07/01/2020
7 Jan, 2020 (RT)* — The US Air Force is sending six B-52 Stratofortress long-range bombers to Diego Garcia, a secretive military outpost in the Indian Ocean, as tension soars in the wake of a US assassination strike on a top Iranian general.
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07/01/2020
The top UN official in Libya has delivered a stern message urging other nations to stop intervening in the country’s ongoing crisis. (*).
UN Libya | On 3 January, four schools came under attack in the Soug al Jum’aa locality, east of Tripoli, causing extensive damage and affecting nearly 3000 students.
Ghassam Salamé, head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (
UNSMIL), was speaking to reporters in New York on Monday
[6 January 2020], following a closed-door meeting of the Security Council.
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07/01/2020
UN Photo/Mark Garten | The UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the media at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The New Year has begun with our world in turmoil. We are living in dangerous times”, said the UN chief, noting that turbulence is only escalating.
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06/01/2020
6 Jan, 2020 (RT)* — Iraq should brace for sanctions that will make the ones placed on Iran look weak in comparison if it kicks out the US troops without first covering the costs for an airbase, US President Donald Trump said.
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“We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build, long before my time.
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06/01/2020
5 January 2020 (Wall Street International)* — On Friday, 3 January, 2020, progressives in the United States and all peace-loving people throughout the world were horrified to learn that Donald Trump had added to his long list of crimes and imbecilities by ordering the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, who is a hero in his own country, Iran.
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05/01/2020
The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable.

Ellen Brown
In a Washington Post article titled “The Green New Deal Sets Us Up for Failure. We Need a Better Approach,” former Colorado governor and Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper framed the problem like this:
The resolution sets unachievable goals. We do not yet have the technology needed to reach “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions” in 10 years. That’s why many wind and solar companies don’t support it. There is no clean substitute for jet fuel. Electric vehicles are growing quickly, yet are still in their infancy. Manufacturing industries such as steel and chemicals, which account for almost as much carbon emissions as transportation, are even harder to decarbonize.
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05/01/2020
3 January 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The dramatic events in Bolivia in recent months have followed an imperial script that Latin Americans are becoming more and more familiar with, and which consists in paving the way for the replacing of a democratic government deemed hostile to the interests of the United States (or rather, of U.S. multinationals).
This is done by orchestrating a two-pronged plan: nullifying an “inimical” election victory while rapidly consolidating the new regime, which in its turn takes measures that go beyond the remit of a transitional government.
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04/01/2020
Published in USA Today
In 2020, you should be watching for growing international rejection of “killer robots” – weapons that would kill without meaningful human control – and increasing calls for a new treaty to preemptively ban them.
In the United States and around the world, public concern is rising at the prospect of weapons systems that would select and attack targets without human intervention. © 2018 Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
2 January 2020 (Human Rights Watch)* — Allowing machines to select and target human prey without human intervention sounds like something out of an apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
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04/01/2020
Amidst concern for the safety and protection of more than three million civilians in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave, the UN’s most senior humanitarian and political affairs officials briefed the Security Council on Syria behind closed doors on Friday [3 January 2020]. (*).
© UNICEF/Abdallah aad | Children help their displaced families in Idlib governorate build shelters for protection against the cold at an informal settlement in Killi, near the border with Turkey.
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Following the recent escalation of hostilities on the ground in the country’s northwest, Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock and the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, painted a dire picture of the deteriorating conditions.
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04/01/2020
2 January 2020 (teleSUR)* — Brazil’s far-right government was well informed of the plans to attack to Venezuelan military outposts and was in direct communication with opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido prior to the incident, according to a report published Tuesday by Brazil’s right-wing media O Globo.
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