How Does China Evaluate and Choose its Leaders? Understanding China's University System
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-23
Many Westerners have at least a dim awareness of China's Gaokao, the system of annual university entrance examinations, taken by about 10 million students each year. This set of examinations is quite stiff and perhaps even harsh, covering many subjects …
globalresearch.ca/choosing-china-leaders/5695661
JFK, MLK, RFK, 50 Years of Suppressed History: New Evidence on Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-23
Fifty years of research shows that three humane visions of global peace were thwarted by three covert assassinations. In each case eyewitness accounts were written out of history. In each case the "lone gunman" fiction denied society a true understanding of the deep politics of history…
globalresearch.ca/50-years-of-suppressed-history-new-evidence-on-the-assassination-of-john-f-kennedy-martin-luther-king-and-robert-f-kennedy/5329847
The Kennedy Assassination, November 22, 1963: 56 Years Later
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-23
This article was first published on November 21, 2013. | Today November 22, 2019 is the 56th anniversary of the assassination of JFK | Why was he assassinated? | He favored peace over war. | The normalization of relations with the Soviet Union. | ***…
globalresearch.ca/the-kennedy-assassination-november-22-1963-50-years-later/5359002
Iran False Flag Prep, US Government's Staggering Bolivia Hypocrisy, Netanyahu Indicted & Patriot Act
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-23
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 (11/22/19). 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 …
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JFK Files: US Officials Plotted Destruction of Cuban Crops with Biological Agents
Kevin Gosztola | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-23
Today, November 22, 2019, we commemorate the passing of JFK. | Why was he killed? | He opposed the Deep State? | He was opposed to waging war on Cuba. | He favored dialogue rather than war with the Soviet Union. | *** | Several of …
globalresearch.ca/jfk-files-us-officials-plotted-destruction-of-cuban-crops-with-biological-agents/5615751
Colombia: Curfew in Bogota On Nationwide Strike's Second Day
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-23
Making noise by banging pots to call for attention, thousands of people gathered on Friday afternoon at the Bolivar Square in Bogota to reject President Ivan Duque and his neoliberal policies. | RELATED: | Colombia: 3 Dead, 122 Civilians Injured At Strike Against Duque | "We are here to protest against Duque's government," art student Katheryn Martinez…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Curfew-in-Bogota-On-Nationwide-Strikes-Second-Day-20191123-0001.html
Allegations of racist incidents lead to virtual shutdown of campus at Syracuse University
wsws.org | 2019-11-23
The university has accepted the demands of students, including moves toward the segregation of dorms based on race, but the campus has been effectively closed through the end of the semester.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/23/syra…
Young adults urged to sign up to vote in the 'climate election'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-23
Young adults are being urged by under-18s and celebrities to sign up to vote so they can use the power of the ballot box to tackle the climate and nature crises.The call comes after the Electoral Commission reveals that a third of young people are not registered to vote, with only 66% of 18 to 19-year-olds and 68% of those aged 20-24 correctly signed up.Students who are too young to vote are helping launch #ItsOurTime, a politically neutral campaign which aims to motivate young people concerned about climate change to sign up before the registration deadline on November 26.Celebrities including bands The Foals an…
thecanary.co/discovery/2019/11/23/young-adults-urged-to-sign-up-to-vote-in-the-climate-election/
Jeremy Corbyn offers a vision of 'hope' and builds support for a 'red Christmas'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-23
Jeremy Corbyn has offered students a vision for "hope" as he unveiled a youth manifesto pledging £1 billion investment and votes at 16. | The Labour leader received huge applause when he told supporters at Loughborough University on Saturday of plans to end pay "discrimination" and give a £10 minimum wage to all. | And to energise his campaign further, he encouraged the crowd to hit the streets campaigning ahead of the election on 12 December in order to bring a "red Christmas". | Addressing the packed student union club lined with red neon lights, he said: This election is all about the future and hop…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/11/23/jeremy-corbyn-offers-a-vision-of-hope-and-builds-support-for-a-red-christmas/
Companies race to drop scandal-hit prince Andrew
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-23
The Duke of York has reportedly resigned from his role with his flagship business project Pitch@Palace after days of speculation about his future with the initiative he founded.He appears to have bowed to pressure and stepped down a day after one sponsor said his plans to continue leading Pitch were "not tenable".High-profile business sponsors KPMG, Standard Chartered and Inmarsat, a British satellite telecommunications company, have all said they would not renew their financial support for Pitch while Barclays, a partner of the project, ended its association with the initiative on Friday.Beleaguered Andrew also…
thecanary.co/uk/2019/11/23/companies-race-to-drop-scandal-hit-prince-andrew/
Students at Washington & Lee University campaign to have Washington and Lee removed from diplomas over fear of offending
rt.com | 2019-11-23
Law students from Washington & Lee University are campaigning to have George Washington and Robert E. Lee removed from diplomas as it seems not even the much-loved first US president is immune from politically correct zealots. | A petition calling on the administration of the Virginia law school to allow students to opt out of having the university's namesakes on their diplomas has garnered hundreds of signatures from students, staff and alumni, as well as securing the bac…
rt.com/usa/474169-petition-washington-lee-removed-diplomas/
Football fans fume after Yale-Harvard game disrupted by HUNDREDS of pitch-invading climate protesters (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-11-23
A football game between two elite Ivy League universities froze for about an hour as a crowd of students and alumni staged a protest against investment in fossil fuels right on the playing field — and sparked an online outrage. | It was after the second quarter of the game at the Yale Bowl, New Haven, Connecticut, when scores of protesters from both colleges stormed the field, carrying banners and placards that accused the two prestigious universities of being "complicit in climate injustice" by investing in fossil fuel companies. | Watch as HUNDREDS of both Harvard and Yale students storm the field in s…
rt.com/usa/474192-yale-harvard-pitch-invaded-climate/
'We're in America': Latin American group up in arms after Texas teacher tells student to 'speak English' in class
rt.com | 2019-11-23
A substitute teacher temping at a school in a Texas border town has come under fire for telling a Hispanic student to "speak English," prompting a heated response from a civil rights group calling for the teacher's dismissal. | A video of the incident posted online by a local news outlet on Thursday shows the teacher — then subbing at the predominantly Latino Socorro High School, located just a few miles from the border with Mexico — arguing with a student about his phone. | "Speak English, we're in America. Give me your phone," the teacher, who has not been named in press reports, is heard saying in…
rt.com/usa/474146-texas-teacher-speak-english/
CIA helped shape 'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' series into bigoted Venezuela regime change fantasy
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-11-22
Analysis by researcher Tom Secker reveals how Amazon's regime change fantasy "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" was shaped by CIA and…
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/22/tom-clancy-jack-ryan-cia-propaganda-john-krasinski/
"Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map", 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
According to a secret document dated September 15, 1945, "the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas.
globalresearch.ca/wipe-the-ussr-off-the-map-204-atomic-bombs-against-major-cities-us-nuclear-attack-against-soviet-union-planned-prior-to-end-of-world-war-ii/5616601
New Report on FBI Spying Shows Need for Congressional Investigation
Chip Gibbons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
Clearing the FOG (forces of greed) hosts Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers interviewed Chip Gibbons, an expert on Constitutional Law and the legal and policy counsel for Defending Rights and Dissent about a recent right to protest victory in Washington, …
globalresearch.ca/new-report-fbi-spying-shows-need-congressional-investigation/5695643
Is the Middle East Beginning a Self-Correction?
Alastair Crooke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
"Two years, three years, five years' maximum from now, you will not recognize the same Middle East", says the former Egyptian FM, Arab League Secretary General and Presidential Candidate, Amr Moussa, in an interview with Al-Monitor. | Mousa made some …
globalresearch.ca/is-the-middle-east-beginning-a-self-correction/5695438
Dear Global Research Readers, Your Support Is Essential
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
Dear Readers, | Our team works tirelessly day in, day out, to promote peace and a world without war. Currently, however, peace is not a money making endeavour. Without financial support from our readers, we are faced with a monthly deficit….
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The Long Coup in Ecuador
Fabio Resmini | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
Elected on a progressive platform, the Moreno government has resorted to the politicization of justice and the militarization of politics to repress its former allies and constituents. | *** | Ecuador is facing some of its darkest days. The country is …
globalresearch.ca/long-coup-ecuador/5695635
Big pharma's new opium war: Exporting the addiction crisis to China
Donald Donato | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-22
As the People's Republic of China's economy grows and integrates more fully into global commerce, so does the risk to its people's health. To meet the new demand for cancer and pain medications, China has had to harmonize its pharmaceutical regulatory structures with international ones and beef-up its investment in innovative biotech research and production. …
peoplesworld.org/article/big-pharmas-new-opium-war-exporting-the-addiction-crisis-to-china/
Unspeakable Memories: The Day John Kennedy Died
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
There is a vast literature on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who died on a November 22nd Friday like this in 1963. I have contributed my small share to such writing in an effort to tell the …
globalresearch.ca/day-john-kennedy-died/5695615
Lies Which the West Manufactures and Then Consumes
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
After my work in the Middle East had finished, at least for the time being, I was waiting for my flight to Santiago de Chile. In Paris. I could count on a few 'free' days, processing what I had heard …
globalresearch.ca/lies-west-manufactures-consumes/5695623
Mind Control or Controlling Your Mind — Which Do You Choose?
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
Controlling your mind is key | as we head deeper into the 21st century. The mind is the new frontier — and from a military standpoint the new battleground — as governmental-military-corporate organizations become enmeshed with each other to push the …
globalresearch.ca/mind-control-controlling-your-mind/5695566
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U.S. Opens Up Another Front in Its Cold War Against China as Congress Passes the "Hong Kong Democracy Act"
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
The Trump impeachment hearings give the illusion that voters in the United States have a choice between two different political parties: the Democrats and Republicans. The daily impeachment hearings dominate news headlines. Meanwhile, politicians of both parties have unanimously passed …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-opens-up-another-front-against-china-congress-passes-hong-kong-democracy-act/5695652
How to Stop the Trump Administration's Latest Attempt to Undermine Science
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-22
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from relying on research when crafting regulations unless the underlying data is publicly available. This is a problem because the data in studies showing how pollution harms people's health often includes individuals' confidential personal information — including medical records that are protected by privacy law. Wi…
truthout.org/articles/how-to-stop-the-trump-administrations-latest-attempt-to-undermine-science/
Unspeakable Memories: The Day John Kennedy Died
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
Unless one is a government disinformation agent or is unaware of the enormous documentary evidence, one knows that it was the CIA that carried out JFK's murder. Confirmation of this fact keeps arriving in easily accessible forms for anyone interested in the truth.
globalresearch.ca/day-john-kennedy-died/5695615
Economic Upheaval and the Rise of the US Police State
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
By the end of the Vietnam War, US corporations were no longer competitive in the world economy and were losing the bulk of their domestic market to imports, leading to de-industrialisation and the large-scale relocation of manufacturing to Asia, primarily …
globalresearch.ca/rise-police-state/5695648
Moscow's Russia-Pakistan Banking Proposal Hints at Big Things to Come
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
Yuri M. Kozlov, the Russian Trade Representative in Pakistan, suggested that Russia and Pakistan establish a "reliable and mutually acceptable banking system", which strongly hints at Moscow's desire to improve its commercial trade ties with Islamabad in order to …
globalresearch.ca/moscow-russian-pakistani-banking-proposal-hints-big-things-come/5695626
Bolivia's US Installed Coup d'Etat Regime Authorizes Brute Force
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
Following Evo Morales' democratic reelection on October 20, a CIA-orchestrated coup d'etat unconstitutionally replaced him with hard-right, political nobody senator Jeanine Anez. | Article 169 of Bolivia's Constitution states: | "In case of impediment or definitive absence of the president | …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-us-installed-coup-detat-regime-authorizes-brute-force/5695639
Through the Yellow Looking Glass: Australia's China Wars
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
This year, China as "Intimidating Monster" has become the popular motif in Canberra circles. Australian government members Andrew Hastie and Senator James Paterson have become vigorous moral, if hollow enthusiasts. Their criticism of China has led to the revocation of …
globalresearch.ca/australia-china-wars/5695613
The Impeachment Crisis and American Imperialism
Patrick Martin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
Wednesday's public hearing on the impeachment of President Trump featured the US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, who testified that, contrary to the White House narrative, there had been a "quid pro quo" in Trump's dealings with …
globalresearch.ca/impeachment-crisis-american-imperialism/5695632
The Desolation of Yemen. The Forgotten War
Daniel Larison | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
[Ignored by much of the Western media], The Jerusalem Post reports on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen: | "There is nothing that shows any improvement," Hisham Al-Omeisy, an independent Yemeni political analyst, told The Media Line. "The only thing that | …
globalresearch.ca/desolation-yemen/5695667
Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders Back Ecuador Anti-IMF Protests
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders have both sent messages of solidarity to the recent anti-IMF protests in Ecuador, which have succeeded in forcing the government to scrap a controversial austerity decree. | "Let's give a | …
globalresearch.ca/jeremy-corbyn-bernie-sanders-back-ecuador-anti-imf-protests/5695656
Trump's EPA Is Promoting a Conspiracy Theory Created by Big Tobacco
Zoà´ Carpenter | thenation.com | 2019-11-22
Trump's EPA Is Promoting a Conspiracy Theory Created by Big Tobacco…
thenation.com/article/environmental-protection-agency-secret-science-big-tobacco/
Can the Religious Left Take Down Nuclear Weapons?
Sam Husseini | commondreams.org | 2019-11-22
Grady and the six others—the Kings Bay Plowshares 7—pleaded with the jury to look to their conscience. The activists were following the biblical edict to turn swords into plowshares, after all. (Photo: Kings Bay 7) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Hundreds of Thousands Join National Strike in Colombia
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-22
In Colombia, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets Thursday in the largest national strike the country has seen in years. Labor unions, students, teachers, Indigenous and Afro-Colombian activists joined in peaceful marches across urban and rural Colombia as anger mounts against right-wing President Iván Duque and his cabinet. The protests were triggered by Duque's proposed labor reforms and cuts to the pension system, as well as a recent military airstrike against a camp of alleged dissident rebel drug…
truthout.org/video/hundreds-of-thousands-join-national-strike-in-colombia/
The Self-Unravelling Trump Cannot Avoid
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-22
I. The Dangers of Autocracy Back in the Watergate hearings, I was rivetted by them and welcomed the distraction from writing my dissertation. These 2019 House impeachment hearings are just as riveting, and because I got that dissertation done and proceeded to teach courses like radical American thought since the Watergate days, I'm bringing a lot…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/22/the-self-unravelling-trump-cannot-avoid/
Billionaire Walton Family Behind Pro-Charter School Protest at Warren Rally
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-22
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's rally on Thursday night in Atlanta was interrupted by a group of parents protesting her stance on charter schools—but the demonstration was reportedly funded by the billionaire Walton family, which has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into privately-run schools that critics say unfairly pull money from public education. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/22/billionaire-walton-family-behind-pro-charter-school-protest-warren-rally?cd-origin=rss
NYT's "Leaked" Chinese Files Story Covers for Terrorism
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
The New York Times has once again exposed itself as an organ of US special interests operating under the guise of journalism — contributing to Wall Street and Washington's ongoing and escalating hybrid war with China with a particularly underhanded …
globalresearch.ca/nyt-leaked-chinese-files-story-covers-terrorism/5695528
Hundreds of Thousands Join National Strike in Colombia in Rebuke to Right-Wing President Iván Duque
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-22
In Colombia, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets Thursday in the largest national strike the country has seen in years. Labor unions, students, teachers, Indigenous and Afro-Colombian activists joined in peaceful marches across urban and rural Colombia as anger mounts against right-wing President Iván Duque and his cabinet. The protests were triggered by Duque's proposed labor reforms and cuts to the pension system, as well as a recent military airstrike against a camp of alleged dissident rebel drug traffickers, which killed eight children. Police responded to the movements with repressive tactic…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/22/colombia…
1.2 BILLION people's data — including social media profiles and contact info — found on unsecured Google Cloud server
rt.com | 2019-11-22
A massive four-terabyte trove of sensitive personal data belonging to over a billion profiles has been found on an unsecured Google Cloud server – its owner still a mystery – in one of the largest single-source data leaks ever. | The mountain of data, including phone numbers, email addresses, and social media profiles, was sitting unprotected on an anonymous server hosted on the Google Cloud when security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko found it while scanning for vulnerabilities last month. After they reported the massive exposure to the FBI, it disappeared within hours. It's not clear who accessed…
rt.com/news/474137-breach-billion-users-data-cloud/
How Human Rights Watch Whitewashed a Right-Wing Massacre in Bolivia
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-22
Bolivia is currently in turmoil after President Evo Morales was deposed in a U.S.-supported coup d'état on November 10. The new coup government forced Morales into exile, began arresting politicians and journalists while pre-exonerating security services of all crimes …
globalresearch.ca/human-rights-watch-whitewashed-right-wing-massacre-bolivia/5695665
Video: Israel Conducts Wide-scale Strikes on Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-21
On November 20, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they had carried out "wide-scale strikes" on the "Iranian Quds Force" and the Syrian Armed Forces in Syria. The IDF claimed that the strikes were carried out in response to …
globalresearch.ca/video-israel-conducts-wide-scale-strikes-syria/5695592
U.S. Relations with China Were Just Destroyed, and Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-21
Our relationship with China just went from bad to worse, and most Americans don't even realize that we just witnessed one of the most critical foreign policy decisions of this century. The U.S. Senate just unanimously passed the "Hong Kong …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-relations-with-china-were-just-destroyed-and-nothing-will-ever-be-the-same-again/5695597
Anti-Corbyn Propaganda on Full Blast as UK Election Nears
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-21
With less than a month to go before the UK general election, all efforts are being made by political parties to further their agendas. Naturally each side is launching attacks on the other, but perhaps the most virulent campaign is …
globalresearch.ca/anti-corbyn-propaganda-uk-election-nears/5695572
Sri Lanka Elections: Return of Rajapaksa the Presidency, Would Unleash Full Benefits of China's BRI for Sri Lanka
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-21
Opposition leader and former Defense Minister Lieutenant Colonel Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the first round of elections and will become Sri Lanka's next president, thus returning his family to power after his brother Mahinda's 2005-2015 presidency. | The latter was narrowly defeated …
globalresearch.ca/return-rajapaksa-unleash-full-benefits-bri-sri-lanka/5695577
Colombian Police Clashes with Protesters After Massive March
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-21
Colombia's militarized anti-riot Police (Esmad) violently dispersed protesters with tear gas on Thursday in the Plaza de Bolívar de Bogotá as they were blocking roads at the end of the demonstrations against the economic and social policy of the Government of President Iván Duque. | RELATED: | Colombia Scandal: Diplomats Evidence Plot Against Venezuela | In other departments of the country, organizations of students, indigenous people, campesinos and workers also took part of the anti-…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombian-Police-Clashes-with-Protesters-After-Massive-March-20191121-0015.html
Colombian Police Clashes with Protesters After Massive March
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-21
Colombia's militarized anti-riot Police (Esmad) violently dispersed protesters with tear gas on Thursday in the Plaza de Bolívar de Bogotá as they were blocking roads at the end of the demonstrations against the economic and social policy of the Government of President Iván Duque. | RELATED: | Colombia Scandal: Diplomats Evidence Plot Against Venezuela | In other departments of the country, organizations of students, indigenous people, campesinos and workers also took part of the anti-…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombian-Police-Clashes-with-Protesters-After-Massive-March-20191121-0015.html
Student Loan Borrowers Need More Protection–and California Is Leading the Way
Seth Frotman, Natalia Abrams | thenation.com | 2019-11-21
Student Loan Borrowers Need More Protection–and California Is Leading the Way…
thenation.com/article/california-borrowers-rights/