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Our returning guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, John Kiriakou, was a 15-year CIA veteran. Then he blew the whistle on the CIA’s use of torture under the Bush administration. As a result, he became one of the very few Americans ever charged with violating the Espionage Act. Ultimately, he pleaded guilty under another statute: to disclosing the name of a fellow CIA officer to a reporter. The reporter never revealed the identity of the operative.

House Democrats on Thursday voted to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) of her committee assignments after arguing that her past support of QAnon disqualified her from holding them.

Lawmakers voted 230-199 to remove Greene from the House education and budget committees, with 11 Republicans joining the Democrats, after the GOP declined to take action themselves, according to The Hill.

Source : Consortium News, Joe Lauria

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William J. Astore nous dit que dans l’enfermement intellectuel collectif de l’Amérique, le militantisme pour la paix est une aberration, alors que l’acceptation d’un État de guerre est une seconde nature.

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire

Frédéric Taddeï reçoit Marie-Françoise Bechtel, ancienne directrice de l’ENA, Philippe Blanchet, professeur à l’université Rennes II, Alain Joyeux, président de l’APHEC, et François Dubet, sociologue, professeur émérite à l’Université de Bordeaux.

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire, 25-01-2021

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents arrested a group of Iranians who illegally crossed into the US Monday evening.

CBP said five women and six men were nabbed near San Luis, Arizona, on a bridge near County 21st Street and the Salinity Canal. Agents detained the group shortly after illegally crossing the Mexico–U.S. border.

The Department of Homeland Security issued last week a nationwide terror alert lasting until April 30.

The alert warns of potential terrorist attacks from Americans who are “ideologically motivated” and have “objections to the exercise of government authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives.”

The language used in this alert suggests that millions of Americans are potential terrorists.

On Thursday afternoon President Biden gave a much anticipated and wide-ranging speech laying out his foreign policy agenda during a visit to the State Department. As expected much of it was a repudiation of Trump’s “America First” vision – though without mentioning Donald Trump by name. His address to State Department diplomats and staff was centered around the theme of his words: “America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy.”

House Democrats have formally asked former President Trump to testify under oath during next week’s Senate impeachment trial, according to a Thursday report from the Associated Press.

Destruction of Khirbet Humsa is part of plan to seize more Palestinian land.

In today’s video, we do a deep dive on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the national security state creating a counter-insurgency against free expression in America.

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New US administration remains hostile to nonviolent campaign for Palestinian rights.

What Went Wrong With America’s $44 Million Vaccine Data System? (Dana)

From MITTechnology Review: “Unless you’re in one of the few states using it, you may not have heard of VAMS [the Vaccine Administration Management System, built by the consulting firm Deloitte].

Some 70 years after emancipation, a team of unemployed writers and journalists located over 300 formerly enslaved African Americans, captured their unvarnished stories about life under slavery, and took photo portraits of many of their subjects.

A San Francisco artist who mocked Twitter ‘blue check’ elitism was forced to put a disclaimer on a satirical website, which encouraged ‘thought leaders, athletes and famous actors’ to apply for a blue “Verified Badge Crest” on the exterior of their homes – letting everyone know how important one is.

Face à la virulence de la pandémie, la vaccination contre la Covid-19 s’accélère de jour en jour dans le monde. Plus de 98 millions de personnes ont déjà reçu leur première injection au 1er février 2021 et environ 9 millions les 2 injections. Mais ce n’est rien à côté des milliards d’autres qui restent à vacciner. Avec une population mondiale estimée à 8,4 milliards d’individus, l’objectif de vacciner 70% de la population implique que 5,9 milliards de personnes devront être vaccinées.

Source : Consortium News, Vijay Prashad

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Dix ans se sont écoulés depuis qu’un homme appelé Mohamed Bouazizi s’est immolé par le feu dans la ville tunisienne de Sidi Bouzid, commence Vijay Prashad.

The Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has demonetized numerous independent media accounts, a jarring escalation in the steadily intensifying campaign against alternative news outlets online.

In today’s video, we break down news that sickness cases are now suddenly plummeting. Why could that be?

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After more than a year and plenty of excuses, a team of World Health Organization (WHO) experts has finally entered the lab in Wuhan, China, which has been at the center of much speculation surrounding the origins of COVID-19.

Trump Officials Actively Lobbied to Deny States Money for Vaccine Rollout Last Fall (DonkeyHotey)

From Stat: “Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall — despite frantic warnings from state officials that they didn’t have the money they needed to ramp up a massi

Once it became clear – just a few seconds after AOC first rage-tweeted about RobinHood refusing to let “the people” trade more shares of $GME and $AMC before adding that she’d support a public hearing on what had just happened – that all the key players in the “WallStreetBets”/”Gamestop” trading saga would soon be dragged in front of Congress like 

Due to the ongoing pandemic, Georgia Senate runoff elections, and forthcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet has seen significant delays. These impediments are increasing the likelihood that Biden’s Cabinet will experience the slowest confirmation in recent history. 

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CONTEST WINNER!

On 20 January 2021, I announced this contest: http://normanfinkelstein.com/2021/01/20/journal-january-19-2021-essay-context-100-00-prize/

Below are the submissions, followed by the name of the lucky winner.  I will also include the Judge’s comments:

Dans le cadre de nos projets de développement du site et de ses contenus, nous recrutons un apprenti (contrat d’apprentissage) pour une durée d’un an.

En termes de profils, nous recherchons principalement quelqu’un issu d’une filière amenant à un niveau Bac+5 – Master, scientifique ou littéraire, diplôme d’école de commerce, diplôme d’ingénieur, etc.

Avec sa plume incisive, Eric Juillot vous propose aujourd’hui un tour d’horizon des dernières nouvelles venant de Bruxelles.

Une magnifique déclaration d’amour servile de Charles Michel, le « président » du conseil européen, au nouveau président américain : Les États-Unis et l’UE « doivent former ensemble le socle de la liberté, de l’égalité, et d’un ordre international basé sur des règles[1] ».

With Amazon and Google, together representing a whopping $3.1 trillion in market cap almost as large as the entire Russell 2000, set to report earnings after the close Bloomberg noted that some investors were nervous that anything but a massive beat, well in excess of expectations would be required to avoid a dip in the Nasdaq (recall last week’s drop in AAPL and TSLA stock following stellar earnings reports).

In today’s video, we give you a major geopolitical news update including how China is striving for hegemony and what, if anything, the Biden Administration is doing about it.

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A new exclusive from The Daily Beast titled “White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance” reports that the White House press corps is being pressured to provide briefing questions ahead of time in a way that makes even mainstream media journalists uncomfortable.

Republicans Launch ‘Stop Stacey’ to Defeat Abrams in Georgia 2022 (DonkeyHotey)

The author writes, “A new outside group launched on Monday to target Democratic activist and former gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, who is all but certain to challenge Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia next year in a rematch of their 2018 election showdown.

Prepare yourself for more obfuscation and confusion dressed up as ‘science’ by President Biden’s chief medical adviser.

At 48 minutes into the WaPo discussion below, Fauci was asked about double-masking. His response, given his recent flip-flopping may surprise you.

Post-Trump normalcy will not last in Palestine.

Sixteen hundred years ago, Hohokam peoples inhabiting the area now known as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southwestern Arizona left behind pottery, art, and petroglyphs. Sixteen hundred years from now, archaeologists will likely find the area littered with steel and concrete — remnants of Donald Trump’s border wall. 

Source : SCMP, Jun Mai
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Source : Consortium News, Sarah Esther Lageson, Elizabeth Chiarello

Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Le ministère américain du travail garantit le droit à la vie privée aux entreprises faisant l’objet d’une enquête, une précaution raisonnable qui n’est pas accordée aux Américains ordinaires, affirment Sarah Esther Lageson et Elizabeth Chiarello.

Thousands of Orthodox Israelis poured into Jerusalem’s streets to attend two separate funerals Sunday despite the country’s ban on large public gatherings, according to AP News.

The first funeral procession was for Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, who died at the age of 99 after contracting COVID-19 three months ago.

Good news (and bad news) America!

The good news is that today saw a milestone of sorts reached with more Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine than have tested positive for the virus…

Source: Bloomberg

In the latest outrage provoking example of police overreach and brutality to go viral, the Rochester Police Department in New York are under scrutiny after last Friday officers responded to a family disturbance call which ended up in the police pepper-spraying a deeply distraught 9-year old girl as they tried to detain her.

The Charging Bull statue in Manhattan’s Financial District has become the sight of protests amid a wider financial rebellion happening online.

Video shows several feet and barricades separated Muhammad Hussein Amro and soldiers.

In today’s video, we break down what’s going on in the markets and how the elites and mainstream media are running cover for hedge fund managers.

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Facebook’s independent Oversight Board has ruled against the social media giant’s decision to remove an October 2020 post touting hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) – the antimalarial which Democrats and their media surrogates were cautiously optimistic about until former President Trump promoted it.

Republicans Considering More Than 100 Bills to Restrict Voting Rights (DonkeyHotey)

The author writes, “After an election filled with misinformation and lies about fraud, Republicans have doubled down with a surge of bills to further restrict voting access in recent months, according to a new analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice.

Facing jail time, founder of Youth Against Settlements continues the struggle.

While the US struggled with a dearth of federal leadership amid an unprecedented public health crisis and a presidential election, China made haste signing a regional trade agreement that could give it a privileged economic connection to nearly a third of the world’s population. The US under former President Donald Trump made no attempt to reach for the money it was leaving on the table. 

Israelis trained Bangladeshi intelligence officers in a warehouse in Hungary.

Source : abc.net.au – 28-01-2021
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De nouvelles analyses ont montré que la Nouvelle-Zélande a géré la pandémie de coronavirus plus efficacement que tout autre pays du monde. Le groupe de réflexion australien, le Lowy Institute, a rassemblé une multitude de données pour produire un nouvel outil interactif qui évalue la réaction au coronavirus de près de 100 pays.

Source : Thinkerview, Youtube

Source : Thinkerview, Youtube, 21-01-2021

The Lincoln Project – a group of anti-Trumpers founded by an accused pedophile, a guy with a confederate flag cooler, and possibly the worst husband in the world – denounced the alleged pedophile on Sunday following a 

Some fans mourn the end of beloved fictional sagas. To keep the story going (or to improve it), they write their own continuing adventures. In related news, here comes some Patriot Act fan fiction.

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Rejoice! A Cheney Is Coming Back to Congress

Lots of people believe that something is missing in Washington. Most of them think it’s bipartisanship, accountability and common sense. It can safely be assumed that the number of people who think that the nation’s capital is lacking another Cheney is much smaller.

Source : Consortium News, Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd

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Le choix de Biden est celui d’une meurtrière par drone ayant joué un rôle clé dans la dissimulation du programme américain de torture, écrivent Medea Benjamin et Marcy Winograd.

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The World Health Organization (WHO)’s probe into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, appears to be nothing more than the media blitz that most skeptics predicted.

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire

Bill Gates is apparently shocked over ‘crazy and evil conspiracy theories’ which claim that he and Dr. Anthony Fauci are participating in a nefarious scheme to push to profit from the pandemic.

In Wednesday comments to Reuters, Gates said that there are “millions of messages out there” targeting he and Fauci, and suggested that “social media companies” might be able to censor discussion on the topic.

During the first months of quarantine, when nobody really had any idea whether they’d be seeing their colleagues again next week, next month, or next year, reporters churned out stories about people walking, jogging or otherwise exercising to try and squeeze out a little endorphin boost while also helping to prepare one’s body for the worst-case scenario (after all the stories 

After months of delays without explanation, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) is proposing changes that will allow undocumented immigrants to apply for driver’s licenses without first sharing personal information with the Social Security Administration. But it will still be many months before they can actually obtain a license under a law that was signed by Gov. Phil Murphy (D) more than a year ago.