(2019-06-12). Kenya's Strathmore University beats Harvard in WTO competition. cgtn.com 
A team of three students from Strathmore University defeated Harvard Law School in the final of a global law school competition held in Geneva, Switzerland. | Strathmore University trio beats Harvard in global law school competition. | Mishael Wambua, Kandalla Maleehah, and Catherine Penda became the first African team to win the John H. Jackson Moot Court on World Trade Organization (WTO) Law Competition. | They also beat teams from Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Uganda to represent African at the competition's seventeenth edition. | During the competition, part…
(2019-06-12). Palestinian Solidarity & SA BDS Director Desai With Professor Sang He. indybay.org SJSU professor Sang Hea Kil is interviewed by WorkWeek about her trip to the Teaching Palestine conference in Capetown, South Africa. The conference looked at the role of Israel and the Zionist apartheid state. While attending the conference, she and two other participants were sexually harassed by the South African BDS director Muhammed Desai and the organization sought to cover-up this incident.
(2019-06-12). Japan's Prime Minister Abe Is Trump's Informal Ambassador to Iran, but He Wants More Than to Mediate. globalresearch.ca Japanese Prime Minister Abe is functioning as Trump's informal ambassador to Iran during his two day trip to the Islamic Republic, though he has much greater strategic interests in mind than just being the US President's proxy such as expanding …
(2019-06-12). India Now Supports Israel at the UN against Palestine. Are They Allies? globalresearch.ca India broke with decades of its post-independence political traditions by unprecedentedly supporting "Israel" at the UN and voting against granting consultative status to a Palestinian NGO that allegedly has ties with Hamas, therefore formally allying with the self-professed "Jewish State" …
(2019-06-12). Tory cuts result in 131,000 preventable deaths in the UK. wsws.org The Institute for Public Policy Research found that austerity measures carried out in the UK since 2012 have led to 131,000 preventable deaths.
(2019-06-12). The Last Bastion of Al Qaeda in Syria: US Propaganda Blitz Ahead of Idlib's Liberation. globalresearch.ca A concerted effort is being made to once again flood Western headlines with now familiar and long-since discredited war propaganda as Syrian forces and their Russian and Iranian allies move in on Idlib in northern Syria to liberate it from …
(2019-06-12). The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere but War. China's Competitive Edge. globalresearch.ca US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war. | "The early U.S. global hi-tech …
(2019-06-12). Video: The Seven Biggest Failures of Trumponomics. globalresearch.ca Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress keep crowing about the economy, when in reality Trumponomics has been a disaster. Here are its 7 biggest failures: | 1. Trump promised to bring down America's trade deficit " as fast as possible."…
(2019-06-12). Russia-China: The Summit Which the Media Ignored. globalresearch.ca On 5 June, the media projectors zeroed in on President Trump and the European leaders of NATO, who, for the anniversary of D-Day, auto-celebrated in Portsmouth "peace, freedom and democracy in Europe," vowing to "defend them at any time, wherever …
(2019-06-12). Chilean Drinking Water Contains Polluting Substances. plenglish.com 12 de junio de 2019, 03: 00Santiago, Chile, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) "Ghost" pollutants were found in drinking water in several northern Chilean cities, according to researchers from the Biotechnology and Microbiology Laboratory of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering at the Catholic University (UC).
(2019-06-12). Toxic Air Leads to Premature Death in New York, Paris, London, Beijing, Berlin and Moscow. globalresearch.ca There is today a major health crisis due to toxic air pollution exposure in every city in Europe, America, China and around the world. | Whilst there is now some regulation that has recently been introduced to control toxic exhaust emissions…
(2019-06-12). A Russian-American-Israeli Meeting of National Security Advisors in Jerusalem: Syria and Iran on the Table. globalresearch.ca This month of June, the National Security Advisors of Russia, the US, and Israel, Nikolay Patrushev, John Bolton and Meir Ben-Shabbat, respectively, are expected to meet in Jerusalem to talk about Iran and Syria and what Israel considers the …
(2019-06-11). Canada announces plan to ban single-use plastics. nationofchange.org Leaving the US even farther behind in policy designed to help the environment, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that Canada will ban single-use plastics as early as 2021. | Specific items included in the ban will be plastic straws, cotton swabs, drink stirrers, plates, cutlery, and balloon sticks. Other items will be added once the government completes a science-based review. | Trudeau says the inspiration came from the European Union vote to impose a ban on single-use plastics in March. If EU states vote in favor of the measure passed by the European Parliament a ban against a range…
(2019-06-11). Radio Frequency Radiation (EMF) Threatens Plant and Animal Species with Extinction. globalresearch.ca "Despite widespread denial, the evidence that radio frequency (RF) radiation is harmful to life is already overwhelming." | But in a recent BBC article, they basically did just that: completely ignored the ridiculously large volume of evidence, which any 'respectable' …
(2019-06-11). Sorry, But Just Having Better Schools Won't Fix America. commondreams.org Even the most thoughtful and well-intentioned school-reform program can't improve educational outcomes if it ignores the single greatest driver of student achievement: household income. (Photo: Edmon de Haro) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-11). Bring Troops Home and Send More Kids to College. commondreams.org Student debt—now at about $1.6 trillion—is greater than the amount owed to credit cards or in auto loans. (Photo: ©Arenacreative/Dreamstime.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-11). Reinsertion Plan Benefits 1.6 Million Venezuelan Youths. plenglish.com Caracas, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) More than 1.657 million Venezuelan youths have registered in the Youth Employment Great Mission (Gran Mision Chamba Juvenil), a government program to reincorporate young people into educational and labor projects, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said.
(2019-06-11). News Hounds Ignore Red Meat in D.C., Gnaw on Bone in New York. truthdig.com 
Monday's House Judiciary Committee hearing was just getting started when the first reports came in: New York. Aircraft. Building.
(2019-06-11). Communist Party and Labor History Tour a big feature at coming convention. peoplesworld.org 
CHICAGO—Delegates, guests, and the public, too, will have a unique opportunity before the Communist Party USA's 31st National Convention, opening here June 21. They'll have the chance to explore the history of the city's communist and labor movements in a special bus tour co-sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society, the People Before Profits Education …
(2019-06-11). Reject NHTA sellout! Expand the strike to defend public education! wsws.org The following statement was distributed to teachers in the New Haven school district in northern California who were voting Sunday on a union-backed deal that cuts real wages and opens the door to deep budget cuts.
(2019-06-11). New Zealand: Teacher at impoverished school speaks out against conditions that led to last month's historic strike. wsws.org The WSWS interviewed a New Zealand teacher, who revealed the growing crisis facing severely under-resourced schools in rural towns.
(2019-06-11). Union betrayal ends three-week teacher strike in Hayward-Union City, California. wsws.org After striking for 14 days, New Haven teachers were pressured heavily to vote for the union's sellout contract.
(2019-06-11). US-China Relations: Trump Is Waging "Psychological Warfare" on Xi. globalresearch.ca Trump just dramatically increased trade tensions between the US and China after publicly demanding that President Xi hold talks with him at the G20 otherwise he'll immediately impose tariffs on $300 billion worth of imports, which is nothing less than …
(2019-06-11). Media Paints Jihadist Commander Who Pledged Allegiance to ISIS as a Soccer Star with the Voice of an Angel. globalresearch.ca If you've read the headlines about the death of "Syrian activist" Abdel Basset al-Sarout, you probably think he was a pretty cool guy. Headlines referring to him as a "Syrian footballer, singer and rebel" make him seem like he …
(2019-06-11). Canada's 'Liberals' Have a Disturbing Imperial Streak, Express Support for Regime Change in Venezuela. globalresearch.ca Canada's embassy in Venezuela will—at the end of this month—close. The spur for this closure is an open attempt by Canada's Justin Trudeau to overthrow Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro. Canada is one of the leaders of the Lima Group, a …
(2019-06-11). Canadian 'Srebrenica Genocide Denial Law': When Even the Truth Is No Defense. globalresearch.ca Never mind the slow but steady dismantling in the fabled West of the "welfare state", that temporary horror the elites grudgingly used to tolerate. But that was only as a means of pacifying their subjects and winning over credulous hearts …
(2019-06-11). Getting Poorer While Working Harder: The "Cliff Effect" truthout.org Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills. | There is no place in the country where a family supported by one minimum-wage worker with a full-time job can live and afford a 2-bedroom apartment at the average fair-market rent. | Given the pressure to earn enough to make ends meet, you would think that low-paid workers would be clamor…
(2019-06-11). Marine Life at Risk If Mexican Gulf 'Dead Zone' Might Expand. telesurenglish.net A near record-sized "dead zone" of oxygen-starved water could form and expand in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, threatening its huge stocks of marine life, researchers warned on Monday. | RELATED: | Mexican Defender of Howler Monkey Sanctuary KIlled | The area could spread to about 20,577 square kilometers, scientists at Louisiana State University said, or about 2,900 football fields, and larger than the five-year average of 14,944 square km. | "A major…
(2019-06-11). Turkey's "Military Multipolarity": US Ally and NATO Heavyweight to Purchase Russia's S-400 Air Defense System. globalresearch.ca The progress made on furthering the military dimension of Turkey's multipolar grand strategy might be irreversible by this point after the US suspended the country from the F-35 training program and increased the odds that it'll seek replacement warplanes from …
(2019-06-11). Canada's 'Srebrenica Genocide Denial Law': When Even the Truth Is No Defense. globalresearch.ca Never mind the slow but steady dismantling in the fabled West of the "welfare state", that temporary horror the elites grudgingly used to tolerate. But that was only as a means of pacifying their subjects and winning over credulous hearts …
(2019-06-11). America's "Gun Violence Archive". Data on Incidents and Casualties, Geographic Distribution. globalresearch.ca The Gun Violence Archive is an online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 2,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence. | GVA is …
(2019-06-11). 'How Will I Feed My Son?': British Government Workers Fighting Back Against Poverty Pay. globalresearch.ca In the heart of one of the world's oldest and richest democracies, the staff keeping government offices functional are forced to turn to food banks because they cannot afford to eat. | Cleaners at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial …
(2019-06-11). Russia-Cina: il vertice che non fa notizia. globalresearch.ca I riflettori mediatici si sono focalizzati il 5 giugno sul presidente Trump e i leader europei della Nato che, nell'anniversario del D-Day, autocelebravano a Portsmouth ´la pace, libertà e democrazia assicurate in Europa ª impegnandosi a ´difenderle in qualsiasi momento siano …
(2019-06-11). Video: 5G Telecommunications Technology in Space: "This is All About Controlling People in 'Smart Cities'" globalresearch.ca Claire Edwards talked about 5G last February in Poland. | Now more than ever, it is necessary to know the advantages and disadvantages of the said technology. | First we are told that 5G in space will help mitigate global warming — …
(2019-06-11). Video: Al Qaeda Militants Suffer Large Casualties in Clashes in Northern Hama. globalresearch.ca Fierce clashes have been ongoing in northern Hama since June 6 when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Jaysh al-Izza, the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL) and their allies launched an advance on Syrian Arab Army (SAA) positions there. | Initially, militants seized …
(2019-06-11). Beijing's Strategic Option? China Reduces Its Exports of "Rare Earths" globalresearch.ca Rare earths are essential to the production of high-tech and other products. China is the world's leading producer by far. See below. | According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), | "(r)are-earth elements (REE) are necessary components of more than 200 products …
(2019-06-11). The SCO Summit in Bishek, to Address US Threats, Geopolitics of the Region, Cooperation. globalresearch.ca Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) 19th summit is scheduled to be held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 13-14 June 2019. It is a Eurasian political, economic, and security alliance, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China …
(2019-06-11). Asylum-Seeking Children from Central America Suffer Multi-Dimensional, Recurrent, Sustained Trauma. globalresearch.ca Since 2014, the number of children arriving at the U.S. border has risen dramatically, as unaccompanied children, adolescents, and young families have fled gang and other forms of violence in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. …
(2019-06-11). From Dollar Hegemony to Global Warming: Globalization, Glyphosate and Doctrines of Consent. globalresearch.ca There has been an on-going tectonic shift in the West since the abandonment of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971. This accelerated when the USSR ended and has resulted in the 'neoliberal globalization' we see today. | At the same time, …
(2019-06-11). Repeal the Espionage Act. globalresearch.ca World War I is the gift that just keeps on giving. Although the U.S. government's intervention into this senseless, immoral, and destructive war occurred 100 years ago, the adverse effects of the war continue to besiege our nation. Among the …
(2019-06-11). The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell's 1984 Is No Longer Fiction. globalresearch.ca "You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."—George Orwell, 1984 | Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual …
(2019-06-11). Global Warming Morphs into the Solar Minimum. globalresearch.ca Since Climate Change (CC) has been a constant of life on Gaia with the evolution of photosynthesis 3.2 billion years ago and has more complexities than this one essay can address; ergo, this article will explore CO2's historic contribution to …
(2019-06-11). The Various Shades of Black… and Green. globalresearch.ca The hit film of 2018 was Peter Farrelly's Green Book. The film takes place in 1962, and was based on a true story about an Italian American bouncer, from the famous Copacabana NYC nightclub, securing a temporary job as …
(2019-06-11). Global Elites, Crisis of Humanity and 'Facing the Juggernaut'. globalresearch.ca The standard line is that the dominant powers in the world are democracies governed 'of the people, by the people, for the people.' Yet, we see that the important decisions are made by a relative handful of global elites by …
(2019-06-11). India Complies with US Sanctions against Iran, Iran Keeps Begging It to Reconsider. globalresearch.ca India capitulated to American pressure and complied with the anti-Iranian sanctions regime, yet Iran keeps begging it to reconsider and continue investing in the Islamic Republic anyhow, with its humiliating behavior revealing just how desperate it is for economic relief …
(2019-06-11). I Grew Up in Rural Jamaica. I Witnessed Abject Poverty. globalresearch.ca "Just as surely history is the product of those forces which seek to dominate in the name of glory or profit, equally is history the product of the forces of those who rebel" — Michael Manley, 1978 | As a critical …
(2019-06-11). Here's Why the US Has No Right to Interfere in Nicaragua. globalresearch.ca It's been almost 200 years since the US declared that it would allow no more European colonies in the western hemisphere. A 100 years later this was twisted into a declaration that Latin America is exclusively the US's sphere of …
(2019-06-11). Oil, Population, Temperature, What Causes What? counterpunch.org 
In statistics, correlation is not proof of causation. Causation between coincidences has to be established by deeper investigation. Three trends that are tightly coincident, between the years 1960 to 2025, are: the increase in global population above its 1953 total of 2.7 billion (2.7B), the accumulated petroleum production since 1900 (in giga-barrels, Gb), and the increase in average global temperature, T, above a baseline of 14.7 degrees Centigrade (T – 14.7C). More
(2019-06-10). Trump's Conservatives Without Conscience Are Rattled by John Dean. thenation.com Trump's Conservatives Without Conscience Are Rattled by John Dean…
(2019-06-10). Headlines for June 10, 2019. democracynow.org U.S.-Mexico Deal Averts Trade Crisis with Plan to Deploy Mexican Troops to Curb Migration, Dem Lawmakers Call Out Migrant Prison Co. for Hiring John Kelly, Bipartisan Senators Oppose U.S.-Saudi Arms Deal with Flurry of Resolutions, Up to 1 Million Protesters Take to Hong Kong Streets Against Chinese Extradition Bill, 2 Reported Deaths as Haitian Protesters Call for Resignation of President MoàØse, WaPo: WH Barred Science-Based Climate Change Testimony, Transgender Prisoner Layleen Polanco Found Dead at Rikers Island, North Carolina Transgender Woman Chanel Scurlock Fatally Shot, Detroit Police Charge 18-Ye…