The Planning of a Coup against Venezuela: Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup. The Imposition of a Neoliberal Agenda
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
In early 1970s, in a note to the CIA, Henry Kissinger recommended "Make the economy scream." The same concept has been applied to Venezuela, with advanced techniques of financial warfare.
globalresearch.ca/chile-september-11-1973-the-ingredients-of-a-military-coup-the-imposition-of-a-neoliberal-agenda/5545251
West Virginia Teachers Continue Strike Against Neoliberal Bill
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-20
West Virginia teachers continued to be on strike Wednesday to maintain pressure against a bill that allows the opening of the state's first seven charter schools and creates an education savings account program, which would allow low-income families to apply for public funds to pay tuition in private institutions. | RELATED: | Union Win: Denver Teachers Reach Agreement with City | The educators, who also left their jobs in 2018 to demand higher salaries, reactivated their struggle this we…
telesurenglish.net/news/West-Virginia-Teachers-Continue-Strike-Against-Neoliberal-Bill-20190220-0025.html
College "for the People" Who Can Pay
School Magazine | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
Preface: | In 2011, The Quebec Liberal government of Jean Charest decided to hike post-secondary school tuition fees by 75 percent over a five-year period. This move mobilized students across Quebec and by 2012 a demonstration in Montreal brought out between …
globalresearch.ca/college-for-the-people-who-can-pay/5669166
When India Tries to Regulate Amazon, US Media Qualms About Monopoly Disappear
John O'Day | fair.org | 2019-02-20
by John C. O'Day The "breakthrough idea" heralded by the New York Times ( 9/7/18)–that antitrust should be about power, not just prices–was nowhere to be seen when US media reported on India's attempt to regulate Amazon. | Last September, the New York Times ( 9/7/18) ran a remarkable profile on a law student who had, as the Times characterized it, "rocked the antitrust establishment" with a "runaway bests…
fair.org/home/when-india-tries-to-regulate-amazon-us-media-qualms-about-monopoly-disappear/
Effort to Streamline Free Lunch Programs Muddles Student Poverty Stats
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2019-02-20
In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. Instead of asking low-income families to apply for the meals, a school district could opt to give everyone free food if at least 40 percent of the student population was already on other forms of public assistance or fell into a needy category, such as being homeless or in foster care. | This new " community eligibility" option was a policy change by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the school lun…
truthout.org/articles/effort-to-streamline-free-lunch-programs-muddles-student-poverty-stats/
Saudis Facing Criminal Charges in the U.S. Keep Disappearing. Is the Kingdom Helping Them Escape?
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-02-20
A growing number of Saudi students are vanishing while facing serious criminal charges in the U.S. Federal law enforcement officials are now launching an investigation into the suspicious disappearances to probe if the Saudi government was involved and how. We speak with Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian reporter who broke the story about the spate of Saudi student disappearances. He found that in at least four cases the Saudi government paid a defendant's bail and legal fees before he disappeared. In one case, police believe Saudi officials snuck a Saudi national out of the country on a private plane using a…
www.democracynow.org/2019/2/20/saudis_fa…
The 'Viscerally Terrifying' Lockdown a Mom Experienced in a Classroom of 4-Year-Olds: 'I'd Never Witnessed the Real Thing. And, Oh God, This Was the Real Thing.'
Leslie Gaar | commondreams.org | 2019-02-20
A student helps block the classroom door with furniture during a mock lockdown drill at Moody High School in Corpus Christi, Tex., in 2013. (Photo: Rachel Denny Clow/Corpus Christi Caller-Times/AP) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/views/2019/02/20/viscerally-terrifying-lockdown-mom-experienced-classroom-4-year-olds-id-never?cd-origin=rss
West Virginia Teachers Strike Again
Sarah Jones | zcomm.org | 2019-02-20
Appear to Score Another Victory…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/west-virginia-teachers-strike-again/
What the mugging of Ilhan Omar teaches us
Michael Lesher | zcomm.org | 2019-02-20
If we allow the apologists to obscure Israel's crimes with a sideshow of phony outrage and hypocritical posturing, we'll only encourage the mugging of the next person who dares to tell the truth about the real State of Israel…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-the-mugging-of-ilhan-omar-teaches-us/
Something New and Something Old: a Story Still Being Told
William A. Cohn | counterpunch.org | 2019-02-20
The patently cynical declaration of a national state of emergency by *45 offers a teachable moment on history, politics and empire. The lies and fear-mongering of those in power, the propaganda to legitimize violating the sovereignty of other nations, the use of fake manufactured crises and old war criminals to promote new atrocities — these…
counterpunch.org/2019/02/20/something-new-and-something-old-a-story-still-being-told/
Sudanese Forces Tortured and Killed Dozens: Activists
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-20
Despite Sudanese security forces' violent crackdown on protests, and reports of rape threats and sexual harassment, protesters have been unrelenting — as has the President Omar al-Bashir who refuses to resign. | RELATED: | Sudanese Teacher Beaten to Death by Police During Interrogation: Gov't Investigator | About 60 people have been killed and many others tortured by security agents, activists and rights groups said. However, official numbers are marke…
telesurenglish.net/news/Sudanese-Forces-Tortured-and-Killed-Dozens-Activists-20190220-0009.html
Political Correctness Demands Diversity in Everything but Thought
William Blum | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
In remembrance of the late William Blum, his legacy Lives. | *** | For 50 years I've been painstakingly cataloguing the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of US foreign policy, building up in the process a very loyal audience. | To my …
globalresearch.ca/political-correctness-demands-diversity-in-everything-but-thought/5669164
Scientists Miscalculate Saturn Rings Lifespan By 200M Years
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-20
New research discloses that Saturn's distinctive rings, the largest and brightest in our solar system, are disintegrating more rapidly than scientists had originally anticipated. | RELATED: | NASA Calls Time of Death for 15 Year Rover, Mars Mission | The gradual disappearance of the planet's noted feature has been a known phenomenon since the 1980s when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Voyager mission discovered 'ring rain' caught in Saturn's magnetic field…
telesurenglish.net/news/Scientists-Miscalculate-Saturn-Rings-Lifespan-By-200M-Years-20190220-0004.html
Russia's Nuclear Energy Edge Got the US to "Cut Ethical Corners" with the Saudis
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
One of the latest American scandals revolves around former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's alleged breach of ethical norms in trying to secretly push through a nuclear energy deal with the Saudis which might have even been illegal if …
globalresearch.ca/russias-nuclear-energy-edge-got-the-us-to-cut-ethical-corners-with-the-saudis/5669195
Hispaniola Rising: How the US Coup in Venezuela Is Taking Root in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Ariel Fornari | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
For more than a decade Venezuela has aided the governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through a preferential system known as Petrocaribe, and the people of those nations are not taking their governments' support for the US coup in …
globalresearch.ca/hispaniola-rising-how-the-us-coup-in-venezuela-is-taking-root-in-haiti-and-the-dominican-republic/5669133
Military, Deep State and the American Innocence
Chris Kanthan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | Incisive and timely article first posted by Global Research on July 22, 2018 | While only 11% of Americans trust Congress, a whopping 74% have a "great deal or quite a lot …
globalresearch.ca/military-deep-state-and-the-american-innocence/5648122
Imran Khan's "Socialist Revolution" in Pakistan
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
In order to assess the prospects of Imran Khan's Pakistan Movement for Justice (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) as a political institution, we need to study its composition. With the benefit of hindsight, it seems the worst decision Pakistan's former Prime Minister…
globalresearch.ca/imran-khans-socialist-revolution-in-pakistan/5668879
Canadian Policy on Venezuela, Haiti Reveals Hypocrisy that Media Ignores
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
If the dominant media was serious about holding the Canadian government to account for its foreign policy decisions, there would be numerous stories pointing out the hypocrisy of Ottawa's response to recent political developments in Haiti and Venezuela. | Instead silence, …
globalresearch.ca/canadian-policy-on-venezuela-haiti-reveals-hypocrisy-that-media-ignores/5669171
Military Coups, Regime Change…: The CIA Has Interfered In Over 81 Foreign Elections
Nina Agrawal | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
Timely article first posted on Global Research in January 2017, prior to the inauguration of president Donald Trump. | *** | The CIA has accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 presidential election (with absolutely zero evidence) by hacking into Democratic and …
globalresearch.ca/military-coups-regime-change-the-cia-has-interfered-in-over-81-foreign-elections/5567422
Venezuela Expels Euro Deputies Amid Reports of Talks with Washington
Paul Dobson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
Foreign Minister Arreaza has confirmed meeting twice with US Special Envoy Abrams despite denials by the latter of any dialogue with Caracas. | *** | Venezuelan authorities have expelled six deputies of the European Parliament (EP) this Sunday after denying them entrance …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-expels-euro-deputies-amid-reports-of-talks-with-washington/5669184
Reshaping the Middle East: Why the West Should Stop Its Interventions
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
Foreign intervention has pushed many Middle Eastern populations into poverty, at the same time making them more determined to confront and reject the global domination sought by the USA. The number of Middle Eastern countries and non-state actors opposed to …
globalresearch.ca/reshaping-the-middle-east-why-the-west-should-stop-its-interventions/5669167
Selected Articles: Political Correctness Demands Diversity in Everything but Thought
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
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globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-political-correctness-demands-diversity-in-everything-but-thought/5669208
Video: Staged Chemical Attack Videos and Other Trends in Modern Propaganda
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
The scandal regarding the fake hospital video published by the White Helmets as a proof of the Douma chemical attack has reached its peak in the media and has caused reaction on the diplomatic level. | On February 13, BBC Syria's …
globalresearch.ca/video-staged-chemical-attack-videos-and-other-trends-in-modern-propaganda/5669138
Survey Reveals Many Jewish Canadians Critical of Israel
CFJPIME | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) welcomes the results of a national survey co-sponsored by Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) and United Jewish People's Order (UJPO) on Jewish Canadians opinion to…
globalresearch.ca/survey-reveals-many-jewish-canadians-critical-of-israel/5669142
'K' Metamorphoses into 'G'. "We must Take Away your Freedom in Order to Preserve It"
William Bowles | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-20
This article was originally published on April 24, 2004. | Author's note: | What the British Labour government initiated in 2004 has now reached, not only fruition but is now sweeping the 'democratic' West as the crisis of capital intensifies and …
globalresearch.ca/k-metamorphoses-into-g-we-must-take-away-your-freedom-in-order-to-preserve-it/5669136
"Electability" is Real (Unless Married with the Junk Science of Ideological Spectrum Analysis)
Doug Johnson Hatlem | counterpunch.org | 2019-02-20
If electability were dependent on how moderate a candidate is, or is perceived to be, Jimmy Carter would likely have won a second term. We also likely would have had Presidents Mondale, Kerry, McCain, Romney and President Hillary Clinton. Maybe also President Gore. Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi is disgusted with the way "electability" was used…
counterpunch.org/2019/02/20/electability-is-real-unless-married-with-the-junk-science-of-ideological-spectrum-analysis/
US Student Arrested After Refusing to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-20
An 11-year-old student in U.S. state of Florida, was arrested after an escalation with police and school officials erupted from his refusal to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance on Feb. 4, authorities said. | RELATED: | Trump's ICE Policies Targeting Immigrants 'Terrorism': Advocate | A local news outlet, Bay News 9, reported that the incident b…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Student-Arrested-After-Refusing-to-Stand-for-Pledge-of-Allegiance-20190220-0023.html
Washington Post slapped with $250mn defamation suit by Covington student
RT | rt.com | 2019-02-20
The boy who became the face of "white privilege" when an edited video of his confrontation with an indigenous protester went viral is suing the Washington Post for defamation, asking for its entire value in a 2013 sale as damages. | …
rt.com/usa/451880-washington-post-covington-lawsuit/
Residents Caught in Outbreak of Violence in Cameroon
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-02-20
A school classroom in the Anglophone region of Cameroon. | © 2018 Bede Sheppard/Human Rights Watch | On February 16, 170 students, mostly girls under 18, were abducted by a group of armed separatists from a boarding school in Kumbo, in the North-West region of Cameroon. The separatists, who stormed the building in the early hours, also abducted a teacher and two guards. Everyone was released the following day amid rumours of ransoms being paid. The school remains closed. | Human Rights Watch has interviewed numerou…
hrw.org/news/2019/02/20/residents-caught-outbreak-violence-cameroon
Chicago Teachers Union shuts down strike at CICS charter schools
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-20
Despite hailing it as yet another "victory," the union agreed to a deal that leaves conditions and teacher compensation at charter schools well below traditional public schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/20/cics…
Argentina: The ignored law of Sexual Education
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2019-02-20
Even though the implementation of Sexual Education has been mandatory in all schools in Argentina since 2006, many young people around the country still have no access to basic knowledge of their sexual rights.: | We finish our look into the fight for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Argentina by looking at how two different communities, in La Plata and Tucuman, address the lack of Sexual Education available to young people. | For young people, having Sexual Education classes is key to learning about their changing bodies, desires and relationships. But, equally important, these classes are necessary for…
amnesty.org/en/latest/education/2019/02/argentina-fighting-for-sexual-education/
West Virginia teachers denounce attack on public education
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-20
Teachers and their allies condemned attacks on public education and expressed enthusiasm for the expansion of strikes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/20/weva…
West Virginia educators remain defiant in second day of statewide strike
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-20
The unions' attempts to declare "victory" have so far failed to convince teachers, who remember all too well similar claims after the betrayal of their statewide strike last year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/20/teac…
Join us at the Oakland teacher's picket line!
APTP | indybay.org | 2019-02-20
Priority Schools (map here): | Ralph J Bunche High School (West Oakland – 1240 18th Street) | Prescott Elementary (West Oakland – 920 Campbell Street) | McClymonds High School (Off San Pablo and 27th – 2608 Myrtle Street) | Hoover Elementary (Off San Pablo & 33rd St – 890 Brockhurst Street) | Piedmont Elementary (Piedmont – 4314 Piedmont Avenue) | Downtown Admin Building (Downtown – 1000 Broadway) | Lakeview Admin Building (Lake Merritt – 746 Grand Ave) | Bella Vista (Lake Merritt – 1025 East 28th Street) | Fruitvale Elementary (Lower Dimond – 3200 Boston Avenue) | Burckhalter Elementary (North East Oakland – 399…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/20/18821302.php
A Wisconsin School District Shrugged After High School Coaches Body-Shamed Cheerleaders
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-02-19
Parents say staff are subjecting students to pervasive gender discrimination in the Kenosha Unified School District. | The cheerleaders at Tremper High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, looked forward to the annual spring banquet as a time to celebrate their hard work in the company of over 100 friends and family members. What they never expected was for the banquet to become a humiliating exercise in body shaming. | In the banquet hall of a Kenosha restaurant in March 2018, the cheer coaches presented some squad members with…
aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/womens-rights-education/wisconsin-school-district-shrugged-after-high-school
Thousands march in India against Modi government's anti-student education policies
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-02-19
Students from across India affiliated to various communist organisations marched to the Indian parliament demanding education policies that ensure accessibility and quality education for all. For more on the student march: 5,000 students march in India against education policies of Modi government…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/02/19/thousands-march-in-india-against-modi-governments-anti-student-education-policies/
Early-Childhood-Education Initiatives Are Promising More Than They Deliver
Michelle Chen | thenation.com | 2019-02-19
Early-Childhood-Education Initiatives Are Promising More Than They Deliver…
thenation.com/article/education-pre-k-inequality-segregation/
Postmodernism: A Realm Beyond Renaissance Humanism
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-19
There is a fundamental distinction between scientism, or scientific worldview, which is an ideology based on unproven hypotheses and empirically proven science. Karl Popper addressed the demarcation problem between scientific worldview and science proper (empirical and verifiable science) in his | …
globalresearch.ca/postmodernism-a-realm-beyond-renaissance-humanism/5669113
Black Alliance for Peace: Struggle in Haiti and Venezuela Connected
Black Alliance for Peace | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-19
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) remains in steadfast solidarity with the people of Haiti, whose revolutionary spirit in 1791 showed the world what is possible when Africans organize and struggle together to remove their shackles and dispose of their …
globalresearch.ca/black-alliance-for-peace-struggle-in-haiti-and-venezuela-connected/5669110
When It Comes to Middle East Policy, the UK Is Nothing but a Rogue State
Mark Curtis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-19
This article was originally crossposted on Global Research in April 2018. | In the current crisis with Moscow, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has written that "Russia cannot break international rules with impunity". | Britain, along with Russia, has a particular obligation …
globalresearch.ca/when-it-comes-to-middle-east-policy-the-uk-is-nothing-but-a-rogue-state/5635215
Selected Articles: Consequences of Imperialism
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-19
Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis provided by Global Research on a daily basis? | At present we are not covering our monthly costs. The support of our readers is much appreciated. | Click to donate or click here to …
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Securing the Future Of "Truly Independent" News
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-19
"I have been reading GlobalResearch.ca for many years and have yet to find another site of a similar quality with respect to its being truly independent, well informed, analytically deep, close to many different realities of this world, and reader-friendly. …
globalresearch.ca/securing-the-future-of-truly-independent-news/5668998
The Twitter Smearing of Corbyn and Assange. Britain's "Integrity Initiative"
Mark Curtis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-19
Historian and U.K. analyst Mark Curtis checks out the Twitter accounts of journalists whose names have been associated with the Integrity Initiative, a British "counter disinformation" program. | *** | The U.K.-financed Integrity Initiative, managed by the Institute for Statecraft, is ostensibly …
globalresearch.ca/the-twitter-smearing-of-corbyn-and-assange/5669069
Challenging Dollar Hegemony: Russia and China Are Containing America's Attempts to "Reshape the World Order"
Federico Pieraccini | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-19
Fortunately the world today is very different from that of 2003, Washington's decrees are less effective in determining the world order. But in spite of this new, more balanced division of power amongst several powers, Washington appears ever more aggressive …
globalresearch.ca/challenging-dollar-hegemony-russia-and-china-are-containing-americas-attempts-to-reshape-the-world-order/5669068
Trump's Big Lie Pledge to Lower Drug Prices
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-19
Time and again, Trump promises one thing for ordinary Americans and does something entirely different. | Candidate Trump pledged to let Medicare negotiate discounts for prescription drugs. Straightaway in office, he yielded to Pharma lobbyists, abandoning his promise, falsely claiming "smaller, …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-big-lie-pledge-to-lower-drug-prices/5669102
Venezuela False Flag Brewing? Under the Cloak of "the Humanitarian Convoy"
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-19
According to Russian media, yet to be confirmed, "A False Flag is Brewing" under the Cloak of the so-called "Humanitarian Convoy for Venezuela" (TASS) | The alleged false flag operation is intended to justify "an outside invasion" of Venezuela by one …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-false-flag-brewing-under-the-cloak-of-the-humanitarian-convoy/5669066
West Virginia teachers walk out to oppose charter schools
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-19
Facing the possibility of imminent wildcat strikes over a reactionary educational bill introducing charter schools, the unions called the strike hoping to shut it down as soon as they can.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/19/west…
Eleven-year-old Florida student arrested after refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-19
The incident occurred after the sixth grader told his substitute teacher that the American flag is "racist" and that the national anthem is offensive to black people.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/19/pldg…
Angela Davis Returns to Birmingham, Reflecting on Palestinian Rights & Fight for Freedom Everywhere
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-02-18
Civil rights icon and scholar Angela Davis returned to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, over the weekend. She originally planned the visit to receive the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, but the institute withdrew the award last month, soon after the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center sent a letter urging the board to reconsider honoring Davis due to her support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting the Israeli government and Israeli institutions. Facing swift and widespread outcry, the institute then reversed its decision and reinst…
www.democracynow.org/2019/2/18/angela_da…
Birmingham Civil Rights Group Reoffers Award to Angela Davis–But She Says Community Should Decide
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-02-18
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute sparked international outrage in January when it rescinded the Fred L. Shuttlesworth award for civil rights icon Angela Davis, soon after the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center sent a letter urging the board to reconsider honoring her due to her support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Facing swift and widespread outcry, the institute then reversed its decision and reinstated the award, but Davis has yet to accept it. Democracy Now! spoke with the president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Andrea Taylor, on Saturday, before an alternate e…
www.democracynow.org/2019/2/18/birmingha…