By Robert Parry on May 15, 2017
A scene from “Dr. Strangelove,” in which the bomber pilot rides a nuclear bomb to its target in the Soviet Union.
President Trump met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the White House last Wednesday. Lavrov is Vladimir Putin’s top diplomat, and the meeting was Trump’s highest-level face-to-face contact with a Russian government official since taking office. (more…)
By Jonathan Cook on May 15, 2017
Bombing of SS Patria in 1940
Jonathan Cook’s article here is important background to the ongoing concerted effort to label any support for the Palestinian struggle for self determination as being anti-Semitic. Huge sums of money are flooding onto college campuses in the U.S. to undermine the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and to pressure state legislatures to oppose it. Seventeen states have passed laws against any boycott of Israel. If there is one thing that the U.S. Congress agrees on it is its unanimous support of the Zionist state of Israel; the most loyal outpost in the Middle East for U.S. Imperialism that they have armed to the teeth with conventional and nuclear weapons. – Resumen editorial (more…)
By Rafael Cancel Miranda on May 17, 2017
Welcome, Oscar Lopez Rivera, to the streets of your Homeland. I do not welcome you to freedom because a man like you is always free, no matter where they are. And because they are free, they never strop struggling for the freedom of their people. I hope soon we can embrace each other. (more…)
By Joseph Gibson on May 17, 2017
2010 protest for Manning in San Francisco. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Chelsea Manning, the Army intelligence analyst jailed for her 2010 disclosure of classified information, is free.. Manning will left Fort Leavenworth after having been imprisoned for 7 years. She was supposed to serve 35, the longest sentence ever handed down to a whistleblower in the United States, but after an impassioned activist campaign calling for her release President Obama commuted her sentence before leaving office. (more…)
Presentation at the 5th International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases in Guantanamo Cuba
*By Bassel Ismail Salem on May 6, 2017
Bassel Ismail Salem, Photo: Bill Hackwell
The illegal and deceitful Balfour Declaration will soon be 100 years old. This imperial agreement made by the British government ceded Palestine to become a Jewish national homeland with total disregard to the will of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living there. (more…)
By Douglas Williams on May 15, 2017
It was a scene out of the darkest days of the civil rights movement. A couple of dozen white supremacists rallied around a statue of Robert E Lee, a Confederate army general, in Virginia, carrying torches and chanting: “You will not replace us.” (more…)
May 15, 2017
Yet another journalist was murdered in Mexico Monday, marking the sixth assassination of a reporter so far this year in one of the deadliest countries in the world for media workers. (more…)
May 15, 2017
Calling the situation “catastrophic,” Dominik Stillhart, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Director of Operations, told RT from Yemen that with 11,000 confirmed cases the hospitals he personally visited in the capital, (more…)