US Policy Vs. Iran: Apex Desperation

12 February 2020 — Land Destroyer

February 5, 2020 (Tony Cartalucci – NEO) – US policy versus Iran has reached new heights of desperation and new lows in terms of undermining international law and norms.

In Washington’s losing battle to maintain hegemony in the Middle East at the expense of the actual people and nations that exist there – it has resorted to high-level assassinations, unilateral strikes against targets within sovereign nations against the expressed will of the governments presiding over them, all while exposing what appears to be growing American military, political, and economic impotence.

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United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture on the Julian Assange Case

12 February 2020 — TRNN

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In this speech, Nils Melzer, a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Professor of international law at the University of Glasgow, talks about the case of Julian Assange. This speech was recorded on the 4th of February, 2020 at the Royal National Hotel in London in a public rally organized by the Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign.

Iran News Links 6-12 February 2020

12 February 2020• 18:00 — The New Dark Age

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“Mobbed up” American Policy, the Global Shakedown
https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/12/mobbed-up-american-policy-the-global-shakedown/

How The 1979 Revolution Reshaped Iran as well as Saudi Arabia
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-1979-reshaped-iran-saudi-arabia/5703483

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US Regime Change in Venezuela: The Documented Evidence

12 February 2020 — Global Research

First published on January 25, 2019:
The Latin American nation of Venezuela faces dangerous destabilization with the United States and its allies having recognized opposition figure Juan Guaido as “president” and declaring actual Venezuelan president – Nicolas Maduro – no longer recognized.

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Cuba in the Struggle Against Coronavirus Epidemic

8 February 2020 — Internationalist 360°

Cuba’s biotechnological industry developed the antiviral recombinant Interferon alpha 2B (IFNrec) to combat viral infections affecting patients with HIV, hepatitis B and C,recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, condyloma acuminatum, as well as various types of cancer. Now, China’s National Health Commission selected IFNrec to fight the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, which appeared in the city of Wuhan at the end of last year and as of Friday had left 722 deaths and more than 34 thousand people infected.

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Syria News Links 7-12 February 2020

12 February 2020 — The New Dark Age

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Press review: Turkey may be using proxies in Syria and Russian envoy chides US visa policy
https://tass.com/pressreview/1119129

Erdogan claims at least 14 Turkish servicemen dead during shelling in Syria’s Idlib
https://tass.com/world/1119161

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Julian Assange News Links 7-12 February 2020

12 February 2020 — The New Dark Age

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Rank-and-file teachers in Sydney adopt resolution defending Assange and Manning
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/12/nswt-f12.html

Britain’s Got A Supreme Court Scandal: NEW Damning Emails Show UK Corruption In The Case Against Julian Assange
https://popularresistance.org/britains-got-a-supreme-court-scandal-new-damning-emails-show-uk-corruption-in-the-case-against-julian-assange/

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Syria Imposes the Astana Deal by Force, as Turkish-Russian Tensions Rise

12 February 2020 — American Herald Tribune

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Since 2012 the M5 Damascus-Aleppo had been under the control of jihadist forces. The Syrian Army has now liberated the M5 Damascus-Aleppo road and over 140 cities, villages and strategic hills. Turkey and the Uzbeks, Uighurs and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra) failed to protect their fortified positions, abandoning them and retreating towards the area surrounding Idlib.

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Exclusive: New leaks shatter OPCW’s attacks on Douma whistleblowers

11 February 2020 — Grayzone

Facing accusations that it issued a doctored report alleging a chemical attack in Syria, the OPCW has released an inquiry attacking two whistleblowers as rogue actors. Leaked documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal serious distortions in the OPCW inquiry as well as a campaign of intimidation against internal dissenters.

By Aaron Maté

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