Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights partners with Discovery Education to launch new education program
Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2018-09-04
Khalilah Harris and Kerry Kennedy discuss RFK Human Rights' launch of the Speak Truth To Power education initiative; engaging young people in schools to be aware of and take action on global human rights issues; and, the need to support teachers with the right tools and resources to be effective in the classroom | The post Robert F. Kenned…
therealnews.com/stories/robert-f-kennedy-human-rights-partners-with-discovery-education-to-launch-new-education-program

As the School Year Begins, More Teachers Across the Country Could Soon Strike
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-09-04
As teachers, school employees, and students head back to school, what's ahead for the #RedforEd movement? | This spring, teachers mobilized on an unprecedented scale in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, North Carolina, and Colorado. They protested, walked out, and even held statewide strikes — in states with limited to no collective bargaining rights, where school unions have traditionally focused on state politics. | The springtime actions, led by rank and filers, inspired educators and unionists across the country. It looks like the cusp of a labor upsurge that could spread beyond schools. | The mobilizers met with varying degrees of support or resistance from their own state union leaders. The militancy made leaders anxious, but many were also savvy enough to see that the uprisings were effective — and that they'd better not get in the way. | Teachers saw just how…
truthout.org/articles/as-the-school-year-begins-more-teachers-across-the-country-could-soon-strike/

Austerity, Corruption To Blame For Brazil National Museum Blaze
teleSUR /ef-MS | telesurtv.net | 2018-09-04
Politicians and citizens say that corrupt authorities and funding cuts to arts, education, and infrastructure are to blame for the destruction of the historical museum.
www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Austerity…

Venezuela Fights On!
Jeanette Charles | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-04
Jeanette Charles is the international solidarity liaison with Venezuelanalysis. In May 2018, she organized a delegation with Venezuelanalysis and The Intrepid News Fund to observe the presidential elections. During their trip, journalists, activists, lawyers and other participants met with representatives from community-based organizations, revolutionary collectives and Bolivarian government officials as well as interacting with people on the street from taxi drivers, street vendors and students. In order to provide a more balanced and deeper understanding of Venezuela's reality that corporate mainstream media fails to cover, we interviewed her to hear her thoughts and observations from Venezuela's migration, currency revaluation, the assassination attempt, and the presidential election. The interview is set in two parts. | Dae-Han (DH): Recently, the international media and consequently the Korean media (even its progressive elements such as JTBC news) have reported on migration from Venezuela as resulting from…
mintpressnews.com/248700-2/248700/

The "We The World" Campaign, The Word War Is No Longer Mentioned
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Today we received a PRESS RELEASE from We the World, announcing a Worldwide campaign "calling for Unity, Peace and Justice in Response to Global Tensions". | "We, The World and organizations worldwide are taking part in programs and calls to …
globalresearch.ca/the-we-the-world-campaign-the-word-war-is-no-longer-mentioned/5652625

Speaking Freely, John McCain Was No Peacemaker
George Payne | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-04
Senator John McCain was a powerhouse in American politics. His legacy is far reaching and impacts every facet of civil life in our country. I didn't always agree with him, especially on matters of foreign policy, but Americans always knew where he stood on the issues; and one always trusted that he arrived at his…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/04/speaking-freely-john-mccain-was-no-peacemaker/

Judicial Bias Blocks Justice for Abu-Jamal
Linn Washington Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-04
In July 1987 Philadelphia's then District Attorney lashed out at local judges in an unusual verbal assault where that DA castigated what he said was the "historic" practice of judges in Pennsylvania's largest city to acquit police officers in cases where evidence clearly showed officers engaged in "egregious" brutality. That DA, Ronald Castille, told a…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/04/judicial-bias-blocks-justice-for-abu-jamal/

She's Not There
Jason Holland | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-04
"Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions — empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth — are seen as impediments to a woman's professional trajectory in many sectors." ‚Äï Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/04/shes-not-there/

VIDEO — Un'Italia sovranista senza sovranità
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Il polverone politico-mediatico sollevato dallo scontro tra «europeisti» e «sovranisti» nasconde quella che invece è la realtà: un europeismo senza Europa e un sovranismo senza sovranità. | A innalzare strumentalmente la bandiera dell'europeismo è in questo momento il presidente Macron, per …
globalresearch.ca/unitalia-sovranista-senza-sovranita/5652988

The "Security Crisis" in Cameroon Aims to Destabilize the West-Central African CPEC
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
The multisided security crisis unfolding in Cameroon is intended to preemptively destabilize the West-Central African CPEC well in advance of its construction and might even catalyze another Migrant Crisis to Europe …
globalresearch.ca/the-security-crisis-in-cameroon-aims-to-destabilize-the-west-central-african-cpec/5652890

New Labour's Irrational Adoration of Margaret Thatcher
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
When Michael Crick embarrassed Theresa May by quizzing her on her non-existent opposition to apartheid as she visited Mandela's old cell, the response of New Labour was to defend May by …
globalresearch.ca/new-labours-irrational-adoration-of-margaret-thatcher/5652946

VIDEO — Eingestürzte Brücken und bombardierte Brücken
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
« Das Bild ist wirklich apokalyptisch. Es sieht so aus, als sei eine Bombe auf diesen Straßenabschnitt gefallen, der eine Hauptschlagader ist" — so beschrieb ein Journalist die Morandi-Brücke in Genua kurz nach ihrem Einsturz, der das Leben von Dutzenden …
globalresearch.ca/video-eingesturzte-brucken-und-bombardierte-brucken/5652879

Uma Itália Soberana, sem Soberania
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
A confusão político-mediática originada pelo choque entre "europeístas" e "soberanistas" esconde aquela que, pelo contrário, é a realidade: um europeísmo sem Europa e um soberanismo sem soberania. | A erguer prontamente a bandeira do europeísmo está, neste momento, o Presidente Macron, …
globalresearch.ca/uma-italia-soberana-sem-soberania/5652976

Trump Accuses Cuba of "Sonic Attacks" against US Diplomats: Havana's "Sonic Incidents" and the University of Edinburgh: The "40%" Mystery
Arnold August | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
On August 15, 2018, the U.S. State Department announced yet another measure toward reducing its Havana embassy staff and its effectiveness by limiting the diplomats' stays to one year. This extremely …
globalresearch.ca/havanas-sonic-incidents-and-the-university-of-edinburgh-the-40-mystery/5652172

Can't We Just Leave Syria Alone?
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Assad was supposed to be gone already. President Obama thought it would be just another "regime change" operation and perhaps Assad would end up like Saddam Hussein or Yanukovych. Or maybe …
globalresearch.ca/cant-we-just-leave-syria-alone/5652954

The Russian Revolution through the eyes of the Global South
Lowell B. Denny, III | peoplesworld.org | 2018-09-04
In Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual (African World Press), the Marxist historian (1942-1980) reflects on activism: "I've always made the point that one's political contribution should come out of one's principal work activity, whatever that happens to be, insofar as that is possible. Presumably, if one is a factory worker, it is on the factory floor that one's politicization, one's consciousness, comes out in day-to-day struggle. And if I am an academic, and so long as I remain an academic, I must attempt to make the most important political input during those very many hours that I spend contributing to teaching and researching or whatever other aspects of academic life may come into play." | Rodney's mission was always to effect radical change in whatever capacity. As a young scholarship student in Guyana, he was warned off writing about…
peoplesworld.org/article/the-russian-revolution-through-the-eyes-of-the-global-south/

US or Russia? The Mystery Airstrikes Against Tajikistan
Joseph Fitsanakis | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Featured image: Bridge along Afghan- Tajik border (Source: TruePublica) | Russia, the United States and Tajikistan have all denied that they were behind a series of mystery airstrikes that took place along …
globalresearch.ca/us-or-russia-the-mystery-airstrikes-against-tajikistan/5652947

Israel's Fifth Column
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Referring to Israel during an interview in August 1983, U.S. Navy Admiral and former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Thomas Moorer said: | "I've never seen a President — …
globalresearch.ca/israels-fifth-column/5652926

Will the Trump Regime Clash with Russia and Iran Over Syria's Offensive to Liberate Idlib?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Idlib province, Syria is controlled by US-supported Al-Nusra and other Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists. | So-called "rebels" or "opposition forces" are mercenary hired guns — used by Washington, NATO, Israel and regional …
globalresearch.ca/will-the-trump-regime-clash-with-russia-and-iran-over-syrias-offensive-to-liberate-idlib/5652906

Video: Syria War Report. Iran Provides Popular Mobilization Units in Iraq with Ballistic Missiles
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has repelled an attack by the Lions of the East Army militant group on the ancient city of Palmyra from the direction of the US-occupied area …
globalresearch.ca/video-syria-war-report-iran-provides-popular-mobilization-units-in-iraq-with-ballistic-missiles/5652886

A Diabolic False Flag Empire
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
The past is not dead; it is people who are sleeping. The current night and daymares that we are having arise out of murders lodged deep in our past that have …
globalresearch.ca/a-diabolic-false-flag-empire/5652963

Planet Has Been Heating Up for Almost Two Centuries
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
The Irish scientist John Tyndall, one of the most distinguished physicists in modern history, provided evidence in 1861 that human-generated gases such as carbon dioxide and ethylene transmit enormous volumes …
globalresearch.ca/planet-has-been-heating-up-for-almost-two-centuries/5652874

Israel's Smear Campaign Will Not Stop Until Jeremy Corbyn Fights Back
Asa Winstanley | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
I am one of very few journalists on the left to have covered the Labour Party's supposed "anti-Semitism crisis" from its beginning three years ago, if not the the only one. …
globalresearch.ca/israels-smear-campaign-will-not-stop-until-jeremy-corbyn-fights-back/5652942

What Happened on the Planes on September 11, 2001? The 9/11 Cell Phone Calls. The 9/11 Commission "Script" Was Fabricated
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
This article was first published on August 10, 2004 under the title More Holes in the Official Story: The 9/11 Cell Phone Calls | "We Have Some Planes" | The 9/11 Commission's Report…
globalresearch.ca/more-holes-in-the-official-story-the-911-cell-phone-calls/5652872

The Myth of Rising Wages in America
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
This Labor Day 2018 marks yet another year of declining living standards for American workers. If one were to believe the media and press, rising wages belie that statement. The Wall …
globalresearch.ca/the-myth-of-rising-wages-in-america/5652915

Basra Residents Reeling From Contaminated Drinking Water
Mustafa Saadoun | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Human rights advocates and health officials estimate that 17,000 to 18,000 residents of Basra province have been poisoned by heavily polluted and salty drinking water. On Aug. 26, hundreds of residents …
globalresearch.ca/basra-residents-reeling-from-contaminated-drinking-water/5652939

Open letter From UNRWA Commissioner-General to Palestine Refugees and UNRWA Staff
Pierre Krähenbühl | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Background | UNRWA is confronted with an increased demand for services resulting from a growth in the number of registered Palestine refugees, the extent of their vulnerability and their deepening poverty. UNRWA …
globalresearch.ca/open-letter-from-unrwa-commissioner-general-to-palestine-refugees-and-unrwa-staff/5652951

Canada's "Progressive" Left and US Imperialism: Why on This Despoiled Earth Would NDP Leaders Praise John McCain?
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
The NDP hierarchy's response to noted war hawk John McCain's death is shameful. Even worse, it reflects a general hostility towards the victims of Western imperialism. | After the U.S. Senator …
globalresearch.ca/canadas-progressive-left-and-us-imperialism-why-on-this-despoiled-earth-would-ndp-leaders-praise-john-mccain/5652937

The Himalayas: Literature Can Displace Anthropology
Barbara Nimri Aziz | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2018-09-04
asia-pacificresearch.com/the-himalayas-literature-can-displace-anthropology/5628302

Evidence for "Informed Trading" on the Attacks of September 11, 2001
Kevin Ryan | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Just after September 11th 2001, many governments began investigations into possible insider trading related to the terrorist attacks of that day. Such investigations were initiated by the governments of Belgium, …
globalresearch.ca/evidence-for-informed-trading-on-the-attacks-of-september-11-2001/5652934

Trump Regime Aiding Kiev Plot, Escalated War on Donbass?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-04
Something is brewing after a relatively quiet period. According to a Kiev military source named Karapinka on Ukrainian television last month, the country's forces are planning to attack Donbass at an …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-aiding-kiev-plot-escalated-war-on-donbass/5652919

Beyond The DNC Leaks — Funding the Hacks and Sedition
George Eliason | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-04
Any DNC server leak in 2016 could have been a patriotic act to counter Ukrainian Intel operators access inside the DNC and US Government servers at the State Department. | The big take away from the part 1 article is Ukrainian Intelligence was hired as opposition research by Alexandra Chalupa and they hacked the DNC. And they hacked the RNC. They were probably given the passwords to US Dept of State Top Secret information just as a matter of course to do their jobs. Clinton kept six State Department password slots from 2013 to 2016 for her researchers. Ukrainian Intel hackers included Russian traitors Shaltai Boltai. And they hacked. | If Chalupa didn't give the hackers access, getting it was as simple as doing your job using someone else's login. This means someone with the password physically typed it in and the…
mintpressnews.com/beyond-the-dnc-leaks-funding-the-hacks-and-sedition/248687/

Seattle Education Association orders teachers to work without contract vote
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-09-04
The move comes after teachers in Washington's largest district voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike last week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/04/seat…

Tours of Greenpeace Activist Ship at Pier 19 in San Francisco (FREE)
Greenpeace | indybay.org | 2018-09-04
Pier 19, San Francisco, CA 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/02/18817267.php

Rise for Climate: Greenpeace Ship hosts Art & Sign Build for SF March
Greenpeace USA | indybay.org | 2018-09-04
Pier 19, San Francisco, CA 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/02/18817268.php

Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-09-04
Teachers in Buenos Aires province struck for three days last week for pay and infrastructure improvements, while Buenos Aires area bus drivers struck against arbitrary dismissals and the generally poor shape of transport facilities.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/04/wrkr…

No more science for you: Liquid nitrogen experiment fail caught on camera (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2018-09-04
The Museum of Discovery in Little Rock, Arkansas is beloved by locals and known for its hands-on approach to science education. However, things got a little out of hand at a recent event combining magic and science.
rt.com/usa/437582-liquid-nitrogen-experiment-fail/

Protect the Protest: Speaker Event on Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise Ship in San Francisco
PGU | indybay.org | 2018-09-04
The Arctic Sunrise, Pier 19, San Francisco, CA 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/02/18817270.php

Watch Your Wallets — The Next Crash Is Coming
Robert Reich, AlterNet | alternet.org | 2018-09-03
Trump and his Republican enablers are now reversing regulations put in place to stop Wall Street's excessively risky lending. | September 15 will mark the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and near meltdown of Wall Street, followed by the Great Recession. Since hitting bottom in 2009, the economy has grown steadily, the stock market has soared, and corporate profits have ballooned. But most Americans are still living in the shadow of the Great Recession. More have jobs, to be sure. But they haven't seen any rise in their wages, adjusted for inflation. Many are worse off due to the escalating costs of housing, healthcare, and education. And the value of whatever assets they own is less than in 2007. Last year, about 40 percent of American families struggled to meet at least one basic need — food, health care, housing or. . .
alternet.org/watch-your-wallets-next-crash-coming

The Audacity of Super Wealth
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-03
As a transplanted New Yorker living in what I call 'Death Valley USA' or Daytona Beach, Florida, I like to keep up with my old sports town. The only NYC paper …
globalresearch.ca/the-audacity-of-super-wealth/5652852

Selected Articles: US-Israel Coalition Is Burying the Palestinians Alive
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-03
For almost seventeen years, Global Research, together with partner independent media organizations, has sought Truth in Media with a view to eventually "disarming" the corporate media's disinformation crusade. | To reverse the …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-us-israel-coalition-is-burying-the-palestinians-alive/5652837

The Carnival of Homelessness: How the Filthy Rich React
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-03
An aggressive sign of an affluent society can usually be gauged by its invidious misuse of its privilege. Poverty is deemed necessary, and the rich must try to understand it. To be privileged is to be guilty, a tickling of the conscience as the pennies pile up and the assets grow; and from that premise,…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/03/the-carnival-of-homelessness-how-the-filthy-rich-react/

As union seeks to wrap up strikes, Washington teachers rally and call for statewide walkout
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-09-03
Educators demand statewide strike action in Washington state, while the union seeks to quash walkouts and prevent new ones.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/03/wash…

Sharp rise in right-wing attacks on Palestinians and Israeli peace and rights activists
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-09-01
The nationality law, enshrining Israel's status as the nation-state of the Jewish people, not the state of all its citizens irrespective of religion or ethnicity, is fanning the flames of racial hatred.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/01/isra…

Los Angeles teachers vote 98 percent for strike authorization
wsws.org | wsws.org | 2018-09-01
For the first time in almost 30 years, Los Angeles teachers vote overwhelmingly for strike action.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/01/late…

Seattle Teachers Poised to Strike Draw Solidarity from Their Brothers and Sisters In Puerto Rico
Jesse Hagopian | progressive.org | 2018-08-31
To prepare for what we are likely to face in our struggle for a just contract, Seattle educators recently organized a panel that included a representative from the Puerto Rico Federation of Teachers.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/seattle-teachers-poised-to-strike-draw-solidarity-from-Puerto-Rico-180831/

What Educators Can Do to Make College More Affordable
Don Weimer | progressive.org | 2018-08-31
It's not just tuition–the cost of textbooks and other curricular materials is unnecessarily high.
progressive.org/dispatches/how-colleges-and-universities-can-make-education-affordable-180831/

Strange Affinity: How David Foster Wallace Became Enamored With John McCain
Chris Welzenbach | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-31
The recent passing of John McCain at age 81 resulted in the usual mass media panegyrics, but this time with an odd addition: references to David Foster Wallace and his 2000 essay for Rolling Stone about the late senator and the Straight Talk Express McCain had chartered for his unsuccessful presidential run. Passages from Wallace's essay…
counterpunch.org/2018/08/31/strange-affinity-how-david-foster-wallace-became-enamored-with-john-mccain/

Oklahoma Teachers Must Stay Unified to Overcome Janus and Union-Bashers
John Thompson | progressive.org | 2018-08-30
Oklahoma teachers face the litmus test of whether to reinvigorate–or reinvent–their union.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/oklahoma-teachers-must-stay-unified-180829/

Venezuela Denounces Regional Anti-Migrant 'Xenophobia' as Brazil Militarises Border
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-08-30
The Maduro administration contrasted the recent attacks against Venezuelan migrants to its own open door policy which has seen foreigners benefit from free health, housing, education, and food programs.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14023