4 February 2020 — Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye– 4 February 2020
The Trump “Vision for Peace” will never be implemented – and not because the Palestinians reject it. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s enthusiastic public embrace of the plan belies the fact that the Israeli right detest it too.
4 February 2020 — The New Dark Age
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The US is going to the Cyber-mattresses
https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/04/the-us-is-going-to-the-cyber-mattresses/
Nazi collabo families and racist propaganda in the New York Times
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/02/04/nazi-collabo-families-and-racist-propaganda-in-the-new-york-times/
3 February 2020 — Economics of Imperialism
4 February 2020 — Statewatch
Also available as a pdf file: http://statewatch.org/news/2020/feb/email-4-2-20.pdf
STATEWATCH ANALYSES
1. Italy guilty of refoulements in 2009 handover of Eritrean shipwreck survivors to Libya
2 : Germany: Shadow army or isolated cases? Right-wing structures in the security authorities
31 January 2019 — Mint Press
The statement was immediately met with scorn from those who felt it was another example of Soviet erasure and an insult to the enormous sacrifice the Soviet Union made to defeat fascism in Europe.
4 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report
BAR senior columnist Margaret Kimberley will discuss her new book, Prejudential, at NYC’s People’s Forum, on Tuesday at 6:30 pm. She spoke earlier with David Swanson’s Talk Nation radio show.
Source: https://www.blackagendareport.com/all-us-presidents-are-criminals
3 February 2020 — Consortium News
This is a trial of the First Amendment as a foundation of our society and it calls for popular participation, writes Nozomi Hayase.
3 February 2020 — The Grayzone
Before the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Israel played a key and overlooked role in the Trump administration’s aggression campaign against Iran.
As the Trump administration’s stated rationale for killing Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis collapses, journalist Gareth Porter has pieced together the overlooked background. Porter reports that the assassination was in fact the culmination of a lengthy provocation campaign involving Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and the Israeli government, which carried out a number of under-reported bombings inside Iraq and Syria in the months prior.
29 January 2020 — True Publica
Irrespective of anyone’s political affiliation – the mainstream media has a responsibility to hold power to account, not facilitate wannabe authoritarians into Downing Street. Don’t forget these are the words from the London School of Economics, founded in 1895 for the betterment of society. Despite its name, the school is organised into 25 academic departments and institutes which conduct teaching and research across a range of pure and applied social sciences – and what its research finds from the last election about the mainstream media is truly alarming.
29 January 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
The signers reveal themselves to be as fearful for the fate of the duopoly as the corporate shills they claim to oppose.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Chicago’s Bobby Rush and San Francisco’s London Breed have sold themselves to super-plutocrat Michael Bloomberg, the worst stop-and-frisker in history.
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7 October, 2019 — Tri-Continental
Since 1996, activists in Xolobeni, a coastal region in South Africa, have been fighting a foreign mining conglomerate that learned that their ancestral lands happen to be rich in titanium. The anti-mining activists of Xolobeni, who have lost many comrades to hit squads, continue to struggle against this foreign company and its partners in the South African government. Given that their land is located in a global biodiversity hotspot, their struggle is the struggle of us all: it is the fight for water, soil, food, and air.
2 February 2020 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age
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Iran offers $80,000 to families of each Ukrainian killed in plane crash – Zelensky
https://tass.com/world/1115527
Iran to unveil new generation centrifuges in April – official
https://tass.com/world/1115503
2 February 2020 — Novara Media
One of the most striking things about periods of profound political upheaval is the inconsistency. The Corbyn moment, which has (for the moment at least) transformed both Labour and the political perspectives of the left as a whole, is no different.
1 February 2020 — Defend Wikileaks
On 30 January 2020, at the National Press Club’s First Amendment Lounge in Washington D.C., a panel of experts discussed the Trump Administration’s indictment of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and the impact Assange’s extradition and prosecution could have on the freedom of the press.
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1February 2020 — Tim Hayward
Wednesday 22nd January 2020, 3-5 pm
1 February 2020 — Moon of Alabama
There are first signs that the novel Cor[on]avirus (nCorV19) epidemic will come to an end within a month or so. An analysis from the Chinese media house Caixin provides the newest numbers (machine translated):
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1 February 2020 — The Electronic Intifada
US media have treated Trump’s launch of his Middle East “peace” plan as a sideshow to impeachment hearings in Washington.
But the plan, if imposed on the Palestinians by Israel, which worked with the Trump administration to develop it, would violate the rights of millions of people.
20 January 2020 — Anti-Empire
This is now the fourth time this has happened that we know of. US troops in northeastern Syria keep blockading the M4 highway to prevent Russian troops from moving on it.
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