(2020-01-26). German police probe sale of 'Nazi beer' bearing Third Reich symbols. rt.com 
Police in Germany have launched an investigation after beer branded with Nazi-era symbolism was discovered on sale. The inflammatory alcohol was priced at an eyebrow-raising ‚Ǩ18.88. | The probe was opened after conservative politician Gotz Ulrich spotted the 'Deutsches Reichsbräu' (German Reich Brew) on sale in the small town of Bad Bibra in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. The drink's label features a Nazi-esque eagle clutching a flared cross. | www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=26679580… | Ulrich said he was ashamed to see the pr…
(2020-01-26). 'Every 2nd Jew in Germany wishes to leave': Berlin to seek EU-wide criminalization of Holocaust denial. rt.com 
Jews in Germany feel threatened to such an extent that almost half have thought about emigration, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said, demanding a harsher response to anti-Semitism, not only in his country but across the EU as well. | Jews in Germany are "openly attacked" on the streets and face threats and abuse online on a daily basis, the minister wrote, in a guest
(2020-01-26). Trump's Threat to Dispossess Four Million Palestinians by Violent Annexation of East Jerusalem and West Bank. globalresearch.ca 50 million Christian Zionists, including US VP Mike Pence, have succeeded in persuading a gullible Donald Trump to propose the forced annexation of Palestinian East Jerusalem and the West Bank by hard-line extremist Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, …
(2020-01-26). Israeli Detained in Russia for Drug Trafficking Pleads Pardon From President Putin. sputniknews.com Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously filed a plea for mercy from the Russian head of state to release the Israeli citizen. Putin, who has met with the mother of the detained woman, has stated that "everything is going to be fine".
(2020-01-26). Is the New James Bond Film Just More Neoliberal Hype? truthout.org Yet another James Bond sequel, No Time to Die, is scheduled for release in April 2020, and a major marketing rollout is now trying to build a frenzy of anticipation for the hugely popular and highly profitable spy thriller series. | In the context of the neoliberal world we now live in, we should consider some of the important and very relevant political messages the high-styling, mythological British superspy promotes. | The James Bond phenomenon originated in the mid-1950s when resistance to racism, homophobia, se…
(2020-01-26). Trump/Pence #OutNOW: No War on Iran! No War on Women! indybay.org Bring #OUTNOW into mass protests against U.S. war on Iran — join up with the Refuse Fascism contingent for Saturday's Global Day of Protest. | We will STAY in the streets into the afternoon, to protest this year's Christian fundamentalist "Walk for Life" attack on women's abortion rights.
(2020-01-26). Trump/Pence #OutNow Mass Organizing Meeting. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist Center | 1187 Franklin Street | San Francisco…
(2020-01-26). Store Selling 'Nazi Beer' Comes Under Police Investigation in Eastern Germany. sputniknews.com The investigators from the neighbouring state of Thuringia, where the sale of the controversial beer was launched, said that they did not find any legal violation with regard to the brand.
(2020-01-26). Concentration camp survivor turns 100 on Holocaust Remembrance Day. thecanary.co For Marija Frlan, it's as symbolic as it can get: A survivor of a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War, the Slovenian woman turns 100 years old on Monday, the international Holocaust Remembrance Day.Frlan, who was held at the Nazis' Ravensbruck camp in northern Germany for more than a year in 1944-45, will join other survivors and officials in Poland on Monday for ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.Ahead of the ceremonies, Frlan told the Associated Press that one could talk at length about what it was like in the Ravensbruck camp, but that only tho…
(2020-01-26). Gaza: The Auschwitz of our Time. globalresearch.ca International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Commemoration of the Liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 2020 | *** | First published in August 2007 | In 1940, several months after invading Poland in September 1939, the Nazis forced about 500,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto, …
(2020-01-26). How the US Supreme Court Forever Sold Its Gavel: Behind the Scenes Legal Machinations. globalresearch.ca "Essentially, five Justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to allow themselves to change the law." — Former US Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens | This week almost all media …
(2020-01-26). We Need Candidates Who Will Fight to Get Money Out of Politics. zcomm.org In the decade since this disastrous Supreme Court ruling, just 11 wealthy people have made 20 percent of super PAC donations…
(2020-01-26). Israel approves travel to Saudi under limited circumstances. yenisafak.com Israel on Sunday announced that it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time, under certain conditions.Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, after consulting with the country's security establishment, issued a statement saying that Israelis would be allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia under two circumstanceS: for religions reasons on pilgrimage on the haj, or for up to nine days for business reasons such as investment or meetings.Travelers would still need permission from the Saudi authorities, the statement said.
(2020-01-25). 'Once in a lifetime opportunity for Israel': Netanyahu to join Trump — but no Palestinians — to unveil 'deal of the century'. rt.com 
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz are to meet US President Donald Trump to finally unveil the 'deal of the century' peace plan. No Palestinian representative was invited, and a sovereign state looks unlikely. | "An opportunity like this comes once in history and cannot be missed," Netanyahu gushed as he accepted Trump's invitation to the White House on Saturday, praising the American as "the greatest friend that Israel has ever had." He boasted he would be "leaving for Washington with a sense of great mission, great responsibility and great opportunity — which will not recur — t…
(2020-01-25). Israeli Air Force strikes multiple targets in Gaza in response to 'explosive balloons'. rt.com 
Israel has carried out a series of airstrikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for multiple explosive and incendiary balloons launched from the enclave over the past few weeks. | The targets included an alleged "weapons production site and a military compound," the IAF said amid reports of explosions in the central Gaza Strip, as well as near Khan Younis in the south. There were no immediate reports of casualties. | We just struck Hamas targets in
(2020-01-25). Human Rights Commission Calls Killing of Three Palestinian Teens a War Crime. imemc.org Palestinian human rights activist accused the Israeli occupation of executing three Palestinian children east of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday evening, in cold blood, calling it a war crime, Alray reported. The head of the International Commission for the Support of the Rights of the Palestinian People "Hashd", Salah Abdel-Ati, …
(2020-01-25). How Israel Exploits the Holocaust to Justify War Crimes Against Palestinians. counterpunch.org …
(2020-01-25). Palestinian Boy Allegedly Kidnapped by Settlers, Found Dead. telesurenglish.net An eight-year-old Palestinian boy who went missing in East Jerusalem Friday afternoon was found dead at the bottom of a cistern filled with rainwater after long hours of search efforts Saturday. | RELATED: | Qais Abu Rmaileh was found in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina and was immediately taken to Hadassah hospital, where lifesaving attempts were unsuccessful. | The Jerusalem Post cited Israel…
(2020-01-25). Israel Carries Out New Airstrikes Against Southern Gaza. telesurenglish.net The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed they launched a series of airstrikes striking a number of targets in eastern Khanyounes in the southern Gaza Strip Saturday night. | RELATED: | According to the IDF, the targets included a weapon-manufacturing depot and a military post operated by Hamas; in retaliation to alleged multiple explosive and incendiary balloons launched from the besieged territory over the past few weeks. | Hamas has not issued any…
(2020-01-25). Israeli Authorities Ban the Imam of the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Four Months. imemc.org On Saturday at 2: 00 am, Israeli forces hammered on the door of the head of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, while he was sleeping. When he woke, the troops handed him a notice that he would be banned from entering the mosque that he heads for a …
(2020-01-25). Bush Grandpa's Ties to Nazis Clearer on 75th Auschwitz Memorial. globalresearch.ca International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Commemorating the Liberation of Auschwitz (January 27th, 2020) | . | "The Friends of Zion Award' in Jerusalem was presented to president Vladimir Putin on behalf of the Russian Federation, for the role played by the Soviet Union …
(2020-01-25). Fascistic New Zealand soldier charged with disclosing military information. wsws.org The soldier was a leading member of the Dominion Movement, which espoused the same fascist ideology as the Christchurch terrorist who killed 51 people in March 2019.
(2020-01-25). 'Greed Brought the Brumadinho Dam Tragedy in Brazil' Lula Says. telesurenglish.net A year after the breakdown of the Brumadinho dam in Minas Gerais, Brazilians sadly remember 272 people who were victims of the negligence of the mining company Vale SA. | RELATED: | "A year of Brumadinho's crime… When people only think of profits, they allow genocides like what happened in Brumadinho," former President Lula da Silva said and sent his solidarity with all the families who are still suffering the pai…
(2020-01-24). When will the Winter come to an end? mronline.org 
On 17 January, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led the Friday prayers for the first time in eight years. He mocked the 'American clowns' who threatened Iran and said that Iran's response to the U.S. assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani was a 'slap in the face' of U.S. power. |
(2020-01-24). International Court of Justice Orders Burmese Authorities to Protect Rohingya Muslims from Genocide. democracynow.org 
In a major ruling, the U.N. International Court of Justice at The Hague has ordered Burma to "take all measures within its power" to protect Rohingya Muslims from genocide. The court issued the ruling Thursday, calling the 600,000 Rohingya remaining in Burma, also known as Myanmar, "extremely vulnerable" to military violence. The court ordered Burma to report regularly to the tribunal about its progress. The ruling is a sharp rebuke of Burma's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who last month asked the court to drop the genocide case against Burma. Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent over a decade figh…
(2020-01-24). Could Bernie Sanders, like Jeremy Corbyn, be accused of anti-Semitism? peoplesworld.org 
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(2020-01-24). Israeli Soldiers Injure Three In Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured two Palestinians and one Israeli peace activist. Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, said the soldiers surrounded the …
(2020-01-24). Soldiers Injure Two Palestinians, Attack Worshipers, In Al-Aqsa Mosque. imemc.org Israeli soldiers shot, on Friday at dawn, a young Palestinian man and a woman with rubber-coated steel bullets, and assaulted many others with clubs and batons, following dawn prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers assaulted dozens of worshipers, and fired rubber-coated steel …
(2020-01-24). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Thirteen Palestinians In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, at least thirteen Palestinians, including one woman and two journalists, from their homes in several parts of occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in several parts of Jerusalem, including the Old City, and Beit Hanina town. …
(2020-01-24). Illegal Israeli Colonists Burn A Mosque In Jerusalem. imemc.org Illegal Israeli colonists, squatting on stolen Palestinian lands, burnt sections of a mosque in Sharafat Palestinian village, southwest of occupied East Jerusalem, after infiltrating into the village at dawn. An eyewitness told the Palestinian Maan News Agency that, as he and around forty other Palestinians, headed to the mosque for …
(2020-01-24). Trump's "No-Peace/Peace Plan" for Palestine. Netanyahu/Gantz Invited to White House to Discuss "Deal of the Century" globalresearch.ca Leaked information shows Trump's so-called deal of the century is a one-sided scam, favoring Israel at the expense of fundamental Palestinian rights. | The so-called peace process is the greatest hoax in modern times, along with the US war OF terror …
(2020-01-24). Jordan Denounces Israeli Attack On Worshiper In Al-Aqsa Mosque. imemc.org The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly denounced the Friday dawn Israeli attack against Palestinian Muslim worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. The Ministry said that the invasion into the courtyards of the holy sites, and the violent assault against the worshipers, is another serious Israeli violation …
(2020-01-24). Israel Accused of Flooding Khan Younis. imemc.org The municipality of Khan Younis City, in southern Gaza, has accused the Israeli occupation authority of intentionally releasing collected rainwater from dams in the east and swamping many areas of the city, especially Salahuddin Street. Days of Palestine reports that Mohamed al-Asttal, head of the municipality's emergency committee, said on …
(2020-01-24). PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (16 — 22 January 2020). imemc.org Summary This week, PCHR documented 183 violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law (IHL) by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory. They were as follows: In terms of the IOF shooting and excessive use of force, IOF targeted 3 youngsters, …
(2020-01-24). In the Name of "Israel's Security": Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding. counterpunch.org Billions of US tax-payers' money will continue to be funneled into Israel in the next fiscal year, and for many years in the foreseeable future. Republican and Democratic Senators have recently achieved just that, passing a bill aimed at providing Israel with $3.3 billion in annual aid. The Bill, co-sponsored by Democratic Senator, Chris Coons
(2020-01-24). Headlines for January 24, 2020. democracynow.org Impeachment Managers Continue Opening Arguments in Trump's Senate Trial, 33 Million on Lockdown in Chinese Cities as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads, Hundreds of Thousands of Iraqis March to Demand U.S. Troop Withdrawal, Trump Invites Israeli Leaders to White House for "Peace Plan" Unveiling, Mexican Soldiers Attack Central American Migrant Caravan, Arresting 800, U.S. to Send Ambassador to Bolivia After Coup That Ousted Evo Morales, Puerto Rican Protesters Demand Ouster of Gov. Wanda Vázquez, SC Official Switches Presidential Endorsement from Biden to Sanders, National Archives Replaces Doctored Women's March Photo…
(2020-01-24). Pence, Netanyahu use Holocaust event in Israel to rail against Iran. wsws.org The slander of Iranian "anti-Semitism" and unfounded claims that Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons are propaganda to justify a steady buildup toward war.
(2020-01-24). Families in Disbelief After Israeli Army Kills Three Gaza Teens. theantimedia.com Israel says Mohammed, Salem and Mahmoud snuck into Israel and attacked the army – but their relatives reject this version of events.
(2020-01-24). Putin's Trip to 'Israel' Will be Remembered as an Important Part of His Legacy. globalresearch.ca Putin's trip to "Israel" on Thursday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a defining moment of his 20-year-long presidency and will forever be remembered as an important part of his legacy due to the extremely …
(2020-01-24). Bolsonaro: 'More and More the Indian Is a Human Being Like Us'. telesurenglish.net Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, once again displayed his racism Thursday. He defended that Indigenous communities should integrate with the rest of society and assessed that, increasingly, the Indian is "evolving" and becoming a "human being like us." | RELATED: | During a live broadcast on Facebook, Bolsonaro announced the creation of the Amazon Council, a structure created earlier this week to coordina…
(2020-01-24). Wing Chun Kung Fu Popular Among Palestinians. telesurenglish.net Over 40 students are learning RELATED: | The school has witnessed an increasing number of participants in the past few years. "I joined the school four years ago, in an attempt to control my hasty…
(2020-01-24). Scientists for Palestine Conference Hears Message of Palestinian Scholar, Political Prisoner Ubai Aboudi. imemc.org Hind Shraydeh protests for Ubai's release with their three children, Khaled, Ghassan and Basel. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network On the evening of 10 January, a packed hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted the third international conference of Scientists for Palestine, a global initiative working …
(2020-01-24). European Jewish Congress (EJC) Launches Campaign Against 'Antisemitism' (Aka Support for Palestinian Rights). globalresearch.ca The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has
(2020-01-24). Venezuelans celebrate one year of resistance to U.S. coup attempt. fightbacknews.org Caracas, Venezuela – On January 23, thousands marched in Caracas and listened to a fiery speech from President Maduro to mark two important historic events. In 1958, mass movements joined with patriotic forces in the military to bring down the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jímenez. This was the model of civic-military unity that President Hugo Chávez used in his vision of a Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Unfortunately for Venezuelans, the fall of the Jímenez dictatorship was a short-lived victory. The betrayal of this victory ushered in 40 years of violent repression of communists and other dissid…
(2020-01-24). Weekend Read: Utah joins effort to protect minors from dangers of conversion therapy. splcenter.org In the wake of Utah's statewide ban on conversion therapy for minors last week, SPLC attorneys Scott McCoy and Kate Kendell wrote an op-ed in The Salt Lake Tribune to remind readers of the damage the dangerous practice causes.
(2020-01-24). Isabel dos Santos and Africa's Lumpen-Bourgeoisie. counterpunch.org Thirty years ago, I was part of a Tecnica delegation that visited the African National Congress headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia. We were there to discuss the feasibility of a technical aid project for the ANC and the frontline states with Thabo Mbeki, the future president of post-apartheid South Africa. Back then, the term frontline referred
(2020-01-24). Yazidi genocide survivors call for US to stop Turkey bombing Sinjar. greenleft.org.au 
(2020-01-24). Selected Articles: Trump's "No-Peace/Peace Plan" for Palestine. globalresearch.ca 
By Leaked information shows Trump's so-called deal of the century is a one-sided scam, favoring…
(2020-01-24). Indigenous People in Brazil Vow to Defeat Bolsonaro After "Perverse" Attack Claiming Tribes Are Still "Evolving" Into Human Beings. commondreams.org Indigenous leaders in Brazil on Friday vowed to stop President Jair Bolsonaro's assault on their land and members of the country's 300 tribes, filing a lawsuit against the president for his latest racist statements about Indigenous people. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-01-23). CPUSA calls for action and unity in fight against anti-Semitism. peoplesworld.org 
The American people face the resurgence of violent anti-Semitism. Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and assorted racists hold court in our communities. They find comfort in the halls of power presided over by elected officials. They inhabit police departments. The president tells the nation: "There are good people on all sides" as the streets of …