2020-01-21: Social Media Postees

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Trump Leads a Government of, by, and for Bullies
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-01-21
Trump Leads a Government of, by, and for Bullies…
thenation.com/article/trump-king-immigration-guns/

Meet the Boy Scouts of the Border Patrol
Morley Musick | thenation.com | 2020-01-21
Meet the Boy Scouts of the Border Patrol…
thenation.com/article/scouts-border-immigration-trump/

Poniendo la verdad tras las rejas
Dianne Mathiowetz | workers.org | 2020-01-21
øSabía que uno de los derechos más protegidos en este país es el derecho del gobierno a mentirle a la gente? Esa es la esencia de la persecución que se está llevando a cabo en este momento contra Chelsea Manning y Julian Assange. Manning era una analista de inteligencia del . . . | Continue reading Poniendo la verdad tras las rejas at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/01/45637/

Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Sacramento)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Intersection of 9th street & K street, Sacramento, CA 95814…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829929.php

Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Davis)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Intersection of 5th Street and B Street, Downtown Davis 95616…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829931.php

Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (San Mateo)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Intersection of 3rd Avenue and El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94401…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829933.php

Global Day of Protest: No War with Iran! (San Jose)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
San José City Hall, 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829926.php

Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Santa Cruz)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Santa Cruz Town Clock, tri-intersection of Water Street, Front Street, N. Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829932.php

Global Day of Protest: No War with Iran! (Monterey)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Window on the Bay, 717 Del Monte Ave at Camino El Estero, Monterey, CA 93940…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829927.php

Young people making climate change 'hot topic', Greta Thunberg tells Davos elite
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-21
Greta Thunberg was among four young climate activists to challenge the elites gathered at the World Economic Forum for not doing enough to deal with the climate emergency and warned them that time was running out.At a panel in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, the four said they hoped their generation had found its voice and can work with those in power to bring about the necessary change to limit climate change.Yet Thunberg said not enough has been done. | "We need to start listening to the science, and treat this crisis with the importance it deserves," said the 17-year-old, just as US president Donald Trump was a…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/01/21/young-people-making-climate-change-hot-topic-greta-thunberg-tells-davos-elite/

Climate Activists Sound Alarm on Mediterranean Natural Gas Pipelines
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-21
Activists say the environmental risks of natural gas drilling are being ignored in the rush to challenge Russia's control of the European energy market.
therealnews.com/stories/climate-environment-mediterranean-natural-gas-pipelines

The Teamster Revolt Against the Hoffa Era
David Levin | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
Willie Ford listened to the conference call in disbelief from the cab of his tractor trailer on I-95 as the Teamster election monitor announced the results of the contract vote covering 250,000 workers at UPS.Ford, a leader of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), and rank-and-file activists like him, had spent months organizing the UPS…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/the-teamster-revolt-against-the-hoffa-era/

Another Date That Will Live in Infamy: 10 Years After Citizens United
James C. Nelson | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down one of its worst and most activist decisions ever. Indeed, in terms of harm caused and likelihood for future harm, the Court's decision in Citizen's United is, likely, the most pernicious Supreme Court decision ever issued in our nation's history. A historical…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/another-date-that-will-live-in-infamy-10-years-after-citizens-united/

Defender and Spearheads
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
"ALARM! Twelve thousand residents must immediately leave their homes! All hospital clinics must be evacuated! No exceptions! Hasten! " Not in burning Australia nor a besieged town in Syria or Afghanistan, but on January 12th 2020 in the otherwise peaceful if no longer prosperous Dortmund, in Germany's Ruhr Valley; once again, unexploded bombs were detected under…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/defender-and-spearheads/

Break of Dawn After Storm: EXO Chen Announces New Duo After Marriage Controversy
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
The news of marriage and fatherhood of the boy band's main vocalist created a furore among the fandom and the K-pop world, but peace could soon break out as a new song is set to be released.
sputniknews.com/viral/202001211078093730-break-of-dawn-after-storm-exo-chen-announces-new-duo-after-marriage-controversy/

Gantz Calls for Jordan Valley Annexation, 'Hopes Trump Releases Peace Plan Soon'
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
Previously, Benny Gantz had opposed the publication of Trump's peace plan during the campaign, describing it as 'outright intervention' in the Israeli election.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202001211078094266-gantz-calls-for-jordan-valley-annexation-hopes-trump-releases-peace-plan-soon/

Berlin conference prepares military occupation of Libya
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
The Libya conference, which took place last Sunday in Berlin, was not about peace in the war-torn country, but about the distribution of the loot.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/liby-j21.html

Mass protests escalate in Iraq and Lebanon
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
Both countries saw violent clashes as discredited caretaker governments fail to meet any of the social and political demands made by hundreds of thousands who have taken to the streets.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/iraq-j21.html

Gawkadal massacre in Kashmir
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-21
On January 21, 1990, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), an Indian paramilitary force opened fire on a group of Kashmiri protesters at Gawkadal bridge in Srinagar, Indian side of Kashmir. Gawkadal massacre is considered to be one of the worst massacres in Kashmiri history" along with the Bijbehara Massacre in 1993. According to survivors, more than 250 people were killed in the firing. No action was taken against the CRPF personnel responsible for the massacre.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/21/gawkadal-massacre-in-kashmir/

In Photos: Civil disobedience is everywhere!
Ronak Chhabra | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-21
With the far-right Indian government is showing no signs of backing down on divisive Citizenship Amendment Act, the voices of resistance have only grown louder and the list of such protest venues is going on increasing…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/21/in-photos-civil-disobedience-is-everywhere/

Trump Makes Space Great Again
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
Unlike virtually everything else that Trump has touched, the Space Force boondoggle has generated almost no controversy. Congress approved Trump's initiative, which was folded into the annual National Defense Authorization Act, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote at the end of 2019. Not only have very few voices of protest been raised against this extraordinary expansion of U.S. militarism, it has even generated some unexpected praise.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/trump-makes-space-great-again/

2 killed, 1 critically injured in chaotic stabbing, robbery & arson spree in Barcelona (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-01-21
Police in Barcelona have connected the dots between a series of apparently random attacks across the city, tying one suspect to two murders, a stabbing and an attempt at arson in the span of a single afternoon. | It all started around 3pm local time, when Barcelona's fire brigade responded to calls about an apartment blaze near the city's Ciutadella Park. Inside the flat they stumbled upon far more than a fire, finding not only evidence of arson, but the body of a man with "signs of violence," and apparently strangled. Police were called to investigate, strongly suspecting foul play. | A video later emerged on…
rt.com/news/478756-barcelona-stabbing-arson-spree/

The US and Iran's Perpetual Almost-War is Unsustainable
Patrick Cockburn | zcomm.org | 2020-01-21
The US maximalist demands on Iran's nuclear facilities, ballistic missiles and regional influence effectively mean that it wants regime change or capitulation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-us-and-irans-perpetual-almost-war-is-unsustainable/

Attempts to Remove Morales' Memory from Bolivia Will Likely Reinvigorate an Anti-Imperialist Struggle
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Last Wednesday, the coup government of Bolivia launched a massive military operation claiming to be a pre-emptive strike against the expected violence to occur this Wednesday during Plurinational State Foundation Day celebrations that memorializes the change in the name of …
globalresearch.ca/attempts-remove-morales-memory-bolivia-reinvigorate-anti-imperialist-struggle/5701241

Iran Will be Changed Forever by Admitting Its Great Mistake, Unlike the West Which Ignores Its Own Misdeeds
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
"In wartime," Churchill famously told Stalin, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." He said this on 30 November 1943

Worst lie since fake claim sparked Iraq war? OPCW report behind Syria bombings was altered, whistleblower tells UNSC
rt.com | 2020-01-21
A former inspector with the OPCW has accused the chemical weapons watchdog of issuing a sanitized report on the alleged 2018 attack in Douma, Syria, arguing it ignored serious reservations of its own fact-finding team. | The OPCW's final report on the Douma incident, released last March, omitted key findings of its own inspection team which would have cast serious doubt on whether a chemical attack took place at all, a now former OPCW specialist, Ian Henderson, told members of the United Nations Security Council in a recorded video address

S. Korea to send vessel, 300 troops to Strait of Hormuz after US pressure
rt.com | 2020-01-21
South Korea will send a naval destroyer and 300 troops to the Strait of Hormuz, the Defense Ministry in Seoul said on Tuesday. The move follows pressure from the US amid tensions between Washington and Tehran, AFP said. | Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks on shipping vessels in the strait, a strategic point for the world's oil trade, where the US has deployed a naval mission. Seoul has had diplomatic relations with Tehran since the early 1960s, and until last year Iran was one of the resource-poor South's key oil suppliers. | The Defense Ministry said that Seoul had decided to "temporarily expand" t…
rt.com/newsline/478774-korea-destroyer-hormuz-us/

US Gov Was Found Guilty In MLK's Assassination, Virginia Update & Israeli Gov "Proof" Of Iran Nukes
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-01-21
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 (1/20/19). 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/us-gov-was-found-guilty-in-mlks-assassination-virginia-update-israeli-gov-proof-of-iran-nukes/

Iran's civil aviation authority confirms 2 missiles fired at Ukraine airliner
rt.com | 2020-01-21
The civil aviation authority in Iran has confirmed two missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner that was brought down earlier this month. Investigators discovered that "two Tor-M1 missiles… were fired at the aircraft," the authority said in a preliminary report posted on its website late on Monday. | An investigation is ongoing to assess the bearing their impact had on the accident. The statement confirms a report in The New York Times which included video footage appearing to show two projectiles being fired at the airliner. | The Kiev-bound Ukraine International Airlines plane was shot down in error sho…
rt.com/newsline/478687-iran-missiles-ukraine-airliner/

Iran threatens to leave nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-21
The announcement comes after the UK, France and Germany proposed the invocation of the dispute settlement mechanism in the UNSC – a move that Iran alleges is based on US diktats…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/21/iran-threatens-to-leave-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty/

Civil war in Iraq? Is Dubai safe? Or World War 3: An analysis of the US-Iran Conflict from every direction
George Stacey | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-21
Iran will never even try to indulge in a one-on-one war with the United States.
nationofchange.org/2020/01/20/civil-war-in-iraq-is-dubai-safe-or-world-war-3-an-analysis-of-the-us-iran-conflict-from-every-direction/

Janus-Faced on Climate Change: Microsoft's Carbon Vision
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
"This is a bold bet

Germany: New links found between Làºbcke murder, neo-fascist NSU and the secret service
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
The links between the series of murders carried out by the neo-Nazi terrorist group NSU, the murder of Kassel's District President Walter Làºbcke (CDU) and the secret service are closer than previously known.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/lubc-j21.html

McConnell's Impeachment Plan Is to Make Us All Give Up
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-01-21
McConnell's Impeachment Plan Is to Make Us All Give Up…
thenation.com/article/impeachment-rules-mcconnell/

WHO calls for emergency meeting as China confirms 4th death & person-to-person spread of new coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-01-21
The World Health Organization will convene an emergency expert panel to determine whether a new virus sweeping China should be declared a global threat, after Chinese health officials confirmed the lethal pathogen is contagious. | The upcoming WHO meeting, set for Wednesday, was announced on the heels of the fourth confirmed death from the new coronavirus, which first broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan but has since spread, taking hold in Beijing and Shanghai. There are now 217 known infections, according to the Chinese authorities, with 198 of them in Wuhan and another four cases reported in Japan, South…
rt.com/news/478757-who-emergency-china-coronavirus/

BRICS open to new member states joining the club, says Russia's deputy FM
rt.com | 2020-01-21
The BRICS group of emerging economies, which is comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is open to welcoming new member countries, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. | Russia is focused on activities on the BRICS+ platform, which "makes it possible for interested countries to find ways to cooperate with the group's members," said Ryabkov, adding: "This is why it is possible to talk about the expansion of BRICS as a goal for the future." | According to Ryabkov, the Russian Sherpa in the five-nation trade bloc, "BRICS' existence is important in terms of creating new…
rt.com/business/478771-brics-new-member-states/

India, Bangladesh Issue Precautionary Guidelines Amid Spread of Coronavirus in China
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
New Delhi (Sputnik): The 'mysterious' virus outbreak has infected between 62 and 200 Chinese and claimed the lives of three persons so far. All cases were reported in China's Wuhan province. Health officials have expressed concern about its possible spread across the globe.
sputniknews.com/asia/202001211078092721-india-bangladesh-issue-precautionary-guidelines-amid-spread-of-coronavirus-in-china/

US-Based Qualcomm Brings New 4G-Compatible Smartphone Processors to India
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
New Delhi (Sputnik): In recent years, India has replaced the US and Vietnam to become the second-largest market and manufacturing hub for smartphones after China. With India's federal government going ahead with plans to roll out the next generation of mobile technology, tech players are consistently upgrading their devices to run on 4G networks.
sputniknews.com/india/202001211078094190-us-based-qualcomm-brings-new-4g-compatible-smartphone-processors-to-india/

China court sentences former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei to 13 years in prison for bribery
rt.com | 2020-01-21
Former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who was detained on a visit to China in 2018, was sentenced Tuesday to more than 13 years in prison for bribery. The case shook the international police organization. | Meng

China finds oil in Asia's deepest onshore well, nearly 9,000 meters underground
rt.com | 2020-01-21
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has found crude oil and natural gas in the deepest well drilled in Asia's onshore, striking hydrocarbons in a pre-salt layer for the first time in China. | The discovery was made in the Tarim oilfield in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang in a well deep 8,882 meters (29,140 feet), which was first drilled in July last year. | Production from the now spudded well in the pre-salt area is expected at 133.46 cubic meters of oil per day, while daily gas production is seen at 48,700 cubic meters, according to a CNPC statement carried by Reuters. | Also on rt.com
rt.com/business/478780-china-oil-deepst-well-asia/

Even the Democrats Do Favors for the Rich
Gerald E. Scorse | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-21
In 2017 a Republican-controlled Congress passed a tax cut hugely tilted to corporations and the wealthy. In the waning days of 2019, the Democratic-controlled House did a kind of me-too. It pushed through a retirement bill with a provision that gives billions to those in the upper tiers. The House's gift to the well-off was …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/even-the-democrats-do-favors-for-the-rich/

#VictoryPages: Young Russian designers create 'Endless Letter' using Instagram Stories
rt.com | 2020-01-21
RT's historical tribute to the 75-year anniversary of victory over fascism, #VictoryPages, launches 'Endless Letter' on Instagram. Starting this January the project will run until May. | The Instagram account @Pobeda.Page will post several stories daily that will eventually add up to hours of art, quotes and music combined. | "Today we live, but tomorrow or in an hour, a minute you are gone," "Mom! Don't make a mistake, don't join the army, stay at home," "The city is destroyed… Sorry for Rostov"

Russian Scientists Propose Manned Base on Martian Moon to Control Robots Remotely on Red Planet
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
Academics believe a Martian moon base would be considerably cheaper to build than a base on the planet itself, while providing for the real-time control of robots stationed on Mars' surface.
sputniknews.com/science/202001211078094327-russian-scientists-propose-manned-base-on-martian-moon-to-control-robots-remotely-on-red-planet/

A Challenger Appears? Angelina Jolie's Lookalike From Russia Steals the Spotlight Online
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
While some social media users praise the Russian beauty's stunning good looks and marvel at her resemblance to the Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie, there are also those who claim that her appearance is merely a product of plastic surgery.
sputniknews.com/society/202001211078093841-a-challenger-appears-angelina-jolies-lookalike-from-russia-steals-the-spotlight-online/

Venezuela's Maduro offers Trump a "win-win" bargain
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
In an interview with the Washington Post, the Venezuelan president "suggested that a bonanza could be waiting for U.S. oil companies" if the White House ends sanctions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/vene-j21.html

WATCH Monstrous dust storms blocking out the Sun as Australia's weather woes continue
rt.com | 2020-01-21
As if sprawling bushfires and violent hailstorms weren't enough, to add insult to injury, vast dust storms engulfed large swathes of New South Wales in Australia to close out a weekend of intense weather. | Eyewitness video shows the huge dirt wall bearing down on poor Aussies who could only watch mouth agape (at least until the storm hit) before the entire area was blanketed in dust. Residents in the towns of Narromine, Parkes and Dubbo in New South Wales state could only look on in awe as the ominous cloud grew ever larger before it consumed them all. | Australia's Bureau of Meteorology had issued severe…
rt.com/news/478770-monstrous-dust-storms-block-sun/

Moms 4 Housing to Buy #MomsHouse!!
Moms4Housing | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Oakland, Calif.

UK Counter Terrorism Policing document seeks to outlaw political dissent
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
The "guidance document" lists prominent left-wing, anti-war and environmental groups alongside far-right, fascist and white supremacist organisations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/terr-j21.html

Trump administration ramps up campaign to abolish strong data encryption in aftermath of Pensacola terror shooting
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
The administration, following in the footsteps of the Obama White House, is moving to attack privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/encr-j21.html

Second Consecutive Day, Indian Security Forces Gun Down Two Terrorists in Kashmir
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
New Delhi (Sputnik): Indian security forces gunned down three suspected terrorists of the proscribed militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen in Shopian district of the restive Kashmir region in a gun-fight on 20 January. One of them was a police-absconder-turned terrorist.
sputniknews.com/india/202001211078092785-second-consecutive-day-indian-security-forces-gun-down-two-terrorists-in-kashmir/