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‘Muslim Ban’: Two Years on, Trump’s Order Still Destroying Lives
By Ali Harb and Dania Akkad
Two years after President Donald Trump signed an executive order severely restricting travel from several Muslim-majority countries, the effects of the executive order that came to be known as the Muslim ban, are still happening. Read more...

Trump Floated “Military Option” in Venezuela with Sen. Graham
By Zero Hedge
Military option on the table — that’s what Axios reporter Jonathan Swan was told when discussing the Venezuela crisis with Sen. Lindsey Graham. Read more...

US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart
By Caleb Maupin

In reality, millions of Venezuelans have seen their living conditions vastly improved through the Bolivarian process. The problems plaguing the Venezuelan economy are not due to some inherent fault in socialism, but to artificially low oil prices and sabotage by forces hostile to the revolution. Read more...

Israeli General Mounts Challenge to Netanyahu by Flaunting Gaza Carnage
By Jonathan Cook
With April’s elections looming, Benjamin Netanyahu has good reason to fear Benny Gantz, his former army chief. Gantz has launched a new party, named Israeli Resilience, just as the net of corruption indictments is closing around the prime minister. Read more...

The Dirty Hand of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela
By Eva Golinger
Anti-government protests in Venezuela that seek regime change have been led by several individuals and organizations with close ties to the US government. Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado– two of the public leaders behind the violent protests that started in February – have long histories as collaborators, grantees and agents of Washington. Read more...

The Empire’s “Left Intellectuals” Call for Regime Change. The Role of “Progressives” and the Antiwar Movement
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The leader of the National Assembly Juan Guaido is a US proxy (instrument of a foreign government) who will be “negotiating” on behalf of Washington. Read more...

Video: Israel, “Licensed to Kill”
By Manlio Dinucci
Nobody questions the “right” of Israel to attack a sovereign state in order to impose the government it ought to have, after eight years during which the USA, NATO and the Gulf monarchies tried to demolish it with Israël, as they did in 2011 with the State of Libya. Read more...