Julian Assange and the Imperium's Face: Day One of the Extradition Hearings
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-25
If we are to believe it, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, the man behind showing the ugliness of power, is the one responsible for having abused it. It is a running theme in the US case against this Australian publisher, who …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-imperium-face-day-one-extradition-hearings/5704667

How Are We Going to Pay for Saving Trillions of Dollars?
David Swanson | zcomm.org | 2020-02-25
For every $1 billion now spent on militarism that is moved to education, economists tell us we'll produce over twice as many jobs – 138.4% more jobs to be precise…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-are-we-going-to-pay-for-saving-trillions-of-dollars/

Sanctions and Corruption: Three Major News Stories that Need to be Exposed
Ralph Nader | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-25
The news is filled with stories about President Trump and his predecessors imposing sanctions on other countries, their officials, and other prominent persons. But the media rarely spells out exactly what these sanctions are, the intermediaries who enforce them, the …
globalresearch.ca/three-major-news-stories-need-exposed/5704623

We Need to Treat Nuclear War Like the Emergency It Is
Olivia Alperstein | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-25
If the current state of global affairs reminds you of an over-the-top plot by a white-cat-stroking James Bond villain, you're not far off. When it comes to nuclear policy, we are closer than ever to a real-life movie disaster. | During …
globalresearch.ca/we-need-treat-nuclear-war-like-emergency-it-is/5704620

Recall Campaign Uses Darkened Photo of Councilmember Glover in Facebook Ad
Santa Cruz News Network | indybay.org | 2020-02-25
The group Santa Cruz United is running a Facebook ad that features a visibly darkened photo of Santa Cruz City Councilmember Drew Glover, who is African American. The photo has been converted to gray-scale and covered in text containing allegations of misconduct. The ad was placed to promote the recall of Councilmember Glover, as well as Councilmember Chris Krohn, who is not featured in the photo. The imagery preys on human perception through what has been termed by researchers as the "Bad is Black" effect. In 2016, Professor Adam Alter of New York University and three colleagues found the darker the appearance o…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/24/18831010.php

Bolivia's Electoral Body Disqualifies Evo Morales' Candidacy
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-25
The president of the Supreme Electoral Court of Bolivia (TSE) Salvador Romero informed that the former President Evo Morales will not be able to participate in the 2020 general elections, which will be held on May 3. | During a press …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-electoral-body-disqualifies-evo-morales-candidacy/5704626

New starting point(s): Marx, technological revolutions and changes in the centre-periphery divide
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-02-25
This paper presents the last book that Marx excerpted in his life: La Physique Moderne, written by Hospitalier and published in 1882. This last Notebook (B156, in the IISG's archives) contains hints of other issues that he was researching in his last years, especially societies at the periphery. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/24/new-starting-points-marx-technological-revolutions-and-changes-in-the-centre-periphery-divide/

The New Coronavirus Outbreak, COVID-19, Sounds Menacing and Is
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-25
Tom Clifford Reporting from Beijing | There is no room for complacency or outright fear. The new coronavirus outbreak, COVID-19, sounds menacing and is. But there's another viral epidemic hitting countries around the world: the flu. | COVID-19 has, since December, led …
globalresearch.ca/new-coronavirus-outbreak-covid-19-sounds-menacing/5704614

No Russian 2020 Election Meddling Says US Intelligence Community Official
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-25
In January 2017, days before Trump's inauguration, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) concluded with "high confidence (that) Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election (sic)." | Weeks before the US 2016 …
globalresearch.ca/no-russian-2020-election-meddling-says-us-intelligence-community-official/5704617

Key Findings about Americans' Confidence in Science
Cary Funk | zcomm.org | 2020-02-25
Science knowledge levels sometimes correlate with public attitudes. But partisanship has a stronger role…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/1029503/

Gun-Toting Cops Endanger Students and Turn Schools into Prisons
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-25
"Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning." –Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes Just when you thought the government couldn't get any more tone-deaf about civil liberties and the growing…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/25/gun-toting-cops-endanger-students-and-turn-the-schools-into-prisons/

Four months before 2020 contract fight: Detroit schools superintendent tells teachers "no increases"
wsws.org | 2020-02-25
Four years after Detroit teachers organized wildcat sickouts, the city's schools remain on the brink.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/25/dft-…

Four more infected with coronavirus in Iraq
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-25
Some four people have been infected with the coronavirus in Kirkuk, north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, according to country's Health Ministry on Tuesday.In a statement, the ministry confirmed that four people were from the same family who recently returned from Iran.On Monday, the Iraqi authorities confirmed the first case of the coronavirus in the country's Najaf city, saying an Iranian student tested positive for the coronavirus, and was immediately quarantined.Coronavirus outbreak, officially known as COVID-19, which was first detected in December in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the capital of central Hubei provin…
yenisafak.com/en/world/four-more-infected-with-coronavirus-in-iraq-3512761

Sensors Detect Enigmatic Pulsations in Mars' Stronger-Than-Expected Magnetic Field, Study Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-25
Researchers have zoomed in on the characteristics of Mars' magnetic field, conducting a study not from high above the planet and the environment around it, as was done previously, but right on its surface.
sputniknews.com/science/202002251078400331-sensors-detect-enigmatic-pulsations-in-mars-stronger-than-expected-magnetic-field-study-says/

Quakes, Dust Devils, and Weird Magnetic Fields: NASA Reveals Details of Mars' Interior
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-25
The robotic spacecraft landed on the Red Planet in November of 2018 after completing a journey of 300 million miles that lasted almost seven months. The mission could bring an understanding on how planets in the Solar System form and evolve.
sputniknews.com/science/202002251078399858-quakes-dust-devils-and-weird-magnetic-fields-nasa-reveals-details-of-mars-interior-/

US First Lady Interacts With Cheerful Students on Visit to Delhi School's Happiness Class
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-25
New Delhi (Sputnik): US President Donald Trump, accompanied by FLOTUS was given a grand reception by Indian President Ram Nath Kovind at the forecourt of the imposing Presidential Palace. Both Donald and Melania Trump later paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi and planted a sapling at his memorial on the banks of the River Yamuna.
sputniknews.com/india/202002251078399023-us-first-lady-interacts-with-cheerful-students-on-visit-to-delhi-schools-happiness-class/

Bernie Sanders Releases Plan for Guaranteed "Child Care and Pre-K for All"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-24
Now running as the presumptive front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday morning unveiled a sweeping new proposal that would guarantee high-quality child care and then pre-kindergarten education to every child

What Happened to the Keynesian Dream of a 15-Hour Workweek?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-24
Now a famous economist, Thomas Piketty (along with co-researcher Emmanuel Saez) wrote Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), contending that capitalism has within it the germinating seeds of ever-growing inequality. That is what his longitudinal study of masses of data proved conclusively. | Yet millions of alarm bells still sound in the wee hours each Monday morning, as people hit their snooze buttons, hoping for a moment's rest before the inevitable rush to the office. Their weekend is over. Their fun…
truthout.org/articles/what-happened-to-the-keynesian-dream-of-a-15-hour-work-week/

The Christian Gospel for Americans: A Systematic Theology. David Ray Griffin
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
There are very few writers who have done more to try to open the public's mind to the evil nature of the American empire than David Ray Griffin. | His series of books on the false flag attacks of September 11, …
globalresearch.ca/david-ray-griffin-christian-gospel-americans-systematic-theology/5704564

Environmental Voter Guide. Democratic Candidates 2020
TCFBDAF | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
The Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund evaluated each candidate on four key environmental issue areas: | saving wildlife, protecting public lands, ensuring environmental justice and ending the climate crisis. | We evaluated every candidate polling above 1% in the latest national …
globalresearch.ca/environmental-voter-guide-us-2020-primary-elections/5704560

US 'Looking Very Carefully' at Silencing Socialist News Network Telesur
Steve Sweeney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
US Special envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams has said that the US is "looking very carefully" at taking "measures" against Telesur, in the latest threat to the socialist news network. | Mr Abrams said yesterday that the Trump administration was considering …
globalresearch.ca/us-looking-very-carefully-silencing-socialist-news-network-telesur/5704542

Venezuela's Next Economic Shock Might Come from India's Compliance with US Sanctions
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
India is Venezuela's largest oil customer but the two companies that import its oil just declared that they'll comply with the US' latest sanctions against the Bolivarian Republic's Russian intermediary, which could lead to the South American state experiencing an …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-next-economic-shock-might-come-india-compliance-us-sanctions/5704536

Bolivia: Anatomy of a CIA Coup
Hugo Turner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Last November a horrifying coup took place overthrowing the socialist government of Bolivia and the nation's first indigenous president Evo Morales. It was a textbook example of a CIA coup recalling the dark days of Operation Condor when the | …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-anatomy-cia-coup/5704575

Russia Accused of Campaign Blaming US for Coronavirus Outbreak
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Russia has been a prime US target since its 1917 revolution, relations between both countries uneasy at best from that time to now. | Propaganda by US officials and establishment media demonizes the country and its leadership, ongoing for over a …
globalresearch.ca/russia-behind-campaign-blame-us-coronavirus-outbreak/5704471

Toronto Wet'suwet'en Solidarity March. "Long Live Mother Earth"
Eric Walberg | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
February 22, 2020. The sun was brilliant, the slogans and posters striking, the round dance in the heart of Canada's financial district, the 6 concentric circles of the real Canadians, those who honour Canada's First Nations, made February 22, 2020 …
globalresearch.ca/toronto-wetsuweten-solidarity-march-long-live-mother-earth/5704501

Canada: Why Public Transit Should be Free for All
Davide Mastracci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Drivers in Canada often complain of a "war on cars" that is supposedly being waged in cities throughout the country. This metaphorical war is non-existent, but that's unfortunate because such a war would be justified, given the severity of the …
globalresearch.ca/why-public-transit-should-free-all/5704541

Trudeau's Demand: "The Barricades Must Come Down"
Kim Petersen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau has called the imbroglio between the Wet'suwet'en nation and Canada a matter to be decided by the rule of law. [1] However, the Wet'suwet'en have refused to back down and have defied the British Columbia …
globalresearch.ca/trudeau-demand-barricades-must-come-down/5704517

The U.S. Is the World Leader of Bio-Weapons Research, Production, and Use Against Mankind
Gary D. Barnett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Those that prevent disease and expose virus creation are heroic, but those that create and purposely spread disease and virus are inhuman. Given the history of the United States government and its military industrial complex concerning biological and germ warfare, …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-world-leader-bio-weapons-research-production-use-against-mankind/5704548

African Military Rulers: Musician Fela Kuti and Ghana's Colonel Acheampong
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
A lot of people think that Thomas Sankara was the only African military ruler who was liked and respected by Fela Anikulapo Kuti. | This is not true. | For sure, Sankara was the only military ruler with whom he had a …
globalresearch.ca/fela-acheampong/5704500

Global Research: Sailing Onwards…With Your Help!
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Dear Readers, | We are greatly indebted to all of you who have dug deep and come to our aid during this challenging period for Global Research. We may not be on dry land yet, but the support shown certainly puts …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-sailing-onwards-with-your-help/5704608

Who Is Behind the Mexican Drug Cartels?
Dean Henderson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
President Donald Trump has declared that the "Drug Cartels" in Mexico are terrorists, intimating that America should wage a new "war on terrorism" in Mexico modelled on America's counter-terrorism initiative in the Middle East against Al Qaeda. | What do the …
globalresearch.ca/behind-mexican-drug-cartels/5697107

China-US Relations: Mixed Returns for the Huawei Bashing Tour
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
The US imperium is rattled, so much so it's letting everyone else know about it. Move over the trade war with its bitchy insistence on redressing imbalances, surpluses and deficits; the next phase of conflict with China is being waged …
globalresearch.ca/mixed-returns-huawei-bashing-tour/5704489

The Dangers of Synthetic Biology: A Biotech Firm Made a Smallpox-like Virus on purpose. Nobody Seems to Care
Prof. Gregory D. Koblentz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
In 2017, the virologist David Evans made headlines when he used synthetic biology to recreate the extinct horsepox virus, which is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, a disease eradicated in 1980. Evans and his team, ordering the | …
globalresearch.ca/biotech-firm-made-smallpox-like-virus-purpose/5704551

Public Lands "Collaboration" is Lousy Management
Rick Meis | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-24
Collaboration is a process of playing two sides off against each other in order to create enough guilt in one or all parties that a compromise is reached. The primary problem is that it is specifically not based on science or best available data, thus eliminating the concept of best management practices and the long-term…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/24/public-lands-collaboration-is-lousy-management/

Trojan Horse Timber Sales on the Bitterroot
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-24
The proposed Darby Lumber Timber Sale Phase Two on the Bitterroot National Forest is a Trojan Horse being implemented under the guise of "forest health" based on numerous false assumptions. The proposal displays the Forest Service's Industrial Forestry bias and its subterfuge of science. The timber sale is being litigated by the Friends of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/24/trojan-horse-timber-sales-on-the-bitterroot/

Tampa students rally for justice for Jamee Johnson
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-24
Tampa, FL – Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a rally at the University of South Florida calling for justice and all victims of police brutality, highlighting Jamee Johnson, a Black man who was murdered by officers in Jacksonville. At the February 19 protest, about 15 students promoted the need for community control of the police through police accountability councils. They also demonstrated for their ongoing campaign to increase Black enrollment at USF. | With chants saying, "USF shame on you! Black lives matter too!" the students used the rally to reach out to the student body about the wa…
fightbacknews.org/2020/2/24/tampa-students-rally-justice-jamee-johnson

Hundreds of San Diego teachers slated to receive layoff notices due to $30 million budget deficit
wsws.org | 2020-02-24
Sweetwater board of trustees will vote Monday to approve pink slips and closures of learning centers…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/24/swee…

Striking Ontario teachers speak out against Ford's savage cuts
wsws.org | 2020-02-24
"We can't teach lessons anymore because class sizes and conditions have gotten so bad," said a veteran teacher with 27 years' experience who participated in Friday's mass rally outside the Ontario legislature.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/24/ontt…

The "Future of America", Increasingly Weaponised. Does "The Future of America" Mean "The End of the World"?
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
The Budget for the Future of America, presented by the US government, shows the priorities of the Trump Administration in the federal balance sheet for fiscal year 2021 (which begins on 1 October this year). | Above all, the intention is …
globalresearch.ca/future-america-increasingly-weaponised/5704553

Selected Articles: Bioweapons as Weapons of Modern Warfare?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
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-bioweapons-weapons-modern-warfare/5704581

Flat-Earther 'Mad' Mike Hughes killed in crash-landing after homemade rocket launch (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-02-23
Daredevil Flat-Earther 'Mad' Mike Hughes has died after launching himself into the sky in a homemade rocket. Purported video of the accident shows the fatal launch. | Hughes and a colleague built the steam-powered rocket in hopes of shooting the daredevil 5,000 feet (1.5km) into the air. The endeavor was being documented by the Science Channel, which wanted to feature him in a new series called 'Homemade Astronauts'. | A video purportedly filmed at the site shows the rocket being launched into the sky near Barstow, California, before Hughes plunges back down to the earth. | Warning: This video contains disturb…
rt.com/usa/481495-mad-mike-hughes-video-rocket-death/

Minnesota Governor Walz flees protesters demanding action against killer cops
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-22
Minneapolis, MN – When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appeared at the University of Minnesota to reflect on his first year of governing, he was confronted by angry community members demanding that he call for the prosecutions of killer cops across the state. Family members of police murder victims were joined by Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar, UMN Students for a Democratic Society, SMASH students from Minneapolis South High School, and others. | Shortly after Walz and the event moderator were settled into two cozy armchairs on a stage at the front of a packed auditorium, one person rose from the middle of…
fightbacknews.org/2020/2/22/minnesota-governor-walz-flees-protesters-demanding-action-against-killer-cops

Climate emergency demands system change
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-21
Climate Socialist AllianceIssue 1254 Australia just transitionsFebruary 21, 2020The Socialist Alliance has been developing this charter for climate action since it…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-emergency-demands-system-change

Bloomberg Gains in Democratic Primaries, But Has History of Hostility to Unions Key to Voter Turnout
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-19
We continue our conversation with Marcie Wells, activist and waitress who is a member of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Nevada, and Hamilton Nolan, labor reporter with In These Times. Nolan says 2020 had been "the most promising election year for organized labor in a long time," with Democratic candidates releasing platforms with strong labor protections. But Michael Bloomberg's entry into the race threatens to upend the Democratic Party's pro-worker shift. The billionaire former mayor of New York has a long track record of hostility toward organized labor, particularly teachers' unions, whom he has comp…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/19/hamilton_…

"Worth the Price?" New Film Shows How Biden Played Leading Role in Push for U.S. to Invade Iraq
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-18
The Democratic presidential candidates face off in Las Vegas Wednesday night ahead of the Nevada caucuses. Nevada could be a decisive state for candidates who performed poorly in Iowa and New Hampshire, including former Vice President Joe Biden. As Biden hopes for a comeback, a new short documentary sheds light on his extensive role in the Iraq War

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…

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/