Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia's 34-year-old de facto ruler, was on a tear. He arrested members of his own royal family and initiated an oil price war with Russia that has sent the price …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-brave-women-pull-back-curtain-crown-prince-mbs/5706082
Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia's 34-year-old de facto ruler, was on a tear. He arrested members of his own royal family and initiated an oil price war with Russia that has sent the price …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-brave-women-pull-back-curtain-crown-prince-mbs/5706082
Educators speak out on threat of coronavirus in US schools
wsws.org | 2020-03-11
As a result of decades of defunding public education and the criminal negligence of the political establishment, US schools are wholly unprepared for the rapid spread of COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/11/educ…
Canceled: Speakout-Defend The Children & Staff-Stop The KIPP Charter School Move To TI
Defend Public Education Now | indybay.org | 2020-03-11
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indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/09/18831399.php
University and College Union prepares sellout of UK universities national strike
wsws.org | 2020-03-11
Higher education workers are striking against attacks on pay and pensions that are the direct result of the UCU's previous betrayal less than two year ago.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/11/univ…
How the UK Press Is Misinforming the Public About Britain's Role in the World
Mark Curtis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Britain's national press consistently portrays Britain as a supporter of noble objectives such as human rights and democracy. The extraordinary extent to which the public is being misinformed about the UK's foreign and military policies is revealed in new statistical …
globalresearch.ca/how-uk-press-misinforming-public-about-britain-role-world/5706101
How the UK Press Is Misinforming the Public About Britain's Role in the World
Mark Curtis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Britain's national press consistently portrays Britain as a supporter of noble objectives such as human rights and democracy. The extraordinary extent to which the public is being misinformed about the UK's foreign and military policies is revealed in new statistical …
globalresearch.ca/how-uk-press-misinforming-public-about-britain-role-world/5706101
Electromagnetic Radiation Due to Cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Technologies: How Safe Are We?
NAREN | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Abstract | The electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted out of wireless communication modules in various IoT devices (especially used for healthcare applications due to their close proximity to the body) have been identified by researchers as biologically hazardous to humans as well …
globalresearch.ca/electromagnetic-radiation-due-cellular-wi-fi-bluetooth-technologies-how-safe-are-we/5706099
Marx's "Capital" as a literary experience
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2020-03-11
Columbia University PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature Tiana Reid finds that her students benefit from reading volume one of Karl Marx's "Capital." "There are so many literary wsys to read it, which I don't think blunt the more radical political reading," said Reid, who conducts research in Black Studies, Marxism and feminism. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/11/marxs-capital-as-a-literary-experience/
Video: Saudi-initiated All-out Oil War Could Lead to Collapse of Kingdom Itself
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Saudi Arabia launched an all-out oil war offering unprecedented discounts and flooding the market in an attempt to capture a larger share and defeat other oil producers. This "scorched earth" approach caused the biggest oil price fall since the war …
globalresearch.ca/video-saudi-initiated-all-out-oil-war-could-lead-collapse-kingdom-itself/5706066
How Black Swans Are Shaping Planet Panic
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Is the planet under the spell of a pair of black swans
Team Trump Tried to Bully the ICC into Dropping War Crimes Probe but Failed
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
After the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found a reasonable basis to believe that U.S. military and CIA leaders committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, Team Trump threatened to ban ICC judges and prosecutors …
globalresearch.ca/team-trump-tried-bully-icc-dropping-war-crimes-probe-failed/5706081
Biden Rejects Medicare for All
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
On major policy issues, Biden's agenda resembles Trump's with a party label difference
Greece's Migrant Crisis Has Further Exposed Turkish Fake News
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attempt to intimidate the Syrian Army and force them to withdraw to the Sochi Agreement lines in Idlib utterly failed, resulting in the Turkish leader having to embarrassingly accept large swathes of liberated territory …
globalresearch.ca/greece-migrant-crisis-exposed-turkish-fake-news/5706050
Dirty System Triumph on Mini-Super Tuesday
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Tuesday results in six states for Dems largely replicated Biden's pre-scripted week ago Super Tuesday triumph over Sanders. | As the saying goes, there never was any doubt. The race to be Dem standard bearer in November against Trump appears all …
globalresearch.ca/dirty-system-triumph-mini-super-tuesday/5706090
MAS Presents New Legal Resort to Enable Evo Morales' Candidacy
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presented a new legal recourse to qualify ex-president Evo Morales as a candidate for the first senatorship in Cochabamba, informed political secretary Froilan Fulguera on Tuesday. | In statements to Radio Fides, Fulguera said that the …
globalresearch.ca/mas-presents-new-legal-resort-enable-evo-morales-candidacy/5706097
US-Israel Predictably Behind Turkish Aggression in Syria
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Turkey's ongoing fighting in northern Syria's Idlib governorate was
MAS Presents New Legal Resort to Enable Evo Morales' Candidacy
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presented a new legal recourse to qualify ex-president Evo Morales as a candidate for the first senatorship in Cochabamba, informed political secretary Froilan Fulguera on Tuesday. | In statements to Radio Fides, Fulguera said that the …
globalresearch.ca/mas-presents-new-legal-resort-enable-evo-morales-candidacy/5706097
Biden Rejects Medicare for All
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
On major policy issues, Biden's agenda resembles Trump's with a party label difference
Did COVID-19 Originate In China? "We must move beyond the temptation to give nationality to diseases."
Xinhua | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Italian experts have praised China's anti-virus efforts while dismissing a U.S. Fox News television host's calling for a "formal apology" from China for the coronavirus outbreak. | Last Monday, U.S. Fox News host Jesse Watters demanded China apologize for the virus …
globalresearch.ca/italian-experts-praise-china-anti-virus-efforts-dismiss-u-s-news-hosts-call-apology-china/5705926
How Turkey Lost a Battle of Wills, and Force, to Russia
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
When the history of the Syrian conflict is written, the fighting that took place between the Syrian Army and its allies on the one side, and the Turkish military and Turkish-backed Syrian rebels on the other, from early February through …
globalresearch.ca/how-turkey-lost-battle-wills-force-russia/5706103
Coronavirus Offerings and Job Losses: University Reliance on China Bites
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
It was predicted, warned against and is happening. Universities fattened by the Chinese student market are now in a state of financial shock, cutting losses, trimming courses and doing what over managed institutions do best: remove working productive staff while …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-offerings-job-losses-university-reliance-china-bites/5706061
Slime mold inspires breathtaking recreation of cosmic 'dark matter web' holding our universe together (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-03-11
Researchers using an algorithm based on the growth patterns of a type of slime mold have managed to create a map of the theoretical 'cosmic web' of gas and dark matter which makes up the substructure of the entire universe. | The bright yellow slime mold, dubbed Physarum polycephalum, is a brainless organism that produces networks of slimy tendrils which can somehow 'solve' spatial problems that are surprisingly complex. By studying its growth patterns, researchers have produced oddly accurate models of the wider universe. | Previous models based on this particular mold have solved mazes, calculated the shorte…
rt.com/news/482821-cosmic-web-dark-matter/
Did COVID-19 Originate In China? "We must move beyond the temptation to give nationality to diseases."
Xinhua | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Italian experts have praised China's anti-virus efforts while dismissing a U.S. Fox News television host's calling for a "formal apology" from China for the coronavirus outbreak. | Last Monday, U.S. Fox News host Jesse Watters demanded China apologize for the virus …
globalresearch.ca/italian-experts-praise-china-anti-virus-efforts-dismiss-u-s-news-hosts-call-apology-china/5705926
US-Israel Predictably Behind Turkish Aggression in Syria
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Turkey's ongoing fighting in northern Syria's Idlib governorate was
Only C MINUS grade: Putin rates Russia-US relations as more bad than good
rt.com | 2020-03-11
Since first reaching the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin has dealt with four different US presidents, and is well placed to judge the status of Russo-American relations. It's hardly surprising that his evaluation is rather negative. | "[On a scale from one to five] I would give it a three," Putin said, in an interview with Russian news agency TASS, "Between a two and a three. More like a three, though." In the Russian school system, where students are graded out of five, three is roughly equivalent to a C-grade, and 2 to…
rt.com/russia/482820-tass-putin-interview-us-russia-relations/
Biden projected to take Michigan, as he seeks to widen his lead over Sanders
rt.com | 2020-03-11
Exit polls from Michigan show Joe Biden ahead of Bernie Sanders in the state's primary contest, cementing the former VP's position as the front-runner in the Democrat presidential race. Sanders won the state back in 2016. | Democratic Party frontrunner Joe Biden edged out rival Bernie Sanders as polls closed in Michigan, with early counts giving him 52.1 percent of the vote. Voters in some cities were still waiting to cast their ballots, however, with some waiting an average of three hours. | Polls are officially closed in Michigan, but the East Lansing city clerks office is still packed with students who have…
rt.com/usa/482794-michigan-biden-sanders-primary/
Drop the Charges! Pack the court for our fellow comrades!
Worker Student Solidarity Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-03-11
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz | 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/08/18831368.php
Sweetwater teachers and students protest impending mass firing of teachers
wsws.org | 2020-03-11
Teachers, students and parents in California's Sweetwater school district demonstrated outside a school board meeting.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/11/nvid…
Berkeley grad students vote to join wildcat strike as UAW scrambles to shut down struggle
wsws.org | 2020-03-11
UAW Unit Chair Gerard Ramm declared that the union would not defend students who violated the no-strike clause in the UAW contract.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/11/ucsc…
'Election bounce' predictions dashed as UK economy flatlines in January
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-11
The economy stayed flat in January despite predictions that it would grow following a tough year that ended in an election, new figures have shown. | The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that gross domestic product (GDP) remained unchanged, after growing by 0.3% in December. | The release on Wednesday morning, just ahead of chancellor Rishi Sunak's first budget, dashed hopes that the economy was bouncing back after a clear win for the Conservatives in December's election, bringing a year of political uncertainty to an end. | Analysts had expected the economy to grow by 0.2% in January, according to a con…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/03/11/election-bounce-predictions-dashed-as-uk-economy-flatlines-in-january/
'And God Saw That It Was Good': New Discovery Reportedly Lends Credence to Biblical Creation Myth
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-11
As one of the scientists who made the discovery noted, there's a certain element of guesswork in their interpretations.
sputniknews.com/science/202003111078536920-and-god-saw-that-it-was-good-new-discovery-reportedly-lends-credence-to-biblical-creation-myth/
Bahrain confirms 77 new coronavirus cases, toll at 188
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-11
The Bahraini Health Ministry on Wednesday confirmed 77 fresh coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of people infected in the country to 188.The ministry said in a statement that it examined Tuesday 165 citizens who were evacuated from Iran and 77 of whom tested positive for the virus.Bahrain took a number of precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the virus, including the suspension of education and banning traveling to some countries.The Bahraini Foreign Ministry also called on all citizens not to travel to countries where the virus has spread, including Iran, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Sou…
yenisafak.com/en/world/bahrain-confirms-77-new-coronavirus-cases-toll-at-188-3513753
70,000 Demand 'Corporate Courts' Kept Out of Post-Brexit Trade Deals
Global Justice Now | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
As the UK trade minister Greg Hands visits the United States for trade talks (1), an alliance of civil society groups this morning delivered nearly 70,000 signatures to the Department for International Trade calling on the UK government to commit …
globalresearch.ca/70000-demand-corporate-courts-kept-out-post-brexit-trade-deals/5706108
30,000 U.S. Soldiers Sent into Europe Without Masks
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
The United States has raised the coronavirus (COVID-19) alert for Italy to level 3 ("avoid nonessential travel"), bringing it to 4 ("do not travel") for [the northern regions of] Lombardy and Veneto
30,000 U.S. Soldiers Sent into Europe Without Masks
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
The United States has raised the coronavirus (COVID-19) alert for Italy to level 3 ("avoid nonessential travel"), bringing it to 4 ("do not travel") for [the northern regions of] Lombardy and Veneto
Coronavirus update: UN addresses school disruptions, suspends public access to New York Headquarters
news.un.org | 2020-03-10
In an attempt to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, classrooms have been shuttered across the world, causing a record number of students to miss school, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1059121
Boyle Heights celebrates International Women's Day
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-10
Los Angeles, CA – On March 7, Centro CSO: Community Service Organization hosted a celebration of el Día Internacional de la Mujer (International Women's Day), filled with poetry, singing and political discussion at the Benjamin Franklin Branch Library in Boyle Heights. This year's event, the third that Centro CSO has put on, honored the women of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles who have fought back against the privatization of public education, police terror, sexism and transphobia. | | Sol Marquez, a member of Centro CSO and Freedom Road Socialist Organization, opened the event by explaining how Internati…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/3/10/boyle-he…
Global Research: Pull-No-Punches Reporting on Global Power Relations
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
"Global Research provides penetrating analysis of world events. The articles published by this invaluable website pull no punches in reporting on global power relations." |
Israeli IDF Snipers Boast of Shooting 'Ducks' in Gaza'. Boasting About Their Hits. Unspoken Crimes against Humanity
Jonathan Ofir | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Two days ago (Friday) a piece came out in Haaretz by Ido Glazer, featuring stories from five anonymous snipers who told how they gunned down unarmed protesters at the March of Return near the Gaza perimeter fence. | These accounts are …
globalresearch.ca/remember-knee-crosshairs-bursting-open-israeli-snipers-boast-shooting-ducks-gaza/5705911
Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
The U.S. embargo on Cuba has been in effect for 60 years. It's time to end it. | The embargo makes it a criminal offense for any American to spend money in Cuba or to do business in Cuba. If an …
globalresearch.ca/lift-u-s-embargo-cuba/5706003
Russia's Rejection of OPEC+ Was the Result of Cold Geostrategic Calculations
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Russia rejected its OPEC+ partners' request late last week to further curtail its oil production next month because it understood that doing so would make its American shale rivals more competitive, which would in turn empower the US to continue …
globalresearch.ca/russia-rejection-opec-result-cold-geostrategic-calculations/5705978
Syrian Christian Village Awaits the End of Al Qaeda's Occupation of Idlib
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
The western media has focused on Idlib as the last 'rebel' held area in Syria; however, it is held by Al Qaeda, not Syrian rebels. The Syrian rebels, aka " Free Syrian Army" , ceased to exist years …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-christian-village-awaits-end-al-qaeda-occupation-idlib/5705996
Financial Meltdown: The Impending Credit Crunch; The Next Shoe to Drop?
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Last week's violent gyrations in the stock market are the result of a tug-of-war between two well-represented groups of investors. One group thinks the Coronavirus will severely impact the global economy pushing stocks further into the red, while the other …
globalresearch.ca/impending-credit-crunch-next-shoe-drop/5705945
IDF Knee-Capping Besieged Gazans. Hundreds of Palestinians Killed
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Live fire by Israeli soldiers, police, and other security forces against defenseless Palestinians threatening no one is official Jewish state policy. | What was instituted on the pretext of preventing harm to Israelis is systematically and repeatedly breached by IDF and …
globalresearch.ca/idf-knee-capping-besieged-gazans-hundreds-of-palestinians-killed/5705989
Dems Rigging Things for Establishment Figure "Moderate Jo" Biden?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
The myth of moderate Joe belies his hardline agenda throughout a near-half century of public life as US senator and vice president. | Along with most others on both sides of the aisle, his political record shows full support for endless …
globalresearch.ca/dems-rigging-things-establishment-figure-biden/5705968
Video: New Idlib Ceasefire Is Already Crumbling and Nobody Is Surprised
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
On March 6, the Syrian region of Greater Idlib entered another ceasefire phase with al-Qaeda-linked groups breathing a sigh of relief thanks to Turkish sacrifices in the battle against the Syrian Army. However, the pause in the Turkish-Syrian military confrontation …
globalresearch.ca/video-new-idlib-ceasefire-already-crumbling-nobody-surprised/5705950
Dems Rigging Things for Establishment Figure "Moderate Jo" Biden?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
The myth of moderate Joe belies his hardline agenda throughout a near-half century of public life as US senator and vice president. | Along with most others on both sides of the aisle, his political record shows full support for endless …
globalresearch.ca/dems-rigging-things-establishment-figure-biden/5705968
Israel's Third Election: Netanyahu Wins, Justice Loses
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Israel just completed its third national election in less than a year. The first two votes in April and September 2019 ended in an impasse with no party able to form a governing coalition of 61 Knesset Members (i.e. a …
globalresearch.ca/israel-third-election-netanyahu-wins-justice-loses/5705999
1983 CIA Document Reveals Plan to Destroy Syria, Foreshadows Current Crisis
Brandon Turbeville | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
As the Syrian crisis enters its ninth year, the Donald Trump administration is looking more and more like the Obama administration every day. With the Trump regime refusing to open useful dialogue with Russia regarding Syria, it's obvious anti-Iran and …
globalresearch.ca/1983-cia-document-reveals-plan-destroy-syria-foreshadows-current-crisis-2/5705964