Singer and Rap Artist M.I.A. Visits Julian Assange in Prison: "It's About Truth–and that's Something People Have to Uphold and Fight for"
Laura Tiernan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
Singer and rap artist M.I.A. visited Julian Assange at Belmarsh Prison on Saturday, calling for his freedom. The WikiLeaks publisher and journalist faces extradition to the United States under the Espionage Act, with charges that carry a 175-year prison term….
globalresearch.ca/m-i-a-visits-julian-assange-prison/5692157

Opening Reception: Solitary Garden
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UCSC | indybay.org | 2019-10-16
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz | Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), UC Santa Cruz | arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/directions…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/14/18827274.php

Are We Blocking Out the Sun?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
Climate change is real. However, serious scientific evidence is pointing to a very different causality than most discuss. Climate is a huge subject, an immensely complex one. There is controversy around whether we must implement drastic new taxes on fuels …
globalresearch.ca/are-we-blocking-out-sun/5692152

Stable Ignoramus Trump: Kurds Didn't Help US Win World War II
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
It is a strange experience witnessing The Donald fumble his way through foreign policy, which he knows almost nothing about. | In the awkward press conference below, Trump stumbles his way through history. His explanation for abandoning the Kurds? They didn't …
globalresearch.ca/trump-kurds-didnt-help-us-win-wwii/5692138

Millions Hungry and Food Insecure in the US
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
Poverty, unemployment, underemployment, hunger, food insecurity, and overall deprivation affect million of households in the world's richest country USA. | Why? It's because both right wings of its war party devote most of the nation's discretionary income for militarism, maintaining the …
globalresearch.ca/millions-hungry-food-insecure-us/5692168

U.S. Sanctions Could Push Turkey to Leave NATO
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
The administration of the Kurdish-controlled regions in north-eastern Syria announced on Sunday that they had reached an agreement with the central Syrian government in Damascus to deploy Syrian troops along areas of the border region with Turkey to help repel …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-sanctions-could-push-turkey-leave-nato/5692176

Terrorized, Traumatized and Killed: The Police State's Deadly Toll on America's Children
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
" Mommy, am I gonna die?"– 4-year-old Ava Ellis after being inadvertently shot in the leg by a police officer who was aiming for the girl's boxer-terrier dog, Patches | "' Am I going to get shot again.'"–2-year-old survivor …
globalresearch.ca/police-state-deadly-toll-america-children/5692160

China Vows Strong Countermeasures in Response to Hostile US Legislation
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
The so-called US Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 was unanimously adopted by House and Senate committees. | On Tuesday, House members unanimously passed the measure, Senate adoption virtually certain, perhaps by unanimous voice vote. | The measure ignored …
globalresearch.ca/china-vows-strong-countermeasures-response-hostile-us-legislation/5692171

Video: Syrian Army Taking Control of Key Positions in SDF-held Area
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
On October 14, units of the Syrian Army started entering areas controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria. | The terms and conditions of the deal made by the SDF and Damascus are yet to be revealed, …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-taking-key-positions-sdf-held-area/5692139

Donetsk Village Resident Question to the West: "Why Do You Support (Ukrainian) Nazis?"
Eva Bartlett | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
In Krutaya Balka, a village north of Donetsk which is routinely attacked by Ukrainian forces with shelling and heavy machine gun fire, I meet a man standing outside his home, where he lives with his wife, roughly 600 metres from …
globalresearch.ca/dpr-frontline-village-resident-question-west-why-do-you-support-ukrainian-nazis/5692173

Bayer Shareholders: Put Health and Nature First and Stop Funding This Company!
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-16
Campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to Bayer Crop Science shareholders and Chairman of the Board Werner Wenning. She has also sent them a 13,000-word report. Mason is appealing to shareholders to put human health and nature ahead of profit and to stop funding Bayer. In her report, she…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/16/bayer-shareholders-put-health-and-nature-first-and-stop-funding-this-company-2/

"PG&E should be nationalized": Berkeley students and residents denounce forced blackout in California
wsws.org | 2019-10-16
Last week's blackout, which affected over two million people and businesses, lasted up to four days in some places and likely caused many premature deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/16/pgae…

Marx on the metabolic rift: how capitalism cuts us off from nature
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-10-16
Although Karl Marx is not known first and foremost as an environmental theorist, in recent decades students of his work have argued that Marx had a systematic approach to environmental protection, that he recognized the key connections among labor, technology, and nature, and, according to sociologist John Bellamy Foster, that his discussions of the environment […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/10/15/marx-on-the-metabolic-rift-how-capitalism-cuts-us-off-from-nature/

Chicago teachers prepare to strike
Catherine Henchek | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-16
The unions are ready to fight, and when we fight, we win!
liberationnews.org/chicago-teachers-prepare-to-strike/

As strike wave grows, UAW scrambles to shut down GM walkout and impose sellout contract
wsws.org | 2019-10-16
With the walkouts by Mack-Volvo truck workers and copper miners in Arizona and Texas, and the announcement of an impending strike by 30,000 Chicago teachers and support staff, the UAW is anxious to shut down the GM strike as soon as possible.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/16/auto…

Chicago teachers expected to strike Thursday, as union pledges to limit it to a "short-term" walkout
wsws.org | 2019-10-16
Despite having dropped some of the union's demands and announced "a path to a settlement" with Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot's school board, CTU leaders have said it is unlikely they can avert a strike.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/16/ctus…

Scotland Edges Closer to Independence Amid Brexit Chaos
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced on Sunday that she would be setting a date for a second referendum on Scottish independence within 'a matter of weeks'. Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show she said that she would seek …
globalresearch.ca/scotland-closer-independence-amid-brexit-chaos/5692149

Ecuador Regime's "Fake Deal" with Protesters: Neocon Moreno Surrendered to IMF "Financial Terrorism"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-16
President Lenin Moreno betrayed ordinary Ecuadorians by abandoning his pledge to continue progressive policies of his predecessor Rafeal Correa. | Instead he instituted force-fed austerity, enforced with police state harshness, and sold Julian Assange to the US and UK for a …
globalresearch.ca/ecuadorian-regime-deal-protesters/5692142

"Pink Tide" Against US Domination Rising Again in Latin America and the Caribbean
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
Once again, the left is rising in Latin America as people revolt against authoritarian regimes, many of whom were put in place by US-supported coups. These regimes have taken International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and are under the thumb of …
globalresearch.ca/pink-tide-against-us-domination-latin-america/5692051

Depoliticization Is a Deadly Weapon of Neoliberal Fascism
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-15
| Increasingly, Americans live in an era in which every aspect of society displays symptoms of political, economic and ethical impoverishment. This condition extends from the workplace and education to the legal system and the larger culture. It is evident in the way our society has increasingly become dominated by the language of extreme nationalism, racism, nativism and grotesque levels of inequality. And it is evident in the depoliticizing conditions of our social order that strip individuals of critica…
truthout.org/articles/depoliticization-is-a-deadly-weapon-of-neoliberal-fascism/

A New California Law Reins in Charter Schools
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-10-15
While it can't undo all the harm charters have done, the new law throws public education advocates a lifeline.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/new-california-law-reigns-charter-lahm-191015/

Syria Has Restored 1554 Schools Completely Destroyed by NATO Sponsored Terrorists
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
Syrian Ministry of Education managed to restore and rehabilitate 1554 schools and set the plans to rehabilitate 1000 other schools achieving 90% of the current plan thus far. 10,000 teaching jobs to be added in a month from now. | In …
globalresearch.ca/syria-restored-1554-schools-completely-destroyed-nato-terrorists/5692069

Trump Wants to End the "Stupid Wars"?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
The discussion, if one might even call it that, regarding the apparent President Donald Trump decision to withdraw at least some American soldiers from Syria has predictably developed along partisan, ideologically fueled lines. Trump has inevitably muddied the waters by …
globalresearch.ca/trump-wants-end-stupid-wars/5692062

The Dangers of Transgenic Mosquitos: Scientific Study Under Attack
GMWatch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
A recent journal article about GM mosquitoes has caused quite a stir. It showed that some of the male mosquitoes that Oxitec Ltd released experimentally in Brazil had successfully interbred with the local mosquito population, and that their hybrid …
globalresearch.ca/scientific-study-drawing-attention-risks-gm-mosquitoes-comes-under-attack/5692045

Thirty years later the Berlin Wall is again being "remembered"
Victor Grossman | peoplesworld.org | 2019-10-15
BERLIN — Remembrance Days are rewarding for journalists, especially since Google made research digging so easy. And how the German media love such days! Their favorite dates recall four events: June 17, 1953, the "Uprising" (or whatever it's labeled) by East German workers in the birthing period of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the building …
peoplesworld.org/article/thirty-years-later-the-berlin-wall-is-again-being-remembered/

Trump Dumps the Kurds: US and Russian Officers "Coordinate Military Movements" in Northeastern Syria
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
The US and Russian military officers met late last night in Al Farat, a small village north of Manbij, northeast of Aleppo, according to media 'Al Mayadeen'. | *** | The purpose of the meeting was to coordinate military movements in the …
globalresearch.ca/trump-dumps-the-kurds-into-the-hands-of-damascus-us-and-russia-officers-coordinate-military-movements-in-northeastern-syria/5691836

$35 Billion: UK Faces Huge Loss from Electric Vehicle Adoption
Jon LeSage | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
If Great Britain keeps its commitment to switch over its vehicles to electric by 2050, the government will see a whopping loss of 28 billion pounds ($35 billion) paid by motorists driving traditional gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles. | That comes from …
globalresearch.ca/35-billion-uk-faces-huge-loss-electric-vehicle-adoption/5691899

Trump OK's Sanctions on Turkey
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
Trump, House and Senate officials threatened sanctions on Turkey for its cross-border offensive in Syria. | On Monday, Trump OK'd their imposition by the US Treasury — despite green lighting Turkish aggression before launched, withdrawing US troops from northeast Syrian areas …
globalresearch.ca/trump-sanctions-turkey/5692027

In Pictures: What If Palestine Had Its Own Currency?
Maha Hussaini | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
Designer Jehad Naji, 29, pictured here with his wife Haneen Abu Samhadana, had the idea of designing a currency for Palestine after a British journalist asked him about which currency to use during a visit to Gaza. | Naji …
globalresearch.ca/what-if-palestine-had-own-currency/5692060

The Berlin Wall, Thirty Years Later
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-15
Remembrance Days are rewarding for journalists, especially since Google made research digging so easy. And how the German media love such days! Their favorite dates recall four events: June 17, 1953, the "Uprising" (or whatever it's labeled) by East German workers in the birthing period of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the building of the Berlin Wall…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/15/the-berlin-wall-thirty-years-later/

Celebrating Seven Years of the Global Research News Hour with Michael Welch
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
This coming October 22nd will mark 7 years since the Global Research News Hour radio program made its debut not only on the Global Research website but also on the public airwaves as a community radio program. | To date, we …
globalresearch.ca/celebrating-seven-years-of-the-global-research-news-hour-with-michael-welch/5692099

The National Basketball Association (NBA): A Multi-Billion Dollar Colossus
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
Founded in 1946 as a fledgling enterprise, today's NBA is big business. | Winning is all about big bucks for management and players, along with growing valuation of NBA franchises, on average worth nearly $2 billion. | The most highly valued are …
globalresearch.ca/nba-inc-multi-billion-dollar-colossus/5691884

One Rocket Provoked the US Withdrawal: Details of the Kurdish-Russian-Syrian Deal
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
Last Friday a 155 mm artillery shell landed 300 metres from a US command post near the Syrian bordering city of Ayn al-Arab (known by the Syrian Kurds as "Kobane") during an ongoing operation carried out by Turkey — a …
globalresearch.ca/one-rocket-provoked-us-withdrawal-details-kurdish-russian-syrian-deal/5692031

The Unspoken History of the Holy Roman Empire. Its Germanic Origins
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
Christianity in its present form came into being after the eleventh century "Great Schism"(1054 AD) between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church. Before that, it used to be an exclusively Byzantine affair and most of Western Europe followed pagan …
globalresearch.ca/the-unspoken-history-of-the-holy-roman-empire-its-germanic-origins/5691990

Chicago Teachers Are Fighting for Their Students' Futures
Alan Maass | thenation.com | 2019-10-15
Chicago Teachers Are Fighting for Their Students' Futures…
thenation.com/article/chicago-teachers-strike-2019/

Voting Access Still a Problem For Students at HBCU Prairie View A&M University
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-15
Students at the historically Black Prairie View A&M University are still fighting for their right to unrestricted access to vote in 2019. We talk to student Jayla Allen about the ongoing legal battle.
therealnews.com/stories/voting-access-students-hbcu-prairie-view

One Man Against the Monster: John Lennon vs. the Deep State
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-15
"You gotta remember, establishment, it's just a name for evil. The monster doesn't care whether it kills all the students or whether there's a revolution. It's not thinking logically, it's out of control." –John Lennon (1969) John Lennon, born 79 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon. He…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/15/one-man-against-the-monster-john-lennon-vs-the-deep-state/

Chicago's Teachers Are Making History. Again
Jane McAlevey | thenation.com | 2019-10-15
Chicago's Teachers Are Making History. Again.
thenation.com/article/union-strike-chicago-teachers/

UK employment suffers sharpest dip in four years as wage growth stalls
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-10-15
UK employment suffered its sharpest decline in more than four years in the three months to August, new figures reveal. | The number of people in work declined by 56,000 to 32.69 million in the quarter, as the number of people claiming unemployment benefits jumped higher, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. | The slump was significantly below forecasts by economists, who had predicted a 26,000 rise in employment. | The quarterly decline in employment was the heaviest fall since May 2015, when the level of employment slid by 65,000. | Unemployment also increased in August, rising from a 45-year low repor…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/10/15/uk-employment-suffers-sharpest-dip-in-four-years-as-wage-growth-stalls/

La Nato dietro l'attacco turco in Siria
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
Germania, Francia, Italia e altri paesi, che in veste di membri della Ue condannano la Turchia per l'attacco in Siria, sono insieme alla Turchia membri della Nato, la quale, mentre era già in corso l'attacco, ha ribadito il suo sostegno …
globalresearch.ca/la-nato-dietro-lattacco-turco-in-siria/5692100

A NATO por trás do ataque turco à Síria
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-15
A Alemanha, a Franàßa, a Itália e outros países que, em trajes de membros da Unià£o Europeia, condenam a Turquia pelo ataque à Síria, sà£o, juntamente com a Turquia, membros da NATO, a qual, quando já estava em curso o …
globalresearch.ca/a-nato-por-tras-do-ataque-turco-a-siria/5692106

Tampa Bay demands Supreme Court uphold LGBT job rights
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-10-14
Tampa, FL – On October 7 and 8, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) rallied against the lack of federal job protections for LGBT workers. On October 8, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) began discussions on three cases that relate to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which protects against job discrimination on the basis of "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin," in order to decide whether sexual orientation and gender identity are also protected under Title VII. Tampa Bay SDS held two rallies in response to this, as a part of a National SDS call to action. SDS demanded that…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/10/14/tampa-b…

Activist almost wins NSW Teachers Federation presidential election
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-10-14
unions James SmithIssue 1241 Australia NSW Teachers FederationOctober 14, 2019Former Australian Education Union federal president and Education International project director Angelo Gavrielatos has narrowly defeated practicing classroom teacher and activist John Morr…
greenleft.org.au/content/activist-almost-wins-nsw-teachers-federation-presidential-election

DeVos Plan for More Pay-The-Rich Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-13
On October 10, 2019, U.S. Secretary of Education, billionaire Betsy DeVos, unveiled an antisocial plan to further incentivize the rich to establish more charter schools to line their pockets at the expense of young people. DeVos has actively promoted school privatization schemes for decades; she does not support public education. In addition to many well-established …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/devos-plan-for-more-pay-the-rich-charter-schools/

Bayer Shareholders: Put Health and Nature First and Stop Funding This Company!
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-13
Campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to Bayer Crop Science shareholders and Chairman of the Board Werner Wenning. She has also sent them a 13,000-word report. Mason is appealing to shareholders to put human health and nature ahead of profit and to stop funding Bayer. In her report, she …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/bayer-shareholders-put-health-and-nature-first-and-stop-funding-this-company/

Colossal WASTE in US healthcare spending surpasses military budget at nearly $1 trillion per year, study says
rt.com | 2019-10-12
Waste and needless spending in America's healthcare system could amount to almost $1 trillion each year, topping total US military expenditures in 2019 — the world's largest defense budget — according to new research. | Encompassing administrative overhead, fraud and abuse, inflated pricing and other inefficiencies, a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found the cumulative waste in US healthcare ranged from $760 billion to $935 annually, or 25 percent of what Americans spend each year o…
rt.com/usa/470752-medical-waste-bigger-defense-budget/

West Papua – Australia's shame
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-10-11
self-determination Susan PriceIssue 1240 West Papua Indonesian occupation of West PapuaOctober 11, 2019The recent uprising in West Papua was sparked by racist attacks on Papuan students in the Indonesian city of Surabaya. However, the West Papua…
greenleft.org.au/content/west-papua-australias-shame

Russian social media debate: clickbait or information warfare?
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-09
What is the Internet Research Agency, and are the claims of a Russian influence campaign against the U.S. well-founded? Aaron…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/09/russian-social-media-debate-clickbait-or-information-warfare/

Ecuadorian Protests Intensify as President Flees Capital, Blames Venezuela
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-09
Shortly after the government of President Lenin Moreno announced new IMF-imposed austerity measures and price increases, protests against the government, uniting workers, students, and indigenous movement escalated in the capital of Quito this week.
therealnews.com/stories/ecuador-protests-president-flees-blames-venezuela

The Return of the Strike
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2019-10-08
The picketing GM workers and impending Chicago Teachers Union action suggest a dramatic revival of striking as a tactic.
progressive.org/dispatches/the-return-of-the-strike-jaffe-191008/