(2019-08-26). Australian Cardinal George Pell, Child Abuse and Law. globalresearch.ca Cardinal George Pell, formerly the Vatican's minder of cash, was confident that his conviction would not stand the withering scrutiny of the Victorian appeals court. The December convictions in the county court involving the charges of sexual assault against …
(2019-08-26). US Sanctions: A Weapon of War by Other Means. globalresearch.ca The US under both extremist wings of its war party imposes illegal sanctions on nations targeted for regime change — part of its war on these countries by other means. | European and most other nations go along even when harming …
(2019-08-25). Trump's Trade War with China: Imagine What Would Happen if China Decided to Impose Economic Sanctions on the USA? globalresearch.ca In formulating these veiled threats, the Trump administration should think twice. These measures would inevitably backlash on the U.S. economy. China is not dependent on US imports. Quite the opposite. America is an import led economy with a weak manufacturing base, heavily dependent on imports from the PRC.
(2019-08-25). Bernie Sanders Devotes San Francisco Rally To His Free Education Platform Plank. indybay.org Students talk of their financial hardships and struggles to fund higher education…
(2019-08-25). Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal? globalresearch.ca In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: | "Let's start now to liberate the UK's extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let's develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world." | Johnson reads …
(2019-08-25). Interview: Lebanese Solidarity with Palestinian Refugees. globalresearch.ca Author's Note | For two months, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have been in rebellion against new labor laws discriminating against them and against Syrian refugees. Already denied more than 70 jobs, in order to work in Lebanon Palestinians must now apply …
(2019-08-25). Argentina: The Political Pendulum May be Swinging Left Again in Latin America. globalresearch.ca The primary vote in Argentina last August 11 indicated quite a strong rejection of neoliberal policies in a region that has seen a wave of right-wing governments coming to power in the last ten years. The current neoliberal president Mauricio …
(2019-08-25). Black Sea-Caspian Sea Connectivity Is the Future of Eurasian Integration. globalresearch.ca This week's first-ever Caspian Economic Forum in Turkmenistan resulted in the unveiling of an exciting new vision of Eurasian integration through Russian Prime Minister Medvedev's proposal to prioritize Black Sea-Caspian Sea connectivity. | *** | Most of the international media didn't report …
(2019-08-25). France: 'G7 and Its Summit Are Illegitimate', Aurelie Trouve. globalresearch.ca Environmental activists, human rights defenders, gender activists and social leaders began on Wednesday a "counter-summit" to protest the Group of Seven (G7) meeting which will be held in Biarritz, in the Basque Country, in France, from August 24 to 26….
(2019-08-25). The Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump: A Threat to American Democracy and an Agent of Chaos in the World? globalresearch.ca When 46.1% of Americans who voted for Trump in November they did not know precisely "what they were buying". They did not expect that the promised "change" the Republican presidential candidate envisioned and promised was going to be, in fact, "chaos" and "turmoil" in the U.S. government.
(2019-08-25). CIA Afghan Paramilitaries Prevent Restoration of Peace. globalresearch.ca US aggression in Afghanistan continues unabated in its 18th year. Prospects for restoring peace and stability to the war-torn are more illusory than likely. | Talks between Trump regime and Taliban representatives have been ongoing since July last year. | Claims about …
(2019-08-25). The "Irresponsibility" of Small Nations. US Missile Tests. globalresearch.ca After falsely accusing Russia of violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), Washington unilaterally repudiated the treaty. Thus did the US military/security complex rid itself of the landmark agreement achieved by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev that defused the Cold …
(2019-08-25). Online BBC Fake News on 5G Decoded: Health Impacts Denied Despite Overwhelming Scientific Evidence. globalresearch.ca Listen to BBC radio: Under the Radar Episode 4 — 5G Friend or Foe? (July 2019) here. | *** | Open letter to the "Under the Radar" BBC Programme Producer | I was hoping that I could leave it to others to …
(2019-08-25). Hong Kong Crisis: Made in America. globalresearch.ca Claims that Western interests are driving unrest in Hong Kong to undermine China have been decried across the Western media as "fake news," "disinformation," and even grounds for censorship from platforms like Facebook and Twitter. | Yet a look at the …
(2019-08-25). The Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump: A Threat to American Democracy and an Agent of Chaos in the World? globalresearch.ca When 46.1% of Americans who voted for Trump in November they did not know precisely "what they were buying". They did not expect that the promised "change" the Republican presidential candidate envisioned and promised was going to be, in fact, "chaos" and "turmoil" in the U.S. government.
(2019-08-25). Donald Trump: Israel's Chump. globalresearch.ca Ponzi finance—with its reliance on hedge funds, speculation, and other financial instruments of mass destruction—will usher in the next recession, far worse than the last one that began a decade ago. | Just about every American knows the vaunted middle class …
(2019-08-25). US Missile Test, UN Security Council Face Off: China-Russia v. US. globalresearch.ca At the request of Russia and China, a Thursday Security Council session was held on the Trump regime's development of short-and-intermediate-range missiles prohibited by the landmark 1987 INF Treaty. | The key pillar of arms control (and earlier ones) are gone …
(2019-08-25). Seven Whispers of the White Dove. indybay.org Hertz Hall | 101 Cross-Sproul Path | University of California | Berkeley, CA 94720…
(2019-08-25). Prior to 9/11: US Covert Support to Al Qaeda in Macedonia, "Financing Both Sides" globalresearch.ca This essay was first published by antiwar.com in April 2001, barely 5 months before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. | It was subsequently published by Global Research when the site was launched in September 2001. …
(2019-08-24). Charter School Fictions and Grandstanding. dissidentvoice.org 
It is no secret that charter school advocates become disingenuous and belligerent when endless problems in the scandal-ridden charter school sector are exposed, criticized, and opposed with greater depth, sophistication, and regularity. For nearly 30 years charter school promoters have been reluctant to admit, let alone come to terms with, profound problems with privately-operated nonprofit …
(2019-08-24). David Koch Is Dead. We Must Now Take On His Harmful Legacy in Higher Education. truthout.org | | As David Koch's family mourns his loss, we are taking a moment to pause and grieve, too. We grieve for the families who lost loved ones due to limited health care access. We grieve for the Black communities living alongside waterways polluted by Koch's chemical plants. We grieve for the Indigenous nations whose lands were used to build Koch's industrial wealth. We grieve the destruction of democratic values through Koch's investments in higher education. | David Koch died with a net w…
(2019-08-24). Air pollution now linked to degenerative eye disease and mental health problems in children. nationofchange.org It seems like nearly every week a new study is coming out to warn us of a new link between air pollution and various health problems. This week two new studies have revealed a link between air pollution from cars, general air pollution, and serious health problems. | A new study conducted by researchers in the United States and Denmark showed a connection between air pollution and an increased risk of mental health problems in people that spend their childhood in areas with high levels of air pollution. | When looking at the insurance data for 151 million individuals collected between 2003 and 2013 in the Unit…
(2019-08-24). Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Time to Avert Climate Catastrophe? truthout.org | | Ten years ago, two climate scientists, Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, published a groundbreaking article in Scientific American outlining a road map for becoming 100 percent reliant on energy generated by water, wind and sun by 2030. This was something that needed to be done "if the world has any hope of slowing climate change," the researchers warned at the time. | The article proved incendiary. "First of all, nobody believed…
(2019-08-24). Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate. dissidentvoice.org In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: Let's start now to liberate the UK's extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let's develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world. Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The 'GM will feed the world mantra' is pure industry spin. …
(2019-08-24). 'A Green New Deal, but for guns': Parkland students propose groundbreaking gun policy. nationofchange.org President Donald Trump may have already moved on from pushing for stronger gun control but the Parkland students haven't forgotten the massacre at their Florida high school last year. Now the students who survived the horrific mass shooting have launched a comprehensive new gun control policy described as 'A Green New Deal, but for guns.' | t.co/d9FMWq1oHt— Jaclyn Corin (@JaclynCorin) (2019-08-24). Providence Plans to Defund Its Public Schools to Expand "No Excuses" Charter. commondreams.org Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo. (Photo: Fortune Conferences/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-08-23). 'This is Not Berlin': South of the border like never before. peoplesworld.org 
The young rebels also find themselves at demonstrations and fighting their parents, teachers and the police, as part of their cultural revolution against Mexico's middle-class mores. It's to the barricades, amidst lots of generation gap angst. Marina de Tavira (who was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress for portraying the mother in Roma) plays Carlos and Maud's mamacita, who may not be as un-hip as she appears to her kiddies. | Sama's film, which has been making the festival circuit—including Sundance, Tribeca, and Outfest (where I recently saw it, coincidentally sitting beside the director)[mda…
(2019-08-23). Top 1% up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% down $900 Billion. mronline.org 
The insights of this new data series are many, but for this post here I want to highlight a single eye-popping statistic. Between 1989 and 2018, the top 1 percent increased its total net worth by $21 trillion. The bottom 50 percent actually saw its net worth decrease by $900 billion over the same period. | Source
(2019-08-23). One Woman's Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions, Seaweed, Wave Energy. dissidentvoice.org 
Symbioses — prolonged associations between organisms often widely separated phylogenetically — are more common in biology than we once thought and have been neglected as a phenomenon worthy of study on its own merits. Extending along a dynamic continuum from antagonistic to cooperative and often involving elements of both antagonism and mutualism, symbioses involve pathogens, …
(2019-08-23). Six European Countries to Receive 356 Migrants Rescued at Sea. telesurenglish.net The Government of Malta confirmed Friday that Germany, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Romania will host 356 migrants on board the Ocean Viking, a Norwegian-flagged rescue vessel chartered by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and SOS Méditerranée. | RELATED: | Italy: Officials Finally Allow 'Open Arms' Migrants to Land | " [We] welcome [the fact] t…
(2019-08-23). World Watching the Fate of Iranian Tanker. globalresearch.ca At 11: 30pm on Sunday, August 18, the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya-1 left the shores of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. This ship had been detained about six weeks previous by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar officials. The …
(2019-08-23). School closures triple in Central and Western Africa as education comes under fire. un.org A surge in "deliberate" attacks against students, teachers and schools in West and Central Africa has led to a tripling in school closures in the last year and left almost two million youngsters "robbed of an education", the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
(2019-08-23). Friday's Daily Brief: Education in Africa, Sudan flash-floods, WHO on Ebola, spike in South Sudan violence, Rwanda, Uganda move to normalize relations. un.org A recap of Friday's stories: Education under fire in Central and Western Africa; Sudan flash-floods wreak havoc; Ebola outbreak spreads, albeit with fewer transmissions; UN rights experts on South Sudan; and UN chief welcomes understanding between Rwanda and Uganda…
(2019-08-23). The "Lungs of the Earth" Are Literally Being Burned Away as Unprecedented Wildfires Absolutely Ravage Our Planet. globalresearch.ca We have never seen anything quite like this. This week the skies above Brazil's largest city turned black in the middle of the afternoon due to the massive wildfires that are currently raging in that country. But the wildfires aren't …
(2019-08-23). California Tightens Restrictions of Police Use of Lethal Force to Counter Nationwide Outrage over Unarmed Civilian Murders. globalresearch.ca A new law passed on Monday in California and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom now allows police officers to only use lethal force when it is "necessary" in response to a threat instead of the existing "reasonable" standard. | Assembly bill …
(2019-08-23). Kashmir and the US-Russia Power Play in South Asia. globalresearch.ca Russia is reluctant to jeopardize its ultra-profitable arms relationship with India by strategically "balancing" South Asia, which is why the US decided to play this irreplaceable role instead by actively seeking to cut deals in both Afghanistan and Kashmir since …
(2019-08-23). U.S. to "Drown the World" in Oil. globalresearch.ca The U.S. could "drown the world in oil" over the next decade, which, according to Global Witness, would "spell disaster" for the world's attempts to address climate change. | The U.S. is set to account for 61 percent of all new …
(2019-08-23). Giant 5G Drones in Hawaii Skies? Pushback Is Growing… globalresearch.ca As we approach the 5G Crisis: Awareness & Accountability online summit, Dr. Debra Greene uncovers a crazy development in Hawaii, in her 4-min video above, or on YouTube here. Sign the petition to help stop the 5G drone development …
(2019-08-23). Imperial Sentiments: Donald Trump, Greenland and Colonial Real Estate. globalresearch.ca Haven't the critics worked it out yet? US President Donald Trump chugs to the coal of nonsense that may come in the wrapping of some sense. Initial mad-cat comments, when cobbled together, might reveal some pattern in time. | Take, for …
(2019-08-23). "New Detente" Between Russia and The West? Impacts on the Russia-China Strategic Partnership. globalresearch.ca Macron's Mediation | The dynamics of the New Cold War might undergo a dramatic transformation if the geopolitical game-changer of a "New Detente" between Russia and the West succeeds, which is becoming increasingly possible as proven by recent events. | President Putin's …
(2019-08-23). Boris Johnson Government's High Speed 2 (HS2) Rail Link Evaluation Fatally Flawed by Incompetent Ministers. globalresearch.ca It is inappropriate that the cost benefit analysis of the largest civil construction project in Europe, worth between £56 billion and £100 billion, is essentially in the hands of a newly appointed, inexperienced transport minister with a less than savoury …
(2019-08-23). Eighty Years Ago… The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality. globalresearch.ca In a remarkable book, 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, the Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley describes how, at the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union repeatedly tried, but finally failed, to …
(2019-08-23). Trump Fine-tunes Peace Deal with Taliban. globalresearch.ca The US President Donald Trump's remarks at the Oval Office in the White House on August 20 regarding the Afghan peace talks and related issues exuded an overall sense of satisfaction that the "endless war" is finally ending —although …
(2019-08-23). Syrian Terrorists Cannot Hold Northern Hama Pocket for Long Time. globalresearch.ca The Syrian army has managed to make significant progress in clashes with "opposition" groups in Northwestern Syria, taking the strategically important city of Khan Sheikhoun. The SAA also cut the highway located to the North from the city, blocking supply …
(2019-08-23). Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Attack on Endangered Species Act. globalresearch.ca Environmental and animal protection groups today sued the Trump administration over its new regulations that dramatically weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Earthjustice filed the lawsuit on behalf of Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Natural …
(2019-08-23). US Navy "Ready" to "Restore Democracy" in Venezuela through Military Means? globalresearch.ca "I'm not going to detail what we're planning and what we're doing, but we're ready to implement policy decisions, and we're ready to act … | The United States Navy is the most powerful navy in the world. … | If there …
(2019-08-23). Bolivia Orders World's Largest Air Tanker to Combat Amazon Fires. globalresearch.ca Bolivia's President Evo Morales announced on Wednesday that Bolivia had contracted a Boeing 747 'Supertanker' to help extinguish huge forest fires in the Amazon that have that spilled over from Brazil. By Wednesday evening, the government confirmed that the tanker …
(2019-08-23). Risks to Health and Well-Being from Radio-Frequency Radiation (RFR) Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices. globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention of our readers this important scientific report on the health impacts of cellphone radio frequency radiation. | Below are relevant excerpts. To access the full report click here. | emphasis added | *** | Radiation exposure has long been …
(2019-08-23). Video: Khan Shaykhun Liberated, Northern Hama Pocket — Next. globalresearch.ca On August 21, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces liberated the town of Khan Shaykhun and the areas of Khazanat and Tal Taeri, thus fully encircling remaining militants in northern Hama. | The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham strong points …
(2019-08-23). Indigenous People's Rights and Canada's 'Vampire' Pension Plan. globalresearch.ca Wet'suwet'en people have never ceded their land through treaty; like many Indigenous people they continue to practice relations of responsibility with the places and beings that give them life, including protecting them from ecological devastation. In January 2019, the RCMP …