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Further Erosion of American Civil Liberties. Why Renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act By Renee Parsons, February 28, 2020

As a mid March deadline approaches, the mad scramble is on for Congress to  rubber stamp  a ‘clean’ renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISC)  without amendment. 

At every opportunity since 2001, Congress has used the re-authorization …

Video: Fall of Saraqib: Syrian Army Retreat Under Turkish Strikes in Eastern Idlib By South Front, February 28, 2020

Members of al-Qaeda-linked groups embedded with Turkish troops have reentered the town of Saraqib in eastern Idlib following the collapse of the Syrian Army defense northwest of the town.

The attack was backed by Turkish artillery strikes on positions of …

Oregon’s Jordan Cove Backers Double Down on Efforts to Push Project Following Federal Permit Delay By Sharon Kelly, February 28, 2020

Last Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took the highly unusual step of declining to move forward on permits for the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos County, Oregon. If built, the $10 billion Jordan …

Washington Ponders Imposing Sanctions on Serbia for Russian Weapon Purchases By Paul Antonopoulos, February 28, 2020

With Russia delivering another round of the Pantsir S1 anti-missile defense system to Serbia on Tuesday, EU and U.S. officials have reacted. Both Brussels and Washington have sent their warnings to Serbia, with Washington even threatening sanctions against the Balkans …

Turkey’s Losing Bet in Syria By Tony Cartalucci, February 28, 2020
Assange Extradition: Can a French Touch Pierce a Neo-Orwellian Farce? By Pepe Escobar, February 28, 2020
Canada’s First Nations: Ottawa Lays Bare the Lie It Calls “Reconciliation” By Corvin Russell, February 28, 2020
Brexit: Devastating Impacts on Employment By True Publica, February 28, 2020
Endangered Species in America: “Moose, Western Bumblebee, Venus Flytrap, … Plants and Animals in Desperate Need of Help” By Center For Biological Diversity, February 28, 2020
A Week in Tory Britain By Jack Peat, February 28, 2020
President Tayyip Erdogan Now Claims Syria’s Idlib Province Belongs to Turkey By Eric Zuesse, February 28, 2020
If Venezuelan Embassy Protectors Are Retried, Jury Should Hear About US Crimes By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, February 28, 2020
US Losing Its Naval Supremacy By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, February 28, 2020
Punishing the Free Speech of Julian Assange By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, February 28, 2020
The Fear Virus Pandemic. “Fake News”? “Look at the Numbers. It’s not a Pandemic”. By Manlio Dinucci, February 28, 2020
Julian Assange, the Glass Cage and Heaven in a Rage: Day Four of Extradition Hearings By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 28, 2020
I Was Meant to Talk About Palestinian Kids at the UN. Israel Forced Me Out By Brad Parker, February 28, 2020
Providing Security in the Sahel: A ‘Traffic Jam’ of Military Interventions, and Al Qaeda Terrorists By Signe M. Cold-Ravnkilde, February 28, 2020
Swiss Neutrality ‘Shattered’ as Leading Cryptologic Firm Revealed to be CIA Front By Joseph Fitsanakis, February 28, 2020
George W. Bush: May I Quote You, Mr. President? By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay, February 28, 2020
In Defense of Mother Earth: Indigenous Rights Are Human Rights! RCMP Out of Wet’suwet’en! By Alison Bodine, February 28, 2020
Brexit Lie – Johnson Now Looking to Break Agreement with EU on Northern Ireland Checks By True Publica, February 28, 2020
Pentagon Papers Case Vindicates Julian Assange By Stephen Lendman, February 28, 2020
The Unspoken War against Organic Farming in Africa: Tanzanian Farmers Are Facing Heavy Prison Sentences if They Continue Their Traditional Seed Exchange By Ebe Daems, February 28, 2020
Capture of M5 Hama-Aleppo Highway: One of the Most Celebrated Prizes in Damascus’ Campaign to Regain Territory By Michael Jansen, February 28, 2020
The War Scenario Between Israel and Hezbollah By Elijah J. Magnier, February 28, 2020
Anonymous Sources and “the Guys and Gals” Who Made the Iraq War a Reality Are Now Claiming that the Kremlin Is at it Again! By Philip Giraldi, February 28, 2020
Eight Negative Arguments Smearing China’s Virus Fight Must be Refuted By Wang Wen, Jia Jinjing, and et al., February 28, 2020
Your Man in the Public Gallery – The Assange Hearing Day 3 By Craig Murray, February 28, 2020
Video: “Fake News”: “The Shining Forces of Idlib Democracy” = Al Qaeda Terrorists backed by Turkish Army By South Front, February 27, 2020
UK: Google Data Transfer to USA Just the Start – “Possibilities for Abuse Are Enormous” By True Publica, February 27, 2020
India’s Waging a State-on-Citizen Hybrid War to Build Modi’s Hindu Rashtra By Andrew Korybko, February 27, 2020
The Fix Is In: Overseeing the Payouts to Boeing Crash Victims’ Families By Bryan Dyne, February 27, 2020
The Slander Sanders Shout-Fest: The South Carolina Democratic Primary Debate By Dr. Jack Rasmus, February 27, 2020
Bernie Sanders and the Military Industrial Complex. Bernie 2.0 By Ann Garrison, February 27, 2020
Don’t Equate Russia’s Purely Speculative Preference for US President with “Election Meddling” By Andrew Korybko, February 27, 2020
The Afghanistan ‘Peace Deal’ Riddle By Pepe Escobar, February 27, 2020
Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation By Colin Todhunter, February 27, 2020
Julian Assange, Political Offences and Legal Restraints: Day Three of Extradition Hearings By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 27, 2020
Syria: “Moderate Rebels” or “Intelligence Assets”? By Mark Taliano, February 27, 2020
Video: Erdogan Forces Recaptured Nayrab but Lost Another Dozen of Villages to Syrian Army By South Front, February 26, 2020
The Pentagon’s New Map: How to Know if America Is Your Enemy By Eric Zuesse, February 26, 2020
The Movement to Protect Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining.Threat to People, Land, Water and Wildlife By Center For Biological Diversity, February 26, 2020
Quebec Politics and the Rise of Québec Solidaire (QS) By André Frappier, February 26, 2020
Solidarity with Palestine: ‘If They Suppress BDS, No Other Movement Is Safe’ By Omar Barghouti and Husna Rizvi, February 26, 2020
“Fake Gods”: Tackling the Illegality of the 5G Roll-Out. The Explosive Truth of 5G Wireless Transmission By Julian Rose, February 26, 2020
Musical Chairs in the White House By Philip Giraldi, February 26, 2020
Will Media Support or Oppose Sanders if He Maintains Momentum? By Stephen Lendman, February 26, 2020
Evidence on Continuing US-NATO Media Lies About the War in Syria By James ONeill, February 26, 2020
Trump’s India Visit Was Aimed Against China but Produced No Results By Paul Antonopoulos, February 26, 2020
Turkey’s War on Syria: Erdogan Sponsored Terrorists Cut Drinking Water off Al-Hasakah, Two Million People Affected, an Explicit War Crime By Arabi Souri, February 26, 2020
The US-India Strategic Partnership: Geopolitical Pivot In Favor of US After Trump’s Delhi Visit By Andrew Korybko, February 26, 2020
The Looming Financial Nightmare: So Much for Living the American Dream By John W. Whitehead, February 26, 2020
Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 2 By Craig Murray, February 26, 2020
Police State US/UK v. Julian Assange By Stephen Lendman, February 26, 2020
Arguments About Bloomberg’s “Electability” Overlook His Racism and Misogyny By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, February 26, 2020
Julian Assange Against the Imperium: Day Two of Extradition Hearings By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 26, 2020
How Globalization and China’s Economic Crisis Might Jeopardize Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains By F. William Engdahl, February 26, 2020
Brazil in Search for “Fake Enemies” By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, February 26, 2020
Turkey’s Request for U.S. Patriot Missiles to Pressure Russia in Syria Will Not Work By Paul Antonopoulos, February 26, 2020
“Sick People” – Russian Lawmakers Blast US for Nuclear War Exercise By Zero Hedge, February 26, 2020
Netanyahu’s Holy Alliance with Rightwing, Ultra-Orthodox By Shlomi Eldar, February 26, 2020
US-Venezuela-Bolivia-Cuba and Canada: The Geopolitics By Arnold August, February 26, 2020
Harvard Genetic Research Team Collected and Transferred China Blood and DNA Samples Back to the US By Zhao Yandong, Zhang Wenxia, and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 25, 2020
Huawei in the Crosshairs: “Great Power Confrontation”, The Geopolitical Battle for 5-G Technology By Mike Whitney, February 25, 2020
New Conflict of Interest Evidence Against UK Judge in Charge of Assange Extradition Process By Kevin Reed, February 25, 2020
Overt Trump Regime Support for Al-Qaeda Offshoots in Syria, ISIS-Daesh Et Al are Pentagon/CIA Proxies By Stephen Lendman, February 25, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister – Now Facing Corruption Trial – Still Has Powerful Friends in Both Our Houses of Parliament By Hans Stehling, February 25, 2020
The Nevada Caucus and the Desperation of Democrat Elites By Dr. Jack Rasmus, February 25, 2020
The Issue with Tissue: How the U.S. Is Flushing Canada’s Boreal Forests Away By Jennifer Skene and Shelley Vinyard, February 25, 2020
Libya’s US Base Request Reveals How Desperate the Turkish-Backed Government Has Become By Andrew Korybko, February 25, 2020
Trump’s Betrayal of Julian Assange By Rep. Ron Paul, February 25, 2020
Intelligence Officials Sow Discord by Stoking Fear of Russian Election Meddling By Dave DeCamp, February 25, 2020
We’re Asking One Question in Assange’s Case: Should Journalists be Punished for Exposing War Crimes? By Caitlin Johnstone, February 25, 2020
Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day One By Craig Murray, February 25, 2020
Revealed: Chief Magistrate Lady Arbuthnot in Assange Case Received Financial Benefits from Secretive Partner Organisations of UK Foreign Office By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, February 25, 2020
How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power By Jonathan Cook, February 25, 2020
Assange’s Extradition Hearing Begins: Truth-Telling Journalism on Trial By Stephen Lendman, February 25, 2020
‘Unprecedented Brutality’: Family of Palestinian Mangled by Bulldozer Condemn Israel By Tareq Hajjaj, February 25, 2020
Trump’s $1.5 Billion Uranium Stockpile: A Solution in Search of a Problem By John Krzyzaniak, February 25, 2020
Julian Assange and the Imperium’s Face: Day One of the Extradition Hearings By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 25, 2020
Sanctions and Corruption: Three Major News Stories that Need to be Exposed By Ralph Nader, February 25, 2020
We Need to Treat Nuclear War Like the Emergency It Is By Olivia Alperstein, February 25, 2020
The New Coronavirus Outbreak, COVID-19, Sounds Menacing and Is By Tom Clifford, February 25, 2020