2020-02-18: Social Media Postees

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Trump Is Unleashing Militarized Goon Squads Against Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-02-18
Trump Is Unleashing Militarized Goon Squads Against Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities…
thenation.com/article/society/trump-immigration-sanctuary-cities/

Sanders and AOC\'s Fracking Ban Angers Centrists and Their Fossil Fuel Backers
Mike Ludwig | zcomm.org | 2020-02-18
Source: Truthout Photo by J. Bicking/Shutterstock.com House Democrats have finally unveiled a flurry of climate bills aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but activists say only one proposal represents the \"gold standard\" for tackling the climate crisis: Legislation introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that would ban fracking nationwide. While none of Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/sanders-and-aocs-fracking-ban-angers-centrists-and-their-fossil-fuel-backers/

John Pilger: It is time for Julian Assange to be saved, not betrayed
John Pilger | thegrayzone.com | 2020-02-18
The truth is that Australia could have rescued Julian Assange and can still rescue him. Leaders of his homeland who have…
thegrayzone.com/2020/02/17/john-pilger-julian-assange-saved-betrayed/

Support grows for New Zealand rallies to free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
wsws.org | 2020-02-18
The Socialist Equality Group (NZ) is holding a rally in Wellington on Sunday February 23 as part of worldwide demonstrations in defence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/18/asnz-f18.html

Courage Foundation holds public meeting in New York City in defense of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-02-18
The extradition hearing for Assange is scheduled to begin in London on February 24.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/18/wnyc-f18.html

End Torture and Medical Neglect of Julian Assange
Dr. C. Stephen Frost | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-18
On Nov 22, 2019, we, a group of more than 60 medical doctors, wrote to the UK Home Secretary to express our serious concerns about the physical and mental health of Julian Assange.1 In our letter,1 we documented a history …
globalresearch.ca/end-torture-medical-neglect-julian-assange/5704006

\'Doctors for Assange\' worry he may die in UK prison having \'effectively been tortured to death\'
rt.com | 2020-02-18
Over 100 doctors are urging the UK government to stop the \"psychological torture\" of Julian Assange, and send him to a hospital. It\'s their fourth such letter since the journalist appeared in court. | WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may die in a UK prison, having \"effectively been tortured to death,\" claim Doctors for Assange, a group of 117 doctors from 18 countries, in a recent letter published in The Lancet, a leading medical journal. | The letter says that Assange requires urgent med…
rt.com/news/481096-doctors-worry-assange-condition/

While demanding Assange, US refuses to extradite CIA agent who killed British teen
Alexander Rubinstein | thegrayzone.com | 2020-02-18
High-ranking CIA agent Anne Sacoolas is charged with killing a teenaged British citizen. While the US demands Julian Assange\'s extradition,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/02/18/assange-us-extradite-cia-killed-british-teen/

Australian court backs police raids on journalists
wsws.org | 2020-02-18
The ruling highlights the driving forces behind the persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/18/raid-f18.html

While demanding Assange, US refuses to extradite CIA agent who killed British teen
Alexander Rubinstein | thegrayzone.com | 2020-02-18
High-ranking CIA agent Anne Sacoolas is charged with killing a teenage British citizen. While the US demands Julian Assange\'s extradition,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/02/18/assange-us-extradite-cia-killed-british-teen/

\'Julian Assange must be freed, not betrayed\', says John Pilger
John Pilger | thecanary.co | 2020-02-18
On Saturday, there will be a march from Australia House in London to Parliament Square, the centre of British democracy. People will carry pictures of the Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange who, on 24 February, faces a court that will decide whether or not he is to be extradited to the United States and a living death. | Some Australian history: | I know Australia House well. As an Australian myself, I used to go there in my early days in London to read the newspapers from home. Opened by King George V over a century ago, its vastness of marble and stone, chandeliers and solemn portraits,…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/02/18/julian-assange-must-be-freed-not-betrayed-says-john-pilger/

The Lancet publishes letter from doctors: \"End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange\"
wsws.org | 2020-02-18
The world\'s pre-eminent medical journal carries a letter from 117 doctors in 18 countries calling for urgent action to save the life of the WikiLeaks publisher.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/18/lanc-f18.html

Julian Assange Must Be Freed, Not Betrayed
John Pilger | zcomm.org | 2020-02-18
When we speak about dictatorships, we call this brainwashing: the conquest of minds. It is a truth we rarely apply to our own societies, regardless of the trail of blood that leads back to us and which never dries…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/julian-assange-must-be-freed-not-betrayed/

The Escalating Class War Against Bernie Sanders
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-18
More than ever, Bernie Sanders is public enemy number one for power elites that thrive on economic injustice. The Bernie 2020 campaign is a direct threat to the undemocratic leverage that extremely wealthy individuals and huge corporations constantly exert on the political process. No wonder we\'re now seeing so much anti-Bernie rage from leading corporate Democrats

The Escalating Class War Against Bernie Sanders
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-02-18
Corporate Democrats and corporate media on the attack…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/17/18830739.php

Teacher Strikes Boost Fight for Racial Justice in Schools
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
One year ago, Los Angeles teachers on strike were demanding an end to random searches where students were yanked out of class to be frisked. By the time they walked back into work, they had won a partial victory. | Now these searches are coming to an end districtwide

Striking LA Teachers\' Win Against Random Frisking Is Becoming District Policy
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
One year ago, Los Angeles teachers on strike were demanding an end to random searches where students were yanked out of class to be frisked. By the time they walked back into work, they had won a partial victory. | Now these searches are coming to an end districtwide

In politics, a day or a week makes a big difference
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-18
What a difference a day (or week) makes. During the first week of February, a sense of panic spread through the ranks of many Democrats and activists. First, there was the Iowa Caucus vote counting debacle, and then Trump was acquitted in the sham impeachment trial. Then the criminal, white supremacist, rapist, autocrat in the …
peoplesworld.org/article/in-politics-a-day-or-a-week-makes-a-big-difference/

Libya\'s GNA scraps peace talks after attack on ship \'loaded with weapons\' at Tripoli port
rt.com | 2020-02-18
The Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya has suspended UN-brokered ceasefire talks with the Libyan National Army after an LNA attack on a port in the capital on Tuesday. | \"Today there was a renewed violation of the truce with the targeting of civilian facilities in the capital,\" the GNA said in statement, adding \"we hereby suspend our participation in the military talks that are taking place in Geneva until a firm stand is taken against the aggressor and their violations.\" | The attack

Ukraine witch-hunter Mirotvorets blacklists retired NATO generals, Munich Security Conference head as \'PRO-RUSSIA\' propagandists
rt.com | 2020-02-18
A notorious witch-hunt website says the chairman of one the most reputed pro-NATO gatherings and some top US military retirees are now enemies of Ukraine, as they dared to sign a non-binding roadmap for peace in Donbass. | The controversial \'Mirotvorets\' (Peacekeeper) website took aim at German Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, blacklisting him for what it said was \"attempting to disrupt the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine\" and for \"taking part in Russia\'s propaganda events aimed against Ukraine.\" | | © Screenshot from myrotvorets.center | Ischinger chairs the Munich Security Conference (M…
rt.com/news/481100-mirotvorets-ischinger-blacklist-donbass/

\'The Deal of the Century\' and Its Hidden Secrets
Hazim El-Naser | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-18
We oppose and reject the US-Israeli peace plan, or the so-called \"deal of the century\", for many political, economic, social and religious reasons. It is rejected due to new signs that it will impede progress on the water issue between …
globalresearch.ca/deal-century-hidden-secrets/5703905

Mexico: Family Says Gov\'t Failed To Protect Murdered Girl
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-18
Relatives of a seven-year-old girl murdered in Mexico said Monday the government had failed to protect her despite their pleas for help, while President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blamed the crime on neo-liberal economics. | RELATED: | Women Glitter Mexico City to Protest Rape, Gendered Violence | Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett went missing on Feb. 11. Her body was discovered over the weekend inside a plastic garbage bag in Mexico City\'s Tlahuac neighborhood, only days after another mur…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Family-Says-Govt-Failed-To-Protect-Murdered-Girl-20200217-0021.html

Young man on trial for clashing with police at Moscow protests gets suspended sentence
rt.com | 2020-02-18
Meshchansky District Court in Moscow on Tuesday handed student Andrei Barshai, a participant of the July 27 unauthorized rally, a three-year suspended sentence. Barshai, 21, was convicted of using force against an officer of the Russian National Guard Troops Service. | Barshai was freed at the court room. He had denied any wrongdoing, excluding the fact of \'a physical contact\' with the officer. During the unauthorized action, Barshai \"pushed him in the back,\" police said. The student apologized to the law enforcement officer. | More than 3,500 people took to the streets in July last year in support of unregist…
rt.com/newsline/481134-man-trial-moscow-protests/

\"Worth the Price?\" New Film Shows How Biden Played Leading Role in Push for U.S. to Invade Iraq
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-18
The Democratic presidential candidates face off in Las Vegas Wednesday night ahead of the Nevada caucuses. Nevada could be a decisive state for candidates who performed poorly in Iowa and New Hampshire, including former Vice President Joe Biden. As Biden hopes for a comeback, a new short documentary sheds light on his extensive role in the Iraq War

Explaining Syria: It\'s Everyone\'s Fault Except the U.S. and Israel
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-18
The first week in February was memorable for the failed impeachment of President Donald Trump, the \"re-elect me\" State of the Union address and the marketing of a new line of underwear by Kim Kardashian. Given all of the …
globalresearch.ca/explaining-syria-everyone-fault-except-u-s-israel/5703993

Trump\'s Budget: More Warfare, Slightly Less Welfare
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-18
Listening to the howls from Democrats and the applause from Republicans, one would think President Trump\'s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget is a radical assault on the welfare state. The truth is the budget contains some minor spending cuts, most …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-budget-more-warfare-slightly-less-welfare/5703985

Video: Turkish \"Armed Groups\" Don\'t Help. Syrian Army Liberates Entire Western Aleppo
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-18
Syrian government forces have cleared the entire western countryside of Aleppo city of members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other Turkish-backed armed groups. | During the past week, the Syrian Army and its allies cleared up to 300km2 delivering a devastating …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-armed-groups-dont-help-syrian-army-liberates-entire-western-aleppo/5703963

Billionaire Bloomberg Aims to \"Buy the US Presidency\"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-18
A fantasy democracy, never the real thing, Americans get the best rule of privileged interests money can buy… | Bloomberg\'s billions give him a significant edge only money can buy. Forbes ranked him 9th among the world\'s richest individuals, estimating his …
globalresearch.ca/billionaire-bloomberg-aims-buy-us-presidency/5703927

Sanders on Geopolitical Issues
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-18
Follow what politicians do, not what they say they\'ll do. Time and again, rhetoric and actions are world\'s apart. | Obama and Trump are Exhibits A and B, their pledges to voters as presidential candidates polar opposite their policies in office …
globalresearch.ca/sanders-geopolitical-issues/5703987

Speeding Sea Level Rise Threatens Nuclear Plants
Paul Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-18
The latest science shows how the pace of sea level rise is speeding up, fuelling fears that not only millions of homes will be under threat, but that vulnerable installations like docks and power plants will be overwhelmed by the …
globalresearch.ca/speeding-sea-level-rise-threatens-nuclear-plants/5704001

New Film Shows How Biden Played Leading Role in Push for US to Invade Iraq
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
The Democratic presidential candidates face off in Las Vegas Wednesday night ahead of the Nevada caucuses. Nevada could be a decisive state for candidates who performed poorly in Iowa and New Hampshire, including former Vice President Joe Biden. As Biden hopes for a comeback, a new short documentary sheds light on his extensive role in the Iraq War

Impunity for Torturers Made Trump\'s Invulnerability Possible
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
On February 5th, the Senate voted to acquit President Donald J. Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. In other words, Trump\'s pre-election boast that he \"could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody\" and not \"lose any voters\" proved something more than high-flown hyperbole. (To be fair, he did lose one Republican \"voter\" in the Senate

Nevada Is a Big Test for Bernie Sanders\'s Medicare for All Plan
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
Medicare for All faces a big test in Nevada\'s Democratic caucus, where front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden are pitching competing health care plans in a last-minute effort to curry favor among voters as early voting comes to a close today. | Sanders has pledged to quickly push for a national health care system that covers everyone if elected president, while Biden wants to expand the Affordable Care Act with an option to buy government insurance that would compete with priv…
truthout.org/articles/nevada-is-a-big-test-for-bernie-sanderss-medicare-for-all-plan/

When Your Doctor Is Also a Lobbyist: Inside the War Over Surprise Medical Bills
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
When Carol Pak-Teng, an emergency room doctor in New Jersey, hosted a fundraiser in December for Democratic freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski, her guests, mostly doctors, were pleased when she steered the conversation to surprise medical bills. | This was a chance to send a message to Washington that any surprise billing legislation should protect doctors\' incomes in their battle over payments with insurers. Lawmakers are grappling over several approaches to curtail the practice, which can leave…
truthout.org/articles/when-your-doctor-is-also-a-lobbyist-inside-the-war-over-surprise-medical-bills/

The Slave Trade Used to Be Legal. Let\'s Not Glorify the Law
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
Throughout the history of Black America, progress has often required breaking the law. For this reason, it\'s worth questioning why, in sanitized mainstream narratives (for example, those shared in schools and government functions during Black History Month), the story of Black struggle is often divorced from incendiary, illegal acts. Most Black people in the United States are descended from enslaved Africans, and being Black in this country has never been wholly separated from that history. In fact, it still ha…
truthout.org/articles/the-slave-trade-used-to-be-legal-lets-not-glorify-the-law/

The Trump Administration Is Cutting Back Protections for Migratory Birds
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
The Trump administration has proposed a new regulation on protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in force for the past 100 years. The draft rule is open for public comment through March 19. | In 1916, amid the chaos of World War I, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and King George V of Gre…
truthout.org/articles/the-trump-administration-is-cutting-back-protection-for-migratory-birds/

Harvey Weinstein\'s Defense Team Is Waging a War Against the #MeToo Movement
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
A jury of seven men and five women meet today in New York Supreme Court to begin deliberations on whether to find disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein guilty of sexual assault. The case has drawn international attention amid the #MeToo movement. If the jurors find Weinstein guilty, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Weinstein has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 100 women but in this case faces five charges based on evidence relating to two main accusers. One woman, who…
truthout.org/video/harvey-weinsteins-defense-team-is-waging-a-war-against-the-metoo-movement/

Bernie Sanders Gains Endorsement From Latinx Group as Nevada Caucus Nears
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-18
Progressive Latinx group Mijente on Tuesday announced its first ever presidential endorsement, for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, just days before Nevadans caucus in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary on Saturday. | \"Something that\'s very appealing to people is his consistency and the concept of palabra,\" Mijente\'s director and cofounder Marisa Franco told Politico. \"And what that me…
truthout.org/articles/bernie-sanders-becomes-latinx-group-mijentes-first-presidential-endorsement/

Pay-to-play? Bloomberg & his deep pockets qualify for Nevada debate after DNC rule change opened door to billionaire contender
rt.com | 2020-02-18
Michael Bloomberg will be allowed to participate in the upcoming Democratic primary debate in Nevada, thanks in part to a helpful rule change

Democracy, Dictatorship and Bloomberg
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-18
The 2020 presidential race didn\'t get decided this week, but the choice before us did: more democracy or less of it. That\'s the decision we are facing, and if the Democrats manage to foul this up, they may not get another chance. The very same day that New Hampshire held its primary, the president was…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/18/democracy-dictatorship-and-bloomberg/

European court reinstates order for Russia to pay $50 billion over Yukos
rt.com | 2020-02-18
A Dutch appeals court has reinstated an international arbitration panel\'s ruling that Russia should pay $50 billion in compensation to ex-shareholders of the defunct Russian oil giant, Yukos, overturning a previous court decision. | The Hague Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday that the 2016 ruling cancelling the arbitration decision \"was not correct,\" meaning that \"the arbitration order is in force again.\" | The Russian Justice Ministry said immediately after the ruling that it would appeal the court\'s decision. The Ministry of Justice said the court had ignored the fact that the former Yukos shareholders were n…
rt.com/business/481089-court-russia-pay-yukos/

Federal Charter Schools Program, a Lifeline for Owners of Capital, Under Threat
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-18
Neoliberals established the Federal Charter Schools Program in 1994, three years after the nation\'s first charter school law was passed in Minnesota. Since then, billions of public dollars have been handed over to privately-owned-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools through the federal program. The money is usually used for charter school start-up costs. Putting aside …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/federal-charter-schools-program-a-lifeline-for-owners-of-capital-under-threat/

Buying Elections: The Bloomberg Meme Campaign
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-18
Interfering, corrupting and altering the views of electors is apparently frowned upon. But it all depends on who that manipulating source is. The Russians might be condemned for being meddlers of minds in the US electorate, but an American billionaire who hires battalions of influencing agents to get his word across on social media platforms…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/18/buying-elections-the-bloomberg-meme-campaign/

Brilliant New $5.34 Ladder Defeats Not So Brilliant $2.5 Billion Trump Fever Dream
Abby Zimet | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-18
Thanks to his ineffable stupidity

Mexico: Millions Embezzled During Peña Nieto\'s Administration
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-18
Mexico\'s authorities reported that irregularities in projects worth US$30.2 billion were detected during President Enrique Peña Nieto\'s administration (2012-2018). | RELATED: | Mexico: Fugitive Former Pemex Executive Arrested in Spain | The Public Function Secretary Irma Sandoval said that irregularities were identified in 2019 projects, which generated…
telesurenglish.net/news/millions-embezzled-in-mexico-during-pena-nieto-administration-20200217-0027.html

We Shouldn\'t Have to Beg Mark Zuckerberg to Respect Democracy
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-18
Last month George Soros had a New York Times column arguing that Mark Zuckerberg should not be running Facebook. (Does the NYT reserve space on its opinion page for billionaires?) The gist of Soros\' piece is that Zuckerberg has made a deal with Trump. He will allow all manner of outrageous lies to be spread…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/18/we-shouldnt-have-to-beg-mark-zuckerberg-to-respect-democracy/

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