Don't Blame Trump, DeVos, or Unions for Growing Opposition to Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-10
While billionaires Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos can take some of the "blame" for an uptick in broad opposition to the nation's 7,000 non-profit and for-profit charter schools, resistance to privately-operated charter schools has been building for nearly three decades. Opposition to segregated, test-obsessed, and unaccountable charter schools that fleece the public treasury is not …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/dont-blame-trump-devos-or-unions-for-growing-opposition-to-charter-schools/
Charter Schools Are a Major Dividing Line for the 2020 Democratic Candidates—Education Fights in Pennsylvania Point the Way
Jeff Bryant | commondreams.org | 2019-06-10
Pennsylvania's surging charter school costs are direct causes of rapidly rising property taxes across the state. (Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/10/charter-schools-are-major-dividing-line-2020-democratic-candidates-education-fights?cd-origin=rss
CA State Supt. Thurmond Making Nice With The Charters & Privatizers
repost | indybay.org | 2019-06-10
State Superintendent of Public Instruction who was elected by the support of the CTA, CFT and labor with Governor Newsom appointed charter advocates, privatizers and union busters to a board to investigate the role of charters. He talks about his acceptance of charters in an interview. | His pro-privatization appointments of | California Charter Authorization Professionals (CCAP) | California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) | Green Dot Charter Schools | Stephanie Medrano Farland, Consultant, Collaborative Solutions for Charter Authorizers…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/10/18823878.php
They cannot stop us. We will live and triumph
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-06-10
Yesterday the U.S. Treasury Department added to sanctions announced April 17, and the activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, the prohibition of "people to people" cultural and educational trips, plus others related to travel and transportation services, remittances, banking, commerce, and telecommunications | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/10/they-cannot-stop-us-we-will-live-and-triumph/
Nigeria's Borno State in need of teachers amid Boko Haram insurgency
Jerry Omondi | cgtn.com | 2019-06-10
About 6,000 additional teachers are needed in Nigeria's northeast Borno state to improve the quality of education in the area, an official said. | "The government is building state of the art schools with a decent environment, but our teachers lack motivation," Jibril Muhammed, chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) said on Sunday in Maiduguri, the state capital. | "It is my firm belief that with the necessary motivations for our teachers, the problems in our education sector will be solved." | Muhammed made the comments against the backdrop of 40 mega schools constructed by the government to cater f…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/10/nigerias-borno-state-in-need-of-teachers-amid-boko-haram-insurgency/
Trump core exposed: Lies & insults 'tell it like it is'
Robert S. Becker | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-10
Bluster boomerang on display: | Tabulating how little Trump has done for his voters' economic misery is not enough. Failure and hypocrisy don't speak for themselves when cult denial reigns: job-sucking outsourcing continues (especially in backwaters), domestic factory growth sags, better paying jobs are coastal and/or in tech, tax reform is a joke, and bonehead tariffs inflate prices on basics the bottom 50% must buy. No infrastructure, no job training, no national educational push — surprise! Billionaires flourish while Trump families grit their teeth, still dreaming a cruel hustler's jingoism,…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/10/trump-core-exposed-lies-insults-tell-it-like-it-is/
Logan High & The Battle For Public Education: New Haven Teachers Face Union Busting
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-10
New Haven Teaches Association members are interviewed at Logan High School at Union City on their 13th day on strike in the district. They discuss their fight to defend public education and union busting by the trustees and management.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/07/18823789.php
70,000 Chilean Teachers Continue to Strike for Better Education
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-10
Chilean teachers' strike has entered the second week Monday due to lack of government responses to their demands for better working conditions and structural changes. | RELATED: | Chile Teachers Call For Demonstrations Against Poor Conditions | Around 70,000 members of the Chilean Teachers' Association are striking for better working conditions, demanding the Ministry of Education to ensure adequate attention to public education and take measures to stop its deterioration.
telesurenglish.net/news/70000-Chilean-Teachers-Continue-to-Strike-for-Better-Education-20190610-0006.html
Trump's Conservatives Without Conscience Are Rattled by John Dean
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-06-10
Trump's Conservatives Without Conscience Are Rattled by John Dean…
thenation.com/article/trumps-conservatives-without-conscience-are-rattled-by-john-dean/
'Clearly an alien': Internet weighs in on eerie viral 'Dobby the elf' VIDEO
rt.com | 2019-06-10
A viral video posted to Facebook has triggered fierce debate between fandoms of science fiction and fantasy, as netizens debate whether the strange 'creature' is indeed an alien or is actually Dobby the elf from Harry Potter. | …
rt.com/usa/461490-dobby-elf-viral-video/
Trump's Justice Department Preparing "Additional Indictment" Against Assange. Currently Facing 18 Spurious Charges
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
According to editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks Kristinn Hrafnsson: "[The Trump administration] is so desperate to build its case against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange that it is using a diagnosed sociopath, a convicted conman and sex criminal, who was exposed by …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-justice-department-preparing-additional-indictment-against-assange-currently-facing-18-spurious-charges/5680149
Germany's Historic Campaign: "No to Military Bases and Wars". "NATO Out — Out of NATO"
Anneliese Fikentscher | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
The 3rd International Conference "No to Military Bases & Wars" (1) takes place in a country where the legal situation allows to eliminate all military facilities of USA and NATO, namely by terminating the "Convention on the Presence of Foreign …
globalresearch.ca/germanys-historical-campaign-no-to-military-bases-and-wars-nato-out-out-of-nato/5680103
Has Serbia Lost Kosovo? Why President Hashim Thaàßi Needs Another Conflict with Serbia
Rostislav Ishchenko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
On May 27th the president of Serbia Aleksandr Vucic urged to face the truth and to recognize that Serbia lost Kosovo. On May 28th units of the Kosovar police intruded into Serb districts in the north of Kosovo and arrested …
globalresearch.ca/why-does-hashim-thaci-need-another-conflict-serbia/5680113
The Most Crucial Pipeline of the Middle East?
Vanand Meliksetian | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
Contemporary Middle Eastern history is strongly influenced by energy politics. Besides providing revenue for the state's coffers, oil is also a potent geopolitical tool in the hands of resource-rich countries. Recently, officials from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have engaged …
globalresearch.ca/most-crucial-pipeline-middle-east/5680144
The Danger of Armed Drones: Targeted Killings
Drone Wars UK | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
The use of armed drones is presented as a 'risk-free' solution to security problems. Through using remotely-controlled aircraft to take out bad guys far away from our shores, we are told, we are keeping the public as well as our …
globalresearch.ca/danger-drones/5680089
Selected Articles: America's Intent is to Dominate China, Russia and the World
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-americas-intent-is-to-dominate-china-russia-and-the-world/5680182
Tens of Thousands of 5G Telecommunications Satellites. Escalating Tensions in a Contested and Congested Space Environment
Claire Edwards | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 enshrined the principle of outer space being preserved as a common heritage of humankind,1 yet " lacks any provisions that would regulate the methods of the settlement of eventual disputes, which usually appear …
globalresearch.ca/5g-satellites-risk-escalating-tensions-contested-congested-space-environment/5680082
This Outlaw Power: America's Intent is to Dominate China, Russia and the World
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
On June 4th the Chinese government issued a travel alert for Chinese tourists thinking of visiting the United States, a day after it issued a similar advisory to Chinese students thinking of studying in the US over concerns for their …
globalresearch.ca/this-outlaw-power-americas-intent-is-to-dominate-china-russia-and-the-world/5680092
European Customers Are "Abandoning" UK Firms as Manufacturing Figures Sink
Jack Peat | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
Signs that European customers are "abandoning" UK firms are starting to show after British manufacturing recorded the steepest downturn in almost three years. | Following an early Brexit stockpiling boom at the start of the year May figures dipped significantly for …
globalresearch.ca/european-customers-abandoning-uk-firms-manufacturing-figures-sink/5680138
What "Everyone Knows" About D-Day
Prof Susan Babbitt | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
Four days of coverage of D-Day on CBC radio and no one explains "free world". After seventy-five years, everyone knows what it is. | Evolutionary biologist Steven Jay Gould said nothing is as dangerous as what "everyone knows" but no one …
globalresearch.ca/what-everyone-knows-about-d-day/5680146
Prime Minister of Poland Signs Global Appeal to Stop 5G Telecommunications Transmission
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
In what is surely an unprecedented and groundbreaking action, the Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, has personally backed an International Appeal to stop the controversial roll-out of 5G electro magnetic microwave telecommunication transmissions. | 5G, a new millimetre band …
globalresearch.ca/prime-minister-poland-signs-global-appeal-stop-5g/5680098
Homelessness and The Los Angeles "Disease Renaissance": Typhoid and Typhus Make a Comeback
Sarah Cowgill | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
A parable for US times. So busy with bombs, wars, sanctions, walls, that humans are relegated to the 15th century. — Felicity Arbuthnot | Despite hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through Los Angeles to stem the rising tide of homelessness…
globalresearch.ca/los-angeles-disease-typhoid-typhus-comeback/5680085
Germany's Historical Campaign: "No to Military Bases and Wars". "NATO Out — Out of NATO"
Anneliese Fikentscher | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
The 3rd International Conference "No to Military Bases & Wars" (1) takes place in a country where the legal situation allows to eliminate all military facilities of USA and NATO, namely by terminating the "Convention on the Presence of Foreign …
globalresearch.ca/germanys-historical-campaign-no-to-military-bases-and-wars-nato-out-out-of-nato/5680103
Sudan: Chaos Unleashed. Color Revolution
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
The ongoing events in Sudan are a perfect example of the uncontrollable chaos that can be unleashed in society following a Color Revolution, with it now becoming almost impossible to predict how the latest crisis will be resolved, if ever….
globalresearch.ca/sudan-chaos-unleashed-color-revolution/5680154
Somebody's Watching You: The Surveillance of Self-Driving Cars
Luis F. Alvarez León | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
Picture the future, where driving is a thing of the past. You can hop in your car or one from a ride-share, buckle up and tell the car where you want to go. During your ride, you can check your | …
globalresearch.ca/surveillance-self-driving-cars/5680109
Neoliberal Economics and Workers Rights in Ontario: One Million More Reasons to Mobilize Against Ford
Prof. Jeff Noonan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
The public sector "salary restraint" legislation expected by public sector union leaders was formally introduced on June 5th ( Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, 2019). I will get to the criticism in a moment. First, …
globalresearch.ca/neoliberal-economics-and-workers-rights-in-ontario-one-million-more-reasons-to-mobilize-against-ford/5680158
Corporations Are Poisoning People in Puerto Rico With Coal Ash
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-10
Community organizers in Guayama, Puerto Rico, are agitating for the closure of a coal plant operated by the Virginia-based multinational corporation AES, citing research showing that local rates of cancer and asthma have increased substantially since the plant opened in 2002. | Now the fight has spread to the mainland United States: in early May, media reported that AES coal ash is now being shipped to a landfill in Osceola County, Florida. Even as AES contin…
truthout.org/articles/corporations-are-poisoning-people-in-puerto-rico-with-coal-ash/
Prime Minister of Poland Signs Global Appeal to Stop 5G Telecommunications Transmission? Unconfirmed
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
Global Research Editor's Note | The records of the Stop 5G Global Appeal indicate that Poland's Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrow (Chancellery of the Council of Ministers), which is chaired by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has endorsed the appeal under the Category …
globalresearch.ca/prime-minister-poland-signs-global-appeal-stop-5g/5680098
"The Great Insect Dying" in Europe and North America, Numerous Insect Species in Decline, Confirmed by Entomologists
Jeremy Hance | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
In recent months a debate over whether a global insect apocalypse is underway has raged in the mainstream media and among researchers. To assess the range of scientific opinion, Mongabay interviewed 24 entomologists and other scientists working on six continents, …
globalresearch.ca/the-great-insect-dying-in-europe-and-north-america-numerous-insect-species-in-decline-confirmed-by-entomologists/5680141
Haiti, the Silent Chaos!
Joà´l Léon | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
Introductory Note on Somalia. Its Relevance to Haiti | One year of the war between Somalia and Ethiopia (1977-78) was enough to destroy an entire country and spread instability across the region. | After the 1991 coup that toppled general Mohamed Siad …
globalresearch.ca/haiti-silent-chaos/5680132
The US-Mexican Deal Advances "Fortress America", Softens China's "Counter-Sanctions"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
The deal that Trump struck with Mexico late last week in order to prevent the imposition of 5-25% tariffs on all of its exports to the US marketplace simultaneously advances his vision of "Fortress America" and softens the blow of …
globalresearch.ca/the-us-mexican-deal-advances-fortress-america-softens-chinas-counter-sanctions/5680129
Underpaid Adjunct Professors Sleep in Cars and Rely on Public Aid
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-10
Adjunct professors are the minimum-wage temp workers of academia. Underpaid, overworked, with no benefits and no job security, their numbers have ballooned in recent decades. They are part of what Herb Childress calls "hope labor," in his new book, The Adjunct Underclass. Childress quotes researchers who define hope labor as "un- or under-compensated work carried out in the present, often for experience or exposure, in the hope that future employment opportunities may follow." For most adjuncts, that hope comes to nothing. | Chil…
truthout.org/articles/underpaid-adjunct-professors-sleep-in-cars-and-rely-on-public-aid/
The Downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17: Mahathir Opens a "Ukraine Political Pandora's Box"
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad sent shock waves in a public speech where he dismissed a Dutch "official" report blaming Russia for the downing of Malaysia Air Flight 17 in July, 2014, weeks after a CIA-led coup toppled the elected …
globalresearch.ca/the-downing-of-malaysian-airlines-mh17-mahathir-opens-a-ukraine-political-pandoras-box/5680097
Sign the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-10
"Telecommunications companies worldwide, with the support of governments, are poised within the next two years to roll out the fifth-generation wireless network (5G). This is set to deliver what is acknowledged to be unprecedented societal change on a global scale. …
globalresearch.ca/sign-the-international-appeal-to-stop-5g-on-earth-and-in-space/5680202
We Need to Beat Our Own Swords Into Plowshares and Honor the Kent State Martyrs, the Wounded, and Their Families
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-10
Following the May 4, 1970 massacre of students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio by members of the Ohio National Guard, colleges and universities across the U.S. were in an uproar that ended in the closing of hundreds of campuses for the academic year and the outrage of millions of students and others across…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/10/we-need-to-beat-our-own-swords-into-plowshares-and-honor-the-kent-state-martyrs-the-wounded-and-their-families/
Chilean Students Occupy Distinctive Institute
plenglish.com | 2019-06-10
Santiago de Chile, June 10 (Prensa Latina) Students from the iconic National Institute of Santiago de Chile agreed to occupy this campus indefinitely, amidst clashes with police forces that have been interrupting classes at this center for a month.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…
Rwandan secondary school students compete on Chinese language
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-10
Rwanda's secondary school students from different parts of the country participated in the Rwanda final of a Chinese language proficiency competition held in the capital city Kigali on Sunday. | The overseas preliminary rounds of the 12th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign Secondary School Students for Rwanda were hosted by Chinese Embassy in Rwanda and organized by Confucius Institute at University of Rwanda. | Ten finalists who won out of about 1,000 competitors demonstrated their Chinese language skills through three rounds of competition including the speech, quiz of Chinese knowledg…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/10/rwandan-secondary-school-students-compete-on-chinese-language/
Chilean Students Occupy Distinctive Institute
plenglish.com | 2019-06-10
Santiago de Chile, June 10 (Prensa Latina) Students from the iconic National Institute of Santiago de Chile agreed to occupy this campus indefinitely, amidst clashes with police forces that have been interrupting classes at this center for a month.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…
As Labor Forces Unite, Forced Arbitration Is Still Rampant
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-10
Janine Jackson interviewed Celine McNicholas about forced arbitration for the May 31, 2019, episode of "CounterSpin." This is a lightly edited transcript.Janine Jackson: Fast food workers winning a higher minimum wage. Public school teachers winning smaller class si…
truthout.org/audio/as-labor-forces-unite-forced-arbitration-is-still-rampant/
Logan High & The Battle For Public Education: New Haven Teachers Face Union Busting
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-09
New Haven Teaches Association members are interviewed at Logan High School at Union City on their 13th day on strike in the district. They discuss their fight to defend public education and union busting by the trustees and management.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/07/18823789.php
Trump's New Travel Restrictions Harm Both US and Cuban People
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-09
Escalating his policy to economically strangle Cuba, Donald Trump has imposed new restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S. persons. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will no longer allow the popular "people-to-people" educational travel and they will deny …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-new-travel-restrictions-harm-both-us-cuban-people/5680022
Trump Attempted to Suppress State Dept. Analyst's Testimony on Climate Crisis
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-09
The Trump administration issued one of its most blatant attacks on climate science this past week when it tried to stop a State Department employee from testifying on the climate crisis, reports showed on Saturday. | As the Washington Post reported, intelligence analyst Rod Schoonover's testimony was submitted to the White House for approval ahead of his planned appearance before the House P…
truthout.org/articles/trump-attempted-to-suppress-state-dept-analysts-testimony-on-climate-crisis/
"This Is What Fascists Do": Trump Attempted to Suppress State Dept Analyst's Testimony on Climate Crisis
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-09
The Trump administration issued one of its most blatant attacks on climate science this past week when it tried to stop a State Department employee from testifying on the climate crisis, reports showed on Saturday. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/09/what-fascists-do-trump-attempted-suppress-state-dept-analysts-testimony-climate?cd-origin=rss
General Roméo Dallaire Denies the "Canadian Genocide" and Distorts Rwanda's
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-09
Is Roméo Dallaire a genocide denier? | After a (question free) talk at Concordia University this week I followed the famous Canadian general out of the room to ask why he still supports ruthless dictator Paul Kagame. Kagame is the …
globalresearch.ca/romeo-dallaire-denies-canadian-genocide-distorts-rwandas/5680017
The Solidarity and Unity of Venezuelans against U.S. Interventionism
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-09
The foreign policy of the United States has never been rational and consistent. Its imperial ideology obfuscates the minds of its politicians who become blind to the consequences of their decisions. We have seen that clearly in their actions in …
globalresearch.ca/the-solidarity-and-unity-of-venezuelans-against-u-s-interventionism/5680033
Israel's Attack on The USS Liberty: An Act of War, A False Flag, A Gross Betrayal
Craig McKee | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-09
It is one of the greatest lies that most Americans — in fact most people around the world — have never heard of. And it reveals much about the true relationship between the United States and one of its "closest …
globalresearch.ca/what-we-should-have-learned-israels-attack-uss-liberty/5680016
US Treasury Department Tightens Sanctions on Venezuela Oil Sector
Ricardo Vaz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-09
The US Treasury Department has announced a hardening of measures against Venezuela's oil industry. | In an amendment to the Venezuela sanctions published on Thursday, Washington stated that the existing licenses, which allow certain companies to continue dealing with Venezuela state …
globalresearch.ca/us-treasury-department-tightens-sanctions-venezuela-oil-sector/5680019
Pakistan-Russia Relations: Upcoming Putin-Khan Meeting on Sidelines of SCO Summit
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-09
Russian President Putin and Pakistani Prime Minister Khan will reportedly have their first-ever meeting later this week during the SCO Summit in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, but while the symbolism of this possible interaction shouldn't be downplayed, observers also …
globalresearch.ca/pakistan-russia-relations-upcoming-putin-khan-meeting-on-sidelines-of-sco-summit/5680046
Angola in need of USD 300 million to clear land mines
Christine Maema | cgtn.com | 2019-06-09
The government of Angola announced that over $300 million is needed by the National Inter-sectoral Commission for Demining (CNIDAH) to be able to clear about 174 kilometres of the Angolan territory of landmines by the year 2025. | Photo of unexploded ordnances (UXO) — UN Photo | The information was given by the CNIDAH representative Adriano Gonàßalves, during a mine co-ordination meeting dubbed 'Agenda 2025'. | In 2018, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), released a report which stated that Angola is among the twelve countries where the level of landmines presence is still…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/09/angola-in-need-of-usd-300-million-to-clear-land-mines/
The Danish Elections: Social Democracy with an "Inhumane Face"
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-09
The great centrist European tradition of social democracy has been receiving a rattle for the last few decades. The European Parliament elections were a reminder how much their appeal has diminished. In Denmark, by way of contrast, they have established …
globalresearch.ca/danish-elections-social-democracy-inhumane-face/5680042