(2018-12-18). The Truth About Nursing Homes. counterpunch.org 
Let me say at the outset that I do not regard myself as any kind of "expert" on the subject of nursing homes. I've done only scant tangential research, and other than what you're about to read here, have never published anything on the subject. But that said, I like to think I have gleaned More
(2018-12-18). Video: US "Local Partners" in Northeast Syria Are About to be "Sold to Turkey" globalresearch.ca Turkey is ramping up its military preparations and propaganda campaign ahead of a possible attack on the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in northeastern Syria. | On December 17, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) can …
(2018-12-18). Why the US Senate Vote to End Yemen War Is So Important. globalresearch.ca Last week something historic happened in the US Senate. For the first time in 45 years, a chamber of the US Congress voted to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act. | While there is …
(2018-12-18). Canada Serves the US Empire…Again…and Again… globalresearch.ca Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies' chief financial officer, demonstrates fully Canadian compliance with U.S. desires. | Canadian authorities, notably Foreign Affairs Minister …
(2018-12-18). Number of Gun Deaths in US at All Time High. globalresearch.ca Deaths caused by firearms in the U.S. have reached the highest level in decades, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). | According to the data, 39,773 people were killed by guns in the U.S. …
(2018-12-18). The Yellow Vest movement strengthens in France. mronline.org 
It is hard to count demonstrators spread out across thousands of mobilisations, but it seems that over half a million people were involved in "Act Four" of the Yellow Vest mobilisation in France on Saturday 8 December. In Bordeaux, a huge joint demonstration between university students and Yellow Vests chanted: "Students and Yellow Vests, same […] | Source
(2018-12-18). China 'Re-education Camps' Provide Labor for US Sportswear. telesurenglish.net One million Uighur Muslims in China's "re-education caps" camps have been working in factories making sportswear for United States companies, an investigation by the Associated Press revealed Monday. | RELATED: | Huawei CEO Meng Wanzhou Faces Iran Fraud Charges, Court Hears | A United Nations panel accused China of turning the western region of Xinjiang "into something that resembled a massive internment camp shrouded in secrecy, a 'no rights zone.'" | Most of those who have been r…
(2018-12-18). Alleged Russia Meddling: UK Report Falsely Claims Russia Went All-Out Trying to Help Elect Trump. globalresearch.ca The claim is the Big Lie that won't die — no matter how often accusations and allegations are debunked. | Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Research Project (COMPROP) claims to investigate "how tools like social media bots are used to manipulate public …
(2018-12-18). Ottawa Sends Contradictory Messages on Arms Control. globalresearch.ca Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is encouraged to hear that the Trudeau government is looking for ways to stop exporting armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia. However, this news comes on the heels of last week's …
(2018-12-18). Video: Syrian Army Is Set to Respond to Any Future Israeli Attacks. globalresearch.ca The Syrian Armed Forces will respond by force to any Israeli attack on its bases as a part of new policy, which was adopted by the Syrian leadership following the incident with the Russian Il-20 plane last September, the Kuwaiti …
(2018-12-18). Have the Russian Military Aircrafts in Venezuela Breached the Door to "America's Backyard"? globalresearch.ca At an international media conference last December 12 in Caracas Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro referred emphatically to knowledge, that his government had acquired through its intelligence services, of preparations to destabilize Venezuela. | That in itself is major news but it …
(2018-12-18). Selected Articles: Pandering to Washington's Whims. globalresearch.ca 
Whether your concerns are current affairs, foreign affairs, Trump or Togo, Panama or pacifism, nuclear's nightmares and global myriad complexities, Global Research strives to shine light on the under-reported, less known injustices ignored or buried. | | Governments know it too, which …
(2018-12-18). Marc Lamont Hill Speaks Out After CNN Fires Him for Pro-Palestine Speech at U.N. democracynow.org 
Less than a month after CNN fired Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill for giving a speech at the United Nations supporting Palestinian rights, we speak with him about the international attention his comments have received, academic freedom and why he feels it's more important than ever to speak out about Israeli human rights abuses. Marc Lamont Hill is a professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University. He is the author of several books, including "Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond." We also speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journa…
(2018-12-18). SPLC: Trump's school safety commission recommendations would make schools less safe. splcenter.org The Federal Commission on School Safety—established by President Trump following the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and led by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos—released a report today that recommends withdrawing the 2014 Department of Justice and Department of Education legal guidance on discriminatory discipline.
(2018-12-18). Mass Demonstration by Los Angeles Teachers. globalresearch.ca Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers and their supporters converged in a rally and march in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to demand better pay, smaller class sizes and increased funding for the 640,000 students in the second-largest school district …
(2018-12-18). Fifth French "Yellow Vest" Protest Opposes Macron Government. globalresearch.ca "Yellow vest" protesters mobilized for a fifth day of action in France on Saturday, facing a new police crackdown and clashes centered in provincial cities, as fewer protesters traveled to Paris. | The interior ministry claimed that some 66,000 people had …
(2018-12-18). NATO-Backed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Poses with Pro-Nazi Soldier. globalresearch.ca Petro Poroshenko, the staunchly pro-NATO president of Western ally Ukraine, posed for a photo op with a soldier wearing a Nazi symbol. | On December 6, the Ukrainian billionaire oligarch leader posted a photo on multiple social media accounts that shows …
(2018-12-18). Israel: Ethnic Cleansing, Land Theft, Apartheid and Racism against Palestinians. globalresearch.ca In recent weeks, racism against Palestinian people and the expansion of apartheid-Jim Crow policies have escalated. The Israeli lobby and its supporters attacked freedom of speech in the United States, showing how far they will go to prevent the US …
(2018-12-18). AMLO: Minimum Wage Up 16%, Biggest in 23 Years. telesurenglish.net President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) followed through on a campaign promise Monday announcing a minimum wage hike of 16.21 percent, Mexico's largest in 23 years. | RELATED: | AMLO Repeals Nieto's Education Reform, Presents His Own | "The minimum wage (increase) sets the stage to advance the country's labor policy through an agreement … of unity and trust between the private sector, workers and the public sector," said the head of state Monday afternoon at the National Palace.
(2018-12-18). The Waters of American Democracy. counterpunch.org 
Trump's EPA is about to open the gates of water pollution even wider in order to satisfy farmers, real estate developers, and petroleum and mining companies. The agribusiness-academic-government complex doesn't want any oversight of the farmers spraying neurotoxins. They have bamboozled the country with weaponized science making sprays harmless. More
(2018-12-18). The Integrity Initiative and the UK's Scandalous Information War. mintpressnews.com 
Grayzone Project — Recent hacked documents have revealed an international network of politicians, journalists, academics, researchers and military officers, all engaged in highly deceptive covert propag…
(2018-12-18). 5G Dangers, 5th Generation Wireless Technology. Health and Environmental Impacts. globalresearch.ca This first EU 5G Appeal was initially submitted in September 2017 to the European Commission demanding a moratorium on the increase of cell antennas for planned 5G expansion. Concerns over health effects from higher radiation exposure include potential neurological impacts, …
(2018-12-18). 181 Nations Voted to Help Refugees. Only Hungary and US Voted "No." truthout.org The United States was a near global outlier Monday at the United Nations General Assembly in rejecting a framework to bolster international cooperation on refugees. | Only Hungary — headed by far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose administration has been accused of carrying out "a full-frontal assault on migrants and refugees" — joined the US in voting "no" on the Global Compact on Refugees (pdf). One hundred eighty-one nations vot…
(2018-12-18). By Attacking Obamacare, GOP Harms Itself. truthout.org You didn't really think the GOP was done trying to dismantle Obamacare, did you? | On Friday, US District Court Judge Reed O'Connor — a George W. Bush appointee already infamous for his far-right decisions — ruled the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional and struck it down in a…
(2018-12-18). Take the Money Out of Prison Slavery. therealnews.com 
Activists and students continue a national divestment movement to stop the corporate funding of private prisons. Sylvester Owino, a Kenyan immigrant, spent 10 years in an immigrant detention center while his case bounced between the lower and higher courts. Owino and other activists talk about the private prison divestment movement and abuses in the transporting…
(2018-12-18). Los Angeles teachers and supporters speak out at mass rally. wsws.org WSWS reporters were warmly received by teachers and their supporters at a mass rally in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday.
(2018-12-18). SEP meeting attendees speak out in defence of Julian Assange. wsws.org Workers, students and young people responded with enthusiasm to announcements at a Socialist Equality Party meeting last Sunday that the SEP will hold rallies next March in defence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
(2018-12-18). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Thousands of teachers in Baja California struck to demand payment of their year-end bonus last week while the Ontario Tory government has recalled the provincial legislature to illegalize a threatened strike by power workers.
(2018-12-18). DeVos' Solution to Mass School Shootings? Scrap the Rules Designed to End Discrimination Against Students of Color. commondreams.org The highly anticipated Final Report from the Federal Commission on School Safety, led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, was released Tuesday—and includes a long-rumored recommendation that is alarming civil rights advocates: to rescind Obama-era policies crafted to end racial disparities in school disciplinary practices. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2018-12-18). That shrinking feeling: MIT team develop tech that can reduce objects to nanoscale. rt.com 
While it may not be worthy of 'Honey, I shrunk the kids' or Marvel's Ant-Man, MIT researchers have developed a technique that will allow humanity to create nanoscale objects "of nearly any shape."
(2018-12-18). Bermuda: A Human Rights Friendly School approach. amnesty.org Students and teachers of a school in Bermuda talk about their experience after five years participating in the Human Rights Friendly Schools project | Warwick Academy was the first school established in Bermuda, in 1662. 300 years later, it was the first traditionally white school in the country to integrate, almost a decade before the 1971 Bermuda Education Act made it illegal for any school in Bermuda to base admission on race. In 2011, the school achieved another first: the first school in Bermuda to make themselves human rights friendly. A few years on, students and teachers from Warwick Academy tell their st…
(2018-12-17). Brazil: Fascism on the Verge of Power? globalresearch.ca The extreme right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidential elections on 28 October in the second round with a margin of 11 million votes (all in all about 58 million or 55 per cent) against the candidate of the …
(2018-12-17). The Myth of Western Democracy. globalresearch.ca How does the West get away with its pretense of being an alliance of great democracies in which government is the servant of the people? | Nowhere in the West, except possibly Hungary and Austria, does government serve the people. | Who …
(2018-12-17). Gulf Rivalries Spill onto the Soccer Pitch. The 2022 Tournament in Qatar. globalresearch.ca With the 2018 World Cup in Russia behind it, the soccer world's focus shifts to the 2022 tournament in Qatar. Politics and the Gulf's internecine political and legal battles have already shaped debate about FIFA's controversial awarding of World Cup …
(2018-12-17). India Caught Between Iran and Saudi Arabia. globalresearch.ca The following is an interview in which geopolitical expert Andrew Korybko offers his analysis of Saudi Arabia's decision to offer new investments to India at a time when the US is leveraging its main south Asian partner against its partnership …
(2018-12-17). A Green Future for Oman: A Trail for Environmentalism in the Arab World. globalresearch.ca Oman has long proved an outlier among the monarchies at the western edge of the Persian Gulf. Most Omanis subscribe to Ibadism, not Sunni Islam, and the Omani Sultan, Qaboos bin Said Al Said, has pursued a much quieter foreign …
(2018-12-17). Kiev Sends Tanks and Troops to Donbass, Poroshenko Regime Hatching an Armed Provocation? globalresearch.ca The Russian news agency TASS reports (December 16, 2018) on disturbing developments pointing to the deployment of Ukrainian troops and tanks against Donbass. "A spokesman for the DPR defense ministry Daniil Bezsonov said that tank and mechanized battalions of …
(2018-12-17). 'Generations at Risk': Paraguay Study Links Agrotoxins to DNA Damage. telesurenglish.net A new study financed by Paraguay's Catholic University and the National Council of Science and Technology showed significant damage in the DNA of children exposed to widespread fumigation techniques in the use of agriculture. | RELATED | Brazil's Neoliberal Policies Boost Agrochemicals Use, Leading to over 148 Deaths a Year | Pediatrician Stella Benitez Leite led the team that carried out the research project which was based on the analysis of the cells of…
(2018-12-17). CTU members overwhelmingly ratify UNO/Acero tentative agreement. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL — Chicago teachers Union (CTU) teachers and paraprofessionals in the Acero/UNO charter network have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract that will dramatically improve teaching and learning conditions in the charter network's 15 campuses across Chicago. The wins were achieved after a historic five-day strike that saw hundreds of union educators and paraprofessionals take to the streets to demand a fair contract, joined by parents, students and allies calling for change at schools run by Acero. Growing numbers of elected officials joined in the call for a decent contract and accountabili…
(2018-12-17). Yellow-vest protests in France-an extraordinary political school. mronline.org 
Hello, Professor Drweski. My name is Maria Cernat. I am a feminist, an academic and a journalist writing for Baricada.org. I am a lecturer at the Communication Sciences and International Relations Department, Titu Maiorescu University. I was very curious, and I am sure our readers are too, about the situation in France. I have a […] | Source
(2018-12-17). Growing US Public Support for One State Shared Equally by Israelis and Palestinians Falls on Deaf Ears. globalresearch.ca Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect — and in ways that will please neither of them. | The American public is now evenly split between those …
(2018-12-17). Smartphone Wars: Yandex and Huawei Challenge Western Monopolies. globalresearch.ca The arrest of Chinese telecommunications CFO Meng Wanzhou has sent shockwaves through the global markets. The context of the smartphone industry and the challenges facing big monopolies from Russia and China is vital background information for anyone who wants to …
(2018-12-17). The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism. counterpunch.org I have been following the scandal of the UK's Investigatory Powers Act (also known as the Snoopers' Charter) and Holland's Sleepwet and their relationship to the encroaching government powers over private data, privacy, data collection, surveillance, and free speech for several years now. And very much related to these bills created ostensibly to protest us More
(2018-12-17). Theresa May Days in Britain, Stonewalled in Europe and the Parliament. globalresearch.ca It is hard to envisage sympathy for a person who made a name as a home secretary (prisons, detentions, security and such) taking the mast and banner of her country before hopeless odds, but inadequate opponents will do that to …
(2018-12-17). West Virginia: Task force concludes without a "fix" for public workers' insurance. wsws.org Throughout the strike and pro-forma hearings, teachers and public service workers demanded that health care be funded through increased taxes on the state's oil and gas industry.
(2018-12-17). New York City school therapists protest for changes to union-backed contract. wsws.org The action demonstrates, yet again, the determination of teachers to defend their living standards and stop the assault on public education, against the unions' role.
(2018-12-17). Mass demonstration by Los Angeles teachers. wsws.org The demonstration, which involved up to 50,000 protesters, was the latest indication of the resumption of resistance by educators across the US who have been involved in the largest strike wave by teachers in decades.
(2018-12-14). Climate Strike: Heeding Call of Greta Thunberg, Polish Students Walk Out of Class. democracynow.org 
Fifteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has called for a global climate strike today to protest inaction at the U.N. climate summit. Greta made international headlines after she refused to go to school in August and began a School Strike for Climate. Greta made the call for today's strike in a video posted on Twitter.
(2018-12-14). France: Police Crowd Control Methods Maim People. hrw.org 
| | Riot police barricade, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, December 8, 2018. | © 2018 Human Rights Watch | (Paris) — French police used crowd control and anti-riot tactics during demonstrations in Paris in November and December 2018 that caused physical harm to peaceful demonstrators, including high-school students, and journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. Law enforcement should exercise greater restraint in demonstrations planned to take place on D…
(2018-12-13). The #RedforEd Wave Is Likely to Build, Not Subside, in 2019. progressive.org Teachers unions are poised to strike across the country.