Venezuela Suspends Work, Schools Amid New Blackout
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-26
Venezuela's Minister of Communication and Culture Jorge Rodriguez announced Tuesday that work and educational activities are suspended for 24 hours, in order to facilitate the rehabilitation works of the national electricity service, which suffered two new attacks on Monday. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces New Attack On Its National Electric System | "The Bolivarian gov…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Suspends-Work-Schools-Amid-New-Blackout-20190326-0007.html

Tampa students hold vigil for victims of Christchurch mosque shootings
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-03-26
Tampa, FL – On March 21 University of South Florida (USF) students and Tampa community members gathered to commemorate the lives of the victims of the Christchurch New Zealand mosque shootings. Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) hosted the event and laid out 50 flowers on the lawn in front of the Marshall Student Center to represent each victim of the attack. | The shootings were committed by Brenton Tarrant. Tarrant was motivated by white-supremacist and alt-right ideas, such as xenophobia and anti-immigration, which he rambled about in a written statement. | "The bottom line is that white suprema…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/3/25/tampa-st…

"Suicide Is Preventable": Public Health Advocates Push to End Stigma After Parkland & Newtown Suicides
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-26
The father of a 6-year-old girl who was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was found dead by apparent suicide Monday. Jeremy Richman was a neuroscientist who, after the death of his daughter Avielle, founded the Avielle Foundation to support brain science research, with the ultimate goal of preventing violence and building compassion. The news of his death came just days after two students who survived last year's shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, died by suicide. An unnamed student died Saturday, according to local authorities, and 19-ye…
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/26/suicide_i…

Disinviting Jordan Peterson: the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-26
He has sent so many cliques and groups into titters of anger, and the indignant have attempted to turn on him. The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites…
counterpunch.org/2019/03/26/disinviting-jordan-peterson-the-faculty-of-divinity-cambridge-and-approved-ideas/

War or Uneasy Truce in Gaza? Renewed Bombing ordered by Netanyahu
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Aiming to show toughness against defenseless Gazans ahead of the April 9 elections, Netanyahu ordered the Strip terror-bombed on Monday — affirming his ruthlessness once again, after countless previous times. | For hours during day and nighttime hours on Monday, IDF …
globalresearch.ca/war-or-uneasy-truce-in-gaza-renewed-bombing-ordered-by-netanyahu/5672672

In the Wake of the RussiaGate Witch-Hunt: Now We Will Find Out if Trump Is Really the President or Merely a Figurehead
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
What can we conclude from the utter and total failure of the Russiagate "investigation" to find any evidence of "Russian collusion"? | We can conclude that it was a hoax cooked up by an utterly corrupt and immoral military/security complex determined …
globalresearch.ca/trump-president-merely-figurehead/5672629

Misguided Spying and the New Zealand Massacre
Suzie Dawson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Now that the bodies of 49 innocent human beings are lying in a Christchurch, New Zealand, morgue — gunned down by a heavily armed terrorist — New Zealand media are asking the obvious questions: why didn't our intelligence agencies know …
globalresearch.ca/misguided-spying-new-zealand-massacre/5672707

Trump Recognizes Israeli Annexation of Golan Heights: Green Light for Global War
Bill Van Auken | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
The hastily completed White House ceremony in which President Donald Trump signed a decree granting official US recognition to Israel's illegal annexation of Syria's Golan Heights is an act which, on its surface, appears to change few facts on the …
globalresearch.ca/trump-recognizes-israeli-annexation-golan-heights-global-war/5672717

Eight Years Ago, March 2011. The Day before Daraa: How the War Broke Out in Syria
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
This article was originally published on August 2016. | The day before September 11, 2001 was like any normal day in New York City. September 10, 2001 was unaware of the earthshaking events which would happen the next day. | Similarly, one …
globalresearch.ca/deraa-how-war-broke-syria/5672626

Third Trump Regime Sabotage of Venezuela's Electrical Grid Foiled
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Unbowed after over two months of failed efforts to topple Maduro, failure to win over its military or gain popular support, its paramilitary attack scheme and other tactics foiled so far — the Trump regime cyberattacked Venezuela's electrical power grid …
globalresearch.ca/third-trump-regime-sabotage-venezuelas-electrical-grid-foiled/5672679

Selected Articles: RussiaGate and the Mueller Report
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…
globalresearch.ca/mueller-report-trump-netanyahu-war-agenda-venezuela-regime-change/5672725

Video: US Declared Another "Full Victory over ISIS". The 15th Time since December
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
On March 23, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) released a statement stressing that ISIS had been fully defeated in Syria, including the area of the Euphrates Valley. The SDF operation against ISIS in the Euphrates Valley lasted for over …
globalresearch.ca/us-declared-15th-victory-isis/5672631

Don't Trust a Hand that Feeds the "Fascist Beast". People Around the World Are Rising Up against Their Government
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
The "Mueller Report" is out and as it was expected, it was disastrous news to the Democrats and pushed the fascistic minded President a little closer to his dream of creating a police state in the U.S. In this regard, …
globalresearch.ca/dont-trust-a-hand-that-feeds-the-fascist-beast-people-around-the-world-are-rising-up-against-their-government/5672670

Anti-NATO Speaking Events in Regina and Winnipeg
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
André Vitchek is a Russian-born American political analyst, journalist, and a filmmaker who has lived in the US, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Vietnam, Samoa and Indonesia. He has covered armed conflicts in Peru, Kashmir, Mexico, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Congo, India, South …
globalresearch.ca/anti-nato-speaking-events-in-regina-and-winnipeg/5672739

UK's Secret War: British Elite Commandos Wounded in Yemen
Press TV | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
A number of elite British commandos have sustained injuries in direct gunfights with Yemeni forces as part of what appears to be a secretive UK military campaign in Yemen, a new report says, adding a major twist to London's involvement …
globalresearch.ca/uks-secret-war-british-commandos-wounded-yemen/5672719

The Dangerous and Unrelenting Extremism of Clarence Thomas
Bill Blum | truthdig.com | 2019-03-26
Do Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices get more liberal as they age? A formidable body of academic research suggests that they do. This idea offers a sliver of comfort to those alarmed by Donald Trump's appointment of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the nation's most powerful judicial body, as well as by the even more disturbing prospect that if Trump is reelected, he may get to place additional conservatives on the court. | Although no one is sure what causes this liberalizing dynamic, it's e…
truthdig.com/articles/the-dangerous-and-unrelenting-extremism-of-clarence-thomas/

Become a Member of Global Research — Receive Free Books!
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
At Global Research, our mandate is to increase awareness on the broadest possible level while maintaining full independence in our reports and analyses. Our commitment is to make our articles and videos available to the broadest possible readership, on a …
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Christchurch Shooting: Why Are We Not Using the Word Islamophobia?
Donna Miles-Mojab | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Make no mistake, it was not just one man and his gun that killed 50 innocent worshippers in Christchurch, the whole Islamophobia industry had its finger on that trigger too — and yet, in much important commentary about the terrorist …
globalresearch.ca/christchurch-shooting-why-not-using-word-islamophobia/5672709

"Blood Gold" in La Rinconada, Devil's Paradise in Peru's Andes: A Crime Gang-run City, Human Rights do not Exist
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Who buys this gold? Large corporations. One of them is the Swiss registered Metalor, among the world's largest gold foundries. Annually, 3,000 to 3,500 tons of gold are mined across the globe. Switzerland refines about 70-80% of all the gold in the world. An estimated 20% to 30% of it is considered 'blood gold'…
globalresearch.ca/blood-gold-in-la-rinconada-devils-paradise-in-perus-andes-a-crime-gang-run-city-human-rights-do-not-exist/5672701

Moral Paralysis. Both Leaders and Intellectuals. "The Passive Conspiracy to Kill off Public Scrutiny": C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
"Every time intellectuals have the chance to speak yet do not speak, they join the forces that train men not to be able to think and imagine and feel in morally and politically adequate ways…when they do not demand that …
globalresearch.ca/moral-paralysis-both-leaders-and-intellectuals-c-wright-mills/5672641

Three Lessons for the Progressive Left from the Mueller Inquiry
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in | …
globalresearch.ca/three-lessons-mueller-inquiry/5672704

Trump's Golan Green Light Paves Way to Israel's Annexation of West Bank
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
When President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to occupied Jerusalem last year, effectively sabotaging any hope of establishing a viable Palestinian state, he tore up the international rulebook. | Last week, he trampled all over its remaining tattered pages. He …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-golan-green-light-israels-annexation-west-bank/5672682

War Crimes: 10 Children Killed by US Airstrike in Afghanistan. UN
Asharq Al-Awsat | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Ten children, part of the same extended family, were killed by a US airstrike in Afghanistan, along with three adult civilians, the United Nations said on Monday. | The airstrike early on Saturday was part of a battle between the Taliban | …
globalresearch.ca/10-children-killed-us-airstrike-in-afghanistan/5672715

US Red Lines for Digital Trade with the UK Cause Alarm
Javier Ruiz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
The US government has published its negotiating objectives for a trade deal with the UK, which include some worrying proposals on digital trade, including a ban on the disclosure of source code and algorithms, and potential restrictions on data protection….
globalresearch.ca/us-red-lines-digital-trade-uk-cause-alarm/5672712

The World Crisis: Can Chickens Swim?
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Need I say it, extraordinary things are going on all over this World, and it turns out that having to resort to a survival formula in order to cope with them, is not necessarily the best way forward. In fact, …
globalresearch.ca/the-world-crisis-can-chickens-swim/5672632

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

Judicial Watch Statement on Mueller Report
Judicial Watch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement in response to the Mueller special counsel report summary made public by Attorney General Barr today: | The long, national nightmare is over and President Trump has been vindicated. The corruptly-created and …
globalresearch.ca/judicial-watch-statement-mueller-report/5672693

Roald Dahl's 'Matilda,' a feminist ode to teachers, dazzles as a musical
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2019-03-26
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.–Author Roald Dahl (1916-1990), whose books have sold over 250 million copies worldwide, is equally known as a fantasy writer for adult readers and for his portfolio of children's and young adult novels that unsentimentally lift the curtain on some of the macabre fears and dark nightmares of growing up. His vivid tales …
peoplesworld.org/article/roald-dahls-matilda-a-feminist-ode-to-teachers-dazzles-as-a-musical/

Russia's Lavrov to US: Your Venezuelan Coup Violates UN Charter
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-26
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Monday by telephone during which they discussed U.S. interventionism in Venezuela. | RELATED: | Trump Admin Wants $500M to Fund Its Intervention in Venezuela | According to Russia's foreign ministry website Lavrov told Pompeo: "Washington's attempts to organize a coup d'état in Venezuela and (U.S.) threats against the legitimate government are in violation of the UN Charter." The forei…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russias-Lavrov-to-US-Your-Venezuelan-Coup-Violates-UN-Charter-20190326-0001.html

DeVos Defends $18 Million Cut to Special Olympics Funding While Asking Congress for $60 Million for Charter Schools
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-03-26
"Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn't possibly stoop any lower…" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/03/26/devos-defends-18-million-cut-special-olympics-funding-while-asking-congress-60?cd-origin=rss

Venezuela ¥s Gov ¥t Stops Educational and Labor Activities
plenglish | plenglish.com | 2019-03-26
Caracas, March 26 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Government decreed Tueady the suspension of educational and labor activities for 24 hours, with the purpose of facilitating the rehabilitation of electricity service, after two new attacks on the national distribution system.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

As Brexit Threatens to Widen Northern Ireland's Divides, Activists Offer Hope for a More Equal Future
Nicola Browne | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-26
As turmoil around Brexit continues, the 1998 "Good Friday Agreement," which concluded over 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland, hangs in the balance. | A "hard border" between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland might result from the fallout | …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-threatens-widen-northern-irelands-divides-activists-offer-hope-more-equal-future/5672698

Pittsburgh high school students protest acquittal of killer cop
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-26
Hundreds of high school students and others took part in rally Monday in the fourth day of protests following the acquittal of the police officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Antwon Rose last year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/26/rose…

UK school funding crisis threatens children's basic education
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-26
Twenty five schools nationally have taken the drastic measure of shortening the school week due to funding constraints.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/26/teac…

Russia Rejects US Support to a Coup d'etat in Venezuela
plenglish | plenglish.com | 2019-03-26
Moscow, Mar 26 (Prensa Latina)Russia reiterated its rejection of US attempts to encourage a coup d"etat in Venezuela and considered that threats against that legitimate government violate the UN Charter, reported the Foreign Ministry Tuesday.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

Students and workers speak on the threat of fascism at Leipzig meeting
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-26
World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke with some of the students and workers who attended Saturday's public meeting, organized by Mehring Verlag.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/26/inte…

Thousands of young Moroccan teachers assaulted by anti-riot police
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-26
Contract teachers have struck the Northern African country of Morocco since March 3 and mass protests have escalated.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/26/moro…

8 Cases That Prove the FBI and CIA Were Out of Control Long Before Russiagate
Foundation for Economic Education | theantimedia.com | 2019-03-26
The survival of liberty depends on skepticism of government power–and make no mistake, that includes President Trump. (FEE) — Conservatives tend to have two bad habits. First, they're prone to viewing the past through a nostalgic lens. Second, they tend to instinctively give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. These tendencies help explain why conservatives …
theantimedia.com/8-cases-fbi-cia-corrupt…

UN launches drive to highlight environmental cost of staying fashionable
United Nations | un.org | 2019-03-25
It takes around 7,500 litres of water to make a single pair of jeans, equivalent to the amount of water the average person drinks over a period of seven years. That's just one of the many startling facts to emerge from recent environmental research, which show that the cost of staying fashionable is a lot more than just the price tag.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/03/1035161

Joyce Provost Wheeler, distinguished teacher and lifelong activist, dies at age 78
Special to PeoplesWorld | peoplesworld.org | 2019-03-25
SEQUIM, Wash.–Joyce Provost Wheeler, a gifted school teacher who served as Treasurer of the Baltimore Teachers Union (AFT Local 340) and BTU "Building Rep" at the elementary school where she taught for thirty years, died peacefully at her home here March 21. She was 78. The cause of death was Alzheimer's disease, which she fought …
peoplesworld.org/article/joyce-provost-wheeler-distinguished-teacher-and-lifelong-activist-dies-at-age-78/

Google flipped seats, shifted millions of votes to Dems in 2018 midterms, researcher tells RT
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-25
Google's biased search algorithm actually flipped seats in the 2018 US midterm elections, according to a researcher who found the search engine's "dramatically biased" results could have shifted over 78 million votes to Democrats. | …
rt.com/usa/454653-epstein-interview-google-elections/

Indiana legislature ends elections for state education leader
Nigel Lisbon | liberationnews.org | 2019-03-24
Only a socialist democracy, where workers wield state power, will fully fund public schools.
liberationnews.org/indiana-legislature-ends-elections-for-state-education-leader/

'Pick my cotton, n****r': University of Georgia frat suspended over racist VIDEO
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-24
A University of Georgia (UGA) fraternity has been suspended after a video emerged showing a student mock-whipping another saying, "Pick my cotton n****r," as others watched and laughed. | …
rt.com/usa/454625-georgia-frat-suspended-pick-cotton/

Why School Psychologists Are Worried About the Mental Health of America's Students
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-22
A new ACLU report shows that millions of kids are in schools that have no mental health staff. One of the report's authors discusses the implications. | Earlier this month, thousands of school psychologists met in Atlanta at the annual convention of the National Association of School Psychologists. One of the hottest topics among attendees was exhaustion — a consequence of having to serve more students who are experiencing more trauma and other mental health problems without more help in carrying the load. | It's not just school psychologists who are concerned about being short-staffed. I know of far too ma…
aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-inequality-education/why-school-psychologists-are-worried-about-mental

School Strike 4 Climate organiser: 'We need mass support to achieve change'
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-22
On March 15, students organised the biggest global strike for real action on climate change ever seen. More than 80 countries took part. | In Perth, 3000 students and supporters marched through the CBD, joining an estimated 150,000 people around the country. | Green Left Weekly's Chris Jenkins caught up with Mandurah high school student and protest organiser Chaela King about the strike and what is being planned next. | How did you find the protest? Did it meet your expectations? | I definitely wasn't expecting such a great turn out. The numbers on Facebook was nowhere near the 3000 or so people who came. I also…
greenleft.org.au/content/school-strike-4-climate-organiser-we-need-mass-support-achieve-change

Five Questions For: Pardeep Kaleka on New Zealand, White Supremacy, and What it Takes to Move Forward
Alexandra Tempus | progressive.org | 2019-03-21
His father was killed by a white supremacist in a mass shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple. Today, Pardeep Kaleka works in communities all over the country teaching about how to heal from hate.
progressive.org/dispatches/five-questions-pardeep-kaleka-on-new-zealand-190321/

LA: Boyle Heights honors International Women's Day
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-03-21
Los Angeles, CA – The neighborhood of Boyle Heights celebrated International Women's Day, March 8, by honoring women on the Eastside who shake things up. Organized by Centro CSO, the event took place in the historic Casa del Mexicano building. The celebration doubled as a fundraiser for legal fees in a major lawsuit against big-time corporation KIPP Promesa Charter school. A large group from all over East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights attended. | Headlining was Fe Montes, of Mujeres de Maíz, who performed multiple readings, poems, and chants. Met with applause, Montes spoke about the need to honor the "Chingonas…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/3/20/la-boyle…

Capitalism can't halt climate change
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-21
Three days before 150,000 students organised the biggest national school walkout in Australian history to demand politicians act on climate change, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) deputy governor Guy Debelle sounded a warning about the drastic effects of climate change on the economy. | When students and an RBA governor agree on the urgent need to stop the devastating impact of climate change on society and the planet, you know the movement is starting to bite. | But while the RBA views the climate threat from the perspective of the interests of big capital, students see it as a threat to their very future. | It…
greenleft.org.au/content/capitalism-cant-halt-climate-change

Palestinians Salute Pitzer College for Overwhelming Vote in Support of Palestinian Rights, Condemn Anti-democratic Veto by University President
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-03-20
Palestinians Salute Pitzer College for Overwhelming Vote in Support of Palestinian Rights, Condemn Anti-democratic Veto by University President: UpdatePitzer College faculty, students and staff voted overwhelmingly to suspend a study abroad program with Haifa University over Israel's discriminatory policies against Palestinians. In an anti-democratic move, Pitzer's president ve…
bdsmovement.net/news/palestinians-salute-pitzer-college-overwhelming-vote-support-palestinian-rights-condemn-anti

Paid Facebook Ad by Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center Advocates Increased "Hopelessness" for Palestinians
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-03-20
Paid Facebook Ad by Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center Advocates Increased "Hopelessness" for Palestinians: UpdateThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls on all academics, academic societies and student organizations to intensify the academic boycott as a response to this fresh, brutal call for m…
bdsmovement.net/news/paid-facebook-ad-bar-ilan-universitys-begin-sadat-center-advocates-increased-%E2%80%9Chopelessness%E2%80%9D