Julian Assange, Political Offences and Legal Restraints: Day Three of Extradition Hearings
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-27
Wednesday, February 26, Woolwich Crown Court. Today, the focus shifted to the protagonist himself and the nature of the US-UK Extradition Treaty of 2003, a contentious document that shines all too favourably for US citizens. | Julian Assange, whose …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-political-offences-legal-restraints-day-three-extradition-hearings/5704876

Ontario's education unions "suspend" most job actions
wsws.org | 2020-02-27
Citing various pretexts, three of Ontario's four teachers unions have called off planned walkouts this week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/27/ontt…

Victor Arnautoff's "Life & Era of George Washington's New Deal Murals"
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-02-27
On Washington's Birthday a panel was held in San Francisco on the Victor Arnautoff murals and the New Deal. Speakers discussed the role of art in education and the failure of public education officials to provide signage and other information about the world historic Arnautoff murals at George Washington High in San Francisco.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/25/18831041.php

Syria: "Moderate Rebels" or "Intelligence Assets"?
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-27
"Moderates" never existed except as an "intelligence" agency narrative to protect and arm all the terrorists. "Rebels" never existed except as an "intelligence" agency ploy to falsely portray a Regime Change war as a "revolution" or a "civil war". | Prof. | …
globalresearch.ca/democracy-infidels/5704649

Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-27
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December 2018). It is the largest charitable foundation in the world and distributes more aid for global health than any government. One of the …
globalresearch.ca/toxic-agriculture-gates-foundation/5704895

Unions work to defeat UC-Santa Cruz grad student strike
wsws.org | 2020-02-27
The UAW declared in an open letter at Berkeley that it would not defend the UCSC strikers or any UC Berkeley students who took sympathy wildcat action.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/27/ucsc…

Google Reportedly Seeks to Restore Android on Huawei Devices, Like Microsoft
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-27
Shortly after the White House's decision to grant license extensions to companies to continue doing business with telecoms giant Huawei, Microsoft announced it had received a permit to export its "mass-market software" to the Chinese company.
sputniknews.com/science/202002271078418530-google-reportedly-seeks-to-restore-android-on-huawei-devices-like-microsoft/

Scientists Say Almost All Coral Reefs Will Die in 20 Years Due to Pollution and Climate Change
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-27
Although they occupy less than one percent of underwater surfaces, coral reefs are an invaluable part of marine ecosystems. They are even called the rainforests of the sea as they provide home and food to millions of species.
sputniknews.com/science/202002271078419666-scientists-say-almost-all-coral-reefs-will-die-in-20-years-due-to-pollution-and-climate-change/

Julian Assange Against the Imperium: Day Two of Extradition Hearings
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
The second day of extradition hearings against Julian Assange and by virtue of that, WikiLeaks, saw Mark Summers QC deliver a formidable serve for the defence at Woolwich Crown Court. "It's difficult to conceive of a clearer example of an …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-against-imperium-day-two-extradition-hearings/5704815

Police State US/UK v. Julian Assange
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
Tuesday was day two of Assange's Orwellian extradition hearing

Teachers criticise new assessments for four-year-olds
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-26
A teachers' union has criticised the government's decision to replace Key Stage 1 SATs with a new one-on-one assessment system for reception-age primary school pupils. | The Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) will be rolled out across all primary schools from September this year, the Department of Education (DoE) said on Wednesday. | The 20-minute assessment with a teacher is supposed to be carried out within six weeks of the new term and is designed to provide a starting point by which to measure children's progress. | The Key Stage 1 SATs, which take place in Year 2, when pupils are aged six and seven, are due…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/02/26/teachers-criticise-new-assessments-for-four-year-olds/

Elizabeth Warren Teaches Democrats How to Talk About Public Education
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-02-26
Elizabeth Warren Teaches Democrats How to Talk About Public Education…
thenation.com/article/politics/warren-education-policy-debate/

Bloomberg's Public Education Legacy Is a Case Study in Disastrous Privatization
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-26
As of mid-February, Michael Bloomberg has spent over $400 million on his presidential campaign, including blanketing the air waves with ads and is on track to spend more than a billion dollars. As a result, he has risen sharply in the polls, and in turn, begun to receive critical attention regarding his record on certain issues, such as racial profiling and his stop-and-frisk policies.
truthout.org/articles/bloombergs-public-education-legacy-is-a-case-study-in-disastrous-privatization/

The Looming Financial Nightmare: So Much for Living the American Dream
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." ‚Äï Frédéric Bastiat…
globalresearch.ca/looming-financial-nightmare/5704792

"Fake Gods": Tackling the Illegality of the 5G Roll-Out. The Explosive Truth of 5G Wireless Transmission
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
Our planet is in the hands of false gods. Fake gods. So that everything over which they preside is tainted by falsity. It is a position which underscores institutions, industries and political agendas from one end of the planet to …
globalresearch.ca/illegality-5g-roll-out/5704631

Turkey's Request for U.S. Patriot Missiles to Pressure Russia in Syria Will Not Work
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
Ankara's statements about an imminent military operation in Syria and the Turkish authorities' request for Washington to supply them with U.S.-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems are just Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's manoeuvres to leverage against Russia that his …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-request-u-s-patriot-missiles-pressure-russia-syria-not-work/5704787

Evidence on Continuing US-NATO Media Lies About the War in Syria
James ONeill | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
One of the clearest indicators of the legitimacy or otherwise of Western military actions is the coverage that is given to it by the western media. When evidence emerges that the given military action was at best ill-founded and more …
globalresearch.ca/emerging-evidence-continuing-allied-lies-about-war-syria/5704831

Will Media Support or Oppose Sanders if He Maintains Momentum?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
It's early in the race for the White House with a long way to go, Sanders the current frontrunner to become Dem standard bearer

The US-India Strategic Partnership: Geopolitical Pivot In Favor of US After Trump's Delhi Visit
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
India's gradual geopolitical pivot towards the US

Brazil in Search for "Fake Enemies"
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
Recently, the Brazilian Ministry of Defense published a dossier on possible threats to national security over the next two decades. The document, however, is far from showing any sign of seriousness, being full of unfounded predictions, which call into question …
globalresearch.ca/brazil-search-false-enemies/5704779

Solidarity with Palestine: 'If They Suppress BDS, No Other Movement Is Safe'
Omar Barghouti | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-26
As alarming, anti-democratic measures are aimed at Palestine solidarity activists in the UK and beyond, Husna Rizvi speaks to Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement. | *** | 'We are armed only with our rights, and our dignity.' | …
globalresearch.ca/solidarity-with-palestine-if-they-suppress-bds-no-other-movement-is-safe/5704628

A new Israeli atrocity in Gaza was carried out with the help of a multinational corporation
Tom Anderson | thecanary.co | 2020-02-26
Trigger warning: this piece contains video footage that some viewers may find distressing. | Disclosure: The author of this piece is also a researcher for Corporate Occupation, whose work this article cites. | On Monday 24 February the world woke up to a new set of gruesome images showing the terrible reality of Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip. | A young man called Mohammed al-Naem was killed by the Israeli military, close to the Israeli…
thecanary.co/global/2020/02/26/a-new-israeli-atrocity-in-gaza-was-carried-out-with-the-help-of-a-multinational-corporation/

The Movement to Protect Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining.Threat to People, Land, Water and Wildlife