Daily Archives: January 28, 2020

2020-01-28: News Headlines

RT (2020-01-28). Boeing a garbage company that is just a walking zombie — RT's Keiser Report. rt.com US aerospace giant Boeing has secured commitments on over $12 billion in financing from more than a dozen banks, the media reported citing people familiar with the matter. | The company buys back their own stock with cheap money from the Federal Reserve, Max Keiser said on RT's Keiser Report. The money which was supposed to help the struggling firm is in fact disenfranchising it. "On the other side are executives, who are getting that money from the Fed directly into their pocket..," Keiser notes. | He says "Boeing now is no longer a viable company," explaining: "So bad in fact that even money at zero percent…

RT (2020-01-28). Motion to withdraw from Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons treaty filed in Iran's parliament. rt.com The Iranian threat to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, moved forward on Tuesday after a motion to do so was filed in the Iranian parliament. | The motion reported by the parliament's official website brings Iran closer to breaking away from the 1968 treaty which laid the foundation for the nuclear deterrence architecture of the Cold War. The NPT allows only five nations — the US, Russia, China, Britain, and France — to have nuclear weapons. Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, as well as Israel, which has maintained ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying possession of a nuc…

yenisafak (2020-01-28). US drops record number of bombs in Afghanistan in 2019. yenisafak.com The U.S. forces stationed in Afghanistan dropped a record number of bombs in 2019, according to a recent data by the U.S. air forces.The U.S. military conducted 2,434 airstrikes in the war-hit country to drop 7,423 bombs, marking a steady rise over 7,362 weapons released in 2018, the U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT) said in a report on Monday.The airstrikes were carried out when the U.S. and Taliban engaged in rejuvenated yet fragile peace talks in the Qatari capital, Doha, last year.On Monday, Taliban insurgents claimed to have brought down a CIA plane allegedly on a "spy mission."Zabihullah Mujahed, the…

Global Research News (2020-01-28). Selected Articles: How Far Can Imperialism Go? globalresearch.ca A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | | | If, like us, this is a …

Miri Wood (2020-01-27). Al Qaeda Terrorist Attacks Continue in Aleppo; Drones Hit Near Lattakia. globalresearch.ca NATO al Qaeda ground operatives in Syria continue their recent acceleration of terrorist atrocities against Syria. Rocket bombs have again been fired into civilian neighborhoods of Aleppo. Armed human garbage continue to prevent civilians to be escorted to safe areas …

Lawrence Wittner (2019-12-22). Americans Are Ready for a Different Approach to Nuclear Weapons. zcomm.org Although today's public protests against nuclear weapons can't compare to the major antinuclear upheavals of past decades, there are clear indications that most Americans reject the Trump administration's nuclear weapons policies. Since entering office in 2017, the Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the nuclear agreement with Iran, scrapped the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces

Jon Rainwater (2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …

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Motion to withdraw from Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons treaty filed in Iran's parliament
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The Iranian threat to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, moved forward on Tuesday after a motion to do so was filed in the Iranian parliament. | The motion reported by the parliament's official website brings Iran closer to breaking away from the 1968 treaty which laid the foundation for the nuclear deterrence architecture of the Cold War. The NPT allows only five nations

US drops record number of bombs in Afghanistan in 2019
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-28
The U.S. forces stationed in Afghanistan dropped a record number of bombs in 2019, according to a recent data by the U.S. air forces.The U.S. military conducted 2,434 airstrikes in the war-hit country to drop 7,423 bombs, marking a steady rise over 7,362 weapons released in 2018, the U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT) said in a report on Monday.The airstrikes were carried out when the U.S. and Taliban engaged in rejuvenated yet fragile peace talks in the Qatari capital, Doha, last year.On Monday, Taliban insurgents claimed to have brought down a CIA plane allegedly on a "spy mission."Zabihullah Mujahed, the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-drops-record-number-of-bombs-in-afghanistan-in-2019-3510676

Selected Articles: How Far Can Imperialism Go?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | | | If, like us, this is a …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-how-far-can-an-imperialist-go/5702109

Al Qaeda Terrorist Attacks Continue in Aleppo; Drones Hit Near Lattakia
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
NATO al Qaeda ground operatives in Syria continue their recent acceleration of terrorist atrocities against Syria. Rocket bombs have again been fired into civilian neighborhoods of Aleppo. Armed human garbage continue to prevent civilians to be escorted to safe areas …
globalresearch.ca/nato-terrorist-attacks-continue-aleppo-drones-hit-near-lattakia-2/5701873

OPCW Investigator testifies at UN that no Chemical Attack Took Place in Douma, Syria
Ben Norton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-23
Video and a transcript of former OPCW engineer and dissenter Ian Henderson's UN testimony appears at the end of this report. A former lead investigator from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has spoken out at the United Nations, stating in no uncertain terms that the scientific evidence suggests there was no …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/opcw-investigator-testifies-at-un-that-no-chemical-attack-took-place-in-douma-syria/