The Dream Is Dead Not Just for Dreamers, But for All Americans
Anis Shivani | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
How does one fight for freedom by locating oneself in the headquarters of the worst human rights violator for the last seventy years?(Photo: The Education Trust/Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Is science failing the world's primates?
Michelle A. Rodrigues | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-22
There are more than 500 known primate species, but it would be hard to tell that by looking at recent research. Want to know how chimpanzees are doing across Africa? We can tell you plenty about them. But understanding how nocturnal pottos are doing across the same region? That may be more difficult. Here's why: …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/22/is-science-failing-the-worlds-primates/

US Now Admits it is Funding "Occupy Central" in Hong Kong
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
This article first published almost five years ago on October 1, 2014 is of particular relevance to an understanding of recent developments in Hong Kong. | *** | Just as the US admitted shortly after the so-called "Arab Spring" began spreading chaos …
globalresearch.ca/us-now-admits-funding-occupy-central-hong-kong/5405680

UK Licensed £6.3bn Worth of Arms to Saudi-led Forces in First Four Years of Yemen Conflict
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The UK government licensed £6.3bn ($7.6bn) worth of arms to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen in the four years of the group's bombing campaign, according to a new report by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT). | According to new government …
globalresearch.ca/uk-licensed-arms-saudi-led-forces-first-four-years-yemen-conflict/5686889

Despite Devastating Crashes, Boeing Stocks Fly High
Andrew Cockburn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
In a turbulent world, some things remain stable, even to an irrational degree. One example is the price of Boeing stock, which, at $329 a share as of midday August 16, has barely moved–down just 1.6 percent–from a year ago. …
globalresearch.ca/despite-devastating-crashes-boeing-stocks-fly-high/5686901

Europe on the Brink of Collapse?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The Empire's European castle of vassals is crumbling. Right in front of our eyes. But Nobody seems to see it. The European Union (EU), the conglomerate of vassals — Trump calls them irrelevant, and he doesn't care what they think about him, they deserve to be collapsing.
globalresearch.ca/europe-brink-collapse/5665679

Hundreds of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Pollute Americans' Bodies
EWG | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
Hundreds of cancer-causing chemicals are building up in the bodies of Americans, according to the first comprehensive inventory of the carcinogens that have been measured in people. EWG released the inventory today. | EWG spent almost a year reviewing more than …
globalresearch.ca/hundreds-cancer-causing-chemicals-pollute-americans-bodies/5686868

The Woodstock Summer of Love? Fifty Years Ago
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
Goodness, how 50 years seemed to go like a blink in the eye of memory. Almost to the day, two sets of events harnessed the attention of our nation in August of 1969. On August 9th and 10th, what was …
globalresearch.ca/the-woodstock-summer-of-love-fifty-years-ago/5686850

New Poll Reflects Trump's Widespread Unpopularity
Jacob Sugarman | truthdig.com | 2019-08-22
NEW YORK — About 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's overall job performance, according to a new poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which finds some support for the president's handling of the U.S. economy but gives him weak marks on other major issues. | Just 36% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president; 62% disapprove. | The numbers may be ugly for a first-term president facing reelection in 14 months, but they are remarkably consistent. Trump's approval rating has never dipped below 32% or risen above…
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"Seeds of Destruction" and "The Global Economic Crisis"
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
We are happy to offer you two important books from Global Research Publishers at discounted prices: | Seeds of Destruction, by F. William Engdahl: | "Control the food and you control the people." This is no ordinary book about the perils of …
globalresearch.ca/seeds-of-destruction-and-the-global-economic-crisis/5686919

Russia's UNSC Kashmir Stance Wasn't Influenced by India or Pakistan, but by China
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
Russia didn't want the issue of Kashmir to be brought before the UNSC at all, though it allowed China to go forward with the meeting out of respect for their strategic partnership but then remained conspicuously silent about India's threats …
globalresearch.ca/russia-unsc-kashmir-stance-india-pakistan-china/5686831

American Apocalypse: The Government's Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out … without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is …
globalresearch.ca/government-plot-destabilize-nation/5686852

No Agreement on Idlib: So-called "Militants" (aka Al Qaeda) Continue to Kill Syrian Civilians
Ahmad Al Khaled | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The 13th round of negotiations on Syria in Astana format was held in the capital of Kazakhstan on the 1st and 2nd of August. As the result, three guarantor states — Russia, Turkey and Iran — accepted a statement which …
globalresearch.ca/syrians-ask-exemption-militants/5685805

Defense Department kills multi-billion dollar missile contract with Boeing
rt.com | 2019-08-22
The Pentagon is scrapping a multi-billion dollar deal with Boeing to replace an outdated missile interceptor, citing years of delays and technical problems and jealously eyeing rivals' capabilities. | "Ending the program was the responsible thing to do," Michael Griffin, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said in a statement on Wednesday. | We decided the path we're going down wouldn't be fruitful, so we're not going down that path anymore. | The exact details of the project's failure would not be released "due to the classified nature of the program," a spokesman for the Pentagon's Missile D…
rt.com/usa/467020-pentagon-kills-boeing-contract/

The Beidaihe Political Summit: Is the "Chinese Dream" Still Viable? China's Debt Crisis
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The resort town of Beidaihe has just held one of the world's most important, and secretive, political gatherings. Members of the public flock there in the summer months to relax on the beach gently lapped by the shallow waters of …
globalresearch.ca/beidaihe-political-summit-chinese-dream-still-viable/5686836

Trump Regime's Hardball with China: A Losing Strategy
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
China is a major player on the world stage, geopolitical know-nothing Trump outclassed, outshined, and outwitted by its ruling authorities. | He's an embarrassment compared to other major world leaders, a laughing stock geopolitical wrecking ball. | His regime's unacceptable Indo/Pacific agenda …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-hardball-china/5686913

Indian Assault on Kashmir in Third Week, Thousands Arrested
Deepal Jayasekera | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The state of siege that India's Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has imposed on Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is now well into its third week. | Cell phone and internet access continue to be denied to many of …
globalresearch.ca/indian-assault-kashmir-third-week-thousands-arrested/5686873

What's Russia Up to in the Iranian Port of Chabahar? The North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC)
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
There have been wild reports over the past few weeks about Russia's activities in the Iranian port of Chabahar, with some sources even alleging that Moscow plans to open up a naval base there. | *** | An interesting sequence of events | …
globalresearch.ca/russia-chabahar/5686845

US Court Ruling: You Can Be "Too Smart" to Be a Cop
Melissa Dykes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
This article was first published on GR on December 18, 2014 | Can a person actually be "too smart" to be a cop in America? | A federal court's decision back in 2000 suggests that, yes, you actually can be. | Robert Jordan, …
globalresearch.ca/us-court-ruled-you-can-be-too-smart-to-be-a-cop/5420630

Al-Golani's Defiance of Turkey Leads to Syrian Government Control of Khan Sheikhoun
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
During the first week of this month of August, the ex-ISIS commander and current head of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra) Abu Mohammad al-Golani held a press conference in the occupied northern city of Idlib. He declared …
globalresearch.ca/al-golani-defiance-turkey-leads-syrian-government-control-khan-sheikhoun/5686903

US Unveils Warrant for Seizure of Iran-operated Grace 1
Press TV | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
According to a Press TV report: | "The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker a day after Gibraltar's Supreme Court confirmed the release of the vessel. On Thursday, Gibraltar's …
globalresearch.ca/us-unveils-warrant-seizure-iran-operated-grace-1/5686647

Scientists Definitively Debunk the Biggest Climate Change Lie
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-22
European and US scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years, but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause. | Other historic changes — the so-called Medieval Warm Period and then the "Little Ice Age" that marked the 17th to the 19th centuries — were not global. The on…
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Trump's Science Record Is Already Worse Than Bush's
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-22
On July 19, President Trump hosted Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and their families, along with the family of their deceased colleague Neil Armstrong, at a White House event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon. | "Tomorrow will represent 50 years from the time we planted a beautiful American flag on the moon," Trump said. "And that was an achievement, possibly one of the great, considered one of the great achievements ever."
truthdig.com/articles/donald-trumps-attacks-on-science-already-surpass-two-bush-terms/

It's About Time for Ethnic Studies in Our K-12 Schools
ECOGLO | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
"Why haven't we been taught this history before?" Students have asked us this question countless times over the past twenty-five years of teaching Latin America Studies and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Cal State Los Angeles, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University. The emotions triggering this question are usually the same. Students feel lied to and cheated. Some are frustrated and downright angry that ethnic studies has been excluded from their schooling.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/22/its-about-time-for-ethnic-studies-in-our-k-12-schools/

The Metaphysics of Revolution
Dan Corjescu | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
Socrates was the first revolutionary. He opened up with a legendary oracular search the inner space from which the individual, as we understand him today, would eventually emerge. His "daemon" was that which spoke the necessary freedom and autonomy to become what we are. His was the first lesson. His student, Plato, brought on the…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/22/the-metaphysics-of-revolution/

California 'Nazi High' forced to reopen probe after students caught throwing salutes in more videos
rt.com | 2019-08-22
Orange County high school students were caught on film giving Nazi salutes and singing Nazi marching songs, outraging the community after school administrators appeared to be trying to cover it up — until even more videos emerged. | About a dozen members of the Pacifica High School boys' water polo team are seen giving Nazi salutes in a banquet room in the first video, which went public on Monday. One begins to sing an obscure Nazi marching song and a few others join in before the clip ends. | A group of high-school athletes in Southern California reportedly gave a Nazi salute and sang a Nazi song during…
rt.com/usa/467022-california-students-nazi-salutes/

Students leading anti-gun crusade roll out comprehensive plan
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-22
Saying they're "taking matters into their own hands" because politicians have sat on theirs and produced "nothingness," the students who lead the nation's anti-gun violence crusade rolled out a comprehensive plan to cut the gun carnage in the nation's homes and on its streets, malls, theaters, and schools. Their objective: Cut the yearly gun murders …
peoplesworld.org/article/students-leading-anti-gun-crusade-roll-out-comprehensive-plan/

Students leading anti-gun crusade roll out comprehensive plan
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-22
Saying they're "taking matters into their own hands" because politicians have sat on theirs and produced "nothingness," the students who lead the nation's anti-gun violence crusade rolled out a comprehensive plan to cut the gun carnage in the nation's homes and on its streets, malls, theaters and schools. Their objective: Cut the yearly gun murders …
peoplesworld.org/article/students-leading-anti-gun-crusade-roll-out-comprehensive-plan/

Bolivarian revolution and Black liberation
Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2019-08-22
Portland's Hands Off Venezuela PDX sponsored a Skype teach-in on Aug. 17 with Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent, an assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, who spoke about the role of racism in Bolivarian Venezuela to a room of 25 Oregonians. She said, "Just as Haiti . . . | Continue reading Bolivarian revolution and Black liberation at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/08/21/bolivarian-revolution-and-black-liberation/

The Mad World of Theresa May Has Lured the EU into a Trap
Rodney Atkinson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
This article was originally published in December 2018. | The British Prime Minister's Brexit has been so epically disastrous that it has trapped the EU into an ideal result for the UK. This is consistent with the upside down world she …
globalresearch.ca/theresa-may-lured-eu-trap/5663424

Subsidizing Underfunded Schools, US Teachers Spend $459 of Their Own Money Each Year on Classroom Supplies
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
As students, parents, and educators enter the start of a new school year, the think tank Economic Policy Institute published an analysis Thursday that American K-12 public school teachers spend an average of $459 on classroom supplies for which they are not reimbursed. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/22/subsidizing-underfunded-schools-us-teachers-spend-459-their-own-money-each-year?cd-origin=rss

Australian Investigative Journalist Exposes Mainstream Media Betrayal of Assange
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
At a Sydney "Politics in the Pub" meeting on Thursday night, award-winning Australian journalist Mark Davis revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the …
globalresearch.ca/australian-investigative-journalist-exposes-guardiannew-york-times-betrayal-assange/5686660

Omar, Tlaib, and the United States of Israel
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
I'm trying to remember when Israel wasn't the fifty-first state. It receives my tax money and a blank check by the United States government to torture, ethnically cleanse, and murder Palestinians. | Israelis are apparently more important and cherished than Americans, …
globalresearch.ca/omar-tlaib-united-states-israel/5686803

Half a Billion Bees Drop Dead in Brazil Amid Jump in Pesticide Use
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Bee apocalypse has unfolded in four of Brazil's southern states in 1Q19. More than half a billion bees died earlier this year, in a short period, experts are suggesting that pesticides are likely to be blamed, reported Bloomberg. | ….
globalresearch.ca/half-billion-bees-drop-dead-brazil-pesticide-use/5686822

History: US Encroachment Encouraged Japan To Support Hitler and Mussolini
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
During late September 1940, Japanese representatives like Sabur≈ç Kurusu flew to Berlin where they were greeted by the ruler of Europe, Adolf Hitler. Kurusu, an experienced career diplomat from Yokohama, could not help but notice the Nazi self-assurance at …
globalresearch.ca/ongoing-western-encroachment-japan-turned-her-hitler-mussolini/5686798

Video: Syrian Tiger Forces Advance to Encircle Khan Shaykhun
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Government forces are rapidly advancing in southern Idlib inflicting large casualties to radical militant groups. | During the weekend, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces and their allies have liberated the villages of Khirbat Abidin, Hursh al-Tawilah, Mughr Hunta, …
globalresearch.ca/video-tiger-forces-encircle-khan-shaykhun/5686755

A Nightmare of Homelessness: A Knapsack Full of Dreams
John Clarke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Cathy Crowe's book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse comes out of decades of witnessing and challenging a growing blight of destitution and poverty in Toronto that has developed with the advance of the neoliberal agenda. …
globalresearch.ca/nightmare-homelessness-knapsack-full-dreams/5686834

What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
The main problem with the US economy is that globalism has been deconstructing it. The offshoring of US jobs has reduced US manufacturing and industrial capability and associated innovation, research, development, supply chains, consumer purchasing power, and tax base of …
globalresearch.ca/globalism-transfer-us-economy-china/5686832

Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA's 200 Million-acre Expansion of Bee-killing Pesticide