5: North Korea Calls John Bolton a “Defective Human Product”
North Korea came out swinging Monday morning, declaring U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton “ignorant,” “a warmonger” and “a defective human product.”
The fiery comments, made by an unnamed spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, were a response to Bolton’s claim on Saturday that North Korea’s recent short-range missile tests violated UN Security Council sanctions.
Vice News
4: Where do the elections leave Europe’s nationalists?
Brussels, Belgium – It had been portrayed as a day of reckoning between pro-European and anti-European forces – between those who want greater integration, and those who want to retreat into their nation states.
The European Parliament election results, however, tell the story of a much more fragmented European Union, where mainstream parties on both the left and the right are losing voters’ confidence – a trend that reflects European national politics in the past few years.
Nationalist parties took home impressive results in countries such as Italy, France, Belgium, Hungaryand Poland.
Aljazeera
3: THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS DECLARING A FAKE EMERGENCY TO SELL WEAPONS TO SAUDI ARABIA
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION chose the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day weekend to invoke an obscure state-of-emergency provision that would allow it to sell billions of dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without giving Congress a chance to block the sale.
A Democratic congressional source told The Intercept on Friday that the administration was using the measure to clear a backlog of more than 20 proposed arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, many of which would be blocked if they came to a vote in the Senate.
The Intercept
2: Chomsky: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change & the Undermining of Democracy Threaten Future of Planet
As President Trump pulls out of key nuclear agreements with Russia and moves to expand the U.S. nuclear arsenal, Noam Chomsky looks at how the threat of nuclear war remains one of the most pressing issues facing mankind. In a speech at the Old South Church in Boston, Chomsky also discusses the threat of climate change and the undermining of democracy across the globe.
Democracy Now
1: European elections: far-right ‘surge’ ends in a ripple
