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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...

Jane McAlevey The Nation 9 May 2018 In less than three months, rank-and-file teachers and educational support staff in five states – West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona – have turned the entire country into their classroom. They haven’t just pushed for – and won – better pay and working conditions for themselves. They’ve also mounted a direct challenge to decades of bipartisan tax cuts for corporations, helping us all understand what austerity means. And by championing a raft of policy proposals to redistribute wealth away from the 1 per cent and back to the working and middle-class, they’ve shown us how austerity can be defeated. As Emily Comer , a middle-school Spanish teacher who was a leader in the strikes in West Virginia, put it, “The phase we are in now – to win a real, progressive solution to the health-insurance crisis – forces us to dream bigger. This isn’t just about our healthcare plan. It’s about rebalancing the power of work...