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Truth a Major Casualty of Impeachment Hearings
Jeremy Kuzmarov | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
As in any political battle, truth has been one of the major casualties of the impeachment proceedings against President Donald J. Trump. While the Democratic impeachment managers have accused Trump repeatedly of dishonesty

On the Eve of the Release of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century
Richard Falk | zcomm.org | 2020-01-28
The peace plan is substantially an imposed Israeli victory, not in any reasonable way the basis for reaching a political compromise…
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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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Russia-Pakistan Relations. A Five-Phase Strategy. Building Afro-Eurasia
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
Russian-Pakistani relations have remarkably improved in recent years as a result of their diplomatic coordination in Afghanistan and the launch of annual joint anti-terrorist drills in 2016, with both of these trust-based developments setting the stage for finally strengthening their …
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The US Dropped More Munitions on Afghanistan Last Year Than Any Other Time in the Last Decade
Jared Keller | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
The U.S. military dropped more munitions on targets across Afghanistan in 2019 than during any other year stretching back to at least 2009, according to Air Force data. | According to Air Forces Central Command’s airpower statistics, U.S. aircraft dropped…
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US Dropped Record Number of Bombs on Afghanistan in 2019
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
The United States dropped more bombs and other munitions over Afghanistan in 2019 than any other year since documentation began in 2006, according to U.S. Air Forces Central Command data released Monday. | RELATED: | US Military Confirms Plane Crash In Afghanistan | As of Dec. 31, 2019, both manned and unmanned aircraft expended 7,423 munitions…
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US Military Recovers Remains From Afghan Plane Crash
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
The United States recovered the remains of two people from a U.S. military plane that crashed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, U.S. and Afghan officials told Reuters. | RELATED: | UK Gives Huawei Green Light to Help Build 5G Network | On Monday, the U.S. military confirmed that an E-11A plane had crashed…
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Split Hearings: the Assange Extradition Case Drags On
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the year, dragged out, ironically enough, by the prosecution. Curiously, this is a point that both the prosecutors, fronted by…
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Rallies in Australia and NZ to demand freedom for Assange and Manning. No to US extradition!
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
The SEP rallies in February will demand that the Australian government end its collaboration with Washington and immediately use its legal and diplomatic powers to secure Assange’s freedom.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/rall…

Socialist Equality Party Public Meeting in London: Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning! No US extradition!
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
The SEP (UK) urges all readers of the World Socialist Web Site to attend our public meeting in London on Sunday, February 23, in defence of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
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“Humans Love Violence”: Gandhi and the World Economic Forum
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
As we approach the 72nd anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi on 30 January 1948, it is worth reflecting on one simple fact that he did not realize. His efforts to teach humanity that conflict, including violent …
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Murder of Mexican Artist Highlights Endemic Issue of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
Isabel Cabanillas, a 26-year-old beloved feminist activist and artist, was recently assassinated in Ciudad Juárez, resurfacing the border city’s painful legacy of femicides and violence against women. Cabanillas was reported missing on social media by her friends on Saturday, January 18, after she never returned home. On that same day, she was found shot to death on a sidewalk next to her bicycle in downtown Juárez. We speak with Nana Rebell, a feminist activist in Ciudad Juárez and a membe…
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Colombia: 16 Congress Seats for Victims of the Armed Conflict
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
Colombia’s President of the Senate Lidio García announced that the victims of the armed conflict will have 16 seats in Congress, as had been established after the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian state and former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). | RELATED: | Colombia: Ex-FARC Member and Peace Deal Signatory Assassinated | On Dec. 12019, Attorney Fernando Carrillo and the “Defend Peace” movement asked Garcia to review the administrative act through whi…
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Colombia: 27 Social Leaders Killed in 27 days of 2020
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
The Colombian Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) revealed Monday that in the first 27 days of 2020, 27 social leaders and four former combatants and signatories of the 2016 Peace Agreement have been killed. | RELATED: | Colombia: Ex-FARC Member and Peace Deal Signatory Assassinated | The figure was released after the recent assassination of the social leader Fernando Quintero Mena, in the northern municipality of Convencion, at the hands of armed men. | As a human…
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To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-28
With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of foreign policy hacks and corporate lobbyists to sabotage his nomination. | Source…
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To Cancel Student Debt, You Don’t Need Congress
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
The 2020 Democratic primary elevated the student debt debate to the national stage and has sparked discussion at dinner tables and workplaces across the country. Americans are asking themselves and the candidates: how much student debt should we cancel, and how shall we cancel it? Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to cancel it all

Pro-Sanders Youth Movement Is Changing the Political Landscape in New Hampshire
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
Fifty-two years after young people changed history with the New Hampshire primary election, a new generation is ready to do it again

Interim Bolivian president Añez calls Indigenous citizens “savages”
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-28
The outlaw Bolivian president Jeanine Añez has announced that new elections in the country will be held on May 3, 2020. And just prior to that, it was disclosed that Añez called on Bolivians to prevent the return of “savages” to power, referring to Evo Morales, the country’s first Indigenous president. According to a Jan. 6 …
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Cuban President Calls For Massive March Honoring Jose Marti
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, called to pay tribute to national hero Jose Marti with the most massive torchlight march on the 167th anniversary of his birth. | RELATED: | Cuba Rejects Bolivian Coup Leaders Pretexts To Break Relations | Through his Twitter account, the Head of State called to “make history” with the torches lit from…
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UK Gives Huawei Green Light to Help Build 5G Network
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
The British House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee Tuesday concluded that there are no technical grounds for excluding Huawei from the U.K’s 5G or other telecommunications networks. | RELATED: | Huawei To Help Bring 5G To Bolivia | Despite this decision, the Chinese company will be prohibited from providing equipment to the “sensitive parts” of the British 5G network. Among them are, for instance, military bases, nuclear plants, and other “critical” national infrastructures. | “This package…
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The Challenge for Chile and the World
Ariel Dorfman | zcomm.org | 2020-01-28
If the mainly peaceful Chilean people do manage such a seemingly intractable task

Follow the “Real Money” Behind the “New Green Agenda”
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
Within little more than a year everyone imaginable seems to have jumped on the bandwagon of the new green agenda of radical measures to “stop” climate change. Now the bastion of corporate economic globalization, the Swiss Davos World Economic Forum, …
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Climate journalism and fossil fuel ads: an unholy marriage?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-28
NBC’s Camel News Caravan was one of the earliest television news programs in the United States. Sponsored by Camel Cigarettes, the program had an anchorman who not only kept an ashtray on his desk and often smoked while delivering the news, but also encouraged viewers to light up a Camel. | Source…
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World’s Most Under-Reported Crises Are in Africa: CARE
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
Of the top 10 most forgotten 2019 humanitarian crises fuelled by the climate emergency nine were in Africa, according to a new analysis entitled “Suffering in Silence” and released Tuesday by CARE International. | RELATED: | Water-Related Violence Increased More Than 50% in 2010s: Report | “In 2019, over 51 million people suffered in 10 crises away from the public ey…
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Running for Office in the Age of Donald Trump and Climate Change
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
“YES!” he yelled, thrusting his fist in the air. “We get to live in the mayor’s house!” My son’s reaction when I told his two sisters and him that I was running for mayor of our town became the laugh line of my campaign. But in real time, I had to burst his bubble. “Oh Seamus,” I said, smiling, “the mayor just lives in his own house. There is no ‘mayor’s house.’ If we win, we’ll keep living in our house and it will become the mayor’s house.” | Seamus’ reaction was indicative of his boundless confidence i…
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Coronavirus Outbreak, a Global Public Health Emergency?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
In late December, the World Health Organization (WHO) noted cases of a new virus strain unseen before. | Days later, Chinese authorities confirmed a new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan City, a contagious respiratory illness. | On Tuesday, a WHO alert cited a …
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The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak and the global threat of infectious diseases
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
The outbreak in China has exposed the vulnerability of contemporary society to new strains of infectious disease, dangers for which no capitalist government has adequately prepared.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/pers…

China’s Coronavirus Outbreak Reminds Me of the Irish Polio Epidemic I Survived
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
China is responding to the spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan much as countries have always reacted to life-threatening epidemics. At every level of society and government, fear of death

Death Toll Tops 100 in China as New Coronavirus Cases Emerge
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
The Chinese authorities reported Tuesday that the death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 106 and the cases of people infected with the viral disease rose to 4,515 nationwide. | RELATED: | China’s Death Toll from Coronavirus Nearly Doubles in 48 Hours | In the most recent report, Chinese authorities said on Tuesday the death of another 25 people was reported by the coronavirus called 2019-nCoV or coronavirus from the Wuhan seafood market. | Of the total new deaths, 24…
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Trump’s Policy Toward Hong Kong Is Biased by US-China Trade Negotiations
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
Hong Kong remains an incredibly complicated region, not only historically but geographically and politically. Since June 2019, a variety of social and economic issues have been driving the country’s historic protests. | In this interview, John Feffer, author and director of Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the generational divides at hand in Hong Kong, implications for the countries involved and any pending lawmaking associated with the ongoing demonstrations. Feffer also weighs in on the left’s…
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Trump Team: Impeachment Not About ‘Unsourced Manuscripts’
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
WASHINGTON

Democrats embrace war hawk Bolton in Trump impeachment trial
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
The carefully timed leak of Bolton’s White House revelations has overshadowed the defense mounted by Trump’s attorneys in the Senate impeachment trial.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/impe…

Conservative Justices Sanction Stephen Miller’s Anti-Immigration Agenda
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
Not even an impeachment trial can slow down the White House’s anti-immigrant agenda. | Even as Chief Justice John Roberts presided over the Senate’s trial of President Trump on Monday, the Supreme Court gifted senior White House adviser and documented white nationalist Stephen Miller by lifting a lower court’s nationwide injunction against discriminatory new rules that represent the strongest effort to restrict legal immigration into the U.S. in more than a century. | On Holocaust Memorial Day, all…
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Joni Ernst Gives Away the Game on Impeachment
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
After President Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday completed the second day of their impeachment defense–which largely consisted of attacks on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter–Republican Sen. Joni Ernst told reporters that she is “really interested to see” how team Trump’s performance at the Senate trial “informs and influences the Iowa caucus voters, those Democratic caucus-goers.” | Ernst’s remarks, which came just a week before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses, were widely viewed as an open admission that Trump’s attorneys and the Republican Party are using the Senate impeachment trial…
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Trump team conducts Theatre of the Absurd in the Capitol
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-28
Donald Trump’s legal team is shifting its defense of the president to an argument that even if he is guilty of everything charged in the articles of impeachment he, and no president for that matter, can be removed for either abuse of power or obstruction of Congress. TV defense lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, got up before …
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India’s Supreme Court greenlights Modi government’s internet shutdown in Kashmir
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
While declaring internet access “constitutionally protected,” India’s highest court did not order the Modi government to end its nearly six-month long suspension of internet service in Kashmir.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/kash…

Open Letter to Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau. “Interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaidó to visit Canada”
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
Re: Your announcement of January 26, 2020 “Interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaidó to visit Canada” | Dear Mr. Justin Trudeau: | I have read with great disappointment your office’s announcement that you are meeting with what many Venezuelans and Canadians alike …
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An Open Letter to Justin Trudeau on Venezuela
Nino Pagliccia | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
Re: Your announcement of January 26, 2020 “Interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaidó to visit Canada” Dear Mr. Justin Trudeau: I have read with great disappointment your office’s announcement that you are meeting with what many Venezuelans and Canadians alike consider the real impostor, Juan Guaidó, in the political crisis that your government is part…
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Iraq to Neocons: Get the Hell Out of Our Country
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
The Trump coterie of neocons is spinning the Iraq embassy attack to fit their agenda, namely that Iran is responsible for the rocket attack when it is obvious the people of Iraq are fed-up with the US occupation, designed to …
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Noam Chomsky Is the Antidote to Trump’s Facism
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
In addition to the obvious terrors

How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-28
Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed for using tech to undermine the 2020 election. Yet, the very technologies they are allegedly using were created by a web of companies with deep ties to Israeli intelligence.
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Iran to Vote on Quitting Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
The Iranian parliament received a motion on Tuesday to quit nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the assembly’s news site ICANA reported, in a move that appears to raise the stakes in Tehran’s confrontation with the West. | RELATED: | US Confirms 34 Troops With Traumatic Brain Injury After Iran Strike | According to the report, the Iranian parliament will discuss leaving the nuclear treaty, but did not specify when they would vote on the motion. Furthermore, Iran’s Supr…
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Iraqi government cracks down on anti-US protests
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
Protests were sparked by unemployment, particularly among young people, the lack of electricity and water, poor services and rampant corruption.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/iraq…

A Million Iraqis Asked Us to Leave. We Should Listen
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
You wouldn’t know it from US mainstream media reporting, but on Friday an estimated million Iraqis took to the streets to protest the continued US military presence in their country. What little mainstream media coverage the protest received all reported …
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Making Rebellion Attractive: Why the Establishment Still Hates John Reed
P. Sainath | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
‘If Mark Twain or John Reed were alive today and looking for work, would they find it at your newspaper or channel? Could Twain have a column? Would you carry Reed’s despatches?’ That was a question I put to several American editors and journalists in 2000. I was touring the USA as an Eisenhower Fellow…
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192 Migrants Rescued in the Mediterranean and Canary Islands
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
Over the last 24 hours, the Spanish humanitarian organization Open Arms has rescued 158 migrants who were sailing in the central Mediterranean Sea and at risk of a shipwreck on two different boats. | RELATED: | Italy: EU Countries to Receive 121 Migrants Rescued at Sea | The Open Arms vessel is currently the only humanitarian ship present in international waters in fr…
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Trump Unveils New Middle East Peace Plan
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his so-called “Deal of the Century” on Tuesday, which proposed the possible creation of a Palestinian state with a capital in east Jerusalem. | RELATED: | Trump to Unveil Middle East Peace Plan on Tuesday | The peace plan, which was supposed to be unveiled last Summer, also calls for Palestinians to recognize the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, many of which are considered illegal due to the fact they were built after the expulsion of Palestinian f…
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Palestinians Call on World to Reject Trump ‘Peace’ Deal
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
Opponents decry the plan as little more than a distraction from the domestic scandals of the U.S. president and Israeli prime minister.
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Macron’s France: Police Club Harshly at Parisian Firefighters
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
French police Tuesday clashed with Paris firefighters who were protesting against their working conditions and asking for an increase in their hazard bonus, which has not changed since 1990. | RELATED: | France: 7th National Strike Against Macron’s Pension Reform | “During the march, two firefighters set their suits on fire to symbolize their discontent,” Franceinfo reported and added that riot police charged heavily against citizens. | In the attempt to end demonstrations, Police…
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Pipeline or a Pipedream: A Conflict is Brewing Between Israel and Turkey over Natural Gas
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-28
Considering the massive deposits of natural gas needed to fuel struggling European markets, it is almost certain that Mediterranean natural gas will eventually become a major source of political disputes, if not all out war.
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The Push to Create Co-ops Is Energizing a New Generation of Socialists
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
The following is an excerpt from economist Richard D. Wolff’s new book Understanding Socialism, which is available for purchase here. | Socialism is a yearning for something better than capitalism. As capitalism has changed and as experiments with socialism have accumulated

German government bans neo-Nazi group “Combat 18 Deutschland”
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
It was above all the fact that the close links between the militant neo-Nazi scene, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground (NSU) and the secret service could not be so easily covered up after the murder of leading Christian Democrat Walter Làºbcke that persuaded Seehofer to take action.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/comb…

Video: Syria War Report, Maarat Al-numan South of Idlib Is Liberated
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
On January 27 evening, units of the Syrian Army continued their operation in southeastern Idlib. Government troops liberated Hamidiya, Bseida, Maasaran, Tal Al-Shih, Maziyan and several other villages. By this advance, the army fully besieged Maarat al-Numan from the northern, …
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Venezuela to Expand Dietary Supplement Program to All Schools
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
Venezuela’s government announced Tuesday it will expand the coverage of the Nutrichicha, dietary supplement, to more than 4.6 million children across the country. | RELATED: | Venezuela Gov’t Strengthens Cooperation With UN World Food Program | “Starting February, thanks to a very important alliance with small, medium producers and the private sector, we will provide Nutrichicha to 4.6 million girls and boys that make up all the elementary school enrolled children in Venezue…
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Killing Free Speech in America
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
No group in the United States has labored so hard as the friends of Israel to destroy the First Amendment to the Constitution, which commits the government to prohibit any “abridging the freedom of speech…or the right of the …
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Peru Court Orders Keiko Fujimori to Return to Prison
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
A Peruvian judge ordered Tuesday that Popular Force opposition leader Keiko Fujimori to return to prison for a further 15 months pre-trial detention as part of an open investigation into the Odebrecht corruption scandal. | RELATED: | Peru Elects a Highly Right-Wing Fragmented Congress | Justice Victor Zuñiga accepted the request from Attorney General Jose Domingo Perez on the grounds that the measure is “appropriate, necessary and proportionate” due to likely flight risk from Fujimori.
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Video: Guns, Drugs and the CIA
Frontline | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
Two of the most persistent offensives of the Reagan presidency have been the war against communism in Central America and the war on drugs here at home. | But investigations of America’s secret war in Nicaragua have revealed mounting evidence …
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Trump’s EPA Is a Huge Cancer Risk
Sam Pizzigati | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
This January, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society showing “the sharpest one-year drop in cancer death rate ever recorded” between 2016 and 2017. | The society politely pointed out that the Trump administration had nothing …
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The Struggle to End Imperialist Militarism in the 21st Century
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
As we enter the third decade of the present century, it is important for anti-imperialists to take stock of events over the previous ten years. | Since 2010, the role of United States imperialist militarism has been just as disruptive, destabilizing …
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Can Carob Save a Nation? An Amazing Plant. The Carob Tree Lends itself to a Wide Range of Uses
Nora Martetschlà§ger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
The carob tree has been appreciated for its various features throughout the ages. Nowadays, people are starting to rediscover this amazing plant. It is both a wild growing forest tree, and an easy to cultivate fruit tree. Because of this …
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China’s Message to Donald: What Do You Want from Us?
Lin Liangduo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
Translated from Chinese for Global Research. | Enough is enough. Enough hypocrisy for this one world. | What do you want from us, anyway? What Do You Really Want from Us? | When we were the sick man of Asia, we were called …
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Budget Deficit to Break $1 Trillion Despite Strong Economy
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
WASHINGTON

7.7 Earthquake Prompts Tsunami Warning, Cuba Confirms No Danger
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
Update 2: Jamaica’s Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has not yet reported any damage or injuries as a result of today’s powerful earthquake that rocked Jamaica, although some users in the region are posting videos which show minor damages | Earthquake happenings Cayman 2/2 pic.twitter.com/CVFlQEup7q

UK mobile operators assessing ‘potential impact’ of Huawei 5G outcome
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-28
The UK’s mobile operators have said they will look into the potential impact of the government’s decision on the future of Huawei in the country’s 5G network.”High-risk vendors” should be allowed to play a peripheral role in the network, the National Security Council concluded on Tuesday, but said such vendors should be barred from all safety-related and critical networks.The move comes despite pressure from the US to block the Chinese telecommunications giant, over fears of spying

Auschwitz liberation commemorated in Poland amid state-led campaign for historical revisionism and war
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
Duda’s and Steinmeier’s condemnations of fascism and anti-Semitism stands in stark contrast to the political record of their own governments.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/ausc…

Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
With the announcement today, January 16, 2020 of the signing of the US-China Phase 1 ‘mini’ trade deal, and the US Senate’s simultaneous ratification of the USMCA ‘NAFTA 2.0’ trade agreement, Trump’s so-called ‘trade wars’ are at an end. In election year 2020 nothing of additional significance will be achieved by Trump with regard to…
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The Evolution of “Davos Man” into . . . Trump Fan!
Sam Pizzigati | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
The biggest surprise up in the Swiss Alps this week at the Davos World Economic Forum? Reporters who cover this annual global bacchanal of billionaires are marveling at the warm and friendly reception that has greeted Donald Trump. The world’s deepest pockets have wined and dined with the U.S. president, laughed at his quips, and…
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1982 Report Warned of Radioactive Waste Threat From Oil and Gas Wells
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
Back in April last year, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency decided it was “not necessary” to update the rules for toxic waste from oil and gas wells. Torrents of wastewater flow daily from the nation’s 1.5 million active oil and gas wells and the agency’s own research has warne…
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Seventy-five years after World War II: The ideological preparations for fascism and war
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
Christoph Vandreier, the author of the book “Why Are They Back?” spoke on how the ideological preparations for war and fascism are taking place 75 years after the end of World War II.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/humb…

Tropical Forests Are Losing the Ability to Absorb CO2, Study Says
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
The world’s tropical forests are losing their ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, while boreal forests are absorbing emissions at an increasingly fast rate, a study finds. | The new analysis uses a combination of remote-sensing data and modelling to create a detailed picture of carbon loss and gain across all of Earth’s biomes from 1992 to 2015. | It shows a diverging picture in the world’s two most important ecosystems for storing carbon on land: tropical rainforests and “boreal” forests, which a…
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Virtually All Major US Drinking Water Sources Likely Contaminated With PFAS
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
New laboratory tests confirm that drinking water in dozens of cities across the United States is contaminated with toxic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at levels exceeding what independent experts consider safe for human consumption. The findings suggest that previous studies have dramatically underestimated the number of consumers exposed to PFAS through drinking water and come as the Trump administration continues to gut environmental and clean water protection…
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Where Was Rudy Giuliani When Democrats Needed Him?
Geoff Dutton | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
Help me get this straight. Rudolph Giuliani is the President’s private attorney, or at least he still seems to be. According to CNN on 10/11/19:…
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Make America Radical Again: A Conversation with Harvey J. Kaye
Daniel Falcone | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
Harvey J. Kaye is the Ben & Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Founding Director of the University’s Center for History and Social Change, and the author of numerous books, including The British Marxist Historians, The Education of Desire (winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize)…
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Remove the Livestock, Not the Wolves
Greta Anderson | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
Wolves are smart, family-oriented animals and science demonstrates that problems with livestock increase following wolf removals. So why does the government keep removing wolves in response to conflict with livestock and hope that solves the same problem? Right now, in the Gila National Forest, there is a wolf family that is facing a huge amount…
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Autobiographical Roots of Habermas’ Thought
Michael Welton | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
Habermas is reticent to talk about his childhood trauma of being born with a cleft palate, which had a decisive and lasting impact both on his own sense of himself and the deep-seated intuitions underpinning his thought. In a commemorative lecture,…
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Greece: a Chronology From January 25, 2015 to 2019
Eric Toussaint | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
Five years ago, on 25 January 2015, the Greek people sent a great signal of hope to the rest of the world. The purpose of this timeline is to review the main events of 2015. The chronology ends with the results of the May-June-July 2019 elections. 25 January 2015: in the parliamentary elections, victory for…
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Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
Michael Shermer’s Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a very special book written for people that actually spend time “thinking.” Geez, come to think of it, that’s kinda special in and of itself, “people thinking about things.” It’s especially true because nowadays society is geared to the…
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New Zealand’s Hidden Role at the Biggest US Bombing Base in the Middle East
Darius Shahtahmasebi | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-28
A recent issue of Air Force News revealed that a senior NZDF officer served a six-month posting at the Qatar base, placing New Zealanders at the heart of the main targeting and bombing center in that region, writes Darius Shahtahmasebi…
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New Zealand’s Hidden Role at the Biggest US Bombing Base in the Middle East
Darius Shahtahmasebi | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-28
A recent issue of Air Force News revealed that a senior NZDF officer served a six-month posting at the Qatar base, placing New Zealanders at the heart of the main targeting and bombing centre in that region, writes Darius Shahtahmasebi…
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Qatari Prince Appoints New Prime Minister
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-28
Qatar’s leader appointed a new Prime Minister on Tuesday, as he chose a close associate to help maintain his policies throughout the Gulf nation. | RELATED: | Kafala System to Be Abolished in Qatar: UN | According to Qatari state news, Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani appointed Sheikh Khaled bin Khalifa Al-Thani as the new Prime Minister after the previous premier, Sheikh Abdullah Nasser Al-Thani, who is also the country’s Interior Minister, announced his resignation. | Qatari state news said…
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Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the global race to the bottom
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2020-01-28
Bloomberg has put himself and his fortune into the contest to rally his (ruling) classmates to the task of shoring up corporate control of the Party if Sanders seizes the top spot. | Source…
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‘Nobody ever gets points for saying anything good about Russia’: Stephen Cohen says, as Rep. Schiff spreads ignorance about Putin
rt.com | 2020-01-28
US Congress heavyweights like Adam Schiff deeply misunderstand Russia but keep on bashing Moscow because it has become “politically advantageous” in Washington, Russia researcher Stephen Cohen said. | “Being highly-critical of Russia is good politics in the United States,” Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University, told the Grayzone’s Aaron Mate in an interview, uploaded online on Monday. | Nobody ever gets any points for saying anything good about Russia

‘Stop calling me Greta of India’: 8yo climate activist says comparisons to Thunberg ‘delete’ her own campaign
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Young Indian environmental activist Licypriya Kangujam slammed journalists for comparing her to Greta Thunberg, despite the fact that she began campaigning before the world knew who her Swedish colleague even was. | “Dear Media, Stop calling me ‘Greta of India’. I am not doing my activism to [look] like Greta Thunberg,” Kangujam, 8, tweeted. | While praising the Swedish climate activist as inspirational and “a great influencer,” Kangujam said “we have common goal but I have my own identity, story.” | If you ca…
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Authorities in southern Germany confirm 1st case of new virus from China
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The Health Ministry in the southern state of Bavaria has confirmed Germany’s first case of the new coronavirus which emerged in central China. Officials said late Monday that the man from Starnberg, south of Munich, is “in a clinically good condition.” | They said the man is being medically monitored and isolated, AP reports. Persons who were in close contact with the man are being informed about possible symptoms and hygiene measures. The ministry added that it considers the risk to the general population in Bavaria to be “low.” | Germany is the second European country to report a confirmed case of the virus.
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‘Wuhan, you can do it!’: Quarantined residents sing from their balconies in stirring VIDEOS
rt.com | 2020-01-28
As China fights the worsening coronavirus outbreak, residents under quarantine in Wuhan have shared videos online of their battle against cabin fever, showing how they are lifting each other’s

City turned ghost town: Take a look inside sealed-off Wuhan amid coronavirus outbreak in China (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, was the first in the country to be quarantined amid China’s growing efforts to curb the spread of the contagious illness, turning it into a ghost town. | Eerie timelapse footage recorded along the city’s roads shows once-packed highways sitting empty and appearing completely devoid of any signs of life. Not a single other vehicle can be seen in the clip, shared online by Dutch journalist Leen Vervaeke. | Since the outbreak began last month, the death toll has risen above 100. While the virus has spread to some 16 other countries and infected…
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‘Without any sympathy and empathy’: China furious at Danish newspaper over image of flag with coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The Chinese Embassy in Copenhagen has demanded an apology from Danish newspaper Jyllands-posten for publishing a Chinese flag with the coronavirus on it. | The image by Niels Bo Bojesen featured the Chinese flag with the yellow stars replaced with pictures of the novel coronavirus. The newspaper published the cartoon in their ‘Today’s Cartoon’ section with a disclaimer saying that the cartoon represented the artist’s personal interpretation, which may differ from the position of the paper. | Dagens tegning: Coronavirus t.co/mUSBoiOk81 | The Chinese people demand im…
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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 (2019-nCoV), climbed to double digits on Tuesday. The health commission in the Hubei province, where it 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 in Hubei…
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Tsunami warning issued for several Caribbean countries after 7.7 earthquake
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The International Tsunami Information Center issued a tsunami warning for Belize, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands following a massive earthquake in the Caribbean Sea. | The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported an earthquake 117 km off Jamaica coast in the strait between it and Cuba on Tuesday. Its epicenter was at 10 km depth. The initial magnitude of 7.3 was upgraded to a 7.7. | The tsunami warning that was issued based on the earthquake was lifted after a few hours. The International Tsunami Information Center said the threat has mostly passed. | Footage showed people in Jamaica feeli…
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Motion to withdraw from Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons treaty filed in Iran’s parliament
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The Iranian threat to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, moved forward on Tuesday after a motion to do so was filed in the Iranian parliament. | The motion reported by the parliament’s official website brings Iran closer to breaking away from the 1968 treaty which laid the foundation for the nuclear deterrence architecture of the Cold War. The NPT allows only five nations

Head of Chuvashia expelled from Russia’s ruling party after humiliating local firefighter & threatening journalists
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Russia’s largest political party has expelled the long-time leader of the Chuvash Republic following a series of gaffes which caused national outrage. | Mikhail Ignatiev had run Chuvashia, in the Volga region, for almost a decade before a video of him taunting a local firefighter went viral across the country. | It followed earlier comments in which he suggested that journalists who criticize the authorities be “wiped out.” | The party’s General Council secretary, Andrey Turchak, announced the decision after a meeting of its Presidium. | On January 23, Ignatiev conducted a ceremonial review of firefighting equ…
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Trump proposes a two-state solution for Israel-Palestine in ‘win-win opportunity’ for both sides
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Donald Trump has proposed a two-state solution for Israel-Palestine which would see the Palestinian capital located in east Jerusalem, in a move the US president called a “big step towards peace.” | Trump said that Israel had agreed to negotiate on the basis of a conceptual and detailed proposed map for the first time. If Israel agrees to the proposed map, the US will recognize it, he said. | The plan will “more than double the Palestinian territory” and “no Israelis or Palestinians wil…
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Europe keeps Trump’s Israel-Palestine ‘peace plan’ at arms’ length, but other US allies rush to embrace – except Turkey & Jordan
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Reactions to US President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ Israel-Palestine peace plan fell mostly along the lines of existing alliances, with close US allies backing the plan and rivals denouncing it – barring some surprises. | Europe hedged its bets on supporting the deal, weighing the importance of upholding international law against the need to appear loyal to Washington. Germany “welcomed” anything “aiming to inject new momentum” into the “stalled” peace process, but only went so far as to promise to “carefully examine the proposal” and discuss the resulting questions with other EU members. Foreign Mi…
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Netanyahu says Israel is offering Palestinians ‘conditional’ & ‘limited’ sovereignty, new capital will be at Abu Dis
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is willing to offer the Palestinian people the chance of “conditional, limited sovereignty” under the peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump. | Trump announced earlier Tuesday that the deal would see a Palestinian capital formed in East Jerusalem, while simultaneously calling the holy city Israel’s “undivided” capital. | Speaking to reporters after Trump’s comments, Netanyahu said the US recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, “by which I mean, within its fences.” | Netanyahu clarified that the proposed Palestinian capital under the peace plan w…
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US didn’t discuss ‘deal of century’ with Moscow, Russia’s UN envoy says
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The US did not hold consultations with Moscow on a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia has said. | “We were not consulted, we don’t know what this plan consists of,” he said in response to a question from a reporter. | Israeli envoy to the UN Danny Danon, meanwhile, said that his country was looking forward to the unveiling of the plan, TASS reported on Tuesday. | US President Donald Trump previously announced that the White House would unveil a plan for peace in the Middle East on Tuesday.
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Trump unveils long-hyped Middle East peace plan which Palestinians have already rejected (WATCH LIVE)
rt.com | 2020-01-28
US President Donald Trump is unveiling his ‘Deal of the Century’, a long-awaited plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians have already said they are not accepting whatever Trump is going to offer. | Trump is presenting his plan alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony in the White House in Washington, DC. The Israeli leader said his proposal is “the opportunity of a century.” Trump believes that while the Palestinians will reject it initially, “in the end they will” because “in fact it’s good for them.” | The rosy expectations are not shared by the Palesti…
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Russia delivers 1st billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey through TurkStream pipeline
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The first billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas has been supplied by Gazprom via the newly completed TurkStream pipeline to Turkey. | “About 54 percent of this volume was delivered to the Turkish gas market and around 46 percent

Russian economy attracts $1 BILLION in foreign investments in 2020
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Since the beginning of the year, Russian bond sales have raised more than $1 billion from foreign investors, Kommersant daily reported, citing reports by Bank of America and BCS Global Markets. | According to the reports based on Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR) data, four Russian issuers have already placed $1.6 billion worth of Eurobonds in 2020. The Finance Ministry has placed 145 billion rubles ($2.3 billion) worth of ruble-denominated OFZ federal bonds. | Last week, an unknown buyer purchased 58 billion rubles (US$932 million) worth of ruble-denominated sovereign debt, which, according to the minis…
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‘Insulting our grandparents’: Putin’s spokesman blasts Zelensky for insinuating USSR started World War II
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Not content with simply watching Russia and Poland’s war-of-words over the history of World War II, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to join the fray on Monday, accusing the USSR of jointly starting the conflict. | While his observation may have pleased his Polish hosts at the event near Auschwitz, Vladimir Putin’s press representative described Zelensky’s comments as “incorrect” and “offensive.” | Also on rt.com | | Did Zelensky snub Holocaust memorial to avoid upsetting Ukrainian nationalists? | In a sharp rebuke…
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French defense minister warns Pentagon against cutting US military assistance in W. Africa
rt.com | 2020-01-28
French Defense Minister Florence Parly has warned her US counterpart during a visit to the Pentagon that counter-terrorism efforts in West Africa would be negatively affected by a reduction in US military assistance. | “The US support is critical to our operations and its reduction would severely limit our effectiveness against terrorists,” Parly said a joint news conference, standing alongside US Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday. | Esper said no decisions had been made. However, he did not suggest any reconsideration of potential cuts to US forces in the region as he looks to focus more on challenges fr…
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