(2020-01-27). Under Pressure in Impeachment Trial, Trump Steps Up Attacks on Reproductive Rights. democracynow.org 
Donald Trump on Friday became the first sitting president in U.S. history to attend the so-called March for Life, the annual anti-abortion rally held in Washington, D.C., that draws thousands of participants. President Trump — who once described himself as "pro-choice in every respect" — accused Democrats of infanticide and falsely stated that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam supports an abortion bill that would "execute a baby after birth." The March for Life began in 1974 in response to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion. Past…
(2020-01-27). 'Makes a lot of sense': White House to unveil 'deal of the century' Mid-East peace plan Tuesday as Trump receives Netanyahu. rt.com 
US President Donald Trump has said that the White House will unveil its long-awaited and long-delayed Middle East peace plan on Tuesday. Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu is already in DC, but no Palestinian envoy is present. | Trump made the remark as he received Netanyahu, who is in Washington for the release of the plan dubbed the "deal of the century." | Trump said the plan "makes a lot of sense" for everybody and is "good for" Palestinians — but reports suggest that the plan is unlikely to offer the prospect of statehood to Palestine. Adding to the sense that the deal will offer more to Israel, is the…
(2020-01-27). Palestinian PM calls on world powers 'to reject' Trump's peace plan for Middle East. rt.com 
The Palestinian prime minister on Monday urged world powers to reject Donald Trump's peace plan, which they said President Mahmoud Abbas had refused to discuss with his US counterpart, AFP reported. | Trump is due to unveil his proposal for Middle East peace this week in Washington, where he is scheduled to meet Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz. | Palestinian leaders, who have not been invited to the White House, have already rejected the US initiative. However, the details of Trump's plan, which has been in the works since 2017, are not yet public. | Palestinian PM Mohammad Shta…
(2020-01-27). Genocide Scholar Warns That the Groundwork for Genocide in the US Has Been Laid. mintpressnews.com 
Brynn Tannehill, a defense analyst and genocide scholar, took to Twitter to warn that the necessary conditions and many of the precursor events for genocide in the US "are in motion."
(2020-01-27). Israel's Auschwitz Commemoration: A Kidnapping of Jewish history. mintpressnews.com 
As world leaders gathered in Jerusalem to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, Zochrot, an
(2020-01-27). Last days of hell: 75 years on, death camp survivors recall the Red Army liberation of Auschwitz. rt.com 
Evgeny Kovalev was captured by the Nazis during a partisan scouting mission in 1943. Loaded onto a freight train cattle cart, he had no idea he was being taken to Auschwitz and was oblivious as to the hell that awaited him there.
(2020-01-27). 'Lessons of Auschwitz': Moscow school students create VR animation tribute to Holocaust victims (VIDEO). rt.com 
RT's digital art project dedicated to 75 years of Victory over Nazism releases VR music video illustrated by schoolchildren using tilt brush. | The music score is by Peter Theremin, great-grandson of Leon Theremin — the creator of the theremin, world's first electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer. | This music video, part of a larger project
(2020-01-27). Israel Resumes Aerial Herbicide Spraying Along Gaza's Perimeter Fence, Deliberate Destruction of Palestinian Farming. globalresearch.ca On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, Israeli crop-duster planes flew along the perimeter fence separating Gaza and Israel, spraying chemicals assumed to be herbicides into the Strip. Israel continued to conduct aerial herbicide spraying along additional sections of the perimeter fence …
(2020-01-27). Netanyahu Says He is Going to 'Make History' With Trump – Foreign Ministry. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has departed for Washington to discuss the upcoming US plan to settle the conflict between Israel and Palestine with US President Donald Trump on 28 January, hinting at the meeting's potential historic repercussions, Israel's Foreign Ministry announced.
(2020-01-27). Santa Fe Denies Permit for Mural Art Depicting Plight of Palestinian Children. truthout.org The stucco wall on Santa Fe's Old Pecos Trail is now papered with images of Israeli soldiers terrorizing Palestinian women and children. This art was created by Navajo artist Remy at the request of Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine (SFJP), of which I am a member. For the past six years, we have been creating art depicting the conditions of Palestinians under the Israeli occupation. Guthrie Miller, the owner of the wall where the art has been located since 2014, has supported this effort.
(2020-01-27). Trump to Unveil Middle East Peace Plan on Tuesday. telesurenglish.net U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his administration would unveil his long-delayed peace plan at noon local time on Tuesday. Trump made the remark to reporters as he greeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. | RELATED: | The peace plan, which Trump claims will be beneficial for both the Palestinians and Israelis, was rejected by the President of the Palest…
(2020-01-27). Trump Reportedly Wants Both Netanyahu and Gantz to Work on 'Deal of the Century'. sputniknews.com The US president earlier announced that he wants to release a peace plan for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in full sometime before Israeli PM Netanyahu's visit to Washington.
(2020-01-27). Jordan Valley Mayor: Sovereignty in Area to Benefit All, Israel Should Ignore Background Noise. sputniknews.com Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party is set to introduce a bill that would apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley that makes up some 30 per cent of the predominately Palestinian West Bank.
(2020-01-27). To rig primary against Bernie, DNC's Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants. thegrayzone.com With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of…
(2020-01-27). Legal Procedures Underway Regarding Issachar's Pardon Petition – Kremlin. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Legal procedures are underway regarding the pardon petition by Israeli woman Naama Issachar, serving a prison term in Russia for drug trafficking, they are necessary for President Vladimir Putin to make a decision on the issue as soon as possible, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday.
(2020-01-27). DNC's Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants to rig the game against Bernie. thegrayzone.com With Sen. Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of…
(2020-01-27). Women Are Leading the Fight Against Fascism in India. truthout.org On the 4th of December 2019 the Hindu nationalist Bharatya Janata Party (BJP)-led government of India introduced the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in parliament. By the 11th of December the bill had been enacted into law after being pushed through parliamentary votes, and signed by the President. The rules of the law are still being written and yet Home Minister Amit Shah announced on the 10th of January 2020 that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is now in operation. By doing so, the BJP has chosen to ignore t…
(2020-01-27). Trump/Pence #OutNow Mass Organizing Meeting. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist Center | 1187 Franklin Street | San Francisco…
(2020-01-27). Flood the Streets Demanding Trump/Pence #OutNow! indybay.org Corner of Powell & Market, San Francisco | (close to Powell Street BART station)…
(2020-01-27). 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.
(2020-01-27). Influence of Wall Street Donors Has Exploded in Decade Since "Citizens United" truthout.org This story is part of a series related to the 10-year anniversary of Citizens United v. FEC. OpenSecrets recently released a comprehensive report on the impacts of the controversial Supreme Court decision. The 2010 landmark ruling in
(2020-01-27). Housing Discrimination Is Rising. Trump Is Attacking Protections Against It. truthout.org For the past few months, yet another legislative pillar of the country's civil rights era,
(2020-01-27). Headlines for January 27, 2020. democracynow.org Impeachment Trial Resumes as Leaked Bolton Manuscript Bolsters Democrats' Case, Coronavirus Death Toll Reaches 81 in China as Disease Spreads Around the World, Pentagon: 34 U.S. Troops Have Brain Injuries After Iranian Attack on Iraqi Airbase, Deadly Crackdown on Iraqi Protests Continue as 100,000s March Against U.S. Military Presence, Turkey Earthquake Kills 38; At Least 1,600 Hospitalized, Ugandan Activist Vanessa Nakate Slams Racist Media After Being Cropped from Photo with White Activists, Trump Attends Anti-Abortion "March for Life" as Admin Continues Assault on Reproductive Rights, High-Ranking Pharma Exec…
(2020-01-27). Seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz. wsws.org Auschwitz was at the heart of the machinery of industrialised mass murder that spanned the entire continent. Jews, Sinti, political opponents of the Nazi regime and others were deported to the death camp from every part of occupied Europe.
(2020-01-26). Israeli Colonists Seriously Injure A Palestinian Man Near Nablus. imemc.org Palestinian medical sources have reported that a man was seriously injured, on Saturday evening, after a group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists invaded the as-Sawiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and attacked him and his son. Morad Abu Rad, the head of as-Sawiya Village Council, …
(2020-01-26). Army Abducts A Palestinian In Hebron. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday before noon, a young Palestinian man at a military roadblock near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers stopped the Palestinian at a military roadblock near the mosque, and abducted him. The …
(2020-01-26). Soldiers Injure Thirteen Palestinians Near Jerusalem. imemc.org Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, the al-'Ezariya town, east of occupied Jerusalem, and injured thirteen Palestinians, during ensuing protests. The soldiers invaded Ras Kabsa area in the town, and fired a barrage of gas bombs and concussion grenades at protests, and several surrounding homes. The Palestinian Red …
(2020-01-26). Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian, Confiscate A Bulldozer In Nablus. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, Sunday, a former political prisoner, and summoned another Palestinian for interrogation, in addition to confiscating a bulldozer in the northern West Bank governorate of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the soldiers invaded and searched …
(2020-01-26). Fateh IRC: Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians Like Victims of Nazi Occupation. imemc.org The Fateh International Relations Commission said, in a statement commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, that the Palestinian people, ethnically cleansed by Jewish militias since 1948 and occupied by Israel since 1967, are like the victims of the Nazi occupation of Europe. Fateh said that open or …
(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). REPORT: Trump "Peace Plan" to be Published This Week. imemc.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Sunday, that US President Donald Trump will publish the "Deal of the Century" plan this week. During his weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu indicated that he will fly to the United States today, to meet President Trump tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, to …
(2020-01-26). Sheikh Sabri Again Expelled from Al-Aqsa Mosque. imemc.org Israeli occupation forces, on Saturday, served Sheikh Ikrima Sabri' with an order of expulsion, from Al-Aqsa Mosque, for four months, after raiding his home. Eyewitness added that the order required him to appear for interrogation on Sunday. Last Sunday, the duration of the order was to last for seven days, …
(2020-01-26). Israel Authorizes Religious, Business Trips to Saudi Arabia. telesurenglish.net In the latest sign of rapprochement between the two nations, the Israeli government announced Sunday that it would authorize its citizens to travel under certain circumstances to Saudi Arabia, according to Haaretz. | RELATED: | After having held discussions with the country's security and diplomatic services, Israel's Minister of the Interior Aryeh Deri released a statement saying Israelis would be permitted to travel to th…
(2020-01-26). Zionist Outrage Over BBC Coverage Of Holocaust Memorial. imemc.org The Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD), described by Jewish activist Tony Greenstein as a "pro-Israeli advocacy group", has expressed outrage over a BBC correspondent's remarks made during a report on the Holocaust memorial at the Yad Vashem's Hall of the Dead, marking 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz by …
(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). 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). Lula Calls on Brazilians to Fight to Regain Nation's Democracy. telesurenglish.net The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said that we must continue to fight to regain democracy in his country and warned that political infighting is coming against the "fascist right." | RELATED: | During an interview for the Argentine media Page 12, Lula criticized the judicial process against him that was promoted by the prosecutor of the Lavo Jato case, Sergio Moro. | The former president ca…
(2020-01-26). Palestinians Threaten to Quit Oslo Agreement Over Trump Plan. telesurenglish.net The Palestinian Liberation Organization has threatened to quit the Oslo Accords agreement that was brokered by former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1993 after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was planning to unveil his so-called "peace plan" in the coming days. | RELATED: | Citing the member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and former representative at the Oslo Accords, Saeb Erekat, the AFP…
(2020-01-26). End discrimination against women and children affected by leprosy. news.un.org Governments must put an end to the informal segregation and institutionalized neglect of hundreds of thousands of women and children affected by leprosy, an independent UN human rights expert said on Sunday, World Leprosy Day.
(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…
(2020-01-25). Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Journalist Near Hebron. imemc.org Israeli soldiers abducted, Saturday, a Palestinian journalist after the army invaded the al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after the army invaded the camp and attacked protesters. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at the protesters and several surrounding …
(2020-01-25). How Israel Exploits the Holocaust to Justify War Crimes Against Palestinians. counterpunch.org …
(2020-01-25). Israeli Air Force Fires Missiles Into Khan Younis. imemc.org The Israeli Air Force fired, on Saturday at night, three missiles into two areas in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Media sources in Khan Younis said the missiles caused damage to structures, apparently used by armed resistance groups, and several homes. The soldiers also fired …
(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). Combatting antisemitism requires 'solidarity in the face of hatred', says UN chief. news.un.org Against the backdrop of a constant stream of attacks targeting Jews, their institutions and property, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Saturday of a global crisis of antisemitic hatred.
(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? dissidentvoice.org 
Hangameh Golestan, Witness 1979, 1979 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 US assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani was a 'slap in the face' of US …
(2020-01-24). Could Bernie Sanders, like Jeremy Corbyn, be accused of anti-Semitism? peoplesworld.org 
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(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…