Swedish Court Rules Not to Extradite Assange for Rape Probe

AP: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to Sweden for a revived rape investigation, but should still be questioned in the case while he is imprisoned in Britain, a Swedish court ruled Monday. The ruling by the Uppsala District Court doesn’t mean the preliminary investigation must be abandoned, only that Assange doesn’t face extradition to Sweden any time soon. Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, said she has not decided whether to appeal. More.

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Pompeo, Trump Throw Jared Peace Plan Under the Bus

Pompeo trashed it in a maybe-secretly recorded meeting with a Jewish group. Trump then also cast doubt. This goes with what Phil Weiss said the other day. It's dead, not because it was horrible, but because of Netanyahu's failure to form a government, which means it can't be debuted before Israel can hold new elections in September, but then after that will be the U.S. campaign season so they can't do it then either. The whole point was just a PR stunt anyway. It was another Camp David II: give the Palestinians an offer they cannot possibly accept and then pretend they're the unreasonable...

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Israel Will Stay Forever in Areas They Stole in 1967 War

Not that you were so foolish as to believe the Israeli government would ever allow Palestinian independence. But for the record, again: Israel has already de facto annexed the last of Palestine 52 years ago. It is an apartheid state, not a democracy, and is certainly no ally of the USA: Israel liberated Jerusalem, Hebron, Judea and Samaria and the Golan Heights 52 years ago and will stay there forever, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night at the traditional Jerusalem Day Celebration at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in the capital. Netanyahu, who began his speech to the cheering...

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5/31/19 Aaron Maté on Russiagate after the Mueller Report

Scott talks to Aaron Maté about the continuing Russiagate narrative. Democrats have far too much invested in the idea that Trump somehow stole the election from Hillary Clinton, says Maté, to ever admit that they were wrong in their hysteria. Maté reminds us that many skeptics aren't even sure the DNC emails were hacked by anyone, let alone Russia, but may instead have been leaked from someone on the inside. Discussed on the show: "NBC Claims Russians Plan To Give African Americans Combat Training" (Antiwar.com Original) "Trump-Russia Investigation: Was Brennan’s ‘Intelligence Bombshell’ the...

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5/31/19 Giorgio Cafiero on Iraq War III 1/2

Giorgio Cafiero of Gulf State Analytics discusses the mess that U.S. foreign policy has made of the Middle East in light of the news that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is in fact alive after many claims and rumors to the contrary. President Trump, Scott and Cafiero agree, has made a few good moves against America's recent foreign policy trend, but for the most part has adhered exactly to the precedents of Obama, both Bushes, and Clinton. Discussed on the show: "Baghdadi’s Alive, and So Is Islamic State’s Narrative" (LobeLog) "ISIL chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears in propaganda video"...

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