US Hardliners Want Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning Crucified
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
Mass incarceration in the US is a national disgrace, a crime against humanity, including countless numbers of political prisoners — pesecuted behind bars for their beliefs and activism, for resisting the dirty system, judged guilty by accusation. | Julian Assange and …
globalresearch.ca/us-hardliners-want-julian-assange-chelsea-manning-crucified/5698261
Democratic Party candidates posture at union-sponsored education forum
wsws.org | 2019-12-19
Both the presidential candidates and the teachers union officials present at the Pittsburgh forum have a proven track record of opposing and sabotaging teachers struggles.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/19/educ…
Gender parity out of reach for 100 years: Report
yenisafak.com | 2019-12-19
The world must wait almost 100 years to see gender parity, according to the new World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report.The report, released on Tuesday, found that none of us will see gender parity in our lifetimes, and few of our children will either.Gender parity has been considered an integral part of economic development in countries around the world.The report evaluates 153 countries on their progress towards gender parity in four dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment."It will take 95 years to close the gender ga…
yenisafak.com/en/world/gender-parity-out-of-reach-for-100-years-report-3507833
Propaganda in the War on Yugoslavia
Swiss Propaganda Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
The war on Yugoslavia in the 1990s was a classic imperial war to reorder South Eastern Europe. To achieve its goals, the US even deployed the "jihadist" mercenaries with which it had previously fought the USSR in Afghanistan and which …
globalresearch.ca/propaganda-war-yugoslavia/5698036
Boeing's Perilous Bungling Requires New Leadership
Ralph Nader | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
The Boeing executives and marketeers responsible for over-ruling Boeing engineers on the 737 MAX are still in charge of this very troubled aerospace company. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg and the rubber-stamp Board of Directors, with two trophy ambassadors, are still …
globalresearch.ca/boeing-requires-new-leadership/5698271
Despite Progress Around Gun Violence Research, Final 2020 Congressional Funding Bills Fall Far Short of Making Human Rights a Priority
commondreams.org | 2019-12-19
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/12/19/despite-progress-around-gun-violence-research-final-2020-congressional-funding?cd-origin=rss
Dem Controlled House Impeaches Trump
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
On Wednesday, House members impeached Trump on two counts as expected, politicized voting almost entirely along party lines — 230 — 197 for alleged abuse of power, 229 — 198 for alleged obstruction of Congress. | No Republicans supported the scam, …
globalresearch.ca/dem-controlled-house-impeaches-trump/5698262
Video: Military Intervention in Libya and Turkey's Grand Game in the Eastern Mediterranean
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
During the past week, the situation significantly escalated in Libya, with Turkey expanding its military involvement in the conflict. | In late November, Turkey signed with the Government of National Accord (GNA), which controls only a small part of northern Libya, …
globalresearch.ca/video-military-intervention-libya-turkey-grand-game-eastern-mediterranean/5698225
How Britain Dresses Up Crimes in Israel as 'Charitable Acts'
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
When is a war crime not a war crime? When, according to British officials, that war crime has been given a makeover as a "charitable act". | The British state is being asked to account for its financial and moral support …
globalresearch.ca/how-britain-dresses-up-crimes-israel-charitable-acts/5698233
Victimhood and the Nigerian Civil War
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
The concatenation of violence in Nigeria from 1966 to 1970, a train of events which involved communal fighting, army mutinies and a civil war, is correctly viewed as a period during which the ethnic Igbos of the country's south east …
globalresearch.ca/victimhood-nigerian-civil-war/5698252
You Don't Own Me?
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
Leslie Gore's 1963 hit song 'You Don't Own Me' started off with the line "You don't own me, I'm not just one of your toys". So it is with the overwhelming number of our population who, despite NOT knowing it, …
globalresearch.ca/you-dont-own-me/5698229
Testimonies from People Living in Syria. "What does the American Government have Against Us?"
Janice Kortkamp | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
Rania "if death will come in 5 years or 7 or 10 I would urge it to come now because they have ripped us up of all hopes for any foreseen future…‚ÄØthey have killed us while we are still …
globalresearch.ca/testimonies-people-living-syria/5698231
The Indo-'Israeli' Trans-Arabian Corridor Will Push Russia Closer to Pakistan
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
India's participation in "Israel's" Trans-Arabian Corridor for connecting the Eastern Mediterranean and Afro-Asian ("Indian") Ocean will render New Delhi's North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC) with Iran, Azerbaijan, and Russia economically redundant, consequently pushing Russia closer to Pakistan as Moscow seeks to …
globalresearch.ca/indo-israeli-trans-arabian-corridor-push-russia-closer-pakistan/5698250
How War Targets the Young
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-19
One day in October 2001, shortly after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, I stood at the front of a private high school classroom. As a new social studies teacher, I had been tasked with describing violence against women in that country. I showed the students an article from the front page of the New York Times featuring Afghan women casting off their burqas as they bathed in a stream near Kabul. | The implication of the piece was that the U.S. would liberate — had already, in fact, begun to liberate — such women. I soon realized, thou…
truthout.org/articles/how-war-targets-the-young/
UC Santa Cruz graduate students wildcat strike enters critical phase
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-12-19
The wildcat strike begun by University of California Santa Cruz graduate students early last week has now entered a critical stage. The striking students who work as graduate and teaching assistants had pledged to withhold submitting final grades for the Fall quarter, until the administration met their demand for an above-board cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of $1,400. The due date for the grades is today, Wednesday, December 18, and will likely see a showdown between the striking students and the administration.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/18/18829022.php
Algerians continue mass mobilizations, reject offers of talks
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-19
Thousands of Algerians, including students and teachers, participated in mass protests in the capital, Algiers, on Tuesday, December 17, against the country's newly elected president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The protesters, belonging to the popular Hirak movement that has been organizing protests across the country since February, have also rejected the offer for dialogue by the new president. President-elect Tebboune had, on Friday, said that he was ready to participate in talks "to build a new Algeria" following his presidential victory. Tebboune won the presidential election that was held last Thursday, December…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/19/algerians-continue-mass-mobilizations-reject-offers-of-talks/
Brexit Could See the Return of the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-19
The Islas Malvinas, or more commonly known as the Falkland Islands, archipelago was invaded by the United Kingdom in 1833 and its occupation has continued to date. Argentina's claim for sovereignty through diplomatic means has been a state policy since …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-could-see-return-falkland-islands-argentina/5698274
Betsy DeVos's Family Foundation Funnels Money to Her Right-Wing Supporters
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-19
The family foundation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her billionaire husband, Dick, gave more than $1 million to purportedly "independent" right-wing groups that have helped boost her assault on public education, according to a recent tax filing obtained by the government watchdog group Allied Progress and shared with Salon. | The 2018 filing shows that the couple put $5 million into the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation while doling out more than $11.6 million in contributions and…
truthout.org/articles/betsy-devoss-family-foundation-funnels-money-to-her-right-wing-supporters/
Indian govt going to war against its own people
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2019-12-19
What the IMF proposes is what the BJP government wants to do: push a much deeper austerity agenda in India. This is precisely what students and workers, farmers and youth have argued against in protest upon protest…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/indian-govt-going-to-war-against-its-own-people/
Tulsi Gabbard votes 'present' on both impeachment articles, stoking liberal ire on Twitter
rt.com | 2019-12-19
Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard broke ranks with her party and voted "present" on two articles of impeachment, slamming the process as "partisan." The vote drew swift condemnation from Twitter's more progressive quarters. | Voting "present" instead of "yes" or "no" in Wednesday's full House vote for two impeachment articles passed in committee last week, Gabbard became one of only a tiny minority of Democrats to swim against the current in her own party. | "I could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting President must not be the culmination of a partisan process, fueled by triba…
rt.com/usa/476241-tulsi-votes-present-impeachment/
Elite NY school rocked by claims of anti-Semitism, swastikas on campus & Holocaust survivors labeled oppressors
rt.com | 2019-12-19
An elite private school in the Bronx that costs $53,000 a year is being accused of failing to properly address complaints of discrimination and anti-Semitism made by Jewish students who reportedly say they've felt unsafe there. | Swastikas have reportedly been posted on the grounds of Fieldston School and a recent speaker argued that Holocaust survivors have turned into oppressors. | "If someone was coming to Fieldston to talk about apartheid and went off on a rant about the pea-sized brains of women who belong in a kitchen, or repeated racist tropes, or ranted about any form of homophobia or racism or sexism,…
rt.com/usa/476432-anti-semitism-concerns-fieldston-ny/
The US-NATO-Israel Sponsored Al Qaeda Insurgency in Syria. Who Was Behind the 2011 "Protest Movement"?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
It was not a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency integrated by US-Israeli & allied supported "jihadist" death squads. From Day One, the Islamist "freedom fighters" were supported, trained & equipped by NATO & Turkey's High Command.
globalresearch.ca/syria-who-is-behind-the-protest-movement-fabricating-a-pretext-for-a-us-nato-humanitarian-intervention/24591
Global Refugee Forum ends with hundreds of pledges
news.un.org | 2019-12-18
The first-ever Global Refugee Forum concluded in Geneva on Wednesday with more than 770 pledges of support, covering areas such as protection, employment, and education, for refugees and the communities which have taken them in.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/12/1053881
Overlooked Congressional Rebuke of Trump's Position on Israeli Settlements
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
The most stunning rebuke to the Trump Administration's unilateral effort to legitimise Israeli settlements did not come from Arab and European leaders. Over the years, their statements of condemnation have become so predictable that both Israel and the US routinely …
globalresearch.ca/overlooked-congressional-rebuke-trump-position-israeli-settlements/5698101
"Sweden's Government Skips Answering Questions on Its Aid to the Allies of al-Qaeda in Syria"
Patrik Paulov | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
Why has Sweden been very tight-lipped about and shied away from publically talking about its aid to what it prefers to call Syrian 'opposition' during the 8-year terror war on Syria? And has Swedish tax money benefited terrorists? | This topic, …
globalresearch.ca/sweden-government-skips-answering-questions-aid-allies-al-qaeda-syria/5698167
The Crumbling of America
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
In June of 2013 an Interstate bridge on a main commercial corridor between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Canada, collapsed and fell into the river below after being hit by a truck. This was not a high-speed collision; the truck simply …
globalresearch.ca/crumbling-america/5698097
Saudi Oil Attack and Choreographed Protests in Iran-aligned Countries
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
Since the planting of limpet mines on oil tankers off the coast of the UAE in May, the subsequent downing of the US surveillance drone in the Persian Gulf and the brazen attack on the Abqaiq petroleum facility and the …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-oil-attack-choreographed-protests-iran-aligned-countries/5698187
Mexico Finds "World's Largest Lithium Deposit" Just Before US Focus & $1.4 Trillion War-Aimed NDAA
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-18
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 (12/17/19). 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/mexico-finds-worlds-largest-lithium-deposit-just-before-us-focus-1-4-trillion-war-aimed-ndaa/
I Never Saw a World So Fragmented!
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
It is amazing how easily, without resistance, the Western empire is managing to destroy "rebellious" countries that are standing in its way. | I work in all corners of the planet, wherever Kafkaesque "conflicts" get ignited by Washington, London or Paris….
globalresearch.ca/never-saw-world-so-fragmented/5698128
The Richest Country's Empty Plates. 50 Million Hungry Americans
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
In July of 2013, Rose Aguilar wrote a wonderful article for al-Jazeera (1), in which she discussed the dire hunger crisis that envelops the US today. In her article, she brought back a memory of something I had long forgotten, …
globalresearch.ca/richest-country-empty-plates/5698008
Video: Assad Sends Warning to US Forces in Syria. The Looting of Syria's Oilfields
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
The US-led coalition is selling oil looted at oilfields in southern Deir Ezzor to Turkey, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview with China's Phoenix Television. Assad said that "the Turkish regime plays a direct part in selling the …
globalresearch.ca/video-assad-sends-warning-us-forces-syria/5698114
Trump Creates a New Nation
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
The pandering by Donald Trump and those around him to Israel and to some conservative American Jews is apparently endless. Last Wednesday the president signed an executive order that is intended to address alleged anti-Semitism on college campuses by cutting …
globalresearch.ca/trump-creates-new-nation/5698130
AMLO Is Bringing New Hope to Mexico
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
Jeremy Corbyn lost the election but one of his political friends, the progressive Mexican leader named Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been in power for one year. He is carrying out the plans and priorities described in his 2018 …
globalresearch.ca/amlo-is-bringing-new-hope-to-mexico/5698122
Video: Russia Deploys its Uran-9 Combat Robots in Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
In late 2019, photos and footage showing Russia's Uran-9 combat robot deployed in Syria appeared online. They became a rare visual evidence of the Uran-9 combat deployment in the war-torn country, which, according to official sources, took place in 2018….
globalresearch.ca/video-uran-9-combat-robot-deployment-syria-results-issues-prospects/5698149
Trump Has Given Israel Immunity to International Law
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
In Israel's treatment of Occupied Palestine, Israel has been violating international law for decades. Under international law, an occupying power is not permitted to incorporate the occupied land into its own domain. However, Israel has persistently done so, evicting Palestinians …
globalresearch.ca/trump-given-israel-immunity-international-law/5698151
The Threat to Life as We Know It: The View from Sri Lanka
Quincy Saul | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-18
Ranil Senanayake is the originator of the science and art of Analog Forestry, and founder of the Belipola Arboretum and the International Analog Forestry Network. He is respected as the foremost systems ecologist in Sri Lanka, and has lectured and worked throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition to scientific papers, he also writes…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/18/the-threat-to-life-as-we-know-it-the-view-from-sri-lanka/
India's highest court greenlights repression of protests against discriminatory citizenship law
wsws.org | 2019-12-18
India's Supreme Court has refused to order a probe into brutal police assaults on students protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/18/icaa…
Protests Paralyze India After Racist Anti-Muslim Law Passed
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-12-18
Modi's government using brutal violence against students and workers to stop demonstrations. Professor Sumit Ganguly examines the legal, moral and political significance anti-Muslim laws and the growing movement to oppose Hindu nationalism.
therealnews.com/stories/protests-paralyze-india-racist-anti-muslim-law-passed
Buttigieg Campaign Failed to Disclose Power Brokers in Release of Big Donors
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-18
Among them are a hedge fund manager, a charter school founder and a lawyer who represented Wall Street banks.
truthdig.com/articles/buttigieg-campaign-failed-to-disclose-power-brokers-in-release-of-big-bundlers/
Brexit and the Collapse of British Labour: A Post-Mortem on the UK Election
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-18
On December 12, 2019, the British parliamentary election gave conservative Boris Johnson a big victory, and leveled an historic defeat on the British Labour Party not witnessed since 1935. Johnson now has an absolute majority in Parliament and his quick …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-collapse-british-labour-post-mortem-uk-election/5698109
Presidential Hopefuls Vie for Votes of Public Education Supporters
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-12-17
At a Pittsburgh education forum, seven candidates were forced to take a stand on charter schools.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/presidential-hopefuls-ed-forum-lahm-191217/
For Many of the World's Children, Education Proves Elusive
Elin Martinez | progressive.org | 2019-12-17
Especially in countries with widespread human rights abuses, kids–especially girls–don't get the chance to go to school.
progressive.org/dispatches/for-many-children-education-proves-elusive-martinez-van-esveld-191217/
US Regime Change In Mexico, US Bombs Afghan Hospital, Saudis Get Involved In Syria & More OPCW Leaks
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-17
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 (12/16/19). 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/us-regime-change-in-mexico-us-bombs-afghan-hospital-saudis-get-involved-in-syria-more-opcw-leaks/
Indian students unite in solidarity against police brutality
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-17
On Sunday December 15, police brutally attacked two institutions (Jamia Millia Islamia University in the New Delhi and Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh) where students were protesting the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). At least 125 people were injured in the police attacks and 50 were detained. In response to the barbaric violence, students from across India have taken to the streets against police brutality and the 'unconstitutional' CAA. | The university campus and the surrounding areas remain besieged by the police. Despite the imminent risk of further violent repression by the poli…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/17/indian-students-unite-in-solidarity-against-police-brutality/
Democratic Candidates Focus on Public Education at Historic Forum with Civil Rights & Labor Groups
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-17
Ahead of the last Democratic presidential debate of the year this Thursday, seven candidates appeared Saturday at the historic Democratic Presidential Forum on Public Education in Pittsburgh, an event organized by public education organizations, unions, civil rights organizations and community groups. We play highlights from the forum and get response from Keron Blair, director of the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools in Atlanta; Jitu Brown, national director of the Journey for Justice Alliance; and Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education Action. She recently authored a report titled "S…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/17/democrat…
'I believe!' Maxine Waters defends Russiagate, brings up 'facts' debunked by Mueller
rt.com | 2019-12-17
California Congresswoman Maxine Waters might have no facts to prove any collusion between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but that won't stop her from believing in the Russiagate conspiracy theory. | Waters had wanted to impeach Trump since the beginning, she bragged to CNN's Erin Burnett on Monday, because she had "done some research" and therefore "knew about [Trump's] alignment with Putin." | She "knew" that campaign chair Paul Manafort — who actually worked as a lobbyist for Ukraine, not Russia, but who's counting? — was "sent there by Putin, in essence, to head up…
rt.com/usa/476134-maxine-waters-russiagate-facts-cult/
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/
Midwest Dispatch: 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/
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/
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 …
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