(2018-12-05). GM Plants Close and Auto Workers Lose Jobs — but There Is an Alternative (Pt. 2/2). therealnews.com 
Responding to the five GM plant closings and 14,000 layoffs, former Canadian Auto Worker union Research Director Sam Gindin talks about alternative strategies to the neoliberal and right wing approaches that fail society
(2018-12-05). Sometimes a Pair of Pants Can Give You Vertigo. "The Drastic Conditions of Our World Today" globalresearch.ca "Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous. The desolation lies there, not in …
(2018-12-05). The Bush Family Dynasty and Prescott Bush's Love Affair with Fascism. globalresearch.ca I was involved in pro-peace, anti-war, anti-US Imperialism efforts during the most hideous years of the Reagan/Bush administrations (from 1980 — 1992) that resulted in the deaths and sufferings of millions of innocent people in virtually every South and Central …
(2018-12-05). "Global Order" Equals the "New Fascism" globalresearch.ca The current "neoliberal" bailed-out "free market" diseconomy, imposed globally by military war crimes, erases nation-state sovereignty and self-determination in favour of supranational totalitarian predation. | Freedom of thought and expression are erased beneath the amorphous predation of this neo-con "global order". …
(2018-12-05). The Saudi Dilemma: To Cut or Not to Cut Production. globalresearch.ca To cut and push up prices or not to cut and preserve market share, this is the question that Saudi Arabia is facing ahead of this year's December OPEC meeting. It seems like just yesterday when OPEC met in 2016 …
(2018-12-05). Eve Ewing's Lesson in Grassroots Sociology. thenation.com Eve Ewing's Lesson in Grassroots Sociology…
(2018-12-05). The New "Water Barons": Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World's Water. globalresearch.ca Mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their control over water.
(2018-12-05). Newcastle, Australia: a Place of Contradictions. counterpunch.org 
I'm in Newcastle, a coastal port 117kms/73 miles north of Sydney, to participate in a conference on Chinese Marxism, organized by the University of Newcastle and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Newcastle is a place of contradictions. As Australia's leading port for the export of coal, Newcastle was at the forefront of the country's More
(2018-12-05). Video: Behind the US Attack on Chinese Smartphones. globalresearch.ca After having imposed heavy taxes on Chinese merchandise — 250 billion dollars — President Trump, at the G-20, accepted a "truce" by postponing further measures, mainly because the US economy has been struck by Chinese retaliation. | But apart from these …
(2018-12-05). GM Plants Close and Auto Workers Lose Jobs — but There Is an Alternative (Pt. 1/2). therealnews.com Responding to the five GM plant closings and 14,000 layoffs, former Canadian Auto Worker union Research Director Sam Gindin talks about alternative strategies to the neoliberal and right wing approaches that fail society
(2018-12-05). Rashida Tlaib To Head US Congressional Delegation To West Bank, Endorses BDS. imemc.org US Democratic Representative-elect Rashida Tlaib plans to lead a delegation of American lawmakers to the West Bank, the congresswoman-to-be has told the Intercept. Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, told the publication that the delegation will focus on "Israel's detention of Palestinian children, education, access to clean water, and poverty" and that the …
(2018-12-05). In Contempt of Britain's Parliament: The Legal Advice of Brexit. globalresearch.ca It is attrition, suffocation and contortion. While Theresa May's Brexit program, weak, compromising and cobbled as it is, endures that bit longer, her opponents from within and without government have been essentially undercutting her on various fronts. | Foppish and …
(2018-12-05). Brexit: Theresa May Goes Greek! globalresearch.ca Regularly presidents, prime ministers, congresspersons and parliamentarians worldwide negate the democratic will of their nation's voters by refusing to support legitimate election results. Strangely, their treasonous actions continue without serious reprisal or punishment by the voter. This emboldens them. The …
(2018-12-05). Mass Solidarity Meeting for Public Education. indybay.org Omni Commons | 4799 Shattuck, Oakland, California…
(2018-12-05). Australian government censors university research funding. wsws.org As well as vetoing peer-reviewed research grants, the government has imposed a more stringent "national interest" test.
(2018-12-04). Student Debt Must Become Part of the Battle Against Poverty. truthout.org "Debt is to capitalism, that which hell is to Christianity," economist Yanis Varoufakis recently said. "Debt might be unpleasant, but absolutely essential for capitalism." If so, then in our capitalist society, the hell of student debts makes borrowers the sacrificial lamb that appeases the deities of capital. | Forty-four million people owe over $1.5 trillion in student debt that is primarily held by the US D…
(2018-12-04). Top Ecuadorian Diplomat Destroys Guardian's Claim that Manafort Visited Assange. globalresearch.ca A former consul and first secretary at the Ecuadorian embassy in London has put the final nail in the coffin of credibility for The Guardian, refuting the paper's fantastical and wholly unsupported claim that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort…
(2018-12-04). Headlines for December 4, 2018. democracynow.org Wisconsin: Protesters Take to the Capitol to Oppose GOP Power Grab, North Carolina Investigating Election Fraud in Congressional Race, Trump Praises Stone for Refusal to Testify in Mueller Probe, CIA Director Haspel to Brief Top Senators on Khashoggi Murder, Spain: Far-Right Vox Party Makes Gains in Regional Elections, France: Fuel Tax Hikes Suspended Amid Growing Unrest, Qatar Withdraws from OPEC, Mexico's AMLO Creates Truth Commission over 2014 Student Disappearance, Philippines: Indicted Rappler Editor Posts Bail, Vows to Keep Reporting, Reports: U.S Admiral in Middle East Died by Suicide, Texas: Calls Grow to…
(2018-12-04). Trump Administration to Auction Off 900,000 Acres for Fracking in Nevada. globalresearch.ca The Trump administration plans to auction more than 900,000 acres for oil and gas extraction on the doorstep of Nevada's only national park and other protected public lands. It would be the largest single lease sale of public lands in …
(2018-12-04). Mídia Ocidental Mente sobre Ocupaàßà£o dos EUA: Líder Afegà£. globalresearch.ca Friba (*), representante da Associaàßà£o Revolucionária das Mulheres do Afeganistà£o (RAWA, na sigla em inglês), fala na entrevista a seguir sobre o processo de paz em seu país, e a cobertura midiática global destes 17 anos da Guerra do Afeganistà£o. …
(2018-12-04). Working for the Man… Not the Masses. The Corporate Predators. globalresearch.ca In 1973 I was still a somewhat naive college senior ready to face the business world. My major had been in Speech and Theater, with a minor in Sociology. As the year was ending and the new one upon us, …
(2018-12-04). Trump Foreign Policy: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting a Different Result. globalresearch.ca After a week of insisting that a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Argentina was going to happen, President Trump at the last minute sent out a Tweet explaining that due to a Russia/Ukraine dispute …
(2018-12-04). The Latest Victims in a Dark Story of How Northern Ireland Deals with Its Past. globalresearch.ca In August two Belfast journalists were arrested in dawn raids involving up to 100 police officers for exposing state protection of the perpetrators of a notorious sectarian massacre. This Thursday they will speak at a special screening of their documentary …
(2018-12-04). George H. Walker Bush: The Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Cartel. globalresearch.ca Presidential candidate Jeb Bush had close personal ties to Raul Salinas de Gortiari, brother of Mexico's former president Carlos Salinas de Gortiari. In the 1990s, Raul the "drug kingpin", according to Switzerland's federal prosecutor Carla del Ponte, was one of the main figures of the Mexican Drug Cartel.
(2018-12-04). America and Britain Complicit in Saudi Acts of Genocide in Yemen: 85,000 Children Dead, 14 Million at "Risk of Starvation" globalresearch.ca The recent death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has helped shed more attention on the Saudi war of aggression in Yemen. According to the UN up to 14 million people are at risk of starvation in Yemen. Yet the American …
(2018-12-04). Why Is India Bragging About Allegedly Tracking a Chinese Submarine in the Indian Ocean? globalresearch.ca India is sending several messages by bragging about its alleged ability to track one of its "frenemy's" submarines in the "Indian Ocean", though the timing of this announcement might inadvertently raise further suspicions in Russia about its South Asian partner's …
(2018-12-04). Video: Syrian Military Deploys Troops, Battle Tanks Near Idlib. globalresearch.ca On November 30th, Khalid al-Mahamid, a prominent figure of the Syrian opposition, revealed that there is "an international agreement" to eliminate Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib. Al-Mahamid is known as the godfather of the reconciliation process …
(2018-12-04). Selected Articles: George H. W. Bush, Yellow Vests, Trade Wars, Israeli Apartheid. globalresearch.ca Global Research has over 50,000 subscribers to our Newsletter. | Our objective is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us …
(2018-12-04). Football: Combat as Spectator Sport. globalresearch.ca Football is the modern-day equivalent of violent chariot races in ancient Rome, the most popular "sport" at the time, mano a mano, no holds barred. | Extreme violence defines modern-day US and Canadian football, especially at the professional level — what …
(2018-12-04). George H.W. Bush's Complicity in the 1991 "Highway of Death" Massacre. globalresearch.ca A "statesman" and "American hero"? What a lie! | When George H.W. Bush was president he ordered the massacre of Iraqi soldiers after the ceasefire in 1991, and after he had promised them safe passage out of Kuwait. This article, which …
(2018-12-04). Ariel Dorfman: George H.W. Bush Is Alive in His Many Victims Across the Globe, Including Me. democracynow.org 
George H.W. Bush was the only president in U.S. history to serve as CIA director, a role that would come to define his career and politics. He once described the intelligence agency as "part of my heartbeat." Bush Sr. was at the helm of the CIA from January 1976 to January 1977. We speak with Ariel Dorfman, best-selling author, playwright, poet and activist, who teaches at Duke University. In 1973, he served as a cultural adviser to Chilean President Salvador Allende's chief of staff. He says George H.W. Bush was "presiding over the CIA when Pinochet, the dictator of Chile, had concentration camps open. They were…
(2018-12-04). Rashida Tlaib to Lead Congressional Delegation to Palestine's Occupied West Bank. mintpressnews.com The first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to Congress, said that her "group will focus on issues like Israel's detention of Palestinian children, education, access to clean water, and poverty."
(2018-12-04). What Foreign Threats? globalresearch.ca One of the local Washington television stations was doing a typical early morning honoring our soldiers schtick just before Thanksgiving. In it soldiers stationed far from home were treated to videolinks so they could talk to their families and everyone …
(2018-12-04). Christmas Grinch: US teacher slammed for telling six-year-olds Santa isn't real. rt.com 
Christmas miracles and beautifully wrapped gifts are what most children yearn for all year round, but a class of first graders had this year's holiday ruined for them after a substitute teacher told them Santa isn't real.
(2018-12-04). History class gone wrong: High schoolers caught chanting KKK jingle, assignment sparks probe. rt.com 
A light-hearted history assignment at a US high school ended up with two students singing a racist KKK version of Jingle Bells in front of the class. A teacher has been suspended as the school is investigating how it came to be.
(2018-12-04). Chicago charter teachers strike for increased pay, lower class sizes. wsws.org Teachers at Acero schools and suburban Geneva District 304 walked out Tuesday morning as teachers in other districts prepare to fight for improved wages and conditions.
(2018-12-04). High school students and ambulance drivers join 'Yellow Vest' protests in France. wsws.org With a fourth consecutive Saturday of mass demonstrations against French President Emmanuel Macron's regressive taxes planned this weekend, tens of thousands of high school students throughout France have staged demonstrations at their schools.
(2018-12-03). Remembering George H.W. Bush's Inaction on AIDS at Home While Detaining HIV+ Haitians at Guantánamo. democracynow.org 
George H.W. Bush died on the eve of World AIDS Day, an irony not lost on many HIV/AIDS activists who remember the 41st president of the United States for his lack of action in the 1990s as the HIV/AIDS crisis raged on. Bush said little about the crisis during his years as vice president under Ronald Reagan, who didn't even mention AIDS until the penultimate year of his presidency. Despite promises to do more after he was elected president, George H.W. Bush refused to address and fund programs around HIV/AIDS education and prevention, as well as drug treatment. We speak with Steven Thrasher, journalist and doctora…
(2018-12-03). China: Release Workers, Student Activists. hrw.org 
| | President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, China, October 18, 2017. | © 2017 Aly Song/Reuters | (New York) – The Chinese government should immediately release workers and students arbitrarily detained or forcibly disappeared during a nationwide crackdown since mid-2018, Human Rights Watch said today. Those held include factory workers, labor activists, college s…
(2018-12-01). I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine. The Company Needs to Clarify Its Position on Human Rights. theintercept.com 
I worked as a research scientist at Google when Dragonfly was revealed and resigned in protest after a month of internally fighting for clarification.
(2018-12-01). 'Economics for the Many' offer a radical, democratic vision for a Corbyn gov't. greenleft.org.au 
Edited by John McDonnell
| Verso, 2018 | This book is a valuable collection of 16 short essays on the crisis facing modern Britain, coming up with progressive solutions which a Jeremy Corbyn-led government could usher in. | It is edited by and has an introduction by Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell, a long-time socialist and close collaborator of Corbyn's. He says: "We are seeking nothing less than to build a society that is radically fairer, more democratic and more sustainable, in which the wealth of society is shared by all." | The first piece, by Antonia Jennings who teaches at the London School…
(2018-11-30). PFOA and PFOS Cause Lower Sperm Counts and Smaller Penises, Study Finds. theintercept.com There's a new reason to be concerned about toxic chemicals used in nonstick pans, waterproof products, and firefighting foam: PFOA and PFOS impair male reproductive health, according to a study released in early November. | Researchers have already documented that PFOA and PFOS, two compounds in a class known as PFAS, reduce the fertility of male mice, rats, and rabbits. The new study, published by the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabo…
(2018-11-30). Pro-Charter School Democrats, Embattled in the Trump Era, Score a Win With Hakeem Jeffries. theintercept.com The newly elected House Democratic Caucus chair, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, has been supported by a pro-charter school charter PAC for more than a decade.
(2018-11-30). Indonesia Launches 'Snitch' App Targeting Religious Minorities. hrw.org 
| | An Indonesian woman shows a newly launched smartphone application called 'Smart Pakem' of Jakarta's prosecutor office in Jakarta on November 27, 2018. | © 2018 Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images | Following your own religious beliefs shouldn't be a crime, but in Indonesia, new technologies are helping authorities identify and potentially prosecute religious minorities who follow "deviant teachings." | On November 22, Bakor Pakem, a body charged with…
(2018-11-29). Indigenous Leaders Call for Justice After Landlord Violence Shakes Communities. venezuelanalysis.com The violence, which led to the kidnapping of Yukpa school teacher Mary Fernandez, comes amid land conflicts between cattle ranchers and indigenous communities.
(2018-11-29). My Black Son Was Sent Home From First Grade Because of His Natural Hair. aclu.org 
My 6-year-old was turned away from his school for the offense of wearing locs. | Six-year-olds never seem to run out of questions, and my son is no exception. But in August, CJ asked me a question that was harder than the rest: He wanted to know if there was something wrong with his hair. | As a father, I'd tried to shield him from racism for as long as I could. But we had just been turned away in humiliating fashion from A Book's Christian Academy in Apopka, Florida, on the first day of classes. The school's administrators, led by John Book, barred CJ from entering the building because of his locs. They treated…
(2018-11-28). SPLC sues Florida school district for arming inadequately trained 'school safety assistants' with guns. splcenter.org M.D. is a fourth-grader who likes to play baseball, and science is his favorite subject.
(2018-11-27). Hatewatch Headlines 11/28/2018. splcenter.org Facebook discrimination review still a mystery; Neuroscience explains bigotry's persistence; Proud Boys' new rules including less fighting; and more.
(2018-11-23). Oklahoma's Blue Wave was an Educator Wave. progressive.org The teacher uprising may have opened up this deepest red of red states to a new era of bipartisanship.
(2018-11-19). New York's Insurgent Lawmakers Speak Out against School Privatization and a Flawed Testing System. progressive.org On education issues, newly-elected progressive Democrats are setting a new tone.