2021-05-23: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-05-23). US Winks, Israel Bites? Shifting Middle East Alliances. The War on Iran is "On Hold"? globalresearch.ca At the outset of Bush's Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of rogue enemies of America, & that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement & without us putting pressure on them "to do it".

_____ (2021-05-23). US Trying To Extradite Diplomat For The 'Crime' Of Securing Food For The Hungry. popularresistance.org Special envoy and ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela, Alex Saab, was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and gasoline for the Venezuelan CLAP food assistance program. Saab was detained on a refueling stop in the African nation of Cabo Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12, 2020. | Saab's "crime," according to the US government, which ordered the imprisonment, was money laundering. That is, Saab conducted perfectly legal international trade, but his circumventing the US sanctions — which are designed to prevent relief to the Venezuelans — is…

teleSUR (2021-05-23). UN Atomic Agency To Be Cut Off From Iranian Nuclear Sites. telesurenglish.net The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will no longer be able to access images of the Iranian nuclear sites because a monitoring deal with the UN nuclear body has expired, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Sunday. | RELATED: | The announcement can be seen as further pressure on the United States to return to the 2015 Nuclear Agreement, of which it pulled out in 2018, by orders of former pr…

Robert Hunziker (2021-05-22). Chernobyl Alert and The Doomsday Clock. dissidentvoice.org Like the mythical Phoenix, Chernobyl rises from the ashes. A recent… "Surge in fission reactions in an inaccessible chamber within the complex" is alarming scientists that monitor the ruins of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. 1 It is known that this significant renewal of fission activity is located in Sub-Reactor Room 305/2, which contains …

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