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Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize

The US president says he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace, after not being awarded the annual prize.

This isn’t how Nobel prizes work (they are not determined by the government or the people of Norway). But that hardly matters, does it? As Paul Kafasis notes, there’s a reason the 25th Amendment exists.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace

US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief António Guterres tells BBC

António Guterres says Washington’s “clear conviction” is that multilateral solutions are irrelevant.

Billionaires have more money and political power than ever, Oxfam says

Charity says superrich 4,000 times more likely to hold political power than others and own all social media companies.

Oxfam also estimated that billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than common citizens and cited a World Values Survey of 66 countries, which found that almost half of all people polled say the rich often buy elections in their country.

Oxfam also noted that there were 142 significant antigovernment protests across 68 countries last year, which it said authorities typically met with violence. “Governments are making wrong choices to pander to the elite and defend wealth while repressing people’s rights and anger at how so many of their lives are becoming unaffordable and unbearable,” Behar said.

Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis, reports say

The troops are an option should Donald Trump decide to use them to quell anti-ICE protests in the city, an official tells CBS News.

In a Sunday interview on CBS Face the Nation, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemned Trump’s threat to send more troops into the city, saying the existing presence of federal ICE agents is already an “occupying force that has quite literally invaded our city”. “You can go through whatever rhetorical flourish you want, but when you have 3,000 ICE agents and border control come to the city, when you’ve got this supposed threat of 1,500 military coming to the city, yeah, that’s very much what it feels like,” Frey said.