17 January 2020 — See You in 2020
Rainer Shea

16 January 2020 — Moon of Alabama
The European poodles who co-signed the nuclear deal with Iran – Britain, France and Germany (the EU3) – have been told by the Trump administration to kill the agreement. Today they started the process to do so. The other co-signers, Russia, China and Iran, continue to support the deal.
17 January 2020 — Off Guardian
The simple response of course is to blame it all on Corbyn. Let’s face it, no more comprehensive bogeyman has ever been offered to the British electorate.
16 January 2020 — Information Clearing House
By F. William Engdahl
We are clearly in for some very nasty trouble in the Middle East. – Continue
16 January 2020 — Asia Times

By Pepe Escobar
The Raging Twenties started with a bang with the targeted assassination of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani.
16 January 2020 — Tri-Continental

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.
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/
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.
16 January 2020 — Off Guardian

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.
15 January 2020 — Global Research
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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14 January 2020 — Caitlin Johnson

The New York Times reports that GRU operatives launched a successful “phishing attack” on the Ukrainian gas company at the heart of scandalous allegations about Joe Biden, and establishment pundits are falling all over themselves to tweet the hottest take on this exciting new Russia conspiracy.
15 January 2020 • 17:30 — The New Dark Age
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Britain, France and Germany (E3) Trigger JCPOA Dispute Mechanism, a Hostile Action Against Iran
https://www.globalresearch.ca/e3-nations-trigger-jcpoa-dispute-mechanism-iran/5700677
Persian Peril: The Assassination of Qasem Soleimani and the Prospect of War with Iran
https://www.globalresearch.ca/persian-peril-the-assassination-of-qasem-soleimani-and-the-prospect-of-war-with-iran/5700626
13 January 2020 — Information Clearing House
By Philip Giraldi
The United States did things based on a delusional view of the Middle East and will have to pay a price. – Continue
14 January 2020 • 19:30 — The New Dark Age
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How Come the “War Party” Always Wins?
https://journal-neo.org/2020/01/14/how-come-the-war-party-always-wins/
A US thinktank eager for war on Iran has been throwing money at Boris Johnson’s cabinet
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/Qiyj_2MfXwA/
14 January 2020 — True Publica

In November 2017, landmark research found that approximately 120,000 people had died as a direct result of the Conservative party policy of driving austerity in what has since become an era now associated with what some have branded ‘economic murder.’ And even today the number of deaths is calculated to reach 200,000 by the end of this year. This is a national catastrophe and demonstrates the sheer heartlessness of a particular political doctrine and its ultimate measure of failure.
14 January 2020 — Michael Roberts Blog
Recently, the Levy Institute, the think-tank centre for post-Keynesian economics (and in particular the theories of Hyman Minsky, the radical Keynesian economist of the 1980s), published a short video that that shows Minsky explaining his theory of crises under capitalism in his own words at an event in Colombia, November 1987. It is a very clear account of his theory of crises based on ‘financial fragility’’.
14 January 2020 — Moon of Alabama
The Trump administration has given various justification for its assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani and commander Abu Mahdi al Muhandis. It claimed that there was an ‘imminent threat’ of an incident, even while not knowing what, where or when it would happen, that made the assassination necessary. Trump later said the thread was a planned bombing of four U.S. embassies. His defense secretary denied that.
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13 January 2020 — New Frame
By Anna Majavu
In 2012, the United Nations published research suggesting that by 2016, the main aquifer supplying water to about two million Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip would be “unusable” and that by 2020, the aquifer would have been damaged irreversibly. This would make Gaza uninhabitable by 2020.
13 January 2020 — Global Research
How much longer are we accepting the tyrannical dictate of the American rulers? It gets worse by the day – and it looks like the western world’s “leaders” (sic – so sic!) are caving in ever more to the American killing machine – the European Union – and all its members heads of state, and all the Zion-Anglosaxons and Japan – no one dares standing up and shouting “NO!” – no more of your hegemonic atrocities! – But they all bend over backwards to please a criminal empire, run like the Barbarians.
13 January 2020 — Climate & Capitalism
CSR is a public relations framework that lets corporations greenwash their public images, pretending to change so that everything can remain the sameThe Great Transition Initiative is an online discussion forum that allows in-depth discussion of environmental ideas. Rather than brief comments, participants submit detailed responses to controversial essays. The comments reflect a wide range of political opinion, in search of “a new praxis for global transformation.”