Selected Articles: Canada's Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-28
Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis provided by Global Research on a daily basis? Do you think this resource should be maintained and preserved as a research tool for future generations? Bringing you 24/7 updates from all over … | The post Selected Articles: Canada's Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia appeared first on Global Research.
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Harmless Mail Bomb Scare Suspect Arrested. A Convenient Patsy?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-28
Is the targeted individual a legitimate suspect or a convenient patsy? Most likely the latter, but it remains an open question. How could an ordinary person access mailing addresses of prominent Trump critics sent harmless mail bombs? | On Friday, Justice … | The post Harmless Mail Bomb Scare Suspect Arrested. A Convenient Patsy? appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/harmless-mail-bomb-scare-suspect-arrested-a-convenient-patsy/5658246

Teachers set to walk off for refugees
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-28
The Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian Branch Council has endorsed a planned walk off by teachers and education support staff in support of refugees on November 20, Universal Children's Day. | There are currently about 60 refugee children being detained by the Australian government on Nauru. | More than 6000 doctors issued an open letter to the government on October 22, calling on it to remove children from Nauru due to very serious mental and physical health emergency on the Pacific island. | Doctors and health workers have spoken out about the significant trauma children suffer in detention. | Australia…
greenleft.org.au/content/teachers-set-walk-refugees

Democracy in Brazil Is Not Just About Voting. Bolsonaro, "The Tropical Trump"
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-28
According to polls, Brazilians are about to make a great mistake by voting for Bolsonaro — the Tropical Trump. There are indications that the gap with PT Haddad is getting narrow, but Brazilians have to move fast until Sunday to … | The post Democracy in Brazil Is Not Just About Voting. Bolsonaro, "The Tropical Trump" appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/democracy-brazil-not-just-about-voting/5658254

The Latest Mail Bomb Scare. An Orchestration?
DPCR | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-28
I appreciate readers' confidence that I can explain the mail bomb scare that has been blamed on Cesar Sayoc. I have not followed this story and regret that I don't have an explanation to provide. | Stephen Lendman raises the … | The post The Latest Mail Bomb Scare. An Orchestration? appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-latest-bomb-scare-an-orchestration/5658250

Ottawa Should End Paradoxical Arms Deal with Saudis
CFJPIME | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-28
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) calls on Canada to end, once and for all, its arms trade with Saudi Arabia. The brazen murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi authorities in Istanbul further highlights the … | The post Ottawa Should End Paradoxical Arms Deal with Saudis appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/ottawa-should-end-paradoxical-arms-deal-with-saudis/5658268

Trump's Gender "Science" is Reductive, Mean and Wrong
Jill Richardson | zcomm.org | 2018-10-28
Trump's move — if he makes it — will serve to erase the civil rights of 1.4 million transgender Americans. An already vulnerable population will needlessly suffer…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-gender-science-is-reductive-mean-and-wrong/

The Arms Behind the Sydney "Invictus Games". "For our Wounded Warriors"
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-28
The origins of the Invictus Games ("For our Wounded Warriors," goes the slogan) lies in war. Wars that crippled and caused depression and despair. The games became a project of grand distraction and worth, a form of emotional bread for … | The post The Arms Behind the Sydney "Invictus Games". "For our Wounded Warriors" appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-arms-behind-the-sydney-invictus-games-for-our-wounded-warriors/5658259

Bolsonaro : Canalha de Estimação de uma Sociedade Doente
Edu Montesanti | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-28
"Os militares são a classe de vagabundos mais bem remunerada que existe no País", capitão sublevado do Exército, | Jair Bolsonaro, em 1987, quando planejava explodir bombas nas dependências de sua própria instituição | Demagogo da vez não foge de debates por … | The post Bolsonaro : Canalha de Estimação de uma Sociedade Doente appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/bolsonaro-canalha-de-estimacao-de-uma-sociedade-doente/5658277

Bolsolão, 'Justiça' Cafajeste e Complexo de Vira-Latas do PT
Edu Montesanti | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-28
Nesta selvagem campanha "eleitoral" promovida por Jair Bolsonaro – idiota preferido da casta dominante tupiniquim – o cafajeste sistema de "justiça" (pasmem!), tão usurpador do poder nacional quanto o sistema político, confirma a quem ainda tinha alguma dúvida que possui … | The post Bolsolão, 'Justiça' Cafajeste e Complexo de Vira-Latas do PT appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/bolsolao-justica-cafajeste-e-complexo-de-vira-latas-do-pt/5658274

Colombian Gov't, University Directors Sign Funding Agreement After Weeks of Protest
teleSUR | telesurtv.net | 2018-10-28
Students, who remain on a strike, were not included in the negotiations and have not announced their plans going forward. next actions.
www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombian…

Save People's Park rally and concert
Rubble | indybay.org | 2018-10-28
Hear 2 hours of uncut audio from People's park from a rally and concert which took place at People's Park, on the U.C. Berkeley campus, on September 23, 2018. The purpose of the event is to organize support against the University's stated plans to turn the free public park into a lot for student housing and subsidized low-income housing for up to 100 homeless people. (2hrs 20min)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/27/18818536.php

49th Anniversary of People's Park – rally and concert
Rubble | indybay.org | 2018-10-28
Hear 2.5 hours of uncut audio from the rally and concert. Activists speak on the history and current issues in the struggle, organizing against the UC Berkeley administrations latest attempt to pave the park over for student and homeless housing. Several good local bands play sets. Distribute widely. (2hrs. 30min.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/27/18818537.php

Research Shows White Workers Get More Lucrative Promotions, Less Likely to Be Fired at UC
AFSCME Local 3299 | indybay.org | 2018-10-28
OAKLAND, CA, October 25, 2018 — As 39,000 University of California workers wrap up a 3-day strike over issues of inequality at the state's 3rd largest employer, a bombshell of a research brief reported by CALmatters has revealed that Black and Latino workers employed at UC are more likely to be fired and get smaller raises when they are promoted.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/25/18818502.php

Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military's Experiments with Climatic Warfare
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
'Climatic warfare' has been excluded from the agenda on climate change. | The post Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military's Experiments with Climatic Warfare appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/weather-warfare-beware-the-us-military-s-experiments-with-climatic-warfare/7561

About Politicians who Befriend Criminals in Power. Donald Trump Needs "Enemies"
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
"Regrettably, though, the idea of the benevolent autocrat, the just dictator, is being revived in the Arab world." Jamal Khashoggi (1958-2018), Saudi Arabian journalist, a permanent resident of the United States and a Washington Post Global Opinions contributing columnist, assassinated … | The post About Politicians who Befriend Criminals in Power. Donald Trump Needs "Enemies" appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/about-politicians-who-befriend-criminals-in-power-donald-trump-needs-enemies/5658161

The Trump Regime Has Launched a Nuclear Arms Race?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
In response to the Trump regime's unilateral Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty pullout, former Soviet Russia President Mikhail Gorbachev (image below) said the move signals the beginning of a nuclear arms race, saying: | "Over 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan | … | The post The Trump Regime Has Launched a Nuclear Arms Race? appeared first on …
globalresearch.ca/the-trump-regime-has-launched-a-nuclear-arms-race/5658221

How $21 Trillion in U.S. Tax Money Disappeared. "Full Scope Audit" of the Pentagon
David DeGraw | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
According to the Department of Defense Inspector General and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, $21 Trillion in Taxpayer Funding Is Unaccounted For. To help people comprehend the scale of this, $1 Trillion is $1000 Billion. This means that $21,000 Billion in taxpayer money has gone missing. | The post How $21 Trillion in U.S. Tax Money Disappeared. "Full Scope Audit" of the Pentagon appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/how-21-trillion-in-u-s-tax-money-disappeared-full-scope-audit-of-the-pentagon/5638534

Trump Surrenders to John Bolton on Russia and Arms Control
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
Declaring that "there is a new strategic reality out there," President Donald Trump's hardline national security advisor John Bolton announced during a visit to Moscow earlier this week that the United States would be withdrawing from the 31-year-old Intermediate Nuclear … | The post Trump Surrenders to John Bolton on Russia and Arms Control appeared first on Global Researc…
globalresearch.ca/trump-surrenders-to-john-bolton-on-russia-and-arms-control/5658214

"Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map", 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
According to a secret document dated September 15, 1945, "the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas. | The post "Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map", 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/wipe-the-ussr-off-the-map-204-atomic-bombs-against-major-cities-us-nuclear-attack-against-soviet-union-planned-prior-to-end-of-world-war-ii/5616601

Mail Bombs to Trump Critics Reminiscent of Post-9/11 Anthrax Attacks?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
Elements responsible for both incidents had a specific objective in mind. | In his important book on the anthrax attacks, titled "The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy," Graeme MacQueen connected the incidents to 9/11. | Falsely blamed on … | The post Mail Bombs to Trump Critics Reminiscent of Post-9/11 Anthrax Attacks? appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/mail-bombs-to-trump-critics-reminiscent-of-post-911-anthrax-attacks/5658145

China's Impressive Economic Growth. A Critical Look at China's Belt and Road Initiative
Prof. Martin Hart-Landsberg | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
Originally published: Reports from the Economic Front (October 2, 2018) | China's growth rate remains impressive, even if on the decline. The country's continuing economic gains owe much to the Chinese state's (1) still considerable ability to direct the activity of … | The post China's Impressive Economic Growth. A Critical Look at China's Belt and Road Initiative appeared first on Gl…
globalresearch.ca/chinas-impressive-economic-growth-a-critical-look-at-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative/5658204

Brazil: The Collapse of Democracy? Rise of the Far Right
Alfredo Saad-Filho | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
Brazil will elect its new President on 28 October 2018. Since the judicial-parliamentary coup that removed elected President Dilma Rousseff, of the Workers' Party (PT), the new administration (led by her former Vice-President, Michel Temer) has advanced its agenda of … | The post Brazil: The Collapse of Democracy? Rise of the Far Right appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/brazil-the-collapse-of-democracy/5658185

Mumia Abu Jamal and the Prison Industrial Complex
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
"As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." | — Michelle … | The post Mumia Abu Jamal and the Prison Industrial Complex appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/mumia-abu-jamal-and-the-prison-industrial-complex/5658237

"Prisons are Big Business": The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy
Linda Evans | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
Editor's Note: From our archives. This was one of the first articles published by Global Research on October 18, 2001 | Over 1.8 million people are currently behind bars in the United States. This represents the highest per capita incarceration … | The post "Prisons are Big Business": The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/prisons-are-big-business-the-prison-industrial-complex-and-the-global-economy/5328757

Julian Assange Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared – for Wikileaks' Service to Journalism
Mark Curtis | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
Twelve years ago this month, WikiLeaks began publishing government secrets that the world public might otherwise never have known. What it has revealed about state duplicity, human rights abuses and corruption goes beyond anything published in the world's "mainstream" media. … | The post Julian Assange Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared – for Wikileaks' Service to Journalism appeared first on G…
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-should-be-thanked-not-smeared-for-wikileaks-service-to-journalism/5658208

Big Business Strikes Back: The Class Struggle from Above. The Neo-Liberal "New Order"
Prof. James Petras | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
Bankers, agro-business elites, commercial mega owners, manufacturing, real estate and insurance bosses and their financial advisers, elite members of the 'ruling class', have launched a full-scale attack on private and public wage and salary workers,and small and medium size entrepreneurs … | The post Big Business Strikes Back: The Class Struggle from Above. The Neo-Liberal "New Order" appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/big-business-strikes-back-the-class-struggle-from-above-the-neo-liberal-new-order/5658181

Yes, ExxonMobil and Chevron are still distorting climate science
Eds. | mronline.org | 2018-10-27
If you look at headlines from the last year, ExxonMobil, Chevron and other major fossil fuel companies have seemingly turned a new page on climate change. | Source…
mronline.org/2018/10/27/yes-exxonmobil-and-chevron-are-still-distorting-climate-science/

Khashoggi versus 50,000 Slaughtered Yemeni Children
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
For three and half years, the Saudi's have waged a horrendous war on Yemen. They have slaughtered tens of thousands of Yemenis, more than 50,000 children died by Saudi air raids with UK supplied bombs, and US supplied war planes… | The post Khashoggi versus 50,000 Slaughtered Yemeni Children appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/khashoggi-versus-50000-slaughtered-yemeni-children/5658192

US Military Plane Operated UAVs That Attacked Russian Airbase in Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
A US Poseidon-8 reconnaissance plane operated 13 unmanned aerial vehicles that attacked Russia's Hmeymim airbase in Syria on January 6, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel General Alexander Fomin said at a plenary session of the Beijing Xiangshan Forum on security … | The post US Military Plane Operated UAVs That Attacked Russian Airbase in Syria appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/us-military-plane-operated-uavs-that-attacked-russian-airbase-in-syria/5658223

Lost Lightning: The Missing Secrets Of Nikola Tesla
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-27
A mystery surrounds Tesla. His contributions, which were great and many, have descended into obscurity. Why? | Nikola Tesla, a Serbian scientist born in Croatia, was a humanitarian, a US patriot, and yes, an unbridled genius, though he has often … | The post Lost Lightning: The Missing Secrets Of Nikola Tesla appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/lost-lightning-the-missing-secrets-of-nikola-tesla/5342369

Argentine workers and students march against "hunger budget"
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-27
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Buenos Aires to repudiate the austerity measures demanded by the IMF and the Argentine government.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/27/arge…

"I Believe in the Bible. I Also Believe in Science": How One Man Built Florida Home to Survive Storm
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-26
Fifteen miles from Tyndall Air Force Base is Mexico Beach, Florida, which was practically wiped off the map after Hurricane Michael. On the beach, just one house still stands–it is known as the Sand Palace. Over the weekend, Democracy Now! traveled to the Florida Panhandle. We spoke to Russell King, an attorney from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who owns the Sand Palace.
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/26/i_believ…

What It Ultimately Takes to Bring Down a Confederate Monument
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-26
Last week, following a day of testimony, a North Carolina judge found UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student and anti-racist activist Maya Little guilty of a misdemeanor charge of defacing a public monument–the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam. The court stopped short of any further punishment, opting instead to waive all associated court fees and restitution. Little had been facing up to 60 days in jail, an absurd and unjust sentencing possibility for multiple reasons, the most salient being the disproportionate ratio of t…
truthdig.com/articles/what-it-ultimately-takes-to-bring-down-a-confederate-monument/

What a Rural Maine House Race Can Teach the Left
Chloe Maxmin, Canyon Woodward | thenation.com | 2018-10-26
What a Rural Maine House Race Can Teach the Left…
thenation.com/article/what-a-rural-maine-house-race-can-teach-the-left/

Jeff Bezos-Funded Super PAC Takes Down Offensive Ad, yet Continues to Back Candidate Making Same Offensive Argument
David Dayen | theintercept.com | 2018-10-26
A Super PAC boosted by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has taken down a controversial ad that attacked a Democrat, who was then in college, as unpatriotic in the wake of the September 11 attacks. | With Honor Fund, a congressional Super PAC supporting a bipartisan array of military veterans, condemned Lauren Baer, a Democratic candidate for Florida's 18th Congressional District, for criticizing American foreign policy decisions in the Harvard University student newspaper a month…
theintercept.com/2018/10/26/jeff-bezos-with-honor-fund-lauren-baer/

Red for Ed: Throw down in Chicago
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-26
Chicago, IL – Strikes are on the agenda. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) made this perfectly clear, turning out more than 250 people on October 24 for a rally to announce strike authorization votes at 19 charter schools next week. The votes will occur at two of the largest charter networks: Acero (formerly UNO, famous for scandals) and Chicago International Charter School (CICS). | "These two networks have about 650 CTU members," said CTU charter division chair Chris Baehrend, "But we have people here today from all twelve of the unionized networks as well as CTU district members and allies. We have lined up all…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/25/red-ed-…

Trump's Gender "Science" is Reductive, Mean and Wrong
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-26
Trump is having a problem with sex, and it's not exactly what you might think. There are no Russian tapes, spankings with magazines, or confessions of grabbing anyone this time around. Specifically, it's a problem with sex and gender. Sex and gender aren't the same thing, though many people mistake them for being synonymous. I…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/trumps-gender-science-is-reductive-mean-and-wrong/

'A Cruel Choice': Why Israel Targets Palestinian Schools
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-26
Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Nablus in the West Bank on October 15. The students of Al- Sawiya Al-Lebban Mixed School were challenging an Israeli military order to shut down their school based on the ever-versatile accusation of the school…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/a-cruel-choice-why-israel-targets-palestinian-schools/

Union, Democrats use "fact-finding" ploy to block Los Angeles teachers' strike
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-26
Despite more than 18 months of negotiations and three mediation sessions that have gone nowhere, the union continues to block strike action by teachers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/26/utla…

Sciences of inequality
David Ruccio | mronline.org | 2018-10-25
Last month, Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (whose important work I have written about before), issued a tweet about the new poverty and healthcare numbers in the United States along with a challenge to the administration of Donald Trump (which in June decided to voluntarily remove itself from […] | Source…
mronline.org/2018/10/25/sciences-of-inequality/

Two Stories from the Propaganda War
Philip M. Giraldi | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-25
Two recent stories about Russians have demonstrated how the news is selected and manipulated in the United States. The first is about Maria Butina, who apparently sought to overthrow American democracy, such as it is, by obtaining a life membership in the National Rifle Association. Maria, a graduate student at American University, is now in detention in a federal prison, having been charged with collusion and failure to register as an agent of the Russian Federation. She has been in prison since July, for most of the time in solitary confinement, and has not been granted bail because, as a Russian citizen, she i…
mintpressnews.com/two-stories-from-the-propaganda-war/251040/

Will the Save Our Schools Movement Propel a Change Election?
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2018-10-25
Demoralized teachers, overtested students, and lack of improvement from draconian policies are changing public opinion on education.
progressive.org/dispatches/will-the-save-our-schools-movement-propel-a-change-election-181025/

Scott Walker's Short-Term Vision on Education
Carole Trone | progressive.org | 2018-10-25
Under the Republican governor, public education in Wisconsin is hemorrhaging.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/walkers-short-term-vision-on-education-181024/

Tampa students stand against attacks on trans rights
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-25
Tampa, FL — More than 50 Tampa area students and community activists gathered at the University of South Florida's MLK Plaza, October 24, for a rally against Trump's attacks on transgender rights. The protest was organized by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | Earlier this week it was announced that Trump administration officials were moving to alter Title IX rules to exclude trans people from basic services and protection from discrimination. This is only the latest attack on the LGBTQ+ community from the Trump administration. | "We need to organize against Trump's attacks on trans righ…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/24/tampa-s…

'If We Won't, Then Who Will?': An Interview With Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward
StudentNation | thenation.com | 2018-10-25
'If We Won't, Then Who Will?': An Interview With Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward…
thenation.com/article/if-we-wont-then-who-will-an-interview-with-chloe-maxmin/

LA teachers, supporters march into LAUSD headquarters
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-24
Los Angeles, CA – Over 300 militant parents and students, along with teachers who are members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), gathered at LA Unified School District (LAUSD) headquarters, October 23, to protest Superintendent Austin Beutner. Near the end of the rally, they all marched into the LAUSD superintendent's office and staged an occupation, demanding to meet with Beutner. | Chanting, "Austin Beutner you can't hide, we can see your greedy side!" and "What do we want? Public schools! When do we want them? Now!" the large crowd demanded answers. When they were told Beutner was unavailable, the cro…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/24/la-teac…

Students cross social boundaries, challenge stereotypes on Mix It Up at Lunch Day
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-10-23
While young people across the country are adjusting to colder temperatures and figuring out what kind of costume to wear for Halloween, thousands of students in America are also stepping out of their comfort zones to get to know someone new.
splcenter.org/news/2018/10/23/students-cross-social-boundaries-challenge-stereotypes-mix-it-lunch-day

Five Questions For: Author Suzanne Gordon on the VA as a 'Model for American Health Care'
Alexandra Tempus | progressive.org | 2018-10-14
"Many liberals and progressives who don't buy the propaganda about climate, or about education, buy the propaganda about the VA."
progressive.org/dispatches/author-suzanne-gordon-veterans-admin-181014/