What Changed at Independent Agencies in 2019
Eleanor Eagan | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-30
As we have previously highlighted, independent federal agencies receive too little attention relative to their importance to our collective safety and prosperity. The Revolving Door Project has worked through multiple channels to shed light on these overlooked agencies and the threats that they face. We hope public education will generate pressure to safeguard the independence…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/30/what-changed-at-independent-agencies-in-2019/
Most Schools Stifle Indigenous Youth. Standing Rock Offered a Different Vision
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-30
"The camps at Standing Rock produced an environment substantially and holistically more supportive for Native youth," writes activist Sarah Sunshine Manning. In this excerpt from her essay, which is a part of the collection Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, the actualization of self and community that sprang from the Oceti Sakowin camps speaks to how Western education fails to meet the needs of Indigenous youth. | In early August 2016, tribal nations throughout N…
truthout.org/articles/most-schools-stifle-indigenous-youth-standing-rock-offered-a-different-vision/
Biden's Flip-Flop on Free Higher Education Exposes His Hypocrisy
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-30
One key debate in the Democratic primary is the question of free public higher education. While Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have proposed free public college for all, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has supported the idea for families making less than $150,000, and former Vice President Joe Biden has positioned himself as a centrist who rejects these plans and instead adopts the Obama approach of free community college. | What makes t…
truthout.org/articles/bidens-flip-flop-on-free-higher-education-exposes-his-hypocrisy/
Is Singapore About to Become a U.S. Military Hub Against China?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Singapore, a small but well-armed island nation in Southeast Asia, with 72,000 troops in the army, was approved by the United States in early January 2020 to acquire 12 F-35Bs, along with necessary equipment such as spare engines, parts, electronics, …
globalresearch.ca/singapore-about-become-u-s-military-hub-against-china/5702293
How Not to Fight Antisemitism
Independent Jewish Voices | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Executive Summary | Antisemitism is a form of racism and as such must be opposed on general anti-racist principles, in solidarity with other anti-racist struggles and in concert with the principles of human rights and equality for all. Unfortunately, both the | …
globalresearch.ca/how-not-fight-antisemitism-critique-international-holocaust-remembrance-alliance-working-definition-antisemitism-ihra-wda/5702297
What You Need to Know About Trump's Annexation Plan
Afro News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
US President Donald Trump finally unveiled his 'Middle East Peace Plan' on Tuesday, 28 January 2020, during a media conference in Washington, as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stood by his side. | The entire document, called 'Peace to …
globalresearch.ca/what-you-need-know-about-trump-annexation-plan/5702267
Video: Syria Army Develops Momentum in Idlib and Aleppo. Turkish Military Convoy Enters Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
On January 28, units of the Syrian Army, led by the 25th Special Mission Forces Division, liberated the town of Maarat al-Numan, the Wadi Al-Deif military base and nearby villages from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other al-Qaeda-linked groups. | Earlier on …
globalresearch.ca/video-syria-army-develops-momentum-idlib-aleppo/5702277
Russian Delegation Reminds US that Occupied Golan Heights Is Syrian Territory
Almasdar News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, mentioned to the authors of the "Deal of the Century" that the occupied Golan Heights is Syrian territory. | "Yesterday, Washington's vision of a settlement in the Middle East was | …
globalresearch.ca/russian-delegation-reminds-us-occupied-golan-heights-syrian-territory/5702310
Two Books for One Price: Special Offers from Global Research Publishers
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Global Research Publishers bring you a number of special offers on two-book combined purchases. Click on a link below for more info or to order the combined book offer of your choice: | . | . | | | *SPECIAL OFFER: The Dirty War on : | …
globalresearch.ca/the-dirty-war-on-syria-the-globalization-of-war/5588394
US Sanctions Bar Iran from Accessing $5B Energy Export Revenue
Tsvetana Paraskova | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Due to the U.S. sanctions on Iran, Tehran is unable to use or transfer US$5 billion in revenues it has received from Iraq for supplying natural gas and electricity to its neighbor, an Iranian official told local media on Wednesday….
globalresearch.ca/us-sanctions-bar-iran-accessing-5b-energy-export-revenue/5702309
Trump Regime's Annexation Scheme of the Century Unveiled
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Nothing about the scheme surprised, an affront to millions of long-suffering Palestinians and international law
The FBI Has Been Lying About Seth Rich
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
A persistent American lawyer has uncovered the undeniable fact that the FBI has been continuously lying, including giving false testimony in court, in response to Freedom of Information requests for its records on Seth Rich. The FBI has …
globalresearch.ca/fbi-lying-about-seth-rich/5702287
JCPOA Nuclear Agreement Collapsing Due to Western Bad Faith
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
In spite of the Russian Foreign Ministry's best efforts, the JCPOA may very well be in the process of collapsing. On January 14th, British, French and German officials decided to trigger the agreement's Dispute Resolution Mechanism in relation to alleged …
globalresearch.ca/jcpoa-collapsing-due-western-bad-faith/5702291
"Coded Bias": New Film Looks at Fight Against Racial Bias in Facial Recognition & AI Technology
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-30
A new documentary looks at the dangers of artificial intelligence and its increasing omnipresence in daily life, as new research shows that it often reflects racist biases. Earlier this month, Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the latest major city to ban facial recognition technology, joining a growing number of cities, including San Francisco, to ban the artificial intelligence, citing flawed technology and racial and gender bias. A recent study also found that facial recognition identified African-American and Asian faces incorrectly 10 to 100 times more than white faces. The film "Coded Bias" begins with Joy B…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/30/coded_bia…
WHO Impressed by Chinese Response to Coronavirus Outbreak
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
On July 1st 1941, the Soviet Politburo created the Council for Evacuations, an emergency governing body tasked with organizing the evacuation of people, food, farm-livestock, other goods and entire factory complexes to the Urals region before they could be captured …
globalresearch.ca/who-impressed-chinese-response-coronavirus-outbreak/5702319
US Airstrikes in Afghanistan Hit Ten-year High in 2019
Niles Niemuth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
The US Air Force reported Monday that it carried out more airstrikes in Afghanistan in 2019 than any year in the last decade. Manned and unmanned aircraft dropped 7,423 bombs, topping the previous decade high of 7,362 in 2018. | Nearly …
globalresearch.ca/us-airstrikes-afghanistan-hit-ten-year-high-2019/5702284
The Torturers and the 'Ticking Bomb': How Torture Became Routine in the Global War on Terror
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
With all the media excitement focused on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, it comes as no surprise that some recent additional insights into how the United States became a torture regime have been largely ignored. It has been …
globalresearch.ca/how-torture-became-routine-global-war-terror/5702318
Netanyahu Formally Indicted
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Hard evidence collected by Israeli AG Mendleblit proves Netanyahu guilt of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, serious civil offenses
Indian scientists develop SPACE BRICKS for future construction on the Moon
rt.com | 2020-01-30
In what could be an important leap for lunar exploration, Indian scientists claim to have produced special bricks made from a material simulating the Moon's surface, based on samples brought back by NASA missions. | The Indian Institute of Science (IIS) teamed up with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to produce what they call "space bricks." | The invention, they say, as quoted by local media, will facilitate future construction projects on the Earth's satellite, including those that require the use of resources found on-site. | Tomorrow at ISRO's Human Space Flight Symposium, will be talking abo…
rt.com/news/479545-india-space-bricks-moon/
Facial Recognition Technology and AI Are Tainted With Racial Bias
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-30
A new documentary looks at the dangers of artificial intelligence and its increasing omnipresence in daily life, as new research shows that it often reflects racist biases. Earlier this month, Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the latest major city to ban facial recognition technology, joining a growing number of cities, including San Francisco, to ban the artificial intelligence, citing flawed technology and racial and gender bias. A recent study also found that facial recognition identified African-Americ…
truthout.org/video/facial-recognition-technology-and-ai-are-tainted-with-racial-bias/
Trump's Skewed Vision Gives Israel Everything It Wants
Michael Jansen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Donald Trump's "Deal of the Century", his "vision" of an Arab-Israeli peace settlement, is, as expected, a boon for Israel and a trap for the Palestinians. Everyone knew this would be the case. His deal could never have been …
globalresearch.ca/trump-skewed-vision-gives-israel-everything-wants/5702326
Impeachment and the Imperial Presidency
Donald Monaco | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Donald J. Trump is the third president in American history to face an impeachment trial in the United States Senate. He stands accused by Democratic members in the House of Representatives of abusing power and obstructing Congress. | In reality, Trump …
globalresearch.ca/impeachment-imperial-presidency/5702279
Video: Syria Army Advance on Saraqib. Liberated Areas held by Al Qaeda (Hayat Tahir al Sham)
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
Idlib militants seem to be in disarray amid the developing advance of the Syrian Army. Since the liberation of Maarat al-Numan, government forces have achieved several important breakthroughs on the frontline in southeastern Idlib and southwestern Aleppo. | The army has …
globalresearch.ca/video-advance-saraqib/5702335
Boeing Reports Epic $4 Billion Revenue Miss, Announces $18.6BN in 737 MAX Costs, Cuts 787 Production; Stock Surges
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
If there ever was a "kitchen sink" quarter, Boeing just had it. | Moments ago, the ailing US aerospace giant reported Q4 earnings which prompted traders to do a double take after revenues cratered by 37% Y/Y, down from $28.3BN a …
globalresearch.ca/boeing-reports-epic-4-billion-revenue-miss-announces-18-6bn-737-max-costs-cuts-787-production-stock-surges/5702312
How the FBI Sabotaged Trump Foreign Policy
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
We now know that, before Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2017, the FBI had the ouster of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the President's National Security Adviser, in its sights. By February 13th, Flynn was out the …
globalresearch.ca/how-fbi-sabotaged-trump-foreign-policy/5702275
South Australian counsellor and educators speak on conditions in schools
wsws.org | 2020-01-30
"It is very difficult to understand the complexities of a classroom until you've been in and taught in that classroom and you've tried to manage perhaps 28 or 32 students, all with varying needs."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/30/sate…
UC Santa Cruz Undergrad Students Are Organizing Under the IWW
Carolyn Knight-Serrano | indybay.org | 2020-01-30
UC Santa Cruz Undergrad students are organizing a union under the IWW Industrial Union 620 fighting for better wages and the abolition of tuition.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/29/18830161.php
The Government Is Trying to Strip Student Workers of the Ability to Unionize
Arianna Demas | aclu.org | 2020-01-30
The federal government recently proposed a rule that would strip graduate student workers of their ability to organize under the National Labor Relations Act, the law that grants most private sector employees the right to engage in collective bargaining. In justifying its proposed rule, the National Labor Relations Board, a government agency, asserted that allowing graduate student a…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/the-government-is-trying-to-strip-student-workers-of-the-ability-to-unionize
Weingarten: Right wants states to use public dollars for religious schools
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-30
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The way forward for Dutch teachers
wsws.org | 2020-01-30
Dutch teachers are mounting renewed strike action to demand funds for staff, facilities, increased pay and reduced workloads.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/30/teac…
US Interior Dept Grounds Drone Fleet Over Cybersecurity Fears in Chinese-Made UAVs
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-30
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has grounded its fleet of 810 drones over fears the fleet's Chinese-made drones could leave sensitive information they handle vulnerable to hacking – a reversal of their previous vindication of the Chinese drones they use.
sputniknews.com/science/202001301078182945-us-interior-dept-grounds-drone-fleet-over-cybersecurity-fears-in-chinese-made-uavs/
Secrets of the Red Planet: Mystery of Mars' Polar Ice & Atmosphere Tackled by Scientists
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-30
The new model developed by scientists seeks to explain the peculiar nature of a layered deposit of water and ice on Mars' southern pole, which apparently contains as much CO2 as the planet's entire atmosphere.
sputniknews.com/science/202001301078179969-secrets-of-the-red-planet-mystery-of-mars-polar-ice–atmosphere-tackled-by-scientists/
Get us out of here, plead foreign students at China virus epicentre
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-30
Foreign students stuck in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavurus outbreak, are launching social media campaigns, making phone calls and writing letters urging their governments to get them out as soon as possible.Governments globally are grappling with the challenge of how to get their citizens out of China's Hubei province, where 60 million residents now live under virtual lockdown.Pakistan said that quarantine regulations prevented it from flying out the more than 500 Pakistani students and their families from Wuhan. Bangladesh and India said they were putting aircraft on standby.Muhammad Rau…
yenisafak.com/en/world/get-us-out-of-here-plead-foreign-students-at-china-virus-epicentre-3510886
Man shoots at Delhi protesters, 1 student hurt
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-30
An unidentified man shot and injured a student outside India's premier Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) university in the capital, New Delhi, on Thursday, local media reported. | Brandishing a pistol in full glare of Delhi police and media, the man shouted towards the protesters: "Yeh lo azadi"
Coronavirus: China allocates $4B to fight outbreak
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-30
China has allocated nearly $4 billion to contain the outbreak of coronavirus that has so far killed at least 170 people worldwide, media reports said on Thursday.As many as 4,895 medical workers and 44 chartered airplanes loaded with aid supplies, authorities in Beijing said, have so far reached Wuhan, Hubei province
Selected Articles: The WHO and China's Coronavirus Outbreak
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
WHO Impressed by Chinese Response to Coronavirus Outbreak | By Padraig McGrath, January 30, 2020 | The Chinese government's response to the coronavirus outbreak might not quite match those Herculean feats of crisis-management, but the news of the past few days …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-who-impressed-chinese-response-coronavirus-outbreak/5702341
Gaza Surf Project makes waves
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-30
international solidarity Jim McIlroyIssue 1251 Australia Palestine SydneyJanuary 30, 2020The Gaza Surf Project aims to establish a surf life saving club in Gaza to teach lifesaving and run a Nipper…
greenleft.org.au/content/gaza-surf-project-makes-waves
La politica 100 secondi a Mezzanotte
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-30
La lancetta dell' ´Orologio dell'apocalisse ª
US Government Represents Lawless Billionaires
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Taliano told Press TV in an interview on Saturday that if enriching the US billionaire class "entails stealing another country's oil, then the billionaire class is fine with that." | He said that the US did not need the oil from …
globalresearch.ca/us-government-represents-lawless-billionaires/5702200
The Global System Nearing Financial and Climate Collapse: Capitalism
Frank Scott | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
'Why are there forty million poor people in America?.. when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, …you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
Wuhan Expats Fed Up with Foreign Media Hype
Frank Hossack | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Expats living in Wuhan are enraged by foreign media coverage of the 19-nCoV outbreak. Better placed and likely more informed than any journalist in a faraway land, most are full of praise for the authorities' handling of the situation. | Media …
globalresearch.ca/wuhan-expats-fed-up-foreign-media-hype/5702208
Trump, Pence & Pompeo, the Gang of Three, Claim Criminal Theft of Palestinian Land to be Lawful!
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
As the jumped-up, self-proclaimed, blonde new ruler of the world gives away half the Palestinian West Bank to the current Israeli military occupier, the world watches in amazement at the idea that this unbalanced popinjay
"Debt Against the People": Analysis and History of the Global Debt Crisis
Eric Toussaint | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Introduction | Over the last ten years Greece has been a prime example of how a country and a people can be deprived of their liberty through clearly illegitimate debt. Since the 19th century, from Latin America to China, Haiti, …
globalresearch.ca/debt-against-people/5702229
The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX): Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Russians
Joyce Nelson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
A funny thing happened on the way to the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX)…or rather, several funny things. And they all have to do with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's fear of "foreign meddling" in Canada's pipeline politics. | You …
globalresearch.ca/jason-kenney-russians-tmx-part-1/5702041
Macron's Macro-hypocrisy on Palestine
Dr. Vacy Vlazna | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
"President Emmanuel Macron made a scene in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday when he angrily told Israeli security officers to get out of the Church of Saint Anne, which is traditionally under France's control: | "Everybody knows the rules. I | …
globalresearch.ca/macron-macro-hypocrisy-palestine/5702190
Video: Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, The Iran-Contra Affair
Horizons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
This was posted on Youtube in 2011. | This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations …
globalresearch.ca/video-secret-government-constitution-crisis/5701860
The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq to Target Iran
Nicolas J. S. Davies | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent "weapons of mass destruction." But our government is now threatening to drag us into a war on Iran …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-recycling-big-lie-about-iraq-target-iran/5702169
Don't be Surprised if Russia Tacitly Supports the Trump-Netanyahu "Deal of the Century"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
Russia's relations with "Israel" in recent years are much deeper and more strategic than its historic ones with Palestine so it's unthinkable that Moscow won't tacitly support the so-called "deal of the century" despite expectedly voicing mild reservations about it …
globalresearch.ca/dont-be-surprised-russia-tacitly-supports-deal-century/5702231
Looking Back: I Had No Idea, Back in the 1960s, That This Would be the "Shape of the World to Come"
Eric Waddell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
One day, long, long ago, a man was fishing on the reef, and he saw something out to sea. It appeared to be an island, but it moved. He ran to the beach shouting "An island is coming here", and …
globalresearch.ca/looking-back-i-had-no-idea-back-in-the-1960s-that-this-would-be-the-shape-of-the-world-to-come/5701885
Done Deal: How the Peace Process Sold Out the Palestinians
David Hearst | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
In November 2016, fresh off his electoral win, US President-elect Donald Trump boasted of his intention to end the Israel-Palestine conflict by striking what he called the "ultimate deal". | Calling it "the war that never ends," Trump told the Wall …
globalresearch.ca/how-peace-process-sold-out-palestinians/5702222