Medical Doctors Issue Urgent Australian Appeal to Save Julian Assange
Doctors for Assange | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
More than 100 medical doctors have issued an urgent appeal to the Australian government to protect the life of its citizen, imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist and publisher Julian Assange. | The doctors' action follows warnings from medical and human rights experts that …
globalresearch.ca/medical-doctors-issue-urgent-australian-appeal-save-julian-assange/5697853

Plea for the Liberation of Julian Assange. Response from the Archbishop of Canterbury
Diana Johnstone | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Dear Friends, | The plea which you kindly signed calling on the Archbishop of Canterbury to use his moral influence to bring about liberation of Julian Assange from Belmarsh prison was delivered to Lambeth Palace in London last November 29. On | …
globalresearch.ca/plea-liberation-julian-assange/5697818

Trump Regime Breaching Mandated Judicial Procedures Against Assange
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
According to the London Daily Mail, the Trump regime intends to use secret evidence against Assange — undisclosed to him and his legal team, wanting them prevented from preparing a proper defense. | He faces 18 spurious charges under the …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-breaching-mandated-judicial-procedures-against-assange/5697880

Ontario Teachers Ramp Up the Pressure on the Tories
Dudley Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Educators are ramping up their fight against the Tories' 18-month attack on public education. | On Tuesday, public elementary teachers stepped up their work-to-rule refusing, for example, to participate in performance evaluations, plan new field trips, buy school supplies on their …
globalresearch.ca/educators-ramp-up-pressure-tories/5697917

An Ominousness Act: Jewish Nationality
Sheldon Richman | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-16
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order that implicitly defines Jewishness as a racial or national category and not as just a religious category. This is ominous. The order reinforces the Department of Education's power to punish colleges that receive federal tax dollars if they allow Palestinian solidarity activities that offend pro-Israel Jewish students…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/16/an-ominousness-act-jewish-nationality/

Millions Wasted on Charter Schools
Jeff Bryant | progressive.org | 2019-12-16
The Network for Public Education calls the findings in its recent report "nothing short of a national scandal."
progressive.org/op-eds/millions-wasted-on-charter-schools-bryant-191216/

Rating the 2020 Democrats at This Weekend's Education Forum
Carol Burris | commondreams.org | 2019-12-16
Warren argued throughout for increased funding for public education, funded by her proposed wealth tax. (Photo: Public Education Forum in Pittsburgh) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/12/16/rating-2020-democrats-weekends-education-forum?cd-origin=rss

Minnesota Runs a Huge Budget Surplus Amid Higher Education Cuts
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-12-16
State Republicans want new tax breaks, not a strong university system.
progressive.org/dispatches/minnesota-runs-a-huge-budget-surplus-amid-higher-education-cuts-lahm-191216/

The Devos Stole Christmas
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-16
truthdig.com/cartoons/the-devos-stole-christmas/

Maduro Causes a Stir with About-Face on Dollarisation
Clodovaldo Hernández | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Former Vice President, turned journalist and TV host José Vicente Rangel recently returned to the screen in a big way with an interview with President Nicolas Maduro, in which Maduro shook the hornet's nest with his comments concerning dollarisation….
globalresearch.ca/maduro-causes-stir-about-face-dollarisation/5697816

Pamir Highway: The Road on the Roof of the World
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
This is arguably the ultimate road trip on earth. Marco Polo did it. All the legendary Silk Road explorers did it. Traveling the Pamir Highway back to back, as a harsh winter approaches, able to appreciate it in full, in …
globalresearch.ca/pamir-highway-road-roof-world/5697834

Afghanistan Papers Proves U.S. Invasion Was Built on Lies, Deceit and Confusion
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
The war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history, is based on lies made by top U.S. officials and was "idiotic" as there was no clear plan, according to the documents published by the Washington Post, dubbed the …
globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-papers-proves-u-s-invasion-built-lies-deceit-confusion/5697909

U.S. Regime Change Operation Is Taking Shape in Mexico?
Rainer Shea | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
When it comes to Mexico, one can at this point easily spot the signs of a brewing U.S. regime change operation. Since Mexico's president Andre Manuel López Obrador was elected last year, he's been thoroughly vilified by the U.S. media. …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-regime-change-operation-taking-shape-mexico/5697800

On Rogues and Rogue States
Fred Reed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
I have just finished reading William Shirer's Berlin Diary. (This may not fascinate you, but I am coming to something.) I first encountered it in high school. It is of course Shirer's account as a correspondent in Germany of the …
globalresearch.ca/rogue-states/5697889

The Revelations About Cambridge Analytica Indicate Clearly that Western Governments Are Subverting Democracy
Kitty S Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
I wrote an article about Cambridge Analytica, the commodification of voter decision making and the marketisation of democracy, along with previous articles about western government strategies for subverting democracy. I have also extensive…
globalresearch.ca/revelations-cambridge-analytica-indicate-western-governments-subverting-democracy/5697802

The Afghanistan Papers Confirm America's Longest War Is a Lie
Sonali Kolhatkar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
The Washington Post's Afghanistan Papers, detailing a true history of the nation's longest official war, reveals nothing new about the war's futility or about the fact that it was doomed to failure from almost the beginning.
globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-papers-confirm-america-longest-war-lie/5697812

Ltamenah Village: Syrian Military Finds Massive Weapons Left Behind by NATO Terrorists
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Ltamenah is a village in Hama countryside which the Syrian Arab Army recently cleansed of foreign-owned and armed terrorist savages. Last week, authorities discovered a mass grave. This week, they have found a massive quantity of weapons left behind: …
globalresearch.ca/ltamenah-military-finds-massive-weapons-left-behind-nato-terrorists/5697831

India: The Self-Professed 'World's Largest Democracy' Is Experiencing a Real Social Uprising
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Increasingly violent protests are sweeping the self-professed "world's largest democracy" as its people fight to protect the secular nature of their state following Prime Minister Modi's decision to push forward with a religiously discriminatory citizenship amendment, with this national uprising …
globalresearch.ca/self-professed-world-largest-democracy-experiencing-real-uprising/5697904

Open Rights Group Reveals How UK Political Parties Are Using Data to Profile Voters
Derek du Preez | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
The Open Rights Group …
globalresearch.ca/open-rights-group-reveals-how-uk-political-parties-using-data-profile-voters/5697749

'The Calculated Subversion of Humanity' …and How to Resist It
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
As we transition into 2020, our World is in the grip of a deliberate attempt to destroy the fundamental values upon which all civilised life depends. | Humanitarian values of love, kindness, compassion and mutual support — are being deliberately blocked, …
globalresearch.ca/subversion-humanity-how-resist-it/5697914

Climate Change Accounting: The Failure of COP25
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Prior to the UN Convention on Climate Change talks held in Madrid, the sense that tradition would assert itself was hard to buck. Weariness and frustration came in the wake of initial high minded optimism. Delegates spent an extra two …
globalresearch.ca/climate-change-failure-cop25/5697855

Stay Informed about What They Don't Want You to Know: Support Global Research
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
As the saying goes, knowledge is power. The more informed we are the harder it becomes to deceive us. | We are currently facing an unprecedented threat to the independent media and freedom on the Internet. The ultimate goal is the …
globalresearch.ca/stay-informed-about-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know-support-global-research/5697957

The Armenian Genocide: US Congress' Recognition and Remembrance. Ignores White House and Turkey's Objection
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Over a century ago, the systematic mass extermination and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians from the Ottoman Empire took place between 1914 and 1923 (some accounts state 1915-1922). For decades, Turkish and Israeli lobbies in Washington have successfully prevented …
globalresearch.ca/congress-ignores-white-house-turkey-objection-recognizing-armenian-genocide/5697886

Trump's Monroe Doctrine 2.0
Wayne Madsen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Donald John Trump has turned back the clock in the Western Hemisphere to an era that saw coups and political unrest as the order of the day. Trump and his administration of far-right and pro-fascists have already overthrown the democratically-elected …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-monroe-doctrine-2-0/5697799

Those Torture Drawings by Guantanamo Prisoner in the NYT
John Kiriakou | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
In 2002, John Kiriakou captured the Guantanamo prisoner who drew those sickening pictures. Abu Zubaydah has a constitutional right to face his accusers in court, or be released, Kiriakou says. | *** | The New York Times last week published shocking drawings…
globalresearch.ca/those-torture-drawings-nyt/5697899

Climate: From Catastrophe to Cataclysm
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-16
Please watch the 23 minute video, linked below, to completion. It shows an interview of Dr. Peter Carter (Director Climate Emergency Institute, IPCC expert reviewer, Co-author in 2018 of Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival). This interview was conducted at COPS25 ("this is set up to fail") currently underway in Madrid,…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/16/climate-from-catastrophe-to-cataclysm/

Mass Protests Spread in India After Citizenship Law Passes
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-16
Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses on Monday as critics said the Hindu nationalist government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with the country's founding as a secular republic. | RELATED: | Indian Police Clashes with Anti-Citizenship Law Protesters | Students pelted stones at police who locked up the gates of a college in the northern city of Lucknow to prevent them from taking to the streets. About two dozen s…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mass-Protests-Spread-in-India-After-Citizenship-Law-Passes-20191216-0001.html

'Your batons can only break our bones, not our spirit of resistance'
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-16
On Sunday, December 15, police in the Indian state of Delhi baton charged and tear gassed students of Jamia Millia Islamia University and laid a siege on nearby Muslim dominated colony. According to reports, police entered university hostels and library, thrashing students and firing tear gas inside the library reading room. Numerous students were injured, with three said to be in critical condition. | The Jamia students and residents were protesting against the discriminatory citizenship law and all India National Register of Citizens being implemented by far-right Indian government.
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/16/your-batons-can-only-break-our-bones-not-our-spirit-of-resistance/

Unrest Grows in India Over New Citizenship Law
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-16
NEW DELHI–Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India's capital, while a southern state government led a march and demonstrators held a silent protest in the northeast on Monday to protest a new law giving citizenship to non-Muslims who entered India illegally to flee religious persecution in several neighboring countries. | The protests in New Delhi followed a night of violent clashes between police and demonstrators at Jamia Millia Islamia University. People who student organizers said were not students set three buses on fire and police stormed the university library, firing tear gas at…
truthdig.com/articles/unrest-grows-in-india-over-new-citizenship-law/

Stop The Cuts! Hundreds of CCSF Students & Faculty Protest 300 Class Cuts AT BOT
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-12-16
Hundreds of students and faculty protested at the San Francisco Community College Board of Trustees meeting against the 300 class cuts by CCSF chancellor Mark Rocha. The board had previously voted give to big raises to executives at the community college. The cuts will also close down the senior class program.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828883.php

The "fixing capitalism" headfake
Yves Smith | mronline.org | 2019-12-16
It's not hard to see why young people are embracing socialism. It isn't simply that they can see a probable grim future under capitalism as they know it: more and more low-wage, high surveillance jobs versus more budget and psychological stress as most also have higher fixed costs (rentier housing costs, student loan payments, even […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/12/16/the-fixing-capitalism-headfake/

EXPLAINED: What Really Happened in Jamia?
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-16
In the afternoon of December 15, news broke about violent clashes between youths and students protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the police in Delhi's Jamia area. What followed was a series of violent attacks and detentions through the evening and night to early Monday morning. As these developments took place, social media started getting flooded with different reports about the events, some true, and some unverified. But what really happened? NewsClick brings to you a timeline of events, as they took place yesterday.
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/16/explained-what-really-happened-in-jamia/

Deputy suspended after assaulting student on video
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2019-12-16
"School and district officials are working closely and in full cooperation with the local authorities to address this matter consistent with school board policy and state laws."
nationofchange.org/2019/12/16/deputy-suspended-after-assaulting-student-on-video/

No Justification For The Existence of Any Kind of Charter School
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-16
Charter school promoters are skilled at promoting disinformation about charter schools and public schools; they have decades of experience. One of the most worn-out forms of disinformation deployed repeatedly by charter school promoters is to pressure people into thinking that the problem is not that privately-operated charter schools run by unelected individuals and funded by …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/no-justification-for-the-existence-of-any-kind-of-charter-school/

Ann Arbor Taskforce on the Center of the City Commons
Peter Linebaugh | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-16
In October 2018 the voters of Ann Arbor, Michigan, approved an amendment to the City Charter for a commons in the center of the city. These remarks formed the basis of a brief talk to the Task Force charged with planning its implementation. We want an open space; we want a beautiful place; we want…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/16/ann-arbor-taskforce-on-the-center-of-the-city-commons/

Selected Articles: New WikiLeaks Bombshell
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Global Research strives to shine light on the under-reported, less known injustices ignored or buried. | | Governments know it too, which is why there is an unprecedented threat to the independent media and the Internet. Fight-back was never more needed. | Please, …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-new-wikileaks-bombshell/5697925

L'esplosivo Della Strage Di Piazza Fontana Proveniva Dalle Basi Nato
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
La Denuncia Del Magistrato Imposimato: | Nel 50 ∞ anniversario della strage di Piazza Fontana, ripubblichiamo l'intervento del magistrato Ferdinando Imposimato, Presidente Onorario della Suprema Corte di Cassazione, al Convegno del Comitato No Guerra No Nato, svoltosi a Roma il 26 Ottobre …
globalresearch.ca/lesplosivo-della-strage-di-piazza-fontana-proveniva-dalle-basi-nato/5697582

The Hidden Military Use of 5G Technology
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
At the London Summit, the 29 member countries of NATO agreed to "guarantee the security of our communications, including 5G". Why is this fifth generation of mobile data transmission so important for NATO? | While the earlier technologies were perfected to …
globalresearch.ca/hidden-military-use-5g-technology/5697848

The Brexit Election Labour Lost. The Relentless Smear Attacks against Jeremy Corbyn
Diana Johnstone | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
The chorus of smear attacks on Jeremy Corbyn was so vile and relentless that it is unseemly to blame him personally for the defeat of his party in the December 12 parliamentary elections. Perhaps Labour's defeat was inevitable. But with …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-election-labour-lost/5697843

US Threatens To Attack Iran Over Rockets Fired In Iraq & Assange Blocked From Seeing Key Evidence
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-15
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 (12/14/19). 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/us-threatens-to-attack-iran-over-rockets-fired-in-iraq-assange-blocked-from-seeing-key-evidence/

Brazil's Amazon Deforestation Rises Over 100% Year-Over-Year
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-15
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published on Friday. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro: Torture Methods of Dictatorship to Fight Corruption | Destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest totaled 563 square km (217.38 square miles) in November, 103% more than in the same month last year, according to the country's space research agency INPE. | That wo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazils-Amazon-Deforestation-Rises-Over-100-Year-Over-Year-20191215-0005.html

'Linked to white supremacy': Paper celebrating Google's quantum computer SOUNDS RACIST, say SJW scientists
rt.com | 2019-12-15
A Google computer recently achieved "quantum supremacy," performing a calculation that'd be impossible on a regular machine. Some scientists are up in arms — not at the breakthrough, but because "supremacy" sounds vaguely racist. | Put short, a quantum computer developed by Google managed to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world's most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. The research paper on the calculation is published in Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal…
rt.com/usa/475957-google-quantum-supremacy-computer-racist/

Police brutality against students in Delhi hits a new low
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-14
On December 13, the Delhi police unleashed brutal violence against thousands of students and teachers of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), attacking them with baton and tear gas. The students and teachers were taking out a march to Indian parliament against the discriminatory citizenship amendment act (also known as CAB), recently passed by far-right Indian government. | The act provides pathway for naturalization to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh migrants, but not to Muslim refugees or refugees from other neighbouring countries who may also face religio…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/14/police-brutality-against-students-in-delhi-hits-a-new-low/

The Mother of Us All: Ancient India's Vedic Civilization
William T. Hathaway | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-14
Researchers have determined that the Vedic culture of India was the first global civilization. They have uncovered archeological and historical evidence indicating that the society which began millennia ago in the Indus Valley grew to encompass all of South Asia, then spread peacefully to many parts of the world. Science and technology in ancient India …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/the-mother-of-us-all-ancient-indias-vedic-civilization/

Report highlights social crisis confronting Australian youth on welfare
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
Hundreds of thousands of working-class youth and students confront soaring housing and utility costs, and a deepening jobs crisis.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/acos…

New York Times uses racial politics to promote charter schools
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
The New York Times recently published a dishonest article promoting racial politics in defense of charter schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/time…

The Science of Lethality
Joan Roelofs | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
While the Pentagon's preeminent mission is to increase lethality of the forces, DARPA notes that its cyborg technology is also used to "augment the loss of functionality from injury or disease," such as implants controlling the use of prosthetics. Nevertheless, it sees a great need for social research to dispel resistance to cyborgs or robots (synthetic autonomous agents) on ethical grounds.
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/the-science-of-lethality/

UN Counters US Claims Of "Proof" Iran Attacked Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu Impunity & Turkey Sanctions
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-13
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 (12/12/19). 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/un-counters-us-claims-of-proof-iran-attacked-saudi-arabia-netanyahu-impunity-turkey-sanctions/

As COP25 goes into the night, Guterres calls for more climate ambition
news.un.org | 2019-12-13
With national delegations thrashing out an outcome agreement at the UN COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, the UN chief has called on countries to be more ambitious, side strongly with science, and commit to stronger action.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/12/1053521

Anakbayan-USA holds 3rd congress
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-12-13
Los Angeles, CA – On November 30, Anakbayan-USA had their Third Congress, with more than 200 members from 12 chapters across the country in attendance. They learned lessons on solidarity, talked about the economic situation in the United States and reported back on the progress being made on a national and local level. | Anakbayan-USA had three national organizations they invited to speak on their "International Solidarity" panel: the Palestinian Youth Movement, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | CISPES and PYM spoke on bridging the gap…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/12/13/anakbay…