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Op-Ed

Open Letter To ICH Readers By John Pilger, Paul Craig Roberts, Pepe Escobar, Peter Koenig & Finian Cunningham
	In this time, when alternative voices and viewpoints are being shut down - it is all the more vital for readers to help sustain ICH. - Continue

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Chinese troops arrives in Venezuela? By News Desk
	These moves by the Russian and Chinese armed forces appear to be a powerplay against the U.S. administration. - Continue

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China Takes on U.S. Over Venezuela After Russia Sends Troops: It's Not Your 'Backyard' By Tom O'Connor
	"Latin American affairs are not a certain country's exclusive business, nor is Latin America a certain country's backyard," he added: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson . - Continue

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Juan Guaidó Confesses Being Behind the Sabotage of Venezuela's Electric System By Gustavo Villapol and VTV
	This is why the entire national security state now stands foursquare behind the improbable pivot plan. - Continue

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Like Libya and Syria, Venezuela Is Not "Just About Oil" By Andre Vltchek
	It is about the total control of the world: ideological, political, economic and social. About liquidating all opposition in the Western hemisphere. - Continue

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How Brzezinski's Chessboard Degenerated Into Brennan's Russophobia By Mike Whitney
	This is why the entire national security state now stands foursquare behind the improbable pivot plan. - Continue

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Collusion Hiding in Plain Sight By Doug Noble
	Now that's real collusion. But who's looking, let alone investigating?. - Continue

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The Anti-Semitic Con By Paul Edwards
	Since American politics is mortally corrupt, one might wonder why bother to expose one prime cause of its ethical degeneracy. - Continue

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From Brexit to Trump, it's death by 1,000 cuts By Jonathan Cook
	It is finally dawning on many of us that we are immersed in delusion, that we are mentally, emotionally and spiritually at a dead end. - Continue

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What In the World Has Happened To The America We Grew Up In? By Michael Snyder
	40 million American adults have an anxiety disorder, and overdosing on drugs is now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50. - Continue

April 03/04, 2019

HARD NEWS

MIDDLE EAST

Four policemen killed, wounded in armed attack in Iraq's Diyala

4 IS militants killed in airstrike in eastern Iraq: sources

Saudi Arabia gives Iraq $1 billion grant: state TV citing minister

Houthi forces inflict heavy casualties within Saudi Coalition ranks

Four soldiers killed in ambush in eastern Yemen

Yemen is a British war and ministers are complicit in war crimes;The idea that UK is not part of the coalition is a fabricated lie that media is playing along with.

Britain could stop the war in Yemen in days. But it won't

'US decision on Golan Heights is highway to war': Russian Duma speaker

Floods hit 40,000 displaced people in northwest Syria - UN

Palestinian killed by settler after alleged stabbing attack: Witnesses refuted the Israeli military's statement and denied a stabbing attempt had taken place, local media reported.

Israel Has Killed 42 Palestinians So Far This Year - Gaza Mourns Another Death: Another Palestinian has died of his wounds sustained by Israeli fire at Gaza protests

Seriously? Pompeo: God Sent Trump to Save Israel From Iran, but Iran Government to Blame for Iran Floods

Nuclear regulators were unaware of transfer of sensitive technical information to Saudi Arabia

Pence Issues Turkey Ultimatum: "Choose Between Remaining NATO Member Or Buying Russian S-400"

Turkey's opposition demands mandate as Istanbul recount continues

AFRICA

Libya: Tripoli government declares military alert:Warning issued after General Haftar's Libyan National Army said it had moved units westward towards the capital.

ASIA

At Least 37 Taliban Militants Killed by Afghan Special Forces - Reports

Brunei invokes laws allowing stoning for gay sex, adultery

EUROPE

NATO secretary general calls for confronting Russian aggression in speech to Congress

George Galloway: Theresa May just kicked the Brexit can right into Corbyn's allotment

GLOBE

'Solitary Confinement Is Torture': Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Chelsea Manning's Release: "Chelsea is being tortured for whistleblowing, she should be released on bail, and we should ban extended solitary in the U.S."

Bashing of Assange is linked to reportage on Ecuador president's corruption scandal - WikiLeaks

Facebook plans to curate 'high quality' news for its users from 'trusted outlets'

YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant: Proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement, staff say.

AMERICAS

China's PLA Troops In Venezuela: A Watershed Moment In World Politics: The reports mention that the group of Chinese military personnel is 120-strong and arrived on the Margarita Island

China refutes reports of sending troops to Venezuela to help Maduro

'Venezuela won't become 2nd Syria': Lavrov sure S. America won't back military invasion v. Maduro

Russia Opens Military Center in Venezuela, Defying U.S. Threats

65 tons of medicines and medical supplies have arrived to the country from China: President Nicolás Maduro

Guaido stripped of immunity by Venezuelan legislators:Tuesday's move by Constituent Assembly paves way for opposition leader to be prosecuted and arrested.

Venezuela oil exports stable in March despite sanctions, blackouts: Venezuela's state-run energy company, PDVSA, kept oil exports near 1 million barrels per day in March despite U.S. sanctions and power outages

US Orgs to Congress: End Trump's Crusade For War in Venezuela: Some 40 organizations are telling Congress to step up pressure on Trump, Abrams to start diologue, end war rhetoric, regarding Venezuela.

From the archives: Blueprint of the PNAC Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony: Some people have compared it to Hitler's publication of Mein Kampf, which was ignored until after the war was over.

From the archives: The Project for the New American Century.: At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required.

Colombian Police Kill Indigenous Protester at Cauca Valley

Brazil's Temer Indicted on Charges Involving Nuclear Plant Bribes

House Judiciary Democrats authorize subpoenas for Mueller report

Robert Mueller dismissed Manafort-Wikileaks collusion in plea deal, source says

These former agents say the CIA and NSA are censoring them. Now they're suing.

Donald Trump Says His Father was Born in Germany: During a press conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, U.S. President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that his father, Fred Trump, was born in Germany.

More Than 750,000 Could Lose Food Stamps Under Trump Administration Proposal

'Tax the Rich. It's Just That Simple': US Campaign Aims to Make Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share

Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveils a bill to make it easier to jail executives for company abuses

Peace and Joy

Tom Feeley