SFUSD Speak-out: Protect our Children from Contamination and Cancer
Defend Public Education NOW! | indybay.org | 2020-01-27
San Francisco Unified School District | 555 Franklin St. San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/23/18830048.php

Adani and the Purpose of Education
Peter Harrison | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
Recently, Survival International, the organization that campaigns with 'tribal peoples,' ran a story about the Indian conglomerate, Adani Group, setting up a Tribal Residential School for children in Bankishole, Baripada, in Mayurbhanj District in Odisha State

Free Public Transit in Canada?
Madelin Burt-D'Agnillo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
In the last year or so, a debate about the merits of free transit (or more accurately, fare-free transit) is making its way into public discourse in Canada. While fare-free transit is a model that has served international cities (many …
globalresearch.ca/free-public-transit-canada/5701854

Auschwitz: IG Farben and the History of the "Business with Disease"
Dr. Rath Health Foundation | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
January 27, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops (27 January 1945). Rarely mentioned by the media, the I. G Auschwitz concentration camp was a private undertaking owned by I. G. Farben

The Iraqi Protests "Were Anti-American". A Tale or Two of a Single Protest
Joshua Tartakovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
We live in an era of protests. Everyone feels they have to fight to change things. Unless they are comfortable in their work routine, are wealthy and indifferent, or cannot risk getting fired. | There is manipulation and mobilization of protests…
globalresearch.ca/tale-two-single-protest/5701812

Trump's Response to Baghdad "Anti-American" Protest: Let's Revive the ISIS "Freedom Fighters"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
ISIS and likeminded terrorist groups were made in the USA

Why the New Silk Roads Are a "Threat" to the "US Bloc"
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Under the cascading roar of the 24/7 news cycle cum Twitter eruptions, it's easy for most of the West, especially the US, to forget the basics about the interaction of Eurasia with its western peninsula, Europe. | Asia and Europe have …
globalresearch.ca/why-new-silk-roads-threat-us-bloc/5701858

Al Qaeda Terrorist Attacks Continue in Aleppo; Drones Hit Near Lattakia
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
NATO al Qaeda ground operatives in Syria continue their recent acceleration of terrorist atrocities against Syria. Rocket bombs have again been fired into civilian neighborhoods of Aleppo. Armed human garbage continue to prevent civilians to be escorted to safe areas …
globalresearch.ca/nato-terrorist-attacks-continue-aleppo-drones-hit-near-lattakia-2/5701873

No, Iran Won't Have a Nuclear Bomb 'in a Matter of Months'
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
As Iran puts the final nail in its nuclear agreement with the West, hyperbolic headlines have warned that the Islamic Republic could have a nuclear weapon "within months." Politicians have said it, pundits have repeated it, and hawkish national security …
globalresearch.ca/iran-wont-have-nuclear-bomb-in-matter-months/5701952

Israel Resumes Aerial Herbicide Spraying Along Gaza's Perimeter Fence, Deliberate Destruction of Palestinian Farming
GISHA | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, Israeli crop-duster planes flew along the perimeter fence separating Gaza and Israel, spraying chemicals assumed to be herbicides into the Strip. Israel continued to conduct aerial herbicide spraying along additional sections of the perimeter fence …
globalresearch.ca/israel-resumes-aerial-herbicide-spraying-gaza-perimeter-fence/5701944

Rockets Strike US Embassy in Baghdad
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Iraq is occupied US territory. | The vast majority of Iraqis and its ruling authorities want Pentagon and allied forces expelled from the country. | It's the only way for the nation to regain its sovereignty, lost to US aggression and occupation, …
globalresearch.ca/rockets-strike-us-embassy-baghdad/5701958

Joe Biden in 2020 Copies Hillary Clinton in 2016
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The 2016 Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucuses were held on 1 February 2016 and produced 49.84% for Hillary Clinton and 49.59% for Bernie Sanders. | On 12 January 2016, Politico headlined "Sanders bests Clinton in new early state polls" and reported …
globalresearch.ca/joe-biden-2020-copies-hillary-clinton-2016/5701928

Auschwitz Was Evil but so Was Jasenovac, Yet Few Dare to Talk About It
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is a somber event marked by deep reflection across Europe about the evils of its genocidal past, which makes it an appropriate time to remind everyone about Jasenovac, the Croatian-operated death camp …
globalresearch.ca/auschwitz-was-evil-so-was-jasenovac-yet-few-dare-talk-about-it/5701924

How Is Washington 'Liberating' Free Countries
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
There are obviously some serious linguistic issues and disagreements between the West and the rest of the world. Essential terms like "freedom", "democracy", "liberation", even "terrorism", are all mixed up and confused; they mean something absolutely different in New York, …
globalresearch.ca/how-washington-liberating-free-countries/5701937

US to Grant $35 Million to Promote Its "Fake News Bubble" in Syria and Control Local Media
Eva Bartlett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Although Western media has a shoddy track record of lying on Syria (and Libya, Iraq…), the US State Department will pump $35 million more into future war propaganda on Syria, under the guise of promoting honest reporting. | A US State | …
globalresearch.ca/us-grant-35-million-promote-fake-news-bubble-syria-control-local-media/5701830

5G Roll-out: A High Tech EMF Front in the War Against Humanity?
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
"The people from the insurance industry, they all said that for them it was not the question of whether this was dangerous or not, they knew it was dangerous. The only question for them was who is going to pay …
globalresearch.ca/5g-roll-out-a-high-tech-front-in-the-war-against-humanity/5701941

Australian fires and drought: Government cut climate change research, ignored scientists
Anna Pha | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-27
The catastrophic nature of the bush fires in Australia these past months in all likelihood could have been prevented or been less severe if governments had listened to scientists and acted on their advice. Instead, funding was cut to the very organizations that are critical to our understanding of bush fires and climate change, and …
peoplesworld.org/article/australian-fires-and-drought-government-cut-climate-change-research-ignored-scientists/

What's Love Got to Do with It? Everything! "Jesus Drives Money Changers from the Temple"
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
It's really interesting how many of us equate how the love of God should be expressed. Many religions dictate that we who care should restrict ourselves to doing good deeds and NOT becoming too rebellious towards the 'things of the …
globalresearch.ca/what-love-got-to-do-it-everything/5701870

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Rohingyas
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The International Court of Justice's (ICJ) Order to the Government of the Republic of Myanmar to adopt various provisional measures to protect the Rohingya community from "physical destruction" and to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of …
globalresearch.ca/international-court-justice-rohingyas/5701848

China & India to take control of one-third of global economy
rt.com | 2020-01-27
The developing markets of China and India will make up 35 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2060, nearing the US and European nations' combined share, according to the Japan Center for Economic Research. | The Tokyo-based think tank says China's share of the world's economy will be about 20 percent and India's nearly 16 percent, up from 17 percent and four percent in 2019, respectively. | Also on rt.com | | China's smart supercities powered by 5G to become new growth engine | China is forecast to keep its current number-two position…
rt.com/business/479264-china-india-global-gdp/

Cuba: a Matter of Principle
Rose Miriam Elizalde | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
Think tanks in the United States and Cuban researchers agree on one thing: the policy of more sanctions and the extension of the U.S. blockade will not change the socialist course of Cuba. In the case of the island, punishment produces the exact opposite of weakness. It has been that way for more than 60 years…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/27/cuba-a-matter-of-principle/

Ruling Amid Ruins: The Plot to Break Up Iraq
David Hearst | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Any reader of these columns is familiar with the landscape

Genetically Modified Seeds: Bayer Builds Latin America's Largest Seed Factory in Chile
GMWatch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Following is an English translation of an article from the German newspaper Deutsche Welle (DW), translated by from the Spanish version circulated by Network for a Latin America Free of Transgenics (RALLT). | "Bayer-Monsanto: Get Out of Chile", was the slogan …
globalresearch.ca/environmentalists-alarmed-bayer-builds-latin-americas-largest-seed-factory-chile/5701821

NATO's Upcoming War Games Targeted Against Russia
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Last week NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg explained why the U.S. are strengthening their military presence in Europe. The reason is unsurprisingly to pressurize and intimidate Russia, but also against China and the so-called fight against terrorism. Stoltenberg explained that …
globalresearch.ca/nato-upcoming-exercise-targeted-against-kaliningrad/5701981

The Seasonal Flu Is A Bigger Concern but the Wuhan Virus Grabs the Headlines
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The common flu virus will infect millions across the globe. It can be easily spread and will especially strike the young and the elderly. But this is not what has been described as the Wuhan virus. The common flu is …
globalresearch.ca/flu-bigger-concern-wuhan-virus-grabs-headlines/5701932

EPA's New Water Rule a Mockery of Science and the Clean Water Act
Derrick Z. Jackson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
With the Environmental Protection Agency's own data showing that nearly half of our rivers and streams and a third of our wetlands are in "poor biological condition," and with millions of Americans exposed to unsafe chemicals in water systems, this …
globalresearch.ca/epa-new-water-rule-mockery-science-clean-water-act/5701838

Grenfell Tower Fire: A Conspiracy to Hide the Truth from Thousands of Current Residents of 400 Existing Buildings
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
All polymer foams produced from isocyanate chemicals are fire-accelerants that will not only spread any fire within seconds of ignition but will also emit lethal hydrogen cyanide gas that can cause death within a few minutes. | Hydrogen cyanide gas (HCN), …
globalresearch.ca/grenfell-tower-fire-conspiracy-hide-truth-1000s-current-residents-400-existing-buildings/5701817

The Unbearable Hypocrisy of US Sanctions on Iran
Daniel McAdams | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
On November 22nd of last year, the US government announced it would impose sanctions on Iran's information minister for his alleged role in limiting domestic Internet access while protests raged in that country over increases in gas prices. | At the …
globalresearch.ca/unbearable-hypocrisy-us-sanctions-iran/5701834

Dear Global Research Readers, Your Support Is Essential
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Dear Readers, | Our team works tirelessly day in, day out, to promote peace and a world without war. Currently, however, promoting peace is not a money making endeavour. Without financial support from our readers, we are faced with a monthly …
globalresearch.ca/dear-global-research-readers-your-support-is-essential/5678136

Hovering in Cyberspace. Digital Technology and the Inevitable "Seismic Shift of Our Era"
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world became people's "window on the world." An electronic nothingness replaced reality as people gleefully embraced digital wraparound apparitions. These days people still move …
globalresearch.ca/hovering-cyberspace/5701807

The Troubling Decline of International Law
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
While it is true that rogue states

US Envoy Threatens to Assassinate New Quds Force Commander
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
"If Ghaani follows the same path of killing Americans then he will meet the same fate," U.S. envoy Brian Hook told the Arabic-language daily Asharq al-Awsat. | *** | The U.S. envoy to Iran Brian Hook has threatened Iran's Quds Force commander…
globalresearch.ca/us-envoy-threatens-assassinate-new-quds-force-commander/5701846

Ignoring the Elephant at the Guantanamo Prison Camp: Yet Another 9/11 Crime
Kevin Ryan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
The dubious legal proceedings at the Guantanomo Bay (Gitmo) prison camp continue to promote the idea of justice for victims of 9/11. Unfortunately, these proceedings do not represent an administration of law but an unstated claim that the Global War …
globalresearch.ca/ignoring-elephant-gitmo-another-911-crime/5701814

Foreign Policy: The Final Frontier
Tom Gallagher | indybay.org | 2020-01-27
University of San Francisco; the Getty Room at the main entrance of the Lo Schiavo Science Center, across from Kalmanovitz Hall. www.usfca.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/u……
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/22/18830041.php

The Expanse Season 4: The latest installment in the science fiction series
wsws.org | 2020-01-27
The Expanse depicts interstellar conflict and political intrigue in the distant future, when humanity has colonized most of the Solar System.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/27/expa…

'Lessons of Auschwitz': Moscow school students create VR animation tribute to Holocaust victims (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-01-27
RT's digital art project dedicated to 75 years of Victory over Nazism releases VR music video illustrated by schoolchildren using tilt brush. | The music score is by Peter Theremin, great-grandson of Leon Theremin

"Respect for Graduate Student Workers Act" introduced in House and Senate
Donald Donato | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-27
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–The Harvard Graduate Student Union-UAW, which is in the midst of contentious contract negotiations, puts the situation faced by its members in stark perspective: "Harvard University, which has a $41 billion endowment, admits that many students and student workers here are food insecure. But instead of agreeing to fair compensation in a union contract, …
peoplesworld.org/article/respect-for-graduate-student-workers-act-introduced-in-house-and-senate/

UC Unions & Students Unite Against Union Busting/Contracting Out At UC At Regents Meeting
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-01-27
AFSCME 3299 workers, UCSC grad student wildcatters and UC students spoke out and protested at the UC Regents meeting on 1/22/20 at UC Mission Bay Campus against contracting out, privatization and union busting.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/23/18830042.php

Chilean Students Protest Controversial Exam in Santiago
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-27
Chilean students are mobilizing to reject the PSU selection test that will be applied on Monday under strong security measures implemented by the police to avoid excesses inside the enclosures where the exam will take place. | RELATED: | Chile: Three Months of Social Unrest Under Harsh Repression | High school and university students, who have expressed their opposition to the repetitive and controversial PSU test that they claim is part of the profit and segregation system in Chil…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chilean-Students-Protest-Controversial-Exam-in-Santiago-20200127-0002.html

This is Really Happening
Christopher Packham | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
I'm alarmed. I'm afraid. I'm sad. I'm a teacher, and it terrifies me to think of what the future will become for our children if we don't stop and act right now on the climate disaster. *** I'll be as clear as I can, and start with an analogy. The train is coming. We are…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/27/this-is-really-happening/

This is Really Happening
Christopher Packham | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
I'm alarmed. I'm afraid. I'm sad. I'm a teacher, and it terrifies me to think of what the future will become for our children if we don't stop and act right now on the climate disaster. *** I'll be as clear as I can, and start with an analogy. The train is coming. We are…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/27/this-is-really-happening/

India to begin teaching teens how to build their OWN AI using DIY kits
rt.com | 2020-01-27
An Indian deep-tech startup will begin teaching the country's teenagers how to build their own artificial intelligence systems using DIY kits, before applying what they've learned to real-world problems. | Tech start-up CYRAN developed the 'BUDDHI AI DIY Kit', with 'Buddhi' standing for "Build, Understand, Design, Deploy Human-like Intelligence." It also means 'brain' or 'mind' in Hindi. | The pack includes an AI handbook, DIY AI projects, lessons, exercises, presentations, and videos while making use of both proprietary software and hardware like AI actuation circuit boards powered by AI computing-engines.
rt.com/news/479304-india-teach-ai-diy-kits/

Selected Articles: Virus Pandemics
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
Lying is a money making activity and lies are commodities. There is a profitable global market for media and public figures committed to spreading disinformation. | Needless to say, "Telling the Truth", on the other hand, Is Not a Money-Making Proposition. …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-disease-business-gmo/5701962

Split Hearings: The Assange Extradition Case Drags On
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the year, dragged out, ironically …
globalresearch.ca/assange-extradition-case/5701718

"Fake News": "Hundreds" of Iraqis Want US Troops to Leave their Country
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
Who is telling the truth. Compare the images. | The Mainstream Media is lying. | "Fake News"? | See the official tweet of the Associated Press. | Hundreds, Thousands? Millions? | It's what you call "investigative reporting"… | You show them what you want them …
globalresearch.ca/fake-news-hundreds-of-iraqis-want-us-troops-to-leave-the-country/5701772

How the US Supreme Court Forever Sold Its Gavel: Behind the Scenes Legal Machinations
Brett Redmayne-Titley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
"Essentially, five Justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to allow themselves to change the law."

Americans Deceived, and Kept in the Dark, by 'Our' 'News' Media: Harnessing Public Support for Continued US Occupation of Iraq
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
Iraqis are furious that the U.S. continues its military occupation

Only One Lab in China Can Safely Handle the New Coronavirus
Nicoletta Lanese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
As an escalating viral outbreak unfolds in China, only one lab in the country meets the required biosafety standards needed to study the new disease. | The lab happens to sit in the center of Wuhan, the city where the newly …
globalresearch.ca/only-one-lab-china-safely-handle-new-coronavirus/5701733

Novo coronavírus na China: um exame dos fatos
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
Os meios de comunicaàßà£o ocidentais discutiram o novo vírus corona que comeàßou a se proliferar na cidade de Wuhan, na China Central, mas, além de pequenos detalhes repetitivos e do inevitável ataque à China, nà£o há muita luz sobre as …
globalresearch.ca/novo-coronavirus-na-china-um-exame-dos-fatos/5701778

Trump's Threat to Dispossess Four Million Palestinians by Violent Annexation of East Jerusalem and West Bank
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-26
50 million Christian Zionists, including US VP Mike Pence, have succeeded in persuading a gullible Donald Trump to propose the forced annexation of Palestinian East Jerusalem and the West Bank by hard-line extremist Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, …
globalresearch.ca/18-un-likely-support-trump-threat-dispossess-4m-palestinians-violent-annexation-east-jerusalem-west-bank/5701735