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John W. Whitehead The Rutherford Institute 28 May 2018 “The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out ‘stop!’ When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.” ―  Bertolt Brecht , Selected Poems There are days I wake up, and I’m not sure what country I live in anymore. There are days I wake up and want to go right back to sleep in the hopes that this surreal landscape of government-sanctioned injustice, corruption and brutality is just a really bad dream. There are days I am so battered by the never-ending wave of bad news that I have little outrage left in me: I am numb. And then I get hold of myself, shake myself ...

True Publica 30 May 2018 TruePublica Editor : I spoke to some influential Brexiteers just before the decision was made by the electorate to Brexit. The reasoning by one was not that he thought the EU was bad for Britain but that everybody in the EU thought the EU was bad and when the EU27 started to break down, Britain would be in the premier league once again – on its own to benefit from the fallout. T his may still prove right as the EU is now facing some terrible decisions and dilemma’s as a result of defying an angry electorate across the bloc, especially as 2019 will be holding the EU’s MEP elections. Italy, is just one more of quite a few member states who have spawned anti-EU political parties getting into power. More on that another time. Since the divisive referendum decision was given by a Conservative party bent on saving itself from implosion, more than thinking of Britain’s economic welfare, there’s been talk of a second EU referendu...

Ne News 28 May 2018 Over the weekend, a second round of talks took place between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, but at the same time US President Donald Trump cancelled the planned summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore. But unfortunately, this news rarely gets into the mainstream media in the West (both liberal and conservative) as we need to look at the more important news that is shaping the world: THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY. If you are sick and tired of the coverage of the British Royal Family, then you are not alone. In fact, most people were not interested in the coverage of the wedding between Prince Harry and his now wife Meghan Markle, but the coverage of this wedding was saturated in a way that we couldn't avoid it (I personally tried to avoid the wedding, and thank to a chance of nature, I missed the wedding which was a good thing), and here in Australia, people got sick of the coverage of the wedding just days before the weddin...

Mac Slavo SHTFplan.com 24 May 2018 The government has already prepared some scripts to use on the terrified public should the United States ever be attacked with a nuclear weapon. The US government prepares for all sorts of threats, but none match the pomp and circumstance they’ll display in the event of a nuclear explosion. Prepared scripts for many disaster scenarios are already written ranging from  biowarfare  and  chemical weapons  to  volcanoes  and  wildfires .  The good news is that the Cold War is over and a limited nuclear strike or a terrorist attack  can be survivable  (a direct hit notwithstanding). The bad news is that the government’s plans for survival don’t really include you anyway. Couple that with a  new arms race  which is already underway, albeit shrouded in secrecy , and one that may add small, portable nuclear weapons to the global stockpile. Lawmakers and ex...

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research 27 May 2018 In May of last year, the DPRK accused both the CIA (headed by Mike Pompeo) and the ROK’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) of “a failed plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong-un with a biochemical bomb at a military parade in Pyongyang.” Neither the CIA nor the White House responded to these accusations. While press reports acknowledged the CIA’s “long history” of political assassinations, the DPRK’s accusations were casually dismissed. According to The Guardian  (March 5, 2017) “The CIA has a long history of helping to kill leaders around the world. US intelligence agency has since 1945 succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders, but was forced to cut back after a Senate investigation in the 1970s” According to North Korea’s ministry of state security, the CIA has not abandoned its old ways. In a statement on Friday, it accused that the CIA and South ...

Monica Cruz Liberation News 23 May 2018 The U.S. government constantly vilifies Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and other governments it opposes, claiming that they are not democracies. Republicans and Democrats alike warn of “oppressive regimes” while telling us that the U.S. is a true democracy, and everyone here has a say through voting. But a closer look reveals that the deciding factor in U.S. “democracy” is not the vote at all, but the dollar bill. Policies are made and unmade not because of the number of votes they get, but because corporations spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ‘lobbying,’ and other ways of paying off law makers to pass the laws they want. Take the pharmaceutical industry. Virtually everyone takes medication at one time or another, and access to medicine can mean life or death. Many people cannot afford medication. In a recent poll, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 80 percent of people in the U.S.  believe drug c...

Ne News 18 May 2018 Ne News is proud to announce a new website will soon be launched on WordPress. Starting on 1 June 2018, posts will appear on the new website https://nenews2016.wordpress.com/ , and for the first month, posts will be published within half an hour on both sites, before this site becomes pretty much an archive with all new posts appearing exclusively on WordPress. Contact details will be the same, so email Ne News on nenews2016@gmail.com , but it may change in the future. Welcome to a new era of independent international current affairs on WordPress.

Rachel Blevins TheFreeThoughtProject.com 16 May 2018 The news that Israel killed more than 60 Palestinians on Monday alone, has sparked criticism from Americans who are frustrated with the United States’ failure to hold one of its closest allies accountable for the human rights violations it is committing—and individuals in one state will soon be labeled as “anti-Semitic” for openly voicing their opinion. South Carolina will become the  first state  to legally define criticism of Israel as “anti-Semitism” when a new measure goes into effect on July 1, targeting public schools and universities. While politicians have tried to pass the measure as a standalone law for two years, they finally succeeded temporarily by passing it as a “proviso” that was slipped into the 2018-2019 budget. According to the  text  of the measure, the definition of “anti-Semitism” will now include: a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatre...

Global Research News 15 May 2018 Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/this-brave-palestinian-was-killed-today/5640606

David William P ear Global Research 15 May 2018 If you want to know the untold history of the U.S.A., then a good place to start is with the history of US imperialism in Asia from the mid-19 th century until today. Not only will that reveal the history of the criminality of US foreign policy, but it will also reveal the true nature of U.S. capitalism, imperialism, fascism and U.S. wars of aggression: past, present and future. For centuries the U.S. has preached that it believes in democracy, freedom and self-determination, but its actions towards other countries speak louder than words. Internationally the U.S. is a predator and a bully. It subjugates small countries, corrupts them by backing right-wing dictators, and enables death squads to commit mass murder of all suspected dissidents. During the First Cold War leftists, anti-colonialists, nationalists and intellectuals were called “communists” and imprisoned, tortured and executed. Now they are called ...

Philip A. Farruggio Global Research 15 May 2018 To this writer any time I dare mention that I am a Socialist brings smirks to many faces. The stigma is so great, mostly due to the successful propaganda of this empire, that a majority of my fellow Americans, regardless of the prism of demographics, will shake their heads in disagreement.  The schools, the media and of course this Two Party/One Party con job have been indoctrinated to do the bidding of the Super Rich and its empire. Well, perhaps if my fellow citizens would at least listen to this writer and thinker’s version of a socialist society: Public funding of  all  elections, with NO private money allowed… period! Local, state and federal ownership of energy ( gas and oil and natural gas) resources, all run NON PROFIT Ditto for Big Pharma, banking, weapons manufacturing, military equipment of all types Government run Healthcare and Dental Care for All, no...

Dr. Lachlan Forrow, Tilman Ruff & Setsuko Thurlow NEJM 9 May 2018 The awarding of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) may mark a turning point in efforts to ensure that humanity survives the nuclear-weapons era. The urgency of ICAN’s work was recently highlighted when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock forward to just 2 minutes to midnight, the highest level of danger since 1953 and 5 minutes closer to midnight than when concerns about U.S. and Soviet preparations for nuclear war sparked the founding of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 1980 (see  figure ). ICAN was launched in April 2007 by IPPNW. Exactly 50 years earlier, Albert Schweitzer had appealed for a ban on atmospheric nuclear test explosions, whose radioactive fallout endangered human health worldwide. The 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty achieved that goal. Subseq...