Workers Struggles: the Americas
wsws.org | 2019-05-21
Last week teachers all across Mexico took part in strikes and protests to oppose continuing attacks on public education being overseen by the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/21/wrkr…

Sick teachers forced to pay for own substitutes
Evelyn Martinez | liberationnews.org | 2019-05-21
At a time when teachers are struggling to find ways to continue living in the most unaffordable city in the country, they are expected to pay for their own substitute teacher after they use up their sick days.
liberationnews.org/sick-teachers-forced-to-pay-for-own-substitutes/

Chicago Teachers Union members re-elects CORE slate to leadership
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-05-21
Chicago, IL – Members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted May 19 to re-elect the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) leadership slate, headed by President Jesse Sharkey, Vice President Stacy Davis Gates, Financial Secretary Maria Moreno, and Recording Secretary Christel Williams Hayes. The result was 66% for CORE, 34% for the challengers. | The contested election underscores the internal democracy inside the CTU, in which debates about the direction and functioning of the union took place in school meetings across the city, in member forums on the internet, and in the union's governing body, the House…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/5/21/chicago-…

The Fight Against PAR, The Attack On Teachers & Worker Rights With Educator Brian Crowell
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-05-21
Educator and former Berkeley Federaton of Teachers steward Brian Crowell talks about his experience with the Peer Assisted Program PAR and how he discovered it was being used to target senior teachers, African American teachers and Latino teachers. He also found out that his union president of the BFT Cathy Cambell was being paid by the district to discipline and terminate teachers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/17/18823483.php

Brazil Loosens Gun Control, Civilians Can Own Military Rifles
telesurenglish.net | 2019-05-21
Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree this month which will allow citizens to possess rifles with four times the amount of firepower | RELATED: | 'Brazil Needs More Education, Not More Guns', Lula Warns | Before the decree, the possession of all weapons with firing projectile above 407 joules (the amount of energy released at the moment of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Loosens-Gun-Control-Civilians-Can-Own-Military-Rifles-20190521-0009.html

Education Agreement Strengthens Ecuador-Cuba Ties
plenglish.com | 2019-05-21
Quito, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Governments of Ecuador and Cuba have strengthened their relations in the educational field with the signing of a new collaboration agreement.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

Bernie Sanders Is Bringing Back the Most Underrated Education Policy
Ryan Cooper | commondreams.org | 2019-05-21
"Last week, Bernie Sanders released a plan to revitalize school integration efforts," explains Cooper. "It's both an excellent plan and brings attention to a vitally important racial justice issue." (Photo: BernieSanders.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/views/2019/05/21/bernie-sanders-bringing-back-most-underrated-education-policy?cd-origin=rss

New Orleans Argues Whether an All-Charter City Can Be Truly Democratic
Emmanuel Felton | thenation.com | 2019-05-21
New Orleans Argues Whether an All-Charter City Can Be Truly Democratic…
thenation.com/article/new-orleans-public-education-charter-democracy/

Brazilian youth speak out during Sà£o Paulo demonstration against Bolsonaro's attacks on education
wsws.org | 2019-05-21
Demonstrations on May 15 brought one million people to the streets in the first nationwide protest against the policies of Brazil's fascistic President Bolsonaro.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/21/braz…

Breaking: Federal Judge Orders Release of Trump's Tax Returns
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
On May 10, House Dem Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal subpoenaed Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS commissioner Charles Rettig to release Trump's personal tax returns for the 2013-18 period, along with other returns for several of his …
globalresearch.ca/federal-judge-orders-release-trumps-tax-returns/5678087

USAF Paints F-16 Jet with Russian Color Scheme for 'Training Purposes'
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Nellis Air Force Base's Facebook page published a video of a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon Friday belonging to the 64th Aggressor Squadron in a new paint scheme that resembles Russia's fifth-generation stealth fighter, reported The War Zone. | "A | …
globalresearch.ca/usaf-paints-f-16-jet-russian-color-scheme-training-purposes/5678062

US-China Trade War: Beijing Warns Trump Against "Going Too Far"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
The US is used to having its way in dealings with other countries — pressuring, bullying, warning, threatening, and attacking them to push them into compliance with its demands. | What once worked most often is increasingly a less effective strategy …
globalresearch.ca/us-china-trade-war-beijing-warns-trump-against-going-too-far/5677986

Challenging Orthodoxies: Alabama's Anti-Abortion Law
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
It seems like a grand ploy of massive distraction. On the surface, the move by Alabama to place the most onerous restrictions on the granting of an abortion has become a lighting-rod of conviction for Democrat agitators. And not just …
globalresearch.ca/alabamas-anti-abortion-law/5678098

Netanyahu Took Trump to New Heights of Global Tension and Dropped Him
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Israel prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu claimed he personally convinced the US president Donald Trump to abandon the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA agreement, and wished Iran to " disappear with the help of God". Israel is much …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-took-trump-new-heights-global-tension-dropped-him/5678055

Syria War Report: Hama Ceasefire Initiative Failed. Clashes Ongoing
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
On May 17 and May 18, the Syrian Air Defense Forces (SADF) intercepted several unidentified aerial objects over Damascus and the southern part of the country. In both cases, the intercepted targets came from the southern Syria border, near the …
globalresearch.ca/syria-war-report-hama-ceasefire-initiative-failed-clashes-ongoing/5677964

Dueling Agendas: Russia and China v. the US
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Sino/Russian and US geopolitical agendas are world's apart. Together with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi last week, Sergey Lavrov said the following: |…
globalresearch.ca/russia-china-us/5678082

US Rage for Dominance Driving Its Economic and Social Decline
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Throughout…
globalresearch.ca/us-rage-for-dominance-driving-its-economic-and-social-decline/5677984

Research on Children's Health Risks in Doubt Over EPA Funds
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-05-21
Projects resulting in pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy.
truthdig.com/articles/research-on-childrens-health-risks-in-doubt-over-epa-funds/

US-Iran Showdown Is One False-Flag Attack Away from Global Calamity
Robert Bridge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Hypocritical to the core, the execution of false-flag events spare aggressive states the ignominy of appearing in public as the warmongering psychopaths they are, lest their subjects get the wrong idea as to exactly who is governing over them. | The …
globalresearch.ca/us-iran-showdown-one-false-flag-attack-away-global-calamity/5678057

Fire the Nutcases Leading Us to War
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
President Donald Trump claimed this week that he does not want war with Iran. If he really believes this, the president ought to look into what his subordinates are doing. | Among their bellicose actions are deployment of the 'Abraham Lincoln …
globalresearch.ca/fire-nutcases-leading-us-war/5678064

All the Times John Bolton Called for War with Iran
Darius Shahtahmasebi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
This article was originally published in 2018 | The fact that Donald Trump's recent hawkish stance on the Syrian government coincided with John Bolton's first day as national security advisor is most likely no accident. Syria and Iran …
globalresearch.ca/all-times-john-bolton-called-war-iran/5677912

India Elections: Towards a Possible BJP Victory
Andrew Korybko | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-05-21
asia-pacificresearch.com/observations-implications-possible-bjp-victory/5628648

NIAC Statement on Trump's Tweet Threat to "End" Iran
NIAC Action | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Today, President Trump threatened to "end" Iran in a tweet on the heels of reports that rockets landed near the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad. | In response, President of the National Iranian American Council, Jamal Abdi, issued the following …
globalresearch.ca/niac-statement-trumps-tweet-threat-end-iran/5678053

Tulsi Gabbard: "I Don't" Buy Report that Iran Wants to Strike U.S. Forces, Trump Looking for "Pretext" for War
Rep Tulsi Gabbard | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic presidential candidate, said she doesn't buy reports saying Iran poses a new threat to U.S. personnel in Iraq in an interview Sunday with ABC's "This Week." | *** | GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You resigned your DNC post …
globalresearch.ca/tulsi-gabbard-u-s-forces-trump-looking-pretext-war/5678106

Backlash in US-China Trade War. China Defies Sanctions against Iran, Resumes Purchase of Iran Oil
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
On May 5, Donald Trump announced a devastating 25% tariff on Chinese commodity imports valued at 200 billion dollars. | According to Trump: | "China is cheating the system". | "Dirty Bureaucrats in Washington have allowed China to take advantage of our great …
globalresearch.ca/backlash-in-us-china-trade-war-china-defies-sanctions-against-iran-resumes-purchase-of-iran-oil/5677914

British Special Forces Join US Strike Group Against Iran
Al-Masdar News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
British Special Forces have flown to the Middle East in the framework of a top-secret mission to rebuff possible Iranian attacks on merchant ships, according to The Sun. | Members of the elite Special Boat Service are reported to have joined …
globalresearch.ca/british-special-forces-join-us-strike-group-against-iran/5678069

US Navy wants to create archive of 350 BILLION social media posts for 'research' purposes
rt.com | 2019-05-21
The US Navy is seeking to create an archive that will store no less than 350 billion social media posts, as part of the military branch's "research efforts" into "modes of collective expression." | …
rt.com/usa/459902-social-media-navy-archive/

Rand Corp: come abbattere la Russia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Costringere l'avversario a estendersi eccessivamente per sbilanciarlo e abbatterlo: non è una mossa di judo ma il piano contro la Russia elaborato dalla Rand Corporation, il più influente think tank Usa che, con uno staff di migliaia di esperti, si …
globalresearch.ca/rand-corp-come-abbattere-la-russia/5678130

A China Food Crisis More Dangerous than Trade War? The African Swine Fever (ASF) Outbreak
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
China faces a threat to its agriculture that could do far more damage to her political stability and economy than the escalating USA tariff war. In recent months cases of deadly African Swine Fever (ASF) among the pig population of …
globalresearch.ca/china-food-crisis-more-dangerous-than-trade-war/5677967

Forevergate: The Pernicious Persistence of the Russian Collusion Delusion. The Trump-Putin Fairy Tale
William Hawes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
The official investigation into Russian collusion is over, after three harrowing, nerve-wracking years. I kid, of course. After endless news cycles, and various non-stories and wild-goose chases disseminated by mainstream media, one would think the country could move on. Yet …
globalresearch.ca/persistence-russian-collusion-delusion/5677906

Trump administration downplays danger of air pollution in new regulatory rollbacks
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2019-05-21
The Trump administration will soon replace Obama-era Clean Power Plan by rolling back regulations that drastically downplays the danger of air pollution. As the White House prepares to put in place the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) plan, the Trump administration will use a new methodology to determine air pollution, which researchers said would undercut premature deaths caused by pollution. | The decades-old methodology used "a peer-reviewed methodology under which the existence of fine particles of chemicals — also known as particulate matter — in the air were found to be dangerous even if they we…
nationofchange.org/2019/05/21/trump-administration-downplays-danger-of-air-pollution-in-new-regulatory-rollbacks/

The Pakistan Based "Baloch Liberation Army" (BLA): A Foreign-Backed Feudal Terrorist Group
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
The so-called "Baloch Liberation Army" issued a video ultimatum to China over the weekend to discontinue its CPEC development projects in Pakistan's Balochistan or face a renewed wave of terrorist attacks against its interests there, with this message unambiguously proving …
globalresearch.ca/the-pakistan-based-baloch-liberation-army-bla-a-foreign-backed-feudal-terrorist-group/5677990

Israel's War Criminals in Their Own Words
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
Israel's public face, sustained and propagated by a wealthy and powerful diaspora that has significant control over the media, insists that the country is the Middle East's only true democracy, that is operates under a rule of law for all …
globalresearch.ca/israels-war-criminals-in-their-own-words/5678072

How to Survive the Journey Ahead: A Graduation Message for a Terrifying Age
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
"No matter who you are, no matter how strong you are, sooner or later, you'll face circumstances beyond your control." — Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones | Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered …
globalresearch.ca/how-survive-journey-ahead-graduation-message-terrifying-age/5677980

Selected Articles: Backlash in US-China Trade War. China Defies Sanctions against Iran
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
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 …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-china-food-crisis/5678110

Video: Donald Trump Threatens to Destroy Iran
Ken Stone | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
US President Donald Trump on Sunday ratcheted up his rhetoric toward Iran, warning that a fight with the United States would "be the official end of Iran." | Watch the interview with Canada's antiwar activist and geopolitical analyst Ken Stone below….
globalresearch.ca/video-donald-trump-threatens-to-destroy-iran/5678081

Idlib-Based Uighur Terrorists Threatened Russian Forces in Syria
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-21
The so-called "Turkistan Islamic Party", the Syrian branch of the Uighur-led terrorist group previously known as the "East Turkestan Islamic Movement", threatened to deal Russia a defeat akin to the one that its Soviet predecessor experienced in Afghanistan, demonstrating the …
globalresearch.ca/idlib-based-uighur-terrorists-threatened-russian-forces-syria/5677976

Algerian Students Insist on Changes in Government
plenglish.com | 2019-05-21
Algiers, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Under heavy security measures in this capital and in other cities of the country, thousands of Algerian students took to the street chanting slogans against the Government and demanding its dissolution.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

Right-wing Australian government re-elected as voters turn against Labor
wsws.org | 2019-05-21
The election result reflected widespread hostility among workers, students and young people to Labor and the entire political establishment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/21/elec…

How Johns Hopkins' Influence Haunts Baltimore (2/2)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-05-21
In part two, Antero Pietila, author of "The Ghosts Of Johns Hopkins," discusses recent protests by students, community members and Hopkins employees over the institution's relationship with…
therealnews.com/stories/how-johns-hopkins-influence-haunts-baltimore-2-2

Mobilize the working class in defense of abortion rights
wsws.org | 2019-05-21
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality are distributing this statement at demonstrations across the US on Tuesday to defend the right to an abortion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/21/abor…

Teachers rally in Nashville, Tennessee to demand pay raises
wsws.org | 2019-05-20
More than 1,000 teachers and school employees called in sick last week in the latest protests by educators in the US.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/20/nash…

Bernie's Plan to Save Public Schools
Nikhil Goyal | thenation.com | 2019-05-20
Bernie's Plan to Save Public Schools…
thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-public-education-plan/

Trump Appointees Refuse to Say They Support Brown v. Board of Education
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-05-20
65 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to end school segregation. Now Trump's appointees to the federal bench and Department of Justice refuse to say they support it. What does the future hold?
therealnews.com/stories/trump-appointees-refuse-to-say-they-support-brown-v-board-of-education

'Coordinated anti-Trump campaign' on Instagram found by data analytics firm
rt.com | 2019-05-20
Italian researchers have uncovered what they called a "coordinated social media operation"on Instagram intended to undermine US President Donald Trump, with many identical posts using hashtags like #ihatetrump and #ImpeachTrump. | …
rt.com/usa/459846-anti-trump-instagram-campaign/

Scientists against the machine
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-05-20
Jane Shallice examines the history of radical research at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/05/20/scientists-against-the-machine/

What's Trending: Black News Recap
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2019-05-20
Washington Post: Billionaire Robert F. Smith pledges to pay off Morehouse College Class of 2019‚Ä≤s student loans Smith told the graduates how he launched his lucrative career. He gave them wise words on grit and success. Then he deviated from his prepared remarks. "My family is going to create a grant to …
naacp.org/latest/whats-trending-black-news-recap-2/

Pseudo-Socialist Bernie Sanders Finally Opposes Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-05-19
After wavering and making confusing statements about charter schools three years ago when he was running for President, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who is running for President again, finally came out and issued a broad education plan on May 18, 2019 which, among other things, opposes charter schools. Part two of Sanders' ten-part "Thurgood Marshall …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/pseudo-socialist-bernie-sanders-finally-opposes-charter-schools/

New Abortion Laws 'Go Against Common Sense'
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-05-19
Conservatives have launched a new attack on abortion rights, which go against both medical science and common sense, says Anoa Changa, but the point is to bring the issue to the new conservative Supreme Court majority…
therealnews.com/stories/new-abortion-laws-go-against-common-sense

You've been warned: Widespread US face surveillance is 'imminent reality', says tech privacy report
rt.com | 2019-05-18
Georgetown researchers are warning Americans about a sophisticated real-time face surveillance system that's about to become an "imminent reality" for millions of citizens across the country. | …
rt.com/usa/459678-facial-recognition-technology-america/