What Happened in Sudan?
Prof. Vijay Prashad | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
On 19 December 2018, an uprising began in Sudan. This uprising would culminate in the removal of Sudan's president — Omar al-Bashir — from power on 11 April 2019. The army staged a conservative military coup to abort the revolutionary …
globalresearch.ca/what-happened-sudan/5690974
"The Globalization of War" and "Towards a World War III Scenario"
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
The Globalization of War: America's "Long War" against Humanity, by Michel Chossudovsky | America's hegemonic project in…
globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-war-and-towards-a-world-war-iii-scenario-two-books-by-michel-chossudovsky/5437767
African American Education Crisis Highlighted in Atlanta Testing Case
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
"None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators" by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton, Beacon Press, Boston, 2019 | This study chronicles the plight of 35 educators, all …
globalresearch.ca/african-american-education-crisis-highlighted-atlanta-testing-case/5690920
"Revitalizing, revolutionizing and democratizing art education": The birth of New Masters Academy
Masha Savitz | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-03
Joshua Jacobo has been certainly been called 'radical' before in regard to his earlier leftist political activities or views, but now it takes on a new meaning, or rather, a very old meaning, as it pertains to the genesis and mission of his subscription-based art education website, New Masters Academy — revitalizing, revolutionizing and democratizing art education. | The word, 'radical' come from Latin which means 'returning to the root', going to the 'origin or essential', as Jacobo has done by returning to the roots of classical art training, to th…
nationofchange.org/2019/10/03/radical/
The Trump administration thinks grad students aren't workers. Grad students tell them to think again
Negin Owliaei | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-03
In 2016, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that student researchers and teaching assistants at private universities have the right to collectively bargain, starting a wave of graduate student organizing. But earlier this month, Trump's NLRB made an about-face with a newly-proposed rule that would undercut the right for those students to unionize. At the …
nationofchange.org/2019/10/03/the-trump-administration-thinks-grad-students-arent-workers-grad-students-tell-them-to-think-again/
India's Wrong, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Isn't 'Illegal'
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Raveesh Kumar said over the weekend that "We expect that other countries will respect India's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and desist from efforts to change the status quo through the illegal so-called China-Pakistan Economic …
globalresearch.ca/india-wrong-china-pakistan-economic-corridor-isnt-illegal/5690897
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) Must Shelve His Vicious War in Yemen
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
Never underestimate the power of blowback. Right now, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of the House of Saud, is staring at it, an ominous abyss opened by the Houthis in Yemen. | This past weekend, …
globalresearch.ca/mbs-vicious-war-yemen/5690907
Study: Indian Politics Legitimize Hate Crimes
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-03
A new PERI study says that there is a causal relationship between the rise of the right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP party in India and the rise of hate crimes targeted against minorities, especially against Muslims. Prof. Deepankar Basu discusses the research.
therealnews.com/stories/study-indian-politics-legitimize-hate-crimes
Gene Edited Catastrophe in Brazil. Mosquitos
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
A British-American gene-editing company has released millions of genetically modified mosquitoes containing a dominant lethal gene, each week for 27 months in the Bahia, Brazil region in a test to see if the gene-edited mosquitoes would mate with local mosquitoes …
globalresearch.ca/gene-edited-catastrophe-brazil/5690917
China's Hypersonic Missile Dominance
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
The People's Republic showed off its state-of-the-art DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicle during this week's military parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Revolution, which was meant to send a message not just to the superpower's American adversary, but …
globalresearch.ca/india-china-hypersonic-missile-dominance/5690965
Neocon: Trump "Misunderstood" on War to Destroy Syria
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
"The United States' special representative for Syria has defended the controversial decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw troops from the Middle Eastern country and declare that the war against the so-called Islamic State had been won," Trump's envoy to …
globalresearch.ca/neocon-trump-misunderstood-war-destroy-syria/5690899
Video: Houthis Deliver Devastating Blow to Saudi Arabia
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
In late September, Yemen's Houthis carried out a large-scale operation against Saudi-led forces on the border with the southern Saudi province of Narjan. According to a spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Houthi Government, the Houthis fully defeated at …
globalresearch.ca/video-houthis-devastating-blow-saudi-arabia/5690904
Citizen Advocacy: The Achievements of New Zealand's Peace Activism
Pinar Temocin | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-10-03
asia-pacificresearch.com/citizen-advocacy-achievements-new-zealand-peace-activism/5628910
Slow Burn: Dirt, Radiation, and Power in Fukushima
Dr. Peter Wynn Kirby | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
Amid the radioactive fallout of the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and across what would come to be known as the Exclusion Zone, Japanese members of the nuclear lobby laboured to contain the political fallout of the Fukushima …
globalresearch.ca/dirt-radiation-power-fukushima/5690924
Money to Burn
Global Witness | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
The burning of the Brazilian Amazon this summer illustrated in the most graphic way possible humanity's war on the planet. | But such scenes play out every year in rainforests all around the world to make way for big agribusiness, away …
globalresearch.ca/money-burn/5690945
Lula: I Will Not Trade My Dignity for My Freedom
Brasil de Fato | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrote in a letter that he will only leave his current situation of incarceration if his full innocence is recognized. This declaration came after the Operation Car Wash prosecutors filed a petition …
globalresearch.ca/lula-will-not-trade-dignity-freedom/5690948
Idiocy or Perfidy? How We Get Hooked on Foreign Democracy Crusades
James Bovard | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support For Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements by Ted Galen Carpenter, 2019, Cato Institute, 300 pages | For the past 20 years, U.S. foreign policy has been marked by constant lies and unjustified killings, from the 1999 bombing of …
globalresearch.ca/foreign-democracy-crusades/5690939
Why Israel Is Struggling to Find a Way Out of Its Political Deadlock
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
It would be a grave mistake to assume that the continuing political deadlock in Israel — with neither incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main rival Benny Gantz seemingly able to cobble together a coalition government — is evidence …
globalresearch.ca/why-israel-struggling-find-way-out-political-deadlock/5690896
Iran Ready to End Nuclear Standoff with United States Once Sanctions Are Lifted
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
Last week's United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, presented the perfect opportunity for dialogue and diplomacy between the United States and Iran, in what would have been a historical meeting, the first of its kind between American and …
globalresearch.ca/iran-ready-end-nuclear-standoff-united-states-once-sanctions-lifted/5690934
Trump Administration Reignites War Against Syria
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
The neocons are not about to give up and admit defeat. Due primarily to Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah, the presence of the Islamic State is now considerably reduced in Syria. | This is, of course, unacceptable for the neocons and Trump's …
globalresearch.ca/trump-administration-reignites-war-against-syria/5690913
The US Calls for Peace and Apologies for Its Past. A Dream
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
"As President of the United States of America, I apologise for the suffering we have caused the world for decades, and particularly in the Middle East. I am sorry for causing so much pain to the Iranian population by inflicting …
globalresearch.ca/us-calls-peace-apologies-its-past/5690942
UN Secretary-General Calls on Biggest Polluters to Step Up Climate Efforts
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-03
| On the eve of the September UN climate action summit, young women and men around the world mobilized by the millions and told global leaders: "You are failing us". | They are right. | Global emissions are increasing. Temperatures are rising. The consequences for oceans, forests, weather patterns, biodiversity, food production, water, jobs and, ultimately, lives, are already dire — and set to get much worse. | The science is undeniable. But in many places, people don't need a chart…
truthout.org/articles/un-secretary-general-calls-on-biggest-polluters-to-step-up-climate-efforts/
It Shouldn't Be Donald Trump's Future (Which Is No Future at All)
Frida Berrigan | commondreams.org | 2019-10-03
After all, the future doesn't belong to him or to me. It belongs to my kids and your kids and all the generations to follow. (Photo: Hannah Peters/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/03/it-shouldnt-be-donald-trumps-future-which-no-future-all?cd-origin=rss
New Zealand: Unexplained death at university hall of residence
wsws.org | 2019-10-03
While stresses on students are escalating, privately-run residential halls maintain profits by cost-cutting and slashing pastoral care.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/03/nzcu…
A Professor of Ethics Weighs In on the Challenges of Being a Low-Income Student
Elena Botella | thenation.com | 2019-10-03
A Professor of Ethics Weighs In on the Challenges of Being a Low-Income Student…
thenation.com/article/jennifer-morton-moving-up-ethics-philosophy-book/
SF State Strike Event: On Strike, Shut It Down! On 50th Year of SF State Strike
SF State Veterans-SFSU Ethnic Studies Dep. | indybay.org | 2019-10-03
Jack Adams Hall, SFSU Chavez Student Union Building, top floor | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/01/18826958.php
Amid all of the War and Mayhem… Sam's Story
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-03
Sam and Eileen had traveled in an old car across the US in 1996. They had stopped at places I had long wanted to visit like the campus of Kent State University in Ohio, the site of the May 4, 1970 massacre of students protesting the Vietnam War. They had met on a beach in…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/03/amid-all-of-the-war-and-mayhem-sams-story/
Youth Climate Strikers Have Accused World Leaders Like Me of Failure. They Are Right
António Guterres | commondreams.org | 2019-10-03
School children shout slogans during a strike and protest by students highlighting inadequate progress to address climate change in Sydney on March 15, 2019. Around the world, during a week of rolling and coordinated strikes and marches, more than 7 millions people demanded bold action to address the planetary emergency. (Photo: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/03/youth-climate-strikers-have-accused-world-leaders-me-failure-they-are-right?cd-origin=rss
US: Chicago Teachers to Go on Strike Oct.17 If Deal Not Reached
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-03
United States Teachers' union in Chicago announced Wednesday that teachers will go on strike against the third-largest U.S. public school district on Oct. 17 if their labor negotiations with the city do not result in a new agreement. | RELATED: | Workers, Right Groups Commemorate May Day Worldwide | "I want no one in Chicago to doubt our resolve. We mean to improve the conditions in our schools," said teachers union president Jesse Sharkey. | The Chicago Teachers Union announced a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chicago-Teachers-to-Go-on-Strike-if-No-Deal-is-Reached–20191002-0032.html
Southern worker strikes show the power of solidarity
Connor Harney | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-03
Through the courage shown by teachers, auto and telecom workers, the South is beginning to realize once again the power workers can have in unions.
liberationnews.org/southern-worker-strikes-show-the-power-of-solidarity/
Boris Johnson Gives 'Final Deal' to Brussels
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
The final blueprint for the UK government's EU withdrawal proposal was delivered to Brussels on Wednesday. David Frost, the government's Brexit envoy, handed over the document, headed 'A fair and reasonable compromise' and addressed to EU President Jean-Claude Juncker…
globalresearch.ca/boris-johnson-gives-final-deal-brussels/5690961
Financial Services Industry Slowly Abandons Britain Ahead of Brexit
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
The EU is London's biggest customer when it comes to financial services with exports worth £26 billion in profits. As the EU and Britain failed to agree a deal, the industry's hopes of largely unfettered access to the bloc, banks …
globalresearch.ca/financial-services-industry-abandons-britain-ahead-brexit/5690957
Selected Articles: MBS Must Shelve His Vicious War in Yemen
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-03
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-mbs-must-shelve-vicious-war-yemen/5690980
'If We Don't Fight… Who Will?': In Name of Students, Chicago Teachers Union Sets Oct. 17 Strike Date
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-10-03
Unionized teachers, school support staff, and park district employees in Chicago announced Wednesday night that all three labor groups—collectively totaling about 35,000 workers—will strike on Oct. 17 if no contract agreements are reached before then. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/10/03/if-we-dont-fight-who-will-name-students-chicago-teachers-union-sets-oct-17-strike?cd-origin=rss
Colombia Diary: Under Heavy Manners
Forrest Hylton | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-02
In Colombia as elsewhere, the commodification of higher education has led to widespread systemic corruption, and on September 23, students from the Universidad Distrital in Bogotá took to the streets to protest an egregious case of embezzlement, in which, according to the Attorney General's Office, a professor used the university's Institute for Outreach to enrich…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/02/colombia-diary-under-heavy-manners/
The History of World War II: The War Started in October 1938
Ivan Daraktchiev | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-02
Historians, media pundits and politicians have managed to postulate, and impose it into the history annals, encyclopedias and school books that the Second World War was started in September 1939 by Nazi Germany's invasion [1] and prompt defeat[2] of Poland. …
globalresearch.ca/truth-80-years-beginning-wwii-october-1938/5690808
Why the Fires Raging Across Amazonia Ought to be a Burning Issue for Africa
Prof Gerard Boyce | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-02
Of late, global news headlines have been dominated by reports of the fires raging across the Amazon Basin, mainly in Brazil but in other countries across the region such as Bolivia as well. Cognisant of the adverse consequences they portend …
globalresearch.ca/fires-raging-across-amazonia-ought-burning-issue-africa/5690830
Nestlé e a privatizaàßà£o da água
Franklin Frederick | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-02
No último mês de fevereiro o Governo da Suíàßa anunciou a criaàßà£o de uma Fundaàßà£o em Genebra, com o nome de "Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator" (GSDA). O objetivo desta nova fundaàßà£o é o de regulamentar novas tecnologias, desde …
globalresearch.ca/nestle-e-a-privatizacao-da-agua/5690892
Gene-Editing Unintentionally Adds Bovine DNA, Goat DNA, and Bacterial DNA, Mouse Researchers Find
Jonathan Latham | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-02
The gene-editing of DNA inside living cells is considered by many to be the preeminent technological breakthrough of the new millennium. Researchers in medicine and agriculture have rapidly adopted it as a technique for discovering cell and organism functions. But its commercial prospects are much more complicated. Gene-editing has many potential uses. These include altering…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/02/gene-editing-unintentionally-adds-bovine-dna-goat-dna-and-bacterial-dna-mouse-researchers-find/
Trump's War on Whistleblowers
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-02
Donald Trump, campaigning in Iowa in 2015, said that "I've had a lot of wars of my own. I'm really good at war. I love war…." Well, for the past three years, we have witnessed Trump's wars on governance, science, national security policy, and public service. For the past several days, we have witnessed a…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/02/trumps-war-on-whistleblowers/
Black Dean of Students Jamie Riley fired in Alabama for telling the truth
Rob Dunn | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-02
Riley fired for tweets about racist foundations of US society.
liberationnews.org/black-dean-of-students-jamie-riley-fired-in-alabama-for-telling-the-truth/
"Ukrainegate" Teaches Us More about Ourselves Than Trump or Biden
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-01
Anti-Imperialism protest in the Phillippines. Photo: Carlo Manalansan by Bulatlat 'Ukrainegate' has opened the floodgates of impeachment in Washington, DC. President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky provided such an opportunity that Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who resisted pressure for impeachment, is now on board along with a majority of the party. Democrats are …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/ukrainegate-teaches-us-more-about-ourselves-than-trump-or-biden/
Pentagon-funded researcher smears 'The Management of Savagery' in error-filled Times Literary Supplement screed
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-01
Lydia Wilson, a researcher at a US Department of Defense-backed outfit, has taken to the Times Literary Supplement to publish…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/01/pentagon-funded-researcher-smears-the-management-of-savagery-in-error-filled-times-literary-supplement-screed/
New research warns severe climate-related droughts could threaten 60% of Global wheat crop by 2100
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-10-01
Even with ambitious global efforts to limit emissions, the study warns, "the increase in the frequency and extent of adverse weather extremes and related shocks on the production side would be unprecedented." | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/30/new-research-warns-severe-climate-related-droughts-could-threaten-60-of-global-wheat-crop-by-2100/
What the Godfather of Modern Whistle-Blowing Can Teach Us Now
Katrina vanden Heuvel | thenation.com | 2019-10-01
What the Godfather of Modern Whistle-Blowing Can Teach Us Now…
thenation.com/article/what-the-godfather-of-modern-whistleblowing-can-teach-us-now/
Nina Turner, Bernie Sanders's Campaign Chair, Led Charge for Education Reform as Ohio Legislator
Rachel M. Cohen | theintercept.com | 2019-09-30
Nina Turner said she's "definitely evolved" since her time in the Ohio state Senate, but she remains proud of pro-charter policies she helped pass.
theintercept.com/2019/09/30/nina-turner-cleveland-ohio-education-reform/
Florida: Terminate Public Funds for Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-30
Nearly 10 county school boards in Florida recently took collective action to pursue a case against privately-operated-owned charter schools in the Florida Supreme Court. These public school systems that serve tens of thousands of students oppose the dreaded HB 7069 legislation, which the neoliberal governor of Florida, Rick Scott, signed into law in 2017. The …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/florida-terminate-public-funds-for-charter-schools/
Milwaukee: Charges against anti-Nazi student dropped
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-09-30
Milwaukee, WI – A rally to support Grae Hosmanek at her court hearing on Friday, September 27, was cancelled due to the charges against her being dropped. | On May 6, Hosmanek was arrested and charged for vandalism on UW-Milwaukee's campus. She took hold of a reactionary student's sign that had a swastika and other antisemitic language on it. This student was holding the sign near an event that was being hosted by a Jewish student group. | Hosmanek had attended two court hearings, and the hearing on September 27 would have been the third one. | Young People's Resistance Committee (YPRC) and Milwaukee Area Labor C…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/9/29/milwauke…
John Cornyn Has Mastered the Art of Political Subservience. As Texas Inches Left, His Fate Hangs in the Balance
Justin Miller | theintercept.com | 2019-09-30
A student of Karl Rove, the Texas senator has been a loyal partisan, first to the GOP establishment and now to Trump. Will that hurt his chances in 2020?
theintercept.com/2019/09/30/john-cornyn-texas-senate-election/
Vista high school students demand climate action
Juliana Musheyev | liberationnews.org | 2019-09-30
Students from Rancho Buena Vista High School organized a sit-in at Vista City Hall Sept. 27 to demand a stronger climate action plan.
liberationnews.org/vista-high-school-students-demand-climate-action/