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/

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