Joseph Mallord William Turner Teasing the Donkey 1827 So we’re going to do this all over again? Well, not if I can help it. Not that I have much hope that I can, mind you. As the bastions of war chime on, my voice, like so many others, will be drowned out. The military industrial complex knows how to do propaganda, better than anyone. But I’ll try. Vietnam gave the US its biggest ever defeat, both militarily and morally,
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• Pence To West Point Grads: You Will Fight On a Battlefield for America (Taer) • Global Elites Started The Russia Nonsense (Farnan) • Indictment of Julian Assange is a Clear and Present Danger to Journalism (EFF) • The US Media Is in the Crosshairs of the New Assange Indictment (Lawfare) • The World: What is Really Happening (Murray) • Europeans Vote, With EU Future In Balance (R.) • Who Gets To Choose The UK’s Next Prime Minister? (BBC)
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• What Assange Charges Could Mean For Press Freedom (Jonathan Turley) • A Threat to the Press and the American People (IC) • Professional #Assange Smearers Finally Realize His Fate Is Tied To Theirs (CJ) • The Belligerence of Empire (Orphan) • Australian Government Urged To Intervene In Assange Case (G.) • Trump Wants Investigation Into Australia’s Role In ‘Russian Hoax’ (G.) • The Golem Strikes Back (Kunstler) • Political Media Is a Hucksters’ Paradise (Taibbi) • Trump Declares
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• Either You Are A Worthless Coward Or You Defend Assange (CJ) • Trump Orders FBI, CIA To “Fully Cooperate” With Barr (ZH) • Lone US Senator Decries Use Of Espionage Act Against Assange (RT) • Chelsea Manning and Her Lawyer On Today’s Superseding Indictment (SpM) • Amnesty International: Julian Assange “Not A Prisoner Of Conscience” (Wsws) • Theresa May Announces June 7 Resignation (G.) • A “European Empire” Won’t Make Europe Richer (Azihari) • Humans Causing Shrinking
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Edouard Manet Gypsy with a cigarette 1862 • Half Of Americans Are Just One Paycheck Away From ‘Financial Disaster’ (MW) • Record-Setting Art Sales Confirm Global Liquidity Bubble (Colombo) • A Greek Canary in a Global Goldmine (Varoufakis) • US Media No Longer Reports Facts, But Appeals To Emotions (SHTF) • OPCW Expert Contradicts Official Douma Attack Analysis (CJ) • Free For All (Jim Kunstler) • May And Corbyn Blame Each Other As Brexit Talks Collapse (G.) • Tory
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Caravaggio The seven works of mercy (Sette opere di Misericordia) 1607 “Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop… And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” – Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, one day
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Carl Bloch The transfiguration c1865 • Chelsea Manning Jailed Again For Refusing To Testify Against WikiLeaks (RT) • The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 3—The Most Extensive Classified Leak Ever • The Liberal Embrace of War (Matt Taibbi) • UK-US Row Over Iran Intel Unleashes Storm Of Behind The Scenes Infighting (ZH) • FBI-CIA Dispute Erupts Over Whether Comey Or Brennan Pushed Steele Dossier (ZH) • A World Aching For Peace & Stability Can No Longer Afford NATO (Wight) •
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Robert Campin Portrait of a woman 1430-35 • Brexit Party May Get More EU Election Votes Than Tories, Labour Combined (G.) • Fight To Replace PM May Complicating Brexit Talks – Labour’s McDonnell (R.) • Labour Would Trial Universal Basic Income If Elected – McDonnell (G.) • QE Party Over, Bank of Japan Stealth-Tapers Further (WS) • The World’s Dictatress (Hornberger) • Is America Ready for John Bolton’s War With Iran? (Ritter) • Iran’s Rouhani Warns Of Greater Hardship
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Riding in the Bois de Boulogne (Madame Henriette Darras or The Ride) 1873 • Labour Without Energy Is A Corpse; Capital Without Energy Is A Sculpture (Keen) • Traditional Economics Has Absolutely Screwed Us (Tyee) • House Dems To Bundle Numerous Contempt Citations For Trump Advisers (R.) • House Democrat Subpoenas Six Years Of Trump Tax Returns (AP) • FISA Applications Were Illegally Obtained – DiGenova (PJ) • William Barr vs. Eric Holder: A Tale of Two
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James McNeill Whistler Symphony in White, No. 3 1867 • US Hikes Tariffs On Chinese Goods, China Says To Strike Back (R.) • Historic Lawsuit Could “Wreak Havoc” On The Leveraged Loan Market (ZH) • The Real Muellergate Scandal (Craig Murray) • From Russiagate to Gunboat Diplomacy (Jacobin) • FBI’s Steele Story Falls Apart (Solomon) • Roger Stone Wins Right To Receive Unredacted Parts of Mueller Report (SC) • Chelsea Manning Released After 2 Months, Might Be Back In
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