March 11, 2011: Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
The dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination… Eventually all major regions of the World will be affected.
globalresearch.ca/fukushima-nuclear-war-worldwide-nuclear-radiation-2/28870

Water Is Life — They Are Stealing Our Livelihood and We Aren't Even Noticing
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
This article was first published on World Water Day, 22 March 2018. | Author's Update, March 24, 2019: Today is World Water Day 2019 — and the situation has become much worse. | Today, Jair Bolsonaro, is Brazil's President, pushed in …
globalresearch.ca/water-life/5633171

Video: Assad Troops Deploy on Border Amid 120-hour Ceasefire
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
On October 16 and 17, the Russian Aerospace Forces were conducting airstrikes on positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in northern Lattakia and southern Idlib. According to local sources, the most intense strikes took place near Tahtaya, Kafar Sijnah and Rakaya …
globalresearch.ca/video-assad-troops-deploy-border-amid-120-hour-ceasefire/5692501

Greater Middle East Project of Chaos: The Management of Savagery
Roger D. Harris | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
Destination Afghanistan was known as the big easy back in the halcyon days of the late 1960s. Hippies from throughout the affluent West hitchhiked to the capital, Kabul, where crash pads and hashish were cheap, and the locals were tolerant. …
globalresearch.ca/greater-middle-east-project-chaos-management-savagery/5692524

Video: Turkish-funded Syrian National Army and Myth of United Syrian Opposition
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
Turkey's Operation Peace Spring once again drew wide attention not only to the so-called Kurdish question, but also to attempts by Ankara to create a unified Syrian opposition as an alternative to the Assad government. According to official Turkish statements, …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-funded-syrian-national-army-myth-united-syrian-opposition/5692493

Iran Is Almost Encircled by at Least 45 American Military Bases. Who is Really Threatening Whom
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
A month ago president Donald Trump spoke of his desire to "avoid" war with Iran, as anxieties simmer between the United States and this large, diverse Middle East country. It is likely that the Trump administration is sincere in its …
globalresearch.ca/iran-almost-encircled-least-45-american-military-bases/5692505

The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War Was Won
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer. I've tried to summarize it in a single paragraph this way: | "It's a quadruple win. The U.S. performs a face saving withdrawal, which Trump can | …
globalresearch.ca/road-damascus-how-syria-war-was-won/5692507

US Army to test 'mystery materials' owned by Blink-182 frontman's UFO group at government facilities — report
rt.com | 2019-10-20
New information on the deal between To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTSA) and the US Army shows that the army wants to verify the UFO research group's claims about unexplained alloys and "technology innovations." | The eye-catching partnership between the group, owned by former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge, and the army made headlines in recent days as many wondered what form the collaboration would take. | The group has claimed to be in possession of a range of mysterious metal alloys that are said to be beyond current engineering technology. Now documents, relating to the Cooperative Research an…
rt.com/usa/471363-us-army-ufo-groups-mystery-material/

Video: Terrorists' Air Force: Improvised Attack Drones in Syria and Iraq
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
Over the past years, the usage of improvised armed unmanned aerial vehicles by various armed groups and paramilitary formations has become an inherent part of conflicts in the Middle East. | First reports about the usage of such unmanned aerial vehicles …
globalresearch.ca/terrorists-air-force-improvised-attack-drones-syria-iraq/5692482

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey
Suzanne Berliner Weiss | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
An excerpt from Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey by Suzanne Berliner Weiss (pp. 45-47). Weiss's book, released this month by Fernwood Publishers, tells of her eight decades of engagement with the movement for social justice. Her book launch will take …
globalresearch.ca/red-scare-death-stalin/5692294

Donbass and Crimea: Ukrainian President Zelensky Juggles an Impossible Situation
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
Analyzing a sequence of public statements by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky regarding Crimea and Donbass made over any length of time, it immediately becomes clear that he is attempting to master the political art of sending mixed signals. He has …
globalresearch.ca/donbass-and-crimea-ukrainian-president-zelensky-juggles-an-impossible-situation/5692516

Stop Press: The Queen's Screech: Britain, Spain and Other Illnesses
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
There are some people — whereby I do not know how many — who recall the key elements of British colonial rule. I was fortunate enough not to live under it. My grandfather had no great admiration for the …
globalresearch.ca/stop-press-queens-screech-britain-spain-other-illnesses/5692184

Privatization of Water as an Owned Commodity Rather Than a Universal Human Right
Joachim Hagopian | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
There is no greater natural resource on this earth than water. As the sustenance of all life, water keeps every living and breathing organism, every plant, every animal and every human being on this planet alive.
globalresearch.ca/privatization-of-water-as-an-owned-commodity-rather-than-a-universal-human-right/5378483

New research finds coastal living linked with better mental health
University of Exeter | indybay.org | 2019-10-20
Living close to the sea could support better mental health in England's poorest urban communities, finds a new study published today in the journal Health and Place.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/19/18827452.php

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccines Tested on 4-6 Year-olds
helenlobato | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
I have often feared that in the end babies and young children would be given the dangerous and increasingly unpopular HPV vaccines. | I suspect that time is fast approaching. | GlaxoSmithLine (GSK) the manufacturer of Cervarix has recently conducted a trial …
globalresearch.ca/hpv-vaccines-tested-4-6-year-olds/5691916

Celebrity Protesters and Extinction Rebellion
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
Benedict Cumberbatch. Olivia Colman. Fine actors. They believe in Extinction Rebellion, or perhaps, rebelling against the prospect of extinction. The environment thing, humanity as a damnably scandalous, ecologically damaging species. But they also believe in taking sponsorship from the very | …
globalresearch.ca/celebrity-protesters-extinction-rebellion/5692484

US/Turkey Deal on Syria, Like Carving Up Cuba Scene from the Godfather Trilogy
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
One of the trilogy's most memorable scenes was in pre-liberated Cuba where mafia dons are seen carving up a cake representing the country. | The Hyman Roth character explains that "all of you will share" in plundering the island state in …
globalresearch.ca/us-turkey-deal-syria-godfather-trilogy/5692492

US Interventions in Canada — A Brief History
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
‚Ä¢Let's Invade Canada | The US has always maintained a dream of annexing Canada and expanding the American homeland empire to include the entire length and breadth of the North American continent. The ambition to take territorial control of Canada has …
globalresearch.ca/us-interventions-canada-brief-history/5692479

Drugged! … By Big Pharma? Prescription Drugs and the Opioid Crisis
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
First published September 20, 2018 | You don't have to be a genius sometimes to just 'connect the dots'. Since 2012 Big Pharma ads for prescription drugs, especially on the boob tube, has risen by 62%. You cannot channel surf without | …
globalresearch.ca/drugged-by-big-pharma-prescription-drugs-and-the-opioid-crisis/5654680

Shotgun carrying student disarmed and HUGGED by high school football coach
rt.com | 2019-10-20
The actions of one heroic football coach has prevented tragedy at a high school in Oregon. When encountering a student armed with a loaded shotgun, the brave coach calmly embraced the troubled teen and defused the situation. | Newly released video footage from the incident last May shows coach Keanon Lowe comforting the armed student. The footage captures the moment Lowe successfully retrieved the deadly weapon from the student and managed to pass it to another teacher. He then held the distraught young person in a long embrace. | A separate video from the scene shows students fleeing in fear after spotting…
rt.com/usa/471347-coach-disarmed-shotgun-student-oregon/

Massive Protests in Chile Force Repeal of Fare Hikes
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-20
Since Monday, Chile's capital, Santiago, has been shaken by massive demonstrations of high school students against a hike in the price of subway tickets. Students have been bursting into subway stations and jumping turnstiles, refusing to pay the fare. | The protests have since turned into a national political crisis. This Friday, high school students put out a call for a massive act of "evasion" (jumping over the turnstile) across the city. Tens of thousands of young people, teachers, and workers participated in th…
truthout.org/articles/massive-protests-in-chile-force-repeal-of-fare-hikes/

Santa Barbara Students to Rally Saturday Against Offshore Oil Drilling
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2019-10-20
"RIP Platform Holly: A Wake to End Offshore Drilling" to Mark Decommissioning, Focus on ExxonMobil's Proposals to Restart Platforms…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/18/18827442.php

More than 30,000 teachers and staff strike in Chicago, Illinois
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-10-20
Pickets appeared at Chicago Public Schools city-wide Thursday morning as 32,000 teachers and staff struck for the first time since 2012. Educators are fighting for smaller class sizes and more nurses, librarians, social workers and other support staff, along with increased spending to improve conditions in all schools. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/10/19/more-than-30000-teachers-and-staff-strike-in-chicago-illinois/

Ex-Royal Marine sets up woodland retreat for PTSD sufferers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-10-20
A former Royal Marine is using his woodland getaway to help soldiers and police recover from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Nick Goldsmith runs Woodland Warriors in Pensford, Somerset, teaching men and women skills like building shelters and carving tent pegs while helping them deal with grief and adjusting to civilian life.Goldsmith developed PTSD around 2014 after four tours on the front line in Afghanistan and said spending time in the wild, building fires and working the land, was the "only thing" that kept him going.The father-of-one, who served in the British Army for 11 years, said: The longer I spen…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/10/20/ex-royal-marine-sets-up-woodland-retreat-for-ptsd-sufferers/

Vote on Johnson's No-Brexit/Brexit Deal Delayed
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-20
A rare Saturday session was held to resolve Brexit up or down. | Not so fast. Forty months after Brits narrowly voted to leave the EU on June 23, 2016, the issue remains unresolved. More on Saturday's below. | *** | Johnson struck …
globalresearch.ca/vote-johnson-no-brexit-brexit-deal-delayed/5692530

Interference by Unnamed "Foreign Powers" in Canada's Elections? The Invasion of "America's Backyard"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-19
"In 1934, War Plan Red was amended to authorize the immediate first use of poison gas against Canadians and to use strategic bombing to destroy Halifax if it could not be captured. … In August 1935, war games were conducted, 36,000 US troops converged to Canadian border"
globalresearch.ca/interference-by-unnamed-foreign-powers-in-canadas-elections-the-invasion-of-americas-backyard/5683264

Aggression Only OK for US If Led by the Pentagon and Partners
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-19
When US forces rape and destroy nonbelligerent nations threatening no one, it's called humanitarian intervention, responsibility to protect, and democracy building — notions Washington's power elites abhor. | When victimized nations defend themselves lawfully against Pentagon terror-bombing and atrocities by ISIS …
globalresearch.ca/aggression-ok-us-pentagon-partners/5692326

Are We Witnessing the End of the United Kingdom as an Independent Nation State?
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-19
First published on May 9, 2019 | Ever since 'the wrong result' occurred at the referendum launched by then Prime Minister David Cameron, a fiasco of unprecedented proportions has been taking place in British politics. It is a depressing and, …
globalresearch.ca/uk-hard-wired-fourth-reich/5676684

Canada's Elections Campaign 2019: The Issues Nobody is Talking About
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-19
The Global Research News Hour radio program is hosting a fund-raiser. These funds are necessary in order to improve and expand on the reporting and analysis we produce on a weekly basis to explore in-depth those issues missed by mainstream …
globalresearch.ca/canadas-elections-campaign-2019-the-issues-nobody-is-talking-about/5692448

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-19
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

The War on Weed: Monsanto, Bayer, and the Push for "Corporate Cannabis"
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-19
Monsanto now appears to be developing genetically modified (GMO) forms of cannabis, with the intent of cornering the market with patented GMO seeds just as it did with GMO corn and GMO soybeans.
globalresearch.ca/the-war-on-weed-monsanto-bayer-and-the-push-for-corporate-cannabis/5534771

Philippines: Shooting of Bukidnon teachers is handiwork of military agents
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-10-19
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Oct. 19 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denounces the dastardly shooting of teachers Zhydee and Ramil Cabañelez last October 16. | According to reports, four armed men barged into the Dalit Elementary School in Sitio Dalit, Barangay Lumbayao in Valencia City, Bukidnon and started shooting at the Cabañelez couple. The shooting was carried out in plain view of young students. Zhydee sustained several gunshot wounds and was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Ramil was unscathed. | The…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/10/19/philipp…

Chicago Teachers Strike for Children's Services and Affordable Housing
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-19
Teachers in Chicago aren't just committed to fighting for higher wages. They say the city has the money to support its students and teachers outside of the classroom.
therealnews.com/stories/chicago-teachers-strike-for-children-services-and-affordable-housing

Chile: President Piñera Revokes Santiago Subway Fare Hike
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-19
Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has announced that the Santiago subway fare increase that went into effect last Monday, has been revoked after a week of tense protests by students and subway users against the price hike. | RELATED: | Chilean President Announces State of Emergency | During a special announcement on Saturday afternoon, President Piñera said that the subway price hike, issued by decree two weeks ago, has been eliminated, but that a law for the same issue will "soon be approve…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-President-Pinera-Revokes-Santiago-Subway-Fare-Hike–20191019-0007.html

"Now is the time for our demands to be heard": Chicago teachers strike for better wages and more resources
Aaron Cynic | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-19
"We don't want to be out of our schools tomorrow but sometimes you have to take a hard step in order to get what's right."
nationofchange.org/2019/10/19/now-is-the-time-for-our-demands-to-be-heard-chicago-teachers-strike-for-better-wages-and-more-resources/

As Chicago teachers strike completes second day, union and Democratic Party working together to shut it down
wsws.org | 2019-10-19
What is happening behind the scenes is not a genuine fight between the Lightfoot administration and the CTU and SEIU, but a discussion of tactics and plans to best ram through another sellout contract.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/19/chic…

Los Angeles demands "Close the camps"
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-10-18
Los Angeles, CA – On October 12, hundreds of people gathered downtown to demand Trump's concentration camps be closed. Many organizations and labor unions came together including NDLON Day Labor Organizing Centers and MEChA de CSULA with a clear message, "Close the camps." October 12 was a national day of action in which multiple cities participated. | Speakers included a representative from the teachers union — UTLA. Another speaker, Sol Marquez of Centro CSO, said, "We need to call them what they are – concentration camps. The U.S. has a long history of using concentration camps, they did it to Japanese-…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/10/18/los-ang…

To Think or to Work? That Is the Question
John Klyczek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-18
On both sides of the political aisle, workforce-training reforms are being touted as the be-all, end-all of America's public education system. Right-wing "school choice" proponents, such as President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, push corporate charter school programs with workforce-training curriculums. Left-wing "community schooling" advocates, such as Democratic Presidential candidates Joe Biden and …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/to-think-or-to-work-that-is-the-question/

First day of Chicago Public Schools strike
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-10-18
Chicago, IL – Picket lines went up at hundreds of schools across Chicago at 6: 30 a.m., October 17. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) walked out for their third strike since 2012. For the more than 7000 members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73, this is an historic first strike, and the first against the new mayor, Lori Lightfoot. | In the afternoon, the strikers went downtown in a river of red — the color of CTU — and purple — the color of SEIU. For over two hours, more than 20,000 marched back and forth, surrounding the Board of Education and City Hall buildings. They…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/10/18/first-d…

Greta the Disturber
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-18
Greta Thunberg has become an international figure. The sixteen-year-old Swedish environmental activist has gone from a lonely student skipping school on Fridays to protest for more action on global warming to being nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Greta has become a global player. The New York City Board of Education officially excused over…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/18/greta-the-disturber/

Anti-Semitism 'toxic to democracy', UN expert warns, calling for better education
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-18
To counter anti-Semitism, which is "toxic to democracy" and poses "a threat to all societies if left unaddressed", countries must invest more in education, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief has warned, speaking at UN headquarters in New York.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1049591

Kurds Say Turkey Used Chem Weapons & US Announces Syria Ceasefire That Turkey Says Isn't A Ceasefire
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-10-18
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/17/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/kurds-say-turkey-used-chem-weapons-us-announces-syria-ceasefire-that-turkey-says-isnt-ceasefire/

Nobel Winners in Economics Fail to Examine Structural Causes of Poverty
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-18
While it's good the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics went to researchers who study poverty, their research falls far short of describing its structural causes, says development economist David Ruccio.
therealnews.com/stories/nobel-economics-structural-causes-poverty

Inside Trump's War on Climate Science
Liza Featherstone | thenation.com | 2019-10-18
Inside Trump's War on Climate Science…
thenation.com/article/rod-schoonover-climate-science/

Chicago school teachers, staff, kids and parents continue their strike
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-10-18
CHICAGO — The strike of over 30,000 teachers and support staff in the nation's third-largest school system entered its second day here Friday. After school-site picketing yesterday, thousands of workers, parents, students, elected officials, and others marched through the Loop in a massive show of solidarity. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Service Employees Union …
peoplesworld.org/article/chicago-school-teachers-staff-kids-and-parents-continue-their-strike/

Quebec Students Can Teach the World a Thing or Two About Striking
Miriam Lafontaine | thenation.com | 2019-10-18
Quebec Students Can Teach the World a Thing or Two About Striking…
thenation.com/article/canada-student-strike/

Chile Protests: Government Invokes Security Law
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-18
Protests over the price increase of the Santiago Metro spread throughout this city throughout Friday with protests and clashes on the streets, which led to the closure of all suburban lines and left thousands of people without a way to get home. | RELATED: | Chilean Students Take Over Metro Stations to Protest Fare Hikes | On the fifth day of protests in several Metro stations, with hundreds of young people entering stations without paying and facing the police, near-riots ha…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Protests-Government-Invokes-Security-Law-20191018-0013.html

Chilean President Announces State of Emergency
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-18
Chilean President Sebastian Piñera announces Friday night a state of emergency for the provinces of Santiago and Chacabuco. | RELATED: | Chile Protests: Government Invokes State Security Law | The measure was taken to control protesters who have been demonstrating all this week against the increased Metro fare. Demonstrations and vandalism in the capital of Santiago have escalated Friday, as have national police repression against the mainly student protesters. The president said the st…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chilean-President-Announces-State-of-Emergency-20191018-0014.html

Sallie Mae's Hawaii retreat while millions struggle to repay loans bolsters argument to 'cancel all student debt,' Sanders says
Julia Conley | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-18
Critics of the United States' student debt crisis took aim at loan corporation Sallie Mae on Friday after NBC News reported on a trip the company's executives took over the summer to Hawaii to celebrate record-breaking sales in 2018. NBC reported Thursday night that more than 100 executives and salespeople used some of the profits raked in from 45 million Americans who …
nationofchange.org/2019/10/18/sallie-maes-hawaii-retreat-while-millions-struggle-to-repay-loans-bolsters-argument-to-cancel-all-student-debt-sanders-says/

On the Picket Line With Chicago's Teachers
Alan Maass | thenation.com | 2019-10-18
On the Picket Line With Chicago's Teachers…
thenation.com/article/chicago-teachers-strike-picket/