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2020-03-03: Social Media Postees

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Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2020-03-03
More than 100,000 Brazilian postal workers are set to strike as teachers in the state of Utah rallied to demand education funding…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/03/wrkr…

UK university workers face a political struggle against Johnson government
wsws.org | 2020-03-03
The strike is the largest ever in higher education, with staff taking action at 74 universities.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/03/univ…

Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
Jonathan Latham | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-03
The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the researchers called such oversights "serious pitfalls" of gene editing (Skryabin et al., 2020). In all, the new results suggest that gene-editing is more error-prone…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/03/researchers-are-substantially-undercounting-gene-editing-errors/

Global Research Needs Your Help To Curb Disinformation
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Curbing the tide of disinformation being pumped out by powerful and well-funded mainstream media is a considerable and costly challenge. Global Research operates on a shoe-string budget and does not accept funding from outside sources. This allows us to maintain …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-needs-your-help-to-curb-disinformation/5705345

UAW 2865 UCB Graduate Students March To Sproul Hall To Demand COLA & Against Union Busting
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-03-03
UAW 2865 graduate students and supporters marched to UCB Sproul Hall to demand a cost of living clause and protested the union busting action of UC President Janet Napolitano firing 54 graduate students at UC Santa Cruz.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/29/18831201.php

Striking University of California graduate students defy firings, expand strike
wsws.org | 2020-03-03
Thousands of graduate students and supporters rallied across California to demand higher wages and rehiring of over 100 victimized strikers. Administration, backed by the United Auto Workers, remains intransigent despite growing international support.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/03/ucsc…

Strike Escalates After UCSC Fires Nearly 100 Graduate Student Workers
Spread The Strike! | indybay.org | 2020-03-03
Graduate students at UC Santa Cruz are calling for the cancellation of classes on Monday and for everyone to join us on the picket for a press conference at 9am. On Monday, we wear red for the future of higher ed. The strike continues. See you on the picket.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/29/18831163.php

Turkey to host 3rd artificial intelligence summit
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-03
Turkey is set to hold the third Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit in Istanbul with the aim to inform people about upcoming innovations.The summit will be held on March 12 at UNIQ Istanbul under the theme, Artificial Intelligence Adds Value to your Business.A number of national and foreign experts are expected to attend the event."AI will become the operating system of our civilization. It is going to penetrate deeply into all segments of private and commercial life whether it be health, education, e-commerce, security, justice or banking," said Halil Aksu, founder of Turkey AI Initiative.Emre Ergun, vice presid…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-to-host-3rd-artificial-intelligence-summit-3513224

Scientists to Build Functional Wormhole Using Black Holes in a Lab
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-03
Wormholes, the theoretical connection between disparate regions of space-time, have been widely speculated about as a possible super-fast way of travelling vast distances. The catch? They're extremely unstable and might destroy any matter unfortunate enough to pass through them.
sputniknews.com/science/202003031078463038-scientists-to-build-functional-wormhole-using-black-holes-in-a-lab/

Colossal Asteroid Packing a Killer Punch Hurtling Towards Earth
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-03
Asteroids or comets that come within 50 million km (30 million miles) of Earth's orbit are dubbed NEOs (Near Earth Objects) and are viewed as representing a possible danger to Earth.
sputniknews.com/science/202003031078462268-colossal-asteroid-packing-a-killer-punch-hurtling-towards-earth/

Alcovirus: Hungover Student Sparks Coronavirus Fear Inflight, Quarantined For Fortnight
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-03
Last week, the Mirror reported that the UK's Department of Health closed the Holiday Inn hotel at Heathrow airport to quarantine visitors arriving from coronavirus-hit countries.
sputniknews.com/world/202003031078461362-alcovirus-hungover-student-sparks-coronavirus-fear-inflight-quarantined-for-fortnight/

30 mila soldati dagli Usa in Europa senza mascherina
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Gli Stati uniti hanno alzato l'allerta Coronavirus per l'Italia a livello 3 ( ´evitare viaggi non essenziali ª), portandolo a 4 per Lombardia e Veneto ( ´non viaggiare ª), lo stesso che per la Cina. Le American Airlines e le Delta Air Lines hanno …
globalresearch.ca/30-mila-soldati-dagli-usa-in-europa-senza-mascherina/5705348

Trinta mil soldados vindos dos USA na Europa, sem máscara
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-03
Os Estados Unidos subiram o alerta do Coronavírus para a Itália, do nível 3 ("evitar viagens nà£o essenciais"), elevando-o para 4, para a Lombardia e Veneto ("nà£o viajar"), o mesmo que para a China. A American Airlines e a Delta …
globalresearch.ca/trinta-mil-soldados-vindos-dos-usa-na-europa-sem-mascara/5705352

End Torture and Medical Neglect of Julian Assange
Doctors for Assange | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
On Nov 22, 2019, we, a group of more than 60 medical doctors, wrote to the UK Home Secretary to express our serious concerns about the physical and mental health of Julian Assange.1 | In our letter,1 we documented a history | …
globalresearch.ca/end-torture-medical-neglect-julian-assange-2/5705197

Jeremy Corbyn's Silence During Julian Assange's Extradition Hearing
Chris Marsden | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Last week, Julian Assange was subjected to an extradition hearing brought by the Trump administration to bring the WikiLeaks founder to the United States to face Espionage Act charges carrying a 175-year prison sentence. | Throughout the four-day proceedings in London, …
globalresearch.ca/jeremy-corbyn-criminal-silence-julian-assange-extradition-hearing/5705280

Coronavirus highlights dangers of Trump's destruction of the public sphere
Tim Libretti | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-02
It's easy to sell people on lower taxes and them to hate paying taxes altogether. Few politicians, even those who promise to provide health care, better public education, student debt relief, and so on, rarely explain in detail what Americans are getting in return for the investments their taxes fund or the bills they pay. …
peoplesworld.org/article/coronavirus-highlights-dangers-of-trumps-destruction-of-the-public-sphere/

A Perfect Storm on the Horizon. Turkey's Hegemonic Ambitions
Askiah Adam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Russia is pushing back the Turkish Army in Idlib. As the Turks broke through the Syrian Arab Army's (SAA) defence the latter called for air assistance from Russia. The fighters came and victory was the SAA's. With that all …
globalresearch.ca/perfect-storm-horizon/5705253

Turkey and Syria Are at War Without a Declaration of War
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Although Turkey has supported anti-Syrian government forces, especially terrorist organizations like ISIS and the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra and Turkistan Islamic Party, since the very beginning of the Syrian War in 2011, no declaration of war has ever been announced …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-syria-war-without-declaration/5705275

The Illusion of Restoring Peace and Stability in Afghanistan
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
The US came to Afghanistan to stay, the same is true for all its war theaters by occupation and/or installed puppet regimes serving its interests. | Afghanistan's troubled history goes back centuries. John Pilger explained that "no country has been abused …
globalresearch.ca/illusion-restoring-peace-stability-afghanistan/5705218

Iran: Regime Change by Coronavirus?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
The consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran will exacerbate the Islamic Republic's ongoing economic crisis and bring it even closer to political collapse than ever before, the outcome of which is unwittingly being facilitated by the government's mismanaged response …
globalresearch.ca/iran-regime-change-coronavirus/5705298

Why Do Fiber Optic Installations Increase Electrical Sensitivity?
Jeromy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
I have received dozens of emails from people in several countries who report an increase in, or initial onset of, electrical sensitivity symptoms when high-speed fiber optic internet is installed in their neighborhood. How could this be? Isn't wired fiber …
globalresearch.ca/why-fiber-optic-installations-increase-electrical-sensitivity/5705227

Turkey Asks NATO to Join Its War Against Syria and Russia
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
The spokesperson for the Islamist party of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has called upon all of NATO to go to war against Syria for Syria's having killed dozens of Turkey's troops in order for Syria to defeat Turkey's invasion and …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-asks-nato-join-war-against-syria-russia/5705213

Third Israeli Election Heading for Impasse Again?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
On Monday, Israelis are voting for the third time since last April, impasse occurring twice before, what may happen again this time. | According to the latest pre-election polls, Netanyahu's Likud party and lead challenger Benny Gantz's Blue and White each …
globalresearch.ca/third-israeli-election-heading-impasse-again/5705271

Turkey Sacrifices Their Own Troops to Protect Al-Qaeda?
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
After 33 Turkish troops were killed in a Syrian army offensive on February 27 amidst the current Russia-backed campaign to liberate Idlib, Erdogan responded by laying the blame entirely on Russia and Syria

Whitewashing the West's Disastrous War in Libya
Ted Galen Carpenter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
A new report from the United Nations bluntly conveys the extent of the continuing chaos in Libya and the suffering it has caused. Yacoub El Hillo, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Libya, stated that the impact on civilians of the …
globalresearch.ca/whitewashing-west-disastrous-war-libya/5705283

Lectures by Walter Rodney Present An African Perspective on the Russian Revolution
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
During the late 1960s and the 1970s, the University of Dar es Salaam in the East African state of Tanzania was a center of Marxist thought on the continent. | After the overthrow of Convention People's Party (CPP) of Ghana on …
globalresearch.ca/lectures-walter-rodney-presents-african-perspective-russian-revolution/5705202

South Carolina Primary: What Does It Mean?
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
What are the political 'takeaways' from yesterday's South Carolina primary? In just few words: not many. | None that change the fundamental dynamics that have in play throughout the primaries in general thus far to date. | Biden bought himself some time, …
globalresearch.ca/south-carolina-primary-what-does-mean/5705249

American Fàºhrer: Delusionary, Dictatorial Donald Trump Is Drunk on Power
Ralph Nader | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
The word 'corruption' cannot fully embrace how this insulting megalomaniac is tearing apart our country, our democratic practices, and our moral norms. Who will put a stop to this president's corrupt rampage against the American people? | *** | Delusionary, dictatorial Donald …
globalresearch.ca/american-fuhrer-delusionary-dictatorial-donald-trump-drunk-power/5705240

MIT Study Finds No Evidence of Fraud in Bolivian Election that Resulted in a Coup
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Back in November 2019, former Bolivian President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup after claims of election fraud from the Organization for American States (OAS). A new MIT study into the October 20th presidential election does not support …
globalresearch.ca/mit-study-finds-no-evidence-fraud-bolivian-election-resulted-coup/5705288

Analysis of the 2019 Bolivia Election
Jack R. Williams | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
On October 20, 2019, Bolivia held its third general election under its 2009 constitution. Nine presidential candidates competed in the presidential election, but early polling indicated a likely two- way race between President Evo Morales of the Movimiento al Socialismo | …
globalresearch.ca/analysis-2019-bolivia-election/5705285

Palestine and Trump's "Peace to Prosperity" Plan
Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Trump's "Peace to Prosperity" Plan, was officially unveiled, on 28 January, 2020, at the White House, by both American President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Plan, also known as "Deal of the Century", dealt with a …
globalresearch.ca/critical-remarks-trump-peace-prosperity-plan/5705199

A Disgraceful Milestone: Trump's "Conflicts of Interest"
CREW | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
A New Milestone | President Trump's unprecedented decision to retain his business interests while serving in the White House set the stage for a deluge of conflicts of interests between the government and the Trump Organization. From the beginning of President …
globalresearch.ca/trump-3000-conflicts-interest/5705239

The World's Waste-Pickers Under Threat
Barcelona Research Group on Informal Recyclers | commondreams.org | 2020-03-02
Waste pickers oppose policies that exclude them from their source of livelihood: recyclable waste. (Photo: Global Alliance of Waste Pickers) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/03/02/worlds-waste-pickers-under-threat?cd-origin=rss

Britain's Political Trajectory
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
For years now, as regular readers of Truepublica will know, I have consistently warned that Britain will be moving from a system of liberal democracy towards authoritarianism and that it would only take a few short years to achieve. As …
globalresearch.ca/britain-political-trajectory/5705236

Flashpoints in Southern Syria Seek to Divide/Distract Syrian Gains in Idlib
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
Turkey and Israel continue their aggression against Syria in an increasingly overt and direct manner

Podcast: Oliver Vargas on US Election Meddling In Bolivia and the Country's Indigenous Uprising
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-02
Welcome to the re-launch of MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence. | One such voice is independent Bolivian-British journalist Oliver Vargas. He joins MintCast to discuss his exclusive on the ground coverage of…
mintpressnews.com/podcast-oliver-vargas-election-meddling-bolivia-indigenous-uprising/265411/

Dems and AIPAC Team Up to Stop Sanders: "Israel Prefers Trump…" "Sanders is Not a Friend of Israel"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
In the race to become Dem party standard bearer in November, Bernie Sanders leads rival aspirants

University of California strikers defy firings and expand strike
wsws.org | 2020-03-02
As opposition grows to the vindictive firing of 80 striking grad students at the University of California Santa Cruz, the UAW and the Democratic Party are trying to contain the struggle before it triggers a broader movement of the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/02/ucsc…

On Joining a Teachers' Union and Supporting Bernie Sanders
Mary Kelly Gardner | commondreams.org | 2020-03-02
I'm voting for Bernie because for too long the suffering of so many people in this country has fallen on deaf ears. (Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/03/02/joining-teachers-union-and-supporting-bernie-sanders?cd-origin=rss

Charter School Promoters Celebrate Charter School Failure
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-02
Even worse than the persistently high failure rate of brick-and-mortar charter schools is the extraordinary failure rate of cyber charter schools year after year. Even the nature and scope of corruption in these deregulated online schools is more troubling than the corruption that has long plagued brick-and-mortar charter schools nationwide. The abysmal performance of cyber …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/charter-school-promoters-celebrate-charter-school-failure/

Record fall in key China production index
wsws.org | 2020-03-02
China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced over the weekend that the manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 35.7 in February, down from 50 in January, hitting an all-time low.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/02/chin…

Selected Articles: MIT Study Finds No Evidence of Fraud in Bolivian Election that Resulted in a Coup
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-02
MIT Study Finds No Evidence of Fraud in Bolivian Election that Resulted in a Coup | By Dave DeCamp, March 02, 2020 | Back in November 2019, former Bolivian President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup after claims of election …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-mit-study-finds-no-evidence-fraud-bolivian-election-resulted-coup/5705301

Children Under 13 Pick Coffee for Starbucks, Nespresso: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-01
Children under 13 in Guatemala are working in the coffee farms that supply beans to giants Nespresso (owned by Nestle) and Starbucks‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã, an investigation by British television program 'Dispatches' uncovered last week. | RELATED: | Child Labor Behind Chocolate Ferrero Rocher: UK Rights Group | During their research, Channel 4's reporters visited seven farms supplying Nespress…
telesurenglish.net/news/Children-Under-13-Pick-Coffee-Beans-for-Starbucks-Nespresso–20200301-0007.html

Elementary School in NJ Latinx Community Fights Displacement by Robert Wood Johnson Cancer Center
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-28
In New Jersey, hundreds rallied at the New Brunswick Board of Education meeting Tuesday night against plans to demolish a public school to make way for Robert Wood Johnson Hospital and Rutgers University to build a new cancer center. Protesters included families and more than 30 children, who held signs reading "Save our School!" and "Stop Gentrification." If approved, 760 third-through-eighth-graders at Lincoln Annex School would be moved to a former warehouse building on the outskirts of town as they await construction of a replacement school. Even worse, the proposed new school site is located on a "brownfield…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/28/lincoln_a…

Months After Supporting a Deadly Coup, WaPo Admits Bolivia's Elections Were Clean
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-28
The Washington Post published an op-ed yesterday from a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showing that there was no fraud in the October elections in Bolivia after all.
mintpressnews.com/after-supporting-coup-washington-post-admits-bolivia-elections-clean/265334/

Digital Workerism: Technology, platforms, and the circulation of workers' struggles
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-02-28
The so-called platform economy–the distribution of, and access to work through websites and apps–continues to grab headlines and the imagination of policy makers, researchers, and journalists the world over. Much attention is given to its rapid expansion, its potential for further growth, and the large amounts of wealth generated through it. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/02/28/digital-workerism-technology-platforms-and-the-circulation-of-workers-struggles/

Blue check blues: Twitter tricked into verifying teen's fake 2020 candidate for Congress while real people languish
rt.com | 2020-02-28
A high school student tricked Twitter into verifying an account he made for a fake candidate for Congress from Rhode Island, proving the platform's vaunted election integrity efforts are no match for a bored teen. | Rhode Island Republican Andrew Walz's Twitter has been suspended as of Friday, but before that, the blue-checked politician was seemingly a candidate like any other. Perhaps the platitudes that graced his page were a little emptier – "Let's make a change in Washington together," really? – and the follower count a bit low, but the co…
rt.com/usa/481976-teenager-fake-congressman-verified-twitter/

Will America's curiosity about socialism outlive today's socialist moment?
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-28
It started with the near collapse of the economy in 2008-09 when millions lost their homes and jobs and started questioning the status quo. Discussion about it picked up again with the Occupy Wall Street movement as young people realized the future they faced–low-wage jobs, endless student debt–was anything but bright. Then, it emerged more …
peoplesworld.org/article/will-americas-curiosity-about-socialism-outlive-todays-socialist-moment/

How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-27
Sonia Shah is an investigative science journalist and author of "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond." Her new book is titled "The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move" and will be published in June. She says the climate crisis is making outbreaks of infectious diseases more common, with the destruction of natural animal habitats and the changes in migration bringing humans and animals into ever-closer contact and making new pathogens more likely. Her latest article, published in The Nation, is titled "Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Th…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/27/climate_c…

USF students rally against racist administration
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-26
Tampa, FL – On February 25, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a Black Students Matter rally on campus to bring attention to the racist admissions practices that the administration at the University of South Florida (USF) engages in. | Enrollment of Black students at USF has been declining for years and the percent of Black students at USF was the lowest it's been in the past decade last semester (fall 2019), at 9.4%. This is especially alarming considering that in the Tampa Bay area, where USF is located, Black people comprise 24% of the population. | "We understand how schools like USF parta…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/2/26/usf-stud…

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2020-03-02: News Headlines

Yves Engler (2020-03-02). Trudeau Enables Corporate Canada to Exploit Ethiopia's Minerals. globalresearch.ca The Federal government wants Canadian corporations to profit from Ethiopia's minerals. | During his recent trip to the Horn of Africa country Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced negotiations on a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA). As I detailed in …

Eric Margolis (2020-03-02). Muslim Haters Flock Together. globalresearch.ca President Donald Trump's 36-hour whirlwind visit to India this past week was designed to show Americans just how adored abroad their president really is. | Unluckily for Trump, his campaign stop at this behemoth nation of 1.3 or 1.4 billion proved …

Michael Stone (2020-03-02). Photo Shows Pence Team Trying to Pray Away Coronavirus. globalresearch.ca Bad Medicine: Symbolic of the moral and intellectual decay at the White House, a photo shows Vice President Mike Pence and his team trying to pray away the coronavirus. | On social media, conservative Christians cheered at the embarrassing photo showing …

Spread The Strike! (2020-03-02). Strike Escalates After UCSC Fires Nearly 100 Graduate Student Workers. indybay.org Graduate students at UC Santa Cruz are calling for the cancellation of classes on Monday and for everyone to join us on the picket for a press conference at 9am. On Monday, we wear red for the future of higher ed. The strike continues. See you on the picket.

Labor Video Project (2020-03-02). UAW 2865 UCB Graduate Students March To Sproul Hall To Demand COLA & Against Union Busting. indybay.org UAW 2865 graduate students and supporters marched to UCB Sproul Hall to demand a cost of living clause and protested the union busting action of UC President Janet Napolitano firing 54 graduate students at UC Santa Cruz.

UCSC Wildcats (2020-03-02). Call to Action from UCSC Strikers. indybay.org UC Santa Cruz terminated student workers engaged in a strike calling for a Cost of Living Adjustment. | We are hereby calling for the strike to spread, into new quarters, with as far a reach as possible, to every UC campus. We are calling for a day of action on Monday, March 2, with rallies and marches on every campus!

WSWS (2020-03-02). University of California strikers defy firings and expand strike. wsws.org As opposition grows to the vindictive firing of 80 striking grad students at the University of California Santa Cruz, the UAW and the Democratic Party are trying to contain the struggle before it triggers a broader movement of the working class.

WSWS (2020-03-02). Salt Lake City Teachers stage one-day walkout. wsws.org Salt Lake City teachers, some of the lowest paid in the US, staged a one-day walk-out in an attempt to secure increased funding for the city's public-school system.

WSWS (2020-03-02). Record fall in key China production index. wsws.org China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced over the weekend that the manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 35.7 in February, down from 50 in January, hitting an all-time low.

sputniknews (2020-03-02). New Method to Hunt for Exoplanets Using Radio Waves Devised by Astronomers, Yields First Results. sputniknews.com The astronomers were able to detect the new planet thanks to their knowledge of the interaction between the magnetic field of Jupiter and its moon Io.

Paul Von Blum (2020-03-01). Herbert Marcuse's Philosophy of Liberation. truthdig.com "Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: a Graphic Biography" | Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) is the greatest but largely unknown philosopher of the mid-20th century. When I mention him in my UCLA classes today, almost no one recognizes the references. Yet when I began teaching in the late 1960s, he was a major staple of my work. For several years, at UC Berkeley, I assigned and taught "One-Dimensional Man, An Essay on Liberation, Eros and Civilization," and "Repressive Toleranc…

Craig Murray (2020-03-01). Your Man in the Public Gallery — Assange Hearing Day Four. globalresearch.ca Please try this experiment for me. | Try asking this question out loud, in a tone of intellectual interest and engagement: "Are you suggesting that the two have the same effect?" | Now try asking this question out loud, in a tone …

Philip Giraldi (2020-03-01). Seth Rich, Julian Assange and Dana Rohrabacher — Will We Ever Know the Truth About the Stolen DNC Files? globalresearch.ca The media is doing its best to make the Seth Rich story go away, but it seems to have a life of its own, possibly due to the fact that the accepted narrative about how Rich died makes no sense. …

Makia Freeman (2020-03-01). Freedom of the Press on Trial: 10 Reasons Why Assange Is Lawfully in the Right. globalresearch.ca Freedom of the press is on trial right now in London, as the Assange case has now gone 3 days. As this massive case begins, Julian Assange has been subjected to yet more intimidation, depravation and abuse. In just the …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-03-01). COVID-19 Coronavirus: A Fake Pandemic? Who's Behind It? Global Economic, Social and Geopolitical Destabilization. globalresearch.ca The media hype and disinformation campaign regarding the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus have created a Worldwide atmosphere of fear and uncertainty following the launching of a global public health emergency by the WHO on January 30th.

Scott Ritter (2020-03-01). Even NATO Is Unwilling to Touch Turkey's Idlib Mess with a Ten-foot Pole. globalresearch.ca Having been hit by the Syrian Air Force in Idlib, Turkey has called on NATO's protection, but as much as the alliance would like a fight with Assad and his ally Russia, it's refused to back Ankara's questionable adventure. | Turkey …

Robert Fantina (2020-03-01). Why Not Sanders? He's "Far Too Risky" globalresearch.ca An article on CNN on February 25 discusses the fear and apprehension of 'moderate' Democrats about the possibility of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic presidential nomination. "This is playing into Trump's hands!" they lament. "Downstream candidates will be …

Tony Cartalucci (2020-03-01). Thailand Protests: "Students" Fight to Save Washington's Billionaire Proxy. globalresearch.ca "Long Live Democracy!" cried "student" protesters at Thailand's Thammasat University as local and Western media organizations reported "hundreds" gathered to decry the disbanding of Thai political party, Future Forward. | However, the Western media's eager support for the small mob …

Stephen Lendman (2020-03-01). Dem Insider: Party Bosses Choose the Nominee, Not Voters. globalresearch.ca The notion that America is democratic is a colossal hoax — falsely claimed by the US political establishment and press agent media. | Reality is vastly otherwise. Powerful interests run the country. Ordinary people have no say whatever. | If elections changed …

Alison Bodine (2020-03-01). Canadian Media Lies About Venezuela. globalresearch.ca Canada's public media the CBC long-ago entered the ranks of yellow journalism when it comes to its reporting on Venezuela. However, two recent reports, in particular, one on CBC radio's "The Current" and the other a CBC News article by …

teleSUR (2020-03-01). Children Under 13 Pick Coffee for Starbucks, Nespresso: Report. telesurenglish.net Children under 13 in Guatemala are working in the coffee farms that supply beans to giants Nespresso (owned by Nestle) and Starbucks‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã, an investigation by British television program 'Dispatches' uncovered last week. | RELATED: | During their research, Channel 4's reporters visited seven farms supplying Nespress…

Adeyinka Makinde (2020-03-01). Bernie Sanders and the Resurrected Russiagate Smear. globalresearch.ca Even after the "Russiagate" claim of supposed Russian interference in the last US Presidential Election was irrefutably debunked, members of the Democratic Party elite and sections of the US "Deep State" of National Security/Intelligence in alliance with sections of the …

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2020-03-01). Video: The WHO's Vaccine Experts Inadvertently Communicate to the World that "Vaccine Hesitancy" Makes Scientific Sense. globalresearch.ca In this expose, the WHO vaccine experts admit that: | Vaccines can be fatal. | The design of safety studies makes it difficult to spot problems. | Safety monitoring is inadequate. | Vaccine adjuvants increase risk. | "The FDA receives 45% of its annual budget …

Peter Koenig (2020-02-29). China is Confronting the COVID-19 Epidemic. Was It Man-Made? An Act of of Bio-warfare? globalresearch.ca The new coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, also called COVID-19, has as of this date resulted in more than 3,000 deaths and infected more than 80,000 people Worldwide, the vast majority of them in China. The epidemic is largely confined to Mainland China.

RT (2020-02-28). Supermassive black hole causes biggest cosmic explosion in recorded history, leaving dent that could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies. rt.com The biggest cosmic explosion in recorded history was detected about 390 million light years from Earth and it made a dent in surrounding space that could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies inside. | It is believed the eruption originated from a supermassive black hole in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster. The explosion was compared to the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980. | "A key difference is that you could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies in a row into the crater this eruption punched into the cluster's hot gas," said Simona Giacintucci of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, and lead author of the study. | Also on…

RT (2020-02-28). Blue check blues: Twitter tricked into verifying teen's fake 2020 candidate for Congress while real people languish. rt.com A high school student tricked Twitter into verifying an account he made for a fake candidate for Congress from Rhode Island, proving the platform's vaunted election integrity efforts are no match for a bored teen. | Rhode Island Republican Andrew Walz's

C.J. Atkins (2020-02-28). Will America's curiosity about socialism outlive today's socialist moment? peoplesworld.org It started with the near collapse of the economy in 2008-09 when millions lost their homes and jobs and started questioning the status quo. Discussion about it picked up again with the Occupy Wall Street movement as young people realized the future they faced—low-wage jobs, endless student debt—was anything but bright. Then, it emerged more …

Staff (2020-02-28). Elementary School in NJ Latinx Community Fights Displacement by Robert Wood Johnson Cancer Center. democracynow.org In New Jersey, hundreds rallied at the New Brunswick Board of Education meeting Tuesday night against plans to demolish a public school to make way for Robert Wood Johnson Hospital and Rutgers University to build a new cancer center. Protesters included families and more than 30 children, who held signs reading "Save our School!" and "Stop Gentrification." If approved, 760 third-through-eighth-graders at Lincoln Annex School would be moved to a former warehouse building on the outskirts of town as they await construction of a replacement school. Even worse, the proposed new school site is located on a "brownfield…

Pepe Escobar (2020-02-28). Assange Extradition: Can a French Touch Pierce a Neo-Orwellian Farce? globalresearch.ca It's quite fitting that the — imperially pre-determined — judicial fate of Julian Assange is being played out in Britain, the home of George Orwell. | As chronicled by the painful, searing

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-02-28). War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields. globalresearch.ca The issue of sovereignty over Gaza's gas fields is crucial…

Larry Romanoff (2020-02-28). State-Sponsored Commercial Espionage. The Global Theft of Ideas. globalresearch.ca After digesting its massive theft of ideas, things and people from Paperclip following the end of World War II, the US wasted no time in designing and implementing the world's largest network of commercial espionage that has ever existed, and …

South Front (2020-02-28). Video: Fall of Saraqib: Syrian Army Retreat Under Turkish Strikes in Eastern Idlib. globalresearch.ca Members of al-Qaeda-linked groups embedded with Turkish troops have reentered the town of Saraqib in eastern Idlib following the collapse of the Syrian Army defense northwest of the town. | The attack was backed by Turkish artillery strikes on positions of …

Corvin Russell (2020-02-28). Canada's First Nations: Ottawa Lays Bare the Lie It Calls "Reconciliation" globalresearch.ca The Canadian state today is in the throes of a historic crisis of its own making, as it stands off against the Wet'suwet'en Nation, an Indigenous nation in northern British Columbia (BC) that is blocking construction of the Coastal GasLink …

Eds. (2020-02-28). Digital Workerism: Technology, platforms, and the circulation of workers' struggles. mronline.org The so-called platform economy—the distribution of, and access to work through websites and apps—continues to grab headlines and the imagination of policy makers, researchers, and journalists the world over. Much attention is given to its rapid expansion, its potential for further growth, and the large amounts of wealth generated through it. |

Renee Parsons (2020-02-28). Further Erosion of American Civil Liberties. Why Renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. globalresearch.ca As a mid March deadline approaches, the mad scramble is on for Congress to rubber stamp a 'clean' renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( At every opportunity since 2001, Congress has used the re-authorization …

Sharon Kelly (2020-02-28). Oregon's Jordan Cove Backers Double Down on Efforts to Push Project Following Federal Permit Delay. globalresearch.ca Last Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took the

Tony Cartalucci (2020-02-28). Turkey's Losing Bet in Syria. globalresearch.ca Turkey has allegedly lost another 33 troops in Syria this week amid its refusal to withdraw from Syrian territory amid Syrian government gains in the northern governorate of Idlib. | The BBC in its article, "

Paul Antonopoulos (2020-02-28). Washington Ponders Imposing Sanctions on Serbia for Russian Weapon Purchases. globalresearch.ca With Russia delivering another round of the Pantsir S1 anti-missile defense system to Serbia on Tuesday, EU and U.S. officials have reacted. Both Brussels and Washington have sent their warnings to Serbia, with Washington even threatening sanctions against the Balkans …

teleSUR (2020-02-28). Mexico: OAS Must Clarify Audit of Electoral Fraud in Bolivia. telesurenglish.net Mexico will demand the Organization of American States (OAS) "clarify and explain the deficiencies in its report," in which it affirmed the existence of alleged irregularities during the elections of Bolivia in Oct. 2019. This action follows a report revealed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which states that there is no "statistical evidence" of electoral fraud. | RELATED: | On Tuesday, research…

Henry Giroux (2020-02-28). Cult-Like Ignorance is Death: Trump and the Coronavirus. counterpunch.org Trump's lies, his disparagement of science and scientists, his claim that non-political civil servants are part of the deep state, his lack of credibility, his penchant for political opportunism over the needs of the nation, his pathological embrace of hyperbole, his delight in creating confusion, and his mistaking loyalty for public service puts the nation

Pete Dolack (2020-02-28). No Thinking Please, We're Red-Baiting. counterpunch.org The red-baiting of Bernie Sanders is in full swing. From Democrats. Yes, the silly season is upon us as Senator Sanders was roundly condemned because he believes literacy campaigns are good things. I know the United States is a uniquely anti-intellectual country, but, still, you'd think teaching reading and writing might be thought of as

Global Research News (2020-02-28). Selected Articles: Assad's Victory in Syria War? globalresearch.ca A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | | | If, like us, this is a …

Staff (2020-02-27). How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common. democracynow.org Sonia Shah is an investigative science journalist and author of "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond." Her new book is titled "The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move" and will be published in June. She says the climate crisis is making outbreaks of infectious diseases more common, with the destruction of natural animal habitats and the changes in migration bringing humans and animals into ever-closer contact and making new pathogens more likely. Her latest article, published in The Nation, is titled "Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Th…

Fight Back (2020-02-26). USF students rally against racist administration. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On February 25, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a Black Students Matter rally on campus to bring attention to the racist admissions practices that the administration at the University of South Florida (USF) engages in. | Enrollment of Black students at USF has been declining for years and the percent of Black students at USF was the lowest it's been in the past decade last semester (fall 2019), at 9.4%. This is especially alarming considering that in the Tampa Bay area, where USF is located, Black people comprise 24% of the population. | "We understand how schools like USF parta…

Anadolu Agency (2020-02-26). Iran: Hotel business hit hard by coronavirus outbreak. iranian.com A vast majority of hotels in Qom, a holy city of Iran, have closed in the wake of rising cases of the coronavirus. Ahmed Fellahiyan, head of Qom Hotels and Hostels Association, told Iranian Students News Agency: "There are no tourists left in Qom due to coronavirus. Reservations are all cancelled. Only 30% of hotels …

splcenter (2020-02-06). SPLC sues Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School safety commission for not allowing students to voice concerns. splcenter.org Kinsey Akers had to take the PSAT but was determined to make her voice heard at a public meeting on school safety that same day.

splcenter (2020-02-04). Alabama Charter Schools: Principles for Ensuring Equity and Access. splcenter.org …

Martha Rosenberg (2020-02-02). Why is Animal Research So Seldom in the News? zcomm.org The animal-research industry is a vast, macabre enterprise richly supporting medical centers and individual researchers with almost no transparency or accountability…

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