The Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Evokes the Antebellum Slave Codes
Shawn Fremstad | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-03
In a 5-4 decision this week, the Supreme Court temporarily lifted a nationwide preliminary injunction that had kept the Trump administration from implementing its rule that vastly expands the reach of the public charge provision in federal immigration law. Immigration officials will now be able to deny lawful permanent resident status ("green cards") to immigrant…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/03/the-public-charge-rule-for-immigrants-evokes-the-antebellum-slave-codes/
The Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Evokes the Antebellum Slave Codes
Shawn Fremstad | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-03
In a 5-4 decision this week, the Supreme Court temporarily lifted a nationwide preliminary injunction that had kept the Trump administration from implementing its rule that vastly expands the reach of the public charge provision in federal immigration law. Immigration officials will now be able to deny lawful permanent resident status ("green cards") to immigrant…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/03/the-public-charge-rule-for-immigrants-evokes-the-antebellum-slave-codes/
An examination of the anti-immigrant campaign in early 20th century America
wsws.org | 2020-02-03
A century after the imposition of racist immigration quotas in the US, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and racism are once again on the rise in the US and around the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/03/gate-f03.html
The Making of the First American Dictator
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
The Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump was both a farce and a tragedy. Mr. Trump, a Fascistic minded President was not targeted for his real crimes (inhumane treatments of immigrant children in the ICE concentration camps, inciting violence during …
globalresearch.ca/making-first-american-dictator/5702526
Protesters in Iraq splinter over backing of new PM-designate
rt.com | 2020-02-03
Protests camps in Baghdad and the south began to fracture on Monday, split over whether to back Iraq's PM-designate Mohammed Allawi, AFP reported, citing activists. | Allawi's nomination has so far failed to quell the months-long rallies sweeping Baghdad and the mainly-Shiite south, where young demonstrators have demanded nothing short of a total government overhaul. | Most young protesters have rejected Allawi as too close to the ruling elite but powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has backed the rallies, welcomed his appointment on Saturday. Sadr urged his followers to stay in the streets, creating a rift w…
rt.com/newsline/479934-protest-camps-iraq-pm/
Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly calls for Assange's release, condemns threatened extradition
wsws.org | 2020-02-03
Members of the assembly undoubtedly recognised that their report on media freedom would have no credibility if it remained silent on Europe's most famous imprisoned journalist and publisher.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/03/assa-f03.html
Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly calls for Assange's release, condemns threatened extradition
wsws.org | 2020-02-03
Members of the assembly undoubtedly recognised that their report on media freedom would have no credibility if it remained silent on Europe's most famous imprisoned journalist and publisher.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/03/assa-f03.html
The Prosecution of Julian Assange: The War on Journalism, What Is at Stake?
BayAction2FreeAssange | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Sonoma State University- Darwin 102 | 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/02/18830326.php
America: Land of Make-Believe
Chris Hedges | truthdig.com | 2020-02-03
If what happens in courtrooms across the country to poor people of color is justice, what is happening in the Senate is a trial. If the blood-drenched debacles and endless quagmires in the Middle East are victories in the war on terror, our military is the greatest on earth. If the wholesale government surveillance of the public, the revoking of due process and having the world's largest prison population are liberty, we are the land of the free. If the president, an inept, vulgar and corrupt con artist, is the leader of the free world, we are a beacon for democracy and our enemies hate us for our values. If Jesu…
truthdig.com/articles/america-land-of-make-believe/
America: Land of Make-Believe
Chris Hedges | truthdig.com | 2020-02-03
If what happens in courtrooms across the country to poor people of color is justice, what is happening in the Senate is a trial. If the blood-drenched debacles and endless quagmires in the Middle East are victories in the war on terror, our military is the greatest on earth. If the wholesale government surveillance of the public, the revoking of due process and having the world's largest prison population are liberty, we are the land of the free. If the president, an inept, vulgar and corrupt con artist, is the leader of the free world, we are a beacon for democracy and our enemies hate us for our values. If Jesu…
truthdig.com/articles/america-land-of-make-believe/
Guaido's Failed Foreign Tour Ends With A Flop
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-03
President Maduro speaks to a massive crowd at Miraflores Palace on the anniversary of a failed Guaido coup (From Orinoco Tribune) Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself the president of Venezuela a year ago but despite multiple coup attempts, he never took power and his support there rapidly disappeared. Now, with his foreign tour concluding, Guaidó's support is shrinking around …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/guaidos-failed-foreign-tour-ends-with-a-flop/
Guaido's Failed Foreign Tour Ends with a Flop
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself the president of Venezuela a year ago but despite multiple coup attempts, he never took power and his support there rapidly disappeared. Now, with his foreign tour concluding, Guaidó's support is shrinking around the world as …
globalresearch.ca/guaido-failed-foreign-tour-ends-flop/5702608
The Creation Myth of the Buttigieg Campaign
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-03
This weekend, Pete Buttigieg told supporters that he became a viable candidate for president "on the strength of our vision" and "the urgency of our convictions." Such rhetoric fits snugly into a creation myth about his campaign that Buttigieg has been promoting since early 2019. Summing up the gist of that myth, Buttigieg began this…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/03/the-creation-myth-of-the-buttigieg-campaign/
The Creation Myth of the Buttigieg Campaign
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-03
This weekend, Pete Buttigieg told supporters that he became a viable candidate for president "on the strength of our vision" and "the urgency of our convictions." Such rhetoric fits snugly into a creation myth about his campaign that Buttigieg has been promoting since early 2019. Summing up the gist of that myth, Buttigieg began this…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/03/the-creation-myth-of-the-buttigieg-campaign/
I will hold you in my arms a day after the war
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-02-03
On Monday, 27 January, the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng slipped away. His camera had been a familiar presence in the anti-apartheid struggle; after years of photographing police violence and popular resistance, he tired of making 'images bespeaking gloom, monotony, anguish, struggle, [and] oppression', he wrote in 1993. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/03/i-will-hold-you-in-my-arms-a-day-after-the-war/
Youth Climate Activists Have Endorsed Bernie Sanders. Can It Tip the Scales?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-03
A recent wave of endorsements reflects the Vermont Senator's appeal for younger voters who are concerned with climate. | As sparring continues within the ranks of the Democratic Party, a certain voting bloc
With Medicare for All on the Table, Iowans Are Caucusing for Their Lives
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-03
Democrats in Iowa are voting for their lives as they gather for the presidential caucuses today. Besides beating President Trump, polling shows that health care is the top issue among likely caucus-goers. The vision of a Medicare for All system that provides health insurance to everyone has energized activists and the party's progressive base…
truthout.org/articles/with-medicare-for-all-on-the-table-iowans-are-caucusing-for-their-lives/
Climate Groups Target JPMorgan Chase "Money Pipeline"
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area and climate activists in SF financial district demonstration…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/31/18830264.php
Warring Libya sides sit down for Geneva talks agreed in Berlin
rt.com | 2020-02-03
The two major warring parties in the Libyan civil war have for the first time sat down for commission-level talks in Geneva. The meeting was agreed at the Libya summit in Berlin, after a peace process started by Russia and Turkey. | …
rt.com/news/479976-libya-warring-sides-talks-geneva/
"Deal of the Century" Greenlights Israeli Annexation, Apartheid, and Subjugation of Palestinians
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
On Sunday, ahead of the big Tuesday reveal in the White House, US President Donald J. Trump delivered to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the so-called "Deal of the Century" also known as the " Middle East Peace Plan". …
globalresearch.ca/deal-century-greenlights-israeli-annexation-apartheid-subjugation-palestinians/5702584
The U.S. War on Iran and Venezuela: Interview with Ajamu Baraka
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
The following interview with Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of Black Alliance for Peace, was conducted on January 26, by Alan Benjamin, editorial board member of The Organizer newspaper. It is reprinted from Issue No. 149 (January 31, 2020) of …
globalresearch.ca/interview-ajamu-baraka-u-s-war-iran-venezuela/5702563
Towards a World Without War? Global Research Needs Your Support
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Dear Readers, | Global Research is a small team that believes in the power of information and analysis to bring about far-reaching societal change including a world without war. We are as committed as ever to the struggle for Peace, but …
globalresearch.ca/a-world-without-war-global-research-needs-your-support/5676117
Trump's "peace deal" for Israel, and it is breathtaking
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
I have read through the entire 181 pages of Trump's "peace deal" for Israel, and it is breathtaking. It is not just that the "solution" it proposes is ludicrously one-sided, it is the entire analysis of the problem to be …
globalresearch.ca/non-condemnatory-international-reaction-trump-bantustan-lite-palestine-plan-shows-two-state-solution-lie/5702547
Organization of Islamic Cooperation rejects Trump's 'deal of the century' peace plan for Middle East
rt.com | 2020-02-03
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which consists of more than 50 Muslim-majority countries, has asked member states not to cooperate in any way with US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Israel and Palestine. | During a special session in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Monday, the OIC's executive committee called on all member states "not to engage with [Trump's] plan or to cooperate with the US administration in implementing it in any form." The body also asked members to refrain from any actions that "do not adhere to the inalienable rights of Palestinians." | OIC Secretary General Yousef Al-Othai…
rt.com/news/479965-arab-cooperation-rejects-trump-plan/
Forum – Eyewitness Venezuela Report & Analysis of Palestine "Peace Plan"
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
2969 Mission St. near 26th…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/02/18830314.php
2019 Cal Tax Table and Most Tax Forms Not Online
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
For 2019, unlike all previous years, we have to Email the Franchise Tax Board for the California Tax Table and most tax forms, except the 540, because they are not online. We cannot complete the 540 without this crucial table. The Email cannot be read or downloaded on many computers so one must then look to the email on your cell phone and get the magnifier to highlight the line you need for your tax due. This insanity and inefficiency is brought to us by Democratic Gov Newsom and his supermajority Democratic legislature.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/02/18830315.php
Massive Rejection of Trump's Plan in Palestine, Jordan, Yemen
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Thousands of Palestinians held numerous demonstrations on the first Friday following the announcement of the so-called "Deal of the Century" promoted by the U.S. President Donald Trump. | From Gaza to the West Bank, people protested energetically against what they …
globalresearch.ca/massive-rejection-trump-plan-palestine-jordan-yemen/5702646
Reject the Coverup! San Francisco Protest Against Sham Impeachment Trial
RejectTheCoverup | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Cable Car Turnaround at Powell & Market , 1 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/02/18830307.php
Reject the Coverup! Protest of Trump Impeachment Coverup in Napa
RejectTheCoverup | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Veterans Park, 3rd St. and Main St., Napa, CA 94558…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/01/18830296.php
Reject the Coverup! Protest of Trump Impeachment Coverup in Hollister
RejectTheCoverup | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Intersection of 4th & San Benito Streets, Downtown Hollister, CA 95023…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/01/18830301.php
Reject the Coverup! Protest of Trump Impeachment Coverup in San Jose
Families Belong Together and others | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Intersection of Stevens Creek Blvd and N. Winchester Blvd (by Santana Row and Valley Fair Mall), border of San Jose & Santa Clara in the South Bay…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/01/18830295.php
Reject the Coverup! Nationwide Protests Against the Trump Impeachment Coverup
RejectTheCoverup | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Around the San Francisco Bay Area, throughout California, and across the USA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/01/18830291.php
Reject the Coverup! Impeachment Coverup Protest in Palo Alto
RejectTheCoverup | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Lytton Plaza, 220 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/01/18830288.php
Reject the Cover-Up! Protest in Hayward
Hayward Political Action Alliance | indybay.org | 2020-02-03
Hayward City Hall Plaza, 777 B Street, Hayward, CA 94541…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/02/18830316.php
Bossing Grown Folks Around: the Open Letter to the Greens
Richard Moser | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-03
Before a single primary vote has been tallied a number of big-shot progressive Democrats are already calling for the Green Party to stand down in an "open letter." Of all the issues we face, why focus so narrowly on marginal election maneuvers? Of all the movements we need to organize, why try to demobilize a…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/03/bossing-grown-folks-around-the-open-letter-to-the-greens/
Bossing Grown Folks Around: the Open Letter to the Greens
Richard Moser | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-03
Before a single primary vote has been tallied a number of big-shot progressive Democrats are already calling for the Green Party to stand down in an "open letter." Of all the issues we face, why focus so narrowly on marginal election maneuvers? Of all the movements we need to organize, why try to demobilize a…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/03/bossing-grown-folks-around-the-open-letter-to-the-greens/
Romania Willingly Becomes a U.S. Drone Base Aimed Against Russia
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
The already existing tensions in the Black Sea region have heightened because of the Defender-Europe 2020 exercises, which include ten participating states, including the Black Sea state of Romania. Through these U.S.-led exercises, that are mostly aimed against Russia's Kaliningrad …
globalresearch.ca/romania-willingly-becomes-u-s-drone-base-aimed-against-russia/5702627
Misleading Categories and Trump's Swamps
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-03
It is remarkable how the Democratic Presidential candidates allow themselves to be pigeon-holed by the media as "moderate," "centrist," "extreme," "left-wing," and other abstract fact-deprived nomenclature. It is also astonishing that the Democratic operatives have made something called "electability" a yardstick for deciding who to vote for in the primaries. This is particularly ironic considering…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/03/misleading-categories-and-trumps-swamps/
Video: Syrian Army Offensive in Greater Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
The last week of January turned badly for Idlib militants. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda), the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation and their allies appeared to be unable to contain the offensive of the Syrian Army, …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-offensive-greater-idlib-results-january-27-31-2020/5702512
Nuclear Treaty Busting Trump Regime. Doomsday Clock Closer than Ever to Midnight
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Largely in response to reckless Trump regime treaty busting, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock closer than ever to midnight. | It now stands at 100 seconds from potential catastrophe to humanity. | In June 2017, the Trump …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-treaty-busting-trump-regime-doomsday-clock-closer-than-ever-to-midnight/5702521
Palestine: Legally Overriding a UN Security Council Veto. In Response to Trump's Annexation Scheme
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
In response to the Trump regime's annexation scheme of the century, Palestinians have binding recourse
UN Rejects Trump's Annexation Scheme?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Pronouncements are one thing, policies another. Ignore what politicians say. Follow only what they do. | The same goes for UN officials, notably the secretary general, installed by the US to serve its interests. | Most often, current incumbent Antonio Guterres and …
globalresearch.ca/un-rejects-trump-annexation-scheme/5702600
Indian govt says there 'cannot be any delay' to execution of 4 convicts in 2012 gang rape & murder after 2nd postponement
rt.com | 2020-02-03
India's solicitor general has said the convicts in the 'Nirbhaya' rape and murder that inspired a Netflix series are "testing the patience of the nation" by filing appeals one after another after their hanging was delayed again. | India's Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who is the second law officer in the country, has said that there should be no more delays in carrying out the death sentence in the case of the four men, found guilty of the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young student on a bus, who later became known as Nirbhaya ("fearless" in Hindi). | "In the interest of the society and victim, there should…
rt.com/news/479920-india-rape-execution-delay/
Maneuvering Hell for Our Advantage
Robert Koehler | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-03
When the mainstream media writes about war, even critically, the image that often comes to mind for me is an infant wrapped in plastic. That infant is naked reality, a.k.a., the present moment, suffocating and screaming for its life; the plastic smothering it are the journalistic euphemisms by which murder and terrorism turn into abstract…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/03/maneuvering-hell-for-our-advantage/
ACLU: Trump Is Expanding His Racist Travel Ban, This Time Targeting Africans
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-03
The Trump administration has expanded its contested travel ban to six additional countries
The Afghanistan Papers. "Teflon Lies" and Mowing Lawns
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Afghanistan is a famous desert for empires, a burial ground which has consumed those in power who thought that extra fortification and trading most might benefit them. It remains a great, and somewhat savage reminder about those who suffer hubris, …
globalresearch.ca/teflon-lies-mowing-lawns-afghanistan-papers/5702618
Even After the Afghanistan Papers, the Washington 'Blob' Still Embraces Staying Forever
Mark Perry | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
James Clad, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia, remembers the exact moment, back in 2001, when he learned that the U.S. had invaded Afghanistan. As chance would have it, he was in a meeting with a …
globalresearch.ca/even-after-afghanistan-papers-washington-blob-still-embraces-staying-forever/5702644
Victory for Canada's First Nations: Saugeen Ojibway Nation Has Saved Lake Huron from a Nuclear Waste Dump
Joyce Nelson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
A major victory for Canada's First Nations has just been won in Ontario. On January 31, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) overwhelmingly voted down the proposed deep geological repository (DGR) for storage of low- and intermediate-level radioactive nuclear waste next …
globalresearch.ca/saugeen-ojibway-nation-saved-lake-huron-nuclear-waste-dump/5702592
EU top diplomat Borrell visits Iran 'to de-escalate tensions' over nuclear program
rt.com | 2020-02-03
Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell held talks on Monday in the Iranian capital on a mission aimed at lowering tensions over Tehran's nuclear program. | Borrell's trip, his first to Iran since taking office, follows a spike in tensions between Washington and Tehran following the January 3 assassination in Baghdad of a top Iranian general in a US drone strike. | The two-day visit opened with a meeting with FM Mohammad Javad Zarif, ahead of talks with President Hassan Rouhani and parliament speaker Ali Larijani. | The trip will allow Borrell "to convey the EU's strong commitment to preserve" the 2015 nuclear deal, cal…
rt.com/newsline/479964-eu-borrell-iran-nuclear/
US Deploys "Usable" Nuclear Weapon Amid Continuing War Threats Against Iran
Bill Van Auken | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
The Pentagon deployed a new, smaller nuclear warhead aboard the ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee as it sailed into the Atlantic last month in the midst of the spiraling crisis with Iran. The weapon, known as the W76-2 warhead, has …
globalresearch.ca/us-deploys-usable-nuclear-weapon-amid-continuing-war-threats-against-iran/5702651