Marginalizing Migrants and People of Colour Within the Labour Movement: Dialogues on Race and Class
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-26
"You Can't Have Capitalism Without Racism." | — Malcolm X (1964) [1] | "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." | -George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) | LISTEN TO THE SHOW | Click to download the audio (MP3 format)…
globalresearch.ca/marginalizing-migrants-and-people-of-colour-within-the-labour-movement-dialogues-on-race-and-class/5678505

Thousands Of California Teachers Rally in Sacramento For Funding & To "Reform Charters"
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-05-26
Thousands of teachers, parents and supporters of public education rallied in Sacramento on May 22, 2019. The CTA called for reforming the charters and more funding for public education. Teachers talked about their conditions and the effect of charters and privatization of education.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/23/18823575.php

Julian Assange and the Crucifixion of Free Speech
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
It didn't take long for the computer intrusion case against Julian Assange to morph into a much larger and far more serious charge of espionage. | The murder of Julian Assange–the espionage act carries the death penalty–and the organized destruction of …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-crucifixion-free-speech/5678432

Rand Corporation: How to Destroy Russia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
Force the adversary to expand recklessly in order to unbalance him, and then destroy him. This is not the description of a judo hold, but a plan against Russia elaborated by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank in …
globalresearch.ca/rand-corp-how-destroy-russia/5678456

Rand Cor: como destruir a Rússia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
Foràßar o adversário a desdobrar-se excessivamente, a fim de desequilibrá-lo e derrubá-lo — nà£o é um movimento de judo, mas o plano contra a Rússia desenvolvido pela Rand Corporation, o 'think tank' mais influente dos EUA que, com uma equipa …
globalresearch.ca/rand-cor-como-destruir-a-russia/5678501

Saudi Ship of Death Halted in Europe
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
In a collective demonstration of solidarity between European civilians and the suffering Yemeni civilians, the Saudi ship Bahri Yanbu was turned away from ports in France and Italy without loading its deadly cargo of weapons. | Last summer, the Saudi-led coalition …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-ship-death-halted-europe/5678474

Lights, Camera… Covert Action: The Deep Politics of Hollywood
Matthew Alford | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
Originally published by GR in February 2009, this article focusses on the role of Hollywood as an instrument of propaganda. The Deep Politics of Hollywood are part of the broader process of media manipulation and disinformation in support of US …
globalresearch.ca/lights-camera-covert-action-the-deep-politics-of-hollywood/11921

Russia Sides with Pakistan in South Asia's Tit-for-Tat Missile Tests
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov staunchly defended Pakistan's "sovereign right to take care of its security" amidst South Asia's tit-for-tat missile tests, with this unprecedented statement not only signifying the strength of the Russian-Pakistani Strategic Partnership, but also potentially …
globalresearch.ca/russia-took-pakistans-side-south-asias-tit-for-tat-missile-tests/5678435

Laughing Russiagate Out of the Room
John V. Walsh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
Jimmy Dore is a comic who has taken on Russiagate, a deadly serious matter. He is one of those brave souls who count themselves as progressives but dared to call into question Russiagate. | There are those who will tell you …
globalresearch.ca/jimmy-dore-russiagate/5678478

Shielding the World from US Chaos, No Easy Task. A Multipolar World in the Making
Federico Pieraccini | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
Donald Trump's foreign policy relies heavily on putting to use to the tools available to the Empire: economic terrorism, threats of war, diplomatic pressure, trade wars, etc. But in re…
globalresearch.ca/shielding-the-world-from-us-chaos-no-easy-task-a-multipolar-world-in-the-making/5678440

Trump Regime Heightens Middle East Tensions
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
Since WW II, the US waged wars of aggression against nations threatening no one, the highest of high crimes gone unpunished. | From North Korea in the early 1950s to what's ongoing endlessly post-9/11, the US attacked nations unwilling to subordinate …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-heightens-middle-east-tensions/5678443

Brexit Deception and Failure: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May Resigns. What Next?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
Tory leader Theresa May's days have been numbered for months, her nearly three years as UK prime minister a colossal failure by any standard. | She's been ridiculed and reviled as "mean…crude…stupid (and) the prime minister of humiliation." | Since majority …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-deception-and-failure-britains-prime-minister-theresa-may-resigns-what-next/5678446

Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China
Glen Ford | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
First published by Black Agenda Report and Global Research on December 28, 2018 | The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM's massive military infiltration of the region. | "The 'West's' …
globalresearch.ca/bolton-threatens-to-force-africa-to-choose-between-the-us-and-china/5663943

Gulf of Tonkin 'Crisis', Iranian Style
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
The United States government is always beating the war drums; it's what violent, rogue nations do. Currently, a non-issue in the Middle East is being seized upon as a threat to the mighty U.S. | The headlines were sensational: | 'Saudi Arabia | …
globalresearch.ca/gulf-tonkin-crisis-iranian-style/5678449

Another Round of Punishing Economic Austerity in Ontario
Prof. Greg Albo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
The eminent conservative scholar of public budgeting Aaron Wildavsky characterized annual budgets as a record of "victories, defeats, bargains, and compromises." The province of Ontario's 2019 Budget, the first of the new Conservative government of Doug Ford, does indeed …
globalresearch.ca/another-round-punishing-austerity-ontario/5678470

Video: Icebreakers and the Arctic Power Play
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
The Arctic remains one of the few areas of the globe with relatively little human activity and therefore limited prospects for international conflict. Even during the Cold War the Arctic remained comparatively under-resourced by both adversarial blocs. The main theater …
globalresearch.ca/icebreakers-arctic-power-play/5678429

"Truth Ultimately Is All We Have:" Julian Assange Appeals for Public Support
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
In his first publicly-released comments to supporters since his arrest, WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has detailed the repressive conditions he faces in Britain's Belmarsh prison and called for a campaign against his threatened extradition to the United States….
globalresearch.ca/truth-ultimately-all-we-have-julian-assange-appeals-public-support/5678467

87 Percent of Europeans Support New Laws to Combat Global Deforestation, New Poll Shows
FERN | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-25
An overwhelming majority of Europeans want new laws to ensure that the food they eat and the products they buy don't drive global deforestation, according to a YouGov poll released today. | Eighty-seven per cent of those polled across 25 EU …
globalresearch.ca/87-percent-europeans-support-new-laws-combat-global-deforestation-new-poll-shows/5678466

Chicago Teachers Union prepares to back new Democratic mayor's austerity demands
wsws.org | 2019-05-25
The CTU has collaborated with former Mayor Rahm Emanuel in attacking teacher pay, pensions and health care benefits, and colluded with the Democrats in school closures and privatizations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/25/chic…

Germany continues deportations to Afghanistan
wsws.org | 2019-05-25
Just days before the European elections, the charter flight to the war-torn country exposes the deadly practice carried out by both the federal and state governments.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/25/refu…

Philippines: Expect the people's resistance to rise further
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-05-25
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following May 22 statement by Jose Maria Sison, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Chief Political Consultant. | Expect the people's resistance to rise further against the escalation of oppression and exploitation | As a result of his rigging the May 13 elections, Duterte has more than two-thirds majority in the Senate and is in a position to dictate the realization of his fascist dictatorship through charter change to bogus federalism and declare martial law nationwide at his whim. | Foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucratic c…
fightbacknews.org/2019/5/25/philippines-expect-people-s-resistance-rise-further

Thousands of Charter Schools Perform Poorly
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-05-25
"Performance-based accountability" is a hackneyed, Skinnerian, neoliberal buzz-phrase often repeated dogmatically by charter school promoters in order to falsely claim that privately-operated nonprofit and for-profit charter schools are more accountable and higher-performing than public schools. But it is becoming clearer to everyone with each passing day that charter school promoters have long vastly over-promised and …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/thousands-of-charter-schools-perform-poorly/

The Steep Cost of Camden's Charter Schools
Rann Miller | progressive.org | 2019-05-25
Black families in the city have been sold "safer schools," but must that come at the high price of over-suspension of their children?
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/the-cost-camden-charter-schools-miller-190524/

Socialist Equality Party wins important support in Australian federal election
wsws.org | 2019-05-25
Thousands of workers, students and young people signalled their support for a socialist alternative to war, budget cuts and authoritarianism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/25/sepc…

100,000s of Kids Hold School Strike for Climate Action
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-05-25
Students from 2,300 schools across 150 countries held their second global climate strike. Next time, they want adults to join in…
therealnews.com/stories/100000s-of-kids-hold-school-strike-for-climate-action

Teens' MAGA hats blurred out in yearbook, school accused of censorship
rt.com | 2019-05-25
Pro-Trump students at a Pennsylvania high school were stunned to find out that the 'Make America Great Again' slogan was missing from their signature red caps in the yearbook. The school has apologized for the mishap. | …
rt.com/usa/460222-maga-hat-yearbook-blurred/

UK climate change protests: Students speak out against treatment of Assange and Manning
wsws.org | 2019-05-25
Thousands of schoolchildren and students demonstrated around the UK Friday to protest government inaction on climate change.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/25/inuk…

Spurious US 18-Count Indictment of Julian Assange: A Mockery of Justice
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-24
It was just a matter of time before the Trump regime piled on more spurious charges against Assange, clearly prepared long before Thursday's release. | They're on top of falsely accusing him of "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion," according to an …
globalresearch.ca/us-18-count-indictment-julian-assange-mockery-justice/5678402

Video: Daniel Ellsberg on Julian Assange's Espionage Charges
Daniel Ellsberg | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-24
The US Department of Justice issued an 18-count indictment against Julian Assange for violating the 1917 Espionage Act. We speak to Daniel Ellsberg about the dangerous implications this move has for journalism in the United States | *** | SHARMINI PERIES: It's …
globalresearch.ca/daniel-ellsberg-julian-assanges-espionage-charges/5678413

Israel: "Wiped off The Map". The Rumor of the Century, Fabricated by the US Media to Justify An All out War on Iran
Arash Norouzi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-24
Global Research Editor's Note | The following text by Arash Norouzi first published by the Mossadegh Project and Global Research in January 2007 confirms that the alleged "Wiped Off the Map" statement by Iran's (former) president was never made. | In the …
globalresearch.ca/israel-wiped-off-the-map-the-rumor-of-the-century-fabricated-by-the-us-media-to-justify-an-all-out-war-on-iran/21188

Turkish Weapons to Libya's Government of National Unity (PNU): Key Obstruction for Haftar's Offensive on Tripoli
Firas Samuri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-24
While the offensive of the Libyan National Army (LNA) under the command of Field Marshal Halifa Haftar in Tripoli against the armed groups controlled by the Government of National Unity (PNU) is well underway, more and more international and regional …
globalresearch.ca/turkish-weapons-obstruction-haftars-offensive-tripoli/5678390

The truth IS out there! Pentagon admits it conducted 'UFO' investigations
rt.com | 2019-05-24
The Pentagon has finally admitted it had "researched and investigated" UFOs — or UAPs, as it calls them — and may have even dropped hints about ongoing extraterrestrial operations. | …
rt.com/usa/460131-truth-is-out-there-pentagon-ufo/

Trump Regime Targeting of Venezuela's Food Distribution Program. Starve Venezuelans into Submission?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-24
President Nicolas Maduro initiated Local Provision and Production Committees (CLAPs) in early 2016. | The program distributes subsidized food to around six million Venezuelan families, around two-thirds of the population, part of the nation's participatory social democracy. | From inception with Obama …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-targeting-venezuelas-food-distribution-program-elimination/5678407

Assange Faces 175 Years in Prison with 17 More Charges
Countercurrents | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-24
The U.S. justice department has filed 17 new charges against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange. In reaction, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted: It's a war on journalism. Journalists have reacted: "Modern fascism is breaking cover". | The new charges expand the …
globalresearch.ca/assange-faces-175-years-in-prison-with-17-more-charges/5678418

Iran's Relations with India and Pakistan. Couldn't Be More Different
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-24
Iran is becoming increasingly desperate after the US intensified the economic component of its Hybrid War on the country, and while Indian Prime Minister Modi snubbed the Islamic Republic's top diplomat during his visit to the country earlier this month …
globalresearch.ca/zarifs-visits-india-pakistan/5678384

Life or Death — Corporate Media or Honest Media?
Media Lens | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-24
Relying on the corporate media, including BBC News, to provide a reliable account of the world is literally a matter of life or death, on many levels. | Imagine, for example, a Russian dissident living in the UK who had published …
globalresearch.ca/life-death-corporate-media-honest-media/5678409

As Millions March to Demand Climate Action, Research Reveals Protests Make People More Optimistic About Affecting Change
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-05-24
As an estimated 1.8 million people in 125 countries took part in a global climate strike Friday, researchers delivered good news about such protests: they work. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/05/24/millions-march-demand-climate-action-research-reveals-protests-make-people-more?cd-origin=rss

Development With Dignity
Zubeida Mustafa | truthdig.com | 2019-05-24
Asad Ali, a young man in his 20s, has a passion for teaching. He is a high school graduate and has no teacher's training degree, but he has compassion and inborn pedagogic skills that endear him to his students. His father wanted him to join the army, but Ali preferred his classroom to the battlefield. If Pakistan had more teachers with his commitment, the country would be a different place altogether. | Ali would be a failure in…
truthdig.com/articles/development-with-dignity/

As a GMO Stunt, Professor Tasted a Pesticide and Gave It to Students
Jonathan Latham | counterpunch.org | 2019-05-24
Imagine you are an undergraduate attending an Ivy League university. You go to a routine department seminar. In the middle of his presentation the professor picks up a container from the lectern. He says it contains a pesticide. As he opens it, a faint cloud of brown powder rises from the tub. It is, says…
counterpunch.org/2019/05/24/as-a-gmo-stunt-professor-tasted-a-pesticide-and-gave-it-to-students/

National Abortion Federation Releases 2018 Violence & Disruption Statistics
commondreams.org | 2019-05-24
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/05/24/national-abortion-federation-releases-2018-violence-disruption-statistics?cd-origin=rss

EPA will not commit to funding research on health risks to children
Ellen Knickmeyer | peoplesworld.org | 2019-05-23
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution, and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to their continued funding, researchers say. The projects being targeted make up a more than $300 million, federally …
peoplesworld.org/article/epa-will-not-commit-to-funding-research-on-health-risks-to-children/

Meddling 101: US Army research center publishes strategy to destabilize Russia
rt.com | 2019-05-23
The US could use a variety of economic, military and ideological strategies to "overextend and unbalance" Russia, a new report sponsored by the US Army glaringly suggests, offering blueprints to divide and destabilize the country. | …
rt.com/usa/460122-rand-study-destabilize-russia/

Brazil: More than 1 million take to the streets
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-05-23
A nationwide education strike on May 15 became the platform for the biggest anti-government protests since President Jair Bolsonaro took power. | More than 1 million people demonstrated, some estimating up to 2 million. Protests brought together unions, academics, teachers, students, campaign groups, political parties and other diverse factions — the birth of a movement, and the strongest display of left unity in Brazil in decades, on a scale that took many by surprise. | This is a battle for the country's future: it is the beginning of the fightback against Bolsonaro's war on education — a needless w…
greenleft.org.au/content/brazil-more-1-million-take-streets

SPLC sues Alabama school board for unfairly blocking two high school seniors from their graduation
splcenter.org | 2019-05-23
Two black Alabama high school seniors were unfairly suspended and barred from their graduation ceremony following an incident involving law enforcement, students and parents, according to two separate complaints the SPLC filed this week.
splcenter.org/news/2019/05/23/splc-sues-alabama-school-board-unfairly-blocking-two-high-school-seniors-their-graduation

Five new books for ecosocialists
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-05-23
In this month's round up of new books, Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus looks at books providing two views of food and farming; the origin of climate science denial; the high cost of living well; and a socialist who mostly disagrees with ecosocialism. | *** | Living Well At Others' Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity | By Stephan Lessenich | Polity, 2019 | At the heart of developed societies lies an in…
greenleft.org.au/content/five-new-books-ecosocialists-5

Teaching Tolerance magazine explores social justice educators' use of social media
splcenter.org | 2019-05-22
José Vilson co-founded the EduColor collective the same year that George Zimmerman — who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin — was acquitted of murder, and #BlackLivesMatter was born.
splcenter.org/news/2019/05/22/teaching-tolerance-magazine-explores-social-justice-educators-use-social-media

Sick teachers forced to pay for own substitutes
Evelyn Martinez | liberationnews.org | 2019-05-21
At a time when teachers are struggling to find ways to continue living in the most unaffordable city in the country, they are expected to pay for their own substitute teacher after they use up their sick days.
liberationnews.org/sick-teachers-forced-to-pay-for-own-substitutes/

How Johns Hopkins' Influence Haunts Baltimore (2/2)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-05-21
In part two, Antero Pietila, author of "The Ghosts Of Johns Hopkins," discusses recent protests by students, community members and Hopkins employees over the institution's relationship with…
therealnews.com/stories/how-johns-hopkins-influence-haunts-baltimore-2-2

What's Trending: Black News Recap
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2019-05-20
Washington Post: Billionaire Robert F. Smith pledges to pay off Morehouse College Class of 2019‚Ä≤s student loans Smith told the graduates how he launched his lucrative career. He gave them wise words on grit and success. Then he deviated from his prepared remarks. "My family is going to create a grant to …
naacp.org/latest/whats-trending-black-news-recap-2/

Trump is lying about immigrant crime — and the research proves it
splcenter.org | 2019-05-17
Since he began campaigning, President Trump has demonized Latino immigrants as "criminals." He has called them "rapists," drug dealers, "animals" and "bad hombres" who "infest our country."
splcenter.org/news/2019/05/17/trump-lying-about-immigrant-crime-and-research-proves-it