Reps introduce New Way Forward Act to fight criminalization of immigrants
World Combined Sources | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-10
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Trump administration's surveillance dragnet
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
The massive breach of the right to privacy, first justified by President Bush in the guise of the "war on terror," then expanded under President Obama, is now being utilized in Trump's fascistic war on immigrants.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/pers-f10.html
The Truth About Julian Assange
Nils Melzer | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture
What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Chris Hedges | truthdig.com | 2020-02-10
The global security state, which is not bound by the rule of law, will target all who defy it.
truthdig.com/articles/what-is-happening-to-assange-will-happen-to-the-rest-of-us/
Australian pseudo-left seeks to cover up its abandonment of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
Socialist Alternative's article, "The betrayal of Julian Assange," is a crude attempt to cover up its own role in the "betrayal" of the WikiLeaks publisher.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/salt-f10.html
Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia Over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-10
"This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure."
Why the Buttigieg Campaign Tried to Have Me Arrested for Handing Out These Medicare for All Fliers
Norman Solomon | commondreams.org | 2020-02-10
US Presidential Candidate and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at a Town Hall event in Keene, New Hampshire. – US Presidential Candidates are in the state for the upcoming 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary who will take place on February 11, 2020. (Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/buttigieg_new_hampshire.jpg …
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Why the Buttigieg Campaign Tried to Have Me Arrested for Handing Out Information About Medicare for All
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
Trying to block information on a New Hampshire campus…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/10/18830596.php
DNC in Disarray While the Sanders Campaign Gains Momentum
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
As a center of elite power, the Democratic National Committee is now floundering. Every reform it has implemented since 2016 was the result of progressive grassroots pressure. But there are limits to what DNC Chair Tom Perez is willing to accept without a knock-down, drag-out fight. And in recent weeks, he has begun to do…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/dnc-in-disarray-while-the-sanders-campaign-gains-momentum/
Libya is Being Torn Apart By Outsiders
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
Ghassan Salamé is the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. He took over this job in 2017, six years after the catastrophic NATO war on Libya. What Salamé inherited was a country torn into shreds, two governments in place–one in Tripoli and one in Tobruk–and one civil war that had too many…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/libya-is-being-torn-apart-by-outsiders/
Libya is Being Torn Apart By Outsiders
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
Ghassan Salamé is the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. He took over this job in 2017, six years after the catastrophic NATO war on Libya. What Salamé inherited was a country torn into shreds, two governments in place–one in Tripoli and one in Tobruk–and one civil war that had too many…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/libya-is-being-torn-apart-by-outsiders/
Brazilian Police Kill Suspect in Marielle Franco's Murder
teleSUR-age | telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-10
Adriano da Nóbrega, the notorious hitman whose gang of hired killers was allegedly involved in the murder of Brazilian councilor, Marielle Franco, was gunned down by police on Sunday in the northeastern state of Bahia, where the suspect had been hiding from authorities. | RELATED: | Paris Will Have a Public Space Named After Activist Marielle Franco | The former special forces police captain, who also had close ties to the family of the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro,…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazilian-police-kill-suspect-for-marielle-francos-murder–20200210-0006.html
At least eight shot dead in southern Iraq
Qassim Abdul-Zahra | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
At least eight anti-government protesters were shot dead and 52 were wounded in clashes with followers of a radical Shiite cleric in southern Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi medical officials and activists said.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/08/18830535.php
At least eight shot dead in southern Iraq
Qassim Abdul-Zahra | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
At least eight anti-government protesters were shot dead and 52 were wounded in clashes with followers of a radical Shiite cleric in southern Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi medical officials and activists said.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/08/18830535.php
Climate Change and Rebellion: an interview with John Molyneux
Leo Zeilig | mronline.org | 2020-02-10
In an interview with the socialist writer and activist, John Molyneux, ROAPE's Leo Zeilig asks him about climate change, capitalism and socialist transformation. In an important initiative John has recently founded the Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) which brings together activists and researchers from across the Global North and South. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/10/climate-change-and-rebellion-an-interview-with-john-molyneux/
West Virginia Legislation: The Criminalization of Peaceful Protests against Oil and Gas "Critical Infrastructure". Anti-protest Bills
Connor Gibson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
2020 HB 4615 | Introduced and referred to House Judiciary Committee on January 30, 2020 | ICNL analysis: | Would heighten the penalties for protests near oil and gas pipelines and other infrastructure. Under the bill, knowingly trespassing on property containing a | …
globalresearch.ca/west-virginia-oil-gas-critical-infrastructure-anti-protest-bills/5703279
Democrats vs Bernie in 2020, Repeat of 2016
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
In Iowa, Bernie won the popular vote but a corporate candidate most of us never heard of, Peter Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind (mayors of small towns do not usually run for president) supposedly won the delegate vote. Now in California, Los Angeles County voters are receiving incorrect ballots.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830564.php
Democrats vs Bernie in 2020, Repeat of 2016
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
In Iowa, Bernie won the popular vote but a corporate candidate most of us never heard of, Peter Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind (mayors of small towns do not usually run for president) supposedly won the delegate vote. Now in California, Los Angeles County voters are receiving incorrect ballots.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830564.php
Developing Belonging in a Time of Othering
WILPF San Jose | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
San Jose Peace and Justice Center | 48 S 7th Street | San Jose, CA 95112…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830560.php
On V-Day: Vigil for Love Not War
Friday Peace Vigil, SJPJC, and others | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
In front of Martin Luther King, Jr Library | 4th and San Fernando | San Jose, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830561.php
Oakland Protesters Insist Senate Trial Was a Cover-Up, Not an Exoneration
R.R. | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
After the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, protesters took to the streets in Oakland, CA.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/08/18830521.php
Indian politician calls for burqa ban claiming 'terrorists' use them to hide from police
rt.com | 2020-02-10
The state of Uttar Pradesh's labor minister Raghuraj Singh has called for an outright ban on women wearing burqas, suggesting that terrorists have been using them to elude authorities. | In an apparent reference to the recent violent protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which have swept India, Singh claimed that criminals and "terrorists" were using the burqa to conceal their identities. | Also on rt.com | | Indian women's college bans burqas as part of dress code crackdown | The poitician from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Par…
rt.com/news/480483-indian-politician-burqa-ban-terrorism/
Sh*t-can Perez and the DNC
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
Hooray for Bernie Sanders! He waited until he had the numbers and now he's calling it. He won Iowa! Maybe the same corporate media that have been touting Pete Buttigieg as the "presumptive winner" in the messy Iowa Caucus, now that their story is collapsing are unwilling to call it for Bernie. Sanders, in a…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/sht-can-perez-and-the-dnc/
Growing attacks on socialism in Democratic presidential race
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
With polls showing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders the likely first-place finisher in tomorrow's Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, Sanders' opponents have focused their attacks on his public identification as a "democratic socialist."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/elec-f10.html
Growing attacks on socialism in Democratic presidential race
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
With polls showing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders the likely first-place finisher in tomorrow's Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, Sanders' opponents have focused their attacks on his public identification as a "democratic socialist."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/elec-f10.html
The Vengeful, Lawless, Corporate Toady Trump Explodes
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
The day after his acquittal by the Republican Party in a trial that banned witnesses, the unhinged Donald Trump gloated for over an hour on all the television networks. Trump flattered his courtiers, one by one, and fulminated against his Congressional adversaries, Hillary Clinton and ex-FBI chief James Comey. Donald Trump's speech degraded his office…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/the-vengeful-lawless-corporate-toady-trump-explodes/
The Vengeful, Lawless, Corporate Toady Trump Explodes
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-10
The day after his acquittal by the Republican Party in a trial that banned witnesses, the unhinged Donald Trump gloated for over an hour on all the television networks. Trump flattered his courtiers, one by one, and fulminated against his Congressional adversaries, Hillary Clinton and ex-FBI chief James Comey. Donald Trump's speech degraded his office…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/10/the-vengeful-lawless-corporate-toady-trump-explodes/
Despite Iowa Caucus Fiasco, Nevada Democrats Plan to Use New Software "Tool"
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-10
Though the fallout from the Iowa Caucus is still fresh, it appears that the technology-driven chaos and corruption seen in Iowa have not served as a warning to the Nevada Democratic Party.
mintpressnews.com/nevada-democrats-caucus-new-software-despite-iowa-app-problems/264777/
Chinese Slams "Racist" Reports by German Media over Coronavirus
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
"Epidemic outbreaks must not be used as an excuse for discrimination and xenophobia, and press freedom must not become a reason for creating a racist opinion in German society," said the Chinese embassy in Germany in a statement. | *** | The …
globalresearch.ca/chinese-slams-racist-reports-german-media-over-coronavirus/5703248
The Geopolitical Deployment of Biological Weapons
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
It should be apparent that the launching of bio-warfare, as with conventional warfare, is considerably eased by locating military bases, offensive weapons and delivery systems as physically close as possible to one's potential enemies. This is one reason the US …
globalresearch.ca/the-geopolitical-deployment-of-biological-weapons/5703005
NATO "Preparations" for Attack on Russia. Operation Barbarossa II: Setting the Stage for War
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
I have written several times about the continuing NATO preparations for an attack on Russia, a second Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. Circumstances prompt me to write about it again, for …
globalresearch.ca/operation-barbarossa-ii-setting-stage-war/5703197
The American Empire Mistakenly Believes the Shale Oil-Gas Revolution Will Continue Until 2050 and Beyond
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The Trump regime never tires of trumpeting the myth of American 'energy independence'. The foreign policy establishment in Washington sees America's emergence as the worlds largest oil exporter as giving a huge boost to the achievement of U.S. geo-political goals. …
globalresearch.ca/american-empire-mistakenly-believes-shale-revolution-continue-until-2050-beyond/5703191
Being a Democrat–Ugh
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Notwithstanding the impotent Senate Minority. Not those ill-fated bills championed as victories by House Democrats only to be spurned by the upper chamber; not smug, elitist party fundraisers; not funding strategists and millionaire celebrity donors; not even bumbling Iowa Democratic …
globalresearch.ca/being-democrat/5703227
Israel Charged with War Crimes and Genocide. Complete 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The Tribunal deplores the failure of international institutions to punish the State of Israel for its crimes and its total lack of respect of International Law and the institutions of the United Nations.
globalresearch.ca/israel-charged-with-war-crimes-and-genocide-complete-judgment-of-kl-tribunal/5359433
Brazilian Government Wants to Destroy the Culture of Native Peoples
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Recently, Brazilian government appointed Ricardo Lopes Dias to the position of coordinator of isolated peoples at the National Indian Foundation (Fundaàßà£o Nacional do Ândio
In Oman the Old Monarch Passed Away, but the New One Will Guarantee Continuity
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The Sultan of Oman
German Ruling Class Commemorates Liberation of Auschwitz by Planning New Wars and New Crimes
Johannes Stern | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
On Wednesday, a neo-fascist party helped form a regional government in Germany for the first time since the end of Nazi rule. | Despite the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) receiving just five percent of the vote in the regional election …
globalresearch.ca/german-ruling-class-commemorates-liberation-auschwitz-planning-new-wars-new-crimes/5703234
Coronavirus Is Becoming a Western Excuse for Sinophobia and "China-Bashing"
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Coronavirus is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest epidemic tragedies of our times. Hundreds of dead people and thousands of ill ones are the proof of it. For any person with good faith and interested in the well-being of people, it …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-western-excuse-sinophobia/5703277
The "Low-yield" Nuclear Warhead: A Dangerous Weapon Based on Bad Strategic Thinking
Andrew Facini | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
In the unintuitive world of nuclear weapons strategy, it's often difficult to identify which decisions can serve to decrease the risk of a devastating nuclear conflict and which might instead increase it. Such complexity stems from the very foundation of …
globalresearch.ca/low-yield-nuclear-warhead-dangerous-weapon-based-bad-strategic-thinking/5703212
Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-yield Nukes on Submarines to Counter Made-up Russian 'Strategy'
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The US has deployed "low-yield" nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it's to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a "Russian strategy" made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer. | In a statement released | …
globalresearch.ca/step-nuclear-doomsday-us-puts-low-yield-nukes-submarines-counter-made-up-russian-strategy/5703215
Trump Administration's EPA's New Shameful Tactic: Avoid People Poisoned by Coal Ash
Anita Desikan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Imagine you live next to a coal-fired power plant. Near the power plant, you may have seen heavy machinery dumping loads of greyish substance into an open pit or a pond. You learn that the greyish stuff is called coal …
globalresearch.ca/epa-new-shameful-tactic-avoid-people-poisoned-coal-ash/5703199
9/11 Analysis: Carbon Nanotubes in World Trade Center Dust
Kevin Ryan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
At the Toronto Hearings in 2011, Professor Niels Harrit described a new discovery related to the World Trade Center (WTC) dust. That new discovery was the presence of carbon nanotubes in the residues of nanothermite ignition. The importance of these …
globalresearch.ca/carbon-nanotubes-wtc-dust/5703240
From Pétain to Macron, from the Resistance to the Yellow Vests…: 1944-1945, France's Fake Purge of "The Collaborators"
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
In her most recent book, La Non-épuration en France de 1943 aux années 1950 ("France's Non-Purge from 1943 to the 1950s"), historian Annie Lacroix-Riz challenges a view of the Liberation of the country in 1944-1945
Hassan Diab Files Civil Claim Regarding His Extradition
Hassan Diab Support Committee | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
On Friday February 7, Hassan Diab's civil lawyer filed a statement of claim in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice regarding Hassan's extradition in 2014. At a press conference that day, Hassan stated: | "Since my release in 2018, we have | …
globalresearch.ca/hassan-diab-files-civil-claim-regarding-extradition/5703236
Iowa: Where The Democrats' DNC Dreams Go to Die. Bernie, The "Trumpian Front Runner"
Brett Redmayne-Titley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
After months of the DNC's daily water boarding of the American public with their manufactured jurisprudence know as The Impeachment, these same political wizards of electioneering have in one day, Monday, galvanized the person they most detest. This week's political …
globalresearch.ca/iowa-where-dnc-dreams-go-die/5703243
It's No Big Deal that There Are Some Limits to Russia-Israel "Cooperation" in Syria
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Russia's condemnation of the "Israeli Air Force's" recklessness in once again hiding behind a civilian aircraft to deter anti-air fire by the Syrian Arab Army during their latest bombing operation against Damascus isn't contradictory to the principles of the unofficial …
globalresearch.ca/no-big-deal-some-limits-russian-israeli-co-op-syria/5703255
World War III's Newest Battlefield: U.S. Troops Head for the Far North
Michael T. Klare | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
In early March, an estimated 7,500 American combat troops will travel to Norway to join thousands of soldiers from other NATO countries in a massive mock battle with imagined invading forces from Russia. In this futuristic simulated engagement
Gas Wars in the Mediterranean
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The unexpected alliance between Turkey and Libya is a geopolitical earthquake that changes the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean and across the Middle East. Turkey's audacious move has enraged its rivals in the region and cleared the way …
globalresearch.ca/gas-wars-mediterranean/5703184
Lindsey Graham Seems Willing to Degrade Every US Institution to Keep Trump Happy
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told Fox News' Brian Kilmeade last week "When I go to meet God at the pearly gates, I don't think he's going to ask me, 'Why didn't you convict Trump?'" He may be right about that, but only because he's likely to first be asked to explain what he did afterward. Graham has become Trump's instrument of revenge in the Senate, and he isn't making any bones about it. | Appearing on Judge Jeanine Pirro's Fox News show on Saturday night, Graham made it clear…
truthout.org/articles/lindsey-graham-seems-willing-to-degrade-every-us-institution-to-keep-trump-happy/
Brazilians Mobilize to Clean Up Massive Oil Spill and End the Fossil Fuel Era
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-10
A major oil spill, coming from a mysterious source in the South Atlantic Ocean, has been contaminating Brazil's coastline since Aug. 30. The oil has already reached a 1,500-mile stretch of the coast across 11 Brazilian states. It's contaminated beaches, coral reefs, estuaries, mangroves, and at least 14 nature conservation areas. And it has been impacting the health of traditional coastal communities, including the liv…
truthout.org/articles/brazilians-mobilize-to-clean-up-massive-oil-spill-and-end-the-fossil-fuel-era/