Video: An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela
Abby Martin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
On the eve of another US war for oil, Abby Martin debunks the most repeated myths about Venezuela. | She uncovers how US sanctions are crimes against humanity with UN investigator and human rights Rapporteur Alfred De Zayas. | Watch the …
globalresearch.ca/video-an-ocean-of-lies-on-venezuela/5669354
Oakland teachers strike for higher wages and smaller classrooms
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-02-22
On Thursday, February 21, teachers in Oakland, California, went on strike, demanding significant pay rise, smaller classrooms sizes and student support from the Oakland Unified School District's (OUSD) management of Oakland public schools. The decision was taken on February 4, when 95% members of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) voted in favor of strike action. The OEA, which represents around 2,300 public school teachers, gave the call for strike after 18 months of unfruitful negotiations with the OUSD authorities. The demands include a 12% increase in wages, more nurses, counselors and support staff and…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/02/22/oakland-teachers-strike-for-higher-wages-and-smaller-classrooms/
"Out Here Because I Love Teaching": The Oakland Teachers Strike, In Photos
Brooke Anderson | commondreams.org | 2019-02-22
Oakland Education Association President, Keith Brown, leads a march today of striking teachers through downtown Oakland. "We ask the School Board Superintendent: Which side are you on?" said Brown, as he rallied a crowd of thousands of striking teachers, parents, and students. (Photo: Inthesetimes) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
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Thousands of students and teachers come together on the streets to save education in India
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-02-22
Students and teachers joined hands as part of the two-day protest demonstration in New Delhi against the right-wing government's assault on the nation's educational sector…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/02/22/thousands-of-students-and-teachers-come-together-on-the-streets-to-save-education-in-india/
UNESCO Commends Bolivia's Work for Multilingualism
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-22
Bolivia is at the forefront of multilingualism in the world, the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said Thursday marking the International Day for Mother Language. | RELATED: | Bolivian Woman Scientist Wins Prestigious Prize in Ethnobotany | UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay acknowledged Thursday Bolivia's work in the defense and respect for the education of local Indigenous languages. | "With 37 languages re…
telesurenglish.net/news/UNESCO-Commends-Bolivias-Work-for-Multilingualism-Preserving-Indigenous-Languages-20190222-0010.html
5G and Trump's Tweets — Ignorance, Greed, or Insanity?
Felicity Arbuthnot | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Dr. Martin Pall, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State University. | Donald Trump's total disregard for humanity, fauna, flora, environment — and indeed a towering ignorance — is perhaps encapsulated …
globalresearch.ca/5g-and-trumps-tweets-ignorance-greed-or-insanity/5669371
In Teachers' Strikes, Unions Focus on Social Justice, Not Just Salaries
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2019-02-22
For the past few years I've been studying teacher unions and teachers strikes throughout the Americas. My research has taken me from the Mexican state of Oaxaca — where teacher protests in 2006 led to both violent repression and a broad-based social movement for direct democracy — to the streets of S&atild…
truthout.org/articles/in-teachers-strikes-unions-focus-on-social-justice-not-just-salaries/
The Start of Homelessness in Cyprus
Andreas C Chrysafis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
A Rachman-style landlord has decided to make homeless and evict over 100 of his tenants during the week of last Christmas from his rundown apartment building located in Nicosia. He has given the occupants eight-days notice to vacate the premises …
globalresearch.ca/the-start-of-homelessness-in-cyprus/5669351
The Subways in New York City Should be Free
Christopher Baum | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Last month, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio finally launched his eagerly anticipated Fair Fares program offering half-price transit fares for low-income New Yorkers — but the early reviews were decidedly mixed. | The first phase of the program will …
globalresearch.ca/the-subways-in-new-york-city-should-be-free/5669336
The Candidate Rides Again: The Bernie Sanders Re-Run
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
He could not stay away, and few could blame him. Such political tendencies are nerves, conditions, diseases: eventually, we have to succumb to them. Bernie Sanders has announced his intention to run for the White House in 2020. It was …
globalresearch.ca/candidate-rides-bernie-sanders-re-run/5669302
Trump's Border Wall 'Emergency', Abuse of Power: We'll See You in Court, President Donald Trump
Anthony D. Romero | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Donald Trump's emergency declaration is a blatant abuse of power in the service of his anti-immigrant agenda. No president has ever tried this before. | *** | President Donald Trump declared a "national emergency" on Friday to pay for his border …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-border-wall-emergency-abuse-of-power-well-see-you-in-court-president-donald-trump/5669347
War with China? It's Already Under Way
Michael Klare | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Introduction | by Tom Engelhardt | These days, the trade "war" between the Trump administration and China is regularly in the headlines and, sometimes, so are the bases the Chinese are building in the South China Sea, the ships the U.S. Navy …
globalresearch.ca/war-with-china-its-already-under-way/5669321
Iran's Turning into India's Proxy by Taunting and Threatening Pakistan?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Major General Qassem Soleimani, the famed commander of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC), proved that his country is increasingly turning into India's proxy after he taunted and threatened Pakistan, resulting in the Islamic Republic incredibly taking some …
globalresearch.ca/irans-turning-into-indias-proxy-by-taunting-and-threatening-pakistan/5669373
Step Aside USA, Canada Is the New Bully in Our South American 'Backyard'
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Many Canadians are familiar with the Monroe Doctrine. First issued by the United States in 1823, it warned European powers against renewed colonization of the Western Hemisphere. Presented as anti-imperialist, the Monroe Doctrine was later used to justify US interference …
globalresearch.ca/step-aside-usa-canada-is-the-new-bully-in-our-south-american-backyard/5669332
Venezuela: Is Trump Heading for Military Intervention?
Marc Vandepitte | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
After Chávez' death in 2013 Maduro was elected president of Venezuela. Since then the US has resolutely been heading for a regime change. The strategy to achieve this has run through several stages. Now we have come to the …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-is-trump-heading-for-military-intervention/5669313
UN Warns of Alarming Rate of Language Disappearance
Prensa Latina | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
In the celebration of the International Mother Language Day this Thursday, the UN draws attention to the alarming rate at which languages are disappearing and calls for more action to counteract this trend. | According to UN data, at least 43 …
globalresearch.ca/un-warns-of-alarming-rate-of-language-disappearance/5669341
Venezuelan Military Reject Trump's Incitement to Rebel: 'Over Our Dead Bodies'
Paul Dobson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
The government also announced a rival peace concert and plans to supply food and medical attention to poor Colombians as the border heats up. | *** | Venezuela's armed forces have responded angrily Tuesday to threats made against them by US President …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelan-military-reject-trumps-incitement-to-rebel-over-our-dead-bodies/5669343
Saudi Crown Prince MBS' Asia Tour Is Much More than a Post-Khashoggi Photo-Op
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Many have dismissed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's Asia tour to Pakistan, India, and China as nothing more than a post-Khashoggi photo-op to shore up international support, but it's actually about much more than that because of its …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-crown-prince-mbs-asia-tour-is-much-more-than-a-post-khashoggi-photo-op/5669299
If Truth Is Politicized, All Is Lost. Trump Grants Free Rein to the Crazed Neocons
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Trump's surrender to the neoconservatives makes it impossible for an informed person to support him. He has signed off on the coup against democracy in Venezuela, and he has placed all life at risk by pulling out of the INF …
globalresearch.ca/if-truth-is-politicized-all-is-lost-trump-grants-free-rein-to-the-crazed-neocons/5669297
Venezuela's Stalled Coup: US' Allies May Soon Regret They Rushed to Embrace Guaido
Gilbert Mercier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
The Venezuela coup attempt is not going well at all and Washington's global allies may soon regret rushing to recognise Juan Guaido as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela, French journalist and geopolitical analyst Gilbert Mercier told Sputnik. | Make no | …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelas-stalled-coup-us-allies-may-soon-regret-they-rushed-to-embrace-guaido/5669317
Putin on National Defense: Threats or a Bid to Negotiate on Arms Control?
Dr. Gilbert Doctorow | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
As he stated at the outset, Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address today before a joint session of the nation's bicameral legislature was devoted preponderantly to domestic policy. He was expanding on the practical implications for the …
globalresearch.ca/putin-on-national-defense-threats-or-a-bid-to-negotiate-on-arms-control/5669367
Video: Why is the S-300 Air Defense System in Syria Not Being Used Against Israeli Aircraft
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
There has been considerable speculation in recent months concerning reasons why the S-300 air defense systems supplied to the Syrian Arab Army by the Russian Federation have yet to fire a shot in anger at Israeli aircraft encroaching on its …
globalresearch.ca/video-why-is-the-s-300-air-defense-system-in-syria-not-being-used-against-israeli-aircraft/5669304
Quantitative Easing (QE) Forever: The Fed's Dramatic About-face
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
"Quantitative easing" was supposed to be an emergency measure. The Federal Reserve "eased" shrinkage in the money supply due to the 2008-09 credit crisis by pumping out trillions of dollars in new bank reserves. After the crisis, the presumption was …
globalresearch.ca/quantitative-easing-qe-forever-the-feds-dramatic-about-face/5669320
Venezuela — US Attack Imminent?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Imagine, the President of the self-declared, exceptional and unique Superpower, Donald Trump of the United States of America, has the audacity to threaten the Venezuelan military with their lives, if they keep standing behind the democratically elected President Nicolás Maduro…
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-us-attack-imminent/5669311
The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies
John Pilger | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humour in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was …
globalresearch.ca/war-venezuela-built-lies/5669329
Is the Tide Turning on President Trump's War on Science?
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2019-02-22
Douglas Costle, who helped create the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and then ran it during Jimmy Carter's administration, died recently at the age of 79. If the Trump administration has its way, the agency as we know it will die along with him. | "Clean air is not an aesthetic luxury," Costle said when he took the job as EPA administrator. "It is a public health necessity." | President Trump said pretty much the same thing in an interv…
truthout.org/articles/is-the-tide-turning-on-president-trumps-war-on-science/
Oakland educators join the nationwide wave of teacher strikes
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2019-02-22
OAKLAND, Calif. — Joining the wave of teachers' strikes that are sweeping the country, Oakland teachers and school staff hit early-morning picket lines throughout the Oakland Unified School District's 86 elementary, middle and high schools Feb. 21, before packing the City Hall plaza for a lively noontime rally with other union leaders and members, parents, …
peoplesworld.org/article/oakland-educators-join-the-nationwide-wave-of-teacher-strikes/
SPLC and Latin GRAMMY Award-winning band release song that teaches immigrants their rights
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-02-22
‚ÄãThe SPLC and the Latin GRAMMY Award-winning band Flor De Toloache launched a new song today whose lyrics teach immigrants about the rights they can exercise when interacting with law enforcement and immigration authorities.
splcenter.org/news/2019/02/22/splc-and-latin-grammy-award-winning-band-release-song-teaches-immigrants-their-rights
Arts Organizing Lifts Oakland Teachers Strike
Joe Brusky | zcomm.org | 2019-02-22
Interview on arts organizing in the teachers union movement…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/arts-organizing-lifts-oakland-teachers-strike/
Oakland, California teachers walk out as unions sabotage West Virginia strike
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Oakland's teachers walkout began as unions sabotaged the two-day strike by 33,000 teachers and school employees in West Virginia. | The unions are not working class organizations, but instruments of the ruling class. | Oakland teachers must draw the sharpest lessons from these experiences if their struggle is not to be isolated and betrayed.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/21/18821325.php
"When We Fight We Win!" Thousands Of Oakland OEA Teachers With SEIU 1021 Workers Strike
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Thousands of OEA members and SEIU 1021 members struck on February 21, 2019 and were joined by parents and students. They are fighting for living wages, decent conditions and against privatization.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/22/18821377.php
Terrorism and Insurgency: The Semantics of Political Legitimacy
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
The definition of the term "terrorism" has been deliberately left undefined by the Western powers to use it as a catch-all pretext to justify their interventionist policy in the energy-rich Islamic countries. Depending on context, "terrorism" can mean two markedly …
globalresearch.ca/terrorism-and-insurgency-the-semantics-of-political-legitimacy/5669306
Australia: Royal commission finds that Murray-Darling Basin Authority acted unlawfully
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-22
The investigation found that a triumph of political considerations over "best available science" led to environmental catastrophe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/22/mdrc…
Day One of Oakland Teachers' Strike: School Picket Lines & Message from Keith Brown
OEA | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Teachers and allies were out by 6: 30am on Day One, picketing in front of schools across Oakland. At at Manzanita Community School, teachers chanted: "Get up, get down, Oakland is a union town! Hey, hey, ho, ho, where did all the money go?"
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/22/18821342.php
Powerful support for Oakland teachers' strike
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-22
Like teachers across the US and internationally, striking teachers in Oakland, California are fighting against the corporate war on public education and the complicity of the trade unions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/22/oakl…
Affordable housing should be a priority
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-22
As housing unaffordability becomes an increasingly critical social issue in Australia, it is perverse to find that most MPs own two or more homes. | It is surreal to see some politicians' real estate portfolios. And while this doesn't tell you everything about their class interest, it does reveal how Australia is increasingly becoming a two-tiered society when it comes to having access to an affordable roof over one's head. | The official statistics all point in a direction that no advanced capitalist country could possibly be proud of. | Homelessness rose across Australia by 14% between 2011-16. Median mort…
greenleft.org.au/content/affordable-housing-should-be-priority
Support Oakland teachers! For a general strike to defend education!
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-22
The call must go out in every workplace in the Bay Area, across California, the US and internationally: "The Oakland teachers must not fight this decisive battle alone!"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/22/otst…
Oakland Teachers on Strike: Stakeholder Voices on the Struggle
Upfront, KPFA | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Today, we bring you a full two hours on the Oakland teachers strike.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/21/18821334.php
School strikers won't be bullied
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-22
The following statement was released by School Strike 4 Climate on February 20 in response to statements made by the federal and NSW education ministers and deputy prime minister Michael McCormack, as well as a front page article in the Daily Telegraph, attacking students for exercising their right to strike from school to demand urgent climate action. | *** | School students striking for climate action won't be bullied by conservative media and politicians telling us not to strike from school on March 15 as part of the Global #ClimateStrike. | School…
greenleft.org.au/content/school-strikers-wont-be-bullied
Powerful Support for Oakland Teachers' Strike
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
The strike is the latest in a wave of walkouts by teachers, which began exactly a year ago in West Virginia. In every case, teachers are fighting over the same issues and facing the same enemies: decades of defunding, falling living standards, punitive evaluation schemes to scapegoat teachers, and a bipartisan drive to close public schools and expand for-profit charter schools.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/22/18821345.php
Support Oakland Teachers! For a General Strike to Defend Education!
Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
The miserable state of public education in California, which is 43rd in the nation in per pupil spending, underscores the need for struggle against capitalism and the horrific levels of social inequality it creates.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/22/18821346.php
House Education and Labor Committee: US schools are in shambles
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-22
A recent Congressional hearing exposed the disastrous state of public schools but offers no solutions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/22/educ…
Day One of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Rally at City Hall
APTP | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Keith Brown, OEA president: "When we strike, we win!
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/21/18821336.php
2019 Oakland OEA Strike Rally: Day One "We Shut It Down"!
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Thousands of Oakland OEA teachers went on strike for living wages, for smaller classes with nurses and counselors and against privatization and the closure of public community schools…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/21/18821331.php
Outrage as kids pick cotton, sing slave songs during school field trip (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2019-02-22
Disturbing cell phone video has appeared online apparently showing a class of 10-year-old South Carolina elementary school kids picking cotton and singing slave songs as their teachers supervise. | …
rt.com/usa/452173-slave-songs-pick-cotton-kids/
West Virginia teachers end strike as Senate votes to postpone the controversial bill on education
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-02-21
The controversial bill, named SB: 451, was set to introduce charter schools in West Virginia for the first time, in a bid to privatize education…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/02/21/west-virginia-teachers-end-strike-as-senate-votes-to-postpone-the-controversial-bill-on-education/
Charter school strike in Chicago ends with workers' victory
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-02-21
Chicago, IL – Solidarity matters. Teachers and paraprofessionals at the Chicago International Charter Schools hit the picket lines at 6: 00 a.m. on February 5 and stayed out until they had won what they needed at 3: 15 a.m. on February 17. What they need was smaller class sizes for their students, adequate staffing for special education students, maternity leave for educators and a wage scale close enough to the Chicago Public School teachers to bring some measure of stability to the classroom. | They won these things by sticking together. The cold nasty weather did not deter the strikers. They kept in communicatio…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/2/20/charter-…
UNESCO to Document Israeli Violations in Jerusalem
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-21
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) may send a mission to document Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem, according to Al-Wattan Voice Wednesday. | RELATED: | Israeli Police Evict Palestinians From Home Without Notice | Speaking to Palestine Voice, Mounir Anastas, representative of the Palestinian Authority to the U.N. organization, said that "Israel continues to prevent international UNESCO experts from documenting Israeli violations ag…
telesurenglish.net/news/UNESCO-to-Send-Mission-to-Document-Israeli-Violations-in-Jerusalem-20190221-0021.html
Denver Teachers' Strike Was a Rejection of Education 'Reform'
Jeff Bryant | progressive.org | 2019-02-21
Teachers in the school district that was supposed to be the model for education reform just rebelled–and won.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/denver-teachers-strike-rejection-of-education-reform-bryant-190221/
Bolivian Woman Scientist Wins Prestigious Prize in Ethnobotany
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-21
Five researchers from developing countries won the 2019 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists, a prize which is focused on life sciences and is granted to women who have made a demonstrable impact on the research environment both at a regional and international level. | RELATED: | Day of Women, Girls in Science Focuses on Growth, Inclusivity | Among the recipients is Narel Paniagua, who works at the Bolivian National Herbarium and received the ethnobota…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivian-Woman-Scientist-Wins-Prestigious-Prize-in-Ethnobotany-20190221-0020.html