Daily Archives: January 21, 2020

2020-01-21: Social Media Postees

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Ending Militarization Of Our Communities
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-22
From Stop The Militarization of Police Facebook page In recent weeks Popular Resistance has focused on the escalation of US militarism around the world, especially in the Middle East with the assassination of General Soleimani, US troops staying in Syria to take their oil and the US refusing to leave Iraq despite being asked to leave. …
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‘Many May Not Return’: An interview with two actors
Teresa del Carmen Gonzalez | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-22
LONG BEACH, Calif.–The anti-war play Many May Not Return, by David Trujillo, touches on current political issues and global events, such as this being an election year, the recent assassination in Iraq of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by U.S. troops, which created the black cloud of war hanging over the future. These are signs of …
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Protests Continue In Colombia Against Ivan Duque’s Policies
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-22
Several clashes between demonstrators and the police took place during rallies in Bogotá and several regions of the country, in the context of a day of protest in Colombia, where isolated cases of repression were reported. | RELATED: | One More Social Leader Killed In Colombia, 21 So Far in 2020 | The most serious incident happened in Bogota, when a g…
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Mexico Begins Flying, Busing Migrants Back to Honduras
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-22
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico

Florida man stabs & kills ‘pro-Trump’ boss, drapes American flag over his body
rt.com | 2020-01-22
A Florida construction worker outspokenly critical of President Donald Trump has been accused of killing his pro-Trump boss during a heated debate over politics, and using a brand-new Old Glory to cover the corpse. | Mason Trever Toney, 28, was arrested Monday on charges of murdering his boss William Knight, also 28, at a construction site in central Florida’s Orange County. | Knight was described as a “proud and outspoken American” who was open about his support of Trump, according to the arrest affidavit filed by sheriff’s deputies. Toney, on the other hand, had spoken in the past about his distaste for the…
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Trump meets Khan, reiterates unwarranted offer to ‘help’ Pakistan & India over Kashmir
rt.com | 2020-01-22
US President Donald Trump has again floated the idea that Washington could referee talks between India and Pakistan to resolve the dispute over Kashmir, but Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan didn’t appear to bite. | Trump reiterated the offer at a meeting with Khan on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, calling the PM his “friend” and making yet another attempt to insert the US into the Kashmir row. | “We’re talking about Kashmir … if we can help, we certainly will be helping. We’ve been watching that and following it very, very closely,” Trump said. | #PrimeMiniste…
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New Russian government: Lavrov & Shoigu remain, but PM Mishustin appoints many fresh faces
rt.com | 2020-01-22
Russia’s new Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has announced his first cabinet. It doesn’t amount to a radical overhaul, but there are new, and younger, appointees and some well-known ministers have been replaced. | Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Shoigu held on to their “big beast” positions, which suggests foreign and defense policy won’t change much. The cabinet retained 12 people from the outgoing one and replaced nine positions, bringing down the average age of ministers down to 50 years. Here are the new faces of Mishustin’s cabinet. | First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov (replaces Anton Siluanov) A Musco…
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‘Adapting & mutating’: China confirms 9 deaths, 440 cases in coronavirus outbreak, vows close cooperation with WHO
rt.com | 2020-01-22
A pneumonia-like virus sweeping China has claimed its ninth victim and spread to a total of 440 confirmed patients, according to Chinese health officials, who said they would boost international cooperation to contain the illness. | The virus seems to be adapting and mutating, according to the head of China’s Disease Control Center, Gao Fu, who noted though that, so far, all its changes were in line with ‘expectations.’ | Starting in the city of Wuhan, the novel coronavirus has now spread across 13 Chinese provinces, said Li Bin, the vice minister of China’s National Health Commission, on Tuesday. She said hea…
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Greta Thunberg: ‘My generation will not give up without a fight’
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-22
climate action Greta ThunbergIssue 1250 Switzerland World Economic Forum climate emergency DavosJanuary 22, 2020Followi…
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Poniendo la verdad tras las rejas
Dianne Mathiowetz | workers.org | 2020-01-21
øSabía que uno de los derechos más protegidos en este país es el derecho del gobierno a mentirle a la gente? Esa es la esencia de la persecución que se está llevando a cabo en este momento contra Chelsea Manning y Julian Assange. Manning era una analista de inteligencia del . . . | Continue reading Poniendo la verdad tras las rejas at Workers.org
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Poniendo la verdad tras las rejas
Editor | workers.org | 2020-01-21
øSabía que uno de los derechos más protegidos en este país es el derecho del gobierno a mentirle a la gente? Esa es la esencia de la persecución que se está llevando a cabo en este momento contra Chelsea Manning y Julian Assange. Manning era una analista de inteligencia del . . . | Continue reading Poniendo la verdad tras las rejas at Workers.org
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Vale Mining Charged for Murder After Tragedy Leaves 270 Dead
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
The Brazilian Prosecutor’s Office filed a complaint for homicide on Tuesday against the mining company Vale and the German firm TàúV SàúD for their responsibility in the collapse of a mineral dam that left at least 270 dead. | RELATED: | Brazil: Prosecutors Charge Journalist Greenwald With Hacking | In addition to the crime of intentional…
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Iran Will be Changed Forever by Admitting Its Great Mistake, Unlike the West Which Ignores Its Own Misdeeds
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
“In wartime,” Churchill famously told Stalin, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” He said this on 30 November 1943

Attempts to Remove Morales’ Memory from Bolivia Will Likely Reinvigorate an Anti-Imperialist Struggle
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Last Wednesday, the coup government of Bolivia launched a massive military operation claiming to be a pre-emptive strike against the expected violence to occur this Wednesday during Plurinational State Foundation Day celebrations that memorializes the change in the name of …
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Berlin Conference Has Not Brought Peace to Libya
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
The Berlin Conference on Libya held on Sunday will not end the conflict in the North African country, especially as the leaders of the two opposing Libyan factions refused to face each other. In fact, Fayez al-Sarraj of the Muslim …
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In Photos: Civil disobedience is everywhere!
Ronak Chhabra | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-21
With the far-right Indian government is showing no signs of backing down on divisive Citizenship Amendment Act, the voices of resistance have only grown louder and the list of such protest venues is going on increasing…
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Pompeo to Iraq: If You Kick Us Out, We Will Bury You
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
The Trump administration is threatening to destroy Iraq’s economy by withholding a critical source of money that is controlled by the Federal Reserve. The threat is a response to the Iraqi parliament’s unanimous decision to end Washington’s 17 year-long military …
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Defender and Spearheads
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
“ALARM! Twelve thousand residents must immediately leave their homes! All hospital clinics must be evacuated! No exceptions! Hasten! ” Not in burning Australia nor a besieged town in Syria or Afghanistan, but on January 12th 2020 in the otherwise peaceful if no longer prosperous Dortmund, in Germany’s Ruhr Valley; once again, unexploded bombs were detected under…
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In the Name of “Security” Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-21
Despite the fact that the U.S. is retreating from the Middle East, lacking strategy and future vision, lawmakers are congratulating themselves on passing yet another generous aid package to Israel.
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America’s Dangerous Inheritance From World War I
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2020-01-21
The article was originally published in the Future of Freedom. | “War is the health of the state.” So said the eerily prescient and uncompromising anti-war radical Randolph Bourne in the very midst of what Europeans called the Great War, a nihilistic conflict that eventually consumed the lives of at least 9 million soldiers, including some 50,000 Americans. He meant, ultimately, that wars

UK Counter Terrorism Policing document seeks to outlaw political dissent
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
The “guidance document” lists prominent left-wing, anti-war and environmental groups alongside far-right, fascist and white supremacist organisations.
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FRSO Delegation Visits Bolivarian University of Venezuela
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-21
Caracas, Venezuela–A Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) delegation visited the Bolivarian University of Venezuela on January 20, speaking to political science classes. | “Students asked about the movements for change in our country. They definitely had the impression people are protesting Trump, and movements are growing stronger. They are excited that socialist ideas are becoming popular in the U.S.,” said Brad Sigal, a delegation member from Minneapolis. | Sigal continued, “Many of the students are attending the university because of the Bolivarian Revolution and the opportunities it opens up fo…
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Factors Behind the Hong Kong-China Extradition Bill
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
The 2019 protests in Hong Kong were triggered by Carrie Lam’s attempt to pass an extradition bill between Hong Kong and Mainland China. It is unclear if this were done at Beijing’s request (which I believe it was) or …
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Mass protests escalate in Iraq and Lebanon
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
Both countries saw violent clashes as discredited caretaker governments failed to meet any of the social and political demands made by hundreds of thousands who have taken to the streets.
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Mass protests escalate in Iraq and Lebanon
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
Both countries saw violent clashes as discredited caretaker governments fail to meet any of the social and political demands made by hundreds of thousands who have taken to the streets.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/iraq…

French Workers Cut Power to World’s Largest Food Market
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
France’s General Confederation of Labour (CGT) Tuesday announced that the French energy workers protesting against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform cut power to Rungis, the world’s largest wholesale fresh food market located near Paris. | RELATED: | France: Macron Evacuated From Parisian Theater Due to Protests | “The power source to Rungis is cut this…
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Lebanon Forms New Government
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
Lebanon formed a new government on Tuesday, the presidency announced after Shi’ite Hezbollah and its allies clinched a deal on a cabinet that must tackle the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. | RELATED: | Over 330 People Wounded in Lebanon After Clashes in Beirut | Heavily indebted Lebanon has been without an effective government since Saad al-Hariri resigned as premier in October under pressure from protests against state corruption and waste – root causes of the crisis.
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Protests denounce deportation of Iranian student from Boston Logan Airport
Rachel Domond | liberationnews.org | 2020-01-21
More than one hundred advocates and activists gathered at Boston Logan Airport to demand the release of Iranian student Shahab Dehghani, who was detained by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) after landing twenty-four hours prior.
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Trump Makes Space Great Again
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
Unlike virtually everything else that Trump has touched, the Space Force boondoggle has generated almost no controversy. Congress approved Trump’s initiative, which was folded into the annual National Defense Authorization Act, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote at the end of 2019. Not only have very few voices of protest been raised against this extraordinary expansion of U.S. militarism, it has even generated some unexpected praise.
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PCHR: Palestinians Injured at Great March of Return
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-01-21
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) works around the clock to document all Israeli violations and war crimes against Great March of Return (GMR) peaceful protestors, especially children, women and the elderly. Aside from legal documentation of Israeli war crimes, PCHR follows urgent cases that require immediate and advanced medical …
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Switzerland: World Economic Forum Kicks Off Amid Demonstrations
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
Hundreds of environmental and social activists are performing a three-day protest march which departed from Landquart and heads to Davos, where businessmen and politicians attend the World Economic Forum that begins on Tuesday. | RELATED: | ‘You Have Not Seen Anything Yet,’ Thunberg Warns Ahead of Davos | The “world’s leaders meet for 20 years… they always say they want to make the world better, but for me… They have not even done any progress,” activist Theres Matter said a…
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At Least 10 Killed in Two Days of Violence Across Iraq
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
At least 10 people were killed and 138 wounded over the past two days across Iraq as a result of violent clashes between protesters and security forces, the country’s High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) said. | RELATED: | Why Doesn’t the US Move out Despite the Iraqi Parliament’s Decision? | By: Peter Koenig | Demonstrators were…
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Gawkadal massacre in Kashmir
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-21
On January 21, 1990, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), an Indian paramilitary force opened fire on a group of Kashmiri protesters at Gawkadal bridge in Srinagar, Indian side of Kashmir. Gawkadal massacre is considered to be one of the worst massacres in Kashmiri history” along with the Bijbehara Massacre in 1993. According to survivors, more than 250 people were killed in the firing. No action was taken against the CRPF personnel responsible for the massacre.
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Lisa Nandy MP: My Plans as the New Chair of Labour Friends of Palestine & the Middle East
Lisa Nandy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
I visited Palestine as a new MP and I was struck by the threats facing the next generation, the ferocity of the attacks they endure and the systematic denial of their rights. I met a three-year-old child whose house was …
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UK government accused of ‘normalising’ killing people by drone
Mohamed Elmaazi | thecanary.co | 2020-01-21
The British government has been normalising assassination by drone through a veil of “quasi-secrecy” and careful media manipulation, according to Drone Wars UK. The UK-based group published the report In The Frame on 19 January. It argues that remote-controlled assassination has become more accepted as the government characterises high profile targets as ‘the worst of the worst’, who pose an imminent threat. Drone Wars UK warns that this form of kil…
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Netflix, Iran and the Documentary as Geopolitical Weapon
Brian Mier | fair.org | 2020-01-21
Netflix’s Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy | Like The Mechanism before it, Netflix’s new series Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy is an entertainment product that advances US interests through character assassination of a popular left-wing Latin American leader. | “Try saying this,” the director said: “‘In the ’80s, Rio de Janeiro was a land of the haves and the have nots. I was a have not.'” In 2016, I was working as a fixer on an episode of a Netflix documentary crime series, and the main character was not cooperating with the script. | He was Afro-Brazilian, but he was not the…
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The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2020-01-21
This Washington Post headline ( 1/7/20) is probably true. | Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premised on the assumption that the US has the right to use violence (or the threat of it) to assert its will, anytime, anywhere. Conversely, corporate media coverage s…
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Gustavo Pedraza: “The legacy that Carlos leaves us is of unrelenting struggle”
Zoe PC | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-21
Five years have passed since social leader Carlos Alberto Pedraza Salcedo was forcibly disappeared and assassinated, and the struggle for truth and justice continues…
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The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2020-01-21
by Gregory Shupak This Washington Post headline ( 1/7/20) is probably true. | Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premised on the assumption that the US has the right to use violence (or the threat of it) to assert its will, anytime, anywhere. Conversely, corporate…
fair.org/home/the-uss-inalienable-right-…

How Corporate Media Feeds America’s Bloodlust
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-21
This Washington Post headline ( 1/7/20) is probably true. | Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premised on the assumption that the US has the right to use violence (or the threat of it) to assert its will, anytime, anywhere. Conversely, corporate media coverage s…
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Israeli Opposition Leader Gantz Pledges to Annex Jordan Valley
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
Israel’s Blue and White opposition leader Benny Gantz vowed Tuesday to annex the Jordan Valley if the elected prime minister in the upcoming March 2 election, according to Israeli media. | RELATED: Abby Martin Banned From Speaking at US University For Refusing to Sign Pro-Israel Pledge | During a tour of the region, Gantz said the Jordan Valley – located in the eastern occupied West Bank – “is the State of Israel’s eastern defensive wall in any future scenario,” and added it was “an insepar…
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Hillary Clinton Won’t Help Bernie Sanders Win 2020 Election
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she would not commit to back Sen. Bernie Sanders should he win the Democratic nomination this year and declared in a forthcoming documentary that “nobody likes” the Vermont senator. | RELATED: | Sanders 1st Democratic Candidate to Criticize Coup in Bolivia | Her comments were made in an interview with The Hollywood Repo…
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“Nobody Likes Him”: Hillary Clinton Not Sure She’ll Endorse Bernie Sanders
Eoin Higgins | theantimedia.com | 2020-01-21
(CD)

Bolivia: MAS Presidential Candidate Becomes Target of Lawfare
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
Bolivia’s Office of the Prosecutor expanded an investigation against Evo Morales’ former officials, among whom is Luis Arce, the Movement to Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential candidate. | RELATED: | Bolivia: MAS Presents Official Presidential Ticket | The announcement was made by prosecutor Heidi Gil one day after the MAS unveiled that Arce would be its presidential candidate in the upcoming elections in May. | The judicial process is related to the alleged diversion of public resource…
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Evo Morales announces MAS candidates for general elections in May
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-21
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales on January 19 announced the presidential ticket of his party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), for the upcoming general elections in the country. Speaking at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Morales is living as a political refugee, he announced that former Minister of Economy Luis Arce and former Minister of Foreign Affairs David Choquehuanca would run for president and vice president, respectively, in the elections scheduled for May 3. | The decision was taken after two days of intense discussion and contemplation between Morales, the MAS leaders of…
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Janus-Faced on Climate Change: Microsoft’s Carbon Vision
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
“This is a bold bet

Climate Activists Sound Alarm on Mediterranean Natural Gas Pipelines
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-21
Activists say the environmental risks of natural gas drilling are being ignored in the rush to challenge Russia’s control of the European energy market.
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Climate Activists Sound Alarm on Mediterranean Natural Gas Pipelines
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-21
Activists say the environmental risks of natural gas drilling are being ignored in the rush to challenge Russia’s control of the European energy market.
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Greta Thunberg Chastises Global Elite at Davos Forum
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-21
The 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a speech Tuesday to the world leaders and global elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, one year after she first condemned the forum for its inaction on climate change. “We don’t need a ‘low-carbon economy.’ We don’t need to ‘lower emissions.’ Our emissions have to stop,” Thunberg said. “And until we have the technologies that at scale can put our emissions to minus, then we must forget about net zero. We need real zero.” |
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‘Our House Is Still on Fire,’ Warns Greta Thunberg at Davos
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-21
Youth climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland…
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Young people making climate change ‘hot topic’, Greta Thunberg tells Davos elite
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-21
Greta Thunberg was among four young climate activists to challenge the elites gathered at the World Economic Forum for not doing enough to deal with the climate emergency and warned them that time was running out.At a panel in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, the four said they hoped their generation had found its voice and can work with those in power to bring about the necessary change to limit climate change.Yet Thunberg said not enough has been done. | “We need to start listening to the science, and treat this crisis with the importance it deserves,” said the 17-year-old, just as US president Donald Trump was a…
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Officials Confirm First U.S. Case Of Coronavirus From China
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday the first case of Coronavirus on American soil, diagnosing an American resident in Seattle who had recently returned from China. | RELATED: | Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump Begins | Recently discovered, the coronavirus has sickened more than 300 people and has kill…
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Trump’s Legal Team Is Made Up of Religious Fanatics and TV Personalities
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-21
The impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump begins on Tuesday morning. If you’ve been closely following the Trump saga since he came down his golden escalator and declared his candidacy, as I have, you are not terribly surprised that it has come to this. Unfortunately, most of us who could see how he might seduce the faction of the country that had been pri…
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The Many Reasons to Impeach Trump
Debra Gore-Mann | progressive.org | 2020-01-21
The president’s embrace of white supremacy has manifest in impeachable offenses.
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US Complains About Iran’s Threat to Quit Nuclear Deal
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
“We think that Iran needs to end its malign behavior and sit down with the United States and negotiate an agreement that deals not only with the nuclear issue but also with the other issues that concern us like the ballistic missile proliferation and development and the malign activities around the world.”
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Iran: The EU-three Trigger Dispute Mechanism in Iran Nuclear Deal
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-21
Why, after so many assurances to the contrary, have the three European Iran’s Nuclear Deal Partner’s

Iran threatens to leave nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-21
The announcement comes after the UK, France and Germany proposed the invocation of the dispute settlement mechanism in the UNSC – a move that Iran alleges is based on US diktats…
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Propaganda and Lies: Iran and Ukrainian Flight PS752
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Here is the cardinal rule about government–everything it says through its spokespersons, hired guns, public relations adepts, and the mockingbird corporate media should be considered a self-serving lie, or at best a distortion hammered into shape to fit a predefined …
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Iran Threatens to Quit NPT if EU Pursues Reimposition of Security Council Sanctions
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif said “(i)f the Europeans continue their improper behavior or send Iran’s file to the Security Council, we will withdraw from the NPT,” adding: ” | “The Europeans’ remarks lack legal justification…(I)f (they) keep up their actions | …
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Civil war in Iraq? Is Dubai safe? Or World War 3: An analysis of the US-Iran Conflict from every direction
George Stacey | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-21
Iran will never even try to indulge in a one-on-one war with the United States.
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Iran Confirms Two Missiles Were Fired at Downed Ukrainian Airliner
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2020-01-21
(MEE)

CBP Deported an Iranian Student With Valid Visa, Defying Court Order
Carol Rose | aclu.org | 2020-01-21
Last night, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deported an Iranian student with a valid visa, despite a federal court order prohibiting his removal. | Shahab Dehghani arrived at Boston Logan Airport on Sunday, January 19 to study at Northeastern University, where he was enrolled. Customs officials detained him and questioned him for hours, abruptly revoking his student visa, which the State Department granted after a year of intense vetting. | As CBP tried to put Shahab on the next available flight, supporters and friends gathered at night in the arrivals hall at Logan to demand that CBP stop deporting…
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Education: Expanding Purpose
Graham Peebles | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
As the world stumbles from one crisis to another it is increasingly apparent that existing systems and institutions are incapable of responding to the challenges of the time and the growing demands of the people. Creative ways of thinking free from ideology are needed, allowing for a revolution of ideas to take place and new…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/education-ex…

Lebanon is ‘Hours Away’ from Forming New Government: PM
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
The newly appointed Lebanese caretaker Finance Minister, Ali Hassan Khalil, announced on Tuesday that the formation of a new government was just “hours away”, as the country suffers one of its worst economic crisis in decades. | RELATED: | Over 330 People Wounded in Lebanon After Clashes in Beirut | While Khalil did not go into details, the newly appointed Finance Minister appeared optimistic after several days of negotiations and discussions among rival political parties. | Khali…
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telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
A 16-year-old is the latest person to die in one of Libya’s detention centers where refugees and migrants are jailed indefinitely after they are sent back to the war-ravaged country by the European Union-funded coastguard, The Guardian reported. | RELATED: | Almost 1,000 Migrants Returned to Libya This Year Already: IOM | Adal Debretsion, an Eritre…
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Did Shareholders’ Benefit by Paying Boeing’s Fired CEO $62 Million?
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
This is not an abstract philosophical question. Boeing forced out its CEO, Dennis Muilenburg last week. Muilenberg had played a major role in overseeing the development and production of the Boeing 737 Max, a plane which was recently involved in two major crashes, resulting in hundreds of deaths. Following these crashes, and the grounding of…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/did-sharehol…

The Many Millions from the Duchy of Cornwall Properly Belong Not to Prince Charles but to the British People
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
A duchy is a medieval country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a high-ranking nobleman hierarchically second to the king or queen in what is now a defunct European tradition. | The Duchy of Cornwall was created …
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Militants Kill 36 Civilians in Burkina Faso Market Attack
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
Thirty-six civilians were killed in Burkina Faso on Monday in what the government called a terrorist attack on a market in Sanmatenga province. | Armed militants forced their way into the market of the village of Alamou and attacked people there before burning the structure to the ground, the government said in a statement on Tuesday. | The bloodshed is part of a surge in violence in the West African country that has killed hundreds, forced nearly a million from their homes and made much of the north ungovernable over the past two years. | “These repeated attacks on innocent civilians call for real cooperati…
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The Many Ways the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-21
The arms industry, which has the biggest seat at the table when war spending decisions are made, goes unchecked by Congress and the media.
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Germany: New links found between Làºbcke murder, neo-fascist NSU and the secret service
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
The links between the series of murders carried out by the neo-Nazi terrorist group NSU, the murder of Kassel’s District President Walter Làºbcke (CDU) and the secret service are closer than previously known.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/lubc…

Libyan Peace Talks and Russian Diplomacy 101
Strategic Culture Foundation | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Libya stands at a precarious watershed between a peaceful political settlement

Video: Thousands of Turkish Proxy Fighters Flood into Libya Amid Berlin Peace Talks
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Turkey is increasing its military involvement in the Libyan conflict. After officially sending its military advisers and officers to support the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), Turkey set up air defense systems near Mitiga Airport. The airport hosts warplanes …
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Berlin conference prepares military occupation of Libya
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
The Libya conference, which took place last Sunday in Berlin, was not about peace in the war-torn country, but about the distribution of the loot.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/liby…

Venezuela’s Maduro offers Trump a “win-win” bargain
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
In an interview with the Washington Post, the Venezuelan president “suggested that a bonanza could be waiting for U.S. oil companies” if the White House ends sanctions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/vene…

Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou’s Politicized Extradition Hearing
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
On December 1, 2018, bowing to Trump regime pressure, Canadian authorities unlawfully arrested and detained Chinese telecom giant Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on trumped up charges. | Charges against her are politically and economically motivated. | Canada operates …
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Get the Money Out of Politics: 10 Years After Citizens United
Tiffany Muller | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
Ten years ago this week, the Supreme Court released its disastrous 2010 Citizens United decision. The court, either through remarkable naivety or sheer malevolence, essentially married two terrible ideas: that “money equals speech” and that “corporations are people.” The ruling put a for sale sign on our democracy, opening up a flood of corporate, special…
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Another Date That Will Live in Infamy: 10 Years After Citizens United
James C. Nelson | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down one of its worst and most activist decisions ever. Indeed, in terms of harm caused and likelihood for future harm, the Court’s decision in Citizen’s United is, likely, the most pernicious Supreme Court decision ever issued in our nation’s history.
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Another Date That Will Live in Infamy: 10 Years After Citizens United
James C. Nelson | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down one of its worst and most activist decisions ever. Indeed, in terms of harm caused and likelihood for future harm, the Court’s decision in Citizen’s United is, likely, the most pernicious Supreme Court decision ever issued in our nation’s history. A historical…
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Upcoming SCOTUS Ruling Could Starve Public Schools in Favor of Religious Ones
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-21
On January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, a case that could result in the massive expansion of public funding for private religious schools. The petitioners in the case

The Wealthy Have Transformed Campaign Finance a Decade After “Citizens United”
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-21
As a new decade begins, it’s hard to believe just how different our campaign finance system looks now compared with the beginning of the last decade. One key difference: ten years ago, there was no such thing as a super PAC. That’s because the Supreme Court hadn’t decided Citizens United yet. | After that and related cases hacked away at campaign finance limits and the commonsense principles underl…
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A New Definition of Warfare
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Supporters of Donald Trump often make the point that he has not started any new wars. One might observe that it has not been for lack of trying, as his cruise missile attacks on Syria based on fabricated evidence and …
globalresearch.ca/new-definition-warfare…

NATO Terrorist Attacks Continue in Aleppo; Drones Hit Near Lattakia
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
NATO al Qaeda ground operatives in Syria continue their recent acceleration of terrorist atrocities against Syria. Rocket bombs have again been fired into civilian neighborhoods of Aleppo. Armed human garbage continue to prevent civilians to be escorted to safe areas …
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Network for Defence of Humanity Voices Support for teleSUR
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
Our America, January 20, 2020 | Compañera Patricia Villegas | President of TELESUR | Caracas, Venezuela | Dear Patricia, | It is difficult to gather together so many elements and of such weak credibility, as those used today by the empire’s lackeys with threats and attempts to silence Telesur. These efforts only reaffirm the certainty of the value of this station in the battle of the peoples for their right to truth. | How many times have we, as spectators, felt comforted to see that a Telesur team is in the place where transcendental events are happening for those who have been silenced, for those who ha…
telesurenglish.net/news/Network-for-Defe…

The Teamster Revolt Against the Hoffa Era
David Levin | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
Willie Ford listened to the conference call in disbelief from the cab of his tractor trailer on I-95 as the Teamster election monitor announced the results of the contract vote covering 250,000 workers at UPS.Ford, a leader of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), and rank-and-file activists like him, had spent months organizing the UPS…
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Life and Legacy of Errol W. Barrow, Barbados’ Freedom Fighter
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
One of Barbados’ most important political figures, Errol W. Barrow is today remembered for his impressive record: first prime minister, father of the independence, a supporter of the regional unity, and designer of a modern system of public budgeting, among many other achievements. | RELATED: | Barbados Will Not Take Part in US ‘Attempt to Divide Region’ | Barrow was born in St. Lucy on Jan. 21, 1920 into a family of political and social activists. At the age of 20, in 1940, he jo…
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Bush, Obama and Trump Have All Told the Same Ruinous Lie
Marjorie Cohn | truthdig.com | 2020-01-21
When it comes to America’s longest war, the three presidents have a lot more in common than meets the eye.
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The Trump Coup to Come
Paul Street | truthdig.com | 2020-01-21
America’s political authoritarianism comes in different, yet combined, mutually reinforcing forms. We have the neofascist authoritarianism of the white nationalist Republican Party, its Great Dog-Wagging God in the White House and his cultish, white-Amerikaner base. | Donald Trump may well not leave the White House without a dangerous fight if he is bested in the Electoral College in November. In his book…
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The Demise of the Labour Party and the Future For UK Socialism
Susan Roberts | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
Recent elections in the UK have resulted in a seismic shift in the political landscape with the Labour Party being completely decimated: losing over 50 seats, many in places that had voted Labour for generations. The significance of this defeat, particularly regarding the party’s long-term prospects, is currently being hotly debated. With the Tories under…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/the-demise-o…

Warmonger Cotton Accuses Antiwar Think Tank of Anti-Semitism
Sheldon Richman | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
If you wonder what…
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Warmonger Cotton Accuses Antiwar Think Tank of Anti-Semitism
Sheldon Richman | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
If you wonder what…
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Iowa is not the Twitterverse
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
It was a balmy 70 degrees in New York City last Saturday, and the excited green croci began tipping through the earth. Now, that same ground is icy, and those tips are frozen stiff, and I’ve been fearing that the same fate might befall hopeful progressive voters in the wake of the Warren/Sanders tiff. The…
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Iowa is Not the Twitterverse
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
It was a balmy 70 degrees in New York City last Saturday, and the excited green croci began tipping through the earth. Now, that same ground is icy, and those tips are frozen stiff, and I’ve been fearing that the same fate might befall hopeful progressive voters in the wake of the Warren/Sanders tiff. The…
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Handball in Brooklyn
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
Handball in Brooklyn I don’t know if it’s like this Where you live, but here The delis and bodegas All have clear plastic bags Behind their counters filled With blue rubber spheres Metro Ball, Sky Bounce A handball for a buck

China Takes Steps to Curb Human-To-Human Transmitted Virus
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
China’s President Xi Jinping ordered health authorities at all levels to increase their efforts to curb the spread of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which has caused 217 confirmed cases of pneumonia and has left 6 people dead so far. | RELATED: | China Reports 136 New Cases of ‘Sars-Type’ Virus | “Party committees and governments at all levels should place people’s safe…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Takes-Step…

Why Some Public Universities Get to Keep Their Donors Secret
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-21
In April 2018, the public learned that George Mason University had let the Charles Koch Foundation have a say in the hiring and review of faculty. The revelation confirmed long-held suspicions that Virginia’s largest public university was susceptible to pressure from wealthy people who make big donations to a foundation that solely exists to support the schoo…
truthout.org/articles/why-some-public-un…

We Want a World Without Police. These Organizers Are Charting the Way
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-21
What does working toward a world without prisons look like? How would we address harm without calling police or relying on imprisonment? | Those are the questions that longtime anti-violence organizers Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon are exploring in their new anthology, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, which was released yesterday. | Beyond Survival is not a “how-to” manual.
truthout.org/articles/we-want-a-world-wi…

In Historic Shift, US’s Second-Largest Physician Group Endorses Medicare for All
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-21
The fight for Medicare for All received a two-handed boost from tens of thousands of doctors on Monday when the American College of Physicians

The Comey-Lynch Plausible Deniability Game
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
As the structure and form of institutions continue to breakdown offering new perspectives and unexpected revelations, it is fitting that former FBI Director James Comey continues to be scrutinized regarding his behavior on multiple aspects of the HRC email scandal, …
globalresearch.ca/comey-lynch-plausible-…

(Burying) ‘The Salt of the Earth’
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
The Rolling Stones created a great and meaningful song ‘The Salt of the Earth’ in 1968: | I wanna drink to the hard working people | Let’s drink of the lowly of birth | I wanna raise my glass to the good and | …
globalresearch.ca/burying-salt-earth/570…

Video: Author of Leaked OPCW Engineering Report on Douma Speaks at UN Security Council
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
The UN Security Council met in New York on Monday to discuss the investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) into an alleged chemical attack that was said to have taken place in April 2018 in …
globalresearch.ca/author-leaked-opcw-eng…