Rank-and-file teachers in Sydney adopt resolution defending Assange and Manning
wsws.org | 2020-02-12
The resolution is the outcome of the initiative of the Committee For Public Education, acting independently of the trade union apparatus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/12/nswt…
Ceasar: Grief and challenge
Gail Skenandore and Tom H. Hastings | nationofchange.org | 2020-02-12
The intersection of guns, drugs, poverty, scant education, substandard health care, high unemployment, and corruption are literally producing conditions that invariably redound the hardest and worst on young people of color.
nationofchange.org/2020/02/11/ceasar-grief-and-challenge/
Irish Election Result Is a Victory for Nationalism
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-12
Once upon a time Gerry Adams, the leader of Ireland's nationalist party, Sinn Fein, could not be heard speaking on the BBC. He was branded a terrorist and his voice was dubbed. How times have changed. Now his party, …
globalresearch.ca/irish-election-result-victory-nationalism/5703419
The Beasts and the Bombings: Reflecting on Dresden, February 1945
Brett Wilkins | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-12
The Allied destruction of Dresden wasn't the biggest or deadliest aerial bombardment of a German city during World War II. But it is by far the most infamous, largely due to Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five. February 13 marks …
globalresearch.ca/bombings-reflecting-dresden-february-1945/5703422
Israeli Blocking of Palestinian Exports to Jordan Shows Reality of Apartheid that the Kushner Plan Would Only Cement
Juan Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-12
The Israeli government blockade on Palestinian agricultural exports through Jordan on Sunday illustrates the Apartheid character of Israeli rule over the Palestinians. Palestinian trucks loaded with produce were stopped by quickly-erected Israeli blast walls and forbidden to head into Jor…
globalresearch.ca/israeli-blocking-palestinian-exports-jordan-reality-apartheid/5703432
Angry and Vindicated
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-12
In January, the Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz, ran an article, "Secret Israeli Document Reveals Plan to Keep Arabs Off Their Lands." I found the piece unsettling for several reasons. | Given the headline, at first I thought the story was going …
globalresearch.ca/angry-vindicated/5703425
'Case All About Trump': Microsoft Rips Amazon's 'Sensationalist & Politicised Rhetoric' on DoD Deal
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-12
Multinational tech giant Amazon filed a lawsuit in November protesting the Pentagon's decision to give a large-scale contract to Microsoft, fuming it had fallen victim to "unmistakable bias".
sputniknews.com/science/202002121078295224-case-all-about-trump-microsoft-rips-amazons-sensationalist–politicised-rhetoric-on-dod-deal/
Like a Golf Ball: Scientists Say Solar System's Biggest Asteroid is Strewn With Craters
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-12
The asteroid Pallas, named after the Greek goddess of wisdom Athena, was first discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Olbers in 1802. The celestial body travels in an unusually tilted and elongated orbit.
sputniknews.com/science/202002121078295241-like-a-golf-ball-scientists-say-solar-systems-biggest-asteroid-is-strewn-with-craters/
Unesco Rewards Mexican Scientist for Her Research on Bacteria
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-11
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) and the French company L'Oreal Tuesday awarded their joint prize for "Women and Science" to Mexican scientist Maria Esperanza Martinez for her research on the use of environmentally friendly bacteria. | RELATED: | Primary Edition: DNA Tool That Could Correct Most Genetic Defects | Martinez, who is a Genomic Ecology professor at the Center for Genomic Sciences of the National Autonomous University…
telesurenglish.net/news/Unesco-Rewards-Mexican-Scientist-for-Her-Research-on-Bacteria-20200211-0013.html
Keep War, Environmental Degradation and Profit Out of Space
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
The 21st Century nuclear arms and developing outer space arms races, which began under Obama and are increasing under Trump, are going to be something the world has never seen before. They are a bonanza for weapons makers, the Pentagon …
globalresearch.ca/keep-war-environmental-degradation-profit-out-space/5703332
Teenage girls' education, 'an indispensable foundation' for achieving development goals: Guterres
news.un.org | 2020-02-11
Promoting education for adolescent girls is an "indispensable foundation for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals", Secretary-General António Guterres declared at the launch event of the Drive for 5 education initiative at UN Headquarters on Tuesday, hosted by the Irish Mission to the United Nations.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/02/1057211
Ontario Government's Fight with Educators: A Student's Perspective
Victoria Lunetta | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
It's hard to walk across the University of Toronto (U of T) campus without your eye catching the grand, pale-bricked building that sits parallel to the greenery of Queen's Park. It is even harder to find a U of T …
globalresearch.ca/ford-fight-educators/5703371
Video: The Truth About Venezuela's Blackout
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
This was originally published in March 2019. | Venezuela's blackout is the latest in the US siege on the country. | . | . | …
globalresearch.ca/truth-about-venezuela-blackout/5703355
In Our American Empire, "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break…"
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
Kudos to the 1941 W.C. Fields comedy film "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" for the inspiration. Well, this certainly does fit with what is transpiring now in our American Empire. | This writer lives in an area I have …
globalresearch.ca/never-give-sucker/5703328
Recession Engineered by the Creditors: Seven Years of Demanding the Impossible in Greece
Yiannis Mouzakis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
In a recent presentation of his book, Laid Low, which examines the International Monetary Fund's role in the eurozone crisis, author and journalist Paul Blustein disclosed a memo dated May 4, 2010, from the IMF's then head of research …
globalresearch.ca/seven-years-demanding-impossible-greece/5703347
Hollywood and Syria: The Uses of Enchantment in Crimes Against Peace
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
Hollywood 's Oscars awards ceremony is nigh. Two anti-Syria propaganda-documentaries are short-listed in this year's competition. We use the occasion to offer a photo tutorial on Hollywood enchantment techniques
Trump Budget Gives Top Priority to New Generation of Nuclear Weapons
Patrick Martin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
The most ominous feature of the new budget document issued Monday by the Trump administration is the prominent place given to the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons, including so-called low-yield weapons, smaller than the bombs that destroyed …
globalresearch.ca/trump-budget-gives-top-priority-new-generation-nuclear-weapons/5703382
The American Malaise: Reflecting on Whether U.S. Politics Is "Beyond Repair"
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
A recent BBC News article asked the quite pertinent question of whether U.S. politics is " beyond repair". The points that the writer Nick Bryant makes regarding political "hyperpartisanship", what he terms "the degradation of debate" and the corruption …
globalresearch.ca/american-malaise-reflecting-whether-u-s-politics-beyond-repair/5703342
Subverting the Hollywood Blacklist: Kirk Douglas's Modest Contribution
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
Leaving aside the content of the spectacular, embellished account that became Spartacus, Kirk Douglas, whose life ticked over into a century and a few years, left his own distinct mark on US cultural politics. At the very least, he …
globalresearch.ca/subverting-blacklist-kirk-douglas-modest-contribution/5703385
A Turquia ameaàßa retaliaàßà£o contra a Rússia e contra a Síria se atacarem a Al Qaeda na província de Idlib, na Síria
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
O Presidente turco, Tayyip Erdogan, disse num discurso, em 5 de Fevereiro, ao Partido Islâmico do AKP que, se as tropas sírias ou os aviàµes russos atacarem a Al Qaeda, na província de Idlib, na Síria, a Turquia estará em …
globalresearch.ca/a-turquia-ameaca-retaliacao-contra-a-russia-e-contra-a-siria-se-atacarem-a-al-qaeda-na-provincia-de-idlib-na-siria/5703315
The Siren Call of a 'System Leader'
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
A considerable spectrum of the liberal West takes the American interpretation of what civilization consists of to be something like an immutable law of nature. But what if this interpretation is on the verge of an irreparable breakdown? | Michael Vlahos…
globalresearch.ca/siren-call-system-leader/5703344
Video: The Battle for Idlib is Ongoing. Turkish Forces to the Rescue of "Peaceful Al Qaeda Militants"
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
During the last few days, Turkey deployed approximately 1,000 units of military equipment, including self-propelled howitzers, M06T and Leopard 2A4 battle tanks, in the Syrian province of Idlib. According to local sources, the number of Turkish troops and special forces …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrians-give-warm-welcome-erdogan-troops-attacking-saraqib/5703336
Democrats Ignore Trump's Real Violations
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
This week the latest Democratic Party attempt to remove President Trump from office
China, Russia to Defy US Sanctions Over Support to Venezuela
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
The Russian government rejected on Monday the U.S. threats to impose new sanctions against several Russian companies for their cooperation with Venezuela in the oil sector. | Last week, the United States special representative for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, warned Russia …
globalresearch.ca/china-russia-defy-us-sanctions-support-venezuela/5703352
The Mideast's Place in Russia's Greater Eurasian Partnership
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
Russia's Greater Eurasian Partnership envisages the supercontinent peacefully coming together in the shared interests of peace, stability, and development, brought about by Moscow's "balancing" strategy in recent years which was first practiced in the Mideast region, one of the most …
globalresearch.ca/mideast-place-russia-greater-eurasian-partnership/5703367
Genetically Modified Seeds: Conceived as a Weapon
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
GM seeds and GM food carry great risks for all nations, so much so that for many reasons it is probably imperative these foods be banned outright. This subject is too large to be discussed here, but one aspect requires …
globalresearch.ca/genetically-modified-seeds-conceived-weapon/5703004
Thousands of students affected by New Zealand's anti-Chinese travel ban
wsws.org | 2020-02-11
A student who spoke to the WSWS described the travel ban, ostensibly aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus, as a "dream come true" for the NZ First Party and other right-wing nationalists.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/11/crnv…
Facing Skyrocketing Rents, Santa Cruz Grad Students Go on Strike
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-11
Protesting low wages in one of the most unaffordable cities in the country, graduate students at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) went on a wildcat grading strike in December and are now organizing for a full strike, beginning February 10. | Graduate student workers at the 10 UC campuses across the state receive the same wages
Minneapolis: Hundreds attend Black History month events featuring Frank Chapman
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-11
Minneapolis, MN – Hundreds of people came out for several events marking Black History month with Chicago's Frank Chapman, who is a leading member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. | "I had one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had during my over 50 years as a Black freedom fighter and a red. I spoke to about 150 Black, brown and white students, and if that wasn't amazing enough I was invited to speak by the Black Student Union united with an organization of Marxist students," Chapman said of his visit to Minneapolis South High School on Friday, February 7. Both the Black Student Union and the Stud…
fightbacknews.org/2020/2/11/minneapolis-hundreds-attend-black-history-month-events-featuring-frank-chapman
Grecia, svendita di basi militari agli Stati uniti
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
Il Parlamento greco ha ratificato l' ´Accordo di cooperazione per la reciproca difesa ª, che concede agli Stati uniti l'uso di tutte le basi militari greche. Esse serviranno alle forze armate Usa non solo per stoccare armamenti, rifornirsi e addestrarsi, ma anche …
globalresearch.ca/grecia-svendita-di-basi-militari-agli-stati-uniti/5703317
Grécia, venda de bases militares aos Estados Unidos
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
O Parlamento grego ratificou o "Acordo de Cooperaàßà£o para Defesa Mútua", que concede aos Estados Unidos o uso de todas as bases militares gregas. Elas servirà£o à s foràßas armadas USA nà£o só para armazenar armamentos, reabastecer-se e treinar, mas também …
globalresearch.ca/grecia-venda-de-bases-militares-aos-estados-unidos/5703321
Selected Articles: Trump's New Generation of Nuclear Weapons
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-11
Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-trump-budget-gives-top-priority-new-generation-nuclear-weapons/5703389
Menace on the Menu in Post-EU Britain
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-11
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written the report 'Bayer Crop Science rules Britain after Brexit
With science 'held back by a gender gap', Guterres calls for more empowerment for women and girls
news.un.org | 2020-02-10
Fewer than 30 per cent of the world's scientific researchers are women: that's just one of the statistics showing how many challenges remain for women and girls in the scientific field, as the world marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/02/1057111
Blaming Beijing: US charges 4 Chinese military personnel over massive Equifax hack
rt.com | 2020-02-10
The US Justice Department has pinned 2017's Equifax hack on four members of China's People's Liberation Army, indicting the quartet on charges related to the breach that exposed the data of 150 million Americans. | One of the largest and most notorious hacks in US history has been traced to four Chinese military hackers, according to an indictment announced Monday by US Attorney General William Barr. Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei
Climate Change and Rebellion: an interview with John Molyneux
Leo Zeilig | mronline.org | 2020-02-10
In an interview with the socialist writer and activist, John Molyneux, ROAPE's Leo Zeilig asks him about climate change, capitalism and socialist transformation. In an important initiative John has recently founded the Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) which brings together activists and researchers from across the Global North and South. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/10/climate-change-and-rebellion-an-interview-with-john-molyneux/
Global Research in Troubled Waters: We Need Your Support
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
Dear Readers, | As some of you may recall, around this time last year, Global Research needed your help to "stay afloat". Our financial situation was in bad shape and we were metaphorically sinking. Happily, many of you have since thrown …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-in-troubled-waters-we-need-your-support/5703308
We're California Graduate Students, and We're Not Taking Poverty Wages Anymore
UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strikers | thenation.com | 2020-02-10
We're California Graduate Students, and We're Not Taking Poverty Wages…
thenation.com/article/activism/santa-cruz-strike/
On Class Consciousness and the 2020 Presidential Election
Gary Olson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-09
After several weeks of intensive reading and discussion on class, capitalism and socialism in my undergraduate course, The Politics of Labor, we would do following exercise: Standing before the blackboard (google it) I encouraged the students to list existing, objective and determining conditions that might prompt the American working class to seek the abolition of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/on-class-consciousness-and-the-2020-presidential-election/
Mexico's President AMLO Shows How It's Done
Ellen Brown | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-09
While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico's new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press conference on January 6, he said the neoliberal model had failed; private …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/mexicos-president-amlo-shows-how-its-done/
Charter Schools Fail to Eradicate the Achievement Gap
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-09
Numerous inequalities characterize societies in which the majority produce the wealth but only a handful own it. The so-called "achievement gap" is mainly an expression of the harsh social class divide in society that keeps growing. One of the conceited claims of charter school advocates is that privately-owned-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools will close …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/charter-schools-fail-to-eradicate-the-achievement-gap/
UW-Parkside SDS lead rally to free Chrystul Kizer, confront DA Graveley
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-07
Kenosha, WI – Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized a #FreeChrystul rally at UW-Parkside on February 5 that saw 40 protesters attend. The demonstrators congregated outside the building where District Attorney Mike Graveley, Chrystul Kizer's prosecutor, was teaching his first class of the spring semester, on criminal law. | The group began with chants that echoed across the campus thanks to the excellent acoustics between campus buildings. Coinciding with the start of the class period, speakers from different organizations and backgrounds shared their messages. These included Adelana Akindes, a leader…
fightbacknews.org/2020/2/7/uw-parkside-sds-lead-rally-free-chrystul-kizer-confront-da-graveley
Human Rights Watch: 200 Salvadoran Asylum Seekers Killed, Raped or Tortured After U.S. Deportation
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-07
A shocking new report says at least 200 Salvadoran asylum seekers were either killed, raped or tortured after being deported from the United States back to El Salvador. Human Rights Watch found that some 138 people deported to El Salvador were murdered by gang members, police, soldiers, death squads or ex-partners between 2013 and 2019. The report says most of the victims were killed within two years after being deported, by the same perpetrators the asylum seekers had fled from. From Denver, Colorado, we speak to Clara Long, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch. And joining us from El Salvador, we speak to "
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/7/hrw_report…
SPLC sues Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School safety commission for not allowing students to voice concerns
splcenter.org | 2020-02-06
Kinsey Akers had to take the PSAT but was determined to make her voice heard at a public meeting on school safety that same day.
splcenter.org/news/2020/02/06/splc-sues-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-safety-commission-not-allowing-students
Alabama Charter Schools: Principles for Ensuring Equity and Access
splcenter.org | 2020-02-04
splcenter.org/20200205/alabama-charter-schools-principles-ensuring-equity-and-access
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/
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
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
Former College Student, Atomwaffen Sympathizer Faces Charges of 'Swatting' Calls
splcenter.org | 2020-01-23
A former Virginia college student the FBI says is affiliated with violent neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen has been charged with helping coordinate and make "swatting" phone calls around the country and the globe.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/01/24/former-college-student-atomwaffen-sympathizer-faces-charges-swatting-calls