2019-11-25: Social Media Postees

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Militarizing America's Police: The Whole Damn System Is "Guilty as Hell": Taking Control of Police
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
The entire system of policing in the United States is in crisis. Police murdering civilians has become a too common nightmare across the United States. The police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, Eric Garner in New York City, …
globalresearch.ca/whole-system-guilty-taking-control-police/5695829

Torturing and Killing Julian Assange Slowly
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
In cahoots with the Trump regime, Britain is killing Assange slowly for the "crime" of truth-telling journalism the way it's supposed to be. | Isolated in maximum security solitary confinement, denied vitally needed medical and dental treatment, and reportedly given 3-quinuclidinyl …
globalresearch.ca/torturing-killing-julian-assange-slowly/5695898

In Nicaragua, She Dodged Bullets. Now She's Stuck at the Border
Ashoka Mukpo | aclu.org | 2019-11-25
(Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) The sting of tear gas was still in Julia's eyes when she ran into a public park in the center of the Nicaraguan city of Estelí on June 20, 2018. Earlier that day, she'd wrapped her face in a blue-and-white bandanna — the colors of the Nicaraguan flag — and joined a student-led march against the government of President Daniel Ortega, whose proposed cuts to social benefits were sparking tense street demonstrations across the country. [Note: 'Julia' is a pseudonym; the ACLU is protecting her identity for her safety.] | As the students marched through the streets, paramilitary p…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/in-nicaragua-she-dodged-bullets-now-shes-stuck-at-the-border

No Billionaires, No Fascists, No Warmongers To the Socialist Future
Mark Harris | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-25
There's probably no bigger sin in American politics than to imagine a world without war, inequality, and capitalism. Actually, imagining just a kinder, more equitable version of capitalism, one in which the existence of elite wealth is tempered by the peoples' right to health care, a college education, affordable housing, strong workplace unions, full reproductive…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/25/no-billionaires-no-fascists-no-warmongers-to-the-socialist-future/

Eight-day strike by 40,000 UK university workers begins
wsws.org | 2019-11-25
More than 40,000 lecturers and other staff are striking for eight days at 60 higher education institutions from today against an onslaught on their pay, conditions and pensions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/25/unis…

China Is Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
"China's 70-Years Development and the Construction of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind". This is the title of an International Conference, organized by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) which I was privileged to attend from 5-7 | …
globalresearch.ca/china-building-community-shared-future-mankind/5695823

John Barnett on Why He Won't Fly on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner
John Barnett | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
For almost three decades, John Barnett was a quality manager at Boeing. | For 28 of those years, he was with Boeing in Everett, Washington. | Barnett loved Boeing. He loved Boeing planes. He loved his work. | Then, in 2010, Barnett was …
globalresearch.ca/john-barnett-why-he-wont-fly-boeing-787-dreamliner/5695877

Why America Needs War
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
GR Editor's Note: This incisive article was written on April 30, 2003 in the immediate wake of the war on Iraq, by renowned historian and political scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization …
globalresearch.ca/why-america-needs-war/5328631

Popes Against Nuclear Weapons
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
The Vatican comes with its ills, contradictions and blatant hypocrisies in the field of moral theology and human existence, but on the issue of atomic and nuclear weapons, the position has been fairly consistent, if marked by gradual evolution. On …
globalresearch.ca/popes-against-nuclear-weapons/5695825

Mother Explains Why Her Daughter's Death from Vaccines Isn't Reported in the Statistics
Richard Enos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
It will be instructive for our conversation to understand exactly how the U. S. government's Vaccination Injury Compensation Program (VICP) works. This is what the government website tells us: | The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is a no-fault alternative to | …
globalresearch.ca/mother-explains-why-daughter-death-vaccines-isnt-reported-statistics/5695889

Attacking Palestine's Future. "Omnipresent are the Prison Guard Towers, the Barbed Wire, the Israeli Soldiers"
Greg Shupak | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
Traveling across Palestine, as I did to give lectures earlier this year, means following a perpetually fresh trail of repression. | Omnipresent are the prison guard towers, the barbed wire, the Israeli soldiers with their massive guns and the separation wall….
globalresearch.ca/attacking-palestine-future/5695861

Turmoil or State Terror in Kashmir? India's "Hindutiva Project"
Junaid S. Ahmad | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
"They weren't like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled" — Edward Said | The parallels with the Zionist state are impossible not to notice. This should be no surprise considering the close collaboration between Israel and India in …
globalresearch.ca/turmoil-state-terror-kashmir/5695884

Bolsonaro Dismisses Amazon Deforestation as 'Cultural'
Olivia Rosane | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
Despite confirmation this week that the deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest is at its highest in more than a decade, far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro refuses to take the problem seriously. | When confronted with findings from Brazil's National …
globalresearch.ca/bolsonaro-dismisses-amazon-deforestation-cultural/5695812

Bolivia's Coup Government Targets Alternative Media as Crackdown Turns Increasingly Violent
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
Facing increased resistance to its rule, the new "coup" gov't in Bolivia is purging any potential threats to its authority, including teleSUR and other alternative media. | *** | Facing increased resistance to its rule, the new "transition" government of Jeanine …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-coup-government-targets-alternative-media/5695814

The 70 Years of NATO: From War to War: NATO Is Born from the Bomb
Comitato No Nato | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
The Following text is Section 1 of | The 70 Years of NATO: From War to War, : | by the Italian Committee No War No NATO | * | First published by Global Research in April 2019 | Documentation presented at the International Conference on …
globalresearch.ca/the-70-years-of-nato-from-war-to-war-nato-is-born-from-the-bomb/5675493

Why I Don't Have a Mobile Phone
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
In the late 1990's I bought an early model Ericsson mobile phone. Travelling around the UK countryside visiting farmers, it seemed quite useful, in spite of the very intermittent signal availability of that time. However, I found the masts which …
globalresearch.ca/why-dont-have-mobile-phone/5695862

Conspiracy and Silence from the Organization of American States
Elson Concepción Pérez | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
It is time for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean to stand together and say NO to coups and their sponsors in the Organization of American States (OAS). | *** | An organization created to protect the interests of the …
globalresearch.ca/conspiracy-silence-organization-american-states/5695809

MH17: Five Years of One-Sided Propaganda and Investigation from the Dutch Government's JIT Team
Sonja van den Ende | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
Five years ago on July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was blown out of the sky while flying over Eastern Ukraine. It was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All 283 passengers (mainly Dutch) and 15 …
globalresearch.ca/mh17-five-years-one-sided-propaganda-investigation-dutch-government-jit-team/5695881

History of US-Israel Relations, The State Department's "Fact Sheet". A War of "Terror Alliance"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
The State Department's (SD below) so-called "fact sheet" on Israel mixes facts with fiction. | SD: "The United States was the first country to recognize Israel as a state in 1948, and the first to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of …
globalresearch.ca/us-israeli-relations-war-terror-alliance/5695906

Iran Social Unrest: Protests and Carefully Planned Provocations
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
When protests in Hong Kong, Iraq, and Lebanon erupted, I was fully anticipating protests in Iran to follow. In 2018 alone, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) had spent millions of dollars in these countries (and elsewhere) to promote America's …
globalresearch.ca/iran-unrest-protests-provocations/5695820

For Those Who Value Global Research: We Need Your Support!
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
We are — as a society — inundated and overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources, but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and individuals that own them with the aim of controlling public perception and justifying their agendas.
globalresearch.ca/for-those-that-value-global-research-we-need-your-help/5369471

International Law Is Clear on One Point: Israel's Settlements Are Illegal
Richard Falk | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made headlines around the world this week in announcing that the US had shifted its position, and no longer viewed Israeli settlements as a violation of international law. | In one of the stupider public …
globalresearch.ca/international-law-clear-one-point-israel-settlements-illegal/5695879

5G Wireless Technology Is War against Humanity
Claire Edwards | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
This phoney war is also silent, but this time shots are being fired — in the form of laser-like beams of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from banks of thousands of tiny antennas[1] — and almost no one in the firing line knows that they are being silently, seriously and irreparably injured.
globalresearch.ca/5g-wireless-technology-is-war-against-humanity/5679372

The White Helmets: How the U.S. Has Sponsored Terrorists in Syria
Abdallah Samir | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
James Le Mesurier, the co-founder of the White Helmets, was found dead on November 11, 2019, in Istanbul. It is noteworthy that his body was discovered near one of the headquarters of the organization. This incident brought us once …
globalresearch.ca/how-u-s-has-sponsored-terrorists-syria/5695886

Will the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Sanction Russia from the Olympics?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) might declare Russia's national counterpart "non-compliant" with the international body's regulations early next month in a shameful move that could potentially make the country unable to compete in next year's Tokyo Olympics, thus continuing the …
globalresearch.ca/shame-wada-sanctions-russia-olympics/5695856

Evidence Talks: US Government Propelled Coup in Bolivia
W.T. Whitney Jr. | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
Bolivian armed forces commander in chief Williams Kaliman Romero on November 10 "suggested" that Morales resign. That was the coup de grace. Within 3 days, Kaliman himself resigned and moved to the US. Kaliman and other military chiefs each had received $1 million and that top police officers received $500,000 apiece.
globalresearch.ca/us-government-propelled-coup-bolivia/5695837

Netflix's 'American Son': Gut-wrenching examination of race and the American dream
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-25
Freddie Gray, Sam Dubose, Oscar Grant, Alton Sterling, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, and Atatiana Jefferson are just a fraction of the names of Black people shot and killed by police in the United States in recent years. A 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that 1 in 1,000 …
peoplesworld.org/article/netflixs-american-son-gut-wrenching-examination-of-race-and-the-american-dream/

Sanctimonious US Senators Condemn Hong Kong Police Ignoring Far More Brutal US Cops
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-25
The Senate, by a voice vote with no opposition yesterday passed a bill condemning the Hong Kong government and Hong Kong police for their brutal treatment of students in the supposedly autonomous Chinese city protesting threats to Hong Kong's freedoms and it's promise from China of self rule until 2047. The bill, if signed into…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/25/sanctimonious-us-senators-condemn-hong-kong-police-ignoring-far-more-brutal-us-cops/

German student organisation bombarded with far-right hate mail
wsws.org | 2019-11-25
The University of Hamburg student organization has been bombarded with hate mail and threats of violence after students protested against a founding member of the far-right Alternative for Germany, Bernd Lucke, returning to his teaching post.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/25/hamb…

More Students Are Voting — But Republicans Are Trying to Get in Their Way
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-25
Students at the historically Black Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, lost their on-campus polling place this semester after the Republican-dominated state legislature outlawed polling places that do not stay open for the entire 12-day, early-voting period — commonly referred to as "pop-up" polls. The new law took effect in September, and Huston-Tillotson students who voted on November 5 had to trek over to the Austin Public Library's Carver Branch a half-mile away. | "The way I s…
truthout.org/articles/more-students-are-voting-but-republicans-are-trying-to-get-in-their-way/

USF students rally for more Black enrollment before meeting with administration
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-25
Tampa, FL – On November 20, students at the University of South Florida (USF) gathered in front of Cooper Hall to demand that administration increases Black enrollment on campus. Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized and led the demonstration. | This event occurred in anticipation of an upcoming December 4 meeting with administration. SDS will be meeting with the Vice President of Student Success Paul Dosa, VP of Diversity and Inclusion Haywood Brown, Assistant VP of Admissions Glen Besterfield, and Dean of Students Danielle McDonald. The meeting will determine the future of how USF will add…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/25/usf-stu…

Indian government uses police, paramilitaries to repress protests at Jawaharlal Nehru University
wsws.org | 2019-11-25
The Modi government has vilified JNU students as "anti-national" and "urban Naxals" for opposing its relentless promotion of Hindu supremacism and imposition of pro-investor measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/25/jnup…

Harvard and Yale Students Storm the Field for Fossil Fuel Divestment
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2019-11-25
Harvard and Yale Students Storm the Field for Fossil Fuel Divestment…
thenation.com/article/harvard-yale-football-protest/

Syracuse Students Aren't Backing Down
Max Kalnitz | thenation.com | 2019-11-25
Syracuse Students Aren't Backing Down…
thenation.com/article/syracuse-students-arent-backing-down/

UC Berkeley Climate Strike: UC Green New Deal
Students For Climate Action | indybay.org | 2019-11-25
Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94720…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828407.php

Brexit Predicted to Lead to Regulatory Decline and Increased Hazards from Pesticides
Beyond Pesticides | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
The potential exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU) — aka "Brexit" — may portend greater pesticide use and exposures, according to a report from the Soil Association and the Pesticide Action Network UK. As covered by …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-predicted-lead-regulatory-decline-increased-hazards-pesticides/5695873

Not 'Free Stuff,' But Public Goods: Ocasio-Cortez Denounces Neoliberal Talking Points on Publicly-Funded Education and Housing
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-25
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won applause and cheers from her constituents on Sunday at a town hall in The Bronx, where she expressed deep frustration with the routine dismissal of investment in public goods as "free stuff." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/25/not-free-stuff-public-goods-ocasio-cortez-denounces-neoliberal-talking-points?cd-origin=rss

NYC Students Strike to Demand Racial Equity in Nation's Largest—and Most Segregated—School District
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-25
For the second consecutive week, students in New York City went on strike Monday morning to protest persistent segregation in their schools, more than six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schools must serve children of all races equally. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/25/nyc-students-strike-demand-racial-equity-nations-largest-and-most-segregated-school?cd-origin=rss

Selected Articles: Iran Social Unrest
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-25
Global Research, like many independent voices all over the globe, is feeling the effects of online measures set up to curtail access to our website, and by consequence, hinder our finances. We sail on despite the unpredictable currents and unfavourable …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-iran-social-unrest/5695869

Don't shake it off: Jolting your head to clear water trapped in your ears could cause brain damage, new research finds
rt.com | 2019-11-25
Shaking your head to clear annoying water out of your ears after a swim or a shower might seem a natural reaction to the irritant, but new research says the vigorous movement could actually cause brain damage. | Younger children are particularly vulnerable to harm from shaking their heads quickly to dislodge the water, according to Researchers at Cornell University and Virginia Tech in the US, who studied the acceleration required to clear water out of tubes of various diameters. | The team, who will present their findings at the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics annual meeting, say that t…
rt.com/news/474281-shaking-water-ears-brain-damage/

18yo girl 'seriously injured' after setting herself alight in French high school
rt.com | 2019-11-25
An 18-year-old high school student in a suburb of the French capital set herself alight before jumping out of a first-story window, according to eyewitnesses. She was reportedly seriously injured in the incident. | The student set herself on fire at the Georges-Clemenceau high school in Villemomble on Monday before running down the hallway calling for help, one of her classmates is cited by Le Pari…
rt.com/news/474298-france-female-student-self-immolates/

Inside the Archive of an LSD Researcher With Ties to the CIA's MKUltra Mind Control Project
Tom O'Neill | theintercept.com | 2019-11-24
Louis Jolyon West seems to have used chemicals and hypnosis liberally in his medical practice, possibly leading to the death of a child and the execution of an innocent man.
theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/

Israeli Forces Fire Tear-Gas at Schools in Hebron
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-11-24
Dozens of Palestinians students and citizens sustained suffocation, on Sunday, when Israeli forces fired tear-gas canisters near a complex of schools in Hebron, according to the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA). The correspondent reported that dozens of Palestinian children as well as adults, suffered the effects of toxic tear-gas …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-fire-tear-gas-at-schools-in-hebron/

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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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…

Over 1200 rally in Chicago at relaunch of National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-23
Chicago, IL – More than a 1200 joined together November 22, at the hall of the Chicago Teachers Union, to refound the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. The newly refounded Alliance will center its efforts on building the fight against police crimes and for community control of the police, and it will campaign for the release of political prisoners and the wrongfully convicted. | Longtime leaders of the Black liberation movement, Angela Davis and Frank Chapman, along with elected officials, trade unionists, and other progressive activists addressed the packed rally that opened the confere…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/23/over-12…

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/

'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/

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/