Новости за 12.05.2017

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By Peter Elkind / ProPublica Previously unreported judgments and misjudgments by FBI agents played a crucial role in the agency director’s fateful decisions.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Only Russian journalists were invited to cover the president’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (pictured, left) and Sergey Kislyak, Russian ambassador to the U.S.

By Common Dreams staff / Common Dreams The White House press secretary demurs when asked if there are “recording devices in the Oval Office” and claims the president’s “tapes” tweet about James Comey “speaks for itself.”

Mustafa Akyol’s book tells Christians, Muslims and Jews exactly what we all have in common and how we got this way. It reaches us not a minute too soon.

(Screen shot via Twitter) In a series of tweets sent early Friday morning, President Trump addressed a litany of pressing political topics, from the dismissal of former FBI Chief James Comey and the ensuing backlash to his difficult relationship with the media. First, Trump once again insisted that the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election were created by his political opponents: Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign... Читать дальше...

Twenty years since its debut, playwright Wallace Shawn’s (pictured, left) drama has taken on new meaning for American theatergoers.

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The award-winning director speaks with Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer in Part 2 of a conversation about filmmaking, Wall Street greed, and the past and future of America’s military exploits.

By Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report A group of Obama White House lawyers—who defended the U.S. bombing of Libya, drone wars and the “proxy” war against Syria—is suing Trump for failing to legally justify his attack on a Syrian air base.

A new documentary by John Pilger exposes how U.S. military buildup in the Pacific has encircled China—and how local communities across Asia are resisting American nuclear and naval takeover.

By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams Activists worry that the spill, which did not threaten waterways, is just the first of others to come.

“Most revolution is local,” says Jackson, CEO of the Baltimore organization Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle.