COVID-19 Coronavirus: Time Line and Analysis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
Background | On January 30th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in relation to China's novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) categorized as a viral pneumonia. The virus outbreak was centred in Wuhan, a city …
globalresearch.ca/ncov-2019-coronavirus-time-line/5705776
COVID-19 Coronavirus: Timeline and Analysis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
On January 30, a far-reaching decision was taken by the WHO without the support of expert opinion at a time when the coronavirus outbreak was limited to Mainland China. 150 confirmed cases outside China, when the decision was taken, 6 in the US, 3 in Canada, 2 in the UK, etc. In early March, 430 cases in the US.
globalresearch.ca/ncov-2019-coronavirus-time-line/5705776
Spying or oppo research? Blackwater boogeyman Prince accused of helping Project Veritas infiltrate political campaigns & unions
rt.com | 2020-03-08
The left is suddenly shocked to find 'opposition research' taken to a 'whole new level' amid claims that notorious Blackwater founder Erik Prince hired ex-spies to train Project Veritas agents to infiltrate liberal organizations. | Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide and brother to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, recruited both ex-British and American spies to help in undercover operations run by Project Veritas, according to a report from the New York Times. Prince's activities…
rt.com/usa/482587-erik-prince-project-veritas/
Iran's Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 194 Amid New Cases
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-08
The novel coronavirus has claimed 194 lives in Iran, the Ministry of Health and Medical Education announced Sunday amid more reports of deaths related to this illness. | RELATED: | Death Toll from Coronavirus Rises to 26 in Iran | Kianush Jahanpur, head of Public Relations and Information Center of the ministry, said the total number of the confirmed cases now stands at 6,566, of whom 2,134 have recovered. | The virus itself has also hit several Iranian officials and ministers, with some repo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Irans-Coronavirus-Death-Toll-Rises-to-194-Amid-New-Cases-20200308-0001.html
Globalization and Women's Rights: Economic Restructuring, Women's Experiences and Responses to "Neoliberal Shocks"
Tina Renier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
There is a critical nexus between colonial development and economic re-structuring processes in the Third world whereby globalization is an ideological weapon that extends imperial control over ex-colonies through persistent poverty and underdevelopment. | Globalization is also an external war that …
globalresearch.ca/women-experiences-responses-neoliberal-shocks/5687305
International Women's Day: Syria says YES to Women, and NO to Wahhabis
Prof. Tim Anderson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
Image. Prof. Tim Anderson | First published by GR on March 8, 2016 | On International Women's Day
International Women's Day: Syria says YES to Women, and NO to Wahhabis
Prof. Tim Anderson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
Image. Prof. Tim Anderson | First published by GR on March 8, 2016 | On International Women's Day
Putin Saves Erdogan from Himself
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
At the start of their discussion marathon in Moscow on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with arguably the most extraordinary diplomatic gambit of the young 21st century. | Putin said: | "At the beginning of | …
globalresearch.ca/putin-saves-erdogan/5705806
Crimes in Afghanistan: Fatou Bensouda's Investigative Mission
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
It seemed an unlikely prospect. The International Criminal Court has tended to find itself accused of chasing up the inhumane rogues of Africa rather than those from any other continent. It has also been accused of having an overly burdensome …
globalresearch.ca/crimes-afghanistan-fatou-bensouda-investigative-mission/5705815
Video: Syrian Army Win Battle Against Erdogan Forces in Idlib, but War Is Far from Over
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
The first days of March broke the dreams of the Turkish political and military leadership of a swift victory over the Syrian Armed Forces. Operation Spring Shield failed to achieve the goal officially declared by top Turkish officials
Clinton and Sanders. "No Body Likes Him" Says Hillary
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
Former First Lady, New York State Senator, Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton continues to criticize Vermont senator Bernie Sanders whenever the opportunity to do so presents itself. 'Nobody likes him', says she, despite the millions …
globalresearch.ca/clinton-sanders/5705813
Trump Regime Blocks UN Security Council Support for Syria Ceasefire Already Breached
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-08
The US under both right wings of its war party wants endless conflict, instability, and chaos continuing in all its war theaters
STEM Undergraduate Town Hall
Pay Us More UCSC | indybay.org | 2020-03-08
Earth and Marine Sciences B206 | UC Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831331.php
Mexico Vows to End Violence Against Indigenous Women
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-08
In recent years, the violence against women in Mexico has reached alarming figures, and the wave of femicides has soared to a record 1,010 victims in 2019. | RELATED: | 150,000-Plus Students March Against Violence in Central Mexico | Statistics reflect the potential danger of being a woman in Mexico, something that gets worse when women belong to an Indigenous community. | Violence against Indigenous women has increased on a daily basis, while discrimination based on gender, et…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Vows-to-End-Violence-Against-Indigenous-Women-20200308-0002.html
Whose University? Day 18 Strike Updates at UC Santa Cruz
Pay Us More UCSC | indybay.org | 2020-03-08
For the 18th day of the strike, hundreds of graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, lecturers, and others successfully closed down UCSC's main campus for the entire working day.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831333.php
Students Petition UC Irvine After Campus Police Arrest a Black Alumna
Sara Weissman, Diverse | indybay.org | 2020-03-08
Shikera Chamndany, a Black alumna in biomedical engineering at UC Irvine, went to campus to collect her transcripts on Feb. 20. She ended up spending the night in Orange County Women's Jail.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831337.php
Petition: Accountability for the Incident Regarding a Black UCI Alumna at UC Irvine
Black Student Union at UC-Irvine | indybay.org | 2020-03-08
UCI Black Student Union and United Students Against Sweatshops Demand for Accountability Regarding the Incident on February 20, 2020…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831338.php
Drop the Charges! Pack the court for our fellow comrades!
Worker Student Solidarity Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-03-08
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz | 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/08/18831368.php
UC Santa Cruz Fires 54 Graduate Students
Vivian Ho | zcomm.org | 2020-03-08
Termination letters were sent to those students protesting for a cost-of-living adjustment amid California's housing crisis…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/uc-santa-cruz-fires-54-graduate-students/
Huge Turnout for UC Berkeley Day of Action and Solidarity
CCPUMU | indybay.org | 2020-03-08
UC Berkeley graduate student workers, undergraduates and faculty stop work to demand COLA and reinstatement of fired UCSC workers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831330.php
Countdown Begins as SpaceX Inks Deal for 'First Fully Private' Space Mission to ISS
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-08
Earlier, in February, SpaceX signed a deal with Space Adventures to send four tourists deeper into the orbit than any other private astronaut, on a venture that could take place by 2022 and cost more than $100 million.
sputniknews.com/science/202003081078511131-countdown-begins-as-spacex-inks-deal-for-first-fully-private-space-mission-to-iss/
Turkish president, first lady mark Women's Day
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-08
Turkey's president and his wife on Sunday marked the occasion of March 8, International Women's Day."I congratulate our women, who play a vital role in shaping our future with their sacrifices, efforts, love, and struggle, and are the first teachers of humanity, on March 8, International Women's Day," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote on Twitter.First lady Emine Erdogan also posted a message on Twitter congratulating all women on March 8, International Women's Day, and voicing hope that they all reach their full rights."All our shelters are women, such as motherland, mother tongue, 'mother home,' and Anatolia,…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-president-first-lady-mark-womens-day-3513551
Australia: "Teachers for Assange and Manning" campaign in Melbourne
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
The active intervention of teachers and education support staff is just one indication of the growing concern among millions of people that Assange's persecution has immense implications.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/cfpe…
San Ysidro, California high school students walk out to oppose attacks on public education
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
On Friday, March 6, hundreds of students at San Ysidro High School in San Diego, California walked out to oppose budget cuts and attacks on public education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/sany…
75 Years Ago: Nazi Germany's Launch Final Major Attacks of the Second World War
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-07
Seventy-five years ago, on 6 March 1945, the Third Reich launched what was to be its final great offensive of World War II, called Operation Spring Awakening (Unternehmen Fràºhlingserwachen). This attack, not well known today, was directed eastwards through the …
globalresearch.ca/75-years-ago-nazi-germanys-launch-final-major-attacks-of-the-second-world-war/5705703
From Afghanistan to Syria: Women's Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA
Julie Lévesque | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-07
Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.
globalresearch.ca/from-afghanistan-to-syria-womens-rights-war-propaganda-and-the-cia/5329665
Video: Turkish Drones Falling in Idlib. 'Moderate Rebels' Gas Themselves by Mistake
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-07
Early on March 5, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on targets in the Syrian provinces of Homs and Quneitra. According to the Syrian military, the attack was conducted from Lebanese airspace at 00: 30 local time. …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-drones-falling-idlib-moderate-rebels-gas-themselves-mistake/5705709
Women's Rights and Social Justice: Julia Ward Howe's 1870 Anti-War Mother's Day Proclamation, A Day of Peace
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-07
Julia Ward Howe was a humanist who cared about suffering people, a feminist, a social justice activist & suffragette, and it was because of her anti-war commitment that she wrote the famous "Mother's Day Proclamation" 5 years after the Civil War, which resulted in 600,000 dead American soldiers…
globalresearch.ca/womens-rights-and-social-justice-julia-ward-howes-1870-mothers-day-proclamation-a-day-of-peace/5589245
Women's Rights and Social Justice: Julia Ward Howe's 1870 Anti-War Mother's Day Proclamation, A Day of Peace
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-07
Julia Ward Howe was a humanist who cared about suffering people, a feminist, a social justice activist & suffragette, and it was because of her anti-war commitment that she wrote the famous "Mother's Day Proclamation" 5 years after the Civil War, which resulted in 600,000 dead American soldiers…
globalresearch.ca/womens-rights-and-social-justice-julia-ward-howes-1870-mothers-day-proclamation-a-day-of-peace/5589245
Absolutely sickening–and scary': Man unfurls Nazi flag at Bernie Sanders rally, heightening security concerns
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-03-07
"All people of conscience must condemn this anti-Semitism against the most visible Jewish politician in the country." | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/07/absolutely-sickening-and-scary-man-unfurls-nazi-flag-at-bernie-sanders-rally-heightening-security-concerns/
Absolutely sickening–and scary': Man unfurls Nazi flag at Bernie Sanders rally, heightening security concerns
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-03-07
"All people of conscience must condemn this anti-Semitism against the most visible Jewish politician in the country." | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/07/absolutely-sickening-and-scary-man-unfurls-nazi-flag-at-bernie-sanders-rally-heightening-security-concerns/
15-Year Old Boy Hit by Israeli Rubber Bullet While in School
Staff | imemc.org | 2020-03-07
In the al-Isawiyya area of Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israeli forces fired a rubber-coated steel bullet into a schoolyard, injuring 15-year-old student Mohammad Awni Atiya in his hand. The incident took place at the "Boys Secondary School", in the village of Al-'Isawiya. The Silwan Information Center reported that the Israeli Special …
imemc.org/article/15-year-old-boy-hit-by-israeli-rubber-bullet-while-in-school/
University of California graduate student strike: A struggle against the United Auto Workers and the Democratic Party
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
For two months, UC graduate students and teaching assistants have engaged in a wildcat strike, rebelling against the UAW to demand cost of living adjustments in one of the most expensive states in the US.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/pers…
California graduate students expand wildcat strike to fourth campus, with two more slated to join
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
The powerful initiative taken by striking grad students poses the need to maintain complete independence from the trade union bureaucracies and the Democratic Party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/ucsc…
Students in Brazil Make Nazi Salute Inside a Classroom
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-07
A prestigious school in Brazil got dragged into a scandal after one of its students ran an election campaign styled after Adolf Hitler, recruiting a dozen supporters eager to have him as their 'Fàºhrer' ("leader" or "guide," associated with the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler). | RELATED: | Brazil's Secretary of Culture Fired After Quoting Nazi Goebbels in Video | The scandal occurred at the Colegio Santa Maria, a private Christian school in the city of Recife in north…
telesurenglish.net/news/Students-in-Brazil-Make-Nazi-Salute-Inside-a-Classroom-20200307-0006.html
Johnstone brings her Moral Compass to our Dantesque World
Eric Walberg | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-07
First, Diana Johnstone's memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/johnstone-brings-her-moral-compass-to-our-dantesque-world/
Israeli Troops Invade Birzeit University Dorms; Abduct 5 Students
Staff | imemc.org | 2020-03-07
Early Friday morning, Israeli forces raided student dormitories at Birzeit University in Ramallah, in the central West Bank, and abducted five students. According to local sources, Israeli troops kidnapped five students affiliated with the Islamic Bloc, the student branch of the Hamas movement, at Birzeit University in Ramallah. The sources …
imemc.org/article/5-birzeit-university-students-arrested/
University of California graduate student strike: A struggle against the United Auto Workers and the Democratic Party
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
For two months, UC graduate students and teaching assistants have engaged in a wildcat strike, rebelling against the UAW to demand cost of living adjustments in one of the most expensive states in the US.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/pers…
Schools Are Operating as Testbeds for Mass Surveillance
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-07
A school district in New York recently adopted facial recognition technology to monitor students, and it is now one of a growing number of schools across the country conducting mass privacy violations of kids in the name of "safety." The invasive use of surveillance technologies in schools has grown exponentially, often without oversight or recourse for concerned students or their parents. | Not only that, but schools are ex…
truthout.org/articles/schools-are-operating-as-testbeds-for-mass-surveillance/
Brazil: Amid brutal police repression, Sà£o Paulo government passes state pension reform
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
The attack was carried out with the complicity of the teachers union and after Workers Party governments in the northeast of Brazil passed their own pension reforms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/braz…
Brazil: Amid brutal police repression, Sà£o Paulo government passes state pension reform
wsws.org | 2020-03-07
The attack was carried out with the complicity of the teachers union and after Workers Party governments in the northeast of Brazil passed their own pension reforms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/braz…
Coronavirus: Remember the "Fake" 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
A Worldwide public health emergency is unfolding, 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are envisaged by the WHO.
globalresearch.ca/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-manipulating-the-data-to-justify-a-worldwide-public-health-emergency/14901
The Brooklyn Yeshiva Anthem Protest: Why It's Not Antisemitic
Ira Glunts | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-06
"An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike."
Another Farcical Ceasefire in Syria
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
Time and again, ceasefires agreed to on Syria were breached straightaway by US/NATO/Turkish supported terrorists. | Is this time different? Will belligerent Trump and Erdogan regimes turn a page for restoration of peace and stability in Syria? | Will they renounce years …
globalresearch.ca/another-farcical-ceasefire-in-syria/5705729
COVID-19 "Worldwide Epidemic of Biblical Proportions"
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
This is becoming increasingly crazy. The Western media hype is intolerable with its fear-mongering. What is driving this? | In most countries, a few people or a few hundred people have been infected with this virus, and a dozen or so …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-worldwide-epidemic-biblical-proportions/5705735
–°oronavirus May be a Product of US 'Biological Attack' Aimed at Iran and China, IRGC Chief Claims
RT News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
The US –Åould be the prime culprit behind Covid-2019 outbreak that hit China and then Iran, head of its elite Revolutionary Guards claimed, threatening that the virus will eventually be turned against those who unleashed it. | "It is possible that | …
globalresearch.ca/%d1%81oronavirus-product-us-biological-attack-aimed-iran-china-irgc-chief-claims/5705747
Afghanistan: Imagine There's No Future
Daniel Lazare | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
Here's a little thought experiment. Imagine it's Sept. 12, 2001, and America is in deep shock over the destruction of the World Trade Center the previous day. George W. Bush goes on national TV and declares: | "Now is not the | …
globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-imagine-no-future/5705743
"Voices from Syria" and "The Dirty War on Syria": Mark Taliano and Tim Anderson Analyze the War on Syria
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
Voices from Syria by Mark Taliano and The Dirty War on Syria by Tim Anderson: two essential books on Syria for . | *SPECIAL OFFER: Voices from Syria + The Dirty War on Syria: | …
globalresearch.ca/voices-from-syria-and-the-dirty-war-on-syria-mark-taliano-and-tim-anderson-analyze-the-war-on-syria/5620373
Joe Biden in 2020 Duplicates Hillary Clinton in 2016
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
Hillary Clinton, of course, received the Democratic Party nomination in 2016 and was widely expected to beat Trump but she lost to him (though she won California by 4,269,978 in the popular vote, and so beat Trump by 2,864,974 …
globalresearch.ca/joe-biden-2020-duplicates-hillary-clinton-2016/5705753
Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (2020)
Eric Walberg | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
First, Diana Johnstone's memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, …
globalresearch.ca/circle-darkness-memoir-world-watcher-2020/5705714
