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2020-01-27: Social Media Postees

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Adam Schiff’s Russia-bashing is unhinged and dangerous
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-28
Scholar and author Stephen F. Cohen says that Adam Schiff’s Russia-bashing during the Trump impeachment trial is “ignorant and debased.”…
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La politica 100 secondi a Mezzanotte
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
Mentre l’attenzione politico-mediatica era concentrata in Italia sulla campagna elettorale, la lancetta dell’ ´Orologio dell’apocalisse ª

China’s PM calls for ‘resolute fight’ against coronavirus outbreak as death toll climbs to 106 with over 1,700 new cases
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The death toll from China’s coronavirus outbreak has risen to 106, with the authorities in Hubei province, at the heart of the crisis, saying on Tuesday it killed 24 more people. Over 4,500 cases have been confirmed nationwide. | The death toll from the respiratory disease, caused by the novel coronavirus named 2019-nCoV, climbed to double digits on Tuesday. The health commission in the Hubei province, where it had originated, confirmed that 100 people have died from the deadly virus, which brings the total number of deaths within China to at least 106. The majority of the new lethal cases, 24, were reported i…
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‘No scope for outside interference’: India tells Europe to mind its own business as MEPs consider anti-citizenship law resolutions
rt.com | 2020-01-28
India is more than capable of handling its own matters and any outside meddling in its affairs is inappropriate and uncalled-for, India’s VP has said as the European Parliament prepares to debate India’s citizenship law. | Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu dismissed all attempts by foreign powers to lecture New Delhi on its own internal policy, at an event on Monday. Calling such efforts “totally uncalled for and unwarranted,” Naidu said that misconceptions about the bill are rooted in “inadequate knowledge and insufficient understanding” of the law. | Naidu said that many in the West had not given the nas…
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Trump in Davos: US isolationism is Reaching Its Final Narcissistic Chapter
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
By the time Donald Trump was condemning environmentalists as the “perennial prophets of doom” in Davos, his impeachment trial was opening in Washington. But quite by chance, at that very moment, I was reading a new edition of a book by a child survivor of the 1915 Armenian Holocaust which, hauntingly and poetically, said more about…
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Trump in Davos: US isolationism is Reaching Its Final Narcissistic Chapter
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
By the time Donald Trump was condemning environmentalists as the “perennial prophets of doom” in Davos, his impeachment trial was opening in Washington. But quite by chance, at that very moment, I was reading a new edition of a book by a child survivor of the 1915 Armenian Holocaust which, hauntingly and poetically, said more about America than anything Trump

Trump’s disdain for wounds suffered by troops in Iraq sparks protest
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
The downplaying of the injuries has laid bare the president’s contempt for US military personnel, with whose lives he gambled by ordering the Suleimani assassination.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/iran…

Trump’s disdain for wounds suffered by troops in Iraq sparks protest
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
The downplaying of the injuries laid bare the president’s contempt for US military personnel, with whose lives he gambled with the Suleimani assassination.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/iran…

Rockets Strike US Embassy in Baghdad
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Iraq is occupied US territory. | The vast majority of Iraqis and its ruling authorities want Pentagon and allied forces expelled from the country. | It’s the only way for the nation to regain its sovereignty, lost to US aggression and occupation, …
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Yemen: Saudi Coalition Claims ‘Tactical Withdrawal” After Houthi Forces Retake Key Province
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-27
Saudi forces have called their defeat in the face of the Houthi advance a “tactical withdrawal” amid scathing criticism and sarcasm by activists and media pundits.
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Genocide Scholar Warns That the Groundwork for Genocide in the US Has Been Laid
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-27
Brynn Tannehill, a defense analyst and genocide scholar, took to Twitter to warn that the necessary conditions and many of the precursor events for genocide in the US “are in motion.”
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North Korea: Kim Jong-un’s Aunt Appears Alive After Six Years of Media Saying He Killed Her
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-27
There was, as there usually is when it comes to coverage of North Korea, little self-reflection as to how and why the media had reported fake news for six years.
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Auschwitz Was Evil but so Was Jasenovac, Yet Few Dare to Talk About It
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is a somber event marked by deep reflection across Europe about the evils of its genocidal past, which makes it an appropriate time to remind everyone about Jasenovac, the Croatian-operated death camp …
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NYC demands: “No War on Iran”
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-27
New York, NY – Over 200 attended a rally at Columbus Circle in New York City on January 26 to demand no war on Iran. The protest was part of a global day of action demand U.S. hands off Iran, weeks after President Trump assassinated Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general. | The action was called by Answer Coalition and United National Antiwar Coalition, with endorsements and speakers from various organizations, including International League of People’s Struggles, International Action Center, December 12th Movement, BAYAN, and many others. | Despite the rain, the crowd was passionate in calling an end to the United…
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Tampa says: No war with Iran and U.S. out of the Middle East!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-27
Tampa, FL – Activists and community members came together January 25 to demand “No war with Iran and U.S. out of the Middle East.” The protest took place in downtown Tampa and coincided with hundreds of protests around the United States and the world in an International Day of Action against the Trump administration’s war mongering. The event was hosted by ANSWER Suncoast, Tampa Bay SDS and the Tampa Anti-War Committee. | Gareth, a member of Tampa Bay SDS, explained why they attended the protest: “We need to center the people living under these conditions and having to face these horrible atrocities carried out b…
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Minneapolis builds solidarity with Iraq’s mass movement against U.S. occupation
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-27
Minneapolis, MN – On January 25, around 150 anti-war activists and members of working class and community groups united to protest the U.S. military in Iraq and threats of war against Iran. Part of a global day of protest, the action came two days after millions of Iraqis overcame political disunity to fill the streets of Baghdad and demand an end to 17 years of U.S. occupation. | The Minneapolis event was held in front of the K-Mart at the busy Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue intersection. Protesters chanted, gave speeches, held banners and brought their message of peace and anti-imperialist solidarity to thousa…
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Grand Rapids rallies against U.S. war on Iran, joins worldwide call for U.S. to leave Iraq
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-27
Grand Rapids, MI – 45 people rallied in Grand Rapids on January 25 to demand “No U.S. war on Iran! U.S. out of Iraq!” | “We are part of an international day of protest, with more than 100 protests in U.S. cities alone. People are sick of the endless wars that Trump promised to halt. The U.S. needs to leave the Middle East and let the people of those countries decide their own destiny,” said Barbara Howard of the Anti-War Committee. | Howard continued, “Trump’s assassination of the respected Iranian General Soleimani was outrageous. We think it is good Trump backed down quickly from a regional war. Now it is time…
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Canada’s complicity in the persecution of Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
The Canadian political establishment has maintained a deafening and complicit silence on the persecution of Assange throughout the past nine years.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/asca…

An interview with a “yellow vest” protester on the fight to free Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
Corinne was one of around 100 protesters who came from France to take part in Saturday’s rally in support of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange outside Belmarsh prison.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/cori…

French Yellow Vests hold large solidarity demo for Julian Assange at Belmarsh prison
Mohamed Elmaazi | thecanary.co | 2020-01-27
Members of the French Yellow Vest protest movement organised a demonstration outside of Belmarsh prison in solidarity with incarcerated publisher Julian Assange on 25 January. Two coaches with a hundred people from different French cities departed from Paris at 8pm on Friday evening and arrived the next morning in Woolwich, South East London. Corinne Henry, a Yellow Vest organiser, told The Canary that the move…
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French “Yellow Vests” rally for Julian Assange outside London’s Belmarsh Prison
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
The protest testified to the global scope of the support for Assange, despite the relentless lies and slanders that have been directed against him by the corporate media.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/yell…

US Envoy Threatens to Assassinate New Quds Force Commander
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
“If Ghaani follows the same path of killing Americans then he will meet the same fate,” U.S. envoy Brian Hook told the Arabic-language daily Asharq al-Awsat. | *** | The U.S. envoy to Iran Brian Hook has threatened Iran’s Quds Force commander…
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The World Is Burning, But It’s Not Front-Page News
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
Let me betray my age for a moment. Some of you, I know, will be shocked, but I still read an actual newspaper. Words on real paper every day. I’m talking about the New York Times, and something stuck with me from the January 9th edition of that “paper” paper. Of course, in the world of the Internet, that’s already ancient history

Establishment Democrats Are Terrified of a Sanders Win in Iowa
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2020-01-27
Bernie Sanders was off the campaign trail over the weekend, stuck in the Senate for impeachment hearings, but if polling is any indication, that didn’t stop his campaign’s momentum. A New York Times/Siena College poll of Iowa Democratic voters shows 25% of respondents would vote for Sanders in the Iowa caucus on Feb. 3. A poll from Boston’s Emerson College of Iowa Democrats a…
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DNC’s Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants to rig the game against Bernie
Kevin Gosztola | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-27
With Sen. Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/27/dnc-perez-reg…

To rig primary against Bernie, DNC’s Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants
Kevin Gosztola | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-27
With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/27/dnc-perez-reg…

To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants
Kevin Gosztola | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-27
With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/27/dnc-perez-reg…

Joe Biden in 2020 Copies Hillary Clinton in 2016
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The 2016 Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucuses were held on 1 February 2016 and produced 49.84% for Hillary Clinton and 49.59% for Bernie Sanders. | On 12 January 2016, Politico headlined “Sanders bests Clinton in new early state polls” and reported …
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Bernie Sanders, Joe Rogan, Human Rights Campaign, and Truth in Advertising
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
On January 20, comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan mentioned that he’ll “probably vote for Bernie” Sanders in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary. Rogan cited Sanders’s decades of “consistency” as a “very powerful structure to operate from.” More interesting than Rogan’s quasi-endorsement was the Human Rights Campaign’s negative response. The organization called on Sanders to…
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Cuba: a Matter of Principle
Rose Miriam Elizalde | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
Think tanks in the United States and Cuban researchers agree on one thing: the policy of more sanctions and the extension of the U.S. blockade will not change the socialist course of Cuba. In the case of the island, punishment produces the exact opposite of weakness. It has been that way for more than 60 years…
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Chilean Students Protest Controversial Exam in Santiago
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-27
Chilean students are mobilizing to reject the PSU selection test that will be applied on Monday under strong security measures implemented by the police to avoid excesses inside the enclosures where the exam will take place. | RELATED: | Chile: Three Months of Social Unrest Under Harsh Repression | High school and university students, who have expressed their opposition to the repetitive and controversial PSU test that they claim is part of the profit and segregation system in Chil…
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Genetically Modified Seeds: Bayer Builds Latin America’s Largest Seed Factory in Chile
GMWatch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Following is an English translation of an article from the German newspaper Deutsche Welle (DW), translated by from the Spanish version circulated by Network for a Latin America Free of Transgenics (RALLT). | “Bayer-Monsanto: Get Out of Chile”, was the slogan …
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The Challenge for Chile and the World
Ariel Dorfman | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
SANTIAGO, Chile. In October, a rise in Santiago’s metro fares set off the biggest protests in Chile since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Protesters were calling out elite corruption, inequality, high prices and low wages, and specifically the pain caused by a privatized retirement system, which left many old people in grinding poverty. The essential question…
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Could the climate crisis be “The Good News of Damnation”?
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-01-27
The climate crisis, like the prospect of nuclear annihilation, really is “the good news of damnation.” And we can only overcome it by working together…
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The major threat to polar bears that no-one’s even talking about
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-01-27
Polar bears have become a gut-wrenching symbol of the breakdown of our planet. But the climate crisis isn’t the only major threat they face. Speaking at a recent event in parliament, Norwegian conservationist Ole Liodden pointed out that something else is killing around 1,000 polar bears a year and yet no-one’s even talking about it. | Ban trophy hunting: | The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting (CBTH) organised th…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/01/27/the-majo…

Black Farmers Are Embracing Climate-Resilient Farming
Leah Penniman | zcomm.org | 2020-01-27
Communities of color are on the frontlines of climate change…
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This is Really Happening
Christopher Packham | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
I’m alarmed. I’m afraid. I’m sad. I’m a teacher, and it terrifies me to think of what the future will become for our children if we don’t stop and act right now on the climate disaster. *** I’ll be as clear as I can, and start with an analogy. The train is coming. We are…
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Australian fires and drought: Government cut climate change research, ignored scientists
Anna Pha | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-27
The catastrophic nature of the bush fires in Australia these past months in all likelihood could have been prevented or been less severe if governments had listened to scientists and acted on their advice. Instead, funding was cut to the very organizations that are critical to our understanding of bush fires and climate change, and …
peoplesworld.org/article/australian-fire…

China’s Death Toll from Coronavirus Nearly Doubles in 48 Hours
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-27
Over the last 48 hours, the death toll from the Coronavirus has nearly doubled in China, with another 25 people reported dead in the past 24 hours alone. According to the Chinese authorities, the death toll from the Coronavirus has now reached a 81 after two dozen people succumbed to the illness overnight. | RELATED: | Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 56 in China, 2,200 Infected | Due to this death toll, the Chinese authorities have announced the extension of the Lunar New Year holi…
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5 Million Cases Worldwide, 650,000 Deaths Annually: The Seasonal Flu Virus is a “Serious Concern”, But the Wuhan Coronavirus Grabs the Headlines
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The common flu virus will infect millions across the globe. It can be easily spread and will especially strike the young and the elderly. But this is not what has been described as the Wuhan virus. The common flu is …
globalresearch.ca/flu-bigger-concern-wuh…

Rising concerns over spread of the Wuhan coronavirus
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
Medical services are being overwhelmed by the 2,744 confirmed cases and at least 80 reported deaths, as authorities in China and internationally attempt to contain the spread of the epidemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/coro…

Trump Bought Off the Impeachment Jury With Tax Cuts While Hinting at Bigger Ones
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
It’s long been obvious that Republican senators have little interest in serving as impartial jurors in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. While there is a raft of motivations for such historic perfidy

Trump tweets threats as impeachment defense begins
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
Senate Republicans seem determined to bring the trial to an end by Friday of this week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/impe…

Allegations in Bolton Book Spark New Calls for Witnesses at Impeachment Trial
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
Calls are growing for the Senate to call witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial, after The New York Times published details about former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book. In the book, Bolton writes that President Trump personally told him in August that he wanted to maintain a freeze on $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until Ukraine turned over materials related to former Vice President Joe Biden and supporters of Hillary Clinton in Ukraine. The N…
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Trump Steps Up Attacks on Reproductive Rights Amid Impeachment Trial
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
Donald Trump on Friday became the first sitting president in U.S. history to attend the so-called March for Life, the annual anti-abortion rally held in Washington, D.C., that draws thousands of participants. President Trump

Can Manufacturing Workers Take Many More of Trump’s Trade “Victories”?
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
Last week, as Donald Trump was trying to distract attention from his impeachment trial, he was holding events touting his big trade victories. The two items for celebration were the new NAFTA, dubbed by Trump as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and a “phase one” trade deal with China. While these deals may be useful props for…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/27/can-manufact…

The Vile Message Democrats Are Sending With Impeachment
Saif Ansari | truthdig.com | 2020-01-27
People of color have suffered the brunt of Trump’s abuses, so why are there no articles of impeachment that speak to their pain?
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Women Are Leading the Fight Against Fascism in India
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
On the 4th of December 2019 the Hindu nationalist Bharatya Janata Party (BJP)-led government of India introduced the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in parliament. By the 11th of December the bill had been enacted into law after being pushed through parliamentary votes, and signed by the President. The rules of the law are still being written and yet Home Minister Amit Shah announced on the 10th of January 2020 that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is now in operation. By doing so, the BJP has chosen to ignore t…
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Adani and the Purpose of Education
Peter Harrison | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
Recently, Survival International, the organization that campaigns with ‘tribal peoples,’ ran a story about the Indian conglomerate, Adani Group, setting up a Tribal Residential School for children in Bankishole, Baripada, in Mayurbhanj District in Odisha State

Brazilian Indigenous Tribes to Sue Bolsonaro Over Crude Remarks
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-27
The primary organization representing Brazil’s 300 Indigenous tribes issued a joint statement on Friday that threatened to sue far-right President Jair Bolsonaro over his crude comments. | RELATED: | Lula Calls on Brazilians to Fight to Regain Nation’s Democracy | In particular, the Association of Indigenous Peoples (APIB) slammed Bolsonaro over his recent remarks claiming that the Brazilian tribes were ‘evolving” and becoming more human. | “We need to put a stop to this perver…
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The Unbearable Hypocrisy of US Sanctions on Iran
Daniel McAdams | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
On November 22nd of last year, the US government announced it would impose sanctions on Iran’s information minister for his alleged role in limiting domestic Internet access while protests raged in that country over increases in gas prices. | At the …
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No, Iran Won’t Have a Nuclear Bomb ‘in a Matter of Months’
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
As Iran puts the final nail in its nuclear agreement with the West, hyperbolic headlines have warned that the Islamic Republic could have a nuclear weapon “within months.” Politicians have said it, pundits have repeated it, and hawkish national security …
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Americans Need to Hear More From Iranians, Here’s Where to Start
Negin Owliaei | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
Following President Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would seek new sanctions, but not immediate military escalation, against Iran, most people in the United States likely breathed a sigh of relief. For Iranians and Iranian Americans like myself, that relief was accompanied by a reminder of just how painful existing conditions can be. Sanctions starve our…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/27/americans-ne…

US to Grant $35 Million to Promote Its “Fake News Bubble” in Syria and Control Local Media
Eva Bartlett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Although Western media has a shoddy track record of lying on Syria (and Libya, Iraq…), the US State Department will pump $35 million more into future war propaganda on Syria, under the guise of promoting honest reporting. | A US State | …
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Ruling Amid Ruins: The Plot to Break Up Iraq
David Hearst | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Any reader of these columns is familiar with the landscape

The Iraqi Protests “Were Anti-American”. A Tale or Two of a Single Protest
Joshua Tartakovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
We live in an era of protests. Everyone feels they have to fight to change things. Unless they are comfortable in their work routine, are wealthy and indifferent, or cannot risk getting fired. | There is manipulation and mobilization of protests…
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Trump’s Response to Baghdad “Anti-American” Protest: Let’s Revive the ISIS “Freedom Fighters”
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
ISIS and likeminded terrorist groups were made in the USA

Murder of Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak reveals close ties between political establishment, corporate elite and criminal underworld
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
The reintroduction of capitalism did not bring democracy, freedom, and prosperity, but the opposite.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/slov…

A Historian Reflects on the Return of Fascism
Lawrence Wittner | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
Back in 1941, the year of my birth, fascism stood on the brink of conquering the world. During the preceding decades, movements of the Radical Right–mobilized by demagogues into a cult of virulent nationalism, racial and religious hatred, and militarism–had made great strides in nations around the globe. By the end of 1941, fascist Germany,…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/27/a-historian-…

5G Roll-out: A High Tech EMF Front in the War Against Humanity?
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
“The people from the insurance industry, they all said that for them it was not the question of whether this was dangerous or not, they knew it was dangerous. The only question for them was who is going to pay …
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5 Million Cases Worldwide, 650,000 Deaths Annually: The Seasonal Flu Virus is a “Serious Concern”, But the Wuhan Virus Grabs the Headlines
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The common flu virus will infect millions across the globe. It can be easily spread and will especially strike the young and the elderly. But this is not what has been described as the Wuhan virus. The common flu is …
globalresearch.ca/flu-bigger-concern-wuh…

The Seasonal Flu Is A Bigger Concern but the Wuhan Virus Grabs the Headlines
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The common flu virus will infect millions across the globe. It can be easily spread and will especially strike the young and the elderly. But this is not what has been described as the Wuhan virus. The common flu is …
globalresearch.ca/flu-bigger-concern-wuh…

EPA’s New Water Rule a Mockery of Science and the Clean Water Act
Derrick Z. Jackson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
With the Environmental Protection Agency’s own data showing that nearly half of our rivers and streams and a third of our wetlands are in “poor biological condition,” and with millions of Americans exposed to unsafe chemicals in water systems, this …
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Santa Fe Denies Permit for Mural Art Depicting Plight of Palestinian Children
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
The stucco wall on Santa Fe’s Old Pecos Trail is now papered with images of Israeli soldiers terrorizing Palestinian women and children. This art was created by Navajo artist Remy at the request of Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine (SFJP), of which I am a member. For the past six years, we have been creating art depicting the conditions of Palestinians under the Israeli occupation. Guthrie Miller, the owner of the wall where the art has been located since 2014, has supported this effort.
truthout.org/articles/santa-fe-denies-pe…

NATO’s Upcoming War Games Targeted Against Russia
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Last week NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg explained why the U.S. are strengthening their military presence in Europe. The reason is unsurprisingly to pressurize and intimidate Russia, but also against China and the so-called fight against terrorism. Stoltenberg explained that …
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Dear Global Research Readers, Your Support Is Essential
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Dear Readers, | Our team works tirelessly day in, day out, to promote peace and a world without war. Currently, however, promoting peace is not a money making endeavour. Without financial support from our readers, we are faced with a monthly …
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Everyone needs to hear this important message about the domestic extremism scandal
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2020-01-27
In recent weeks, counter-terrorism policing has been in the spotlight after revelations that it included a range of protest groups in counter-terror and extremism documents. | Home Office minister Brandon Lewis stated in parliament that protest groups, including Extinction Rebell…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/01/27/ever…

NewsGuard Can Save You From Putin!
Fred Gardner | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
The New York Times headline was an attention grabber worthy of Sen. Joe McCarthy: “How Amazon, Geico and Walmart Fund Propaganda.” A subhed explained: “Algorithms are sending ads by American brands onto Russian disinformation sites.” The op-ed by L. Gordon Crovitz, a former publisher of the Wall St. Journal, culminated in a sales pitch for…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/27/newsguard-ca…

NewGuard Can Save You From Putin!
Fred Gardner | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
The New York Times headline was an attention grabber worthy of Sen. Joe McCarthy: “How Amazon, Geico and Walmart Fund Propaganda.” A subhed explained: “Algorithms are sending ads by American brands onto Russian disinformation sites.” The op-ed by L. Gordon Crovitz, a former publisher of the Wall St. Journal, culminated in a sales pitch for…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/27/newguard-can…

Influence of Wall Street Donors Has Exploded in Decade Since “Citizens United”
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
This story is part of a series related to the 10-year anniversary of Citizens United v. FEC. OpenSecrets recently released a comprehensive report on the impacts of the controversial Supreme Court decision. Click here to read the full report. | The 2010 landmark ruling in Citizens United amplified the influence of deep-pocke…
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Al Qaeda Terrorist Attacks Continue in Aleppo; Drones Hit Near Lattakia
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
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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Remembering My Hero, Howard Zinn
Daniel Ellsberg | truthdig.com | 2020-01-27
The renowned historian Howard Zinn died on January 27, 2010. On the occasion of the 10 year anniversary of his passing, we are revisiting the following piece by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about his close friend and “the best human being [he’s] ever known,” originally published on January 28, 2010. | I just learned that my friend Howard Zinn died today. Earlier this morning, I was being interviewed by the Boston Phoenix, in connection with the February release of a documentary in which he is featured prominently. The interviewer asked me who m…
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Israel Resumes Aerial Herbicide Spraying Along Gaza’s Perimeter Fence, Deliberate Destruction of Palestinian Farming
GISHA | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, Israeli crop-duster planes flew along the perimeter fence separating Gaza and Israel, spraying chemicals assumed to be herbicides into the Strip. Israel continued to conduct aerial herbicide spraying along additional sections of the perimeter fence …
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Is the DNC Planning to Go to War Against the Left?
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-27
Progressives raised alarm this weekend after Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez released his picks for the 2020 Democratic National Convention committees. | The list of nominees, Sunrise Movement political director Evan Weber said Sunday, looks like “a who’s-who of people explicitly opposed to the progressive agenda.” | Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof, sparked a flurry of responses when he shared Perez’s list on social media Saturday afternoon. | Related Articles:
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Is the DNC Planning to Go to War Against the Left?
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-27
Progressives raised alarm this weekend after Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez released his picks for the 2020 Democratic National Convention committees. | The list of nominees, Sunrise Movement political director Evan Weber said Sunday, looks like “a who’s-who of people explicitly opposed to the progressive agenda.” | Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof, sparked a flurry of responses when he shared Perez’s list on social media Saturday afternoon. | Democratic National Committee ch…
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Italy’s regional voters thwart hopes of Matteo Salvini’s League party
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-27
Italian voters have thwarted right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini’s hopes of turning an election in a key northern region into a springboard for regaining national power.Nearly complete results from Sunday’s election for the governorship of the prosperous Emilia-Romagna region had his League party candidate winning only 43.7% of support to the 51.4% garnered by the incumbent governor Stefano Bonaccini from the centre-left Democrats.The Democrats are in Italy’s national coalition government led by premier Giuseppe Conte. | Italy, Emilia-Romagna regional election, 61.5% counted: | Bonaccini (CSX-LEFT | S&D | G/E…
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Ignoring the Elephant at the Guantanamo Prison Camp: Yet Another 9/11 Crime
Kevin Ryan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The dubious legal proceedings at the Guantanomo Bay (Gitmo) prison camp continue to promote the idea of justice for victims of 9/11. Unfortunately, these proceedings do not represent an administration of law but an unstated claim that the Global War …
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What’s Love Got to Do with It? Everything! “Jesus Drives Money Changers from the Temple”
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
It’s really interesting how many of us equate how the love of God should be expressed. Many religions dictate that we who care should restrict ourselves to doing good deeds and NOT becoming too rebellious towards the ‘things of the …
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10 Years After His Passing, Howard Zinn Remains a Threat to the Status Quo
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
In Howard Zinn’s play Marx in Soho, Karl Marx remarks, “They are all proclaiming that my ideas are dead! It’s nothing new. These clowns have been saying this for more than a hundred years. Don’t you wonder: why is it necessary to declare me dead again and again?” | Reflecting on Zinn’s death 10 years ago, the parallel is striking: the right and all too many liberals still find it necessary to attack the historian, playwright and…
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Left Party prepares to cooperate with far-right Alternative for Germany in Thuringia
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
The German ruling class and all its parties, from the Left Party to the far-right AfD, are drawing closer together and preparing to form an alliance against the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/left…

Death toll rises to 38 after earthquake in Elazığ in eastern Turkey
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
Though Turkey is an earthquake-prone country and the state collects billions in a so-called “earthquake tax,” none of the necessary security measures were taken.
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Despite thousands of job cuts, General Motors will receive $2.28 billion in Michigan tax credits
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
The deal with the Michigan Strategic Fund board includes a modest reduction in the tax credit in exchange for the “flexibility” to cut more jobs.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/gmta…

Private equity firm to purchase the assets of the .ORG domain registry for $1 billion
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
Opposition is growing to the plan by the Internet Society, the non-profit organization responsible for managing the standards and protocols of the internet, to sell the top-level domain registry .ORG to the private equity firm Ethos Capital for $1.135 billion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/dorg…

“Respect for Graduate Student Workers Act” introduced in House and Senate
Donald Donato | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-27
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–The Harvard Graduate Student Union-UAW, which is in the midst of contentious contract negotiations, puts the situation faced by its members in stark perspective: “Harvard University, which has a $41 billion endowment, admits that many students and student workers here are food insecure. But instead of agreeing to fair compensation in a union contract, …
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Housing Discrimination Is Rising. Trump Is Attacking Protections Against It
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
For the past few months, yet another legislative pillar of the country’s civil rights era, the Fair Housing Act, has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. First, in the autumn, the administration unveiled plans to make it harder for tenants, mortgage recipients and community organizations to sue banks and other financial institutions for using algorithms that…
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Grenfell Tower Fire: A Conspiracy to Hide the Truth from Thousands of Current Residents of 400 Existing Buildings
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
All polymer foams produced from isocyanate chemicals are fire-accelerants that will not only spread any fire within seconds of ignition but will also emit lethal hydrogen cyanide gas that can cause death within a few minutes. | Hydrogen cyanide gas (HCN), …
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Auschwitz: IG Farben and the History of the “Business with Disease”
Dr. Rath Health Foundation | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
January 27, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops (27 January 1945). Rarely mentioned by the media, the I. G Auschwitz concentration camp was a private undertaking owned by I. G. Farben

Free Public Transit in Canada?
Madelin Burt-D’Agnillo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
In the last year or so, a debate about the merits of free transit (or more accurately, fare-free transit) is making its way into public discourse in Canada. While fare-free transit is a model that has served international cities (many …
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The Troubling Decline of International Law
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
While it is true that rogue states

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Rohingyas
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Order to the Government of the Republic of Myanmar to adopt various provisional measures to protect the Rohingya community from “physical destruction” and to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of …
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Why the New Silk Roads Are a “Threat” to the “US Bloc”
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Under the cascading roar of the 24/7 news cycle cum Twitter eruptions, it’s easy for most of the West, especially the US, to forget the basics about the interaction of Eurasia with its western peninsula, Europe. | Asia and Europe have …
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Bolton’s bombshell explodes main Trump defense argument in Senate
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-27
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The Better Moral Creed
Bob Topper | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
Last October Attorney General Bill Barr delivered a speech at Notre Dame during which he claimed that “Judeo-Christian moral standards are the ultimate rules for human conduct” and that “the fact is that no secular creed has emerged capable of performing the role of religion.” Barr, like many other Catholic and Evangelical fundamentalists, believes that…
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Trump Told Bolton Ukraine Aid Contingent on Probe Into Democratic Rivals: NYT
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-27
“There is no pretense left. There are no excuses remaining,” said Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Selected Articles: Virus Pandemics
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Lying is a money making activity and lies are commodities. There is a profitable global market for media and public figures committed to spreading disinformation. | Needless to say, “Telling the Truth”, on the other hand, Is Not a Money-Making Proposition. …
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Israel’s Auschwitz Commemoration: A Kidnapping of Jewish history
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-27
As world leaders gathered in Jerusalem to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, Zochrot, an Israeli NGO that works to raise awareness among Israeli Jews of the injustices faced by Palestinians, posted a comment on their Facebook page.
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Seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
Auschwitz was at the heart of the machinery of industrialised mass murder that spanned the entire continent. Jews, Sinti, political opponents of the Nazi regime, and others were deported to the death camp from every part of occupied Europe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/pers…

Seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
Auschwitz was at the heart of the machinery of industrialised mass murder that spanned the entire continent. Jews, Sinti, political opponents of the Nazi regime and others were deported to the death camp from every part of occupied Europe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/pers…

Photo Allegedly Depicting Plane Crash in Eastern Afghanistan Emerges Online
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-27
Media outlets reported earlier in theday that an Ariana Afghan Airlines’ aircraft had crashed in Ghazni, Afghanistan, while a source told Sputnik it was an Afghan National Army plane.
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Global Shares, Crude Oil Futures on Decline Amid China’s Coronavirus Flare-ups
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-27
Prices for stock futures have ishown a general downward trend, and oil futures are no exception, with experts increasingly tying the slump to the novel virus identified in central China.
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