China, Russia to Defy US Sanctions Over Support to Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-10
The Russian government rejected on Monday the U.S. threats to impose new sanctions against several Russian companies for their cooperation with Venezuela in the oil sector. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces Terrorist Attack Against Cantv, Movilnet Telecom Warehouse | Last week, the United States special representative for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, warned Russia that its support for Venezuela will cost them econmically as Washington is looking to sanction them.
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Russia-to-Defy-US-Sanctions-Over-Support-to-Venezuela-20200210-0005.html

Minister insists forced deportation flight is reasonable despite criticism
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-10
A senior minister has defended a plan to push on with a flight deporting 50 people to Jamaica despite widespread calls for the jet to be grounded. | Chief secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak insisted on Monday that those being forcibly removed had committed "very serious offences" and their deportations were "reasonable". | But more than 150 cross-party MPs have called on the government to halt Tuesday's flight, which is expected to include a young man who moved to the UK aged five. | And a leaked report commissioned by ministers and seen by the PA news agency warned the government that the policy should be rec…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/02/10/minister-insists-forced-deportation-flight-is-reasonable-despite-criticism/

Minister insists forced deportation flight is reasonable despite criticism
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-10
A senior minister has defended a plan to push on with a flight deporting 50 people to Jamaica despite widespread calls for the jet to be grounded. | Chief secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak insisted on Monday that those being forcibly removed had committed "very serious offences" and their deportations were "reasonable". | But more than 150 cross-party MPs have called on the government to halt Tuesday's flight, which is expected to include a young man who moved to the UK aged five. | And a leaked report commissioned by ministers and seen by the PA news agency warned the government that the policy should be rec…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/02/10/minister-insists-forced-deportation-flight-is-reasonable-despite-criticism/

Sustainable farming keeps Cuba's rivers clean, says joint U.S.-Cuban study
Steve Sweeney | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-10
Cuba's rivers are running clean, with low levels of fertilizer pollution, thanks to decades of sustainable farming, according to a joint scientific study published in the journal Nature last Tuesday. Teams from the University of Vermont in the United States and the Cienfuegos Centre for Environmental Studies in Cuba, led by Paul Bierman and Rita …
peoplesworld.org/article/sustainable-farming-keeps-cubas-rivers-clean-says-joint-u-s-cuban-study/

Chinese authorities try to contain discontent over handling of coronavirus outbreak
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang's tragic death has become a symbol of the regime's repressive incompetence and indifference to the lives of the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/viru-f10.html

How women shake up the political world
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-02-10
The originality of the Haitian feminist movement lies in the fact that it can be thought of neither in terms of a wave (first, second or third) nor in terms of a defined current (liberal, black, decolonial, etc.). | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/10/how-women-shake-up-the-political-world/

Revolt of the Dispossessed against Neoliberalism in 
Latin America and the Caribbean
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2020-02-10
NPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/07/18830508.php

Is Government 'Playing to the Gallery' as UK Prepares to Deport Jamaicans?
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-10
People gathered outside Downing Street on 6 February to protest at the government's resumption of deportations to Jamaica. It comes less than two years after the Windrush scandal, which brought down Home Secretary Amber Rudd.
sputniknews.com/uk/202002101078256554-is-government-playing-to-the-gallery-as-uk-prepares-to-deport-jamaicans/

Venezuela Denounces Terrorist Attack Against Telecom Warehouse
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-09
The Venezuelan government denounced Sunday a terrorist attack on a warehouse of the National Telephone Company of Venezuela (Cantv) and its affiliate Movilnet in the northern state of Carabobo, causing total loss of strategic telecommunications equipment. | RELATED: | Venezuelan Government Denounces Right-Wing Terrorist Plan | Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez informed that the attack was perpetrated on Saturday night in the Flor Amarillo sector of Valencia, Carabobo state,…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Denounces-Terrorist-Attack-Against-Cantv-Movilnet-Telecom-Warehouse-20200209-0009.html

Bankers Shape Canadian Policy in Latin America. Juan Guaidó Fêted in Ottawa
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
What's more likely to shape Canadian policy in the Hemisphere: human rights and democracy or bankers' bottom-line? | Last week Venezuelan politician Juan Guaidó was fêted in Ottawa. The self-declared president met Canada's Prime Minister, international development minister and foreign minister. …
globalresearch.ca/bankers-shape-canadian-policy-latin-america/5703148

Argentina Will Not Pay IMF Debt Until Recession Has Ended
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-09
Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said on Saturday that the government will not pay "even half a cent" of its debt back to the International Monetary Fund before the country has exited recession. | RELATED: | CFK Presents Her Book At Cuba's International Book Fair | "The first thing we have to do in order to be able to pay is to exit the recession," Fernandez de Kirchner said at a presentation of her book "Sinceramente" (Sincerely) at Havana's international boo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Argentina-Will-Not-Pay-IMF-Debt-Until-Recession-Has-Ended-20200209-0001.html

Venezuela to Defend Conviasa Airlines From US Ilegal Sanctions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-08
Venezuela's Economy Minister Tareck El Aissami Saturday announced that his country will respond to the U.S. sanctions against Conviasa airlines, a public company that has 40 aircraft and 2,012 workers. | RELATED: | Russia and Venezuela Build up Cooperation Against US Sanctions | Besides offering commercial services, this airline carries out non-profi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-to-Defend-Conviasa-Airlines-From-US-Ilegal-Sanctions-20200208-0005.html

'Unhinged': MSNBC host Chris Matthews goes on bizarre rant about mass executions & 'the Reds' while discussing Bernie Sanders
rt.com | 2020-02-08
MSNBC host Chris Matthews is facing backlash on social media after he launched into a heated rant about socialism and appeared to suggest a Bernie Sanders presidency could somehow lead to mass executions in the streets. | During a post-debate special Friday evening, Matthews said his personal views on socialism go back "to the early 1950s" before drawing comparisons between Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and former leader of Cuba Fidel Castro. | "I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting…
rt.com/usa/480412-chris-matthews-rant-sanders-socialism/

CFK Presents Her Book At Cuba's International Book Fair
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-08
Argentinian Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner presented Saturday her book "Sincerely" for the first time outside her country, in Havana as part of the XXIX International Book Fair held in Cuba. | RELATED: | Argentina's Senate Approves Government Debt Renegotiation | With the presence of the island's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, the event revolved around the presentation of her best-selling memoir, which the former president said is a compilation of everything before and a…
telesurenglish.net/news/CFK-Presents-Her-Book-At-Cubas-International-Book-Fair-20200208-0010.html

The deportation flight to Jamaica is turning into a national scandal
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-02-07
A storm already brewing over a planned deportation flight to Jamaica has intensified. Because more MPs have now got involved; the BBC has leaked an influential panel's concerns; and a demo has b…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/02/07/the-deportation-flight-to-jamaica-is-turning-into-a-national-scandal/

Milwaukee area law enforcement kill two people in one week
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-07
Milwaukee, WI – The Milwaukee Police Department, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) and other law enforcement departments in the surrounding suburbs are notorious for their treatment of Milwaukee's African-American residents, who make up nearly 40% of the population. This fact has been confirmed by this last week, where two people lost their lives due to negligence and criminal misuse of deadly force. | During the morning of January 25, Ceasar Stinson, 47, was killed in a car crash precipitated by an unmarked MCSO squad car. Stinson was a long-time community advocate and a lobbyist for Milwaukee Public…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/2/7/milwaukee-area-law-enforcement-kill-two-people-one-week

Four Chinese passengers hospitalized in New Jersey after cruise ship screened for coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-02-07
Four Chinese travelers on a cruise ship that docked at a port not far from New York City have been hospitalized after being screened for coronavirus. The US already has twelve confirmed coronavirus cases. | The tourists were among two dozen Chinese nationals who received a medical examination after the Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas, which set sail for the Caribbean on January 27, returned to the New Jersey port. Four passengers on the cruise ship were found to have fevers and were whisked away to University Hospital in Newark, which has negative-pressure isolation rooms. At least two of the four were ta…
rt.com/usa/480339-coronavirus-cruise-ship-chinese-new-jersey/

Blaming overpopulation lets climate criminals off the hook
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-07
Climate refugee rights Chloe DSIssue 1252 AustraliaFebruary 7, 2020The burden of responsibility for the climate crisis is often placed on poorer nations. But the reality is that the main culprits continue to be the rich and powerful 1%. | Within the climate movement, some sec…
greenleft.org.au/content/blaming-overpopulation-lets-climate-criminals-hook

Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law"
Venezuela Analysis | theantimedia.com | 2020-02-06
In this exclusive interview, VA talks to the activists who defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC ahead of their trial.

Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law"

SOTU: Democratic "Resistance" Give Trump's Venezuela Aggression a Standing Ovation
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-05
Perhaps the loudest applause heard during Trump's State of the Union Address was reserved for Venezuala's Juan Guaidó, as Democrats and Republicans rose as one to salute the self-declared president.
mintpressnews.com/state-of-the-union-democrats-applaud-guaido-venezuela/264678/

ACLU: Trump Is Expanding His Racist Travel Ban, This Time Targeting Africans
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-03
The Trump administration has expanded its contested travel ban to six additional countries

US government censorship? Social media giants disappear accounts of Iranian and Venezuelan academics, journalists
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-30
Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran. Professor Marandi's Facebook and Instagram…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/30/social-media-giants-disappear-popular-iranian-venezuelan-accounts/