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By Yves Engler, Globalresearch.ca. “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 pick them off one by one: the political parties, the trade
unions, the churches, the schools, the universities, the trade
associations, even the sporting clubs and the kindergartens. The North
Atlantic Treaty Organization is meant to be a declaration to the world that
this kind of conquest from within will not in the future take place amongst
us.” – March 28, 1949, Lester Pearson, External Affairs Minister,
House of Commons -more-
By Telesur English. A manifesto signed by 464 Brazilian
jurists calls for the release of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, who has been held as a political prisoner since April 7, 2018, after
being sentenced on the second instance for passive corruption and money
laundering without any evidence against him. The document is addressed to
the ministers of the Fifth Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ),
Felix Fischer, Jorge Mussi, Reynaldo Soares da Fonseca and Ribeiro Dantas.
In the text, jurists point out that Lula is a victim of injustice and
violence practiced by the state. -more-
By Amani Sawari, SawariMi. I purposely
chose the word facetious, because South Carolina’s Dept. of Correction’s Director
Bryan Stirling has absurdly decided to address serious issued in South
Carolin’a prisons with impotent legislation. The problem in South
Carolina’s prisons is NOT the fact that a few prisoners have obtained
access to cell phones. The problem is that South Carolina’s prisons, some
of the most dangerous and deadly in country, are in devastatingly horrific
conditions and prisoners have been using cell phones to expose the issues
that they are forcibly confined to. -more-
By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social
Research. Once more, punctually, Israel – with the vengeance of Zeus
– has begun to bomb Gaza. The sounds and smells of war are never absent
from Gaza, which has – for the past dozen years – been victim of an Israeli
stranglehold and of Israeli bombings. It helps Israel that the United
States is fully behind its policy of annihilation. Trump’s colonial
declaration – against UN resolution 497 (1981) – to ‘give’ the Golan
Heights to Israel has numbed Israel of any ethical concern. With full US
backing, it will seize Jerusalem and the Golan and try to do what it wants
to Palestine. -more-
By Salomeh Keyhani, Economy For All. The most
important question about Medicare for All is a simple one: If other
industrialized countries can afford to offer high-quality universal health
care to their citizens, why can’t the United States? We’ve been fooled to
believe that the USA requires a uniquely expensive, fragmented and
administratively complex system of health care coverage. But that’s just
plain wrong. In a seminal paper published in 2003, Uwe Reinhardt and Gerard
Anderson found “it’s the prices, stupid” that set the U.S. health
care system apart. It’s not that care in the United States is higher
quality. -more-
By Robert J. Burrowes, Eurasiareview.com. Despite enormous
ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the
formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues
being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types have made
insufficient progress on key issues, particularly in relation to ending
violence and war (and the threat of nuclear war), stopping the exploitation
of many peoples and halting the endless assaults on Earth’s biosphere. Of
course, in order for those of us who identify as activists to have any
prospect of success in these and other endeavors... -more-
By Dimitri Lascaris, The Real News. This is Dimitri
Lascaris reporting for The Real News Network. Media have descended on
Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria devastated the island a year and a half
ago, and many reported on its struggle to rebuild its energy grid. But
behind the scenes, some policymakers and fossil fuel industry leaders are
using the crisis to transform Puerto Rico into a hub for liquefied natural
gas–gas obtained from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the mainland
United States. -more-
By Conn Hallinan, Counterpunch. 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 (EU). In
France, some right-wing groups champion the fight against climate change,
decry exploitation of foreign workers, and growing economic inequality. -more-
By Mario Candeias & Johanna Bussemer, Rosalux.eu. Since the
beginning of the great crisis ten years ago the political landscape is been
revolved. Due to the given new authoritarianism of the ruling classes it is
not that much surprising that various protest movements and new left
parties were defeated. It is rather astonishing that time and again new
radical movements are bursting out all over the place. Meanwhile they have
a fierce competition from the radical right, having a menacing rise all
over Europe. In face of the European elections the political landscape is
very polarized. But the left is divided and quarrelling over... -more-
By M. K. Bhadrakumar, Indianpunchline.com. 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 accordance with the latter’s constitution and has legal underpinning,
which “doesn’t require any additional approval from the
(opposition-controlled) National Assembly of Venezuela.” This
followed media reports that two Russian air force planes landed
at Caracas on... -more-
By Phil Wilmot, Waging Nonviolence. An overview of
the current political situation in 55 African countries shows that many
movements are making gains in the struggle against authoritarianism. A lot
has changed since I arrived in Uganda in 2009. At that time, mass
mobilization for political goals was far more abnormal in Uganda. For those
of us in the struggle against authoritarianism, it is only natural to dwell
on the long distance we must still travel to victory. We see the goal still
ahead of us — a dictator’s removal or a war that must end — but we rarely
look behind to celebrate how far we’ve come. -more-
By Emile Nakhleh, Lobelog.com. As Vice
President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security
Advisor John Bolton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Saudi
crown prince and de facto ruler Mohammad bin Salman clamor for a war
against Iran, they seem to have conveniently forgotten the destruction and
mayhem wrought by the American invasion of Iraq 16 years ago. These war
drummers are underestimating the potential negative consequences of the war
and overestimating the Iranian people’s dislike of their theocratic regime.
They, like the advocates of the Iraqi invasion in the winter of 2002 and... -more-
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