Aid groups seek safe ports for nearly 500 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean
rt.com | 2020-01-27
Nearly 500 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by two boats run by aid agencies were looking for safe ports in Malta and Italy, the groups said on Monday. The 'Ocean Viking' vessel run by SOS Mediterranee in partnership with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was carrying 407 people rescued in a total of five operations carried out over 72 hours. | Another 78 people were taken on board the 'Alan Kurdi', run by the Sea-Eye organization based in Germany. They were rescued in two operations. | Sea-Eye tweeted on Sunday that the 'Alan Kurdi' was headed for Italy, after Malta refused them a safe port. Ocean Viking has…
rt.com/newsline/479291-ports-migrants-rescued-mediterranean/

Cardi B Leaves Nothing to Imagination Appearing in a Sexy Open Dress at Grammys Gala
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-27
The winner of a 2018 Grammy Award for Best Rap album is no stranger to wowing the public with her looks, but it seems that this time the artist has outdone herself as she put on an eye-popping display when she appeared on the red carpet.
sputniknews.com/viral/202001271078150921-cardi-b-leaves-nothing-to-imagination-appearing-in-a-sexy-open-dress-at-grammys-gala/

Trump's Spiritual Adviser Answers Critics After Calling For 'All Satanic Pregnancies to Miscarry'
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-27
A viral video showing Paula White, a religious adviser in the White House Office of Public Liaison, calling on Jesus Christ to "command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now" has received a strong and largely negative reaction from liberal and women's rights watch groups, prompting her to explain her peculiar wording.
sputniknews.com/us/202001271078150957-trumps-spiritual-adviser-answers-critics-after-calling-for-all-satanic-pregnancies-to-miscarry/

Israel's Auschwitz Commemoration: A Kidnapping of Jewish history
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-27
As world leaders gathered in Jerusalem to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, Zochrot, an Israeli NGO that works to raise awareness among Israeli Jews of the injustices faced by Palestinians, posted a comment on their Facebook page.
mintpressnews.com/israel-auschwitz-commemoration-legacy-jewish-suffering/264329/

'35 boats on fire, people jumped into the water': At least 8 dead in Tennessee River inferno (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-01-27
A huge blaze raged across a dock on the Tennessee River in Scottsboro, Alabama early on Monday, destroying 35 vessels, mostly houseboats, and killing at least eight people, according to the local fire chief. | Several others have been hospitalized, with local officials saying it's not yet known how many more people may have been on board vessels that sank during the disaster. | www.facebook.com/mandy.Durham.11/posts/560166164854286 | The fire reportedly started close to the shoreline, making it difficult for firefighters to get close enough to fight the blaze, while gas canisters on board nearby vessel…
rt.com/usa/479322-alabama-dock-fire-boats-scottsboro/

'35 boats on fire, people jumped into the water': At least 8 dead in Tennessee River inferno (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-01-27
A huge blaze raged across a dock on the Tennessee River in Scottsboro, Alabama early on Monday, destroying 35 vessels, mostly houseboats, and killing at least eight people, according to the local fire chief. | Several others have been hospitalized, with local officials saying it's not yet known how many more people may have been on board vessels that sank during the disaster. | www.facebook.com/mandy.Durham.11/posts/560166164854286 | The fire reportedly started close to the shoreline, making it difficult for firefighters to get close enough to fight the blaze, while gas canisters on board nearby vessel…
rt.com/usa/479322-alabama-dock-fire-boats-scottsboro/

'No indication of enemy fire': US forces in Afghanistan confirm loss of recon plane
rt.com | 2020-01-27
The US military has acknowledged the loss of a Bombardier/Northrop Grumman E-11A plane in central Afghanistan. They added that they have not found any "indication" that the aircraft was downed. | The aircraft crashed in Ghazni city area on Monday. An investigation into the incident is underway and the military will provide further information when its available, a spokesman for the US force in Afghanistan, Col. Sonny Leggett has tweeted. | A U.S. Bombardier E-11A crashed today in Ghazni province, Afghanistan. While the cause of crash is under investigation, there are no indications the crash was caused by enem…
rt.com/news/479319-us-confirm-plane-crash-afghanistan/

Trump tweets threats as impeachment defense begins
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
Senate Republicans seem determined to bring the trial to an end by Friday of this week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/impe-j27.html

Passenger plane with 130 on board slides off runway, stops in the middle of a road in western Iran (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-01-27
A packed Iranian passenger plane skidded of the runway and ended up in the middle of a city street, local media report. | Caspian Airlines Flight 6936 took off from Tehran at around 6: 44am local time and was trying to land in the city of Bandar-e Mahshahr in southwestern Khuzestan Province when it skidded off the runway on Monday, Tasnim News said. | Videos from the scene, which are circulating on social media, show the Boeing aircraft lying on its belly in the middle of the road. Passengers were calmly evacuated from the plane, while some wreckage from the fuselage could be seen on the ground. | Dramatic f…
rt.com/news/479260-iranian-passenger-plane-slides-off-runway/

Is the DNC Planning to Go to War Against the Left?
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-27
Progressives raised alarm this weekend after Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez released his picks for the 2020 Democratic National Convention committees. | The list of nominees, Sunrise Movement political director Evan Weber said Sunday, looks like "a who's-who of people explicitly opposed to the progressive agenda." | Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof, sparked a flurry of responses when he shared Perez's list on social media Saturday afternoon. | Related Articles:
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WATCH first footage allegedly showing wreckage of US plane that crashed in Afghanistan
rt.com | 2020-01-27
Remains of an aircraft which crashed in the Taliban-held part of central Afghanistan can allegedly be seen in a video circulating on social media. The symbols on the plane appear to be similar to those used by the US military. | In the video, several people can be seen inspecting a crash site. A roundel, identical to the ones used by some US Air Force planes, is visible on the aircraft's fuselage. | US Central Command spokesperson, Major Beth Riordan said that the US military is investigating the reports of the plane crash but decline to comment further. | Earlier reports said that the plane, which has crashed…
rt.com/news/479297-first-footage-plane-crash-afghanistan/

WATCH first footage allegedly showing wreckage of US plane that crashed in Afghanistan
rt.com | 2020-01-27
Remains of an aircraft which crashed in the Taliban-held part of central Afghanistan can allegedly be seen in a video circulating on social media. The symbols on the plane appear to be similar to those used by the US military. | UPDATE: 'No indication of enemy fire': US forces in Afghanistan confirm loss of recon plane | In the video, several people can be seen inspecting a crash site. A roundel, identical to the ones used by some US Air Force planes, is visible on the aircraft's fuselage. | US Central Command spokesperson, Major…
rt.com/news/479297-first-footage-plane-crash-afghanistan/

Is the DNC Planning to Go to War Against the Left?
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-27
Progressives raised alarm this weekend after Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez released his picks for the 2020 Democratic National Convention committees. | The list of nominees, Sunrise Movement political director Evan Weber said Sunday, looks like "a who's-who of people explicitly opposed to the progressive agenda." | Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof, sparked a flurry of responses when he shared Perez's list on social media Saturday afternoon. | Democratic National Committee ch…
truthdig.com/articles/is-the-dnc-planning-to-go-to-war-against-the-left/

Genocide Scholar Warns That the Groundwork for Genocide in the US Has Been Laid
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-27
Brynn Tannehill, a defense analyst and genocide scholar, took to Twitter to warn that the necessary conditions and many of the precursor events for genocide in the US "are in motion."
mintpressnews.com/genocide-scholar-warns-groundwork-genocide-in-us-has-been-laid/264353/

Why the New Silk Roads Are a "Threat" to the "US Bloc"
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Under the cascading roar of the 24/7 news cycle cum Twitter eruptions, it's easy for most of the West, especially the US, to forget the basics about the interaction of Eurasia with its western peninsula, Europe. | Asia and Europe have …
globalresearch.ca/why-new-silk-roads-threat-us-bloc/5701858

Cool-headed Indian man survives terrifying TIGER ATTACK by playing dead (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-01-27
Netizens the world over have been stunned by one Maharashtra man's unlikeliest of escapes when he came face to face with an adult male tiger that had been terrorizing his village in western India. | The unnamed man was forced into the impossible position of playing dead and not moving a muscle as the bengal tiger loomed over him – and even lay down beside him. Hair-raising eyewitness footage of the man's lucky escape in Binaki village has been shared online. | Here's the full video pic.twitter.com/Avvci4Bnhg– WTF üáÆüá&ge…
rt.com/news/479277-man-survives-tiger-attack-india/

Trump denies Ukraine claims in former official's memoir
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-27
U.S. President Donald Trump early on Monday denied claims in a book by former National Security Advisor John Bolton that he ordered aid to Ukraine be frozen until Kiev helped in an investigation into senior Democrat Joe Biden and his son."I NEVER told John Bolton that the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including [former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter] the Bidens," Trump said on Twitter, adding: "In fact, he never complained about this at the time of his very public termination. If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book."Trump referred to a leaked draft of Bolton…
yenisafak.com/en/news/trump-denies-ukraine-claims-in-former-officials-memoir-3510573

Blocking Trains and Removing Coal, Climate Activists Fight to Close One of New England's Largest Power Plants
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert, Arnie Alpert | commondreams.org | 2020-01-26
Four #NoCoalNoGas campaign activists block a coal train near Worcester, Massachusetts on Dec. 7. (Twitter/Jay O'Hara) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/nocoalnogas-blocktrain.jpg …
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"Fake News": "Hundreds" of Iraqis Want US Troops to Leave their Country
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
Who is telling the truth. Compare the images. | The Mainstream Media is lying. | "Fake News"? | See the official tweet of the Associated Press. | Hundreds, Thousands? Millions? | It's what you call "investigative reporting"… | You show them what you want them …
globalresearch.ca/fake-news-hundreds-of-iraqis-want-us-troops-to-leave-the-country/5701772

'We command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry': White House spiritual adviser sparks intense reactions with bizarre sermon
rt.com | 2020-01-26
Televangelist Paula White has brought some odd attention to the White House after a video of her sermon about "satanic pregnancies" went viral, sparking trending hashtags like '#satanicpregnancies' and '#rosemarysbaby' on Twitter. | White, who is an adviser to the Faith and Opportunity Initiative at the Office of Public Liaison, can be seen giving a fiery, if somewhat disturbing sermon in a video posted by the group Right Wing Watch on Twitter. | "We command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now," the Florida preacher told her congregation. "We declare that anything that's been conceived in wombs, that…
rt.com/usa/479238-paula-white-satanic-pregnancies/

Only One Lab in China Can Safely Handle the New Coronavirus
Nicoletta Lanese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
As an escalating viral outbreak unfolds in China, only one lab in the country meets the required biosafety standards needed to study the new disease. | The lab happens to sit in the center of Wuhan, the city where the newly …
globalresearch.ca/only-one-lab-china-safely-handle-new-coronavirus/5701733

Manhunt in France after fierce street shootout with 'KALASHNIKOVS' captured on VIDEOS in city of Nimes
rt.com | 2020-01-26
Police are reportedly on high alert in southern France after a violent shootout took place in the streets of the city of Nimes. Videos captured at the scene suggest that Kalashnikov-type assault rifles were used in the gunfight. | Repeated gunfire bursts were heard in the French city as at least two people "armed with Kalashnikovs" roamed the streets around 8: 30pm local time, according to witnesses and videos they shared on social media. | üî¥üá´üá∑ INFO – #Nimes…
rt.com/news/479254-france-nimes-kalashnikov-shootout/

Forget Murdoch's 'scoop' on Corbyn's legacy. A video sums it up perfectly
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-01-26
Hopefully you don't read Rupert Murdoch's broadsheet rag the Sunday Times. But if you do, you may have seen a 'plot' by Jeremy Corbyn to continue his "socialist" legacy. But don't worry. There's a perfect antidote to this right-wing drivel. It's a video showing what people will really remember the Labour leader for. And it's already clocked up over 250,000 views. | Corbyn: red under the bed?: | "SCOOP" screamed Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund on Twitter. This was because he'd leaked Corbyn's "pla…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/01/26/forget-murdochs-scoop-on-corbyns-legacy-a-video-sums-it-up-perfectly/

Is Our Right to Peaceful Protest Disappearing?
Council of Canadians | commondreams.org | 2020-01-25
Demonstrators hold signs to protest the construction of TransCanada's Coastal GasLink through unceded Wet'suwet'en territory. (Photo: Unist'ot'en Camp/Facebook) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/right-protest-canada.jpg …
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In one tweet, a new kick-ass MP rinses Boris Johnson and the media
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2020-01-25
Zarah Sultana is one of the new Labour MPs to join parliament following the 2019 election. And she's quickly becoming one of a new generation of kick-ass women putting both government and parliament in their places. | This time she's taken on Boris Johnson, billionaires and the media in one tweet. And she makes a fundamentally important point: | Boris Johnson is an old Etonian Bullingdon boy. | His party is funded by ‚Öì of all UK billionaires. | It's the party of the 1%. | And th…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/01/25/in-one-tweet-a-new-kick-ass-mp-rinses-boris-johnson-and-the-media/

Limited Internet Restored in Kashmir, Shutdown Continues
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-25
Indian authorities announced Friday that low-speed mobile (2G) internet will be restored on Saturday in occupied Kashmir but only limited to about 300 "whitelisted" sites. | RELATED: | Kashmir: 1 Million Tweets Critical of India Removed by Twitter | The local Jammu and Kashmir government said social media applications that allow "peer to peer" communication will continue to be banned for the Muslim-majority area's more than seven million people. | "Mobile data services and inte…
telesurenglish.net/news/Limited-Internet-Restored-in-Kashmir-Shutdown-Continues-20200125-0011.html

A new MP brilliantly demolishes Tony Blair's attempt to troll Jeremy Corbyn
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2020-01-25
In a desperate attempt to defend his legacy of ' Thatcherism-lite' politics, Tony Blair has hit out at Jeremy Corbyn. But it only took one tweet from a new MP to demolish his argument. | Blair put out a video in which he said: I don't often respond to the Leader of the Labour Party's attacks on the last Labour government, but enough is enough. | He went on to criticise Corbyn for lumpi…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/01/25/a-new-mp-brilliantly-demolishes-tony-blairs-attempt-to-troll-jeremy-corbyn/

Lee Camp straightens out 'sewage' NYT article that claims Russian bots 'sowed confusion' in South America (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-01-24
American comedian Lee Camp issued a scathing retort to a New York Times piece alleging that Russian bots stoked tensions in South America, jokingly noting that it would take several years to fully dissect the baseless report. | The host of Redacted Tonight marveled at how the piece, titled "As Protests in South America Surged, So Did Russian Trolls on Twitter, US Finds," was based on data provided by not-very-objective State Department 'analysts'. For Camp, this raised a number of obvious red flags. | He argued that, contrary to the US government-sourced piece, Washington and its cheerleaders in the media are…
rt.com/usa/479076-lee-camp-nyt-russian-bots-venezuela/

#MarchForLies: Reproductive Justice Advocates Counter Trump's "Dangerous Rhetoric" at Anti-Choice March
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-24
As President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to attend the annual March for Life on Friday, reproductive rights advocates used social media to counter his anti-choice message with the hashtag #MarchForLies, sharing accurate information about reproductive health and slamming Trump for his attacks on women. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-01-24_at_2.48.04_pm.jpg …
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U.S. clearing anti-war voices off social media in vast censorship operation
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-23
Instagram and its parent company Facebook are removing posts that appear to be in support of the late Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in order to comply with U.S. sanctions, a company spokesperson recently told CNN. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/23/u-s-clearing-anti-war-voices-off-social-media-in-vast-censorship-operation/

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 Latest Encryption Battle with Apple, Justice Department Still Wrong
Jennifer Stisa Granick | aclu.org | 2020-01-23
The | federal government is once again trying to force Apple to weaken the security | of millions of iPhones. On Wednesday, President Trump issued a call from Davos, | Switzerland for Apple to assist law enforcement in unlocking iPhones. Last week, | Trump made the same demand of Apple, tweeting that the | company should unlock cell phones as a quid pro quo for any benefits it enjoys | as a result of favo…
aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/in-latest-encryption-battle-with-apple-doj-still-wrong

Ending Militarization Of Our Communities
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-22
From Stop The Militarization of Police Facebook page In recent weeks Popular Resistance has focused on the escalation of US militarism around the world, especially in the Middle East with the assassination of General Soleimani, US troops staying in Syria to take their oil and the US refusing to leave Iraq despite being asked to leave. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/ending-militarization-of-our-communities/

Muddle-Eastern diplomacy: White House confuses Iran and Iraq in YouTube blunder
rt.com | 2020-01-22
As President Donald Trump sat down with the world's movers and shakers at Davos, White House staff clearly weren't paying much attention, mistaking Iraqi President Barham Salih for his Iranian counterpart. | "President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Iran," the title of a YouTube video published by the White House on Wednesday proclaimed. | Hell had not frozen over, however, and Trump had not secretly met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani unbeknownst to the world's media. Instead, the video clearly showed Trump meeting with Iraqi President Barham Salih. | Ira…
rt.com/usa/478894-white-house-iran-iraq/