Kaia Rolle, Handcuffed and Arrested at 6: How Many More, and for How Long Will This Happen in America?
B. Nimri Aziz | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-04
While fretting over refugee children in freezing tents along Turkey's border, or Nargis Fazili's family fleeing Afghanistan across Asia to Europe, or lone migrant children caged in U.S. detention centers, we may barely register what happens to American children like Kaia Rolle; she's a 6-year-old student at a not unusual neighborhood school in Florida. I…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/04/kaia-rolle-handcuffed-and-arrested-at-6-how-many-more-and-for-how-long-will-this-happen-in-america/
Kaia Rolle, Handcuffed and Arrested at 6: How Many More, and for How Long Will This Happen in America?
B. Nimri Aziz | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-04
While fretting over refugee children in freezing tents along Turkey's border, or Nargis Fazili's family fleeing Afghanistan across Asia to Europe, or lone migrant children caged in U.S. detention centers, we may barely register what happens to American children like Kaia Rolle; she's a 6-year-old student at a not unusual neighborhood school in Florida. I…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/04/kaia-rolle-handcuffed-and-arrested-at-6-how-many-more-and-for-how-long-will-this-happen-in-america/
Coronavirus: High Recovery Rates in China. Most Recent Figures
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
The following data on COVID-19 was confirmed on March 3 by the WHO | SITUATION IN NUMBERS total and new cases in last 24 hours | Globally | 90 870 confirmed (1922 new) | China | 80 304 confirmed (130 new) 2946 deaths (31 new) | …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-high-recovery-rates-in-china-most-recent-figures/5705570
Coronavirus: una falsa pandemia? Chi c'è dietro questo? Destabilizzazione economica, sociale e geopolitica globale
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
La campagna pubblicitaria e di disinformazione sulla diffusione del nuovo coronavirus COVID-19 ha creato un clima di paura e incertezza in tutto il mondo da quando l'OMS l'ha dichiarata un'emergenza medica della sanità pubblica internazionale il 30 gennaio. | La campagna …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-una-falsa-pandemia-chi-ce-dietro-questo-destabilizzazione-economica-sociale-e-geopolitica-globale/5705536
Media Advisory: Coalition of unions unite against cuts to public education
Posted by Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-03-04
On Thursday, March 5, hundreds of parents, students, educators, support staff, and community allies will hold a rally to demand that the San Francisco Board of Education partner with us to identify alternative budget solutions and prevent any and all cuts and layoffs!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/03/18831283.php
Spanish Protest in Defense of Public Education
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-04
Schools in Andalusia, Spain, called for a demonstration on Wednesday to protest against new school regulations that are seriously damaging public education for the benefit of private interests. | RELATED: | Catalonia's Pro-Independence Leader Cheered at Vic University | The mobilization, that brings together more than 100,000 teachers from public schools in Andalusia and other cities, is a forceful response to the imposition of the Decree on Schooling by the Ministry of Educatio…
telesurenglish.net/news/spain-protest-in-defense-of-public-education-20200304-0009.html
Italy confirms plan to shut schools as death toll passes 100 & number of infected jumps to over 3,000
rt.com | 2020-03-04
The Italian government has raised the country's death toll from Covid-19 passed 100 and confirmed that it is shutting all schools, universities and academic institutions to help prevent the spread of the illness. | Minister for Education Lucia Azzolina confirmed that schools across Italy will remain closed from Thursday March 5 until March 15, at the earliest, as a precautionary measure to help stem the tide of infection. | #Coronavirus fraud: Italian police raids warehouses storing fake face masks sold online with huge markups…
rt.com/news/482338-italy-death-toll-coronavirus-schools/
Video: Syrian Armed Forces Teach '2nd Strongest NATO Army' Painful Lesson in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
Units of the Russian Military Police entered the town of Saraqib in eastern Idlib following the second liberation of the town from al-Qaeda terrorists and Turkish forces. According to the Russian military, the deployment took place at 5: 00pm local time …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-armed-forces-teach-2nd-strongest-nato-army-painful-lesson-idlib/5705469
The Syria Deception
Swiss Propaganda Research | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
What is the Syria war about? | Contrary to the depiction in Western media, the Syria war is not a civil war. This is because the initiators, financiers and a large part of the anti-government fighters come from abroad. | Nor …
globalresearch.ca/the-syria-deception/5705505
The Threat of a Nuclear War Between the US and Russia Is Now at Its Greatest Since 1983
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
When the Commander of NATO says he is a fan of flexible first strike at the same time that NATO is flexing its military muscle on Russia's border, the risk of inadvertent nuclear war is real. | US Air Force Gen. …
globalresearch.ca/threat-nuclear-war-us-russia-now-greatest-since-1983/5705488
The Myth of Moderate Nuclear War
Brian Cloughley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
There are many influential supporters of nuclear war, and some of these contend that the use of 'low-yield' and/or short-range weapons is practicable without the possibility of escalation to all-out Armageddon. In a way their argument is comparable to that …
globalresearch.ca/myth-moderate-nuclear-war/5705506
Daring to Kiss: Coronavirus and the Butterfly Effect
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
At some point, it seemed like a slow burner, gathering attention with each press release from the World Health Organisation. When talking about a threat, language is everything. With more cases of COVID-19 being identified, the panic that comes from …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-butterfly-effect/5705478
Trump Taps Former Chemical Industry Shill to Lead Consumer Product Safety Commission
EWG | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
President Trump intends to nominate a former top chemical industry executive, who at the Environmental Protection Agency has led the rollback of important chemical safety regulations, to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, according to an announcement issued last night …
globalresearch.ca/trump-taps-former-chemical-industry-shill-lead-consumer-product-safety-commission/5705501
Super Tuesday & the Irrevocable Split in the Democratic Party
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
The first is that the last minute dropping out of the primary race by Pete Buttigieg and Amy …
globalresearch.ca/super-tuesday-irrevocable-split-democratic-party/5705528
China's Coronavirus: A Shocking Update. Did The Virus Originate in the US?
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
The Western media quickly laid out the official narrative for the outbreak of COVID-19 which appeared to have begun in China, claiming it to have originated with animals at a wet market in Wuhan. According to Chinese and Japanese reports, the virus originated elsewhere.
globalresearch.ca/china-coronavirus-shocking-update/5705196
From Monroe to Trump. US Sponsored Military Coups in Latin America
Elson Concepción Pérez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
The current U.S. President again threatens military action against Venezuela and continues sanctioning governments and companies with ties to the Bolivarian Republic and Cuba | *** | More than 200 years have passed since James Monroe became the fifth president of the …
globalresearch.ca/from-monroe-trump/5705472
The Informational War that Got Us to Where We Are
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
Every day of your life there is an informational war going on. You are not really aware of it
What's Going on with the Arctic 'Doomsday' Seed Vault?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
Against the backdrop of the spreading fear about a global coronavirus pandemic, an event has slipped largely under the radar at a spot so removed from the rest of the world that most are unaware of its existence. The Svalbard …
globalresearch.ca/arctic-doomsday-seed-vault/5705511
Electoral Dirty Tricks in Play on Super Tuesday?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
How is it possible for a Dem presidential aspirant ahead in most Super Tuesday states (according to polls), including California and Texas, to lose overall to a challenger? | The latest pre-Super Tuesday polls showed Sanders leading Biden by wide margins …
globalresearch.ca/electoral-dirty-tricks-play-super-tuesday/5705518
Venezuela Responds with Principled Conviction to the US' Desperate Attempts at Regime Change
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
The continued effort to overthrow President Maduro does not seem to produce the intended results for the perpetrators, but rather sends signals of desperation. The regime change plotters may be wishing to achieve what they did in Bolivia. But that …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-responds-principled-conviction-us-desperate-attempts-regime-change/5705483
15 Italian tourists diagnosed with Covid-19 in India
rt.com | 2020-03-04
A group of tourists from Italy, who were screened on arrival in India, have tested positive for coronavirus, the country's media reported citing health authorities. The news comes as India struggles to avoid the outbreak. | Some 15 Italians have been kept in preventive quarantine since Tuesday, New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences confirmed to the media. Another Italian tourist and his wife had previously shown initial symptoms of Covid-19 in the city of Jaipur. | India has introduced some pre-emptive measures in an effort to keep the epidemic at bay. It suspended visas issued to nationals from…
rt.com/news/482264-india-italian-tourists-coronavirus/
Major MILESTONE as scientists use CRISPR gene-editing in patient's body for first time
rt.com | 2020-03-04
Scientists have used the controversial CRISPR gene-editing technique on DNA on live tissue inside a person's body for the first time, in a landmark procedure that could dramatically change the field of medicine. | The world-first procedure involved injecting the gene-editing tool into the patient's eye, in the hopes of restoring their sight lost to a rare genetic disorder. | Preliminary results are expected within weeks, while a more comprehensive assessment of how much, if any, sight was restored will take two to three months. | "This dosing is a truly historic event
This Is America: Interview with Grad Student Workers from UC Santa Cruz and UC San Diego
It's Going Down | indybay.org | 2020-03-04
We feature a discussion with two anarchists involved in the ongoing #COLA4All struggle and wildcat strike popping off across University of California campuses. We talk about how the movement has grown in the face of threats from the UC President and where the strike might go now, after over 80 grad workers have been laid off for participating in strike activity. | Scroll down for the audio interview.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/04/18831288.php
U.K. Universities Strike Again, over Pensions, Pay, and Equity
Steven Parfitt | zcomm.org | 2020-03-04
Whether they can win those gains will depend on how many of them join the picket lines, on how students respond to another disruption to their studies, and on how many university managers are forced to recognize the scale of the problems facing their employees…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/u-k-universities-strike-again-over-pensions-pay-and-equity/
This Is America: Interview with Grad Student Workers from UC Santa Cruz and UC San Diego
It's Going Down | indybay.org | 2020-03-04
We feature a discussion with two anarchists involved in the ongoing #COLA4All struggle and wildcat strike popping off across University of California campuses. We talk about how the movement has grown in the face of threats from the UC President and where the strike might go now, after over 80 grad workers have been laid off for participating in strike activity. | Scroll down for the audio interview.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/04/18831288.php
Denver students celebrate Black History Month
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-04
Denver, CO – Denver Students for a Democratic Society hosted local Denver activist Shareef Aleem for an event about radical Black history in the U.S., Feb. 25, as a part of Black History Month. At the event, Aleem discussed the history of radical Black activism, as well as how Black art and culture has been seized and stolen for generations. Aleem, an activist for over 20 years, has been involved in numerous groups, particularly in the peace movement and in the movement for police accountability. | "Anything Black people have in this country, somebody spilled their blood over," Aleem noted in his speech. Aleem th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/3/3/denver-st…
Problems with Bible Classes
James A Haught | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-04
Here in Appalachia's Bible Belt, conservatives in the Legislature want to force all West Virginia public high schools to teach Bible classes, as occurs in several other Republican-controlled states. I wonder how such classes handle Bible topics like these: First, the Bible decrees that gay males must be killed. Leviticus 20: 13 says:…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/04/problems-with-bible-classes/
Supreme Court dumps fate of Affordable Care Act right into height of election campaign
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-04
WASHINGTON–The U.S. Supreme Court has dumped the fate of the Affordable Care Act right into the height of the 2020 election campaign. But it won't rule on whether the ACA survives until after the Nov. 3 balloting–and that pisses off ACA backers no end. But in the meantime, those supporters, including Teachers President Randi Weingarten, …
peoplesworld.org/article/supreme-court-dumps-fate-of-affordable-care-act-right-into-height-of-election-campaign/
Coronavirus cases surge to 240 in Germany
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-04
The number of coronavirus cases in Germany has jumped to 240, the country's disease control agency announced on Wednesday.Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia recorded 111 cases, followed by the southeastern state of Bavaria with 44 new cases, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).The number of confirmed coronavirus in the German capital of Berlin rose to 6. The recent statistics marked an increase of 52 cases in 24 hours.16 patients, who were diagnosed earlier with the novel coronavirus, have reportedly recovered.No deaths have occurred in Germany so far in connection with the new virus.-…
yenisafak.com/en/news/coronavirus-cases-surge-to-240-in-germany-3513319
Physicists Prove Correct Ground-Breaking Decades-Long Magnetic Field Theory
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-04
As part of their applied research, scientists have come to believe that a long-standing idea about how ferromagnetism
Shining a Light on Dark Matter? Crucial Mystery Around Substance Almost Solved, Scientists Claim
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-04
Astrophysicists believe that dark matter makes up to 85 percent of our universe and played a crucial role in the evolution of the universe and yet it is invisible as it does not emit, reflect, or absorb light. The origin of dark matter is an enigma that has puzzled scientists for decades.
sputniknews.com/science/202003041078472834-shining-a-light-on-dark-matter-crucial-mystery-around-substance-almost-solved-scientists-claim/
Environmental Activist Greta Thunberg Delivers Speech to European Parliament – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-04
In 2018, Thunberg left school to pursue environmental activism. She has since organised numerous protests in Sweden, including in front of the Swedish Parliament, urging students to skip school every Friday in order to protest against climate change.
sputniknews.com/europe/202003041078472238-environmental-activist-greta-thunberg-delivers-speech-to-european-parliament—video/
Selected Articles: From Monroe to Trump. US Sponsored Military Coups in Latin America
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-04
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | | | If, like us, this is a …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-monroe-trump-us-sponsored-military-coups-latin-america/5705494
New Cuban Families Code a chance to advance gender and LGBTQ equality
Helen Kennedy | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-04
Forty-five years ago, on International Women's Day, Cuba passed its first Family Code, which covered legal obligations regarding marriage, divorce, relationships, recognition of children, and their education and care. Cuba's new constitution was adopted in 2019 with the proviso that, within two years, the Family Code would be updated to reflect the modern situation of …
peoplesworld.org/article/new-cuban-families-code-a-chance-to-advance-gender-and-lgbtq-equality/
Six Year Old Kaia Rolle, Handcuffed by Orlando Police and Arrested: How Many More, and for How Long Is this America?
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
While fretting over refugee children in freezing tents along Turkey's border, or Nargis Fazili's family fleeing Afghanistan across (see this), or lone migrant children caged in U.S. detention centers, we may barely register what happens to American children like …
globalresearch.ca/kaia-rolle-handcuffed-arrested-6-how-many-more-how-long-america/5705394
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…
The Brooklyn Yeshiva Anthem Protest and Why It Is Not Antisemitic
Ira Glunts | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-03
An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike.
Keep It Simple and Question: Propaganda, Technology, and Coronavirus COVID-19
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
My father, a well-educated lawyer with a very sophisticated mind, used to advise me to "keep it simple." By simple he didn't mean simplistic. He meant fundamentally logical and to the point. So I will do that here and stick …
globalresearch.ca/keep-simple-question-propaganda-technology-coronavirus-covid-19/5705368
Afghan Peace Deal: Observations, Loopholes, and Expectations
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
The US and the Taliban signed an historic peace deal on Saturday in the Qatari capital of Doha which sets the timeline and conditions for the full withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, with this landmark agreement giving credible reasons …
globalresearch.ca/afghan-peace-deal-observations-loopholes-expectations/5705400
Video: Syrian Army Recaptures Saraqib from Erdogan Forces as Syrian-Turkish Conflict in Idlib Intensifies
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Turkey and Syria are in a state of undeclared war. Ankara shied away to declare the war officially and the scale of its operations is much lower than in the event of a full-scale open conflict. However, Turkish forces, including …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-recaptures-saraqib-erdogan-forces-syrian-turkish-conflict-idlib-intensifies/5705367
New study reveals that US-backed coup in Bolivia was based on lies
Fiona Edwards | thecanary.co | 2020-03-03
The blatant lies and hypocrisy of the US have been exposed with the publication of a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This shows there was no fraud in Bolivia's presidential election last October. | Coup 2019 was the real fraud: | The US researchers at MIT have demolished the false claims that the US administration put…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/03/03/new-study-reveals-that-us-backed-coup-in-bolivia-was-based-on-lies/
Ancestral Lands and Canada's First Nations: Whose Ways Must Take Precedence to Heal Mother Earth
Irwin Jerome | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
A dispute between the traditional hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suewet'en First Nation of Northern British Columbia and Government of Canada recently erupted over the construction of a TC Energy Coastal Gas pipeline through their unceded territories. This controversy is akin …
globalresearch.ca/whose-ways-must-take-precedence-heal-mother-earth/5705387
Ottawa "Initiative on Haiti": Petition to House of Commons
Jean Saint-Vil | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Whereas: | On January 9, 2020, Radio Canada's flagship newscast "Enquête" reported on the "Ottawa Initiative on Haiti" held at the Meech Lake Government Complex on January 31 and February 1, 2003; | No Haitian officials were reportedly invited to the private …
globalresearch.ca/haiti-petition-house-commons/5705390
Why the American Ruling Class Fears Bernie Sanders
Eric Sommer | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
The American ruling class clearly fears that Bernie Sanders might become president of the U.S.. Due to his massive victory in the Democratic primary vote in the state of Nevada, and his ever-growing support across the U.S., the American intelligence | …
globalresearch.ca/why-american-ruling-class-fears-bernie-sanders/5705206
China Treating Coronavirus COVID-19 with Intravenous Vitamin C
Andrew W. Saul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Intravenous vitamin C is already being employed in China against COVID-19 coronavirus. I am receiving regular updates because I am part of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board to the International Intravenous Vitamin C China Epidemic Medical Support Team. Its …
globalresearch.ca/three-intravenous-vitamin-c-research-studies-approved-treating-covid-19/5705405
Washington-led NATO's War on Syria and Syrians
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Washington-led NATO and their allies support all of the terrorists in Syria, hence, the terrorists are appropriately named NATO terrorists. NATO has command and control (1) of all of the terrorists. Turkey, currently in the limelight for its supreme criminality, …
globalresearch.ca/washington-led-nato-war-syria-syrians/5705258
The US-Taliban 'Peace Deal'? Imperial State Criminality and Terrorism, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and "Restorative Justice"
Junaid S. Ahmad | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
March 2nd, was the birthday of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. People may be forgiven (should they be?) for forgetting about Aafia since these seventeen birthdays of hers have gone by with her incarcerated, humiliated, tortured, and God knows what in …
globalresearch.ca/question-aafia-siddiqui-restorative-justice/5705373
'Religious Operations': How British Propagandists Used Islam to Wage A "Cultural Cold War"
Ian Cobain | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
British government propaganda unit ran covert campaigns across the Middle East for several years at the height of the Cold War, distributing Islamic messages in a bid to counter the appeal of communism. | Recently declassified official papers show that the …
globalresearch.ca/religious-operations-how-british-propagandists-used-islam-wage-cultural-cold-war/5705255
Strong Man Legacies: Egypt's Late Hosni Mubarak
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Reviled strongmen of one era are often the celebrated ones of others. Citizens otherwise tormented find that replacements are poor, in some cases even crueller, than the original artefact. Such strongmen also serve as ideal alibis for rehabilitation: Look at …
globalresearch.ca/burying-mubarak/5705377
Why Are Stocks Crashing?
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
There are three main reasons why stocks are falling hard. | 1– Uncertainty. It's impossible for investors to gauge the economic impact of the rapidly-spreading coronavirus or its effect on stock prices. Investors buy stocks with the expectation that their investment …
globalresearch.ca/why-stocks-crashing/5705381