January 31, 2020 – THE OVAL CIRCLE

Catholic Church abuse scandal hits New Orleans Saints NFL team

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

The US budget deficit is set to top $1 trillion next decade. The NFL’s New Orleans Saints have found themselves in the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal. American exceptionalism is really unpopular. And a preview of our upcoming special on Mississippi’s prison crisis. … Read More >Catholic Church abuse scandal hits New Orleans Saints NFL team

Justice for Assange: Belmarsh Prisoners Remind Us of Our Duty of Civil Disobedience

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

On January 24, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is detained in London’s Belmarsh prison solely for the purposes of the US extradition request, was moved out of solitary confinement. He is now placed into a different wing of the prison, where he can interact with other inmates. … Read More >Justice for Assange: Belmarsh Prisoners Remind Us of Our Duty of Civil Disobedience

USA

Trump’s Impeachment Defense Is Incoherent By Design

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

While the GOP may indeed preserve Trump’s tenure through their death grip on a slim Senate majority, history books will not be kind to the deceit they have displayed and the fools they have made of themselves. … Read More >Trump’s Impeachment Defense Is Incoherent By Design

USA

To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of foreign policy hacks and corporate lobbyists to sabotage his nomination. … Read More >To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants

USA

US government censorship? Social media giants disappear accounts of Iranian and Venezuelan academics, journalists

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran. Professor Marandi’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were recently shut down without warning as part of a US campaign to remove so-called “pro-Iranian content” from the social media sites. … Read More >US government censorship? Social media giants disappear accounts of Iranian and Venezuelan academics, journalists

Middle East

Iraq to Neocons: Get the Hell Out of Our Country

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

The Trump coterie of neocons is spinning the Iraq embassy attack to fit their agenda, namely that Iran is responsible for the rocket attack when it is obvious the people of Iraq are fed-up with the US occupation, designed to last indefinitely, and are now targeting the massive US embassy in Baghdad. … Read More >Iraq to Neocons: Get the Hell Out of Our Country

Middle East

Confusion in Tel Aviv as Kushner Contradicts Netanyahu on Annexation of Chunks of West Bank

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

In a recent interview, Trump advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner called on Israel to hold off on applying sovereignty over West Bank settlements until after the March parliamentary elections, with his words contradicting a statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Tel Aviv could annex the settlement as soon as this Sunday. … Read More >Confusion in Tel Aviv as Kushner Contradicts Netanyahu on Annexation of Chunks of West Bank

Middle East

Hamas: ‘All Options Legitimate’ Now for Palestinians to Fight Trump’s Contentious Peace Plan

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

A senior leader of Hamas, the Palestinian organisation governing the Gaza Strip, has urged Muslim and Arab leaders to reject Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan and said that all options are now on the table for Palestinians to react. … Read More >Hamas: ‘All Options Legitimate’ Now for Palestinians to Fight Trump’s Contentious Peace Plan

Middle East

Palestinians Protest in Jerusalem Against Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ – Video

Posted on January 31, 2020By Editor

Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited ‘Deal of the Century’: an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that stipulates a two-state solution. … Read More >Palestinians Protest in Jerusalem Against Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ – Video

Middle East

Declassified Doc Exposes Israeli Plot to Prepare Arab Lands for Jewish Settlement Using Martial Law

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

Between 1948 and 1966, over 150,000 Arabs living within Israel’s post-independence borders were governed by military rule, faced curfews, travel restrictions, and the threat of arbitrary arrest and expulsion. … Read More >Declassified Doc Exposes Israeli Plot to Prepare Arab Lands for Jewish Settlement Using Martial Law

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