Chicago police to be deputized as federal immigration agents
wsws.org | 2020-01-20
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency says it will use the Chicago Police Department to enforce federal immigration laws.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/20/chi-j20.html
Brazil's far-right government backed terror plot against Venezuela, top newspaper reveals
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2020-01-20
Brazil's extreme Bolsonaro government backed an attack on Venezuela in a plot to overthrow its elected president. The shocking terror operation has received no coverage in mainstream U.S. media. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/20/brazils-far-right-government-backed-terror-plot-against-venezuela-top-newspaper-reveals/
A Circus Then, a Circus Now
Chris Hedges | truthdig.com | 2020-01-20
Chris Hedges has the week off. Here, in this reposted column from Jan. 7, 2019, are his thoughts about the then-nascent presidential election campaign. | It is January 2019. This signals the start of the 2020 election circus. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the first big-name Democrat on stage. But we will soon be deluged with candidates, bizarre antics and endless commentary by fatuous TV and radio pundits. The hyperventilating, the constant polling, the updates on who has the largest campaign war chest, the hypothetical matches between this hopeful and that hopeful, the mocking tweets by Donald Trump, will, as we saw…
truthdig.com/articles/a-circus-then-a-circus-now/
Embassy Protectors speak out in Fort Lauderdale
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-20
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Better Living Through Glyphosate? Spray Now, Ask Questions Later
Mark Harris | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
There's a lot of talk in the Trump era about the "war on science." But this war, such as it is, extends far beyond uninformed Republican attacks on climate change science or Donald Trump's mocking insults of Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist nearly 60 years the old bully's junior. This war involves not only…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/20/better-living-through-glyphosate-spray-now-ask-questions-later/
Virginia Braces for Arrival of Pro-Gun Militias Amid State of Emergency
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-20
Virginia-based gun control activist Catherine Koebel is intimately familiar with the reign of terror that the state's pro-gun forces attempt to maintain through threats and intimidation, despite the fact that a strong majority of Virginia residents support gun reforms. | Koebel, who grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia, and has been involved in gun control organizing in the state since the Virginia Tech shooting left 33 people dead in 2007, said she has faced vicious harassment and death threats for he…
truthout.org/articles/virginia-braces-for-arrival-of-pro-gun-militias-amid-state-of-emergency/
'Berlin conference showed Moscow & Ankara have a huge role to play in solving Libya crisis'
rt.com | 2020-01-20
The Berlin peace summit shows that Russia and Turkey still have an important role to play as they are among the few countries that can really influence the situation in Libya, Yusuf Erim, a Turkish foreign policy expert, said. | The peace conference on Libya convened in Berlin succeeded in bringing together a host of world leaders to try and find a way out of the civil war plaguing the war-ravaged land for years, Erim told RT. However, it also clearly showed that very few nations can really move the Libyan peace process forward, as most lack a strategy and the will to translate words into action. | Also on rt.
rt.com/news/478673-berlin-libya-huge-role-russia-turkey/
Secular Traditions in Indian Music and Poetry
San Jose Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-01-20
San Jose Peace and Justice Center | 48 South 7th Street | San Jose, CA 95112 | Bus routes: 22, 522, 23, 523, 55, 64, 66, 68, 72, 73, 168, 181, 500, Hwy 17 Express, MST 55, LRT…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/16/18829814.php
Iran & US Relationships; Scottish Independence; and Protests in France
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-20
Join George Galloway on the new home for the Mother of All Talk Shows – this week we discuss latest on Iran and US relationships; Scottish independence, and protests in France.
sputniknews.com/radio-moats/202001201078084950-iran–us-relationships-scottish-independence-and-protests-in-france/
Protesters in Lebanon marched towards parliament, faced police repression
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-20
Political forces in the country have failed to respond to the protesters' demands for an overhaul of the political system in any credible way, even after three months of popular protests in the country…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/20/protesters-in-lebanon-marched-towards-parliament-faced-police-repression/
Trump Showed Us Who He Was Before He Became President
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
The long record of this presidency's transgressions now includes the open dog-wagging assassination
Trump's Legal Team Responds to Dems Impeachment Scam
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
There's overwhelming just cause to impeach and remove Trump from office for legitimate high crimes. | The same is true for most of his predecessors, along with most current and former congressional members. | The Constitution's Article II, Section 4 states "(t)he …
globalresearch.ca/trump-legal-team-responds-dems-impeachment-scam/5701045
Instead of Real-Time Commentary, Eight Common-Sense Reason for Not Going to War with Iran
Patrick T. Hiller | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
In the wake of the assassination of Iranian military leader Major General Qasem Soleimani and nine other people by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, tensions between the United States and Iran are at their height. The immediate threat of war is real. Real-time news and expert commentary across the nationwide spectrum of media outlets…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/20/instead-of-real-time-commentary-eight-common-sense-reason-for-not-going-to-war-with-iran/
The Roots of American Demonization of Shi'a Islam
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
The US targeted assassination, via drone strike, of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, apart from a torrent of crucial geopolitical ramifications, once again propels to center stage a quite inconvenient truth: the congenital incapacity of so-called US elites to even attempt …
globalresearch.ca/roots-american-demonization-shia-islam/5701065
US, UK 'Normalised' Targeted Drone Killings in Blow to Human Rights, Study Shows
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-20
The study was conducted before the assassination of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Qasem Soleimani who died in a US drone strike on the Baghdad International Airport on 3 January, ordered by President Donald Trump.
sputniknews.com/military/202001201078085671-us-uk-normalised-targeted-drone-killings-in-blow-to-human-rights-study-shows/
Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition
Eric Mann | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
Every year, until The Revolution comes again, the counter-revolution manipulates the historic birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, that so many people fought for, as their symbol of Black "integration" into imperialism and "non-violent" acquiescence to, at best, Barack Obama's cynical negation of his dream. As Donald Trump has just assassinated Iranian General Quassem Soleimani–with…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/20/martin-luther-king-and-the-black-revolutionary-tradition-2/
Worldwide Furor Sparked by U.S. Assassination of Iran's General Suleimani
Jeff Mackler | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
The Trump administration's January 3 drone missile assassination of Iran's Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani just outside Iraq's Baghdad airport brought the world to the brink of yet another catastrophic U.S. war. That the Iranian government would retaliate in a matter of days, if not hours, was unquestioned. But Iran's response stunned the world in its…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/20/worldwide-furor-sparked-by-u-s-assassination-of-irans-general-suleimani/
Assassination of Amílcar Cabral, one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-20
He was a prolific Marxian theorist who not only led the war of independence that toppled Portuguese rule in Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde but influenced the fight for decolonization across the continent.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/20/assassination-of-amilcar-cabral-one-of-africas-foremost-anti-colonial-leaders/
Because 'I Can Feel Bernie Beating Trump,' Pramila Jayapal Endorses Sanders for President
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-01-20
The co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus "has led the fight against Trump's racism, sexism and xenophobia," Sanders said responding to the news. "Together, we will defeat Trump and build a working class movement and transform this country so it works for all." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/jayapal_1_0_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/19/because-i-can-feel-bernie-beating-trump-pramila-jayapal-endorses-sanders-president?cd-origin=rss
As neo-Nazis head to Richmond, Trump boosts gun-rights rally
wsws.org | 2020-01-20
The president's tweet is a declaration of solidarity with ultra-right forces on the eve of his impeachment trial.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/20/virg-j20.html
Trump Wants to Deliver State of the Union Address 'With Impeachment Trial Behind Him', Graham Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-20
On Saturday, Donald Trump's legal team released a statement attempting to reject his impeachment by the House and characterising the charges against the US President as a "dangerous attack" on Americans and their right to vote.
sputniknews.com/us/202001201078086469-trump-wants-to-deliver-state-of-the-union-address-with-impeachment-trial-behind-him-graham-says/
80 Hadi loyalist soldiers killed in Yemen attack
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-20
Since 2015, Yemen is witnessing a brutal international war with Hadi forces, backed by Saudi Arabia, the US, United Kingdom and France (international coalition), launching violent airstrikes and ground assaults against the Houthi forces…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/20/80-hadi-loyalist-soldiers-killed-in-yemen-attack/
Indian Technophiles, Gear Up: Over 1 Mln Jobs Opportunities To Open Up in Data Science This Year
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-20
New Delhi (Sputnik): Out of India's 1.37 billion population, over 630 million people are on the internet and more than 5 million work in the technology sector. According to data from Chinese tech company TCL, India has the highest 'new technology acceptance' rate in the world.
sputniknews.com/india/202001201078084987-indian-technophiles-gear-up-over-1-mln-jobs-opportunities-to-open-up-in-data-science-this-year/
India Launches Tax Raid on Luxury Hotel Chain Owner Jyotsna Suri and Her Close Aide
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-20
New Delhi (Sputnik): In the current FY 2019
Pompeo Claims to Know Nothing, but Can We Believe Him?
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated in a Friday radio interview that he had not been previously aware that former US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch had been under surveillance in Ukraine. "Until this story broke, the best of my recollection, I'd | …
globalresearch.ca/pompeo-claims-to-know-nothing-can-we-believe-him/5701080
This week in history: January 20-26
wsws.org | 2020-01-20
25 years ago: Nuclear war scare caused by Norwegian rocket On January 25, 1995, the Russian military mistook a Black Brant XII rocket–launched by a team of Norwegian and US scientists to research the northern lights over Svalbard–as an incoming Trident missile launched as a high-altitude nuclear attack by the US Navy. It was the first time a Russian leader used the nuclear briefcase in a real alert.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/20/twih-j20.html
The Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster of Trump's Border Wall
William deBuys | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
A new Wild West has taken root not far from Tombstone, Arizona, known to many for its faux-historical reenactments of the old West. We're talking about a long, skinny territory
MLK and the Ghost of an Untrue Dream
Ipek S. Burnett | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
King's dream of economic justice and equality required America's power structures to change. It required America to take a critical look at the unbridled capitalist system that gave way to perpetual injustice. It required a radical and deep reconstruction of both politics and society, where the tangled roots of racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism would be exposed and eliminated.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/20/mlk-and-the-ghost-of-an-untrue-dream/
A Note on Carlos Ghosn and Global Capitalism
Charles Andrews | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
The boss of world car maker Nissan
Owyhee Initiative Wilderness and Public Lands Deal Critique: Ten Years After
Katie Fite | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
The Owyhee Initiative (OI) wilderness and public lands legislation passed Congress in 2009 as the Owyhee Public Lands Management Act. Hoopla on the bill's ten-year anniversary generated a spate of articles extolling collaboration and idolizing individual cattlemen. OI collaboration talking points are being parroted by supporters of a new round of Quid Pro Quo wilderness…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/20/owyhee-initiative-wilderness-and-public-lands-deal-critique-ten-years-after/
A Loophole for the Lawless: "Qualified Immunity" Must Go
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
On August 11, 2014, officers from the Caldwell, Idaho Police Department asked for Shaniz West's permission to enter and search her home. They were looking for her ex-boyfriend. West authorized the search and handed over her keys. Instead of entering and searching the home, though, the police brought in a SWAT team, surrounding the building.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/20/a-loophole-for-the-lawless-qualified-immunity-must-go/
Why Do We Have School Lunch Debt at All?
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
A Google search for "paying school lunch debt" reveals a long list of recent news stories about good Samaritans paying off the school lunch debt of children whose families cannot afford it. A Fredonia, New York man paid off $2,000 in school lunch debt in his area, helping 140 families. A Rigby, Idaho tattoo shop…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/20/why-do-we-have-school-lunch-debt-at-all/
It Was Haftar Who Refused to Sign Agreement on Ceasefire in Berlin – Diplomatic Source
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-20
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A conference on Libyan settlement was held on Sunday in Berlin, with representatives of Russia, the United States, Turkey, Egypt, the European Union, the United Nations and other countries invited to attend.
sputniknews.com/world/202001201078085144-it-was-haftar-who-refused-to-sign-agreement-on-ceasefire-in-berlin—diplomatic-source/
Cyprus Dubs Turkey 'Pirate State' as Mediterranean Gas Drilling Dispute Simmers
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-20
Turkey resumed gas exploration drilling in the Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus's coast last week amid overlapping claims between Nicosia and the Turkish-backed de facto state of Northern Cyprus regarding the extent of their maritime economic zones.
sputniknews.com/europe/202001201078086024-cyprus-dubs-turkey-pirate-state-as-mediterranean-gas-drilling-dispute-simmers/
ReclaimMLK: Youth Climate Strike & Resiliency Village
Youth Vs Apocalypse | indybay.org | 2020-01-20
Oscar Grant/ Frank Ogawa Plaza | Oakland, CA 94612…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/16/18829815.php
Bolsonaro Under Fire
Glenn Greenwald | zcomm.org | 2020-01-20
Dismisses His Culture Minister For Giving a Nazi Speech, But It Is Still Representative of Brazil's Governing Ethos…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/bolsonaro-under-fire/
France Says Eight Nations Back European-Led Naval Mission in Strait of Hormuz
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-20
Multiple European states began mulling a 'maritime security mission' in the Persian Gulf last summer amid simmering tensions between the UK and Iran, but the initiative seemed to have been put on hold after London announced that it would be joining a US-led maritime coalition instead.
sputniknews.com/world/202001201078085826-france-says-eight-nations-back-european-led-naval-mission-in-strait-of-hormuz/
Iranian FM Zarif won't attend Davos forum as organizers 'changed agenda'
rt.com | 2020-01-20
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will not attend the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos this week. The forum's organizers have "abruptly changed its agenda," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi explained on Monday. | The minister "was scheduled to attend… but they abruptly changed the schedule and it was not the schedule that we agreed upon," Mousavi told reporters. "So he will not attend Davos." | Last week, Reuters reported that Zarif was no longer on the list of nearly 3,000 people due at the event. The forum is being held under the banner 'Stakeholders for a Sustainable and…
rt.com/newsline/478688-iran-zarif-davos-agenda/
The Court of Appeal of Turin Confirms the Link Between a Head Tumour and Mobile Phone Use
Equipe Phonegate | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
The Court of Appeal of Turin confirms in a full judgment published on 13 January 2020 (904/2019 of 3.12.2019 , Romeo v. INAIL) the decision of the Tribunal of Ivrea of 2017. Judge Fadda considers that the worker's acoustic neuroma …
globalresearch.ca/court-appeal-turin-confirms-link-between-head-tumour-mobile-phone-use/5701050
How Perception Management Has Wrecked Reality
Greg Guma | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
In The Secret Man, Bob Woodward's book about his Watergate source Deep Throat, he notes, "Washington politics and secrets are an entire world of doubt." And that was before Trump and cyberwar. | Even though Woodward knew the identity of his …
globalresearch.ca/how-perception-management-has-wrecked-reality/5701091
Ike Was Right
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. Now this conjunction of an …
globalresearch.ca/ike-was-right/5701070
Making America Great Again in a New Wild West
William deBuys | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
A new Wild West has taken root not far from Tombstone, Arizona, known to many for its faux-historical reenactments of the old West. We're talking about a long, skinny territory
'Scale of this Failure Has No Precedent': Scientists Say Hot Ocean 'Blob' Killed One Million Seabirds
Jessica Corbett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
On the heels of new research showing that the world's oceans are rapidly warming, scientists revealed Wednesday that a huge patch of hot water in the northeast Pacific Ocean dubbed "the blob" was to blame for killing about one million …
globalresearch.ca/scale-failure-no-precedent-scientists-say-hot-ocean-blob-killed-one-million-seabirds/5701059
In the Spirit of Martin Luther King: Revolting Children Inspire Joyous Rebellion
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
"Our problem is civil obedience," said the people's historian Howard Zinn. | I kept thinking of this issue of obedience and disobedience as I was watching the musical play Matilda, based on the book by the impish writer Roald Dahl, at …
globalresearch.ca/in-the-spirit-of-martin-luther-king-revolting-children-inspire-joyous-rebellion/5701086
Dr. Martin Luther King as an Inspiration and a Role Model
Imad Hamad | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
On Dr. Martin Luther King's day (January 20, 2020), we remember a global icon that has been an inspiration to men and women across the globe struggling for human rights for all. Despite all the serious human rights and …
globalresearch.ca/dr-martin-luther-king-inspiration-role-model/5701084
The Truth About the Trump Economy
Joseph E. Stiglitz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
It is becoming conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to beat in November, because, whatever reservations about him voters may have, he has been good for the American economy. Nothing could be further from the truth. | …
globalresearch.ca/truth-trump-economy/5701074
Lack of action on climate change leads to warmest decade ever recorded
wsws.org | 2020-01-20
For all the proclamations by corporations and governments that they accept the need to reduce fossil fuel use, carbon emissions rose to the highest ever level in 2019.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/20/pers-j20.html
#MeToo provocation against Bernie Sanders organized by CNN and Elizabeth Warren
wsws.org | 2020-01-20
This is a political stink bomb, borrowed from the #MeToo playbook, typical of American politics in its putrefaction.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/20/warr-j20.html
Bushfire scientist warns that Australia's disaster is "a wake-up call"
wsws.org | 2020-01-20
"If nothing is done to address climate change this wildfire season will be a preview into our future."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/20/fglv-j20.html
'I Attended Chandrayaan 2 Landing Despite Failure Warnings': PM Modi Shares Anecdotes With Students
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-20
New Delhi (Sputnik): The first three months of the academic calendar are rough for high-school students in India, as they gear up for "board examinations"