2020-02-10: Social Media Postees

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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

Developing Belonging in a Time of Othering
WILPF San Jose | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
San Jose Peace and Justice Center | 48 S 7th Street | San Jose, CA 95112…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830560.php

Democrats vs Bernie in 2020, Repeat of 2016
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
In Iowa, Bernie won the popular vote but a corporate candidate most of us never heard of, Peter Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind (mayors of small towns do not usually run for president) supposedly won the delegate vote. Now in California, Los Angeles County voters are receiving incorrect ballots.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830564.php

Democrats vs Bernie in 2020, Repeat of 2016
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
In Iowa, Bernie won the popular vote but a corporate candidate most of us never heard of, Peter Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind (mayors of small towns do not usually run for president) supposedly won the delegate vote. Now in California, Los Angeles County voters are receiving incorrect ballots.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830564.php

On V-Day: Vigil for Love Not War
Friday Peace Vigil, SJPJC, and others | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
In front of Martin Luther King, Jr Library | 4th and San Fernando | San Jose, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/09/18830561.php

China, Russia to Defy US Sanctions Over Support to Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-10
The Russian government rejected on Monday the U.S. threats to impose new sanctions against several Russian companies for their cooperation with Venezuela in the oil sector. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces Terrorist Attack Against Cantv, Movilnet Telecom Warehouse | Last week, the United States special representative for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, warned Russia that its support for Venezuela will cost them econmically as Washington is looking to sanction them.
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Russia-to-Defy-US-Sanctions-Over-Support-to-Venezuela-20200210-0005.html

Five Turkish soldiers martyred in regime attack in northwest Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-10
At least five Turkish troops were martyred and as many injured in an attack by the Assad regime forces in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Monday, the country's National Defense Ministry said.This came after a similar attack by the regime forces last week in Idlib martyred seven Turkish soldiers and one civilian contractor working with the Turkish military, and injured more than a dozen people.The Turkish troops are in northwestern Syria, just across the Turkish border, as part of an anti-terror and peace mission.Idlib has been a stronghold of opposition and anti-government armed groups since the outbreak o…
yenisafak.com/en/world/five-turkish-soldiers-martyred-in-regime-attack-in-northwest-syria-3511687

Kuwait's Parliament Speaker Throws Trump's Peace Plan in the Dustbin
Press TV | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-09
Kuwait's National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim throws US president Donald Trump Mideast peace plan in the dustbin during the 30th emergency conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIU) held in the Jordanian capital, Amman. | (Source: AFP)…
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/kuwaits-parliament-speaker-throws-trumps-peace-plan-in-the-dustbin/

Protesters leave British Museum after two-day action over BP sponsorship
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-09
Protests at the British Museum have ended after more than 50 hours amid a row over oil company BP's sponsorship of a Troy exhibition.Climate activists BP Or Not BP? occupied the Great Court inside the museum on Saturday night, where they covered themselves in plaster as part of a "theatrical protest".Around 60 people took part in the action, in which they created a structure out of their body parts for a piece called Monument.Greenpeace protesters inside the British Museum (Jonathan Brady/PA)Activists left at about 10.30am on 9 February. The action started at 7.30am on 7 February when a 13ft-high Trojan horse was…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/02/09/protesters-leave-british-museum-after-two-day-action-over-bp-sponsorship/

Israel's "Peace Camp" Flirts with Oblivion
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-09
For Israel's so-called peace camp, the past 12 months of general elections

Evo Morales Calls for National Reconciliation in Bolivia
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-09
The leader of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia, Evo Morales, called for Bolivians on Saturday to preserve peace and prevent violence in the Andean country. | RELATED: | Bolivia's Coup-Born Regime Arrests Socialist Lawmaker Torrico | "The existence of paramilitary or shock groups that attempt prevent the integrity of Bolivians should not be tolerated," Morales wrote from his Twitter account. | The legitimate president of Bolivia pointed out that in the midst of the dif…
telesurenglish.net/news/Evo-Morales-Calls-for-National-Reconciliation-in-Bolivia-20200209-0002.html

Protesters leave British Museum after two-day action over BP sponsorship
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-09
Protests at the British Museum have ended after more than 50 hours amid a row over oil company BP's sponsorship of a Troy exhibition.Climate activists BP Or Not BP? occupied the Great Court inside the museum on Saturday night, where they covered themselves in plaster as part of a "theatrical protest".Around 60 people took part in the action, in which they created a structure out of their body parts for a piece called Monument.Greenpeace protesters inside the British Museum (Jonathan Brady/PA)Activists left at about 10.30am on 9 February. The action started at 7.30am on 7 February when a 13ft-high Trojan horse was…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/02/09/protesters-leave-british-museum-after-two-day-action-over-bp-sponsorship/

African Union Rejects Trump's Middle East Peace Plan
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-09
The African Union on Sunday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan for the Middle East, calling the so-called "deal of the century" an 'illegitimate' proposal. | RELATED: | 'Tim the Tusker Elephant Dies in Kenya, Among Last of Its Kind | The president of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, told the assembled heads of state that the plan published at the end of January represented a "violation of multiple resolutions of the United Nations and the African…
telesurenglish.net/news/African-Union-Rejects-Trumps-Middle-East-Peace-Plan-20200209-0004.html

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

Thousands protest in Morocco against Donald Trump's plans for the Middle East
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-09
Thousands of people have marched in Morocco's capital to protest against US President Donald Trump's so-called peace plan for the Middle East.Demonstrators also oppose what they see as the Moroccan Government's lenient position toward it.Political leaders from Islamists to left-wing figures took part in the march through Rabat alongside union members, activists and members of civil society groups.Women chant slogans during the demonstration in Rabat (Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP)Palestinian flags and chants animated the scene as protesters criticised the Trump-led initiative.The marchers also expressed frustration with Mor…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/02/09/thousands-protest-in-morocco-against-donald-trumps-plans-for-the-middle-east/

Thousands protest in Morocco against Donald Trump's plans for the Middle East
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-09
Thousands of people have marched in Morocco's capital to protest against US President Donald Trump's so-called peace plan for the Middle East.Demonstrators also oppose what they see as the Moroccan Government's lenient position toward it.Political leaders from Islamists to left-wing figures took part in the march through Rabat alongside union members, activists and members of civil society groups.Women chant slogans during the demonstration in Rabat (Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP)Palestinian flags and chants animated the scene as protesters criticised the Trump-led initiative.The marchers also expressed frustration with Mor…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/02/09/thousands-protest-in-morocco-against-donald-trumps-plans-for-the-middle-east/

US Warns Israel Against 'Unilateral' West Bank Annexation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-09
United States Ambassador David Friedman to Israel warned the country Sunday not to declare sovereignty over the occupied West Bank without Washington's consent, opposing calls for immediate action by ultra-nationalists within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition. | RELATED: | Draft UN Resolution Condemns Trump Middle East 'Peace' Plan | With Defence Minister Naftali Bennett and other ultra-nationalists urging an immediate cabinet vote on sovereignty in the occupied West Bank…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Warns-Israel-Against-Unilateral-West-Bank-Annexation-20200209-0017.html

Venezuela Denounces Terrorist Attack Against Telecom Warehouse
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-09
The Venezuelan government denounced Sunday a terrorist attack on a warehouse of the National Telephone Company of Venezuela (Cantv) and its affiliate Movilnet in the northern state of Carabobo, causing total loss of strategic telecommunications equipment. | RELATED: | Venezuelan Government Denounces Right-Wing Terrorist Plan | Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez informed that the attack was perpetrated on Saturday night in the Flor Amarillo sector of Valencia, Carabobo state,…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Denounces-Terrorist-Attack-Against-Cantv-Movilnet-Telecom-Warehouse-20200209-0009.html

Israel's Palestinian Minority has Good Reason to Fear Trump's Plan
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-08
The Trump administration's decision to green-light Israel's annexation of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank grabbed headlines last week. But US support for a related proposal

Venezuela to Defend Conviasa Airlines From US Ilegal Sanctions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-08
Venezuela's Economy Minister Tareck El Aissami Saturday announced that his country will respond to the U.S. sanctions against Conviasa airlines, a public company that has 40 aircraft and 2,012 workers. | RELATED: | Russia and Venezuela Build up Cooperation Against US Sanctions | Besides offering commercial services, this airline carries out non-profi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-to-Defend-Conviasa-Airlines-From-US-Ilegal-Sanctions-20200208-0005.html

US Deploys 'Mini-Nukes' in Deplorable Threat to World Peace
Strategic Culture | theantimedia.com | 2020-02-08
These so-called "mini-nukes" represent–despite the diminutive-sounding name–an increased risk of nuclear war.

US Deploys ‘Mini-Nukes’ in Deplorable Threat to World Peace

Duh, Jared! So who built the PA as a 'police state'?
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-07
Nazareth. 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 administration has ever really seen peace as the objective of its "peacemaking". The current…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/07/duh-jared-so-who-built-the-pa-as-a-police-state/

Duh, Jared! So who built the PA as a 'police state'?
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-07
Nazareth. 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 administration has ever really seen peace as the objective of its "peacemaking". The current…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/07/duh-jared-so-who-built-the-pa-as-a-police-state/

Media Urge Palestinians to Take Crumbs–Because Democracy Is Not on Offer
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2020-02-07
by Gregory Shupak The Trump administration's "Vision for Peace" | The Trump administration's " Deal of the Century" is supposedly a plan to solve the question of Palestine. But as Michael Lynk, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, points out, the deal doesn't offer Palestinians…
fair.org/home/media-urge-palestinians-to-take-crumbs-because-democracy-is-not-on-offer/

28 militiamen sentenced in Central African Republic for murder of civilians, UN peacekeepers
news.un.org | 2020-02-07
The sentencing of 28 militia members on Friday in the Central African Republic (CAR) for an array of violent crimes, including the murder of civilians as well as 10 UN peacekeepers, has been hailed as a major step forward in the fight against impunity there.
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Radical radio station KPFK host Lila Garrett, 94, passes
Marcy Winograd | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-07
LOS ANGELES–It is with a heavy heart that I share the passing on Feb. 1 of one of my best friends, KPFK host and Emmy-award winning writer Lila Garrett, always a pistol, yet married to the peace movement and forever committed to progressive values. I said my goodbyes to Lila a little over a week …
peoplesworld.org/article/radical-radio-station-kpfk-host-lila-garrett-94-passes/

Central African Republic: One year after peace deal, a 'long, steep' road ahead to ensure child rights protections
news.un.org | 2020-02-06
A year since the signing of a peace deal between the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and 14 armed groups, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Thursday that millions of children across the country remain threatened by violence and a lack of access to food, health care and other basic needs.
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Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law"
Venezuela Analysis | theantimedia.com | 2020-02-06
In this exclusive interview, VA talks to the activists who defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC ahead of their trial.

Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law"

Pakistan: Call to release protesters facing terror charges
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-06
civil liberties Susan PriceIssue 1252 Pakistan anti-terror lawsFebruary 6, 2020Twenty-nine people were arrested in Islamabad on January 28 while peacefully protesting the arrest and imprisonment of Manzoor Pashteen, leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). | Tw…
greenleft.org.au/content/pakistan-call-release-protesters-facing-terror-charges

SOTU: Democratic "Resistance" Give Trump's Venezuela Aggression a Standing Ovation
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-05
Perhaps the loudest applause heard during Trump's State of the Union Address was reserved for Venezuala's Juan Guaidó, as Democrats and Republicans rose as one to salute the self-declared president.
mintpressnews.com/state-of-the-union-democrats-applaud-guaido-venezuela/264678/

Resolving Israel-Palestinian conflict, 'key to sustainable peace' in the Middle East: Guterres
news.un.org | 2020-02-04
Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is "key to sustainable peace in the Middle East", the UN chief said on Tuesday, maintaining that the lack of any progress only "furthers radicalization across the region".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/02/1056722

'This Is an Apartheid Proposal and It's a Nonstarter' – CounterSpin interview with Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'peace deal'
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2020-02-04
Janine Jackson interviewed the Arab American Institute's Omar Baddar about the Trump/Kushner "peace deal" for Israel/Palestine for the January 31, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
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'This Is an Apartheid Proposal and It's a Nonstarter' – CounterSpin interview with Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'peace deal'
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2020-02-04
Janine Jackson interviewed the Arab American Institute's Omar Baddar about the Trump/Kushner "peace deal" for Israel/Palestine for the January 31, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/this-is-an-apartheid-proposal-and-its-a-nonstarter/

ACLU: Trump Is Expanding His Racist Travel Ban, This Time Targeting Africans
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-03
The Trump administration has expanded its contested travel ban to six additional countries

Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'Peace' Plan, Rainey Reitman on Greenwald Persecution
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-01-31
MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: It is strange to think that you could create a plan to shape the relationship between two entities, in consultation with one but not the other, and then not just declare it, yourself, a "win-win," but also say to the unconsulted party, "You better take it, or else." Yet …
fair.org/home/omar-baddar-on-israel-palestine-peace-plan-rainey-reitman-on-greenwald-persecution/

House Votes to Rein in Trump's Iran War Powers While Ending Endless Wars
Jon Rainwater | peaceaction.org | 2020-01-31
Washington, D.C.

US government censorship? Social media giants disappear accounts of Iranian and Venezuelan academics, journalists
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-30
Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran. Professor Marandi's Facebook and Instagram…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/30/social-media-giants-disappear-popular-iranian-venezuelan-accounts/