RT (2020-01-22). \'Respect the rules\': French President Macron snaps at Israeli police in Jerusalem (VIDEO). rt.com French President Emmanuel Macron gave Israeli police officers a tongue-lashing in Jerusalem, after the cops entered the French Church of St. Anne in the city\'s old quarter. | Footage shared on social media captured the altercation, which took place during Macron\'s visit to the Crusader-era church on Wednesday. Though situated in the Old City of Jerusalem, the church belongs to the French government, and Israeli officers had apparently tried to enter the premises ahead of Macron. | \"Everybody knows the rules!\" Macron shouted, speaking English. \"I don\'t like what you did in front of me. Go out!\" | Coup de colère…

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers (2020-01-22). Ending Militarization Of Our Communities. dissidentvoice.org From Stop The Militarization of Police Facebook page In recent weeks Popular Resistance has focused on the escalation of US militarism around the world, especially in the Middle East with the assassination of General Soleimani, US troops staying in Syria to take their oil and the US refusing to leave Iraq despite being asked to leave. …

Teresa del Carmen Gonzalez (2020-01-22). \'Many May Not Return\': An interview with two actors. peoplesworld.org LONG BEACH, Calif.—The anti-war play Many May Not Return, by David Trujillo, touches on current political issues and global events, such as this being an election year, the recent assassination in Iraq of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by U.S. troops, which created the black cloud of war hanging over the future. These are signs of …

Staff (2020-01-22). Mexico Begins Flying, Busing Migrants Back to Honduras. truthdig.com CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Hundreds of Central American migrants who entered southern Mexico in recent days have either been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centers or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north. | The latest migrant caravan provided a public platform for Mexico to show the U.S. government and migrants thinking of making the trip that it has refined its strategy and produced its desired result: This caravan will not advance past its southern border. | What remained unclear was the treat…

RT (2020-01-22). Migrant caravan shrinks at Guatemala-Mexico border amid deportations. rt.com The number of migrants stuck at the Guatemala-Mexico border continues to dwindle as detentions chip away at what remains of the latest caravan, AP reports. | The first buses of migrants left Tecun Uman, Guatemala overnight to repatriate migrants to their countries. On Tuesday, Mexico began flying and busing hundreds of migrants who had crossed into the country back to Honduras. | Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recognized the success of his government\'s strategy on Wednesday, noting that many of the migrants had begun to voluntarily return to their countries. | US Department of Homeland Security…

Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson (2020-01-22). Our Final Decade to Get Climate Policy Right. counterpunch.org The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in October 2018 that we have 12 years to keep global temperatures increases at 1.5 degrees Celsius or less. Now, we have more like 10 years. We have this decade. In the first weeks of 2020, we\'ve already witnessed mass evacuations and the death of over a billionanimals

RT (2020-01-22). Scientists find Earth\'s oldest asteroid crater from 2.229 BILLION years ago which \'may have ended an ice age\'. rt.com An innocuous crater in Yarrabubba, Western Australia has been identified as the oldest known extraterrestrial impact site on Earth, with researchers calculating that the natural structure dates back a whopping 2.229 billion years. | Researchers from Curtin University tested minerals found in rocks at the site. The zircon and monazite crystals in the rocks themselves contain tiny amounts of uranium, and by measuring the uranium\'s very specifically-timed decay into lead, the team was able to calculate exactly how old the crater is. | | © NASA | The 70 kilometer (43 miles) diameter crater was actually disc…

RT (2020-01-22). Polish PM \'killed own humanity\' with propagandist op-ed accusing Moscow of \'Holocaust revisionism\' — Zakharova. rt.com Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova fired off a caustic rebuttal to Poland\'s prime minister after he penned an op-ed accusing Moscow of overstating its role in defeating the Nazis during World War II. | In his column, published by Politico on Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki claimed that far from a \"liberator\" of Poland, the Soviet Union was a \"facilitator\" of the Nazi regime, despite sacrificing tens of millions of citizens in the war to topple fascism. | \"The Soviet Union did not \'liberate\' Warsaw, as Russian authorities are now claiming,\" Morawiecki wrote, also arguing that…

RT (2020-01-22). \'Obvious malicious intent\': Tulsi Gabbard hits Clinton with defamation suit over \'Russian asset\' smear. rt.com Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard is suing two-time White House runner-up Hillary Clinton over her claim that Gabbard was a \"Russian asset,\" alleging that the lie hurt not just her campaign but the entire election. | Clinton \"lied about her perceived rival Tulsi Gabbard… publicly, unambiguously, and with obvious malicious intent\" when she claimed Gabbard was \"the favorite of the Russians,\" the campaign alleges in the

RT (2020-01-22). \'Without it we will die\': Denied expensive medication for 3yrs, Russian family fights (and wins) against rare genetic disease. rt.com Diagnosed with a genetic disease that slowly eats away vital organs, and brushed aside by health bureaucrats, a family in Nizhny Novgorod have fought to obtain a crucial but expensive drug — a battle they are now winning. | As millions of children across Russia prepared to open their Christmas presents, 12-year-old Ivan Lobanov, a resident of a small hamlet near Nizhny Novgorod, turned the camera on and began to speak, his voice calm and lips stiff. | \"I have a serious disease, the Fabry disease. I inherited it,\" the pale, intelligent-looking boy is heard to say in the video. \"My mother is sick, my cousi…

RT (2020-01-22). The thin line between fashion & bad taste: Most bizarre figure skating costumes of all time (PHOTOS, VIDEO). rt.com With the great variety of programs staged in figure skating, athletes\' scrupulously chosen outfits are an inseparable part of the image they try to portray on the ice. But sometimes their fashion choices leave fans astonished. | RT Sport recalls the most bizarre figure skating outfits which either spiced up or completely ruined their programs, making them literally unforgettable in every sense. | OKSANA DOMNINA AND MAXIM SHABALIN: ABORIGINAL COSTUMES | Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin were one of the most remarkable ice-dancing duets of Russia, with memorable routines and perfectly matched music being their f…

RT (2020-01-22). New Russian government: Lavrov & Shoigu remain, but PM Mishustin appoints many fresh faces. rt.com Russia\'s new Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has announced his first cabinet. It doesn\'t amount to a radical overhaul, but there are new, and younger, appointees and some well-known ministers have been replaced. | Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Shoigu held on to their \"big beast\" positions, which suggests foreign and defense policy won\'t change much. The cabinet retained 12 people from the outgoing one and replaced nine positions, bringing down the average age of ministers down to 50 years. Here are the new faces of Mishustin\'s cabinet. | First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov (replaces Anton Siluanov) A Musco…

Kenneth Surin (2020-01-22). The \"Evolving\" Scotty Morrison From Marketing. counterpunch.org In a previous CounterPunch piece I mentioned a scathing adage regarding Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, a former PR executive, making the rounds in Australian social media: you can take Scotty out of marketing, but you can\'t take the marketing out of Scotty. When he became PM last May ScoMo (as he is also known)

John O\'Kane (2020-01-22). The Obama Legacy: Reform Versus Revolution. counterpunch.org Those factions of the Democratic party which worked so hard in 2016 to sabotage Bernie Sanders\' chances for the nomination have been nervous for some time about the persistent popularity of the progressive agenda. We\'ve been witnessing the blowback from this assault. The arrival of the \"squad\" in 2018 and Warren\'s addition to the slate of candidates for the upcoming election are striking symptoms, unthinkable without the Sanders\' \"revolution.\"

Melvin Goodman (2020-01-22). The Media and the Military Mindset. counterpunch.org U.S. national media have been lazy in their treatment of our military—pandering to the military itself and using retired general officers with ties to the military-industrial complex as spokesmen. The United States is largely in an arms race with itself, but the media typically ignore bloated defense spending. It is past time to reinforce Martin Luther King\'s address to the Riverside Church in 1967 that linked chronic domestic poverty and military adventurism.

RT (2020-01-22). Muddle-Eastern diplomacy: White House confuses Iran and Iraq in YouTube blunder. rt.com As President Donald Trump sat down with the world\'s movers and shakers at Davos, White House staff clearly weren\'t paying much attention, mistaking Iraqi President Barham Salih for his Iranian counterpart. | \"President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Iran,\" the title of a YouTube video published by the White House on Wednesday proclaimed. | Hell had not frozen over, however, and Trump had not secretly met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani unbeknownst to the world\'s media. Instead, the video clearly showed Trump meeting with Iraqi President Barham Salih. | Ira…

G. Dunkel (2020-01-22). Imperialism in Africa: France steps up as U.S. threatens to withdraw. workers.org The Hill, a newspaper that chronicles the role of Congress in backing U.S. imperialism, reported Jan. 20 that Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has likely decided to withdraw U.S. troops from former French colonies in Africa. The withdrawals \"could include abandoning a recently built $110 million drone base in Niger . . . |

Mario Murcia (2020-01-22). Colombia demonstrations resume demanding dignity for the people and end to right-wing violence. liberationnews.org Major national protests took place across Colombia January 21 within the context of the national strike movement that began on November 21.

Staff (2020-01-22). \"Andrew Johnson Was a Lot Like Trump\": Echoes of 1868 in Trump\'s Impeachment Trial. democracynow.org After a nearly 13-hour marathon session, the U.S. Senate approved by a party-line vote the rules for the impeachment trial of President Trump. This marks just the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history. The Senate trial comes a month after the House impeached Trump for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. Under the rules, each side will be given 24 hours over a three-day period for opening arguments. Senators also agreed to automatically admit evidence from the House inquiry into the trial record. Republicans rejected 11 amendments from Democrats to subpoena witnesses and…

John Wojcik (2020-01-22). House impeachment managers make case for removal of the president. peoplesworld.org Undaunted by GOP attempts to stage a sham trial the Democratic House impeachment managers used time Tuesday that Republicans had hoped would embroil them in procedural arguments to instead lay out a clear narrative of why Trump should be removed from office. They made a convincing argument that Trump is continuing today the abuses of …

Staff (2020-01-22). \"The Senate Voted for a Cover-Up\": GOP Senators Tilt Impeachment Trial in Trump\'s Favor. democracynow.org After the first marathon day leading up to President Trump\'s impeachment trial, we speak with Vince Warren and Baher Azmy, executive director and legal director, respectively, of the Center for Constitutional Rights. In a 13-hour session, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate approved rules for the impeachment trial that Vince Warren says are tantamount to a \"cover-up.\" Under the rules, each side will be given 24 hours over a three-day period for opening arguments. Senators also agreed to automatically admit evidence from the House inquiry into the trial record. Republicans rejected 11 amendments from Democrats t…

RT (2020-01-22). Senate approves Trump impeachment trial rules after grueling 12-hour session. rt.com Senate Republicans have pushed through ground rules for President Trump\'s impeachment trial, ending more than 12 hours of contentious debate with their Democratic rivals over guidelines for the proceedings. | Approved by a party-line vote of 53 to 47, the rules give House prosecutors and Trump\'s legal team 24 hours each to argue their cases for and against impeachment. The opening statements are scheduled to begin on Wednesday afternoon. | After each side makes their case, senators will have 16 hours to submit questions in writing. The Senate will then consider subpoenaing witnesses or relevant documents. | Al…

RT (2020-01-22). \'Adapting & mutating\': China confirms 9 deaths, 440 cases in coronavirus outbreak, vows close cooperation with WHO. rt.com A pneumonia-like virus sweeping China has claimed its ninth victim and spread to a total of 440 confirmed patients, according to Chinese health officials, who said they would boost international cooperation to contain the illness. | The virus seems to be adapting and mutating, according to the head of China\'s Disease Control Center, Gao Fu, who noted though that, so far, all its changes were in line with \'expectations.\' | Starting in the city of Wuhan, the novel coronavirus has now spread across 13 Chinese provinces, said Li Bin, the vice minister of China\'s National Health Commission, on Tuesday. She said hea…

RT (2020-01-22). Can cryptocurrencies protect countries from US sanctions? RT\'s Boom Bust finds out. rt.com RT\'s Boom Bust has sat in with the CEO of cryptocurrency aggregator Bitsian to discuss how nations facing tough US sanctions have been exploring cryptocurrencies in attempt to shield their economies from damage. | \"These countries are looking at this as a way to avoid sanctions, but also these are countries, where their own sovereign currencies are facing huge amount of devaluation and lack of trust by their own people,\" Raakhee Miller told Boom Bust. | The CEO said that countries such as Venezuela and Iran face a \"flight-to-quality\" so bitcoin becomes more trustworthy for people to keep their assets. Howev…

RT (2020-01-22). Chinese authorities lock down Wuhan as killer virus spreads. rt.com Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the 2019 novel coronavirus originated, have closed public transport networks and advised residents not to leave the city. The flu-like virus continues to spread and has killed 17 people there, with more than 500 people infected on the Chinese mainland. Local transportation networks, airports and train stations in Wuhan will be closed from 10am on Thursday morning, state media reported on Wednesday. The government has also asked citizens not to leave the city except in special circumstances. | Cases have also been confirmed in the US, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, a…

RT (2020-01-22). \'Desperate liar\': Bojo ignites SNP outrage after roasting Scotland\'s record on education & branding MP a \'rocketing pheasant\'. rt.com British PM Boris Johnson provoked the wrath of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons following his damning assessment of the state of education in Scotland and directing a jibe toward their Westminster leader. | During Prime Minister\'s Questions on Wednesday, Johnson laid into the SNP and their record on education in Scotland, before seemingly taunting Ian Blackford and telling them to stop being \"obsessed\" with a 2nd independence referendum. | Perhaps the honorable gentleman [Ian Blackford] who is about to rise to his feet like a rocketing pheasant will explain why his party are so obsessed wit…

RT (2020-01-22). Advice from Trump: US is clean & beautiful, Greta; please go and fight those trashing the Pacific Ocean. rt.com When President Donald Trump mentioned Swedish ecological activist Greta Thunberg, everybody held their breath. However, he kept his cool, simply telling her not to focus on America\'s environmental issues and focus on other places. | Some environmental enthusiasts looked forward to the World Economic Forum the way sports fans wait in anticipation for a big game. US President Donald Trump and Swedish ecological activist Greta Thunberg, two irreconcilable eco-rivals, were given the opportunity and venue to duel it out over climate change. | On Tuesday, Thunberg blamed world leaders for the \"inaction\" which is fue…

Staff (2020-01-22). A Torturer Meets His Victims: CIA Psychologist Defends Brutal Methods at Guantánamo Military Hearing. democracynow.org On Tuesday, the psychologist identified as the \"architect\" of the CIA\'s torture program testified for the first time to the war court at Guantánamo Bay. James Mitchell was in the courtroom for a pretrial hearing for five 9/11 suspects who had been subject to torture, euphemistically called \"enhanced interrogation techniques.\" Mitchell and his partner, Dr. Bruce Jessen, were paid $81 million to help design the CIA\'s torture methods, including some of the agency\'s most abusive tactics. The pair had no prior experience in interrogation. At the hearing, Mitchell reportedly told defense lawyers he only came to Guantán…

Max Herschman (2020-01-22). A highschooler\'s analysis: \"The U.S. working class says hands off Iran\" liberationnews.org A version of this article was originally published January 15, 2020 at the Daily Olivian, the student newspaper of Oliver Ames High School in Easton, Massachusetts. Liberation News is republishing this piece by Max Herschman to highlight the organizing work of young people and students in this revived anti-war movement. On January 3, Donald Trump …

Deutsche Welle (2020-01-22). At Davos 2020, Trump dismissive of climate change concerns. peoplesworld.org U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed the concerns of environmental activists as \"pessimism\" in a speech to political and business leaders at the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Tuesday. Climate change and global warming are topping the agenda at this year\'s annual meeting in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, with activists at odds with …

RT (2020-01-22). Trump meets Khan, reiterates unwarranted offer to \'help\' Pakistan & India over Kashmir. rt.com US President Donald Trump has again floated the idea that Washington could referee talks between India and Pakistan to resolve the dispute over Kashmir, but Pakistan\'s Prime Minister Imran Khan didn\'t appear to bite. | Trump reiterated the offer at a meeting with Khan on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, calling the PM his \"friend\" and making yet another attempt to insert the US into the Kashmir row. | \"We\'re talking about Kashmir … if we can help, we certainly will be helping. We\'ve been watching that and following it very, very closely,\" Trump said. | #PrimeMiniste…

Staff (2020-01-22). Criminalizing Reporting: Glenn Greenwald Faces Cybercrime Complaint After Exposing Scandal in Brazil. democracynow.org In Brazil, federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against journalist and Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald in connection to a major investigation he spearheaded that exposed misconduct among federal prosecutors and a former judge. Called \"The Secret Brazil Archive,\" the series of pieces published in The Intercept and The Intercept Brasil used a trove of documents to offer new and damning insight into the sweeping anti-corruption campaign that brought down former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and paved the way for the election of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. The investigation used pre…

RT (2020-01-22). Don\'t lock him up! Trump says (Bill) Clinton \'shouldn\'t have been impeached\'. rt.com US President Donald Trump has come out with a surprising defense of his fellow impeached president, Bill Clinton, claiming he has always thought the former leader \"should not have been impeached.\" | In between repeatedly defending himself as \"the only one who\'s ever been impeached and he didn\'t commit a crime,\" Trump spoke up in Clinton\'s defense, arguing that the former president should not have been impeached in 1998 either. | pic.twitter.com/rePv3IDGsI— Global Politicsüåè (@Globalpoliticss)

Lucas Koerner (2020-01-22). How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela. fair.org In Jacobin ( It\'s been a year since Juan Guaidó began his US-anointed mandate as \"interim president\" of Venezuela. | Following the opposition leader\'s

Juan Cole (2020-01-22). The Saudi Hacking Scandal Is Much Bigger Than Anyone Realizes. truthdig.com The revelation that the Saudi Crown Prince is linked to the hacking of Jeff Bezos\' phone points to larger ways Trump is reshaping the globe.

Staff (2020-01-22). Climate Change Will Alter Sports Forever. therealnews.com Australian Open competitors had to fight through wildfire smoke in their qualifying rounds. Political sportswriter Dave Zirin says we\'re about to see how the climate crisis will permanently change the way we play sports.

Staff (2020-01-22). The Trump Administration Just Opened a New Immigrant Prison in Rural Michigan. truthout.org From his office at the Cristo Rey Church in Lansing, Mich., Oscar Castañeda runs a campaign against a new federal immigrant prison, part of President Donald Trump\'s escalation of immigration enforcement. | In May 2019, the Trump administration awarded a

Anya Parampil (2020-01-22). Busting pro-war propaganda: what China is really like. thegrayzone.com Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Danny Haiphong, a contributing editor at the Black Agenda Report, about his…

Anya Parampil (2020-01-22). Busting Cold War propaganda: what China is really like. thegrayzone.com Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Danny Haiphong, a contributing editor at the Black Agenda Report, about his recent,…

WSWS (2020-01-22). Brazil\'s Bolsonaro government charges journalist Glenn Greenwald with \"cybercrimes\" wsws.org The trumped-up charges against Greenwald by Bolsonaro\'s fascistic government are of a piece with the global assault on free speech and democratic rights and the jailing of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.

WSWS (2020-01-22). SEP to hold public meeting in Canada to demand freedom for Julian Assange. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (Canada) is holding a public meeting in Montreal on Sunday, February 2 to fight for the freedom of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, oppose war, and defend democratic rights.

WSWS (2020-01-22). Witnesses testify that CIA spied on Assange and his lawyers. wsws.org This evidence alone requires the US extradition case to be thrown out of court on the grounds of illegality.

Ben Norton (2020-01-22). OPCW investigator testifies at UN that no chemical attack took place in Douma, Syria. thegrayzone.com In testimony before the United Nations Security Council, former OPCW inspection team leader and engineering expert Ian Henderson stated that…

CODEPINK, ANSWER (2020-01-22). Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Sacramento). indybay.org Intersection of 9th street & K street, Sacramento, CA 95814…

CODEPINK, ANSWER (2020-01-22). Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Davis). indybay.org Intersection of 5th Street and B Street, Downtown Davis 95616…

CODEPINK, ANSWER (2020-01-22). Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (San Mateo). indybay.org Intersection of 3rd Avenue and El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94401…

CODEPINK, ANSWER (2020-01-22). Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Santa Cruz). indybay.org Santa Cruz Town Clock, tri-intersection of Water Street, Front Street, N. Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060…

Justin Podur (2020-01-22). The People of Colombia are Cracking the Walls of War and Authoritarianism. counterpunch.org The protests that started with the national strike called by Colombia\'s central union on November 21 to protest pension reforms and the broken promises of the peace accords have persisted for two months and grown into a protest against the whole establishment. And the protests have continued into the new year and show no signs

teleSUR (2020-01-22). Protests Continue In Colombia Against Ivan Duque\'s Policies. telesurenglish.net Several clashes between demonstrators and the police took place during rallies in Bogotá and several regions of the country, in the context of a day of protest in Colombia, where isolated cases of repression were reported. | The most serious incident happened in Bogota, when a g…

Staff (2020-01-22). Headlines for January 22, 2020. democracynow.org Senate Approves Rules for Trump\'s Impeachment Trial, Spain Declares Climate Emergency & Readies Climate Legislation, Australian Wildfires Release Massive Amounts of Greenhouse Gas, Airstrikes in Syria Kill 40 People, Including Children, in Idlib, Protesters Denounce Lebanon\'s Newly Formed Government, U.S. Deports Honduran Children Seeking Asylum to Guatemala Despite Being Ill, Hillary Clinton Slams Bernie Sanders in New Documentary But Says She Will Support Democratic Nominee, Architect of CIA\'s Torture Program Testifies in War Court at Guantánamo Bay, The Guardian: Bezos\'s Cellphone Was Allegedly Hacked by Saudi…