Coronavirus Pandemic: Economic Disruption. China Bashing and Hate Campaign against Chinese-Americans
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-04
The coronavirus pandemic is being used to smear China and its leadership. | The WHO has set the stage. A Global Emergency after a three hour committee meeting in Geneva was launched on January 30. | At the time this far-reaching WHO …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-pandemic-economic-disruption-china-bashing-and-hate-campaign-against-chinese-americans/5702706

China tests Russian anti-viral drug which might treat coronavirus as Moscow warns of possible 'mass outbreak'
rt.com | 2020-02-04
While health chiefs prepare for a potential pandemic, China is testing a Russian anti-viral drug in the hope that it might help control the new coronavirus. It comes as prospects of a vaccine look slim for the foreseeable future. | Triazavirin, developed at Yekaterinburg's Ural Federal University, was originally developed to combat 'Bird Flu' (H5N1), and, given that there are some similarities between the two infections, researchers feel it's worth a punt. The medicine is already known to be effective against 15 types of flu. | Russia's Deputy Health Minister Sergei Kraevoi confirmed the news on Tuesday. He al…
rt.com/russia/480037-china-tests-russian-drug-coronavirus/

New Zealand's Hidden Role at the Biggest US Bombing Base in the Middle East
Darius Shahtahmasebi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-04
A recent issue of Air Force News revealed that a senior NZDF officer served a six-month posting at the Qatar base, placing New Zealanders at the heart of the main targeting and bombing center in that region, writes Darius Shahtahmasebi…
globalresearch.ca/new-zealand-hidden-role-biggest-us-bombing-base-middle-east/5702726

The Syrian Arab Army and Allies are Fighting the "Real War on Terror"
Vanessa Beeley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-04
Probably the most hideous propaganda to be spewed by the establishment media cartel in the West is that which portrays the Syrian Arab Army as some kind of militia, "Assad's gang", disconnecting these defenders of homeland from the people they …
globalresearch.ca/honour-syrian-arab-army-allies-real-war-terror/5702737

Twitter cites 'Iran & Israel state actors' after suspending researcher who exposed new user-data flaw
rt.com | 2020-02-04
Twitter, in a post so reassuring it's alarming, says it stopped possible state-backed actors in Iran and Israel from exploiting its features. But the only clear 'actor' may be a lone researcher who reported the bug six weeks ago. | "Iran, Israel and Malaysia suspected of exploiting Twitter phone number security flaw," read a headline on Sky News. "Twitter: Israel, Iran may have accessed users' phone numbers," warned the Jerusalem Post. | So what did those bad privacy-violating ayatollahs in Tehran and intrepid privacy-defying IDF hackers do this time? They exploited Twitter's "contact upload" feature to match…
rt.com/news/480041-twitter-bug-iran-israel/

The Holocaust, the BBC and Antisemitism Smears
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-04
Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a | …
globalresearch.ca/holocaust-bbc-antisemitism-smears/5702729

Most Popular Articles in January
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-04
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'Reverse' solar panels could generate power during the NIGHT, scientists working on prototype
rt.com | 2020-02-04
The Achilles' heel of solar energy has always been its inability to generate energy when the Sun is down, but now a team of researchers believes we could soon have solar panels that work 24/7, but… there's a catch! | Using specially designed photovoltaic cells, scientists now think we could theoretically generate an additional 10 percent or more of the energy produced during the day during night time hours by using the heat lost from the panels as they cool to squeeze out a little extra juice. | These night time photovoltaic cells would work using the same basic principle as normal solar panels, only in reve…
rt.com/news/480029-scientists-working-solar-panels-night/

Realizing 'Just Transitions': The Struggle for Plant Conversion at GM Oshawa
Prof. Sam Gindin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-04
On November 26, 2018, General Motors announced a number of plant closures in North America, the largest of which is in Oshawa, Ontario. The Oshawa facility, once the largest auto complex on the continent, was to end all its assembly …
globalresearch.ca/realizing-just-transitions-struggle-plant-conversion-gm-oshawa/5702730

Why Economics is an Impossible Science (In One Paragraph)
Marshall Sahlins | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-04
In a word, Economics is an Impossible Science because by its own definition the determining conditions of the economy are not economic: they are "exogenous." Supposedly a science of things, it is by definition without substance, being rather a mode of behavior: the application of scarce means to alternative ends so as to achieve the…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/04/why-economics-is-an-impossible-science-in-one-paragraph/

Students and young people speak out against war
wsws.org | 2020-02-04
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality spoke to young people throughout the US about their experience with war and its consequences.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/04/vide…

Australia: New South Wales public school teachers continue to express outrage over union betrayal
wsws.org | 2020-02-04
Since school autonomy was introduced in 2012, casual or contract employment of teachers in NSW has soared by 40 percent.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/04/nswt…

Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2020-02-04
Tens of thousands of teachers in Canada's largest province are continuing their fight against the right wing government of Bill Ford, while workers at Brazil's Petrobras have taken action over the privatization drive by the Bolsonaro administration.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/04/wrkr…

German Research Institute Says Coronavirus Cases Could Possibly Increase in Country
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-04
BERLIN (Sputnik) – Individual cases of the new coronavirus could potentially increase in Germany, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German government's public health agency, said on Tuesday.
sputniknews.com/europe/202002041078225543-german-research-institute-says-coronavirus-cases-could-possibly-increase-in-country/

In Uganda, Netanyahu urges stronger ties, embassy move
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-04
Israel is coming back to Africa, and Africa is coming back to Israel in a big way, the country's prime minister said on an official visit to Uganda lasting for a few hours late Monday, urging the country to controversially move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. On his fifth visit to the East African country, Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Yoweri Museveni, Uganda's president, for supporting Israel's efforts, saying: "Increasing our cooperation with African countries, that is something that is of great value to Israel."He said Israel and Uganda are cooperating in many fields such as agriculture, education, and in…
yenisafak.com/en/news/in-uganda-netanyahu-urges-stronger-ties-embassy-move-3511232

Con Guerini ancora più legati al Pentagono
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-04
´Relazione storicamente privilegiata, che bisogna rafforzare il più possibile ª: cosà¨, nella sua visita a Washington (29-31 gennaio), il ministro della Difesa Lorenzo Guerini (Pd) ha definito il legame dell'Italia con gli Stati uniti. | Il segretario Usa alla Difesa Mark Esper …
globalresearch.ca/con-guerini-ancora-piu-legati-al-pentagono/5702752

14 Kenyan Children Killed in Stampede After School
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-03
Fourteen children were killed in a stampede as they rushed down a staircase at the end of classes at a primary school in western Kenya Monday, officials said. | RELATED: | Over 50 People Killed by Stampede at Iranian General's Funeral | At least 39 more were badly hurt in the incident at the Kakamega Primary School, the Daily Nation newspaper said, citing Western Region Police Commander Peris Kimani. | "We lost 14 of them," Education Minister George Magoha told Citizen TV. "One…
telesurenglish.net/news/14-Kenyan-Children-Killed-in-Stampede-After-School-20200203-0010.html

The Making of the First American Dictator
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
The Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump was both a farce and a tragedy. Mr. Trump, a Fascistic minded President was not targeted for his real crimes (inhumane treatments of immigrant children in the ICE concentration camps, inciting violence during …
globalresearch.ca/making-first-american-dictator/5702526

Improving public education
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2020-02-03
As we know, education has become ever more expensive over the last 40 years. Teachers' salaries have declined, and school expenses have risen.
nationofchange.org/2020/02/03/improving-public-education/

UN Rejects Trump's Annexation Scheme?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Pronouncements are one thing, policies another. Ignore what politicians say. Follow only what they do. | The same goes for UN officials, notably the secretary general, installed by the US to serve its interests. | Most often, current incumbent Antonio Guterres and …
globalresearch.ca/un-rejects-trump-annexation-scheme/5702600

Libya and the Modern Colonial Legacy of the Berlin Conference
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Once a leading force in the Pan-African Movement on the continent, Libya today, provides a profound illustration of the detrimental and destructive character of neo-colonialism in the present epoch. | During February and March of 2011, the United States and its …
globalresearch.ca/libya-modern-legacy-berlin-conference/5702565

Nuclear Treaty Busting Trump Regime. Doomsday Clock Closer than Ever to Midnight
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Largely in response to reckless Trump regime treaty busting, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock closer than ever to midnight. | It now stands at 100 seconds from potential catastrophe to humanity. | In June 2017, the Trump …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-treaty-busting-trump-regime-doomsday-clock-closer-than-ever-to-midnight/5702521

VIDEO: Watch the Impeachment Trial Live. Trump Acquittal "All But Certain"
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
A majority of Republican Senators are firmly behind Donald Trump. Trump's acquittal is imminent. | . | "Led by intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff the managers pleaded with Republicans to find Trump guilty of the charges in the two articles of impeachment: | …
globalresearch.ca/video-watch-the-impeachment-trial-live-trump-acquittal-all-but-certain/5702694

Imperialism and Liberation Strategies in the Middle East
Pal Steigan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
When millions of Iraqis took to the streets recently, their main slogan was "THE UNITED STATES OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!" | How should one analyze this? | Obviously, there are a lot of social tensions in the Middle East

The U.S. War on Iran and Venezuela: Interview with Ajamu Baraka
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
The following interview with Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of Black Alliance for Peace, was conducted on January 26, by Alan Benjamin, editorial board member of The Organizer newspaper. It is reprinted from Issue No. 149 (January 31, 2020) of …
globalresearch.ca/interview-ajamu-baraka-u-s-war-iran-venezuela/5702563

"Deal of the Century" Greenlights Israeli Annexation, Apartheid, and Subjugation of Palestinians
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
On Sunday, ahead of the big Tuesday reveal in the White House, US President Donald J. Trump delivered to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the so-called "Deal of the Century" also known as the " Middle East Peace Plan". …
globalresearch.ca/deal-century-greenlights-israeli-annexation-apartheid-subjugation-palestinians/5702584

The Afghanistan Papers. "Teflon Lies" and Mowing Lawns
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Afghanistan is a famous desert for empires, a burial ground which has consumed those in power who thought that extra fortification and trading most might benefit them. It remains a great, and somewhat savage reminder about those who suffer hubris, …
globalresearch.ca/teflon-lies-mowing-lawns-afghanistan-papers/5702618

Do Not be Indifferent to the Proposed Rape of Palestine by the Trump-Netanyahu Family!
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
We must not be indifferent when we hear historical lies. We must not be indifferent when the past is distorted for today's political needs. The ancient people of Palestine have been the documented, majority indigenous demographic of the region for …
globalresearch.ca/do-not-indifferent-proposed-rape-palestine-trump-netanyahu-family/5702589

Video: Turkey's Madman Erdogan Sends NATO Troops to Defend al-Qaeda Terrorists in Idlib
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Erdogan lost his mind and sends NATO troops into the Syrian province of Idlib to establish military checkpoints in front of the advancing Syrian Arab Army from the south to protect his defeated and collapsing al-Qaeda terrorists. | Even someone like …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-madman-erdogan-sends-nato-troops-defend-al-qaeda-terrorists-idlib/5702594

Eating red meat and processed meat 'linked to increased risk of heart disease'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-03
Eating red meat and processed meat is linked to an increased risk of heart disease and death, new research suggests. | Eating two servings of red meat, processed meat or poultry per week was associated with a 3% to 7% higher risk of cardiovascular disease, the study found. | Consuming two servings of red meat or processed meat

New Research Shows Fracking's Grave Toll on Climate
commondreams.org | 2020-02-03
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/02/03/new-research-shows-frackings-grave-toll-climate?cd-origin=rss

Video: Syrian Army Offensive in Greater Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
The last week of January turned badly for Idlib militants. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda), the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation and their allies appeared to be unable to contain the offensive of the Syrian Army, …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-offensive-greater-idlib-results-january-27-31-2020/5702512

BRICS and the Digital Money Project: Alternative to US$, New Wave in International Payment System?
Yana Grigoryeva | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
In 2019 Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa were planning to issue their own digital money in order to reduce the share of payments in the US currency. BRICS countries are reducing the share of settlements in dollars. In …
globalresearch.ca/brics-token-new-wave-international-payment-system/5702587

A World Without War: Global Research Needs Your Support
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
Dear Readers, | Global Research is a small team that believes in the power of information and analysis to bring about far-reaching societal change including a world without war. We are as committed as ever to the struggle for Peace, but …
globalresearch.ca/a-world-without-war-global-research-needs-your-support/5676117

Victory for Canada's First Nations: Saugeen Ojibway Nation Has Saved Lake Huron from a Nuclear Waste Dump
Joyce Nelson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
A major victory for Canada's First Nations has just been won in Ontario. On January 31, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) overwhelmingly voted down the proposed deep geological repository (DGR) for storage of low- and intermediate-level radioactive nuclear waste next …
globalresearch.ca/saugeen-ojibway-nation-saved-lake-huron-nuclear-waste-dump/5702592

A New US Air Force Video Game Lets You Drone Bomb Iraqis and Afghans
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-03
The United States Air Force has a new recruitment tool: a realistic drone operator video game you can play on its website. Called the Airman Challenge, it features 16 missions to complete, interspersed with facts and recruitment information …
globalresearch.ca/new-us-air-force-video-game-lets-you-drone-bomb-iraqis-afghans/5702580

2 dead, 1 injured in dorm shooting at Texas A&M university
rt.com | 2020-02-03
Two women have been killed and a child was injured in a shooting incident at the Commerce campus of Texas A&M University. All classes have been canceled for the day and the campus was told to shelter in place. | Three gunshot victims were reported at the Pride Rock residence hall, which houses freshmen students, on Monday morning. University police were deployed to investigate. | There have been 2 confirmed deaths. The third victim has been taken to the hospital for treatment. UPD has stationed officers throughout campus, including all key gathering points, for the safety of the campus community. | We will con…
rt.com/usa/479993-texas-university-campus-shooting/

Teacher's photos document virus-hit Chinese city
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-03
A teacher who was starting a new life with his wife in the Chinese industrial centre of Wuhan when a viral outbreak spread across the city has documented the coronavirus fallout in a series of photos.Poland native Arek Rataj had recently taken a position teaching visual communication at Jianghan University, but almost immediately the metropolis of 11 million people, which had been teeming with Lunar New Year holiday revelry, turned quiet.A girl wears a face mask as she plays on a swing near the Yingwuzhou Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan (Arek Rataj/AP)Arek and his wife Jenina bought face masks for protection and ke…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/02/03/teachers-photos-document-virus-hit-chinese-city/

House Oversight Committee to DeVos: Skip Stumping for Trump and Show Up for Testimomy—or Face Subpoena
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-02-03
"Instead of testifying before Congress, you are now apparently going to Iowa to campaign on behalf of President Trump today and then to Pennsylvania for another campaign event for him on Wednesday." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/02/03/house-oversight-committee-devos-skip-stumping-trump-and-show-testimomy-or-face?cd-origin=rss

Kenosha, WI: Students plan rally in support of Chrystul Kizer outside DA Graveley's classroom
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-03
Kenosha, WI – As the semester approaches, members of the UW-Parkside chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) have been hard at work. Kicking off the new year, SDS is leading a rally in support of the release of Chrystul Kizer, a Milwaukee teenager accused of killing her sex trafficker, Randall Volar III. | Upon learning that Kenosha's district attorney, Michael Graveley, would be teaching a class at their campus, the students of the organization knew they had to act. | "I felt angry knowing that Graveley will be showing his face at Parkside," said Lana Akindes, a member of SDS. "He's proudly vouching f…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/2/3/kenosha-w…

Why is Animal Research So Seldom in the News?
Martha Rosenberg | zcomm.org | 2020-02-02
The animal-research industry is a vast, macabre enterprise richly supporting medical centers and individual researchers with almost no transparency or accountability…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/why-is-animal-research-so-seldom-in-the-news/

Iraqi Students Protest Against Designation of New PM Allawi
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-02
Iraqi university students took to the streets in cities across the country Sunday to protest the appointment of Mohammed Allawi as the next Prime Minister. | RELATED: | Violence Escalates In Iraq As Government Pushes To End Protests | Hundreds of university students along with other anti-government protesters in Baghdad, Najaf, and Nasiriya reject the election of Allawi, whom they accuse of belonging to the same political establishment that has failed them. | The 65-year-old…
telesurenglish.net/news/iraqi-students-protest-against-designated-pm-mohammed-allawi-20200202-0010.html

ZeroHedge banned from Twitter after BuzzFeed accuses it of coronavirus conspiracy and 'doxxing' a Chinese scientist
rt.com | 2020-02-01
The popular news blog ZeroHedge has been suspended from Twitter. While no reason was given, their last tweet referred to speculation the coronavirus could be a bioweapon and BuzzFeed had just accused them of doxxing. | The site's last tweet before the suspension referenced a paper by Indian scientists pointing to uncanny similarities between the 2019-nCoV virus and HIV, which internet researcher Christopher Torres Lugo described as "conspiracy theories claiming that 2019-nCoV is a bioweapon." | Twitter does not comment on reasons for suspending or banning any particular account, leaving ZeroHedge's 673,000 or…
rt.com/usa/479824-zerohedge-twitter-suspended-coronavirus/

Charter Schools Are Part of Private Law, Not Public Law
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-31
Public law and private law are separate spheres of law that operate according to different standards and relationships.1 Private law governs relations between private citizens, whereas public law governs relations between individuals and the state. This distinction is critical. Private law does not concern society as a whole; public law does. Private law includes tort …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/charter-schools-are-part-of-private-law-not-public-law/

"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…

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

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

What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak: A Civil Liberties Perspective
Jay Stanley | aclu.org | 2020-01-28
The world is watching anxiously to see what happens with the | coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China. As scientists and public health | officials in the United States learn more about the virus, and as we all see | how bad the outbreak turns out to be, it is important that public policymaking | remain firmly centered around science. | Unfortunately, our history of reactions to infectious | disease outbreaks suggests that if this outbreak becomes severe, we're likely | to see strong pressure to the contrary. In particular, we can expect three | things: | We can expect some to | panic.: | Unfortu…
aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-coronavirus-outbreak-a-civil-liberties-perspective

Chinese Artist & Filmmaker Ai Weiwei on State Violence from Mexico to Hong Kong to Xinjiang
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-28
In 2014, 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared after they were abducted in Iguala, Mexico. More than five years after their disappearance, the families of the students are still fighting for justice. The story is the subject of a stunning new documentary by the world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. The film, "Vivos," follows the families of the disappeared students in their daily lives as they grapple with the absence of their loved ones and attempt to hold the Mexican government accountable for their disappearance. We sat down with Ai Weiwei earlier this week at the Sund…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/28/ai_weiwei…

SPLC sues Alabama school district for violating students' due process rights after cell phone is mistaken for gun
splcenter.org | 2020-01-28
Andre and his friend were taking turns on a cell phone, playing a video game called Last Day on Earth: Survival