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Yesterday evening activists from the  International Action Center (IAC)  and  No War on Venezuela.org  delivered a letter to the United States Mission to the United Nations in NYC from the Embassy Protection Collective (EPC). Telemundo was on the scene and took  statements  from organizers. The EPC are US peace activists that are presently safeguarding the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC from self-appointed “president”, coup leader and US puppet, Juan Guaido and his agent Carlos Vecchio. The EPC seeks the negotiation of a Protecting Power  Agreement  in accordance with international law that will enable a neutral country to secure the embassy for Venezuela. Having staved off expulsion and arrest on Monday by federal authorities through citing Article 22 of the  Vienna Convention , which unquestionably supports their presence, the EPC won an important victory against the Trump administration. However, EPC peace activists have b...

So, the election-meddling Putin-Nazi disinformationists are at it again! Oh yes, while Americans have been distracted by Russiagate, Obstructiongate, Redactiongate, or whatever it’s being called at this point, here in Europe, we are purportedly being bombarded with Russian “disinformation” aimed at fomenting confusion and chaos in advance of the upcoming EU elections, which are due to take place in less than two weeks. The New York Times  reports  that an entire “constellation” of social media accounts “linked to Russia and far-right groups” is disseminating extremist “disinformation,” “encouraging discord,” and “amplifying distrust in the centrist parties that have governed for decades.” These accounts share some of the same “digital fingerprints,” and are engaging in “tactics” similar to the “tactics used in previous Russian attacks,” notably  the Kremlin’s notorious mass-brainwashing of millions of defenseless African Americans with those deceptive anti-masturba...

MAGAZINE SUBSCRIBE Rick Lowe Let's Just Say It: Women Matter More Than Fetuses Do By  REBECCA TRAISTER November 11, 2014 Add to Pocket One Monday this September, I woke to the realization  that I was officially in abortion overtime. I had entered my twenty-fourth week of pregnancy, which is the point when abortion (except in the most vanishingly rare of medical circumstances) ceases to be a legal option in the state of New York. MOST POPULAR Homelessness Is Not a Crime How Gerrymandering Leads to Radical Abortion Laws The Worst Businessman in America Sara Nelson’s Art of War The Gross Inequality of Death in America I have no desire to  have an abortion. I am carrying a baby my husband and I conceived on purpose and whom we can’t wait to raise alongside our older daughter. Yet on that morning, I was acutely aware of having lost one of the most important tools available to women: the ability to exert control ov...

The world is burning, flooding, and politically exploding, to the point where it’s become abundantly clear that neoliberal feminism—the kind that aims to elect The First Woman President—will never be enough. In her vibrant, politically personal essay, Zillah Eisenstein asks us to consider what it would mean to thread “socialism” to feminism; then, what it would mean to thread “abolitionism” to socialist feminism. Finally, she asks all of us, especially white women, to consider what it would mean to risk everything to abolish white supremacy, to uproot the structural knot of sex, race, gender, and class growing from that imperial whiteness. If we are to create a revolution that is totally liberatory, we need to pool together in a new working class, building a radical movement made of movements. Eisenstein’s manifesto is built on almost half a century of her antiracist socialist feminist work, in its many iterations. But now, she writes with a new urgency and imaginativeness. Eisenste...

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201905141074978151-US-Official-Initial-Assessment-Iran-Involved-Ship-Explosions/ US officials said Monday that initial assessments of an incident over the weekend in which four oil tankers were damaged by explosions in Emirati waters point to Iranian involvement. Four oil tankers — two Saudi, one Emirati and one Norwegian — off the coast of the Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates, suffered on Sunday what the UAE Foreign Ministry called "sabotage operations." The explosion blew a five-to-10 foot hole in each ship near or just below the water line, a US military team told AP Monday. "Iranian or Iranian-backed proxies" are believed to be behind the attack, according to US officials. © STAFF SGT. ASHLEY GARDNER US B-52 Bombers Deployed Near Iran Drill With F-35s, F15s (PHOTOS) Fujairah is Abu Dhabi's only major port on the Arabian Sea. In the event of war, Tehra...

"Dictatress"? Hmmm. That's interesting, what with all the talk of toxic masculinity, feminizing the US's belligerent lawlessness took me by surprise. For a little background on Adam's use of the term, maybe we should consider the famous letters exchanged between him and his wife Abagail while John was hammering out the Constitution and such. Abagail had written I long to hear that you have declared an independancy�and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. John wasn't too keen on the idea: As to your ...