(2019-07-17). Teach the Children Well: the Unrealized Vision In Teaching and Learning in the Residential Schools. counterpunch.org 
Through the entire era of the residential school in Canada, from the 1880s until the 1980s, parents, public school inspectors and departmental officials made serious complaints about the "poor education" the Native children were receiving. John Milloy (A national crime: the Canadian government and the residential school system, 1879 to 1986 [1999]) observes poignantly: "From More
(2019-07-17). Traditional part-time student jobs 'falling out of favour'. thecanary.co The traditional Saturday job for young people appears to be in decline, with just half of 14 to 21-year-olds saying they work part-time compared with seven in 10 of their parents' generation who did so. | Some 50% of young people in education currently have a part-time job, Barclays LifeSkills found. | This compares with 69% of 38 to 58-year-olds who worked when they were younger. | Gaining financial independence and improving their CV were common reasons why 14 to 21-year-olds said they had a job. | Among those who did not, 44% said this was because they received an allowance or income elsewhere such as pocket m…
(2019-07-17). Massive photo databases secretly gathered in US and Europe to develop facial recognition. wsws.org Large digital face and "selfie" photo databases have been used by state agencies, software engineers and researchers involved in perfecting AI algorithms and image pattern analyses.
(2019-07-17). Closure of Detroit's Marygrove College will worsen teacher shortage crisis. wsws.org The closure of Marygrove College, which offers advanced teacher training, comes as university education departments in Michigan and across the country are shrinking.
(2019-07-16). Trump, Netanyahu, Pence and Bolton: The Four Horsemen of the Nuclear Apocalypse. globalresearch.ca These are the demented Gang of Four who are determined to destroy 74 years of international cooperation for peace by waging a completely unwarranted war against Iran in a bid for global supremacy, and oil, that will provoke nuclear war …
(2019-07-16). FBI Surveillance of Iranians After the 1988 Downing of Flight 655. globalresearch.ca This month marks 31 years since the U.S. Navy ship, the USS Vincennes, shot down Iran Air flight 655, killing 290 Iranian civilians, including 66 children. The downing of the airliner on July 3, 1988 remains one of the …
(2019-07-16). How Iran's Soviet Era Air Defense System Shot Down America's Global Hawk UAV over Strait of Hormuz. globalresearch.ca On the night of June 19-20, Iran shot down a US Global Hawk reconnaissance UAV over the Strait of Hormuz. | President Trump responded by calling for retaliatory air strikes against Iran. | In response to the President and Commander in Chief's …
(2019-07-16). The 5G Wireless Crisis: Awareness & Accountability Summit. globalresearch.ca 5G wireless… the industry HAS NOT shown it to be safe for your health or privacy — yet THOUSANDS of peer-reviewed, independent studies show the risks it presents. | Understand the dangers and find solutions in your community! | The 5G Crisis: …
(2019-07-16). The Podcast Revolution: The Power of Our Human Voice, from Marconi to Woods Hole. globalresearch.ca Heard "Trader Joe's" podcast yet? I don't know who might listen to a 22-minute corporate ad. But, given how cool podcasts have become: hey, that sounds inviting. The idea is also an implicit endorsement for radio — because that's where …
(2019-07-16). Henry Wallace's Internationalism: A Path that American Foreign Policy Could Have Taken and Still Can. globalresearch.ca As America fumbles around for a way out of "forever wars," can we draw inspiration from an alternative vision that once was mainstream? | Following twenty years of decay, US foreign policy has spun out of control since Donald Trump's …
(2019-07-16). Liberals Use 'Human Rights' to Push Coup in Venezuela. globalresearch.ca The modern way to overthrow a government the capitalist world doesn't like is by claiming to do it in the name of supporting 'human rights'. This requires that the target be portrayed as a rights violator. | As part of their …
(2019-07-16). CIA Pushes for Expansion of Secrecy Law to Stifle Public Criticism. globalresearch.ca When the CIA and other agencies in the United States government pushed for the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA) in 1981, it was crafted to exclude "covert agents" who resided in the U.S. | There was consideration by the House Permanent …
(2019-07-16). Science group opposes planned immigration raids, mistreatment of immigrants. mronline.org 
Statement by Ken Kimmell, President, Union of Concerned Scientists | Source
(2019-07-16). Nuclear Experimentation: Year 74. globalresearch.ca Nuclear experimentation began with the first detonation of the Manhattan Project. The first detonation began the unstable and unceasing chain reaction that is the nuclear era. The scientists involved in the detonation experiment actually debated on whether or not it …
(2019-07-16). Greece and the Refugee Crisis. Squatting at Athens' City Plaza. globalresearch.ca On July 10th, 2019, the keys of squatted City Plaza, Athens, Greece, were handed back to the former employees of the hotel, to whom the mobile equipment in the building belongs. All refugees living at City Plaza have been moved …
(2019-07-16). North Korea Is Not Desperate: The New Geostrategic Environment in East Asia. globalresearch.ca The discussion surrounding the surprise meeting at the DMZ between US President Donald Trump and DPRK State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong Un has shown a remarkable ignorance of the fact that North Korea is by no means desperate …
(2019-07-16). Call me a communist. peoplesworld.org 
As an activist in my early 20s, I didn't know much about what communism really was; all I'd heard was they were bad people that could hurt you and your loved ones. Being active in the Chicano student movement, I came across a member of MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán) who mentioned to me …
(2019-07-16). How the Goliath of the Jerusalem Settler Movement Persuaded the World It's Really David. globalresearch.ca Israeli police forced out the Siyam family from their home in the heart of occupied East Jerusalem last week, the final chapter in their 25-year legal battle against a powerful settler organisation. | The family's defeat represented much more than just …
(2019-07-16). Moscow's "Military Diplomacy" in the Middle East: A Major Headache for the US. globalresearch.ca The success of Moscow's "military diplomacy" in the Mideast is proving to be a major headache for the US because of the strategic inroads that Russia is poised to make with many of America's traditional partners in the region. | ***…
(2019-07-16). Israel Wants to Stop Intersectional Solidarity With Palestine. telesurenglish.net Pro-Israel lobbies are founding ways to break up intersectional solidarity with Palestine and identifying progressive Jews who are critical of Israel, a new report by Israeli research organization the Reut Group has revealed. | RELATED: | Israel's Apartheid Wall Stands 15 Years After UN Deemed it Illegal | Israel and its advocates view solidarity between Palestine and other oppressed groups as t…
(2019-07-16). Shocking number of universities won't take action on sweatshops in their supply chains. thecanary.co On July 16, a new league table of universities was published. The league ranks the UK's universities on the strength of their environmental policies and their work to uphold human rights. It's produced by student campaign group People & Planet. | One of its sections focuses on workers' rights. And its findings don't reflect well on the UK's universities. They suggest many universities are failing to take action to defend the rights of workers in their supply chains. | Two-thirds of universi…
(2019-07-16). The UK Must Release the Iranian Tanker; The UAE's Mission to Tehran. globalresearch.ca Before Emmanuel Bonne, the special envoy of the French President Emmanuel Macron to Iran, visited President Hassan Rouhani, he promised to deal with the " Grace I" crisis between Iran and the UK. Iran considered the UK …
(2019-07-16). Pollution could be leading to shorter babies says new study. nationofchange.org Newborns and babies still in the womb during a woman's third-trimester face an increased risk of being short for their age or stunted later in life if exposed to high levels of air pollution, says a new international study published last week in Environmental Health. | Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, studied 200,000 children born between February 2010 and December 2015. Results of the study revealed that children born during peak pollution times, between November and January, face the highest decline of heigh…
(2019-07-16). Cruelty Prompts Trump's Deal of the Century in the Middle East. globalresearch.ca If there's one thing real estate moguls understand it's the value of land. Which begs the question why Donald Trump's plan to broker peace in the Middle East is so spectacularly ignorant of reality. Stuart Rees weighs in. | The …
(2019-07-16). Russia's Bolivia Gambit Is a Bold Economic Move. globalresearch.ca Bolivian President Evo Morales visited Moscow last week and announced that his country is interested in stepping up lithium cooperation with Russia, which if successful and taken to its fullest extent could see the Eurasian Great Power leverage its global …
(2019-07-16). Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF): Rep. McCaul Struggles to Keep "War On Terror" Alive. globalresearch.ca Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, minority leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is struggling to keep Bush's unconstitutional AUMF in place. If the no-end-in-sight "war on terror" is to continue and the AUMF is to remain embedded in the …
(2019-07-16). What's Really Going on in Hong Kong? globalresearch.ca For more than three months, people in Hong Kong massed in the streets to protest a proposed extradition law. Critics say it would allow China to extradite dissenting students, journalists, and business people to the mainland, where they could face …
(2019-07-16). Walt Disney donates a 'paltry' sum to the lions it's about to make a killing from. thecanary.co Walt Disney's new version of The Lion King will open in US cinemas on 19 July. But the company — which had assets worth over $98bn as of 2018 — has only donated a "paltry" $1.5m to lion conservation in the lead up to the movie's opening, according to the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting (CBTH). | What's more, it's only pledged to contribute a…
(2019-07-16). As Republicans Push Pro-Life Agenda, Maternal and Infant Death Rates Rise. therealnews.com 
Not only has maternal and infant health mortality rates increased in the U.S. but these rates are double for black women compared to their white counterparts—no matter what their education or income level. Community Doulas and midwives think they have part of the solution…
(2019-07-16). La corsa al dominio dello Spazio. globalresearch.ca ´L'uomo volante strega Parigi alla parata del 14 luglio ª: con titoli come questo ci è stata descritta la sfilata delle forze armate francesi lungo l'Avenue degli Champs Elysées. Come al solito, sembra di essere informati su tutto fin nei minimi …
(2019-07-16). Selected Articles: Wake Up, America! globalresearch.ca In spite of online censorship efforts directed against the independent media, we are happy to say that readership on globalresearch.ca has recently increased. We wish to thank all of you who share our articles far and wide. | We cover a …
(2019-07-16). 'Act now. Our lives are in your hands': Demanding climate action, Extinction Rebellion shuts down traffic in five UK cities. nationofchange.org 
"We've all read the science, we know the story, the whole phase of denial is over, and if it takes civil disobedience to make a difference, then so be it."
(2019-07-15). "Radiating Insecurity": Will Europe Stand with "US Hooliganism", or Stand by Its Treaty Obligations to Iran? globalresearch.ca Since the Iranian revolution took power in 1979, the world stood against Iran because it is an "Islamic Republic", unwilling to acknowledge and bow to US dominance of the Middle East and the entire world. I say the world because …
(2019-07-15). More Families Freed from US Controlled Rukban Concentration Camp in Northern Syria. globalresearch.ca While the partisan, fake faction fight over usage of concentration camp persists domestically, American politicians and US media continue to ignore the US Rukban concentration camp in Syria. US occupation criminals continue as illicit armed guards, dictating which Syrians may …
(2019-07-15). Spectre of British Colonialism Is Haunting Hong Kong? globalresearch.ca Five years after the "umbrella revolution", Hong Kong residents took to the streets with the new force. This time they are struggling against the law on the extradition to mainland China. | As in 2014, the Chinese authorities blame the West …
(2019-07-15). Increased TV and social media use 'linked to growth in teenage depression'. thecanary.co Increased social media use and television viewing are linked to worsening teenage depression, researchers say. | The more time adolescents spend on social media and in front of the television, the more severe their symptoms of depression become, it is suggested. | The study of 1,786 girls and 2,028 boys aged 12 to 16 found that if they reported their social media use and television viewing surpassed their overall mean level of use in a given year, then their symptoms also increased that year. | There was no evidence screen time had an impact on adolescent depression by reducing their involvement in physical activ…
(2019-07-15). How to Serve Man? "The Narcotic Effect of Thinking We are a Democracy" globalresearch.ca Inspired by the 1962 Twilight Zone episode How to Serve Man this writer uses that to make some cogent points about our corporate and political system. We have (too) large corporations that do as little as possible to make we …
(2019-07-15). Revanchist Israel Bent on Territorial Expansion. Towards "Greater Israel"? globalresearch.ca Israel is the only nation without official borders. From its inception it was planned this way to extrajudicially annex more territory. | A territorial expansion plan was drawn up in the 1980s as part of the US/Israel plan to redraw the …
(2019-07-15). Trump's Attack against Immigrants Meets Resistance. dissidentvoice.org 
Photo Credit: Bill Hackwell Nearly 800 events took place this weekend across the United States organized by grassroots organizations including religious sectors, community groups, students, labor and many individuals who had had enough of the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids taking place in working and poor communities against immigrants and Trump's concentration camps on the …
(2019-07-14). Activists in Oshkosh, WI call for closure of Trump's concentration camps. fightbacknews.org Oshkosh, WI – On the evening of July 12, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Students for a Democratic Society (UWO SDS) hosted a Lights for Liberty rally, demanding an end to the Trump administration's detention policy and the closure of the concentration camps, where tens of thousands of immigrants are being held in clear breach of international law. The call to action drew roughly 30 people from Oshkosh and the surrounding Fox Valley area. | The event started with a silent candlelight vigil to help bring awareness to the disastrous conditions in the camps. The action featured 12 different people speaking…
(2019-07-14). Milwaukee: 'Drop the Charges' rally for student who took placard from Nazi. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – Activists rallied outside the Milwaukee County courthouse on the afternoon of July 11 to stand in solidarity with a student who was arrested and charged for taking a vulgar, racist sign away from a Nazi. | Grae Hosmanek is a freshman student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In May, she and others witnessed a racist student protesting a Jewish event on campus and gathered around to deter him from spreading hate speech and threats. The lone fascist, who called himself "Chris," was holding a sign that read "(((GAS)))" a reference to the Nazi holocaust, and another sign bearing a Nazi swastik…
(2019-07-13). With half of Somaliland children not in school, UNICEF and partners launch education access programme. un.org Access to education in Somaliland is extremely limited, with more than 50 per cent of children in Somaliland out of school. In an effort to address the problem, the UN children's fund, UNICEF, has partnered with the government, and the global fund Education Cannot Wait, to launch a programme designed to help children affected by ongoing crises in the country.
(2019-07-13). US-trained troops shoot Honduran students protesting privatization. thegrayzone.com Anya Parampil reports from inside a student occupation at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), where US-trained troops shot…
(2019-07-12). Rojava conference calls for regional security and stability through self-administration. greenleft.org.au 
An international conference hosted by the Rojava Center for Strategic Studies in the city of Amude in Kurdish-liberated northern Syria from July 7-9 called for international support for the establishment of self-administration in areas liberated from Islamic State of Syria (ISIS) terrorist rule. | The "International Forum on ISIS: Dimensions, challenges, and confrontation strategies" was attended by more than 200 people, including politicians, researchers and representatives of civil society institutions from several countries. | Conference participants discussed various aspects of ISIS' terrorism, including poli…
(2019-07-11). As 2020 Primary Nears, Candidates Struggle with Positions on Charter Schools. progressive.org After years of avoidance, Democrats are being forced to take a stand charter schools—and most are straddling both sides.
(2019-07-11). Maritime union backs student-led climate strike. greenleft.org.au 
The following motion was passed unanimously at the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Sydney Branch monthly member's meeting on June 25. | * * * | The MUA Sydney Branch welcomes the call from the School Strike 4 Climate movement for workers to join their next global strike. We will build for the widest possible stoppage of work to join demonstrations on September 20. We call on our national union to support this action and campaign for stoppages across the global union movement. | We note with anger that the climate crisis is already affecting millions in Australia and around the world. We reaffirm MUA policy that…
(2019-07-11). We're invited to support student strikers. greenleft.org.au 
The Socialist Alliance National Council voted on June 30 to encourage its members and supporters to support of the September 20 climate strike and put motions along the following lines to their trade unions and other community-based organisations. | * * * | The School Strike 4 Climate has asked adults worldwide to come out onto the streets alongside them and make our voices heard. | To do that we too must strike for climate action. We must break with business as usual, leave our workplaces and rally with the students. | Yes, we will then cross a line. The rules do not let us strike when we want, for what we need…
(2019-07-09). Call to Action: Close the Concentration Camps Now! progressive.org We are calling on all people of conscience to shut down the concentration camps on the US-Mexico border through any nonviolent means necessary.
(2019-07-09). "Go Forth and Lie" Israel Rolls Out Mandatory Course for Students Travelling Abroad. mintpressnews.com 
Israel new course to prepare high school students traveling overseas to be good "ambassadors" includes training on how to combat BDS, claims of apartheid and more.
(2019-07-05). Education Reformers Still Don't Understand Racism. progressive.org "Those of us actually working in education tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to tell you."