Politics & environs articles 2020

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Brazilians on Bolsonaro's first year: 'If you disagree, you're seen as a traitor'

 

Six prominent voices from the arts, media, diplomacy and the Amazon give their views on the far-right president’s opening 12 months

 

 

by Tom Phillips, Dom Phillips and Jonathan Watts

Wed 1 Jan 2020 09.00 GMT

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/01/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-first-year-voices

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Authoritarian leaders thrive on fear. We need to help people feel safe

 

Across the world, voters are falling prey to leaders who appeal to their worst instincts. Why?

 

Thu 2 Jan 2020 16.34 GMT Last modified on Thu 2 Jan 2020 19.38 GMT

Michele Gelfand

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/02/authoritarian-leaders-people-safe-voters

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Unqualified, dangerous': the oddball officials running Bolsonaro's Brazil

 

While the far-right president has trashed norms the lower ranks of his administration have shown jaw-dropping offensiveness

 

Tom Phillips and Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Thu 2 Jan 2020 10.05 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/bolsonaro-brazil-government-oddball-officials

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Israel supreme court dismisses 'premature' Netanyahu petition

 

Ruling on whether indicted PM can return to role delayed until after March election

 

Associated Press in Jerusalem

Thu 2 Jan 2020 16.57 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/israel-supreme-court-dismisses-premature-netanyahu-petition-indicted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volkswagen in 'Dieselgate' settlement talks with 400,000 German owners

 

Carmaker has compensated VW owners in US and Australia over emissions-rigging scandal and faces class action in UK

 

Rob Davies

Thu 2 Jan 2020 18.24 GMT Last modified on Thu 2 Jan 2020 20.40 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/02/volkswagen-in-dieselgate-settlement-talks-with-400000-german-owners

 

 

 

 

 

 

The refugee ‘crisis’ showed Europe’s worst side to the world

 

Instead of open arms, those who survived the Mediterranean crossing were met with racism, fear and incarceration

 

Wed 1 Jan 2020 12.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 1 Jan 2020 12.02 GMT

Hsiao-Hung Pai

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/01/refugee-crisis-europe-mediterranean-racism-incarceration

 

 

 

 

Mexico's Amlo says El Chapo 'had the same power' as past presidents

 

López Obrador took a blow at his predecessors while claiming Mexico’s era of corruption is ‘gone to the garbage dump of history’

 

Staff and agencies in Mexico City

Wed 1 Jan 2020 19.12 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/01/mexico-amlo-el-chapo-same-power-past-presidents-corruption

Same as it was for Pablo Escobar Gaviria in Colombia......

 

 

 

 

Turkish MPs pass bill to send troops to support Libyan government

 

Move meant as deterrent to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar raises fears of escalation in violence

 

Peter Beaumont and agencies

Thu 2 Jan 2020 17.04 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/turkish-parliament-to-vote-on-sending-troops-to-libya

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Iranian Americans on edge as tensions surge: 'the fear is palpable'

 

Even in a community that has long felt panic in Trump’s America, ‘this feels very different’

 

Sam Levin in Los Angeles

Sat 4 Jan 2020 11.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/04/iranian-americans-los-angeles-reaction-california

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

European leaders call for de-escalation of crisis after Suleimani killing

 

Diplomats concerned that Iraq might expel the 5,000 US troops based in the country

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Fri 3 Jan 2020 18.08 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/03/qassem-suleimani-killing-may-spell-end-iran-nuclear-deal-europe-fears

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Most Swiss 'reject far-right plan to end free movement with EU'

 

Poll finding on country’s ‘Brexit moment’ precedes binding referendum expected in May

 

Reuters in Zurich

Sun 5 Jan 2020 12.04 GMT Last modified on Sun 5 Jan 2020 12.54 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/05/most-swiss-reject-far-right-plan-to-end-free-movement-with-eu

 

 

 

 

 

 

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UK would not back US bombing of Iran cultural sites – No 10

 

Downing Street says such military action would break international treaties in implicit rebuke to Trump

 

Rowena Mason Deputy political editor

Mon 6 Jan 2020 13.08 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/06/no-10-uk-would-not-back-us-bombing-of-iranian-cultural-sites

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diplomacy over Iran is still possible – if only to avoid an all-out war

Tehran has vowed revenge for the killing of Qassem Suleimani but conflict is not yet certain

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Sun 5 Jan 2020 20.03 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/05/iran-us-diplomacy-possible-qassem-suleimani-killing-avoid-war

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump says Iran will never have a nuclear weapon as Tehran mourns Suleimani – live updates

 

Follow the latest developments as huge crowds pack streets of Tehran in memory of Iranian general

 

Matthew Weaver

Mon 6 Jan 2020 15.24 GMT First published on Mon 6 Jan 2020 10.18 GMT

 

Key events

 

• 36m ago Trump warns Iran that it will never have a nuclear weapon

 

Live feed

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jan/06/iran-qassem-suleimani-funeral-donald-trump-nato-iraq

 

 

Key events

 

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Brazil: Bolsonaro's education minister ridiculed for series of spelling howlers

 

Parents and academics urge removal of ‘disgraceful’ Abraham Weintraub, one of Bolsonaro’s most provocative loyalists

 

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Thu 9 Jan 2020 16.28 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/brazil-bolsonaro-spelling-education-minister-abraham-weintraub

 

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Brazil helped the US and Iran towards peace. Dialogue is the only answer

 

As (fmr.) president and foreign minister, we always advocated peace. In war, all victories are pyrrhic ones

 

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Celso Amorim

Fri 10 Jan 2020 10.30 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/10/lula-brazil-iran-us-suleimani-peace-war

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At Davos we will tell world leaders to abandon the fossil fuel economy

 

Averting catastrophe would be the best business decision to emerge from the economic forum in its 50 years of existence

 

Greta Thunberg and others

Fri 10 Jan 2020 13.01 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/10/greta-thunberg-davos-tycoons-fossil-fuels-dismantle-climate-crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ousted Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg to receive $60m in stock and pension

 

• Muilenburg left after two 737 Max aircraft crashed, killing 346
• Boeing says ex-CEO will forfeit stock worth $14.6m

 

Dominic Rushe in New York

Fri 10 Jan 2020 23.21 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/10/boeing-dennis-muilenburg-60m-stock-pension

 

 

 

 

 

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Iran deploys riot police as backlash against government grows

 

Protests across country as media outlets join outcry at shooting down of Ukrainian jet

 

Michael Safi

Sun 12 Jan 2020 14.50 GMT First published on Sun 12 Jan 2020 13.13 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/12/iran-riot-police-anti-government-backlash-ukraine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The gates of hell: Auschwitz 75 years on

 

The Nazi death camp where more than one million people perished was liberated on 27 January 1945. As one survivor, now aged 90, prepares to commemorate the date, she explains why the Holocaust must never be forgotten … especially in an age of rising antisemitism and nationalism

 

 

Sun 12 Jan 2020 10.37 GMT

by Harriet Sherwood

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/12/auschwitz-gates-hell-75-years-on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nordic countries at odds with EU over minimum wage

 

Countries including Denmark and Finland fear one-size-fits-all plan could undermine collective bargaining

 

Daniel Boffey in Zagreb

Sun 12 Jan 2020 11.51 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/12/nordic-countries-at-odds-with-eu-over-minimum-wage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Profits before people: Boeing papers show employees hid 737 Max problems

 

January 10, 2020 9:28 AM CST By David Koenig

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/profits-before-people-boeing-papers-show-employees-hid-737-max-problems/

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Green New Deal and China’s Green Revolution

 

January 10, 2020 11:25 AM CST By Donald Donato

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-green-new-deal-and-chinas-green-revolution/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Olympic Committee releases anti-demonstration rules for 2020 Tokyo Games

 

January 9, 2020 2:40 PM CST By Al Neal

 

 

 

In this Oct. 16, 1968, photo, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward while extending gloved hands during the Star Spangled Banner after medaling the 200 meter dash at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. | AP

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/international-olympic-committee-releases-anti-demonstration-rules-for-2020-tokyo-games/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Iranian police fired live rounds to disperse protesters, say witnesses

 

Several people wounded during demonstrations in Tehran over plane deaths

 

Michael Safi in Beirut

Mon 13 Jan 2020 15.25 GMT

 

Vid

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/iran-protests-witnesses-live-ammunition-fired-disperse-crowds-tehran

 

 

 

Ex-soldier admits killing Slovak journalist and his partner

 

Miroslav Marček appears in court over shooting of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova

 

Reuters

Mon 13 Jan 2020 12.32 GMT Last modified on Mon 13 Jan 2020 12.34 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/ex-soldier-admits-killing-slovak-journalist-jan-kuciak-and-his-partner

 

 

 

 

Malta's new PM has only days to prove himself, says Andrew Caruana Galizia

 

Son of murdered journalist says Robert Abela is ‘continuity candidate’ and must break with ‘corrupt legacy’

 

Jennifer Rankin

Mon 13 Jan 2020 14.22 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/malta-new-pm-robert-abela-has-only-days-to-prove-himself-says-andrew-caruana-galizia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Pope Benedict warns against relaxing priestly celibacy rules

 

Move could jeopardise potential plan by Pope Francis to change rules in Amazon

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Mon 13 Jan 2020 14.35 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/former-pope-benedict-warns-against-relaxing-priestly-celibacy-rules

 

 

 

 

Libya talks in Moscow in diplomatic coup for Putin

 

Summit brings together two sides in civil war and confirms Russia’s increasing influence

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Mon 13 Jan 2020 13.56 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/libya-talks-moscow-diplomatic-coup-vladimir-putin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revealed: US listed climate activist group as ‘extremists’ alongside mass killers

 

DHS listed activists engaged in non-violent civil disobedience targeting oil industry alongside white supremacists in documents

 

Adam Federman

Mon 13 Jan 2020 10.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 13 Jan 2020 10.04 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/us-listed-climate-activist-group-extremists

 

 

 

 

Church of the Nativity Jeopardy answer sparks Israel-Palestine storm

 

Controversy after competitor ruled wrong for saying church at birthplace of Jesus was in Palestine

 

Richard Luscombe

Mon 13 Jan 2020 07.30 GMT Last modified on Mon 13 Jan 2020 16.25 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/church-of-the-nativity-jeopardy-israel-palestine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turbulence for Turkey as breakaway parties make gains on Erdoğan

 

President, in charge for past 17 years, faces domestic political threats as troops sent to Libya

 

Bethan McKernan in Istanbul

Mon 13 Jan 2020 07.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/turbulence-for-turkey-as-breakaway-parties-make-gains-on-erdogan

 

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Khamenei regime has no authority to rule Iran, says Tudeh Party

 

January 13, 2020 12:10 PM CST By C.J. Atkins

 

 

 

In this photograph taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, protesters hold flowers as tear gas fired by police rises at a demonstration in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, to remember victims of a Ukrainian airplane shot down by an Iranian missile. | AP

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/khamenei-regime-has-no-authority-to-rule-iran-says-tudeh-party/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outlaw Añez regime in Bolivia targets Indigenous for more terror

 

January 3, 2020 10:51 AM CST By Albert Bender

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/outlaw-anez-regime-in-bolivia-targets-indigenous-for-more-terror/

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Journalists quit Iranian state broadcaster over crash cover-up

 

Presenter Gellare Jabbari apologised to Iranians ‘for the 13 years I told you lies’

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Mon 13 Jan 2020 18.34 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/journalists-quit-iranian-state-broadcaster-over-crash-cover-up

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Russian PM and government quit as Putin proposes constitutional changes

 

President, due to step down in 2024, suggests two-term limit for successors

 

Andrew Roth in Moscow

Wed 15 Jan 2020 14.54 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/15/putin-calls-for-constitution-changes-that-would-weaken-successor

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Iranians braced for year of misery and unrest

 

Economic hardship is hurting ordinary people while experts fear downturn might consolidate power in hands of hardliners

 

Michael Safi, Shah Meer Baloch and reporter in Tehran

Fri 17 Jan 2020 05.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/17/ordinary-iranians-suffer-but-regime

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘They will destroy you’: in Putin’s Russia, how far can an artist go?

 

A decade ago, a new spirit of tolerance of the avant garde blossomed in Russia. But these days, it’s impossible to know where the lines are – as the country’s most celebrated director discovered to his cost

 

 

Fri 17 Jan 2020 05.59 GMT

By Joshua Yaffa

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/17/putin-kirill-serebrennikov-arts-clampdown-russia-bolshoi

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Like going back 40 years': dismay as Bolsonaro backs abstinence-only sex ed

 

Brazilian president’s plan to cut teenage pregnancies inspired by a Christian pressure group and Trump’s approach in the US

 

Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Fri 17 Jan 2020 10.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/17/brazil-bolsonaro-backs-abstinence-only-sex-education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Moria is a hell': new arrivals describe life in a Greek refugee camp

 

Originally intended to hold 3,000 people, 19,000 now live at the Moria refugee camp – with no electricity, scant water and, for many, no shelter at all. Journalist Harriet Grant and photographer Giorgos Moutafis met some of those attempting to cope with life there

 

Fri 17 Jan 2020 07.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/17/moria-is-a-hell-new-arrivals-describe-life-in-a-greek-refugee-camp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Germany will pay billions to speed up coal-fired power plant shutdowns

 

In fight against climate crisis, operators will be compensated for early switch-offs

 

Agencies

Thu 16 Jan 2020 19.10 GMT Last modified on Thu 16 Jan 2020 20.50 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/16/germany-will-pay-billions-to-speed-up-coal-fired-power-plant-shutdowns

 

 

 

Vladimir Putin’s naked power grab could have unexpected benefits

 

A weaker presidency and a stronger parliament must be good for Russia’s democracy, whatever the real intention

 

Thu 16 Jan 2020 17.28 GMT Last modified on Fri 17 Jan 2020 07.30 GMT

Yana Gorokhovskaia

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/16/vladimir-putin-power-grab-russia-democracy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drug gang violence in Sweden linked to 60% increase in bomb blasts

 

Last year 257 bomb attacks were reported to police, up from 162 in 2018

 

Reuters in Stockholm

Thu 16 Jan 2020 15.55 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/16/drug-gang-violence-in-sweden-linked-to-60-bomb-blasts-increase

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Staggering number' of human rights activists killed in Colombia, UN reports

 

Despite a peace accord aimed at improving conditions in rural areas controlled by illegal armed groups, 107 defenders died in 2019

 

Associated Press

Tue 14 Jan 2020 20.05 GMT Last modified on Tue 14 Jan 2020 20.12 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/14/un-staggering-number-activists-killed-colombia

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Syrian Revolution by Yasser Munif review – an early phase of a third world war?

 

The murderous conflict in Syria is simplified by both right and left. This account deals with the short period of hope, when the people threw off their chains

 

Ben Ehrenreich

Thu 16 Jan 2020 08.58 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/syrian-revolution-yasser-munif-review

 

 

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Brazil culture secretary fired after echoing words of Nazi Goebbels

 

Roberto Alvim set off a storm of outrage with comments about culture that were eerily reminiscent of Hitler’s propaganda chief

 

Sam Cowie in São Paulo

Fri 17 Jan 2020 17.25 GMT

 

 

Roberto Alvim: ‘Brazilian art in the next decade will be heroic and national.’

Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/17/brazil-culture-minister-goebbels-roberto-alvim-nazi

 

 

Not good at all...But that's what happens when president Bolsonaro ( an outspoken fascist) states that " Miliary dictatorship ( which lasted 20plus years) has been the best ever period for Brazil" and also when he decides to make the first day of the military coup ( back in the 60's) a nat'l celebration day....WTF.....

 

Edited January 17, 2020 by umbertino

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Putin, a criminal and incompetent president, is an enemy of his own people

 

The Russian president has manipulated the levers of power to rule in perpetuity. That prospect is terrible for the west – and Russia

 

Sat 18 Jan 2020 14.00 GMT

Simon Tisdall

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/18/putin-criminal-incompetent-president-enemy-of-his-own-people-russia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 18, 2020 by umbertino

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Row in Spain over far-right party's parental veto policy for classes

 

Initiative allows parents to opt their children out of school activities that go ‘against their moral principles’

 

Sam Jones in Madrid

Mon 20 Jan 2020 13.10 GMT Last modified on Mon 20 Jan 2020 16.22 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/spains-government-vows-to-overturn-parental-pin-initiative

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Libya: Sanctions threatened against countries who break arms embargo

 

Johnson says international peacekeeping force could monitor the proposed ceasefire

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Sun 19 Jan 2020 22.20 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/19/libya-international-force-could-monitor-proposed-ceasefire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The EU has a duty to recognise the state of Palestine

 

European intervention now can preserve the peace process, despite the efforts of Israel and Trump

 

Sun 19 Jan 2020 11.53 GMT Last modified on Mon 20 Jan 2020 14.57 GMT

Saeb Erekat

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/19/eu-duty-recognise-palestine-peace-process-israel-trump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drug cartel members tunnel way out of Paraguay prison

 

Officials believed complicit in escape of at least 75 prisoners, including members of notorious Brazilian gang

 

Agencies

Sun 19 Jan 2020 17.36 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/19/drug-cartel-members-tunnel-way-out-of-paraguay-prison

 

 

Hundreds injured in Lebanon as violence flares in ‘week of anger’

 

Pitched battles between police and demonstrators as leaders fail to form new government

 

Michael Safi in Beirut

Sun 19 Jan 2020 18.45 GMT

 

Vid

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/19/hundreds-injured-in-lebanon-as-violence-flares-in-week-of-anger-beirut

 

 

 

 

Houthi rebels kill at least 80 Yemeni soldiers in missile attack on mosque

 

Military sources say the attack came during evening prayers at a military base in Yemen’s Marib province

 

Agence France-Presse

Sun 19 Jan 2020 07.47 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/19/houthi-rebels-kill-at-least-70-yemeni-soldiers-in-missile-attack-on-mosque

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Iran's Opposition Groups are Preparing for the Regime's Collapse. Is Anyone Ready

 

By Jonathan Broder On 08/27/19 at 5:08 PM EDT

 

 

 

https://www.newsweek.com/2019/09/06/iran-regime-fall-opposition-groups-mek-1456420.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9 questions about the US-Iran crisis you were too embarrassed to ask

 

Why did the US kill Qassem Soleimani? Why do the US and Iran hate each other?

 

By Alex Ward and Zack Beauchamp Jan 13, 2020, 12:40pm EST

 

 

 

https://www.vox.com/world/2020/1/13/21051794/us-iran-soleimani-ukraine-airline-questions

Edited January 21, 2020 by umbertino

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Bezos hack: UN to address alleged Saudi hacking of Amazon boss's phone

 

Special rapporteurs to announce further information on Guardian revelations

 

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington

Wed 22 Jan 2020 10.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/22/un-investigators-to-address-alleged-saudi-hacking-of-jeff-bezos-phone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greenwald charges are ‘existential threat’ to journalism in Brazil, says Edward Snowden

 

Prosecutors’ decision to charge US journalist with cybercrimes decried as abuse of power

 

Michael Safi

Wed 22 Jan 2020 12.27 GMT Last modified on Wed 22 Jan 2020 12.33 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/22/greenwald-charges-are-existential-threat-to-journalism-in-brazil-says-edward-snowden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wildfires show us how the climate emergency is already affecting Europe

 

We look at the devastation of Australia’s bushfires and don’t believe it could happen here. But it already is

 

Wed 22 Jan 2020 10.51 GMT Last modified on Wed 22 Jan 2020 12.06 GMT

Imogen West-Knights

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/22/australia-bushfires-europe-wildfire-climate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make no mistake: Poland and Hungary aren’t the only EU states abusing the law

 

Countries from Britain to Greece are guilty of democratic backsliding. And that threatens the integrity of the EU itself

 

Wed 22 Jan 2020 06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 22 Jan 2020 11.11 GMT

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/22/poland-hungary-eu-states-abusing-law

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If defending life on Earth is extremist, we must own that label

 

Police say climate groups such as Extinction Rebellion are a ‘threat’. They’d have done the same for the suffragettes and Martin Luther King

 

Wed 22 Jan 2020 06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 22 Jan 2020 09.19 GMT

George Monbiot

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/22/defending-life-earth-extremist-police-extinction-rebellion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brazil's charges against Glenn Greenwald reek of authoritarianism

 

The move to retaliate against Greenwald, who has reported critically on Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, is a threat to the press everywhere

 

Wed 22 Jan 2020 07.25 GMT Last modified on Wed 22 Jan 2020 07.27 GMT

Trevor Timm

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/21/brazil-charges-glenn-greenwald-freedom-press

 

 

Edited January 22, 2020 by umbertino

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Wealth gap widening for more than 70% of global population, researchers find

 

Policymakers urged to act on climate and bridge digital divide as study shows soaring inequality is affecting millions

 

Sam Phan

Wed 22 Jan 2020 12.46 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/22/wealth-gap-widening-for-more-than-70-per-cent-of-global-population-researchers-find

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World leaders gather at Holocaust event in Jerusalem

 

United front against rise of antisemitism is hindered by political tensions

 

Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem

Thu 23 Jan 2020 15.50 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/world-leaders-gather-at-holocaust-event-in-jerusalem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A new film argues that Brazil teeters on the brink of authoritarianism. It's true

 

The far right is slowly strangling Brazil, and it started long before Jair Bolsonaro became president

 

Thu 23 Jan 2020 11.18 GMT Last modified on Thu 23 Jan 2020 12.19 GMT

David Miranda

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/23/brazil-bolsonaro-far-right-petra-costa-edge-of-democracy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What my attacker’s conviction taught me about taking on the far right

 

He may go to jail, but what will be achieved? We need to look elsewhere for an answer to the growing fascist menace

 

Thu 23 Jan 2020 06.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 23 Jan 2020 08.59 GMT

Owen Jones

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/23/what-my-attackers-conviction-taught-me-about-far-right

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Mormons standing up to Mexico’s drug cartels: 'We have to overcome our fears’

 

Cousins who lost nine close relatives in November ambush launch quixotic campaign for justice: ‘Who else is going to say something?’

 

David Agren in Mexico City

Thu 23 Jan 2020 10.00 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/mormons-mexico-cartels-ambush-massacre

 

 

 

 

 

Germany bans neo-Nazi group Combat 18 Deutschland

 

Country’s top security official says move is ‘clear message’ against far-right extremism

 

Associated Press in Berlin

Thu 23 Jan 2020 09.58 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/germany-bans-neo-nazi-group-combat-18-deutschland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Revealed: the true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group

 

The white supremacist group the Base has been a target of FBI raids and its members accused of planning a race war. The Guardian can now reveal the identity of its secretive leader

 

Jason Wilson

Fri 24 Jan 2020 01.19 GMT Last modified on Fri 24 Jan 2020 06.00 GMT

 

 

Revealed: the founder and leader of the Base, Rinaldo Nazzaro

Photograph: The Villanovan

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/revealed-the-true-identity-of-the-leader-of-americas-neo-nazi-terror-group