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Chris Matthews belittles Bernie Sanders ascent in polls. Why? January 24, 2020
Chris Matthews attempted to belittle Bernie Sanders ascent in the polls with a novel theory used to propel Mike Bloomberg given the expected Biden demise.
A New Definition of Warfare January 24, 2020
The one area where Trump and his team of narcissistic sociopaths have been most active has been in the imposition of sanctions with lethal intent.
Democratic Party establishment wages war on Sanders January 24, 2020
In an extraordinary interview published Tuesday, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, denounced Sanders and refused to commit herself to support Sanders if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination this year.
The political battle in Wisconsin over purging 200,000 voters could come to a swing state near you January 23, 2020
Wisconsin has become early 2020's Exhibit A for political fights surrounding the updating of statewide voter lists, where escalating court battles over conflicting law, procedures and underlying data could lead to removing thousands of legal but infrequent voters.
What happens when people no longer want our money?: Papering the world with Benjamins January 23, 2020
The world is awash in over $1.3 trillion in US $100 bills, mostly for illegal transactions. What happens, asks journalist Allen Baker, writing in ThisCantBeHappening.net, when criminals and foreign countries decide the don't want all tha paper anymore?
2019 News Awards January 23, 2020
Each year Dispatches From The Edge gives awards to individuals, companies and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure.
China rebuffs US meddling in CPEC, Pak-China ties January 23, 2020
China has rejected the 'interference' by the United States into the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the Pakistan-China ties.A spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in Islambad said China was "more than glad" to see the US develop its relationship with Pakistan, "but we strongly oppose the US interferes into China-Pakistan relations and the CPEC."
"The Facts Matter: You Can't Have a Trial without Witnesses and Documents"~~New Mexico's US Senator Martin Heinrich January 23, 2020
"Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans spent the entire opening day of this trial preventing the Senate and the American people from viewing documentary evidence or hearing from witnesses. They have shut down every opportunity for witnesses and documents. They are creating an environment that clearly serves as a cover-up of the president's actions."
US v. Sineneng-Smith: Does Immigration Law Trump Freedom of Speech? January 23, 2020
Are you free to express your opinions? The First Amendment says yes, but 8 US Code -- 1324 says no.
Yemen war escalates with 116 dead in missile attack January 23, 2020
In an escalation of the ongoing war in Yemen, at least 116 soldiers of the Saudi, US-backed government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, had died on Saturday (Jan. 18). In one of the bloodiest assaults since the beginning of the civil war, ballistic missiles ripped through the mosque at a military training camp in […]

Sometimes breaking the law is the 'only moral' choice: Snowden opens up to Ecuador's ex-president Correa (VIDEO) January 24, 2020
People need to differentiate between legality and morality, and recognize that sometimes doing the right thing means breaking the law, Edward Snowden told Ecuador's former president Rafael Correa in a wide-ranging interview. Read Full Article at RT.com
Chinese authorities share first PHOTOS of deadly CORONAVIRUS January 24, 2020
The first close-up images of the deadly coronavirus which has killed at least 26 people and infected some 830 others in China’s Wuhan have been released. Read Full Article at RT.com
Merkel and Erdogan’s smiles hide tough times ahead: what can we expect from EU-Turkey talks? January 24, 2020
They may be all smiles for the cameras, but the issues Angela Merkel and Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to discuss – from Syrian refugees to Turkey’s attempts to join the EU – may stall talks and deteriorate relations even further. Read Full Article at RT.com
Dozens of Indian students TRAPPED in Wuhan as China scrambles to stop spread of deadly coronavirus January 24, 2020
A group of young Indians studying medicine in Wuhan, China have found themselves trapped in the city, as Beijing rushes to contain the new coronavirus outbreak. Read Full Article at RT.com
Serena stunned! Williams loses to China's Wang at Australian Open as chance for 24th Grand Slam slips away AGAIN January 24, 2020
The chance of a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam again went begging for Serena Williams as she lost to China's Wang Qiang in the third round of the Australian Open. Read Full Article at RT.com
‘False sense of security!’ Pakistan claims India’s S-400 deal fuels arms race… as it tests ballistic missile January 24, 2020
India’s decision to buy Russia's S-400 missile defense system could spark an arms race, Pakistan has claimed, urging its regional rival to ditch it for the sake of “stability” the same day it tested a new nuclear-capable missile. Read Full Article at RT.com
More chaos on campus? Soros pumps $1bn into ‘global education network’ to fight ‘climate change & dictators’ like Trump, Xi & Modi January 24, 2020
Billionaire George Soros has unveiled a new ambitious project: creating a global university network that would save the world from climate change and rescue democracy itself from ‘dictators’ like US President Donald Trump. Read Full Article at RT.com
‘Spygate’ update: At least two FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page were ‘not valid,’ DOJ says January 24, 2020
The top US spy court has revealed that at least two of the four warrants for spying on a Trump campaign adviser are now considered to have been improperly obtained, and all information gained from them is being restricted. Read Full Article at RT.com
China coronavirus infections soar to 830 with 26 deaths as WHO says it’s too early to declare global emergency January 24, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) held off designating a new fast-spreading coronavirus as an international health threat, but did deem it a crisis within China, where the pathogen has infected some 830 people and killed 26. Read Full Article at RT.com
Listen to your mummy! Egyptian priest’s ‘voice’ heard 3,000 years after his death through 3D-printed vocal tract January 23, 2020
A mummified Egyptian priest dead for millennia was granted the gift of the gab after scientists used 3D-printed vocal cords to recreate his voice, fulfilling the priest’s dying wish to be heard from the afterlife. Read Full Article at RT.com

FBI, King and the Tremors of History January 24, 2020
Nothing like trying to rewrite history. Remember way back when, when America was one nation under God and everyone got along so nicely? That was the sentiment of an FBI tweet on Martin Luther King Day, which — oh, the horror! — blew up in the agency’s face and brought a real fragment of the Old Days […]
‘Little Women’ and the American Attitude Toward Poverty January 24, 2020
With Greta Gerwig’s new take on Luisa May Alcott’s classic 19th century novel, Little Women, in theaters, I decided to reread the book. The novel communicates Alcott’s beliefs about proper morality and gender roles through stories of a family of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, touting the American virtues of hard work, […]
Giving Cover to the Abuses of Big Ag January 24, 2020
A recent commentary promoting agriculture by Brenden Weiner of the Gallatin Valley Land Trust was full of misinformation. Weiner suggested that “working farmlands grow our food, provide scenic open space, give wildlife a place of refuge, and are the foundation of our community and economy.” He goes on to suggest that protecting farmland will preclude […]
This is Really Happening January 24, 2020
I’m alarmed. I’m afraid. I’m sad. I’m a teacher, and it terrifies me to think of what the future will become for our children if we don’t stop and act right now on the climate disaster. *** I’ll be as clear as I can, and start with an analogy. The train is coming. We are […]
Ten Best Messages for Waging Peace January 23, 2020
The rapid response to US war moves against Iran has been an exciting start toward rebuilding the anti-war movement we so desperately need. Thousands took to the streets in more than 80 cities. It’s a great beginning. But, if we want a movement of millions we are going to have to reach everyday people outside […]
The Catalan Crisis Threatens to Reopen a Debate That the EU’s Power Brokers Thought They Had Long Ago Quashed January 23, 2020
Though it is largely forgotten today, there was during the late 80s and early 90s a vigorous debate in numerous sectors of European life about whether the EU would be best structured as a Union of Regions or as a Union of States. Adherents of the first posture hoped and believed that the goal the […]
SARS-Like Disease Could Become a Pandemic January 23, 2020
Do you remember SARS? Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was so contagious; a SARS-afflicted man on an Air China flight in 2003 infected 20 passengers sitting at a distance away from him and two crew members. The simple act of flushing the toilet spread the deadly lung disease and health care workers had to wear HazMat suits to treat […]
A Cesspool of Constitutional Nonsense-Impeachment in the Senate January 23, 2020
The process moves to the Senate. Will the mockery continue after the procedurals and pomp are put to rest and the hearing begins? Or will there be a genuine attempt to find some truth no matter how shallow? Since the House of Representatives closed up its hearings in December 2019, the most interesting event to […]
One Hundred Years: the Proletariat in Search of a Class January 23, 2020
Apparently, the super-indoctrinated, Trump-voting American working class, dulled by the mass media and the “American dream”, has changed very little since the crushing of the great textile strikes that swept The United States in the 1920s. Not an iota of class-consciousness has it absorbed. (Nor has it been explained and offered to all wage earners […]
Final Phallus January 23, 2020
“Great state I’m in In all states I’m in I might final form In my melanin” — Sampa the Great, Final Form We are coming to our final form. Ultimate enjoyment without ideology to speak of. But this is not without an obligation to the mythic past. I want to compare two events here: the […]

Shelter solidarity struggle wins concession January 24, 2020
Salt Lake City Activists — unsheltered and sheltered — finally saw a response to their demands on Friday, Jan. 17, when the mayor’s office announced a plan to open a city-owned building for use as a temporary winter shelter. This was the first concession to demands issued by the Take . . . Continue reading […]
Delbert Africa speaks following release from prison January 24, 2020
Philadelphia A historic press conference was held at the Kingsessing Library in West Philadelphia on Jan. 21 to officially welcome home MOVE 9 activist Delbert Africa from his over 41-year imprisonment. The room was packed with press, MOVE supporters and several people who had witnessed the police siege and attack . . . Continue reading […]
Challenges to people’s movements in the Americas January 24, 2020
By Juan Diego Garcia Garcia is Colombian, residing in Spain. Published in lapluma.net on Jan. 1. Translation by John Catalinotto For the people’s movements in Latin America and the Caribbean to come out ahead, achieving a high degree of political awareness and organization is insufficient — as long as the . . . Continue reading […]
On the picket line January 24, 2020
‘Amazonians United Sacramento’ walk out Christmas Eve Night shift workers at Amazon’s DSM1 warehouse in Sacramento, Calif., celebrated Christmas with a walkout. It was the latest action in their campaign for paid time off (PTO). After delivering a petition with 4,015 signatures to management during their break on Dec. 23, . . . Continue reading […]
Oscars still so white, so male January 23, 2020
In 2015, a former Black woman lawyer, April Reign, created the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite on Twitter to bring special attention to the extreme lack of diversity in the Academy Award nominations, especially for actors of color, female and male, in lead and supporting role categories. In that year, all of the . . . Continue reading […]
Philadelphia: Stop denying disaster relief to Puerto Rico! January 23, 2020
Demonstrators gathered in Philadelphia on Jan. 15 in front of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mid-Atlantic Region, with signs and Puerto Rican flags. Speaker after speaker criticized the Trump administration for refusing to allow $18 billion in post-hurricane aid to be sent to the U.S. island colony. . . . Continue reading […]
U.N. report shows how People’s China cleaned Beijing’s air January 23, 2020
The United Nations Environment Programme recently released a report called “UN Environment 2019: A Review of 20 Years’ Air Pollution Control in Beijing.” It sheds new light on the astounding cleanup of air pollution in China’s bustling capital city of 22 million people. The report summarizes a treasure trove of . . . Continue reading […]
Students resist imperialist speaker for MLK Week in Georgia January 23, 2020
Kennesaw State students in Georgia affirm Dr. M.L. King’s anti-war legacy on Jan. 16. Kennesaw, Ga. Outraged progressive students at Kennesaw State University protested on Jan. 16 because a vice president of military-industrial giant Lockheed Martin was the invited keynote speaker at KSU’s Dr. King Legacy Luncheon. Students held a . . . Continue reading […]
People’s campaign frees Coffey from solitary confinement January 23, 2020
Jerome Coffey Philadelphia If prisoners can’t report about the conditions they are forced to endure, prison officials can get away with murder. That’s why, when prison staff punished incarcerated activist Jerome Coffey with solitary confinement for writing an article critical of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC), it was important . . . Continue reading […]
Massive turnout honors life and legacy of Chuck Turner January 23, 2020
WW photo: Stevan Kirschbaum Boston, USA A capacity crowd of 600-plus people – plus an additional 250 overflow – packed Roxbury Community College Jan. 9 to celebrate the life of Charles Henry “Chuck” Turner II. The “People’s City Councilor” passed away Dec. 25 following a long battle with cancer. He . . . Continue reading […]

"Dark Waters": Meet the Lawyer Whose 20-Year Fight Against DuPont Inspired the New Film January 23, 2020
The new film "Dark Waters" tells the story of attorney Rob Bilott's 20-year battle with DuPont over contaminated drinking water in West Virginia from toxic chemicals used to make Teflon. The Environmental Working Group credited Billot with "uncovering the most heinous corporate environmental conspiracy in history," and the issue of contaminated water from the plastics […]
Tim Robbins: Bernie Sanders Is the Best Shot We Have to Defeat Donald Trump January 23, 2020
We continue our conversation with Academy Award-winning actor and director Tim Robbins, whose recent projects include the new film "Dark Waters" and a play about immigration called "The New Colossus." He recently endorsed Vermont senator and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders for president. "I believe he is the only one of them that can defeat Trump," […]
"The New Colossus": In New Play, Tim Robbins Tackles Immigration & Xenophobia January 23, 2020
President Trump said Wednesday that he would expand his highly controversial travel ban, which already bars citizens from seven countries, most of which have Muslim-majority populations — Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, North Korea and Venezuela — from entering the United States. Politico reports that the expanded ban could implement immigration restrictions on seven more […]
Trump Brags About Withholding Evidence as Democratic Impeachment Managers Lay Out Case in the Senate January 23, 2020
During the opening day of oral arguments in the impeachment trial, President Trump was accused of abusing his office to "cheat an election." House impeachment managers spent about eight hours on Wednesday laying out their case for why President Trump should be removed from office. The Senate trial comes a month after the House impeached […]
Headlines for January 23, 2020 January 23, 2020
Democrats Accuse Trump of Trying to "Cheat" Upcoming Election, Supreme Court Decides Not to Fast-Track Obamacare Case, D.C. Sues Trump's Inaugural Committee over $1M Rental of Trump Hotel Ballroom, ICJ Orders Burma to Protect Rohingya from Genocide, Trump Says He's Planning to Add More Countries to Travel Ban, State Department to Make It More Difficult […]
Criminalizing Reporting: Glenn Greenwald Faces Cybercrime Complaint After Exposing Scandal in Brazil January 22, 2020
In Brazil, federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against journalist and Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald in connection to a major investigation he spearheaded that exposed misconduct among federal prosecutors and a former judge. Called "The Secret Brazil Archive," the series of pieces published in The Intercept and The Intercept Brasil used a trove of […]
A Torturer Meets His Victims: CIA Psychologist Defends Brutal Methods at Guantánamo Military Hearing January 22, 2020
On Tuesday, the psychologist identified as the "architect" of the CIA's torture program testified for the first time to the war court at Guantánamo Bay. James Mitchell was in the courtroom for a pretrial hearing for five 9/11 suspects who had been subject to torture, euphemistically called "enhanced interrogation techniques." Mitchell and his partner, Dr. […]
"The Senate Voted for a Cover-Up": GOP Senators Tilt Impeachment Trial in Trump's Favor January 22, 2020
After the first marathon day leading up to President Trump's impeachment trial, we speak with Vince Warren and Baher Azmy, executive director and legal director, respectively, of the Center for Constitutional Rights. In a 13-hour session, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate approved rules for the impeachment trial that Vince Warren says are tantamount to a "cover-up." […]
"Andrew Johnson Was a Lot Like Trump": Echoes of 1868 in Trump's Impeachment Trial January 22, 2020
After a nearly 13-hour marathon session, the U.S. Senate approved by a party-line vote the rules for the impeachment trial of President Trump. This marks just the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history. The Senate trial comes a month after the House impeached Trump for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. […]
Headlines for January 22, 2020 January 22, 2020
Senate Approves Rules for Trump's Impeachment Trial, Spain Declares Climate Emergency & Readies Climate Legislation, Australian Wildfires Release Massive Amounts of Greenhouse Gas, Airstrikes in Syria Kill 40 People, Including Children, in Idlib, Protesters Denounce Lebanon's Newly Formed Government, U.S. Deports Honduran Children Seeking Asylum to Guatemala Despite Being Ill, Hillary Clinton Slams Bernie Sanders […]

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