John Vachon Five o’clock crowds, Chicago 1941 • Pelosi Seeks To Limit Trump’s War Powers (USAT) • Pelosi Loses Senate Democrats On Trump Impeachment Delay (BBC) • McConnell Won’t Haggle With House Over Impeachment Trial Plan (R.) • Can You Locate Iran On A Map? Few Americans Can. (MC) • World Bank Trims 2020 Growth Forecast (R.) • Ghosn: Seeds of Renault-Nissan Crisis Were Sown By Macron (R.) • Carlos Ghosn And The Dark Corners Of Japanese Justice (G.)
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Dorothea Lange Farm boy at main drugstore, Medford, Oregon 1939 • Iranian Strike Was ‘Proportionate’ Self-Defense, No Need For War – FM Zarif (RT) • Predictions for the 2020s (Dmitry Orlov) • Some Other People Do Some Other Things (Kunstler) • Maduro Opponents Storm Parliament To Reinstall Guaidó As Leader (G.) • Boeing Changes Stance, Recommends 737 MAX Simulator Training For Pilots (R.) • US, EU Regulators To Meet With Boeing This Week On 737 Max Software Audit (R.)
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Jack Delano Worker inspecting locomotive, Proviso Yard 1942 • China Pledges ‘Prudence’ In Diversifying Foreign Exchange Reserves (SCMP) • Experts Urge Fed To Consider Radical Approaches To Fight Next Recession (MW) • Iran ‘Not Interested’ In Having Nukes – UN Envoy (RT) • McConnell Urges Lawmakers To Wait For Facts On Soleimani Killing (R.) • McConnell Has The Votes To Block Democrats’ Impeachment Witness Demands (Hill) • A Very Real Scenario Of A Protracted, Bizarro World Democratic Primary (Pol.)
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Esther Bubley Soldiers with their girls at the Indianapolis bus station 1943 • Gold, Oil Soar, Shares Slip As US And Iran Rattle Sabers (R.) • Iraqi PM Claims Soleimani Was On Peace Mission When Assassinated (GZ) • Iraqi Parliament Calls For Expulsion Of Foreign Troops (AlJ) • Boeing Reports “Previously Unreported Concerns” With Wiring In 737 MAX (CNN) • Why We’ll Never Get Rich By Putting Cash Away For A Rainy Day (Bell) • Fed Focuses On Repo
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Jack Delano Foggy night in New Bedford, Massachusetts 1941 • Suleimani’s Death Huge Blow To Iran’s Plans For Regional Domination (Hassan) • Trump Could Start A War Via Twitter; The Social Network Is OK With That (Keys) • Sanders, Warren Want No War With Iran, Biden, Buttigieg Better-Run Wars (IC) • Lies, the Bethlehem Doctrine, and the Illegal Murder of Soleimani (Murray) • Doubling Down Into Yet Another ‘March of Folly,’ This Time on Iran (VIPS) • To Stop
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Jack Delano Near Shawboro, North Carolina, Florida migrants on way to Cranberry, NJ 1940 • The Dubious Official Story Behind the Soleimani Assassination (Whitney Webb) • Israel Had Advance Notice Of US Plan To Kill Iranian General Suleimani (LAT) • How Trump Decided To Kill Iran’s Soleimani (Pol.) • Inside The Plot By Iran’s Soleimani To Attack US Forces In Iraq (R.) • Iraqi PMF Militias Retract Claims Of Medics Targeted By US Airstrike (RT) • The Dogs of
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Alfred Palmer New B-25 bomber at Kansas City plant of North American Aviation 1942 • America Just Took Out The World’s No. 1 Bad Guy (CNBC) • US Strike That Killed Iranian Commander Starkly Divides US Lawmakers (CNN) • Erdogan Questions Europe As 250,000 Flee Idlib (ZH) • US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency vs Euro, Yen, Renminbi, & Others (WS) • China Cuts US Dollar Weighting In Key Index To Boost Fortunes Of Yuan (SCMP) • China’s Central
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VIncent van Gogh Weeping woman seated on a basket 1883 • Military Moves In To Help Mass Evacuation From Australian Bushfires (R.) • House Democrats Would Have Impeached Lincoln (Blagojevich) • Obama’s NSC Holdovers Finally Booted After Three Years Of Non-Stop Leaks (ZH) • Trump Calls Pelosi The ‘Most Overrated Person I Know’ (Hill) • The Syrian Conflict Is Awash With Chemical Warfare Propaganda (Fisk) • Epstein ‘Madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Is A Foreign Spy Hiding In Israel’ (DM) •
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Vincent van Gogh Weeping woman 1883 • ‘I’m Slowly Dying Here’: Julian Assange in Christmas Eve Call (RT) • US Chief Justice Warns Of Internet Disinformation (R.) • Taiwan Anti-Infiltration Bill Passed As Opposition Lawmakers Protest (SCMP) • Taiwan Leader Rejects China’s Offer To Unify Under Hong Kong Model (R.) • Sydney House Prices Set To Top $1 Million Again (SMH) • Negative Rates, The Destruction Of Money (Lacalle) • Google Veterans: The Company Has Become ‘Unrecognizable’ (CNBC) •
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Peter Beard Francis Bacon on his Roof at 80 Narrow Street, London 1972 • The Decade of Debt (R.) • I, Who Vowed to Never Short Stocks Again, Just Shorted the Entire Market (WS) • Pelosi’s Half Right Constitutional Claim Leaves The House All Wrong (Turley) • Strzok Claims FBI, DOJ Violated His Free Speech, Privacy Rights (Hill) • Tulsi: Impeachment Greatly Increased Likelihood Of Trump Reelection (Hill) • Forecast 2020 — Whirlin’ and Swirlin’ (Kunstler) • States Are
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