Canada Arrests Meng Wanzhou, CFO of HuaWei, China's Global Cell Phone Competitor
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-08
It is clear the US is pushing the battle line to our door … We can completely regard the US arrest of Meng Wanzhou as a declaration of war against China." | So read an editorial in the Global Times … | The post Canada Arrests Meng Wanzhou, CFO of HuaWei, China's Global Cell Phone Competitor appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/canada-arrests-meng-wanzhou-cfo-of-huawei-chinas-global-cell-phone-competitor/5662253
China's Ban on Imports of "Foreign Garbage": No More of Your Junk
Adam Liebman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-08
Last year, China announced a ban on imports of 'foreign garbage'. The result? Western stockpiles of used paper and plastic have reached crisis proportions. Adam Liebman explains why we need a less rosy notion of what actually happens to our … | The post China's Ban on Imports of "Foreign Garbage": No More of Your Junk appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/chinas-ban-on-imports-of-foreign-garbage-no-more-of-your-junk/5662219
US Led War in Somalia: U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Airstrikes Allegedly "Against Terrorists"
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-08
Somalia has been the focus of oil and natural gas exploration. This coupled with its geographically strategic location on the Indian Ocean and near the Gulf of Aden, which is one of the most lucrative shipping lanes in the world,… | The post US Led War in Somalia: U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Airstrikes Allegedly "Against Terrorists" appeared first on Global Research.
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'Decimated': Germany's Birds Disappear as Insect Abundance Plummets 76%
Morgan Erickson-Davis | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-08
Originally published by Mongabay.com and Global Research on November 2, 2017 | A new study in PLOS ONE reveals a 76 percent reduction in Germany's flying insect biomass over the past 27 years while another reports the country's bird abundance has | … | The post 'Decimated': Germany's Birds Disappear as Insect Abundance Plummets 76% appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/decimated-germanys-birds-disappear-as-insect-abundance-plummets-76/5616314
France's Yellow Vest Rebellion: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
Richard Galustian | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-08
There has always been a tradition of rebellion and revolution in France. | The above headline is the instantly recognised phrase that is the most significant National motto of France. | Not only the obvious famous 18th Century Revolution, but in the … | The post France's Yellow Vest Rebellion: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/frances-yellow-vest-rebellion-liberte-egalite-fraternite/5662233
Towards a Russia-Pakistan Railway Corridor?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-08
The establishment of a financial consortium and joint working group between the railway administrations of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan could one day lead to the creation of a Russia-Pakistan (RuPak) railway via Central Asia that would complement the … | The post Towards a Russia-Pakistan Railway Corridor? appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/towards-a-russia-pakistan-railway-corridor/5662203
The Deathly Insect Dilemma. "It is not Normal for 50%-to-90% of a Species to Drop Dead"
Robert Hunziker | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-08
Insect abundance is plummeting with wild abandon, worldwide! Species evolve and go extinct as part of nature's normal course over thousands and millions of years, but the current rate of devastation is off the charts and downright scary. | Moreover, there … | The post The Deathly Insect Dilemma. "It is not Normal for 50%-to-90% of a Species to Drop Dead" appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-deathly-insect-dilemma-it-is-not-normal-for-50-to-90-of-a-species-to-drop-dead/5662215
Trump Regime "Revolving Door" Changes: William Barr as Attorney General
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-08
Trump has nominated former Bush Senior attorney general (from 1991 — 1993) William Barr to succeed Jeff Sessions as AG, saying he was his "first choice since day one." | Barr confirmed acceptance of the nomination, the post requiring Senate confirmation, … | The post Trump Regime "Revolving Door" Changes: William Barr as Attorney General appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-revolving-door-changes-william-barr-as-attorney-general/5662208
Peru: Scientific Vessel Heads to Antarctica For 2nd Expedition
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2018-12-08
The Peruvian oceanographic vessel Carrasco, which is a Spain-built ship considered the most modern of its kind in Latin America, left for Antarctica Friday for its second expedition, the Peruvian Navy reported. | RELATED: | Venezuela Hosts International Science and Technology Fair | The vessel has state-of-the-art equipment that includes: a helicopter, echo sounding technology to study marine biomass, two underwater autonomous vehicles that send real-time information from a depth of 3…
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Nominee for US Ambassador to Yemen Is No Friend of the Yemeni People
Colonel Ann Wright | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-08
While the press has closely followed the Senate efforts to stop US support for the Saudi war in Yemen in the wake of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, a December 4 Senate Foreign Affairs Committee meeting introducing Donald Trump's nominee … | The post Nominee for US Ambassador to Yemen Is No Friend of the Yemeni People appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/nominee-for-us-ambassador-to-yemen-is-no-friend-of-the-yemeni-people/5662222
Crown to cuffs: Former Miss Kentucky arrested for 'sending topless pics to minor'
RT | rt.com | 2018-12-08
One might expect that a beauty queen and teacher would be a great source for positive messages. However, a former Miss Kentucky has reportedly been caught sending out something else – nude photos to a 15-year-old boy. | …
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Should California Public Schools End State Sponsored Racial Aparthied?
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2018-12-08
California State Board of Education in July 2016 adopted History, Social Science Framework that continues "State Sponsored Racial Apartheid" that first began September 1849, at the California Constitutional Convention in Colton Hall, Monterey, CA and continued December 1849 in the San Jose Adobe Statehouse for inaugural California Legislative Session. Genesis 15: 12-14, 1619-2019 embracing the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy may help guide an end to "California State Sponsored Racial Apartheid" by sharing the primary source documents of the vast authentic contributions by people of California Pan African Ancestry…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/12/05/18819627.php
Students across the US declare their support for autoworkers
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-08
IYSSE members spoke with students around the United States about the struggle of autoworkers against the corporations and trade unions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/08/iyss…
Sudden closure of for-profit Education Corporation of America leaves 20,000 students without an education
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-08
One of the largest for-profit colleges in the United States, ECA abruptly announced this week that they would shut down operations at almost all locations, following their disaccreditation on Tuesday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/08/educ…
Teachers strike in South Australia and Tasmania
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-08
The Australian Education Union is seeking to divide the struggles and push through sell-out enterprise agreements in both states.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/08/teac…
Wages Are Growing, But Involuntary Part-Time Workers Are Increasing
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2018-12-07
The annual rate of wage growth in last quarter compared to the prior quarter was 3.3 percent. | The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the economy added 155,000 jobs in November, with the unemployment rate unchanged at 3.7 percent. With a modest downward revision to the job growth reported for the prior two months, the average over the last three months was 170,000, a clear slowing from the 204,000 average rate over the last year. Both the overall and prime age (ages 25–54) employment-to-population ratios (EPOP) were unchanged in November at their highs for the recovery. | Within the prime-age population t…
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Noam Chomsky Turns 90
Daniel Falcone | counterpunch.org | 2018-12-07
I want to wish a happy birthday to Professor Noam Chomsky, who turns 90. He was born in the East Oak Lane section of Philadelphia, PA and received a Deweyite education as a youngster. He often states that the progressive education he received in his formative years was so effective that he didn't even realize that he was a…
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New Book about Ethics and Whistleblowing for Engineers Affects Us All!
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2018-12-07
It's tough to be an engineering student these days, with so many new developments in modern technology and technological knowledge. The course curricula are more crowded than ever and the impact of emerging technologies is monumental. Some engineering professors worry that their students' busy course schedules prevents them from adequately exploring the liberal arts. Without…
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13-year-old Gaza Artist Shot by Israeli Soldiers While "Calling for Our Basic Right to Live a Decent Life"
Wafa Aludaini | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-07
Majd al-Madhoun, a young, 13-year old Palestinian artist, was shot for the second time by an Israeli soldier while protesting peacefully in the Great March of Return protest near the fence which separates Gaza from Israel. Majd's first … | The post 13-year-old Gaza Artist Shot by Israeli Soldiers While "Calling for Our Basic Right to Live a Decent Life" appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/13-year-old-gaza-artist-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-while-calling-for-our-basic-right-to-live-a-decent-life/5662183
A Two-Pronged Policy Needed to Stem the Flow of Migrants: Poverty Alleviation, Economic and Social Development
Prof. Alon Ben-Meir | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-07
To dramatically slow the flow of illegal immigration and even end it does not rest on building walls or sending troops to the border, or by heartlessly snatching children from their mothers' arms, or by incarceration, deportation, or prosecution. A … | The post A Two-Pronged Policy Needed to Stem the Flow of Migrants: Poverty Alleviation, Economic and Social Development appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/a-two-pronged-policy-needed-to-stem-the-flow-of-migrants-poverty-alleviation-economic-and-social-development/5662138
Gene Editing and "Genetically Modified Humans": China's "Golem Babies". There Is Another Agenda
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-07
The shocking news that a team of Chinese scientists have managed to gene-edit the DNA of recently-born human twins is more than bizarre and irresponsible. It suggests that certain researchers are making dangerous experiments to create ultimately the eugenics master dream: custom-designed humans. | The post Gene Editing and "Genetically Modified Humans": China's "Golem Babies". There Is Another Agenda appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/chinas-golem-babies-another-agenda/5662154
The History of War: What the 'Neocon Chickenhawks' Have Wrought. One Trillion Annual Military Spending
John Duncan | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-07
The 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice to end World War I has generated a lot of discussion and articles about the so-called "Great War." | Most of the neocon chickenhawks who so eagerly led us into the disastrous … | The post The History of War: What the 'Neocon Chickenhawks' Have Wrought. One Trillion Annual Military Spending appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-history-of-war-what-the-neocon-chickenhawks-have-wrought-one-trillion-on-us-military-spending/5662156
NATO Aggression Reaches for Russian Waters
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-07
The recent Kerch Strait incident marks a new low amid the US-led expansion of NATO eastward. | The intentional provocation executed by Kiev saw three Ukrainian naval vessels seized by Russia. The vessels were intentionally violating the protocol for passing through … | The post NATO Aggression Reaches for Russian Waters appeared first on Global Research.
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The Security Derangement Complex: Technology Companies and Australia's Anti-Encryption Law
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-07
Australia is being seen as a test case. How does a liberal democracy affirm the destruction of private, encrypted communications? In 2015, China demonstrated what could be done to technology companies, equipping other states with an inspiration: encryption keys, when … | The post The Security Derangement Complex: Technology Companies and Australia's Anti-Encryption Law appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-security-derangement-complex-technology-companies-and-australias-anti-encryption-law/5662143
Senegalese Students Open Up the Conversation About Sexual Abuses
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2018-12-07
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Brexit Threats: Tory MP Suggests Using Possible 'No-deal' Food Shortages in Ireland to Drop the Backstop
Gráinne Ní Aodha | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-07
As UK Prime Minister Theresa May has just five days to try to rally support for her Brexit deal, a Tory MP has suggested using the possibility of food shortages to Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit to … | The post Brexit Threats: Tory MP Suggests Using Possible 'No-deal' Food Shortages in Ireland to Drop the Backstop appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/brexit-threats-tory-mp-suggests-using-possible-no-deal-food-shortages-in-ireland-to-drop-the-backstop/5662162
Japanese police detain Zengakuren activists for nearly three weeks
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-07
The police measures used against this student group are part of a broader attack on basic democratic rights.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/07/zeng…
Re-education Camps, Infiltration, Surveillance: China Criticized over Persecution of Uyghur Muslims
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-12-06
The United Nations and human rights groups have accused China's government of setting up massive anti-Muslim "re-education" camps in the northwest Xinjiang province to disappear, jail and brainwash Uyghur Muslims. Some estimates put the population in the camps at up to 2 million. After months of denials, China acknowledged their existence in October, saying they are part of efforts to counter extremism. But Uyghurs say it's a form of collective punishment–and that they live under a high-tech surveillance state designed to eradicate Islam. We speak to Rushan Abbas, a Uyghur-American activist based in Washing…
www.democracynow.org/2018/12/6/re_educat…
After 2 Brooklyn College Professors Spouted Hate, Students Want Restitution
Skanda Kadirgamar | thenation.com | 2018-12-06
unfriendly to Latin American students and survivors of sexual assault. | The post After 2 Brooklyn College Professors Spouted Hate, Students Want Restitution…
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Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist He Jiankui Mysteriously Disappears
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2018-12-06
(ZHE) — The Chinese researcher who shocked the scientific community with claims that he used cutting-edge gene-editing technology to alter the DNA of two babies and several embryos has mysteriously disappeared. Scientist He Jiankui has not been seen since Wednesday of last week, after he attended the Second International Summit on Human Genome editing in Hong Kong …
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The fightback against Adani and Aurizon steps up
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-12-06
Adani CEO Lucas Dow's November 29 declaration that work on a scaled-down coalmine in Queensland's Galilee Basin would begin before Christmas was met with one of the most powerful nationwide protests against it so far as primary and high school students walking out of class the next day for the Student Strike 4 Climate Action. | A reported 20,000 students, many of them with their parents and grandparents in tow, took to the streets with a powerful message to Adani and policymakers: ignore us at your peril. | This was followed by a sit-in at Parliament House in Canberra on December 5. | Another round of #StopA…
greenleft.org.au/content/fightback-against-adani-and-aurizon-steps
Artificial Intelligence Experts Issue Urgent Warning Against Facial Scanning With a "Dangerous History"
Sam Biddle | theintercept.com | 2018-12-06
Facial recognition has quickly shifted from techno-novelty to fact of life for many, with millions around the world at least willing to put up with their faces scanned by software at the airport, their iPhones, or Facebook's server farms. But researchers at New York University's AI Now Institute have issued a strong warning against not only ubiquitous facial recognition, but its more sinister cousin: so-called affect recognition, technology that claims it can find hidden meaning in the shape of your nose, the contours of your mouth, and the way you smile. If that sounds like something dredged up from the 19th cen…
theintercept.com/2018/12/06/artificial-intellgience-experts-issue-urgent-warning-against-facial-scanning-with-a-dangerous-history/
The Tide May Be Turning on Billionaire Backers of Charter Schools in California
Julian Vasquez Heilig | progressive.org | 2018-12-05
California's new superintendent of public instruction, Tony Thurmond, opposes the privatization of education.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/tide-turning-on-billionaire-charter-backers-181205/
GM Plants Close and Auto Workers Lose Jobs — but There Is an Alternative (Pt. 2/2)
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-12-05
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 | The post GM Plants Close and Auto Workers Lose Jobs — but There Is an Alternative (Pt. 2/2) appeared first on The Real News Network.
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GM Plants Close and Auto Workers Lose Jobs — but There Is an Alternative (Pt. 1/2)
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-12-05
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 | The post GM Plants Close and Auto Workers Lose Jobs — but There Is an Alternative (Pt. 1/2) appeared first on The Real News Network.
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Student Loan Giant Navient Responds to Allegations of Abuse With a Bizarre Subpoena of a Former Federal Official
David Dayen | theintercept.com | 2018-12-05
Navient, while fighting a lawsuit brought by the CFPB, subpoenaed a former CFPB official who is a persistent critic of the student loan industry. | The post Student Loan Giant Navient Responds to Allegations of Abuse With a Bizarre Subpoena of a Former Federal Official appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/12/05/navient-student-loan-giant-responds-to-allegations-of-abuse-with-a-bizarre-subpoena-of-a-former-federal-official/
Unhinged GDP Growth Could Actually Destroy the Economy, Economists Find
Kate Aronoff | theintercept.com | 2018-12-05
For decades, scientists have warned of the pending crisis for the planet and humanity in the event of runaway climate change. But a new paper from prominent economists frames the situation in language that people might actually understand: Not addressing climate change, they conclude, will lead inevitably to "worldwide economic collapse." | Researchers also have a warning for renewable energy evangelists and techno-optimists, concluding that it is a fantasy to believe that the economy can grow at a torrid pace — as measured by GDP — while simultaneously reducing or eliminating greenhouse gas. | That's…
theintercept.com/2018/12/05/climate-change-economics/
Ariel Dorfman: George H.W. Bush Is Alive in His Many Victims Across the Globe, Including Me
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-12-04
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…
www.democracynow.org/2018/12/4/ariel_dor…
Remembering George H.W. Bush's Inaction on AIDS at Home While Detaining HIV+ Haitians at Guantánamo
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-12-03
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…
www.democracynow.org/2018/12/3/rememberi…
'Economics for the Many' offer a radical, democratic vision for a Corbyn gov't
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-12-01
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…
greenleft.org.au/content/economics-many-offer-radical-democratic-vision-corbyn-gov%E2%80%99t
Indigenous Leaders Call for Justice After Landlord Violence Shakes Communities
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-11-29
The violence, which led to the kidnapping of Yukpa school teacher Mary Fernandez, comes amid land conflicts between cattle ranchers and indigenous communities.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14168
SPLC sues Florida school district for arming inadequately trained 'school safety assistants' with guns
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-11-28
M.D. is a fourth-grader who likes to play baseball, and science is his favorite subject.
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Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan's poems and data on women's education
Huzaifa Zoomkawala | zcomm.org | 2018-11-12
And here is my second attempt at bridging the three areas: poems, justice and data visualization. This time, it's the Palestinian poet, Fadwa Tuqan, whose poems I have highlighted alongside some charts depicting the progress over the years on a number of women's education indicators in the West Bank and Gaza. (Earlier, I had used Read…
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