British Judge Jails Assange Indefinitely, Despite End of Prison Sentence
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court yesterday morning, British District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange will remain in prison, despite the fact that his custodial sentence for "absconding" bail expires on September 22. | The ruling …
globalresearch.ca/british-judge-jails-assange-despite-end-prison-sentence/5689322
The Torture and Murder of Julian Assange
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Back in May, retired USAF lieutenant colonel Karen Kwiatkowski said the CIA's "Chemical Gina has her hands in this one, and we are being told that Assange is being 'treated' with 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, known as BZ." | On September 14, Kwiatkowski …
globalresearch.ca/torture-murder-julian-assange/5689303
Julian Assange: The World's Most Important Political Prisoner
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
We are now just one week away from the end of Julian Assange's uniquely lengthy imprisonment for bail violation. He will receive parole from the rest of that sentence, but will continue to be imprisoned on remand awaiting his …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-the-worlds-most-important-political-prisoner/5689330
Why Is Julian Assange Being Tortured to Death?
Karen Kwiatkowski | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
I think we already know the answer. We need to go further and try and understand what this partially veiled, but completely serious, US and UK destruction of a modern journalist means for all of us. | Assange is an advocate …
globalresearch.ca/why-julian-assange-tortured/5689298
Landmines: Reclaiming the Community One Bomb at a Time: The View from Indochina
Ted Lieverman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Ending a war is like stopping a heavy truck. Even when you slam on the brakes, the mass and inertia of the conflict takes a very long time to halt; the violence might end but the effects can reverberate through | …
globalresearch.ca/reclaiming-community-one-bomb-time-view-from-indochina/5689380
Freedom in Sight for Mumia Abu-Jamal?
Prison Radio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Freedom is now in sight. New evidence, recently found, and surpressed for decades could be the key to relief for Mumia Abu-Jamal. | Joe McGill and Ed Rendell, trial prosecutor and DA, respectively, manipulated evidence and framed Mumia Abu-Jamal …
globalresearch.ca/freedom-sight-mumia-abu-jamal/5689378
The Ansarullah's Drone Strike against Saudi Arabia's Oil Facilities Was a Classic "David vs. Goliath" Moment?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Global Research has published several articles which provide different as well as opposing views of the strikes directed Saudi Arabia's oil facilities. What was the (direct or indirect) role of Iran in these strikes? | *** | This weekend's massive drone strike …
globalresearch.ca/ansarullah-drone-strike-classic-david-vs-goliath-moment/5689360
World's Most Expensive UK Railway Project at £100 Billion, Derailed Before Any Track Actually Laid
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Britain's proposed HS2 high-speed rail link that would cost more than £400m per mile to complete would make it the most expensive railway on Earth, according to new estimates commissioned by the UK Department for Transport. | According to these calculations, …
globalresearch.ca/most-expensive-railway-project-100-billion-derailed/5689325
Japan-Russia Relations, The Kuril Islands Dispute and the Revival of Suzuki Muneo
James Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
At the start of the 2000s, Suzuki Muneo was one of the most prominent politicians in Japan. Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1983, Suzuki eventually served eight terms. He became a powerful figure in | …
globalresearch.ca/japan-russia-relations-revival-suzuki-muneo/5689333
Iranian Drones Launched from Iraq Carried Out Attacks on Saudi Oil Plants
David Hearst | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
The strikes which paralysed the Saudi oil industry on Saturday morning, forcing it to halve its output of crude oil, were made by Iranian drones launched from Hashd al-Shaabi bases in southern Iraq, a senior Iraqi intelligence official has told …
globalresearch.ca/iranian-drones-iraq-carried-out-attacks-saudi-oil-plants/5689363
Trump Exploits Drone Attacks on Saudi Oil Facilities to Threaten War Against Iran
Peter Symonds | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Drone strikes on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia on Saturday by Yemen's Houthi rebels have triggered concerns about a potential major disruption in global oil supplies and a spike in oil prices. The attack, in retaliation for the brutal …
globalresearch.ca/trump-exploits-drone-attacks-saudi-oil-facilities-threaten-war-against-iran/5689348
The Adelsons May Have Cut Ties with Netanyahu More than a Year Ago–And No One Noticed
Marsha B. Cohen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
In the days leading up to the Israeli election on Sept. 17, President Donald Trump appears to have left Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu twisting in the wind. | While most observers have been attributing Trump's cooling toward Netanyahu to either …
globalresearch.ca/adelsons-cut-ties-netanyahu-year-ago/5689313
As David Cameron Resurfaces 'Broken Britain' Disintegrates
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
David Cameron has no shame whatsoever. He has, cynically, come out of hiding — simply to promote his new book and make some money from an ongoing catastrophe of his making. For the last three years he hid from the …
globalresearch.ca/david-cameron-resurfaces-broken-britain-disintegrates/5689316
The Barbarity of US-NATO, War Propaganda and the "Rule of International Law"
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Greetings delegates and organizers. My name is Mark Taliano. I am a writer and Research Associate at the Center For Research on Globalization (Global Research). | My book, Voices from Syria, and my website marktaliano.net represent my efforts to take …
globalresearch.ca/speech-for-the-general-federation-of-trade-unions-conference-in-damascus/5689338
Avalanche-Level Liar Trump Learned Art of Deception from the Pros: US Corporations
Ralph Nader | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
For avalanche-level lying, deceiving, and misleading, mega-mimic Donald Trump need look no further than the history of the corporate advertising industry and the firms that pay them. | Dissembling is so deeply ingrained in commercial culture that the Federal Trade Commission …
globalresearch.ca/avalanche-level-liar-trump-learned-art-of-deception-from-the-pros-us-corporations/5689302
John McDonnell will make Amazon pay its 'fair share of tax'
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2019-09-16
John McDonnell announced that a Labour government would not award public sector contracts to companies such as Amazon who avoid tax. McDonnell said: We would do whatever it takes to make sure that companies like Amazon pay their fair share of tax. | And research into the tech giant reveals just h…
thecanary.co/uk/2019/09/16/john-mcdonnell-will-make-amazon-pay-its-fair-share-of-tax/
1984 Punjab Was the Template for 2019 Kashmir
Andrew Korybko | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-09-16
asia-pacificresearch.com/1984-punjab-template-2019-kashmir/5628889
What Role Did the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Soviet Entry into the War Play in Japan's Decision to Surrender in the Pacific War?
Dr. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a US citizen who was born in Japan, has taught in both countries. Applying his specialized knowledge of Russian history to an analysis of the US decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, he challenges the prevailing …
globalresearch.ca/role-atomic-bombings-hiroshima-nagasaki-soviet-entry-war-play-japan-decision-surrender-pacific-war/5689335
A Plea to the Youth of Hong Kong
Dr Marcus Papadopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Dr Marcus Steven Papadopoulos, a British political journalist, and the founder and editor of Politics First magazine wrote a letter to the Youth of Hong Kong to safeguard their region from British and American colonialism and defend the independence, …
globalresearch.ca/plea-youth-hong-kong/5689356
The Cost of Wanting to Tell the Truth: Global Research Needs Your Support
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Dear Readers, | we cannot cover our monthly costs. In what effectively amounts to online …
globalresearch.ca/the-cost-of-wanting-to-tell-the-truth/5667015
"Drone Attack" on Saudi Oil — Who Benefits?
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Huge blazes were reported at two oil facilities in Saudi Arabia owned by Aramco. While Saudi authorities refused to assign blame, media outlets like the BBC immediately began insinuating either Yemen's Houthis or Iran were responsible. | The BBC in its …
globalresearch.ca/drone-attack-saudi-oil-who-benefits/5689374
Oiling for War: The Houthi Attack on The world's Largest Oil Processing Facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
The attack on the world's largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia southwest of Aramco's headquarters in Dhahran had a few predictable responses. Given that the facility has a daily output of some 5.7 million barrels, damaging it …
globalresearch.ca/houthi-attack-abqaiq/5689328
#NoMoreTrump Campaign Ends with 13m Signatures Expected
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
The Venezuelan government wrapped up the international #NoMoreTrump campaign Sunday as thousands gathered in the Bolivar plazas, communities and neighborhoods of the country to sign the petition calling on the United States to lift the unilateral blockade. | "In every corner | …
globalresearch.ca/nomoretrump-campaign-ends-13m-signatures-expected/5689371
Iran Seizes Vessel in Gulf for Smuggling Diesel Fuel to UAE
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-16
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have seized a vessel in the Gulf for allegedly smuggling 250,000 liters of diesel fuel to the United Arab Emirates, Iran's semi-official Students News agency ISNA reported on Monday. | RELATED: | Iran Seizes Tugboat Carrying Suspected Smuggled Oil | "It was detained near Iran's Greater Tunb island in the Persian Gulf…the crew have been handed over to legal authorities in the southern Hormozgan province," ISNA said, without elaborating on the nationalities of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Seizes-Vessel-in-Gulf-for-Smuggling-Diesel-Fuel-to-UAE-20190916-0004.html
It's Time for Universities to Stop Being "Neutral" About the Climate Crisis
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-16
| A massive climate action is coming up this week, with strikes and protests planned from September 20 to 27. College students — along with younger students — are playing a central role in organizing this climate action, but they largely are not receiving explicit support from school administrators. Given the magnitude of the climate crisis we are facing, it is time for university administrators to drop their policy of "neutrality" and throw their support behind this youth climat…
truthout.org/articles/its-time-for-universities-to-stop-being-neutral-about-the-climate-crisis/
YOUTH MEDIA SUMMIT + STUDENT FILM PREMIERE
Annie Delgado | indybay.org | 2019-09-16
NEW PARKWAY THEATER, 474 24TH STREET, OAKLAND, CA 94612…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/14/18826234.php
Would Trump Try to Manipulate Economic Data Before the Election?
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-16
| I talked to a reporter last week who wanted to know if Donald Trump could manipulate economic data for political advantage. For example, could Trump make the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show a lower rate of unemployment or the Bureau of Economic Analysis show a higher rate of GDP growth, just before the election next fall? | I told the reporter that it would be extremely difficult. First, the people at these and other statistical agencies are dedicated professionals. It is inconceivable that i…
truthout.org/articles/would-trump-try-to-manipulate-economic-data-before-the-election/
The Real Brexit Plan — The Singapore Scenario
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
Bloomberg News — August 2nd: Boris Johnson Widens Push for Singapore-Style Free Ports in the UK. Boris Johnson's government is expanding plans to create 10 free ports in the U.K., which he says will boost…
globalresearch.ca/real-brexit-plan-singapore-scenario/5689355
Eighteen Years after 9/11, Has Al-Qaeda Won the War on Terrorism?
Peter Ford | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-16
What blasphemy is this? al-Qaeda has won? Absurd! | Most observers would say reflexively that, eighteen years after 9/11, the U.S. has cut al-Qaeda down to size, and if it has not quelled it altogether the remaining operations against Osama bin …
globalresearch.ca/eighteen-years-after-911-al-qaeda-won-war-terrorism/5689368
USF students demand no immigration authorities on campus
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-09-15
Tampa, Fl – On September 10, students at the University of South Florida (USF) participated in a national day of action that was called by National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to speak out against the Trump administration's attacks on undocumented immigrants. The event was hosted by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Over 30 students and staff attended. | During President Donald Trump's tenure, his administration has engaged in escalating attacks against undocumented immigrants. Some of these attacks include Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining undocumented children in h…
fightbacknews.org/2019/9/14/usf-students-demand-no-immigration-authorities-campus
The Myth of the Cold War: 74 Years Ago, Secret September 1945 Plan to "Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-15
Seventy four years ago, on September 15, 1945, the US released a secret document which consisted in waging a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas of the Soviet Union, which at the time was an ally of …
globalresearch.ca/the-myth-of-the-cold-war-74-years-ago-secret-september-1945-plan-to-wipe-the-soviet-union-of-the-map/5689283
Angela Rayner just flipped the tables on the Lib Dems with a message we all need to remember
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-09-15
Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has stressed that "on so many grounds, David Cameron cannot be forgiven". But in doing so, she seemed to gloss over the damning fact that she and her party propped Cameron up for five years between 2010 and 2015. And Labour's Angela Rayner, for one, was not going to let that go.The shadow education minister insisted: | Sorry Jo we can't forgive you either as you propped Cameron up and his rotten austerity government which caused millions such mise…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/09/15/angela-rayner-just-flipped-the-tables-on-the-lib-dems-with-a-message-we-all-need-to-remember/
44 Bodies Found in Mexican Mass Grave, Victims Identified
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-15
A hole with 119 bags containing the remains of at least 44 people has been discovered in the municipality of Zapopan, in the western Mexican state of Jalisco. The findings sharpen the insecurity crisis within a country that accounts for more than 3,000 clandestine graves discovered since 2006. | RELATED: | Colombia Hides Largest Mass Grave in Latin America | The Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF) has so far found that the remains belong to at least 44 people, of which they have…
telesurenglish.net/news/44-Bodies-Found-in-Mexican-Mass-Grave-Victims-Identified-20190915-0020.html
Young people gear up for 'world's largest' climate strike
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-15
Businesses, trade unions and environmental groups are backing children and students as they take to the streets for what is being billed as the world's largest climate strike.In the UK, young people are taking part in more than 150 demonstrations from Cornwall to Scotland and are urging people to join them to push for action to transform the economy to zero carbon and tackle the climate crisis.Worldwide, campaigners say there are more than 3,400 events planned in 120 countries, with numbers taking part expected to surpass the estimated 1.6 million people who took to the streets for a global climate strike in Marc…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/09/15/young-people-gear-up-for-worlds-largest-climate-strike/
Teaching Democrats to Talk About Socialism
Robert Freeman | commondreams.org | 2019-09-15
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Mourning and Resistance in Kashmir After India Revoked the State's Special Status
Soumya Shankar | theintercept.com | 2019-09-14
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir — On the eve of Eid al-Adha last month, 17-year-old Asrar Khan lay in a vegetative state at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, a hospital in downtown Srinagar, Kashmir's largest city. The unconscious teenager was barely hanging on to life, connected to a ventilator and blinded in one eye — the result, his family says, of pellet injuries at the hands of India's armed forces. | Six days earlier, on August 5, India's government, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the helm, had unilaterally abrogated a constituti…
theintercept.com/2019/09/14/kashmir-india-article-370/
3rd Democratic Debate: Education, Inequality, and Racism (2/3)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-13
Our panel on the 3rd Democratic presidential debate takes a closer look at how the candidates look at and overlook crucial issues related to inequality and education in the United States…
therealnews.com/stories/3rd-democratic-debate-education-inequality-and-racism-2-3
The Age of Constitutional Coups
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-13
In 2017, in the wake of a failed military putsch the previous year, Turkey's prime minister Recep Erdogan held what the British journalist Patrick Cockburn rightly calls "a blatantly rigged referendum which marginalized parliament and gave him dictatorial powers." Erdogan won a narrow majority that "was only achieved late on election night when the head of the electoral board overseeing the election decided that votes not stamped as legally valid, numbering as many as 1.5 million, would be counted as valid." Erdogan then implemented a national educational curriculum that devalued secular liberal ideas and science…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/13/the-age-of-constitutional-coups/
Many Teachers Keep Leaving Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-13
Yet another academic study shows what many have documented for years: the teacher turnover rate in charter schools remains much higher than the teacher turnover rate in public schools.1 High teacher turnover rates has been a longstanding problem for privately-operated nonprofit and for-profit charter schools across the country. Here is a typical example: Average [teacher] …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/many-teachers-keep-leaving-charter-schools/
Chicago's Impending Teacher Strike is Ten Years in the Making
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-09-11
The union is still fighting to restore the damage caused by a decade of austerity measures, layoffs, and budget cuts.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/chicago-impending-teacher-strike-lahm-190911/
Kenosha SDS wins demand for gender neutral bathrooms on campus
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-09-10
Kenosha, WI – Just in time for the new semester, Students for a Democratic Society at UW Parkside came out victorious in their gender neutral bathrooms campaign from the previous semester. Four bathrooms were converted on campus to support the trans and gender non-conforming community, a demand which some students have been proposing for several years. | Before, there were only two gender neutral bathrooms on campus located on the opposite ends of campus. This was an obstacle for transgender students taking classes in the central area of the university, as the only gender neutral bathrooms were inconveniently far…
fightbacknews.org/2019/9/10/kenosha-sds-wins-demand-gender-neutral-bathrooms-campus
From a Lebanese Refugee Camp to Harvard, Ismail Ajjawi Inspires Other Palestinian Students
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-10
Today marks a week since Ismail Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who was denied entry into the United States, began classes with his fellow Harvard freshmen. Ajjawi was initially turned away at Boston's Logan Airport after immigration officials searched his phone and computer, and interrogated him about his religion and social media posts by friends that were critical of U.S. policy. He was then forced to return home to Lebanon, but his case provoked outrage on the Harvard campus and among some Palestinian rights and academic freedom groups. Ajjawi, who is attending Harvard on a full scholarship, was edu…
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/10/palestini…
Segregation Is Worse in Charter Schools: a Q&A with Julian Vasquez-Heilig
Rann Miller | progressive.org | 2019-09-09
"If the charter schools don't want to be diverse, they don't have to be."
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/segregation-worse-charter-schools-vasquez-heilig-miller-190909/
Texas protest says "No kids in cages"
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-09-07
Arlington, TX – 60 people showed up at a protest organized by the Progressive Student Union (PSU) at the University of Texas at Arlington, September 4, against the Trump administration's change to of policy on the detention of undocumented children. | Mark Napieralski, an organizer from the Progressive Student Union, spoke about how the Flores Agreement banned holding children indefinitely – and how the Trump administration is moving to keep children in indefinite detention in concentration camps along the southern border. | Speakers at the rally included Minister Katie Hays from the Galileo Church and Harold Ch…
fightbacknews.org/2019/9/7/texas-protest-says-no-kids-cages
Why Are the Feds Blocking Marijuana Reform when Research Shows Cannabis Saves Lives?
Gladys Weinberg | progressive.org | 2019-09-04
For many people, marijuana offers a viable alternative to opioid use.
progressive.org/op-eds/why-is-the-federal-government-blocking-marijuana-reform-weinberg-190904/
Midwest Dispatch: The Drivers on the Bus Go . . . Where?
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-09-04
Around the country, schools desperate to free up funds are outsourcing their bussing services–and dealing a blow to students and workers alike.
progressive.org/dispatches/midwest-dispatch-bus-driver-jobs-lahm-190904/
Kennewick teachers' strike shows power of the union in Washington state
Mitch Malloy | liberationnews.org | 2019-09-01
Teachers win gains on important issues including pay and insurance.
liberationnews.org/kennewick-teachers-strike-shows-power-of-the-union-in-washington-state/
#ShutItDown: Organizing to Strike for Climate Justice
patrick | strikedc.org | 2019-08-20
Throughout the 2018–2019 school year, young people around organized massive school climate strikes to demand that the world's leaders take immediate action to address climate change. The strikes started first in Sweden, then spread throughout the European Union and around the world. By March, 15 tens of thousands of students in more than 100 countries … | Continue reading "#ShutItDown: Organizing to Strike for Climate Justice"
strikedc.org/index.php/2019/08/20/shutitdown-organizing-to-strike-for-climate-justice/