(2018-11-02). Is Erdogan Like Malcolm X? counterpunch.org 
Something strange happened in New York last month. President Erdogan of Turkey met with two daughters of Malcom X, Ilyasha and Qubilah. The meeting was short, but its meaning will long reverberate through the ages for Kurds, as well as the students of Malcolm X. Ilyasha Shabazz compared the Turkish leader to her late father More
(2018-11-02). Trump's Back Door Return to the TPP Free Trade Agreement in 2019/20? globalresearch.ca This week the nations that were formerly part of the Transpacific Partnerships Free Trade Deal, that the US refused to join in 2017, concluded their TPP free trade agreement without the US. | Since January 2017 Trump the free trader has …
(2018-11-02). Financial Press Cheers Election of Fascist in Brazil. globalresearch.ca Brazil's controversial elections pitted far-right Jair Bolsonaro against the center-left Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad. But it was clear which candidate international markets—and therefore the financial press—wanted. | Bolsonaro was elected with 55.5 percent of the vote in an election …
(2018-11-02). Raqqa: A City Laid Waste, the Law Laid Low. globalresearch.ca "We must demonstrate that those who have committed the most serious crimes of international concern can have no place to hide. There must be no impunity for the horrendous acts taking place on a daily basis in Syria. There …
(2018-11-02). Is the US-China Trade War for Real? globalresearch.ca This incisive article was first published in May 2018 at the outset of the trade war | If Trump's trade policy toward US allies is 'phony', by seeking only token adjustments to trade relations, then the US trade offensive targeting China …
(2018-11-02). Losing Users: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Problems. globalresearch.ca His detractors and enemies have been waiting some time for this, but it must have given them moments of mild cheer. Facebook, the all-gazing, accumulating system of personal profiles and information, poster child, in fact, of surveillance capitalism, is losing …
(2018-11-02). White Supremacist Steve King Won't Answer Question About His White Supremacist Views. theintercept.com Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican with a long history of white supremacist views, erupted in anger on Thursday when asked by a constituent to explain how his anti-immigrant ideology differed from the beliefs of the white supremacist terrorist who killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last week. | The heated exchange, which was captured on video from multiple angles, began with Kaleb Van Fosson, an Iowa State University student who lives in King's district, asking his representative about the apparent similarity between (2018-11-02). Bolsonaro and Indigenous Rights in Brazil: A Glimmer of Hope in Difficult Times. globalresearch.ca In the past month, Brazil's first indigenous woman was voted to Congress while the nation's newly elected President is expected to pursue assimilation policies toward indigenous peoples and seek an end to demarcations of their lands and protections to the …
(2018-11-02). New Iran Sanctions Risk Long-term US Isolation. globalresearch.ca The next step in the Trump administration's "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran comes this Sunday, Nov. 4, when the most severe sanctions will be imposed on the Islamic Republic. Crucially, they apply not only to Iran but to anyone who …
(2018-11-02). Noam Chomsky: Members of Migrant Caravan Are Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created by the U.S. democracynow.org 
As President Trump escalated his attacks and threats against the Central American migrant caravans making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration unveiled new sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba on Thursday. National security adviser John Bolton declared Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to be part of a "troika of tyranny" and a "triangle of terror." We speak with world-renowned professor, linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky about U.S. foreign policy in Central America. He joins us in Tucson, Arizona, where he now teaches at the University of Arizona. Chomsky is also institute professor emeritu…
(2018-11-02). Brazil: Quilombo Campo Grande Suffers Threats From Fascism. globalresearch.ca We, the MST families of Southern MG, of Quilombo Campo Grande, denounce fascist action against our 20-year struggle. | Here, families, after so many years, already have electrical energy infrastructure, houses and produce a great diversity of agroecological production, such as …
(2018-11-02). Your Commander-in-Chief Is Lying to You: Veterans Issue Open Letter to Active Duty US Soldiers. globalresearch.ca To All Active Duty Soldiers: | Your Commander-in-chief is lying to you. You should refuse his orders to deploy to the southern U.S. border should you be called to do so. Despite what Trump and his administration are saying, the migrants …
(2018-11-02). Doco shows remarkable program helping Aboriginal kids. greenleft.org.au 
Backtrack Boys
| Documentary by Catherine Scott
| In cinemas now | The best documentary films are ones that tell a story. Backtrack Boys allows Aboriginal kids from around the Armidale region in NSW to express themselves and show how hard life is for them. | These are kids who are who are close to totally off the rails. Luckily, they have become involved in a youth program run by an ex-roustabout called Bernie Shakeshaft. By teaching the kids how to train farm dogs, he gets them to calm their emotions, develop self-discipline and find a path for themselves. | The scenes where he teaches the kids how to qu…
(2018-11-02). US and South Korea Defense Chiefs Agree to Keep US Troops in Korea After OPCON Transfer. globalresearch.ca At their annual Security Consultative Meeting, held in Washington DC on October 31, the South Korean and US defense chiefs signed the " Guiding Principles Following the Transition of Wartime Operational Control," which says US Forces in Korea and …
(2018-11-02). "Without Our Forest, We Have No Life, We Disappear": Cameroon's Baka Community. globalresearch.ca *Jean-Jacques, a member of one of Cameroon's Baka Communities in the Ngoyla Mintom area, talks about being driven out of his ancestral forests, and the issues his people face on a daily basis through lack of land rights and lack …
(2018-11-02). US Midterm Elections: Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Will Not "Restore Democracy to America" globalresearch.ca There's a big push underway- it appears to be primarily a Democrat plan— for GOTV. GOTV is not a videogame; it's the acronym of Get-Out-The-Vote. Behind this drive is the conviction: 'If registered Democrats will simply get off their butts, …
(2018-11-02). History of World War II: Conduct of Hitler's "Operation Barbarossa" against Russia. globalresearch.ca The method of warfare fought by Hitler's forces in the Soviet Union would, before long, come back to haunt them. By pursuing a conflict in extreme ideological terms against Russia, it steeled the Red Army's resolve in overcoming the "fascist …
(2018-11-02). Rex 84: FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America. globalresearch.ca We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84.
(2018-11-02). Two Koreas Halt Military Exercises and Close Gunports Once Aimed at Each Other. globalresearch.ca At 12: 01 on November 1, North and South Korea began a halt to land, air, and sea military exercises and began the operation of a designated no-fly zone along the military demarcation line (MDL). The measures are in line with …
(2018-11-02). Where We Stand on the Caravan: Five Things You Should Know. counterpunch.org 
We are anthropologists who work with migrants and refugees, most of whom are fleeing for their lives. We want to set the record straight. We conduct our research with migrants in Central America, Mexico, the US, and around the world. Some of us have walked with migrant caravans, with families and with individuals. We know More
(2018-11-02). Indigenous Peoples Declare State of Environmental Emergency in the Peruvian Amazon. globalresearch.ca Indigenous communities on agro-industrial frontier declare state of environmental and territorial emergency amidst land grabs and deforestation. | Communities in the Bajo Huallaga area of the Peruvian Amazon declared an "environmental and territorial emergency" on 16 September this year following serious …
(2018-11-02). Why Do We Need a National-Security State? globalresearch.ca Given President Trump's impulsive decision to suddenly send 5,200 armed U.S. soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent a few thousand women and children and others from seeking refugee status in the United States, which foreign citizens are entitled to …
(2018-11-02). Children Cruelly Handcuffed Win Big Settlement Against the Police in Kentucky. aclu.org For years, a sheriff's office defended its use of handcuffs on elementary school students. Now it will pay up. | On Thursday, a sheriff's office in Kentucky has agreed to pay more than $337,000 for the painful and unconstitutional handcuffing of elementary school students with disabilities. The two plaintiffs, both of whom were children of color and both of whom have disabilities, were so small that the deputy sheriff locked the handcuffs around the children's biceps, forcing their hands behind their backs. | One of the cuffings was recorded in a
(2018-11-02). Cuba Scores 27th Victory at the UN on "Ending the US Blockade". Overwhelming Vote in Favor, Two Against (U.S. and Israel). globalresearch.ca A new round of vote at the United Nations on Cuba's resolution "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba" has just ended. [1] This was the 27th year in a …
(2018-11-02). Netanyahu Hails New Brazilian President's Plan to Move Embassy to Jerusalem. globalresearch.ca Jair Bolsonaro has confirmed he intends to defy the Palestinians and most of the world by moving his country's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. | Brazil would become the second major country after the United States to do …
(2018-11-02). Electromagnetic and Informational Weapons: The Remote Manipulation of the Human Brain. globalresearch.ca This important article first published by GR in August 2004 brings to the forefront the role of Psychotronic weapons as an instrument of modern warfare. | It should be understood, that Electromagnetic and Informational Weapons are fully operational and could be …
(2018-11-02). New UN Report Warns of Impending Catastrophe as World Warms, Glaciers Melt. truthout.org 
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise." —Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac | I have come to accept the bittersweet nature of my mountain trips. I venture into the heights for solace from the political, social and ecological demise that i…
(2018-11-02). Noam Chomsky: Migrant Caravan Is Fleeing From Horrors Created by US. truthout.org As President Trump escalated his attacks and threats against the Central American migrant caravans making their way to the US-Mexico border, the Trump administration unveiled new sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba on Thursday. National security adviser John Bolton declared Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to be part of a "troika of tyranny" and a "triangle of terror." We speak with world-renowned professor, linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky about US foreign policy in Central America. He joins us in Tucson, Arizona, where he now teaches at the University of Arizona. Chomsky is also institute professor emeritus…
(2018-11-02). Economy Adds 250,000 Jobs in October, Employment Hits Recovery High. truthout.org The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the economy added 250,000 jobs in October as the employment rate or Employment-to-Population Ratio (referred to as EPOP, or the percentage of adults with jobs) rose 0.2 percentage points to 60.6 percent, a new high for the recovery. The strong October job growth was largely a bounce back from a hurricane-weakened September number of 118,000 (revised down from 134,000). The three-month average is 218,000, roughly in line with growth over the last four years. |
(2018-11-02). The X Factor in the Midterms. truthout.org While some Americans are mentally focused on the 2020 presidential election, all eyes seem to be on the rapidly approaching midterm election. With both Democrats and Republicans vying for control of the House and Senate, the majority party will have the advantage to pass their legislative agendas — producing outcomes that could hugely impact the future of Trump's presidency and the direction of the nation. | On this episode of Making Contact, we speak with Dr. James Lance Taylor, professor of political science at University of San Francisco, about the how the midterm elections actually work, its significanc…
(2018-11-02). Demonstration Against Racist Slumlord Darius Mohsenin. indybay.org Students United with Renters and the Yes on M Campaign will march on Pacific Avenue Friday at 5: 30pm to protest racist slumlord Darius Mohsenin and the No on M campaign's ties to him. The march will begin at the downtown clock tower and move down Pacific Avenue to the corner of Pacific and Cathcart. At that corner we will host a series of speakers who will address Mr. Mohsenin's racism, who is funding the campaign against M, and why attendees should vote Yes on M on November 6. We will then open the discussion up for members of the public to speak.
(2018-11-02). Successful solidarity event for the student union of Humboldt University. wsws.org Two hundred students came to the meeting Thursday at Humboldt University called in solidarity with the RefRat, the student administration.
(2018-11-01). Stiff New US Economic Sanctions against Iran Imminent. Implications for the EU. Circumventing Dollar Transactions. Will Brussels Bypass the SWIFT Interbank Financial System. globalresearch.ca In July 2017, the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) imposed illegal new sanctions on Iran, Russia and North Korea — legislation passing both houses near unanimously (five no votes alone in both houses), signed into law by … | The post
(2018-11-01). Return privatised public assets to public hands, say Victorian Socialists. greenleft.org.au 
Victorian Socialists released this on November 1. | *** | Back in the 1990s, we were told the privatisation of electricity and other basic services would mean consumers get a better deal. Today, we know that was a lie. | Privatisation has always been about boosting the profits of big business and the wealth of the super-rich at a cost to the community. And now we have the proof. | Research by the Australia Institute found that the cost of electricity has increased by triple the overall increase in prices since the mid 1990s. It estimates that privatisation has cost each household between $404 and $502 a year. | A…
(2018-11-01). Britain's Social Policy Disregards the Rights of Disabled and Chronically Sick People. globalresearch.ca Mo Stewart, an Independent disability studies researcher and fellow of the Centre for Welfare Reform, sent a letter to the Guardian newspaper last week to acknowledge the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) by …
(2018-11-01). Students and staff demand Sydney University abandon Ramsay Centre plan. greenleft.org.au 
Chanting "Michael Spence, you will fail, USyd is not for sale!", students opposing the vice chancellor's support for the Ramsay Centre made their point outside the University of Sydney administration building on October 31. | Speakers condemned the discussions between university management and the board of the right-wing Ramsay Centre think tank, which aims to set up a degree in "Western Civilisation". | The late conservative philanthropist Paul Ramsay, who made his fortune from privatised medicine and aged care, set up the Ramsay Centre to counter alleged left-wing bias in arts and humanities in higher education…
(2018-11-01). Billions of Euro 'Disappeared' From Frozen Accounts of Muammar Gaddafi. They Were Used to Finance War in Libya. globalresearch.ca The UN is investigating the alleged embezzlement of up to €5 billion that disappeared from accounts owned by Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader, according to Belgian MP Georges Gilkinet. | "UN documents confirm that Belgium failed to comply with …
(2018-11-01). Video: SDF Halts Operations Against ISIS in Euphrates Valley Because of Turkish Attacks. globalresearch.ca The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which consist mainly of members of various Kurdish armed groups, declared on October 31 that they had halted their operation against ISIS in the Euphrates Valley because of Turkish attacks on their positions in …
(2018-11-01). Ukraine and Georgia Joining NATO Crosses an Unacceptable Red Line for Russia. globalresearch.ca Reagan era Secretary of State James Baker's "ironclad" pledge to Mikhail Gorbachev not to expand NATO "one inch eastward" was flagrantly breached by the Clinton presidency and subsequent US administrations. | Today, US-led NATO forces surround Russia, posing a major …
(2018-11-01). How the Charter School Wars Turned an Obscure Race Into California's Second Most Expensive Election. theintercept.com 
The charter school movement has spent close to $30 million in support of Marshall Tuck, the former president of an LA-based charter school network.
(2018-11-01). Why Students Are Walking out of School on Election Day. thenation.com Why Students Are Walking out of School on Election Day…
(2018-10-31). Young People of Color Ready to Vote, Motivated by Racial Justice. naacp.org Civil Rights and Racial Equity Groups Unveil New Research on Youth of Color Perspectives Going into Midterm Election WHO: The Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation: NAACP; Advancement Project's national office; Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF); Demos; Faith in Action; National Congress of American Indians, National Urban League; […]
(2018-10-31). Oshkosh students and community members oppose anti-trans policies. fightbacknews.org Oshkosh, WI – 20 people rallied outside of Polk Library on the UW-Oshkosh (UWO) campus, on the evening of October 29, to stand in solidarity with transgender and gender non-conforming people as they face attacks from the reactionary Trump administration. | The event was co-hosted by UWO Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the community group United Action Oshkosh (UAO). Taking place in a main plaza on campus, the demonstration featured militant chants, such as "We exist, we resist! We are here, we are queer!" and demanding trans rights now. Others held signs with phrases like "Trans liberation now!" and "
(2018-10-31). UW-Oshkosh SDS building the fight against budget cuts. fightbacknews.org Oshkosh, WI – On Oct. 25, UW-Oshkosh Students for a Democratic Society (UWO SDS) hosted an event regarding the campus administration's current budget cutting policies. Members of UWO SDS were joined via Google Hangout by a leading student activist from UW-Superior and a member of UW-Parkside SDS, as well as a few members of the UWO faculty. | SDS hopes that this event be the first of many such events aimed at raising awareness among the student body about the issue of budget cuts. Last year, students and faculty at Superior first, then Stevens Point, and finally Oshkosh, were shaken by announcements from adm…
(2018-10-31). Most Political Candidates Agree "Education Is Good." But Only a Few Have a Lesson Plan. progressive.org A case study from Pennsylvania's midterms.
(2018-10-30). Salt Lake City: 'We Exist, We Resist' rally defends transgender rights. fightbacknews.org Salt Lake City, UT – More than 70 people rallied in downtown Salt Lake City, October 27, to protest Trump's proposed policies that would erase protections for transgender and non-binary individuals. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the University of Utah organized the event, in conjunction with other protests by SDS chapters around the country. | There were two speakers from SDS, and they reminded the crowd that trans women, especially trans women of color, are targets of transphobic violence and that 22 trans women have been killed so far this year. With Trump's blatant attack on the trans community th…
(2018-10-29). Why We Need More School Leaders of Color, Especially in White Districts. progressive.org Racism in the classroom leaves white students racially illiterate.
(2018-10-28). Members of Netanyahu's Likud Blame Victims of Pittsburgh Pogrom and Echo the Killer's Rhetoric. grayzoneproject.com As Israeli Minister of Education Naftali Bennett sets out to Pittsburgh, prominent members of the governing Likud Party have blamed…
(2018-10-26). "I Believe in the Bible. I Also Believe in Science": How One Man Built Florida Home to Survive Storm. democracynow.org 
Fifteen miles from Tyndall Air Force Base is Mexico Beach, Florida, which was practically wiped off the map after Hurricane Michael. On the beach, just one house still stands—it is known as the Sand Palace. Over the weekend, Democracy Now! traveled to the Florida Panhandle. We spoke to Russell King, an attorney from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who owns the Sand Palace.