Pope Francis endorses wealth redistribution, calls for an end to tax cuts for the 'richest people'
rt.com | 2020-02-06
Pope Francis blasted the practice of tax cuts for the rich as part of a "structure of sin" and lamented the fact that "billions of dollars" end up in "tax haven accounts" instead of funding "healthcare and education." | Speaking at the seminar set up by the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences the Pope criticized "the richest people" for receiving "repeated tax cuts" in the name of "investment and development." These "tax haven accounts" impede "the possibility of the dignified and sustained development of all social agents," claims the Pope. | He added that "the poor increase around us" as poverty is rising…
rt.com/news/480256-pope-francis-tax-cuts/

'All Journalists at Risk' if Assange Handed to US Jailers
Ben Chacko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
All journalists will be at risk if Julian Assange is extradited to the US and jailed for publishing classified information, a packed debate at London's Frontline Club heard today. | Mr Assange faces up to 175 years behind bars if convicted …
globalresearch.ca/all-journalists-risk-assange-handed-us-jailers/5702932

The Shambles of English Votes for English Laws
Mike Small | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
The idea of Scotland as a valued member of a Union based on consensus is in tatters. The idea of a parliament representing the whole of the United Kingdom is no longer credible. In a week in which Westminster democracy …
globalresearch.ca/shambles-english-votes-english-laws/5702926

Video: Syrian Army Advance in Idlib Province. Netanyahu and Erdogan to the Rescue of Al Qaeda
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
In Greater Idlib the defences of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other favorites of the foreign powers supporting 'Syrian democracy' are collapsing. | On February 5, the Syrian Army, supported by Russian airpower, took control of a number of villages in southeastern …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-captured-saraqib-netanyahu-n-erdogan-rescue/5702958

Russia-Belarus Relations: 'The Moment of Truth' Has Arrived. Belarus Drifting Westward?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
Belarusian President Lukashenko's dramatic declaration that "the moment of truth has come" for bilateral relations ahead of his meeting with his Russian counterpart on Friday raises all sorts of questions about the future of their ties, though nobody should be …
globalresearch.ca/russian-belarusian-relations-moment-truth-arrived/5702957

Interview: Trump's Nuclear Insecurities and Other Secrets from the Author of "The Bomb"
Fred Kaplan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
In this interview, Bulletin contributing editor Dawn Stover speaks with Fred Kaplan about his just-published book, The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon & Schuster). Kaplan is a national-security columnist for Slate and the author …
globalresearch.ca/interview-trump-nuclear-insecurities-other-secrets/5702938

Let's Move the Goalposts. The US-China Confrontation
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
The prospect of 'moving the goalposts' is a peculiarly American strategy to ensure that America will always win. To accomplish this, one either moves the goalposts in position to receive the ball regardless of how badly-aimed it might be, or …
globalresearch.ca/lets-move-goalposts/5702904

An American Drama: Republican Senators Sabotaged Donald Trump's Impeachment Trial
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
The die is cast. –History will record that Republican senators in the U.S. Senate used their majority to sabotage the impeachment trial of Donald Trump and, in so doing, de facto exonerated him of abuse of power and of obstruction …
globalresearch.ca/american-drama-republican-senators-sabotaged-donald-trump-impeachment-trial/5702917

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and "Predictive Justice" in Our Courts
Dr. Jaspal Kaur Sadhu Singh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Talking to Strangers, wrote of the difficulty faced by a judge whether to allow bail to an accused. Gladwell, in essence, highlights that being human, there is a propensity for judges to make a …
globalresearch.ca/ai-predictive-justice-our-courts/5702855

Trump's State of the Union Address: Half MAGA Rally, Half Resistance Protest, Full-on Reality TV Drama
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
Tuesday's State of the Union dubbed "the launching of the great American comeback" came just a day after the Iowa caucuses in the 2020 presidential election and a day before Trump was acquitted of both articles of impeachment by the …
globalresearch.ca/trump-state-union-address-half-maga-rally-half-resistance-protest-full-reality-tv-drama/5702953

Triumphal Divisions: Trump's State of the Union Address
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
In this year of the presidential elections, President Donald J. Trump shows little sign of cowering. It had been some time in coming, but here was a businessman talking to a Congress long in the pocket of business, a seemingly …
globalresearch.ca/triumphal-divisions-trump-state-union-address/5702908

America Down the Rabbit Hole. Have We Landed in The Place of Silliness and Nonsense?
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
In Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Alice chases the white rabbit and falls down the well into a world of silliness and nonsense. Not so for our dear Amerika and us working stiffs. The world that we have found ourselves …
globalresearch.ca/amerika-down-rabbit-hole/5702903

As number of cases soars, researchers announce potential coronavirus vaccine
wsws.org | 2020-02-06
Drug companies are cautioning that vaccine manufacturing is a slow, methodical process.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/06/viru…

NASA's Record-Setting Koch, Crewmates Safely Back From Space
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-06
MOSCOW

Draft UN Resolution Condemns Trump Middle East 'Peace' Plan
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
A draft United Nations Security Council resolution rebuked Tuesday President Donald Trump's pro-Israel peace proposal and condemned Israeli plan to annex its illegal settlements in Palestinian territories. | Tunisia and Indonesia circulated the draft text to council members. Though it …
globalresearch.ca/draft-un-resolution-condemns-trump-middle-east-peace-plan/5702925

Syrian Army's Offensive in Idlib Deepens Rift Between Russia and Turkey
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
Major strains are appearing in Russian-Turkish relations, particularly over the Syrian Army's latest offensive against Turkish-backed jihadists in Idlib and Russia's non-agreeance with Turkey's support for the Muslim Brotherhood government based in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Last week Turkish…
globalresearch.ca/syrian-army-offensive-idlib-deepens-rift-between-russia-turkey/5702948

The 'Deal of the Century': Revealed and Reviled
Hasan Abu Nimah | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
Last week, on January 28, US President Donald Trump officially revealed his long-awaited '"Deal of the Century": The plan for resolving the century-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Except for some additional details, the lengthy document did not add much to what …
globalresearch.ca/deal-century-revealed-reviled/5702940

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) Lawyers Question Legality of Saudi Arms Ship Due to Dock in UK
CAAT, Campaign Against Arms Trade | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
Lawyers from Leigh Day, representing Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), have written to the Government Legal Department seeking clarification as to the licence under which a Saudi vessel will be allowed to enter and subsequently leave the UK following its …
globalresearch.ca/campaign-against-arms-trade-caat-lawyers-question-legality-saudi-arms-ship-due-dock-uk/5702933

Over 1.5 million homeless students in the US
wsws.org | 2020-02-06
On the day that US President Donald Trump proclaimed a "blue-collar boom" in his State of the Union Address, the federal government reported that the number of students experiencing homelessness has hit a record high.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/06/home…

Staff, students and freedom of expression at Nashville art school threatened in takeover by religious university
wsws.org | 2020-02-06
Watkins College of Art, long known for its artistic freedom, is being absorbed by Belmont University, where art and the teaching of art are censored.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/06/watk…

'No right to privacy from the opposite sex': 13yo girl takes school trans inclusion rules to UK High Court
rt.com | 2020-02-06
Some British schools are trying to be more accommodating to trans students at the expense of others, a 13-year-old has alleged in court documents. She says their guidelines go against girls' desire for privacy, dignity and safety. | The new Trans Inclusion Toolkit released by Oxfordshire County Council last February instructs that students should have access to toilets, changing rooms, dorms and similar spaces, in accordance with t…
rt.com/uk/480222-trans-school-guidelines-court/

People's Park Forum: The Displacement Plan
Disorganizer | indybay.org | 2020-02-06
UC Berkeley: MLK Jr. Student Union Ballroom (2495 Bancroft Way)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/04/18830370.php

SPLC sues Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School safety commission for not allowing students to voice concerns
splcenter.org | 2020-02-06
Kinsey Akers had to take the PSAT but was determined to make her voice heard at a public meeting on school safety that same day.
splcenter.org/news/2020/02/06/splc-sues-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-safety-commission-not-allowing-students

SF Teacher & Residents Speak Out On Superfund SF Treasure Island, TIDA & Charter Schools
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-02-06
At San Francisco City Hall, a Teacher & Residents discuss the Superfund SF Treasure Island site, TIDA. Charter Schools & the systemic corruption in San Francisco.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/06/18830452.php

Bernie Sanders Reports Massive January Haul After Iowa Debacle
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-06
Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced Thursday that it raised a staggering $25 million in the month of January alone, by far the biggest fundraising month of the senator's campaign and a larger haul than his 2020 Democratic rivals posted in any full quarter of 2019. | The campaign said over 219,000 of the total 648,000 January donors were new, and the average donation was just over $18. Teacher was the most common profession of January donors and the most common employers were Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, the United States Postal Service, and Target. | More than 99.9% of Sanders' donors have not max…
truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-reports-massive-january-haul-after-iowa-debacle/

Mexico Is Showing the World How to Defeat Neoliberalism
Ellen Brown | truthdig.com | 2020-02-06
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 the country. At a press conference on Jan. 6, he said the neoliberal model had failed; private banks were not serving the poor and people outside the cities, so the government had to step in. | Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO)…
truthdig.com/articles/mexico-is-showing-the-world-how-to-defeat-neoliberalism/

Elon Musk on What You Need to Get a Job at Tesla: 'Don't Care If You Graduated High School'
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-06
'Knowledge over degree' appears to be the hiring strategy of Elon Musk, who famously dropped out of Stanford after just two days to start his first company.
sputniknews.com/science/202002061078245403-elon-musk-on-what-you-need-to-get-a-job-at-tesla-dont-care-if-you-graduated-high-school/

Death toll of assault on Iraq's Najaf protesters hits 11
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-06
The death toll of assault carried out by supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr against Iraqi protesters in central Iraq province of Najaf rose to 11, said a medical source on Thursday."The majority of the dead and wounded were shot by guns and stabbed with knives," the source, who works at Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital in Najaf, told Anadolu Agency.The source added that more than 120 people were injured in the attacks.For his part, a security source in the Najaf Police Command told Anadolu Agency that "the anti-terror security forces were deployed in the middle of Najaf to contain the escalation."Al-Sadr supporte…
yenisafak.com/en/news/death-toll-of-assault-on-iraqs-najaf-protesters-hits-11-3511409

Selected Articles: 'All Journalists at Risk' if Assange Handed to US Jailers
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-06
'All Journalists at Risk' if Assange Handed to US Jailers | By Ben Chacko, February 06, 2020 | All journalists will be at risk if Julian Assange is extradited to the US and jailed for publishing classified information, a packed debate …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-all-journalists-risk-assange-handed-us-jailers/5702965

Selected Article: Trump Ups Nuclear Ante with 'Mini-Nukes'
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | | | If, like us, this is a …
globalresearch.ca/selected-article-trump-ups-nuclear-ante-mini-nukes/5702891

Trump's SOTU 'Red Meat' Speech: US Political Crisis Now Deepens
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
Donald Trump delivered a State of the Union speech that revealed his election 2020 strategy, designed to roil and mobilize his political base, and to declare to the Democrats that his political war with them …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-sotu-red-meat-speech-us-political-crisis-now-deepens/5702882

Exxon's Exploitative Oil Deal in Guyana Will Deprive the Country of Up to $55 Billion
Global Witness | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
Exxon's exploitative oil deal with Guyana will cause the country to lose up to US$55 billion, according to a new Global Witness investigation based on an OpenOil analysis. | The new report, Signed Away, shows how the oil major used | …
globalresearch.ca/exxon-exploitative-oil-deal-guyana-deprive-country-55-billion/5702868

EU Rejects Trump Middle East Peace Plan, Annexation
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
The European Union rejected Tuesday some of the proposals outlined by U.S. President Donald Trump for the Middle East, prompting an angry response from Israel, which has actively supported the U.S. plan. | Following deliberations of the 27 members, the European …
globalresearch.ca/eu-rejects-trump-middle-east-peace-plan-annexation/5702862

US Deploys New Low-Yield Nuclear Submarine Warhead
William M Arkin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
The US Navy has now deployed the new W76-2 low-yield Trident submarine warhead. The first ballistic missile submarine scheduled to deploy with the new warhead was the USS Tennessee (SSBN-734), which deployed from Kings Bay Submarine Base in Georgia during …
globalresearch.ca/us-deploys-new-low-yield-nuclear-submarine-warhead/5702872

The Circus Comes to Iowa
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
The Dem circus rolled into Iowa with an app to tabulate caucus results. It failed, miserably, and by the time I read the news this morning, there were zero results. I had a good chuckle over that one, especially after …
globalresearch.ca/circus-comes-iowa/5702845

Trump Ups Nuclear Ante with 'Mini-Nukes' Deployed on Subs to "Deter Russia"
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
The United States has added a 'low yield' nuclear weapon to its submarine arsenal in a controversial first in decades, after the Trump administration called for its deployment as part of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review in order to "deter …
globalresearch.ca/trump-ups-nuclear-ante-mini-nukes-deployed-subs-deter-russia/5702869

"Defender Europe 2020" Against Russia: Cold Siege Against Kaliningrad
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
The announcement of the Defender-Europe 2020 gave the world, but especially Russia, a new and strange perspective on the future of international security. The drills seem to be the largest military exercises in Europe in 25 years. The countries elected …
globalresearch.ca/defender-europe-2020-against-russia-cold-siege-against-kaliningrad/5702844

Trump and Balfour Compared
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
Much has already been written about the Trump administration's release of its long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. I will not repeat the criticisms. Instead, I will focus on what I found to be the striking and disturbing parallels between this …
globalresearch.ca/trump-balfour-compared/5702877

Honduran Women Murdered by Their Partners at Alarming Rates
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-05
Every 23 hours, a woman violently loses her life in Honduras, said on Tuesday, the director of the Violence Observatory of the National Autonomous University, Migdonia Ayestas. | RELATED: | Progressives Condemn Murder of Peasant Leader in Honduras | In the first month of 2020, there were more than 31 victims, and their partners killed 55 percent, said the researcher, quoted by Proceso Digital. | Ayestas explained that the fact that their partners committed the murders shows an "and…
telesurenglish.net/news/Honduran-Women-Murdered-by-Their-Partners-at-Alarming-Rates-20200205-0020.html

VIDEO: The "Lock Step" Simulation Scenario: "A Coronavirus-like Pandemic that Becomes Trigger for Police State Controls"
Helen Buyniski | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
By now, those following the novel coronavirus epidemic are familiar with Event 201, the pandemic simulation staged by Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, and other ruling-class …
globalresearch.ca/all-sectors-us-establishment-lock-step-deep-states-latest-bio-war/5702773

US Policy Vs. Iran: Apex Desperation
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
In Washington's losing battle to maintain hegemony in the Middle East at the expense of the actual people and nations that exist there

The Democratic Party's "Civil War": Socialists vs. Centrists. Sabotaging Sanders
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
The shady developments surrounding the Iowa Caucus prove beyond any reasonable doubt that there's a civil war raging in the Democrat Party between socialists and centrists, one that's so fierce that it recently saw party insiders indirectly sabotaging what could …
globalresearch.ca/the-democratic-partys-civil-war-socialists-vs-centrists-sabotaging-sanders/5702880

Duh, Jared! So Who Built the PA as a 'Police State'?
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
Maybe something good will come out of the Trump plan, after all. By pushing the Middle East peace process to its logical conclusion, Donald Trump has made crystal clear something that was supposed to have been obscured: that no US | …
globalresearch.ca/duh-jared-who-built-pa-police-state/5702889

Students Shouldn't Have to Choose Between Groceries and Therapy
Leehi Yona | thenation.com | 2020-02-05
Students Shouldn't Have to Choose Between Groceries and Therapy…
thenation.com/article/society/students-shouldnt-have-to-choose-between-groceries-and-therapy/

Students Shouldn't Have to Choose Between Groceries and Therapy
Leehi Yona | thenation.com | 2020-02-05
Students Shouldn't Have to Choose Between Groceries and Therapy…
thenation.com/article/society/students-shouldnt-have-to-choose-between-groceries-and-therapy/

Soldiers Attack Schoolchildren Near Bethlehem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-02-05
Israeli soldiers attacked, Wednesday, many Palestinian schoolchildren in Teqoua' town, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Media source said the soldiers fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at the student while heading to school. Taiseer Abu Mfarreh, a teacher of Teqoua' Secondary School, said …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-attack-schoolchildren-near-bethlehem/

Unions reject 'deeply disappointing' pay offer for council workers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-05
Unions representing more than one million local government workers have rejected a 2% pay offer from employers, describing it as "deeply disappointing". | Three unions submitted a claim last year for the lowest rate for council staff to be raised to £10 an hour for its members in England, Wales and the north of Ireland, and by 10% for other workers. | Officials called on employers to come up with a better offer so that talks can continue. | The settlement covers workers ranging from teaching assistants, social workers and librarians to park keepers and refuse collectors. | Unison's head of local government…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/02/05/unions-reject-deeply-disappointing-pay-offer-for-council-workers/

Unions reject 'deeply disappointing' pay offer for council workers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-05
Unions representing more than one million local government workers have rejected a 2% pay offer from employers, describing it as "deeply disappointing". | Three unions submitted a claim last year for the lowest rate for council staff to be raised to £10 an hour for its members in England, Wales and the north of Ireland, and by 10% for other workers. | Officials called on employers to come up with a better offer so that talks can continue. | The settlement covers workers ranging from teaching assistants, social workers and librarians to park keepers and refuse collectors. | Unison's head of local government…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/02/05/unions-reject-deeply-disappointing-pay-offer-for-council-workers/

Dossier 25: People's Polyclinics: The initiative of the Telugu communist movement
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2020-02-05
Under the shadow of the Charter of the United Nations (1945) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), countries are obliged to guarantee the right to health. The 1946 Constitution of the World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as 'a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of […] | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/05/dossier-25-peoples-polyclinics-the-initiative-of-the-telugu-communist-movement/

Waste and Failure in Cyber Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-05
While waste, corruption, and failure have plagued the segregated and nontransparent charter school sector for decades, privately-operated-owned cyber charter schools, even by the admission of the most dogmatic supporters of charter schools, are the worst of the worst. The academic performance of cyber charter schools is consistently abysmal; they have a very high failure rate. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/waste-and-failure-in-cyber-charter-schools/