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The long record of this presidency’s transgressions now includes the open dog-wagging assassination – on brazenly false pretexts – of a foreign military commander atop a state (Iran) with which the United States is not at war and without the permission of a government (Iraq) on whose soil the monumental war crime took place. In response to mild Democratic Party criticism of the timing and grounds for the assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Trump has re-tweeted a right-wing lunatic’s tweet depicting Democratic Congressional leaders Charles Schumer (Senate Minority Leader) and Nancy Pelosi (House Speaker) in Muslim garb (a turban for Schumer and a hajib for Pelosi) in front of an Iranian flag. More

Source: Trump Showed Us Who He Was Before He Became President – CounterPunch.org

Few people, in a massive act of self-deception, have chosen to question the official explanation, choosing, rather, to embrace a mythic fabrication intended to sugarcoat the bitter fruit that has resulted from the murder of the one man capable of leading a mass movement for revolutionary change in the US.

Source: “Orders to Kill” Dr. Martin Luther King: The Government that Honors MLK with a National Holiday Killed Him – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

Greenpeace photographers in Australia have captured new images of the climate-fueled bushfire crisis and its aftermath.

Source: New Photos of Australia’s Record-Breaking Bushfires Show Life in a State of Climate Emergency | Common Dreams Newswire