Why #Venezuela Has Not Been #Defeated

The Fake Charge Against Julian Assange Proves that the US Government Has No Integrity
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Let’s be sure that we understand that Assange is not charged with anything related to Russia or Russiagate or even with breaking a law. Assange is charged with being in a conspiracy with Manning “to commit computer intrusion.” Read more...

Trump Warns ICC Against Followup on American and Israeli War Crimes
By IMEMC
US President Donald Trump has warned the International Criminal Court (ICC) of “swift and vigorous response” if the Hague-based tribunal investigates Americans and Israelis for war crimes. Read more...

The Prosecution of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalists Everywhere

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The arrest of Julian Assange not only puts the free press in the United States at risk, it puts any reporters who expose US crimes anywhere in the world at risk. Read more...

What is Fascism? Can the “Fascist Germ” Rise to Epidemic Levels in the USA Today?
By Prof. Anthony A. Gabb
To consider the possibility of the rise of fascism in the United State of America (USA) today, this essay examines the success of fascism in Italy and Germany, where hard times gave rise to labor militancy that morphed into an existential communist threat. But the absence of a revolutionary workers’ party created an opening for reformists and corporate interests to disrupt workers from taking power. Read more...

Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. “It’s Everywhere”
By F. William Engdahl
As new studies continue to point to a direct link between the widely-used glyphosate herbicide and various forms of cancer, the agribusiness lobby fights ferociously to ignore or discredit evidence of human and other damage. Read more...

A Marriage of Conscience: Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
By Edward Curtin
No one should have been surprised by this despicable spectacle carried out in the noonday light for all to see, for the British government has not served as America’s jailer for the past seven years for no reason. Read more...

Why Venezuela Has Not Been Defeated
By Prof. James Petras
Over the past half-decade, a small army of US analysts, politicians, academics and media pundits have been predicting the imminent fall, overthrow, defeat and replacement of the Venezuelan government. They have been wrong on all counts, in each and every attempt to foist a US client regime. Read more...