(2019-02-24). Video: Trump's Syria Deception. globalresearch.ca In Part II of our series Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin addresses the surprise order from Trump that he was "ending the war" in Syria. | Having drastically escalated the war in Syria and Iraq, find out what's behind the …
(2019-02-24). Imperialism Provokes Military Intervention in Venezuela: Blood Along Brazil Border. globalresearch.ca Imperialism has initiated provocation for beginning its planned military intervention in Venezuela. Imperialism is treading a bloody path. Already it has spilled blood along Brazil border. | The MSM including Reuters, BBC, The Independent reported on February 22, 2019: …
(2019-02-24). Canada's Corrupt Corporations: World Bank's Corrupt Companies Blacklist, Dominated By Canada. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published on Global Research on January 2015. It is of particular relevance to the ongoing SNC-Lavalin scandal which implicates the Trudeau government. | *** | Canada has the dubious honour of being home to the largest number of …
(2019-02-24). Farcical Upcoming Ukraine Presidential Election. globalresearch.ca No matter who comes out on top as president in the March 31 "election," ordinary Ukrainians lose, along with any chance for regional peace — ruled out by Washington. | Over 40 candidates are running for president. Few among them …
(2019-02-24). Shannon Is Becoming a Bit Like Home for the US Military. globalresearch.ca At Shannon today (23rd Feb), one United States of America executive Boeing C40C, number 09-0540 and one lame-duck Omni Air US troop carrier N207AX being protected for the past 5 days by a joint Garda and Irish Army patrols while …
(2019-02-24). Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America. globalresearch.ca I was sitting in my apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, reading the online edition of Time magazine ( 5/19/16), which carried a report that there was not even something as basic as aspirin to be found anywhere in Venezuela: "Basic …
(2019-02-24). Selected Articles: Guaidó-USAID Trucks Torched on Border. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2019-02-24). Red Cross Denounces Unsanctioned Use of Its Emblems to Smuggle US Aid to Venezuela. globalresearch.ca The largest international aid organization has demanded that activists at the Venezuela-Colombia border not use the insignia of the Red Cross, which isn't participating in what Caracas has dismissed as a US "propaganda show." | The Red Cross learned that some …
(2019-02-24). America's Enemies, Who's On the List? globalresearch.ca For almost 2 decades, the US pursued a list of 'enemy countries' to confront, attack, weaken & overthrow. This imperial quest to overthrow 'enemy countries' depends on two considerations: the level of priority & the degree of vulnerability for a 'regime change' operation.
(2019-02-24). The U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It. globalresearch.ca No one actually thinks the same Donald Trump who kicked off his run for the White House by calling Mexicans rapists, and subsequently, as president, left Puerto Rico for dead after Hurricane Maria, cares at all about the Venezuelan poor. …
(2019-02-24). Domino Effect: Pompeo Vows US Will Help Uproot 'Authoritarianism' in Nicaragua & Cuba. globalresearch.ca The United States will help the people of Nicaragua and Cuba to resist "non-democratic regimes" in their countries, Mike Pompeo has said. His comments come as Washington steps up calls for a new government in Venezuela. | The secretary of state …
(2019-02-24). Pro-Israel CFI Lobby in Westminster and AIPAC in Washington, Endorsement of Israel as a Powerful Nuclear Weapons State. globalresearch.ca All lobbies, by definition, are designed to exert covert control over government or other policy, by using their financial power. That agenda and its negotiations are invariably carried out behind closed doors. | And so, unless you want to deny that …
(2019-02-24). An Idiot's National Emergency. globalresearch.ca It's not proper form to open a blog post by calling a sitting president an idiot who knows not what he talks or tweets about. Even so, the conclusion is inescapable. | President Donald Trump is an idiot, at least when …
(2019-02-24). The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery? globalresearch.ca This incisive and carefully researched article was first published by Global Research eleven years ago in March 2008. | Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation …
(2019-02-24). America's Addiction Network. globalresearch.ca You see those commercials on the boob tube for the Addiction Network. It's another for profit that helps folks with addictions, IF they either have the insurance or the cash. Isn't it grand that we Americans have to use private …
(2019-02-24). Mobilise for Peace. "The Threat of World War Grows as U.S. Power Declines" globalresearch.ca The road to war has many signposts along the way, even that small sign buried under weeds, squashed down by marching boots, that has scribbled on it, in haste, by a fleeing hand, "the lost path to peace". But the …
(2019-02-24). No One Trusts the US Government, Not Even the American People. globalresearch.ca Atlantic Bridge, a German front organization set up by Washington to propagandize Germans to serve Washington, has failed in the job. The latest survey conducted by the front group shows that 85% of Germans are alienated from the US. The …
(2019-02-24). Video: "I'm Committing Professional Suicide": CBS Star Reporter Admits "Mostly Liberal" Journalists Are Now "Political Activists" globalresearch.ca CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan has broken ranks and admitted that journalists have lost their objectivity and become "political activists." | During an appearance on the Mike Drop podcast with retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, Logan admitted that …
(2019-02-24). "When We Fight We Win!" Thousands Of Oakland OEA Teachers With SEIU 1021 Workers Strike. indybay.org 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.
(2019-02-24). Day One of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Rally at City Hall. indybay.org Keith Brown, OEA president: "When we strike, we win!
(2019-02-24). Day One of Oakland Teachers' Strike: School Picket Lines & Message from Keith Brown. indybay.org 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?"
(2019-02-24). Day Two of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Picket Lines, Bargaining Update, Messages of Solidarity. indybay.org Teachers and allies picketed in front of schools across Oakland again on Day Two. Magdalene Armstrong and her daughter picket in front of their school, Futures Elementary in East Oakland.
(2019-02-24). Powerful Support for Oakland Teachers' Strike. indybay.org 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.
(2019-02-24). Teachers press for expansion of strike as union seeks to contain struggle. indybay.org To carry their struggle forward, Oakland teachers must turn out to the broader working class. A public appeal should be made to all workers.
(2019-02-24). Fighting Privatization & Union Busting Charters In Oakland OEA Strike On Day 2. indybay.org On the second day of the Oakland Education Association strike, thousands of teachers, service workers, parents and students rallied against charters and privatization. They marched to the office of Go Public charter school operation which is a laundering operation of the billionairs pushing charters and funding pro-privatization candidates.
(2019-02-24). Day Two of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Morning Picket and Rally at DeFremery Park. indybay.org Pickets continued across the city on Day Two of the Oakland teacher's strike. A mid-day rally was held at DeFremery Park, then a march to GO Public Schools to protest charter schools and privatization. Picket lines went back up before the end of the traditional school day.
(2019-02-24). Support Oakland Teachers! For a General Strike to Defend Education! indybay.org 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.
(2019-02-23). Does "Special Ed" Serve Students? Disability Activists Say No. truthout.org As a child born with cerebral palsy in the 1950s, Gail Cartenuto-Cohn had one option when she was old enough to go to school: enroll in an isolated public program specifically for kids with disabilities. There was no interaction with nondisabled kids, and there were just three classrooms: one for kindergarten through second grade, another for grades three through five, and a third for sixth through eighth. | Occupational therapy, as well as physical therapy and speech therapy, were provided on-site, and although Cartenuto-Cohn describes the education she received as better than adequate, when it was time for h…
(2019-02-23). Why Bay Area Tech Workers Should Support the Oakland Teachers. truthout.org As Bay Area tech workers and activists, we see clearly that the struggles faced by tech workers are fundamentally connected with those faced by the teachers who are on strike in Oakland. | When one section of the working class fights and wins, it raises the hopes and expectations for all working people. Now that the strike wave that swept through Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona is coming to Silicon Valley's own backyard, it's time for us to show up, support the…
(2019-02-23). 'People Are Starting to See That Winning Is Possible'. zcomm.org Denver Teachers Win, Oakland Next…
(2019-02-23). Anti-semitism Is Cover for a Much Deeper Divide in Britain's Labour Party. globalresearch.ca The announcement by seven MPs from the UK Labour Party on Monday that they were breaking away and creating a new parliamentary faction marked the biggest internal upheaval in a British political party in nearly 40 years, when the SDP …
(2019-02-23). Venezuela: A Unique Experience in Protagonist Democracy? globalresearch.ca The issue for us all is: No to military intervention in Venezuela and full support for the right of Venezuela to defend itself. | "Maduro declared in his February 4 Caracas speech: 'Not one Yaqui soldier will enter Venezuela.'" | Is Trump …
(2019-02-23). US Defeat in Syria: The Wrong End of "Might Makes Right" globalresearch.ca With Damascus and its allies firmly in control of Syria and its future — the war having been decided on the ground rather than "politically" as envisioned by Western politicians, media, and policymakers — the US proxy war against Syria …
(2019-02-23). German Government's "Right to Resist" UK Pressure on Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia. globalresearch.ca Campaign Against Arms Trade has welcomed the Germany Government's decision to continue its arms embargo against Saudi Arabia. The ban on arms sales was put in place in 2018, following the escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and the …
(2019-02-23). Northwest Tribes Respond to Canada's Continued Push for Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion. globalresearch.ca A Canadian federal agency today formally recommended approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, a move strongly condemned by Coast Salish Tribes on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. | In November 2018, representatives from U.S. Coast Salish Tribes joined Canadian …
(2019-02-23). Venezuela False Flag Underway? Washington's "Humanitarian" Regime Change Effort. globalresearch.ca As I write this, there is a false flag underway on the border of Venezuela and Brazil. | It looks like two people were killed and a dozen wounded after Venezuelan troops opened fire on locals. The confrontation is part of …
(2019-02-23). Charleston, West Virginia residents support teachers fighting to defend public education. wsws.org The unions called off the West Virginia teachers strike amid a growing national strike wave and broad support in the working class.
(2019-02-23). Students speak out against closure of Oregon College of Art and Craft. wsws.org After years of deceit and backroom talks, the administration and Board of Trustees announced that they will close and sell-off OCAC by the end of the semester.
(2019-02-23). Oakland, California teachers press for expansion of strike as union seeks to contain struggle. wsws.org Despite its rhetoric, the OEA is working to isolate teachers from their class allies and prevent a broader struggle in defense of public education.
(2019-02-23). French Muslims Grapple With a Republic That Codified Their Marginalization. theintercept.com 
Yasser Louati didn't usually permit his English students to leave class to make phone calls. On this January day in 2015, however, one asked with such urgency in her eyes that he nodded at her request and let her leave. A few minutes later, the woman walked back into the class, looking just as upset as she did when she left. As she took her seat, Yasser asked her if anything was wrong. | "There's a been a shooting at the Hypercacher," she said quietly, referring to the kosher supermarket chain located across the city in Paris's 20th arrondissement. | Louati's heart sank. All of Paris had been on edge for the past…
(2019-02-23). For a unified struggle of Oakland students and teachers to defend public education! wsws.org The IYSSE supports and applauds the tens of thousands of teenage students in Oakland who have protested in solidarity with their striking teachers.
(2019-02-23). New York University students angry over police "cleanup" of homeless on campus. wsws.org NYU students expressed outrage over an NYPD "cleanup" of the homeless in front of the university's Silver Center building on February 6.
(2019-02-23). As voting takes place, Denver teachers angry over tentative agreement. wsws.org The WSWS Teachers Newsletter urges teachers to reject the deal, which does not resolve any of the issues concerning poverty wages for teachers or the broader attack on public education.
(2019-02-22). School Strikes Take Off as Legacy From 'Grandfather of Climate Science'. commondreams.org London's school children go on strike and take to the streets to protest about climate change Feb 2019. (Photo: © Kristian Buus) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-02-22). Union begins Ohio's first charter school strike. peoplesworld.org 
PARMA, Ohio — More than two dozen teachers, staff, parents and community supporters picketed Summit Academy in suburban Parma Feb 19 as a strike began for recognition of their union which is affiliated with the Ohio Federation of Teachers. It was the first strike at a charter school in state history. In high spirits, nearly …
(2019-02-22). SPLC and Latin GRAMMY Award-winning band release song that teaches immigrants their rights. splcenter.org ‚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.
(2019-02-22). Oakland educators join the nationwide wave of teacher strikes. peoplesworld.org 
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, …
(2019-02-22). Outrage as kids pick cotton, sing slave songs during school field trip (VIDEO). rt.com 
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.
(2019-02-22). House Education and Labor Committee: US schools are in shambles. wsws.org A recent Congressional hearing exposed the disastrous state of public schools but offers no solutions.
(2019-02-22). Affordable housing should be a priority. greenleft.org.au 
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…