Australia: "Teachers for Assange and Manning" campaign in Melbourne
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
The active intervention of teachers and education support staff is just one indication of the growing concern among millions of people that Assange's persecution has immense implications.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/cfpe…
San Ysidro, California high school students walk out to oppose attacks on public education
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
On Friday, March 6, hundreds of students at San Ysidro High School in San Diego, California walked out to oppose budget cuts and attacks on public education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/sany…
San Ysidro, California high school students walk out to oppose attacks on public education
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
On Friday, March 6, hundreds of students at San Ysidro High School in San Diego, California walked out to oppose budget cuts and attacks on public education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/sany…
From Afghanistan to Syria: Women's Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA
Julie Lévesque | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-07
Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.
globalresearch.ca/from-afghanistan-to-syria-womens-rights-war-propaganda-and-the-cia/5329665
Video: Turkish Drones Falling in Idlib. 'Moderate Rebels' Gas Themselves by Mistake
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-07
Early on March 5, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on targets in the Syrian provinces of Homs and Quneitra. According to the Syrian military, the attack was conducted from Lebanese airspace at 00: 30 local time. …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-drones-falling-idlib-moderate-rebels-gas-themselves-mistake/5705709
75 Years Ago: Nazi Germany's Launch Final Major Attacks of the Second World War
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-07
Seventy-five years ago, on 6 March 1945, the Third Reich launched what was to be its final great offensive of World War II, called Operation Spring Awakening (Unternehmen Fràºhlingserwachen). This attack, not well known today, was directed eastwards through the …
globalresearch.ca/75-years-ago-nazi-germanys-launch-final-major-attacks-of-the-second-world-war/5705703
Women's Rights and Social Justice: Julia Ward Howe's 1870 Anti-War Mother's Day Proclamation, A Day of Peace
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-07
Julia Ward Howe was a humanist who cared about suffering people, a feminist, a social justice activist & suffragette, and it was because of her anti-war commitment that she wrote the famous "Mother's Day Proclamation" 5 years after the Civil War, which resulted in 600,000 dead American soldiers…
globalresearch.ca/womens-rights-and-social-justice-julia-ward-howes-1870-mothers-day-proclamation-a-day-of-peace/5589245
STEM Undergraduate Town Hall
Pay Us More UCSC | indybay.org | 2020-03-07
Earth and Marine Sciences B206 | UC Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831331.php
Absolutely sickening–and scary': Man unfurls Nazi flag at Bernie Sanders rally, heightening security concerns
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-03-07
"All people of conscience must condemn this anti-Semitism against the most visible Jewish politician in the country." | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/07/absolutely-sickening-and-scary-man-unfurls-nazi-flag-at-bernie-sanders-rally-heightening-security-concerns/
I Know Why the Caged Canary Sings
Extinction Rebellion | zcomm.org | 2020-03-07
Regardless of the judgements that are passed today, I appeal to everyone in this room to search their consciences and do everything in their power to ensure we bequeath our children a habitable planet…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/i-know-why-the-caged-canary-sings/
University of California graduate student strike: A struggle against the United Auto Workers and the Democratic Party
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
For two months, UC graduate students and teaching assistants have engaged in a wildcat strike, rebelling against the UAW to demand cost of living adjustments in one of the most expensive states in the US.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/pers…
California graduate students expand wildcat strike to fourth campus, with two more slated to join
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
The powerful initiative taken by striking grad students poses the need to maintain complete independence from the trade union bureaucracies and the Democratic Party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/ucsc…
Schools Are Operating as Testbeds for Mass Surveillance
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-07
A school district in New York recently adopted facial recognition technology to monitor students, and it is now one of a growing number of schools across the country conducting mass privacy violations of kids in the name of "safety." The invasive use of surveillance technologies in schools has grown exponentially, often without oversight or recourse for concerned students or their parents. | Not only that, but schools are ex…
truthout.org/articles/schools-are-operating-as-testbeds-for-mass-surveillance/
Johnstone brings her Moral Compass to our Dantesque World
Eric Walberg | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-07
First, Diana Johnstone's memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/johnstone-brings-her-moral-compass-to-our-dantesque-world/
Petition: Accountability for the Incident Regarding a Black UCI Alumna at UC Irvine
Black Student Union at UC-Irvine | indybay.org | 2020-03-07
UCI Black Student Union and United Students Against Sweatshops Demand for Accountability Regarding the Incident on February 20, 2020…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831338.php
Boys in Brazil land school in scandal as self-styled Nazis saluting classmate as a Fuhrer creating a new 'REICH'
rt.com | 2020-03-07
A prestigious school in Brazil got dragged into a scandal after one of its students ran an election campaign styled after Adolf Hitler, recruiting a dozen supporters eager to have him as their 'Furher.' | A photo of the candidate greeting his backers with a Nazi salute in a school classroom, with them responding likewise, was apparently made public by the teen himself. He thought it was a good idea not only to play at Nazism with his mates, but also to upload the proof on his campaign's Instagram page. | The text comment with the photo said the would-be class speaker "promises to be the new Fürher," who w…
rt.com/news/482571-brazil-school-nazi-salutes/
Students Petition UC Irvine After Campus Police Arrest a Black Alumna
Sara Weissman, Diverse | indybay.org | 2020-03-07
Shikera Chamndany, a Black alumna in biomedical engineering at UC Irvine, went to campus to collect her transcripts on Feb. 20. She ended up spending the night in Orange County Women's Jail.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831337.php
Boys in Brazil land school in scandal as self-styled Nazis saluting classmate as a Fuhrer creating a new 'REICH'
rt.com | 2020-03-07
A prestigious school in Brazil got dragged into a scandal after one of its students ran an election campaign styled after Adolf Hitler, recruiting a dozen supporters eager to have him as their 'Furher.' | A photo of the candidate greeting his backers with a Nazi salute in a school classroom, with them responding likewise, was apparently made public by the teen himself. He thought it was a good idea not only to play at Nazism with his mates, but also to upload the proof on his campaign's Instagram page. | The text comment with the photo said the would-be class speaker "promises to be the new Fürher," who w…
rt.com/news/482571-brazil-school-nazi-salutes/
Huge Turnout for UC Berkeley Day of Action and Solidarity
CCPUMU | indybay.org | 2020-03-07
UC Berkeley graduate student workers, undergraduates and faculty stop work to demand COLA and reinstatement of fired UCSC workers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831330.php
Whose University? Day 18 Strike Updates at UC Santa Cruz
Pay Us More UCSC | indybay.org | 2020-03-07
For the 18th day of the strike, hundreds of graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, lecturers, and others successfully closed down UCSC's main campus for the entire working day.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831333.php
Brazil: Amid brutal police repression, Sà£o Paulo government passes state pension reform
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
The attack was carried out with the complicity of the teachers union and after Workers Party governments in the northeast of Brazil passed their own pension reforms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/braz…
Brazil: Amid brutal police repression, Sà£o Paulo government passes state pension reform
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
The attack was carried out with the complicity of the teachers union and after Workers Party governments in the northeast of Brazil passed their own pension reforms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/braz…
UK Education Secretary Calls on Oxford Uni to Defend Free Speech After Rudd's 'No-Platforming'
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-07
The no-platforming of Amber Rudd at Oxford has drawn criticism from across British society and the parliamentary political spectrum, with the UK government threatening to implement new laws that would safeguard freedom of speech on university campuses.
sputniknews.com/uk/202003071078503128-Free-speech-Oxford-Rudd/
Catastrophic Flood Entombed 300,000 People in a Chinese City in 1642 AD, Scientists Claim
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-07
Dubbed "Chinese sorrow" the Yellow River is known to have flooded nearby cities more than a thousand times in the past 2,000 years. However, scientists say the event in Kaifeng was the most devastating.
sputniknews.com/science/202003071078502826-catastrophic-flood-entombed-300000-people-in-a-chinese-city-in-1642-ad-scientists-claim/
Coronavirus: Remember the "Fake" 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
A Worldwide public health emergency is unfolding, 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are envisaged by the WHO.
globalresearch.ca/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-manipulating-the-data-to-justify-a-worldwide-public-health-emergency/14901
The Brooklyn Yeshiva Anthem Protest: Why It's Not Antisemitic
Ira Glunts | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
"An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike."
The Brooklyn Yeshiva Anthem Protest: Why It's Not Antisemitic
Ira Glunts | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
"An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike."
Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (2020)
Eric Walberg | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
First, Diana Johnstone's memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, …
globalresearch.ca/circle-darkness-memoir-world-watcher-2020/5705714
"Voices from Syria" and "The Dirty War on Syria": Mark Taliano and Tim Anderson Analyze the War on Syria
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
Voices from Syria by Mark Taliano and The Dirty War on Syria by Tim Anderson: two essential books on Syria for . | *SPECIAL OFFER: Voices from Syria + The Dirty War on Syria: | …
globalresearch.ca/voices-from-syria-and-the-dirty-war-on-syria-mark-taliano-and-tim-anderson-analyze-the-war-on-syria/5620373
Afghanistan: Imagine There's No Future
Daniel Lazare | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
Here's a little thought experiment. Imagine it's Sept. 12, 2001, and America is in deep shock over the destruction of the World Trade Center the previous day. George W. Bush goes on national TV and declares: | "Now is not the | …
globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-imagine-no-future/5705743
Joe Biden in 2020 Duplicates Hillary Clinton in 2016
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
Hillary Clinton, of course, received the Democratic Party nomination in 2016 and was widely expected to beat Trump but she lost to him (though she won California by 4,269,978 in the popular vote, and so beat Trump by 2,864,974 …
globalresearch.ca/joe-biden-2020-duplicates-hillary-clinton-2016/5705753
–°oronavirus May be a Product of US 'Biological Attack' Aimed at Iran and China, IRGC Chief Claims
RT News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
The US –Åould be the prime culprit behind Covid-2019 outbreak that hit China and then Iran, head of its elite Revolutionary Guards claimed, threatening that the virus will eventually be turned against those who unleashed it. | "It is possible that | …
globalresearch.ca/%d1%81oronavirus-product-us-biological-attack-aimed-iran-china-irgc-chief-claims/5705747
Why Is the US Apparently Not Testing for the COVID-19 Coronavirus?
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
All reports are that the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is not testing for the new coronavirus COVID-19, and that reliable tests in any case do not exist in the US. This is an area bereft of rational explanation. …
globalresearch.ca/why-us-apparently-not-testing-covid-19-coronavirus/5705721
Former Nobel Peace Prize Nominates Morales for 2020 Distinction
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
"It is an honor for me to inform you that I have nominated comrade Evo Morales Ayma for the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2020," the Argentinian Adolfo Perez Esquivel announced on his Twitter account. | *** | The Argentinian activist …
globalresearch.ca/former-nobel-peace-prize-nominates-morales-2020-distinction/5705700
COVID-19 "Worldwide Epidemic of Biblical Proportions"
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
This is becoming increasingly crazy. The Western media hype is intolerable with its fear-mongering. What is driving this? | In most countries, a few people or a few hundred people have been infected with this virus, and a dozen or so …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-worldwide-epidemic-biblical-proportions/5705735
Boris Johnson Accused of Covering Up "Bullying Allegations"
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
'The Home Secretary is doing an outstanding job': Boris Johnson's repeated response to the allegations of bullying by Priti Patel across three different government departments in recent times. At Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn asked …
globalresearch.ca/boris-johnson-accused-covering-up-bullying-allegations/5705741
Another Farcical Ceasefire in Syria
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
Time and again, ceasefires agreed to on Syria were breached straightaway by US/NATO/Turkish supported terrorists. | Is this time different? Will belligerent Trump and Erdogan regimes turn a page for restoration of peace and stability in Syria? | Will they renounce years …
globalresearch.ca/another-farcical-ceasefire-in-syria/5705729
Some Emerging Truths About Ukraine and the Crash of Malaysian Airlines MH17
James ONeill | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
On 17 July 2014 a Malaysian Airlines flight was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over Ukrainian territory with the loss of all passengers and crew. The majority of the passengers were Dutch citizens, …
globalresearch.ca/emerging-truths-ukraine-crash-mh17/5705696
Trump Interior Official Pushed Climate Misinformation Into Federal Reports
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-06
A major New York Times investigative report, published March 2, revealed efforts by Indur M. Goklany, a Department of Interior employee with ties to the Heartland Institute and other fossil-funded denial organizations, to modify federal reports to include misleading information about climate science. | DeSmog has obtained some of the emails cited by The Times in that investigati…
truthout.org/articles/trump-interior-official-pushed-climate-misinformation-into-federal-reports/
Apprentices to Nowhere: From Impoverished Graduate Students to Impoverished College Professors
Keith Hoeller | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
Why have 233 graduate teaching assistants gone on strike at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC)? Why did University of California (UC) President Janet Napolitano issue a warning letter threatening to fire the striking graduate students? Why did the University of California call in police from outside the college who used batons against…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/06/apprentices-to-nowhere-from-impoverished-graduate-students-to-impoverished-college-professors/
150,000-Plus Students March Against Violence in Central Mexico
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-06
In an outpouring of discontent, more than 150,000 young people from all the universities in the central Mexican state of Puebla marched on Thursday to demand justice and security from the authorities after the murder ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äãof three students, two of them Colombians, that occurred ten days ago. | RELATED: | Mexican Police Assaults Relatives of Ayotzinapa Killed Students | As most of them dressed in bla…
telesurenglish.net/news/150000-Plus-Students-March-Against-Violence-in-Central-Mexico-20200306-0010.html
Money on the Left for COLA
Maxximilian Seijo | mronline.org | 2020-03-06
We, the hosts of the Money on the Left podcast, write to express our solidarity with the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) graduate students participating in an ongoing wildcat strike for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). We extend our full support to not only the 82 UCSC graduate students who the UC administration […] | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/06/money-on-the-left-for-cola/
Oxford students were right to 'no-platform' Amber Rudd, and here's why
Afroze Fatima Zaidi | thecanary.co | 2020-03-06
On Thursday 5 March, former home secretary Amber Rudd was due to speak at an Oxford University event for International Women's Day. | However, the student society organising the event cancelled it at short notice and withdrew Rudd's invitation. | 'No-platforming': | The UNWomen Oxford UK Society pulled the event after receiving criticism from students for inviting Rudd. Rudd then took…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/03/06/oxford-students-were-right-to-no-platform-amber-rudd-and-heres-why/
The Super Tuesday Sting
Matthew Stevenson | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
This is the sixth of a periodic series on the early primaries and caucuses. The other pieces can be found here. The fix on Super Tuesday in the presidential election was a clubhouse deal in which the elders of the Democratic Party, led by Barack Obama, shook down the primary system to teach Bernie Sanders…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/06/the-super-tuesday-sting/
WaPo Prints Study That Found Paper Backed an Undemocratic Bolivia Coup
Joe Emersberger | commondreams.org | 2020-03-06
The OAS repeatedly made statistical claims about Bolivia's election that were clearly false. (Photo: Alexis Demarco/APG/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/03/06/wapo-prints-study-found-paper-backed-undemocratic-bolivia-coup?cd-origin=rss
Last Pre-Coronavirus Jobs Report Shows Strong Job Growth, Weak Wage Growth
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-06
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 273,000 jobs in February. The January figure was revised up to the same number, which, along with an upward revision to December's number, brought the three-month average to a very strong 243,000 jobs. | The unemployment rate edged back down to 3.5 percent, reversing the January rise. However, the employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) also edged down 0.1 percentage points from the recovery high reached in January. The EPOP for prime-…
truthout.org/articles/last-pre-coronavirus-jobs-report-shows-strong-job-growth-weak-wage-growth/
Selected Articles: The Pentagon's "Ides of March 2020": Best Month to Go to War?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
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-pentagon-ides-march-2020-best-month-go-war/5705754
Boyle Heights to celebrate working-class women
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-06
Los Angeles, CA – The Boyle Heights group Centro Community Service Organization (Centro CSO) will host Día Internacional de la Mujer, International Women's Day, Saturday, March 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Benjamin Franklin Library. CSO aims to honor and represent local women who are working for LGBT rights, fighting for socialism, defending public education, resisting police terror and brutality, and ending deportations. | Speakers participating will include a student from Garfield High School; Rosario Bonilla from Centro CSO; Josefina Rizo, mother of 16-year-old Jose Mendez who was killed by LAPD; Vibiana Aparicio…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/3/6/boyle-hei…
Victorian teachers' union calls on government to ban duck hunting
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-06
Kerry SmithIssue 1256 Australia duck hunting Australian Education Union MelbourneMarch 6, 2020On February 14, the Australian Education Union (AEU) passed a motion calling on the Victorian gov…
greenleft.org.au/content/victorian-teachers-union-calls-government-ban-duck-hunting
The Pentagon's "Ides of March 2020": Best Month to Go to War?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-05
or the Romans, the month of March (Martius) marked "the time to start new military campaigns." As in the heyday of the Roman Empire, the Pentagon has a mandate to plan and implement a precise "timeline" of military operations.
globalresearch.ca/the-pentagons-ides-of-march-best-month-to-go-to-war-2/5670257