CA State Supt. Thurmond Making Nice With The Charters & Privatizers
repost | indybay.org | 2019-06-13
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
Determining Day for Stopping or Continuing Chilean Teachers Strike
plenglish.com | 2019-06-13
Santiago de Chile, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) A new meeting on Thursday between leaders of the Chilean Teachers Association and the Ministry of Education will be crucial for about 70,000 Chilean teachers to go back to classrooms or hold one more national stoppage week.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…
Tory cuts force schools to beg for charity funding and close early
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2019-06-13
Several hopefuls in the Conservative leadership contest are promising more money for education. But what they've totally failed to acknowledge is the full extent of the UK education crisis. After nine years of Conservative-led austerity, schools are at breaking point. | Children in Need: | A London p…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/06/13/tory-cuts-force-schools-to-beg-for-charity-funding-and-close-early/
Tory cuts force schools to beg for charity funding and close early
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2019-06-13
Several hopefuls in the Conservative leadership contest are promising more money for education. But what they've totally failed to acknowledge is the full extent of the UK education crisis. After nine years of Conservative-led austerity, schools are at breaking point. | Children in Need: | A London p…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/06/13/tory-cuts-force-schools-to-beg-for-charity-funding-and-close-early/
Israeli Authorities Confiscate and then Attempt to Sell Palestinian Classrooms
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-13
Ali Abunimah discusses the complicity of the EU, which donated pre-fabricated classrooms to Palestinian schoolchildren, but did not ensure that they would be used for the purpose of education, rather than as a way for the Israeli occupation forces to pillage Palestinian property for their own profit. Thanks to media outrage the sale of the…
therealnews.com/stories/israeli-authorities-confiscate-and-then-attempt-to-sell-palestinian-classrooms
China Invites UN To Visit 'Education Centers' in Xinjiang
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-13
The Chinese envoy to the United Nations has formally welcomed U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to visit China, including Xinjiang, where Beijing has been accused of putting more than one million ethnic Uyghurs in mass detention centers. | RELATED: | Floods Kill 16, Affect Millions in China, With More Rain To Come | According to the Chinese envoy, the U.N. human rights chief is more than welcome to visit their "education training centers", which Beijing claims is helpin…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Invites-UN-To-Visit-Education-Centers-in-Xinjiang-20190613-0004.html
With nurses watching, lawmakers push OSHA on anti-workplace violence
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-13
WASHINGTON–With National Nurses United members in the crowd monitoring them, the Democratic-run House Education and Labor Committee voted on party lines to push the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to, within a year, unveil a rule to force hospitals and nursing homes to create and implement programs to reduce workplace violence. The measure, …
peoplesworld.org/article/with-nurses-watching-lawmakers-push-osha-on-anti-workplace-violence/
US to Jail 1,400 Immigrant Children at WWII Japanese Internment Site
Eric London | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
The Pentagon announced yesterday that the Trump administration will detain 1,400 immigrant children at the site of a World War II-era Japanese internment camp, Fort Sill Army Base in Lawton, Oklahoma. | The decision, announced Tuesday as Trump denounced immigrants and …
globalresearch.ca/us-jail-1400-immigrant-children-wwii-japanese-internment-site/5680478
Brexit Trade Delusions Show Why Britain Needs to Confront Its History of Empire
Rahul Verma | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
On 7 December, 2016, nearly six months after the referendum, Prime Minister Theresa May gave a speech to the Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain. She said: | "As Britain leaves the European Union so we intend to take a leap forward, | …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-trade-delusions-show-why-britain-needs-confront-history-empire/5680474
Video: Hard Brexit Makes Scottish Independence 'More Urgent'
Samuel Stolton | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
The scenario of a hard Brexit would "increase the likelihood of Scotland becoming independent," Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview. Her comments come as hard and soft Brexit Conservatives start jockeying for the vacant …
globalresearch.ca/video-hard-brexit-makes-scottish-independence-more-urgent/5680430
Russia's "Pivot to Africa" Encroaches upon France's Traditional "Sphere of Influence"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
The quiet success of Russia's "Pivot to Africa" over the past few years has seen Moscow begin to encroach on France's traditional "sphere of influence" in the continent, which in turn piqued Paris' interest in negotiating a "New Detente" with …
globalresearch.ca/russias-pivot-africa-piqued-frances-interest-new-detente/5680458
Pence Goes to War: America Will be Fighting Forever
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
On May 25th Vice President Mike Pence was the featured speaker at the United States Military Academy commencement. His speech was predictably an encomium celebrating both the diversity and the success of the newly commissioned officers as well as …
globalresearch.ca/pence-goes-war-america-fighting-forever/5680463
Selected Articles: Towards "NATO-Exit"? Shift in the Structure of Military Coalitions
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-towards-nato-exit-shift-in-the-structure-of-military-coalitions/5680489
Video: Israeli Military Continues Strikes on Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
During the night of June 12, warplanes of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched a barrage of missiles at targets near Tell al-Hara in southern Syria. According to the Syrian state media, the IDF employed electronic warfare measures to suppress …
globalresearch.ca/israeli-military-continues-strikes-syria/5680434
Spending time in nature good for wellbeing, study suggests
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-13
Spending at least two hours a week in nature may be a crucial threshold for promoting health and wellbeing, according to a study. | Researchers found that people who spend at least 120 minutes in nature a week are significantly more likely to report good health and higher psychological wellbeing than those who do not visit nature at all during an average week. | No such benefits were found for people who visited natural settings such as town parks, woodlands, country parks and beaches for less than 120 minutes a week. | Experts say taking a walk in the woods, listening to birdsong, looking around and engaging wit…
thecanary.co/discovery/health/2019/06/13/spending-time-in-nature-good-for-wellbeing-study-suggests/
Convenient "Tanker Attacks" as US Seeks War with Iran
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
globalresearch.ca/convenient-tanker-attacks-as-us-seeks-war-with-iran/5680510
Spending time in nature good for wellbeing, study suggests
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-13
Spending at least two hours a week in nature may be a crucial threshold for promoting health and wellbeing, according to a study. | Researchers found that people who spend at least 120 minutes in nature a week are significantly more likely to report good health and higher psychological wellbeing than those who do not visit nature at all during an average week. | No such benefits were found for people who visited natural settings such as town parks, woodlands, country parks and beaches for less than 120 minutes a week. | Experts say taking a walk in the woods, listening to birdsong, looking around and engaging wit…
thecanary.co/discovery/health/2019/06/13/spending-time-in-nature-good-for-wellbeing-study-suggests/
Please Let NATO Disappear. What They Have Done to My Country? Unspoken Cancer Epidemic in Serbia
Prof. Dr. Danica Grujicic | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
Please let NATO disappear, is the wish of neurosurgeon and chairman of the Serbian Cancer Society Dr. Danica Grujicic | What have they done to my country? | Who has to decide that I may have to die? | The war itself is …
globalresearch.ca/please-let-nato-disappear-what-they-have-done-to-my-country-unspoken-cancer-epidemic-in-serbia/5680499
Grenfell Tower Deaths: A Gross Failure of UK Government and Justice
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
Survivors and families of the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, in 2017, in which 72 people were either burned to death or poisoned by lethally toxic fumes of hydrogen cyanide gas, are this week reported to have instructed lawyers to …
globalresearch.ca/grenfell-tower-deaths-gross-failure-uk-government-justice/5680414
China Launch Device for Early Cancer Detection
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-13
China has developed a cutting edge device to detect cancer. The equipment was entirely elaborated in the country and has received permission by national drug regulators to enter markets from the beginning of June to be commercialized. | RELATED: | China Displays 5G Tech Advances at Chengdu Internet Convention | The gear is the product of 19 years of research and was created by scientists from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, located in the city of Wuhan the capit…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Launch-Device-for-Early-Cancer-Detection-20190613-0019.html
Syrian Families Released from the Infamous Rukban Concentration Camp
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
Dozens of Syrian families have been released from the US-controlled Rukban Concentration Camp in Al-Tanf, southeast of Syria. | The released families arrived at the Jaligam crossing in Homs eastern countryside after spending years in forced displacement and detention by the …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-families-released-infamous-rukban-concentration-camp/5680438
Poland Prepares to Introduce 5G Wireless Technology
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
The Polish Ministry of Digitalisation has denied (June 11) that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki signed the Global Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space.* | The refutation was put out by the Ministry of Digitalization, the government department that …
globalresearch.ca/breaking-news-release-polish-ministry-digitalisation-denies-polish-prime-minister-supported-5g-appeal/5680461
On Global Capitalist Crises. Debt Defaults, Bankruptcies and Real Economy Decline
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
Read part I from the link below. | On Global Capitalist Crises: Systemic Changes and Challenges | By Dr. Jack Rasmus and Mohsen Abdelmoumen, June 09, 2019 | *** | Mohsen Abdelmoumen: In your very interesting book, Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression…
globalresearch.ca/on-global-capitalist-crises-debt-defaults-bankruptcies-and-real-economy-decline/5680444
5G Danger: 13 Reasons 5G Wireless Technology Will Be a Catastrophe for Humanity
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
The 5G danger can't be overstated. | 5G (5th Generation) is now being actively rolled out in many cities around the world. Simultaneously, as awareness over its horrific health and privacy impacts is rising, many places are issuing moratoriums on it …
globalresearch.ca/5g-danger-13-reasons-5g-wireless-technology-will-be-a-catastrophe-for-humanity/5680503
'They ALL do it!' Trump and the Democrats go head-to-head on 'oppo research' from foreigners
rt.com | 2019-06-13
With the liberal media excoriating President Donald Trump for admitting that he'd listen if foreigners dug up dirt on his opponents, the president did openly reveal one of Washington's dirty secrets: everyone's doing it. | …
rt.com/usa/461816-trump-opposition-research-democrats/
Staten Island's Liberal Complicity Killed Eric Garner
Daniel Falcone | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-13
Part 1: Max Rose (D) (NY-11) Wins NYC Congressional Seat Not long ago, I wrote in Counterpunch that the "Forgotten Borough" Staten Island, New York is not like the rest of the city, noted Professor of Political Science Richard Flanagan at College of Staten Island CUNY. On November 6, 2018 however, the night that…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/13/staten-islands-liberal-complicity-killed-eric-garner/
Union halts New Jersey teachers' strike after one day
wsws.org | 2019-06-13
Union officials in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey are negotiating behind the backs of educators to impose a sellout contracts.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/13/jers…
Los Angeles schools superintendent warns of "reckoning" after failure of property tax measure
wsws.org | 2019-06-13
In an effort to justify its shutdown of the LA teacher strike in January, the unions told educators to look to the Democratic Party-backed tax measure to increase school funding.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/13/laus…
Palestinian Solidarity & SA BDS Director Desai With Professor Sang He
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-13
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/11/18823884.php
Los Angeles schools superintendent warns of "reckoning" after failure of property tax measure
wsws.org | 2019-06-13
In an effort to justify its shutdown of the LA teacher strike in January, the unions told educators to look to the Democratic Party-backed tax measure to increase school funding.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/13/laus…
Kenya's Strathmore University beats Harvard in WTO competition
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-12
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…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/12/kenyas-strathmore-university-beats-harvard-in-wto-competition/
Young New Yorkers bring robots, and a glimpse of the future, to UN Headquarters
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-12
Tiny balls moved along a series of automated Lego robots, as young students from New York explained to United Nations staff the inner-workings of simple motors and engineering.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1040331
Climate Change Is So Much More Than a 'Single Issue'
Jeremiah Lowery | commondreams.org | 2019-06-12
Students and environmental activists participate in a climate strike in Los Angeles, California on May 24. (Photo: Ronen Tivony / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/12/climate-change-so-much-more-single-issue?cd-origin=rss
New York Teachers Fight for Divestment From Prison Industry
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-12
Teachers in Rochester, New York, recently discovered, to their horror, that their pensions are invested in the private prison and immigrant detention industry. After learning this from Basma Eid, an organizer with the group Freedom to Thrive, one teacher, Michelle Sapere, spearheaded the formation of a rank-and-file organization in her union called Teachers Against Student Exploitation ( TASE)…
truthout.org/articles/new-york-teachers-fight-for-divestment-from-prison-industry/
CA State Supt. Thurmond Making Nice With The Charters & Privatizers
repost | indybay.org | 2019-06-12
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
Lawmakers take another crack at solving multi-employer pension plan problems
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-12
WASHINGTON–Heeding the pleas of workers and unions who could see their pensions go down the drain in the next six years, the Democratic-run House Education and Labor Committee approved HR397, to fix multi-employer pension plans' problems. The 26-18 vote on June 11 was on party lines. If eventually approved, the measure would help those financially …
peoplesworld.org/article/lawmakers-take-another-crack-at-solving-multi-employer-pension-plan-problems/
Logan High & The Battle For Public Education: New Haven Teachers Face Union Busting
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-12
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
Inca Doctors Were Better Surgeons Than Civil War Medics: Study
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-12
New research shows that without the aid of anesthetic, Incan surgeons were more skilled than Civil War doctors at cranial surgery. | RELATED: | Boney Towers Come Down as Czech Ossuary Monestary Gets Makeover | Careful inspection of skulls from the Incan Empire as well as pre-Colombian Peru revealed that hundreds of Indigenous went under the knife and pr…
telesurenglish.net/news/Inca-Doctors-Were-Better-Surgeons-Than-Civil-War-Medics-Study-20190612-0030.html
3M Knew About PFAS Food Contamination in 2001
Sharon Lerner | theintercept.com | 2019-06-12
Last week, we learned that the Food and Drug Administration had detected PFAS compounds in pineapple, sweet potato, meat, and chocolate cake. The presence of the industrial compounds in our food was made public by the Environmental Working Group after a staff member of the Environmental Defense Fund took photos of the research at a scientific conf…
theintercept.com/2019/06/12/3m-pfas-chemicals-food/
Japan's Prime Minister Abe Is Trump's Informal Ambassador to Iran, but He Wants More Than to Mediate
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
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 …
globalresearch.ca/abe-trumps-informal-ambassador-iran-he-wants-more-than-mediate/5680388
The Last Bastion of Al Qaeda in Syria: US Propaganda Blitz Ahead of Idlib's Liberation
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
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 …
globalresearch.ca/us-propaganda-blitz-ahead-idlibs-liberation/5680373
A Russian-American-Israeli Meeting of National Security Advisors in Jerusalem: Syria and Iran on the Table
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
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 …
globalresearch.ca/russian-american-israeli-meeting-jerusalem-syria-iran-table/5680395
India Now Supports Israel at the UN against Palestine. Are They Allies?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
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" …
globalresearch.ca/india-israel-officially-diplomatic-allies-un/5680392
Russia-China: The Summit Which the Media Ignored
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
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 …
globalresearch.ca/russia-china-summit-media-ignored/5680360
Chilean Drinking Water Contains Polluting Substances
plenglish.com | 2019-06-12
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).
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…
Trump's War on Science is Grounds to Impeach
Basav Sen | progressive.org | 2019-06-12
There are fresh signs that the Trump Administration intends to actively interfere in research by federal scientists.
progressive.org/dispatches/trump-war-on-science-trump-impeach-sen-190612/
Towards "NATO-Exit"? Shift in the Structure of Military Coalitions. Turkey's Alliance with Russia, China and Iran?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
Contemporary developments point to a historical shift in the structure of military alliances which indelibly contributes to weakening US hegemony as well as creating conditions which could result in the breakup of NATO.
globalresearch.ca/towards-nato-exit-shift-in-the-structure-of-military-coalitions-turkeys-alliance-with-russia-china-and-iran/5633771
Tory cuts result in 131,000 preventable deaths in the UK
wsws.org | 2019-06-12
The Institute for Public Policy Research found that austerity measures carried out in the UK since 2012 have led to 131,000 preventable deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/12/prev…
US Senators Meet with Jewish Leaders in Semi-secret Annual Event
Alison Weir | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
An article in the Times of Israel reports that "Jewish leaders are meeting with Senate Democrats today." According to the report, this is an annual event. A quarter of the Senate was in attendance (see list below). | All except one …
globalresearch.ca/us-senators-meet-jewish-leaders-semi-secret-annual-event/5680403
Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine. "It's Everywhere"
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
Glyphosate residues have been found in tap water, orange juice, children's urine, breast milk, chips, snacks, beer, wine, cereals, eggs, oatmeal, wheat products, and most conventional foods tested. It's everywhere.
globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-worse/5674472