NATO Spending Pushes Europe from Welfare to Warfare
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-07
First published in April 2019 | After a recent anti-NATO conference in Florence, we spoke with Michel Chossudovsky about the alliance's problems. 'NATO's unspoken aim has been to implement a de facto "military occupation" of Western Europe, in all but name.'…
globalresearch.ca/nato-spending-pushes-europe-welfare-warfare/5675097
Towards "NATO-Exit"? Shift in the Structure of Military Coalitions. Turkey's Alliance with Russia, China and Iran?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-07
Contemporary developments point to a historical shift in the structure of military alliances which indelibly contributes to weakening US hegemony as well as creating conditions which could result in the breakup of NATO.
globalresearch.ca/towards-nato-exit-shift-in-the-structure-of-military-coalitions-turkeys-alliance-with-russia-china-and-iran/5633771
A Just Society Doesn't Criminalize Girls
Ayanna Pressley, Monique W. Morris | commondreams.org | 2019-12-07
First-grader Khatona Miller, right, investigates a circled location on a world globe with other classmates August 22, 2000 at Chicago's Stewart Elementary School. (Photo: Tim Boyle/Newsmakers) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/12/07/just-society-doesnt-criminalize-girls?cd-origin=rss
How the US Tortures. Report
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-07
Torture is a longstanding US policy, notably by the CIA and its henchmen. | The policy continues at secret global black sites under its new director Gina Haspel — earlier involved in running an offshore black site, notorious for torture during …
globalresearch.ca/report-how-us-tortures/5696923
France Shut Down by Nationwide Strike Action for Social Justice
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-07
On Thursday, hundreds of thousands of French workers, youths and others protested over former Rothschild banker/French President Macron's pension reform scheme that's all about further eroding social justice by slashing vital benefits. | Most rail, other public transportation, and many flights …
globalresearch.ca/france-shut-down-nationwide-strike-action-social-justice/5696915
House Judiciary Committee Sham Ukrainegate Hearings
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-07
Following House Intelligence Committee sham hearings, Judiciary Committee Dems began their own on Wednesday, the witch-hunt to continue days longer in the run-up to the yearend holiday break. | Wednesday's hearing featured four law professors — three supporting the Ukrainegate scam, …
globalresearch.ca/house-judiciary-committee-sham-ukrainegate-hearings/5696920
Permafrost Hits a Grim Threshold
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-07
For tens of thousands of years the Arctic's carbon sink has been a powerful dynamic in functionality of the Earth System. However, that all-important functionality has been crippled and could be permanently severed. According to new research based upon field observations conducted from 2003 to 2017, a large-scale carbon emission shift in the Earth System …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/permafrost-hits-a-grim-threshold/
CPEC and Pakistan's "Pivot To Africa"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-07
Last week's Africa Envoys' Conference in Islamabad saw Pakistani diplomats brainstorming the best ways for their country to pivot to the eponymous continent, with the key takeaways being to prioritize military diplomacy and entrepreneurial engagement along what could prospectively be …
globalresearch.ca/military-diplomacy-entrepreneurial-engagement-should-form-basis-s-cpec/5696900
Federally Funded Health Researchers Report Millions in Conflicts of Interest
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-07
The database of disclosures reported to the National Institutes of Health, which has not been made public before, details the financial relationships of researchers at universities, hospitals and nonprofit organizations. These outside interests range from stock holdings in companies that may benefit from the outcome of research to payments for royalties, consulting work and speaking engagements. The total value of the conflicts is likely much higher than $188 million, in part because 44% of…
truthout.org/articles/federally-funded-health-researchers-disclose-at-least-188-million-in-conflicts/
NATO is "Brain Dead". Institutionalized Killing as the "New Normal"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-07
NATO has institutionalized killing as the new normal. And in order to maintain this 'eternal war on terror' that sustains the US economy, we need ever-so-often a 'fake' terror attack — to keep the fear alive, to keep the arms flowing, …
globalresearch.ca/nato-is-brain-dead-institutionalized-killing-as-the-new-normal/5696966
70th NATO Anniversary Shows Alliance Is More Divided than Ever
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-07
When U.S. President Donald Trump cancels a NATO press conference because the other NATO leaders are mocking him, you know that something is wrong. At the historic NATO Summit to commemorate 70 years of NATO earlier this week, the …
globalresearch.ca/70th-nato-anniversary-shows-alliance-more-divided/5696908
Turkey's Military Drones: An Export Product that's Disrupting NATO
Dan Gettinger | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-07
Just over a decade ago, the prototype of an unmanned aircraft that would become the Bayraktar TB2 took off for its maiden flight at Sinop Airport on the Black Sea. There were few signs then that the mid-sized, twin-boom aircraft …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-military-drones-export-product-disrupting-nato/5696906
Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing the climate crisis
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-07
Three of this year's Nobel Prize laureates have said addressing the climate crisis is of great importance.Winners of the prizes in physics, chemistry and economics issued the warning at a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm ahead of next week's presentation of the awards.Their remarks came as a global summit on climate chaos was taking place in Madrid.Nobel physics laureate Didier Queloz (Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency/AP)Didier Queloz, who shared the physics prize for discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star, took issue with people who shrug off climate breakdown on the…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/12/07/nobel-science-laureates-stress-urgency-of-addressing-the-climate-crisis/
Make Social Democracy Great Again
Pascal Zwicky and Cedric Wormwood | indybay.org | 2019-12-07
Erik Olin Wright spoke of smashing, taming, escaping and eroding capitalism as alternatives of a transformational left. We must resist the "selective perception" of the elite that ignores market distortions (tax havens, stock buybacks, micro-second trading, insider trading), market failures, political failures, and the attacks on the poor, seniors, disabled, children and students.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/07/18828691.php
Terror Links Probed in Florida Naval Base Shooting; 10 Saudi Students Held
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-07
The student who killed 3 people in Pensacola had watched videos of mass shootings with three others earlier in the week, U.S. official says.
truthdig.com/articles/naval-base-shooting-investigated-as-possible-terror-attack/
Harvard University retaliates against striking graduate students
wsws.org | 2019-12-07
Several academic departments have informed graduate student teaching staff that they are responsible for reporting whether they are working, and that those who are striking should not expect to be paid.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/07/harv…
Qatar forced into late stadium switch for FIFA Club World Cup
rt.com | 2019-12-07
Liverpool's opening game at this month's Qatar FIFA Club World Cup has received a last-minute venue switch after original host Education City Stadium was deemed unsuitable to stage matches. | The Khalifa International Stadium will instead host three additional games, with final completion on the building of Education City Stadium now expected in early 2020. The decision comes as the initial venue wasn't ready to stage test events in advance of the tournament. | "Liverpool FC can confirm we have been informed by FIFA that our two matches in the FIFA Club World Cup will now be played at Khalifa International Sta…
rt.com/sport/475286-club-world-cup-venue-switch-qatar/
Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Flock to the Hong Kong Protest Movement
Ben Norton | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
Ukrainian fascists who previously fought in a US-backed neo-Nazi militia joined the anti-China protests in Hong Kong, sharing their tactics and showing off their tattoos. | *** | Neo-Nazis from Ukraine have flown to Hong Kong to participate in the anti-Chinese insurgency, …
globalresearch.ca/ukrainian-neo-nazis-flock-hong-kong-protest-movement/5696942
1.5 million march amid mass strike in France against austerity and inequality
wsws.org | 2019-12-06
Tens of thousands of rail, government, and education workers went on strike against plans by French President Emanuel Macron to slash pensions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/06/fran…
The US Is Manufacturing A War With Iran Under Cover Of The Impeachment Distraction
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-06
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/5/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate Known as the CIA
Michael Steven Smith and Heidi Boghosian | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-06
Douglas Valentine is an investigator and author with a rare and tenacious approach toward research. His writing results in uniquely incisive and revealing books on the dark side of U.S. intelligence activities and the National Security State. His latest book, The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World, draws parallels between CIA operations …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/inside-the-organized-crime-syndicate-known-as-the-cia/
Asia Unites Against US Coup Attempt. Decades of US Meddling in Cambodia
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
The nations of Southeast Asia have united in efforts to prevent a US-backed coup aimed at fellow-Southeast Asian state Cambodia. | Through a combination of travel bans and detentions across the region in late October and early November, Southeast Asia may …
globalresearch.ca/asia-unites-against-us-coup-attempt-decades-of-us-meddling-in-cambodia/5696897
Donald Trump, the US Private Health Giant, and Top British NHS Officials — Special Relationships?
Tamasin Cave | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
In the UK, we have a simple take on the US healthcare system as a for-profit, private system that fleeces its customers and fails the poor. | But here's the secret: the US has its own 'mini NHS'. Smaller than the …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-the-us-private-health-giant-and-top-british-nhs-officials-special-relationships/5696926
The Vilification of Jeremy Corbyn
Leo Panitch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
The vilification of the leader of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, as an antisemite has intensified in the run up to the December 12 election in Britain. What makes this especially troubling, not to say bizarre, is that …
globalresearch.ca/vilification-jeremy-corbyn/5696951
Why Are Some of the World's Biggest Polluters Sponsoring UN Climate Summit?
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-06
A group of climate activists walked out of a panel at the U.N. climate summit in Madrid on Thursday to protest the presence of Shell, BP and Chevron. Representatives from the oil companies were taking part in an event organized by the International Emissions Trading Association. This comes as the Spanish government is facing criticism for reaching out to Endesa, Spain's biggest corporate greenhouse gas polluter, to sponsor the U.N. climate talks. We speak with Pascoe Sabido, a researcher and campai…
truthout.org/video/why-are-some-of-the-worlds-biggest-polluters-sponsoring-un-climate-summit/
The Conquest of Space is Turning into a Nightmare
Aurélien Barrau | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
We are fascinated by space. Rockets and space shuttles are the stuff of our dreams. But the dream is rapidly turning to nightmare and we may justifiably wonder where it is taking us. Strangely, questioning the merits of space activities …
globalresearch.ca/the-conquest-of-space-is-turning-into-a-nightmare/5696885
The Pentagon's 36 Military Bases in Africa. America's Growing Military Presence
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
Africa now contains 1.3 billion inhabitants, almost twice that of Europe's population, and the number of African people continues expanding rapidly in what comprises the world's second biggest continent. | Following five centuries of pillage and exploitation by Western imperial powers, …
globalresearch.ca/washington-36-military-bases-africa-growing-military-presence-there/5696874
Permafrost Hits a Grim Threshold
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-06
For tens of thousands of years the Arctic's carbon sink has been a powerful dynamic in functionality of the Earth System. However, that all-important functionality has been crippled and could be permanently severed. According to new research based upon field observations conducted from 2003 to 2017, a large-scale carbon emission shift in the Earth System…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/06/permafrost-hits-a-grim-threshold/
The Pentagon's Destruction of the Bill of Rights
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
It is supremely ironic that Pentagon officials take an oath to support and defend the Constitution because they intentionally destroyed the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution when they set up their "judicial" system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In …
globalresearch.ca/pentagon-destruction-bill-rights/5696880
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Holds Hearing on Afghanistan War Crimes, Including US Torture
Brett Wilkins | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
The current hearing will examine allegations that US troops and intelligence operatives tortured, raped and abused Afghan prisoners between 2003 and 2004. | *** | The International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a three-day hearing in the The Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday at …
globalresearch.ca/icc-holds-hearing-afghanistan-war-crimes-including-us-torture/5696925
Global Research PDF Collection: 6 PDF Books for 1 Price
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
Purchase six e-books from Global Research Publisher's PDF collection at a discounted price. Download your order as a zipped folder straight to your computer and avoid shipping and handling costs. | Special Offer: Global Research PDF Collection — 6 PDF Books : | …
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Denied Entry to Gaza for Breast Cancer Mission
Palestine Post 24 | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
Israeli occupation has denied permission for British lawmaker, Philippa Whitford, who is a doctor, from entering Gaza to offer help for patients of breast cancer. | Over the past two and half years[1], I have been working with Medical Aid …
globalresearch.ca/denied-entry-gaza-breast-cancer-mission/5696947
Reopening Auschwitz — The Conspiracy to Stop Corbyn
Media Lens | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
Thoreau got it right: 'Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.' (Thoreau, 'Walden', Penguin, 1983, p.68) | The same is certainly true of propaganda. We can laugh now at McCarthyite paranoia warning of Soviet tentacles threatening …
globalresearch.ca/reopening-auschwitz-conspiracy-stop-corbyn/5696943
Trump Administration OKs 'Cyanide Bombs' Despite Indiscriminate Killing of Thousands of Animals a Year
The Trump administration today announced it will reauthorize use of sodium cyanide in wildlife-killing devices called M-44s. These "cyanide bombs" received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency despite inhumanely and indiscriminately killing thousands of animals every year. They have …
globalresearch.ca/trump-administration-oks-cyanide-bombs-despite-indiscriminate-killing-thousands-animals-year/5696937
US America Needs No Fixing — It Is Already "Totally Fixed"
S. Brian Willson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
It continues to be very difficult for we US Americans to acknowledge that our political system and its capitalist economy is deeply corrupt and fixed, that we find it easier to always distract ourselves by demonizing others. | In some ways, …
globalresearch.ca/us-america-needs-no-fixing/5696901
Hooked on Orcas
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-06
Facts about orcas abound in Colleen Weiler's brain, because her role is to lead policy research and engagement around what we call the Southern Resident Orcas (SROs). Her job is with the Plymouth, Massachusetts-based US headquarters of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation non-profit, established 32 years ago in England. Our name is what we do. …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/hooked-on-orcas/
A Theory of Truth From the South
Charles McKelvey | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-06
The Section on Political Science from the South of the University of Havana in Cuba is now working on a project dedicated to the formulation of a theory of truth, in order to respond to the lies that are the foundation of imperialist policies. The lie is fundamental to the historical development of domination. In…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/06/a-theory-of-truth-from-the-south/
From Caesar's Last Breath to Ours
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-06
Human Life is a sexually transmitted planetary disease, Climate Change is the disinfectant that will cure it. (I'll explain myself on this later.) Sam Kean's concluding 5 paragraphs, on CO2 in the atmosphere, from his book Caesar's Last Breath (And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/06/from-caesars-last-breath-to-ours/
Brown University corporate responsibility committee votes to divest from companies connected to Israeli occupation
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-12-06
Brown University corporate responsibility committee votes to divest from companies connected to Israeli occupation: In the NewsMichael Arria Economic Boycott Student solidarityDecember 6, 2019 | By: | | Mondoweiss …
bdsmovement.net/news/brown-university-corporate-responsibility-committee-votes-divest-companies-connected-israeli
Fordham University Students Win Landmark Legal Fight to Establish Palestine Club
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-12-06
Fordham University Students Win Landmark Legal Fight to Establish Palestine Club: In the News | Contact: Right To Boycott Student solidarityAugust 6, 2019 | By: | | Palestine Legal …
bdsmovement.net/news/fordham-university-students-win-landmark-legal-fight-establish-palestine-club
Harvard Grad Workers Are Striking Over Medical Debt and Sexual Harassment
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-06
Graduate students at the wealthiest university in the world said they are foregoing dental care, facing thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket medical costs and struggling to get by on salaries as low as $18,000 in Boston, one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. | The unionized graduate workers at Harvard University went on strike Tuesday after more than a year of trying to negotiate a contract. On the picket line at Harvard's medical campus on Wednesday, Tessa Green, a biophysics Ph.D. stud…
truthout.org/articles/harvard-grad-workers-are-striking-over-medical-debt-and-sexual-harassment/
Union sellouts endorse the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign
wsws.org | 2019-12-06
The United Teachers Los Angeles and the National Nurses Union have both endorsed Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/07/sand…
Why Are Some of Spain's Biggest Polluters Sponsoring U.N. Climate Summit?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-06
A group of climate activists walked out of a panel at the U.N. climate summit in Madrid on Thursday to protest the presence of Shell, BP and Chevron. Representatives from the oil companies were taking part in an event organized by the International Emissions Trading Association. This comes as the Spanish government is facing criticism for reaching out to Endesa, Spain's biggest corporate greenhouse gas polluter, to sponsor the U.N. climate talks. We speak with Pascoe Sabido, a researcher and campaigner for the Corporate Europe Observatory, who has been organizing toxic tours of Madrid to expose the corporations a…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/6/big_pollu…
Trump's "Economic Terrorism" Directed against Venezuela and Bolivia
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-06
Trump regime economic terrorism on Venezuela includes multiple rounds of illegal sanctions and an embargo — war by other means. | Nations and media supporting hostile US actions against the Bolivarian Republic and other countries are complicit in its crimes against …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-economic-terrorism-venezuelan-social-democracy/5696869
New Legislation Aims to End the "School to Confinement Pathway"
Alice Speri | theintercept.com | 2019-12-05
Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts introduced new legislation Thursday aimed at ending the "school to confinement pathway." The bill targets discriminatory and punitive school discipline policies that push black and brown students out of schools at disproportionately high rates, often directly into the criminal justice system. | The bill offers incentives to states and schools that commit to ban most suspensions and expulsions, as well as corporal punishment and the physical restraint of students. It also allots resources to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights at a time when the Trump administrat…
theintercept.com/2019/12/05/criminalization-students-school-prison-pathway/
Don't Look, Don't See: Time for Honest Media Reporting on Impacts of Pesticides
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-05
The UK-based Independent online newspaper recently published an article about a potential link between air pollution from vehicles and glaucoma. It stated that according to a new study air pollution is linked to the eye condition that causes blindness. The report explained that researchers had looked at vision tests carried out on more than 111,000 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/dont-look-dont-see-time-for-honest-media-reporting-on-impacts-of-pesticides/
CNN Says US Has "Fresh Intelligence" Of Iran Prepping Attack But Can't Show It & More NYT Propaganda
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-05
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/4/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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David Osborne Keeps Casually Peddling Worn-Out Charter School Disinformation
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-05
David Osborne is a well-funded neoliberal demagogue who has authored several books advocating the elimination of the public sphere and public interest. He has long championed the narrow private interests of major owners of capital. Osborne has spent much of his life openly attacking the public sector and pushing for its privatization ("reinvention" and "innovation") …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/david-osborne-keeps-casually-peddling-worn-out-charter-school-disinformation/
Sweden Provides Free Higher Education, Universal Healthcare, Free Daycare — Why Can't the U.S.?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-05
Medicare for All and tuition-free universities have been at the core of the 2020 Democratic presidential campaigns, creating a stark division between progressive candidates and their centrist counterparts. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have proposed to make Medicare for All and public universities cost-free by taxing massive corporations and the super wealthy, and earlier this year, Sanders introduced legislation that would cancel student loan debt. His plan would be paid for with a new tax on Wall Street, he says. It would also make public universities and community colleges free — a key pil…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/5/sweden_vs…
The Education Debate Over Minority Voters
Peter Greene | progressive.org | 2019-12-04
Are minority parents seeking better schools for their kids supporters of charter schools, or leading figures in the resistance to a choice-based education reform movement?
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/education-debate-minority-voters-greene-191204/