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Indian Education Minister to JNU Students: Drop Demands for Vice Chancellor's Resignation
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
New Delhi (Sputnik): Jawaharlal Nehru University, one of India's most prestigious, has been witnessing a series of protests which started with the students demanding a roll back of feed hikes and even caused a violent attack on protesting students by masked thugs, leaving over 30 students injured.
sputniknews.com/india/202001211078092931-indian-education-minister-to-jnu-students-drop-demands-for-vice-chancellors-resignation/

Speak-Out Against Another Charter School on Radioactive SF Treasure Island
UPWA & Defend Public Education NOW! | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Room 400 | San Francisco City Hall…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/18/18829846.php

Education: Expanding Purpose
Graham Peebles | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
As the world stumbles from one crisis to another it is increasingly apparent that existing systems and institutions are incapable of responding to the challenges of the time and the growing demands of the people. Creative ways of thinking free from ideology are needed, allowing for a revolution of ideas to take place and new…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/education-expanding-purpose/

Protest 5G-Global Day of Action!
Wireless Radiation Education and Defense | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
2209 Shattuck in front of Verizon, downtown Berkeley and marching to other nearby cellphone stores and to MLK Park.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/21/18829969.php

US Gov Was Found Guilty In MLK's Assassination, Virginia Update & Israeli Gov "Proof" Of Iran Nukes
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-01-21
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/20/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/us-gov-was-found-guilty-in-mlks-assassination-virginia-update-israeli-gov-proof-of-iran-nukes/

Small predators 'most at risk' when habitats are converted for human use
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-21
Small predators like spiders and ladybirds are the most likely to be lost when natural habitats are converted for human use, research suggests. These are creatures that play a crucial role in ecosystems. | A global study on the impact of human land use on different groups of animals found that predators, especially small invertebrates, are the most likely to suffer when natural habitats are transformed to agricultural land or towns and cities. | Also disproportionately affected were small ectotherms…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/01/21/small-predators-most-at-risk-when-habitats-are-converted-for-human-use/

Attempts to Remove Morales' Memory from Bolivia Will Likely Reinvigorate an Anti-Imperialist Struggle
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Last Wednesday, the coup government of Bolivia launched a massive military operation claiming to be a pre-emptive strike against the expected violence to occur this Wednesday during Plurinational State Foundation Day celebrations that memorializes the change in the name of …
globalresearch.ca/attempts-remove-morales-memory-bolivia-reinvigorate-anti-imperialist-struggle/5701241

Young people making climate change 'hot topic', Greta Thunberg tells Davos elite
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-21
Greta Thunberg was among four young climate activists to challenge the elites gathered at the World Economic Forum for not doing enough to deal with the climate emergency and warned them that time was running out.At a panel in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, the four said they hoped their generation had found its voice and can work with those in power to bring about the necessary change to limit climate change.Yet Thunberg said not enough has been done. | "We need to start listening to the science, and treat this crisis with the importance it deserves," said the 17-year-old, just as US president Donald Trump was a…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/01/21/young-people-making-climate-change-hot-topic-greta-thunberg-tells-davos-elite/

Could it be Us? UFOs 'May be Piloted by Time-Travelling Humans', Claims Scientist
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
While Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs are perceived by many as fodder for science fiction blockbusters, one scientist insists they are real, but offers a remarkable theory to prove his point.
sputniknews.com/science/202001211078094008-could-it-be-us-ufos-may-be-piloted-by-time-travelling-humans-claims-scientist-/

Russian Scientists Propose Manned Base on Martian Moon to Control Robots Remotely on Red Planet
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
Academics believe a Martian moon base would be considerably cheaper to build than a base on the planet itself, while providing for the real-time control of robots stationed on Mars' surface.
sputniknews.com/science/202001211078094327-russian-scientists-propose-manned-base-on-martian-moon-to-control-robots-remotely-on-red-planet/

Indian Court Refuses to Lift Ban on Loudspeakers at Mosques in Uttar Pradesh
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-21
New Delhi (Sputnik): India's apex court in an order in 2000 had ruled that the "right to religious freedom is related to civil order, morality and health. No religion teaches that loudspeakers and amplifiers should be used for prayer. Even if it is done, it should not affect the rights of others."
sputniknews.com/india/202001211078090534-indian-court-refuses-to-lift-ban-on-loudspeakers-at-mosques-in-uttar-pradesh/

Northam's Virginia budget: Democrat gives a pittance to workers, lion's share to wealthy
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
The budget would give paltry increases in healthcare subsidies and teacher wages while doing nothing to undercut the state government's support for big business.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/virg…

Os agressores, sà£o agora os responsáveis pela "soberania" da Líbia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Na Conferência de Berlim, o Secretário de Estado dos EUA, Mike Pompeo, pediu "o fim da interferência estrangeira na Líbia, o embargo de armas e um cessar-fogo duradouro". O mesmo fizeram a Franàßa, o Reino Unido e a Itália, os …
globalresearch.ca/os-agressores-sao-agora-os-responsaveis-pela-soberania-da-libia/5701235

Gli aggressori garanti della ´sovranità ª libica
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Alla Conferenza di Berlino il segretario di stato Usa Mike Pompeo ha richiesto ´la fine dell'interferenza straniera in Libia, l'embargo sulle armi e un durevole cessate il fuoco ª. Lo stesso hanno fatto Francia, Regno Unito e Italia, gli stessi paesi …
globalresearch.ca/gli-aggressori-garanti-della-sovranita-libica/5701232

Martin Luther King Day 2020: Memphis, Tenn. Court Decision, U.S. "Government Agencies" Found Guilty in Martin Luther King's Assassination
Carl Herman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
After four weeks of testimony and over 70 witnesses in a civil trial in Memphis, Tennessee, twelve jurors reached a unanimous verdict on December 8, 1999 that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.
globalresearch.ca/court-decision-u-s-government-agencies-found-guilty-in-martin-luther-kings-assassination-2/5320024

How Mercenaries and Advisers Fight the Wars the UK Won't Own
Paul Rogers | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
'Mercenary' is an evocative word, conjuring thoughts of adventure in foreign lands and elastic personal ethics, but probably not the bureaucratic calculations of British foreign policy. That is a tribute to the success of governments in keeping their use of …
globalresearch.ca/mercenaries-advisers-fight-wars-uk-wont-own/5701144

How an "International Shadowy Group" Is Influencing India's Food Policy
Great Game India | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), an American nonprofit with an innocuous sounding name has been quietly infiltrating Indian government's health and nutrition bodies influencing India's food policy on behalf of the chemical industry. | New Food Packaging Labeling Rules | Last year …
globalresearch.ca/how-international-shadowy-group-influencing-india-food-policy/5701072

The Libya Conference and "The New Scramble for Africa"
Johannes Stern | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
A major international conference on Libya will convene in Berlin on Sunday. At the invitation of Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, heads of state and top officials of the leading imperialist powers in Europe and the US will come together to …
globalresearch.ca/libya-conference-new-scramble-africa/5701174

More to the Flight 752 Tragedy than First Appearances Suggest
James ONeill | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
On 3 January 2020 a drone, believed to be operated by the United States, fired a missile upon a convoy of cars departing Baghdad airport, killing at least nine persons. Amongst the victims was Major General Qassem Solemani, a …
globalresearch.ca/more-flight-752-tragedy/5701159

Prevent programme must be abolished in order to tackle politically motivated violence, say experts
Mohamed Elmaazi | thecanary.co | 2020-01-20
Britain's controversial surveillance/counter-extremism Prevent programme has come under fire once more, this time from over 100 academics, researchers, and campaigners calling on the government to radically overhaul its approach to tackling politically motivated violence. | The Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol), sociology professor David Miller, rapper Lowkey, and criminology expert…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/01/20/prevent-programme-must-be-abolished-in-order-to-tackle-politically-motivated-violence-say-experts/

Trump's Legal Team Responds to Dems Impeachment Scam
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
There's overwhelming just cause to impeach and remove Trump from office for legitimate high crimes. | The same is true for most of his predecessors, along with most current and former congressional members. | The Constitution's Article II, Section 4 states "(t)he …
globalresearch.ca/trump-legal-team-responds-dems-impeachment-scam/5701045

General Haftar Still Holds All the Cards After Berlin's Libya Summit
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
Berlin's Libya summit ended without any real changes to the status quo despite all relevant foreign parties to that country's civil war superficially agreeing to some key points such as the need to abide by the arms embargo and commit …
globalresearch.ca/general-haftar-holds-all-cards-after-berlin-libya-summit/5701125

Support Independent Media: Global Research Needs Your Help
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
At Global Research we have always sought out ways to make the articles we publish accessible to as many people as possible. We want the information on our website to circulate freely which is why we don't use paywalls, you …
globalresearch.ca/support-independent-media-global-research-needs-your-help/5701207

Diminishing Returns: Calculated Misery in Air Travel
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
If there comes a point when people will decide not to fly, the issue may well be less to do with any moral or ethical issue with climate change than the fact that commercial flights have become atrocious. They are …
globalresearch.ca/diminishing-returns-calculated-misery-air-travel/5701111

Africa: For-profit Investments Are Not 'Development'
Dan Carden | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
This week's UK-Africa Investment Summit will send a clear signal. The UK government's aid policy will not be driven by evidence about how to best fight global poverty, but instead by naked free market ideology and the interests of British …
globalresearch.ca/for-profit-investments-not-development/5701122

Making America Great Again in a New Wild West
William deBuys | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
A new Wild West has taken root not far from Tombstone, Arizona, known to many for its faux-historical reenactments of the old West. We're talking about a long, skinny territory

US Boosts Funding of Tech Companies to Help Anti-Tehran Protests
Katrina Manson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
US government-funded technology companies have recorded an increase in the use of circumvention software in Iran in recent weeks after boosting efforts to help Iranian anti-regime protesters thwart internet censorship and use secure mobile messaging. | The outreach is part of …
globalresearch.ca/us-boosts-funding-of-tech-companies-to-help-anti-tehran-protests/5701082

How Perception Management Has Wrecked Reality
Greg Guma | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
In The Secret Man, Bob Woodward's book about his Watergate source Deep Throat, he notes, "Washington politics and secrets are an entire world of doubt." And that was before Trump and cyberwar. | Even though Woodward knew the identity of his …
globalresearch.ca/how-perception-management-has-wrecked-reality/5701091

Is 2020 China's Year of Economic and Political Milestone?
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
Just as one New Year's festivities end, another begins. China is set to celebrate the Year of the Rat on January 25. Folklore says it's a good year for business and fertility. But it also marks an economic and …
globalresearch.ca/2020-china-year-economic-political-milestone/5701184

The Mad Geopolitics of Israel's EastMed Gas Pipeline
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
At just a time when the world holds its collective breath over risk of a World War over the US assassination of Iran's leading general and other provocations, Israel has chosen to sign a natural gas pipeline deal with Greece …
globalresearch.ca/geopolitics-israel-eastmed-gas-pipeline/5701114

As Neo-Nazis Head to Richmond, Trump Boosts Gun-rights Rally
Patrick Martin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
On the eve of a planned right-wing gun-rights rally in Richmond, Virginia, fascists and white supremacists are reportedly heading for the Virginia state capitol, hoping to create a "second Charlottesville," modeled on the neo-Nazi riot in 2017 which killed one …
globalresearch.ca/neo-nazis-head-richmond-trump-boosts-gun-rights-rally/5701141

"Orders to Kill" Dr. Martin Luther King: The Government that Honors MLK with a National Holiday Killed Him
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
Few people, in a massive act of self-deception, have chosen to question the official explanation, choosing, rather, to embrace a mythic fabrication intended to sugarcoat the bitter fruit that has resulted from the murder of the one man capable of leading a mass movement for revolutionary change in the US.
globalresearch.ca/orders-to-kill-martin-luther-king-the-government-that-honors-mlk-with-a-national-holiday-killed-him/5559300

The People of Colombia Are Cracking Up the Walls of War and Authoritarianism
Justin Podur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
The protests that started with the national strike called by Colombia's central union on November 21 to protest pension reforms and the broken promises of the peace accords have persisted for two months and grown into a protest against the …
globalresearch.ca/people-colombia-cracking-up-walls-war-authoritarianism/5701116

Israel and Bedouins Face Off in the Negev Desert
Jack Dalton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
Mohammad Danfiri stands at the edge of his Bedouin family's sheep enclosure in the Negev Desert, looking out at a pair of cell phone towers at the top of a nearby hill. They are situated in an open spot between …
globalresearch.ca/moved-bodies-israel-bedouins-face-off-negev/5701170

Better Living Through Glyphosate? Spray Now, Ask Questions Later
Mark Harris | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
There's a lot of talk in the Trump era about the "war on science." But this war, such as it is, extends far beyond uninformed Republican attacks on climate change science or Donald Trump's mocking insults of Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist nearly 60 years the old bully's junior. This war involves not only…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/20/better-living-through-glyphosate-spray-now-ask-questions-later/

Protests against violence in Sri Lankan university expose government's privatization agenda
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-20
Students of Sri Lanka's University of Colombo are up in arms against the university management after a video circulated on social media showing a student being severely beaten up by a group inside the campus premises, on January 15. Following this attack which took place in a suburb of the capital, twelve students were arrested by the state police and presented before the Colombo Chief Magistrate. They were later released on bail. As per the Colombo National Hospital officials, the injured student has been discharged. | Protesting students claim that they are feeling intimidated by the growing number of confronta…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/20/protests-against-violence-in-sri-lankan-university-expose-governments-privatization-agenda/

Teaching War So That It Matters
Brian Gibbs | commondreams.org | 2020-01-20
The students walked away from the unit with a deeper sense of the wars America has been and a more nuanced understanding of World War II and Vietnam. (Photo: via EuroYankee) | …
commondreams.org/views/2020/01/20/teaching-war-so-it-matters?cd-origin=rss

Ontario teachers to stage regional walkouts, as Ford government escalates threats
wsws.org | 2020-01-20
While the unions are confining teachers to ineffectual one-day regional strikes, Ford and his ministers are plotting to ram through class-size increases and other cuts by outlawing all job action.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/20/ontt…

DoorDash Drivers Make an Average of $1.45 an Hour, Analysis Finds
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-20
The national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not changed in a decade, and there is widespread agreement that it is far below what constitutes a living wage anyway. As if the statistics on the federal minimum wage weren't dismal enough, leave it to Silicon Valley to figure out "innovative" ways to pa…
truthout.org/articles/doordash-drivers-make-an-average-of-1-45-an-hour-analysis-finds/

Poem: Winter Is Near
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-20
poetry Climate environment Camille BarrIssue 1249 AustraliaJanuary 20, 2020The winter of humankind draws near | Science has spoken in alarm | The day may be warm, unseasonal | Land whips at our faces…
greenleft.org.au/content/poem-winter-near

Top Government Brexit Advisor's Dire Warning About Future
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
After over three years of chaotic and often bad-tempered negotiations to leave the EU

Selected Articles: The Government that Honors MLK with a National Holiday Killed Him
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
SELECTED ARTICLE | | How Mercenaries and Advisers Fight the Wars the UK Won't Own | By Paul Rogers, January 20, 2020 | The Bahraini repression of dissent in 2011-12 caused controversy around the world, but the British government

Revealed Iran's Attack Did Cause Casualties, US/Israeli Cyberattack & Pompeo Threatens The World
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-01-19
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/18/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/revealed-irans-attack-did-cause-casualties-us-israeli-cyberattack-pompeo-threatens-the-world/

UK Universities Invested $600m in Israel Crimes: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-19
British universities have invested almost US$600 million in companies involved in Israeli violations of international law, year-long research from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), reported Sunday by the Middle East Eye, revealed. | RELATED: | NGOs Urge UN to Disclose Firms Involved in Israel's Settlements | At the end of 2019, the PSC made public a database listing 117, out of the United…
telesurenglish.net/news/British-Universities-Invest-in-Israeli-Crimes-Report-20200119-0011.html

Gremlin in the sky: Pentagon contractor shows maiden flight of its new 'swarm' drone
rt.com | 2020-01-19
Swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles overwhelming enemies' defenses with sheer numbers might soon be part of the US combat strategy. Footage of the first flight of one such drone has just been showcased by a Pentagon contractor. | A video published on YouTube by an applied science and IT company, Dynetics, shows a drone, which looks roughly like a large air-to-surface missile, being drop-launched from under the wing of a US transport Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft. | The drone designated X-61A then releases small wings and ignites its rocket engine, setting off for an autonomous flight. Media reports sugges…
rt.com/usa/478660-pentagon-gremlins-swarm-drone-test/

A 2020 Reminder: 55% of US Women Between 18 and 54 Would Rather Live Under Socialism Than Capitalism
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-19
Not raving Marxists clamoring for state-run economy, evidence shows four in 10 Americans overall would rather live in country that provides "universal health care, tuition-free education, and a decent day's wage for a decent day's work." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/19/2020-reminder-55-us-women-between-18-and-54-would-rather-live-under-socialism?cd-origin=rss

More Tory nonsense, this time over period poverty
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-01-18
The Tory's latest grand pledge about poverty has not washed with many people. Rightly so, as its new measures to tackle period poverty fall way short of the mark. Moreover, it's really just sticking plasters on broken legs. | Another day, more lip service?: | As ITV News reported, next week the Department for Education (DfE) will roll out free sanitary product…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/01/18/more-tory-nonsense-this-time-over-period-poverty/

'I thought it was a terrorist attack': California teachers sue Delta after plane showers school children with jet fuel
rt.com | 2020-01-18
Four southern California teachers have filed a lawsuit against Delta Airlines after a Boeing 777 jettisoned its fuel over several schools near Los Angeles, drenching staff and scores of children with the volatile liquid. | Filed on Friday by attorney Gloria Allred, the suit alleges that the crew of Delta Flight 89 was negligent in dumping the fuel when and where it did, arguing the toxic substance led teachers and students to become "sick, dizzy and nauseated," producing "a lasting and severe irritation and a lasting and noxious taste and smell." | "A Delta Airlines pilot flying at a relatively low altitude an…
rt.com/usa/478569-california-teachers-due-delta/

Charter Schools Have No Valid Claim to Public Property
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-18
Public facilities and infrastructure are produced by the working class and people and belong to the public. They exist in order to serve the common good and to contribute to the extended reproduction of society. This collectively-produced wealth must not be handed over to competing owners of capital who are only concerned with maximizing profit …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/charter-schools-have-no-valid-claim-to-public-property/

Education: Expanding Purpose
Graham Peebles | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-17
As the world stumbles from one crisis to another it is increasingly apparent that existing systems and institutions are incapable of responding to the challenges of the time and the growing demands of the people. Creative ways of thinking free from ideology are needed, allowing for a revolution of ideas to take place and new …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/education-expanding-purpose/

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2020-01-20: News Headlines

RT (2020-01-20). Breathing new life into colonizing the Moon? ESA to begin producing oxygen from LUNAR DUST. rt.com The European Space Agency (ESA) has fired up its prototype oxygen plant to begin producing the element out of simulated moondust, with a view to creating a sustainable breathable air production facility on the Moon. | "Being able to acquire oxygen from resources found on the Moon would obviously be hugely useful for future lunar settlers, both for breathing and in the local production of rocket fuel," says Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow, a researcher working on the prototype at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC). | The current prototype is set up in a lab in Noordwijk in the Net…

UPWA & Defend Public Education NOW! (2020-01-20). Speak-Out Against Another Charter School on Radioactive SF Treasure Island. indybay.org Room 400 | San Francisco City Hall…

Greg Guma (2020-01-20). How Perception Management Has Wrecked Reality. globalresearch.ca In The Secret Man, Bob Woodward's book about his Watergate source Deep Throat, he notes, "Washington politics and secrets are an entire world of doubt." And that was before Trump and cyberwar. | Even though Woodward knew the identity of his …

Equipe Phonegate (2020-01-20). The Court of Appeal of Turin Confirms the Link Between a Head Tumour and Mobile Phone Use. globalresearch.ca The Court of Appeal of Turin confirms in a full judgment published on 13 January 2020 (904/2019 of 3.12.2019 , Romeo v. INAIL) the decision of the Tribunal of Ivrea of 2017. Judge Fadda considers that the worker's acoustic neuroma …

Jessica Corbett (2020-01-20). 'Scale of this Failure Has No Precedent': Scientists Say Hot Ocean 'Blob' Killed One Million Seabirds. globalresearch.ca On the heels of new research showing that the world's oceans are rapidly warming, scientists revealed Wednesday that a huge patch of hot water in the northeast Pacific Ocean dubbed "the blob" was to blame for killing about one million …

Stephen Lendman (2020-01-20). Trump's Legal Team Responds to Dems Impeachment Scam. globalresearch.ca There's overwhelming just cause to impeach and remove Trump from office for legitimate high crimes. | The same is true for most of his predecessors, along with most current and former congressional members. | The Constitution's Article II, Section 4 states "(t)he …

Steven Sahiounie (2020-01-20). Pompeo Claims to Know Nothing, but Can We Believe Him? globalresearch.ca Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated in a Friday radio interview that he had not been previously aware that former US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch had been under surveillance in Ukraine. "Until this story broke, the best of my recollection, I'd …

Joseph E. Stiglitz (2020-01-20). The Truth About the Trump Economy. globalresearch.ca It is becoming conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to beat in November, because, whatever reservations about him voters may have, he has been good for the American economy. Nothing could be further from the truth. …

WSWS (2020-01-20). This week in history: January 20-26. wsws.org 25 years ago: Nuclear war scare caused by Norwegian rocket On January 25, 1995, the Russian military mistook a Black Brant XII rocket—launched by a team of Norwegian and US scientists to research the northern lights over Svalbard—as an incoming Trident missile launched as a high-altitude nuclear attack by the US Navy. It was the first time a Russian leader used the nuclear briefcase in a real alert.

Mohamed Elmaazi (2020-01-20). Prevent programme must be abolished in order to tackle politically motivated violence, say experts. thecanary.co Britain's controversial surveillance/counter-extremism Prevent programme has come under fire once more, this time from over 100 academics, researchers, and campaigners calling on the government to radically overhaul its approach to tackling politically motivated violence. | The Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol), sociology professor David Miller, rapper Lowkey, and criminology expert…

William deBuys (2020-01-20). Making America Great Again in a New Wild West. globalresearch.ca A new Wild West has taken root not far from Tombstone, Arizona, known to many for its faux-historical reenactments of the old West. We're talking about a long, skinny territory — a geographic gerrymander — that stretches east across New …

sputniknews (2020-01-20). Russian Held in Indian state of Himachal Pradesh with 1.26 kg of Cannabis Worth $4,000. sputniknews.com New Delhi (Sputnik): In India, general cultivation, consumption or possession of cannabis, cocaine, and opium is prohibited under the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. However, the use of cannabis is allowed for medicinal and research purposes.

Pepe Escobar (2020-01-20). The Roots of American Demonization of Shi'a Islam. globalresearch.ca The US targeted assassination, via drone strike, of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, apart from a torrent of crucial geopolitical ramifications, once again propels to center stage a quite inconvenient truth: the congenital incapacity of so-called US elites to even attempt …

Edward Curtin (2020-01-20). In the Spirit of Martin Luther King: Revolting Children Inspire Joyous Rebellion. globalresearch.ca "Our problem is civil obedience," said the people's historian Howard Zinn. | I kept thinking of this issue of obedience and disobedience as I was watching the musical play Matilda, based on the book by the impish writer Roald Dahl, at …

Imad Hamad (2020-01-20). Dr. Martin Luther King as an Inspiration and a Role Model. globalresearch.ca On Dr. Martin Luther King's day (January 20, 2020), we remember a global icon that has been an inspiration to men and women across the globe struggling for human rights for all. Despite all the serious human rights and …

sputniknews (2020-01-20). Apple's Voice Assistant App Siri Called Israel 'Zionist Occupation State' After Wikipedia Hack. sputniknews.com Siri, Apple's voice-controlled personal assistant, offers a seamless way to interact with one's Apple device, as the user asks questions, or issues commands for her to execute on one's behalf, hands-free.

sputniknews (2020-01-20). Indian Technophiles, Gear Up: Over 1 Mln Jobs Opportunities To Open Up in Data Science This Year. sputniknews.com New Delhi (Sputnik): Out of India's 1.37 billion population, over 630 million people are on the internet and more than 5 million work in the technology sector. According to data from Chinese tech company TCL, India has the highest 'new technology acceptance' rate in the world.

Mark Harris (2020-01-20). Better Living Through Glyphosate? Spray Now, Ask Questions Later. counterpunch.org There's a lot of talk in the Trump era about the "war on science." But this war, such as it is, extends far beyond uninformed Republican attacks on climate change science or Donald Trump's mocking insults of Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist nearly 60 years the old bully's junior. This war involves not only More

WSWS (2020-01-20). Drastic cuts to Rochester, New York schools. wsws.org Ninety-five teachers have been laid off and 150 displaced in the Rochester City School District, due to massive over-spending, provoking immense anger among students, parents and staff.

sputniknews (2020-01-20). 'I Attended Chandrayaan 2 Landing Despite Failure Warnings': PM Modi Shares Anecdotes With Students. sputniknews.com New Delhi (Sputnik): The first three months of the academic calendar are rough for high-school students in India, as they gear up for "board examinations" — a term, dreaded by 10th and 12th graders in the country.

WSWS (2020-01-20). Ontario teachers to stage regional walkouts, as Ford government escalates threats. wsws.org While the unions are confining teachers to ineffectual one-day regional strikes, Ford and his ministers are plotting to ram through class-size increases and other cuts by outlawing all job action.

yenisafak (2020-01-20). Magnesium citrate taken orally alleviates pain: Research. yenisafak.com A team of Turkish scientists have pioneered a research which proves taking magnesium citrate orally reduces pain.Dr. Nazan Uysal Harzadin, an academic at Dokuz Eylul University, said her team carried out a scientific study to trace the relationship between magnesium and muscle pain.She said their experiments proved that magnesium citrate taken orally reduces pain by regulating the balance of the immune system.The researcher said she believes that magnesium might be useful to reduce pain especially after surgery."There is some data showing that magnesium, directly injected to a vein during surgery, can control pai…

yenisafak (2020-01-20). Man gets life term for killing student in Turkey. yenisafak.com A Turkish court sentenced university student Ceren Ozdemir's murder suspect to aggravated life imprisonment on Monday.Ozdemir, 20, a music student at Ordu University, was stabbed to death outside of her house on Dec. 3, 2019.In the second trial of the case held in the Black Sea province of Ordu, Heavy Penal Court No. 1 sentenced Ozgur Arduc to aggravated life imprisonment, based on his atrocious feelings during the crime.The defendant confessed the crime last month to prosecutors in the province.Ozdemir family's lawyer said the crime was completely enlightened.The Court determined continuation of detention of the…

RT (2020-01-19). Gremlin in the sky: Pentagon contractor shows maiden flight of its new 'swarm' drone. rt.com Swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles overwhelming enemies' defenses with sheer numbers might soon be part of the US combat strategy. Footage of the first flight of one such drone has just been showcased by a Pentagon contractor. | A video published on YouTube by an applied science and IT company, Dynetics, shows a drone, which looks roughly like a large air-to-surface missile, being drop-launched from under the wing of a US transport Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft. | The drone designated X-61A then releases small wings and ignites its rocket engine, setting off for an autonomous flight. Media reports sugges…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-01-19). NAFTA 1.0: Was It a "Legal Agreement"? One of Its Signatories Linked to Organized Crime. And What About NAFTA 2.0? globalresearch.ca Public opinion has its eyes riveted on USMCA, which is tagged as NAFTA 2.0. It is important at this stage to focus on the murky history of NAFTA 1.0 as well as the transition to NAFTA 2.0. | USMCA modifies the …

Peter Koenig (2020-01-19). Iran — The EU — The Three Trigger Dispute Mechanism in the Iran Nuclear Deal and Trump's Bluff. globalresearch.ca Why, after so many assurances to the contrary, have the three European Iran's Nuclear Deal Partner's — Germany, France, the UK — decided to go after Iran, to follow the US dictate again? | The short answer is because the cowards. …

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2020-01-19). Remarks on the US/China "Trade Deal" globalresearch.ca The first thing to understand is that it is not a trade deal. It is Trump backing off his tariffs when he discovered that the tarrifs fall on US goods and American consumers, not on China. Trump is covering his …

Michael Welch (2020-01-19). 2019 Year in Review: From Corporate Capture of Social Media to Trump's War Agenda to Climate Change. globalresearch.ca "It just seems like people have really lost their way, severed ties with reality completely, where we're listening to some pied piper online instead of really questioning authority. questioning the power structures like we should be all along!" — Abby …

Ryan Cristián (2020-01-19). Revealed Iran's Attack Did Cause Casualties, US/Israeli Cyberattack & Pompeo Threatens The World. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/18/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2020-01-19). 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 …

teleSUR (2020-01-19). UK Universities Invested $600m in Israel Crimes: Report. telesurenglish.net British universities have invested almost US$600 million in companies involved in Israeli violations of international law, year-long research from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), reported Sunday by the Middle East Eye, revealed. | RELATED: | NGOs Urge UN to Disclose Firms Involved in Israel's Settlements | At the end of 2019, the PSC made public a database listing 117, out of the United…

Mike Whitney (2020-01-19). Pompeo Says Gangland-Style Hit on Soleimani Was "Restoration of Deterrence" globalresearch.ca America's "shadow president", Mike Pompeo, has acknowledged that the assassination of Iran's highest-ranking military general, Qassem Soleimani, was part of a broader strategy to restore "real deterrence" by eliminating presumed enemies of the United States. Pompeo's comments at …

Diana Johnstone (2020-01-19). France's Popular Uprising: Revolution or Frozen Conflict? globalresearch.ca The people are angry with their government. Where? Just about everywhere. So what makes ongoing strikes in France so special? Nothing, perhaps, except a certain expectation based on history that French uprisings can produce important changes — or if not, …

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2020-01-19). Trump Is the Third President to Lie About Afghan War Success. globalresearch.ca The Bush, Obama and Trump administrations all routinely lied to the American people about the success of the 18-year war in Afghanistan. They exaggerated progress and inflated statistics to create an illusion that that the war was winnable. But after …

Tom Luongo (2020-01-19). Putin's Now Purged the West from the Kremlin. Medvedev Cabinet dissolved. globalresearch.ca It came as the biggest shock of the day on Wednesday. The Russian government resigned. The day before President Vladimir Putin gave his State of the Nation address and outlined a slate of constitutional changes. | That speech prompted an overhaul …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-01-19). Israeli Soldiers Invade Palestinian School West of Ramallah. imemc.org Israeli forces raided, on Sunday, a Palestinian school and terrorized its students in the village of Deir Nizam, west of Ramallah in central occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA), soldiers invaded the school and ransacked classrooms, causing panic and fear among students as soldiers …

Julia Conley (2020-01-19). Too Many Americans Feel Establishment Has 'Failed Them'. zcomm.org "Bernie Sanders teaches Demagoguery and Fascism 101 to a very skeptical New York Times editorial board."

Jon Queally, staff writer (2020-01-19). A 2020 Reminder: 55% of US Women Between 18 and 54 Would Rather Live Under Socialism Than Capitalism. commondreams.org Not raving Marxists clamoring for state-run economy, evidence shows four in 10 Americans overall would rather live in country that provides "universal health care, tuition-free education, and a decent day's wage for a decent day's work." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

RT (2020-01-18). 'I thought it was a terrorist attack': California teachers sue Delta after plane showers school children with jet fuel. rt.com Four southern California teachers have filed a lawsuit against Delta Airlines after a Boeing 777 jettisoned its fuel over several schools near Los Angeles, drenching staff and scores of children with the volatile liquid. | Filed on Friday by attorney Gloria Allred, the suit alleges that the crew of Delta Flight 89 was negligent in dumping the fuel when and where it did, arguing the toxic substance led teachers and students to become "sick, dizzy and nauseated," producing "a lasting and severe irritation and a lasting and noxious taste and smell." | "A Delta Airlines pilot flying at a relatively low altitude an…

South Front (2020-01-18). Video: Turkish Invasion of Libya? Erdogan Sends Troops. globalresearch.ca In early 2020, Libya became one of the main hot points in the Greater Middle East with stakes raised by Turkey's decision to launch a military operation there. | On January 5, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey had sent …

Stephen Lendman (2020-01-18). Nuclear Weapons: Trump Regime Pressured E3 Countries (UK, France, Germany) to Trigger JCPOA Dispute Mechanism. globalresearch.ca Post-WW II, Washington transformed Western European countries into virtual US colonies — their presence status. | Judge them by their actions. Time and again, they subordinate their sovereign rights to US interests, even when harming their own. | It shows by imposing …

Mark Dudzic (2020-01-18). Take My Benefits — Please! Medicare System in Crisis. globalresearch.ca At the June 2019 House Ways and Means Committee Hearing on Medicare for All, Texas Republican Kevin Murphy lamented, "That great health care plan that your union negotiated for you? It's gone. Banned under Medicare for All." | A right-wing congressman …

Alex Kotch (2020-01-18). Ex-pharma lobbyist embedded in White House tanked drug pricing bill, while his former employer helped from the outside. nationofchange.org Trump's top healthcare adviser, former Gilead Sciences lobbyist Joe Grogan, strenuously lobbied within the White House and on Capitol Hill against price negotiations.

Shawgi Tell (2020-01-18). Charter Schools Have No Valid Claim to Public Property. dissidentvoice.org Public facilities and infrastructure are produced by the working class and people and belong to the public. They exist in order to serve the common good and to contribute to the extended reproduction of society. This collectively-produced wealth must not be handed over to competing owners of capital who are only concerned with maximizing profit …

Steve Topple (2020-01-18). More Tory nonsense, this time over period poverty. thecanary.co The Tory's latest grand pledge about poverty has not washed with many people. Rightly so, as its new measures to tackle period poverty fall way short of the mark. Moreover, it's really just sticking plasters on broken legs. | Another day, more lip service?: | As ITV News reported, next week the Department for Education (DfE) will roll out free sanitary product…

The Canary (2020-01-17). Police criticised for the 'chilling effect' of including environmental groups in counter-terror documents. thecanary.co Police have defended their inclusion of environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion in counter-terrorism documents, in the face of criticism it could have a "chilling effect" on people.The Guardian reported that a 24-page policing document it had seen included Greenpeace, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and other non-violent groups, as well as extremist right-wing proscribed groups such as National Action.It said the document was distributed to teachers and medical staff as part of anti-extremism briefings last year.Deputy assistant commissioner Dean Haydon, senior national co-ordinator for the U…

Karamo Muchuri Sulieman (2020-01-17). Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The continuing legacy and call to conscience. peoplesworld.org Billions of people around the world, without exaggeration, remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They remember him for his academic excellence at Morehouse College where he earned his baccalaureate degree; at Crozer Theological Seminary where he earned his bachelors of divinity; and at Boston University where he earned his doctorate. He was a minister of …

Vijay Prashad (2020-01-17). Not an Inch: Indian Students Stand Against the Far Right. counterpunch.org With her head bandaged and her arm in a sling, university student Aishe Ghosh went before the cameras to say that the students of the university she attends in New Delhi would move "not an inch back." The students would continue to agitate to defend Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and its union, and to fight More

Graham Peebles (2020-01-17). Education: Expanding Purpose. dissidentvoice.org As the world stumbles from one crisis to another it is increasingly apparent that existing systems and institutions are incapable of responding to the challenges of the time and the growing demands of the people. Creative ways of thinking free from ideology are needed, allowing for a revolution of ideas to take place and new …

Ryan McMaken (2020-01-17). The World Looks to Abandon the Dollar as US Sanctions Tighten Their Grip. globalresearch.ca When the US places financial sanctions on one country, it de facto sanctions many other countries as well — including many of its allies. | This is because not all countries and firms are interested in participating in the US sanctions-based …

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