US Moving Special Forces and Equipment to the Venezuelan Border
Orinoco Tribune | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
In a series of tweets posted in her twitter account a few hours ago Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that the US government is moving special forces to the borders of Venezuela along …
globalresearch.ca/us-moving-special-forces-and-equipment-to-the-venezuelan-border/5669570
Condemnation of IDF Killings Is Never Anti-Semitic but Is Always an Essential Duty of the Global Media to Report
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
As of November 19, last year, lethal force by Israeli forces resulted in the killing of 252 and injuring of 25,522 Palestinians in Gaza, OCHA has reported. Many of the injuries were life-changing, including hundreds of cases of severe soft …
globalresearch.ca/condemnation-of-idf-killings-is-never-anti-semitic-but-is-always-an-essential-duty-of-the-global-media-to-report/5669618
City of Xi'an and Why the New Chinese Silk Road Terrifies the West?
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
Snow is falling on the wide sidewalks of the historic city of Xi'an, but people don't seem to be troubled by the bitter cold. | One of the oldest cities in China, Xi'an, is now vibrant, optimistic and stunningly beautiful. Sidewalks …
globalresearch.ca/city-of-xian-and-why-the-new-chinese-silk-road-terrifies-the-west/5669592
The Health Risks of Mobile Phones: Italian Court Orders Public Safety Campaign
Microwave News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
In a victory for advocates of precaution, an Italian court has ordered the government to launch a campaign to advise the public of the health risks from mobile and cordless phones. | The information campaign must begin by July 16. | The …
globalresearch.ca/the-health-risks-of-mobile-phones-italian-court-orders-public-safety-campaign/5669580
US Forces Will Stay in Syria: Negotiations with the Kurds Will be Complicated, as Syria Prepares for an Idlib Offensive
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
Washington declared it won't fully withdraw its troops from Syria but will leave "400 peace keeping forces", making these soldiers an official occupation force since the last ISIS stronghold is about to be freed. This new situation leaves the …
globalresearch.ca/us-forces-will-stay-in-syria-negotiations-with-the-kurds-will-be-complicated-as-syria-prepares-for-an-idlib-offensive/5669609
Canadian Military in Haiti. Why?
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
Canadian troops may have recently been deployed to Haiti, even though the government has not asked Parliament or consulted the public for approval to send soldiers to that country. | Last week the Haiti Information Project photographed heavily- armed Canadian troops …
globalresearch.ca/canadian-military-in-haiti-why/5669577
US Will Retain Several Hundred Troops in Syria Despite Withdrawal
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement on Thursday, February 21, "A small peace keeping group of about 200 US troops will remain in Syria for a period of time," as reported by the CNN…
globalresearch.ca/us-will-retain-several-hundred-troops-in-syria-despite-withdrawal/5669585
Women's Suffrage and African Emancipation During the 19th Century
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
Since the mid-19th century there has been a periodic interrelationship between the movements for African emancipation and women's liberation. | Of course these convergences have not been without serious contradictions particularly in light of the historic racial and class divisions …
globalresearch.ca/womens-suffrage-and-african-emancipation-during-the-19th-century/5669554
Further Reflections on Women's Suffrage and African Emancipation
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
A cursory re-examination of the early years of what became known as the women's suffrage movement and abolitionism represented the embryonic phases of self-organization and mass struggle politics within United States society. | As we pointed out in an earlier essay, …
globalresearch.ca/further-reflections-on-womens-suffrage-and-african-emancipation/5669635
The Bull Market and Today's Financial Crisis. "The Great Crash of 1929". Will History Repeat Itself?
Bryant Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
Last December the Dow Jones dropped slightly, 1,788 points down to 23,327 points, that's about 7% and the business press reported as if the sky was falling. It has since recovered. | But that was enough to get me thinking. We've …
globalresearch.ca/the-bull-market-and-todays-financial-crisis-the-great-crash-of-1929-will-history-repeat-itself/5669589
Europe Pays the Price of a US Decision: Where Will European ISIS Go?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
On Twitter, the US president's preferred forum to reveal foreign policy and state decisions, Donald Trump asked "Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS captured in Syria" from 44 countries. Otherwise, Trump will …
globalresearch.ca/europe-pays-the-price-of-a-us-decision-where-will-european-isis-go/5669574
Getting Rid of Rep. Ilhan Omar: Neoconservatives Dig Deep to Remove a Critic of Israel
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
It has been observed that the neoconservatives are a lot like the legendary bird the Phoenix, which burns to death and then, miraculously, rises from the ashes in new plumage. The neocons first rose to prominence under President Ronald Reagan, …
globalresearch.ca/getting-rid-of-rep-ilhan-omar-neoconservatives-dig-deep-to-remove-a-critic-of-israel/5669587
U.S. Exports More and More Bullets
David Swanson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
When I was a kid there was a local basketball team called the Washington Bullets. The team changed its name when "bullets" became offensive due to the high rate of gun murders in Washington, D.C. This is the same city …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-exports-more-and-more-bullets/5669615
Cuba's Constitutional Reform: Attempting to Reflect the Will of the Cuban People
Dr. Birsen Filip | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
On April 18, 2018, the Cuban National Assembly selected Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez[i] to be Raúl Castro's successor as President of Cuba for two terms totalling 10 years. The very next day, Díaz-Canel assumed office as the 17th …
globalresearch.ca/cubas-constitutional-reform-attempting-reflect-will-cuban-people/5669546
NATO Is an Appendage of the U.S. Empire
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
The Canadian Political analyst and Research Associate at Global Research Mark Taliano has argued that his country must leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which he sees as an appendage of the U.S. Empire. | He has told the Syria …
globalresearch.ca/canadian-analyst-st-nato-appendage-u-s-empire/5669567
The Cuban People Vote in Constitutional Referendum
Granma | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
Today February 24, 124 years since the re-initiation of the nation's independence struggle, in accordance with the law, thousands of Cubans are participating in the construction of a better future and strengthening unity around the Revolution | *** | Voting ends in …
globalresearch.ca/the-cuban-people-vote-in-constitutional-referendum/5669611
IYSSE meeting opposes eugenics promotion at Cambridge University
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-25
Students from the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University attended the meeting, at which IYSSE member Thomas Scripps gave the opening report, followed by the German Socialist Equality Party deputy-leader Christoph Vandreier, who joined via video link from Berlin.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/25/carl…
Teachers press for expansion of strike as union seeks to contain struggle
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-25
To carry their struggle forward, Oakland teachers must turn out to the broader working class. A public appeal should be made to all workers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/23/18821388.php
Growing calls for nation-wide struggle as unions work to shut down Oakland teachers strike
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-25
The Oakland Education Association is collaborating with the Democratic Party, which controls California, to end the strike on the basis of an agreement that will facilitate the continued assault on public education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/25/oakl…
Sao Paulo teachers, public workers strike against attack on pensions in Brazil
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-25
Teachers have been on strike since February 4 in opposition to a pension reform that would significantly increase their required contributions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/25/spte…
Why is there no strike pay for Oakland teachers?
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-25
Historically, the provision of strike pay was one of the elemental tasks of unions. | The Oakland Education Association, however, is not providing a penny in strike benefits to the embattled teachers even though union dues are regularly deducted from their paychecks.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/24/18821444.php
Burning Aid: An Interventionist Deception on Colombia-Venezuela Bridge?
Max Blumenthal | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
Sen. Marco Rubio and coup leaders claim the Venezuelan National Guard burned US aid trucks on the bridge in Colombia. But all available evidence points in the opposite direction. | *** | The Trump administration's coup against Venezuela culminated on February 23 …
globalresearch.ca/burning-aid-an-interventionist-deception-on-colombia-venezuela-bridge/5669622
Video: The Real Humanitarian Aid: Inside Venezuela's State-subsidized Communal Markets
Max Blumenthal | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-25
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal toured open air markets in Caracas full of food and supplies subsidized by the Venezuelan government, which debunk the "humanitarian crisis" lie spread by corporate media. | . | . | * | Note to readers: please click the share …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-real-humanitarian-aid-inside-venezuelas-state-subsidized-communal-markets/5669654
Why is there no strike pay for Oakland teachers?
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-25
Oakland teachers pay more than $1,000 in union dues every year and have every right to adequate strike benefits to sustain this historic fight.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/25/bene…
Fighting Privatization & Union Busting Charters In Oakland OEA Strike On Day 2
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-02-25
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/22/18821384.php
Day Two of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Picket Lines, Bargaining Update, Messages of Solidarity
OEA | indybay.org | 2019-02-25
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/23/18821408.php
Resolution: Oppose the promotion of eugenics and pseudo-science at Cambridge University!
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-25
The following resolution was adopted by a meeting in Cambridge convened by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK), on Saturday February 23, 2019.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/25/reso…
Day Two of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Morning Picket and Rally at DeFremery Park
APTP | indybay.org | 2019-02-25
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/23/18821389.php
Growing calls for nation-wide struggle
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-25
The attack on public education is part of the broader onslaught against the rights and living standards of the working class across the United States and around the world. It is this global attack that produced the series of teachers strikes across the United States. | The only way in which the striking teachers can carry out their fight to defend public education is by forming rank-and-file committees independent of the union and building for a nationwide strike.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/24/18821445.php
Video: Trump's Syria Deception
Abby Martin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-24
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 …
globalresearch.ca/video-trumps-syria-deception/5669510
Mobilise for Peace. America is No Longer "The Top Dog": The Threat of World War Grows as U.S. Power Declines"
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-24
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 …
globalresearch.ca/mobilise-for-peace-the-threat-of-world-war-grows-as-u-s-power-declines/5669484
Red Cross Denounces Unsanctioned Use of Its Emblems to Smuggle US Aid to Venezuela
RT News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-24
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 | …
globalresearch.ca/red-cross-denounces-unsanctioned-use-of-its-emblems-to-smuggle-us-aid-to-venezuela/5669512
Imperialism Provokes Military Intervention in Venezuela: Blood Along Brazil Border
Farooque Chowdhury | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-24
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: …
globalresearch.ca/imperialism-provokes-military-intervention-in-venezuela-blood-along-brazil-border/5669505
America's Addiction Network
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-24
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 …
globalresearch.ca/americas-addiction-network/5669507
Mexico: Oaxacans Protest Chain Stores in 'Traditional' City
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-24
Activists in Oaxaca blocked streets in front of the an elementary school to protest the proposed plan to construct another OXXO convenience store in the city, this time in front of the education center. | RELATED: | Mexico: Protesters Condemn Indigenous Activist Murder | The anti-OXXO protesters set up in front of the Heroes de Nacozari school and blocked traffic demanding that yet another of the Mexico-based OXXO convenience store franchises does not open its doors in front of the prim…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Oaxacans-Protest-Chain-Stores-in-Traditional-City-20190224-0013.html
'Both sides' of climate change debate are accurate: Trump's UN nominee's interview raises eyebrows
RT | rt.com | 2019-02-24
A resurfaced interview with US President Donald Trump's nominee for next UN ambassador, Kelly Craft, where she said she "believes the science on both sides" of the climate change argument has ignited fiery debate on Twitter. | …
rt.com/usa/452319-kelly-craft-climate-change/
The Bitter Fruit of Trump's China Bashing: Anti-Asian Racism
Shared by Anton Woronczuk | truthout.org | 2019-02-24
Donald Trump's New Cold War with Beijing has caught Chinese foreign students at U.S. universities in its crosshairs. | The Trump administration has tightened restrictions on their visas, accused them of spying for the Chinese state and its high tech giants, and in the process whipped up a climate of anti-Asian racism. | Trump's policies yielded bitter fruit most recently at Duke University. The chair of the graduate program in biostatics, Megan Neely, in the wake of complaints from a faculty members about Chinese grad students "speaking Chinese (in their words VERY LOUDLY)" in the student lounge and study area…
truthout.org/articles/the-bitter-fruit-of-trumps-china-bashing-anti-asian-racism/
US: Democratic Senator Slammed for Testy Exchange with Students
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-23
A controversial video has emerged of a United States Senator apparently talking down to students who visited her to ask for her vote for the Green New Deal proposal. | RELATED | Green New Deal 101: The Basics of a Bold Progressive Policy | United States Senator Dianne Feinstein from California received a visit by group of schoolchildren and spoke with them about the Green New Deal proposal being introduced by freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senat…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Democratic-Senator-Slammed-for-Testy-Exchange-with-Students-20190223-0027.html
Oakland, California teachers press for expansion of strike as union seeks to contain struggle
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-23
Despite its rhetoric, the OEA is working to isolate teachers from their class allies and prevent a broader struggle in defense of public education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/23/oakl…
Charleston, West Virginia residents support teachers fighting to defend public education
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-23
The unions called off the West Virginia teachers strike amid a growing national strike wave and broad support in the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/23/west…
French Muslims Grapple With a Republic That Codified Their Marginalization
Murtaza Hussain | theintercept.com | 2019-02-23
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…
theintercept.com/2019/02/23/france-islamophobia-islam-french-muslims-terrorism/
As voting takes place, Denver teachers angry over tentative agreement
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-23
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/23/denv…
School Strikes Take Off as Legacy From 'Grandfather of Climate Science'
Aaron Gray-Block | commondreams.org | 2019-02-22
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……
commondreams.org/views/2019/02/22/school-strikes-take-legacy-grandfather-climate-science?cd-origin=rss
Student Activists Participate in NAACP Board Meeting
Austyn Ross | naacp.org | 2019-02-22
Led by Tiffany Dena Loftin, former SGA president at University of California, Santa Cruz, over 20 students attended the NAACP Annual Board Meeting in New York City, February 14-16, 2019. Our NAACP Youth were heavily involved and took part in conversations including youth engagement in local issues and training for college and youth units. On Friday, …
naacp.org/latest/student-activists-participate-naacp-board-meeting/
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
Union begins Ohio's first charter school strike
Rick Nagin | peoplesworld.org | 2019-02-22
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 …
peoplesworld.org/article/union-begins-ohios-first-charter-school-strike/
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
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
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/
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/