2020-02-02: Social Media Postees

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VIDEO footage shows London police respond to 'terrorist' incident after shooting suspect dead
rt.com | 2020-02-02
Armed police units have descended on the London suburb of Streatham, after a knife-wielding terror suspect stabbed and injured two people. Video footage shows the moments after the attack and the scale of the response. | London's Metropolitan Police say they shot a suspected terrorist dead on a shopping street in Streatham on Sunday afternoon, after he stabbed two people. Video footage shared on social media shows officers aiming their weapons at the man's lifeless body, which they later said was strapped with a "hoax device." | The two victims were taken to hospital, with one described as suffering | Polic…
rt.com/uk/479905-london-terrorist-related-stabbing-videos/

300+ Indians brought home on board another special-purpose Wuhan flight as New Delhi confirms 2nd coronavirus case
rt.com | 2020-02-02
An Air India flight carrying 323 Indians and seven Maldivians from coronavirus-stricken Wuhan touched down in New Delhi on Sunday morning. It's the second time Indian citizens were airlifted from China since the outbreak. | "The second flight from #Wuhan has just landed in #Delhi. We wish all those on board good health in the days ahead," tweeted Vikram Misri, Indian ambassador to China, extending gratitude to Beijing for greenlighting the evacuation. | It was the second time an Air India Boeing 747 has flown to the Chinese city at the epicenter of the deadly outbreak to rescue stranded Indians, many of whom a…
rt.com/news/479876-india-flight-coronavirus-confirmed-case/

The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq To Target Iran
Nicolas J S Davies | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-31
Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent "weapons of mass destruction." But our government is now threatening to drag us into a war on Iran with a nearly identical "big lie" about a non-existent nuclear weapons program, based on politicized intelligence from the same CIA teams that wove a web of lies to justify the U.S.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/the-u-s-is-recycling-its-big-lie-about-iraq-to-target-iran/

Endless War Is a Disastrous (but Profitable) Enterprise
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-31
"The collapse of the Libyan state has had region-wide repercussions, with flows of people and weapons destabilizing other countries throughout North Africa." This statement came from the Soufan Group's recent Intelbrief, entitled "Fighting Over Access to Libya's Energy Supplies" (24 …
globalresearch.ca/endless-war-disastrous-profitable-enterprise/5702386

Bringing Back 'Archaic and Gruesome Weapons,' Trump Reverses US Restrictions on Landmines
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-31
"The United States is doing a 180 on the near-global consensus to ban the abhorrent and inhumane use of landmines." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump-greenlights-landmines.jpg …
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2020-02-01: News Headlines

RT (2020-02-01). Merkel's coalition shoots down opposition bid to halt Germany's 'killer robots' development. rt.com Members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition have blocked legislation aimed at preventing Germany from creating fully autonomous weapons systems, after opposition lawmakers pushed for a moratorium. | Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), backed by their allies, the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), defeated a motion brought by the Greens in the Bundestag on Friday which called for renewed efforts to bring about a global ban on weapons with no human input — colloquially referred to as "killer robots." | In a separate motion — also defeated by Merkel's parliamentary majority — t…

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (2020-01-31). Endless War Is a Disastrous (but Profitable) Enterprise. globalresearch.ca "The collapse of the Libyan state has had region-wide repercussions, with flows of people and weapons destabilizing other countries throughout North Africa." This statement came from the Soufan Group's recent Intelbrief, entitled "Fighting Over Access to Libya's Energy Supplies" (24 …

Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2020-01-31). Bringing Back 'Archaic and Gruesome Weapons,' Trump Reverses US Restrictions on Landmines. commondreams.org "The United States is doing a 180 on the near-global consensus to ban the abhorrent and inhumane use of landmines." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump-greenlights-landmines.jpg …

Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2020-01-31). Coronavirus Disaster Capitalism: Airlines Offer Discounted Flights—With Layover in Wuhan. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/boeing_ceo_0.jpg …

Slava Zilber (2020-01-29). Peter Hitchens stresses the 'vital importance' of whistleblowing about chemical weapons in Syria. thecanary.co Journalist

Fight Back (2020-01-28). Milwaukee: Rally against war on Iraq, Iran. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On January 25, around 40 people gathered at the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and North Avenue to protest the ongoing U.S. war in Iraq and the threat of war with Iran. The protesters occupied each of the four street corners and took to chanting before running through a short lineup of speakers. | "Organization and numbers are the two greatest weapons at the disposal of the working class. We must use them if we're gonna win," said Ryan Hamann, a speaker from Freedom Road Socialist Organization. "Here's to building a strong, united, firmly anti-imperialist anti-war movement in Mi…

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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