2020-02-10: Social Media Postees

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Reps introduce New Way Forward Act to fight criminalization of immigrants
World Combined Sources | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-10
WASHINGTON, D.C.

The Trump administration\'s surveillance dragnet
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
The massive breach of the right to privacy, first justified by President Bush in the guise of the \"war on terror,\" then expanded under President Obama, is now being utilized in Trump\'s fascistic war on immigrants.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/pers-f10.html

What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Chris Hedges | truthdig.com | 2020-02-10
The global security state, which is not bound by the rule of law, will target all who defy it.
truthdig.com/articles/what-is-happening-to-assange-will-happen-to-the-rest-of-us/

The Truth About Julian Assange
Nils Melzer | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture

Australian pseudo-left seeks to cover up its abandonment of WikiLeaks\' Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
Socialist Alternative\'s article, \"The betrayal of Julian Assange,\" is a crude attempt to cover up its own role in the \"betrayal\" of the WikiLeaks publisher.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/salt-f10.html

Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia Over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-10
\"This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure.\"

DNC in Disarray While the Sanders Campaign Gains Momentum
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
As a center of elite power, the Democratic National Committee is now floundering. Every reform it has implemented since 2016 was the result of progressive grassroots pressure. But there are limits to what DNC Chair Tom Perez is willing to accept without a knock-down, drag-out fight. And in recent weeks, he has begun to do…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/dnc-in-disarray-while-the-sanders-campaign-gains-momentum/

Why the Buttigieg Campaign Tried to Have Me Arrested for Handing Out Information About Medicare for All
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
Trying to block information on a New Hampshire campus…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/10/18830596.php

Why the Buttigieg Campaign Tried to Have Me Arrested for Handing Out These Medicare for All Fliers
Norman Solomon | commondreams.org | 2020-02-10
US Presidential Candidate and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at a Town Hall event in Keene, New Hampshire. – US Presidential Candidates are in the state for the upcoming 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary who will take place on February 11, 2020. (Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/buttigieg_new_hampshire.jpg
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Libya is Being Torn Apart By Outsiders
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
Ghassan Salamé is the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. He took over this job in 2017, six years after the catastrophic NATO war on Libya. What Salamé inherited was a country torn into shreds, two governments in place–one in Tripoli and one in Tobruk–and one civil war that had too many…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/libya-is-being-torn-apart-by-outsiders/

Libya is Being Torn Apart By Outsiders
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
Ghassan Salamé is the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. He took over this job in 2017, six years after the catastrophic NATO war on Libya. What Salamé inherited was a country torn into shreds, two governments in place–one in Tripoli and one in Tobruk–and one civil war that had too many…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/libya-is-being-torn-apart-by-outsiders/

Climate Change and Rebellion: an interview with John Molyneux
Leo Zeilig | mronline.org | 2020-02-10
In an interview with the socialist writer and activist, John Molyneux, ROAPE\'s Leo Zeilig asks him about climate change, capitalism and socialist transformation. In an important initiative John has recently founded the Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) which brings together activists and researchers from across the Global North and South. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/10/climate-change-and-rebellion-an-interview-with-john-molyneux/

Brazilian Police Kill Suspect in Marielle Franco\'s Murder
teleSUR-age | telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-10
Adriano da Nóbrega, the notorious hitman whose gang of hired killers was allegedly involved in the murder of Brazilian councilor, Marielle Franco, was gunned down by police on Sunday in the northeastern state of Bahia, where the suspect had been hiding from authorities. | RELATED: | Paris Will Have a Public Space Named After Activist Marielle Franco | The former special forces police captain, who also had close ties to the family of the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro,…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazilian-police-kill-suspect-for-marielle-francos-murder–20200210-0006.html

At least eight shot dead in southern Iraq
Qassim Abdul-Zahra | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
At least eight anti-government protesters were shot dead and 52 were wounded in clashes with followers of a radical Shiite cleric in southern Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi medical officials and activists said.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/08/18830535.php

At least eight shot dead in southern Iraq
Qassim Abdul-Zahra | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
At least eight anti-government protesters were shot dead and 52 were wounded in clashes with followers of a radical Shiite cleric in southern Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi medical officials and activists said.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/08/18830535.php

West Virginia Legislation: The Criminalization of Peaceful Protests against Oil and Gas \"Critical Infrastructure\". Anti-protest Bills
Connor Gibson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
2020 HB 4615 | Introduced and referred to House Judiciary Committee on January 30, 2020 | ICNL analysis: | Would heighten the penalties for protests near oil and gas pipelines and other infrastructure. Under the bill, knowingly trespassing on property containing a | …
globalresearch.ca/west-virginia-oil-gas-critical-infrastructure-anti-protest-bills/5703279

On V-Day: Vigil for Love Not War
Friday Peace Vigil, SJPJC, and others | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
In front of Martin Luther King, Jr Library | 4th and San Fernando | San Jose, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830561.php

Democrats vs Bernie in 2020, Repeat of 2016
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
In Iowa, Bernie won the popular vote but a corporate candidate most of us never heard of, Peter Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind (mayors of small towns do not usually run for president) supposedly won the delegate vote. Now in California, Los Angeles County voters are receiving incorrect ballots.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830564.php

Democrats vs Bernie in 2020, Repeat of 2016
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
In Iowa, Bernie won the popular vote but a corporate candidate most of us never heard of, Peter Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind (mayors of small towns do not usually run for president) supposedly won the delegate vote. Now in California, Los Angeles County voters are receiving incorrect ballots.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830564.php

Developing Belonging in a Time of Othering
WILPF San Jose | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
San Jose Peace and Justice Center | 48 S 7th Street | San Jose, CA 95112…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830560.php

Indian politician calls for burqa ban claiming \'terrorists\' use them to hide from police
rt.com | 2020-02-10
The state of Uttar Pradesh\'s labor minister Raghuraj Singh has called for an outright ban on women wearing burqas, suggesting that terrorists have been using them to elude authorities. | In an apparent reference to the recent violent protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which have swept India, Singh claimed that criminals and \"terrorists\" were using the burqa to conceal their identities. | Also on rt.com | | Indian women\'s college bans burqas as part of dress code crackdown | The poitician from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Par…
rt.com/news/480483-indian-politician-burqa-ban-terrorism/

Oakland Protesters Insist Senate Trial Was a Cover-Up, Not an Exoneration
R.R. | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
After the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, protesters took to the streets in Oakland, CA.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/08/18830521.php

Sh*t-can Perez and the DNC
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
Hooray for Bernie Sanders! He waited until he had the numbers and now he\'s calling it. He won Iowa! Maybe the same corporate media that have been touting Pete Buttigieg as the \"presumptive winner\" in the messy Iowa Caucus, now that their story is collapsing are unwilling to call it for Bernie. Sanders, in a…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/sht-can-perez-and-the-dnc/

Growing attacks on socialism in Democratic presidential race
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
With polls showing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders the likely first-place finisher in tomorrow\'s Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, Sanders\' opponents have focused their attacks on his public identification as a \"democratic socialist.\"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/elec-f10.html

Growing attacks on socialism in Democratic presidential race
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
With polls showing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders the likely first-place finisher in tomorrow\'s Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, Sanders\' opponents have focused their attacks on his public identification as a \"democratic socialist.\"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/elec-f10.html

The Vengeful, Lawless, Corporate Toady Trump Explodes
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
The day after his acquittal by the Republican Party in a trial that banned witnesses, the unhinged Donald Trump gloated for over an hour on all the television networks. Trump flattered his courtiers, one by one, and fulminated against his Congressional adversaries, Hillary Clinton and ex-FBI chief James Comey. Donald Trump\'s speech degraded his office…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/the-vengeful-lawless-corporate-toady-trump-explodes/

The Vengeful, Lawless, Corporate Toady Trump Explodes
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
The day after his acquittal by the Republican Party in a trial that banned witnesses, the unhinged Donald Trump gloated for over an hour on all the television networks. Trump flattered his courtiers, one by one, and fulminated against his Congressional adversaries, Hillary Clinton and ex-FBI chief James Comey. Donald Trump\'s speech degraded his office…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/the-vengeful-lawless-corporate-toady-trump-explodes/

Despite Iowa Caucus Fiasco, Nevada Democrats Plan to Use New Software \"Tool\"
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-10
Though the fallout from the Iowa Caucus is still fresh, it appears that the technology-driven chaos and corruption seen in Iowa have not served as a warning to the Nevada Democratic Party.
mintpressnews.com/nevada-democrats-caucus-new-software-despite-iowa-app-problems/264777/

GOP \"Climate Plan\" Calls for Planting Trees But No Emissions Reduction
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
When it comes to climate, it\'s quite easy for the right to use the media as a spin machine. The media, starving for plans to \"counteract\" the progressive Green New Deal to fulfill the everlasting need for a false dichotomy, laps up any spurious climate plan that conservatives might come out with. The most recent media grab by the GOP on climate

Climate Manipulation and Murdoch\'s PR Machine
Thomas Klikauer | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
Western democracies and their respected societies appear to be incapable or unwilling of solving global warming. At least partly, this might be because voters in most countries have been lied to by the corporate media for decades on end. Much of this is due to one very rich and very old man

Clinging to Normalcy Is Killing Us. How Do We Break Free?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
Truthout is very excited to announce the launch of its first-ever podcast \"Movement Memos\" hosted by our very own Kelly Hayes. Look out for a new episode every Monday! | An overwhelming political climate has left many Americans frozen in a state of uncertainty. Unable or unwilling to fully process the enormity of climate change or the tragic circus of Trumpism, many are going through the motions of normalcy while the world burns. In this episode, Kelly talks with UndocuBlack organizer Aly Wane about how fear and anx…
truthout.org/audio/clinging-to-normalcy-is-killing-us-how-do-we-break-free/

Trump Puts Rejected Budget Cuts Back on the Block
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-10
WASHINGTON

CALL AGAINST THE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE DEVASTATION, AGAINST THE MOBILE INDUSTRY, AGAINST THE
anarquistes contra la devastacio | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
1-English | 2-Franàßais | 3-Castellano | 1- | Since 24 till 27 of February the featured event of the ICT industry- the MWC is going to be held in Barcelona. This gathering is arranged by GSMA, one of the most important organization in the world and more powerful than many governments. This year more than hundred thousand of CEOs and businessmen will attend MWC. All of them are ready to pay around the 800 -5000 euros for each access ticket. | On the one hand, this lucrative industry is a part of world\'s GDP with more than 3,9 trillion dollars. On the other hand, behind all that great profit are destruction,…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830556.php

Trump Budget Would Slash Medicare and Social Security While Boosting Pentagon
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
Just two days after vowing the White House \"will not be touching your Social Security or Medicare\" in its budget proposal for fiscal year 2021, President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to unveil a $4.8 trillion blueprint that includes hundreds of billions in combined cuts to those programs over the next decade, deep reductions in safety-net spending, and a major increase in Pentagon funding. | The president\'s pl…
truthout.org/articles/trump-budget-would-slash-medicare-and-social-security-while-boosting-pentagon/

Call Against The Technologies Of The Devastation, Against The Mobile Industry, Against The
anarquistes contra la devastacio | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
1-English | 2-Franàßais | 3-Castellano | 1- | Since 24 till 27 of February the featured event of the ICT industry- the MWC is going to be held in Barcelona. This gathering is arranged by GSMA, one of the most important organization in the world and more powerful than many governments. This year more than hundred thousand of CEOs and businessmen will attend MWC. All of them are ready to pay around the 800 -5000 euros for each access ticket. | On the one hand, this lucrative industry is a part of world\'s GDP with more than 3,9 trillion dollars. On the other hand, behind all that great profit are destruction,…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830556.php

Lindsey Graham Seems Willing to Degrade Every US Institution to Keep Trump Happy
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told Fox News\' Brian Kilmeade last week \"When I go to meet God at the pearly gates, I don\'t think he\'s going to ask me, \'Why didn\'t you convict Trump?\'\" He may be right about that, but only because he\'s likely to first be asked to explain what he did afterward. Graham has become Trump\'s instrument of revenge in the Senate, and he isn\'t making any bones about it. | Appearing on Judge Jeanine Pirro\'s Fox News show on Saturday night, Graham made it clear…
truthout.org/articles/lindsey-graham-seems-willing-to-degrade-every-us-institution-to-keep-trump-happy/

Charles Koch\'s Political Operation Gears Up to Attack 2020 Democrats
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
Charles Koch\'s Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action) has reported receiving nearly $6 million this quarter, bringing the total raised in 2019 to $14.16 million. AFP Action is the super PAC of the Koch political network\'s astroturf group: Americans for Prosperity (AFP.) | AFP Action was launched months before the 2018 midterms as \"a new tool to build broad policy coalitions in Congress to help adva…
truthout.org/articles/charles-kochs-political-operation-gears-up-to-attack-2020-democrats/

Brazilians Mobilize to Clean Up Massive Oil Spill and End the Fossil Fuel Era
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
A major oil spill, coming from a mysterious source in the South Atlantic Ocean, has been contaminating Brazil\'s coastline since Aug. 30. The oil has already reached a 1,500-mile stretch of the coast across 11 Brazilian states. It\'s contaminated beaches, coral reefs, estuaries, mangroves, and at least 14 nature conservation areas. And it has been impacting the health of traditional coastal communities, including the liv…
truthout.org/articles/brazilians-mobilize-to-clean-up-massive-oil-spill-and-end-the-fossil-fuel-era/

Facebook Ads Should Face the Same Libel Law as Media Outlets
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
Will Facebook run ads calling Donald Trump a \"money launderer?\" This is an interesting question to consider. If an individual or group proposed to run television or newspaper ads describing Trump as a money launderer, the outlet would almost certainly refuse to take it. In spite of the strong probability that the charge is true, these outlets would be afraid of a major lawsuit from Trump. Facebook has no such concerns, and that is a big problem. | Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a big point…
truthout.org/articles/facebook-ads-should-face-the-same-libel-law-as-media-outlets/

Trump\'s Social Security Changes Pose Dire Threat to Rural Disabled People
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
Changes to the Social Security Disability Insurance program proposed in January by the Trump administration could make it harder for over 8 million Americans with disabilities to maintain federal benefits. | That\'s particularly true for those in rural communities, where we have worked and studied for the past 35 years. |
truthout.org/articles/trumps-social-security-changes-pose-dire-threat-to-rural-disabled-people/

Russian \'anarchists\' jailed for planning FIFA World Cup and presidential election terrorist attacks
rt.com | 2020-02-10
A court in the central Russian city of Penza has handed down prison sentences of between six and 18 years to seven anarchists convicted on terrorism charges. | The men, all members of the group \'Network (\'Set,\' in Russian), were accused of possession of weapons and drugs, and of planning attacks during the FIFA World Cup and presidential election in 2018. They were arrested in 2017, in Penza and St. Petersburg. The Federal Security Service (FSB) claims that \'Network\' also operated \'cells\' in Moscow, Omsk and the capital of Belarus, Minsk. | Investigators asserted that Dmitry Pchelintsev and Ilya Shakursky were…
rt.com/russia/480500-anarchists-jailed-terrorist-attacks-fifa/

China, Russia to Defy US Sanctions Over Support to Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-10
The Russian government rejected on Monday the U.S. threats to impose new sanctions against several Russian companies for their cooperation with Venezuela in the oil sector. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces Terrorist Attack Against Cantv, Movilnet Telecom Warehouse | Last week, the United States special representative for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, warned Russia that its support for Venezuela will cost them econmically as Washington is looking to sanction them.
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Russia-to-Defy-US-Sanctions-Over-Support-to-Venezuela-20200210-0005.html

German Ruling Class Commemorates Liberation of Auschwitz by Planning New Wars and New Crimes
Johannes Stern | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
On Wednesday, a neo-fascist party helped form a regional government in Germany for the first time since the end of Nazi rule. | Despite the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) receiving just five percent of the vote in the regional election …
globalresearch.ca/german-ruling-class-commemorates-liberation-auschwitz-planning-new-wars-new-crimes/5703234

It\'s No Big Deal that There Are Some Limits to Russia-Israel \"Cooperation\" in Syria
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Russia\'s condemnation of the \"Israeli Air Force\'s\" recklessness in once again hiding behind a civilian aircraft to deter anti-air fire by the Syrian Arab Army during their latest bombing operation against Damascus isn\'t contradictory to the principles of the unofficial …
globalresearch.ca/no-big-deal-some-limits-russian-israeli-co-op-syria/5703255

Being a Democrat–Ugh
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Notwithstanding the impotent Senate Minority. Not those ill-fated bills championed as victories by House Democrats only to be spurned by the upper chamber; not smug, elitist party fundraisers; not funding strategists and millionaire celebrity donors; not even bumbling Iowa Democratic …
globalresearch.ca/being-democrat/5703227

The American Empire Mistakenly Believes the Shale Oil-Gas Revolution Will Continue Until 2050 and Beyond
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The Trump regime never tires of trumpeting the myth of American \'energy independence\'. The foreign policy establishment in Washington sees America\'s emergence as the worlds largest oil exporter as giving a huge boost to the achievement of U.S. geo-political goals. …
globalresearch.ca/american-empire-mistakenly-believes-shale-revolution-continue-until-2050-beyond/5703191

From Pétain to Macron, from the Resistance to the Yellow Vests…: 1944-1945, France\'s Fake Purge of \"The Collaborators\"
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
In her most recent book, La Non-épuration en France de 1943 aux années 1950 (\"France\'s Non-Purge from 1943 to the 1950s\"), historian Annie Lacroix-Riz challenges a view of the Liberation of the country in 1944-1945

Israel Charged with War Crimes and Genocide. Complete 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The Tribunal deplores the failure of international institutions to punish the State of Israel for its crimes and its total lack of respect of International Law and the institutions of the United Nations.
globalresearch.ca/israel-charged-with-war-crimes-and-genocide-complete-judgment-of-kl-tribunal/5359433

Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-yield Nukes on Submarines to Counter Made-up Russian \'Strategy\'
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The US has deployed \"low-yield\" nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it\'s to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a \"Russian strategy\" made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer. | In a statement released | …
globalresearch.ca/step-nuclear-doomsday-us-puts-low-yield-nukes-submarines-counter-made-up-russian-strategy/5703215

Hassan Diab Files Civil Claim Regarding His Extradition
Hassan Diab Support Committee | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
On Friday February 7, Hassan Diab\'s civil lawyer filed a statement of claim in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice regarding Hassan\'s extradition in 2014. At a press conference that day, Hassan stated: | \"Since my release in 2018, we have | …
globalresearch.ca/hassan-diab-files-civil-claim-regarding-extradition/5703236