Australia: Workers and youth call for intensification of Assange and Manning defence campaign
wsws.org | 2020-02-28
Queensland students and workers in Parramatta denounce the escalating government attacks on democratic rights.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/28/sepi…
Punishing the Free Speech of Julian Assange
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
"Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech."
Pentagon Papers Case Vindicates Julian Assange
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
On June 30, 1971, the US Supreme Court ruled that the NYT and Washington Post were legally permitted to publish what's known as the Pentagon Papers
Julian Assange, the Glass Cage and Heaven in a Rage: Day Four of Extradition Hearings
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
Thursday, February 27, Woolwich Crown Court. The first round of extradition hearings regarding Julian Assange's case concluded a day early, to recommence on May 18th. It ended on an insensible note very much in keeping with the …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-day-four-extradition-hearings/5704984
Assange Extradition: Can a French Touch Pierce a Neo-Orwellian Farce?
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
It's quite fitting that the
War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
The issue of sovereignty over Gaza's gas fields is crucial…
globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680
It's Time to Debate Pentagon Spending
William Hartung | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-28
Despite hopes to the contrary, the Pentagon's new, $740 billion-plus budget will waste scarce tax dollars while making America less safe. With the presidential primaries accelerating, it's time for the candidates to address this urgent issue. This extraordinary spending has a direct impact on American taxpayers when it comes at the expense of diplomacy, education,…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/28/its-time-to-debate-pentagon-spending/
Elementary School in NJ Latinx Community Fights Displacement by New Cancer Center & Gentrification
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…
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…
The War Scenario Between Israel and Hezbollah
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
Notwithstanding the increase in power of the "Axis of the Resistance", with its precision missiles and unrivalled accumulated warfare experience, the possibility of war is still on the table. The "Axis of the Resistance" is increasing its readiness based on …
globalresearch.ca/war-scenario-between-israel-hezbollah/5704925
Turkey's Losing Bet in Syria
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
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, " Syria war: 33 Turkish troops …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-losing-bet-syria/5704993
Supermassive black hole causes biggest cosmic explosion in recorded history, leaving dent that could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies
rt.com | 2020-02-28
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.com/usa/481859-cosmic-explosion-black-hole/
In Defense of Mother Earth: Indigenous Rights Are Human Rights! RCMP Out of Wet'suwet'en!
Alison Bodine | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
In the dark early morning on February 6, 2020, the RCMP violently raided Wet'suwet'en territory in Northern British Columbia, Canada. | "They're invading our people again, starting in the wee hours of the morning, arresting people who have been providing food …
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-rights-human-rights-rcmp-out-wetsuweten/5704955
Video: Fall of Saraqib: Syrian Army Retreat Under Turkish Strikes in Eastern Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/video-fall-saraqib-syrian-army-retreat-turkish-strikes-eastern-idlib/5704912
George W. Bush: May I Quote You, Mr. President?
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
A selection of 50 quotes from President George W. Bush, for entertainment or meditation…
globalresearch.ca/may-i-quote-you-mr-president/3907
Further Erosion of American Civil Liberties. Why Renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
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 ( FISC) without amendment. | At every opportunity since 2001, Congress has used the re-authorization …
globalresearch.ca/why-renew-fisa-court-2/5705005
Eight Negative Arguments Smearing China's Virus Fight Must be Refuted
Wang Wen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
The COVID-19 outbreak in China has begun to decline outside Hubei Province, meanwhile in some countries it is on the rise. This fully shows that the epidemic is a challenge faced by all humanity and needs to be addressed by …
globalresearch.ca/eight-negative-arguments-smearing-china-virus-fight-refuted/5704937
Eureka! Physicists accidentally stumble upon mind-blowing new material that could upend physics as we know it
rt.com | 2020-02-28
American physicists believe that they have discovered a strange state of matter entirely new to science
Eureka! Physicists accidentally stumble upon mind-blowing new material that could upend physics as we know it
rt.com | 2020-02-28
American physicists believe that they have discovered a strange state of matter entirely new to science
Endangered Species in America: "Moose, Western Bumblebee, Venus Flytrap, … Plants and Animals in Desperate Need of Help"
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to decide whether 241 plants and animals across the country
Anonymous Sources and "the Guys and Gals" Who Made the Iraq War a Reality Are Now Claiming that the Kremlin Is at it Again!
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
Those hapless individuals who run the United States are again slipping into a fantasy world where Americans are besieged by imaginary threats coming from both inside and outside the country. Of course, it is particularly convenient to warn of foreign …
globalresearch.ca/anonymous-sources-guys-gals-who-made-iraq-war-reality-now-claiming-kremlin-again/5704933
Study Debunks Claims That Led to Bolivian Coup
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-28
A new study released by a pair of MIT researchers Thursday reveals that, contrary to claims from the U.S.-backed Organization of American States, there was no fraud in Bolivia's October 20, 2019 elections–an accusation used by the OAS and others as a pretext for supporting the coup in the country that deposed President Evo Morales and replaced him with an unelected right-wing government. | "Good lord," tweeted MSNBC journalist Chris Hayes. "Given the fact the entire Morales government was toppled over accusations of election fraud, the…
truthdig.com/articles/study-debunks-claims-that-led-to-bolivian-coup/
Study Debunks Claims That Led to Bolivian Coup
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-28
A new study released by a pair of MIT researchers Thursday reveals that, contrary to claims from the U.S.-backed Organization of American States, there was no fraud in Bolivia's October 20, 2019 elections–an accusation used by the OAS and others as a pretext for supporting the coup in the country that deposed President Evo Morales and replaced him with an unelected right-wing government. | "Good lord," tweeted MSNBC journalist Chris Hayes. "Given the fact the entire Morales government was toppled over accusations of election fraud, the…
truthdig.com/articles/study-debunks-claims-that-led-to-bolivian-coup/
Providing Security in the Sahel: A 'Traffic Jam' of Military Interventions, and Al Qaeda Terrorists
Signe M. Cold-Ravnkilde | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
Despite the presence of multiple military actors in West Africa's Sahel region, a steady growth in jihadi activity seems to thrive in the presence of foreign military operations. With their focus on fighting cross-border terrorism and reconstructing 'failed states', while …
globalresearch.ca/traffic-jam-military-interventions/5704917
Capture of M5 Hama-Aleppo Highway: One of the Most Celebrated Prizes in Damascus' Campaign to Regain Territory
Michael Jansen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
As soon as the Syrian government announced that the north-south highway was open last weekend, my courageous friend Jamil drove from Damascus to Aleppo and back. "The road was fine and very quick," he told me on the phone on …
globalresearch.ca/capture-m5-one-most-celebrated-prizes-damascus-campaign-regain-territory/5704943
State-Sponsored Commercial Espionage. The Global Theft of Ideas
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/state-sponsored-commercial-espionage-the-global-theft-of-ideas/5698092
I Was Meant to Talk About Palestinian Kids at the UN. Israel Forced Me Out
Brad Parker | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
Belgium caved into Israeli pressure to disinvite me from the Security Council. In doing so, they helped undermine human rights work for Palestinian children. | *** | Last week, the government of Belgium caved in to intense Israeli government pressure and effectively …
globalresearch.ca/i-was-meant-talk-about-palestinian-kids-un-israel-forced-me-out/5704980
US Losing Its Naval Supremacy
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
The science of geopolitics commonly makes use of the geographical dualism "land and sea". The great world powers are thus classified as land-based powers or sea-base powers, according to their attitudes. A country that chooses to develop on land has | …
globalresearch.ca/us-losing-naval-supremacy/5705028
Washington Ponders Imposing Sanctions on Serbia for Russian Weapon Purchases
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/washington-ponders-imposing-sanctions-serbia-russian-weapon-purchases/5704976
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/
The Unspoken War against Organic Farming in Africa: Tanzanian Farmers Are Facing Heavy Prison Sentences if They Continue Their Traditional Seed Exchange
Ebe Daems | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
This article was originally published in 2016. | In order to receive development assistance, Tanzania has to give Western agribusiness full freedom and give enclosed protection for patented seeds. "Eighty percent of the seeds are being shared and sold in an …
globalresearch.ca/tanzanian-farmers-facing-heavy-prison-sentences-they-continue-their-traditional-seed-exchange/5704922
Oregon's Jordan Cove Backers Double Down on Efforts to Push Project Following Federal Permit Delay
Sharon Kelly | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
Last Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took the highly unusual step of declining to move forward on permits for the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos County, Oregon. If built, the $10 billion Jordan …
globalresearch.ca/jordan-cove-backers-double-down-efforts-push-project-following-federal-permit-delay/5705007
Canada's First Nations: Ottawa Lays Bare the Lie It Calls "Reconciliation"
Corvin Russell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/canada-lays-bare-lie-calls-reconciliation/5705012
If Venezuelan Embassy Protectors Are Retried, Jury Should Hear About US Crimes
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
On February 28, federal prosecutors will announce whether they plan to retry four people who spent 37 days in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 2019 to protect it from an illegal invasion by the U.S. …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelan-embassy-protectors-retried-jury-should-hear-about-us-crimes/5705034
Supermassive black hole causes biggest cosmic explosion in recorded history, leaving dent that could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies
rt.com | 2020-02-28
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. | 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 from 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," Simona Giacintucci of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, and lead author of the study, said. | Also on rt.
rt.com/usa/481859-cosmic-explosion-black-hole/
President Tayyip Erdogan Now Claims Syria's Idlib Province Belongs to Turkey
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
On February 26th, Turkey's President, told his Islamist political party that Idlib, which is the most heavily jihadist of all of Syria's provinces and the province where Syria had been sending jihadists who had been defeated but not killed by | …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-now-claims-syria-idlib-province-turkish-territory/5705033
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/
A Week in Tory Britain
Jack Peat | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-28
On 11th May this year it will be ten years since the Conservatives started an administration which has survived three leaders, a shaky coalition and a divorce from the country's biggest trading power. | A decade may not seem a long …
globalresearch.ca/week-tory-britain/5705022
Pence Hates Science. Tasking Him With Coronavirus Response Could Cost Lives
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-28
The world has been watching the encroachment of the coronavirus closely ever since it emerged from Wuhan, China. Tens of thousands have been infected in 56 countries and counting, some of them lethally, and the virus appears to have a talent for evading even the most authoritarian quarantines. Supply lines out of China began to tremble, and then to quake, a…
truthout.org/articles/pence-hates-science-tasking-him-with-coronavirus-response-could-cost-lives/
Cult-Like Ignorance is Death: Trump and the Coronavirus
Henry Giroux | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-28
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/28/cult-like-ignorance-is-death-trump-and-the-coronavirus/
Call to Action from UCSC Strikers
UCSC Wildcats | indybay.org | 2020-02-28
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!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/28/18831133.php
Grad student strike spreads to two more University of California campuses
wsws.org | 2020-02-28
Solidarity wildcat strikes by grad student workers at UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis joined the three-week strike by UC Santa Cruz students as the university system threatens mass firings.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/28/cola…
UESF Teachers & Staff Ready To Strike As Sup. Matthews Threatens Cuts
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-02-28
Hundreds of SFUSD workers from UESF, SEIU 1021 and IFPTE along with parents and students rallied and protested against proposed budget cuts.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/27/18831078.php
Unions work to defeat UC-Santa Cruz grad student strike
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-02-28
February 27, 2020 – For striking graduate students at the University of California (UC), Santa Cruz (UCSC), today marks "Doomsday 2.0," the administration's new deadline to submit withheld Fall 2019 grades.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/27/18831104.php
Unions work to defeat UC-Santa Cruz grad student strike
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-02-28
February 27, 2020 – For striking graduate students at the University of California (UC), Santa Cruz (UCSC), today marks "Doomsday 2.0," the administration's new deadline to submit withheld Fall 2019 grades.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/27/18831104.php
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/
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/
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/
UESF Teachers & Staff Ready To Strike As Sup. Matthews Threatens Cuts
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-02-28
Hundreds of SFUSD workers from UESF, SEIU 1021 and IFPTE along with parents and students rallied and protested against proposed budget cuts.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/27/18831078.php
