Australian and New Zealand demonstrations demand freedom for WikiLeaks founder and US whistleblower
wsws.org | 2020-02-24
The weekend rallies point to growing international support for Assange and Manning and a deeper political understanding and determination to fight by important layers of students, workers and youth.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/24/sepa…
Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds London rally in defence of Assange and Manning
wsws.org | 2020-02-24
The meeting was attended by more than 130 workers, youth and students who came from all over the UK.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/24/lond…
Is It as Impossible to Build Jerusalem as It is to Escape Babylon?
Peter Harrison | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-24
(Part One of Three) An interview with Peter Harrison by GYRUS. Peter Harrison's book The Freedom of Things: An Ethnology of Control is a challenging education in the anthropology of political organisation
Food and Agriculture Workshops featured at the 2020 Black Expo, Sacramento State
Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
California State University, Sacramento continues to provide innovative leadership toward expanding essential educational conversations and business opportunity. Our California Black Agriculture Working Group remains steadfast in helping provide tangible ideas and solutions.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/22/18830902.php
Food and Agriculture Workshops featured at the 2020 Black Expo, Sacramento State
Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
California State University, Sacramento continues to provide innovative leadership toward expanding essential educational conversations and business opportunity. Our California Black Agriculture Working Group remains steadfast in helping provide tangible ideas and solutions.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/22/18830902.php
Bernie Sanders Releases Plan for Guaranteed "Child Care and Pre-K for All"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-24
Now running as the presumptive frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday morning unveiled a sweeping new proposal that would guarantee high-quality child care and then pre-kindergarten education to every child
Bolivia: Anatomy of a CIA Coup
Hugo Turner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Last November a horrifying coup took place overthrowing the socialist government of Bolivia and the nation's first indigenous president Evo Morales. It was a textbook example of a CIA coup recalling the dark days of Operation Condor when the | …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-anatomy-cia-coup/5704575
Constitution Pipeline Project Scrapped
Earth Justice | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
One of the companies behind the Constitution Pipeline has reportedly abandoned the project, following a series of legal challenges by Earthjustice and our partners. The proposed 124-mile gas pipeline was slated to run through Pennsylvania and New York, threatening water …
globalresearch.ca/constitution-pipeline-project-scrapped/5704479
Love Is Lovelier the Third Time Around, Isn't It?
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
I sure as hell hope so. I've been going through a rough patch these last few years. My search for true love has been disastrous. I suppose this is not unusual, but for it to be concentrated in just a …
globalresearch.ca/love-lovelier-third-time-around-isnt-it/5704557
Monopólio, desemprego e desigualdade: faces da crise capitalista (I)
Yuri Martins Fontes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
"A desigualdade está fora de controle", diz recente informe da OXFAM. A organizaàßà£o
COVID-19 May Have Originated from the US? Japanese TV Broadcast
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Reporting from Shanghai | A news broadcast in Japan stirred up a hornet's nest not only in Japan but also in China. | ‚ÄåA Japanese TV news report said that some of the 14,000 Americans who died of influenza may have in …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-originated-us-japanese-tv-broadcast/5704493
The Christian Gospel for Americans: A Systematic Theology. David Ray Griffin
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
There are very few writers who have done more to try to open the public's mind to the evil nature of the American empire than David Ray Griffin. | His series of books on the false flag attacks of September 11, …
globalresearch.ca/david-ray-griffin-christian-gospel-americans-systematic-theology/5704564
Corporations as Private Sovereign Powers: The Case of Total
Alain Deneault | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Having studied, written on and engaged in public discussion about transnational corporations (TNCs), I have reached the conclusion that we are not collectively equipped to think about the kind of power that they represent, the silent way they exercise their …
globalresearch.ca/corporations-private-sovereign-powers-case-total/5704458
The Lima Group Is More than Just About Venezuela. Scheduling More Coups and Color Revolutions in Latin America?
Pierre LeBlanc | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
At the behest of Donald Trump and Chrystia Freeland, the Lima Group met in Ottawa on February 20th, 2020. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Franàßois-Philippe Champagne dutifully mouthed their set lines and good Samaritan posturing in …
globalresearch.ca/lima-group-more-than-just-about-venezuela/5704461
What Happened to the Keynesian Dream of a 15-Hour Work Week?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-24
Now a famous economist, Thomas Piketty (along with co-researcher Emmanuel Saez) wrote Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), contending that capitalism has within it the germinating seeds of ever-growing inequality. That is what his longitudinal study of masses of data proved conclusively. | Yet millions of alarm bells still sound in the wee hours each Monday morning, as people hit their snooze buttons, hoping for a moment's rest before the inevitable rush to the office. Their weekend is over. Their fun…
truthout.org/articles/what-happened-to-the-keynesian-dream-of-a-15-hour-work-week/
US "Forever War" in Afghanistan Near Ending?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Planned months in advance, the Bush/Cheney regime attacked nonbelligerent Afghanistan less than four weeks after the 9/11 attacks. | Afghanistan did not attack America on 9/11. The Taliban and bin Laden had nothing to do with what happened on a day …
globalresearch.ca/us-forever-war-afghanistan-near-ending/5704478
The American Empire Will Fall if Humanity Stands Together
Robert Abele | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Empires despise laws. The U.S. Empire still desires to dominate Iran, Venezeula, Bolivia, Syria, and others, all in contravention of the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Conventions. When the Geneva Conventions and International Laws of War and Commerce were …
globalresearch.ca/empire-fall-humanity-stands-together/5704464
Toronto Wet'suwet'en Solidarity March. "Long Live Mother Earth"
Eric Walberg | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
February 22, 2020. The sun was brilliant, the slogans and posters striking, the round dance in the heart of Canada's financial district, the 6 concentric circles of the real Canadians, those who honour Canada's First Nations, made February 22, 2020 …
globalresearch.ca/toronto-wetsuweten-solidarity-march-long-live-mother-earth/5704501
The Christian Gospel for Americans: A Systematic Theology. David Ray Griffin
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
There are very few writers who have done more to try to open the public's mind to the evil nature of the American empire than David Ray Griffin. His series of books on the false flag attacks of September …
globalresearch.ca/david-ray-griffin-christian-gospel-americans-systematic-theology/5704564
The Dangers of Synthetic Biology: A Biotech Firm Made a Smallpox-like Virus on purpose. Nobody Seems to Care
Prof. Gregory D. Koblentz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
In 2017, the virologist David Evans made headlines when he used synthetic biology to recreate the extinct horsepox virus, which is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, a disease eradicated in 1980. Evans and his team, ordering the | …
globalresearch.ca/biotech-firm-made-smallpox-like-virus-purpose/5704551
The U.S. Is the World Leader of Bio-Weapons Research, Production, and Use Against Mankind
Gary D. Barnett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Those that prevent disease and expose virus creation are heroic, but those that create and purposely spread disease and virus are inhuman. Given the history of the United States government and its military industrial complex concerning biological and germ warfare, …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-world-leader-bio-weapons-research-production-use-against-mankind/5704548
Environmental Voter Guide. Democratic Candidates 2020
TCFBDAF | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
The Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund evaluated each candidate on four key environmental issue areas: | saving wildlife, protecting public lands, ensuring environmental justice and ending the climate crisis. | We evaluated every candidate polling above 1% in the latest national …
globalresearch.ca/environmental-voter-guide-us-2020-primary-elections/5704560
Canada: Why Public Transit Should be Free for All
Davide Mastracci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Drivers in Canada often complain of a "war on cars" that is supposedly being waged in cities throughout the country. This metaphorical war is non-existent, but that's unfortunate because such a war would be justified, given the severity of the …
globalresearch.ca/why-public-transit-should-free-all/5704541
US 'Looking Very Carefully' at Silencing Socialist News Network Telesur
Steve Sweeney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
US Special envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams has said that the US is "looking very carefully" at taking "measures" against Telesur, in the latest threat to the socialist news network. | Mr Abrams said yesterday that the Trump administration was considering …
globalresearch.ca/us-looking-very-carefully-silencing-socialist-news-network-telesur/5704542
Russia Accused of Campaign Blaming US for Coronavirus Outbreak
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Russia has been a prime US target since its 1917 revolution, relations between both countries uneasy at best from that time to now. | Propaganda by US officials and establishment media demonizes the country and its leadership, ongoing for over a …
globalresearch.ca/russia-behind-campaign-blame-us-coronavirus-outbreak/5704471
Venezuela's Next Economic Shock Might Come from India's Compliance with US Sanctions
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
India is Venezuela's largest oil customer but the two companies that import its oil just declared that they'll comply with the US' latest sanctions against the Bolivarian Republic's Russian intermediary, which could lead to the South American state experiencing an …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-next-economic-shock-might-come-india-compliance-us-sanctions/5704536
Covid-19 Triggers Global Luxury Bust
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
The impact of Covid-19 on supply chains has been tremendous. Uncertainty across the global economy is building as China remains in economic paralysis. The luxury fashion industry is suffering its most significant "shock" since the 2008 financial crisis, reported …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-triggers-global-luxury-bust/5704469
"Baby You're a Rich Man"
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
The Beatles, with an assist on backup vocals by none other than Mick Jagger, had this hit song in 1967: | "Baby, You're A Rich Man" | How does it feel to be | One of the beautiful people? | Now that you know | …
globalresearch.ca/baby-youre-rich-man/5704467
COVID-19 May Have Originated from the US? Japanese TV Broadcast
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Reporting from Beijing | A news broadcast in Japan stirred up a hornet's nest not only in Japan but also in China. | ‚ÄåA Japanese TV news report said that some of the 14,000 Americans who died of influenza may have in …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-originated-us-japanese-tv-broadcast/5704493
Trudeau's Demand: "The Barricades Must Come Down"
Kim Petersen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau has called the imbroglio between the Wet'suwet'en nation and Canada a matter to be decided by the rule of law. [1] However, the Wet'suwet'en have refused to back down and have defied the British Columbia …
globalresearch.ca/trudeau-demand-barricades-must-come-down/5704517
Evaluating African Military Rulers: Musician Fela Kuti and Ghana's Head of State I.K. Acheampong
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
A lot of people think that Thomas Sankara was the only African military ruler who was liked and respected by Fela Anikulapo Kuti. | This is not true. | For sure, Sankara was the only military ruler with whom he had a …
globalresearch.ca/fela-acheampong/5704500
China-US Relations: Mixed Returns for the Huawei Bashing Tour
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
The US imperium is rattled, so much so it's letting everyone else know about it. Move over the trade war with its bitchy insistence on redressing imbalances, surpluses and deficits; the next phase of conflict with China is being waged …
globalresearch.ca/mixed-returns-huawei-bashing-tour/5704489
Trojan Horse Timber Sales on the Bitterroot
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-24
The proposed Darby Lumber Timber Sale Phase Two on the Bitterroot National Forest is a Trojan Horse being implemented under the guise of "forest health" based on numerous false assumptions. The proposal displays the Forest Service's Industrial Forestry bias and its subterfuge of science. The timber sale is being litigated by the Friends of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/24/trojan-horse-timber-sales-on-the-bitterroot/
Trojan Horse Timber Sales on the Bitterroot
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-24
The proposed Darby Lumber Timber Sale Phase Two on the Bitterroot National Forest is a Trojan Horse being implemented under the guise of "forest health" based on numerous false assumptions. The proposal displays the Forest Service's Industrial Forestry bias and its subterfuge of science. The timber sale is being litigated by the Friends of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/24/trojan-horse-timber-sales-on-the-bitterroot/
Public Lands "Collaboration" is Lousy Management
Rick Meis | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-24
Collaboration is a process of playing two sides off against each other in order to create enough guilt in one or all parties that a compromise is reached. The primary problem is that it is specifically not based on science or best available data, thus eliminating the concept of best management practices and the long-term…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/24/public-lands-collaboration-is-lousy-management/
UC Santa Cruz graduate students defy administration ultimatum, vote to continue strike
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
February 22, 2020 – The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), the youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party, is holding an emergency online meeting this Sunday, February 23, at 4pm Pacific Time to discuss an international socialist strategy for the UC strike. Visit iysse.com/UCstrike/ for further details.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/22/18830903.php
UC Santa Cruz Shut Down & UC Dining Halls and Offices Occupied
It's Going Down | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
In what is being referred to as "Doomsday," UC President Janet Napolitano has given striking student workers at the University of California in Santa Cruz until midnight on February 21st to turn in withheld grades.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/21/18830888.php
Oberlin College in Ohio plans to lay off 108 dining and custodial workers
wsws.org | 2020-02-24
Students and faculty are protesting plans lay off 108 workers at the college in northwestern Ohio.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/24/ober…
Tampa students rally for justice for Jamee Johnson
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-24
Tampa, FL – Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a rally at the University of South Florida calling for justice and all victims of police brutality, highlighting Jamee Johnson, a Black man who was murdered by officers in Jacksonville. At the February 19 protest, about 15 students promoted the need for community control of the police through police accountability councils. They also demonstrated for their ongoing campaign to increase Black enrollment at USF. | With chants saying, "USF shame on you! Black lives matter too!" the students used the rally to reach out to the student body about the wa…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/2/24/tampa-st…
Demonstrations throughout California in support of wildcat strike by UC-Santa Cruz graduate teaching assistants
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
February 22, 2020 – The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), the youth movement of the Socialist Equality Party, is holding an emergency online meeting this Sunday, February 23, at 4pm Pacific Time to discuss an international socialist strategy for the UC strike. Visit iysse.com/UCstrike/ for further details.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/22/18830904.php
UC Santa Cruz Shut Down & UC Dining Halls and Offices Occupied
It's Going Down | indybay.org | 2020-02-24
In what is being referred to as "Doomsday," UC President Janet Napolitano has given striking student workers at the University of California in Santa Cruz until midnight on February 21st to turn in withheld grades.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/21/18830888.php
Hundreds of San Diego teachers slated to receive layoff notices due to $30 million budget deficit
wsws.org | 2020-02-24
Sweetwater board of trustees will vote Monday to approve pink slips and closures of learning centers…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/24/swee…
Striking Ontario teachers speak out against Ford's savage cuts
wsws.org | 2020-02-24
"We can't teach lessons anymore because class sizes and conditions have gotten so bad," said a veteran teacher with 27 years' experience who participated in Friday's mass rally outside the Ontario legislature.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/24/ontt…
Gravity Waves From Neutron Star Collision Could Challenge What We Think We Know About thUniverse
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-24
Last year, for only the second time ever, astronomers operating the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) network of sensors observed what appeared to be the collision of two ultra-dense neutron stars. But there's just one problem: the stars' mass didn't quite seem to match humanity's current understanding of astrophysics.
sputniknews.com/science/202002241078393227-gravitational-waves-from-neutron-star-collision-could-challenge-what-we-think-we-know-about-universe/
Iraq Reports First Coronavirus Case in Student From Iran
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-24
BAGHDAD (Sputnik) – Iraq's Ministry of Health and Environment announced Monday the first case of coronavirus in the country which was detected in an Iranian student who had recently arrived from the neighbouring country.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202002241078393609-iraq-reports-first-coronavirus-case-in-student-from-iran/
The Rohingya and their fight for education
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-24
Mohammad Akhter Hossain, a young Rohingya man, was sitting in front of a shanty in a sprawling refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, a district in southern Bangladesh.He stared out aimlessly, his eyes searching for what remains an unknown future.Hossain, 32, was soon whisked away by a few other Rohingya men as they headed to start their day's work with an international NGO operating in the camp, which hosts over a million refugees.All the men share a common past and their concerns for the future are also similar.They were among hundreds of thousands who fled to Bangladesh to escape Myanmar's brutal crackdown on the Rohing…
yenisafak.com/en/world/the-rohingya-and-their-fight-for-education-3512685
Iraq confirms first case of coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-24
Iraq on Monday confirmed the first case of the coronavirus in the country's Najaf city.Ridvan Kindi, the head of the Health Department in Najaf city in south of capital Baghdad, said an Iranian student has tested positive for the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.The student was immediately quarantined and necessary measures were taken, Kindi said.Earlier on Monday, Iran's state television announced that the death toll from the virus in the country rose to 12 with 47 confirmed cases.Turkey on Sunday temporarily closed its border with Iran and halted flights from Iran to prevent the spread of the virus.The…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iraq-confirms-first-case-of-coronavirus-3512688
The "Future of America", Increasingly Weaponised. Does "The Future of America" Mean "The End of the World"?
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
The Budget for the Future of America, presented by the US government, shows the priorities of the Trump Administration in the federal balance sheet for fiscal year 2021 (which begins on 1 October this year). | Above all, the intention is …
globalresearch.ca/future-america-increasingly-weaponised/5704553
Democratic Frontrunner Bernie Sanders Releases Plan for Guaranteed 'Child Care and Pre-K for All'
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-02-24
"We know that the first four years of a child's life are the most important years of human development, so it is unconscionable that in the wealthiest country in the world, we do not properly invest in early childhood education." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/02/24/democratic-frontrunner-bernie-sanders-releases-plan-guaranteed-child-care-and-pre-k?cd-origin=rss
Selected Articles: Bioweapons as Weapons of Modern Warfare?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-24
Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-bioweapons-weapons-modern-warfare/5704581
