2019-06-05: News Headlines

Colin Benjamin (2019-06-05). American Professor At Jamaica's Edna Manley College Contemplates Hunger Strike Amid Student Sex Scandal "Coverup" blackstarnews.com Visiting African-American Maluwa Williams-Myers has a story to tell about sex abuse at Edna Manley… | On Tuesday, African-American Professor Maluwa Williams-Myers told the Black Star News she is contemplating a hunger strike to force change at a Jamaican college where a serial sex offender has allegedly abused female students "for a decade." | Professor Williams-Myers told Black Star News she is compelled to consider this drastic approach because officials at this college are involved in a "coverup." She is worried about the victimization of other young women. | Is there a rape culture problem inside this Jama…

WSWS (2019-06-05). Stop Stalinist Terror Against Chinese Workers. wsws.org The ICFI statement entitled "Stop Stalinist Terror Against Chinese Workers" was issued on June 22, 1989, as the scope of the police dragnet and repression against workers and students expanded following the Tiananmen Square massacre.

RT (2019-06-05). 'Coward from Broward' cop arrested for failing to act during Parkland school shooting. rt.com Florida school security officer Scot Peterson has been charged with neglect of duty after an investigation into his failure to act for nearly an hour allowed an ex-student to gun down 17 people at a Parkland high school last year.

Emma Fiala (2019-06-05). Teacher Gives Boy With Autism 'Most Annoying Male' Award. theantimedia.com (TMU) — A special education teacher in Indiana is in hot water after giving an 11-year-old student with autism a trophy for "most annoying male." Speaking to the Times of Northwest Indiana, the boy's father, Rick Castejon, said he was "blindsided" when his nonverbal son was given the award last month during an end-of-the-year awards ceremony at …

Mark Gruenberg (2019-06-05). GOP moves to ban teacher strikes in West Virginia. peoplesworld.org CHARLESTON, W. Va. (PAI)—The Republican-run state House here will take up legislation on June 17 to boost charter schools and vouchers to parents of private school kids, outlaw public school teacher strikes, fire all public workers—not just teachers—who strike, and withhold pay from strikers. The State Senate approved the bill on an 18-15 party line …

Yohuru Williams (2019-06-05). Where the 2020 Hopefuls Stand on Public Education. progressive.org Broad support for the wave teacher strikes has candidates jostling each other step up on public education.

plenglish (2019-06-05). Chilean Teachers on Third Day of National Strike. plenglish.com 05 de junio de 2019, 11: 25Santiago de Chile, June 5 (Prensa Latina) Chilean teachers indefinite national strike is this Wednesday on in its third day after thousands of members of Teachers Association protested in several cities.

WSWS (2019-06-05). Chicago Public Schools lay off hundreds of teachers and staff. wsws.org Layoff notices were sent to 220 teachers and 498 support staff ahead of the June 30 Chicago Teachers Union contract expiration.

Rev. William Alberts (2019-06-05). Beware of Authoritarian Christians. counterpunch.org Christianity and authoritarianism are commonly believed to be at opposite ends of the democratic-autocratic continuum. A commonly held belief is that Christians, guided by The Bible, are accepting and caring of each other and others, and are thus democratic. Yes, many Christians do good with-and-for others, inspired by Jesus' Sermon on the Mount's emphasis on mercy and forgiveness and peacemaking (Matthew 5: 1-10), his teaching that doing to others as you would have then do to you is the bottom line of religion (Matthew 7L 12), and his saying that the greatest commandments are to love God and one's neighbor as on…

CGTN Africa (2019-06-05). Zimbabwe moves to ban strikes and protests. cgtn.com Zimbabwe's leaders are expected to enact a law this week that will bar workers from staging strikes and other protests before using other measures. | Zimbabwean schoolchild awaits transport from school during a teachers' strike in Harare, Zimbabwe, February 8, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo | The country has dealt with several strikes by doctors, teachers since its disputed general elections took place in 2018. Zimbabwe is currently facing a threat of a strike by the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA). ZINA recently issued a two-week notice to the Health Services Board. Nurses are threatening a walkout over sala…

Jason Ditz (2019-06-05). Chaos as Trump Administration Bans Cruises From Visiting Cuba. theantimedia.com (ANTIWAR.COM) — The Trump Administration has made clear that their anger toward Venezuela's government also extends to Cuba, and this was shown again today with the administration imposing new restrictions to prevent Americans ever setting foot on Cuban soil. The new restrictions target educational trips as well as cruise ships, forbidden all cruises from stopping in Cuba for …

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2019-06-05). 'Straight-Up Cruel': Trump Admin Condemned for Canceling Education, Recreation, and Legal Services for Detained Migrant Children. commondreams.org Human rights advocates responded with outrage Wednesday to the Trump administration's decision to start canceling education, recreation, and legal services for unaccompanied migrant children in federal shelters across the country, purportedly because of high detention rates and low funds. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

teleSUR (2019-06-05). Cuba's Diaz-Canel Rejects New Cultural Restrictions by US. telesurenglish.net Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Wednesday rejected the new restrictions by the United States on cultural and educational trips to the island. | RELATED: | Cuban Doctors Praised for Their Work in Post-Cyclone Mozambique | The new measures, which enter into force this Wednesday, will intensify the blockade and violate international law, the president said in…

Yves Engler (2019-06-05). Trudeau Government Squeezes Cuba. globalresearch.ca Ottawa faces a dilemma. How far are Trudeau's Liberals prepared to go in squeezing Cuba? Can Canadian corporations with interests on the island restrain the most pro-US, anti-socialist, elements of the ruling class? | Recently, the Canadian Embassy in Havana closed …

Hans Stehling (2019-06-05). Kushner-Trump Family Plan for an Enlarged Israel, Ridiculed as the 'Confidence Trick of the Century'. globalresearch.ca 700,000 illegal settlers, economic migrants from Israel who have built temporary homes on Palestinian land, are proposed to be legitimised under a Kushner family plan dubbed the 'confidence trick of the century'. | The son-in-law of Donald Trump, Jared Kushner is …

Jessica Purkiss (2019-06-05). How US "Good Guys" Wiped Out an Afghan Family. globalresearch.ca It was 4am when Masih Ur-Rahman Mubarez's wife Amina called, an unusually early time for their daily chat. When he picked up the phone, he could hear the panic in her voice. | Amina was calling from the Afghan province of …

Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2019-06-05). Advancing Its War on Science, Trump Admin Blocks Fetal Tissue From Being Used in Federal Research. commondreams.org "This will make it harder to find cures for deadly diseases." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Aidan O'Brien (2019-06-05). The EU Votes and the CIA Wins Again. globalresearch.ca The European Union voted last month but not one of its 21st century war crimes and war criminals were a topic of conversation. The real possibility of a nuclear war between the EU and Russia wasn't an issue either. The …

Andrew Korybko (2019-06-05). The 75th Anniversary of the Allied D-Day Liberation of Nazi-Occupied Western Europe. A Civilizational Provocation, Russia was Not Invited. globalresearch.ca The decision not to invite President Putin to attend the 75th D-Day commemoration event was a civilizational provocation aimed at dividing the European Allies during World War II and reinforcing the historically revised notion that the Soviet Union was an …

Maurice Stierl (2019-06-05). EU Sued at International Criminal Court over Mediterranean Migration Policy — As More Die at Sea. globalresearch.ca In the same week that more migrant lives were lost at sea, the EU's migration policy in the Mediterranean has been brought to the attention of the International Criminal Court (ICC). | It emerged on June 3 that the ICC had …

Arabi Souri (2019-06-05). ISIS Remnants Regroup and Attack Syrian Army Posts in the Desert with U.S. Help. globalresearch.ca ISIS terrorists, defeated by the Syrian Arab Army in the major battles of Der Ezzor and Albukamal east of Syria, have regrouped and launched a new wave of attacks against the SAA posts in the dese…

Nadia Bazuk (2019-06-05). The Ukrainian State's Interference in Church Affairs. globalresearch.ca The recent presidential elections in Ukraine ended quite unexpectedly — the comedian Volodymyr Zelensky whose bid for presidency hadn't been taken seriously by experts and voters in early 2019, defeated Petro Poroshenko and won a landslide victory. The margin between …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-06-05). "Freedom of Expression" and "The Battle of Ideas" globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | This is a personal message. Please read carefully. | When Global Research was born in September 2001, we were convinced that "Freedom of Expression" and "The Battle of Ideas" would contribute to reversing the tide of war, while also …

South Front (2019-06-05). Video: War Propaganda and US Military Buildup Against Iran. globalresearch.ca Tensions continue to grow in the Persian Gulf. | In early May, the US deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group as well as the USS Arlington amphibious transport dock, additional marines, amphibious vehicles, rotary aircraft, Patriot missiles and a bomber …

Eric Toussaint (2019-06-05). "The Lesson of the Soviet Union Is that the Bureaucracy Chooses Capitalist Restoration" globalresearch.ca Wilder Pérez Varona (WPV): My first question to you is about the issue of bureaucracy. | Before 1917 the issue of the socialist transition is one thing. The 1848 Revolution, the Paris Commune (which is a crucial episode, but of …

Andrew Korybko (2019-06-05). The US-China Trade War Can be Traced Back to the Failed Tiananmen Square Color Revolution. globalresearch.ca The current "trade war" owes its origins to the US' failed Tiananmen Square Color Revolution that convinced the Chinese authorities that their late-Old Cold War-era American "allies" couldn't be trusted, which in turn inspired the Communist Party to use the …

plenglish (2019-06-05). Brazil had a Historic Record of 65,602 Murders in 2017. plenglish.com Brasilia, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) Brazil had 65,602 people killed in 2017, revealed this Wednesday the Atlas of Violence, prepared by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and the Brazilian Public Security Forum.

Andrew Jackson (2019-06-05). After the Fall of the Berlin War: Between Dystopia and Democratic Socialism. globalresearch.ca After the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread sense that liberal capitalism had triumphed in the battle of ideas, and that socialism as a plausible alternative was pretty much dead. But the many crises of contemporary …

Colin Todhunter (2019-06-05). From Glyphosate to Front Groups: Fraud, Deception and Toxic Tactics. globalresearch.ca Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and the British Medical Association Council Chairman, Chaand Nagpaul. | Her purpose is to not only draw attention to the impact of biocides, not least that …

Arabi Souri (2019-06-05). Video: US-Sponsored Kurdish Militia Burn Wheat Fields in Northern Syria. globalresearch.ca The Kurdish separatist militia SDF and its affiliates from PYD and Asayish are burning wheat fields in the territories under their occupation northeast of Syria. | Some of the most fertile lands as well as territories rich with oil are under …

Peter Maass (2019-06-05). What the Horror of "Chernobyl" Reveals About the Deceit of the Trump Era. theintercept.com The HBO miniseries reveals the perils of a society based on lies. It also warns about ignoring the laws of science — and climate change.

Editor (2019-06-05). Liberal' — hasta a un punto. workers.org Los llamados medios de comunicación liberales en los Estados Unidos, especialmente el New York Times, el Washington Post y algunas fuentes de noticias de televisión, profesan la independencia. Pero no se atreven a ofender a sus dueños de clase dominante en asuntos internacionales clave. Tomemos, por ejemplo, el "informe" que . . . | Continue reading Liberal' — hasta a un punto at Workers.org

John Wojcik (2019-06-04). Black women display leadership during presidential forum attack. peoplesworld.org A white male protester grabbed the microphone from Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., after he jumped onto the stage last Saturday during a presidential candidates' forum sponsored by MoveOn. Harris was in the middle of remarks about student loans for black students when the animal rights activist lunged toward her and grabbed her mic. In an …

WSWS (2019-06-04). WSWS republishes ICFI statements on Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, 1989. wsws.org Thirty years after the brutal military crackdown on unarmed workers and students in Beijing, these documents contain the essential political lessons for the revolutionary struggles ahead.

Labor Video Project (2019-06-04). Palestinian Solidarity, South Africa BDS & Director Muhammed Desai. indybay.org WorkWeek interviews SJSU professor Sang Hea Kil about her trip to South Africa to attend the Teaching Palestine confernce in March 2019. While at the conference she and two other women were sexually harassed by Muhammed Desai, the director of South Africa BDS. She talks about that experience and the cover-up that followed. She also discusses the role of Israel and the attacks against professors and students in the United States who are critical of Israel…

WSWS (2019-06-04). Victory to the Political Revolution in China. wsws.org The following statement was published on June 8, 1989, just four days after the Chinese government's brutal military crackdown on students and workers in Tiananmen Square.

WSWS (2019-06-04). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Mass protests are continuing in Brazil against education cuts by the right-wing Bolsanaro administration while striking Honduran teachers and doctors held protests against privatization of healthcare and education.

Ashley Curtin (2019-06-04). 'GOP retaliates against the people who educate our children:' West Virginia passes education bill that bans teacher strikes. nationofchange.org Lawmakers in West Virginia recently passed an education bill with an amendment that would ban teachers strikes. The legislation, which passed the Senate, heads to the state's House of Delegates later this month. | While the right-to-work state already doesn't give employees collective bargaining rights, many call the amendment "pure retribution, retaliation." | "This is just I think another stab at trying to punish us, making the law perhaps a little more severe with such language," Fred Albert, president of the West Virginia chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). | The amendment would "specify…

Michael Welton (2019-06-04). Education in the Service of Assimilation: The Founding Vision of Residential Schools in Canada. counterpunch.org Many of us can scarcely comprehend why a teacher might smack a child across the mouth with a ruler for "speaking Indian" (one of thousands of cruel acts perpetrated on Native children). They were stripped of their clothing and given a number upon entering the residential school. They were separated from their siblings by gender and removed from parental contact and community bonds. They were fed lousy food in lousy buildings. Around 6000 children died of various diseases, particularly tuberculosis. Their own spiritual traditions and practices were attacked mercilessly. Spiritual desolation awaited them down the r…

WSWS (2019-06-04). New Haven teachers strike enters third week. wsws.org The New Haven Teachers Association has dropped their wage demands beneath inflation, leaving teachers at a loss.

CGTN Africa (2019-06-04). Huawei, AU deepen relationship with new 3-year deal. cgtn.com Chinese technology giant, Huawei, and the African Union (AU) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to consolidate ICT cooperation. The MoU aims at strengthening the partnership between the two sides on broadband, internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, 5G and artificial intelligence, according to a statement issued by Huawei. | The initiative will also train young people in tech skills, and offer AU departments support in dealing with cybersecurity, as well as digital health and education. | The deal follows a 2015 MOU which focused on improving the union's technological capabilities, including by or…

teleSUR (2019-06-04). US Bans Educational and Recreational Travel to Cuba. telesurenglish.net As of June 5, U.S. citizens will be prohibited from making group educational and cultural trips known as "people to people" travel to Cuba, Secretary of Commerce Steve Mnuchin of the U.S. Treasury Department confirmed in a statement Tuesday. | RELATED: | US Sanctions Violate Human Rights, International Law: UN Expert | According to the commercial director at Cuba's tourism ministry, Michel Bernal, the island nation received about 250,000 U.S. visitors in the first four months of…

Manlio Dinucci (2019-06-04). Le lunghe mani del gruppo Bildenberg. globalresearch.ca Tre italiani sono stati invitati quest'anno alla riunione del gruppo Bilderberg, svoltasi a Montreux in Svizzera dal 30 maggio al 2 giugno. Accanto a Lilli Gruber, la conduttrice televisiva de La7 ormai ospite fissa del Bildelberg, è stato invitato un …

Stephen Lendman (2019-06-04). Dubious Report on Russia Withdrawing Defense Support to Venezuela. globalresearch.ca With attribution to Mark Twain's remark about false reports of his death, a Wall Street Journal report on Russia withdrawing defense support to Venezuela is greatly exaggerated. See below. | Trump is Exhibit A proof that all politicians lie, and nothing …

Firas Samuri (2019-06-04). Israel Continues Its Interference in the Syrian Crisis. globalresearch.ca On June 2, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Israeli aggression on the T4 airbase, located in the eastern countryside of Homs province. It's recognized that the Syrian Air Defense System managed to destroy two missiles. The remaining rockets …

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2019-06-04). President Lopez Obrador of Mexico's Letter to Donald Trump. "I Don't Want Confrontation…" globalresearch.ca President Donald Trump, | I am aware of your latest position in regard to Mexico. In advance, I express to you that I don't want confrontation. The peoples and nations that we represent deserve that we resort to dialogue and act …

Andrew Korybko (2019-06-04). South Asia's Role in the Pentagon's "Indo-Pacific Strategy Report" globalresearch.ca The US' recently released "Indo-Pacific Strategy Report" envisages India playing a key role in this vast transregional space in order to "contain" China, while Pakistan is conspicuously absent from the text despite being one of the few nuclear weapons states, …

Rep. Ron Paul (2019-06-04). Hey Trump: Remember Wikileaks? globalresearch.ca Last week in an episode of my daily Ron Paul Liberty Report we discussed whether the US and British government were actually trying to kill jailed Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. More than seven years ago Assange was granted asylum …

George Szamuely (2019-06-04). Strange Defenders: Assange and the Press. globalresearch.ca In recent days, in response to the Trump administration's issuance on May 23 of a 17-charge indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a number of prominent liberal columnists and Democratic politicians have come out with highly critical comments. Understandably, …

Manlio Dinucci (2019-06-04). As mà£os desmedidas do grupo Bilderberg. globalresearch.ca Três italianos foram convidados este ano para a reunià£o do grupo Bilderberg, realizada em Montreux, na Suíàßa, de 30 de Maio a 2 de Junho. Ao lado de Lilli Gruber, a apresentadora televisiva do La7, agora convidada permanente do Bilderberg, …