Is #US - #Iran #War Looming?

Washington Pushes to Brink of War against Iran
By Bill Van Auken
The abrupt trip staged by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Brussels to push Washington’s hard line against Iran, combined with the deployment of still more US military assets to the Persian Gulf, point to Washington’s calculated escalation of a war crisis in the region. Read more...

Warnings of ‘Gulf of Tonkin 2.0’ as Trump Officials Blame Iran for Oil Tanker Attacks
By Jake Johnson
The military plan was reportedly crafted by Bolton, who last week used the routine deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier and bomber task force to threaten Iran with “relentless force” if it attacks U.S. forces. Bolton did not cite any evidence indicating Iran was planning such an attack. Read more...

White House Reviews US Military Plan for 120,000 Troops for Iran War

D Is For #Dictatorship Disguised as a #Democracy

D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
By John W. Whitehead
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing. Read more...

Syria Testimonies: A Mother’s Brave Testimony after Martyrdom of Her Son, Majed, 4th April 2019
By Vanessa Beeley
Majed was sitting on the street drinking coffee with his friends when the rocket landed around 20 meters away from them. He and 42 year old father of two, Yousef Habib Najjar, were hit by the shrapnel, the other friends survived uninjured. Yousef later also died from shrapnel that had entered his brain. Read more...

Named: The People Killed in Gaza and Israel this Weekend

#Lawyers #Worldwide: #Investigate #IsraeliCrimes

Electoral Dirty Tricks in Israel. Fake Social Media Promoting Likud and PM Netanyahu
By Stephen Lendman
According to Haaretz, the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post and other Israeli media, hundreds (maybe thousands) of fake social media accounts are promoting Likud propaganda, Netanyahu’s party, according to the Big Bots Project online watchdog group. Read more...

China’s President Xi Jinping in Italy: It’s the Maritime Ports!
By F. William Engdahl
To the concern of Germany, France, Holland and other EU countries, Italy’s coalition has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China to join China’s Belt Road Initiative, the so-called New Economic Silk Road. Read more...

The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s Is the Story of Our Times. The Killing of the Kennedys and Today’s New Cold War

#Trump - #Kim: Will There be a #Third #Summit?

The Trump-Kim Summit: What Really Happened in Hanoi?
By Mike Whitney
Author Michael Haas disputes this account in an article at antiwar.com. Haas says there WAS a counter-offer that expanded Washington’s demands to include other weapons systems unrelated to the nuclear file. Read more...

North Korea: Achievements in Health and Education
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
What the US wants to impose on North Korea is the so-called “Vietnam Economic Model”. What this implies is that North Korea would embrace the free market, reform its economy under IMF-World guidelines, open up to foreign investors and become a so-called “normal Asian country”. Read more...

The Trump – Kim Summit in Hanoi: Was Trump Forced to Walk?

#US #War #Agenda, #Undemocratic #Media, #WorkersRights

Is the US Planning to Wage War on Russia and China?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner
First of all, that withdrawal in terms of US forces is trivial. The United States has operated in Syria by financing and supporting tens of thousands of jihadists with the support of Saudi Arabia and up to a certain point also Turkey, although Turkey has a different agenda. Read more...

Democratic Media: For the People, By the People
By Mark Taliano
Imagine paying your taxes thinking it is for the uplift of the community and country, only to find out it is for the uplift of the billionaire class … and ISIS/al Qaeda. Read more...

Benefiting Israel Tops US Congressional Agenda
By Philip Giraldi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu famously was unaware that he was being filmed when he commented that “America is a thing you can move very easily, moved in the right direction.” Read more...

Entering a Major Regional Re-set – The Syria Outcome Will Haunt Those Who Started this War
By Alastair Crooke
The Middle East is metamorphosing. New fault-lines are emerging, yet Trump’s foreign policy ‘hawks’ still try to stage ‘old movies’ in a new ‘theatre’. Read more...