'Conscience-free journalism is great career choice': Guardian mocked over failure to mention Assange in 'press freedom' article
rt.com | 2020-02-17
The Guardian newspaper has been mercilessly ridiculed on social media after it failed to highlight the plight of journalist Julian Assange in a piece on Amal Clooney's plans to "combat media repression globally." | The outlet's diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour published an article on Monday focused on the 'Report on the Use of Targeted Sanctions to Protect Journalists,' a document drafted by prominent human rights barrister, Amal Clooney. | Clooney, who represented the WikiLeaks co-fou…
rt.com/uk/481019-assange-guardian-press-freedom/
Trump's Trade War with China: Imagine What Would Happen if China Decided to Impose Economic Sanctions on the USA?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
In formulating these veiled threats, the Trump administration should think twice. These measures would inevitably backlash on the U.S. economy. China is not dependent on US imports. Quite the opposite. America is an import led economy with a weak manufacturing base, heavily dependent on imports from the PRC.
globalresearch.ca/imagine-what-would-happen-if-china-decided-to-impose-economic-sanctions-on-the-usa-2/5598941
SF Forum Challenging Silicon Valley Myths: Digital Activism & The Sharing Economy
LaborTech, LaborNet, Department of Media Studies | indybay.org | 2020-02-17
USF School Of Education | Room 110 | 2350 Turk Blvd. | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/14/18830680.php
'Conscience-free journalism is great career choice': Guardian mocked over failure to mention Assange in 'press freedom' article
rt.com | 2020-02-17
The Guardian newspaper has been mercilessly ridiculed on social media after it failed to highlight the plight of journalist Julian Assange in a piece on Amal Clooney's plans to "combat media repression globally." | The outlet's diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour published an article on Monday focused on the 'Report on the Use of Targeted Sanctions to Protect Journalists,' a document drafted by prominent human rights barrister, Amal Clooney. | Clooney, who represented the WikiLeaks co-fou…
rt.com/uk/481019-assange-guardian-press-freedom/
Trump's Budget Would Slash Support for Low-Income Students
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-17
As the presidential election campaign picks up, almost every top candidate has released a plan for higher education that addresses college affordability and student debt issues. But there's only one candidate who's already in the White House
Peruvian students protest threatened shutdown of private universities
wsws.org | 2020-02-17
Thirty-nine private universities and two graduate schools failed to meet basic educational standards, threatening 166,000 students with being thrown in the street.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/17/peru…
Trump's Budget Would Slash Support for Low-Income Students
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-17
As the presidential election campaign picks up, almost every top candidate has released a plan for higher education that addresses college affordability and student debt issues. But there's only one candidate who's already in the White House
How Trump's "Peace" Plan Will Redraw Israel's Borders to Exclude to Non-Jews
Miko Peled | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Trump's new Middle East "Peace" Plan will redraw Israeli borders to exclude towns with large populations of Arab citizens, an attempt, writes Miko Peled, to force them down the totem pole to a place where their rights will be even …
globalresearch.ca/how-trump-peace-plan-redraw-israel-borders-exclude-non-jews/5703828
Coronavirus May Tip the Global Economy Into Recession?
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
As each day passes the numbers get worse for the impact of the Coronavirus. The numbers of people infected and who have died from the Coronavirus have already exceeded the Sars virus and look set to get much worse. | As …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-tip-global-economy-recession/5703809
Kill the Culture, Destroy a Nation
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
During the Gulf War of the 1990‚Ä≤s, U.S. troops in Baghdad looted important museums, destroyed historical artifacts, some were even found outside of the museums and on the side of roads, many of ancient artifacts and pieces of artworks were …
globalresearch.ca/kill-culture-destroy-nation/5703881
The Koch-Soros Quincy Project: A Train Wreck of Neocon and 'Humanitarian' Interventionists
Daniel McAdams | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Those hoping the non-interventionist cause would be given some real muscle if a couple of oligarchs who've made fortunes from global interventionism team up and pump millions into Washington think tanks will be sorely disappointed by the train wreck that …
globalresearch.ca/koch-soros-quincy-project-train-wreck-neocon-humanitarian-interventionists/5703860
UN Publishes List of Companies Profiting from Israel's Illegal Settlements in Palestine
Brett Wilkins | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Read the list here | After years of unexplained delays, the United Nations this week released a list of over 100 companies with ties to illegal Israeli settler colonies in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. | In a statement released on …
globalresearch.ca/un-publishes-list-companies-profiting-israel-illegal-settlements-palestine/5703821
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Children's Health Defense Submitted Historic Case Against U.S. Government for Children Injured by Wireless Technology Radiation
Children's Health Defense | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
CHD Chairman, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will lead the legal team with seasoned telecommunications and administrative law attorney Scott McCollough. | Children's Health Defense (CHD) is leading a historic legal action against the Federal…
globalresearch.ca/children-health-defense-submitted-historic-case-against-u-s-government-wireless-harms/5703845
Afghan Troops Say Taliban Are Brothers and War Is "Not Really Our Fight."
Nicolas J. S. Davies | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
The world is waiting anxiously to see whether the U.S. and Afghan governments and the Taliban will agree to a one-week truce that could set the stage for a "permanent and comprehensive" ceasefire and the withdrawal of U.S. and other …
globalresearch.ca/afghan-troops-say-taliban-brothers-war-not-really-our-fight/5703879
Intelligence Spats: Australia, Britain and Huawei
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
A note of fraternal tension has been registered between the United Kingdom and Australia. It began with Britain's decision to permit China's technology giant Huawei a role in the construction of the country's 5G network. While the decision is qualified …
globalresearch.ca/intelligence-spats-australia-britain-huawei/5703806
The Middle East: Ground Zero for Possible Global War?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
The UN Charter's preamble explained that "the scourge of war…twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind"
Video Reveals Threat of "Wholesale Transfer and Privatization of America's Public Lands" on Trump's Agenda, Says Watchdog Group
Andrea Germanos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Watchdog group Western Values Project said Friday that audio it obtained of a June 2019 event at Trump's Interior Department provides more evidence that public lands are under threat of being privatized by the former reality star and his crew …
globalresearch.ca/video-reveals-threat-wholesale-transfer-privatization-america-public-lands-on-trumps-agenda-says-watchdog-group/5703818
Doing More Harm Than Good? Our Latest Report on the UK's Development Bank, CDC
Daniel Willis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Amid the recent back and forth over whether the Department for International Development will be merged into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, very little attention has been paid to the role of the UK's development finance institution, CDC, in UK …
globalresearch.ca/doing-more-harm-good-latest-report-uk-development-bank-cdc/5703910
Help Us Protect the Future of GlobalResearch.ca
The Global Research Team | 2020-02-17
Dear Readers, | We have been bringing you independent news and analysis for close to 19 years. Our intention is to continue to relentlessly promote independent voices that speak out on issues too often neglected by the corporate media. There are …
globalresearch.ca/help-us-protect-the-future-of-globalresearch-ca/5654122
Syrian Forces Secure Aleppo City Completely
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Against all odds, and in the very difficult weather conditions the SAA cleaned all of Jamiyat Zahraa western Aleppo after taking control of the Llayramon and cleaned the two cities of Hreitan and Anadan in Aleppo's northwestern countryside. | Hayyan, Bayanon, …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-forces-secure-aleppo-city-completely/5703885
Munich Security Conference 2020: Wang Yi vs. Mike Pompeo
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
The Chinese Foreign Minister and American Secretary of State shared contrasting visions of International Relations during their keynotes speeches at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend. | Mike Pompeo preached that " the West is winning", and by the | …
globalresearch.ca/munich-security-conference-2020-wang-yi-mike-pompeo/5703925
US Undeclared War on China by Other Means
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Both right wings of the US one-party state seek control over other nations, their resources and populations
China's Coronavirus. "We Cannot Rule Out Man Made Origin of these Infections"
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Introductory Note | In earlier articles I related the opinions of biochemists and bio-warfare specialists on the circumstances justifying suspicion of a virus being created in a lab and deliberately released in a foreign country as a means of either low- …
globalresearch.ca/russian-appraisal-china-coronavirus/5703761
Is U.S. Sponsored Regime Change War Coming to Georgia?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (October 2012
A Boom Time for U.S. Sanctions
Kathy Gilsinan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
The United States, as of this writing, has 7,967 sanctions in place. | Treasury Department data show them in many sizes. There are sanctions on individual people, like the Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman; on companies, like Cubacancun Cigars …
globalresearch.ca/boom-time-u-s-sanctions/5703872
How AIPAC Is Losing Bipartisan Support in Washington
Ali Harb | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
"A true friend of Israel." These were the words Barack Obama used when describing himself to AIPAC, a day after he secured the Democratic party nomination in 2008. | Standing in front of thousands of attendees in Washington, Obama, who was …
globalresearch.ca/how-aipac-losing-bipartisan-support-washington/5703842
Global Mining Corporations Have a Friend in the New Guatemalan Government
Ellen Moore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is less than a month into his term and yet there are already disturbing signs that his administration will side with global mining corporations against indigenous communities fighting to protect their land and water. | The clearest …
globalresearch.ca/global-mining-corporations-have-friend-new-guatemalan-government/5703859
Video: Turkey Supports Al Qaeda Against Syrian Forces in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
In Turkey, it is by now a good tradition to threaten Syria with a war every time when luckless Idlib rebels suffer another military defeat from the Syrian Army. This week was no exception. Recept Tayip Erdogan spearheaded the choir …
globalresearch.ca/video-adventures-idlib-hipsters-american-waterloo-khirbat-amu/5703772
Sanders Tells New York Times He Would Consider a Preemptive Strike Against Iran or North Korea
Jacob Crosse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Bernie Sanders has won the popular vote in both the New Hampshire and Iowa presidential primary contests in considerable part by presenting himself as an opponent of war. Following the criminal assassination of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani last month, Sanders …
globalresearch.ca/sanders-tells-new-york-times-he-would-consider-preemptive-strike-against-iran-north-korea/5703849
2.5M Pounds of Radioactive Waste Illegally Dumped in Oregon Landfill
Monica Samayoa | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
The Oregon Department of Energy has issued a notice of violation to a hazardous waste facility for accepting more than 2 million pounds of radioactive materials east of the Columbia River Gorge. | Chemical Waste Management, a subsidiary of Waste Management …
globalresearch.ca/2-5m-pounds-radioactive-waste-illegally-dumped-oregon-landfill/5703840
US Pressuring Iraq Not to Reveal Details of Soleimani Killing: MP
Iran Front Page | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
A member of Iraq's Fatah Alliance says the United States is putting a lot of pressure on the Iraqi government to prevent the disclosure of the results of a probe into the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi …
globalresearch.ca/us-pressuring-iraq-not-reveal-details-soleimani-killing-mp/5703918
YIVO Institute for Jewish research in New York fires all its librarians
wsws.org | 2020-02-17
Many of the YIVO library's 400,000 books, newspapers and documents have been rescued from Nazi barbarism, and are indispensable for the study of European Jewish history before the Second World War, the Holocaust and the pre-war revolutionary movement of the Eastern European working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/17/yivo…
United Airlines Pulls Boeing 737 MAX from Schedule Until September 4
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
And just like that, all those hopes and optimistic dreams that the notorious killing machine designed by clowns, supervised by monkeys known as the 737 MAX will be returning to the air around June, following recent " hopeful" comments by …
globalresearch.ca/united-pulls-boeing-737-max-september-4/5703832
Wake Up Senators! New bipartisan War Powers Act to Constrain Military Action against Iran
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
The US Senate, long the lap dog of the man who would be king, President Donald Trump, appears to have finally remembered its proper constitutional role. | Last week, the Senate voted 55/45 for a new bipartisan War Powers Act to …
globalresearch.ca/wake-up-senators-new-bipartisan-war-powers-act-to-constrain-military-action-against-iran/5703851
Student climate change protests across the UK
wsws.org | 2020-02-17
Manchester protester: "When it comes to politics and elections, you vote for one side and you vote for the other side but there's the same puppet master pulling the strings."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/17/clim…
2020 Day Of Remembrance of EO 9066 at UC Berkeley
UCB Nikkei Student Union | indybay.org | 2020-02-17
Stephens Lounge at MLK Student Union, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/17/18830738.php
Joint UCSA-UCGPC Letter to UC Leadership on the Excessive Police Presence and Use of Force at the UCSC Wildcat Strike
UC Student Association | indybay.org | 2020-02-17
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/14/18830681.php
Bernie Sanders' Triumph Can't Be Denied
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-17
One of the most frustrating things for me, as a political writer over the last twenty-five years, was the inability of most liberals to grasp what neoliberalism was. But compared to even five years ago, the situation has changed dramatically, as many more ordinary people–nurses, teachers, salespeople, accountants, drivers–understand what the ideology signifies. They are rapidly moving away from the false Republican-Democrat dichotomy, or the id…
truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-triumph-cant-be-denied/
300 Cruise Passengers Are Quarantined at U.S. Military Bases
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-17
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.
Brazilian Scientist Opens Up on His Research That Will Help Study Origin of Universe
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-17
Scientist Thiago Tomei, who won an international award last week, has opened up on his work at the European Center for Nuclear Research, where he takes part in Large Hadron Collider experiments (LHC).
sputniknews.com/science/202002171078333380-brazilian-scientist-opens-up-on-his-research-that-will-help-study-origin-of-universe/
Britain's OFCOM Regulating Social Media: The Beginning of the End of Free Speech
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Boris Johnson, like Trump, is a phony populist. His political stepping stone to the position of PM was Brexit. He is a British blue blood raised au pair in the bucolic English countryside. Johnson identifies as a "conservative" but …
globalresearch.ca/ofcom-social-media-beginning-end-free-speech/5703764
Post-Brexit Britain to be the "Largest and Most Destructive Tax Haven in the World"
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
After three and a half years of acrimony, Brexit has become a reality. One very small but extremely powerful grouping within British society is likely to be delighted that the independence they have long desired has finally been achieved; alongside …
globalresearch.ca/post-brexit-britain-largest-most-destructive-tax-haven-world/5703913
The Embassy Defenders: Mistrial in US Federal Court Is a Win for Venezuela's Sovereignty
Leonardo Flores | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-16
A jury of 12 Washington D.C. residents were deadlocked over the issue of the embassy defenders on February 14, forcing the judge to declare a mistrial in a blow to the federal government and to a judicial system that stacked …
globalresearch.ca/mistrial-federal-court-win-venezuela-sovereignty/5703758
UN body says it will take months to verify 'record' Antarctica temperatures
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-16
Record high temperatures reportedly measured in Antarctica will take months to verify, the UN weather agency has said.A spokesman for the World Meteorological Organisation said the measurements made by researchers from Argentina and Brazil earlier this month have to undergo a formal process to ensure that they meet international standards."A formal decision on whether or not this is a record is likely to be several months away," said Jonathan Fowler, the WMO spokesman.Scientists at an Argentine research base measured a temperature of 18.3C (nearly 65F) on February 6 on a peninsula that juts out from Antarctica to…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2020/02/16/un-body-says-it-will-take-months-to-verify-record-antarctica-temperatures/
American Citizens Killed and Tortured by Israel?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-16
One of the principal functions of a United States Embassy overseas is to provide citizen services, which includes coming to the assistance of Americans who are treated badly by the local government. It is a responsibility that most embassies take …
globalresearch.ca/american-citizens-killed-tortured-israel/5703783
Don't be shocked, but we're all still poorer than in 2008
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-02-15
It probably won't come as a surprise to many people, but a thinktank's analysis has shown that we're all still poorer than we were in 2008. You may wish to pick your jaw up off the floor.No, you're not imagining it. You're skint.: The New Economics Foundation (NEF) has published research on gross domestic product (GDP) per head of the population. This is es…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/02/15/dont-be-shocked-but-were-all-still-poorer-than-in-2008/
One Billion Rising: Eve Ensler & Taína Asili Mark V-Day and Campaign to End Sexual Violence
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-14
This Valentine's Day, people around the world are taking to the streets to protest violence against women and girls. From the Philippines to India to Italy to Bolivia, thousands of women in more than 100 countries will reclaim public space through dance and performance as part of a global movement called One Billion Rising. The movement takes its name from the shocking statistic that one in three women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. One Billion Rising started on Valentine's Day 2012 and has continued to grow every year since. Participants say they won't stop dancing until violence…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/14/v_day_one…
'Actually dangerous': Samantha Bee's denunciation of PragerU shows liberals still don't get the allure of the forbidden
rt.com | 2020-02-13
Liberal comedian Samantha Bee has said she fears YouTube powerhouse PragerU is brainwashing kids by disguising right-wing propaganda as educational content
Interview with Nicaraguan Sandinista youth leader Rosalía Bohórquez
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-12
In January, Fight Back! reporters participated in the World Anti-Imperialist Gathering in Caracas, Venezuela. While there, they interviewed delegates from several countries. Here's an interview with a leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and a member of the National Union of Nicaraguan Students (UNEN), Rosalía Bohórquez. Bohórquez delivers a message to working people and progressive people in the United States. | Rosalía Bohórquez: My name is Rosalía Bohórquez. I'm Nicaraguan and a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). I'm also a student and a member of the Nat…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/2/12/intervie…
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.
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