LEADS

A Planet in Crisis: The Heat’s On Us
https://truthout.org/articles/a-planet-in-crisis-the-heats-on-us/

How Climate Change Caused the World’s First Ever Empire To Collapse
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/akkadian-empire-collapse-0011307

New U.S. Oil And Gas Drilling To Unleash 1,000 Coal Plants’ Worth Of Pollution By 2050
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-fracking-boom_us_5c3e7065e4b0e0baf5422c43

U.S. ‘Tough Line’ On Iran Depends On Crude Prices
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/US-Tough-Line-On-Iran-Depends-On-Crude-Prices.html

Trump tells GOP senators he’s sticking to Syria and Afghanistan pullout
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/425760-trump-tells-gop-senators-hes-sticking-to-syria-and-afghanistan-pullout

Deaths of US troops in Syria can be seen as underscoring or undercutting Trump’s withdrawal decision
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/deaths-of-us-troops-in-syria-can-be-seen-as-underscoring-or-undercutting-trumps-withdrawal-decision

Army Chief Confirms US Will Hand off ISIS Fight in Syria
https://www.defenseone.com/news/2019/01/army-chief-confirms-us-will-hand-isis-fight-syria/154237/

US, S. Korean military cost-sharing dispute raises fears of troop withdrawal
https://www.stripes.com/news/us-s-korean-military-cost-sharing-dispute-raises-fears-of-troop-withdrawal-1.564818

Pence Says U.S. Still Waiting on North Korea for ‘Concrete Steps’ to Denuclearize
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/world/asia/pence-north-korea-nuclear.html

Russia Says Its Own New Weapons Are Exempt After Accusing U.S. Of Violating Nuclear Arms Deal
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26013/russia-says-its-own-new-weapons-are-exempt-after-accusing-u-s-of-violating-nuclear-arms-deal

Space-based interceptors and drones with lasers: the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Review wish-list revealed
https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2019/01/17/space-based-interceptors-and-drones-with-lasers-the-pentagons-missile-defense-review-wish-list-revealed/

Trump Embraces the Missile Defense Boondoggle
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/trump-embraces-the-missile-defense-boondoggle/

Trump to use federal funds to prop up US bomb makers
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2019/01/16/trump-to-use-federal-funds-to-prop-up-us-bomb-makers/

Pentagon warns Middle East turning to China for drone needs
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/01/pentagon-mideast-turning-china-drone-needs.html

President Trump’s Losing Strategy: Embracing Brazil and Confronting China
http://www.unz.com/jpetras/president-trumps-losing-strategy-embracing-brazil-and-confronting-china/

Trump’s Tariffs Are Producing Billions, But China Isn’t Paying
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/trump-s-tariffs-are-producing-billions-but-china-isn-t-paying

US launches Huawei criminal probe for stealing US secrets, WSJ says
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/01/us-pursues-huawei-criminal-probe-for-stealing-us-secrets-wsj-says/

EPA Prosecution of ‘Egregious’ Pollution Cases at a 30-Year Low
https://www.courthousenews.com/epa-prosecution-of-egregious-pollution-cases-at-a-30-year-low/

Food recalls up 10 percent since 2013 as foodborne illnesses kill 3,000 Americans a year
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/01/17/food-recalls-increasing-romaine-lettuce-beef-pirg-usda-fda-ecoli-salmonella/2595775002/

Human diet causing 'catastrophic' damage to planet: study
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-human-diet-catastrophic-planet.html

The WHO's Top Global Health Threats For 2019 May Surprise You
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinekee/who-top-health-threats-2019-anti-vaxxer

POLITICS and FLEAS

‘She wields the knife’: Pelosi moves to belittle and undercut Trump in shutdown fight
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/she-wields-the-knife-pelosi-moves-to-belittle-and-undercut-trump-in-shutdown-fight/2019/01/16/e6861fbe-19b0-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html

Hoyer says border walls 'obviously' work, rejects Pelosi's suggestion that barrier is 'immorality'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hoyer-says-border-walls-obviously-work-rejects-pelosis-suggestion-that-barrier-is-immorality

Freshmen Dems Go Looking For Mitch McConnell To Pressure Him On Shutdown, End Up At Wrong Office
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/01/16/freshmen-dems-go-looking-mitch-mcconnell-pressure-shutdown-end-wrong-office/

Senate Democrats fail to stop Trump administration from lifting sanctions on firms linked to Putin friend
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/16/senate-democrats-vote-to-block-trump-from-lifting-russia-sanctions-fails.html

Manafort Was Pursuing a Ukrainian "Peace" Deal Well After He Was Charged for Lying about Being an Agent of Ukraine
https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/01/16/manafort-was-pursuing-a-ukrainian-peace-deal-well-after-he-was-charged-for-lying-about-being-an-agent-of-ukraine/

Rudy Giuliani’s New Story: I ‘Never Said’ There Was No Collusion Between Campaign and Russia
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-i-never-said-there-was-no-collusion-between-campaign-and-russia

Report: Top FBI, DOJ Officials Knew Early On That Steele Dossier Was Clinton-Connected Oppo Research
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/report-top-fbi-doj-officials-knew-early-steele-dossier-was-clinton

Michael Cohen Hired IT Firm To Rig CNBC, Drudge Polls; Paint Him As "Sex Symbol"
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-17/michael-cohen-hired-it-firm-rig-cnbc-drudge-polls-paint-him-sex-symbol

Many Voters Think Trump’s a Self-Made Man. What Happens When You Tell Them Otherwise?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/17/many-voters-think-trumps-a-self-made-man-what-happens-when-you-tell-them-otherwise-224019

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

Club Med: Israel, Egypt, and Others Form New Natural Gas Group
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/15/club-med-israel-egypt-and-others-form-new-natural-gas-group/

Arab League head: Importance of Palestinian cause ‘reduced’
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5448505,00.html

HotSpots H2O: Water Crisis Continues to Debilitate Gaza Strip
https://www.circleofblue.org/2019/hotspots/hotspots-h2o-water-crisis-continues-to-debilitate-gaza-strip/

THE MEDIA SCRUM

Facebook Is Bringing In Stricter Ad Rules For Countries Going To The Polls In The Next Few Months
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/facebook-ad-rules-polls

Facebook Deletes Pages That Were Secretly Controlled by a Russian Propaganda Network
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-deletes-pages-that-were-secretly-controlled-by-1831830363

Facebook Beats Out YouTube as Video News Source for Millennials and Gen Z, Study Says
https://www.thewrap.com/facebook-beats-out-youtube-as-video-news-source-for-millennials-and-gen-z-study-says/

I Mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I Loved Facebook. But I Can't Stay Silent About What's Happening.
http://time.com/5505441/mark-zuckerberg-mentor-facebook-downfall/

ODDS, ENDS

Science with borders: A debate over genetic sequences and national rights threatens to inhibit research
https://www.statnews.com/2019/01/14/science-with-borders-a-debate-over-genetic-sequences-and-national-rights-threatens-to-inhibit-research/

The Postmodern Circus of "Freakery" And The Limits Of Medical Ethics
https://www.forbes.com/sites/julianvigo/2019/01/14/the-postmodern-circus-of-freakery-and-the-limits-of-medical-ethics/

Human Gene Editing: Great Power, Great Responsibility
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/human-gene-editing-great-power-great-responsibility/

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