More than 15,000 Indiana teachers walk off job against low wages and attacks on public education
wsws.org | 2019-11-20
Indiana teachers confront conditions no less horrendous than their counterparts throughout the United States and internationally.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/20/indi…

Towards a Democratic Socialist Foreign Policy
Timothy M. Gill | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-20
Over the past few years, democratic socialists have rightfully spent a considerable amount of time honing their arguments on domestic policies, such as healthcare, education, and criminal justice reform. Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution and Bhaskar Sunkara's recently released The Socialist Manifesto are two good examples of this focus on the domestic. On the foreign policy…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/20/towards-a-democratic-socialist-foreign-policy/

World Television Day celebrates an integral part of modern life
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-20
Seven decades of United Nations' work in developing new standards and systems for broadcasting are being celebrated on Thursday, World Television Day, an annual observance that recognizes the medium's role as a major source of information, education and entertainment.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051821

Video: The Madness of Putting 53,000 5G Satellites in Space
Claire Edwards | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
Claire Edwards was speaking at a seminar in Oslo, Norway, on Saturday 26 October 2019. | Elon Musk has now applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to launch a further 30,000 satellites into Earth orbit, bringing the current total …
globalresearch.ca/video-madness-putting-53000-5g-satellites-space/5695463

United States Imperialism in North Africa: Continued Military and Economic Subversion
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
Note: This paper was presented in part at a public meeting held by the Communist Workers League (CWL) in Detroit. In addition to the presentation by Abayomi Azikiwe, Yusuf Mshahwar, a student at Wayne State University, spoke on the current …
globalresearch.ca/united-states-imperialism-north-africa-continued-military-economic-subversion/5695484

Impeach the Government: Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
"When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man …
globalresearch.ca/impeach-government-rogue-agencies-abusing-powers/5695456

Israel Carries Out 'Wide-Scale Strikes' In Syria, US Gov Withholds Food/Meds From Iran & Patriot Act
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-20
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 (11/20/19). 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/israel-carries-out-wide-scale-strikes-syria-us-gov-withholds-food-meds-from-iran-patriot-act/

House and Senate Unanimously Support Destabilizing China
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
Non-intervention by nations in the internal affairs of others is fundamental international law. | In Nicaragua v. United States (1986), the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled against Washington for breaching international law and violating Nicaraguan sovereignty by supporting Contra death …
globalresearch.ca/house-senate-support-destabilizing-china/5695487

One Year of the Yellow Vests in France
Richard Greeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
Converge With Planned Labour Strikes | This past weekend the Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) celebrated their first birthday, with convivial barbeques on traffic circles (roundabouts) all over France followed by direct actions like liberating tollbooths. Although number of protestors has declined …
globalresearch.ca/one-year-yellow-vests-france/5695472

Global Research: Independent, Incisive News and Analysis…With Your Support!
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
At a time when the world is facing the threat of war alongside unprecedented economic uncertainty, when job loss is rampant, and people across the globe awake to the grim reality of financial instability, it can be difficult to find …
globalresearch.ca/do-you-value-independent-incisive-news-and-analysis/31531

10 Downing Street — Abusing Its Power
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
The scandals erupting within No. 10 Downing street are seriously undermining any remaining confidence in the government. It doesn't matter where you look — mutual respect, tolerance, the rule of law, liberty and democracy are now just thin veils covering …
globalresearch.ca/10-downing-street-abusing-power/5695272

Video: The 5G Space Weapon, Mind Control Agenda & Kill Grid
Claire Edwards | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
An important and informative interview on the topic of 5G and the "International Appeal To STOP 5G on Earth and in Space". Spokesperson for the Appeal to STOP 5G, Claire Edwards is the guest on this eye-opening, in-depth and compelling …
globalresearch.ca/video-5g-space-weapon-mind-control-agenda-kill-grid/5695466

Turkey's 'White Elephants': S-400s or Patriots?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
Turkish President Erdogan reaffirmed to his American counterpart that his country won't completely abandon its purchase of Russia's S-400s like Washington wants but that Ankara would buy its Patriot competitor as well if an offer was made "under suitable conditions", …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-white-elephants-s-400s-patriots/5695477

"Asset Bubbles" and an Economy Ready to Crash and Burn?
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
Obama knows Democrats will lose next November if they keep pushing "socialism" as a campaign objective. Americans on the coasts may support a command economy, control freak regulations, legalized theft–larger theft than now–and a braindead wad of social justice idiocy …
globalresearch.ca/socialism-economy-ready-crash-burn/5695461

Video: Kurdish Radicals Try to Burn Russian-Turkish Patrol
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
Kurdish provocateurs have tried to burn a Typhoon MRAP vehicle of the Russian Military Police and a Kirpi MRAP vehicle of the Turkish Army in northern Syria. The incident happened during a joint Russian-Turkish patrol, which was conducted in the …
globalresearch.ca/video-kurdish-radicals-try-burn-russian-turkish-patrol/5695453

Our land is burning, and western science does not have all the answers
David Bowman and Ben J. French | nationofchange.org | 2019-11-20
The growing fire crisis means it's vital western science and Aboriginal knowledge are brought together to make communities as fire-safe as possible.
nationofchange.org/2019/11/20/our-land-is-burning-and-western-science-does-not-have-all-the-answers/

Black Organizing Project wants to remove police from schools
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2019-11-20
At a Nov. 13 rally of over 200 Oakland residents, parents, teachers and students, the Black Organizing Project officially released its "People's Plan for Police-Free Schools." BOP has been organizing in Oakland since 2011 to stop the funding of school police and the deployment of any police in Oakland public . . . | Continue reading Black Organizing Project wants to remove police from schools at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/11/44462/

Oxford Union president resigns amid row over blind student
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-20
The president of the Oxford Union has resigned after a blind student was forcibly removed from a debate event by a security guards. | Postgraduate student Ebenezer Azamati was taken from the venue by a security guard when he tried to return to a seat before the debate last month. | Union president Brendan McGrath wrote in a statement posted to Facebook late on Tuesday that he had resigned because it was his "job to ensure that every Member feels welcome at the Oxford Union". | Please see the below statement regarding the incident prior to the No Confidence debate. Further statements and updates will be released a…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/11/20/oxford-union-president-resigns-amid-row-over-blind-student/

On Trans Day of Resilience, Artists Show Us a Future of Liberation
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-20
The first time I seriously considered being an artist as a profession was when I witnessed Alexandra Billings conduct a movement workshop at California State University, Long Beach. I was a high school senior and it was 2013, long before Alexandra was cast in the widely popular TV series "Transparent." She was the first openly trans woman I had shared space with. As a Vietnamese American student who would later come to identify as a trans woman of color, I was deeply inspired by an unapologetic Black tr…
truthout.org/articles/on-trans-day-of-resilience-artists-show-us-a-future-of-liberation/

Chile: Thousands Take to Streets to Mark One Month of Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-20
Thousands of people returned to the streets Monday to mark the first month of the most serious civil unrest of Chilean democracy and show their distrust of both the social agenda announced by the government and the parliamentary agreement on a new constitution. | RELATED: | Chile: Human Rights Violations May Lead to Piñera's Impeachment | What began on Oct. 14 as a call by Chilean university students to sneak into the Santiago subway to protest against the increase in the ticket…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Thousands-Take-to-Streets-to-Mark-One-Month-of-Protests-20191120-0010.html

Charter School Advocates Repulsed by Empowered Teachers
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-20
Workers produce all the wealth of society. Unions have been around for generations and exist to protect the rights of workers. Currently, 90%–93% of privately operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools across the country have no teacher unions, whereas about 90% of public school teachers are unionized. One of the claims to fame of deregulated …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/charter-school-advocates-repulsed-by-empowered-teachers/

Dropped Investigations: Julian Assange, Sex and Sweden
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-20
Sex, the late Gore Vidal astutely observed, is politics, and not merely from the vantage point of those who wish to police it. In the case of whistleblowers, claims of aberrant, unlawful sex serves the purpose of diminishing credibility, tarring …
globalresearch.ca/dropped-investigations-julian-assange-sex-sweden/5695459

Texas students say, "Defend DACA"
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-19
Arlington, TX — The University of Texas at Arlington's Progressive Student Union (PSU) held a rally for DACA recipients, November 14. The group, led by PSU President Mark Napieralski, delivered a list of ten demands to the administration, marching across the campus chanting, "No protection, no peace," "Stand up, fight back," "Black and brown immigrants matter," and "Defend DACA." | PSU delivered their demands to President Karbhari's office, though he was available to receive them personally. Regardless, the office received the demands and promised to deliver them to Karbhari. | PSU's demands included more r…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/18/texas-s…

Occupied Palestine: From BDS to ODS. The Project of a One Democratic State (ODS)
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
We spent the last week in Occupied Palestinian Territory, commonly referred to as Israel, where we traveled around the country to visit communities in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Bethlehem, the West Bank, the Nagab, and more. | We call Israel Occupied Palestine because …
globalresearch.ca/occupied-palestine-bds-ods/5695360

Modern Biology and Ecology: the Roots Of America's Assertive Illiteracy
Jim Britell | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-19
The 2016 election elevated Mike Pence and Betsy DeVos–major supporters of teaching creationism–to the vice presidency and leadership of the U.S. Department of Education, respectively. DeVos is a billionaire funder of efforts to pass state laws that give science teachers the right to present anti-evolution materials in science classrooms under the guise of protecting academic…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/19/modern-biology-and-ecology-the-roots-of-americas-assertive-illiteracy/

Open Guidelines: The Foreign Interference Problem in Australian Universities
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-19
Education has always been a political matter, whatever the apolitical advocates of it think it is. In Australia, it has proven sectarian, ideological, and skewed, often on the issue of funding. At the schooling level, private institutions receive more worldly goods from the taxpayer than state institutions. It is an absurdity that has become commonplace…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/19/open-guidelines-the-foreign-interference-problem-in-australian-universities/

McDonnell accuses Tories of siding with the super rich
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-19
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell is accusing Boris Johnson of allowing the country's "super rich" to buy access to "tax breaks and corporate giveaways". | Labour published research which, it said, showed 48 of the 151 billionaires listed in the latest Sunday Times Rich List had donated more than £50 million to the Tories since 2005. | The opposition party has calculated that by 2023/24, the Conservatives will have handed out "tax breaks and corporate giveaways" worth almost £100 billion since coming to power in 2010. | Labour said these perks included £86 billion in corporation tax cuts, &pound…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/11/19/mcdonnell-accuses-tories-of-siding-with-the-super-rich/

Violence Is as Violence Does. All in the Name of "Restoring Democracy"
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
Anyone remember the line from the film Forest Gump: 'Stupid is as stupid does'? Well, now we have, each and every passing day, the bastard children of our violent empire. Yes, violence has always been with us, this the frailty …
globalresearch.ca/violence-does/5695362

Europe's Shameful Treatment of Refugees: Fire in Greece's Samos Island Refugee Camp
Prof. Richard Hardigan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
Last month a fire roared through the refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos, a few miles from the coast of Turkey. The immediate cause of the fire is unclear, but there were clashes between Afghan and Syrian refugees …
globalresearch.ca/europe-shameful-treatment-refugees-fire-greek-camp-highlights-appalling-conditions/5695370

Video: Complex and Unstable Geopolitics in Syria. Further Escalation in Southern Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
Over the past days, southern Idlib, southern Raqqah, northwestern al-Hasakah remained the main points of tensions in Syria. | On November 16, the Syrian Army repelled an attack by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies on the hill of Khaznah in …
globalresearch.ca/video-further-escalation-southern-idlib/5695363

'Orwellian Absurdity': US Reversal on Israel's Settlements Draws International Outrage
Yumna Patel | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the US was softening its position on Israel's network of settlements in the occupied Palestinain territory, saying it was revoking the notion that settlements are illegal under international law — …
globalresearch.ca/orwellian-absurdity-us-reversal-on-israels-settlements-draws-international-outrage/5695420

New Poll Reveals Majority of Canadians Believe Our Country Ranks in Top 10 for Children's Well-Being. In Reality, Canada Ranks 25th
Children First Canada | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
One of Canada's top child advocacy groups, Children First Canada, has released a new poll on Canadian's attitudes on the wellbeing of our country's kids. The poll is being released today on the occasion of National Child Day and the …
globalresearch.ca/new-poll-reveals-majority-canadians-believe-country-ranks-top-10-children-well-being-reality-ranks-25th/5695365

UK Government Accused of Covering Up War Crimes in Iraq
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
The UK is very keen at reminding certain countries — Syria, Russia, China — of their human rights abuses and yet, when it comes to looking closer to home, this current government quite frankly prefers not to, and in some …
globalresearch.ca/uk-government-accused-covering-up-war-crimes-iraq/5695411

Fifth Generation (5G) Cell Phone Systems Threatens Human Health and Intelligence
Mojmir Babacek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
In 1960 Allan H. Frey was 25 years old, he had graduated in biophysics and worked at General Electric's Advanced Electronics Center at Cornell University. When a radar technician invited him to come and listen to a clicking sound of …
globalresearch.ca/implementation-fifth-generation-cell-phone-systems-threatens-human-health-intelligence/5695407

Release of Western Hostages and Prospects of Peace in Afghanistan
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
Three Taliban commanders have been released today, on Tuesday, by the Afghan government as part of a prisoner swap involving two Western hostages. Reportedly, the militant leaders, including senior Taliban leader Anas Haqqani, had landed in Qatar, which hosts the …
globalresearch.ca/release-western-hostages-prospects-peace-afghanistan/5695396

Mobile Phone Radiation and the EU's Phonegate Crisis
Equipe Phonegate | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
Following the invitation on October 1, 2019 to the European Parliament of Dr Marc Arazi by MEPs Philippe Lamberts, Michèle Rivasi and Klaus Buchner of the Greens/EFA, and the alert issued to parliamentarians and organisations gathered at this event on …
globalresearch.ca/mep-michele-rivasi-questions-european-commission/5695400

America's Arms Sales Addiction: 50-Year History of U.S. Dominance of the Middle Eastern Arms Trade
William D. Hartung | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
It's no secret that Donald Trump is one of the most aggressive arms salesmen in history. How do we know? Because he tells us so at every conceivable opportunity. It started with his much exaggerated "$110 billion arms deal" with …
globalresearch.ca/americas-arms-sales-addiction-50-year-history-of-u-s-dominance-of-the-middle-eastern-arms-trade/5695429

Student Protesters are Walking a Tightrope in Hong Kong
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-19
It's hard to know what to think about the student protests in Hong Kong. | On the one hand, they are incredibly inspiring. The courage, determination, brilliant organizing in the face of corporate blocking of the social media platforms that have been so critical early on to coordinating actions and rallying support, and the links that these masses of students have been able to build with the broader Hong Kong community, have been amazing to witness. So too is the massive support that the city's residents — even its staid usually conservative business-minded bankers and shop owners — have given and con…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/19/student-protesters-are-walking-a-tightrope-in-hong-kong/

Little Kids, Locked Away
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-19
This investigation is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune. | ProPublica Illinois is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to get weekly updates about our work. | THE SPACES have gentle names: The reflection room. The cool-down room. The calming room. The quiet room. | But shut inside them, in public schools across the state, children as young as 5 wail for their parents, scream in anger and beg to be let out. | The students, most of them with disabilities, scratch the windows or tear at the padded w…
truthdig.com/articles/little-kids-locked-away/

FRSO leader speaks in Texas on Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-19
Arlington, TX — On November 13, the University of Texas at Arlington Progressive Student Union (PSU) hosted a national leader of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Tom Burke, who gave an eyewitness report on Venezuela and the Bolivarian revolution. | Cassandra Swartz, with the Dallas Anti-War Committee, opened the event by talking about how anti-war activism is more necessary than ever, due to the horrific military coup in Bolivia against indigenous President Evo Morales. | Burke went in depth about his experiences in Venezuela to a crowd of 25 people. Burke dispelled myths about Venezuelan shortages, tal…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/18/frso-le…

Selected Articles: UK Government Accused of Covering Up War Crimes in Iraq
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
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-uk-government-accused-covering-up-war-crimes-iraq/5695424

Indiana Teachers to Rally for Better Pay, Better Schools
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-11-18
The notoriously conservative, right-to-work state has proven to be fertile ground for market-based education reform policies–and teacher discontent.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/indiana-teachers-rally-november-lahm-191118/

US Says Israeli Settlements Are Legal, 23 Killed In Bolivia As Violent Coup Ignored & Venezuela Flop
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-18
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 (11/18/19). 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/us-says-israeli-settlements-are-legal-23-killed-in-bolivia-as-violent-coup-ignored-venezuela-flop/

Students Told They Would Be Better Off 'If They Had Jesus in Their Life'
Heather L. Weaver | aclu.org | 2019-11-18
The ACLU and the ACLU of Tennessee filed a lawsuit against the Smith County School System for violating the separation of church and state on Monday. According to the lawsuit, four students who are atheists have had to contend with school officials promoting Christianity through official prayers, Bible distributions, religious posters, and even a giant cross painted in one of the school's athletic facilities. | We asked our three high school clients in this case — Harleigh, | Leyna and Pyper — to tell us about their e…
aclu.org/news/religious-liberty/students-told-they-would-be-better-off-if-they-had-jesus-in-their-life

Lab Rats for Corporate Profit: Pesticide Industry's Poisoned Platter
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-18
Newly released pesticide usage statistics for 2018 confirm that the British people are being used as lab rats. That's the message environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has sent to Dave Bench, senior scientist at the UK Chemicals, Health and Safety Executive and director of the agency's EU exit plan. In her open letter to Bench, Mason …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/lab-rats-for-corporate-profit-pesticide-industrys-poisoned-platter/

CTU members vote to accept tentative agreement
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-17
Chicago, IL – Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) members voted November 15 to accept the tentative agreement they won in the wake of their historic eleven-day strike. | With 80% of schools reporting, members have voted 81% yes to ratify the new contract with Chicago Public Schools. | The union won powerful gains for students and their school communities. | Those gains include mandatory class size caps and enforcement, language forcing CPS to comply with special education laws and regulations, sanctuary school protections for immigrant and refugee students, and supports for thousands of homeless students. While today mo…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/16/ctu-mem…

Bolivia's New US-Made Dictatorship, Netanyahu Wins As Gaza Loses & Iran's Protests Are Trump's Fault
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-17
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 (11/16/19). 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/bolivias-new-us-made-dictatorship-netanyahu-wins-as-gaza-loses-irans-protests-are-trumps-fault/

Should We Trust Science?
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-16
Scientists working on the issue have often told me that, once upon a time, they assumed, if they did their jobs, politicians would act upon the information. That, of course, hasn't happened. Anything but, across much of the planet. Worse yet, science failed to have the necessary impact in significant part because of disinformation promoted …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/should-we-trust-science/

Arkansas 'Heisenberg'? Chemistry professor who praised 'Breaking Bad' for scientific accuracy arrested for cooking meth
rt.com | 2019-11-16
A chemistry professor at Henderson State University in Arkansas, who once called 'Breaking Bad' one of his favorite shows, has been arrested for allegedly producing methamphetamine together with a partner. | For the uninitiated, the hit TV series tells the story of a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher named Walter White, who recruits the help of a former student to kick-start a meth lab and eventually becomes a ruthless drug lord. | Well, this man may have taken the show as an instruction manual. Bradley Allen Rowland, 40, of Arkadelphia was arrested on Friday together with fellow chemistry professor Terry Davi…
rt.com/usa/473602-real-breaking-bad-arkansas/

Israel Kills Over 30 In Gaza, Bolivia Coup About Lithium And More & Israeli Group Taking Syria's Oil
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-15
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 (11/14/19). 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/israel-kills-over-30-in-gaza-bolivia-coup-about-lithium-and-more-israeli-group-taking-syrias-oil/