(2021-01-25). Failures of Democracy in America and the Arab Spring. juancole.com 
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Today is ten years since Egyptian youth gathered in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo demanding the resignation of Egypt's brutal and corrupt Interior Minister, Habib Adly. Even those who called for the rally were surprised by the thousands of youth and workers that showed up, on Egypt's Police Day, and …
(2021-01-25). Biden's Secretary of State Praises Trump's Achievements on Israel. globalresearch.ca A new administration has taken over Washington with talk of justice, respect and diversity. However, when it comes to Israel-Palestine the news isn't so encouraging. | Joe Biden's foreign policy team says it wants to return to the Iran deal, but …
(2021-01-25). California Refuses to Disclose COVID-19 Data Used to Drive Lockdowns. globalresearch.ca California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) promised months ago that the state's COVID-19 policy decisions would be driven by transparent data that would be shared with the public. | Now, his administration is refusing to disclose key information used to determine when …
(2021-01-25). No Safe Space for Philippines' Indigenous Youth as Military Allowed on Campus. asia-pacificresearch.com …
(2021-01-25). US-Pak Reset to Advance Biden's Afghan Settlement. globalresearch.ca Mark Twain is credited with the saying 'History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.' The echoes of history resonate as the new US administration prioritises the Afghan problem for policy review. | The highlight of the
(2021-01-25). New Research Shows Stopping Water, Utility Shutoffs Would Have Prevented Thousands of COVID Deaths. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2021-01-25). U.K.'s Black teachers: Not enough is being done to address COVID-19. peoplesworld.org 
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(2021-01-25). German Court Rules that COVID-19 Lockdowns Are Unconstitutional. globalresearch.ca A
(2021-01-25). Facebook Purges Left-Wing Pages And Individuals. popularresistance.org On Friday, Facebook carried out a purge of left-wing, antiwar and progressive pages and accounts, including leading members of the Socialist Equality Party. Facebook gave no explanation why the accounts were disabled or even a public acknowledgement that the deletions had occurred. At least a half dozen leading members of the Socialist Equality Party had their Facebook accounts permanently disabled. This included the public account of Genevieve Leigh, the national secretary of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, and the personal account of Niles Niemuth, the US managing editor of the World S…
(2021-01-25). Facebook escalates attack on socialist left. indybay.org Facebook is engaged in an escalating campaign of state-backed internet censorship targeting socialist organizations, including the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.
(2021-01-25). Turkish Trotskyists hold international online meeting on student protests. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Group and IYSSE in Turkey held an international online meeting January 17 titled "Amid the global breakdown of democracy, the way forward for the Boƒüaziàßi University protests."
(2021-01-25). Baby tyrannosaurs were 'size of Border Collie dog' when taking first steps. thecanary.co 
Baby tyrannosaurs were only the size of a Border Collie dog when they took their first steps, a team of palaeontologists has discovered.Led by Dr Greg Funston, a University of Edinburgh researcher, the team examined fossilised remains of a tiny jaw bone and claw which had been found in Canada and the US.They were revealed to belong to a baby tyrannosaur — cousin of the fabled T-Rex — in 3D scans and are the first-known fossils of tyrannosaur embryos.The discoveries were made in Canada and the US (Greg Funton/PA)It suggests the creatures which lived more than 70 million years ago were only around three-f…
(2021-01-25). Activists demand justice for Giulio Regeni who was kidnapped and murdered in Egypt. peoplesdispatch.org 
Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student at Cambridge University, was kidnapped on January 25, 2016 from Cairo. His body was found a few days later with torture marks. He had been working on Egyptian trade unions for his dissertation…
(2021-01-25). Senior MP: British Public Will "Rise Up and Bring Down" Lockdown if Exit Plan Isn't Outlined. globalresearch.ca British MPs within his own party are demanding that Prime Minister Boris Johnson outline some sort of exit strategy for the nationwide lockdown in the country, with one senior minister warning that if he doesn't people will begin to "rise …
(2021-01-25). Sri Lankan IYSSE holds well-attended online lecture on 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels' birth. wsws.org Students, young workers and others participated in an enthusiastic discussion on the contemporary significance of Engels' fight for scientific socialism.
(2021-01-25). Eurostar Train Near Collapse, Asks for Bailout, Becomes Hot Potato. globalresearch.ca Eurostar, the company that operates the cross-Channel train service that connects the UK with France, Belgium and the Netherlands, is on the brink of collapse, the company's management warned this week. With passenger numbers down 95% in the final quarter …
(2021-01-25). CDC Quietly Removes Website Headline Claiming "Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism" globalresearch.ca The change was quietly made last August, with no announcement, following a …
(2021-01-25). The Media Destroyed America. globalresearch.ca It did not take long for the Lie Machine, aka American media, to create the false news and fake narrative of the "storming of the US Capitol" on January 6 by a "white supremacist insurrection." | Here is an example from …
(2021-01-25). The UN Prohibits Nuclear Weapons and What Does Italy Do? globalresearch.ca Today, January 22, 2021, is the day that can go down in history as the turning point to free humanity from those weapons that, for the first time, have the ability to erase the human species and almost every other …
(2021-01-25). The Will to Believe: Americans and Their Divine Masters. globalresearch.ca "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style." — Albert Camus, The Fall | Propagandists are smart …
(2021-01-25). The Responsibility to Disarm and the Nuclear Ban Treaty. globalresearch.ca In 1984, President Ronald
(2021-01-25). Overwhelming opposition among Chicago educators to deadly school reopenings. wsws.org After teachers overwhelmingly approved a union resolution to continue teaching remotely, CPS CEO Janice Jackson announced the return of K-8 educators would be delayed to Wednesday.
(2021-01-25). Global Research: Help Us Cover Our Operational Costs. globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | Global Research is a small team that believes in the power of information and analysis to bring about far-reaching societal change. Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis we provide, free of charge, on a daily basis? …
(2021-01-25). The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Strained Relations with India? globalresearch.ca In September 2013, at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, presented his vision and plan for the 'Belt and Road Initiative' (BRI) — an ambitious vast complex trade and commercial network for China …
(2021-01-25). Biden and the Democrats will Sow Chaos in Latin America. globalresearch.ca US President Joseph Biden, a relic from Washington's old political establishment will continue the same imperialist policies in Latin America as did his predecessors including that of Donald Trump. There is a clear indication that Washington's hostilities towards Venezuela's …
(2021-01-25). Human Civilization and the Recreation of Wilderness. globalresearch.ca Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, | Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; | Along the cool sequester'd vale of life | They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. | — Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Ill …
(2021-01-25). In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, They Rejected Lockdowns. globalresearch.ca The
(2021-01-25). Joe Biden's Policy on Israel Isn't "Transformative" or "Decent" globalresearch.ca Many are noting happily that Joe Biden's flurry of executive orders are "surprisingly" progressive … and decent. In an
(2021-01-25). Global Research: How To Help Us Circumvent Censorship. globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | Global Research is a small team that believes in the power of information and analysis to bring about far-reaching societal change. Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis we provide, free of charge, on a daily basis? …
(2021-01-25). A Totalitarian Regime Is Coming to America? Or Is It Just an Old Ball Game? globalresearch.ca Dutch-Jewish historian Jacques Presser remarked as early as 1947: "Fascism, should it ever return, will undoubtedly present itself in the guise of anti-fascism." Having watched the surreal inauguration, the Green Zone in Baghdad popped up. The occupation in Washington was …
(2021-01-24). Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel's Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test. globalresearch.ca First posted by Global Research on December 11, 2020 | The widely-praised German model of the Angela Merkel regime to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is now engulfed in a series of potentially devastating scandals going to the very heart of …
(2021-01-24). Why Donald Trump Had to Go. He's Not a Globalist. globalresearch.ca There is an agenda. A huge agenda. It is a Globalist agenda that is in the process of inflicting gigantic harm to humanity. It is called Covid-19 — The Great Reset, issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF), authored by …
(2021-01-24). The Coronavirus Vaccine: The Real Danger is "Agenda ID2020" globalresearch.ca WHO has most likely received orders from "above", from those people who also manage Trump and the "leaders" (sic) of the EU, European Union. The final decision to go ahead NOW with COVID-19 pandemic, was taken in January 2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos – behind very much closed doors.
(2021-01-24). Pandemic disruption to learning is an opportunity to reimagine, revitalize education. news.un.org To mark the third International Day of Education on Sunday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres paid tribute to the resilience of students, teachers and families in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic that, at its peak, forced almost every school, institute and university to close its doors.
(2021-01-24). Asian, Black Patients More Likely to Die of COVID-19, Claims Study Probing Ethnicity-Linked Outcomes. sputniknews.com As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rack up a death toll across the globe, with governments rolling out vaccination programmes in an effort to stop the spread of the respiratory disease, extensive research continues to probe the plethora of factors that are behind the different outcomes of the infection among diverse populations.
(2021-01-24). The mRNA COVID Vaccine Is Not a Vaccine. globalresearch.ca First posted by Global Research on January 15, 2021 | It's NOT a vaccine. The mRNA COVID vaccine now being militarily deployed in many nations around the world, is NOT a vaccine. I repeat: it is not a vaccine. It is …
(2021-01-24). A Life Saving Hope or Death Defying Jab? Three Perspectives on the Experimental COVID Vaccine. globalresearch.ca "I believe that people should be aware that side effects can happened, that it is not good for everyone and in this case destroyed a beautiful life, a perfect family, and has affected so many people in the community. …
(2021-01-24). Korean scientists may have discovered 'elixir of youth' that 'erases wrinkles' and could even reverse brain and muscle decline. rt.com 
Researchers have developed a rejuvenating gene therapy for human skin that has the potential to make "ageing a reversible phenomenon." RT spoke to the lead scientist, Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho, about the astonishing breakthrough. | Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have Speaking to RT from KAIST U…
(2021-01-24). Why profound personal connections are lacking in our lives — and how to find them. salon.com We've lost a sense of feeling understood by each other. Two researchers think they can change that…
(2021-01-24). Chicago Schools Chief Threatens To Lock Out Teachers Who Don't Return. popularresistance.org As Chicago educators continue to vote on a Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) resolution in support of teaching remotely, and to strike only in the event of retaliation from the school district, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Janice Jackson reiterated at a Friday news conference that such an action "would constitute a strike." | Although Jackson insisted, "We're not locking teachers out," indications are that CPS officials will cut educators off from their district-provided Google accounts, preventing them from teaching remotely. This has already been done to dozens of teachers in the district, to which the CTU has r…
(2021-01-24). Betsy DeVos and the politics of fear: A not-so-fond farewell to Trump's education secretary. salon.com DeVos was terrible at her job and knew nothing about public schools. That was exactly what the far right wanted…
(2021-01-24). Why do so many astronomy discoveries fail to live up to the hype?>. salon.com "Breakthroughs" come along regularly but often don't hold up under scrutiny — and could undermine trust in science…
(2021-01-24). Anthony Fauci Joins the Long List of People Incapacitated by Coronavirus Vaccine. globalresearch.ca Anthony Fauci, the director of the United States government's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told reporters Thursday that he was "knocked out" for about 24 hours after, on Tuesday, taking the second dose of experimental coronavirus vaccine. Fauci …
(2021-01-24). Iraq: Biggest Corruption Scandal in History. globalresearch.ca In her article "Iraq's century of humiliation in the globalised age", Aneela Shahzad writes: | "In May 2020, the Special Representative of Secretary General for the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq announced that the poverty rate in Iraq would double to …
(2021-01-24). The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.
(2021-01-24). The Illusion of Democracy: Power and Secrecy. globalresearch.ca In 2003, millions of people protested against the invasion of Iraq. If Britain and the US had genuine democracies, where the views of ordinary people matter, the invasion, slaughter and torture in Iraq would not have happened. Our governments ignored …
(2021-01-24). One World Governance and the Council on Foreign Relations. "We Shall have World Government… by Conquest or Consent." globalresearch.ca The fact is the Council on Foreign Relations has been controlling US foreign policy for almost a century, and chief among its most obvious agendas has been building and maintaining US Empire's global unipolar hegemony and military strength at all cost.
(2021-01-24). Double Suicide Bombing: Baghdad Blast Responsibility in Question. globalresearch.ca A deadly double suicide bombing ripped through a second-hand clothing market in Tayaran Square, located in Bab Al-Sharqi commercial district of Baghdad on Thursday. Hassan Mohammed Al-Tamimi, Iraq's Health Minister, said at least 32 people were killed and 110 others …
(2021-01-24). US Never Ending Wars: Thirty Years Ago, America's "First War" against Iraq. globalresearch.ca Thirty years ago. The so-called "Gulf War" (Iraq War I) was launched against Iraq on January 17, 1991. | Extensive crimes against humanity have been committed. | On January 16, President George H. Walker Bush announced the start of what was called …
(2021-01-24). Dystopian "Great Reset": "Own Nothing and Be Happy", Being Human in 2030. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on November 9, 2020 | The World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, economists and other high-profile individuals to discuss global issues. …