16 January 2020 — Information Clearing House
Unintended Consequences: Did Trump Just Give the Middle East to China and Russia?
By F. William Engdahl
We are clearly in for some very nasty trouble in the Middle East. – Continue
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Day: January 16, 2020
Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration
16 January 2020 — Asia Times
Iranian seamen salute the Russian Navy frigate Yaroslav Mudry while moored at Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman during Iran-Russia-China joint naval drills. The photo was provided by the Iranian Army office on December 27, 2019. Photo: AFP / HO / Iranian Army office
Coming decade could see the US take on Russia, China and Iran over the New Silk Road connection
By Pepe Escobar
The Raging Twenties started with a bang with the targeted assassination of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani.
Your Arrow Can Pierce the Sky, But Ours Has Gone into Orbit: The Third Newsletter (2020)
16 January 2020 — Tri-Continental
Yu Youhan, We Will Be Better, 1995.
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On Wednesday, 15 January, China and the United States agreed to suspend their full-scale trade war. From February 2018, the United States placed tariffs on Chinese goods that entered the US market, and then China retaliated. This tit-for-tat game continued for almost two years, causing massive disruption in the global value chain. In October 2019, the International Monetary Fund’s G-20 Surveillance Note reported that the global GDP suffered by a 0.8% drop merely because of the tariffs on goods such as aluminium, steel, soybeans, and car parts between the United States and China. Western attacks on Chinese 5G technology – and on the tech firm Huawei – are part of the pressure on China to buckle before the US-led order. But China did not bend. As a prelude to the ‘phase one’ deal, the United State Treasury Department stopped calling China a ‘currency manipulator’, a term that has haunted China’s for decades.
Iran News Links 15-16 January 2020
16 January 2020 • 14:30 — The New Dark Age
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US War of Terror Continues: Assassinating Iran’s Top Anti-ISIS General
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2020/01/us-war-of-terror-continues.html
US to Iraq: ‘Vote All You Want, We’re Not Leaving!’
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/16/us-to-iraq-vote-all-you-want-were-not-leaving/
An Animated John Coltrane Explains His True Reason for Being: “I Want to Be a Force for Real Good”
12 May 2015 — Open Culture
Last week, we posted an interview with the late, great Ray Bradbury that was brilliantly animated by the folks over at Blank on Blank. This week, they unveil a new piece featuring John Coltrane. You can watch it above.
Short of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court
16 January 2020 — Off Guardian
By Binoy Kampmark
Sputnik Photo: Justin Griffiths-Williams/Sputnik/dpa |
London.
Another slot of judicial history, another notch to be added to the woeful record of legal proceedings being undertaken against Julian Assange. The ailing WikiLeaks founder was coping as well as he could, showing the resourcefulness of the desperate at his Monday hearing.
Permanent War and Poverty or Widespread Truth Awareness: selected Articles
15 January 2020 — Global Research
Trump Prosecutors Make Move to Ensure that Embassy Protectors Are Convicted
By Kevin Zeese, Ajamu Baraka, and Bahman Azad
As the trial approaches, the lawyers for the Trump Administration’s prosecution of the four Venezuelan Embassy Protectors who were arrested last May are asking the court to make sure the jury is kept ignorant about the facts and circumstances surrounding the actions of the protectors.
In a recently filed motion by government lawyers, state prosecutors are seeking to severely restrict what can be discussed during the trial scheduled for February 11, 2020. Judge Beryl Howell will hear arguments on the motion at the pre-trial hearing on January 29. Read more…
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