Politics & environs articles 2020

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Soros gives $1bn to fund universities 'and stop drift towards authoritarianism'

 

Philanthropist unveils plan for global network of institutions at Davos and attacks Trump as ‘ultimate narcissist’

 

Larry Elliott Economics editor

Thu 23 Jan 2020 21.57 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/23/soros-gives-1bn-to-fund-universities-and-stop-drift-towards-authoritarianism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Threat of jail shapes Egyptian lives nine years after uprising

 

Risk of detention looms over even the apolitical and there are rising reports of deaths in custody

 

Ruth Michaelson in Cairo

Fri 24 Jan 2020 12.08 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/24/threat-of-jail-shapes-egyptian-lives-nine-years-after-uprising

 

 

 

 

 

 

Direct peace talks are still the only way forward for Israel and Palestine

 

Israeli ambassador Mark Regev responds to a comment article by Saeb Erekat, who has called for a European intervention

 

Letters

Thu 23 Jan 2020 18.13 GMT Last modified on Thu 23 Jan 2020 18.15 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/direct-peace-talks-are-still-the-only-way-forward-for-israel-and-palestine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UK court allows Saudi dissident to sue kingdom over alleged hacking

 

Satirist Ghanem Almasarir, who brought case in Britain, says he was targeted in 2018 – shortly after alleged hack of Jeff Bezos

 

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington

Thu 23 Jan 2020 20.56 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/saudi-arabia-hacking-allegations-ghanem-almasarir

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Greta Thunberg clashes with US treasury secretary in Davos

 

Climate activist responds after Steven Mnuchin suggests she should study economics

 

Graeme Wearden in Davos

Thu 23 Jan 2020 18.44 GMT

 

 

Greta Thunberg has been in Davos to push for immediate, radical change on the climate emergency

Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/23/greta-thunberg-told-to-study-economics-by-us-treasury-secretary-steven-mnuchin

Edited January 24, 2020 by umbertino

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Jair Bolsonaro's racist comment sparks outrage from indigenous groups

 

Brazil’s president made anti-indigenous joke on Facebook broadcast, the latest in a succession of discriminatory comments

 

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Fri 24 Jan 2020 13.42 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/24/jair-bolsonaro-racist-comment-sparks-outrage-indigenous-groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prince Charles wishes Palestinians 'freedom, justice and equality'

 

Prince of Wales walks alongside Muslim and Christian leaders on historic visit to West Bank

 

Press Association

Fri 24 Jan 2020 16.43 GMT Last modified on Fri 24 Jan 2020 17.06 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/24/prince-charles-wishes-palestinians-freedom-justice-and-equality-west-bank

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside the Base: America's neo-Nazi terror network laid bare

 

Chats, audio and video obtained by the Guardian give a rare insight into the workings of a disturbing white supremacist group

 

 

Sat 25 Jan 2020 09.10 GMT

by Jason Wilson

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/inside-the-base-neo-nazi-terror-group

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Declaration of war': Polish row over judicial independence escalates

 

MPs vote through legislation just as top court rules its provisions unlawful

 

Christian Davies in Warsaw and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Fri 24 Jan 2020 13.08 GMT Last modified on Fri 24 Jan 2020 23.10 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/24/declaration-of-war-polish-row-over-judicial-independence-escalates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian view on the case against Glenn Greenwald: an outrage in Brazil and beyond

 

The decision to charge the American journalist with cybercrimes is an attack on democracy as well as press freedom

 

Fri 24 Jan 2020 18.25 GMT Last modified on Fri 24 Jan 2020 20.02 GMT

Editorial

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/24/the-guardian-view-on-the-case-against-glenn-greenwald-an-outrage-in-brazil-and-beyond

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reporting on the Iran nuclear deal: 'nothing happens until everything happens'

 

Our world affairs editor reflects on how, despite years of negotiations, we came once again to the brink of conflict

 

Julian Borger

Sat 25 Jan 2020 10.00 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2020/jan/25/iran-nuclear-deal-us-reporting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thatcher and Reagan week is latest skirmish in Bolsonaro's culture wars

 

A Brazil government-funded research institute is to celebrate the 80s conservative icons – a move denounced as ‘pure propaganda’

 

Sam Cowie in São Paulo

Sun 26 Jan 2020 10.30 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/26/brazil-bolsonaro-thatcher-reagan-week

 

 

 

 

'Mexico has become Trump's wall': how Amlo became an immigration enforcer

 

The Mexican president, who once called for safe passage for migrants, has taken on a new role – and allies have followed suit

 

David Agren in Mexico City

Sun 26 Jan 2020 10.00 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/26/mexico-immigration-amlo-enforcement-trump

 

 

 

 

 

Netanyahu hopes to 'make history' during White House visit

 

Israeli prime minister travels to US for unveiling of Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan

 

Associated Press

Sun 26 Jan 2020 11.49 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/26/netanyahu-hopes-to-make-history-during-white-house-visit-donald-trump-middle-east

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agnes Callamard: unflinching UN official taking on Saudi crown prince

 

French human rights specialist exposed Bezos hack claims and is ‘holding the unaccountable accountable’

 

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington

Fri 24 Jan 2020 10.37 GMT

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/24/agnes-callamard-unflinching-un-official-taking-on-saudi-crown-prince

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'The playbook is the American alt-right': Bolsonaristas follow familiar extremist tactics

 

Brazil’s government looks to the US for inspiration – and the US alt-right copies how Bolsonaro supporters use social media

 

Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Mon 27 Jan 2020 09.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/27/american-alt-right-playbook-bolsonaro-extremist-tactics-brazil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to fight racism using science

 

Misguided assumptions about race are going mainstream, but hard facts can help you combat entrenched attitudes

 

Adam Rutherford

Sun 26 Jan 2020 12.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/26/fight-racism-using-science-race-genetics-bigotry-african-americans-sport-linnaeus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have lived my life in the shadow of Auschwitz. This is what it has meant

 

The Nazi death camp was liberated 75 years ago, but across the world its malign influence lives on

 

Mon 27 Jan 2020 06.00 GMT

Jason Stanley

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/27/holocaust-auschwitz-far-right-nazis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I thought Bernie's Iowa numbers seemed unrealistically high. Then I saw his rallies

 

Pundits keep warning about a Sanders ‘ceiling’ – but here in the midwest he looks strong and getting stronger

 

Tue 28 Jan 2020 11.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 28 Jan 2020 11.02 GMT

Art Cullen  ( editor of the Storm Lake Times in north-west Iowa, where he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial writing. He is a columnist for Guardian US and is author of the book Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and Hope in America’s Heartland, out this month in paperback )

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/28/bernie-sanders-iowa-caucuses-numbers-art-cullen

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Interim Bolivian president Añez calls Indigenous citizens “savages”

 

January 28, 2020 9:19 AM CST By Albert Bender

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/interim-bolivian-president-anez-calls-indigenous-citizens-savages/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump Ag Dept. wants to restore fatty foods to school cafeteria meals

 

January 28, 2020 9:10 AM CST By Mark Gruenberg

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/trump-ag-dept-wants-to-restore-fatty-foods-to-school-cafeteria-meals/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chilean uprising the legacy of dashed hopes and bitter defeat

 

January 28, 2020 1:36 PM CST By W. T. Whitney Jr.

 

 

 

Massive protests against the Chilean president last October. | Wikipedia (CC)

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/chilean-uprising-the-legacy-of-dashed-hopes-and-bitter-defeat/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Murder of Mexican Artist Isabel Cabanillas Highlights Endemic Issue of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez

 

January 28, 2020

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/28/juarez_mexico_isabel_cabanillas_assassination_femicide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Middle East analysts question workability of Trump peace plan

 

France issues guarded statement while others say plan may deepen polarisation

 

Peter Beaumont

Wed 29 Jan 2020 14.07 GMT Last modified on Wed 29 Jan 2020 14.42 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/29/middle-east-analysts-question-workability-of-trump-peace-plan

 

 

 

 

How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools

 

Country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from school pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information

 

Jon Henley in Helsinki

Wed 29 Jan 2020 12.16 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/fact-from-fiction-finlands-new-lessons-in-combating-fake-news

 

 

 

 

The far-right Bolsonaro movement wants us dead. But we will not give up

 

Demagogues rely on fear to consolidate power. But courage is contagious – that’s why we must join hands and fight back

 

Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda

Wed 29 Jan 2020 11.12 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/29/glenn-greenwald-david-miranda-brazil-bolsonaro

 

 

 

 

 

 

The painful truth for Saudi Arabia: it needs the Iranian regime to survive

 

For all its fiery rhetoric, Riyadh actually benefits from a standoff between Iran and the US

 

Wed 29 Jan 2020 10.13 GMT Last modified on Wed 29 Jan 2020 14.59 GMT

Kim Ghattas

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/29/saudi-arabia-iran-regime-survive-us-standoff

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Trump's 'peace plan' is beyond insulting. That's deliberate

 

US proposals always treat Palestinians as second-class citizens. But this time Trump has said the quiet part out loud, and it’s ugly indeed

 

Thu 30 Jan 2020 10.30 GMT

Yousef Munayyer

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/trump-israel-palestinian-peace-plan-is-beyond-insulting-thats-deliberate

 

 

 

 

No deal: why Trump’s plan for Palestine will only create more conflict

 

US policy for the Middle East cannot work because it requires the Palestinians to accept they are a defeated people

 

 

Thu 30 Jan 2020 06.00 GMT

By Rashid Khalidi

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/no-deal-why-trumps-plan-for-palestine-will-only-create-more-conflict

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian view on Trump’s ‘peace plan’: a con, not a deal

 

A two-state solution came about as the result of a rules-based world order, which Mr Trump detests because it is inimical to the raw power that he prefers to govern global affairs

 

Wed 29 Jan 2020 19.04 GMT Last modified on Wed 29 Jan 2020 21.45 GMT

Editorial

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/29/the-guardian-view-on-trumps-peace-plan-a-con-not-a-deal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Netanyahu indicted in court after removing immunity request

 

Israeli prime minister to face trial on charges including bribery and breach of trust

 

Reuters in Jerusalem

Tue 28 Jan 2020 15.04 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/netanyahu-withdraws-immunity-from-prosecution-request

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Trump’s ‘peace’ deal flagrantly tramples on Palestinian rights and freedoms

 

This plan is simply a continuation of US-Israel policy. Palestinians have heard it all before and won’t accept it

 

Thu 30 Jan 2020 11.35 GMT

Yara Hawari

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/trump-peace-deal-palestinian-rights-israel-international-law

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World leaders talked the talk at Davos but we need some real change

 

Excessive faith in markets and skepticism of government won’t tackle the global crises we face

 

Thu 30 Jan 2020 16.02 GMT

Joseph Stiglitz   ( a Nobel laureate in economics, university professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute)

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/30/world-leaders-talked-the-talk-at-davos-but-we-need-some-real-change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greece plans to build sea barrier off Lesbos to deter migrants

 

Defence ministry says floating barrier will stop migrants crossing from Turkey

 

Helena Smith in Athens

Thu 30 Jan 2020 14.42 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/greece-plans-to-build-sea-barrier-off-lesbos-to-deter-migrants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swedish media calls for action against attacks from Chinese officials

 

Media body says journalists are denied visas, while editors receive stream of threatening emails and phone calls

 

Richard Orange in Malmö

Thu 30 Jan 2020 14.05 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 14.07 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/swedish-media-calls-for-action-against-attacks-from-chinese-officials

 

 

 

 

Peru: why a fundamentalist sect became an unexpected winner in elections

 

Political party of Los Israelitas wins second largest share in new congress, and prompts concern over their fundamentalist views

 

Dan Collyns in Lima

Thu 30 Jan 2020 09.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 09.02 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/peru-why-a-fundamentalist-sect-became-an-unexpected-winner-in-elections

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brexit: sadness and celebrations as UK prepares to leave the EU – live news

All the latest as Britain gears up to leave the European Union at 11pm local time

 

Alexandra Topping (now) and Simon Murphy (earlier)

Fri 31 Jan 2020 17.13 GMT

 

Key events

 

• 5h ago Starmer: 'We must make the argument for freedom of movement'
• 6h ago EU leaders warn of Britain's 'splendid isolation' post-Brexit
• 8h ago Scottish sadness at Brexit "tinged with anger", says Sturgeon
• 9h ago Gove: 'I will be relieved and delighted when country leaves EU at 11pm'

 

Live feed

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/jan/31/brexit-day-britain-prepares-leave-eu-live-news-updates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Militia raids kill dozens as DRC plunges deeper into instability

 

Deadly attacks come as tensions grow between president and supporters of his predecessor

 

Jason Burke Africa correspondent

Fri 31 Jan 2020 05.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/militia-group-raids-villages-in-eastern-drc-after-army-crackdown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Syria: pro-Assad forces batter Idlib and spark fears of fresh crisis

 

Wave of airstrikes force 700,000 civilians to flee towards Turkish border

 

Bethan McKernan, Middle East correspondent

Fri 31 Jan 2020 14.59 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/syria-pro-assad-forces-batter-idlib-spark-fears-fresh-crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eurozone growth close to stalling as French and Italian GDPs shrink

 

Brexit could further damage bloc’s economy, which grew just 0.1% in final quarter of 2019

 

Richard Partington

Fri 31 Jan 2020 15.18 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/31/eurozone-growth-stalling-french-italian-gdp

 

 

 

 

 

Hundreds of Central American migrants rounded up by guardsmen at Mexico border – video

 

National guardsmen in riot gear have blocked the path of hundreds of Central Americans near the town of Frontera Hidalgo in southern Mexico.........

 

Source: AP and Reuters

Fri 24 Jan 2020 23.16 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/jan/24/hundreds-of-central-american-migrants-rounded-up-by-guardsmen-at-mexico-border-video

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian view on Libya and foreign interference: talking peace, shipping arms

 

The north African country’s population have suffered years of turmoil, fuelled by the meddling of outside players. The civil war may yet escalate

 

Thu 30 Jan 2020 18.47 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 20.00 GMT

Editorial

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/the-guardian-view-on-libya-and-foreign-interference-talking-peace-shipping-arms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Palestinians cut ties with Israel and US after rejecting Trump peace plan

 

• Mahmoud Abbas addresses Arab League in Cairo
• Trump and Netanyahu presented peace plan last month
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Reuters in Cairo

Sat 1 Feb 2020 21.20 GMT Last modified on Sat 1 Feb 2020 21.25 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/palestinians-cut-ties-israel-us-trump-peace-plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What we Palestinians think does not matter – all that matters is Israel

 

The message of Donald Trump’s Middle East ‘peace plan’ is that international law can be bypassed

 

Sun 2 Feb 2020 07.45 GMT

Diana Buttu

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/02/israel-us-palestine-what-palestinians-think-does-not-matter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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As the world loses faith in democracy, leaders of vision are desperately needed

 

A huge global study finds ample evidence of a worrying ‘democratic recession’ since 1973 – leaving ever greater opportunities for populists

 

Sun 2 Feb 2020 08.30 GMT Last modified on Sun 2 Feb 2020 14.31 GMT

David Olusoga

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/02/as-world-loses-faith-in-democracy-leaders-of-vision-are-desperately-needed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Libya’s bloodshed will continue unless foreign powers stop backing Khalifa Haftar

 

Support from the Emirates, Russia and the US is empowering the military strongman and worsening Libyans’ suffering

 

Sun 2 Feb 2020 12.16 GMT

Frederic Wehrey

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/02/libya-foreign-powers-khalifa-haftar-emirates-russia-us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Turkish soldiers killed as battle for control of Idlib escalates

 

Clash in Syrian province is rare direct confrontation against Assad troops and allied militias

 

Bethan McKernan Middle East correspondent

Mon 3 Feb 2020 12.13 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/turkish-soldiers-killed-battle-syria-idlib-assad

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White nationalist has long worked at conservative outlets under real name

 

Guardian findings support watchdog’s report that ‘Paul Kersey’, a prominent author and activist, is actually Michael J Thompson

 

Jason Wilson

Mon 3 Feb 2020 14.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 3 Feb 2020 17.14 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/paul-kersey-michael-j-thompson-white-nationalist-report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lawyers and doctors protest in Paris as pensions row deepens

 

Self-employed private sector workers march as French MPs meet to examine proposals

 

Kim Willsher in Paris

Mon 3 Feb 2020 15.02 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/self-employed-workers-protest-paris-france-pensions-row-deepens-strike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FGM doctor arrested in Egypt after girl, 12, bleeds to death

 

Child had been taken by her family to have the procedure, still prevalent in the country despite new laws to combat it

 

Ruth Michaelson

Mon 3 Feb 2020 13.30 GMT Last modified on Mon 3 Feb 2020 13.32 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/03/fgm-doctor-arrested-in-egypt-after-girl-12-bleeds-to-death

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why liberal white women pay a lot of money to learn over dinner how they're racist

 

A growing number of women are paying to confront their privilege – and racism – at dinners that cost $2,500

 

Poppy Noor

Mon 3 Feb 2020 14.51 GMT First published on Mon 3 Feb 2020 06.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/race-to-dinner-party-racism-women

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘It’ll be OK. Spain is kinder to us migrants than the British are’

 

Expats tell how they celebrated, or mourned, Brexit day in their adopted home

 

Sam Jones

Sat 1 Feb 2020 16.20 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/01/brexit-expats-spain-is-kinder-to-us-migrants-than-the-british-are

 

 

 

 

 

Shamans, spirits, survival: how Claudia Andujar fought for the Yanomami tribe

 

The Swiss photographer found both friendship and a lifelong subject in the indigenous people – whose existence under Bolsonaro is more threatened than ever

 

Oliver Basciano

Wed 29 Jan 2020 06.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 08.57 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/29/claudia-andujar-photography-yanomami-brazil-jair-bolsonaro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sudan accused of failing men who say they were duped into working in Libya

 

Families protest amid claims men who went to work in UAE were given military training and then sent to Libya to guard oil fields

 

Kaamil Ahmed

Fri 31 Jan 2020 12.31 GMT Last modified on Fri 31 Jan 2020 12.47 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/31/sudan-accused-of-failing-men-who-say-they-were-duped-into-working-in-libya

 

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Montana Republican rebuked for saying socialists should be ‘jailed or shot'

 

State legislator Rodney Garcia insists constitution says socialists should be jailed or shot, according to Billings Gazette

 

Martin Pengelly

Mon 3 Feb 2020 13.49 GMT Last modified on Mon 3 Feb 2020 15.35 GMT

 

 

Flags for sale before a Trump rally

Photograph: Joshua Lott/Getty Images

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/03/montana-republican-rodney-garcia-socialists-comment

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Khashoggi fiancee: 'Saudi Arabia can get away with whatever it wants'

 

Hatice Cengiz tells Guardian world has failed to punish kingdom over journalist’s murder in Turkey

 

Tue 4 Feb 2020 13.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 4 Feb 2020 18.55 GMT

Stephanie Kirchgaessner

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/04/khashoggi-fiancee-saudi-arabia-can-get-away-with-doing-whatever-it-wants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nine killed including four children in attack on video arcade in Mexico

 

• Gunmen open fire on customers at video game arcade
• Five of the victims were age 18 or younger

 

Associated Press in Mexico City

Tue 4 Feb 2020 16.30 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/04/video-arcade-attack-mexico-michoacan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greece sends more riot police to Lesbos after migrant clashes

 

Government calls in further reinforcements after teargas fired during island protests

 

Helena Smith in Athens

Tue 4 Feb 2020 16.22 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/04/greece-sends-more-riot-police-to-lesbos-after-migrant-clashes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dutch rightwing leader under fire over false account of harassment

 

Train passengers refuted Thierry Baudet’s story of female friends being harassed by Moroccans

 

Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Tue 4 Feb 2020 10.45 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/04/dutch-rightwing-leader-under-fire-over-false-account-of-harassment

 

 

 

 

 

Bolsonaro government attacks Oscar nominee Petra Costa as 'anti-Brazil activist'

 

• President’s son Eduardo also lashes out at film-maker
• The Edge of Democracy nominated in documentary category
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Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent

Tue 4 Feb 2020 16.22 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/04/bolsonaro-government-petra-costa-brazil-oscar-nominee

If you don't agree with Bolsonaro then you are "anti-Brazil"...That's fascist methods ...And it's deeply stupid & ignorant ( just for a change...)

 

 

 

 

 

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500,000 flee Syrian regime's deadly offensive in Idlib

 

Turkey intervenes, raising tensions, after weeks of aerial bombardment of rebel territory

 

Bethan McKernan and agencies

Wed 5 Feb 2020 15.40 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/04/syria-half-a-million-displaced-in-idlib-says-un-body

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘I'm not a robot’: Amazon workers condemn unsafe, grueling conditions at warehouse

 

Employees under pressure to work faster call on retail giant to improve conditions – and take their complaints seriously

 

Michael Sainato

Wed 5 Feb 2020 08.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 5 Feb 2020 08.01 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-workers-protest-unsafe-grueling-conditions-warehouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low

 

A territory that has 0.5% of the Earth’s population plans to use up nearly a third of the planet’s remaining carbon budget

 

Wed 5 Feb 2020 10.30 GMT Last modified on Wed 5 Feb 2020 10.34 GMT

Bill McKibben

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/05/when-it-comes-to-climate-hypocrisy-canadas-leaders-have-reached-a-new-low

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bunker mentality: the man who built Albania's underground Stalinist city

 

Could this relic of Albanian communist paranoia become the country’s next tourist attraction?

 

Wed 5 Feb 2020 05.00 GMT

by Shaun Walker and Fatjona Mejdini in Kukës

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/05/bunker-mentality-the-man-who-built-albanias-underground-stalinist-city

[umbertino]

 

Uprising in Chile is legacy of dashed hopes and bitter defeat

 

January 29, 2020 10:05 AM CST By W. T. Whitney Jr.

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/uprising-in-chile-is-legacy-of-dashed-hopes-and-bitter-defeat/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Belugas dying off in Alaska – oil, gas operations likely to blame

 

February 3, 2020 2:08 PM CST By Jordan Davidson

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/belugas-dying-off-in-alaska-oil-gas-operations-likely-to-blame/

 

 

[nstoolman1]

On 1/24/2020 at 5:39 AM, umbertino said:

Direct peace talks are still the only way forward for Israel and Palestine

The quote is from Umbertino article not him directly.

 

 

That being said, if there is to be peace in the Middle East between I + P then the Palestinians need to stop their genocidal rage against Israel.

If someone was trying to wipe me off the face of the planet I would fight back too. 

[umbertino]

Max Blumenthal on Palestine’s Rebellion, Israel’s Fascism

 

July 2, 2017 9:43 PM  ( 2  1/2 years ago)

 

 

Vid

 

https://imemc.org/article/empire-files-rewind-max-blumenthal-on-palestines-rebellion-israels-fascism/

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal

[umbertino]

'Genocide' fears for isolated tribes as ex-missionary named to head Brazil agency

 

Jair Bolsonaro’s ‘dangerous’ appointment of Ricardo Lopes Dias threatens remote indigenous people, UN special rapporteur says

 

Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Wed 5 Feb 2020 19.03 GMT

 

 

An uncontacted village in the Yanomami indigenous territory in the north of Brazil, close to the Venezuelan border photographed from the air in 2016

Photograph: Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/Hutukara

 

 

 

A photo made available on 1 February 2011 by Survival International shows members of an uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon

Photograph: Gleison Miranda/Funai/EPA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/05/brazil-indigenous-tribes-missionary-agency-ricardo-lopes-dias-christianity-disease#img-2

 

 

 

Brazil's FUNAI

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundação_Nacional_do_Índio

[umbertino]

Fascists align with conservatives to kick out Die Linke ( The Left) in eastern Germany

 

February 6, 2020 9:15 AM CST By Morning Star

 

 

 

Demonstrators opposing the overthrow of the Die Linke government in Thuringia by a fascist-conservative alliance carry a banner reading: "Nationalism is not an alternative: United Against Fascism." | via Twitter

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/fascists-align-with-conservatives-to-kick-out-die-linke-in-eastern-germany/

[umbertino]

Israeli airstrikes in Syria 'force passenger jet into emergency landing'

 

Civilian aircraft carrying 172 passengers diverted from Damascus airport to Russian airbase

 

Bethan McKernan, Middle East correspondent

Fri 7 Feb 2020 10.30 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/israeli-airstrikes-in-syria-force-russian-plane-into-emergency-landing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

Brazil: judge dismisses cybercrimes accusations against Glenn Greenwald

 

Prosecutors had accused the journalist of helping a group hack into the phones of local authorities

 

Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent

Fri 7 Feb 2020 00.30 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/glenn-greenwald-brazil-judge-cybercrimes-dissmissed

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brazil's Bolsonaro unveils bill to allow commercial mining on indigenous land

 

• Move by far-right president was a campaign promise
• Bolsonaro expects ‘pressure from environmentalists’

 

Reuters in Brasília

Thu 6 Feb 2020 15.32 GMT Last modified on Thu 6 Feb 2020 15.36 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/brazil-bolsonaro-commercial-mining-indigenous-land-bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yemen: mercy flight takes eight children to Jordan for treatment

 

Humanitarian breakthrough in five-year conflict, with two more flights to leave soon

 

Michael Safi in Amman, Jordan

Fri 7 Feb 2020 06.29 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/yemen-mercy-flight-takes-eight-children-to-jordan-for-treatment

 

 

 

 

Saudi Arabia using secret court to silence dissent, Amnesty finds

 

Activists handed long prison sentences or death penalty by court set up for terror cases

 

Bethan McKernan, Middle East correspondent

Thu 6 Feb 2020 00.01 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/saudi-arabia-using-secret-court-to-silence-dissent-amnesty-finds

 

 

 

 

 

Syrians need more than our tears

 

After director Waad Al-Kateab’s moving plea for support for Syrians trapped in Idlib at the Bafta awards ceremony on Sunday, Hombeline Dulière of the aid agency Cafod calls for action to bring an urgent end to the conflict

 

Letters

Thu 6 Feb 2020 17.56 GMT Last modified on Thu 6 Feb 2020 19.55 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/syrians-need-more-than-our-tears

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Syrian Kurds to put Isis fighters from dozens of countries on trial

 

Decision follows exasperation at failure to reach international agreements over prisoners

 

Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Thu 6 Feb 2020 14.55 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/syrian-kurds-to-put-isis-fighters-from-dozens-of-countries-on-trial