Neoliberalism's Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
In this Autumn of Discontent, people | …
globalresearch.ca/neoliberalism-demand-justice-chile-world/5694211
How to Help Julian Assange by Writing to Him in Prison
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
Not reported by ANY corporate media was the October 2 London protest to protect Julian Assange, led by Pink Floyd's world famous co-founder, Roger Waters and award-winning journalist John Pilger, in front of Britain's Home Office. About 1,000 …
globalresearch.ca/how-to-help-julian-assange-by-writing-to-him-in-prison/5694221
Vote "no" on the tentative teachers' contract! Form rank-and-file committees to defend public education in Chicago!
wsws.org | 2019-11-07
With voting set to begin on the tentative agreement, teachers and other educators in Chicago are approaching a critical juncture in the fight to defend public education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/07/chic…
America's Education System: Teaching the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
John Stanton | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-07
Ask students to read for more than a couple of sentences and many will protest that they can't do it. The most frequent complaint that teachers hear that it's boring. It is not so much the content of the written material that is at issues here; it is the act of reading itself that is …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/americas-education-system-teaching-the-price-of-everything-and-the-value-of-nothing/
America's Education System: Teaching the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
John Stanton | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-07
counterpunch.org/2019/11/07/americas-education-system-teaching-the-price-of-everything-and-the-value-of-nothing/
Australia: Mobilise students, staff and academics against the closure of Macquarie University's human sciences faculty
wsws.org | 2019-11-07
The National Tertiary Education Union's major concern is not the job cuts themselves, but that they were left out of the "consultation process" required to implement them.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/07/macq…
In Bolsanaro's Brazil, Dams Are Ticking Time Bombs
Tchenna Maso | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Fundà£o tailings (mine waste) dam disaster in Mariana, a town in the South-eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The Fundà£o dam and the associated iron ore mine, called Samarco, is operated by a …
globalresearch.ca/bolsanaro-brazil-dams-ticking-time-bombs/5694257
India's RCEP Refusal: Geopolitical Blunder or Pro-American Pivot?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
The popular observation that India's refusal to join RCEP amounts to a geopolitical blunder overlooks the very distinct possibility that this probably wasn't a mistake at all, but a preplanned move to justify the country's ongoing pro-American pivot, albeit at …
globalresearch.ca/india-rcep-refusal-geopolitical-blunder-pro-american-pivot/5694271
The New World Order. Trade and Power: The Economies of China, India and the US
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
China and India have made a name for themselves in the world of trade and power and speculations are that both the countries will surpass the US in a short time but experts neglect some basic things while making the …
globalresearch.ca/reports-us-decline-overstated-china-india-face-severe-challenges/5694275
How the Deep State 'Justifies' Itself in America
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
On October 30th, there was a panel discussion broadcast live on C-Span from the National Press Club and the Michael V. Hayden Center. The discussants were John Brennan, Michael McCabe, John McGlaughlin, and Michael Morrell. They all …
globalresearch.ca/how-deep-state-justifies-itself-america/5694228
The Cold War Never Stopped: US Pressures UN Members to Vote Against Cuba Anti-Blockade Resolution
Drago Bosnic | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the United States of exerting pressure on Latin American countries to oppose the United Nations draft resolution against the US-imposed economic blockade on Cuba. | "The US authorities have been carrying out different actions of | …
globalresearch.ca/us-pressures-un-members-vote-against-cuba-anti-blockade-resolution/5694254
Addiction to Online Video Games?
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
It seems a tall, ambitious and very authoritarian order: imposing bans on persons under the age of 18 from playing online games between 22: 00 and 08: 00; rationing gaming on weekdays to 90 minutes and three hours on holidays and weekends. …
globalresearch.ca/addiction-to-online-video-games/5694222
US Constructing Two New Bases In Syria's Oil-Rich Region: Report
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
Turkey's state-run media is reporting the United States is planning two new military bases in Syria's oil-rich Deir ez-Zor province,which are currently under construction, after US special forces convoys were seen patrolling the area in the past days. | Anadolu …
globalresearch.ca/us-constructing-two-new-bases-syria-oil-rich-region-report/5694269
Spreading Democracy the American Way
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
That's the entire list. You can see that it's blank. But how can that be? We all know that the US has freed dozens of nations from their evil and repressive governments, and installed loving democracies where people lived happily | …
globalresearch.ca/spreading-democracy-american-way/5693586
Is Russia Right About US Shale Energy? Geopolitics of LNG
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
In recent remarks to a Pennsylvania shale oil producers' convention, US President Donald Trump, noting the spectacular growth in shale gas as well as shale oil over the past decade, remarked that unconventional shale energy had made "America the …
globalresearch.ca/russia-right-about-us-shale-energy/5694214
Anti-Trump Impeachment Scam Ignores What US Military Aid to Ukraine Goes For
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
Ukraine is a US client state, established by the Obama regime's 2014 coup — replacing democratic governance with a government integrated by Nazi elements. . | The US FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes $250 million in military aid …
globalresearch.ca/anti-trump-impeachment-scam-ignores-what-us-military-aid-ukraine-goes/5694243
Nuclear Outlaw Israel Slams Iran's Legitimate Uranium Enrichment
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
On Tuesday, Iranian President Rouhani announced his nation's 4th JCPOA pullback — permitted under the deal's Articles 26 and 36 when other signatories breach their obligations. | That's precisely what happened. The Trump regime illegally abandoned the internationally binding agreement. | Europe …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-outlaw-israel-slams-iran-legitimate-uranium-enrichment/5694212
Protecting the Oil Fields: Syria Army Deployments on the Northeastern Borders with Turkey
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continues its deployment north and east to secure as many Syrian people and as much Syrian land it can in a race with NATO and their terrorists. | The importance of the SAA and Syrian Border …
globalresearch.ca/protecting-the-oil-fields-syria-army-deployments-on-the-northeastern-borders-with-turkey/5694251
Is There a Place for Ethics in Smart Cities?
Dr. Jaspal Kaur Sadhu Singh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
It is difficult to win a debate on ethics when you are pitted against a crowd of tech-acolytes. I was taking the position that a more vital consideration in developing cities are ethical ones rather than the smartness of the …
globalresearch.ca/place-ethics-smart-cities/5694230
What's Joker's Joke?
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
"Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book and plant flowers?" — Rodriguez, "Cause" | It's not funny, that's for sure. | When I went to see Joker, the new Todd Philips' film, there were five other people …
globalresearch.ca/what-joker-joke/5694237
India's S-400 Missile Defense Deal with Russia. Geo-Strategic Implications
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
During a 3-day visit to Russia (November 5th — 7th), Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh discussed his government's desire for the delivery-schedule for Russia's sale of the S-400 air defence system to India to be sped up. This desire was …
globalresearch.ca/indian-s-400-deal-security-risk/5694259
The Nature Conservancy and BLM Collaborate to DeFacto Privatize and Destroy Our Public Land
Mike Garrity | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-07
In a recent article the Bureau of Land Management, The Nature Conservancy, and local ranchers claimed that removing conifers, mainly juniper trees, on public lands increases and improves habitat for sage grouse, big game, and other species that rely on juniper/sagebrush habitat. But the best available science and on-the-ground evidence from similar projects show that…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/07/the-nature-conservancy-and-blm-collaborate-to-defacto-privatize-and-destroy-our-public-lands/
Bring Back Claudia! SFUSD Parent, Students,Teachers & Community Supporters Protest
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-11-07
Dozens of parents, students, teachers and community members rallied at 24th and Mission St. in San Francisco on November 6, 2019 to protest the retaliation and removal of Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Principal Claudia DeLarios Moran. | Union busting superintendent Vincent Matthews has also sought to cut $300,000 from MLK Middle School and he and his SFUSD board are seeking to outsource the school bus drivers to non-union operators and Zoom UPBER operators.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/06/18827917.php
'Could have been the worst day': 6yo Ohio student brings LOADED GUN to class for 'show & tell'
rt.com | 2019-11-07
A charter school in Ohio was in for quite a scare when a first grade student showed up to class armed with a loaded handgun, in what police say could have become the "worst day" in the school's history. | Responding to a call from Kids Care Elementary School in Columbus on Wednesday morning, police soon learned that a six-year-old student had brought a weapon into the building. The pistol was safely retrieved from the boy's backpack after he showed it to a classmate, who in turn alerted a teacher. The boy was then taken into protective custody. | "Another student had seen the gun in some fashion, and [then]…
rt.com/usa/472811-first-grader-gun-school/
Watching My Students Turn Into Soldiers of Empire
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-11-07
This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. | Patches, pins, medals, and badges are the visible signs of an exclusive military culture, a silent language by which soldiers and officers judge each other's experiences, accomplishments, and general worth. In July 2001, when I first walked through the gate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point at the ripe young age of 17, the "combat patch" on one's right shoulder — evidence of a deployment with a specific unit — had more resonance than colorful medals like Ranger badges reflecting specific ski…
truthdig.com/articles/watching-my-students-turn-into-soldiers-of-empire/
Algerian Protesters Are Still in the Streets, Months After Pushing Out Longtime President Bouteflika
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-07
In Algeria, protests against corruption, the jailing of opposition leaders and the army's powerful role in national politics have entered their ninth month. Tens of thousands filled the streets of the capital Algiers last Friday to mark the 65th anniversary of the war of independence from France and to demand a "new revolution" rather than an upcoming election they say will be rigged. Over 100 student protesters were arrested last night as the Algerian government intensified its crackdown on demonstrators ahead of the upcoming polls. Interim President Abdelkader Bensalah announced the country will hold a presiden…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/7/algerian_…
Chile: 'This fight is for dignity'
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-07
Nate Thompson Susan PriceIssue 1244 Chile 2019 Chile protestsNovember 7, 2019A huge popular revolt has erupted in Chile against the neoliberal policies of President Sebastian Pinera. This uprising was initially sparked by a campaign of student civil disobedience…
greenleft.org.au/content/chile-fight-dignity
University of Melbourne casuals confront Arts dean over unpaid work
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-07
Workers rights Annette HerreraIssue 1244 Australia University of MelbourneNovember 7, 2019It is an open secret that Australian universities are underpaying casual academics. Often earning less than $30,000 a year, casuals make up 70% of undergraduate teach…
greenleft.org.au/content/university-melbourne-casuals-confront-arts-dean-over-unpaid-work
A New Kind of Tyranny: The Global State's War on Those Who Speak Truth to Power
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
"What happens to Julian Assange and to Chelsea Manning is meant to intimidate us, to frighten us into silence. By defending Julian Assange, we defend our most sacred rights. Speak up now or wake up one morning to the silence …
globalresearch.ca/global-state-war-those-speak-truth-power/5694131
Bolivia: Leaked Audios Confirm Involvement of Opposition Leaders, Ex-Military and US in Coup Plans
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
The Radio Education Network of Bolivia (Erbol) leaked 16 audios involving opposition leaders who are calling for a coup d'etat against the government of President Evo Morales, a political action which would have been coordinated from the U.S. embassy …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-audios-linking-civic-ex-military-us-coup-plans/5694142
The Dark Side of Our Drone Future
James Rogers | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Let me paint a picture of the near future. Drones, some weighing a few pounds and others a few tons, will flow endlessly back and forth from rural distribution centers to inner-city delivery hubs. Day in and day out, they …
globalresearch.ca/dark-side-our-drone-future/5694172
China's Xi Praised for Promoting Multilateralism at Import Expo
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-06
Chinese President Xi Jinping's keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the second China International Import Expo Tuesday showed China's firm determination to further open up and expand multilateral economic cooperation to benefit more, foreign researchers and China observers have said. | RELATED: | China Urges East Asia to Uphold Multilateralism and Free Trade | A senior research fellow of international relations at the Center International de Formation Europeenne (CIFE) hea…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chinas-Xi-Praised-for-Promoting-Multilateralism-Openness-20191106-0014.html
From Colombia to Galapagos to California and OSU
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-06
New information breakthroughs for me are exhilarating. Working with all that whale data is like looking into the dark with a flashlight. It's work that is able to contribute new information to the field. — OSU Whale Researcher, Daniel Palacios Whaling's first commercial iteration with harpoons started in Japan around 1570. With many more nations participating …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/from-colombia-to-galapagos-to-california-and-osu/
China's Development of the Russian Far East Can Improve EU-Moscow Relations
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Russia's Far East Investment and Export Support Agency investment manager Vasily Libo revealed on November 1 that China's foreign investment in the Far East advanced development zone accounted for about 59.1% of foreign investments in the region. This massive investment …
globalresearch.ca/china-development-russian-far-east-improve-eu-moscow-relations/5694181
India's RCEP Refusal, Russia's Eurasian Vision, and Next Week's BRICS Summit
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
India's refusal to join the RCEP mega-bloc endangers the viability of Russia's Greater Eurasian Partnership supercontinental integration vision, which not even next week's BRICS Summit might be able to save after Modi crossed the Rubicon of self-imposed regional economic isolation …
globalresearch.ca/india-rcep-refusal-russia-eurasian-vision-brics-summit/5694189
Listen to the Lebanese People
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
In 2012, I wrote an article about Lebanon that still rings true today. It ended with a quote from one of my favourite pieces written by Kahlil Gibran: "You Have Your Lebanon, I Have My Lebanon." | I am including below …
globalresearch.ca/lebanese-people/5694168
The New Cold War: Russia's "Stealth Capable" 955 Borei-class Submarines. US-NATO's Aegis Ashore Missile Defense
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
On October 29th, the Norwegian news-outlet NRK broke the story that between 8 and 10 Russian submarines, including Sierra II class submarines, had begun naval exercises in the North Atlantic. This is one of the largest Russian naval exercises focused …
globalresearch.ca/aegis-makes-submarines-more-important/5694049
Asia's Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): The RCEP Train Left the Station, and India, Behind
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
A pan-Asia high-speed train has left the station — and India — behind. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which would have been the largest free trade deal in the world, was not signed in Bangkok. It will probably be …
globalresearch.ca/rcep-train-left-station-india-behind/5694128
Syria: OPCW Whistleblowers Confirm What We Already Knew. The OPCW Suppressed Evidence Regarding alleged Chemical Weapons Attack
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Whistleblowers have come forward revealing what many had known all along — that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had deliberately altered various reports and suppressed evidence regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks in Syria to help bolster …
globalresearch.ca/syria-opcw-whistleblowers-confirm-what-we-already-knew-the-opcw-suppressed-evidence-regarding-alleged-chemical-weapons-attack/5694146
UN Security Council Sanctions against North Korea Responsible for Deaths of 3,193 Children Under Age 5 in 2018 Alone!
Carla Stea | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
On Monday, October 28, a brilliant panel discussion revealing the atrocities resulting from the UN Security Council sanctions (in particular, Resolution 2397) forced upon the DPRK was held at 777 United Nations Plaza. This panel discussion should have been held …
globalresearch.ca/violation-international-law-full-knowledge-consequences-security-council-sanctions-responsible-deaths-3193-children-under-age-5-2018/5694133
Britain's Democracy — Being Corrupted to the Point of Worthlessness
Graham Vanbergen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Yet more scandals are engulfing the Tories. Apart from new cases being brought to the crown prosecution Service and two other unresolved cases involving the police and Electoral Commission, we have now heard of another incendiary political cover-up involving a …
globalresearch.ca/britain-democracy-corrupted/5694160
Turkish Forces Loot Electric Power Transformers in Northeastern Syria
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Forces loyal to Erdogan in the Turkish Army and accompanying terrorist groups looted electricity power generators and transformers from a number of villages and towns they infested in the Hasakah countryside. A car blew up with the invaders while they …
globalresearch.ca/erdogan-forces-loot-power-transformers-towns-they-infest/5694164
From Canada's Election to Public Action: Beyond the Moral Tumor of Alberta Tar-Sands
Prof. John McMurtry | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
For months during and after Canada's 2019 federal election campaign, corporate media provided daily frontline news space for non-stop Alberta demands for more tar-sands export infrastructure through British Columbia, as well as discrediting stories on the Trudeau government for questionable …
globalresearch.ca/canada-election-public-action-beyond-moral-tumor-alberta-tar-sands/5694140
India's Refusal on RCEP Causes Far-reaching Geopolitical Implications
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
India officially refused to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) following several days of heated negotiations on the issue during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Bangkok. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reported to have said,…
globalresearch.ca/india-refusal-rcep-causes-far-reaching-geopolitical-implications/5694057
When Is a Whistleblower, Not a Whistleblower? From Russiagate to Ukrainegate
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
For those readers who care more about Donald Trump, Obama's legacy or the Republican/Democrat parties rather than the Rule of Law and what remains of the US Constitution, the following scenario should be a Giant Wake up Call. | As the …
globalresearch.ca/when-whistleblower-not-whistleblower/5694135
US Army Purchases 624 "Robotic Mules" for Combat Use
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
In an effort to rapidly modernize before the next large-scale military conflict, the US Army has purchased 624 robotic mules from General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), a deal worth more than $162 million, reported Defense Blog. | GDLS' MUTT (Multi-Utility …
globalresearch.ca/us-army-purchases-624-robotic-mules-combat-use/5694167
Over 100 Missiles against Syria: US, UK and France Committed an International War Crime Against Syria on 14 April 2018
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
It is now clear that on 14 April 2018, the three Governments of U.S., UK, and France, fired over a hundred missiles against Syria, on no more 'justification' than staged videos that had been done by those regimes' own proxy | …
globalresearch.ca/us-uk-france-committed-international-war-crime-against-syria/5694192
Iran Nuclear Deal and the Attack on Abqaiq Oil Facility
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
In response to Washington unilaterally cancelling the Iran nuclear deal and imposing sanctions on Iran, Tehran has announced on Tuesday that it will begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges at Fordow nuclear facility. Though like the previous retaliatory measures …
globalresearch.ca/iran-nuclear-deal-attack-abqaiq-oil-facility/5694130
Sri Lankan SEP holds presidential election meeting in Hatton
wsws.org | 2019-11-06
Estate workers, students and youth discussed the necessity for a socialist and internationalist program at a public meeting in the key tea plantation district.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/06/hatn…
Teachers Unions Could Move the Climate Strikes Into Phase 2
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-06
As young people across the country join the global movement to mobilize school strikes to demand climate action, one group is starting to think more seriously about how to best support those efforts: their teachers. | Educators, like those in the California Federation of Teachers and the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), are beginning to leverage their power both as teachers and union members to push the bounds of climate activism. | Kurt Ostrow, a high school English teacher in Fall River, Mass., has…
truthout.org/articles/teachers-unions-could-move-the-climate-strikes-into-phase-2/