Five Years After Obama's Cuba Opening, Cubans Are Reeling From the "Trump Effect"
Medea Benjamin | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-17
CODEPINK Cuba Delegation in Havana December 17, 2019, Havana, Cuba: Gloria Minor had been preparing her AirBnB in Havana for years, investing every penny her sister sent her from Miami in repairing and refurbishing her apartment. With President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro re-establishing relations five years ago, Minor was sure the expected flood of …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/five-years-after-obamas-cuba-opening-cubans-are-reeling-from-the-trump-effect/

US Regime Change In Mexico, US Bombs Afghan Hospital, Saudis Get Involved In Syria & More OPCW Leaks
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-17
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/16/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/us-regime-change-in-mexico-us-bombs-afghan-hospital-saudis-get-involved-in-syria-more-opcw-leaks/

The Moment the Military-Industrial Complex Became Uncontrollable
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-17
The underlying trend of the Pentagon's budget has been ever onward and upward. We need to understand why if we're ever going to rein it in.
truthdig.com/articles/the-moment-the-military-industrial-complex-became-uncontrollable/

World's end at their fingertips: Russian troops in charge of ground-launched ICBMs celebrate 60th anniversary
rt.com | 2019-12-17
People tasked with keeping Russian ICBMs, some of the most potentially destructive things in the world, updated and ready to use, are marking their anniversary; the weapons have not been used in actual combat in over 60 years. | The Russian Strategic Missile Forces — also known as RVSN after their Russian abbreviation — have about two thirds of the nation's entire nuclear arsenal at their disposal. Spread around the country in silos and on truck-mountable containers are about 400 ICBMs, each with multiple nuclear warheads as their payload. It takes some 6,000 troops, constantly on combat duty, to man…
rt.com/russia/476102-russian-nuclear-arms-anniversary/

British Weapons Manufacturers, Banks, See Share Price Rocket after Conservative Election Victory
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2019-12-16
Almost every one of Britain's top arms producers saw large spikes in their share price immediately following the news that Boris Johnson was to become the next Prime Minister.
mintpressnews.com/uk-weapons-manufacturers-stock-value-boris-johnson-election-victory/263515/

New WikiLeaks documents expose phony claims of 2018 Syria chemical weapons attack
wsws.org | 2019-12-16
The latest round of revelations makes clear that the US-led regime change operation in Syria has been based on a pack of lies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/16/chem-d16.html

Boeing May Suspend 737 MAX, But Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Wants a Total Recall of Deadly Planes
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-16
Executives at Boeing are reportedly considering ending production of the troubled 737 MAX passenger jet, which was grounded worldwide after two crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed all 346 people on board. Last week, former Boeing manager Edward Pierson testified to the House Transportation Committee that he tried to warn executives about safety concerns four months before the first deadly crash, as well as before the second crash, but his warnings were ignored. We continue our conversation with Ralph Nader, longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic and three-time presidential candidate, whose great-n…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/16/ralph_nader_boeing_737_max_jet

Eddie Conway Tells It Like It Is
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-12-13
Please donate and help Eddie–Real News Executive Producer and former Black Panther–continue to expose issues relating to the prison-industrial complex.
therealnews.com/stories/eddie-conway-tells-it-like-it-is

Pope Francis warns on nuclear weapons; official Italy silent
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2019-12-12
Published in Il Manifesto on Nov. 26. Translation by John Catalinotto. Italy's politicians and corporate media, usually eloquent about any news concerning the Pope, greeted with the silence of the tomb the words pronounced by Francis on Nov. 24 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: "The use of atomic energy for war . . . | Continue reading Pope Francis warns on nuclear weapons; official Italy silent at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/12/44873/

US Arms Companies Use Trump's Militarism to Dominate the Global Arms Trade
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-12-12
U.S. companies control 35% of the global arms industry. The growing weapons market is fueled by wars in the Middle East and by Trump's excessive defense budget and aggressive posturing.
therealnews.com/stories/us-arms-companies-trump-militarism-global-trade

On Human Rights Day, Let's Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Martin Fleck | progressive.org | 2019-12-09
A nuclear war would create one of the worst humanitarian crises imaginable, one for which no nation would have an adequate emergency or health response.
progressive.org/op-eds/human-rights-day-nuclear-weapons-fleck-191209/