2020-01-29: Social Media Postees

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Sunrise Movement to Host Nationwide House Parties
Eoin Higgins | zcomm.org | 2020-01-29
Youth led climate advocacy group the Sunrise Movement is asking supporters to host launch parties on Wednesday for the 2020 effort to pass the Green New Deal and back the presidential candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/sunrise-movement-to-host-nationwide-house-parties/

Gold price will skyrocket if Bernie Sanders wins 2020 presidential election, says Peter Schiff
rt.com | 2020-01-29
The price of gold, which hit its highest level in seven years, reaching almost $1,600 an ounce this week, will continue to rally, says veteran stock broker Peter Schiff. | According to him, gold bugs may see further gains thanks to Senator Bernie Sanders. | The Democratic Party 2020 hopeful's chances are on the rise, a Fox News poll released on Sunday showed. It found that 23 percent of Democratic primary voters prefer the Vermont senator, up from 20 percent in December. He matched up favorably against President Donald Trump, leading 48 percent to 42 percent in a head-to-head matchup. Former Vice President Joe…
rt.com/business/479467-gold-bernie-sanders-2020/

Pro-Israel Group Behind Latest Attack Ads on Sanders
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-29
A right-wing AIPAC-affiliated group is airing ads targeting Sen. Bernie Sanders in Iowa in an attempt to stop the increasing success of his presidential campaign days before the state's voters caucus to kick off the 2020 Democratic primary. | The Democratic Majority for Israel, a group tied to AIPAC, sponsored the ad. | "This is dishonest, disgusting, and discrediting," said Sanders surrogate James Zogby, founder of the Arab-American Institute. | This is dishonest, disgusting, & discrediting of ‚Å¶ @DemMaj4Israel‚Å&co…
truthdig.com/articles/pro-israel-group-behind-latest-attack-ads-on-sanders/

Bernie Sanders' Political Revolution Is Long Overdue
Alan Minsky | truthdig.com | 2020-01-29
As he did in 2016, Bernie is offering something unique to the political landscape: a transformative vision for a more just and equitable country, and a renewal of American democracy. | His movement is built upon four central tenets: | The American political system is currently broken, unable to respond to the needs of the people and the planet. | There needs to be a political realignment along lines of economic self-interest, uniting the working class. | That realignment, combined with…
truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-political-revolution-is-long-overdue/

The Liberal Establishment is Already Warning Third Parties Not to Ruin the 2020 Election
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-29
Prominent liberal personalities, including Noam Chomsky, issued an open letter imploring third parties to "remove themselves as a factor" in the 2020 presidential election to "benefit all humanity and a good part of the biosphere."
mintpressnews.com/liberal-establishment-warning-third-parties-not-to-ruin-2020-election/264460/

Israeli Defense Minister Wants Annexation of Occupied West Bank
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-29
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex over a third of the occupied West Bank shorlty after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his so-called "Deal of the Century" plan on Middle East peace. | RELATED: | Iran Slams Trump's Middle East Peace Plan as 'Disgraceful' | "Yesterday evening, history knocked on our door and granted us a one-time opportunity to apply Israel law on all of the settlements in Judea and Samaria and the Jordan…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israeli-Defense-Minister-Wants-Annexation-of-Occupied-West-Bank-20200129-0007.html

'I'm an old guy, vote for someone else': Biden's latest gaffes include odd sales pitch to voter & head-scratching demands for VP
rt.com | 2020-01-29
Former Vice President Joe Biden's odd strategy for winning over voters continues as video of him scolding one goes viral, and recent comments about his age raises alarm. | Though Biden continues to poll at the top of the Democrats fighting for their party's presidential nomination

'We would be in World War Six by now' if Bolton were still in the WH, says Trump in scathing tweets
rt.com | 2020-01-29
US President Donald Trump has hit back at John Bolton, his former national security advisor, accusing him of writing a "nasty & untrue" book and saying the warmongering Republican could have led us into "World War Six." | While Bolton has become something of a hero to Trump's critics thanks to leaks from his upcoming book 'The Room Where it Happened', which seemingly confirm accusations that the president withheld foreign aid to Ukraine in the hopes they would investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, conservatives have begun to turn on the man, chief among them the president himself. | "For a guy who could…
rt.com/usa/479509-donald-trump-world-war-six/

Democracy in meltdown: In almost every country, people's faith in democratic systems is at rock-bottom levels
rt.com | 2020-01-29
A new study has delivered a huge reality shock to career politicians and liberal elites–that dissatisfaction with democracy has been rising for decades, and especially in the developed world is approaching an all-time global high. | World leaders love to toot the horn of democracy. To take just three recent examples, Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau a…
rt.com/news/479505-democracy-faith-level-drop/

The ProDemocracy Project: Improving Public Comment
Steve Martinot | indybay.org | 2020-01-29
Tara Pitman Library, South Berkeley | MLK & Russell, Berkeley, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/27/18830114.php

Local Dems Say City Council Candidate Renée Golder was a Registered Republican Until 2018
Santa Cruz Election News | indybay.org | 2020-01-29
Local Democrats have checked official voting records and are reporting that Santa Cruz City Council recall candidate Renée Golder was a registered Republican until April of 2018. They say voting records indicate Golder registered as a Republican in 2000 and voted in multiple primary elections as a Republican, until she switched her party affiliation to Democratic in 2018. Presently, Golder is running as a "pro-recall" Santa Cruz City Council candidate against Progressives in the March 2020 election.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/28/18830135.php

"Yet Another Declaration of War on Palestinians": Rashid Khalidi on Trump's Middle East "Peace" Plan
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-29
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to annex about 30% of the occupied West Bank, after Israel was given the green light to do so by the United States. On Tuesday, President Trump

Lawmakers heckle governor in India's Kerala regional parliament in protest against citizenship law (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-01-29
MPs in India's Kerala State parliament have protested against the governor's support for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). New Delhi has repeatedly insisted that the law is not discriminatory and serves to protect minorities. | White-clad lawmakers from the bloc United Democratic Front (UDF) blocked Governor Arif Mohammed Khan's approach to the podium on Wednesday morning. They held placards with anti-CAA slogans and demands for Khan to be recalled, as the governor waited patiently for his way to be cleared. | #WATCH Thiruvanantha…
rt.com/news/479455-kerala-india-protest-caa/

Mehdi Hasan: The Impeachment Trial Has Been a Farce Since Day One Filled with GOP Lies
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-29
At the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told fellow Republican senators in a private meeting Tuesday that he does not yet have enough votes to block Democrats from calling impeachment witnesses. Democrats have pushed for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify. On Sunday night, The New York Times published details about a draft of Bolton's forthcoming book, in which he claims Trump personally told him in August he wanted to maintain a freeze on $391 million in military aid to Ukraine until Ukraine turned over materials related to former Vice Presi…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/29/john_bolton_witness_impeachment_trial

Hundreds of Canadian Workers Are Blockading an Oil Refinery Right Now
Jeff Schuhrke | zcomm.org | 2020-01-29
The Canadian union Unifor is currently blockading an oil refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan. It's an important example of what democratic, militant, and solidarity-based unionism can look like…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/hundreds-of-canadian-workers-are-blockading-an-oil-refinery-right-now/

The Impeachment Trial Has Been a Farce Staged by the GOP Since Day One
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-29
At the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told fellow Republican senators in a private meeting Tuesday that he does not yet have enough votes to block Democrats from calling impeachment witnesses. Democrats have pushed for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify. On Sunday night, The New York Times published details about a draft of Bolton's forthcoming book, in which he claims Trump personally told him in August he wanted to maintain a…
truthout.org/video/the-impeachment-trial-has-been-a-farce-staged-by-the-gop-since-day-one/

After the 2019 election, we need media reform now more than ever
Granville Williams | thecanary.co | 2020-01-29
This is a guest piece from Granville Williams, editor of MediaNorth

In impeachment crisis, Trump continues fascistic appeals, Democrats promote warmonger John Bolton
wsws.org | 2020-01-29
An architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bolton has advocated wars for regime change in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen and North Korea.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/29/impe-j29.html

SEIU's Henry demands Senate impeachment trial call witnesses
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-29
WASHINGTON –In her second comment on the Senate impeachment trial of GOP President Donald Trump, Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry is demanding lawmakers call live witnesses to ensure a fair trial. And those senators who don't want witnesses, she adds, are "playing political games with issues serious for our democracy and the sanctity of …
peoplesworld.org/article/seius-henry-demands-senate-impeachment-trial-call-witnesses/

Mehdi Hasan: Trump's Middle East Plan Is a Policy of Apartheid & Settler Colonialism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-29
We continue our discussion of President Trump's long-awaited Middle East plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he has described as the "deal of the century." The plan was drafted by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner without any input from Palestinians and would give Israel sovereignty over large areas of the occupied West Bank, control over all of Jerusalem, and keep all illegal settlements built in the occupied West Bank. We speak with Mehdi Hasan, senior columnist at The Intercept, and Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. Khalidi's latest book is…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/29/trump_middle_east_plan_apartheid

Italian ruling parties defeat far-right Lega in Emilia-Romagna elections
wsws.org | 2020-01-29
While the candidate of the extreme right-wing Lega was clearly defeated in the Emilia-Romagna elections by the candidate of the Democrats, the rise of the right-wing extremists has by no means been stopped.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/29/ital-j29.html

GOP Doesn't Have Votes Yet to Block Bolton, McConnell Concedes
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-29
Republican senators mulling impeachment meet after defense rests; Trump's hopes to end the trial with a quick acquittal could be imperiled.
truthdig.com/articles/gop-doesnt-have-votes-yet-to-block-bolton-mcconnell-concedes/

Trump's Failed Bullying: Britain Accepts 5G Huawei Technology
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
It is strikingly bullying and bullish. US officials have been less than reserved in their threats about what Britain's proposed dealings with Huawei over admitting it to its 5G network might entail. Three Republican Senators

Weakest Link: Impeachment and National Security
Jefferson Morley | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-29
In the summer of 2016 President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump didn't agree about much, except for one obscure issue of U.S. foreign policy: lethal military aid to Ukraine. As commander in chief, Obama objected to such assistance, even in the face of a Russian proxy war. So did candidate Trump. On…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/weakest-link-impeachment-and-national-security/

The sudden death of basketball great Kobe Bryant produces shock and tributes worldwide
wsws.org | 2020-01-29
The retired basketball star and his teenage daughter were among nine victims of a helicopter crash near Los Angeles.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/29/kobe-j29.html

The Electability Argument Is Really About Party Unity
Jeet Heer | thenation.com | 2020-01-29
The Electability Argument Is Really About Party Unity…
thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-unity-sanders-warren/

Tennessee's Chemical Castration Bill Shows Local Republicans Have One Thing on Their Minds
Jennifer Bernstein | thenation.com | 2020-01-29
Tennessee's Chemical Castration Bill Shows Local Republicans Have One Thing on Their Minds…
thenation.com/article/politics/tennessee-chemical-castration/

Final moments of Kobe Bryant's fatal helicopter crash revealed by investigators
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-29
Moments before Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and the seven others perished in a helicopter crash, the pilot had tried to climb out of layer of clouds, but the aircraft then banked sharply and lurched toward the ground.The twin-engine Sikorsky S-76B slammed into a hillside 60 seconds later and burst into flames, killing all nine people on board, according to details of Sunday's crash revealed on Tuesday by federal aviation safety officials.The death of Bryant, 41, an 18-time NBA all-star and one of the most admired athletes around the globe, sent shockwaves through the sports a…
yenisafak.com/en/world/final-moments-of-kobe-bryants-fatal-helicopter-crash-revealed-by-investigators-3510778

Democrat Presidential Candidate Michael Bloomberg Invents Unusual Way to Greet a Dog – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-29
The former New York mayor was visiting Burlington, Vermont for a campaign event on Monday when he had a remarkable encounter with a dog.
sputniknews.com/us/202001291078170560-democrat-presidential-candidate-michael-bloomberg-invents-unusual-way-to-greet-a-dog—video/

'Goodbye!' Farage trolls EU Parliament with Brexit one last time, waving Union Jack flag before mic is cut off for 'hate'
rt.com | 2020-01-29
Brexit Party leader and MEP Nigel Farage gave his final speech in the European Parliament, denouncing the EU as an anti-democratic experiment. He waved the Union Jack flag to cheers from his UK colleagues as he said goodbye. | As the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to approve the agreement that would let Britain leave on January 31, Farage rose one last time to cap his 20-year term in the forum with a speech declaring victory and wishing the EU good riddance. | Once we've left, we are never coming back. | After 25 years of fighting for independence, this is my final contribution in the European Parlia…
rt.com/uk/479525-farage-flag-brexit-goodbye/

Biden Won't Say Whether Sanders Could Unify Democrats as Nominee
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
MUSCATINE, Iowa

Interviews with New Hampshire voters show Bernie, Biden the favorites
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-28
MANCHESTER, N.H.–With two weeks to go before the key New Hampshire primary, there's at least one certain point you can make about the Democratic presidential nomination race here: Bernie Sanders is the favorite among younger voters, Joe Biden is the favorite among older ones. But that goes only for the people who have made up …
peoplesworld.org/article/interviews-with-new-hampshire-voters-show-bernie-biden-the-favorites/

It's Media–Not Bernie Sanders–That Have an Antisemitism Problem
Alan MacLeod | fair.org | 2020-01-28
Have you heard the news? Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders is antisemitic. Yes, yes, he's Jewish, and has a long history of anti-racist activism–but that doesn't matter. | So goes the story in several prominent media outlets, who accuse him of leading "the most antisemitic [campaign] in decades" (Washington Examiner, 12/13/19). While unable to point to Sanders' own actions or words, the…
fair.org/home/its-media-not-bernie-sanders-that-have-an-antisemitism-problem/

To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-28
With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of foreign policy hacks and corporate lobbyists to sabotage his nomination. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/28/to-rig-primary-against-bernie-dnc-chair-tom-perez-nominates-regime-change-agents-israel-lobbyists-and-wall-street-consultants/

To Cancel Student Debt, You Don't Need Congress
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
The 2020 Democratic primary elevated the student debt debate to the national stage and has sparked discussion at dinner tables and workplaces across the country. Americans are asking themselves and the candidates: how much student debt should we cancel, and how shall we cancel it? Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to cancel it all

Pro-Sanders Youth Movement Is Changing the Political Landscape in New Hampshire
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
Fifty-two years after young people changed history with the New Hampshire primary election, a new generation is ready to do it again

Chomsky and other Liberal Intellectuals ask us to Join them in Throwing in the Towel
Stansfield Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-28
Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Leslie Cagan, Ron Daniels, Kathy Kelly, Norman Solomon, Cynthia Peters, and Michael Albert wrote an Open Letter to the Green Party, asking them to support the 2020 Democratic candidate regardless who wins the nomination. It was in response to an article well worth reading by Howie Hawkins, "The Green …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/chomsky-and-other-liberal-intellectuals-ask-us-to-join-them-in-throwing-in-the-towel/

Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the global race to the bottom
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2020-01-28
Bloomberg has put himself and his fortune into the contest to rally his (ruling) classmates to the task of shoring up corporate control of the Party if Sanders seizes the top spot. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/28/shaky-joe-biden-billionaire-bloomberg-and-the-global-race-to-the-bottom/

Truth a Major Casualty of Impeachment Hearings
Jeremy Kuzmarov | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
As in any political battle, truth has been one of the major casualties of the impeachment proceedings against President Donald J. Trump. While the Democratic impeachment managers have accused Trump repeatedly of dishonesty

Trump's Expansive Claims of Executive Privilege Pose "Very Serious Constitutional Crisis"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-28
During eight hours of oral arguments at the president's impeachment trial on Monday, President Trump's legal team repeatedly said that he has done nothing wrong, and largely ignored the explosive revelations made by Trump's former national security adviser. The president's case was made on Monday by a team of lawyers including Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, whose probe led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. In an upcoming book, former national security adviser John Bolton says Trump told him the withholding of $391 million in military aid to Ukraine…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/28/impeachment_claire_finkelstein_executive_privilege

Chinese Artist & Filmmaker Ai Weiwei on State Violence from Mexico to Hong Kong to Xinjiang
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-28
In 2014, 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared after they were abducted in Iguala, Mexico. More than five years after their disappearance, the families of the students are still fighting for justice. The story is the subject of a stunning new documentary by the world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. The film, "Vivos," follows the families of the disappeared students in their daily lives as they grapple with the absence of their loved ones and attempt to hold the Mexican government accountable for their disappearance. We sat down with Ai Weiwei earlier this week at the Sund…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/28/ai_weiwei_vivos_hong_kong_xinjiang

Murder of Mexican Artist Isabel Cabanillas Highlights Endemic Issue of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-28
Isabel Cabanillas, a 26-year-old beloved feminist activist and artist, was recently assassinated in Ciudad Juárez, resurfacing the border city's painful legacy of femicides and violence against women. Cabanillas was reported missing on social media by her friends on Saturday, January 18, after she never returned home. On that same day, she was found shot to death on a sidewalk next to her bicycle in downtown Juárez. We speak with Nana Rebell, a feminist activist in Ciudad Juárez and a member of the Juárez feminist collective Hijas de su Maquilera Madre, about Cabanillas's life and the endemic issue of femicide in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/28/juarez_mexico_isabel_cabanillas_assassination_femicide

German government bans neo-Nazi group "Combat 18 Deutschland"
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
It was above all the fact that the close links between the militant neo-Nazi scene, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground (NSU) and the secret service could not be so easily covered up after the murder of leading Christian Democrat Walter Làºbcke that persuaded Seehofer to take action.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/comb-j28.html

FRSO Venezuela delegation meets with women in Bolivarian Militia
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-28
Caracas, Venezuela – During the World Anti-Imperialist Congress, members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) delegation talked with women in the Bolivarian Militia. The Bolivarian Militia was created in 2005 in response to U.S. intervention. As of December 2019, President Maduro said he is moving toward making the Militia into "combat units" within the Armed Forces. In 2019, with multiple U.S.-backed coup attempts to install Juan Guaidó in place of democratically elected President Maduro, the Bolivarian Militia nearly doubled to 3.3 million members in a country of around 30 million people. Their rol…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/1/28/frso-venezuela-delegation-meets-women-bolivarian-militia

House Democrats' Climate Plan is Wholly Inadequate Response to Climate Crisis
commondreams.org | 2020-01-28
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/01/28/house-democrats-climate-plan-wholly-inadequate-response-climate-crisis?cd-origin=rss

Democrats embrace war hawk Bolton in Trump impeachment trial
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
The carefully timed leak of Bolton's White House revelations has overshadowed the defense mounted by Trump's attorneys in the Senate impeachment trial.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/impe-j28.html

Where Was Rudy Giuliani When Democrats Needed Him?
Geoff Dutton | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-28
Help me get this straight. Rudolph Giuliani is the President's private attorney, or at least he still seems to be. According to CNN on 10/11/19:…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/28/where-was-rudy-giuliani-when-democrats-needed-him/

DNC chair names John Podesta & other Clinton loyalists to Convention Committee, triggering revolt from voters fearing 2016 2.0
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Democrats hoping their party learned from its 2016 failure have been horrified to discover many of those behind Hillary Clinton's losing campaign

Sanders Campaign Tells Volunteers to Back Off Phone Calls
Ryan Grim | zcomm.org | 2020-01-28
It is far more effective, campaign leaders have argued, to have friends and relatives urge those close to them to come out to caucus than to carpet bomb phone lines…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/sanders-campaign-tells-volunteers-to-back-off-phone-calls/

Milwaukee: Rally against war on Iraq, Iran
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-28
Milwaukee, WI – On January 25, around 40 people gathered at the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and North Avenue to protest the ongoing U.S. war in Iraq and the threat of war with Iran. The protesters occupied each of the four street corners and took to chanting before running through a short lineup of speakers. | "Organization and numbers are the two greatest weapons at the disposal of the working class. We must use them if we're gonna win," said Ryan Hamann, a speaker from Freedom Road Socialist Organization. "Here's to building a strong, united, firmly anti-imperialist anti-war movement in Mi…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/1/28/milwaukee-rally-against-war-iraq-iran

Bernie Sanders Is Rising on the Strength of His Anti-War Stance
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-01-28
Bernie Sanders Is Rising on the Strength of His Anti-War Stance…
thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-anti-war-polls/

Trump Can't Stop Bolton From Testifying. Only Cowardly Senate Republicans Can
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2020-01-28
Trump Can't Stop Bolton From Testifying. Only Cowardly Senate Republicans Can.
thenation.com/article/politics/impeachment-senate-john-bolton-book/

Kobe Bryant: America's Imperfect Icon
Aaron Ross Coleman | thenation.com | 2020-01-28
Kobe Bryant: America's Imperfect Icon…
thenation.com/article/culture/kobe-bryant-death/

New Poll Shows Bernie Sanders With More Than Double the Support of Joe Biden in New Hampshire
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-28
Running away from the pack, Sanders leads former vice president by 15 points and holds double-digit lead over all his Democratic rivals in the key early voting state. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bernie_sanders_labor_day.png …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/28/new-poll-shows-bernie-sanders-more-double-support-joe-biden-new-hampshire?cd-origin=rss

Denouncing Trump Plan as 'Unacceptable,' Sanders Declares It Is Time to 'End the Israeli Occupation'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-28
After U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled his long-awaited "peace deal" for the Israel-Palestine conflict, Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned the proposal as "unacceptable" and called for an end to Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bernie_sanders_anti_endorsements_0.png …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/28/denouncing-trump-plan-unacceptable-sanders-declares-it-time-end-israeli-occupation?cd-origin=rss

'Green New Dud, Not a Green New Deal': Climate Groups Denounce Draft Bill From House Democrats
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-28
Environmental advocacy groups issued mixed responses Tuesday after Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee released the legislative text of a draft bill for a national climate plan, with critics charging that the proposal isn't ambitious enough to address the planetary crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/campfire-climate-crisis_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/28/green-new-dud-not-green-new-deal-climate-groups-denounce-draft-bill-house-democrats?cd-origin=rss

To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants
Kevin Gosztola | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-27
With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/27/dnc-perez-regime-change-agents-israel-lobbyists-wall-street-rig-game-bernie/

Corporate media equate Sanders to Trump–because for them, Sanders is the bigger threat
Julie Hollar | mronline.org | 2020-01-27
As Bernie Sanders emerged as a threat to Hillary Clinton's presidential nomination in 2016, media began liberally tossing around articles equating Sanders and Donald Trump (FAIR.org, 4/15/16, 12/9/16). | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/27/corporate-media-equate-sanders-to-trump-because-for-them-sanders-is-the-bigger-threat/

Explosive Bolton Book Allegations Spark New Calls for Witnesses to Testify at Impeachment Trial
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-27
Calls are growing for the Senate to call witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial, after The New York Times published details about former national security adviser John Bolton's forthcoming book. In the book, Bolton writes that President Trump personally told him in August that he wanted to maintain a freeze on $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until Ukraine turned over materials related to former Vice President Joe Biden and supporters of Hillary Clinton in Ukraine. The New York Times broke the story on Sunday, one day after President Trump's legal team began its defense of the president. D…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/27/impeachment_trial_john_bolton_donald_trump

Kobe Bryant Dead at 41: Remembering Basketball Star's Legacy On and Off the Court
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-27
Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant died Sunday in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles at the age of 41. The crash killed all nine people on board, including Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna and beloved college baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri and their 13-year-old daughter Alyssa. They were heading to a youth basketball game. Bryant won five NBA championships, two Olympic gold medals and was crowned an All-Star 18 times. He played for the L.A. Lakers for 20 years before retiring in 2016. Gianna Bryant reportedly hoped to one day play for the University of Connecticut women's basketball team. Tribute…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/27/kobe_bryant_death_in_helicopter_crash

Under Pressure in Impeachment Trial, Trump Steps Up Attacks on Reproductive Rights
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-27
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

Never-Trumper strategist launches #ILefttheGOP campaign just in time for Senate impeachment votes
rt.com | 2020-01-27
Disaffected ex-Republicans are sharing their stories on social media as the seemingly-unbreakable two-party duopoly approaches peak unpopularity with American voters with less than a year to go before the 2020 election. | The hashtag #ILefttheGOP was trending on Monday as self-described former Republicans shared what made them exit party ranks – whether to join the Democrats, or to vote independently. It was created by former Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus, who left the party after a disastrous encounter with the president's 2016 campaign and has been a strident "never-Trumper" ever since. | Perhaps predi…
rt.com/usa/479334-gop-strategist-launches-campaign-walkaway/

Italy's regional voters thwart hopes of Matteo Salvini's League party
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-27
Italian voters have thwarted right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini's hopes of turning an election in a key northern region into a springboard for regaining national power.Nearly complete results from Sunday's election for the governorship of the prosperous Emilia-Romagna region had his League party candidate winning only 43.7% of support to the 51.4% garnered by the incumbent governor Stefano Bonaccini from the centre-left Democrats.The Democrats are in Italy's national coalition government led by premier Giuseppe Conte. | Italy, Emilia-Romagna regional election, 61.5% counted: | Bonaccini (CSX-LEFT | S&D | G/E…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/01/27/italys-regional-voters-thwart-hopes-of-matteo-salvinis-league-party/

'Bombshell' or nothing to see here? Dems clamor for Bolton impeachment testimony as manuscript claims Trump-Ukraine quid-pro-quo
rt.com | 2020-01-27
Ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton's book claims Donald Trump admitted a Ukraine quid-pro-quo, prompting Democrats to declare it's game-over for the US president, as his supporters dismiss it as yet another nothingburger. | Democrats have renewed their demands for Bolton to testify in the Senate impeachment trial after a manuscript of the inveterate hawk's new tell-all book on his time in the White House asserted Trump had told Bolton the administration should keep sitting on $391 million in military aid to Ukraine until Kiev reopened an investigation of Burisma Holdings, the natural gas firm tied to for…
rt.com/usa/479321-bolton-book-impeachment-witness/

Kobe Bryant's fateful helicopter flight details REVEALED online as authorities work to ID victims (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-01-27
New details have emerged about the helicopter crash in California that took the life of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others, including an audio recording from the pilot. As of Monday, three bodies have been recovered. | The authorities have said they will not identify anyone involved in the Sunday crash until a coroner's report comes in and the bodies are fully recovered. Thus far, only three bodies have been recovered, according to the LA County Coroner's Office. | However, multiple outlets have reported the identities of the the passengers besides Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and the pilot, i…
rt.com/usa/479329-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash/

'Poor judgement': WaPo suspends reporter for Kobe Bryant rape case link tweeted HOURS after his death
rt.com | 2020-01-27
The Washington Post has suspended one of its reporters after she posted a link to a story about a 2016 rape case involving Kobe Bryant just hours after the basketball star's death in a helicopter crash. | Felicia Sonmez posted the link not long after the news of Bryant's death broke on Sunday and faced furious backlash online, with tweeters accusing her of "disgusting" insensitivity, particularly in light of the fact that the crash also took the lives of Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people.
rt.com/usa/479326-washington-post-kobe-bryant-rape/

Elizabeth Warren Got More Than an Endorsement From 'The Des Moines Register'
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-01-27
Elizabeth Warren Got More Than an Endorsement From 'The Des Moines Register'…
thenation.com/article/politics/elizabeth-warren-des-moines-register/

United States: As Iowa caucuses approach, Democratic battle lines emerge
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-27
US politics Leo CrnogorcevicIssue 1251 United States Democratic Party US presidential primariesJanuary 27, 2020Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton's defeat by Republican Donald Tr…
greenleft.org.au/content/united-states-iowa-caucuses-approach-democratic-battle-lines-emerge

"Ours to Tell": New Film Highlights Personal Stories About the Importance of Abortion Access
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-27
As Roe v. Wade faces unprecedented attacks, the new short film "Ours to Tell" puts a human face to the fight for reproductive justice and highlights those whose stories are often sidelined by the media: LGBTQ communities and communities of color. The film focuses on Ylonda, Nick, Hannah and Brittany, four people who discuss how having access to abortion shaped their lives. The film was directed by Rayka Zehtabchi and was created by Planned Parenthood and We Testify. For more on the film, as well as the state of reproductive rights in the United States, we speak with Renee Bracey Sherman, founder and executive dir…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/27/ours_to_tell_film_abortion_stories

VIDEOS show scene of California helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant
rt.com | 2020-01-26
Footage has emerged showing the aftermath of the helicopter crash in California that reportedly took the life of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others. | First videos and photos of the crash site show smoke and debris scattered around the area, and emergency services arriving to the scene. The accident reportedly started from a fire onboard Kobe Bryant's private helicopter which made it spiral out of control before crashing over Calabasas. | The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed there were no survivors left at the crash site. They have said they will not confirm the identity of the eight o…
rt.com/usa/479250-kobe-bryant-helicoper-crash-videos/

Suing Hillary Clinton, Tulsi Gabbard stands up to the Russiagate smear machine
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-25
As Bernie Sanders ignores Hillary Clinton's attacks, Tulsi Gabbard is fighting back. Gabbard has filed a $50 million defamation suit…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/25/suing-hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard-stands-up-to-the-russiagate-smear-machine/

Impeachment: Democrats cry 'dictator' while Team Trump cries 'election interference'
rt.com | 2020-01-25
After three days of Democrat offensive, President Donald Trump's defense team have laid out their arguments. The Democrats, they said, are trying to commit their own brand of election interference by removing Trump from office. | The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump opened on Tuesday, and the Democrats' chosen team of prosecutors, or impeachment managers, spent much of this week reiterating their long-standing argument: Trump abused his office by withholding military aid for Ukraine to pressure President Volodymyr Zelensky into reopening a corruption investigation into the business activities of Joe…
rt.com/usa/479196-impeachment-trump-defense-arguments/

Law Professor: Trump Could Also Have Been Impeached for War Crimes, Assassinations & Corruption
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-24
Democratic lawmakers are continuing to lay out their case for removing the president from office in the final day of opening arguments by Democrats in the historic impeachment trial of President Trump. Republicans will begin their opening arguments on Saturday. The Senate trial comes a month after the House impeached Trump for withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine as part of an effort to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate Trump's political rival, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. On Thursday, House impeachment manager Jerrold Nadler made the case that a president can…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/24/donald_trump_senate_impeachment_trial

Oakland Moms Who Occupied Vacant Property to Highlight Housing Crisis Celebrate Unexpected Victory
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-24
In Oakland, California, a months-long struggle between a group of unhoused mothers occupying a vacant home and the real estate firm that owned it ended with an unexpected offer to purchase the property earlier this week. The major win in the mothers' fight against homelessness and real estate speculation comes just a week after Wedgewood Properties forcibly evicted the families

International Court of Justice Orders Burmese Authorities to Protect Rohingya Muslims from Genocide
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-24
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…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/24/burma_rohingya_genocide_icj_ruling

Canada's Justin Trudeau Toes the Imperial Line on Iran
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-24
While the current Liberal government claims to be progressive and in favour of a rules-based international order, promotion of democracy and world peace, its actions regarding Iran demonstrate that the primary drivers of Canadian foreign policy remain US geo-political interests and the interests of the rich and powerful. (This previous article argues this has long been the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/canadas-justin-trudeau-toes-the-imperial-line-on-iran/

Tim Robbins: Bernie Sanders Is the Best Shot We Have to Defeat Donald Trump
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-23
We continue our conversation with Academy Award-winning actor and director Tim Robbins, whose recent projects include the new film "Dark Waters" and a play about immigration called "The New Colossus." He recently endorsed Vermont senator and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders for president. "I believe he is the only one of them that can defeat Trump," Robbins says.
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/23/tim_robbins_bernie_sanders_endorsement

The Grayzone's Anya Parampil slams mainstream media's anti-Sanders bias on Tucker Carlson Tonight
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-23
The Grayzone's Anya Parampil joined Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News to discuss the media and democratic establishment's attack on…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/23/the-grayzones-anya-parampil-slams-mainstream-medias-anti-sanders-bias-on-tucker-carlson-tonight/

Trump Brags About Withholding Evidence as Democratic Impeachment Managers Lay Out Case in the Senate
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-23
During the opening day of oral arguments in the impeachment trial, President Trump was accused of abusing his office to "cheat an election." House impeachment managers spent about eight hours on Wednesday laying out their case for why President Trump should be removed from office. The Senate trial comes a month after the House impeached Trump for withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine as part of an effort to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate Trump's political rival, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. While the impeachment trial was taking place in the Senate, Presiden…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/23/trump_impeachment_trial_senate_dahlia_lithwick

"The New Colossus": In New Play, Tim Robbins Tackles Immigration & Xenophobia
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-23
President Trump said Wednesday that he would expand his highly controversial travel ban, which already bars citizens from seven countries, most of which have Muslim-majority populations

Myanmar: Departing UN rights expert still hopeful for democratic transition
news.un.org | 2020-01-23
An independent human rights expert said she has not given up hope for a democratic transition in Myanmar even though the country has yet to address "grave allegations" of international crimes, including possible genocide.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/01/1055901

75 years after Auschwitz liberation, antisemitism still threatens 'foundations of democratic societies'
news.un.org | 2020-01-23
Commemorating 75 years since the liberation of the notorious Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, independent UN rights experts said on Thursday that "urgent action" is needed to combat mounting antisemitism.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/01/1055851

"Dark Waters": Meet the Lawyer Whose 20-Year Fight Against DuPont Inspired the New Film
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-23
The new film "Dark Waters" tells the story of attorney Rob Bilott's 20-year battle with DuPont over contaminated drinking water in West Virginia from toxic chemicals used to make Teflon. The Environmental Working Group credited Billot with "uncovering the most heinous corporate environmental conspiracy in history," and the issue of contaminated water from the plastics industry continues to devastate areas across the country. On Wednesday, the Environmental Working Group released a shocking report about how toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS have been found in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities, in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/23/tim_robbins_rob_billot_dark_waters

Now Three Years into the Reign of Trump, What's Left?
Roger D. Harris | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-23
On January 20, Donald G. Trump completed his third year in office. My one blog that received five-digit Facebook shares predicted Trump would lose in 2016. I was spectacularly wrong but not alone. Even the Las Vegas bookies thought Clinton was a shoo-in with her unbeatable two-punch knockout of (1) I'm not Trump and (2) …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/now-three-years-into-the-reign-of-trump-whats-left/

In the Name of "Israel's Security": Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-22
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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/in-the-name-of-israels-security-retreating-us-gives-israel-billions-more-in-military-funding/

23 Headlines Obscure Biden's Lies About Cutting Social Security
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2020-01-22
Here's something many Americans would be very interested to know: Is a leading candidate in the Democratic primary a liar? And since a strong majority of Americans have consistently opposed cuts to Social Security, the country's most successful anti-poverty program, Democratic vot…
fair.org/home/23-headlines-obscure-bidens-lies-about-cutting-social-security/

"Andrew Johnson Was a Lot Like Trump": Echoes of 1868 in Trump's Impeachment Trial
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-22
After a nearly 13-hour marathon session, the U.S. Senate approved by a party-line vote the rules for the impeachment trial of President Trump. This marks just the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history. The Senate trial comes a month after the House impeached Trump for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. Under the rules, each side will be given 24 hours over a three-day period for opening arguments. Senators also agreed to automatically admit evidence from the House inquiry into the trial record. Republicans rejected 11 amendments from Democrats to subpoena witnesses and…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/22/impeachment_donald_trump_andrew_johnson

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