January 25, 2020
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Brazil Aims to Criminalize Glenn Greenwald’s Journalism
New York Times: “Federal prosecutors in Brazil have brought charges against US journalist Glenn Greenwald for reporting on leaked cellphone messages showing widespread corruption of Brazilian public officials. Greenwald is accused of being part of a “criminal organization” that hacked into the cellphones of several prosecutors and other officials to obtain the messages.” Continue reading
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Iraq: Associated Press Sees “Hundreds” Where Pictures Show Millions
At 10:01 UTC today the Associated Press tweeted that “hundreds” gather in central Baghdad to demand that American troops leave the country. Thirty eight minutes earlier CNN had already reported that “hundreds of thousands” are protesting in Baghdad against the U.S. troop presence in Iraq. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 23-25 January 2020
25 January 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Belmarsh Prison Inmates Prove More Ethical Than Entire Western Empire https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/25/belmarsh-prison-inmates-prove-more-ethical-than-entire-western-empire/ Exclusive: In-depth Interview with Investigative Journalist Stefania Maurizi on Assange Countdown to Freedom Continue reading
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Iran News Links 24-25 January 2020
25 January 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back The Troubling Decline of International Law https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/25/the-troubling-decline-of-international-law/ Zarif: person who downed Ukrainian airliner by mistake is in prison https://tass.com/world/1112935 Continue reading
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Coronavirus Update: Following the money 25 January 2020
Most of the mainstream media are doing that, saying the number of countries rather than the number of people. I suppose because it carries the implication that, somehow, everyone in all those 11 countries is under some kind of imminent threat. Continue reading
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Split Hearings: The Assange Extradition Case Drags On
It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the year, dragged out, ironically enough, by the prosecution. Curiously, this is a point that both the prosecutors, fronted by… Continue reading
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US plotting return of ‘strongman’ in Iraq By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The departure of the former Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani is beginning to be felt in Iraq. The two meetings that the US President Donald Trump had with the leader of Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani and the president of Iraq Barhem Saleh in Switzerland on Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic… Continue reading
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5G News Links 25 January 2020
25 January 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back January 25 is Stop 5G Global Protest Day! 240 Events in 36 Countries! Find Out Where You Can Participate http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/S-oEyRv9VvA/january-25-is-stop-5g-global-protest-day-240-events-in-36-countries-find-out-where-you-can-participate.html Continue reading
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2020 is hot, and it’s going to get much hotter
(London: January 24, 2020) The year is less than four weeks old, but scientists already know that carbon dioxide emissions will continue to head upwards – as they have every year since measurements began – leading to a continuation of the Earth’s rising heat. And they warn that the rise will be steeper than usual, partly because… Continue reading
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The NHS is opening up to US business – the reassurances are demonstrably false
British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry. Continue reading
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OPCW Investigator Testifies at UN That No Chemical Attack Took Place in Douma, Syria
A former lead investigator from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has spoken out at the United Nations, stating in no uncertain terms that the scientific evidence suggests there was no gas attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Continue reading
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