(2020-05-11). Lockheed Martin declares Mission (almost) Accomplished, brings F-35's 100+ safety flaws down to 8… and hundreds of lesser issues. rt.com 
The maker of the troubled F-35 fighter jet claims to have solved "most" of the safety issues that plagued the $1.5 trillion plane — but flaws that could injure pilots are still present, on top of hundreds of software issues. | Lockheed Martin has fixed all but eight of the 111 'Category 1' flight safety issues found during a January 2018 analysis of the fighter jet program, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing the Government Accountability Office analyst in charge of monitoring the pricey plane's development. Category 1 issues are those that can "injure or kill pilots or otherwise jeopardize the plane's…
(2020-05-11). Nuclear Weapons: Stopping the War That No One Wants (livestream). indybay.org Online via livestream…
(2020-05-11). Can we Achieve Nuclear Adulthood? counterpunch.org "I'll never tire of repeating: We need to demilitarize world affairs, international politics and political thinking." What if a world leader — someone with extraordinary power, even, my God, control over nuclear weapons — were to talk this way? Well, this is as close as we can get for now. The words are those of
(2020-05-11). Nuclear Weapons: The Anatomy of a U.S. STRATCOM "Disinfographic" globalresearch.ca United States Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for the nation's nuclear weapons, recently released an
(2020-05-11). Aljazeera's news anchor says he receives death threats from Saudis. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 11 (MNA) — Aljazeera's Palestinian news anchor Jamal Ryan has announced that he has received death threats from Saudis following his latest tweet about Jamal Khashoggi.
(2020-04-30). WHO Adviser on Meat Plants: If We're at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork. democracynow.org 
As President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to bar local governments from closing meatpacking plants around the United States, we get response from a longtime adviser to the World Health Organization. "When Congress passed that act, it certainly did not have in mind that the president has the power or the right to put workers' lives and health at risk," says Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University and director of the World Health Organization Center on National and Global Health Law. Gostin also discusses why he joined 40 leading center directors in a declaration this we…
(2020-04-30). Take Action: Keep COVID Stimulus $$ Away From the Pentagon. peaceaction.org Congress is putting together additional and much needed stimulus packages in response to COVID-19. That's the good news. The bad news is that the Pentagon is trying to weasel billions of dollars out of these stimulus bills! All just to keep the mega-profits rolling for weapons dealers and the military-industrial complex. As people here at …
(2020-04-03). Military-Grade Drones to Operate over San Diego in 2020. projectcensored.org As tensions between Iran and the United States remain high, the US military is preparing to conduct test flights of drones over major American cities, Truthout reported in January 2020….
(2020-05-08). Is Trump Kicking the Saudis to the Curb the Beginning of Something Not Terrible? iranian.com More than anything else in Saudi Arabia, that thing you smell is fear. Everything is coming unglued for the royal family there all at once. If we all weren't so distracted by the Coronapocalypse these things would all be front-page news. In the past week there have been three major stories concerning Saudi Arabia, none …
(2020-05-11). Selected Articles: Catholic Clergy Warns that COVID-19 Is Used as "Pretext" to "Control People" globalresearch.ca 
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | | | If, like us, this is a …
(2020-05-11). Leader of infamous Mexican cartel dies in prison after contracting Covid-19. rt.com 
Notorious Mexican cartel leader Moises Escamilla May has died after contracting the novel coronavirus while serving a lengthy sentence in maximum-security prison on a raft of serious drugs and weapons charges. | Escamilla headed one of the factions of the Los Zetas cartel — a notorious criminal gang in Mexico, involved in cross-border cocaine smuggling as well as kidnapping, sex trafficking and extortion. | Also on rt.com | | According to the Jalisco…