(2018-09-24). UNESCO Literacy Prize Awarded To Project From Iran Promoting Literacy And Computer Skills. iranian.com 'The Consolidated teaching of literacy and ICDL' (International computer driving licence) programme from the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Literacy Movement Organization (LMO), was awarded on September 5th one of the five 2018 International Literacy Prizes, the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy. LMO actively promotes literacy and continuing education through a range of programmes for […]
(2018-09-24). Canadians Should Fight for Abousfian Abdelrazik's Rights as if They Were Their Own — Because They Are. globalresearch.ca Canada's Charter of Rights provides the ultimate legal safety for its citizens: rights that include freedom of speech, religion, of association, and the right of citizens to enter and leave Canada. These rights are only of use, however, if the …
(2018-09-24). The UK's Snoopers' Charter Has Been Dealt a Serious Blow. counterpunch.org Last Thursday, the British government's surveillance regime, the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), was dealt yet another a blow—this time by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which gave its landmark ruling against the UK government's mass surveillance program. In its decision, the ECHR stated that the IPA violated human rights and offered "no real More
(2018-09-24). The Moon-Kim Summit: Mr. President, Now It Is Your Move! Moon's Roadmap of North-South Cooperation. globalresearch.ca The historical Moon-Kim summit ended- after three days of excitement, hope and determination- at the sacred Cheon-ji (Heaven's Lake) located at the top of Mt Baek-du where Dangun, son of Hwanung who descended from heaven to found the Korean nation …
(2018-09-24). "The US Will Bear Responsibility": China Furious After US Sanctions Beijing for Buying Russian Weapons. globalresearch.ca It has been barely two weeks since China joined Russia in the "Vostok" war games, the largest display of Eurasian military might since 1981 when the Soviet Union was still a global superpower, and already the US has found an …
(2018-09-24). Before Pointing its Finger at Russia and Syria, the U.S. Should Answer for Its Own Chemical and Biological Weapons Record. globalresearch.ca The world is once again witnessing the height of U.S. hypocrisy as members of the U.S. State Department ratchet up anti-Russian and anti-Syrian rhetoric surrounding the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the UK. Ambassador Nikki Haley has warned …
(2018-09-24). Tensions Grow as China, Russia and Iran Lead the Way Towards a New Multipolar World Order. globalresearch.ca Military and economic tensions are increasing due to the ramped up warlike stance of the US establishment. The impossibility of halting the shifting world order in favour of prolonging the unipolar moment has left the US deep state reaching for …
(2018-09-24). UK Begged Trump Not to Declassify Russia Docs; Cited "Grave Concerns" Over Steele Involvement. globalresearch.ca The British government "expressed grave concerns" to the US government over the declassification and release of material related to the Trump-Russia investigation, according to the New York Times. President Trump ordered a wide swath of materials "immediately" declassified "without …
(2018-09-24). All Wars Are Illegal, So What Do We Do About It? globalresearch.ca Every war being fought today is illegal. Every action taken to carry out these wars is a war crime. | In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact or Pact of Paris was signed and ratified by the United States and other major nations …
(2018-09-24). Feeding Militarism: The US Imperial Consensus. globalresearch.ca The US military industrial complex reigns like a ravenous ruler in search of new funding prospects. It has done well this year, with the Trump administration pushing the sale that the imperium needs more ruddy cash and indulgent expenditure to …
(2018-09-24). Uganda: Profiling US Meddling Across Africa. globalresearch.ca While China builds roads, rail, pipelines, airports, seaports, and factories across Africa, the United States finds itself resigned to selling weapons and stirring up conflicts between and within African states to disrupt the rise of the continent independent of Western …
(2018-09-24). The Road Away From Fossil Fuels. globalresearch.ca President Andrzej Duda's authoritarian government can expect a rough political ride in December, when politicians, diplomats and campaigners stream into Katowice, Poland, for the next UN summit on climate change. | Poland's so-called climate policy – to aim for "carbon …
(2018-09-24). Climate Projections: A World on Borrowed Time. globalresearch.ca Current temperature trajectories are on par with or exceed the IPCC's dangerous projections (Figure 1). Acting as the lungs of the biosphere, over tens of millions of years the atmosphere developed an oxygen-rich carbon-low composition, allowing the flourishing …
(2018-09-24). Video: Turkish Strategy in Syria: Military Operations, Proxies and Idlib Issue. globalresearch.ca General Analysis of the Situation | In order to understand Turkey's approach toward the conflict in Syria, one first needs to explain the military situation there as of September 2018. | There are localized clashes between militant groups led by Hayat Tahrir …
(2018-09-24). Russia Is Going to Start the Production of Construction Materials and Cars in Syria. globalresearch.ca On September 21st, the Russian Minister of Trade and Industry Denis Manturov announced the country's plans to start production of construction materials and cars in Syria, which are to be exported to third countries. | As cited by TASS …
(2018-09-24). Indiana Utility Chooses Solar and Storage Over Coal: An Ecological Transformation Starts to Emerge? globalresearch.ca On September 20th, Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) announced it plans to replace all its coal generation with solar and wind and energy storage in the next ten years for its 460,000 customers in 32 Indiana counties. | "This creates | …
(2018-09-24). Russia's Statement Regarding "Countermeasures" to Israeli "Recklessness" Might Not be the Salvation for Syria. globalresearch.ca The Russian Defense Minister's announcement of his country's countermeasures to "Israeli" recklessness in Syria shouldn't be celebrated right away as the country's salvation from foreign conventional aggression because the situation isn't as clear-cut as some will expectedly simplify it as….
(2018-09-24). U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes. mintpressnews.com 
The US currently maintains the largest stockpile of both chemical and biological warfare agents of any nation on the planet, and continues to expand its biological weapons research and development on a scale far larger than any other country.
(2018-09-24). Obtaining Nuclear Weapons Comes at a Great Psychological Price. globalresearch.ca There is surely a severe cost afflicted on any nation that successfully acquires a nuclear arsenal. Not merely a financial burden but, more significantly, a psychological price that is paid by those who attain, safeguard and threaten the deployment of …
(2018-09-24). Salvador Allende: The Death of a President Who Lives On. globalresearch.ca "A great black cloud rises from the flaming palace. President Allende dies at his post. The military kills thousands throughout Chile. (…) Señora Pinochet declares that the tears of mothers will redeem the country. Power, all power, is assumed by …
(2018-09-24). Don't Share This! EU's New Copyright Law Could Kill the Free Internet. globalresearch.ca It's basically a battle between billionaires Axel Springer SE and Google. But it is ordinary internet users who will fall victim to the EU's new copyright law, which urgently needs modification. | It's good to share. But the European Parliament clearly | …
(2018-09-24). United Nations Accidentally Exposed Passwords and Sensitive Information to the Whole Internet. theintercept.com A security researcher discovered private data lurking on 60 Trello boards belonging to the United Nations. Sensitive information was also found in public Google documents.
(2018-09-24). "Pay to Protest" Regulations in America: Charging Fees to Protest on Washington's National Mall? globalresearch.ca Overseen by the National Park Service, Washington's National Mall is included in the US National Register of Historic Places. | It's one of many districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects in the country deemed worthy of preservation for their historic significance….
(2018-09-24). Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment. globalresearch.ca During the past several years, there has been increased pressure coming from some in the federal government aided and abetted powerful advocacy groups in the private sector to police social and alternative media. It is a multi-pronged attack on the …
(2018-09-24). The Millennial Label: Distinguishing Facts from Fiction. counterpunch.org 
If you are reading this in the near future, perhaps sometime after 2035, you may not know who or what defined the millennial generation. Was it society? The science community? Politicians? Marketers? Don't worry, many of us living in 2018 have no idea either. While some of us are aware of the common definition of More
(2018-09-24). Jerry Brown announces satellite launch as frontline communities protest oil drilling expansion. indybay.org Regarding Brown's call for launching a climate satellite, Zizi stated, "I felt it's a joke to have this satellite to find out more statistics on climate change when during the Global Climate Action Summit, there were hundreds of people on the street who are on the front lines dealing with climate change on a daily basis. We have the truth. We have the statistics.
(2018-09-24). Australian university students face unprecedented financial pressures. wsws.org Students confront a housing affordability crisis, low-paid work and a mountain of tuition debt.
(2018-09-24). Don't Trust Jeff Bezos's Preschool Philanthropy Scheme. truthout.org The CEO of Amazon and the world's richest man declared this month that he'll be wading into the waters of philanthropy. In a high-profile announcement, Jeff Bezos described his vision for a "Day One Fund" — a $2 billion investment in organizations that provide homelessness assistance, and a new network of nonprofit preschools in low-income communities. This charitable gift will amount to just 1.2 percent of his net worth. | Bezos joins fellow tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Reed Hastings in championing corporate-style reform of American education. "We'll use the same set of principles that have driven Amazon," Bezos said of his future preschool chain. "Most important among those will be genuine, intense customer obsession. The child will be the customer." | Preschool is a particularly appealing area for those who like conceptualizing problems in terms of market potential.
(2018-09-24). Video: Are You Ready for Your State Mandated Brain Implant? globalresearch.ca Brain implants are now a reality. | How long will it be before you're ordered to have one to correct thought crime? | I put together a short video exploring this topic. | Video Production by Kurt Nimmo | . | * | Note to readers: …
(2018-09-23). Is Trump Unable to Discharge the Duties of High Office? Should He be Impeached? globalresearch.ca Rosenstein is part of Washington cabal, wanting Trump impeached and removed from office — for the wrong reasons. True enough, The Donald is bombastic, a racist, a serial liar and a myognynist. | Philosophy Professor Kate Manne says the later trait …
(2018-09-23). Emotion Is Supplanting Evidence as the Basis for Truth. globalresearch.ca One of the reasons that truth is on the decline is that truth is becoming emotion-based, not evidence-based. | It is all about feelings. This seems to have begun with feminists, but teaching women to trust their feelings, that feelings are …
(2018-09-23). In Italy, The Slaughtering of Trees in Support of the Restructuring of US Camp Darby Military Base. globalresearch.ca The first trees have already been cut, the others marked with paint: 937 trees are now being cut down in the "protected" natural area of the San Rossore Regional Park between Pisa and Livorno. The slaughtered trees are the first …
(2018-09-23). Trump, Israeli Regime-Sponsored Terrorist Attack in Iran? globalresearch.ca On Saturday, a terrorist attack at a military parade in Ahvaz, Iran killed at least 29 individuals, around five dozen others injured, many seriously, military personnel and innocent civilians targeted. | Mostly civilians were harmed, including women and children, the death …
(2018-09-22). Protest Targets Johns Hopkins' Multi-Million Dollar ICE Contract. therealnews.com 
Dozens of students, faculty and community members marched through campus on Friday and delivered a petition demanding Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University end its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(2018-09-22). Socialist Equality Party congressional candidate Niles Niemuth speaks to students and youth at Wayne State University. wsws.org The broad range of youth who attended the meeting heard an explanation of the principles of socialism and provide an overview of the crisis of the capitalist system.
(2018-09-21). Michael Moore vs. Donald Trump in "Fahrenheit 11/9": New Film Warns Our Democracy Is At Risk. democracynow.org 
"Fahrenheit 11/9″—That's the name of the new documentary premiering today by Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, a stunning retelling of the 2016 election and its aftermath. 11/9. That's November 9, the day Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. In the film, Michael crosses the country, documenting not only the rise of Trumpism but also the teachers' strikes sweeping the nation, the "blue wave" of progressive candidates in the 2018 primaries, the rise of student activism after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the water crisis in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. Moore spares no one…
(2018-09-21). What Does "Revolution" Look Like in Education? progressive.org Teachers committed to justice are fighting against the historical role of education in the U.S.
(2018-09-21). Colleges and Universities Have a Racial Profiling Problem. aclu.org College students and employees being reported to 911 for "living while Black" are part of a larger issue in the U.S. Our new campaign will address it. | We have seen it again and again: A Black or brown person is sitting in a Starbucks, barbequing in a public park, (2018-09-21). There's Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico's Disaster. theintercept.com 
Alma Morales Rosario poses for a portrait between the beams of her home being rebuilt after it was destroyed by Hurricane Maria one year ago in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 8, 2018. | textbook example. Before those fierce winds came, the debt — illegitimate and much of it illegal — was the excuse used to ram through a brutal program of economic suffering, what the great Argentine author Rodolfo Walsh, writing about four decades earlier, famously called miseria planificada, planned misery. | This program systematically attacked the very glue that holds a society together: all levels of education, health care, the electricity and water systems, transit systems, communication networks, and more. | It was a plan so widely rejected that no elected representatives could be trusted to carry it out. Which is…
(2018-09-21). What Does It Mean to Celebrate International Peace Day? counterpunch.org 
We know the world continues to be dangerous. We know our cities are continued targets for indiscriminate attacks. We know we continue to sell arms to brutal dictators on the basis that if we don't others will. We know we continue to invest heavily in military research and development because that's just the established order of things. We know there are groups in the world like Islamic State, which revel in the most abhorrent and intimately barbaric acts of killing upon anybody who doesn't fit into their dystopian visions. (2018-09-21). Department of Health and Human Services lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children. wsws.org In addition to the "lost" children, funds are being diverted from AIDS and cancer research to jail immigrant children and ICE held nearly 1,500 US citizens as "aliens."
(2018-09-21). UK government attempt to gag teachers as cuts deepen. wsws.org The government reaction must be seen as a warning: not only will school cuts continue unabated but that they will move forcefully against any attempts to block their austerity agenda.
(2018-09-20). 2 Native American Teens Were Reported to Police for Joining a Campus Tour. Now We're Stepping In. aclu.org We're demanding that Colorado State University change policing practices after the racial profiling of two young Native-American teenagers. | Last spring, Kanewakeron Thomas Gray and Skanahwati Lloyd Gray, two Native American brothers, drove from their home in New Mexico to Colorado State University, excited to tour the college where they hoped to enroll. Their excitement and hopes soon turned to something else. A white parent on the tour called the CSU police department to repor…
(2018-09-20). Weekend Read: Trump Admin embraces anti-LGBT hate, again. splcenter.org The Family Research Council (FRC) uses discredited research and junk science to attack and vilify LGBT people. It claims they're incestuous and "violent," for example, a danger to children and society.
(2018-09-20). Climate Change Made Florence a Monster—but Media Failed to Tell That Story. fair.org 
The Miami Herald never mentioned global warming in 21 stories on Hurricane Florence, Public Citizen found—despite being based in one of the US cities most vulnerable to climate change. | That Hurricane Florence broke rainfall records for tropical storms in both North and South Carolina shouldn't be surprising, as global climate change has increased extreme precipitation in all areas of the continental United States. One analysis released before the massive storm hit, by researchers at Stony Brook, Berkeley National Lab and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, projected that warming would cause Florence to bring twice as much rain compared to a similar storm with normal temperatures. | But news audiences were rarely informed about the contribution of human-caused climate disruption to the devastating storm, according to a study of hurricane coverage by Public Citizen. Less than…
(2018-09-19). Broad Support Emerges for Full-Service Community Schools in Minneapolis. progressive.org A shift away from the charter school approach is on the horizon in Minnesota's largest city.
(2018-09-19). 'We got us one': Picture of white Alabama teens standing on black student sparks race row. rt.com 
A group of white Alabama high school students are at the center of a racism storm after a photo of them standing on a black pupil surfaced online with the caption 'We got us one.' Participants insist the stunt was a "joke."
(2018-09-19). College students aren't submitting absentee ballots …as they don't know how to buy stamps. rt.com 
Today's college students are facing a major hurdle, and it has nothing to do with physics or calculus. America's future leaders aren't turning in their absentee ballots because they don't know where to buy stamps. Yes, really.
(2018-09-18). Some Schools Need a Lesson on Students' Free Speech Rights. aclu.org An alarming number of schools improperly discipline students for their speech — especially students of color. | School is back in session, and that means school administrators may be back to surveilling students on social media and unjustly disciplining them for what they say on it. | We've seen both of these troubling trends before. And in today's era of inspiring student (2018-09-18). For Black College Students, Balancing Activism and Mental Health Takes Work. thenation.com For Black College Students, Balancing Activism and Mental Health Takes Work appeared first on The Nation.