Daily Archives: February 10, 2020

2020-02-10: News Headlines

RT (2020-02-10). 'Puzzling' virus of UNKNOWN origin with genes scientists can't identify discovered in Brazil. rt.com Scientists in Brazil have discovered a virus which appears to be almost entirely new, consisting of unrecognizable genes that have been, until now, undocumented. | The Yaravirus (Yaravirus brasiliensis), named after a water deity in Brazilian mythology and folklore, was discovered in Lake Pampulha in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. | Also on rt.com | | In recent years, virologists and other researchers have discovered a variety of new viruses which challenge tradition…

RT (2020-02-10). Russia starts training crew for India's 1st manned space mission. rt.com Four Indian astronauts that will take part in their country's first manned space mission have begun tuition at Russia's famed Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC) after coming through a rigorous selection process at home. | The quartet, sent by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), commenced training on Monday, the center "All candidates served as fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force. After serious tests,…

RT (2020-02-10). Support for NATO wanes in France, Germany & even US as alliance struggles to maintain unity. rt.com Public support for NATO has seen a notable decline in France, Germany and the US, according to a new poll. The alliance has suffered from months of budgetary in-fighting and mud-slinging among member states. | While the Pew Research study noted that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization still enjoys general support across member states, it pointed out that several countries "have soured on the alliance." | Positive views of the transatlantic alliance fell to 52 percent in the United States last year, from 64 percent in 2018, the survey found. In France, support fell to 49 percent, from 60 percent in 2017 and…

Leo Zeilig (2020-02-10). Climate Change and Rebellion: an interview with John Molyneux. mronline.org In an interview with the socialist writer and activist, John Molyneux, ROAPE's Leo Zeilig asks him about climate change, capitalism and socialist transformation. In an important initiative John has recently founded the Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) which brings together activists and researchers from across the Global North and South. |

Nils Melzer (2020-02-10). The Truth About Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture — and soon extradition to the U.S., where he could face …

Michael T. Klare (2020-02-10). World War III's Newest Battlefield: U.S. Troops Head for the Far North. globalresearch.ca In early March, an estimated 7,500 American combat troops will travel to Norway to join thousands of soldiers from other NATO countries in a massive mock battle with imagined invading forces from Russia. In this futuristic simulated engagement — it …

Andrew Korybko (2020-02-10). It's No Big Deal that There Are Some Limits to Russia-Israel "Cooperation" in Syria. globalresearch.ca Russia's condemnation of the "Israeli Air Force's" recklessness in once again hiding behind a civilian aircraft to deter anti-air fire by the Syrian Arab Army during their latest bombing operation against Damascus isn't contradictory to the principles of the unofficial …

Johannes Stern (2020-02-10). German Ruling Class Commemorates Liberation of Auschwitz by Planning New Wars and New Crimes. globalresearch.ca On Wednesday, a neo-fascist party helped form a regional government in Germany for the first time since the end of Nazi rule. | Despite the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) receiving just five percent of the vote in the regional election …

Brett Redmayne-Titley (2020-02-10). Iowa: Where The Democrats' DNC Dreams Go to Die. Bernie, The "Trumpian Front Runner" globalresearch.ca After months of the DNC's daily water boarding of the American public with their manufactured jurisprudence know as The Impeachment, these same political wizards of electioneering have in one day, Monday, galvanized the person they most detest. This week's political …

Anita Desikan (2020-02-10). Trump Administration's EPA's New Shameful Tactic: Avoid People Poisoned by Coal Ash. globalresearch.ca Imagine you live next to a coal-fired power plant. Near the power plant, you may have seen heavy machinery dumping loads of greyish substance into an open pit or a pond. You learn that the greyish stuff is called

Inder Comar (2020-02-10). From Nuremberg to Gaza — Can Netanyahu Be Prosecuted For War Crimes? globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on September 8, 2015 | In fact, the ICC has attempted to exercise such jurisdiction in at least two other occasions: both Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, sitting heads of state, have …

Mike Whitney (2020-02-10). Gas Wars in the Mediterranean. globalresearch.ca The unexpected alliance between Turkey and Libya is a geopolitical earthquake that changes the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean and across the Middle East. Turkey's audacious move has enraged its rivals in the region and cleared the way …

Colin Todhunter (2020-02-10). Menace on the Menu in Post-EU Britain. globalresearch.ca Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written the report '

Prof. Mneesha Gellman (2020-02-10). Deported to Death: US Sent 138 Salvadorans Home to be Killed. globalresearch.ca At least 138 people deported from the United States to El Salvador since 2013 have been killed, according to a The 117-page report also says researchers identified at …

Connor Gibson (2020-02-10). West Virginia Legislation: The Criminalization of Peaceful Protests against Oil and Gas "Critical Infrastructure". Anti-protest Bills. globalresearch.ca 2020 Introduced and referred to House Judiciary Committee on January 30, 2020 | Would heighten the penalties for protests near oil and gas pipelines and other infrastructure. Under the bill, knowingly trespassing on property containing a …

Barbara Nimri Aziz (2020-02-10). Being a Democrat—Ugh. globalresearch.ca Notwithstanding the impotent Senate Minority. Not those ill-fated bills championed as victories by House Democrats only to be spurned by the upper chamber; not smug, elitist party fundraisers; not funding strategists and millionaire celebrity donors; not even bumbling Iowa Democratic …

Scott Ritter (2020-02-10). Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-yield Nukes on Submarines to Counter Made-up Russian 'Strategy'. globalresearch.ca The US has deployed "low-yield" nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it's to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a "Russian strategy" made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer. | In a statement released …

Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (2020-02-10). Israel Charged with War Crimes and Genocide. Complete 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal. globalresearch.ca The Tribunal deplores the failure of international institutions to punish the State of Israel for its crimes and its total lack of respect of International Law and the institutions of the United Nations.

Christopher Black (2020-02-10). NATO "Preparations" for Attack on Russia. Operation Barbarossa II: Setting the Stage for War. globalresearch.ca I have written several times about the continuing NATO preparations for an attack on Russia, a second Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. Circumstances prompt me to write about it again, for …

Kevin Ryan (2020-02-10). 9/11 Analysis: Carbon Nanotubes in World Trade Center Dust. globalresearch.ca At the Toronto Hearings in 2011, Professor Niels Harrit described a new discovery related to the World Trade Center (WTC) dust. That new discovery was the presence of carbon nanotubes in the residues of nanothermite ignition. The importance of these …

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-02-10). Brazilian Government Wants to Destroy the Culture of Native Peoples. globalresearch.ca Recently, Brazilian government appointed Ricardo Lopes Dias to the position of coordinator of isolated peoples at the National Indian Foundation (Fundaàßà£o Nacional do Ândio — FUNAI). The act was made possible by a small but substantial change in the Foundation's …

Andrew Facini (2020-02-10). The "Low-yield" Nuclear Warhead: A Dangerous Weapon Based on Bad Strategic Thinking. globalresearch.ca In the unintuitive world of nuclear weapons strategy, it's often difficult to identify which decisions can serve to decrease the risk of a devastating nuclear conflict and which might instead increase it. Such complexity stems from the very foundation of …

Telesur (2020-02-10). Chinese Slams "Racist" Reports by German Media over Coronavirus. globalresearch.ca "Epidemic outbreaks must not be used as an excuse for discrimination and xenophobia, and press freedom must not become a reason for creating a racist opinion in German society," said the Chinese embassy in Germany in a statement. | *** | The …

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-02-10). Coronavirus Is Becoming a Western Excuse for Sinophobia and "China-Bashing" globalresearch.ca Coronavirus is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest epidemic tragedies of our times. Hundreds of dead people and thousands of ill ones are the proof of it. For any person with good faith and interested in the well-being of people, it …

Dr. Leon Tressell (2020-02-10). The American Empire Mistakenly Believes the Shale Oil-Gas Revolution Will Continue Until 2050 and Beyond. globalresearch.ca The Trump regime never tires of trumpeting the myth of

Hassan Diab Support Committee (2020-02-10). Hassan Diab Files Civil Claim Regarding His Extradition. globalresearch.ca On Friday February 7, Hassan Diab's civil lawyer filed a statement of claim in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice regarding Hassan's extradition in 2014. At a press conference that day, Hassan stated: | "Since my release in 2018, we have …

Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels (2020-02-10). From Pétain to Macron, from the Resistance to the Yellow Vests…: 1944-1945, France's Fake Purge of "The Collaborators" globalresearch.ca In her most recent book, La Non-épuration en France de 1943 aux années 1950 ("France's Non-Purge from 1943 to the 1950s"), historian Annie Lacroix-Riz challenges a view of the Liberation of the country in 1944-1945 — and its aftermath — …

Andre Vltchek (2020-02-10). In Oman the Old Monarch Passed Away, but the New One Will Guarantee Continuity. globalresearch.ca The Sultan of Oman — Qaboos bin Said Al Said — passed away at the age of 79. He was the longest serving monarch in the Gulf. Within 24 hours, an envelope with his will got opened, and the new …

Larry Romanoff (2020-02-10). The Geopolitical Deployment of Biological Weapons. globalresearch.ca It should be apparent that the launching of bio-warfare, as with conventional warfare, is considerably eased by locating military bases, offensive weapons and delivery systems as physically close as possible to one's potential enemies. This is one reason the US …

Peadar O'Cearnaigh (2020-02-10). Joe Biden jokingly calls a voter 'a liar', but his poll ratings show he has nothing to laugh about. thecanary.co At a Democrat primary event in New Hampshire on 9 February, a young student asked former US vice president Joe Biden why voters should believe he could win the national election. But instead of giving her a straight answer, Biden called her a "lying dog-faced pony soldier". So his response left a lot of people in the room and online quite puzzled: | t.co/yTfLtvvFBP — Reuters (@Reuters)

UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strikers (2020-02-10). We're California Graduate Students, And We're Not Taking Poverty Wages Anymore. thenation.com We're California Graduate Students, And We're Not Taking Poverty Wages Anymore…

WSWS (2020-02-10). Dozens of San Diego teachers receive "excess" notices as mass layoffs loom. wsws.org Most of the excessed teachers have been told they will receive pink slips layoff notices on March 15 due to their lack of seniority in the district.

sputniknews (2020-02-10). Water Sprite: Puzzling New Virus With Unknown Genes Spotted in Brazil. sputniknews.com Although the newly uncovered virus was found to belong to the amoeba class, 90 percent of its genes are totally absent from vast 8,500-item metagenome databases.

yenisafak (2020-02-10). NATO's image worsens sharply in France, United States, study shows. yenisafak.com NATO's public image in the United States and France worsened sharply last year, according to a Pew Research Center study, after U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron questioned the value of the Western alliance.Positive views of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which relies on the commitment of its allies to collective defence, fell to 52% in the United States last year, from 64% in 2018, the study released on Monday said.In France, where Macron said last year the alliance was experiencing "brain death" because of a perceived failure to help resolve world conflicts, support fell…

True Publica (2020-02-10). The Bad Blood of Brexit Coursing Through Our Veins. globalresearch.ca Brexit is not just tearing the union apart, it is further souring an already strained relationship with both the European Union and with America. The

Global Research News (2020-02-10). Selected Articles: The United States: A "Destroyer Of Nations" globalresearch.ca Lying is a money making activity and lies are commodities. There is a profitable global market for media and public figures committed to spreading disinformation. | Needless to say, "Telling the Truth", on the other hand, Is Not a Money-Making Proposition. …

Gary Olson (2020-02-09). On Class Consciousness and the 2020 Presidential Election. dissidentvoice.org After several weeks of intensive reading and discussion on class, capitalism and socialism in my undergraduate course, The Politics of Labor, we would do following exercise: Standing before the blackboard (google it) I encouraged the students to list existing, objective and determining conditions that might prompt the American working class to seek the abolition of …

Rick Sterling (2020-02-09). Three Extraordinary Australian Journalists: Burchett, Pilger and Assange. globalresearch.ca Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across three generations: Wilfred Burchett (deceased in 1983), John Pilger (80 years old but still active) and Julian Assange (48 years old, currently in London's Belmarsh prison). | Each of these journalists made unique contributions to …

Ellen Brown (2020-02-09). Mexico's President AMLO Shows How It's Done. globalresearch.ca While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico's new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in …

teleSUR (2020-02-09). Egypt Arrests and Tortures Human Rights Activist: Rights Group. telesurenglish.net An Egyptian researcher and activist was arrested Friday at Cairo's international airport following his arrival from Italy to Egypt's capital for a family visit, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). | RELATED: | Patrick George Zaki, 27, had been in the Italian city of Bologna since August 2019 for his postgraduate studies. | "He was taken into the custody of Egypt's National Security Inve…

Eric Toussaint (2020-02-09). Rosa Luxemburg and Debt as an Imperialist Instrument. globalresearch.ca In her book titled The Accumulation of Capital, [1] published in 1913, Rosa Luxemburg [2] devoted an entire chapter to international loans [3] in order to show how the great capitalist powers of the time used the credits granted by …

Washington's Blog (2020-02-09). The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives. globalresearch.ca Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives. But most of the top American military officials at the time said otherwise.

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2020-02-09). Video: What Did Malcolm X Really Think about the Democratic Party? globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research in February 2017 | "I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years" —U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according to Ronald Kessler's "Inside the White House"…

Peter Koenig (2020-02-09). China — Western China Bashing — vs. Western Biowarfare? globalresearch.ca On 29 January WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that there was no reason to declare the outbreak of the coronavirus 2019-nCoV in China a pandemic risk. On 30 January, he declared the virus an international emergency, but …

The Big Wobble (2020-02-09). Fish All Gone! Gulf of Alaska Fishery to Close for the First Time Ever: No More Cod: Salmon All but Gone: Millions of Small Sea Birds Died Since 2015. globalresearch.ca First posted on Global Research in December 2019 | November 2019, thousands of short-tailed shearwaters birds migrating from Alaska were washing up dead on Sydney's iconic beaches. | Extremely low cod numbers have lead feds to close the Gulf of Alaska fishery …

GMWatch (2020-02-09). Glyphosate and Roundup Proven to Disrupt Gut Microbiome by Inhibiting Shikimate Pathway. globalresearch.ca First published and posted in GR in December 2019 | Fatty liver disease and death of liver tissue were also confirmed in rats fed regulatory permitted and thus presumed safe doses of the weedkiller | The primary mechanism of how glyphosate herbicides …

Yves Engler (2020-02-09). Bankers Shape Canadian Policy in Latin America. Juan Guaidó Fêted in Ottawa. globalresearch.ca What's more likely to shape Canadian policy in the Hemisphere: human rights and democracy or bankers' bottom-line? | Last week Venezuelan politician Juan Guaidó was fêted in Ottawa. The self-declared president met Canada's Prime Minister, international development minister and foreign minister. …

Daniel Kovalik (2020-02-09). Video: The U.S. Attempted 2018 Coup against Nicaragua. globalresearch.ca Watch this full length documentary by Dan Kovalik | Daniel Kovalik is an American lawyer and Human Rights advocate who's followed Nicaragua's politics for the last four decades. | 20 months after what was called the "April Crisis" he goes to Nicaragua …

Bryant Brown (2020-02-09). A Review of an Old Friend's Biography. Memoirs of Huge Keenleyside 1898 — 1992. globalresearch.ca I didn't know him well, but in the 1970's Hugh Keenleyside and I spent some time together. | That came about because in the late 1960's fund raising walks for international causes had become all the rage! Oxfam, the English charity …

Miri Wood (2020-02-09). NATO Allies Hold Emergency UN Security Council Meeting to "Save Al-Qaeda" in Idlib. globalresearch.ca The NATO allies of the UNSC held another emergency meeting to wail loud crocodile tears for the terrorists occupying Idlib who are actually on the UN's terror list, and on the terror lists of the countries of the NATO tripartite …

2020-02-10: Social Media Postees

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The Truth About Julian Assange
Nils Melzer | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture

Being a Democrat–Ugh
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Notwithstanding the impotent Senate Minority. Not those ill-fated bills championed as victories by House Democrats only to be spurned by the upper chamber; not smug, elitist party fundraisers; not funding strategists and millionaire celebrity donors; not even bumbling Iowa Democratic …
globalresearch.ca/being-democrat/5703227

'Puzzling' virus of UNKNOWN origin with genes scientists can't identify discovered in Brazil
rt.com | 2020-02-10
Scientists in Brazil have discovered a virus which appears to be almost entirely new, consisting of unrecognizable genes that have been, until now, undocumented. | The Yaravirus (Yaravirus brasiliensis), named after a water deity in Brazilian mythology and folklore, was discovered in Lake Pampulha in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. | Also on rt.com | | –°hina unveils mobile app that DETECTS coronavirus close contact | In recent years, virologists and other researchers have discovered a variety of new viruses which challenge tradition…
rt.com/news/480495-virus-unknown-origin-brazil/

The "Low-yield" Nuclear Warhead: A Dangerous Weapon Based on Bad Strategic Thinking
Andrew Facini | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
In the unintuitive world of nuclear weapons strategy, it's often difficult to identify which decisions can serve to decrease the risk of a devastating nuclear conflict and which might instead increase it. Such complexity stems from the very foundation of …
globalresearch.ca/low-yield-nuclear-warhead-dangerous-weapon-based-bad-strategic-thinking/5703212

Chinese Slams "Racist" Reports by German Media over Coronavirus
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
"Epidemic outbreaks must not be used as an excuse for discrimination and xenophobia, and press freedom must not become a reason for creating a racist opinion in German society," said the Chinese embassy in Germany in a statement. | *** | The …
globalresearch.ca/chinese-slams-racist-reports-german-media-over-coronavirus/5703248

From Pétain to Macron, from the Resistance to the Yellow Vests…: 1944-1945, France's Fake Purge of "The Collaborators"
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
In her most recent book, La Non-épuration en France de 1943 aux années 1950 ("France's Non-Purge from 1943 to the 1950s"), historian Annie Lacroix-Riz challenges a view of the Liberation of the country in 1944-1945

NATO "Preparations" for Attack on Russia. Operation Barbarossa II: Setting the Stage for War
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
I have written several times about the continuing NATO preparations for an attack on Russia, a second Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. Circumstances prompt me to write about it again, for …
globalresearch.ca/operation-barbarossa-ii-setting-stage-war/5703197

Gas Wars in the Mediterranean
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The unexpected alliance between Turkey and Libya is a geopolitical earthquake that changes the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean and across the Middle East. Turkey's audacious move has enraged its rivals in the region and cleared the way …
globalresearch.ca/gas-wars-mediterranean/5703184

Brazilian Government Wants to Destroy the Culture of Native Peoples
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Recently, Brazilian government appointed Ricardo Lopes Dias to the position of coordinator of isolated peoples at the National Indian Foundation (Fundaàßà£o Nacional do Ândio

West Virginia Legislation: The Criminalization of Peaceful Protests against Oil and Gas "Critical Infrastructure". Anti-protest Bills
Connor Gibson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
2020 HB 4615 | Introduced and referred to House Judiciary Committee on January 30, 2020 | ICNL analysis: | Would heighten the penalties for protests near oil and gas pipelines and other infrastructure. Under the bill, knowingly trespassing on property containing a | …
globalresearch.ca/west-virginia-oil-gas-critical-infrastructure-anti-protest-bills/5703279

Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-yield Nukes on Submarines to Counter Made-up Russian 'Strategy'
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The US has deployed "low-yield" nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it's to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a "Russian strategy" made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer. | In a statement released | …
globalresearch.ca/step-nuclear-doomsday-us-puts-low-yield-nukes-submarines-counter-made-up-russian-strategy/5703215

Climate Change and Rebellion: an interview with John Molyneux
Leo Zeilig | mronline.org | 2020-02-10
In an interview with the socialist writer and activist, John Molyneux, ROAPE's Leo Zeilig asks him about climate change, capitalism and socialist transformation. In an important initiative John has recently founded the Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) which brings together activists and researchers from across the Global North and South. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/10/climate-change-and-rebellion-an-interview-with-john-molyneux/

Israel Charged with War Crimes and Genocide. Complete 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The Tribunal deplores the failure of international institutions to punish the State of Israel for its crimes and its total lack of respect of International Law and the institutions of the United Nations.
globalresearch.ca/israel-charged-with-war-crimes-and-genocide-complete-judgment-of-kl-tribunal/5359433

The Geopolitical Deployment of Biological Weapons
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
It should be apparent that the launching of bio-warfare, as with conventional warfare, is considerably eased by locating military bases, offensive weapons and delivery systems as physically close as possible to one's potential enemies. This is one reason the US …
globalresearch.ca/the-geopolitical-deployment-of-biological-weapons/5703005

9/11 Analysis: Carbon Nanotubes in World Trade Center Dust
Kevin Ryan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
At the Toronto Hearings in 2011, Professor Niels Harrit described a new discovery related to the World Trade Center (WTC) dust. That new discovery was the presence of carbon nanotubes in the residues of nanothermite ignition. The importance of these …
globalresearch.ca/carbon-nanotubes-wtc-dust/5703240

The American Empire Mistakenly Believes the Shale Oil-Gas Revolution Will Continue Until 2050 and Beyond
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The Trump regime never tires of trumpeting the myth of American 'energy independence'. The foreign policy establishment in Washington sees America's emergence as the worlds largest oil exporter as giving a huge boost to the achievement of U.S. geo-political goals. …
globalresearch.ca/american-empire-mistakenly-believes-shale-revolution-continue-until-2050-beyond/5703191

World War III's Newest Battlefield: U.S. Troops Head for the Far North
Michael T. Klare | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
In early March, an estimated 7,500 American combat troops will travel to Norway to join thousands of soldiers from other NATO countries in a massive mock battle with imagined invading forces from Russia. In this futuristic simulated engagement

Trump Administration's EPA's New Shameful Tactic: Avoid People Poisoned by Coal Ash
Anita Desikan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Imagine you live next to a coal-fired power plant. Near the power plant, you may have seen heavy machinery dumping loads of greyish substance into an open pit or a pond. You learn that the greyish stuff is called coal …
globalresearch.ca/epa-new-shameful-tactic-avoid-people-poisoned-coal-ash/5703199

In Oman the Old Monarch Passed Away, but the New One Will Guarantee Continuity
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
The Sultan of Oman

Russia starts training crew for India's 1st manned space mission
rt.com | 2020-02-10
Four Indian astronauts that will take part in their country's first manned space mission have begun tuition at Russia's famed Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC) after coming through a rigorous selection process at home. | The quartet, sent by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), commenced training on Monday, the center announced in a statement. Their names have yet to be revealed, but all of them are well-trained military pilots, it stated. | "All candidates served as fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force. After serious tests,…
rt.com/news/480491-indian-astronauts-start-training-russia/

Coronavirus Is Becoming a Western Excuse for Sinophobia and "China-Bashing"
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Coronavirus is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest epidemic tragedies of our times. Hundreds of dead people and thousands of ill ones are the proof of it. For any person with good faith and interested in the well-being of people, it …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-western-excuse-sinophobia/5703277

Support for NATO wanes in France, Germany & even US as alliance struggles to maintain unity
rt.com | 2020-02-10
Public support for NATO has seen a notable decline in France, Germany and the US, according to a new poll. The alliance has suffered from months of budgetary in-fighting and mud-slinging among member states. | While the Pew Research study noted that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization still enjoys general support across member states, it pointed out that several countries "have soured on the alliance." | Positive views of the transatlantic alliance fell to 52 percent in the United States last year, from 64 percent in 2018, the survey found. In France, support fell to 49 percent, from 60 percent in 2017 and…
rt.com/news/480501-nato-approval-decline-europe-us/

Hassan Diab Files Civil Claim Regarding His Extradition
Hassan Diab Support Committee | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
On Friday February 7, Hassan Diab's civil lawyer filed a statement of claim in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice regarding Hassan's extradition in 2014. At a press conference that day, Hassan stated: | "Since my release in 2018, we have | …
globalresearch.ca/hassan-diab-files-civil-claim-regarding-extradition/5703236

German Ruling Class Commemorates Liberation of Auschwitz by Planning New Wars and New Crimes
Johannes Stern | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
On Wednesday, a neo-fascist party helped form a regional government in Germany for the first time since the end of Nazi rule. | Despite the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) receiving just five percent of the vote in the regional election …
globalresearch.ca/german-ruling-class-commemorates-liberation-auschwitz-planning-new-wars-new-crimes/5703234

Iowa: Where The Democrats' DNC Dreams Go to Die. Bernie, The "Trumpian Front Runner"
Brett Redmayne-Titley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
After months of the DNC's daily water boarding of the American public with their manufactured jurisprudence know as The Impeachment, these same political wizards of electioneering have in one day, Monday, galvanized the person they most detest. This week's political …
globalresearch.ca/iowa-where-dnc-dreams-go-die/5703243

It's No Big Deal that There Are Some Limits to Russia-Israel "Cooperation" in Syria
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Russia's condemnation of the "Israeli Air Force's" recklessness in once again hiding behind a civilian aircraft to deter anti-air fire by the Syrian Arab Army during their latest bombing operation against Damascus isn't contradictory to the principles of the unofficial …
globalresearch.ca/no-big-deal-some-limits-russian-israeli-co-op-syria/5703255

We're California Graduate Students, And We're Not Taking Poverty Wages Anymore
UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strikers | thenation.com | 2020-02-10
We're California Graduate Students, And We're Not Taking Poverty Wages…
thenation.com/article/activism/santa-cruz-strike/

Joe Biden jokingly calls a voter 'a liar', but his poll ratings show he has nothing to laugh about
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-02-10
At a Democrat primary event in New Hampshire on 9 February, a young student asked former US vice president Joe Biden why voters should believe he could win the national election. But instead of giving her a straight answer, Biden called her a "lying dog-faced pony soldier". So his response left a lot of people in the room and online quite puzzled: | t.co/yTfLtvvFBP pic.twitter.com/u8EsmYP1Xr |

Dozens of San Diego teachers receive "excess" notices as mass layoffs loom
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
Most of the excessed teachers have been told they will receive pink slips layoff notices on March 15 due to their lack of seniority in the district.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/teac…

2020 Oscars in Pictures
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-10
For the second year, there was no host at the ceremony. Past winners and nominees, as well as Hollywood celebrities took the stage to announce the favourites chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
sputniknews.com/photo/202002101078275282-2020-oscars-in-pictures/

Water Sprite: Puzzling New Virus With Unknown Genes Spotted in Brazil
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-10
Although the newly uncovered virus was found to belong to the amoeba class, 90 percent of its genes are totally absent from vast 8,500-item metagenome databases.
sputniknews.com/science/202002101078275895-water-sprite-puzzling-new-virus-with-unknown-genes-spotted-in-brazil/

NATO's image worsens sharply in France, United States, study shows
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-10
NATO's public image in the United States and France worsened sharply last year, according to a Pew Research Center study, after U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron questioned the value of the Western alliance.Positive views of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which relies on the commitment of its allies to collective defence, fell to 52% in the United States last year, from 64% in 2018, the study released on Monday said.In France, where Macron said last year the alliance was experiencing "brain death" because of a perceived failure to help resolve world conflicts, support fell…
yenisafak.com/en/news/natos-image-worsens-sharply-in-france-united-states-study-shows-3511679

Deported to Death: US Sent 138 Salvadorans Home to be Killed
Prof. Mneesha Gellman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
At least 138 people deported from the United States to El Salvador since 2013 have been killed, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch, which investigates human rights abuses worldwide. | The 117-page report also says researchers identified at …
globalresearch.ca/deported-death-us-sent-138-salvadorans-home-killed/5703205

Menace on the Menu in Post-EU Britain
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written the report ' Bayer Crop Science rules Britain after Brexit

The Bad Blood of Brexit Coursing Through Our Veins
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Brexit is not just tearing the union apart, it is further souring an already strained relationship with both the European Union and with America. The economy has flatlined, inward investment has collapsed and the government are now so desperate that …
globalresearch.ca/bad-blood-brexit/5703208

Selected Articles: The United States: A "Destroyer Of Nations"
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Lying is a money making activity and lies are commodities. There is a profitable global market for media and public figures committed to spreading disinformation. | Needless to say, "Telling the Truth", on the other hand, Is Not a Money-Making Proposition. …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-united-states-destroyer-nations/5703264

Mexico's President AMLO Shows How It's Done
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico's new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in …
globalresearch.ca/mexico-president-amlo-shows-how-its-done/5703116

Three Extraordinary Australian Journalists: Burchett, Pilger and Assange
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across three generations: Wilfred Burchett (deceased in 1983), John Pilger (80 years old but still active) and Julian Assange (48 years old, currently in London's Belmarsh prison). | Each of these journalists made unique contributions to …
globalresearch.ca/three-extraordinary-australian-journalists-burchett-pilger-and-assange/5703110

No New Nuclear
Radiation Free Lakeland | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
Climate activists across the world are uniting to protect the planet from continuing fossil fuel use. There is much talk of a green industrial revolution and a Green New Deal. This sounds good, but what does it mean? | Kevin Frea…
globalresearch.ca/no-new-nuclear/5703136

Bankers Shape Canadian Policy in Latin America. Juan Guaidó Fêted in Ottawa
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
What's more likely to shape Canadian policy in the Hemisphere: human rights and democracy or bankers' bottom-line? | Last week Venezuelan politician Juan Guaidó was fêted in Ottawa. The self-declared president met Canada's Prime Minister, international development minister and foreign minister. …
globalresearch.ca/bankers-shape-canadian-policy-latin-america/5703148

Rosa Luxemburg and Debt as an Imperialist Instrument
Eric Toussaint | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
In her book titled The Accumulation of Capital, [1] published in 1913, Rosa Luxemburg [2] devoted an entire chapter to international loans [3] in order to show how the great capitalist powers of the time used the credits granted by …
globalresearch.ca/rosa-luxemburg-debt-imperialist-instrument/5703113

Video: What Did Malcolm X Really Think about the Democratic Party?
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
First published by Global Research in February 2017 | "I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years" –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according to Ronald Kessler's "Inside the White House"…
globalresearch.ca/what-did-malcolm-x-really-think-about-the-democratic-party/5576198

Politics and Corruption at the World Health Organization (WHO)
Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
This article, translated from French, was written prior to Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic outbreak | *** | The WHO [OMS in French] is the World Health Organisation. 'WHO' in English

South Africa's Government's Firm Stance against "Israeli Apartheid"
BDS South Africa | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
South African civil society will be holding a pre State of the Nation (SONA) Palestine solidarity picket in support of the South African government's firm stance against Israeli Apartheid and in protest against US President Donald Trump's recent Apartheid …
globalresearch.ca/south-african-civil-society-protest-ahead-ramaphosas-upcoming-state-nation-address-sona/5703124

Glyphosate and Roundup Proven to Disrupt Gut Microbiome by Inhibiting Shikimate Pathway
GMWatch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
First published and posted in GR in December 2019 | Fatty liver disease and death of liver tissue were also confirmed in rats fed regulatory permitted and thus presumed safe doses of the weedkiller | The primary mechanism of how glyphosate herbicides …
globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-roundup-proven-disrupt-gut-microbiome-inhibiting-shikimate-pathway/5697512

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives
Washington's Blog | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives. But most of the top American military officials at the time said otherwise.
globalresearch.ca/the-real-reason-america-used-nuclear-weapons-against-japan-it-was-not-to-end-the-war-or-save-lives/5308192

Video: The U.S. Attempted 2018 Coup against Nicaragua
Daniel Kovalik | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
Watch this full length documentary by Dan Kovalik | Daniel Kovalik is an American lawyer and Human Rights advocate who's followed Nicaragua's politics for the last four decades. | 20 months after what was called the "April Crisis" he goes to Nicaragua …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-u-s-attempted-2018-coup-against-nicaragua/5703166

Egypt Arrests and Tortures Human Rights Activist: Rights Group
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-09
An Egyptian researcher and activist was arrested Friday at Cairo's international airport following his arrival from Italy to Egypt's capital for a family visit, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). | RELATED: | 'In Chile They Torture, Rape, Kill', Mon Laferte Says Shameless | Patrick George Zaki, 27, had been in the Italian city of Bologna since August 2019 for his postgraduate studies. | "He was taken into the custody of Egypt's National Security Inve…
telesurenglish.net/news/Egypt-Arrests-and-Tortures-Human-Rights-Activist-Rights-Group-20200209-0015.html

The United States: A "Destroyer Of Nations"
Daniel Kovalik | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
First published by Counterpunch and Global Research in October 2016 | In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003

NATO Allies Hold Emergency UN Security Council Meeting to "Save Al-Qaeda" in Idlib
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
The NATO allies of the UNSC held another emergency meeting to wail loud crocodile tears for the terrorists occupying Idlib who are actually on the UN's terror list, and on the terror lists of the countries of the NATO tripartite …
globalresearch.ca/nato-allies-hold-emergency-unsc-meeting-save-al-qaeda-idlib/5703119