(2018-10-01). What's Happening in Syria: A cultural/educational community event. indybay.org Resource Center for Nonviolence 612 Ocean St Santa Cruz…
(2018-10-01). Getting Serious About Debts and Deficits. counterpunch.org 
With the possibility that the Democrats will retake Congress and press demands for increased spending in areas like health care, education, and child care, the deficit hawks (DH) are getting prepared to awaken from their dormant state. We can expect major news outlets to be filled with stories on how the United States is on More
(2018-10-01). Beijing university threatens Marxist student society. wsws.org The university has reacted to fears that not only politically radicalised students, but also China's exploited working class, could threaten the CCP's police-state regime.
(2018-10-01). Reflections on "Reflections From a Hashtag" counterpunch.org 
I was sexually harassed by one of my professors in graduate school. He was the director of the graduate program and was known to host parties at his apartment for the graduate students. I assumed, when he invited me to his apartment for "dinner," that the "dinner" in question was such an event. More
(2018-10-01). López Obrador promises Truth Commission in disappearance of Ayotzinapa students. wsws.org Any new investigation will inevitably face limits, including the role of the army in the events and its coverup.
(2018-10-01). Colleges Have a Responsibility to Divest From Fossil Fuels. truthout.org As a new academic year begins after a summer of deadly heat waves, wildfires, droughts and floods, many college students and faculty are debating whether and how to get involved in climate politics. | Climate advocacy has become well established on US campuses over the past decade, in diverse forms. More than 600 colleges and universities have signed the American College and University President's Climate Commit…
(2018-10-01). UK's Snoopers' Charter Ruled Unlawful: What Does Privacy Mean to You? globalresearch.ca Two weeks ago the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) gave a landmark ruling against the UK government's mass surveillance program, stating that it violated human rights and offered "no real safeguards" to the public. This surveillance programme, according to …
(2018-10-01). Professors and Politicians Gather to Warn Us About the New World Order (NWO). globalresearch.ca "We are dealing with a criminal undertaking at a global level … and there is an ongoing war, it is led by the United States, it may be carried out by a number of proxy countries, which are obeying orders …
(2018-10-01). Theresa May Tells American Investors – Brexit Britain Is Up for Grabs. globalresearch.ca Britain will be "unequivocally pro-business" after it leaves the European Union, Theresa May has promised American investors. To neoliberal politicians, this was always the endgame. | The prime minister told the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York that the UK …
(2018-10-01). Venezuela's Socialism…And Ours. globalresearch.ca This week we witnessed the horrible spectacle of Nikki Haley, President Trump's Ambassador to the United Nations, joining a protest outside the UN building and calling for the people of Venezuela to overthrow their government. | "We are going to | …
(2018-10-01). Food, Art and Literature: How Israel Is Stealing Arab Culture. globalresearch.ca As a settler-colonial country, Israel has industriously sought to erase the existence of the people indigenous to the land it occupies, so as to better appropriate aspects of their culture that make it "local", rather than implanted. | Since food is …
(2018-10-01). The Other Side of the Wall. An Eyewitness Account of the Occupation of Palestine. globalresearch.ca This book is a personal account of a US American professor about his volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) against the Israeli occupation in Palestine in the summer of 2014. His eyewitness report tells the story about oppression, subjugation …
(2018-10-01). Pivot towards India or China? The Maldives Might Not Become an Indian Satellite, at Least Not Yet. globalresearch.ca The opposition pulled off a surprise win in the Maldives' presidential elections last weekend. | Ibrahim Mohamed Solih trounced President Abdulla Yameen by a 16-point margin even though the US, India, and many Western countries fearmongered that the incumbent would resort …
(2018-10-01). US Hostility to Sovereign Independent States: Syria and North Korea Address the UN General Assembly. globalresearch.ca Bipartisan hardliners in Washington oppose these countries and all other sovereign independent states. | Peace and cooperative relations with them defeat US imperial interests — served by endless wars, instability and chaos. | In his UNGA address, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem…
(2018-10-01). Gandhi's Despair and the Struggle for Truth and Love. globalresearch.ca 'When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think …
(2018-10-01). Participatory Socialist Economics: The Vision of British Labour's Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. globalresearch.ca Tory-supporting media have been portraying Britain's socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as a Soviet fellow-traveller. Meanwhile, Hilary Wainwright notes, Labour's shadow chancellor and close Corbyn ally sets out a vision that breaks with the old bureaucratic state model. | Shadow …
(2018-10-01). The US Military-Industrial Complex's Worst Nightmare: The Deployment of Russia's S-300 Air Defense System In Syria May Destroy and Expose the F-35. globalresearch.ca The tragic episode that caused the death of 15 Russian air force personnel has had immediate repercussions on the situation in Syria and the Middle East. On Septe…
(2018-10-01). Now Biggest Donor in All of US Politics, Sheldon Adelson Brings an Israel First Agenda to Washington. globalresearch.ca Adelson's massive expenditures in federal elections this cycle are being made because he believes that Republican control of the House and the Senate is vital to maintaining right-wing and pro-Zionist policies and his influence in Washington and at the White …
(2018-10-01). Mao Zedong Declares the Foundation of the People's Republic of China, October 1, 1949. globalresearch.ca People across China are commemorating the 69th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China on October 1st 1949. | Mao Zedong's historic declaration. See video below | **** | ****…
(2018-10-01). Selected Articles: The World Is Sinking. Dictatorship by Democracy. globalresearch.ca For seventeen years, Global Research, together with partner independent media organizations, has sought Truth in Media with a view to eventually "disarming" the corporate media's disinformation crusade. | To reverse the tide, we call upon our readers to participate in an …
(2018-10-01). China and the Struggle of Oppressed Nations for Self-Determination, National Liberation and Socialism. globalresearch.ca Note: The following paper was delivered in part at the Workers World conference on the Chinese Revolution held on August 29, 2009 in Detroit. We are republishing this document in 2018 in recognition of the 69th anniversary of the …
(2018-10-01). From the Zapatistas and Beyond. indybay.org The Nick | 210 Lincoln St, Santa Cruz…
(2018-10-01). Trump's Middle East Policy Takes a Kicking at UN Assembly. globalresearch.ca It was not just US President Donald Trump getting laughed at in the UN General Assembly this week. On Iran, Palestine and other Middle East issues, Washington has drifted away from its global allies and partners, veteran diplomats told Middle …
(2018-10-01). Canada's NDP Will be Judged by the Friends They Keep in Israel. globalresearch.ca Who exactly is the NDP making friends with in Israel? | In refusing to heed a call from 200 well-known musicians, academics, trade unionists and NDP members to withdraw from the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group (CIIG) the party leadership cites the need …
(2018-10-01). Lost in the Theatre of Data, Dada, and Emotional Manipulation. globalresearch.ca "It is not only information that they need – in this Age of Fact, information often dominates their attention and overwhelms their capacities to assimilate it…What they need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that …
(2018-10-01). For Those of Us Who Believe. globalresearch.ca For those of us who watched with innocence, then passion, then consternation, the results of the 1991 senate hearing for supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas; for those who championed film stars, then ordinary women daring, finally, to call out …
(2018-10-01). Liberate Locked Lavatories. indybay.org Gather at City Hall (809 Center St.) for a march to Londen (Louden) Nelson Community Center at 1 PM or go directly to London Nelson or the adjacent Laurel Park there.
(2018-09-30). Both the UK and the US Now Overtly Honor Al Qaeda. globalresearch.ca The United Kingdom is resettling Al Qaeda's Syrian medical unit, called the "White Helmets," as "refugees" in UK. The White Helmets organization is funded by UK's MI6 and America's CIA, and is headed by Raed Saleh, who was …
(2018-09-30). Donald Trump, The Manchurian Candidate and The Russia Probe. The Rosenstein Comey Mueller Intrigue. globalresearch.ca Trump's Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was to organize the so-called Russia Probe pertaining to alleged Kremlin interference in the November 2016 elections. Rosenstein's first step consisted in the firing of FBI Director James Comey & appointing former FBI Director Robert Mueller to lead the Russia Probe.
(2018-09-30). Mass Murder, Violence and the U.S. Social Structure. globalresearch.ca C. Wright Mills had warned about the excessive bureaucratization in the social sciences during his time, but he could not have envisioned the tremendous amount of fragmented analyses that occurs when attempts to understand the structure of U.S. society. | The …
(2018-09-30). Global Wealth Concentration: The Global Power Elite Drive Amazon Share Value to a Trillion Dollars. globalresearch.ca Exciting news for capitalism was the recent achievement of trillion-dollar value for both Amazon and Apple, making them the first corporations to obtain such a lofty status. Amazon's skyrocketing growth makes its CEO, Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person …
(2018-09-30). Security, Safety, Security! Dictatorship by Democracy. globalresearch.ca The other day, checking in at a European airport for an international flight – within about an hour it took to deposit my luggage, going through airport security, the metal detectors, body screening machines, the automatic passport reading procedure, waiting …
(2018-09-30). Bombing Libya: The Origins of Europe's Immigration Crisis. globalresearch.ca The world will long remember the present immigrant crisis in Europe, which has negatively affected countless people there, and almost all countries. History will certainly record it as a major tragedy. Could it have been averted? Or kept within much | …
(2018-09-29). SEP and IYSSE win broad support for Peradeniya university meeting on the struggle for Trotskyism. wsws.org SEP campaigners have spoken with scores of students, workers and academics at the campus, explaining the historical record and political importance of the struggle for Trotskyism in Sri Lanka and internationally.
(2018-09-29). New Zealand primary teachers reject sellout pay offer. wsws.org The Labour Party-NZ First government's offer of a meagre 3 percent per year for three years, with no measures to address the staffing crisis, was resoundingly rejected by primary school teachers.
(2018-09-27). Yale Law Students Protest Alum Brett Kavanaugh, Demand Investigation of Sexual Assault Allegations. democracynow.org 
Thousands of Yale students are protesting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in support of Deborah Ramirez, the Yale alumna who alleges that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her by thrusting his genitals in her face at a drunken dorm party when they were both freshmen. Kavanaugh is a graduate of both Yale University and the Yale Law School. More than 2,800 Yale women have signed a letter of support for Ramirez. On Monday, Yale Law School faculty canceled 31 classes to allow more than 260 of their students to join a protest in support of Ramirez. We speak with Yale Law School student Samantha Peltz, who helped orga…
(2018-09-27). California Just Banned For-Profit Charter Schools. Why? progressive.org Given the state's history with "school choice," California's new legislation comes as a surprise. And it's met with skepticism.
(2018-09-27). Live Stream from Thessaloniki Greece: Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism & Communication in the Digital Era. therealnews.com 
We are pleased to announce the international conference entitled "Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism & Communication in the Digital Era". The conference is organized by the Advanced Media Institute, the Master's Program "Communication and New Journalism" of the Open University of Cyprus, the Laboratoire d' Études et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales of L' Université Toulouse III — Paul Sabatier, and the Secretariat…
(2018-09-27). Live Stream from Thessaloniki Greece: Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism & Communication in the Digital Era. therealnews.com We are pleased to announce the international conference entitled "Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism & Communication in the Digital Era". The conference is organized by the Advanced Media Institute, the Master's Program "Communication and New Journalism" of the Open University of Cyprus, the Laboratoire d' Études et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales of L' Université Toulouse III — Paul Sabatier, and the Secretariat…
(2018-09-26). Johns Hopkins Graduate Students Launch Union Campaign. therealnews.com 
The students say they are fighting for better working conditions and better compensation, and were joined by nurses who are seeking to unionize Johns Hopkins Hospital
(2018-09-26). Johns Hopkins Graduate Students Launch Union Campaign. therealnews.com The students say they are fighting for better working conditions and better compensation, and were joined by nurses who are seeking to unionize Johns Hopkins Hospital
(2018-09-25). In Sprawling Farm Bill, a $200 Million Corporate Research Subsidy Goes Unnoticed. progressive.org Congress is considering whether to continue funding a little known government-funded project, which calls itself "the people's foundation." The question is, whose people?
(2018-09-24). Teachers' Strikes May Reinvigorate US Labor Movement. consortiumnews.com Events of recent weeks shows there's gut-level support for radical change, including on the state of education and teacher's working conditions. This building momentum could help spark a new labor movement, argues Andy Piascik. By Andy Piascik Last spring, public… Read more →
(2018-09-21). What Does "Revolution" Look Like in Education? progressive.org Teachers committed to justice are fighting against the historical role of education in the U.S.
(2018-09-21). Michael Moore vs. Donald Trump in "Fahrenheit 11/9": New Film Warns Our Democracy Is At Risk. democracynow.org 
"Fahrenheit 11/9″—That's the name of the new documentary premiering today by Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, a stunning retelling of the 2016 election and its aftermath. 11/9. That's November 9, the day Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. In the film, Michael crosses the country, documenting not only the rise of Trumpism but also the teachers' strikes sweeping the nation, the "blue wave" of progressive candidates in the 2018 primaries, the rise of student activism after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the water crisis in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. Moore spares no one…
(2018-09-19). Broad Support Emerges for Full-Service Community Schools in Minneapolis. progressive.org A shift away from the charter school approach is on the horizon in Minnesota's largest city.
(2018-09-13). Schools Have Committed to Hiring Teachers of Color. Now They Need to Keep Them. progressive.org When schools fail to challenge Eurocentric curricula and pedagogy, they alienate teachers of color.
(2018-09-11). New York's Democratic Primary Is a Showdown for Charter School Politics. progressive.org The upcoming New York primary could redefine the Democratic party in the state—and could mean drastic change for the charter school industry.
(2018-09-08). Let's Heal Kids, Not Harden Schools. progressive.org Betsy DeVos has proposed to make federal funding available for schools to purchase weapons. But the proliferation of guns will not curb violence in schools.
(2018-09-06). In Louisville, a Web of Private Interests Conspire to Expand Charter Schools. progressive.org Members of the Kentucky Board of Education have allied with corporate interests to privatize education, including involvement in potential real estate deals.