Assange

• Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray explains the judge in Julian Assange’s trial in the UK is biased against him. [Link]
• Ecuador claims to be the target of mass cyber attacks since Ecuador’s president revoked Assange’s asylum and turned him over to the UK. [Link]
• Assange wins a European award for courageous journalism. [Link]

US News

• Bill Weld announces he is running for president as a Republican in 2020. [Link]
• CNN reports two unnamed sources to claim Trump told the CBP chief that he would pardon any CBP personnel arrested while enforcing immigration law. [Link]
• The ACLU is suing Detroit for unfair bail conditions placed on the poor. [Link]
• The Supreme Court overturns the conviction – of a now-deceased – man who was persecuted for digging ditches on his own property to protect it from wildfires. [Link]

Foreign Policy

• Three military vets have killed themselves at VA facilities within five days. [Link]
• The US Air Force Secretary calls on for a show of force of US space weapons. [Link]
• Moon of Alabama details Gina Haspel presenting Trump with false information about the Skripal poisoning to get Trump to take diplomatic action against Russia. [Link]  
• Daniel Davis explains why Trump needs to replace John Bolton with Douglas Macgregor. Bolton will likely push Trump into an unnecessary war; Macgregor will help Trump implement his America First foreign policy. [Link]

Cuba

• Daniel Larison explains why Trump’s Cuba policy is failing. [Link]
• The Trump administration announced travel restrictions to Cuba, the ability for Americans to sue Cuba, and restricting the amount of money Americans can send to relatives on the island to $1,000.  [Link]

Venezuela

• The US sanctions Venezuela’s central bank. [Link]
• National Security Adviser John Bolton orders Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan to develop options to deter Russia and China from supporting Venezuela. [Link]

Yemen

• A French report shows the US, UK, and France are supplying Saudi Arabia and the UAE with weapons essential for their war in Yemen. The report debunks the claim that Western countries need to continue to sell Saudi arms or Saudi will find another seller. The weapons systems that Saudi already has are compatible with only Western-made munitions. [Link]
• Trump vetoes the Yemen War Powers bill. Trump called the bill unnecessary and dangerous to his constitutional powers. [Link] Ron Paul and Dan McAdams explain why Trump made a mistake by vetoing the bill. [Link]
• Trump’s veto of the Yemen War Powers bill proves ‘check and balances’ is not working. [Link]
• A UN report on Yemen finds 7,500 Yemeni children have been killed or maimed, 3,000 children have been used as soldiers, and 800 children have been the victims of sexual abuse because of the war. [Link]