Francisco Goya The dog 1820-23 What follows are items from sources not everyone may like, such as Fox and The Hill. But please bear with me, because if you want to understand what is about to happen in the US, you’re going to need this kind of info, and you’re not likely to get it from the mainstream media. The overall term here is questions. There are too many to list. Some will merely be asked, some will be
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Henri Matisse Still Life with Apples on Pink Cloth 1925 • Repeal the Espionage Act (FFF) • Swedish Court Rejects Request To Detain Julian Assange (G.) • US Moving Toward Major Antitrust Probe Of Tech Giants (R.) • Tech Stocks Crushed by Potential “Unprecedented, Wide-Ranging Probe” (WS) • Amazon and Facebook Both Want To Read Human Emotions (Kesel) • House To Vote Next Week On Whether To Find Barr, McGahn In Contempt (R.) • The Zeitgeist Knows (Kunstler) •
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Paul Ranson Apple tree with red fruit 1902 • Global Recession Fears Mount As Manufacturing Shrinks Across Asia (R.) • How Many People Will Be Retiring in the Years to Come? (St.L.Fed) • Economic Growth Is An Unnecessary Evil (TLE) • Mueller Must Testify Publicly To Answer Three Critical Questions (Turley) • Alan Dershowitz: US ‘Overplayed Its Hand’ on Assange (NM) • The Intelligence Community Needs A House-Cleaning (Matt Taibbi) • Juncker: Not Enough Work To Keep 28 EU
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Pablo Picasso Rest (Marie-Thérèse Walter) 1932 With the news that Julian Assange is “wasting away” in Belmarsh prison hospital, and with UN rapporteur Professor Nils Melzer’s report detailing how this happens, I’m once again drawn towards the lawlessness that all “authorities” involved in his case have been displaying, and with impunity. They all apparently think they are literally above the law. Their own laws. But they can’t be, nowhere, not above their respective national laws nor the international ones their
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• Relentless and Unrestrained Public Mobbing, Intimidation and Defamation (CN) • UN Special Rapporteur Calls for Julian Assange to Be Freed (DN) • Assange ‘Psychologically Tortured To Breaking Point By Democratic States’ (RT) • Are US/UK Trying To Kill Assange? – Ron Paul (DM) • Assange May Have To Die Before Journalists Realize Implications – Galloway (RT) • 36 Countries The US Has Bullied This Week (RT) • Prelude to a Fiasco (Jim Kunstler) • US Stock Market Forgoes
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• Julian Assange Shows Psychological Torture Symptoms – UN Expert (G.) • Julian Assange Must Never Be Extradited (Matt Taibbi) • The Unrelenting State (Craig Murray) • Trump Announces Tariffs On Mexico Until ‘Immigration Problem Remedied’ (G.) • Futures, Peso Tumble As Trump Unleashes Tariffs On Mexico (ZH) • GOP Senator Grassley Blasts Trump Over Mexico Tariff Threat (Hill) • Russiagate Is #1 Threat To US National Security – Stephen Cohen (RT) • Malaysia PM Wants Evidence To Show
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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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