US Supreme Court approves public charge rule directed against legal immigrants
wsws.org | 2020-01-29
The highly contested rule, which was announced last August, altered existing immigration law to allow the administration to deny visas to legal immigrants who it claims would rely on the government\'s assistance.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/29/publ-j29.html
The World Demands Us Out of the Middle East
Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-29
The world is saying no to war with Iran and US out of the Middle East. Hundreds of protests were held in the United States and around the world on Saturday with a unified voice of \"No War.\" These protests are in solidarity with massive protests in Iraq calling for the US to get out…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/the-world-demands-us-out-of-the-middle-east/
The World Demands Us Out of the Middle East
Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-29
The world is saying no to war with Iran and US out of the Middle East. Hundreds of protests were held in the United States and around the world on Saturday with a unified voice of \"No War.\" These protests are in solidarity with massive protests in Iraq calling for the US to get out…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/the-world-demands-us-out-of-the-middle-east/
Why the Green Party isn\'t the Problem
Myles Hoenig | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-29
I just read the open letter by Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher, Barbara Ehrenreich, Kathy Kelly, Ron Daniels, Leslie Cagan, Norman Solomon, Cynthia Peters, and Michael Albert calling on the Green Party not to run a candidate this year. The authors above utilize so many clichés that it\'s getting beyond ridiculous and frighteningly dangerous. This is…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/why-the-green-party-isnt-the-problem/
Trump\'s fake \'peace plan\' is permanent apartheid for Palestine
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-29
Attorney, professor, and author Noura Erakat on Trump\'s \"deal of the century\": a call for permanent apartheid in Palestine. President…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/29/trumps-fake-peace-plan-is-permanent-apartheid-for-palestine/
Syrian Troops Capture Key Town in Rebel-Held Idlib Province
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-29
DAMASCUS, Syria
Trump\'s Farcical Mideast \"Peace Deal\" Ignores International Law. Green Light to Israeli Annexation of Palestine?
CJPME | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is highly critical of the Mideast Peace Plan announced by US President Donald Trump today
The \'Deal of the Century\' Is Apartheid
Sheena Anne Arackal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
With great fanfare, President Trump finally unveiled his long-anticipated Middle East peace proposal. The proposal was labeled \'The Deal of the Century\' because it was supposed to offer an even-handed and just solution to one of the world\'s most intractable …
globalresearch.ca/deal-century-apartheid/5702220
Trump Regime\'s Criminal \"Deal of the Century\": Breaking Palestine, Endorsing \"Greater Israel\"?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
US/Israeli policy is hardwired against regional peace and stability. | From what\'s known about Trump\'s deal of the century ahead of its reported Tuesday unveiling at the White House, it fulfills an Israeli wish list at the expense of fundamental Palestinian …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-deal-century-unrelated-equity-peace/5702055
Done Deal: How the Peace Process Sold Out the Palestinians
David Hearst | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
In November 2016, fresh off his electoral win, US President-elect Donald Trump boasted of his intention to end the Israel-Palestine conflict by striking what he called the \"ultimate deal\". | Calling it \"the war that never ends,\" Trump told the Wall …
globalresearch.ca/how-peace-process-sold-out-palestinians/5702222
\"Yet Another Declaration of War on Palestinians\": Rashid Khalidi on Trump\'s Middle East \"Peace\" Plan
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-29
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to annex about 30% of the occupied West Bank, after Israel was given the green light to do so by the United States. On Tuesday, President Trump
Forum \"Why is the U.S. Always at War? Is Peace Possible?\"
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2020-01-29
2969 Mission St., near 26th St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/27/18830112.php
Why is the U.S. Always at War? Is Peace Possible?
Party for Socialism and Liberation, Sonoma | indybay.org | 2020-01-29
A\'Roma Roasters Coffee and Tea | 95 5th St, Santa Rosa, California 95401…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/28/18830143.php
Jeremy Corbyn slams Donald Trump\'s so-called \'peace plan\' for Palestine
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-29
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warned Donald Trump\'s Middle East peace plan would \"lock-in illegal Israeli colonisation\" and deny Palestinian people their fundamental rights. He added that Britain must tell the US they are \"wrong\" on the issue.Boris Johnson, meanwhile, provided encouragement to the proposal which would leave sizeable areas of the occupied West Bank in Israeli hands.Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has dismissed Trump\'s plan as a \"conspiracy deal\".Speaking at Prime Minister\'s Questions, Corbyn said of the US president\'s idea: It will annex Palestinian territory, lock-in illegal Israeli colonisation…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/01/29/jeremy-corbyn-slams-donald-trumps-so-called-peace-plan-for-palestine/
Trump unveils farcical Mideast \"peace plan\" as Netanyahu is indicted
wsws.org | 2020-01-29
Timed to meet the immediate needs of both Trump and Netanyahu, the plan sanctions all of the policies of the Israeli right and is guaranteed to be rejected by the Palestinians.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/29/isra-j29.html
Palestinian anger over Trump\'s \'deal of the century\' met with Israeli tear gas & rubber bullets in West Bank
rt.com | 2020-01-29
Injuries have been reported as Palestinian protesters face Israeli security troops in the West Bank in non-stop protests after Donald Trump announced his peace plan for the region. | Scores of protesters flooded the streets in different parts of the West Bank, demonstrating against a US-proposed plan that they expect to lead to annexation of much of Palestinian land. | | A Palestinian demonstrator uses a sling to hurl back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli forces in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. ©REUTERS / Mussa Qawasma | In Bethlehem, protesters have been throwing stones at Israeli fo…
rt.com/news/479478-palestinians-protest-trump-deal/
\'Deal of the century\': What\'s in Trump\'s peace plan for Israel and Palestine
rt.com | 2020-01-29
The proposal for peace in the Middle East unveiled by US President Donald Trump envisions the conditions under which a Palestinian state might be recognized. RT delves into the 180-page \'deal of the century\' to see what\'s inside. | The \"Vision for Peace, Prosperity and a Brighter Future\" bills itself as \"the best, most realistic and most achievable outcome for the parties\" right from the start. It says that the 700 or so UN General Assembly resolutions and 100-plus Security Council resolutions have failed to bring peace, while the 1993 Oslo Accords left too many key issues unresolved, \"including, among other i…
rt.com/news/479434-deal-middle-east-peace-trump/
Israeli Defense Minister Wants Annexation of Occupied West Bank
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-29
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex over a third of the occupied West Bank shorlty after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his so-called \"Deal of the Century\" plan on Middle East peace. | RELATED: | Iran Slams Trump\'s Middle East Peace Plan as \'Disgraceful\' | \"Yesterday evening, history knocked on our door and granted us a one-time opportunity to apply Israel law on all of the settlements in Judea and Samaria and the Jordan…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israeli-Defense-Minister-Wants-Annexation-of-Occupied-West-Bank-20200129-0007.html
Trump\'s Israel-Palestine \"Peace\" Plan Violates International Law
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-29
Donald Trump\'s long-awaited \"deal of the century\" between Israel and Palestine essentially gives Israel\'s far right coalition government everything it wanted. This Middle East \"peace\" deal allows Israel to annex vast stretches of the Palestinian West Bank (which has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967) into Israel, including all of the illegal Jewish-only settlements in areas colonized by Israeli settlers as well as Arab East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley. Palestinians would be granted limit…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-israel-palestine-peace-plan-violates-international-law/
Iran Slams Trump\'s Middle East Peace Plan as \'Disgraceful\'
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-29
Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday strongly rejected the U.S. Middle East peace plan as \"disgraceful.\" | RELATED: | Iran: Alternative Solution to the So-Called Century\'s Deal | In a statement released hours after U.S. President Donald Trump\'s announcement of the so-called Deal of the Century, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said it is the \"betrayal of the century\" and is \"doomed to failure.\" | \"Palestine belongs to the Palestinians,\" he said. \"The Zionist regime (of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Slams-Trumps-Middle-East-Peace-Plan-as-Disgraceful-20200129-0001.html
Raging Grannies Remember Kent State at J25 No War With Iran Rally
San Mateo Protests | indybay.org | 2020-01-29
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
France: Riot Police Beat up Striking Firefighters as Media Looks the Other Way
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-29
The media, quick to condemn violence against protesters elsewhere in the world, largely ignored the brutal crackdown on firefighters joining months-long nationwide protests in France.
mintpressnews.com/france-riot-police-beat-striking-firefighters-media-looks-other-way/264444/
Iraqi president gives MPs 3 days to name new PM amid protests
rt.com | 2020-01-29
President Barham Saleh threatened on Wednesday to unilaterally name a successor to Iraq\'s premier, who resigned in December, if parliament did not nominate a candidate within three days. | \"If the concerned blocs are unable to resolve the nomination issue by no later than Saturday, February 1… I see an obligation to exercise my constitutional powers by tasking whomever I find most acceptable to parliament and the people,\" Saleh wrote in a letter, according to AFP. | PM Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned in December after two months of deadly protests against his government, but he has stayed on in a caretaker role, a…
rt.com/newsline/479510-iraq-president-parliament-pm/
The Liberal Establishment is Already Warning Third Parties Not to Ruin the 2020 Election
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-29
Prominent liberal personalities, including Noam Chomsky, issued an open letter imploring third parties to \"remove themselves as a factor\" in the 2020 presidential election to \"benefit all humanity and a good part of the biosphere.\"
mintpressnews.com/liberal-establishment-warning-third-parties-not-to-ruin-2020-election/264460/
Pipeline or a Pipedream: Israel, Turkey Hydrocarbon Conflict is Brewing in the Mediterranean
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-29
Massive natural gas discoveries off the eastern coast of Israel and Palestine is slated to make Tel Aviv a regional energy hub. Whether Israel will be able to translate positive indicators of the largely untapped gas reserves into actual economic and strategic wealth is yet to be seen. What is certain, however, is that the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/pipeline-or-a-pipedream-israel-turkey-hydrocarbon-conflict-is-brewing-in-the-mediterranean/
Video: Maarat Al-numan Is About to Fall to Syrian Army
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
On January 24, the Syrian military resumed its offensive against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) and its Turkish-backed allies. | Warplanes of the Syrian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out over 3 dozens of …
globalresearch.ca/video-maarat-al-numan-fall-syrian-army/5702016
Macron\'s Macro-hypocrisy on Palestine
Dr. Vacy Vlazna | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
\"President Emmanuel Macron made a scene in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday when he angrily told Israeli security officers to get out of the Church of Saint Anne, which is traditionally under France\'s control: | \"Everybody knows the rules. I | …
globalresearch.ca/macron-macro-hypocrisy-palestine/5702190
Trump, Pence & Pompeo, the Gang of Three, Claim Criminal Theft of Palestinian Land to be Lawful!
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
As the jumped-up, self-proclaimed, blonde new ruler of the world gives away half the Palestinian West Bank to the current Israeli military occupier, the world watches in amazement at the idea that this unbalanced popinjay
The Global System Nearing Financial and Climate Collapse: Capitalism
Frank Scott | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
\'Why are there forty million poor people in America?.. when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, …you begin to question the capitalistic economy.\"
Don\'t be Surprised if Russia Tacitly Supports the Trump-Netanyahu \"Deal of the Century\"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Russia\'s relations with \"Israel\" in recent years are much deeper and more strategic than its historic ones with Palestine so it\'s unthinkable that Moscow won\'t tacitly support the so-called \"deal of the century\" despite expectedly voicing mild reservations about it …
globalresearch.ca/dont-be-surprised-russia-tacitly-supports-deal-century/5702231
\"Debt Against the People\": Analysis and History of the Global Debt Crisis
Eric Toussaint | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Introduction | Over the last ten years Greece has been a prime example of how a country and a people can be deprived of their liberty through clearly illegitimate debt. Since the 19th century, from Latin America to China, Haiti, …
globalresearch.ca/debt-against-people/5702229
Video: Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, The Iran-Contra Affair
Horizons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
This was posted on Youtube in 2011. | This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer\'s 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations …
globalresearch.ca/video-secret-government-constitution-crisis/5701860
Trump\'s Failed Bullying: Britain Accepts 5G Huawei Technology
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
It is strikingly bullying and bullish. US officials have been less than reserved in their threats about what Britain\'s proposed dealings with Huawei over admitting it to its 5G network might entail. Three Republican Senators
The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq to Target Iran
Nicolas J. S. Davies | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent \"weapons of mass destruction.\" But our government is now threatening to drag us into a war on Iran …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-recycling-big-lie-about-iraq-target-iran/5702169
Wuhan Expats Fed Up with Foreign Media Hype
Frank Hossack | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Expats living in Wuhan are enraged by foreign media coverage of the 19-nCoV outbreak. Better placed and likely more informed than any journalist in a faraway land, most are full of praise for the authorities\' handling of the situation. | Media …
globalresearch.ca/wuhan-expats-fed-up-foreign-media-hype/5702208
75 Years Ago: Hitler Plans Operation Spring Awakening as Auschwitz Is Liberated
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
It is often thought that the Third Reich\'s final major offensive of World War II comprised the Battle of the Bulge, which was launched in mid-December 1944 against the western Allies through Belgium, France and Luxembourg, with much of the …
globalresearch.ca/75-years-ago-hitler-plans-operation-spring-awakening-auschwitz-liberated/5702166
US Government Represents Lawless Billionaires
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Taliano told Press TV in an interview on Saturday that if enriching the US billionaire class \"entails stealing another country\'s oil, then the billionaire class is fine with that.\" | He said that the US did not need the oil from …
globalresearch.ca/us-government-represents-lawless-billionaires/5702200
The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX): Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Russians
Joyce Nelson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
A funny thing happened on the way to the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX)…or rather, several funny things. And they all have to do with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney\'s fear of \"foreign meddling\" in Canada\'s pipeline politics. | You …
globalresearch.ca/jason-kenney-russians-tmx-part-1/5702041
US airstrikes in Afghanistan hit ten-year high in 2019
wsws.org | 2020-01-29
The Trump administration has ramped up the air war in Afghanistan as it seeks to pressure the Taliban into a settlement, killing hundreds of civilians in the process.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/29/afgh-j29.html
Weakest Link: Impeachment and National Security
Jefferson Morley | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-29
In the summer of 2016 President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump didn\'t agree about much, except for one obscure issue of U.S. foreign policy: lethal military aid to Ukraine. As commander in chief, Obama objected to such assistance, even in the face of a Russian proxy war. So did candidate Trump. On…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/weakest-link-impeachment-and-national-security/
Call for \"No War but Class War\" in San José on International Day of Action Pt II
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-01-29
See Pt. I photos at | www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/28/18830119.php…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/28/18830124.php
\'We would be in World War Six by now\' if Bolton were still in the WH, says Trump in scathing tweets
rt.com | 2020-01-29
US President Donald Trump has hit back at John Bolton, his former national security advisor, accusing him of writing a \"nasty & untrue\" book and saying the warmongering Republican could have led us into \"World War Six.\" | While Bolton has become something of a hero to Trump\'s critics thanks to leaks from his upcoming book \'The Room Where it Happened\', which seemingly confirm accusations that the president withheld foreign aid to Ukraine in the hopes they would investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, conservatives have begun to turn on the man, chief among them the president himself. | \"For a guy who could…
rt.com/usa/479509-donald-trump-world-war-six/
\'Erasing our voices won\'t change anything\'
Extinction Rebellion | zcomm.org | 2020-01-29
This week\'s issue is particularly rife with reports of the media and its tendency towards misrepresentation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/erasing-our-voices-wont-change-anything/
The Electability Argument Is Really About Party Unity
Jeet Heer | thenation.com | 2020-01-29
The Electability Argument Is Really About Party Unity…
thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-unity-sanders-warren/
Crucial Pakistan-Afghan border crossing closed after reported rocket attack
rt.com | 2020-01-29
The Torkham border crossing, one of the principle land connections between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been shut down for all traffic. It comes after a reported rocket attack from the Afghan side. | The road passing by Torkham leads to the Afghan capital, Kabul through Jalalabad. On the Pakistani side, the crossing is connected to the capital, Islamabad through Peshawar. Torkham was temporarily shut down by the Pakistani authorities on Wednesday, with officials citing security concerns, according to media reports. The closure was said to be prompted by a rocket attack at the checkpoint, which left two Pakist…
rt.com/news/479447-afghanistan-pakistan-border-crossing/
Call for \"No War but Class War\" in San José on International Day of Action Pt I
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-01-29
San José demonstrators broadcast their demands on an international day of action against war with Iran on January 25. Several hundred people with signs and banners met at City Hall for a brief program then marched through the historic downtown to the intersection of Story and King Roads where they rallied.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/28/18830119.php
India calls for 2-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian issue as Trump unveils his plan
rt.com | 2020-01-29
India on Wednesday called for a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian issue after US President Donald Trump unveiled his plan. | \"India has been consistently supportive of the Palestinian cause,\" Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said. | \"We reiterate our view that final status issues should be resolved through direct negotiations between the two parties and be acceptable to both,\" ANI quoted him as saying. | \"We urge the parties to engage with each other, including on the recent proposals put forward by the US, and find an acceptable two-state solution for peac…
rt.com/newsline/479468-india-israel-palestinian-trump/
Firework \'attack\' on Man United chief Woodward\'s home shows disturbing level of disgust from fans at breaking point
rt.com | 2020-01-29
A group of alleged Manchester United fans threw fireworks at the house of executive vice chairman Ed Woodward\'s home, revealing a disturbing side of fans\' disgust at the shambolic running of the club by its board members. | Hooded figures can be seen in footage that has circulated the internet throwing fireworks and flares at the Cheshire home of Woodward, who lives in the property with his wife and two young daughters. It is understood that no one was at the time of the attack. | A portion of Manchester United fans have recently voiced their resentment at the club\'s handling by members of its hierarchy, whom…
rt.com/sport/479513-man-united-ed-woodward-atack-home-fireworks/
US airstrikes in Afghanistan hit ten-year high in 2019
wsws.org | 2020-01-29
The Trump administration has ramped up the air war in Afghanistan as it seeks to pressure the Taliban into a settlement, killing hundreds of civilians in the process.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/29/afgh-j29.html
Mutually Assured Madness: Immunity to the 25th Amendment
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-29
When Ronald Reagan first arrived at the White House after his big electoral victory over President Jimmy Carter in November 1980, and was now cleared to see and know all the secrets and issue commands, he was asked what he wanted to do first. He asked to see the War Room. The aides, handlers, military…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/mutually-assured-madness-immunity-to-the-25th-amendment/