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Global Research - Sri Lanka U,S.-Saudi terror targets China and Allies
Date: April 30, 2019 at 4:51 AM
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We raise our voice to oppose the use of U.S- imposed sanctions, embargoes and blockades. These actions are collective punishment against civilian populations.

 

Sanctions are war, comparable to weapons of mass destruction. They impact whole countries, resulting in chronic shortages, economic dislocation and chaotic hyperinflation. Those who impose sanctions aim to induce artificial famines, disease, poverty, and despair among the most vulnerable. In every country, the poorest and the weakest – infants, children, the chronically ill and the elderly — suffer the worst impact of sanctions.

 

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This will not stop: Blood flowing in the streets of Honduras. U.S. & Canadian-backed government firing directly at citizens

Rights Action

April 29, 2019

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This will not stop: Blood flowing in the streets of Honduras

U.S. & Canadian-backed government firing directly at citizens

https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/blood-flowing-in-the-streets-of-honduras

 

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From “Libertad Digital” facebook page, April 29, 2019:

“Breaking news: Sharp-shooters fire against students and teachers …”

 

Live coverage, April 29, 2019

·         Gov't sharp-shooters fire directly at citizens: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=350974095542804

·         Honduran forces beating civilians in the streets: https://www.facebook.com/mario.nuilacoto/videos/3097456483601414/

·         Massive protests in Honduras, not reported on by North American media: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=455943934948272

 

April 28, 2019: Junior Javier Rivas Rivas shot ten times, body burned, left for all to fear in Honduras

 

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More information:

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U.S. and Canadian complicity and silence

The U.S. & Canadian governments maintain full military, economic, political relations with the corrupt, anti-democratic and repressive Honduran government that is "open to international business & investment", that is a "democratic ally" in illegal efforts to overthrow gov't of Venezuela.

 

In Washington and Ottawa, there is virtually no political oversight or accountability for this on-going U.S. and Canadian government complicity with Honduran repression and corruption.  In the North American media, there is almost no honest reporting about the depth of the complicity of the U.S. and Canada in all this.

 

This will not stop

As long as the U.S., Canada and the “international community” maintain full economic, military and political relations with the corrupt, repressive government in power in Honduras, this will not stop.

 

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Why Hondurans and Guatemalans Flee

The U.S. and Canadian governments, U.S. military, North American businesses and investors (hydro-electric dams, mining, African palm, tourism, cattle, fruit, etc.) maintain profitable relations with corrupt, repressive governments in Honduras and Guatemala, turning a blind eye to and benefitting from repression, environmental devastation, human rights violations, corruption and impunity.

 

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Keep sending copies of this information, and your own letters, to families, friends and networks, to politicians and media, to pension and investment funds, asking: Why our governments, companies and investment firms benefit from and turn a blind eye to poverty, repression and violence, environmental and health harms in places like Guatemala and Honduras?

 

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The Duran Quick Take: Episode 154.

 

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris take a look neocon Foreign Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, and her back channel positioning to oust Trudeau and become leader of the Liberal Party...and potentially Prime Minister of Canada.

 

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FMK Open Lecture: Alastair Crooke "The New Times"

Published on Oct 20, 2016
 
Open lecture "The New Times" by Alastair Crooke, British diplomat and the founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, was held on October 13 2016 at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, Serbia. The open lecture is organized as part of the new post-graduate program "International Relations And Diplomacy" at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade: goo.gl/Er42cH THE NEW TIMES The model - growth - on which our societies have been based since WW2, is over. The financial model no longer works either in terms of bringing prosperity (i.e. economically) - nor politically, as it presages the ruin of a generation (diminished pensions and no retirement savings). Growth 'over', means globalisation is over, too. We will be in an era of de-globalisation. Back to List-ian economics? And if growth is over, so expansion and centralisation (in its many forms) is over too (EU should take note). We will see the state resurgent. People will be poorer and vulnerable - and will look to the state for protection from the remaining economic gusts emanating from the unwinding of globalisation. Main Stream centre-left parties will have difficulty or be unable to form ruling majorities, having leaked support to nationalists, populists and more radical alternatives. Why do we find it so hard to see this? What else explains Brexit or Trump? We have taken growth so for granted, and in any case, who speaks for the casualties of neoliberalism today? It is unpalatable - maybe - but New Times are coming. www.fmk.singidunum.ac.rs

 

 

 

 

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Subject: Press Release: Plowshares Activists, Facing 25 Years, Denied Motion
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 21:31:21 +0000 (UTC)
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Anti-Nuclear Plowshares Activists Respond to Court’s Denial of Motion to Dismiss Charges

BRUNSWICK, GA, April 28 – The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 anti-nuclear activists received the decision Friday evening from a federal magistrate denying their motions to dismiss the charges, including their motion under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The seven defendants, all Catholics, had testified with expert witnesses during their November 2018 evidentiary hearings and waited fourteen weeks for the final decision. There is still no trial date set. Their statement follows.

“On April 4, 2018, we went onto the Kings Bay naval base, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world, to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to beat swords into plowshares. We were charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor which carry a maximum penalty of over 20 years in prison.

"We immediately filed motions to dismiss the charges. We argued in detail that all nuclear weapons are both immoral and illegal. The commandment Thou Shall Not Kill applies to us individually and to our government.

“On April 26, 2019, U.S. Magistrate Benjamin Cheesbro issued an 80-page report recommending our motions to dismiss be denied. We now have 30 days to appeal his decision to US District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood.

“In response to our use of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as a defense, the court found our cause is a legitimately religious one and that our faith is sincere. Magistrate Cheesbro concluded, however, that imprisoning us for up to 20 years is not a coercive response to our faith-based actions, but that even if it is, such imprisonment is the government’s least coercive response. Obviously all of us and thousands more have been praying and protesting outside of military bases. We think when the government is prepared to launch weapons which can destroy all life on earth, we must do more.

“We are already working on our appeal and look forward to appearing before Judge Wood.

“We realize the struggle to rid the world of nuclear weapons is an uphill one. We look forward to continuing to live our lives in a quest for peace and justice.

"For a copy of the decision and copies of our statements to the court and our legal motions please go to: https://www.kingsbayplowshares7.org/impact."

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FILE PHOTO: Women's March National Co-Chair Linda Sarsour.Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
 
Winnipeg Mayor Calls to Boycott Sarsour From Event. Jewish Group Wants Her There

 

Both the mayor and the the local Jewish federation of the Canadian town oppose Linda Sarsour, who backs BDS, while Independent Jewish Voices-Winnipeg defended her invitation

The mayor of Winnipeg, Canada has called on a local not-for-profit to disinvite Women’s March co-leader Linda Sarsour from a panel event scheduled for Friday over the allegations of anti-Semitism against her.

Flanked by representatives from local Jewish organization, mayor Brian Bowman said in a press conference on Tuesday that Sarsour’s history of “racialized identity politics” and criticism of Israel meant she shouldn’t be invited to speak at an event organized by the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg.

“It’s less about the speaker than the social planning council providing that platform and the message it sends to the Jewish community and the community as a whole,” Bowman said, according to the CBC.

Both Bowman and the local Jewish federation said that they had tried to meet privately with the host organization and try to convince them to disinvite Sarsour, according to TheJ.ca, a Canadian Jewish news site.

The event, called “Sorry Not Sorry: Unapologetically Working for Social Justice,” is meant to commemorate the SPCW’s 100th anniversary, and Sarsour is expected to talk about her experiences as an activist fighting policies like stop-and-frisk, not the state of Israel.

Executive director Kate Kehler told the Winnipeg Free Press that they wouldn’t have invited Sarsour to speak if they thought she was anti-Semitic. “We understand there are people in the Jewish community who adamantly feel that way but there are also a great many people in the Jewish community who support this event, who want to hear what she has to say.” Indeed, a leader of a group called Independent Jewish Voices-Winnipeg defended Sarsour’s invitation in a statement released by the organization.

Sarsour is a supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, and has been accused of claiming that Jews have dual loyalties. Sarsour apologized last year for the Women’s March’s handling of allegations of anti-Semitism against her and other movement leaders.

 

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(1) RT UK - LIVE: Nigel Farage launches his Brexit Party's European Parliament campaign - Apr 12, 2019 – 45:48;

 

(2) In the U.S., Democrat Nancy Pulosi threatens the British people of dire consequences if they vote for Brexit in Brussels;

 

The European Union was created by U.S. imperialism to dominate the countries and the peoples of Europe.

 

Throughout Europe the movement to exit from the European Union is developing: Grexit (Greece), Brexit (Britain), Frexit (France), etc.

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(1) RT UK - LIVE: Nigel Farage launches his Brexit Party's European Parliament campaign - Apr 12, 2019 – 45:48;

 

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June 23, 2016 – A referendum was held to decide whether the UK should stay in the European Union (E.U.) stay in the European Union (E.U.) or exit from it (“Brexit”).

 

The electorate voted for Brexit by 51.9% to 48.1%. The referendum turnout was 71.8%, with more than 30 million people voting.

 

But the Parliament betrayed the people’s decision.

 

Nigel Farage decided to launch the Brexit Party and to run in the European Parliament elections.

 

On April 12, 2019, Nigel Farage launched his Brexit Party's European Parliament campaign and presented 5 of the 70 candidates.  This video shows this meeting -clip In this speech

 

 

TEXT BY THE BBC:

 

Here is an easy-to-understand guide to Brexit - beginning with the basics, then a look at the current negotiations, followed by a selection of answers to questions we've been sent.

 

What does Brexit mean?

 

It is a word that is used as a shorthand way of saying the UK leaving the EU - merging the words Britain and exit to get Brexit, in the same way as a possible Greek exit from the euro was dubbed Grexit in the past. Further reading: The rise of the word Brexit

 

Why is Britain leaving the European Union?

 

A referendum - a vote in which everyone (or nearly everyone) of voting age can take part - was held on Thursday 23 June, 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain in the European Union. Leave won by 51.9% to 48.1%. The referendum turnout was 71.8%, with more than 30 million people voting.

Find the result in your area

What was the breakdown across the UK?

 

England voted for Brexit, by 53.4% to 46.6%. Wales also voted for Brexit, with Leave getting 52.5% of the vote and Remain 47.5%. Scotland and Northern Ireland both backed staying in the EU. Scotland backed Remain by 62% to 38%, while 55.8% in Northern Ireland voted Remain and 44.2% Leave. See the results in more detail.

What is the European Union?

 

The European Union - often known as the EU - is an economic and political partnership involving 28 European countries (click here if you want to see the full list). It began after World War Two to foster economic co-operation, with the idea that countries which trade together were more likely to avoid going to war with each other.

 

It has since grown to become a "single market" allowing goods and people to move around, basically as if the member states were one country. It has its own currency, the euro, which is used by 19 of the member countries, its own parliament and it now sets rules in a wide range of areas - including on the environment, transport, consumer rights and even things such as mobile phone charges. Click here for a beginners' guide to how the EU works.

Media captionHow does the European Union work?

When is the UK due to leave the EU?

 

The UK had been due to leave on 29 March 2019, two years after it started the exit process by invoking Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty. But the withdrawal agreement reached between the EU and UK has been rejected three times by UK MPs.

 

Having granted an initial extension of the Article 50 process until 12 April 2019, EU leaders have now backed a six-month extension until 31 October 2019. However, the UK will leave before this date if the withdrawal agreement is ratified by the UK and the EU before then.

So is Brexit definitely happening?

 

As things stand, the UK is due to leave the European Union at 23:00 GMT on 31 October 2019. If the UK and EU ratify the withdrawal agreement before then, the UK will leave on the first day of the following month.

But could Brexit be cancelled?

 

Yes. Stopping Brexit would require a change in the law in the UK, something neither the government nor the main UK opposition parties want to do at this point. The European Court of Justice ruled on 10 December 2018 that the UK could cancel the Article 50 Brexit process without the permission of the other 27 EU members, and remain a member of the EU on its existing terms, provided the decision followed a "democratic process", in other words, if Parliament voted for it. In March, an online petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked gained over six million signatures.

Could Brexit be delayed?

 

Theresa May has said she wants the UK to leave the EU as soon as possible, if possible by 22 May, so the UK will not have to take part in the European Parliament elections taking place across Europe that month. The EU has said the Brexit process should not be extended again beyond 31 October 2019, but legally speaking another extension could happen if all EU countries, including the UK, agree to it.

Could there be another referendum?

 

It would have to be put into law by the government, which has previously ruled it out. But having failed three times to get MPs to support her withdrawal deal, Theresa May has held talks with Jeremy Corbyn about finding a way forward. Some Labour MPs want Mr Corbyn to make a "confirmatory vote" on any deal a condition of any agreement. If Labour and the Conservatives fail to reach an agreement, MPs will face a series of votes on Brexit options, which could include another referendum. Mrs May has said her government "stands ready to abide by the decision of the House" if Labour does the same. MPs have twice rejected a "confirmatory vote" in Commons votes although the second attempt saw an increased number back it.

Why do politicians want a deal?

 

The main point of having a deal between the UK and the EU is to ensure as smooth as possible an exit from the EU for businesses and individuals - and to allow time for the two sides to hammer out a permanent trading relationship.

What is in Theresa May's deal with the EU?

 

After months of negotiation, the UK and EU agreed a Brexit deal. It comes in two parts.

 

A 585-page withdrawal agreement. This is a legally-binding text that sets the terms of the UK's divorce from the EU. It covers how much money the UK owes the EU - an estimated £39bn - and what happens to UK citizens living elsewhere in the EU and EU citizens living in the UK. It also proposes a method of avoiding the return of a physical Northern Ireland border.

 

    Here's a guide to the Brexit withdrawal agreement

 

A 26-page statement on future relations. This is not legally-binding and sketches out the kind of long-term relationship the UK and EU want to have in a range of areas, including trade, defence and security.

 

    Here's a guide to the declaration on future relations

 

What is the transition period?

 

This is part of the withdrawal agreement, which so far, has not been approved by MPs. It refers to a period of time after Brexit until 31 December, 2020 (or possibly later), to get everything in place and allow businesses and others to prepare for the moment when the new post-Brexit rules between the UK and the EU begin. It would also allow more time for the details of the new relationship to be fully hammered out. Free movement would continue during the transition period, as the EU wanted. The UK would be able to strike its own trade deals - although they wouldn't be able to come into force until 1 January 2021. But it all rests on the withdrawal deal being ratified.

 

    Further reading: UK and EU agree transition deal terms

    In a lot of depth: The 129-page draft withdrawal agreement

 

Could we leave without a deal?

 

Yes. This is the so-called no-deal Brexit.

What would happen if the UK left without a deal?

 

The UK would sever all ties with the EU with immediate effect, with no transition period and no guarantees on citizens' rights of residence. The government fears this would cause significant disruption to businesses in the short-term, with lengthy tailbacks of lorries at the channel ports, as drivers face new checks on their cargos. Food retailers have warned of shortages of fresh produce and the NHS is stockpiling medicines, in case supplies from EU countries are interrupted. Government ministers and multinational companies with factories in the UK have also warned about the long-term impact on the British economy. Brexit-supporting MPs claim it would not be as bad as they say and the UK would save on the £39bn divorce bill, as well as being free to strike its own beneficial trade deals around the world.

 

Here is a collection of papers published by the government on a 'no-deal'

Would trade with the EU continue?

 

The World Trade Organization sets rules for countries that don't have free trade deals with each other, including tariffs - the taxes charged on the import of goods. Without an agreement on trade, the UK would trade with the EU under World Trade Organization rules.

 

Here is a full explanation of what that would mean.

Is Theresa May's Brexit deal now dead?

 

Theresa May's deal cannot come into effect until it has been passed by Parliament. It has now been heavily defeated in two "meaningful" votes, and a third vote just on the withdrawal agreement itself, governing the terms of the UK's departure, not the "future relationship", a non-binding bit of the deal which maps out aspirations for long-term trade, economic and security cooperation and more. She has told EU leaders that her cross-party talks with Labour are "based on acceptance of the withdrawal agreement without reopening it" - with the aim of getting it - and a "shared vision for the future relationship", which could be subject to some change, approved by the Commons. So she has not ruled out having another go at getting it ratified - and hopes that reaching out to Labour can help break the deadlock. There is a separate sticking point about whether Speaker John Bercow will allow her to bring the deal back again for another vote.

What is the backstop?

Media captionReality Check unpacks the basics of the backstop

 

When the UK leaves the EU, the 310-mile border between Ireland and Northern Ireland will become the land border between the UK and the European Union.

 

Neither side wants to see a return to checkpoints, towers, customs posts or surveillance cameras at the border, in case it reignites the Troubles and disrupts the free cross-border flow of trade and people. But they can't agree on a way to do that.

 

The UK and EU agreed to put in place a "backstop" - a kind of safety net to ensure there is no hard border whatever the outcome of future trade talks between the UK and the EU.

 

The backstop agreed between the two parties would keep Northern Ireland aligned to some EU rules on things like food products and goods standards. That would prevent the need for checks on goods at the Irish border, but would require some products being brought to Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK to be subject to new checks and controls.

 

The backstop would also involve a temporary single customs territory, effectively keeping the whole of the UK in the EU customs union. If future trade talks broke down without a deal, the backstop would apply indefinitely. The arrangement would end only with the agreement of both the UK and the EU.

Why are so many MPs against it?

 

The backstop was a key sticking point for many MPs who voted down the deal. They feared it could leave Britain tied to the EU indefinitely with no say over its rules and no ability to strike trade deals with other countries.

Are there any solutions to it?

 

If there were an obvious solution that people agreed guaranteed no return of a hard border in Ireland it would probably have been implemented by now. Possible alternatives suggested include a "trusted trader" scheme to avoid physical checks on goods flowing through the border, "mutual recognition" of rules with the EU and "technological" solutions. However the EU has insisted that the backstop plan is necessary.

 

 

(2) In the U.S., Democrat Nancy Pulosi threatens the British people of dire consequences if they vote for Brexit in Brussels;

 

 

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Yellow Vest Fever. The movement’s unofficial leaders explain why the protests are just the beginning

Publiée le 24 avr. 2019

Since November 2018, the Yellow Vest movement has grabbed the agenda in France through weekly protests. For the first time, the biggest players in the viral uprising appear in a documentary to tell its story. RTD follows them to meetings and marches to find out who they are and what the uprising is really about.

Yellow Vest initiators Priscillia Ludosky and Ghislain Coutard describe how they launched the first anti-fuel tax demonstration online. Yellow Vest poster boys Jerome Rodrigues, a victim of police brutality, and Maxime Nicolle give their takes on who’s responsible for the violence at demonstrations. RTD asks the Yellow Vests’ unofficial leaders what will happen to the anger in “peripheral France” as time passes and the government makes concessions.

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Le Devoir

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Être communiste au Québec après la révolution russe de 1917

Une sculpture de Lénine, fondateur de l’URSS. Ce 25 octobre marque le 100e anniversaire de la révolution russe.
Photo: Mladen Antonov Agence France-Presse Une sculpture de Lénine, fondateur de l’URSS. Ce 25 octobre marque le 100e anniversaire de la révolution russe.

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  • : Le blog de Antonio Artuso - Reconstruction communiste Canada
  • : But : Reconstruction d'un et d'un seul parti communiste au Canada, dans chaque pays et d'un et d'un seul Mouvement communiste international. À l'étape actuelle, la formation théorique-idéologique sur la doctrine de Marx et d'Engels, et de Lénine et de Staline est essentielle - (1) élaboration d'un programme d'études: (2) formation de cercles d'études marxistes-léninistes
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