Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2020-03-03
More than 100,000 Brazilian postal workers are set to strike as teachers in the state of Utah rallied to demand education funding…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/03/wrkr…

UK university workers face a political struggle against Johnson government
wsws.org | 2020-03-03
The strike is the largest ever in higher education, with staff taking action at 74 universities.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/03/univ…

Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
Jonathan Latham | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-03
The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the researchers called such oversights "serious pitfalls" of gene editing (Skryabin et al., 2020). In all, the new results suggest that gene-editing is more error-prone…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/03/researchers-are-substantially-undercounting-gene-editing-errors/

Global Research Needs Your Help To Curb Disinformation
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Curbing the tide of disinformation being pumped out by powerful and well-funded mainstream media is a considerable and costly challenge. Global Research operates on a shoe-string budget and does not accept funding from outside sources. This allows us to maintain …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-needs-your-help-to-curb-disinformation/5705345

UAW 2865 UCB Graduate Students March To Sproul Hall To Demand COLA & Against Union Busting
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-03-03
UAW 2865 graduate students and supporters marched to UCB Sproul Hall to demand a cost of living clause and protested the union busting action of UC President Janet Napolitano firing 54 graduate students at UC Santa Cruz.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/29/18831201.php

Striking University of California graduate students defy firings, expand strike
wsws.org | 2020-03-03
Thousands of graduate students and supporters rallied across California to demand higher wages and rehiring of over 100 victimized strikers. Administration, backed by the United Auto Workers, remains intransigent despite growing international support.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/03/ucsc…

Strike Escalates After UCSC Fires Nearly 100 Graduate Student Workers
Spread The Strike! | indybay.org | 2020-03-03
Graduate students at UC Santa Cruz are calling for the cancellation of classes on Monday and for everyone to join us on the picket for a press conference at 9am. On Monday, we wear red for the future of higher ed. The strike continues. See you on the picket.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/29/18831163.php

Turkey to host 3rd artificial intelligence summit
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-03
Turkey is set to hold the third Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit in Istanbul with the aim to inform people about upcoming innovations.The summit will be held on March 12 at UNIQ Istanbul under the theme, Artificial Intelligence Adds Value to your Business.A number of national and foreign experts are expected to attend the event."AI will become the operating system of our civilization. It is going to penetrate deeply into all segments of private and commercial life whether it be health, education, e-commerce, security, justice or banking," said Halil Aksu, founder of Turkey AI Initiative.Emre Ergun, vice presid…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-to-host-3rd-artificial-intelligence-summit-3513224

Scientists to Build Functional Wormhole Using Black Holes in a Lab
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-03
Wormholes, the theoretical connection between disparate regions of space-time, have been widely speculated about as a possible super-fast way of travelling vast distances. The catch? They're extremely unstable and might destroy any matter unfortunate enough to pass through them.
sputniknews.com/science/202003031078463038-scientists-to-build-functional-wormhole-using-black-holes-in-a-lab/

Colossal Asteroid Packing a Killer Punch Hurtling Towards Earth
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-03
Asteroids or comets that come within 50 million km (30 million miles) of Earth's orbit are dubbed NEOs (Near Earth Objects) and are viewed as representing a possible danger to Earth.
sputniknews.com/science/202003031078462268-colossal-asteroid-packing-a-killer-punch-hurtling-towards-earth/

Alcovirus: Hungover Student Sparks Coronavirus Fear Inflight, Quarantined For Fortnight
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-03
Last week, the Mirror reported that the UK's Department of Health closed the Holiday Inn hotel at Heathrow airport to quarantine visitors arriving from coronavirus-hit countries.
sputniknews.com/world/202003031078461362-alcovirus-hungover-student-sparks-coronavirus-fear-inflight-quarantined-for-fortnight/

30 mila soldati dagli Usa in Europa senza mascherina
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Gli Stati uniti hanno alzato l'allerta Coronavirus per l'Italia a livello 3 ( ´evitare viaggi non essenziali ª), portandolo a 4 per Lombardia e Veneto ( ´non viaggiare ª), lo stesso che per la Cina. Le American Airlines e le Delta Air Lines hanno …
globalresearch.ca/30-mila-soldati-dagli-usa-in-europa-senza-mascherina/5705348

Trinta mil soldados vindos dos USA na Europa, sem máscara
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Os Estados Unidos subiram o alerta do Coronavírus para a Itália, do nível 3 ("evitar viagens nà£o essenciais"), elevando-o para 4, para a Lombardia e Veneto ("nà£o viajar"), o mesmo que para a China. A American Airlines e a Delta …
globalresearch.ca/trinta-mil-soldados-vindos-dos-usa-na-europa-sem-mascara/5705352

End Torture and Medical Neglect of Julian Assange
Doctors for Assange | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
On Nov 22, 2019, we, a group of more than 60 medical doctors, wrote to the UK Home Secretary to express our serious concerns about the physical and mental health of Julian Assange.1 | In our letter,1 we documented a history | …
globalresearch.ca/end-torture-medical-neglect-julian-assange-2/5705197

Jeremy Corbyn's Silence During Julian Assange's Extradition Hearing
Chris Marsden | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Last week, Julian Assange was subjected to an extradition hearing brought by the Trump administration to bring the WikiLeaks founder to the United States to face Espionage Act charges carrying a 175-year prison sentence. | Throughout the four-day proceedings in London, …
globalresearch.ca/jeremy-corbyn-criminal-silence-julian-assange-extradition-hearing/5705280

Coronavirus highlights dangers of Trump's destruction of the public sphere
Tim Libretti | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-02
It's easy to sell people on lower taxes and them to hate paying taxes altogether. Few politicians, even those who promise to provide health care, better public education, student debt relief, and so on, rarely explain in detail what Americans are getting in return for the investments their taxes fund or the bills they pay. …
peoplesworld.org/article/coronavirus-highlights-dangers-of-trumps-destruction-of-the-public-sphere/

A Perfect Storm on the Horizon. Turkey's Hegemonic Ambitions
Askiah Adam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Russia is pushing back the Turkish Army in Idlib. As the Turks broke through the Syrian Arab Army's (SAA) defence the latter called for air assistance from Russia. The fighters came and victory was the SAA's. With that all …
globalresearch.ca/perfect-storm-horizon/5705253

Turkey and Syria Are at War Without a Declaration of War
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Although Turkey has supported anti-Syrian government forces, especially terrorist organizations like ISIS and the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra and Turkistan Islamic Party, since the very beginning of the Syrian War in 2011, no declaration of war has ever been announced …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-syria-war-without-declaration/5705275

The Illusion of Restoring Peace and Stability in Afghanistan
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
The US came to Afghanistan to stay, the same is true for all its war theaters by occupation and/or installed puppet regimes serving its interests. | Afghanistan's troubled history goes back centuries. John Pilger explained that "no country has been abused …
globalresearch.ca/illusion-restoring-peace-stability-afghanistan/5705218

Iran: Regime Change by Coronavirus?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
The consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran will exacerbate the Islamic Republic's ongoing economic crisis and bring it even closer to political collapse than ever before, the outcome of which is unwittingly being facilitated by the government's mismanaged response …
globalresearch.ca/iran-regime-change-coronavirus/5705298

Why Do Fiber Optic Installations Increase Electrical Sensitivity?
Jeromy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
I have received dozens of emails from people in several countries who report an increase in, or initial onset of, electrical sensitivity symptoms when high-speed fiber optic internet is installed in their neighborhood. How could this be? Isn't wired fiber …
globalresearch.ca/why-fiber-optic-installations-increase-electrical-sensitivity/5705227

Turkey Asks NATO to Join Its War Against Syria and Russia
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
The spokesperson for the Islamist party of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has called upon all of NATO to go to war against Syria for Syria's having killed dozens of Turkey's troops in order for Syria to defeat Turkey's invasion and …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-asks-nato-join-war-against-syria-russia/5705213

Third Israeli Election Heading for Impasse Again?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
On Monday, Israelis are voting for the third time since last April, impasse occurring twice before, what may happen again this time. | According to the latest pre-election polls, Netanyahu's Likud party and lead challenger Benny Gantz's Blue and White each …
globalresearch.ca/third-israeli-election-heading-impasse-again/5705271

Turkey Sacrifices Their Own Troops to Protect Al-Qaeda?
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
After 33 Turkish troops were killed in a Syrian army offensive on February 27 amidst the current Russia-backed campaign to liberate Idlib, Erdogan responded by laying the blame entirely on Russia and Syria

Whitewashing the West's Disastrous War in Libya
Ted Galen Carpenter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
A new report from the United Nations bluntly conveys the extent of the continuing chaos in Libya and the suffering it has caused. Yacoub El Hillo, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Libya, stated that the impact on civilians of the …
globalresearch.ca/whitewashing-west-disastrous-war-libya/5705283

Lectures by Walter Rodney Present An African Perspective on the Russian Revolution
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
During the late 1960s and the 1970s, the University of Dar es Salaam in the East African state of Tanzania was a center of Marxist thought on the continent. | After the overthrow of Convention People's Party (CPP) of Ghana on …
globalresearch.ca/lectures-walter-rodney-presents-african-perspective-russian-revolution/5705202

South Carolina Primary: What Does It Mean?
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
What are the political 'takeaways' from yesterday's South Carolina primary? In just few words: not many. | None that change the fundamental dynamics that have in play throughout the primaries in general thus far to date. | Biden bought himself some time, …
globalresearch.ca/south-carolina-primary-what-does-mean/5705249

American Fàºhrer: Delusionary, Dictatorial Donald Trump Is Drunk on Power
Ralph Nader | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
The word 'corruption' cannot fully embrace how this insulting megalomaniac is tearing apart our country, our democratic practices, and our moral norms. Who will put a stop to this president's corrupt rampage against the American people? | *** | Delusionary, dictatorial Donald …
globalresearch.ca/american-fuhrer-delusionary-dictatorial-donald-trump-drunk-power/5705240

MIT Study Finds No Evidence of Fraud in Bolivian Election that Resulted in a Coup
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Back in November 2019, former Bolivian President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup after claims of election fraud from the Organization for American States (OAS). A new MIT study into the October 20th presidential election does not support …
globalresearch.ca/mit-study-finds-no-evidence-fraud-bolivian-election-resulted-coup/5705288

Analysis of the 2019 Bolivia Election
Jack R. Williams | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
On October 20, 2019, Bolivia held its third general election under its 2009 constitution. Nine presidential candidates competed in the presidential election, but early polling indicated a likely two- way race between President Evo Morales of the Movimiento al Socialismo | …
globalresearch.ca/analysis-2019-bolivia-election/5705285

Palestine and Trump's "Peace to Prosperity" Plan
Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Trump's "Peace to Prosperity" Plan, was officially unveiled, on 28 January, 2020, at the White House, by both American President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Plan, also known as "Deal of the Century", dealt with a …
globalresearch.ca/critical-remarks-trump-peace-prosperity-plan/5705199

A Disgraceful Milestone: Trump's "Conflicts of Interest"
CREW | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
A New Milestone | President Trump's unprecedented decision to retain his business interests while serving in the White House set the stage for a deluge of conflicts of interests between the government and the Trump Organization. From the beginning of President …
globalresearch.ca/trump-3000-conflicts-interest/5705239

The World's Waste-Pickers Under Threat
Barcelona Research Group on Informal Recyclers | commondreams.org | 2020-03-02
Waste pickers oppose policies that exclude them from their source of livelihood: recyclable waste. (Photo: Global Alliance of Waste Pickers) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/03/02/worlds-waste-pickers-under-threat?cd-origin=rss

Britain's Political Trajectory
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
For years now, as regular readers of Truepublica will know, I have consistently warned that Britain will be moving from a system of liberal democracy towards authoritarianism and that it would only take a few short years to achieve. As …
globalresearch.ca/britain-political-trajectory/5705236

Flashpoints in Southern Syria Seek to Divide/Distract Syrian Gains in Idlib
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Turkey and Israel continue their aggression against Syria in an increasingly overt and direct manner

Podcast: Oliver Vargas on US Election Meddling In Bolivia and the Country's Indigenous Uprising
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-02
Welcome to the re-launch of MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence. | One such voice is independent Bolivian-British journalist Oliver Vargas. He joins MintCast to discuss his exclusive on the ground coverage of…
mintpressnews.com/podcast-oliver-vargas-election-meddling-bolivia-indigenous-uprising/265411/

Dems and AIPAC Team Up to Stop Sanders: "Israel Prefers Trump…" "Sanders is Not a Friend of Israel"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
In the race to become Dem party standard bearer in November, Bernie Sanders leads rival aspirants

University of California strikers defy firings and expand strike
wsws.org | 2020-03-02
As opposition grows to the vindictive firing of 80 striking grad students at the University of California Santa Cruz, the UAW and the Democratic Party are trying to contain the struggle before it triggers a broader movement of the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/02/ucsc…

On Joining a Teachers' Union and Supporting Bernie Sanders
Mary Kelly Gardner | commondreams.org | 2020-03-02
I'm voting for Bernie because for too long the suffering of so many people in this country has fallen on deaf ears. (Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/03/02/joining-teachers-union-and-supporting-bernie-sanders?cd-origin=rss

Charter School Promoters Celebrate Charter School Failure
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-02
Even worse than the persistently high failure rate of brick-and-mortar charter schools is the extraordinary failure rate of cyber charter schools year after year. Even the nature and scope of corruption in these deregulated online schools is more troubling than the corruption that has long plagued brick-and-mortar charter schools nationwide. The abysmal performance of cyber …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/charter-school-promoters-celebrate-charter-school-failure/

Record fall in key China production index
wsws.org | 2020-03-02
China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced over the weekend that the manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 35.7 in February, down from 50 in January, hitting an all-time low.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/02/chin…

Selected Articles: MIT Study Finds No Evidence of Fraud in Bolivian Election that Resulted in a Coup
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
MIT Study Finds No Evidence of Fraud in Bolivian Election that Resulted in a Coup | By Dave DeCamp, March 02, 2020 | Back in November 2019, former Bolivian President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup after claims of election …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-mit-study-finds-no-evidence-fraud-bolivian-election-resulted-coup/5705301

Children Under 13 Pick Coffee for Starbucks, Nespresso: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-01
Children under 13 in Guatemala are working in the coffee farms that supply beans to giants Nespresso (owned by Nestle) and Starbucks‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã, an investigation by British television program 'Dispatches' uncovered last week. | RELATED: | Child Labor Behind Chocolate Ferrero Rocher: UK Rights Group | During their research, Channel 4's reporters visited seven farms supplying Nespress…
telesurenglish.net/news/Children-Under-13-Pick-Coffee-Beans-for-Starbucks-Nespresso–20200301-0007.html

Elementary School in NJ Latinx Community Fights Displacement by Robert Wood Johnson Cancer Center
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-28
In New Jersey, hundreds rallied at the New Brunswick Board of Education meeting Tuesday night against plans to demolish a public school to make way for Robert Wood Johnson Hospital and Rutgers University to build a new cancer center. Protesters included families and more than 30 children, who held signs reading "Save our School!" and "Stop Gentrification." If approved, 760 third-through-eighth-graders at Lincoln Annex School would be moved to a former warehouse building on the outskirts of town as they await construction of a replacement school. Even worse, the proposed new school site is located on a "brownfield…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/28/lincoln_a…

Months After Supporting a Deadly Coup, WaPo Admits Bolivia's Elections Were Clean
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-28
The Washington Post published an op-ed yesterday from a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showing that there was no fraud in the October elections in Bolivia after all.
mintpressnews.com/after-supporting-coup-washington-post-admits-bolivia-elections-clean/265334/

Digital Workerism: Technology, platforms, and the circulation of workers' struggles
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-02-28
The so-called platform economy–the distribution of, and access to work through websites and apps–continues to grab headlines and the imagination of policy makers, researchers, and journalists the world over. Much attention is given to its rapid expansion, its potential for further growth, and the large amounts of wealth generated through it. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/28/digital-workerism-technology-platforms-and-the-circulation-of-workers-struggles/

Blue check blues: Twitter tricked into verifying teen's fake 2020 candidate for Congress while real people languish
rt.com | 2020-02-28
A high school student tricked Twitter into verifying an account he made for a fake candidate for Congress from Rhode Island, proving the platform's vaunted election integrity efforts are no match for a bored teen. | Rhode Island Republican Andrew Walz's Twitter has been suspended as of Friday, but before that, the blue-checked politician was seemingly a candidate like any other. Perhaps the platitudes that graced his page were a little emptier – "Let's make a change in Washington together," really? – and the follower count a bit low, but the co…
rt.com/usa/481976-teenager-fake-congressman-verified-twitter/

Will America's curiosity about socialism outlive today's socialist moment?
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-28
It started with the near collapse of the economy in 2008-09 when millions lost their homes and jobs and started questioning the status quo. Discussion about it picked up again with the Occupy Wall Street movement as young people realized the future they faced–low-wage jobs, endless student debt–was anything but bright. Then, it emerged more …
peoplesworld.org/article/will-americas-curiosity-about-socialism-outlive-todays-socialist-moment/

How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-27
Sonia Shah is an investigative science journalist and author of "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond." Her new book is titled "The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move" and will be published in June. She says the climate crisis is making outbreaks of infectious diseases more common, with the destruction of natural animal habitats and the changes in migration bringing humans and animals into ever-closer contact and making new pathogens more likely. Her latest article, published in The Nation, is titled "Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Th…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/27/climate_c…

USF students rally against racist administration
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-26
Tampa, FL – On February 25, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a Black Students Matter rally on campus to bring attention to the racist admissions practices that the administration at the University of South Florida (USF) engages in. | Enrollment of Black students at USF has been declining for years and the percent of Black students at USF was the lowest it's been in the past decade last semester (fall 2019), at 9.4%. This is especially alarming considering that in the Tampa Bay area, where USF is located, Black people comprise 24% of the population. | "We understand how schools like USF parta…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/2/26/usf-stud…