Daily Archives: December 29, 2019

2019-12-29: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-12-29). Global War on Humanity: America's Unceasing Pursuit of Hegemony. globalresearch.ca Essentially what we're looking at is a broader historical perspective on how the US de facto supported Nazi Germany with a view to destroying the Soviet Union as well as weakening the British Empire and competing empires including of course France, Belgium, Holland, etc. And those countries today are no longer colonial powers.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-12-29). Global Warming: "Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy" globalresearch.ca Both the concepts and the data have been adjusted and shaped to fit the agenda of the UN Panel on Climate Change.

Kurt Nimmo (2019-12-29). Get Ready to Fight Israel's Next War. Asking America to do the "Dirty Work" globalresearch.ca It will be up to you, the clueless American citizen, to fight and pay for Israel's war against its neighbors. This coming war was announced this week by Aviv Kochavi, the Israel Defense Force chief of staff. | Max Blumenthal …

Guy Mettan (2019-12-29). The Long History of Russophobia, Starting with Its Religious Roots. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published on June 9, 2016. | The former editor of the Tribune de Genève, [Guy Mettan-RI] visited Moscow and presented his new book Russia and the West: A Thousand Year War, which reviews the phenomenon of Russophobia: …

Andrew Korybko (2019-12-29). The Burkina Faso Time Bomb Is About to Blow, and It Might Take Down West Africa. globalresearch.ca The landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso is a time bomb that's about to explode as evidenced by the drastic increase in terrorist-related violence there over the past year and its attendant humanitarian consequences, yet both the region and …

Michael Welch (2019-12-29). Austerity and its Consequences. America Threatens to Self-destruct if Other Countries don't Obey it. globalresearch.ca "If the free-traders cannot understand how one nation can grow rich at the expense of another, we need not wonder, since these same gentlemen also refuse to understand how within one country one class can enrich itself at the …

True Publica (2019-12-29). British Democracy on Death Row. globalresearch.ca It's all over the internet — you must have read about it by now. It's all about Page 48 — and it is here that democracy dies in Britain. It was in the Conservative Manifesto. But the country voted for …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-29). Turkey Sending Troops to Libya? Erdogan Supported Tripoli Forces to Fight Trump Supported Haftar Forces? globalresearch.ca It appears likely. According to Turkey's Anadolu news agency, President Erdogan will send troops to Libya to support the Tripoli-based/UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA). | It's combatting Trump-supported/longtime CIA asset/warlord Khalifa Haftar for control of the country. | Anadolu news said …

Larry Romanoff (2019-12-29). The Criminalisation of Protest in America. globalresearch.ca The US today freely interferes in the governments of so many other nations, fueling unrest and financing violence, seeking to impose on these countries a peculiarly American form of "open government" which it can control, but has always severely restricted …

Matt Field (2019-12-29). As the US, China, and Russia Build New Nuclear Weapons Systems, How Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) be Built in? What are the Dangers? globalresearch.ca Researchers in the United States and elsewhere are paying a lot of attention to the prospect that in the coming years new nuclear weapons—and the infrastructure built to operate them—will include greater levels of artificial intelligence and automation. …

Ellen Brown (2019-12-29). The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet. globalresearch.ca The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable. In a Washington Post article titled " The Green New Deal

Middle East Eye (2019-12-29). Israel's Strike that Killed Nine Members of al-Sawarka Family. Mistakenly "Categorized as a Military Compound" globalresearch.ca Israel has said that an attack on the Gaza Strip which killed nine Palestinians from the same family happened after the premises were mistakenly categorised as a "military compound" used by Islamic Jihad. | In November, Israel conducted a series of …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-29). New Evidence of OPCW Manufactured Nonexistent Douma Chemical Weapons Incident, Syria Report, Promoted "Fake News" globalresearch.ca The so-called OPCW chemical watchdog lost all credibility, breaching its mandate time and again, operating as a pro-Western imperial agent, not a Chemical Weapons Convention implementing body. | The Nobel committee should order the organization to return its 2013 peace prize, …

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-29). US Military Contractors Exposed For Paying Taliban At US Gov Instruction & Iran False Flag Continues. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/28/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Staff (2019-12-29). How Schools Can Sustain Students' Cultures. truthout.org High school students enter a classroom at Rainier Beach High School in Seattle on an October morning. They sit at their desks, but they're soon asked to rearrange their chairs into a circle. Today is Thursday, which means they'll be having their weekly class in restorative justice. | James Williams, the teacher, leads the students in a warmup game: the students pair off and play rock, paper, scissors—except when one student wins, the other becomes their cheerleader. This repeats through several rounds until teams of stud…

Margaret Power (2019-12-29). El estado opresor es un macho violador // the oppressive state is a macho rapist. zcomm.org For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities…

RT (2019-12-29). Hong Kong economy will inevitably shrink further as protests show no sign of abating. rt.com Hong Kong's economy is on the path to face another contraction in the fourth quarter, the financial secretary has warned as raging protests continue to take a toll on the city. | "Judging from the situation in the past months, continued negative growth is unavoidable," Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday. | Read more | | Is Trump using Hong Kong unrest as leverage in trade talks with China? | While the official economic results will be released only early next year, Chan could already cite some gloomy statistics. The city's retail s…

Workers World New York bureau (2019-12-28). Rally defends special education in Puerto Rico and U.S. workers.org Austerity imposed on Puerto Rico ¥s educational system by the unelected colonialist fiscal board was the target of a street rally in New York City on Dec. 14. The rally was called by the New York chapter of the Timón Committee, which works to raise awareness of special education rights — . . . | Continue reading Rally defends special education in Puerto Rico and U.S. at Workers.org

John Bellamy Foster (2019-12-28). A culture of reconciliation with nature. mronline.org Christopher Caudwell, who died at age 29 fighting with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, wrote: "Either the devil has come amongst us having great power, or there is a causal explanation for a disease common to economics, science, and art." That disease, he recognized, was the self-alienation of humanity under capitalism | Source

Staff (2019-12-28). Death Toll Rises in Massive Truck Bombing in Somalia. truthdig.com MOGADISHU, Somalia—A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia's capital Saturday morning, killing at least 78 people including many students, authorities said. It was the worst attack in Mogadishu since the devastating 2017 bombing that killed hundreds. | The explosion ripped through rush hour as Somalia returned to work after its weekend. At least 125 people were wounded, Aamin Ambulance service director Abdiqadir Abdulrahman said, and hundreds of Mogadishu residents donated blood in response to desperate appeals. | President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed condemned the attack as a "heinous…

Fight Back (2019-12-28). Top 20 Fight Back! articles of 2019: the struggle grows and spreads. fightbacknews.org There was a high tide of struggle on many fronts in 2019 – both in the U.S. and around the world. Within the U.S. there were large strikes of General Motors workers, Chicago teachers and others. There was a successful movement to defend public education from mega-charters in Los Angeles. There were mass protests nation-wide for immigrant rights and against the concentration camps at the U.S.-México border. And there were growing movements against police crimes and for community control of the police that came together to refound the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression in Chicago in November.

Staff (2019-12-28). Is California Saving Higher Education? truthout.org San Jose, California — Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they'd pay for their tuition there. | The one thing they didn't do together? Graduate. | While she was juggling a major in international business, a minor in Japanese and a job to help keep up with her expenses, Deas fell behind, and her friends put on their caps and gowns and walked across the stage in May without her. | It w…

WSWS (2019-12-28). San Diego teachers notified of looming pink slips and layoffs. wsws.org Amidst the continued cuts by the Sweetwater Union High School District, teachers are beginning to speak out in defense of their jobs and the future of education.

F. William Engdahl (2019-12-28). Climate and the Money Trail. globalresearch.ca The very mega-billionaires behind the globalization of the world economy who have wreaked so much damage to our environment are the leading backers of the "grassroots" climate movement. Is it pangs of guilty conscience, or could it be a deeper agenda of the financialization of the very air we breathe and more?

Staff (2019-12-28). Stop the Spread of Liquefied Natural Gas — Before It's Too Late. truthout.org Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a potential disaster in the making. That's the conclusion of a new report by Physicians for Social Responsibility, which surveyed an abundance of research on LNG's threats to public health. | LNG is natural gas that is filtered and supercooled to -260 ∞ F, tu…

Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels (2019-12-28). Why America Needs War. globalresearch.ca GR Editor's Note: This incisive article was written on April 30, 2003 in the immediate wake of the war on Iraq, by renowned historian and political scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization …

Israel Shahak (2019-12-28). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…

Washington's Blog (2019-12-28). The Caliphate Project, Made in America. Declassified U.S. Government Documents Confirm the US Supported the Creation of ISIS. globalresearch.ca Global Research Editor's Note: | First published in May 2015, this article reveals not only that the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, it also confirms that the Caliphate Project was designed in Washington. | See Screenshots Below from the title …

Makia Freeman (2019-12-28). ISIS Is a US-Israeli Creation. Top Ten "Indications" globalresearch.ca Relevant article first posted on GR in April 2016. | ISIS is a US-Israeli creation, a fact as clear as the sky is blue. It's a truth as black and white as the colors on their flag. For many alternative news …

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya (2019-12-28). Preparing the Chessboard for the "Clash of Civilizations": Divide, Conquer and Rule the "New Middle East" globalresearch.ca The ripple effects of the US-NATO Invasion of Libya. Redefining and Destabilsing the Arab World…

Prof Souad N. Al-Azzawi (2019-12-28). Depleted Uranium and Radioactive Contamination in Iraq: An Overview. globalresearch.ca The amount of devastation caused by the Depleted Uranium (DU) weaponry used against Iraq during the consecutive US led wars is historically unprecedented in modern warfare. Information revealed about the 'Gulf War Syndrome' enabled Iraqi researchers to understand the nature of these weapons.

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-28). Potential False Flag In Iraq Kills American & New OPCW Leak Exposes Deliberate Coverup And Deception. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/27/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

teleSUR (2019-12-28). France: Unions, Yellow Vests, Transporters Take to the Streets. telesurenglish.net Despite the calls of President Emmanuel Macron to a truce, thousands of French Saturday took to the streets of Paris where workers, students, retirees, and yellow vests came together in common action against the pension reform, which citizens have been rejecting during 24 days on a row. | RELATED: | French Workers Stand Firm: No 'Christmas Truce' for Macron | "If the government exp…

WSWS (2019-12-28). Amiens railworkers vote to continue strike against French President Macron. wsws.org Workers, students, teachers and "yellow vest" protesters came to support the strike, which has lasted since December 5 and shut down rail transport across France.

Shalini Singh (2019-12-27). Big City, Small Farmers, and a Dying River. counterpunch.org "Insaan ab na jhagde se marega na ragade se marega tho bhook aur pyas se." "Humankind will now die not of conflict or stress But of hunger and thirst." So, it's not just science ringing alarm bells about climate change then. India's literary epics had it nailed down ages ago, asserts 75-year-old Delhi farmer Shiv More

Pat LaMarche (2019-12-27). Trumpian Attacks on Homelessness and California Are Utter and Total Poppycock. commondreams.org If you use Department of Education figures, as opposed to those put out by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the number of people suffering homelessness in the U.S. is closer to 7 million each year—not the 500,000 to 600,000 figure frequently used. (Photo: Garry Knight/cc/flickr) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Nino Pagliccia (2019-12-27). US Congress Approves Legislation to Wage a Hybrid "Humanitarian War" on Venezuela? globalresearch.ca Last December 16 both houses in the US approved the appropriation bill to be signed by president Trump. Aside from the mind-boggling amount of $1.4 trillion that was approved in total our interest was in looking at the details concerning …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-27). No Joy in a World at War. globalresearch.ca Joy to the world is a mirage — during the holiday season and throughout the year. | Reality is polar opposite in US war theaters. Post-9/11 alone, millions died. Countless millions more suffer from injuries, displacement, lack of essentials to life …

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-27). Israel Bombs Gaza For Xmas, Israel Threatens To Attack All Helping Iran & Saudis Bomb Yemen Market. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/26/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Steve Osborn (2019-12-27). The 1914 World War I Christmas Truce. Trenches and "No Man's Land" globalresearch.ca One hundred and five years ago this Christmas Eve, The Great War, the "War to End All Wars" was in its fourth month. It had already bogged down into trench warfare. For those unfamiliar with the term, it consisted of …

Jack Rasmus (2019-12-27). On Those Questionable US Wage Stats…Again. counterpunch.org In recent months, various independent business and research sources have been raising questions about the accuracy of US official job and wage statistics. Several more sources have joined the discussion, questioning the oft-cited official—and widespread mainstream press reported—3.1% annual rise in US wages the past year. As many have indicated, the 3.1% grossly over-estimates recent More

Miri Wood (2019-12-27). Trump Threatens Syria: Will POTUS Come to the Rescue of Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Idlib? globalresearch.ca Trump wished the Syrian Arab Republic a belated Merry Christmas by tweeting yet another threat, warning the Syrian Armed Forces not to liberate Idlib from the approximately 10,000 al Qaeda terrorists who have occupied this area of the country, since …

J. B. Gerald (2019-12-27). Human Rights and Political Conflict in Cameroon: The Anglophone Secessionist State of "Ambazonia" globalresearch.ca On an ugliness scale of one to ten, if the U.S. Guantanamo prison is 7, the French military in Algeria 8, Pinochet's controls of Chile 9, and the Inquisition 10, the severity, scale and number of Cameroon military human rights …

Fight Back (2019-12-27). Tallahassee gathers for vigil and speakout for FAMU student killed by sheriff. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On December 21, over 50 members of the Tallahassee community joined with Jamee Johnson's friends and family at the Eternal Flame on Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University's (FAMU) campus to honor the life of the 22-year-old senior who had recently been killed by police. | His life was taken December 14 by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) Officer J. Garriga, who shot Johnson four times during a traffic stop. Police have referred to Johnson's possession of a legal concealed weapon to justify the shooting, despite acknowledging he had informed them of its presence. The family's at…

Kenneth Surin (2019-12-27). The UK Election: a Postmortem. counterpunch.org The various statistical analyses of the UK general election result have been coming in, and they allow some interesting and perhaps important observations to be made. The perception that it was Leave voters switching from Labour to Tory en masse who cost Labour the election has to be qualified by the fact that Labour lost More

WSWS (2019-12-27). Industrial carnage in US: 5,250 workers killed on the job in 2018. wsws.org Fatal on-the-job injuries in the US increased by 2 percent in 2018, according to this year's report by the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Jon Queally, staff writer (2019-12-27). Because Bernie 'Constitutionally Incapable of Sucking Up,' Anti-Corruption Champion Zephyr Teachout Endorses Sanders. commondreams.org "That's why people love him," says progressive activist and legal scholar. "They know he'll always be on the side of the little guy against big agriculture, big banks, big pharma, big tech, hate, and fear." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Staff (2019-12-26). Year in Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuels Expansion, Scary Science and Global Activism. therealnews.com The Real News Network's Steve Horn and Dimitri Lascaris talk about the 2019's biggest climate stories.

Peoples Dispatch (2019-12-26). Turkish Communists hold gatherings in Istanbul and Izmir. peoplesdispatch.org The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) organized gatherings in Istanbul and Izmir on December 22-23, calling for "hope, organizing, and celebrating, to win 2020." TKP general secretary Kemal Okuyan, poet Nihat Behram, journalist-author Enver Aysever and actor Orhan Aydƒ±n participated in the gatherings, besides hundreds of party workers. | The events were organized to prepare the party cadre for the upcoming struggles in the new year. SoL reported that workers from many sectors, including workers of retail giant Bimeks, textile workers, teachers, construction workers and metal workers, besides daily wage…

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-24). Israel AGAIN Attacks Syria Over Christmas, Khashoggi Trial Theater & MSM N Korea Xmas Fear-Mongering. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/24/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

2019-12-29: Social Media Postees

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Global Warming: "Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
Both the concepts and the data have been adjusted and shaped to fit the agenda of the UN Panel on Climate Change.
globalresearch.ca/global-warming-fixing-the-climate-data-around-the-policy/16339

Global War on Humanity: America's Unceasing Pursuit of Hegemony
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
Essentially what we're looking at is a broader historical perspective on how the US de facto supported Nazi Germany with a view to destroying the Soviet Union as well as weakening the British Empire and competing empires including of course France, Belgium, Holland, etc. And those countries today are no longer colonial powers.
globalresearch.ca/global-war-on-humanity-americas-unceasing-pursuit-of-hegemony/5698569

Get Ready to Fight Israel's Next War. Asking America to do the "Dirty Work"
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
It will be up to you, the clueless American citizen, to fight and pay for Israel's war against its neighbors. This coming war was announced this week by Aviv Kochavi, the Israel Defense Force chief of staff. | Max Blumenthal …
globalresearch.ca/get-ready-to-fight-israels-next-war-asking-america-to-do-the-dirty-work/5698968

Turkey Sending Troops to Libya? Erdogan Supported Tripoli Forces to Fight Trump Supported Haftar Forces?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
It appears likely. According to Turkey's Anadolu news agency, President Erdogan will send troops to Libya to support the Tripoli-based/UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA). | It's combatting Trump-supported/longtime CIA asset/warlord Khalifa Haftar for control of the country. | Anadolu news said …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-sending-troops-libya/5698986

US Military Contractors Exposed For Paying Taliban At US Gov Instruction & Iran False Flag Continues
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-29
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/28/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/conspiracy/us-military-contractors-exposed-for-paying-taliban-at-us-gov-instruction-iran-false-flag-continues/

The Long History of Russophobia, Starting with Its Religious Roots
Guy Mettan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
This article was originally published on June 9, 2016. | The former editor of the Tribune de Genève, [Guy Mettan-RI] visited Moscow and presented his new book Russia and the West: A Thousand Year War, which reviews the phenomenon of Russophobia: …
globalresearch.ca/long-history-rusophobia-starting-religious-roots/5698992

New Evidence of OPCW Manufactured Nonexistent Douma Chemical Weapons Incident, Syria Report, Promoted "Fake News"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
The so-called OPCW chemical watchdog lost all credibility, breaching its mandate time and again, operating as a pro-Western imperial agent, not a Chemical Weapons Convention implementing body. | The Nobel committee should order the organization to return its 2013 peace prize, …
globalresearch.ca/new-evidence-opcw-doctored-douma-syria-report/5698988

As the US, China, and Russia Build New Nuclear Weapons Systems, How Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) be Built in? What are the Dangers?
Matt Field | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
Researchers in the United States and elsewhere are paying a lot of attention to the prospect that in the coming years new nuclear weapons–and the infrastructure built to operate them–will include greater levels of artificial intelligence and automation. …
globalresearch.ca/us-china-russia-build-new-nuclear-weapons-systems-how-will-ai-built-in/5698980

Austerity and its Consequences. America Threatens to Self-destruct if Other Countries don't Obey it
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
"If the free-traders cannot understand how one nation can grow rich at the expense of another, we need not wonder, since these same gentlemen also refuse to understand how within one country one class can enrich itself at the …
globalresearch.ca/austerity-and-its-consequences-america-threatens-to-self-destruct-if-other-countries-dont-obey-it/5698953

The Burkina Faso Time Bomb Is About to Blow, and It Might Take Down West Africa
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
The landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso is a time bomb that's about to explode as evidenced by the drastic increase in terrorist-related violence there over the past year and its attendant humanitarian consequences, yet both the region and …
globalresearch.ca/burkinabe-time-bomb-about-blow-might-take-down-west-africa/5698972

The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable. In a Washington Post article titled " The Green New Deal …
globalresearch.ca/key-environmental-crisis-beneath-our-feet/5698996

The Criminalisation of Protest in America
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
The US today freely interferes in the governments of so many other nations, fueling unrest and financing violence, seeking to impose on these countries a peculiarly American form of "open government" which it can control, but has always severely restricted …
globalresearch.ca/criminalisation-protest-america/5695854

Israel's Strike that Killed Nine Members of al-Sawarka Family. Mistakenly "Categorized as a Military Compound"
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
Israel has said that an attack on the Gaza Strip which killed nine Palestinians from the same family happened after the premises were mistakenly categorised as a "military compound" used by Islamic Jihad. | In November, Israel conducted a series of …
globalresearch.ca/israel-says-filing-error-blame-strike-killed-nine-members-al-sawarka-family/5698976

British Democracy on Death Row
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
It's all over the internet — you must have read about it by now. It's all about Page 48 — and it is here that democracy dies in Britain. It was in the Conservative Manifesto. But the country voted for …
globalresearch.ca/democracy-death-row/5698970

How Schools Can Sustain Students' Cultures
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-29
High school students enter a classroom at Rainier Beach High School in Seattle on an October morning. They sit at their desks, but they're soon asked to rearrange their chairs into a circle. Today is Thursday, which means they'll be having their weekly class in restorative justice. | James Williams, the teacher, leads the students in a warmup game: the students pair off and play rock, paper, scissors–except when one student wins, the other becomes their cheerleader. This repeats through several rounds until teams of stud…
truthout.org/articles/how-schools-can-sustain-students-cultures/

El estado opresor es un macho violador // the oppressive state is a macho rapist
Margaret Power | zcomm.org | 2019-12-29
For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/el-estado-opresor-es-un-macho-violador-the-oppressive-state-is-a-macho-rapist/

Hong Kong economy will inevitably shrink further as protests show no sign of abating
rt.com | 2019-12-29
Hong Kong's economy is on the path to face another contraction in the fourth quarter, the financial secretary has warned as raging protests continue to take a toll on the city. | "Judging from the situation in the past months, continued negative growth is unavoidable," Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday. | Read more | | Is Trump using Hong Kong unrest as leverage in trade talks with China? | While the official economic results will be released only early next year, Chan could already cite some gloomy statistics. The city's retail s…
rt.com/business/477050-hong-kong-economy-downturn/

Top 20 Fight Back! articles of 2019: the struggle grows and spreads
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-12-28
There was a high tide of struggle on many fronts in 2019 – both in the U.S. and around the world. Within the U.S. there were large strikes of General Motors workers, Chicago teachers and others. There was a successful movement to defend public education from mega-charters in Los Angeles. There were mass protests nation-wide for immigrant rights and against the concentration camps at the U.S.-México border. And there were growing movements against police crimes and for community control of the police that came together to refound the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression in Chicago in November.
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/12/28/top-20-…

Rally defends special education in Puerto Rico and U.S
Workers World New York bureau | workers.org | 2019-12-28
Austerity imposed on Puerto Rico ¥s educational system by the unelected colonialist fiscal board was the target of a street rally in New York City on Dec. 14. The rally was called by the New York chapter of the Timón Committee, which works to raise awareness of special education rights — . . . | Continue reading Rally defends special education in Puerto Rico and U.S. at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/12/45182/

Is California Saving Higher Education?
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-28
San Jose, California — Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they'd pay for their tuition there. | The one thing they didn't do together? Graduate. | While she was juggling a major in international business, a minor in Japanese and a job to help keep up with her expenses, Deas fell behind, and her friends put on their caps and gowns and walked across the stage in May without her. | It w…
truthout.org/articles/is-california-saving-higher-education/

San Diego teachers notified of looming pink slips and layoffs
wsws.org | 2019-12-28
Amidst the continued cuts by the Sweetwater Union High School District, teachers are beginning to speak out in defense of their jobs and the future of education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/28/swee…

Climate and the Money Trail
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-28
The very mega-billionaires behind the globalization of the world economy who have wreaked so much damage to our environment are the leading backers of the "grassroots" climate movement. Is it pangs of guilty conscience, or could it be a deeper agenda of the financialization of the very air we breathe and…
globalresearch.ca/climate-money-trail/5690209

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-28
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

Depleted Uranium and Radioactive Contamination in Iraq: An Overview
Prof Souad N. Al-Azzawi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-28
The amount of devastation caused by the Depleted Uranium (DU) weaponry used against Iraq during the consecutive US led wars is historically unprecedented in modern warfare. Information revealed about the 'Gulf War Syndrome' enabled Iraqi researchers to understand the nature of these weapons.
globalresearch.ca/depleted-uranium-and-radioactive-contamination-in-iraq-an-overview/5605215

ISIS Is a US-Israeli Creation. Top Ten "Indications"
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-28
Relevant article first posted on GR in April 2016. | ISIS is a US-Israeli creation, a fact as clear as the sky is blue. It's a truth as black and white as the colors on their flag. For many alternative news …
globalresearch.ca/isis-is-a-us-israeli-creation-top-ten-indications/5518627

Preparing the Chessboard for the "Clash of Civilizations": Divide, Conquer and Rule the "New Middle East"
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-28
The ripple effects of the US-NATO Invasion of Libya. Redefining and Destabilsing the Arab World…
globalresearch.ca/preparing-the-chessboard-for-the-clash-of-civilizations-divide-conquer-and-rule-the-new-middle-east/27786

Stop the Spread of Liquefied Natural Gas — Before It's Too Late
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-28
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a potential disaster in the making. That's the conclusion of a new report by Physicians for Social Responsibility, which surveyed an abundance of research on LNG's threats to public health. | LNG is natural gas that is filtered and supercooled to -260 ∞ F, tu…
truthout.org/articles/stop-the-spread-of-liquefied-natural-gas-before-its-too-late/

Potential False Flag In Iraq Kills American & New OPCW Leak Exposes Deliberate Coverup And Deception
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-28
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/27/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/potential-false-flag-in-iraq-kills-american-new-opcw-leak-exposes-deliberate-coverup-and-deception/

Why America Needs War
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-28
GR Editor's Note: This incisive article was written on April 30, 2003 in the immediate wake of the war on Iraq, by renowned historian and political scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization …
globalresearch.ca/why-america-needs-war/5328631

The Caliphate Project, Made in America. Declassified U.S. Government Documents Confirm the US Supported the Creation of ISIS
Washington's Blog | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-28
Global Research Editor's Note: | First published in May 2015, this article reveals not only that the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, it also confirms that the Caliphate Project was designed in Washington. | See Screenshots Below from the title …
globalresearch.ca/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis/5451640

A culture of reconciliation with nature
John Bellamy Foster | mronline.org | 2019-12-28
Christopher Caudwell, who died at age 29 fighting with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, wrote: "Either the devil has come amongst us having great power, or there is a causal explanation for a disease common to economics, science, and art." That disease, he recognized, was the self-alienation of humanity under capitalism | Source…
mronline.org/2019/12/28/a-culture-of-reconciliation-with-nature/

Amiens railworkers vote to continue strike against French President Macron
wsws.org | 2019-12-28
Workers, students, teachers and "yellow vest" protesters came to support the strike, which has lasted since December 5 and shut down rail transport across France.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/28/amie…

France: Unions, Yellow Vests, Transporters Take to the Streets
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-28
Despite the calls of President Emmanuel Macron to a truce, thousands of French Saturday took to the streets of Paris where workers, students, retirees, and yellow vests came together in common action against the pension reform, which citizens have been rejecting during 24 days on a row. | RELATED: | French Workers Stand Firm: No 'Christmas Truce' for Macron | "If the government exp…
telesurenglish.net/news/France-Unions-Yellow-Vests-Transporters-Take-to-the-Streets-20191228-0004.html

Death Toll Rises in Massive Truck Bombing in Somalia
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-28
MOGADISHU, Somalia–A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia's capital Saturday morning, killing at least 78 people including many students, authorities said. It was the worst attack in Mogadishu since the devastating 2017 bombing that killed hundreds. | The explosion ripped through rush hour as Somalia returned to work after its weekend. At least 125 people were wounded, Aamin Ambulance service director Abdiqadir Abdulrahman said, and hundreds of Mogadishu residents donated blood in response to desperate appeals. | President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed condemned the attack as a "heinous…
truthdig.com/articles/death-toll-rises-in-massive-truck-bombing-in-somalia/

Trumpian Attacks on Homelessness and California Are Utter and Total Poppycock
Pat LaMarche | commondreams.org | 2019-12-27
If you use Department of Education figures, as opposed to those put out by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the number of people suffering homelessness in the U.S. is closer to 7 million each year—not the 500,000 to 600,000 figure frequently used. (Photo: Garry Knight/cc/flickr) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2019/12/27/trumpian-attacks-homelessness-and-california-are-utter-and-total-poppycock?cd-origin=rss

No Joy in a World at War
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-27
Joy to the world is a mirage — during the holiday season and throughout the year. | Reality is polar opposite in US war theaters. Post-9/11 alone, millions died. Countless millions more suffer from injuries, displacement, lack of essentials to life …
globalresearch.ca/no-joy-world-war/5698710

On Those Questionable US Wage Stats…Again
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-27
In recent months, various independent business and research sources have been raising questions about the accuracy of US official job and wage statistics. Several more sources have joined the discussion, questioning the oft-cited official–and widespread mainstream press reported–3.1% annual rise in US wages the past year. As many have indicated, the 3.1% grossly over-estimates recent…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/27/on-those-questionable-us-wage-statsagain/

Human Rights and Political Conflict in Cameroon: The Anglophone Secessionist State of "Ambazonia"
J. B. Gerald | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-27
On an ugliness scale of one to ten, if the U.S. Guantanamo prison is 7, the French military in Algeria 8, Pinochet's controls of Chile 9, and the Inquisition 10, the severity, scale and number of Cameroon military human rights …
globalresearch.ca/anglophone-francophone-cameroon/5698914

US Congress Approves Legislation to Wage a Hybrid "Humanitarian War" on Venezuela?
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-27
Last December 16 both houses in the US approved the appropriation bill to be signed by president Trump. Aside from the mind-boggling amount of $1.4 trillion that was approved in total our interest was in looking at the details concerning …
globalresearch.ca/us-approves-bill-may-legislate-hybrid-warfare-venezuela/5698859

The 1914 World War I Christmas Truce. Trenches and "No Man's Land"
Steve Osborn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-27
One hundred and five years ago this Christmas Eve, The Great War, the "War to End All Wars" was in its fourth month. It had already bogged down into trench warfare. For those unfamiliar with the term, it consisted of …
globalresearch.ca/the-1914-world-war-i-christmas-truce-trenches-and-no-mans-land/5698864

Israel Bombs Gaza For Xmas, Israel Threatens To Attack All Helping Iran & Saudis Bomb Yemen Market
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-27
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/26/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/israel-bombs-gaza-for-xmas-israel-threatens-attack-all-helping-iran-saudis-bomb-yemen-market/

Trump Threatens Syria: Will POTUS Come to the Rescue of Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Idlib?
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-27
Trump wished the Syrian Arab Republic a belated Merry Christmas by tweeting yet another threat, warning the Syrian Armed Forces not to liberate Idlib from the approximately 10,000 al Qaeda terrorists who have occupied this area of the country, since …
globalresearch.ca/trump-threatens-syria-will-potus-come-to-the-rescue-of-al-qaeda-terrorists-in-idlib/5698875

Big City, Small Farmers, and a Dying River
Shalini Singh | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-27
"Insaan ab na jhagde se marega na ragade se marega tho bhook aur pyas se." "Humankind will now die not of conflict or stress But of hunger and thirst." So, it's not just science ringing alarm bells about climate change then. India's literary epics had it nailed down ages ago, asserts 75-year-old Delhi farmer Shiv…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/27/big-city-small-farmers-and-a-dying-river/

Tallahassee gathers for vigil and speakout for FAMU student killed by sheriff
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-12-27
Tallahassee, FL – On December 21, over 50 members of the Tallahassee community joined with Jamee Johnson's friends and family at the Eternal Flame on Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University's (FAMU) campus to honor the life of the 22-year-old senior who had recently been killed by police. | His life was taken December 14 by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) Officer J. Garriga, who shot Johnson four times during a traffic stop. Police have referred to Johnson's possession of a legal concealed weapon to justify the shooting, despite acknowledging he had informed them of its presence. The family's at…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/12/26/tallaha…

The UK Election: a Postmortem
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-27
The various statistical analyses of the UK general election result have been coming in, and they allow some interesting and perhaps important observations to be made. The perception that it was Leave voters switching from Labour to Tory en masse who cost Labour the election has to be qualified by the fact that Labour lost…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/27/the-uk-election-a-postmortem/

Industrial carnage in US: 5,250 workers killed on the job in 2018
wsws.org | 2019-12-27
Fatal on-the-job injuries in the US increased by 2 percent in 2018, according to this year's report by the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/27/osha…

Because Bernie 'Constitutionally Incapable of Sucking Up,' Anti-Corruption Champion Zephyr Teachout Endorses Sanders
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-27
"That's why people love him," says progressive activist and legal scholar. "They know he'll always be on the side of the little guy against big agriculture, big banks, big pharma, big tech, hate, and fear." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2019/12/27/because-bernie-constitutionally-incapable-sucking-anti-corruption-champion-zephyr?cd-origin=rss

Year in Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuels Expansion, Scary Science and Global Activism
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-12-26
The Real News Network's Steve Horn and Dimitri Lascaris talk about the 2019's biggest climate stories.
therealnews.com/stories/year-in-climate-crisis-fossil-fuels-expansion-scary-science-and-global-activism

Turkish Communists hold gatherings in Istanbul and Izmir
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-26
The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) organized gatherings in Istanbul and Izmir on December 22-23, calling for "hope, organizing, and celebrating, to win 2020." TKP general secretary Kemal Okuyan, poet Nihat Behram, journalist-author Enver Aysever and actor Orhan Aydƒ±n participated in the gatherings, besides hundreds of party workers. | The events were organized to prepare the party cadre for the upcoming struggles in the new year. SoL reported that workers from many sectors, including workers of retail giant Bimeks, textile workers, teachers, construction workers and metal workers, besides daily wage…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/26/turkish-communists-hold-gatherings-in-istanbul-and-izmir/

Israel AGAIN Attacks Syria Over Christmas, Khashoggi Trial Theater & MSM N Korea Xmas Fear-Mongering
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-24
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/24/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/israel-again-attacks-syria-over-christmas-khashoggi-trial-theater-msm-n-korea-xmas-fear-mongering/