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" How can we keep giving more money to the Pentagon than it needs when 40 million live in poverty, 34 million have no health insurance, and 140 million can't afford basic needs without going into debt? " House Democratic leaders canceled a vote on the two-year spending measure late Tuesday afternoon amid progressive backlash over the Pentagon budget. "Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus cheered the outcome, saying they had forced leadership to listen to their demands," the Washington Post reported. Full report: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/09/progressive-democrats-threaten-tank-733-billion-crazy-pentagon-spending-if-social

In the densely populated area of Sa’wan northeast of Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a, a clouded sky framed the picturesque district as students, including Maha, listened to an announcement that, because of the fear of cholera spreading, their school would no longer be providing students with lunch. With the noon hour approaching, the picturesque sky would soon turn blood red as a Saudi aircraft bombarded the area with a barrage of airstrikes. A few minutes later, a deafening explosion echoed throughout Sa’wan and, when the thick black smoke finally began to dissipate, chaos, moans and screams filled the grounds outside of the school. “Do not worry, you will be fine,” a paramedic assured the first casualty he stumbled upon. Her name was Maha Melhah Jar Allah, a fifth-grade girl who took her last breath as she was being transferred into an ambulance. Maha was one of at least 14 schoolchildren who were killed, along with at least 104 injured, when Saudi airstrik

After the New York Times was slammed for obscuring comedian Joanna Hausmann’s family ties to the Guaido shadow regime, her coup-plotting father appeared online to defend her with a stream of insults. by Anya Parampil When the New York Times approached me seeking permission to use video I recorded of the Washington DC “Hands Off Venezuela” protest on March 16, I hoped that somebody at the paper was seeking to atone for the Gray Lady’s demonstrably one-sided coverage of the US coup attempt against the internationally recognized Maduro government. Maybe, just maybe, the editors had had a rare bout of self-reflection and decided to produce something that gave voice to the many Americans who rejected the Trump administration’s brazen regime change operation against Venezuela. But on April 1, I woke up to learn that my footage had been used to demonize the protesters as useful idiots by a YouTube comedian born to one of the family dynasties of Venezuela’s

Το Ανώτατο Συμβούλιο Εθνικής Ασφάλειας του Ιράν χαρακτήρισε χθες επίσημα τις δυνάμεις των ΗΠΑ στη Μέση Ανατολή (γνωστές και ως U.S. Central Command – Κεντρική Διοίκηση) ως «τρομοκρατική οργάνωση». Η κίνηση αυτή έρχεται ως απάντηση στην ένταξη από τις ΗΠΑ του Σώματος Επαναστατικής Φρουράς του Ιράν στις ξένες τρομοκρατικές οργανώσεις. Καταδικάζοντας την απόφαση των ΗΠΑ, το Ανώτατο Συμβούλιο Εθνικής Ασφάλειας του Ιράν σχολίασε: « Η Ισλαμική Δημοκρατία του Ιράν βλέπει αυτή την αβάσιμη κίνηση σαν μείζονα απειλή για την τοπική και διεθνή ειρήνη και ασφάλεια. Είναι εξώφθαλμη παραβίαση των κανόνων του Διεθνούς Δικαίου και του Καταστατικού Χάρτη των Ηνωμένων Εθνών. » Σχολίασε επίσης ότι οι αμερικανικές δυνάμεις της Κεντρικής Διοίκησης ήταν επιφορτισμένες με την εφαρμογή των τρομοκρατικών πολιτικών των ΗΠΑ εναντίον χωρών της Μέσης Ανατολής, με αποτέλεσμα να τίθεται σε κίνδυνο η ζωή των Ιρανών και όχι μόνο. Συγκεκριμένα, αναφέρθηκε στο παράδειγμα της Υεμένης, όπο

US sanctions against Venezuela are like “going into microsurgery with a kitchen knife” and are holding an entire population hostage, the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures told The Grayzone. by Michael Selby-Green Part 1 US-led sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) are “ playing with fire, ” causing blanket starvation, and harming people with no stake in the leadership struggle, warned the United Nation’s special rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures. “ I have reviewed sanctions across the world. Very few of them have really been a positive, helpful factor. It’s like going into microsurgery using a kitchen knife. It’s a very blunt tool to achieve the proclaimed objective, ” said ambassador Idriss Jazairy in an interview with The Grayzone . “ They usually contribute, and this is the case now in Venezuela, in stimulating more suffering for innocent people that have no axe t

While Venezuela’s government and the Chavista movement proclaimed victory over the worst blackouts to plague the country, Washington’s coup masters have promised more darkness until their goals are complete. by Misión Verdad Part 4 - Prophecies of doom from Washington’s coup masters Just hours before the collapse of the Venezuelan electric system, the American lawmaker at the forefront of the campaign of destabilization issued a doomsday prophesy for the country. At midday, March 7, during a hearing in the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Rubio warned that Venezuela was “ going to enter a period of suffering that no nation has confronted in modern history. ” He explicitly called for the US to stir “ widespread unrest, ” declaring that it “ needs to happen ” in order to achieve regime change. The blackout hit exactly five hours later. Even before Minister of Communication Jorge Rodríguez was able to inform the media about the scope of the attack on the ele

During his visit with US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, Lebanese President Michael Aoun reportedly received a US-Israeli document detailing plans for creating a civil war in Lebanon with covert false flag operations and possible Israeli invasion. Although the source of the document is Israeli and created in partnership with Washington, no one knows who presented it to Aoun. The Lebanese TV station, Al-Jadeed, initially reported the document on Lebanese TV and a video on its website. Geopolitics Alert translated the report for this article. The document details American plans to splinter the Lebanese Internal Security Forces, a domestic institution separate from the Lebanese Army. The plans involve Washington investing 200 million dollars into the Internal Security Forces (ISF) under the guise of keeping the peace but with the covert goal of creating sectarian conflict against Hezbollah with 2.5 million specifically dedicated to this purpose. The doc

In response to Washington’s decision to put Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on the terrorist list, the Iranian Supreme Security Council declared the US a “terrorist government” while calling the US CENTCOM a terrorist group as well. Following what it called an “unlawful and unreasonable action” of the US, Tehran officially declared the US “a terrorist government and the US Central Command known as CENTCOM as well as all its affiliates a terrorist group,” a statement of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme National Security Council headed by President Hassan Rouhani said. The statement blamed CENTCOM for harming Iran’s national security as well as ruining the lives of “innocent Iranian and non-Iranian individuals” to promote the US' “aggressive policies” in Western Asia. It also specifically mentioned that the US is “involved” in the killing of people in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition wages a brutal military campaign against the Shia Houthi rebels. Washington h

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While Venezuela’s government and the Chavista movement proclaimed victory over the worst blackouts to plague the country, Washington’s coup masters have promised more darkness until their goals are complete. by Misión Verdad Part 3 - The attack on the electrical power grid and the case for sabotage Around 5pm on Thursday, March 7, there was a plunge in the essential electricity supply systems in more than 80% of the national territory. The blackout was immediate and comprehensive. Luis Motta Dominguez, the Minister of Electric Power, informed the government that the event was an act of sabotage to the main hydroelectric plant in the Guri Dam, Bolivar State, Venezuela. President Maduro, during his first appearance before the country, reported that the attack on the national electric system occurred in three stages. The first stage, according to Dominguez, was the hacking the main computer and control systems. These systems would have been electronically assaulted,