claiming his text to Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen about 'compromising tapes' was altered in a misleading way. | …
rt.com/usa/457478-mueller-report-georgian-businessman-tapes/

Koreans say no to Mike Pompeo
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2019-04-24
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has told the U.S. government there will be no more summit meetings this year if Mike Pompeo, Trump's Secretary of State, is part of them. The DPRK has also reaffirmed its policy of self-reliance and independence in building a strong socialist society. DPRK leader . . . | Continue reading Koreans say no to Mike Pompeo at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/04/23/koreans-say-no-to-mike-pompeo/

Former CIA director makes an admission that perfectly exposes Washington's international hypocrisy
Bryan Wall | thecanary.co | 2019-04-24
Former CIA director Mike Pompeo has publicly admitted to the illegal actions carried out by the organisation on Washington's behalf. His comments perfectly underline … | Read more Former CIA director makes an admission that perfectly exposes Washington's international hypocrisy | By Bryan Wall…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/04/24/former-cia-director-makes-an-admission-that-perfectly-exposes-washingtons-international-hypocrisy/

An Indictment in All But Name
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-04-24
The report dispassionately lays out the facts, which are an indictment in all but name. | Special Counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report, released to the public in a redacted version on April 18, lays out in meticulous detail both a blatantly illegal effort by Russia to throw the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump and repeated efforts by President Trump to end, limit, or impede Mueller's investigation of Russian interference. Trump's efforts included firing or attempting to fire those overseeing the investigation, directing subordinates to lie on his behalf, cajoling witnesses not to cooperate, and…
aclu.org/blog/executive-branch/indictment-all-name

Independent and establishment journalists at odds over the Mueller Report's significance
Bryan Wall | thecanary.co | 2019-04-24
With the publication by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) of the 'Mueller Report', the controversy around Donald Trump has not eased. Robert Mueller, … | Read more Independent and establishment journalists at odds over the Mueller Report's significance | By Bryan Wall…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/04/24/independent-and-establishment-journalists-at-odds-over-the-mueller-reports-significance/

Disdain and Dignity: An Old (Anti-Imperialist) Story
Susan Babbitt | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-24
One good comes from Assange's arrest, as many have noted: Wikileaks revelations are in the news. We hear the sneering at "dead bastards". We hear the disdain.There are truths which, if understood intellectually, are not understood fully. Imperialism is one. We know it intellectually without knowing it. In the Wikileaks video (2010), we feel it.
counterpunch.org/2019/04/24/disdain-and-dignity-an-old-anti-imperialist-story/

'Pod Save The World' And Their Awful Discussion Of Case Against Julian Assange
Shadowproof | shadowproof.com | 2019-04-24
President Donald Trump's Justice Department will need the rhetorical support of liberal Democrats to succeed in prosecuting WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange. Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, and Tommy Vietor, former national security spokesperson and special assistant to the president, worked in President Barack Obama's administration.
shadowproof.com/2019/04/24/former-obama-official-ben-rhodes-assange-justify-trump-doj-prosecution/

The Enlightenment, the American Revolution and the ban on cruel and unusual punishment
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-24
Recent US Supreme Court rulings in death penalty cases represent a vast, anti-democratic cultural, legal and political retrogression.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/24/cour-a24.html

'We lied, we cheated, we stole': Pompeo offers honest, if disturbing admission about CIA activity
RT | rt.com | 2019-04-24
In a rare moment of honesty, Mike Pompeo admitted to an audience that the CIA trains employees to "lie, cheat and steal." While he seemed to find the whole thing funny, not everyone is amused, as RT found out. | …
rt.com/news/457452-pompeo-cia-moment-honest-interviews/

Trampling on Constitution, Trump promises Supreme Court fight over impeachment
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2019-04-24
President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that he will fight any congressional attempt to impeach him and will go to the Supreme Court to take away the constitutional authority of the House of Representatives to do so. The Constitution, as it has been read since the nation's founding, gives Congress total authority over the entire impeachment …
peoplesworld.org/article/trampling-on-constitution-trump-promises-supreme-court-fight-over-impeachment/

CIA Democrats enter the race: Seth Moulton announces bid for presidential nomination
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-24
The congressman is virtually unknown to voters, but he is a leading figure among the CIA Democrats.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/24/moul-a24.html

Hillary, revitalized by Mueller's 'obstruction' theories, hypes 'roadmap' to impeachment
RT | rt.com | 2019-04-24
Hillary Clinton has blamed Justice Department rules for the Mueller report's failure to indict President Donald Trump, declaring the "roadmap" to an obstruction charge is there in plain sight, should Congress choose to pursue it. | …
rt.com/usa/457372-hillary-trump-indictment-congress-obstruction/

Enough is enough? Trump opposes aides testifying to Congress in post-Mueller probes
RT | rt.com | 2019-04-24
US President Donald Trump says he doesn't want his aides testifying before Democrat-led congressional committees about the contents of the Mueller report, as the hunt for collusion morphs into a hunt for obstruction. | …
rt.com/usa/457376-trump-aides-democrats-obstruction-probes/

Supreme Court Appears Set to OK Census Citizenship Question Despite Risk of Undercounting Millions
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-04-24
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case challenging the Trump administration's plans to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Voting rights activists fear that adding the question will deter immigrants from participating in the census and lead to a vast undercount in states with large immigrant communities. Census officials have estimated 6.5 million people will not respond to the census if the citizenship question is added. This undercount could affect everything from the redrawing of congressional maps to the allocation of federal funding. The case centers on whether Commerce Secre…
www.democracynow.org/2019/4/24/a_threat_to_democracy_justices_appear

Julian Assange was denied access to lawyers, visitors in Britain's Belmarsh prison
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-24
The reported denial of the WikiLeaks founder's right to consult his legal counsel, for over a week, casts grave doubt that he will be afforded due process.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/24/assa-a24.html

QAnon Conspiracy Increasingly Popular with Antigovernment Extremists
Brendan Joel Kelley and Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-04-23
Antigovernment extremists, including some who've committed violent acts, are increasingly subscribing to and propagating the QAnon conspiracy theory, which asserts that pro-Trump forces will soon take down the so-called deep state.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/04/23/qanon-conspiracy-increasingly-popular-antigovernment-extremists

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on the Arrest of Julian Assange
Dennis J. Bernstein | progressive.org | 2019-04-23
"Without whistleblowers we would not have a democracy. And there have to be people to distribute work and publish it."
progressive.org/dispatches/daniel-ellsberg-on-arrest-of-julian-assange-bernstein-190423/

New CN Series: The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 1–The Video that Put Assange in US Crosshairs
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-04-23
"Collateral Murder" created a media sensation in 2010 and led to Chelsea Manning's imprisonment and to a DOJ investigation of Julian Assange, reports Elizabeth Vos. But the war crimes the video exposed got no one else in trouble. Consortium News today begins… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/04/23/new-cn-series-the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-1-the-video-that-put-assange-in-u-s-crosshairs/

FBI agent explains how Julian Assange may escape prosecution. And Chelsea Manning is key
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2019-04-23
An FBI agent has made it clear that, regarding charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, further testimony from whistleblower Chelsea Manning will be critical … | Read more FBI agent explains how Julian Assange may escape prosecution. And Chelsea Manning is key. | By Tom Coburg…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/04/23/fbi-agent-explains-how-julian-assange-may-escape-prosecution-and-chelsea-manning-is-key/

No, Mueller didn't 'prove' Russian hacking in Florida — or anywhere else
RT | rt.com | 2019-04-23
Mainstream media outlets desperate to maintain the narrative of 'Russian hacking' in the 2016 US presidential election have resorted to selectively quoting the Mueller Report and uncritically reporting indictments as evidence. | …
rt.com/usa/457361-mueller-russian-hacking-florida/

From Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, a Talk on Assange
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-04-22
Consortium News Editor Joe Lauria on Sunday delivered this talk about the Assange case to a group of activists who are living inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington to stop the illegitimate government of Venezuela from taking it over. Video… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/from-venezuelan-embassy-in-washington-a-talk-on-assange/

Debunking the 'Assange is A Russian Agent' Smear
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-04-22
The narrative that Assange worked for or knowingly conspired with the Russian government is a hallucination of the demented Russia hysteria which has infected all corners of mainstream political discourse, says Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com Not even the… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/04/22/debunking-the-assange-is-a-russian-agent-smear/

Supreme Court Takes Cases of People Fired for Being LGBTQ
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-04-22
The court will consider whether to take anti-discrimination protections away from LGBTQ people. | Can a business fire someone because they're LGBTQ? The Supreme Court will soon tell us. | After a funeral home outside Detroit fired Aimee Stephens because she is transgender, Aimee won a federal appeals court ruling that the firing violated the federal law barring sex discrimination in the workplace. After Don Zarda was fired from his job as a skydiving instr…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/lgbt-nondiscrimination-protections/supreme-court-takes-cases-people-fired-being

Mueller and a Dangerous Moment in Human History — Jay and Curry
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-04-21
The threat of nuclear war; the climate crisis; Trump's regime change plans for Iran and Venezuela; and confrontation with China are far more significant threats than election meddling — former Pres. Clinton advisor Bill Curry and Paul Jay join host Jacqueline Luqman…
therealnews.com/stories/mueller-and-a-dangerous-moment-in-human-history-jay-and-curry

The Best Hot Take on the Mueller Report Is From 1796
Jon Schwarz | theintercept.com | 2019-04-20
Washington called all of this in his prescient Farewell Address as he left office. As he feared, the spirit of party has overwhelmed the U.S. political system.
theintercept.com/2019/04/20/mueller-report-george-washington-farewell-address/

On WikiLeaks Email Releases, Mueller Team Ignored Findings Of Former US Intelligence Officials
Kevin Gosztola | shadowproof.com | 2019-04-19
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on an investigation into alleged Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election does not confirm, without a doubt, that Russian intelligence agents or individuals tied to Russian intelligence agencies passed on emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign to WikiLeaks. | Mueller's team highlighted statements from WikiLeaks on Twitter about former Democratic National Committee (DNC) staff member Seth Rich, which seemed to relate to the alleged source of emails and documents the organization published. Yet, more explicit claims from WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Ass…
shadowproof.com/2019/04/19/on-wikileaks-email-releases-mueller-team-ignored-findings-of-former-us-intelligence-officials/

The Mueller Report Shows How Bad Trump Is. Now What?
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2019-04-19
To get too caught up in Russian interference and the unfairness of the American electoral system is to overlook Trump's power, and to risk not learning the lessons of his popularity.
progressive.org/dispatches/mueller-report-conniff-190419/

What we know so far from the Mueller Report
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-04-19
On Thursday, Special Attorney Robert Mueller's report on alleged "Russian interference" in the 2016 US elections was finally published, albeit partially censored. The report contains information on an investigation into the Donald Trump campaign's alleged connection with Russian authorities, as well as the possible methods of Russian influence in the elections. The document was submitted …
uwidata.com/3154-what-we-know-so-far-from-the-mueller-report/

The Mueller Report: Glenn Greenwald vs. David Cay Johnston on Trump-Russia Ties, Obstruction & More
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-04-19
The Justice Department has released a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia and President Trump's attempts to impede the special counsel's investigation. The report states the campaign "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts," but Mueller concluded, "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." Mueller also outlined…
www.democracynow.org/2019/4/19/the_mueller_report_glenn_greenwald_vs

Will the Mueller Report Help Defeat Trump in 2020? (Pt 2/2)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-04-19
Trump and his base will remain unaffected by the Mueller Report, and it will mainly serve as a "political football" between Republicans and Democrats, say Gerald Horne and Kamau Franklin, but it can still be used against Trump in 2020…
therealnews.com/stories/will-the-mueller-report-help-defeat-trump-in-2020-pt-2-2

William Barr Misled Everyone About the Mueller Report. Now Democrats Are Calling for His Resignation
James Risen | theintercept.com | 2019-04-19
Instead of an honest reading of the Mueller report, Trump's attorney general distorted it. Now, Democrats are calling for his resignation.
theintercept.com/2019/04/19/william-barr-mueller-report/

What the Mueller Report Didn't Say About Felix Sater and the Trump Tower in Moscow
Johnny Dwyer | theintercept.com | 2019-04-19
The special counsel's report notes Sater's role in the Moscow project but oddly fails to mention his background as a felon and informant.
theintercept.com/2019/04/19/felix-sater-mueller-report/