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…
truthout.org/articles/conservative-justices-sanction-stephen-millers-anti-immigration-agenda/

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…
telesurenglish.net/news/192-Migrants-Rescued-in-the-Mediterranean-and-Canary-Islands-20200128-0006.html

Basta Thanks Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange for Revealing Bush\'s War Crimes
Orion the Elder | indybay.org | 2020-01-28
MacArthur&Fruitvale…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/24/18830062.php

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…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/28/split-hearings-the-assange-extradition-case-drags-on/

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-j28.html

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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/assa-j28.html

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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/assa-j28.html

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.\"…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/27/adam-schiffs-russia-bashing-is-unhinged-and-dangerous/

\'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

Chinese Artist & Filmmaker Ai Weiwei on State Violence from Mexico to Hong Kong to Xinjiang
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-28
In 2014, 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers\' College disappeared after they were abducted in Iguala, Mexico. More than five years after their disappearance, the families of the students are still fighting for justice. The story is the subject of a stunning new documentary by the world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. The film, \"Vivos,\" follows the families of the disappeared students in their daily lives as they grapple with the absence of their loved ones and attempt to hold the Mexican government accountable for their disappearance. We sat down with Ai Weiwei earlier this week at the Sund…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/28/ai_weiwei_vivos_hong_kong_xinjiang

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…
truthout.org/video/murder-of-mexican-artist-highlights-endemic-issue-of-femicide-in-ciudad-juarez/

\'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…
rt.com/news/479347-thunberg-indian-climate-activist/

Murder of Mexican Artist Isabel Cabanillas Highlights Endemic Issue of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez
Staff | democracynow.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 member of the Juárez feminist collective Hijas de su Maquilera Madre, about Cabanillas\'s life and the endemic issue of femicide in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/28/juarez_mexico_isabel_cabanillas_assassination_femicide

Palestinian Rejection: End of Oslo Peace Process and the Trump-Netanyahu Apartheid \"Steal of the Century\"
Juan Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
The Palestinian leadership has entirely rejected what is known of the Trump plan for Israel and Palestine, and warned that they see it as destroying the Oslo Peace accords. The Trump administration did not consult the Palestinians in drawing up …
globalresearch.ca/price-trolling-impeachment-end-oslo-peace-process-trump-netanyahu-apartheid-steal-century/5702085

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…
rt.com/news/479424-israel-palestine-deal-foreign-reactions/

Price of Trolling Impeachment
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-01-28
End of Oslo Peace Process and Trump-Netanyahu Apartheid \"Steal of the Century\"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/price-of-trolling-impeachment/

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.
rt.com/newsline/479348-us-palestinian-un-russia/

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…
rt.com/news/479412-trump-two-state-solution-israel/

Forum \"Why is the U.S. Always at War? Is Peace Possible?\"
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2020-01-28
2969 Mission St., near 26th St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/27/18830112.php

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…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-the-eve-of-the-release-of-trumps-deal-of-the-century/

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.
truthdig.com/articles/palestinians-call-on-world-to-reject-trump-peace-deal/

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…
rt.com/news/479423-netanyahu-palestine-conditional-sovereignty/

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…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-16-Congress-Seats-for-Victims-of-the-Armed-Conflict-20200128-0004.html

Trump Unveils Controversial Peace Plan for the Middle East
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
The president, with Netanyahu at his side, details the proposal to create a state of Palestine while ceding major West Bank blocs to Israel.
truthdig.com/articles/trump-unveils-controversial-peace-plan-for-the-middle-east/

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

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 …
globalresearch.ca/million-iraqis-asked-us-leave-we-should-listen/5702087

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…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-policy-toward-hong-kong-is-biased-by-us-china-trade-negotiations/

Raging Grannies Remember Kent State at J25 No War With Iran Rally
San Mateo Protests | indybay.org | 2020-01-28
Old enough to remember, members of the Raging Grannies tuned up their voices to sing a classic anti-war song from the Vietnam war era.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/26/18830102.php

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-j28.html

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, …
globalresearch.ca/real-money-behind-new-green-agenda/5702027

Sorry Chomsky and Friends, The Green Party isn\'t the Problem
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
counterpunch.org/2020/01/28/sorry-chomsky-and-friends-the-green-party-isnt-the-problem/

Sorry Chomsky and Friends, The Green Party isn\'t the Problem
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
counterpunch.org/2020/01/28/sorry-chomsky-and-friends-the-green-party-isnt-the-problem/

Noam Chomsky Is the Antidote to Trump\'s Facism
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
In addition to the obvious terrors

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

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 …
globalresearch.ca/killing-free-speech-america/5702090

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.
mintpressnews.com/conflict-brewing-israel-turkey-natural-gas/264410/

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, …
globalresearch.ca/video-maarat-al-numan-liberated/5702097

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 …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-outbreak-global-public-health-emergency/5702060

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.
mintpressnews.com/media-israel-intelligence-2020-elections-cyber-security/264361/

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…
globalresearch.ca/us-dropped-more-munitions-afghanistan-last-year-than-any-other-time/5702076

\"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 …
globalresearch.ca/humans-love-violence-gandhi-world-economic-forum/5702053

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 …
globalresearch.ca/five-phase-strategy-strengthen-russian-pakistani-trade-ties/5702095

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 …
globalresearch.ca/iraq-neocons-get-out-our-country/5702020

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 …
globalresearch.ca/video-guns-drugs-and-the-cia/5701863

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 …
globalresearch.ca/trump-epa-huge-cancer-risk/5702064

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 …
globalresearch.ca/can-carob-save-nation/5702022

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 …
globalresearch.ca/struggle-end-imperialist-militarism-21st-century/5702035

France Apology after History Textbook Links CIA to 9/11
BBC | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
A French publisher has apologised after a history textbook that appeared in bookshops in recent weeks suggested the 11 September 2001 attacks were probably \"orchestrated by the CIA\". | The debunked conspiracy theory was apparently highlighted on social media initially by …
globalresearch.ca/france-apology-history-textbook-links-cia-911/5701808

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 …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-message-to-donald-what-do-you-want-from-us/5701954

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 …
globalresearch.ca/open-letter-canada-pm-justin-trudeau/5702024