Vaccines and the Liberal Mind
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
This article was originally published in June 2018. | Instead of demanding blue-ribbon safety science and encouraging honest, open and responsible debate on the science, too many online outlets are silencing critics and shutting down discussion on this key public health …
globalresearch.ca/vaccines-liberal-mind/5686389

Australia's Pacific Play: Denying Climate Change and Boosting China's Threat
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Australia has always nursed a contradictory, repressive relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Being a satrap of great powers, it has performed the role of gate keeper and monitor of regional instability, a condescending, often paternalistic agent. At stages, it has …
globalresearch.ca/australias-pacific-play-denying-climate-change-boosting-china-threat/5686391

How English Nationalist Boris Johnson Is Turning the UK into a "US Colony"
Henry McLeish | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Boris Johnson and the right-wing Tories in Cabinet are English nationalists who hope to turn UK into a US 'colony', a country where EU regulations are replaced by limited welfare, minimum standards, low taxes and low pay, writes Henry McLeish….
globalresearch.ca/english-nationalist-boris-johnson-turning-uk-us-colony/5686376

Why Gold Prices Are About to Skyrocket Even Higher
Charles Kennedy | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
The gold bears have finally caved under the deafening barrage of fiscal and geopolitical catalysts, from Fed hints to intensely brewing conflict with Iran. But there is one key trend that stands to push gold up beyond $1,700–regardless of the …
globalresearch.ca/why-gold-prices-about-skyrocket-even-higher/5686403

Argentina & the Next Global Financial Crisis
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
On August 12, 2019, financial markets in Argentina crashed. The stock market contracted 38% in just one day. The currency, the Peso, fell 20% after falling as low as 30% and recovered to 20% only when Argentina's central bank raised …
globalresearch.ca/argentina-next-global-financial-crisis/5686356

Educator Workshop: Climate Science & Solutions for K-12 Classrooms
Rahus-Solar Schoolhouse | indybay.org | 2019-08-14
Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol, CA 95472…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/12/18825429.php

Brazil: 100,000 Daisies in Defense of Working Women's Rights
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Women from all over Brazil met at the Ministries Square in Brasilia on Wednesday to hold the "Daisies March," an even to defend agrarian reform and women's rights and reject gender violence and President Jair Bolsonaro. | RELATED: | Students Strike, Protest Across Brazil as Moro Orders Crackdown | "Brazilian women have a broad agenda of demands which…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-100000-Daisies-in-Defense-of-Working-Womens-Rights-20190814-0009.html

'We Were Treated Like Dirt': A Visa Program Exploits Student Workers
Michelle Chen | thenation.com | 2019-08-14
'We Were Treated Like Dirt': A Visa Program Exploits Student Workers…
thenation.com/article/j1-visa-summer-work-travel-abuse/

Chicago school district and union officials prepare to sell austerity contract to teachers
wsws.org | 2019-08-14
The Democratic Party "fact-finder" has come down on the side of the district's demands for a virtual wage freeze and further inroads on teachers' health care benefits.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/14/chic…

Selected Articles: Brexit Conundrum
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-brexit-conundrum/5686412

Irish Newspaper Calls for Union between Ireland, Wales and Scotland
Nation.Cymru | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Wales, Ireland and Scotland should form a 'Celtic pact' and leave England behind to sort out Brexit for itself, according to the Irish Mirror. | Writing for the newspaper, Jason O'Toole suggests that a pact of the four nations — Ireland, …
globalresearch.ca/irish-newspaper-calls-union-between-ireland-wales-scotland/5686378

Most US Citizens Do Not Support President Trump's Asylum Policy
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
A Pew Research Center poll found that most U.S. citizens reject President Donald Trump's measures against asylum seekers and 72 percent of them support granting legal status to immigrants. | RELATED: | Guatemala Cannot Be 'Safe Third Country,' US Congresswoman Says | According to this study, 65 percent of respondents believe that the U.S. government is per…
telesurenglish.net/news/Most-US-Citizens-Do-Not-Support-President-Trumps-Asylum-Policy-20190813-0005.html

Angela Rayner takes Tories to task over 'toxic, eye-watering debts'
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-08-13
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has slammed "the current broken system" of higher education loans. She blames Conservative-led governments for creating "vast levels of debt" and passing "almost half the cost" onto taxpayers. And she insists that a Labour government would do things very differently. | "Student loan debt set to almost double": | The Labour Party has criticised the current student…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/08/13/angela-rayner-takes-tories-to-task-over-toxic-eye-watering-debts/

UN recommends multilingual education to preserve Indigenous languages
Combined Sources | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-13
"The United Nations stands ready to support all initiatives aimed at realizing the rights and aspirations of Indigenous peoples." — UN Secretary-General António Guterres UN Assistant Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, stressed on Friday, August 9, the importance of providing multilingual education to indigenous communities so that they can preserve their native languages. Many of these languages …
peoplesworld.org/article/un-recommends-multilingual-education-to-preserve-indigenous-languages/

History: US-led Pressures on Japan Performed a Central Role Leading to Pearl Harbor
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
By 1920, America had become by far the world's richest country, whose strength held sway over much of the Western hemisphere, and was stretching further eastwards. As her influence expanded, the United States was posing a serious problem for the …
globalresearch.ca/years-us-led-pressures-japan-performed-central-role-leading-pearl-harbor/5686283

Obama's Unending Wars — Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State
Jim Miles | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Obama is a shining light in comparison to his two bookends, George Bush and Donald Trump. His manner is calm and focused as he presents his ideas with well mannered rhetorical flourishes, speaking in terms of hope, peace, change, freedom …
globalresearch.ca/obama-unending-wars-fronting-foreign-policy-permanent-warfare-state/5686269

Video: Syrian Tiger Forces Crush Al Qaeda Militants' Defense in Southern Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Over the past weekend, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces have continued their advance on positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies in northwestern Hama and southern Idlib. | By August 12, government forces had liberated the …
globalresearch.ca/video-tiger-forces-crush-militants-defense-southern-idlib/5686261

Sea turtles are mistaking plastic pollution for food
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-13
Endangered green sea turtles are accidentally ingesting plastic that resembles their food source concludes a new study published in the journal ' Scientific Reports'. | Researchers at the University of Exeter and the Society for the Protection of Turtles studied 34 sea turtles who washed up on beaches on the island of Cyprus. The team was able to look at the gastrointestinal tracts of 19 of the turtles, all of which had ingested plastic. | The sea turtles had ingested plastic that was green, black or clear, which greatly…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/13/sea-turtles-are-mistaking-plastic-pollution-for-food/

How Tehran Fits into Russia-China Strategy
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Complex doesn't even begin to describe the positioning of Iran-Russia in the geopolitical chessboard. What's clear in our current, volatile moment is that they're partners, as I previously reported. Although not strategic partners, as in the Russia-China tie-up, Russia-China-Iran …
globalresearch.ca/how-tehran-fits-russia-china-strategy/5686257

Freedom or Repression of Speech at Alberta's Universities? A Point of Contention Between the NDP and the UCP
Prof. Tony Hall | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Is former NDP Cabinet Minister, Shannon Phillips, attempting to revive her waning political career by initiating a fear mongering campaign? Ms. Phillips is targeting Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's plan to integrate the Chicago Principles on Free Speech …
globalresearch.ca/freedom-repression-speech-alberta-universities-point-contention-between-ndp-ucp/5686287

Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong or US Color Revolution Attempt?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
As the saying goes, if it walks, talks, and quacks like a duck, chances are it is one. | What's been going on for months in Hong Kong has all the earmarks of a US orchestrated color revolution, aimed at destabilizing …
globalresearch.ca/civil-disobedience-hong-kong-us-color-revolution-attempt/5686298

The 'Idiot Box' — Now More than Ever!
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
For decades many critics of broadcast television labeled it 'The idiot box'. As Ed Norton said in a Honeymooners episode "Maybe the phrase fits.'" Well, today, perhaps more than ever before, we all must be idiots to continue viewing …
globalresearch.ca/idiot-box/5686304

Why Don't Activists Care About the Kashmiris as Much as the Rohingyas?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
It's certainly peculiar that the international activist community cares more for the Rohingyas than the Kashmiris despite both of these people being Muslim minorities that are facing a similar threat of ethnic cleansing, which suggests that there must be more …
globalresearch.ca/why-dont-activists-care-about-kashmiris-as-much-as-rohingyas/5686321

Vaccine against chlamydia moves a step closer after successful clinical trial
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-13
A vaccine to protect against the common sexually transmitted infection (STI) chlamydia is safe and has shown promising signs of being effective, a clinical trial has found.Researchers found the vaccine provoked an immune response during preliminary tests on 35 healthy women.Further trials will now be carried out to determine whether it can fully protect against the infection, but experts say it is an "important first step" in tackling the condition."The findings are encouraging as they show the vaccine is safe and produces the type of immune response that could potentially protect against chlamydia," said Profess…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/08/13/vaccine-against-chlamydia-moves-a-step-closer-after-successful-clinical-trial/

Fordham's Students for Justice in Palestine Did More Than Win Club Status
Gunar Olsen | thenation.com | 2019-08-13
Fordham's Students for Justice in Palestine Did More Than Win Club Status…
thenation.com/article/fordhams-students-for-justice-in-palestine-did-more-than-win-club-status/

Medellín Diary: Remembering Our Dead
Forrest Hylton | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-13
What set Gustavo Marulanda's death apart from so many others in those years, when the Colombian government of Andrés Pastrana negotiated peace with the insurgent guerrilla movement, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), and the paramilitaries targeted intellectuals as well as social and trade union movement activists as guerrilla supporters, is that Marulanda publicly forecasted his murder at a student assembly. |…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/13/medellin-diary-remembering-our-dead/

The U.S. Government Doesn't Care About Afghan Women
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-08-13
In once, and to some extent still, relatively cosmopolitan Baghdad, Iraq, I once saw three young female college students from Mustansiriyah University walking home from class. They couldn't have been more differently clothed. One wore a full burqa that exposed only her eyes; another a hijab, a more modest head scarf without a facial veil, and a pair of jeans; the third sported a pink miniskirt and a revealing tank top with her long hair fully exposed. Still, they chatted like old friends. | By early 2007, this range of women's clothing was already highly rare in all but the safest Baghdad neighborhoods, yet it di…
truthdig.com/articles/the-u-s-government-doesnt-care-about-afghan-women/

Students Strike, Protest Across Brazil as Moro Orders Crackdown
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Brazil's Justice Minister Sergio Moro ordered his ministry's National Public Security Force (FSNP) to be stationed at the Ministries Square in Brasilia to crack down on student protests scheduled for Tuesday. | RELATED: | Argentina Frontrunner: 'Bolsonaro Is Racist, Misogynist, Violent' | The National Student Union (UNE) called o…
telesurenglish.net/news/Students-Strike-Protest-Across-Brazil-as-Moro-Orders-Crackdown-20190813-0010.html

Employment gains mask sharp rise in unemployment
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-13
Employment has hit record highs in the UK as the market was boosted by higher numbers of working women and self-employed workers, new figures reveal. | The number of people in employment rose by 115,000 to 32.81 million in the three months to June, reaching a new high for people in work, the Office for National Statistics said. | However, unemployment also significantly increased, as fewer people were considered economically inactive. | The UK's level of unemployment rose 31,000 to 1.33 million for the quarter, as the rate of unemployment increased to 3.9%. | The rise in unemployment was the biggest the UK has se…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/13/employment-gains-mask-sharp-rise-in-unemployment/

Ibram X. Kendi: IQ Tests, SAT Scores and Other "Intelligence" Tests Propagate Racism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-13
Author and professor Ibram X. Kendi joins us to discuss his new book, "How to Be an Antiracist." He talks about the racist development of intelligence tests that blatantly discriminate against people of color under a veneer of scientific objectivity. "Even when we talk about antiracism, when most people think of who needs to be an antiracist, they think of Southerners. They think of people who voted for Trump," says Kendi. "They don't think of people who are advocating for the maintenance of these tests, which are denying access to some of the best schools in New York City to black and Latino kids."
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/13/ibram_x_k…

How #MeToo Is Changing Sex Ed Policies — Even in Red States
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-13
| In Colorado, a law passed this spring requires any sex education taught in the state's public schools to be medically accurate and, in an unusual move, carves out $1 million to pay for it. | California's Board of Education updated its statewide framework in May for teaching comprehensive sex educat…
truthout.org/articles/how-metoo-is-changing-sex-ed-policies-even-in-red-states/