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2020-02-22: Social Media Postees

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Two hundred thousand Canadian teachers strike, as global worker counter-offensive continues
wsws.org | 2020-02-22
If education workers find themselves in the forefront of the fight against austerity, it is because capitalist governments view the dismantling of public education as a key element of their regressive agenda.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/22/ontt…

Trump Goes after the Brits
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-22
The inept course of what passes for United States Foreign Policy continues, with the Trump Administration now going after the nation's second oldest friend, Great Britain. With Trump having serially insulted America's oldest ally France last year, it should only …
globalresearch.ca/diplomatic-immunity-raf-croughton-trump-goes-after-brits/5704246

"Russia AgainGate": Phony Accusations of Russian "2020 Election Meddling".The Big Lie that won't Die
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-22
The NYT falsely warned of Russian meddling to re-elect Trump that hasn't occurred. | Nor does any evidence suggest it's coming ahead. Earlier accusations of Moscow electoral interference to help Trump defeat Hillary in 2016 were bald-faced Big Lies. | Not a …
globalresearch.ca/season-phony-accusations-russian-us-election-meddling-surface/5704274

Video: Turkey's Sultan-in-Chief Erdogan To the Rescue of Al-Qaeda in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-22
Tensions between the United States and Russia are growing in northeastern Syria. On February 19, a video appeared online showing how an armored vehicle of the U.S. military was pushing a vehicle of the Russian Military Police off a road. …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-sultan-chief-guard-al-qaeda-idlib/5704252

UCSC Struggles over Grades amid Strike
Eugenio Negro | indybay.org | 2020-02-22
Eugenio Negro's report on interviews with students 20 February 2020 during the grad student strike that is shutting down classes and may withhold student grades.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/20/18830868.php

UC Santa Cruz Shut Down & UC Dining Halls and Offices Occupied
It's Going Down | indybay.org | 2020-02-22
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

Demonstrations throughout California in support of wildcat strike by UC-Santa Cruz graduate teaching assistants
wsws.org | 2020-02-22
Friday's demonstrations were dubbed the "Doomsday Strike" in reference to the 11: 59pm deadline set for UCSC TAs to submit Fall semester grades or be fired.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/22/ucsc…

Resistance To Putting Billionaire Doris Fisher's KIPP Hunters Point Charter On TI
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-02-22
There is resistance to putting billionaire GAP owner Doris Fisher's KIPP Charter on Treasure Island. The SF School District wants to put her charter on radioactive contaminated Treasure Island at the closed Treasure Island Elementary School. | Doris Fisher pushed to have her school co-locate with the Malcom X Academy Public school and want to grab more of the space at the public school. This is allowed under Proposition 39 which allows charter schools to bust up public schools by taking their space. Prop 39 was written by Netflix billionaire Reed Hastings and supported by the Fisher family which owns the GAP, The…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/20/18830850.php

Digging Into It: Scientists Hunting for Alien Life Set Their Sights on Martian Depths
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-22
As the surface of Mars is apparently a very radiation-heavy and oxidizing environment, researchers argue that one should look beneath it in order to discover the traces of life that may or may not exist on the planet.
sputniknews.com/science/202002221078378740-digging-into-it-scientists-hunting-for-alien-life-set-their-sights-on-martian-depths/

MIT Scientists Create System to Determine How to Save Earth from Asteroid Collision
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-22
Currently, our planet is surrounded by thousands of Near-Earth Objects such as comets and asteroids whose orbits cross Earth's, and as such might potentially embark on a collision course with us. Efforts to bolster earth's defences are being ramped up.
sputniknews.com/science/202002221078378156-mit-scientists-create-system-to-determine-how-to-save-earth-from-asteroid-collision/

Thai students to protest banning of popular opposition party
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-22
Thai students are expected to stage a protest on Saturday against a court's decision that dissolved the country's second largest opposition party, less than a year after an election to end direct military rule.The Constitutional Court on Friday disbanded the upstart Future Forward Party, which won more than 6 million votes last year and came in third, for accepting loans from its founder.The court also banned 16 party executives from politics for 10 years, including its charismatic billionaire leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.The ban strengthens the position in parliament of a coalition led by Prime Minister…
yenisafak.com/en/news/thai-students-to-protest-banning-of-popular-opposition-party-3512596

Iraq reports first coronavirus infection
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-22
Iraq on Saturday reported its first coronavirus case in the southern Dhi Qar province, according to a local medical source.The source said an Iraqi student tested positive for the virus after returning from the Iranian city of Qom.He said the student has been quarantined for further tests.On Saturday, the Iraqi authorities called on its nationals not to travel to neighboring Iran, where five coronavirus deaths were reported.The move came after Iraq banned Iranian citizens from entering the country through border terminals for three days.Coronavirus has spread to more than 25 other countries including the U.S., th…
yenisafak.com/en/world/iraq-reports-first-coronavirus-infection-3512582

Unionization + Decriminalization + Feminist Education = The Red Feminist Horizon
Ava Caradonna | zcomm.org | 2020-02-22
With the development of both an industrial and a political strategy, sex workers are now leading important discussions about sex, violence, and workers rights…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/unionization-decriminalization-feminist-education-the-red-feminist-horizon/

Indigenous Resistance Shakes the Canadian State
John Clarke | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
In early February, the RCMP, Canada's colonial police force, raided the land defender camps of the Wet'suwet'en people in British Columbia, in order to clear the way for pipeline construction. Clearly, none of the political decision makers responsible for this …
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-resistance-shakes-canadian-state/5704242

Defend Journalist Julian Assange from Extradition to the United States
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
On Wednesday Wikileaks editor Julian Assange appeared at a Westminster court for his final case management hearing before his extradition hearing which begins on 24 February. | The U.S. government will present its case arguing for Assange's extradition to face 17 …
globalresearch.ca/defend-journalist-julian-assange-extradition-united-states/5704262

Julian Assange's Attorney Speaks Out on the Hopes and Hazards of His Upcoming Trial in London on Feb. 24
Chris Agee | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
Assange's legal advisor Renata Avila joins Gray Zone investigative reporter Max Blumenthal, Black Agenda Report founder Glen Ford, and Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins in Randy Credico's acclaimed radio series, "Assange: Countdown to Freedom"

Did Trump Offer Assange A 'Quid Pro Quo' regarding "Russiagate" and the DNC Troves?
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
A revelation in Westminster Magistrate's Court on Wednesday sent shockwaves through the mainstream media. It is being widely publicised that in 2017 US President Donald Trump offered Julian Assange a pardon if he was to declare that Russia had not …
globalresearch.ca/did-trump-offer-assange-a-quid-pro-quo-regarding-russiagate-and-the-dnc-troves/5704288

"Leave Our Bloke Alone": Australian Politicians, A Little Mission for Julian Assange
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
"I think that now it is time that the government I am a part of needs to be standing up and saying to both the UK and the US: 'enough is enough, leave our bloke alone and let him come …
globalresearch.ca/leave-our-bloke-alone-little-mission-julian-assange/5704042

You Write Injustice on the Earth; We Will Write Revolution in the Skies
Prof. Vijay Prashad | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
'Scientists are wrong', the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano said with a warm smile on his face. 'Human beings are not made of atoms; they are made of stories'. It is why we want to sing and draw, tell each other …
globalresearch.ca/you-write-injustice-earth-we-write-revolution-skies/5704291

Junior High School America. Democratic Debate = "Dog Eat Dog"
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
Many baby boomers like this writer seem to have better 'long term memory' than what just transpired recently. I can remember, almost vividly, when we held our student government elections over 50 years ago. Current NY Senator Chuck Schumer, …
globalresearch.ca/junior-high-school-america-democratic-debate-dog-eat-dog/5704257

Revealed: The British Government's Covert Media Propaganda Campaign in Syria
Ian Cobain | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country's civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being …
globalresearch.ca/british-government-covert-propaganda-campaign-syria/5704240

Russia Bans Most Chinese from Entry: 'Pure Racism' or 'Preventive Reaction'?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
Russia unexpectedly banned all Chinese except those with diplomatic, business, humanitarian, and transit visas from entering the country, but this unprecedented move was made as a preventive reaction against the spread of the coronavirus and not for racist purposes, though | …
globalresearch.ca/russia-bans-most-chinese-entry-pure-racism-preventive-reaction/5704249

Russia and Turkey, "Allies" Fighting One Another: On Opposite Sides of the War on Syria
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
US forever war in Syria shows no signs of ending because restoration of peace and stability to the country would be a major strategic blow to Washington's aim for controlling the Middle East

Video: Turkey's War on Syria. Bluff or Reality?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
Turkey will take the Idlib matter into its own hands and the military operation in northwestern Syria is simply a "matter of time", President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on February 19. Erdogan said that Turkey is not satisfied with talks …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-war-syria/5704268

Is Iran Ill-advised to Finance Its Regional Allies While Under Sanctions?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
Many Iranians question the benefits of arming and financing Iran's many allies in the Middle East while Iran is suffering the harshest ever US "maximum pressure". Iran's allies are spread over Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Is Iranian …
globalresearch.ca/iran-ill-advised-finance-regional-allies-while-under-sanctions/5704237

Video: The 5G Trojan Horse
Derrick Broze | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
Transcript and Sources | My name is Derrick Broze. For the past 8 years I have worked as an independent freelance investigative journalist in Houston, Texas. Since 2012 I have covered a wide range of topics, from indigenous resistance at Standing …
globalresearch.ca/5g-trojan-horse-documentary/5704266

Is World War Between the US and China Inevitable?
Insight History | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
The fast rise of China as a major power over the past few decades has led many to argue that world war between the US and China is a real possibility. Already, we have seen a trade war erupt between …
globalresearch.ca/world-war-us-china-inevitable/5704282

Greater Albania Project Is Accelerating as Kosovo's Statehood Is in Question
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
Clear indications have been made that there is a project for a Greater Albania and it is progressing ahead, especially as the world's attention is focussed on and distracted by the coronavirus, Libya and Syria's Idlib province. The ultimate goal …
globalresearch.ca/greater-albania-project-accelerating-kosovo-statehood-question/5704243

U.S. and Iran Increase Competition to Influence Afghanistan
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
United States officials have expressed concern over the so-called Iranian intervention in Afghanistan in recent days, claiming that Tehran is trying to challenge Washington's interests in Afghanistan through groups that it supports like the Taliban. General Kenneth Mckenzie, the …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-iran-increase-competition-influence-afghanistan/5704284

Coronavirus Tests China, Temps America: Devastating Economic Consequences
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
Biology has done what malicious US foreign policy aimed at China has failed to do for years; complicate China's relations along its peripheries (and the rest of the world for that matter), particularly in Southeast Asia. | In Thailand, contrary to …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-tests-china-temps-america-devastating-economic-consequences/5704273

Why Renew the "Ultra Secret" Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court?
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-21
As the emerging Quantum World continues to shake reality as we once knew it, it is no coincidence that the ultra-secret FISA Court has been unwittingly thrust into the public spotlight of the FBI Russiagate scandal

Colombia: Teachers, Students, Truck Drivers on Demonstrations
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-21
Colombia's largest cities Friday are the scene of protests against President Ivan Duque performed by students, teachers, and truck drivers. | RELATED: | Colombia: Colonel Involves General in Extrajudicial Killings | Initially, truck drivers' claims were motivated by restrictions on vehicular traffic in Bogota, a city that limited the circulation of tr…
telesurenglish.net/news/teachers-and-students-join-trucker-protests-in-colombia-20200221-0003.html

Bolsonaro Administration Claims Murder Reduction Rate in Brazil
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-21
The G1 website, in association with the Public Security Forum and the Center for the Study of Violence at the University of Sà£o Paulo (NEV-USP), published statistical information about a lower homicide rate in Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president, and Minister Sergio Moro are now presenting this statistic variation as an accomplishment of their administration. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro: 'More and More the Indian Is a Human Being Like Us' | These results correspond with…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolsonaro-administration-appropriates-murder-reduction-in-brazil-20200221-0007.html

Uruguay: Lacalle's Investiture Ceremony Alined With US Biases
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-21
Uruguay's President-elect Luis Lacalle decided not to invite the diplomatic representatives of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to his investiture ceremony on March 1rst. | RELATED: | Lacalle Looks to Turn Uruguay Into Tax Haven Again | "We have taken the decision not to invite the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua to my inaugural ceremony. It's my decision," Lacalle said. | He alleged that those countries violate the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS), which…
telesurenglish.net/news/lacalle-excludes-cuba-venezuela-and-nicaragua-from-his-assumption-of-office-20200221-0005.html

Climate emergency demands system change
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-02-21
Climate Socialist AllianceIssue 1254 Australia just transitionsFebruary 21, 2020The Socialist Alliance has been developing this charter for climate action since it…
greenleft.org.au/content/climate-emergency-demands-system-change

Revealed: The Secret Cash that Put Boris Johnson in Number 10
Peter Geoghegan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-20
Cash from secretive Tory groups and anonymous donors played a critical role in demolishing Labour's 'red wall' of northern seats, the key strategy that won the election for Boris Johnson. | *** | According to new research by openDemocracy, almost half a …
globalresearch.ca/secret-cash-put-boris-johnson-number-10/5704097

Who Is WHO's Tedros Adhanom? The Wuhan Lockdown is Unprecedented
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-20
On the surface it appeared that the Director-General of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has acted swiftly and seriously about the spreading coronavirus health emergency spreading across China. He has gone to meet with Chinese leaders to discuss the …
globalresearch.ca/who-who-tedros-adhanom/5704110

The Donald Trump Phenomenon: The Drift Towards an Autocratic Presidency in the United States
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-20
"Experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go". –Montesquieu (1689-1755), 1748. | "Where you have a concentration of power in …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-phenomenon-drift-towards-autocratic-presidency-united-states/5704170

The War On Syria is Not Over: SAA Forces and Russia Confront US Sponsored "Jihadists", Turkey's Phony "Safe Zone", Israel Threatens "Escalated Aggression"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-20
On Wednesday, Turkey's Erdogan threatened escalated cross-border aggression against Syria. | He ignored his regime's illegal occupation of northern Syrian territory, support for anti-government jihadists, and his revanchist aims, wanting Syrian territory bordering Turkey annexed. | That's what his phony "safe zone" …
globalresearch.ca/russia-west-turkey-israel-syria/5704198

Bloomberg Gains in Democratic Primaries, But Has History of Hostility to Unions Key to Voter Turnout
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-19
We continue our conversation with Marcie Wells, activist and waitress who is a member of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Nevada, and Hamilton Nolan, labor reporter with In These Times. Nolan says 2020 had been "the most promising election year for organized labor in a long time," with Democratic candidates releasing platforms with strong labor protections. But Michael Bloomberg's entry into the race threatens to upend the Democratic Party's pro-worker shift. The billionaire former mayor of New York has a long track record of hostility toward organized labor, particularly teachers' unions, whom he has comp…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/19/hamilton_…

"Worth the Price?" New Film Shows How Biden Played Leading Role in Push for U.S. to Invade Iraq
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-18
The Democratic presidential candidates face off in Las Vegas Wednesday night ahead of the Nevada caucuses. Nevada could be a decisive state for candidates who performed poorly in Iowa and New Hampshire, including former Vice President Joe Biden. As Biden hopes for a comeback, a new short documentary sheds light on his extensive role in the Iraq War

Federal Charter Schools Program, a Lifeline for Owners of Capital, Under Threat
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-18
Neoliberals established the Federal Charter Schools Program in 1994, three years after the nation's first charter school law was passed in Minnesota. Since then, billions of public dollars have been handed over to privately-owned-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools through the federal program. The money is usually used for charter school start-up costs. Putting aside …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/federal-charter-schools-program-a-lifeline-for-owners-of-capital-under-threat/

One Billion Rising: Eve Ensler & Taína Asili Mark V-Day and Campaign to End Sexual Violence
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-14
This Valentine's Day, people around the world are taking to the streets to protest violence against women and girls. From the Philippines to India to Italy to Bolivia, thousands of women in more than 100 countries will reclaim public space through dance and performance as part of a global movement called One Billion Rising. The movement takes its name from the shocking statistic that one in three women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. One Billion Rising started on Valentine's Day 2012 and has continued to grow every year since. Participants say they won't stop dancing until violence…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/14/v_day_one…

SPLC sues Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School safety commission for not allowing students to voice concerns
splcenter.org | 2020-02-06
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.org/news/2020/02/06/splc-sues-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-safety-commission-not-allowing-students

Alabama Charter Schools: Principles for Ensuring Equity and Access
splcenter.org | 2020-02-04
splcenter.org/20200205/alabama-charter-schools-principles-ensuring-equity-and-access

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

SPLC sues Alabama school district for violating students' due process rights after cell phone is mistaken for gun
splcenter.org | 2020-01-28
Andre and his friend were taking turns on a cell phone, playing a video game called Last Day on Earth: Survival

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2020-02-21: News Headlines

RT (2020-02-21). How dare you! Climate-sensitive snail named after Greta Thunberg. rt.com In addition to Time magazine's Person of the Year and a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has received a new accolade from the scientific community, and it's something. | To mark all of her achievements, a team of researchers has decided to endow her with arguably the greatest honor of all: they… erm… named a snail after her. | The 'Craspedotropis gretathunbergae' is a new species of temperature-sensitive land snail discovered by Taxon expeditions in the forests of Borneo. | "The newly described snail belongs to the so-called caenogastropods, a group of land snai…

WSWS (2020-02-21). Ontario teachers require a socialist program to defeat austerity, defend public education. wsws.org For the first time in over two decades, 200,000 Ontario teachers and school support staff are united in a province-wide one-day strike.

Heather Gautney (2020-02-21). Mike Bloomberg's Education 'Reforms' Would be a Disaster for Public Schools. zcomm.org Like Trump, Bloomberg is a fervent backer of privatizing and dismantling public schools across the country…

City of San José Environmental Services (2020-02-21). Pathways to Climate Smart Careers Fair for High School Students. indybay.org Fairmont Hotel San José, 170 South Market Street, San José , CA 95113…

WSWS Repost (2020-02-21). UC Santa Cruz graduate students call for expansion of wildcat strike. indybay.org February 19, 2020 – The UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) graduate student wildcat strike escalated yesterday, Tuesday February 18, as students from United Auto Workers (UAW) union local 2865 mounted an all-day picket, culminating in a general assembly to vote on further action. Graduate students are holding fast against police repression and threats of dismissal or even deportation from the highest level university administration. Despite a virtual media blackout, support for the movement is growing across the UC system, drawing widespread support from students, faculty, and workers across the country.

Eugenio Negro (2020-02-21). UCSC Struggles over Grades amid Strike. indybay.org Eugenio Negro's report on interviews with students 20 February 2020 during the grad student strike that is shutting down classes and may withhold student grades.

WSWS (2020-02-21). Support for UC Santa Cruz strike spreads to other campuses, faculty. wsws.org The Faculty Senate passed a resolution in favor of striking students and demonstrations have spread to at least four other UC campuses.

It's Going Down (2020-02-21). A Report on the First Week of the Santa Cruz Wildcat Strike. indybay.org When Santa Cruz student-workers extended their grade strike to a full-scale work stoppage on February 10th, others of us across campuses began developing ways to support it.

WSWS (2020-02-21). Sri Lankan school teachers join rising opposition to Rajapakse government. wsws.org In opposition to racist provocations whipped up by Sri Lanka's ruling elite, teachers from the north and east of the island participated in the Colombo protest.

Repost (2020-02-21). Resistance To Putting Billionaire Doris Fisher's KIPP Hunters Point Charter On TI. indybay.org There is resistance to putting billionaire GAP owner Doris Fisher's KIPP Charter on Treasure Island. The SF School District wants to put her charter on radioactive contaminated Treasure Island at the closed Treasure Island Elementary School. | Doris Fisher pushed to have her school co-locate with the Malcom X Academy Public school and want to grab more of the space at the public school. This is allowed under Proposition 39 which allows charter schools to bust up public schools by taking their space. Prop 39 was written by Netflix billionaire Reed Hastings and supported by the Fisher family which owns the GAP, The…

sputniknews (2020-02-21). Priti Patel is the Conservative Conscience of Boris Johnson's Government. sputniknews.com James Delingpole opens up this week's programme by fully supporting Pritti Patel's new immigration policies and says that her idea of making immigrants speak English will result in "Lefties will call it racist and xenophobic!"

sputniknews (2020-02-21). Funds Investing in Russia Saw Net Inflow of $190Mln From February 13-19 – Fund Research. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Funds investing in Russian assets and bonds, including multi-country funds, saw a $190 million inflow in the week ending on February 19, against $330 million the week before, according to data from Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR) compiled by Russian broker BCS Global Markets.

sputniknews (2020-02-21). Bone and Mortar: Walls Built From Human Bones Unearthed Beneath Belgian Cathedral. sputniknews.com Researchers are now reportedly striving to determine whether the composition of the ghastly structures was dictated by practicality or if there is some sort of "religious dimension" to it.

sputniknews (2020-02-21). 46,000 Year-Old Bird Discovered in Siberia Holds Secret to Ice Age Evolution. sputniknews.com Scientists have previously found carcasses and body parts from other animals trapped in the permafrost, such as wolves and mammoths, with the findings hailed as "priceless" as they allow for the retrieval of DNA and on occasion RNA, a nucleic acid present in all living cells.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2020-02-20). Pardoning Julian Assange: Donald Trump, WikiLeaks and the DNC. globalresearch.ca The central pillar to Democratic paranoia and vengefulness regarding the loss of Hillary Clinton in 2016 was the link between Russian hacking, the servers of the Democratic National Committee and the release of emails via WikiLeaks. Over time, that account …

Stephen Lendman (2020-02-20). Motion to US District Court to Release Chelsea Manning from Punitive Incarceration. globalresearch.ca Like Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning is a victim of police state injustice. | She's been imprisoned since last spring and fined $1,000 daily for invoking her constitutional right to remain silent — refusing to give grand jury testimony against Assange that …

Stephen Lendman (2020-02-20). Slow Motion Murder of Julian Assange by US/UK Regimes. globalresearch.ca Assange's crucifixion is all about waging war on dissent, truth-telling on major issues, and journalism the way it's supposed to be. | It's about creeping totalitarian rule in the US, UK, and West — equity, justice, and respect for the rule …

Staff (2020-02-20). Black Students in the Mississippi Delta Still Face Education Inequality. truthout.org Samara Rand's new colleagues at Holmes County Central High School gave her a warning on her first day: Never turn off the air conditioning. Even if the students complained. Warm classrooms in the 60-year-old building would smell like urine, her co-workers told her. | "Get you some air freshener," a ninth-grade biology teacher advised her. | When it rains, the roof of the decades-old facility leaks. During the worst downpours, hallways flood. Attempts to raise taxes to build a state-of-the-art high…

Staff (2020-02-20). New Mexico Sues Google Over Collection of Children's Data. truthdig.com ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico's attorney general sued Google Thursday over allegations the tech company is illegally collecting personal data generated by children in violation of federal and state laws. | The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque claims Google is using its education services package that is marketed to school districts, teachers and parents as a way to spy on children and their families. | Attorney General Hector Balderas said that while the company touts Google Education as a valuable tool for resource-deprived schools, it is a means to monitor children while they browse th…

WSWS (2020-02-20). German Education Minister Karliczek supports right-wing extremist professor Jà∂rg Baberowski. wsws.org The German government is defending the right-wing extremist professor after he threatened and physically attacked IYSSE spokesperson Sven Wurm on the campus of Berlin's Humboldt University.

Abayomi Azikiwe (2020-02-20). Mass Student Movement in the United States Began Six Decades Ago. globalresearch.ca On February 1, 1960, four African American students from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University sat down at a racially segregated lunch counter in the F.W. Woolworth Department store in downtown Greensboro to demand service. | This act of civil disobedience …

Andrew Korybko (2020-02-20). India 2020: 'Superpower' or Still 'Super Poor'? globalresearch.ca The hopes of India's over 1.3 billion people were shattered after their country objectively failed to become the "superpower" that many of their leading "influencers" (read: propagandists) predicted it would be by 2020, with this finally being acknowledged by the …

Zero Hedge (2020-02-20). "Absolutely Unacceptable" — Leaked Boeing Memo Shows 'Debris' Found in 737 MAX Fuel-Tanks. globalresearch.ca With airline after airline pushing back their 'return-to-service' dates based on Boeing's total lack of clarity on the path forward for the 737 MAX, the troubled aircraft maker (and the troubled aircraft) now faces more problems. | According to an internal …

Ian Dunt (2020-02-20). The End of Free Movement: This Is a Nation Dismantling Itself over Nonsense. globalresearch.ca So after four years, we finally get

F. William Engdahl (2020-02-20). Who Is WHO's Tedros Adhanom? The Wuhan Lockdown is Unprecedented. globalresearch.ca On the surface it appeared that the Director-General of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has acted swiftly and seriously about the spreading coronavirus health emergency spreading across China. He has gone to meet with Chinese leaders to discuss the …

South Front (2020-02-20). Video: Syrians Are in Desperate Race to Outrun Brutal Regime Offensive. globalresearch.ca Syrians are in a desperate race to outrun the offensive of the brutal Assad regime. The ruthless government forces are aggressively destroying helpless mines and car bombs, treacherously restoring roads, schools and residential houses, cruelly launching road patrols, and (oh, …

Rebecca Gordon (2020-02-20). "The Right to Do Whatever I Want as President" globalresearch.ca On February 5th, the Senate voted to acquit President Donald J. Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. In other words, Trump's

Stephen Lendman (2020-02-20). The War On Syria is Not Over: SAA Forces and Russia Confront US Sponsored "Jihadists", Turkey's Phony "Safe Zone", Israel Threatens "Escalated Aggression" globalresearch.ca On Wednesday, Turkey's Erdogan threatened escalated cross-border aggression against Syria. | He ignored his regime's illegal occupation of northern Syrian territory, support for anti-government jihadists, and his revanchist aims, wanting Syrian territory bordering Turkey annexed. | That's what his phony "safe zone" …

Johnathan Hettinger (2020-02-20). Jury Awards $265M in Damages in Dicamba Trial Against Monsanto, BASF. globalresearch.ca After three weeks of arguments, the jury awarded the peach-farmer plaintiff $15 million in damages and $250 million in punitive damages against the chemical companies. | *** | A federal jury determined that German agribusiness giants Bayer and BASF will have to …

Prof. Tim Anderson (2020-02-20). The Axis of Resistance Holds Firm as Washington Faces Retreat. globalresearch.ca The shifting sands of the Syrian conflict have left many wondering what might happen next between the Kurds, the US, and Russia inside Syria. I reached out to, Professor Tim Anderson, an Australian political economist, and author of "…

Mike Whitney (2020-02-20). Putin vs. Erdogan: Who's Going to Blink First? globalresearch.ca An explosive situation is developing in Idlib province where the Syrian army is conducting a major offensive that has triggered a harsh response from Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is threatening to attack Syrian forces anywhere in the country …

Ken Stone (2020-02-20). Oppose Trudeau's Hosting of the Lima Group in Gatineau. globalresearch.ca On February 20, the Trudeau government will host another meeting of the anti-Venezuelan "Lima Group" at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, 100 Laurier St, Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0M8. A protest will commence at its main entrance at 1 pm. | The …

Stephen Lendman (2020-02-20). Netanyahu in the Dock Set for March 17. What Happens if Convicted of Bribery, Fraud? globalresearch.ca In so-called cases 1000 and 2000, he's charged with fraud and breach of trust — as well as bribery and breach of trust in Case 4000. | Evidence against him is damning, Israeli attorney general Mendelblit earlier saying: | Netanyahu "damaged the …

Eva Bartlett (2020-02-20). Video: Aleppo City's Countryside Fully Secured, Syrians in Aleppo Celebrate the End of Terrorism. globalresearch.ca In December 2016, the Syrian Arab Army, Russia and allies liberated the northern Syrian city of Aleppo of the al-Qaeda and equally-heinous terrorists who had occupied and terrorized civilians in the city since 2012. | In subsequent years, Aleppo to a …

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2020-02-20). Is Russia Doomed? US-NATO Is Preparing for "A Major Military Conflict" globalresearch.ca Winston Churchill said that Russia was "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Having read two contrasting news reports of attitudes in Russia, I understand what Churchill meant. | General Valery Gerasimov, chairman of the Russian General Staff, …

Pepe Escobar (2020-02-20). Munich Conference Reveals East-West Divide. globalresearch.ca Few postmodern political pantomimes have been more revealing than the hundreds of so-called "international decision-makers," mostly Western, waxing lyrical, disgusted or nostalgic over "Westlessness" at the Munich Security Conference. | "Westlessness" sounds like one of those constipated concepts issued from a …

Alex Larson (2020-02-20). Researchers Have Identified How Naval Sonar Is Killing and Beaching Whales. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published in 2019. | We have known for a long time that naval sonar has devastating effects on marine life but just exactly how it leads to sickness and death was a mystery till now. | In new …

Prof Rodrigue Tremblay (2020-02-20). The Donald Trump Phenomenon: The Drift Towards an Autocratic Presidency in the United States. globalresearch.ca "Experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go". —Montesquieu (1689-1755), 1748. | "Where you have a concentration of power in …

Peter Geoghegan (2020-02-20). Revealed: The Secret Cash that Put Boris Johnson in Number 10. globalresearch.ca Cash from secretive Tory groups and anonymous donors played a critical role in demolishing Labour's 'red wall' of northern seats, the key strategy that won the election for Boris Johnson. | *** | According to new research by openDemocracy, almost half a …

Staff (2020-02-19). Bloomberg Gains in Democratic Primaries, But Has History of Hostility to Unions Key to Voter Turnout. democracynow.org We continue our conversation with Marcie Wells, activist and waitress who is a member of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Nevada, and Hamilton Nolan, labor reporter with In These Times. Nolan says 2020 had been "the most promising election year for organized labor in a long time," with Democratic candidates releasing platforms with strong labor protections. But Michael Bloomberg's entry into the race threatens to upend the Democratic Party's pro-worker shift. The billionaire former mayor of New York has a long track record of hostility toward organized labor, particularly teachers' unions, whom he has comp…

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2020-02-19). Extradition of Assange Would Set a Dangerous Precedent. globalresearch.ca The Trump administration is seeking extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States for trial on charges carrying 175 years in prison. On February 24, a court in the U.K. will hold a hearing to determine whether to …

Diana Johnstone (2020-02-19). At the Annual Munich Security Conference: The West Displays Its "Insecurity Complex" globalresearch.ca "The West is winning!" U.S. leaders proclaimed at the high-level Annual Security Conference held in Munich last weekend. | Not everybody was quite so sure. | There was a lot of insecurity displayed at a conference billed as "the West's family meeting" …

Global Research News (2020-02-19). Selected Articles: The Truth About Assange. globalresearch.ca By The Trump administration is seeking extradition of WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange to the United States for trial on charges carrying 175 years in prison. …

Staff (2020-02-18). "Worth the Price?" New Film Shows How Biden Played Leading Role in Push for U.S. to Invade Iraq. democracynow.org The Democratic presidential candidates face off in Las Vegas Wednesday night ahead of the Nevada caucuses. Nevada could be a decisive state for candidates who performed poorly in Iowa and New Hampshire, including former Vice President Joe Biden. As Biden hopes for a comeback, a new short documentary sheds light on his extensive role in the Iraq War — an issue that has been raised repeatedly on the campaign trail. Biden has apologized for supporting the war, but the new film, directed by the Center for Economic and Policy Research's Mark Weisbrot, exposes Biden's central role in pushing for an Iraq invasion.

Shawgi Tell (2020-02-18). Federal Charter Schools Program, a Lifeline for Owners of Capital, Under Threat. dissidentvoice.org Neoliberals established the Federal Charter Schools Program in 1994, three years after the nation's first charter school law was passed in Minnesota. Since then, billions of public dollars have been handed over to privately-owned-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools through the federal program. The money is usually used for charter school start-up costs. Putting aside …

news.un (2020-02-17). Amid global 'learning crisis', Parliaments can ensure adequate resources for education, says UN Assembly President. news.un.org Education is the "great equalizer" and Parliaments have a major role to play in scaling up action to ensure that adequate financial resources are allocated to education, girls' education and technical and vocational training throughout in national budgetary processes, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Monday.

news.un (2020-02-17). Iraq: Education access still a challenge in former ISIL-controlled areas. news.un.org More than two years after the defeat of ISIL in Iraq, some children in areas formerly controlled by the terrorist group still cannot access school or get the necessary documentation required for enrollment, a UN report published on Monday finds.

Staff (2020-02-14). One Billion Rising: Eve Ensler & Taína Asili Mark V-Day and Campaign to End Sexual Violence. democracynow.org This Valentine's Day, people around the world are taking to the streets to protest violence against women and girls. From the Philippines to India to Italy to Bolivia, thousands of women in more than 100 countries will reclaim public space through dance and performance as part of a global movement called One Billion Rising. The movement takes its name from the shocking statistic that one in three women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. One Billion Rising started on Valentine's Day 2012 and has continued to grow every year since. Participants say they won't stop dancing until violence…

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 …

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