(2019-06-29). West Virginia legalizes charters schools. wsws.org Defying the overwhelming sentiments of teachers, students and workers, Governor Jim Justice signed a bill legalizing the state's first-ever charter schools.
(2019-06-29). SEP wins support for Assange and Manning at Sri Lanka's Peradeniya university. wsws.org Tenishan, an agriculture student, asked: "Is it democratic to imprison journalists who have revealed war crimes?"
(2019-06-29). Racist Nazi Attack On CCSF Ethnic Studies Professor & Class. indybay.org CCSF Professor Dr. David Palaita faced a racist nazi attack in his class by two students. The students were seeking to terrorize and bust up the class. This has been combined with the CCSF Chancellor Mark Rocha and his rubber stamp Board of Trustees in mass cutbacks in classes, financial mismangement including use of bond funds for PAEC for consultants and cronies who want to privatize the college and sell off the Balboa reservoir to developer Avalon for 1500 high priced condos.
(2019-06-29). Students block right-wing think tank on "Dictatorship Research" at Berlin's Humboldt University. wsws.org The attempt of far-right professor and Eastern European historian Jà∂rg Baberowski to set up a think tank at Humboldt University has failed.
(2019-06-29). FBI pushes US universities to spy on Chinese students & visitors. rt.com 
The FBI is urging American universities to help the agency spy on Chinese students and scholars from Chinese research institutions, particularly those working in tech, science, math, engineering, and anything defense-related.
(2019-06-29). SF Board of Education Will Hear the "Life of Washington" Mural Tonight. indybay.org Reflection & Action Committee, Native & Black community and Allies say Paint It Down and No Cover Ups!
(2019-06-28). Kamala Harris Challenges Biden on Opposing Busing & Integration in 1970s: "That Little Girl Was Me" democracynow.org 
The second night of the first Democratic presidential debate was billed as a face-off between front-runners former Vice President Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, but it was California Senator Kamala Harris who took command of the stage Thursday night. Harris sparred with Biden over his recent comments about working with segregationists in the Senate and for his opposition to Delaware's attempts to bus students in an effort to integrate its schools in the 1970s. "There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. That lit…
(2019-06-28). Kevin Kumashiro on Student Debt Cancellation. fair.org 
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(2019-06-28). Socialism 2019: the Left at a Crossroads. counterpunch.org For a number of years, the International Socialists Organization, once the largest Marxist group in the USA, held educational conferences either in Chicago or in various American cities. In 2004, I attended a plenary session of a regional conference at City College in New York, mostly to hear my old friend Peter Camejo who was More
(2019-06-28). Honduras at Ten Years After the Coup: a Critical Assessment. counterpunch.org 
As the tenth anniversary arrives, many Hondurans see the coup of 2009 as a major turning point that began a downward spiral in the country's troubled history. In recent weeks huge popular protests have once again filled the streets and plazas of most of the country's major cities and have appeared also in rural areas, leading up to what are expected to be even larger protests around the June 28 anniversary. The immediate cause of the latest protests was the government's passage of a set of laws that for many Hondurans signaled the privatization of the public health and education sectors and the layoff of thousand…
(2019-06-28). Honduras at Ten Years After the Coup: a Critical Assessment. counterpunch.org As the tenth anniversary arrives, many Hondurans see the coup of 2009 as a major turning point that began a downward spiral in the country's troubled history. In recent weeks huge popular protests have once again filled the streets and plazas of most of the country's major cities and have appeared also in rural areas, leading up to what are expected to be even larger protests around the June 28 anniversary. The immediate cause of the latest protests was the government's passage of a set of laws that for many Hondurans signaled the privatization of the public health and education sectors and the layoff of thousand…
(2019-06-28). SF Board of Education Will Hear the "Life of Washington" Mural Tonight. indybay.org Reflection & Action Committee, Native & Black community and Allies say Paint It Down and No Cover Ups!
(2019-06-28). Lessons for the Climate Emergency. globalresearch.ca "The bad news is that if history teaches us one thing, it is that there never has been an energy transition… The history of energy is not one of transitions, but rather of successive additions…" Bonneuil and Fressoz, The Shock …
(2019-06-28). Monsters Walk the Earth. Why These Three Countries Are the Real Troika of Evil. globalresearch.ca There are monsters among us. Every day I read about an American "plan" to either invade some place new or to otherwise inflict pain to convince a "non-compliant" foreign government how to behave. Last week it was Iran but next …
(2019-06-28). The EU in Crisis. Merkel for President? globalresearch.ca EU Prime Ministers met last week-end to try to fill the key EU posts of President of the Commission, President of the Council, President of the Central Bank, and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. …
(2019-06-28). Theologians: Constantinople Lost Its Weight in the Orthodox World. globalresearch.ca The Orthodox world is facing a total rearrangement. The balance of powers and the distribution of influence between 14 mutually recognized Local Orthodox Churches is shifting as the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, historically first among equal autocephalous Churches, has completely …
(2019-06-28). Water Not Oil: Battle Cry of the "Blue Planet" globalresearch.ca It's a battle cry inspired by the dire climate crisis that has been sung by many for years yet still hasn't been resolutely taken up by the world as a whole. So the question remains: what ultimately is more important: …
(2019-06-28). Russia-India-China Will be the Big G20 Hit. globalresearch.ca It all started with the Vladimir Putin—Xi Jinping summit in Moscow on June 5. Far from a mere bilateral, this meeting upgraded the Eurasian integration process to another level. The Russian and Chinese presidents discussed everything from the progressive interconnection …
(2019-06-28). Video: US-backed Forces Came with "List of Demands" to Damascus. globalresearch.ca One Turkish soldier was killed and 5 others were injured during clashes with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) in the region of Afrin, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced on June 26. According to …
(2019-06-28). Children "Too Frail to Even Cry": The War in Yemen and Its Bounty of Suffering. globalresearch.ca Children who die in this way suffer immensely as their vital organ functions slow down and eventually stop. Their immune systems are so weak they are more prone to infections with some too frail to even cry. Parents are having …
(2019-06-28). US Special Envoy Abrams Welcomes Venezuela's Former Intelligence Chief to the US, Reaffirms Trump's Commitment to Ousting Maduro. globalresearch.ca United States Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams has publicly welcomed Venezuela's ex-intelligence chief to the country after he deserted and joined efforts to oust President Nicolas Maduro. | Manuel Cristopher Figuera, who served as chief of the Bolivarian …
(2019-06-28). "Rise and Kill First." — The Secret Israeli Worldwide Assassination Program. Book Review. globalresearch.ca "It made no difference which Palestinians we killed… They either were terrorists or would become terrorists or they gave birth to terrorists." — former IDF commander, Rafael " Raful" Eitan. | Spies, Femme fatale, deadly plots, killings, bombs, knives, guns, and …
(2019-06-28). Hong Kong: Can Two Million Marchers Be Wrong? globalresearch.ca In February 2003, protest organizers estimated that nearly 2 million people took to the streets of London in opposition to going to war against Iraq. United States president George W. Bush came across as dismissive of the protestors, likening them …
(2019-06-28). Remembering Justin Raimondo, Outstanding Geopolitical Analyst and Antiwar Activist. RIP (1951-2019). globalresearch.ca Justin was an outstanding author, antiwar activist, an inspiration to all of us. I first met Justin in Kuala Lumpur at the very outset of the Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalize War. He had been invited by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad…
(2019-06-28). 2 Soldiers Killed in Fresh Shelling on Turkish Observation Post. globalresearch.ca On June 27, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL) attacked positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Qasabiyeh and Qiratah near the administrative border between Hama and Idlib provinces. | According to pro-government sources, the …
(2019-06-28). Investigate Egypt's Former President Morsi's Death. globalresearch.ca Immediately after Dr Mohammed Morsi's death on the 17th of June 2019, a number of organisations and individuals had called for a thorough, independent investigation into the cause of his death while on trial in a Cairo court …
(2019-06-28). On Global Capitalist Crises: Failure of Economic Theory and Capitalist Restructurings. globalresearch.ca Read part I, II, III IV and V from the links below. | Part I — On Global Capitalist Crises: Systemic Changes and Challenges | Part II — On Global Capitalist Crises. Debt Defaults, Bankruptcies and Real Economy Decline | Part III —…
(2019-06-28). The Globalization of War. America's "Long War" against Humanity. globalresearch.ca America's hegemonic project in…
(2019-06-28). The "Let Em Eat Cake" Deal of the Century: Trump's "No Peace Deal Peace Plan" for Palestine and the Middle East. globalresearch.ca A peace conference without participation of warring sides is an affront to what the process is supposed to be all about. | Trump's no-peace/deal of the century peace plan was partly introduced at the so-called June 25-26 "Peace to Prosperity Workshop" …
(2019-06-28). Libra: Facebook's Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control. globalresearch.ca Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated — not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the US, where numerous firms feast on fees from handling and processing …
(2019-06-28). Liberty Has Lost Its Protection. globalresearch.ca July 4 should be a day of mourning. The rights our ancestors fought for have been taken away. | Over the course of my lifetime there has been a fundamental shift in the attitude of the judiciary toward Constitutional rights. I …
(2019-06-28). Was There Ever an Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program? globalresearch.ca This incisive article was first published in May 2018 | Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which has set the stage for another Iran crisis, has opened a new round of domestic …
(2019-06-28). The Russia-India-China Summit, Secret and "Informal", Rich in Symbolism and Opportunities? globalresearch.ca The leaders of Russia, India and China (RIC) will hold an informal summit during the G20 gathering in Japan, which is an event of monumental significance rich with symbolism and opportunities. These three countries don't always see eye to eye …
(2019-06-28). Tweets of Praise: Donald Trump, Australia and Refugees. globalresearch.ca Praise from US President Donald Trump has a tendency of tarnishing gold and ungilding matters, and there was something of the muck in his tweet praising Australia for its sadistic approach to refugee arrivals. Operation Sovereign Borders, which commenced in …
(2019-06-28). 100 Years Ago: The Treaty of Versailles. Peace or Armistice? globalresearch.ca June 28, 1918, one hundred years ago… | (An excerpt from Jacques R. Pauwels, The Great Class War 1914-1919, James Lorimer, Toronto, 2016) | On June 28, 1919, exactly five years after the infamous assassination in Sarajevo, the signing of the Peace …
(2019-06-28). Fracking Health Impacts: Pennsylvanians Demand a Response to Rare Cancer Cases. globalresearch.ca New research on fracking health impacts, combined with unusually high rates of pediatric cancer, sound alarm bells in Pennsylvania | FracTracker isn't the only one digging deeper into the health impacts of fracking in the past few months. Last week, the …
(2019-06-28). Iran Has Warned to Target Arab Countries in Case of War: The US "Like a Lion in a Persian Story" globalresearch.ca Iran has summoned the United Arab Emirates' chargé d'affaires in Tehran to protest that the UAE allowed the US to use its Al-Dhafra base in UAE to launch the Global Hawk surveillance drone (worth some $130 million) that was downed …
(2019-06-28). Trump Administration to Dredge San Francisco Bay to Make Room for More Oil Tankers. globalresearch.ca OAKLAND, Calif.— Public-interest groups filed a joint letter Monday with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers strongly warning against efforts to dredge a deeper channel through San Francisco Bay. | The Army Corps' proposal would result in a 13-mile dredging project …
(2019-06-28). Albania's Local Elections Have Sparked An Explosive Political Crisis. globalresearch.ca The President and the Prime Minister are divided over whether local elections should take place as originally scheduled this Sunday, with the former attempting to postpone them until October after the opposition promised to boycott the polls while the latter …
(2019-06-28). Socialism 2019: the Left at a Crossroads. counterpunch.org 
For a number of years, the International Socialists Organization, once the largest Marxist group in the USA, held educational conferences either in Chicago or in various American cities. In 2004, I attended a plenary session of a regional conference at City College in New York, mostly to hear my old friend Peter Camejo who was More
(2019-06-27). Sanders & Warren Pitch Rival Plans to Address $1.6 Trillion in Student Debt. therealnews.com 
Renowned education expert Kevin Kumashiro says the plans put forth by two of the leading Democratic presidential candidates are a step in the right direction, but America's fundamentally broken education system needs to be radically changed from top to bottom…
(2019-06-27). The Honorable Course in Iran Starts With Ending Sanctions. truthout.org Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders. Her diabetic father, for example, is in danger of losing access to medicines because sanctions against Iranian banks make it nearly impossible to pay for imported goods, includi…
(2019-06-27). 'The Bold Solution We Need': Over 100 Academics Endorse Sanders Student Debt Cancellation and Tuition-Free College Plan. commondreams.org "In the face of this crisis, nothing short of a complete overhaul of our public higher education system will suffice." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-06-27). Dear Grown-Ups, It's Time to Let LGBTQ Students Be Our Teachers. thenation.com Dear Grown-Ups, It's Time to Let LGBTQ Students Be Our Teachers…
(2019-06-27). SF Board of Education Will Hear the "Life of Washington" Mural Tonight. indybay.org Reflection & Action Committee, Native & Black community and Allies say Paint It Down and No Cover Ups!
(2019-06-27). When Going to School Means Being Afraid. progressive.org Gun violence has overshadowed my education and entire life. Central Florida is not just a survivor; it is a continual victim.
(2019-06-27). Philosophy group discussion. nationofchange.org Today in San Miguel de Allende we had our usual Philosophy Group meeting. This time we listened to the words of Allan Watts. He told us why modern education is a hoax. His basic thought is that education is poured into our brains from an early age but that we are really taught nothing that …
(2019-06-27). The Power of Transgender Political Representation. thenation.com The Power of Transgender Political Representation…
(2019-06-27). What the Concentration Camps of Bosnia Can Teach Us About the Abuse of Immigrants on the U.S. Border. theintercept.com 
I never thought the pattern of abuse and deceit that I saw at Serb-run prison camps in the 1990s would be relevant to America — but it is.
(2019-06-27). US Sponsored "Color Revolution" Struggles in Hong Kong. globalresearch.ca The Western media has been boasting over recent protests in Hong Kong. Western headlines have claimed the protests have "rattled" Beijing's leadership. | The protests have been organized to obstruct Hong Kong's elected government from moving forward with an extradition bill. …