Daily Archives: December 15, 2019

2019-12-15: News Headlines

John Pilger (2019-12-15). Parem já com as mentiras sobre Assange. globalresearch.ca

Danica Jorden (2019-12-15). O revisionismo do Bolsonaro no Brasil. globalresearch.ca O governo do Presidente Jair Bolsonaro está embarcando em um projeto de revisà£o histórica e cultural. Em setembro, a Cinemateca Brasileira ficou " ocupada" por militares e politicos da extrema-direita que criticaram o "marxismo cultural" da instituiàßà£o e prometeram …

Thomas Drake (2019-12-15). How a Government Censored an NSA Whistleblower. commondreams.org It was the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre who finally admitted before an Australian Parliament committee that she had unilaterally directed and pressured the CyberCon conference to drop myself and an academic research professor (an Australian citizen) from the University of Melbourne as speakers.

Kristina Kristen (2019-12-15). Japan Leads the Way in Child Health: No Compulsory Vaccines. Banned Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) Vaccine. globalresearch.ca Important article first published by Children's Health Defense, posted on Global Research on April 28, 2019 | In the United States, many legislators and public health officials are busy trying to make vaccines de facto compulsory—either by removing parental/personal choice …

Larry Romanoff (2019-12-15). China's YiWu: Business Models You've Never Even Heard of. globalresearch.ca The YiWu Commodities Market | A brief bit of background for context. YiWu is the world's largest supermarket. YiWu is a small town (it's actually a city with more than one million people, but in China that's a small town) in …

General Wesley Clark (2019-12-15). Global Warfare: "We're Going to Take out 7 Countries in 5 Years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.." globalresearch.ca Originally published in March 2007. | Global Research Editor's Note: | This interview serves as a reminder regarding the diabolical timeline of America's hegemonic project. Is Iran the next target "to be taken out"? | All these countries are on the Pentagon's drawing …

Larry Romanoff (2019-12-15). Humanity at the Crossroads. globalresearch.ca Humankind is at a cusp, a point of transition between two different states of governance and existence. The world today is like a sack being slowly filled while the string around the opening is pulled increasingly tighter to prevent the …

Brett Redmayne-Titley (2019-12-15). The Humane Obligation of Conscience. Capitalist Orchestrated Horror. Desperate Protests Across the Globe. globalresearch.ca The world war of Democracy against its people is now official. | On Oct 20, 2019, Chilean president Sebastian Pinera publicly admitted the singular capitalist threat implicitly and silently embraced by virtually all politicians across our embattled Earth: Pinera formally declared …

F. William Engdahl (2019-12-15). O capital financeiro mascara-se de verde. globalresearch.ca à Clima. Quem haveria de dizer. As próprias mega-corporaàßàµes e mega-bilionários por trás da globalizaàßà£o da economia mundial nas últimas décadas, cuja busca de valor para o accionista e reduàßà£o de custos infligiu tantos danos ao meio ambiente — tanto no …

William Blum (2019-12-15). United States Bombings of Other Countries. America's "Bombing List" globalresearch.ca The important legacy of the late William Blum will live. This article was first posted on GR in June 2016. | *** | It is a scandal in contemporary international law, don't forget, that while "wanton destruction of towns, cities and villages" …

F. William Engdahl (2019-12-15). The Bogus Legend of Paul Volcker. The Break with Gold. globalresearch.ca Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve during the 1980's, has died at age 92. Major media are writing words of praise for the banker who "killed inflation" in the wake of the 1970's oil crises and food price …

teleSUR (2019-12-15). Brazil's Amazon Deforestation Rises Over 100% Year-Over-Year. telesurenglish.net Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published on Friday. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro: Torture Methods of Dictatorship to Fight Corruption | Destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest totaled 563 square km (217.38 square miles) in November, 103% more than in the same month last year, according to the country's space research agency INPE. | That wo…

Steven Sahiounie (2019-12-15). Europe Was the Main Player in Destroying Syria and Creating the Refugee Crisis. globalresearch.ca Monica Maggioni is an Italian journalist and is CEO of Rai.com, which broadcasts 'Rai News 24 TV', among others. She interviewed Syrian President, Bashar al Assad, on November 26, and the interview was to be broadcast on December 2; …

Nikolai Malishevski (2019-12-15). The Pentagon's Map of Afghanistan: An Eldorado of Mineral Wealth and Natural Resources. globalresearch.ca According to the media, The Afghanistan Papers released in early December 2019 by the Pentagon point to " US dysfunction" 'We did not know what we were doing'? | Nonsensical. They knew what they were doing. The object of US wars …

James Grundvig (2019-12-15). The Threat 5G Poses to Human Health. globalresearch.ca The crime scene was straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. One hundred and fifty dead birds lay sprawled on the ground, fallen out of trees in a park in The Hague, Netherlands. | The second such occurrence last autumn made …

Michael Welch (2019-12-15). White Helmets, James Lemesurier, and the Humanitarian Regime Change Network. globalresearch.ca THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of …

Dr. Bischara A. Egal (2019-12-15). Threat to Somalia's National Security and Existence as a Nation State. The Right to Self-Defense. globalresearch.ca On November 15, 2019 the UN security Council extended the illegal, immoral and racist 27 years of arms sanctions on Somalia which was in effect since 1992. | Through a recorded vote, the Security Council today renewed the mandate of the …

Vicky Peláez (2019-12-15). The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery? globalresearch.ca This incisive and carefully researched article was first published by Global Research eleven years ago in March 2008. | In recent developments, California has adopted legislation which bans the private prison industry from operating in the state. | "The move will probably …

It's Going Down (2019-12-15). This Is America #99: Inside The UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strike. indybay.org Welcome, to This Is America, December 12th, 2019. | On this episode, we are lucky enough to speak with two grad students involved in the growing wildcat strike that is demanding a cost of living adjustment on the University of California (UC) campus of Santa Cruz, located south of the bay area in Northern California.

Labor Video Project (2019-12-15). Stop The Cuts! Hundreds of CCSF Students & Faculty Protest 300 Class Cuts AT BOT. indybay.org Hundreds of students and faculty protested at the San Francisco Community College Board of Trustees meeting against the 300 class cuts by CCSF chancellor Mark Rocha. The board had previously voted give to big raises to executives at the community college. The cuts will also close down the senior class program.

RT (2019-12-15). 'Linked to white supremacy': Paper celebrating Google's quantum computer SOUNDS RACIST, say SJW scientists. rt.com A Google computer recently achieved "quantum supremacy," performing a calculation that'd be impossible on a regular machine. Some scientists are up in arms — not at the breakthrough, but because "supremacy" sounds vaguely racist. | Put short, a quantum computer developed by Google managed to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world's most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. The research paper on the calculation is published in Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal…

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-14). NAFTA 2.0: Revising the 1994 Agreement. globalresearch.ca According to the Wall Street Journal, it's a "template for deals to come," adding: | "The new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (has) implications for agreements beyond North America, including new bilateral deals being contemplated for China, Japan, the European Union, and the UK." …

Caitlin Johnstone (2019-12-14). Someone Interfered in the UK Election, and It Wasn't Russia. globalresearch.ca Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday. | Before you get all excited, no, it wasn't the Russians. It wasn't the Chinese, the Iranians, Cobra …

Nauman Sadiq (2019-12-14). "The Good Terrorists": How U.S. Airstrikes Helped Prop Al-Qaeda in Syria's Idlib? globalresearch.ca Al-Qaeda in Syria has two noteworthy apologists. One is the jihadist propagandist Bilal Abdul Kareem, a former correspondent for CNN, often seen in videos sporting a long beard and reporting from the ground in the al-Nusra Front strongholds in …

John LaForge (2019-12-14). O Juiz que criticou o "culto da Bomba" globalresearch.ca Numa dada circunstância, o Juiz do Distrito Federal, Miles Lord, que faleceu em 10 de Dezembro de 2016, aos 97 anos de idade, poderia ter-me aplicado uma sentenàßa de dez anos. Longe disso, o famoso Juiz sem rodeios, que era …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-14). China-US "Phase One" Trade Deal: The Devil in the Unannounced Details and Implementation. globalresearch.ca According to China's official People's Daily broadsheet, Beijing and Washington "agreed on the text of a phase one economic and trade agreement based on the principle of equality and mutual respect," adding: | "The text includes nine chapters: the preface, intellectual …

Andre Vltchek (2019-12-14). Nunca vi o Mundo tà£o fragmentado! globalresearch.ca É impressionante a facilidade com que o império ocidental está a conseguir destruir os países "rebeldes" que està£o no seu caminho, sem que haja resistência. | Trabalho em todos os cantos do planeta, onde os "conflitos" kafkianos forem desencadeados por Washington, …

Andrew Korybko (2019-12-14). Prime Minister Modi Triggers Political Instability in India's Northeastern States. globalresearch.ca Indian Prime Minister Modi has a huge crisis on his hands entirely of his own making after some of the ethno-religiously diverse Northeastern States of the so-called 'Seven Sisters' are erupting in rage after the passage of the 'Citizenship (Amendment) …

William T. Hathaway (2019-12-14). The Mother of Us All: Ancient India's Vedic Civilization. dissidentvoice.org Researchers have determined that the Vedic culture of India was the first global civilization. They have uncovered archeological and historical evidence indicating that the society which began millennia ago in the Indus Valley grew to encompass all of South Asia, then spread peacefully to many parts of the world. Science and technology in ancient India …

Joseph Thomas (2019-12-14). US Seeks Thai Opposition for Anti-China Alliance at ASEAN Summit. globalresearch.ca Why is the US talking "democracy, human rights and justice" with an opposition who lost recent elections, abuses human rights and works daily to undermine and evade justice? | Time was precious at the 35th ASEAN Summit. Leaders from across Southeast …

South Front (2019-12-14). Video: Latin America, Geopolitical Battlefield. U.S. Threatens Military Intervention. globalresearch.ca Latin America has long been regarded as the exclusive stomping ground of US economic interests, US military, and US intelligence services for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, to the point that the US public has grown to view …

IMEMC News & Agencies (2019-12-14). Samidoun Releases Statement in Support of SAIA York and Palestinian Students' Right to Organize. imemc.org Photo credit: Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses our strongest solidarity with Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University (SAIA York) and denounces the decision of York University president Rhonda Lenton to suspend SAIA as an organization after its members were the victim …

WSWS (2019-12-14). Report highlights social crisis confronting Australian youth on welfare. wsws.org Hundreds of thousands of working-class youth and students confront soaring housing and utility costs, and a deepening jobs crisis.

Susie Gardner (2019-12-14). Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. truthdig.com

WSWS (2019-12-14). New York Times uses racial politics to promote charter schools. wsws.org The New York Times recently published a dishonest article promoting racial politics in defense of charter schools.

Joan Roelofs (2019-12-13). The Science of Lethality. counterpunch.org While the Pentagon's preeminent mission is to increase lethality of the forces, DARPA notes that its cyborg technology is also used to "augment the loss of functionality from injury or disease," such as implants controlling the use of prosthetics. Nevertheless, it sees a great need for social research to dispel resistance to cyborgs or robots (synthetic autonomous agents) on ethical grounds. More

Thomas Drake (2019-12-13). Kafka Down Under: the Threat to Whistleblowers and Press Freedom in Australia. counterpunch.org It was the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre who finally admitted before an Australian Parliament committee that she had unilaterally directed and pressured CyberCon to drop myself and an academic research professor (an Australian citizen) from the University of Melbourne as speakers. I viewed the extraordinary pressure exerted by the Australian Cyber Security Centre More

news.un (2019-12-13). As COP25 goes into the night, Guterres calls for more climate ambition. news.un.org With national delegations thrashing out an outcome agreement at the UN COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, the UN chief has called on countries to be more ambitious, side strongly with science, and commit to stronger action.

Fight Back (2019-12-13). Anakbayan-USA holds 3rd congress. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – On November 30, Anakbayan-USA had their Third Congress, with more than 200 members from 12 chapters across the country in attendance. They learned lessons on solidarity, talked about the economic situation in the United States and reported back on the progress being made on a national and local level. | Anakbayan-USA had three national organizations they invited to speak on their "International Solidarity" panel: the Palestinian Youth Movement, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | CISPES and PYM spoke on bridging the gap…

Sophie Kasakove (2019-12-13). As Cities Dole Out Billions to Developers, Teachers Ask: What About Us? thenation.com As Cities Dole Out Billions to Developers, Teachers Ask: What About Us?

Tracy Keeling (2019-12-13). A Jewish academic nails the problem with the centrist reaction to Corbyn's election result. thecanary.co From the moment the BBC announced the results of its exit poll, it was clear that the establishment in Britain would seek to destroy 'Corbynism' on the back of it and take Labour back to the 'centre ground'. But a Jewish academic and media activist just nailed the major problem with that position. | You lost: | Justin Schlosberg is a senior lecturer in Journalism and Media at Birkbeck College, University of London. He's also on the …

RT (2019-12-13). Shocking VIDEO shows 14-year-old being brutally beaten on school bus for allegedly wearing MAGA hat. rt.com A disturbing video shows a Florida teenager being attacked by a group of students, purportedly because he had been seen wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat. The parents of the victim said that their son was hospitalized. | In the short clip, a young man is approached by a girl who suddenly strikes out at him. The teen tries to get up from his seat on the school bus, but is quickly pushed down, where he is punched and hit repeatedly. The girl then appears to thrust his head against the side of the bus several times. Two other students are also seen landing blows. High-pitched screaming is heard throughout…

Mohamed Elmaazi (2019-12-13). Labour activist warns against blaming left-wing policies for electoral loss. thecanary.co Labour Party activist Umaar Kazmi put out a tweet warning against blaming Labour's electoral defeat on its "common sense socialist policies". He says the Labour right will predictably blame "the shift to the left under Jeremy Corbyn". But in reality, he stresses, it was Labour's failure to stand up to right-wing attacks within the party, and its perceived 'disregard for democracy' regarding the Brexit vote. | What went wrong?: | Kazmi is a law student at Nottingham University and was a delegate for Rushc…

Gerald Meyer (2019-12-12). Sinatra's birthday today: We remember when "Old Blue Eyes" was red. peoplesworld.org This article first appeared in Science and Society in the Fall of 2002 and was run later in Political Affairs. The version that follows is abridged. Gerald Meyer taught history for many years at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York and authored the biography of him entitled "Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician." …

news.un (2019-12-11). COP25: Italy and Mexico pave the way on climate education. news.un.org A commitment by Italy and Mexico to ramp up climate and environmental education has been welcomed by the UN office which supports global efforts to respond to climate change.

Fight Back (2019-12-10). Chicago: Striking unions honored at People's Thanksgiving. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Thunderous applause greeted officers and strikers from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73 at an event sponsored by Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). The 28th People's Thanksgiving, a fundraiser for Fight Back! brought over 100 people together to recognize the historic Chicago Public School strike by the two unions. | In the words of CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates, "The work we do is to dismantle white supremacy." She vowed that the union will be "bolder, more aggressive and impatient" and to have a "Chicago that reflects the nee…

Fight Back (2019-12-09). Arizona educators, progressives confront ALEC summit and Betsy DeVos. fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – On December 4, a coalition of union educators, immigrant rights, police crimes, and climate change activists confronted the agenda of corporations like UPS and energy industry giants and billionaires like Charles Koch and Sheldon Achelson. At its height the crowd numbered around 200 with signs reading: "ALEC: Oligarchy in progress" and "Privatization, criminalization, incarceration, climate change, imperialism: #ALECisBehindIt." | The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a notorious organization of hardcore conservatives, was holding its States and Nation Policy Summit in Arizona. ALEC hoste…

news.un (2019-12-09). Human Rights Day celebrates 'tremendous activism' of the world's young people. news.un.org Activists, students and UN officials came together on Tuesday to pay tribute to young people's "tremendous activism" in promoting human rights for everyone.

Julie Hollar (2019-12-07). How Media Turn Support for Public Schools Into Opposition to Children of Color. fair.org Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential candidates are rejecting the Obama administration's embrace of charter schools, and media observers aren't taking kindly to it. "Minority Voters Chafe as Democratic Candidates Abandon Charter Schools," blared a recent New York Times headline ( 11/26/19). "The front-runners for the presidential nomination are moving away from the charter school movement, and black and Latino families ask why their concerns ar…

Matt Bruenig (2019-12-01). The Usual Incoherence on Student Benefits Is Back. peoplespolicyproject.org Of all the welfare state topics, student benefits manages to consistently attract the most incoherent and weird arguments, and the recent spate of arguments on this front are no exception. In the last week, a student benefit dustup has been instigated by Pete Buttigieg ostensibly being against free public college for millionaires and billionaires while Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are ostensibly for it. | This has set off the usual round of commentary about how Buttigieg is arguing for means-testing while Warren and Sanders are arguing f…

2019-12-15: Social Media Postees

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The Bogus Legend of Paul Volcker. The Break with Gold
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve during the 1980's, has died at age 92. Major media are writing words of praise for the banker who "killed inflation" in the wake of the 1970's oil crises and food price …
globalresearch.ca/bogus-legend-paul-volcker/5697728

White Helmets, James Lemesurier, and the Humanitarian Regime Change Network
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of | …
globalresearch.ca/white-helmets-james-lemesurier-and-the-humanitarian-regime-change-network/5697721

How a Government Censored an NSA Whistleblower
Thomas Drake | commondreams.org | 2019-12-15
It was the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre who finally admitted before an Australian Parliament committee that she had unilaterally directed and pressured the CyberCon conference to drop myself and an academic research professor (an Australian citizen) from the University of Melbourne as speakers.
commondreams.org/views/2019/12/15/how-government-censored-nsa-whistleblower?cd-origin=rss

O capital financeiro mascara-se de verde
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
à Clima. Quem haveria de dizer. As próprias mega-corporaàßàµes e mega-bilionários por trás da globalizaàßà£o da economia mundial nas últimas décadas, cuja busca de valor para o accionista e reduàßà£o de custos infligiu tantos danos ao meio ambiente — tanto no …
globalresearch.ca/o-capital-financeiro-mascara-se-de-verde/5697771

Humanity at the Crossroads
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
Humankind is at a cusp, a point of transition between two different states of governance and existence. The world today is like a sack being slowly filled while the string around the opening is pulled increasingly tighter to prevent the …
globalresearch.ca/connecting-dots-brave-new-world/5697572

The Bogus Legend of Paul Volcker. The Break with Gold
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve during the 1980's, has died at age 92. Major media are writing words of praise for the banker who "killed inflation" in the wake of the 1970's oil crises and food price …
globalresearch.ca/bogus-legend-paul-volcker/5697728

The Humane Obligation of Conscience. Capitalist Orchestrated Horror. Desperate Protests Across the Globe
Brett Redmayne-Titley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
The world war of Democracy against its people is now official. | On Oct 20, 2019, Chilean president Sebastian Pinera publicly admitted the singular capitalist threat implicitly and silently embraced by virtually all politicians across our embattled Earth: Pinera formally declared …
globalresearch.ca/humane-obligation-conscience-extinction-rebellion-world-rebellion/5697732

The Pentagon's Map of Afghanistan: An Eldorado of Mineral Wealth and Natural Resources
Nikolai Malishevski | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
According to the media, The Afghanistan Papers released in early December 2019 by the Pentagon point to " US dysfunction" 'We did not know what we were doing'? | Nonsensical. They knew what they were doing. The object of US wars …
globalresearch.ca/the-pentagon-s-map-of-afghanistan-an-eldorado-of-mineral-wealth-and-natural-resources/32265

Brazil's Amazon Deforestation Rises Over 100% Year-Over-Year
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-15
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published on Friday. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro: Torture Methods of Dictatorship to Fight Corruption | Destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest totaled 563 square km (217.38 square miles) in November, 103% more than in the same month last year, according to the country's space research agency INPE. | That wo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazils-Amazon-Deforestation-Rises-Over-100-Year-Over-Year-20191215-0005.html

The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?
Vicky Peláez | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
This incisive and carefully researched article was first published by Global Research eleven years ago in March 2008. | In recent developments, California has adopted legislation which bans the private prison industry from operating in the state. | "The move will probably | …
globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

The Humane Obligation of Conscience. Capitalist Orchestrated Horror. Desperate Protests Across the Globe
Brett Redmayne-Titley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
The world war of Democracy against its people is now official. | On Oct 20, 2019, Chilean president Sebastian Pinera publicly admitted the singular capitalist threat implicitly and silently embraced by virtually all politicians across our embattled Earth: Pinera formally declared …
globalresearch.ca/humane-obligation-conscience-extinction-rebellion-world-rebellion/5697732

Japan Leads the Way in Child Health: No Compulsory Vaccines. Banned Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) Vaccine
Kristina Kristen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
Important article first published by Children's Health Defense, posted on Global Research on April 28, 2019 | In the United States, many legislators and public health officials are busy trying to make vaccines de facto compulsory–either by removing parental/personal choice …
globalresearch.ca/japan-no-vaccine-mandates-no-mmr-vaccine-healthier-children/5675901

The Threat 5G Poses to Human Health
James Grundvig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
The crime scene was straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. One hundred and fifty dead birds lay sprawled on the ground, fallen out of trees in a park in The Hague, Netherlands. | The second such occurrence last autumn made | …
globalresearch.ca/threat-5g-poses-human-health/5697735

Europe Was the Main Player in Destroying Syria and Creating the Refugee Crisis
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
Monica Maggioni is an Italian journalist and is CEO of Rai.com, which broadcasts 'Rai News 24 TV', among others. She interviewed Syrian President, Bashar al Assad, on November 26, and the interview was to be broadcast on December 2; …
globalresearch.ca/europe-main-layer-destroying-syria-creating-refugee-crisis/5697753

Threat to Somalia's National Security and Existence as a Nation State. The Right to Self-Defense
Dr. Bischara A. Egal | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
On November 15, 2019 the UN security Council extended the illegal, immoral and racist 27 years of arms sanctions on Somalia which was in effect since 1992. | Through a recorded vote, the Security Council today renewed the mandate of the …
globalresearch.ca/unsc-resolution-2498-2019-extension-arms-sanctions-somalia-threat-somali-security/5697744

O revisionismo do Bolsonaro no Brasil
Danica Jorden | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
O governo do Presidente Jair Bolsonaro está embarcando em um projeto de revisà£o histórica e cultural. Em setembro, a Cinemateca Brasileira ficou " ocupada" por militares e politicos da extrema-direita que criticaram o "marxismo cultural" da instituiàßà£o e prometeram …
globalresearch.ca/o-revisionismo-do-bolsonaro-no-brasil/5697779

China's YiWu: Business Models You've Never Even Heard of
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
The YiWu Commodities Market | A brief bit of background for context. YiWu is the world's largest supermarket. YiWu is a small town (it's actually a city with more than one million people, but in China that's a small town) in …
globalresearch.ca/chinese-innovation-business-models-never-heard/5697741

China's YiWu: Business Models You've Never Even Heard of
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
The YiWu Commodities Market | A brief bit of background for context. YiWu is the world's largest supermarket. YiWu is a small town (it's actually a city with more than one million people, but in China that's a small town) in …
globalresearch.ca/chinese-innovation-business-models-never-heard/5697741

United States Bombings of Other Countries. America's "Bombing List"
William Blum | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
The important legacy of the late William Blum will live. This article was first posted on GR in June 2016. | *** | It is a scandal in contemporary international law, don't forget, that while "wanton destruction of towns, cities and villages" …
globalresearch.ca/united-states-bombings-of-other-countries-americas-bombing-list/5533371

Europe Was the Main Player in Destroying Syria and Creating the Refugee Crisis
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
Monica Maggioni is an Italian journalist and is CEO of Rai.com, which broadcasts 'Rai News 24 TV', among others. She interviewed Syrian President, Bashar al Assad, on November 26, and the interview was to be broadcast on December 2; …
globalresearch.ca/europe-main-layer-destroying-syria-creating-refugee-crisis/5697753

Global Warfare: "We're Going to Take out 7 Countries in 5 Years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.."
General Wesley Clark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
Originally published in March 2007. | Global Research Editor's Note: | This interview serves as a reminder regarding the diabolical timeline of America's hegemonic project. Is Iran the next target "to be taken out"? | All these countries are on the Pentagon's drawing …
globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166

The Threat 5G Poses to Human Health
James Grundvig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
The crime scene was straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. One hundred and fifty dead birds lay sprawled on the ground, fallen out of trees in a park in The Hague, Netherlands. | The second such occurrence last autumn made | …
globalresearch.ca/threat-5g-poses-human-health/5697735

Global Warfare: "We're Going to Take out 7 Countries in 5 Years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.."
General Wesley Clark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
Originally published in March 2007. | Global Research Editor's Note: | This interview serves as a reminder regarding the diabolical timeline of America's hegemonic project. Is Iran the next target "to be taken out"? | All these countries are on the Pentagon's drawing …
globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166

The Pentagon's Map of Afghanistan: An Eldorado of Mineral Wealth and Natural Resources
Nikolai Malishevski | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-15
According to the media, The Afghanistan Papers released in early December 2019 by the Pentagon point to " US dysfunction" 'We did not know what we were doing'? | Nonsensical. They knew what they were doing. The object of US wars …
globalresearch.ca/the-pentagon-s-map-of-afghanistan-an-eldorado-of-mineral-wealth-and-natural-resources/32265

This Is America #99: Inside The UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strike
It's Going Down | indybay.org | 2019-12-15
Welcome, to This Is America, December 12th, 2019. | On this episode, we are lucky enough to speak with two grad students involved in the growing wildcat strike that is demanding a cost of living adjustment on the University of California (UC) campus of Santa Cruz, located south of the bay area in Northern California.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/13/18828875.php

Stop The Cuts! Hundreds of CCSF Students & Faculty Protest 300 Class Cuts AT BOT
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-12-15
Hundreds of students and faculty protested at the San Francisco Community College Board of Trustees meeting against the 300 class cuts by CCSF chancellor Mark Rocha. The board had previously voted give to big raises to executives at the community college. The cuts will also close down the senior class program.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828883.php

'Linked to white supremacy': Paper celebrating Google's quantum computer SOUNDS RACIST, say SJW scientists
rt.com | 2019-12-15
A Google computer recently achieved "quantum supremacy," performing a calculation that'd be impossible on a regular machine. Some scientists are up in arms — not at the breakthrough, but because "supremacy" sounds vaguely racist. | Put short, a quantum computer developed by Google managed to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world's most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. The research paper on the calculation is published in Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal…
rt.com/usa/475957-google-quantum-supremacy-computer-racist/

The Mother of Us All: Ancient India's Vedic Civilization
William T. Hathaway | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-14
Researchers have determined that the Vedic culture of India was the first global civilization. They have uncovered archeological and historical evidence indicating that the society which began millennia ago in the Indus Valley grew to encompass all of South Asia, then spread peacefully to many parts of the world. Science and technology in ancient India …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/the-mother-of-us-all-ancient-indias-vedic-civilization/

Prime Minister Modi Triggers Political Instability in India's Northeastern States
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Indian Prime Minister Modi has a huge crisis on his hands entirely of his own making after some of the ethno-religiously diverse Northeastern States of the so-called 'Seven Sisters' are erupting in rage after the passage of the 'Citizenship (Amendment) …
globalresearch.ca/prime-minister-modi-triggers-political-instability-in-indias-northeastern-states/5697619

China-US "Phase One" Trade Deal: The Devil in the Unannounced Details and Implementation
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
According to China's official People's Daily broadsheet, Beijing and Washington "agreed on the text of a phase one economic and trade agreement based on the principle of equality and mutual respect," adding: | "The text includes nine chapters: the preface, intellectual | …
globalresearch.ca/sino-us-phase-one-trade-deal/5697679

US Seeks Thai Opposition for Anti-China Alliance at ASEAN Summit
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Why is the US talking "democracy, human rights and justice" with an opposition who lost recent elections, abuses human rights and works daily to undermine and evade justice? | Time was precious at the 35th ASEAN Summit. Leaders from across Southeast …
globalresearch.ca/us-seeks-thai-opposition-anti-china-alliance-asean-summit/5697671

"The Good Terrorists": How U.S. Airstrikes Helped Prop Al-Qaeda in Syria's Idlib?
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Al-Qaeda in Syria has two noteworthy apologists. One is the jihadist propagandist Bilal Abdul Kareem, a former correspondent for CNN, often seen in videos sporting a long beard and reporting from the ground in the al-Nusra Front strongholds in …
globalresearch.ca/how-american-airstrikes-helped-prop-al-qaeda-syria-idlib/5697665

O Juiz que criticou o "culto da Bomba"
John LaForge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Numa dada circunstância, o Juiz do Distrito Federal, Miles Lord, que faleceu em 10 de Dezembro de 2016, aos 97 anos de idade, poderia ter-me aplicado uma sentenàßa de dez anos. Longe disso, o famoso Juiz sem rodeios, que era …
globalresearch.ca/o-juiz-que-criticou-o-culto-da-bomba/5697703

Nunca vi o Mundo tà£o fragmentado!
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
É impressionante a facilidade com que o império ocidental está a conseguir destruir os países "rebeldes" que està£o no seu caminho, sem que haja resistência. | Trabalho em todos os cantos do planeta, onde os "conflitos" kafkianos forem desencadeados por Washington, …
globalresearch.ca/nunca-vi-o-mundo-tao-fragmentado/5697707

Someone Interfered in the UK Election, and It Wasn't Russia
Caitlin Johnstone | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday. | Before you get all excited, no, it wasn't the Russians. It wasn't the Chinese, the Iranians, Cobra …
globalresearch.ca/someone-interfered-uk-election-it-wasnt-russia/5697667

Video: Latin America, Geopolitical Battlefield. U.S. Threatens Military Intervention
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Latin America has long been regarded as the exclusive stomping ground of US economic interests, US military, and US intelligence services for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, to the point that the US public has grown to view …
globalresearch.ca/video-latin-america-new-old-hot-point-geopolitical-battlefield/5697687

NAFTA 2.0: Revising the 1994 Agreement
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
According to the Wall Street Journal, it's a "template for deals to come," adding: | "The new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (has) implications for agreements beyond North America, including new bilateral deals being contemplated for China, Japan, the European Union, and the UK." | …
globalresearch.ca/nafta-2-0-revising-1994-agreement/5697683

Nunca vi o Mundo tà£o fragmentado!
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
É impressionante a facilidade com que o império ocidental está a conseguir destruir os países "rebeldes" que està£o no seu caminho, sem que haja resistência. | Trabalho em todos os cantos do planeta, onde os "conflitos" kafkianos forem desencadeados por Washington, …
globalresearch.ca/nunca-vi-o-mundo-tao-fragmentado/5697707

NAFTA 2.0: Revising the 1994 Agreement
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
According to the Wall Street Journal, it's a "template for deals to come," adding: | "The new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (has) implications for agreements beyond North America, including new bilateral deals being contemplated for China, Japan, the European Union, and the UK." | …
globalresearch.ca/nafta-2-0-revising-1994-agreement/5697683

Report highlights social crisis confronting Australian youth on welfare
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
Hundreds of thousands of working-class youth and students confront soaring housing and utility costs, and a deepening jobs crisis.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/acos…

Samidoun Releases Statement in Support of SAIA York and Palestinian Students' Right to Organize
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-14
Photo credit: Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses our strongest solidarity with Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University (SAIA York) and denounces the decision of York University president Rhonda Lenton to suspend SAIA as an organization after its members were the victim …
imemc.org/article/samidoun-releases-statement-in-support-of-saia-york-and-palestinian-students-right-to-organize/

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Susie Gardner | truthdig.com | 2019-12-14
truthdig.com/bazaar/lies-my-teacher-told-me-everything-your-american-history-textbook-got-wrong/

New York Times uses racial politics to promote charter schools
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
The New York Times recently published a dishonest article promoting racial politics in defense of charter schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/time…

The Science of Lethality
Joan Roelofs | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
While the Pentagon's preeminent mission is to increase lethality of the forces, DARPA notes that its cyborg technology is also used to "augment the loss of functionality from injury or disease," such as implants controlling the use of prosthetics. Nevertheless, it sees a great need for social research to dispel resistance to cyborgs or robots (synthetic autonomous agents) on ethical grounds.
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/the-science-of-lethality/

Kafka Down Under: the Threat to Whistleblowers and Press Freedom in Australia
Thomas Drake | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
It was the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre who finally admitted before an Australian Parliament committee that she had unilaterally directed and pressured CyberCon to drop myself and an academic research professor (an Australian citizen) from the University of Melbourne as speakers. I viewed the extraordinary pressure exerted by the Australian Cyber Security Centre…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/kafka-down-under-the-threat-to-whistleblowers-and-press-freedom-in-australia/

As COP25 goes into the night, Guterres calls for more climate ambition
news.un.org | 2019-12-13
With national delegations thrashing out an outcome agreement at the UN COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, the UN chief has called on countries to be more ambitious, side strongly with science, and commit to stronger action.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/12/1053521

Anakbayan-USA holds 3rd congress
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-12-13
Los Angeles, CA – On November 30, Anakbayan-USA had their Third Congress, with more than 200 members from 12 chapters across the country in attendance. They learned lessons on solidarity, talked about the economic situation in the United States and reported back on the progress being made on a national and local level. | Anakbayan-USA had three national organizations they invited to speak on their "International Solidarity" panel: the Palestinian Youth Movement, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | CISPES and PYM spoke on bridging the gap…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/12/13/anakbay…

As Cities Dole Out Billions to Developers, Teachers Ask: What About Us?
Sophie Kasakove | thenation.com | 2019-12-13
As Cities Dole Out Billions to Developers, Teachers Ask: What About Us?
thenation.com/article/teachers-strike-chicago-taxes/

Labour activist warns against blaming left-wing policies for electoral loss
Mohamed Elmaazi | thecanary.co | 2019-12-13
Labour Party activist Umaar Kazmi put out a tweet warning against blaming Labour's electoral defeat on its "common sense socialist policies". He says the Labour right will predictably blame "the shift to the left under Jeremy Corbyn". But in reality, he stresses, it was Labour's failure to stand up to right-wing attacks within the party, and its perceived 'disregard for democracy' regarding the Brexit vote. | What went wrong?: | Kazmi is a law student at Nottingham University and was a delegate for Rushc…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/12/13/labour-activist-warns-against-blaming-left-wing-policies-for-electoral-loss/

Shocking VIDEO shows 14-year-old being brutally beaten on school bus for allegedly wearing MAGA hat
rt.com | 2019-12-13
A disturbing video shows a Florida teenager being attacked by a group of students, purportedly because he had been seen wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat. The parents of the victim said that their son was hospitalized. | In the short clip, a young man is approached by a girl who suddenly strikes out at him. The teen tries to get up from his seat on the school bus, but is quickly pushed down, where he is punched and hit repeatedly. The girl then appears to thrust his head against the side of the bus several times. Two other students are also seen landing blows. High-pitched screaming is heard throughout…
rt.com/usa/475816-maga-hat-attack-teen-video/