(2020-01-28). Ex-Catalonia leader Puigdemont appeals for help to repay €4mn spent on banned referendum. rt.com 
The former leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, asked supporters on Tuesday to donate money after Spanish authorities ordered him and 19 others to pay back €4.1 million of public money spent on a banned independence referendum. | On October 1, 2017, the northeastern region organized a secession vote, which was declared illegal by Spanish courts. Its leaders then made a short-lived declaration of independence. Puigdemont later fled to Belgium, while other leaders were jailed. "If you voted on October 1, we need you," Puigdemont tweeted, adding a link to a bank account. | Puigdemont, who is now a member…
(2020-01-28). Head of Chuvashia expelled from Russia's ruling party after humiliating local firefighter & threatening journalists. rt.com 
Russia's largest political party has expelled the long-time leader of the Chuvash Republic following a series of gaffes which caused national outrage. | Mikhail Ignatiev had run Chuvashia, in the Volga region, for almost a decade before a video of him taunting a local firefighter went viral across the country. | It followed earlier comments in which he suggested that journalists who criticize the authorities be "wiped out." | The party's General Council secretary, Andrey Turchak, announced the decision after a meeting of its Presidium. | On January 23, Ignatiev conducted a ceremonial review of firefighting equ…
(2020-01-28). Murder of Mexican Artist Isabel Cabanillas Highlights Endemic Issue of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez. democracynow.org 
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…
(2020-01-28). Headlines for January 28, 2020. democracynow.org Trump Lawyers Says He Did No Wrong as Calls Mount for Bolton and Other Witnesses to Testify | , Trump to Unveil Middle East "Peace Plan" as Netanyahu Indicted over Corruption, SCOTUS Allows Trump's "Public Charge" Rule Targeting Low-Income Immigrants to Take Effect, State Dept. Bars NPR Reporter from Upcoming Pompeo Trip, Washington Post Suspends Reporter for Tweet About Kobe Bryant Rape Allegation, Mixed Accounts After U.S. Military Plane Crashes in Afghanistan, Torrential Rains and Landslides Kill At Least 46 People in Brazil, Nigerian Journalist Maxwell Nashan Killed, 2nd Accuser Testifies in Weinstein Trial a…
(2020-01-28). Murder of Mexican Artist Highlights Endemic Issue of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez. truthout.org 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 membe…
(2020-01-28). Cuban President Calls For Massive March Honoring Jose Marti. telesurenglish.net Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, called to pay tribute to national hero Jose Marti with the most massive torchlight march on the 167th anniversary of his birth. | Through his Twitter account, the Head of State called to "make history" with the torches lit from…
(2020-01-28). Death Toll Tops 100 in China as New Coronavirus Cases Emerge. telesurenglish.net The Chinese authorities reported Tuesday that the death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 106 and the cases of people infected with the viral disease rose to 4,515 nationwide. | RELATED: | In the most recent report, Chinese authorities said on Tuesday the death of another 25 people was reported by the coronavirus called 2019-nCoV or coronavirus from the Wuhan seafood market. | Of the total new deaths, 24…
(2020-01-28). France Apology after History Textbook Links CIA to 9/11. globalresearch.ca A French publisher has apologised after a history textbook that appeared in bookshops in recent weeks suggested the 11 September 2001 attacks were probably "orchestrated by the CIA". | The debunked conspiracy theory was apparently highlighted on social media initially by …
(2020-01-28). Supermodel Heidi Klum Wows Fans with Sexy Nude Sequin Gown at 2020 Grammys. sputniknews.com Supermodel Heidi Klum turned heads at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in LA on 26 January, as she rocked the red carpet in a sheer nude sequin dress with a plunging V-neckline and thigh-high slit, accompanied by her hubby Tom Kaulitz.
(2020-01-28). Turkey remembers diplomat martyred in US in 1982. yenisafak.com Turkey on Tuesday remembered with respect its late distinguished diplomat Kemal Arikan, who was the victim of an assassination on Jan. 28, 1982.Arikan, Turkey's consul general in Los Angeles, was martyred by Armenian terrorists affiliated with JCAG, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said on Twitter."We call on the relevant U.S. Authorities not to release Hampig Sassounian, who brutally assassinated Consul General Arƒ±kan," said the ministry.On Dec. 27 a California court ordered the conditional release of Sassounian, one of the assassins being Arikan's deliberate murder."Granting parole to this murderer will o…
(2020-01-28). Report says UK govt's 'Get ready for Brexit' campaign didn't really help anyone get ready for Brexit, triggers social media. rt.com 
The Tories' much-ridiculed 'Get ready for Brexit' campaign — costing £46 million of taxpayers' money — rolled out last autumn had little impact on UK citizens' level of preparedness for Brexit, a Whitehall watchdog has found. | The head of the National Audit Office (NAO), Gareth Davies, said that it was "not clear" that the UK government's multi-million pound information campaign "resulted in the public being significantly better prepared." | The campaign was brought to an end on October 28 — three days before the UK was officially supposed to leave the EU — after Brussels granted P…
(2020-01-27). 'Poor judgement': WaPo suspends reporter for Kobe Bryant rape case link tweeted HOURS after his death. rt.com 
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.
(2020-01-27). Genocide Scholar Warns That the Groundwork for Genocide in the US Has Been Laid. mintpressnews.com 
Brynn Tannehill, a defense analyst and genocide scholar, took to Twitter to warn that the necessary conditions and many of the precursor events for genocide in the US "are in motion."
(2020-01-27). '35 boats on fire, people jumped into the water': At least 8 dead in Tennessee River inferno (PHOTOS, VIDEOS). rt.com 
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…
(2020-01-27). Never-Trumper strategist launches #ILefttheGOP campaign just in time for Senate impeachment votes. rt.com 
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…
(2020-01-27). Trump tweets threats as impeachment defense begins. wsws.org Senate Republicans seem determined to bring the trial to an end by Friday of this week.
(2020-01-27). Why the New Silk Roads Are a "Threat" to the "US Bloc" globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-01-26). 'We command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry': White House spiritual adviser sparks intense reactions with bizarre sermon. rt.com 
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…
(2020-01-26). Forget Murdoch's 'scoop' on Corbyn's legacy. A video sums it up perfectly. thecanary.co 
Hopefully you don't read Rupert Murdoch's broadsheet rag the Sunday Times. But if you do, you may have Corbyn: red under the bed?: | "SCOOP" screamed Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund on Twitter. This was because he'd leaked Corbyn's "pla…
(2020-01-24). Lee Camp straightens out 'sewage' NYT article that claims Russian bots 'sowed confusion' in South America (VIDEO). rt.com 
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…
(2020-01-23). Now Three Years into the Reign of Trump, What's Left? dissidentvoice.org 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) …
(2020-01-22). Ending Militarization Of Our Communities. dissidentvoice.org 
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. …
(2020-01-21). Headlines for January 21, 2020. democracynow.org Impeachment Trial Opens as Democrats Accuse GOP of "Cover-Up", Trump and Greta Thunberg Address Elites at Davos as Oxfam Condemns Mounting Inequality, NYT Endorses Senators Warren, Klobuchar, as Sanders Gets Backing from Reps. Jayapal and Pocan, Puerto Ricans Call on Governor Vázquez to Resign After Viral Video Shows Unused Emergency Supplies, Attack Kills 100 Soldiers in Yemen, Police Injure Hundreds in Lebanese Anti-Government Protests, At Least 4 Killed, Dozens Injured in Iraq as Popular Protests Mount Nationwide, Racist Treatment of Meghan Markle Highlighted as Plans for "Megxit" Move Forward, 10,000s Attend…
(2019-12-02). The War on Truth: How Israel's Social Media Trolls Conquered Facebook. zcomm.org Israel may have found a way to circumvent the influence of Facebook on the discussions pertaining to Palestinian rights and the Israeli occupation…