A Europa na estratégia nuclear do Pentágono
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
Os Ministros da Defesa da NATO (de Itália, Elisabetta Trenta, M5S, de Portugal, Joà£o Gomes Cravinho) foram convocados para reunir em Bruxelas, em 26 e 27 de Junho, a fim de aprovar as novas medidas de "dissuasà£o" contra a …
globalresearch.ca/a-europa-na-estrategia-nuclear-do-pentagono/5681712

The G20 Meeting in Japan: The Trade War Unleashed by the United States Against China
Francesco Maringià≤ | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
At the G20 in Japan, the leaders of the world's leading economies will meet on the next 28 June. On the table there is the discussion on the reform of international trade. In a context in which the US aims …
globalresearch.ca/g20-japan-background-trade-war-unleashed-united-states-against-china/5681651

How Iran Decided to Down a US Drone and Narrowly Averted War by Sparing Another US Plane
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
Iran averted all-out war in the Middle East at the last moment when the Central command and control operational room of its Army and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ordered not to shoot down a US Navy anti-submarine warfare, …
globalresearch.ca/how-iran-decided-down-us-drone-narrowly-averted-war-sparing-another-us-plane/5681673

L'Europa nella strategia nucleare del Pentagono
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
I ministri della Difesa della Nato (per l'Italia Elisabetta Trenta, M5S) sono stati convocati a Bruxelles, il 26 e 27 giugno, per approvare le nuove misure di ´deterrenza ª contro la Russia, accusata senza alcuna prova di aver violato il Trattato …
globalresearch.ca/leuropa-nella-strategia-nucleare-del-pentagono/5681620

Ethiopia's Failed Coup Attempt Almost Pushed the Country to the Edge of Collapse
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
A coup attempt in the historic Ethiopian core region of Amhara was narrowly thwarted even though the state chief was killed and the country's top military leader was assassinated in a related incident that later took place in the capital, …
globalresearch.ca/ethiopias-failed-coup-attempt-almost-pushed-country-edge-collapse/5681624

How to Start an Unnecessary War: Targeting Iran Started Before 2016
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
I confess to being mystified by those Americans who lean conservative, like myself, who continue to think that President Donald J. Trump is somehow doing a good job. To be sure, the economy continues to add mostly low paying jobs …
globalresearch.ca/how-start-unnecessary-war/5681635

The Diminishing American Economy
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
Since June 2009 Americans have lived in the false reality of a recovered economy. Various fake news and manipulated statistics have been used to create this false impression. However, indicators that really count have not supported the false picture and …
globalresearch.ca/diminishing-american-economy/5681650

Pompeo's "Indo-Pacific" Tour Is Aimed Against Iran and China
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
The Secretary of State is on a tour of the Indo-Pacific region that will take him to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, India, Japan, and South Korea by the time it concludes next week, with the aim of this global voyage …
globalresearch.ca/pompeos-indo-pacific-tour-aimed-against-iran-china/5681656

Video: Trump Stopped Strike on Iran, but Tensions Continued to Grow
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
Tensions continued to grow in the Persian Gulf region after the shoot-down of a $110 million U.S. RQ-4A Global Hawk surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps over the Straight of Hormuz on June 20. | According …
globalresearch.ca/trump-stopped-strike-iran-tensions-continued-grow/5681627

Revealed: UK Approved £14m in Arms Sales to Israel During Gaza Protests
Dania Akkad | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
The British government licensed arms deals worth over £14m ($17.8m) to Israel last year even as Israeli soldiers were accused of intentionally firing on Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border in what the UN says may be potential war crimes….
globalresearch.ca/uk-approved-14m-arms-sales-israel-gaza-protests/5681683

Iran Barred from Closed UN Security Council Session Pertaining the US Threats against Iran
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
On Monday at the Trump regime's request, Security Council members met in closed session on the mid-June Gulf of Oman and earlier hostile incidents last month. | Iran was barred from attending to stress it had nothing to do with what …
globalresearch.ca/iran-barred-closed-security-council-session-country/5681665

Behind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an Opposition Front Group Became Western Media's Go-to monitor
Max Blumenthal | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
Top media outlets turn to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) for figures on deaths and detentions, never noting the group's seamless connection to Syria's opposition, the support it receives from states that waged war on the country, or …
globalresearch.ca/behind-syrian-network-human-rights-how-opposition-front-group-became-western-medias-go-to-monitor/5681631

The Presence of Foreign Troops in Australia: The US Marines in Darwin
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
Subordinates rarely have a good time of dictating matters to their superiors. In the webbed power relations that pass as realpolitik, Australia is the well behaved child in the front of the room, yearning to be caned and spoilt in …
globalresearch.ca/pinkerton-effect-us-marines-darwin/5681643

Beyond Climate Tipping Points: Greenhouse Gas Levels Exceed the Stability Limit of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets
Dr. Andrew Glikson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
The pace of global warming has been grossly underestimated. As the world keeps increasing its carbon emissions rising in 2018 to a record 33.1 billion ton CO2 per year, the atmospheric greenhouse gas level has now exceeded 560 ppm …
globalresearch.ca/beyond-climate-tipping-points-greenhouse-gas-levels-exceed-stability-limit-greenland-antarctic-ice-sheets/5681653

Transforming Capitalist Power: From the Streets to the State
Prof. Paul Christopher Gray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
The communist playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote, "The individual can be annihilated/But the Party cannot be annihilated" (1977, 29). And yet, in the neoliberal era, the Party has been annihilated — only the individual remains. Or so it seemed until …
globalresearch.ca/transforming-capitalist-power-streets-state/5681688

U.S. Rejectionist Policy Toward Palestinian Participation, Rights
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
Upon hearing the news that Palestinian diplomat Dr. Hanan Ashrawi had been denied entry to the United States on a speaking engagement, my husband wrote an e-mail to Indiana Senator Mike Braun titled, 'Tell State Dept & Trump to give …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-rejectionist-policy-toward-palestinian-participation-rights/5681626

Canada Enables Corrupt Haitian President to Remain in Power
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
At the front of a protest against Haiti's president last week a demonstrator carried a large wooden cross bearing the flags of Canada, France and the US. The Haiti Information Project tweeted that protesters " see these three nations as …
globalresearch.ca/canada-enables-corrupt-haitian-president-remain-power/5681669

The ICTY Srebrenica Trials: The Unseen Evidence
Stephen Karganovic | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
One of the key evidentiary issues that arose during several ICTY Srebrenica trials was the right of the accused to conduct an independent examination of the forensic evidence used against them. That right exists as a matter of course in | …
globalresearch.ca/the-icty-srebrenica-trials-the-unseen-evidence/5681681

Most Democratic Candidates Still Afraid to Criticise Israel's Violations of Palestinian Rights
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
The attitudes of Democratic voters toward the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have become decidedly more balanced in the past two decades. Favourable attitudes toward Palestinians are up, while attitudes toward Israel appear to be in decline. While overall views of Israel …
globalresearch.ca/most-democratic-candidates-still-afraid-criticise-israels-violations-palestinian-rights/5681676

Will the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Extend into the Middle East?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-25
It's inevitable that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will eventually lead to it strategically expanding into the Gulf, so China and Pakistan should use Trump's latest tweet urging countries to militarily protect their own oil tankers there to operationalize …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-tweet-good-pretext-operationalize-arabian-aspect-w-cpec/5681679

Mercedes Martinez's "homework assignment": Keep Puerto Rico in mind
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-25
CHICAGO–Mercedes Martinez has a "homework assignment" for all of the U.S. "I want Puerto Rico to remain visible and for people to keep in mind the political situation we face," says Martinez, president of the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico, a top Puerto Rican teachers union. That situation ranges from political indifference to outright …
peoplesworld.org/article/mercedes-martinezs-homework-assignment-keep-puerto-rico-in-mind/

Student loan wipeout: Bernie says tax Wall Street, erase college debt
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-25
Over $1.6 trillion in student loan debt hangs like dead weight on the U.S. economy. Every year, more than 45 million people choose not to do things like buy new homes and cars–activities that would help create jobs and drive growth–because they are burdened with crushing college debts that suck up a huge part of …
peoplesworld.org/article/student-loan-wipeout-bernie-says-tax-wall-street-to-erase-college-debt/

What Corruption in Sports Can Teach Us About Trump's America
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-25
Our increasingly decaying civic society has leaked into the professional sports world. Now, an even more perverse reversal is taking place.
truthdig.com/articles/the-corruption-of-sports-can-teach-us-a-lot-about-trumps-america/

UN chief praises impact of Palestine refugee agency as 'our common success', at key pledging conference
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-25
The work of the UN body responsible for assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which has allowed millions of children to receive an education that promotes UN values of human rights and tolerance, as well as democracy and conflict resolution, should be viewed "not only as our common responsibility, but as our common success", said Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1041251

Henry A. Giroux: The Dismantling of Public Education Fuels Fascism
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-25
Suzanne talks with internationally renowned writer and cultural critic Henry A. Giroux about how corporate values have changed the nature of higher education and the connections between the dismantling of public education and the rise of fascism in the U.S. Henry A. Giroux is well known for his groundbreaking work in critical pedagogy and has just published The Terror of The Unforeseen, a searing take-down of the populist authoritarian vision of the U.S. The book examines the resurgence of fascism in the age of Donald Trump's presidency, the language of hatred, state-sanctioned racism, casino capitalism, and f…
truthout.org/audio/the-dismantling-of-public-education-has-fueled-fascisms-rise/

Cuba To Help Nicaragua Improve Its Education System
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-25
Cuba's government has signed cooperation agreements with Nicaragua, which the Sandinista government hopes will help strengthen its education system. There will be "exchanges" whereby Cuba will visit and share their experiences building a world-class school system. | RELATED: | Nicaragua Creates 2,000 'Reconciliation Commissions' for Peace | Nicaragua's Vice President Rosario Murillo announced Tuesday that Cuba's Education Minister Ana Elsa Velazquez is visiting the country. The v…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-To-Help-Nicaragua-Improve-Its-Education-System-20190625-0013.html

Students and staff to protest imposition of trimesters at Australian university
wsws.org | 2019-06-25
The University of New South Wales management has put commercial interests ahead of education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/25/unsw…

Students and staff to protest imposition of trimesters at Australian university
wsws.org | 2019-06-25
The University of New South Wales management has put commercial interests ahead of education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/25/unsw…

SF Board of Education Will Hear the "Life of Washington" Mural Tonight
Paint Down Washington High's Racist Mural | indybay.org | 2019-06-25
Reflection & Action Committee, Native & Black community and Allies say Paint It Down and No Cover Ups!
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/25/18824227.php

RIP Medical Debt Charity Promotes Book About America's Crippling $1 Trillion Medical Debt Emergency
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-25
Authors of END MEDICAL DEBT book are donating all royalties toward paying off medical debt for individuals throughout America… | The amazing charity, RIP Medical Debt, has quietly worked over its 4+ years in existence to accept public donations with which to go to the debt market to purchase now over $700,000,000 (a half-billion!) in unpaid and unpayable medical debt only to forgive those debts. | RIP's intention for 2019 is to abolish ONE BILLION DOLLARS in such debt. They are now going public, by way of a book entitled End Medical Debt, to equip every one of its readers with the education and tools they need…
www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/news/r…

Cuba and Nicaragua Strengthen Ties in Education
plenglish.com | 2019-06-25
Managua, Jun 25 (Prensa Latina) Ties between Cuba and Nicaragua in the educational sector were strengthened after a meeting between Cuban Minister Ena Elsa Velazquez with professors and students in two departments.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

Beyond Praise of Segregationists, Biden Spent Years Fighting Busing
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-25
Former Vice President Joe Biden made headlines last week when he fondly reminisced about his "civil" relationship in the 1970s and 1980s with segregationist senators James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia. While Biden's recent comments made the news, far less attention has been paid to the former vice president's actual record. In the 1970s, then-Senator Biden was a fierce critic of Delaware's attempts to bus students in an effort to integrate its schools. We speak with National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol about Biden's track record. | TRANSCRIPT: | AMY GOODMAN: This…
truthout.org/video/beyond-praise-of-segregationists-biden-spent-years-fighting-busing/

Jonathan Kozol: Joe Biden Didn't Just Praise Segregationists. He Also Spent Years Fighting Busing
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-25
Former Vice President Joe Biden made headlines last week when he fondly reminisced about his "civil" relationship in the 1970s and 1980s with segregationist senators James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia. While Biden's recent comments made the news, far less attention has been paid to the former vice president's actual record. In the 1970s, then-Senator Biden was a fierce critic of Delaware's attempts to bus students in an effort to integrate its schools. We speak with National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol about Biden's track record.
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/25/joe_biden…

Progressive legislation would tax Wall Street to pay for free college and eliminate student debt
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-25
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) have an unprecedented plan to eliminate student debt and provide free public college for everyone: tax Wall Street. | This week the three Senators unveiled new legislation "eliminate tuition and fees at all public four-year colleges and universities, as well as make community colleges, trade schools, and apprenticeship programs tuition- and fee-free for all." Futhermore, the legislation also calls for the elimination of the $1.6 trillion in student debt for all Americans, not just those that qualify under certain conditi…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/25/progressive-legislation-would-tax-wall-street-to-pay-for-free-college-and-eliminate-student-debt/

Bernie Sanders' Student Debt Plan Trumps Warren's
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-25
The Vermont senator's new proposal would erase a $1.6 trillion burden on 45 million Americans. It's by far and away the best path forward.
truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-student-debt-plan-trumps-warrens/

Lying by Omission Is Still Lying
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
There is no doubt that lying in any form and for questionable reasons is not an accepted value. It can cause serious consequences on those who are the object of lies. It some cases it can cost lives. A person …
globalresearch.ca/lying-omission-still-lying/5681538

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

Trained to Lie: The Making of the Modern Politician
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
It would appear these days, that unless one can show that one is important or an expert in some way or other, one will not be taken seriously by those who only see life as a social climbing highway called …
globalresearch.ca/trained-lie-making-modern-politician/5681562

Iran and the Dangers of Nuclear War. The Risk of a US Preemptive War
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
Pompeo, Bolton, and their hardline underlings seek coalition partners of the willing for confronting Iran militarily. More on this below. | Sunday on NBC News Meet the Press, Trump made a rare candid statement, saying "(i)f it was up to (John …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-hawks-seek-anti-iran-coalition-war/5681567

HBO's "Chernobyl": A Cautionary Tale About Splitting Atoms, or Another Chapter of Anti-Russia Propaganda?
Dennis Riches | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
I've always been kind of obsessed by things nuclear. From the time I learned about nuclear arsenals as a child, I wondered how masses of people could tolerate this Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. A few years ago, …
globalresearch.ca/hbos-chernobyl-cautionary-tale-about-splitting-atoms-another-chapter-anti-russia-propaganda/5681524

Report Highlights Mistreatment of Refugee Children in US Internment Camps
Fred Mazelis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
A report this week by the Associated Press (AP) on conditions facing children at a Border Patrol station near El Paso, Texas, highlights the inhuman treatment of children under the Trump Administration's savage anti-immigrant campaign. | The AP, in an account …
globalresearch.ca/report-highlights-mistreatment-refugee-children-us-internment-camps/5681518

Hundreds of 737 Max Pilots Sue Boeing over 'Unprecedented Cover-Up"
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
Over 400 pilots have joined a class-action lawsuit against Boeing, accusing the company of an "unprecedented cover-up" of "known design flaws" on the company's top-selling 737 MAX, according to the Australian Broadcasting Company. | The MAX, first put into service in …
globalresearch.ca/hundreds-737-max-pilots-sue-boeing-unprecedented-cover-up/5681557

Bolton Is in Israel Conferring with Netanyahu How to Provoke US Attack on Iran
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
As I posted on June 22, the world still faces the danger of an attack on Iran by Washington acting as an agent of Netanyahu. Israeli agent John Bolton is already in Israel conferring with Netanyahu. It is a …
globalresearch.ca/bolton-israel-conferring-netanyahu-how-provoke-us-attack-iran/5681532

"Violent Voyeurism": Surveillance, Spyware and Human Rights
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
Surveillance is merely a variant of violent voyeurism, the human behind the camera or visual apparatus observing behaviour in a setting, often private. Its premise is privacy's violation; its working assumption is privacy's irrelevance; officially tolerated such a concept is …
globalresearch.ca/violent-voyeurism-surveillance-spyware-human-rights/5681540

'Plasticrust': A new form of pollution is forming on this Portuguese island
Alexandra Jacobo | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-24
Plastic pollution: it seems to be taking over our oceans and beaches. An estimated 8 million tons of plastic ends up in our oceans every year, a number that has skyrocketed over the last 70 years as our demand for plastic has grown. Therefore it seems like it was only a matter of time before plastic pollution evolved into something even worse. | Researchers have discovered a new, maybe even more permanent, form of plastic pollution. Dubbed 'plasticrust', this type of pollution incorporates itself right into the rocky shoreline of the Portuguese island of Madeira. | In 2016 marine ecologist Ignacio Gestoso noti…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/24/plasticrust-a-new-form-of-pollution-is-forming-on-this-portuguese-island/

Secret US-Russia-Israel National Security Summit in Jerusalem: What is the Hidden Agenda?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
This week's National Security Advisor summit in Jerusalem is an historic event because of the participation of the Russian, Israeli, and American representatives during this multi-day meeting from 24-26 June, but it's also a juicy one too because of …
globalresearch.ca/juicy-national-security-advisor-summit-jerusalem/5681560

The Mechanism of Economic Sanctions: Changing Perceptions and Euphemisms
Elias Davidsson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
"Economic sanctions", a mode of coercion in international relations resuscitated in recent years, has prompted renewed and lively scholarly interest in the subject. Why have such measures become so popular? | One answer is that they "constitute a means of exerting …
globalresearch.ca/mechanism-economic-sanctions-changing-perceptions-euphemisms/5681547

Trained to Lie: The Making of the Modern Politician
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
It would appear these days, that unless one can show that one is important or an expert in some way or other, one will not be taken seriously by those who only see life as a social climbing highway called 'career making'.
globalresearch.ca/trained-lie-making-modern-politician/5681562

U.S. "Military Aid" to Al Qaeda, ISIS-Daesh
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
The total shipment is of the order of 994 tons of "humanitarian" R2P light weapons for the "Moderates" in Syria. (in a single shipment out of Romania) among numerous comparable shipments by sea as well as by air…
globalresearch.ca/u-s-military-aid-to-al-qaeda-isis-daesh/5548960

Selected Articles: Lying by Omission Is Still Lying
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-24
In spite of online censorship efforts directed against the independent media, we are happy to say that readership on globalresearch.ca has recently increased. We wish to thank all of you who share our articles far and wide. | We cover a …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-lying-omission-still-lying/5681602