The US Is Waging a Stealth War at the Mexico Border
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-14
In recent decades, U.S. immigration policies have aggressively targeted families fleeing violence and poverty in Mexico and Central and South America, spawning a network of detention centers that now exist indefinitely along our southern border. The U.S.\'s approach to tackling undocumented immigration has come under fire for its use of brutal tactics such as deliberately separating families, placing them in confinement under harsh conditions, and denying them adequate medical and legal counsel. | On today\'s program, Joh…
truthout.org/audio/the-us-is-waging-a-stealth-war-at-the-mexico-border/

\"Floaters\": Martín Espada Pays Tribute to Salvadoran Father & Daughter Who Drowned at U.S. Border
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-14
Acclaimed poet Martín Espada pays tribute to àìscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month old daughter Angie Valeria, who drowned in the Rio Grande river in June 2019 trying to cross into the United States. A photo of the drowned Salvadoran father and daughter caused widespread outrage at the humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border and also raised questions about the ethics of exploiting such images in the press. Espada\'s poem \"Floaters\" meditates on their passing and its aftermath.
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/14/martin_espada_poem_immigration

The Trump Administration Weakens Standards for ICE Detention Facilities
Eunice Cho | aclu.org | 2020-01-14
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officially released a new version of its National Detention Standards (NDS), which govern the treatment of immigrant detainees held in almost 140 facilities in 44 states. These facilities include local and state jails and prisons

In Iowa, Rashida Tlaib and the Sunrise Movement Push the Green New Deal—and Bernie Sanders
David Goodner | commondreams.org | 2020-01-14
Sanders and Tlaib turned out 900 people to a Sunday rally in Iowa City centered on combating climate change. (Photo: Sunrise Movement Cedar Rapids) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/sanders_0.jpeg …
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The international witch-hunt of Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-01-14
The prosecution of Assange is a travesty of justice that will forever stain the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden and Ecuador.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/14/pers-j14.html

Carlos Ghosn, Julian Assange and the class justice of the New York Times
wsws.org | 2020-01-14
The Times, which welcomed the arrest of journalist Julian Assange last year, has effectively endorsed the decision by Carlos Ghosn to flee charges of tax evasion and money laundering.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/14/ghos-j14.html

Julian Assange attends procedural hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court
wsws.org | 2020-01-14
Since his last hearing on December 19, the WikiLeaks founder has had just two hours total to review evidence relating to the US extradition request with his legal team.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/14/assa-j14.html

The World Must End the US\' Illegal Economic War. Sanctions Imposed on 39 Countries
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
The United States is relying more heavily on illegal unilateral coercive measures (also known as economic sanctions) in place of war or as part of its build-up to war. In fact, economic sanctions are an act of war that kills …
globalresearch.ca/world-must-end-us-illegal-economic-war/5700594

The World Must End The US\' Illegal Economic War
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-14
The United States is relying more heavily on illegal unilateral coercive measures (also known as economic sanctions) in place of war or as part of its build-up to war. In fact, economic sanctions are an act of war that kills tens of thousands of people each year through financial strangulation. An economic blockade places a …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/the-world-must-end-the-us-illegal-economic-war/

10 Ways Trump\'s Actions Against Iran Hurt Americans and the Region
Nicolas J S Davies, Medea Benjamin | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-14
The U.S. assassination of General Qassem Soleimani has not yet plunged us into a full-scale war with Iran thanks to the Iranian government\'s measured response, which demonstrated its capabilities without actually harming U.S. troops or escalating the conflict. But the danger of a full-blown war still exists, and Donald Trump\'s actions are already wreaking havoc.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/10-ways-trumps-actions-against-iran-hurt-americans-and-the-region/

Biden, Buttigieg and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren to Clash
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-01-14
But a tactical alliance is needed…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/13/18829702.php

Biden, Buttigieg and corporate media are eager for Sanders and Warren to clash
Norman Solomon | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-14
Keeping eyes on the prize this year will require a united front that can strengthen progressive forces, prevent any corporate Democrat from winning the party\'s presidential nomination, and then go on to defeat Donald Trump.
nationofchange.org/2020/01/14/biden-buttigieg-and-corporate-media-are-eager-for-sanders-and-warren-to-clash/

Misrepresenting Marx\'s Ecology: A response to Daniel Tanuro\'s \"was Marx an ecosocialist?
John Bellamy Foster | mronline.org | 2020-01-14
Daniel Tanuro is an agricultural engineer and leading socialist activist who has made numerous contributions to ecosocialist thought and practice, most notably, in his book Green Capitalism: Why It Can\'t Work. Yet, this has been coupled with persistent claims that there are \"fundamental flaws\" in Karl Marx\'s ecological critique of capitalism. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/14/misrepresenting-marxs-ecology-a-response-to-daniel-tanuros-was-marx-an-ecosocialist/

Making America Dread Again! Trump Is an Unparalleled Threat to Safety and Security
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-01-14
Activists of the group Remove Trump stand in-line during a \"Swarm the Senate\" protest at Senate Russell Office Building January 13, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The group held the event to call on the removal of U.S. President Donald Trump from office. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/make_america_dread_again.jpg …
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\"Morir Soñando\": Martín Espada Reads Poem About Luis Garden Acosta, Young Lord & Community Activist
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-14
Last week marked the first anniversary of the passing of Luis Garden Acosta, the founder and longtime president of the nationally known El Puente youth and community leadership program in Brooklyn. Long regarded as one of New York City\'s foremost human rights and Latino community activists, Garden Acosta died last January at the age of 72. A former seminarian who had been active in the Catholic antiwar movement, Garden Acosta joined the Young Lords Party in 1970 and later founded that group\'s Massachusetts chapter while he was still a student at Harvard Medical School. He went on to pioneer successful nonviolent…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/14/luis_garden_acosta_martin_espada

Russia\'s Unsuccessful Libyan Peace Summit Was a Good Start
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
Russia\'s Libyan peace summit in Moscow didn\'t succeed with its stated objective of getting the warring parties to agree to a ceasefire agreement after they failed to find any common ground with one another, but it was nevertheless a good …
globalresearch.ca/russia-unsuccessful-libyan-peace-summit-good-start/5700561

164 \"Peace-Keeping\" Military Bases Worldwide: US Bases in Iraq Advance Its Regional Imperium
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
According to the Pentagon, US forces are in 164 (of the world\'s 193) countries. | They\'re on over 1,000 US bases of varying sizes and on others of host countries. Much information about their numbers, troop strength, and location is secret….
globalresearch.ca/us-bases-iraq-advance-regional-imperium/5700584

Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran!
ANSWER Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-01-14
Old Courthouse Sq, Santa Rosa, CA 95404…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/13/18829721.php

Iran Announces Arrests in Downing of Ukrainian Jet
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-14
TEHRAN, Iran–Iran said Tuesday that authorities have made arrests for the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane, which killed all 176 people on board and set off protests in the country demanding accountability after officials initially concealed the cause of the crash. | Iran\'s Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said \"some individuals\" were arrested after \"extensive investigations.\" His statement on the judiciary\'s website did not say how many people had been detained or name those arrested. | Iran at first dismissed allegations that a missile had brought down the plane, but in the fac…
truthdig.com/articles/iran-announces-arrests-in-downing-of-ukrainian-jet/

Riot Police Evict Oakland Moms Who Reclaimed Vacant Home to Fight Homelessness
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-14
Update: Riot police evicted four mothers experiencing homeless Tuesday morning from the investor-owned home in Oakland they were occupying in protest of the city\'s housing crisis. Two of the mothers were arrested. | In Oakland, California, a group of mothers fighting homelessness is waging a battle against real estate speculators and demanding permanent solutions to the Bay Area h…
truthout.org/video/riot-police-evict-oakland-moms-who-reclaimed-vacant-home-to-fight-homelessness/

Macron Forced to Back Down over Pension Reform Amidst Raging Protests
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
Once again the French have shown the world now to protest, and that protesting works. President Emmanuel Macron was forced to roll back his plans for pensions reform over the weekend as demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday in …
globalresearch.ca/macron-forced-back-down-pension-reform-amidst-raging-protests/5700566

Kenyan university staff set to strike unless revised wages implemented
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-14
The University Academic Staff Union (UASU) issued a strike notice on January 9, in protest against the Kenyan government\'s failure to honor the wage hike agreement signed with unions representing university staff last year. They have warned that teachers will be downing tools from January 20. | With the new academic year set to start, at least 35 universities in the country will be affected by the impending strike unless the government averts it by releasing the money promised in the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) signed on October 28, 2019. The deadline for the implementation of the CBA was November 30, 2…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/14/kenyan-university-staff-set-to-strike-unless-revised-wages-implemented/

Mass Media Attacks on a Surging Sanders
Dave Lindorff | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-14
CNN (1/13/19) has an anonymously sourced hit piece out today on Bernie Sanders, claiming that at a meeting in Elizabeth Warren\'s home on December 18, 2018, he told her \"a woman can\'t win\" the presidency. The article, by CNN correspondent MJ Lee, is so journalistically shoddy that someone reading only the first few paragraphs would …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/mass-media-attacks-on-a-surging-sanders/

Charlottesville City Council Passes Resolution Against War on Iran
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-14
Charlottesville Virginia\'s City Council voted Monday evening to adopt a resolution opposing war on Iran and urging passage by Congress of Senator Tim Kaine\'s privileged resolution. The City Council re-affirmed the position it had taken in 2012 in passing a resolution against war on Iran. The latest threat of war on Iran is particularly Trumpian, but it has…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/charlottesville-city-council-passes-resolution-against-war-on-iran/

Charlottesville City Council Passes Resolution Against War on Iran
David Swanson | zcomm.org | 2020-01-14
The normalization of murder bestowed on us by the Obama years will not end well and must urgently be reversed…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/charlottesville-city-council-passes-resolution-against-war-on-iran/

Zionism and \'Anti-Semitism\': A Chronicle of a Smear Foretold
Yoav Litvin | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-14
With the 2020 Presidential elections fast approaching, the progressive campaign of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is gaining traction. Several interest groups have grown increasingly anxious of Sanders\' Democratic Socialist agenda, including ruling class Republicans, corporate Democrats and their joint ally

For Western Press, the only Coup in Venezuela is against Guaidó
Lucas Koerner | mronline.org | 2020-01-14
The international corporate media have entered crisis mode following the replacement of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as head of the country\'s National Assembly. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/14/for-western-press-the-only-coup-in-venezuela-is-against-guaido/

Demonizing the Shia: How the West Perpetuates False Claims About Iran\'s Regional Influence
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-14
I was in Iraq in April 1991 when government security forces crushed the Shia uprising against Saddam Hussein\'s regime, killing tens of thousands and burying their bodies in pits. I had been expelled from Iraq to Jordan at the start of the rebellion in March and then, to my surprise, allowed to return, because Saddam…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/demonizing-the-shia-how-the-west-perpetuates-false-claims-about-irans-regional-influence/

Trump and Congress Double Down on Demonizing Iran
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
If one seriously seeks to understand how delusional policymakers in Washington are it is only necessary to examine the responses by the president and Congress to the assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani. The first response came in …
globalresearch.ca/trump-congress-double-down-demonizing-iran/5700569

Justice at Last? \'Panic\' in Israel as the ICC Takes \'Momentous Step\' in the Right Direction
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-14
At long last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that \"all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for the opening of an investigation (into alleged war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) have been met\". Bensouda\'s verdict has been in the making for a…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/justice-at-last-panic-in-israel-as-the-icc-takes-momentous-step-in-the-right-direction/

US to Iraq: \'Vote All You Want, We\'re Not Leaving!\'
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
President Trump\'s decision earlier this month to assassinate Iran\'s top military general on Iraqi soil

Video: How and Why Iran Shot Down Ukrainian Boeing
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
On January 10, SouthFront released a video entitled \" What\'s Behind Boeing Crash In Iran\" on the January 8 airliner crash near Tehran. This video was produced because the Iranian side released new facts and details regarding the incident….
globalresearch.ca/video-how-why-iran-shot-down-ukrainian-boeing/5700542

Iran to Sue the US and Trump for Killing General Soleimani
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
According to Iran\'s Judiciary Spokesman Gholamhossein Esmayeeli, the country\'s ruling authorities will sue the US in international courts for Soleimani\'s assassination. | \"This brutal act was a violation of human rights and all international rules,\" Esmayeeli stressed, adding: | \"Martyr Soleimani | …
globalresearch.ca/iran-sue-us-trump-killing-general-soleimani/5700588

How an Israeli Spy-Linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Gov\'t\'s Most Classified Networks
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-14
Through its main investors, SoftBank and Lockheed Martin, Cybereason not only has ties to the Trump administration but has its software running on some of the U.S. government\'s most classified and secretive networks.
mintpressnews.com/cybereason-investors-offer-israeli-spy-classified-intelligence/264095/

Syrian Air Defence System Repels Attack Targeting Air Base in Homs – Reports
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-14
The T4 airbase located in the east of Syrian Homs province, also known as the Tiyas Military Airbase, is reportedly used by Iranian forces. The site was earlier hit by Israeli forces.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202001141078038277-syrian-air-defence-system-repels-attack-targeting-air-base-in-homs—reports/

Israel Provided The Intel To Kill Soleimani & A Cyberattack May Have Been Behind Iran\'s 737 Downing
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-01-14
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/13/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/israel-provided-the-intel-to-kill-soleimani-a-cyberattack-may-have-been-behind-irans-737-downing/

Bernie calls for vote in Senate for No War Against Iran Act
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-14
\"We must end our endless wars.\"
nationofchange.org/2020/01/14/bernie-calls-for-vote-in-senate-for-no-war-against-iran-act/

Seems Increasingly Likely Trump Just Made Up the \'Imminent Threat\' Posed by Soleimani
Andrea Germanos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
New reporting out Monday further erodes the White House narrative that President Donald Trump was justified in ordering the assassination of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani earlier this month because Soleimani posed an \"imminent\" threat to American targets. | According to NBC …
globalresearch.ca/trump-just-made-up-imminent-threat-posed-soleimani/5700562

The 40 Year Cold War With Iran
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-14
The United States has been in a 40-year cold war with Iran. Just like the cold war with the Soviet Union, the conflict between Washington and Tehran has been fought largely through proxies: in Yemen, in Syria, in Iraq. Iranian-aligned organizations like Hezbollah have attacked U.S. targets, such as the 1984 embassy bombing in Beirut.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/the-40-year-cold-war-with-iran/

Assassination of Iran\'s General Suleimani planned months in advance
wsws.org | 2020-01-14
The claim by the Trump administration that its drone missile assassination was carried out in the face of an \"imminent\" threat stands exposed as a lie.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/14/iran-j14.html

Iranian Opposition–1970s to 2020
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-14
In the mid-1970s, I did a fair amount of organizing work with Maryland members of the Iranian Student Association. Our goal was to end the rule of the US-installed Shah of Iran. Some of my work involved helping the Iranian students write their leaflets in American English. In 1976, I attended some meetings in Washington,…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/iranian-opposition-1970s-to-2020-2/

Canadian Experts Join Ukrainian Plane Crash Investigation, Visit Tehran Crash Site – Reports
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-14
On Monday, Canadian Transportation Safety Board (TSB) Senior Investigator Natacha Van Themsche said that two investigators were on their way to Tehran as part of the international team of investigators working under the guidance of Iran\'s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau.
sputniknews.com/world/202001141078037095-canadian-experts-join-ukrainian-plane-crash-investigation-visit-tehran-crash-site—reports-/

Johnson calls for \'Trump deal\' to resolve Iran tensions
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-14
Donald Trump should produce a replacement for the Iran nuclear deal, Boris Johnson said as he called for tensions in the Gulf to be \"dialled down\".The UK, along with European allies, has remained part of the troubled nuclear deal despite the US president\'s opposition.The prime minister said one of the problems the American leader had with the agreement was that it was negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama, so putting in a replacement \"Trump deal\" would be a way out of the current crisis. | The US has pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which eased sanctions in return for Iran agree…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/01/14/johnson-calls-for-trump-deal-to-resolve-iran-tensions/

A Brutal Trump Makes Culture War on Iran—and Everyone Else
Michael Winship | commondreams.org | 2020-01-14
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_iran_cultural_sites.jpg …
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Iran warns against \'destructive measures,\' promises firm response as EU trio starts nuclear deal \'non-compliance\' investigation
rt.com | 2020-01-14
Iran will firmly respond to anyone acting to damage the 2015 nuclear deal, but welcomes \"good faith\" measures to save it, the foreign ministry said as three EU signatories triggered a non-compliance investigation against Tehran. | \"It is necessary to explain that the action taken by the three European countries is a passive and weak position,\" Abbas Mousavi, spokesman for the foreign ministry, warned in a statement. | He spoke shortly after Germany, France and the UK initiated a special dispute resolution procedure under the 2015 deal citing Iran\'s alleged non-compliance with the pact. | Now, the Islamic Repub…
rt.com/news/478230-iran-foreign-ministry-nuclear-deal/

Russia hopes triggering dispute resolution mechanism in Iran deal won\'t complicate situation
rt.com | 2020-01-14
Russia\'s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, commented on Tuesday on the decision by the UK, Germany and France to launch a dispute resolution mechanism within the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear deal. | \"They stated that they did it \'in good faith\' to preserve the deal and that it has nothing to do with maximum pressure policy,\" the Russian diplomat tweeted. \"Let\'s hope that this step will not complicate the situation further.\" | The three European states said they have been left with \"no choice, given Iran\'s actions, but to register to…
rt.com/newsline/478233-russia-mechanism-iran-deal/

European Parliament Discusses Situation in Iran and Iraq Amid Tensions in Region – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-14
Tensions in the Middle East flared up when a US drone strike killed Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani on 3 January, prompting Iran to retaliate with a ballistic missile attack on US bases in Iraq, causing widespread fears of an open conflict. US troops have since failed to comply with Iraq\'s request that they leave the country.
sputniknews.com/world/202001141078030197-european-parliament-discusses-situation-in-iran-and-iraq-amid-tensions-in-region—video/

And We Allow This Madness to Continue
Cathy Breen | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-14
Try as I did, I found it impossible to send New Year\'s greetings to friends in Iraq given the unthinkable and shameless actions of Trump and his regimein the last weeks. His decision to assassinate Iranian Major General Qasim Soleimani at the Baghdad airport led to the Iraqi Parliament voting to expel all foreign troops from…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/and-we-allow-this-madness-to-continue/

Experts Divided Whether Iran\'s Al-Asad Base Attack Intended to Kill or Carefully Avoided US Deaths
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-14
The ballistic missile attacks on two US bases in Iraq last week failed to kill any members of the US-led coalition. However, could that have been the point? While senior officers at Ayn al-Asad Air Base saw bloodlust, other experts dissent, pointing to deliberate restraint by Tehran.
sputniknews.com/military/202001141078037553-experts-divided-whether-irans-al-asad-base-attack-intended-to-kill-or-carefully-avoided-us-deaths/

Trump and Esper: No Evidence, Just a \"Sneaky Feeling\". Time for the Invaders to Go Home
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-14
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told Margaret Brennan on \"Face the Nation\" on Sunday that he didn\'t see any specific evidence that Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was planning an imminent attack, which had been widely used by Trump as the …
globalresearch.ca/trump-esper-no-evidence-sneaky-feeling/5700580

AOC\'s Revolt Against DCCC Is \"Exactly What We Need,\" Say Progressive Democrats
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-13
For bucking a key arm of the Democratic Party establishment that has stood in the way of attracting and supporting progressive candidates, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) received applause over the weekend after she announced the launch of a new political action committee designed to directly challenge the power of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee by helping insurgent, left-leaning challengers like herself take on both Republican incumbents and centrist Democrats. | \"The rum…
truthout.org/articles/aocs-revolt-against-dccc-is-exactly-what-we-need-say-progressive-democrats/

GLOBAL NO.MORE.WAR! #Free Assange & Manning #Solidarity
BayAction to Free Assange | indybay.org | 2020-01-13
We must stand/speak out in solidarity on this GLOBAL day of protest for NO.MORE.WAR! | We the People stand against DIRECT THREAT to FreePress/FreeSpeech by oligarchy INTIMIDATION, SILENCING and WAR distraction! WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR VERY DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL, while truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit jailed for revealing WAR CRIMES!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829698.php

GLOBAL NO.MORE.WAR! #Free Assange & Manning #Solidarity
BayAction to Free Assange | indybay.org | 2020-01-13
We must stand/speak out in solidarity on this GLOBAL day of protest for NO.MORE.WAR! | We the People stand against DIRECT THREAT to FreePress/FreeSpeech by oligarchy INTIMIDATION, SILENCING and WAR distraction! WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR VERY DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL, while truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit jailed for revealing WAR CRIMES!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829698.php

London Public rally with speakers on issue of Press freedom and the case of Julia
Free Julian Assange | indybay.org | 2020-01-13
University College London, Logan Hall…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829674.php

WATCH: Assange caught on camera leaving UK court in prison van after US extradition hearing
rt.com | 2020-01-13
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been filmed leaving Westminster Magistrates\' Court in a police van after a brief preliminary hearing on Monday, part of his bid to prevent his extradition to the US to face espionage charges. | The 48-year-old Australian

Rapper MIA supports Julian Assange at court
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2020-01-13
Rapper and singer MIA has supported Julian Assange as the WikiLeaks founder appeared in court on Monday. She joined dozens of Assange supporters as he attended a hearing at Westminster Magistrates\' Court.Fellow rapper Lowkey has also supported Assange, and recently spoke to The Canary about the importance of whistleblowers and media freedom.Assange, 48, is currently being held in HMP Belmarsh, awaiting the outcome of an extradition request by the US, where he faces 18 charges, including c…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/01/13/rapper-mia-supports-julian-assange-at-court/

Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-13
As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that conflicts with…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/12/us-pressure-social-media-censoring-suspending-venezuela-iran-syria/

Who Profits when Iran and America Fight?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-13
We spoke to Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin after Thursday\'s War Powers resolution vote. Whose interests are driving the narrative around conflict with Iran?
therealnews.com/stories/who-profits-iran-america-fight

Corporate Democrats Desperately Want a Sanders-Warren Feud
Norman Solomon | truthdig.com | 2020-01-13
Corporate Democrats got a jolt at the end of last week when the highly regarded Iowa Poll showed Bernie Sanders surging into first place among Iowans likely to vote in the state\'s Feb. 3 caucuses. The other big change was a steep drop for the previous Iowa frontrunner, Pete Buttigieg, who

Biden, Buttigieg and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren to Clash
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-01-13
But a tactical alliance is needed…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/13/18829702.php

Biden, Buttigieg, and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren \'Trash Talk\' Narrative to Take Hold
Norman Solomon | commondreams.org | 2020-01-13
Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren greet each other at the start of the Democratic presidential debate at the Fox Theatre on July 30, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/warrensanders_0_0_0.png …
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Biden, Buttigieg and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren to Clash
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-01-13
Corporate Democrats got a jolt at the end of last week when the highly regarded Iowa Poll showed Bernie Sanders surging into first place among Iowans likely to vote in the state\'s Feb. 3 caucuses…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/biden-buttigieg-and-corporate-media-are-eager-for-sanders-and-warren-to-clash/

Ex-Bush official: OPCW\'s Syria cover-up recalls Iraq war lies
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-13
Former Bush administration official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says that reports of US pressure on the OPCW\'s Syria chemical weapons investigation…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/13/ex-bush-official-opcws-syria-cover-up-recalls-iraq-war-lies/

Ex-Bush official: OPCW\'s Syria cover-up recalls Iraq war lies
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-13
Former Bush administration official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says that reports of US pressure on the OPCW\'s Douma investigation recall the…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/13/ex-bush-official-opcws-syria-cover-up-recalls-iraq-war-lies/

Nearly 150 Arrested at Protests Exposing Wall Street\'s Link to Climate Crisis
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-13
Nearly 150 people were arrested on Capitol Hill Friday in a climate protest led by Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda. Fonda has been leading weekly climate demonstrations in Washington, D.C., known as \"Fire Drill Fridays,\" since October. For her last and 14th protest, actors Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix, indigenous anti-pipeline activist Tara Houska, journalist Naomi Klein and dozens more lined up to get arrested as they demanded a mass uprising and swift political action t…
truthout.org/video/nearly-150-arrested-at-protests-exposing-wall-streets-link-to-climate-crisis/

\"Stop the Money Pipeline\": 150 Arrested at Protests Exposing Wall Street\'s Link to Climate Crisis
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-13
Nearly 150 people were arrested on Capitol Hill Friday in a climate protest led by Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda. Fonda has been leading weekly climate demonstrations in Washington, D.C., known as \"Fire Drill Fridays,\" since October. For her last and 14th protest, actors Martin Sheen and Joaquin Phoenix, indigenous anti-pipeline activist Tara Houska, journalist Naomi Klein and dozens more lined up to get arrested as they demanded a mass uprising and swift political action to thwart the climate crisis. Fonda then marched with supporters down Pennsylvania Avenue to a Chase Bank branch where en…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/13/jane_fonda_fire_drill_fridays_washington

British Universities Invest in Israeli Apartheid
Asa Winstanley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-13
British universities have invested more than an estimated half a billion dollars in companies that arm Israel or support Israeli settlement infrastructure. | This revelation comes from new research by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. | Activists on Wednesday held an \"Apartheid …
globalresearch.ca/british-universities-invest-israeli-apartheid/5700443

Minneapolis Activists Ask Local Leaders to Invest in Communities, Not Cops
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-13
In dramatic effect, a Minneapolis resident dumps a bag of money onto a podium during public comments at the final City Council meeting on the 2020 budget last month. The person with them, who identified himself as David, is addressing the council members. | \"This is $193.40,\" David says, then begins to explain that the money represents the $193 million budget Mayor Jacob Frey proposed to give the Minneapolis Police Department in 2020, more than one-third of the city\'s general fund. The budget sp…
truthout.org/articles/minneapolis-activists-ask-local-leaders-to-invest-in-communities-not-cops/

\'A month or 2 ago nobody thought it could happen\': Moscow hosts talks between Libya\'s rival parties in hopes of ending civil war
rt.com | 2020-01-13
Russia enjoys a unique position as the most-trusted and impartial player in the Libyan peace process, which helped the country bring together the two chief civil war rivals for talks in Moscow. | The years-long chaos in Libya \"didn\'t give much room for optimism,\" so \"a month or two ago no one had thought that the leaders of the two main warring factions would arrive in Moscow and sit down to negotiate,\" President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vitaly Naumkin, told RT. | The talks in Moscow are a serious [diplomatic] breakthrough for Russia in Libya… They have solidif…
rt.com/news/478140-libya-moscow-talks-haftar/

Good progress made in Libya ceasefire talks in Moscow although not all sides signed the deal – Lavrov
rt.com | 2020-01-13
Negotiations in Moscow helped to achieve some progress in the Libyan peace process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. However, not all parties signed the document. | The Libyan National Army (LNA) and the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) have agreed upon some ceasefire details, but they are still working on a document elaborating some concrete aspects of the ceasefire deal. | Some warring parties signed the agreement immediately, but General Khalifa Haftar, the LNA commander, requested until Tuesday morning to study the document. | The talks in Moscow, which involved the leaders of…
rt.com/news/478151-lavrov-progress-ceasefire-talks/

Libya ceasefire talks in Moscow: Good progress made although not all sides signed the deal, Lavrov says
rt.com | 2020-01-13
Negotiations in Moscow helped to achieve some progress in the Libyan peace process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. However, not all parties signed the document. | The Libyan National Army (LNA) and the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) have agreed upon some ceasefire details, but they are still working on a document to elaborate upon some aspects of the ceasefire deal. | Some warring parties signed the agreement immediately, but General Khalifa Haftar, the LNA commander, wanted to wait until Tuesday morning to have more time to study the document. | The talks in Moscow, which i…
rt.com/news/478151-lavrov-progress-ceasefire-talks/

Moscow talks offer chance for peace in Libya\'s post NATO-intervention bloody civil war
rt.com | 2020-01-13
Peace talks in Moscow bringing together the leaders of Libya\'s warring parties were a serious step forward in attempts to put an end to a brutal civil war sparked by NATO\'s disastrous 2011 military intervention. | Fayez al-Sarraj, who heads the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and Khalifa Haftar, who commands the rival Libyan National Army (LNA) forces, spent six hours in closed-door discussions mediated by Russia and Turkey. The meeting came as a bit of a surprise as Haftar previously snubbed the ceasefire suggested by Moscow and Ankara. | By Monday evening Moscow time, a draft agreeme…
rt.com/news/478165-libya-moscow-talks-peace/

\'I wish I was inside that plane\': Iran\'s IRGC chief expresses sorrow over downing of Ukrainian jet
rt.com | 2020-01-13
The top commander of Iran\'s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami, expressed his deepest condolences, saying he had never felt more ashamed in his life than after the Ukrainian passenger jet tragedy. | Debriefing a session of Iran\'s parliament on Sunday, Salami stated that the IRGC has no other purpose or wish \"but to be torn into pieces for the sake of the security, welfare and peace of [the Iranian] people.\" | I swear on the life of my children… I wish I were inside that plane and fell down and burned along with those loved ones instead of witnessing this tragic incident. | Also…
rt.com/news/478089-irgc-chief-plane-downing-guilt/

Military conflict with Iran would impact entire world, Japan\'s Abe warns
rt.com | 2020-01-13
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned that military confrontation with Iran will impact global peace and stability. | The comments came at the start of Abe\'s five-day Gulf tour as he hopes to ease tensions spiked by the US killing of a top Iranian general. The PM called \"on all relevant countries to engage in diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions,\" AFP said. | Tokyo has decided to send a destroyer for intelligence activities along with two P-3C patrol aircraft to the Middle East. However Japan will not join a US-led coalition in the region. | The prime minister\'s tour includes visits to Saudi Arabia, t…
rt.com/newsline/478101-conflict-iran-impact-abe/

What the World Needs Now Is Sustained Anti-War Activism for Peace in Our Time
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-13
It\'s vitally needed in the US nationwide, in other Western countries and elsewhere. | It\'s needed in large numbers, staying the course longterm, reviving the Vietnam era anti-war spirit in America. | January 9 was \"No War With Iran Day of Action,\" …
globalresearch.ca/world-needs-sustained-anti-war-activism-peace/5700449

Sunset Peace Vigil in Foster City
Jim Mitulski | indybay.org | 2020-01-13
In front of Foster City City Hall (610 Foster City Blvd)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/11/18829654.php

Evo Morales Urges Bolivia to Restore Rule of Law
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-13
Bolivia\'s democratically elected President Evo Morales, who is now an asylum seeker in Argentina after the coup d\'etat against him, urged the South American nation to restore the rule of law in his country in order to achieve \"peace, reconciliation and unity.\" | RELATED: | Bolivia: Senate Approves Constitutional Guarantee Law | Morales tweeted on Monday that the treatment of government officials from his administration, including former Interior Minister Carlos Romero, by the de facto reg…
telesurenglish.net/news/Evo-Morales-Urges-Bolivia-to-Restore-Rule-of-Law-20200113-0005.html

Israel continues to grab Palestinian land for building illegal settlements
Surangya | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-13
In Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, Israeli security forces on Monday violently attacked a peaceful Palestinian protest march against the forceful seizure of land by Israel for the purpose of construction of illegal Jewish settlement near Qalqilya city.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/13/israel-continues-to-grab-palestinian-land-for-building-illegal-settlements/

The West Is Run by Barbarians
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-13
Shouldn\'t there come the moment when the majority of UN member states

\"A System Failure\": Iran Admits to Downing Airplane, Sparking Renewed Anti-Government Protests
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-13
Iranian protesters have taken to the streets for a third day, after the Iranian military acknowledged it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner last week, killing all 176 people on board, including 82 Iranians and 57 Canadians. Iran initially denied downing the plane, but Iran\'s Revolutionary Guard took responsibility for what authorities now describe as a \"disastrous mistake.\" The plane was downed hours after Iranian forces fired 22 rockets at military bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, in retaliation for the U.S. assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Millions of Iranians took to the streets la…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/13/iran_protests_ukraine_airlines_flight_752

\"A System Failure\": Iran Admits to Downing Airplane, Sparking Renewed Anti-Government Protests
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-13
Iranian protesters have taken to the streets for a third day, after the Iranian military acknowledged it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner last week, killing all 176 people on board, including 82 Iranians and 57 Canadians. Iran initially denied downing the plane, but Iran\'s Revolutionary Guard took responsibility for what authorities now describe as a \"disastrous mistake.\" The plane was downed hours after Iranian forces fired 22 rockets at military bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, in retaliation for the U.S. assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Millions of Iranians took to the streets la…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/13/iran_protests_ukraine_airlines_flight_752

Iran Admits to Downing Airplane, Sparking Renewed Anti-Government Protests
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-13
Iranian protesters have taken to the streets for a third day, after the Iranian military acknowledged it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner last week, killing all 176 people on board, including 82 Iranians and 57 Canadians. Iran initially denied downing the plane, but Iran\'s Revolutionary Guard took responsibility for what authorities now describe as a \"disastrous mistake.\" The plane was downed hours after Iranian forces fired 22 rockets at military bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, in re…
truthout.org/video/iran-admits-to-downing-airplane-sparking-renewed-anti-government-protests/

Shedding \'crocodile tears\' and \'dishonoring\' Persian language: Iranian officials blast Trump\'s Farsi tweets
rt.com | 2020-01-13
Officials in Tehran slammed both the language and the message of US President Donald Trump\'s tweets in Farsi, in which he backed anti-government protesters in the country and claimed to be standing up for ordinary Iranians. | \"Hands and tongues smeared with threatening, sanctioning and terrorizing the #Iranian nation, are not entitled to dishonor the ancient #Persian language,\" Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Abbas Mousavi tweeted on Monday. | By the way, are you actually \'standing by\' millions of Irania…
rt.com/news/478106-iran-trump-persian-language/

UK protesters speak out against war on Iran
wsws.org | 2020-01-13
WSWS reporters spoke to attendees at Saturday\'s demonstrations in the UK against the danger of war in Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/13/ints-j13.html

Khamenei regime has no authority to rule Iran, says Tudeh Party
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-13
The Iranian people are back in the streets protesting the theocratic regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the government\'s stunning about-face on the downing of a Ukrainian airliner in the midst of war tensions with the United States last week. Tear gas and live ammunition were fired at demonstrators in Tehran and several cities over …
peoplesworld.org/article/khamenei-regime-has-no-authority-to-rule-iran-says-tudeh-party/

US secretary of state\'s attempt to suck up to Iranians backfires spectacularly
Peadar O\'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-01-13
Since the beginning of this new decade, Donald Trump has pushed the US even closer to a war with Iran. So it\'s somewhat ironic, and indeed sickening, that on 12 January, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo tried to paint the US as a friend of the Iranian people: | @SecPompeo #IranProtests …
thecanary.co/trending/2020/01/13/us-secretary-of-states-attempt-to-suck-up-to-iranians-backfires-spectacularly/

UK home secretary defends Extinction Rebellion\'s inclusion on terror list, after group judged to promote \'extremist ideology\'
rt.com | 2020-01-13
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has defended anti-terror police for placing Extinction Rebellion (XR), the climate change protest group, on a list of extremist ideologies, saying it\'s right to look at \"a range of security threats.\" | In an interview with LBC radio on Monday, Patel accepted that the environmental group was not a terrorist organization, but the decision to put XR on the UK terror list was made \"in terms of risk to the public, security risks, security threats.\" | That is based on information from the police, and various intelligence that we will receive. That\'s the proper thing to do. | XR came to…
rt.com/uk/478132-patel-extinction-rebellion-terror/

\'Free Hong Kong\': Denmark\'s iconic Little Mermaid statue sprayed with protest graffiti (PHOTO)
rt.com | 2020-01-13
Denmark\'s famous \'Little Mermaid\' sculpture in Copenhagen Harbour has been defaced with slogans from the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. | \"Free Hong Kong\" was scrawled onto the base of the statue in both large red letters and smaller white script overnight Sunday. The slogan has been frequently used by anti-government demonstrators in Hong Kong in protests which started in March 2019. | Also on rt.com | | China-UK stock trade scheme \'suspended\' over Britain\'s stance on Hong Kong protests | Copenhagen Police have cordoned off the sculpture and…
rt.com/news/478129-little-mermaid-statue-hong-kong/

RefuseFascism Protests Pompeo, Commonwealth Club, Jan 13, 3pm
Curt Wechsler | indybay.org | 2020-01-13
110 The Embarcadero | Taube Family Auditorium | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829697.php

Our Country, the United States, is a Rogue Nation and Our Leaders are Criminals
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-13
For as long as I\'ve been alive, my country has been a rogue state. Actually, the US became a rogue state four years before my birth in 1949 when, in 1945, Washington decided to bomb two militarily insignificant cities in Japan with its new super weapon, the atomic bomb, instantly incinerating several hundred thousand Japanese…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/13/our-country-the-united-states-is-a-rogue-nation-and-our-leaders-are-criminals/

Our Country, the United States, is a Rogue Nation and Our Leaders are Criminals
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-13
For as long as I\'ve been alive, my country has been a rogue state. Actually, the US became a rogue state four years before my birth in 1949 when, in 1945, Washington decided to bomb two militarily insignificant cities in Japan with its new super weapon, the atomic bomb, instantly incinerating several hundred thousand Japanese…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/13/our-country-the-united-states-is-a-rogue-nation-and-our-leaders-are-criminals/

Democratic establishment & MSM panic as Sanders surges into the lead in primary polls. Who\'s worse, him or Trump?
rt.com | 2020-01-13
The US political and media establishment is belatedly lashing out at \"democratic socialist\" presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has taken the lead in polls by laying into the Democratic Party elite\'s bland corporate centrism. | \"Democrats had better attack Sanders before it\'s too late!\" Monday\'s Daily Beast headline may be hyperbole, but it accurately expressed the mood of the party\'s centrist establishment. Independent Vermont Senator Sanders is running for president as a Democrat, and has promised to back the Democratic nominee should he fail to secure the top prize. But that\'s cold comfort to the party…
rt.com/usa/478155-sanders-polls-warren-democrats-fear/

Democratic establishment & MSM panic as Sanders surges into the lead in primary polls. Who\'s worse, him or Trump?
rt.com | 2020-01-13
The US political and media establishment is belatedly lashing out at \"democratic socialist\" presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has taken the lead in polls by laying into the Democratic Party elite\'s bland corporate centrism. | \"Democrats had better attack Sanders before it\'s too late!\" Monday\'s Daily Beast headline may be hyperbole, but it accurately expressed the mood of the party\'s centrist establishment. Independent Vermont Senator Sanders is running for president as a Democrat, and has promised to back the Democratic nominee should he fail to secure the top prize. But that\'s cold comfort to the party…
rt.com/usa/478155-sanders-polls-warren-democrats-fear/

Scientists Call for Ban on Human Gene Editing
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-13
Japan has banned gene-edited human embryos and international scientists are increasing the call to ban the highly uncertain and risky practice of gene-editing of human DNA. The growing opposition comes as details of a Chinese biologist\'s attempt to gene-edit embryos …
globalresearch.ca/scientists-call-ban-human-gene-editing/5700482

Pompeo\'s Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Provocation to War
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-13
Like the crucial steps toward public acceptance preceding the U.S. invasions of Vietnam and Iraq, the assassination of Qassem Soleimani was aimed at building popular support for war on Iran. Not only the justification, but the assassination itself were part …
globalresearch.ca/pompeo-gulf-tonkin-incident/5700420

Turkish-backed GNA Leader Fayez al-Sarraj Is on the Verge of Losing Tripoli
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-13
Italy, Russia and Turkey have been pressing for an end to the war in Libya between the Parliament-backed Libyan National Army (LNA) and the Turkish-backed Muslim Brotherhood Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli. Pressure to put an end to …
globalresearch.ca/turkish-backed-sarraj-losing-tripoli/5700393

U.S. Media Says Russia the True Winner in Hostilities Against Iran
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-13
While the final outcome of the U.S.-Iran conflict is not yet clear, US media outlets and think tanks are already claiming that Russian President Putin is the winner. The U.S.-Iran hostilities has undermined Washington\'s confidence and reputation in the region, …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-media-says-russia-true-winner-hostilities-against-iran/5700479

Embracing Palestine: How to Combat Israel\'s Misuse of \"Antisemitism\"
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-13
At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of antisemitism, which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities and intellectuals everywhere, is to draw even closer to the Palestinian narrative. In fact, my proposal was not meant to be a sentimental response in any…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/13/embracing-palestine-how-to-combat-israels-misuse-of-antisemitism/

Embracing Palestine: How to Combat Israel\'s Misuse of \"Antisemitism\"
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-13
At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of antisemitism, which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities and intellectuals everywhere, is to draw even closer to the Palestinian narrative. In fact, my proposal was not meant to be a sentimental response in any…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/13/embracing-palestine-how-to-combat-israels-misuse-of-antisemitism/

Iraq Remains US Occupied Territory, \"We\'re Not Leaving Unless…\" Say Trump
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-13
In response to the Trump regime\'s assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi deputy PMU head Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iraq\'s prime minister and parliament called for expelling US troops from the country. | They\'re a hostile force wherever based, their …
globalresearch.ca/iraq-remains-us-occupied-territory-were-not-leaving-unless-say-trump/5700411