(2019-09-24). Youth lead as millions march in Global Climate Strike. workers.org 
Sept. 20 — Around the world today, it's estimated that 4 million people took to the streets in an unprecedented Global Climate Strike, led for the most part by youth under 18. Many students walked out of school in unexcused absences, while others came with teachers or parents. Many young . . . | Continue reading Youth lead as millions march in Global Climate Strike at Workers.org
(2019-09-24). Nate Silver and the Pitfalls of the Corporate Pundit Class. therealnews.com 
Political statistician and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight Nate Silver found himself in hot water recently when he seemed to refer to the diverse supporters of Bernie Sanders' campaign as "residue." Jacqueline Luqman talks to Anoa Changa about why that language, and the bias of the corporate pundit class, is an issue.
(2019-09-24). Gun Violence Memorial Project allows victims to speak, even in death. peoplesworld.org 
CHICAGO—"Kaylyn was visiting my parents. She was coming home when she was shot in a drive-by shooting," said Alan Scott softly, the painful memory plainly etched in his voice. His daughter, Kaylyn Nicole Pryor, was a student at Robert Morris College when she was killed in 2015. Scott had come to the opening of the …
(2019-09-24). Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military's Experiments with Climatic Warfare. globalresearch.ca 'Climatic warfare' has been excluded from the agenda on climate change.
(2019-09-24). Russia's Middle East Strategy: "Balance" vs. "Betrayal"? globalresearch.ca There's an intense debate raging within the Alternative and Independent media over whether Russia's contemporary Mideast strategy amounts to "balancing" or "betraying" the Resistance given the Eurasian Great Power's extremely close military cooperation with "Israel" in Syria. | The Freakish Fusion …
(2019-09-24). A Damning Verdict by the Supreme Court against Boris Johnson Who Should Now Resign with his Cabinet. globalresearch.ca In a verdict unprecedented in British legal and constitutional history, the Supreme Court consisting of eleven of the most senior justices, today ruled unanimously that the current Conservative Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, had acted unlawfully in his prorogation (suspension …
(2019-09-24). Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to be Released in the US? Trump Ally Pushes for Permit. globalresearch.ca Documents obtained through the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show a lobbyist and leading Trump fundraiser, his billionaire friend who owns the GM mosquito firm Oxitec, and the US EPA's then boss met to discuss how to forward Oxitec's …
(2019-09-24). Tiananmen Square: The Failure of an American-instigated 1989 Color Revolution. globalresearch.ca There are few places in China that seem more burned into the consciousness of typical Westerners than Tiananmen Square, and few events more commonly mentioned than the student protests of 1989. But the stories are wrong on several levels. It …
(2019-09-24). US Election Candidates: As Joe Biden Falters, Will Elizabeth Warren Survive the Scrutiny. globalresearch.ca Despite early polls which showed some of the 'top tier' Democrat candidates beating Trump in a general election, the last DNC debate left considerable question as to whether there was enough substance on that stage to win the White House….
(2019-09-24). Human Rights Rhetoric at the UN Is Not Enough to Combat the US Blockade on Cuba. globalresearch.ca The latest tightening of US sanctions on Cuba which have led to a fuel crisis in the country, expose the futility of UN diplomacy when it comes to upholding its own definitions of international law. Since 1962, Cuba has been …
(2019-09-24). Humanitarian Crisis in Kashmir: India's "Economic Opening" Has "Closed Off Kashmir" globalresearch.ca The following is the speech that Andrew Korybko gave at the "Humanitarian Crisis In Kashmir: Paths To A Resolution" conference that was held in Moscow on 23 September. | We're here today to draw attention to what's been happening in Indian-Occupied …
(2019-09-24). Why a War Against Iran Will be the "Nail in a Coffin" for U.S. Hegemony in the Middle East. globalresearch.ca First published in July 2019 | President Donald Trump was recently interviewed on Fox Business and was asked about Iran's President Hassan Rouhani's statement calling the White House "Mentally Retarded" and if the U.S. was going to have a war …
(2019-09-24). The Rockefeller Way: The Family's Covert 'Climate Change' Plan. globalresearch.ca First published in December 2016, this article is of relevance to an understanding of the ongoing Climate, Extinction Rebellion debate. | Who is funding the "Protest Movement" | "Beginning in the 1980s, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund became leading advocates of the global …
(2019-09-24). Climate Disruption: It's Not Due to CO2. globalresearch.ca Professor Claudia von Werlhof wrote to Greta Thunberg. | In her letter Von Werlhof says that the disruption of the global climate is not due to CO2. | Following the publication of her letter, Silvia Terribili, of Onda Italia interviewed …
(2019-09-24). American Torture Techniques Were Developed At McGill University. globalresearch.ca Many Canadians have been closely following the beginning of the Trump presidency, watching in shock and horror as Trump passes a series of authoritarian executive orders. | One executive order in particular, planned for the near future, is poised to resurrect …
(2019-09-24). Syrian Army Prepares for Escalation in Golan Heights. globalresearch.ca On September 21, an EW unit of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) intercepted and took control of a large quadcopter-style unmanned aerial vehicle over the town of Erneh, near the contact line between the SAA and the Israeli-occupied part of …
(2019-09-24). Dialogue in Venezuela is a Missed Opportunity for Democrats. globalresearch.ca President Nicolás Maduro signed an important agreement with four opposition parties. These events offer insight …
(2019-09-24). The Treatment of Schizophrenia and Dr Loren Mosher's Soteria Project. globalresearch.ca "Psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies…We're so busy with drugs that you can't find a nickel being spent on [non-drug] research." — Dr Loren Mosher | Psychiatrist Loren Mosher (who earned medical degrees from both Harvard …
(2019-09-24). Full Spectrum Dominance: The US Demonizes "Invented Enemies" globalresearch.ca Hegemon USA needs enemies to advance its imperial aims. None exist so they're invented. | The scheme is all about pursuing what the Pentagon's May 2000 Joint Vision 2020 called "full-spectrum dominance." | It refers to unchallenged US control over planet earth, …
(2019-09-24). The Coverup of President John F. Kennedy's Assassination Is Wearing Thin. globalresearch.ca Below is a several years old documentary of 35 minutes summarizing the powerful evidence that the Warran Commission Report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is a cover-up. | All available evidence points to the CIA and the US …
(2019-09-24). India, Pakistan, Kashmir: Taking the War Option Off the Table. globalresearch.ca On September 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York. This appearance will come at a time of great concern about the increasingly hostile …
(2019-09-24). 5G Danger: 13 Reasons 5G Wireless Technology Will Be a Catastrophe for Humanity. globalresearch.ca The 5G danger can't be overstated. | 5G (5th Generation) is now being actively rolled out in many cities around the world. Simultaneously, as awareness over its horrific health and privacy impacts is rising, many places are issuing moratoriums on it …
(2019-09-24). Hot and Cold Tensions, What Iran and the US Offer Their Allies: Tehran's Multiple Messages. globalresearch.ca The alternately hot and cold tension between the US and Iran is evolving on the Middle Eastern stage where Tehran is hitting its enemies (on its own and with the help of its allies) without causing the death of a …
(2019-09-24). 8000 march at Youth Climate Strike in St. Paul, MN. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – More than 8000 students, youth and their supporters marched to the State Capitol, September 20, joining the global Youth Climate Strike. As the protest poured onto the capitol grounds, they chanted, "Hey hey, ho ho, climate change has got to go," and "There is no planet B!" They joined millions from around the world. | Daylon Prochaska, a Chaska High School student and member of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike who helped organize the Twin Cities school walkout, stated, "Never has there been such an incredible mobilization here and on international the scale or ever in the history of the world." | Aft…
(2019-09-24). Extinction Rebellion: Leaving it to the Students. counterpunch.org The protestor of school age sported a placard featuring a distorted caricature of Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison: "Scomo was liking it hot". A glorious spring day, and a gathering was already fussing and buzzing outside the Victorian State Library and students were striking. The placard image was one that toasted both ways — looking More
(2019-09-24). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Argentine teachers have set a September 25 date for a nationwide strike to press wage demands while 1,000 hospitality workers in Vancouver, British Columbia have launched an indefinite strike…
(2019-09-24). Alexandrópolis, a nova base USA contra a Rússia. globalresearch.ca "Acabei de voltar de Alexandrópolis, uma visita estrategicamente importante que se concentrou nas relaàßàµes militares excepcionais entre os Estados Unidos e a Grécia e no investimento estratégico que o governo dos EUA está a fazer em Alexandrópolis": declarou, em 16 …
(2019-09-24). Alessandropoli, nuova base Usa contro la Russia. globalresearch.ca ´Sono appena ritornato da Alessandropoli, una visita strategicamente importante che ha messo a fuoco sia le eccezionali relazioni militari fra Stati uniti e Grecia, sia l'investimento strategico che il governo degli Stati uniti sta facendo ad Alessandropoli ª: lo ha dichiarato …
(2019-09-24). Boris Johnson Tells "Big Business" What a Post-Brexit Deal Really Means for Them. globalresearch.ca After yet more failed talks with EU leaders over the backstop for Northern Ireland in New York while attending the UN summit, Boris Johnson took the opportunity to sell to America what Britain will be offering them in a no-deal …
(2019-09-24). UK Supreme Court Rules Parliament Shutdown Illegal. Boris Misled the Queen. globalresearch.ca Since taking office on July 24, virtually everything Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson put to a vote was defeated — an unparalleled record of failure over a short period, especially for a new leader. | Notably, Johnson lost every no-deal Brexit/snap …
(2019-09-24). Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual. globalresearch.ca Much of the following article is based on a new 20-page report by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason. Readers are urged to access the full report containing all relevant citations here. | In a new paper published in King's Law …
(2019-09-23). Debating the bedrock of climate-change mitigation scenarios. mronline.org 
Researchers and policymakers rely on computer simulations called integrated assessment models to determine the best strategies for tackling climate change. Here, scientists present opposing views on the suitability of these simulations. | Source
(2019-09-23). On the Liberty to Teach, Pursue, and Discuss Knowledge without Restriction. dissidentvoice.org 
It didn't take long for the American Administration to crudely interfere with an open society's most sacred ethos, that of academic freedom. We learned this weekend that the US Department of Education has ordered Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to remake their joint Middle East studies program after concluding …
(2019-09-23). Millions march against climate change, capitalism and war. mronline.org 
Four million people participated in the global climate strike across every continent on Friday, many of them students who skipped school on that day. Demonstrations at more than 5,800 locations in 161 countries began in Australia and the Pacific, moved to Asia, Antarctica, Africa and Europe, and then to North and South America. This is […] | Source
(2019-09-23). From scientist to activist. mronline.org 
"Dr. Doom." fellow students joked as we walked out of our department seminar. It was 1998 and the presenter was Richard Gammon, a co-author of the first IPCC report. I didn't share my fellow University of Washington grad students' joke. I was uneasy, wondering about the timing of forecasts and feedback loops. | Source
(2019-09-23). Milwaukee: Hundreds march for the planet. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On the morning of September 20, more than 500 people gathered and marched in downtown Milwaukee to defend the planet. The crowd included a wide variety of people from all different backgrounds and of all different ages. The leaders were young, Black, and predominantly women. | After gathering strength at city hall, demonstrators were led on a nearly two mile march by a handful of students from North Division High School. The student activists are part of a group organized in their school called Youth Rising Up. For many of these young adults, it was their first experience protesting anything, and…
(2019-09-23). What Back-to-School News Stories Hide About Charter Schools. progressive.org Behind the feel-good puffery are issues about the loss of local control, under-funded schools, and public money used for private gain.
(2019-09-23). "Our House Is on Fire": Greta Thunberg Addresses Hundreds of Thousands at NYC Climate Strike. democracynow.org 
Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg spoke at Friday's climate strike in New York, where an estimated 300,000 people took to the streets. Thunberg inspired the global spread of weekly climate strikes when she started skipping school to protest outside of the Swedish parliament last year. "We will not just stand aside and watch," Thunberg told a crowd of thousands in her speech at Manhattan's Battery Park. "We are united behind the science, and we will do everything in our power to stop this crisis from getting worse."
(2019-09-23). "This Is Our Time. This Is Our Future." Voices from the Historic Youth Climate Strike in NYC. democracynow.org 
As many as 4 million people around the world took to the streets Friday in the largest day of action focused on the climate crisis. Students across the globe led climate strikes in hundreds of countries, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. The demonstration kicked off in Foley Square, where tens of thousands of people gathered before the march. Varshini Prakash, co-founder and executive director of the Sunrise Movement, and climate activist Vic Barrett were among the handful of activists who addressed the climate strikers in Foley Square.
(2019-09-23). Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches the most bizarre attack on Labour's vote to abolish private schools. thecanary.co 
On 22 September, delegates at the Labour Party annual conference in Brighton voted for a motion to abolish private schools. The plan would see the removal of their charitable status and a redistribution of their properties to the state. Delegates approved this motion to become part of Labour's next election manifesto. | It…
(2019-09-21). Ghost post! Google creates world's most powerful computer, NASA 'accidentally reveals' …and then publication vanishes. rt.com 
Google's new quantum computer reportedly spends mere minutes on the tasks the world's top supercomputers would need several millennia to perform. The media found out about this after NASA "accidentally" shared the firm's research. | The software engineers at Google have built the world's most powerful computer, the Financial Times and Fortune magazine reported on Friday, citing the company's now-removed research paper. The paper is said to have been posted on a website hosted by NASA, which partners with Goo…
(2019-09-20). The Supreme Court Considers Mandatory Government Funding of Religious Education. aclu.org A case out of Montana could result in the church-state separation being stripped to the bone. | In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Supreme Court will address a question that would have been unthinkable to ask even until quite recently: Can a state be forced to underwrite religious education with taxpayer dollars? Although the court has previously allowed the government to adopt school-voucher programs that provide indirect government aid to religious schools, it has never suggested that the U.S. Cons…
(2019-09-20). Two Years After the Hurricane, Puerto Rico's "Generation Maria" Leads a Climate Strike. theintercept.com One of the most important moments in 16-year-old Tristán Queriot Rodríguez Vélez's climate activism came at the international airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in mid-July. Puerto Rico's former secretary of education, Julia Keleher, was flying back to the island from Washington, D.C. to stand before a federal judge and confront corruption charges. Rodríguez Vélez and…
(2019-09-20). "Young People Have Had Enough": Global Climate Strike Youth Activists on Why They Are Marching Today. democracynow.org 
Today is the Global Climate Strike, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. As people took to the streets in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, we host a roundtable discussion with youth activists organizing marches in the United States — in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis — ahead of next week's U.N. Climate Action Summit. We are joined by Xiye Bastida, a 17-year-old climate justice activist originally from Mexico who is an organizer with Fridays for Future New York and a student at Beacon High School in New York; Katie Eder, a 19-year-old climate justice activist wh…
(2019-09-20). This Afghan Teen Was Set to Join First-Ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit, But U.S. Denied His Visa. democracynow.org 
Climate youth activist Nasratullah Elham of Afghanistan was invited to participate in the first-ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit, but the United States rejected his visa. He breaks the sound barrier to join us from Phuket, Thailand, where he is a 12th grade student, and says his activism is based on the crisis's impact on his home country. "The poor people there are very badly affected in a situation [where] they do not really have much carbon emissions," he says.
(2019-09-20). Headlines for September 20, 2019. democracynow.org Students Across the World Walk Out of Classes in Global Climate Strike, Two Die in Texas as Storm Dumps 40 Inches of Rain on Houston Area, Red Cross: 2 Million Need Humanitarian Aid Every Week Due to Climate Crisis, Bird Population in U.S. & Canada Dropped by Nearly 3 Billion Since 1970, Benny Gantz Declares Victory, Rejects Overture from Netanyahu, Trudeau Apologizes Again as New Blackface Photos Emerge, Funeral Held in Afghanistan After U.S. Drone Strike Killed 30 Civilians, Mostly Farmers, Kashmiris Sue Modi in U.S. Court as Trump Prepares to Appear with Indian PM at Texas Rally, Report: Whistleblower Complain…
(2019-09-19). California Is Ready to Ensure Every Public College Student Has Access to Abortion. aclu.org The state legislature has passed the first bill in the nation ensuring medication abortion is available on UC and CSU campuses. | In a year when we've seen states throughout the South and Midwest move to ban abortion and restrict access to reproductive health, California could soon cement its reputation as a leader in reproductive freedom. This past week, the state legislature passed SB 24 to ensure that medication abortion is available to college students in public universities. | Jessy Rosales, a UC student, stru…
(2019-09-19). Amnesty Head: Climate Crisis Is a "Death Penalty" for Humanity. Leaders Need Political Will to Act. democracynow.org 
More than a million students are expected to walk out of class on Friday in a Global Climate Strike, with more than 800 climate strikes scheduled in the United States alone. Strikes are also being organized in another 150 countries around the world. In our New York studio, we speak to Amnesty International's Secretary General Kumi Naidoo, who has urged school districts across the globe to allow students to walk out of school on Friday without facing punishment. In a letter, Naidoo, who is also the former executive director of Greenpeace, writes, "Children should not be punished for speaking out about the great in…
(2019-09-18). "Beaten Down, Worked Up": Steven Greenhouse on the Past, Present and Future of American Labor. democracynow.org 
As UAW workers stand on picket lines across the country, teachers prepare to strike in Chicago, and thousands of healthcare workers with Kaiser Permanente plan to strike in October, we speak with longtime labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, author of the new book "Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor." Among other issues, Greenhouse discusses how labor and climate activists are teaming up to push for a Green New Deal.
(2019-09-18). Headlines for September 18, 2019. democracynow.org Israeli PM Netanyahu Fails to Win Majority in Deadlocked Election, Climate Researchers Warn of Potential 7 Degree Temperature Rise by 2100, Greta Thunberg Tells U.S. Senators to Work Harder on Climate Crisis, Tropical Depression to Dump 18 Inches of Rain on Parts of Texas Gulf Coast, Trump Admin Seeks to Revoke California's Auto Emissions Standards, "I Have No Obligation to Be Honest to the Media," Testifies Trump's Ex-Campaign Manager, Trump Tells Campaign Rally in New Mexico, "We Love Our Hispanics", U.S. Senate Votes to Sanction China over Violations of Uyghurs' Human Rights , 75 Countries Using Artificial Int…