2020-01-06: Social Media Postees

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Netanyahu backs away from Soleimani assassination, warns ministers to \'stay out\' of purely \'American event\'
rt.com | 2020-01-07
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly warned his cabinet not to get too involved in the US murder of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, lest Tel Aviv gets dragged into the escalating conflict between Washington and Tehran. | \"The assassination of Soleimani isn\'t an Israeli event but an American event. We were not involved and should not be dragged into it,\" Netanyahu reportedly told his security cabinet during a meeting on Monday, as cited by Israel\'s Channel 13. He advised ministers to avoid speaking to the media about Thursday\'s targeted assassination beyond supporting the US right to defend itself, so…
rt.com/news/477604-netanyahu-distances-israel-soleimani-killing/

\'Keep out of Libya!\' Gruesome videos of Tripoli military academy strike emerge as UN envoy decries foreign meddling
rt.com | 2020-01-07
Shocking videos have emerged online, showing what appears to be a drone strike on a Libyan military academy — instantly killing dozens of cadets and wounding just as many — as well as its bloody aftermath. | At least 30 trainees were killed and another 33 injured in the Saturday strike, health officials of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) said, noting the total death toll could still increase. | In one video circulating online, somewhat grainy and taken from a distance, a column of trainees is briefly seen in marching formation before it is obliterated by a direct hit that come…
rt.com/news/477607-libya-military-academy-bombing/

\'No Laughing Matter\': Watch This Classic Anti-War George Carlin Routine US Rep. Ilhan Omar Shared
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-01-06
\"I\'m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions,\" said the famous standup comic in 1992 following the first Gulf War. \"I don\'t just roll over when I\'m told to. Sad to say, most Americans just roll over on command—not me.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/george_carlin_anti-war.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/06/no-laughing-matter-watch-classic-anti-war-george-carlin-routine-us-rep-ilhan-omar?cd-origin=rss

\'We\'re not allowed to talk about anything wrong in the Democratic Party\' — AOC trashes the Democratic establishment
rt.com | 2020-01-06
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the chief architects of the Democrats\' leftward shift, has hit out at her party for fielding candidates like the centrist Joe Biden, and said \"we\'re not allowed to talk\" about party division. | Ocasio-Cortez considers herself \"one of the most hated people in America,\" she told New York magazine in an interview published on Monday. Since a surprise electoral victory over a ten-term incumbent Democrat in 2018, she\'s since become the face of her party\'s emboldened progressive wing, alongside \'The Squad\' of fellow Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) and M…
rt.com/usa/477602-aoc-interview-joe-biden-/

Iraqi PM reveals Soleimani was on peace mission when assassinated, exploding Trump\'s lie of \'imminent attacks\'
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-06
The Trump administration claimed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was planning \"imminent attacks\" on US interests when it assassinated him. That…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/06/soleimani-peace-mission-assassinated-trump-lie-imminent-attacks/

Buttigieg and Biden Are Masters of Evasion
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-06
In a recent New Yorker profile of Pete Buttigieg, one sentence stands out: \"Watch Buttigieg long enough and you notice that he uses abstraction as an escape hatch.\" Evasive platitudes are also routine for Joe Biden, the other major Democratic presidential candidate running in what mainstream journalists call \"the center lane.\" Jim Hightower has observed that…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/buttigieg-and-biden-are-masters-of-evasion/

Naomi Klein: Climate Solutions That Neglect Inequality Are Doomed to Fail
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-06
California has warmed by approximately 3 degrees Fahrenheit (3 ∞F) over the last century. Heat waves are more common and increase the risk of wildfires in the state. What does climate justice look like, therefore, and for whom? Will cities grappling with environmental disasters consider the racial and economic inequalities that intersect with climate change action? Author and activist Naomi Klein has a few thoughts. | Laura Flanders: It\'s been a year since the Camp Fire. You went back th…
truthout.org/articles/naomi-klein-climate-solutions-that-neglect-inequality-are-doomed-to-fail/

Targeted Assassination, Will Iran Seek \"Strategic Revenge\"?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
The US and Western partners are contemptuous of peace, stability, equity, justice, and the rule of law — waging war on humanity by hot and other means. | Where is the outrage in the West over the Trump regime\'s assassination of …
globalresearch.ca/us-led-western-contempt-rule-law/5699704

Native People urge peace and friendship with Iran, demand U.S. get out of Iraq
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
Native Americans spoke out today, urging peace and friendship with the people of Iraq and Iran, and called out Trump for assassinations and provocations to escalate war.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829437.php

Monterey Protest: No War on Iran! U.S. Out of Iraq!
Monterey Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
Window On The Bay / Monterey Waterfront Park, Del Monte Ave, Monterey, California 93940…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/03/18829421.php

Censorship in Canada? Vanessa Beeley\'s Talks on Syria
John Ryan | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-06
White Helmets Vanessa Beeley is a British journalist who was invited to Canada in the fall of 2019 to present talks in seven cities on the conflict in Syria. The sponsors of her speaking tour were several anti-war groups, including the Geopolitical Economy Research Group, the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, and Peace Alliance …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/censorship-in-canada-vanessa-beeleys-talks-on-syria/

No War with Iran! (San Mateo)
San Mateo Peace Action | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
corner 3rd Ave and El Camino | 300 So El Camino Real | San Mateo, CA 94402…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829424.php

Jan 4, 2020: 5,000 March for Peace in San Francisco
We Are The Many | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
With only two days\' notice and during the winter vacation, some 5,000 people managed to take over the streets of San Francisco, filling two wide blocks near Fifth and Mission, as we marched past the San Francisco Chronicle building on January 4, 2020, a clear, sunny 55 degree day for a peace march protesting Nazi Trump\'s war against Iran.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829441.php

Hundreds of protesters for peace come out in Pacific Northwest Jan. 4
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-01-06
Reports from Seattle, Spokane, Kennewick and Boise…
liberationnews.org/hundreds-of-protesters-for-peace-come-out-in-pacific-northwest-jan-4/

Sacramento Protest: U.S. Troops Out of Iraq! No War on Iran!
ANSWER Coalition & others | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
Intersection of 9th Street and K Street, Downtown Sacramento…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/03/18829419.php

No to Disastrous War With Iran
Joseph Gerson | commondreams.org | 2020-01-06
Trump\'s ignorant threat of responding to Teheran\'s retaliation by destroying 52 critical targets across Iran can only result in spiraling escalation and to wider war that will consume lives across the Middle East and likely here in the United States. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/iran_protest.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/01/06/no-disastrous-war-iran?cd-origin=rss

Trump\'s Iran Aggression Sparks Protests Across America, World
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-06
The weekend saw more than 70 spontaneous or hastily organized demonstrations across America in opposition to the Trump administration\'s warlike actions against Iraq and Iran. On January 3, the United States carried out a drone strike in Baghdad that killed Major General Qasem Soleimani of Iran\'s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Soleimani was commonly se…
mintpressnews.com/trump-iran-aggression-protests-america-world/263933/

Amid rising protests, House plans vote against Trump war on Iran
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-06
WASHINGTON–Amid rising protests in the streets and online against President Donald Trump\'s looming war on Iran, the Democratic-run U.S. House plans to vote on a measure banning that war without congressional approval. The resolution, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues, will invoke the 1973 War Powers Act and order Trump not to go to …
peoplesworld.org/article/amid-rising-protests-house-plans-vote-against-trump-war-on-iran/

Trump says \'more war,\' people say \'no war\'
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-06
Anti-war protests were held across the US and UK over the weekend in response to the targeted assassination of Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran\'s Al-Quds forces. People protested in around 80 cities in the US against this provocative act which has been widely condemned for bringing the entire West Asia to the brink of war.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/06/trump-says-more-war-people-say-no-war/

Protest in Davis: No War on Iran! U.S. Troops Out of Iraq!
Yolo Grassroots Collective | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
B Street and 5th Street, Davis, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/03/18829420.php

Urgent Call For Action Against A U.S. War On Iran
Democratic Socialists of America | indybay.org | 2020-01-06
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) emphatically opposes a U.S. war with Iran. In light of the U.S.\'s act of war against Iran, putting the two nations close to the brink of war, DSA calls on all members and chapters to mobilize against yet another U.S. war in the Middle East.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/04/18829433.php

An Eyewitness to the Horrors of the US \'Forever Wars\' Speaks Out
Kathy Kelly | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
The 2003 \"shock and awe\" bombing of Iraq had finally stopped. From the balcony of my room in Baghdad\'s Al Fanar Hotel, I watched U.S. Marines moving between their jeeps, armored personnel carriers, and Humvees. They had occupied the street …
globalresearch.ca/eyewitness-horrors-us-forever-wars-speaks-out/5699734

Venezuela: Guaido Replaced as Parliament Head in Disputed Vote
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido was handed a defeat Sunday in his bid to secure reelection as president of the country\'s National Assembly (AN). | With the votes of reportedly 81 of 150 lawmakers, opposition Deputy for Yaracuy State Luis Parra…
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-guaido-replaced-parliament-head-disputed-vote/5699817

Iraq\'s Worst Fears Have Come True: a Proxy War on Its Doorstep
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-06
The killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani by a US drone at Baghdad airport is an act of escalation by President Donald Trump that ensures that Iraq faces a violent future. It may not lead to a full-scale military conflict, but Iraq will be the political and military arena where the US-Iranian rivalry will be fought out.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/iraqs-worst-fears-have-come-true-a-proxy-war-on-its-doorstep/

Ukranian Whistleblower Reveals MH-17 Tragedy Was Orchestrated by Poroshenko and British Secret Service
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH-17), that was shot down on July 17, 2014 in the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, killed all passengers onboard and was immediately blamed on pro-Russia Donbass volunteer militias fighting against henchmen of the Maidan civil …
globalresearch.ca/ukranian-whistleblower-reveals-mh-17-tragedy-orchestrated-poroshenko-british-secret-service/5699826

The Inauthentic Opposition is \"Stunned\" by a Crime it Encouraged
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-06
Top Democrats are \"stunned\" that Trump impulsively ordered the killing of \"the commanding general of a sovereign government\" (New York Times) — Iran\'s Maj. Gen. Qassim Soliemani –on the sovereign territory of Iraq without the permission of Iraq\'s government. The imperial assassination of Soliemani is a criminal act of war guaranteed to provoke a reaction that could produce a regional war involving U.S. forces in the Middle East.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/the-inauthentic-opposition-is-stunned-by-a-crime-it-encouraged/

The \"Great Game\" is Afoot: Killing Soleimani Reflects US Desperation in the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-06
By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom \'out of the frying pan into the fire.\' US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are both politically and legally embattled — the former has just been impeached and the latter is dogged by an Attorney General …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/the-great-game-is-afoot-killing-soleimani-reflects-us-desperation-in-the-middle-east/

Israel\'s Fingerprint Are All Over the Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-06
The fingerprints of Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, are unmistakably present in the assassination. It is plausible that the attack at Soleimani\'s convoy was a joint CIA-Mossad operation.
mintpressnews.com/israel-mossad-fingerprints-assassination-qasem-soleimani/263923/

Was Soleimani Framed by Trump? In Baghdad to Receive US Supported \"De-escalation Proposal\" from Saudi Arabia
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
On January 5, Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi reportedly provided additional details into the US assassination of the commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\' Qods Force, Qassem Soleimani. | According to the available data, the Iranian commander arrived in …
globalresearch.ca/iraqi-prime-minister-soleimani-arrives-baghdad-receive-de-escalation-proposal-saudi-arabia-trump-supported-initiative/5699777

A State of War Exists Between the US and Humanity
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
There\'s no ambiguity about what\'s going on globally. | Washington\'s geopolitical agenda is all about seeking dominance over other countries, their resources and populations worldwide — by whatever it takes to achieve its aims, notably by brute force and other hostile …
globalresearch.ca/state-war-exists-between-us-humanity/5699788

Trump\'s Mass Deception on Iran
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
Virtually all politicians lie, none in memory more repeatedly and egregiously than Trump. | It\'s so excessively over the top it begs the question. Is he unable to distinguish between facts and fiction or is he inherently deceptive by nature? | His …
globalresearch.ca/trump-mass-deception-iran/5699705

UK Nuclear Sub \'In Position to Strike Iran\' Amid Tensions over Soleimani\'s Killing
Mideast Discourse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
Earlier on Sunday, about 50 members of the UK\'s Special Air Service (SAS) were sent to Iraq to help with the potential evacuation of Britons following Friday\'s US drone strike which killed Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran\'s Revolutionary Guard Corps …
globalresearch.ca/uk-nuclear-sub-position-strike-iran-amid-tensions-soleimani-killing/5699815

Antiwar posts go viral on social media after US murder of Iranian general
wsws.org | 2020-01-06
On Twitter and other social media platforms, youth from every region of the globe expressed their opposition to war and the possibility of nuclear annihilation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/06/anti-j06.html

\'Big loss\' if Iran\'s nuclear deal scrapped & regarding Iraq, US threats are \'not helpful\' — German FM
rt.com | 2020-01-06
The nuclear deal signed between major world powers and Iran after years of tough talks could be on the brink of collapse after Tehran announced it will throw out all constraints on uranium enrichment, the German FM warned. | The first week of the year saw more bad news coming in, with Iran saying it will cease sticking to limitations on enrichment, levels of enrichment and the stock of uranium written down in the 2015 nuclear deal. | The announcement apparently unnerved Germany, one of the three European countries that have been trying to save the deal after Donald Trump\'s abrupt decision to pull the US out o…
rt.com/news/477552-germany-iran-deal-end/

Soleimani\'s Death Could Galvanize Shia Coalitions Against One \"Foreign Aggressor\" — The U.S
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-06
Fallout continues to mount following the U.S. assassination of Iran\'s top military commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last week. Iranian media reports that over a million mourners took to the streets of Tehran today for the funeral of Soleimani, who headed Iran\'s elite Quds Force. On Sunday, Iran announced it would suspend its commitments under the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, which the U.S. pulled out of in 2018. Trump has also threatened to target 52 locations in Iran, including cultural sites, if Iran retaliates against the U.S. The targeting of cultural sites is widely viewed as an international war crime.
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/6/narges_bajoghli_qassem_soleimani_assassination_iran

Iran\'s rollback on 2015 deal commitments poses no risk of nuclear arms proliferation — Moscow
rt.com | 2020-01-06
Blaming Tehran for its decision not to adhere to the 2015 nuclear deal won\'t work, as it\'s a direct consequence of the US\'s withdrawal from the pact and increased sanctions pressure on Iran, the Foreign Ministry said. | The rollback on uranium enrichment constraints detailed in the landmark international agreement \"in itself poses no threat in terms of proliferation of nuclear weapons,\" the ministry said in a statement. | The fact that Iran is acting in \"close cooperation and unde…
rt.com/news/477582-iran-nuclear-rollback-us-russia/

Trump\'s Illegal, Impeachable Act of War
Danny Sjursen | commondreams.org | 2020-01-06
Iranian pride, nationalism and basic sense of sovereignty, deeply wounded by Soleimani\'s assassination, may demand an actual hot war with the U.S. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/iran_2.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/01/06/trumps-illegal-impeachable-act-war?cd-origin=rss

Bolton Willing to Testify in Trump Impeachment Trial if Subpoenaed
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-06
WASHINGTON — Former White House national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that he is \"prepared to testify\" if he is subpoenaed by the Senate in its impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, a surprise statement that bolstered Democrats in their push for new witnesses. | Bolton, who left the White House in September, said that he has weighed the issues of executive privilege and that after \"careful consideration and study\" decided that he would comply with any Senate subpoena. | \"If the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to te…
truthdig.com/articles/bolton-willing-to-testify-in-trump-impeachment-trial-if-subpoenaed/

The holiday\'s over: Trump returns to face Iran fallout and impeachment trial
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-06
President Donald Trump has returned to the White House after his 17-day Florida holiday facing twin challenges: the fallout from the strike he ordered to kill an Iranian general and his looming impeachment trial in the Senate. | The issues will shape a defining month of Trump\'s presidency, one that comes just before the first votes of the 2020 campaign are cast. | Trump is facing growing questions from Democrats fearful that the killing of Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani endangered Americans in the region and may have been an effort to distract from the president\'s political crisis back home. | \"Next…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/01/06/the-holidays-over-trump-returns-to-face-iran-fallout-and-impeachment-trial/

Trump Tries Real Hard to Start a War for Israel. \"He Should be Impeached Because He is a War Criminal\"
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-06
In my last post, I said it was time to close down this blog, mostly due to its ineffectiveness, short reach, and choir preaching. I wrote that I might as well pound sand for all the good it did. | A …
globalresearch.ca/trump-tries-real-hard-start-war-israel/5699701

The Government is Torturing Chelsea Manning! Does Anyone Give a Damn?
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-06
Chelsea Manning is being tortured for her refusal to testify before a federal grand jury. She already has told a military court as a whistleblower while in the Army about documents pertaining to alleged war crimes that were committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has already been tortured and imprisoned for releasing that information once (\"Collateral Murder\" video,…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/the-government-is-torturing-chelsea-manning-does-anyone-give-a-damn/

Trump Threatens Armageddon in Afghanistan
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-06
On February 4, 2002, a Predator drone circled over Afghanistan\'s Paktia province, near the city of Khost. Below was al-Qaeda\'s founder Osama bin Laden — or at least someone in the CIA thought so — and he was marked for death. As Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld put it later, both awkwardly and passively: \"A decision was made to fire the Hellfire missile. It was fired.\" That air-to-ground, laser-guided missile –…
truthdig.com/articles/trump-threatens-armageddon-in-afghanistan/

The Assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-06
In 2003 the U.S. committed the crime of the century, invading, destroying and occupying the modern state of Iraq, ushering in an era of misery, terror and chaos in the region. Or one could say that the invasion continued an era launched by the ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, justified by the 9/11…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/the-assassination-of-gen-qasem-soleimani/

US \"Plans\" for the Afghan War Might Prove a Crime Against Humanity
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-06
On February 4, 2002, a Predator drone circled over Afghanistan\'s Paktia province, near the city of Khost. Below was al-Qaeda\'s founder Osama bin Laden — or at least someone in the CIA thought so — and he was marked for death. As Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld put it later, both awkwardly and passively: \"A…
truthout.org/articles/us-plans-for-the-afghan-war-might-prove-a-crime-against-humanity/

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