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Pro-Coup Venezuelan Soldiers Who Fled to the US Now Locked Up in ICE Immigration Detention Center
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
The Venezuelan soldiers who participated in the U.S.-backed coup attempt in April of this year and subsequently fled to the U.S. have been incarcerated in ICE detention camps ever since. Telemundo, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, secured an interview …
globalresearch.ca/pro-coup-venezuelan-soldiers-fled-us-now-locked-up-ice-detention-center/5699025

We Are the Majority; We Must Turn that into Power
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Over the last decade, a national consensus has developed for a progressive left agenda on the economy, social services, the climate crisis and ending wars but the movement has not yet built the power to make that a reality. The …
globalresearch.ca/we-majority-we-must-turn-power/5699122

The West — Full Spectrum Dementia: Bogus News Media, Corruption of Academic Research, Irrational Lies Fed into the Educational System
Stephen Sefton | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
First published in May 2019 | "The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information." — Henry Wallace, New York Times, April 9th 1944. | Journalism has never been free of …
globalresearch.ca/the-west-full-spectrum-dementia-bogus-news-media-corruption-of-academic-research-irrational-lies-fed-into-the-educational-system/5676928

The Democrats' School Choice Problem
Jennifer C. Berkshire | thenation.com | 2019-12-30
The Democrats' School Choice Problem…
thenation.com/article/education-school-choice-democrats/

2020: The Year of the Oil Bankruptcies
Alex Kimani | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
A bankruptcy boom has hit the oil and gas industry, and it's just getting started. Investors have lost their appetite for shale, and energy debt has become among the least desirable in the market. | The industry has been teetering on …
globalresearch.ca/2020-year-oil-bankruptcies/5699089

Christmas: A Casualty of War
Dr. Camillo Mac Bica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
I remember being far from home, family, and loved ones. Thrust into an alien and hostile land I didn't even know existed. Christmas dinner choppered in to a desolate LZ. The space on the chopper where the cold turkey and …
globalresearch.ca/christmas-casualty-war/5699023

Nestlé and the Privatization of Water: A Tale of Many Cities
Franklin Frederick | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
On November 14th the Canadian group Wellington Water Watchers organized the "All Eyes on Nestlé" conference in the city of Guelph, Ontario, bringing together indigenous' peoples and citizens' movements fighting Nestlé's water takings from Canada, the US, France and Brazil. …
globalresearch.ca/water-new-colonial-powers-tale-many-cities/5697982

Political Instability and the Protest Movement: President of Iraq — The Decision Is Mine
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Iraqi President Barham Salih has shown that he is in control of the country and has made a show of his contempt for the Iraqi constitution. In a dramatic gesture, Salih made a play for public support by declaring his …
globalresearch.ca/president-iraq-decision-mine/5699033

2020: The Year of the Oil Bankruptcies
Alex Kimani | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
A bankruptcy boom has hit the oil and gas industry, and it's just getting started. Investors have lost their appetite for shale, and energy debt has become among the least desirable in the market. | The industry has been teetering on …
globalresearch.ca/2020-year-oil-bankruptcies/5699089

Britain Dutifully Bows Down to the Ruling Elite
Left in New Zealand | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Congratulations to the people of 'Great' Britain for voting the ruling elite into power yet again. You certainly do know your place. Now they have a mandate to treat people with disdain and contempt, for the next five years. I …
globalresearch.ca/britain-dutifully-bows-down-ruling-elite/5699092

Trump Signs Measure Enabling Establishment of a U.S. Space Force
Prof. Karl Grossman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
President Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020 that establishes a U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces–despite the Outer Space Treaty designating space as a global commons to be used | …
globalresearch.ca/trump-signs-measure-enabling-establishment-u-s-space-force/5699050

Economic Globalization: Russia, China, and the US' "Integration Models" Aren't Mutually Exclusive
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Russia, China, and the US are each promoting three separate integration models emphasizing conservatism, connectivity, and competitiveness, respectively, but each of their defining characteristics don't make them mutually exclusive of one another, and it would be to the benefit of …
globalresearch.ca/russia-china-us-integration-models-arent-mutually-exclusive/5699083

Syria Considers Suing Washington for Syrian Oil Theft and Violating Syria's Sovereignty
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Six years ago, at the age of 95, the revolutionary, outspoken, anti-apartheid former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela passed away. During his lifetime Mandela was a fierce skeptic of American power, U.S. imperialism, policies and ideology. | When the United …
globalresearch.ca/syria-considers-suing-washington-syrian-oil-theft-violating-syria-sovereignty/5699109

Open Season on Critics of 5G Cell Phone Technology: Media Censorship And Smear Campaigns against Prominent Scientists and Physicians
Microwave News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Last May, the New York Times tried to take down David Carpenter, a public health physician and the country's most prominent 5G critic. Veteran science writer William Broad painted Carpenter as a willing tool of a disinformation campaign promoted …
globalresearch.ca/open-season-5g-critics-first-ny-times-now-scientific-american/5699103

WikiLeaks: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Ordered Deletion of 'All Traces' of Findings that Syrian 'Chemical Attack' May Have Been Staged
Cassandra Fairbanks | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Wikileaks has published shocking leaked documents from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in which they covered up a dissenting report that concluded chemical weapons were not used in the Syrian city of Duoma last year. | *** | The …
globalresearch.ca/wikileaks-chemical-weapons-watchdog-ordered-deletion-all-traces-findings-syrian-chemical-attack-have-been-staged/5699100

Georgia and Ukraine Joining NATO Will Likely Have the Opposite Effect Against Russia
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Back in April, during a ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meeting in Washington, it was agreed that a package of measures to strengthen support for Georgia and Ukraine, particularly in the area of ‚Äã‚Äãmaritime defense, would be | …
globalresearch.ca/georgia-ukraine-joining-nato-have-opposite-effect-against-russia/5699074

'Victory for Our Oceans': US Court Upholds Ruling on Vast Marine Monument Established by Obama
Jon Queally | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
"This decision upholds protections for one of the most fragile and scientifically important areas in the North Atlantic from destructive activities like oil drilling and industrial fishing." | *** | Defenders of ocean habitats celebrated Friday after a federal court upheld a …
globalresearch.ca/victory-oceans-us-court-upholds-ruling-vast-marine-monument-established-obama/5699017

The Crumbling of America
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
In June of 2013 an Interstate bridge on a main commercial corridor between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Canada, collapsed and fell into the river below after being hit by a truck. This was not a high-speed collision; the truck simply …
globalresearch.ca/crumbling-america/5698097

Cuba's Revolutionary Beginning Started 61 Years Ago
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Some time ago in another late December my partner in life commented that she liked beginnings in reference to the approaching new year. I became immediately aware that other traditions may have a calendar different from the Gregorian calendar and …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-revolutionary-beginning-started-61-years-ago/5699114

Most Popular GR Articles of 2019
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
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New WikiLeaks Documents Expose Doctoring of Chemical Weapons Report to Justify 2018 US Attack on Syria
Niles Niemuth | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
A fourth round of leaked internal documents from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was published by WikiLeaks Friday, further exposing the official report on an alleged 2018 chemical weapons attack in Douma–a suburb of Damascus then …
globalresearch.ca/new-wikileaks-documents-expose-doctoring-chemical-weapons-report-justify-2018-us-attack-syria/5699018

US Gov Bombs Iraq & Syria Citing Baseless Claims That Iran Fired ROCKETS At US Locations
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-30
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 (12/29/19). 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-bombs-iraq-syria-citing-baseless-claims-that-iran-fired-rockets-at-us-locations/

The OPCW Whistleblower Scandal: A Newsweek Reporter Resigns, A Counter-Narrative Won't Die
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
It is perhaps the least reported media scandal about the least reported international controversy in recent times–the resignation of Tareq Haddad, a well-regarded journalist from Newsweek, a mainstay of the mainstream media. | At issue was what he said …
globalresearch.ca/newsweek-reporter-resigns-counter-narrative-wont-die/5699027

Scapegoats for Jamal Khashoggi
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
The hit squad that went about its deadly business with varying degrees of competence in Istanbul last year is set to be thinned. Five members of the group tasked with strangling and carving up the Saudi journalist and out-of-favour Jamal …
globalresearch.ca/scapegoats-jamal-khashoggi/5699036

Beating the Western Media Blockade — Ideas, Infrastructure, Solidarity
Jorge Capelan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
So much confusion and bad faith prevails in the current global information chaos that getting back to basics sometimes seems impossible. But fundamentals never change and merit constant repetition. Above all, anti-imperialist defense of majority world peoples' right to development …
globalresearch.ca/beating-western-media-blockade-ideas-infrastructure-solidarity/5699078

Rex 84: FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America
Allen L Roland | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84.
globalresearch.ca/rex-84-fema-s-blueprint-for-martial-law-in-america/3010

Scapegoats for Jamal Khashoggi
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
The hit squad that went about its deadly business with varying degrees of competence in Istanbul last year is set to be thinned. Five members of the group tasked with strangling and carving up the Saudi journalist and out-of-favour Jamal …
globalresearch.ca/scapegoats-jamal-khashoggi/5699036

Russia's Newborn Avangard Hypersonic Weaponry. Towards a New Perilous Arms Race?
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Weapons of dazzling murderousness have always thrilled military industrial establishments. They make money; they add to the accounts; and they tickle the pride of States who manufacture them. From time to time, showy displays of restraint through arms limitation agreements …
globalresearch.ca/hypersonic-putin-gonzo-weaponry/5699046

Washington Post's Afghanistan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry
Joshua Cho | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
In an earlier article (FAIR.org, 12/18/19) regarding the Washington Post's Afghanistan Papers ( 12/9/19), I discussed how…
globalresearch.ca/wapo-afghan-papers-propagate-colonial-narrative-noble-intentions-gone-awry/5699031

Merry Christmas, America! Let's Remember the Children Who Live in Fear of Our Killer Drones
Elise Swain | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
The movie "Love Actually" has some good advice: At Christmas, you tell the truth. It's the perfect day to be honest about what you've done in the past year, what that says about who you are, and what it …
globalresearch.ca/merry-christmas-america-remember-children-live-fear-our-killer-drones/5699077

The External Costs of Human Activity Are Killing the Planet
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Humans are exterminating themselves by exterminating other life forms. As a person committed to free thought, I sometimes catch myself wondering if what is really needed is a form of Borg Star Trek mind control to stop us from destroying …
globalresearch.ca/external-costs-human-activity-killing-planet/5699116

Trump Wants to Keep the Oil: Syria Mulls Suing US in International Court over 'Stealing' Country's Oil
Tim Korso | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
The US recently announced its intent to stay in the Arab Republic in order to "keep the oil" and channel revenues from it to the local Kurdish militia, despite protests from Damascus. | Syria is considering filing an international suit against …
globalresearch.ca/syria-mulls-suing-us-international-court-over-stealing-country-oil/5699021

Al Qaeda's Idlib Stronghold: The Battle to Liberate Syria's Idlib Province from US Supported Terrorists
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Syria's Idlib province in the country's northwest borders Turkey. | Infested with US-supported jihadists, the Erdogan regime lets them move back and forth cross-border between both countries while pretending to oppose them — supplying them with heavy and other weapons, along …
globalresearch.ca/battle-liberate-idlib-province-us-supported-terrorists/5699039

Holding Pens for the Homeless
John Clarke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Homelessness is spinning out of control in many places, not least right here in Toronto. However, in California, the situation is now generating an acute political crisis. So great is the problem of mass destitution in that state that …
globalresearch.ca/holding-pens-homeless/5699110

5G Cell Phone Radiation: How the Telecom Companies Are Losing the Battle to Impose 5G Against the Will of the People
Claire Edwards | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
The telecommunications companies and the mainstream media would have you believe that the race to roll out 5G is unstoppable. That you are nothing and no one in the face of a lethal multi-trillion-dollar agenda imposed by some of the most powerful entities on the planet.
globalresearch.ca/telcos-losing-battle-impose-5g/5691065

Statistic of the Decade: The Massive Deforestation of the Amazon
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-30
This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society's International Statistic of the Decade. | Much like Oxford English Dictionary's "Word of the Year" competition, the international statistic is meant to capture the zeitgeist of this decade. The judging panel accepted nominations from the statistical community and the public at large for a statistic that shines a light on the decade's most pressing issues. | On Dec. 23, we…
truthout.org/articles/statistic-of-the-decade-the-massive-deforestation-of-the-amazon/

The Most Disturbing Environmental Statistic of the Decade
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-30
This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society's International Statistic of the Decade. | Much like Oxford English Dictionary's "Word of the Year" competition, the international statistic is meant to capture the zeitgeist of this decade. The judging panel accepted nominations from the statistical community and the public at large for a statistic that shines a light on the decade's most pressing issues. | On Dec. 23, we announced the winner: the 8.4 million soccer fields of land defore…
truthdig.com/articles/the-most-disturbing-environmental-statistic-of-the-decade/

Half | a million Muslim Uighur children placed in indoctrination camps in | China
yenisafak.com | 2019-12-30
A recent article penned by Amy Qin from The New York Times sheds light on the struggles of nearly "half a million Uighur children" who have been seperated from their parents, expressing concerns of families waiting frantically to be reunited with their kids.It includes interviews with Uighur parents living in exile, documents published online, government notices, state media reports and the blogs of teachers assigned at these schools.Abdurahman Tohti, a 30-year-old Uighur living in Turkey, hasn't heard from his wife and kids since they vanished after a visit to Xinjiang in 2016. At the beginning of 2019, he spott…
yenisafak.com/en/world/halfa-million-muslim-uighur-children-placed-in-indoctrination-camps-inchina-3508542

India set to overtake Germany as world's fourth largest economy by 2026
rt.com | 2019-12-30
India will reach its goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2026, making it the fourth biggest economy on the planet, according to a report by the UK-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). | By 2034, the South Asian nation will be the world's third largest, it added. | "India has decisively overtaken both France and the UK to become the world's fifth-largest economy in 2019. It is expected to overtake Germany to become fourth largest in 2026, and Japan to become the third largest in 2034." | The three countries – India, Germany and Japan – will continue to battle for the position of third-…
rt.com/business/477083-india-fourth-largest-economy/

Selected Articles: Establishment of a U.S. Space Force
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
We have made some progress in our campaign to meet our running costs and put an end to our monthly deficit, but we still need your help. As grateful as we are to those who have given so far, the …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-establishment-u-s-space-force/5699126

US Strategy and What the Gas Pipeline War Is Costing Us
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-30
Heavy sanctions on the companies participating in the construction of North Stream 2, the pipeline which delivers Russian gas to Germany across the Baltic Sea. The main victims were the European companies which had helped finance the $11 billion project with the Russia's Gazprom.
globalresearch.ca/us-strategy-what-gas-pipeline-war-costing-us/5699048

Get Ready to Fight Israel's Next War. Asking America to do the "Dirty Work"
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
It will be up to you, the clueless American citizen, to fight and pay for Israel's war against its neighbors. This coming war was announced this week by Aviv Kochavi, the Israel Defense Force chief of staff. | Max Blumenthal …
globalresearch.ca/get-ready-to-fight-israels-next-war-asking-america-to-do-the-dirty-work/5698968

Global Warming: "Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
Both the concepts and the data have been adjusted and shaped to fit the agenda of the UN Panel on Climate Change.
globalresearch.ca/global-warming-fixing-the-climate-data-around-the-policy/16339

Global War on Humanity: America's Unceasing Pursuit of Hegemony
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
Essentially what we're looking at is a broader historical perspective on how the US de facto supported Nazi Germany with a view to destroying the Soviet Union as well as weakening the British Empire and competing empires including of course France, Belgium, Holland, etc. And those countries today are no longer colonial powers.
globalresearch.ca/global-war-on-humanity-americas-unceasing-pursuit-of-hegemony/5698569

Austerity and its Consequences. America Threatens to Self-destruct if Other Countries don't Obey it
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
"If the free-traders cannot understand how one nation can grow rich at the expense of another, we need not wonder, since these same gentlemen also refuse to understand how within one country one class can enrich itself at the …
globalresearch.ca/austerity-and-its-consequences-america-threatens-to-self-destruct-if-other-countries-dont-obey-it/5698953

As the US, China, and Russia Build New Nuclear Weapons Systems, How Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) be Built in? What are the Dangers?
Matt Field | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
Researchers in the United States and elsewhere are paying a lot of attention to the prospect that in the coming years new nuclear weapons–and the infrastructure built to operate them–will include greater levels of artificial intelligence and automation. …
globalresearch.ca/us-china-russia-build-new-nuclear-weapons-systems-how-will-ai-built-in/5698980

Israel's Strike that Killed Nine Members of al-Sawarka Family. Mistakenly "Categorized as a Military Compound"
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
Israel has said that an attack on the Gaza Strip which killed nine Palestinians from the same family happened after the premises were mistakenly categorised as a "military compound" used by Islamic Jihad. | In November, Israel conducted a series of …
globalresearch.ca/israel-says-filing-error-blame-strike-killed-nine-members-al-sawarka-family/5698976

US Military Contractors Exposed For Paying Taliban At US Gov Instruction & Iran False Flag Continues
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-29
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 (12/28/19). 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/conspiracy/us-military-contractors-exposed-for-paying-taliban-at-us-gov-instruction-iran-false-flag-continues/

The Burkina Faso Time Bomb Is About to Blow, and It Might Take Down West Africa
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
The landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso is a time bomb that's about to explode as evidenced by the drastic increase in terrorist-related violence there over the past year and its attendant humanitarian consequences, yet both the region and …
globalresearch.ca/burkinabe-time-bomb-about-blow-might-take-down-west-africa/5698972

The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-29
The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable. In a Washington Post article titled " The Green New Deal …
globalresearch.ca/key-environmental-crisis-beneath-our-feet/5698996

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2019-12-29: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-12-29). Global War on Humanity: America's Unceasing Pursuit of Hegemony. globalresearch.ca Essentially what we're looking at is a broader historical perspective on how the US de facto supported Nazi Germany with a view to destroying the Soviet Union as well as weakening the British Empire and competing empires including of course France, Belgium, Holland, etc. And those countries today are no longer colonial powers.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-12-29). Global Warming: "Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy" globalresearch.ca Both the concepts and the data have been adjusted and shaped to fit the agenda of the UN Panel on Climate Change.

Kurt Nimmo (2019-12-29). Get Ready to Fight Israel's Next War. Asking America to do the "Dirty Work" globalresearch.ca It will be up to you, the clueless American citizen, to fight and pay for Israel's war against its neighbors. This coming war was announced this week by Aviv Kochavi, the Israel Defense Force chief of staff. | Max Blumenthal …

Guy Mettan (2019-12-29). The Long History of Russophobia, Starting with Its Religious Roots. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published on June 9, 2016. | The former editor of the Tribune de Genève, [Guy Mettan-RI] visited Moscow and presented his new book Russia and the West: A Thousand Year War, which reviews the phenomenon of Russophobia: …

Andrew Korybko (2019-12-29). The Burkina Faso Time Bomb Is About to Blow, and It Might Take Down West Africa. globalresearch.ca The landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso is a time bomb that's about to explode as evidenced by the drastic increase in terrorist-related violence there over the past year and its attendant humanitarian consequences, yet both the region and …

Michael Welch (2019-12-29). Austerity and its Consequences. America Threatens to Self-destruct if Other Countries don't Obey it. globalresearch.ca "If the free-traders cannot understand how one nation can grow rich at the expense of another, we need not wonder, since these same gentlemen also refuse to understand how within one country one class can enrich itself at the …

True Publica (2019-12-29). British Democracy on Death Row. globalresearch.ca It's all over the internet — you must have read about it by now. It's all about Page 48 — and it is here that democracy dies in Britain. It was in the Conservative Manifesto. But the country voted for …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-29). Turkey Sending Troops to Libya? Erdogan Supported Tripoli Forces to Fight Trump Supported Haftar Forces? globalresearch.ca It appears likely. According to Turkey's Anadolu news agency, President Erdogan will send troops to Libya to support the Tripoli-based/UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA). | It's combatting Trump-supported/longtime CIA asset/warlord Khalifa Haftar for control of the country. | Anadolu news said …

Larry Romanoff (2019-12-29). The Criminalisation of Protest in America. globalresearch.ca The US today freely interferes in the governments of so many other nations, fueling unrest and financing violence, seeking to impose on these countries a peculiarly American form of "open government" which it can control, but has always severely restricted …

Matt Field (2019-12-29). As the US, China, and Russia Build New Nuclear Weapons Systems, How Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) be Built in? What are the Dangers? globalresearch.ca Researchers in the United States and elsewhere are paying a lot of attention to the prospect that in the coming years new nuclear weapons—and the infrastructure built to operate them—will include greater levels of artificial intelligence and automation. …

Ellen Brown (2019-12-29). The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet. globalresearch.ca The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable. In a Washington Post article titled " The Green New Deal …

Middle East Eye (2019-12-29). Israel's Strike that Killed Nine Members of al-Sawarka Family. Mistakenly "Categorized as a Military Compound" globalresearch.ca Israel has said that an attack on the Gaza Strip which killed nine Palestinians from the same family happened after the premises were mistakenly categorised as a "military compound" used by Islamic Jihad. | In November, Israel conducted a series of …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-29). New Evidence of OPCW Manufactured Nonexistent Douma Chemical Weapons Incident, Syria Report, Promoted "Fake News" globalresearch.ca The so-called OPCW chemical watchdog lost all credibility, breaching its mandate time and again, operating as a pro-Western imperial agent, not a Chemical Weapons Convention implementing body. | The Nobel committee should order the organization to return its 2013 peace prize, …

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-29). US Military Contractors Exposed For Paying Taliban At US Gov Instruction & Iran False Flag Continues. 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 (12/28/19). 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 …

Staff (2019-12-29). How Schools Can Sustain Students' Cultures. truthout.org High school students enter a classroom at Rainier Beach High School in Seattle on an October morning. They sit at their desks, but they're soon asked to rearrange their chairs into a circle. Today is Thursday, which means they'll be having their weekly class in restorative justice. | James Williams, the teacher, leads the students in a warmup game: the students pair off and play rock, paper, scissors—except when one student wins, the other becomes their cheerleader. This repeats through several rounds until teams of stud…

Margaret Power (2019-12-29). El estado opresor es un macho violador // the oppressive state is a macho rapist. zcomm.org For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities…

RT (2019-12-29). Hong Kong economy will inevitably shrink further as protests show no sign of abating. rt.com Hong Kong's economy is on the path to face another contraction in the fourth quarter, the financial secretary has warned as raging protests continue to take a toll on the city. | "Judging from the situation in the past months, continued negative growth is unavoidable," Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday. | Read more | | Is Trump using Hong Kong unrest as leverage in trade talks with China? | While the official economic results will be released only early next year, Chan could already cite some gloomy statistics. The city's retail s…

Workers World New York bureau (2019-12-28). Rally defends special education in Puerto Rico and U.S. workers.org Austerity imposed on Puerto Rico ¥s educational system by the unelected colonialist fiscal board was the target of a street rally in New York City on Dec. 14. The rally was called by the New York chapter of the Timón Committee, which works to raise awareness of special education rights — . . . | Continue reading Rally defends special education in Puerto Rico and U.S. at Workers.org

John Bellamy Foster (2019-12-28). A culture of reconciliation with nature. mronline.org Christopher Caudwell, who died at age 29 fighting with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, wrote: "Either the devil has come amongst us having great power, or there is a causal explanation for a disease common to economics, science, and art." That disease, he recognized, was the self-alienation of humanity under capitalism | Source

Staff (2019-12-28). Death Toll Rises in Massive Truck Bombing in Somalia. truthdig.com MOGADISHU, Somalia—A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia's capital Saturday morning, killing at least 78 people including many students, authorities said. It was the worst attack in Mogadishu since the devastating 2017 bombing that killed hundreds. | The explosion ripped through rush hour as Somalia returned to work after its weekend. At least 125 people were wounded, Aamin Ambulance service director Abdiqadir Abdulrahman said, and hundreds of Mogadishu residents donated blood in response to desperate appeals. | President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed condemned the attack as a "heinous…

Fight Back (2019-12-28). Top 20 Fight Back! articles of 2019: the struggle grows and spreads. fightbacknews.org There was a high tide of struggle on many fronts in 2019 – both in the U.S. and around the world. Within the U.S. there were large strikes of General Motors workers, Chicago teachers and others. There was a successful movement to defend public education from mega-charters in Los Angeles. There were mass protests nation-wide for immigrant rights and against the concentration camps at the U.S.-México border. And there were growing movements against police crimes and for community control of the police that came together to refound the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression in Chicago in November.

Staff (2019-12-28). Is California Saving Higher Education? truthout.org San Jose, California — Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they'd pay for their tuition there. | The one thing they didn't do together? Graduate. | While she was juggling a major in international business, a minor in Japanese and a job to help keep up with her expenses, Deas fell behind, and her friends put on their caps and gowns and walked across the stage in May without her. | It w…

WSWS (2019-12-28). San Diego teachers notified of looming pink slips and layoffs. wsws.org Amidst the continued cuts by the Sweetwater Union High School District, teachers are beginning to speak out in defense of their jobs and the future of education.

F. William Engdahl (2019-12-28). Climate and the Money Trail. globalresearch.ca The very mega-billionaires behind the globalization of the world economy who have wreaked so much damage to our environment are the leading backers of the "grassroots" climate movement. Is it pangs of guilty conscience, or could it be a deeper agenda of the financialization of the very air we breathe and more?

Staff (2019-12-28). Stop the Spread of Liquefied Natural Gas — Before It's Too Late. truthout.org Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a potential disaster in the making. That's the conclusion of a new report by Physicians for Social Responsibility, which surveyed an abundance of research on LNG's threats to public health. | LNG is natural gas that is filtered and supercooled to -260 ∞ F, tu…

Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels (2019-12-28). Why America Needs War. globalresearch.ca GR Editor's Note: This incisive article was written on April 30, 2003 in the immediate wake of the war on Iraq, by renowned historian and political scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization …

Israel Shahak (2019-12-28). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…

Washington's Blog (2019-12-28). The Caliphate Project, Made in America. Declassified U.S. Government Documents Confirm the US Supported the Creation of ISIS. globalresearch.ca Global Research Editor's Note: | First published in May 2015, this article reveals not only that the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, it also confirms that the Caliphate Project was designed in Washington. | See Screenshots Below from the title …

Makia Freeman (2019-12-28). ISIS Is a US-Israeli Creation. Top Ten "Indications" globalresearch.ca Relevant article first posted on GR in April 2016. | ISIS is a US-Israeli creation, a fact as clear as the sky is blue. It's a truth as black and white as the colors on their flag. For many alternative news …

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya (2019-12-28). Preparing the Chessboard for the "Clash of Civilizations": Divide, Conquer and Rule the "New Middle East" globalresearch.ca The ripple effects of the US-NATO Invasion of Libya. Redefining and Destabilsing the Arab World…

Prof Souad N. Al-Azzawi (2019-12-28). Depleted Uranium and Radioactive Contamination in Iraq: An Overview. globalresearch.ca The amount of devastation caused by the Depleted Uranium (DU) weaponry used against Iraq during the consecutive US led wars is historically unprecedented in modern warfare. Information revealed about the 'Gulf War Syndrome' enabled Iraqi researchers to understand the nature of these weapons.

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-28). Potential False Flag In Iraq Kills American & New OPCW Leak Exposes Deliberate Coverup And Deception. 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 (12/27/19). 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 …

teleSUR (2019-12-28). France: Unions, Yellow Vests, Transporters Take to the Streets. telesurenglish.net Despite the calls of President Emmanuel Macron to a truce, thousands of French Saturday took to the streets of Paris where workers, students, retirees, and yellow vests came together in common action against the pension reform, which citizens have been rejecting during 24 days on a row. | RELATED: | French Workers Stand Firm: No 'Christmas Truce' for Macron | "If the government exp…

WSWS (2019-12-28). Amiens railworkers vote to continue strike against French President Macron. wsws.org Workers, students, teachers and "yellow vest" protesters came to support the strike, which has lasted since December 5 and shut down rail transport across France.

Shalini Singh (2019-12-27). Big City, Small Farmers, and a Dying River. counterpunch.org "Insaan ab na jhagde se marega na ragade se marega tho bhook aur pyas se." "Humankind will now die not of conflict or stress But of hunger and thirst." So, it's not just science ringing alarm bells about climate change then. India's literary epics had it nailed down ages ago, asserts 75-year-old Delhi farmer Shiv More

Pat LaMarche (2019-12-27). Trumpian Attacks on Homelessness and California Are Utter and Total Poppycock. commondreams.org If you use Department of Education figures, as opposed to those put out by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the number of people suffering homelessness in the U.S. is closer to 7 million each year—not the 500,000 to 600,000 figure frequently used. (Photo: Garry Knight/cc/flickr) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

Nino Pagliccia (2019-12-27). US Congress Approves Legislation to Wage a Hybrid "Humanitarian War" on Venezuela? globalresearch.ca Last December 16 both houses in the US approved the appropriation bill to be signed by president Trump. Aside from the mind-boggling amount of $1.4 trillion that was approved in total our interest was in looking at the details concerning …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-27). No Joy in a World at War. globalresearch.ca Joy to the world is a mirage — during the holiday season and throughout the year. | Reality is polar opposite in US war theaters. Post-9/11 alone, millions died. Countless millions more suffer from injuries, displacement, lack of essentials to life …

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-27). Israel Bombs Gaza For Xmas, Israel Threatens To Attack All Helping Iran & Saudis Bomb Yemen Market. 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 (12/26/19). 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 …

Steve Osborn (2019-12-27). The 1914 World War I Christmas Truce. Trenches and "No Man's Land" globalresearch.ca One hundred and five years ago this Christmas Eve, The Great War, the "War to End All Wars" was in its fourth month. It had already bogged down into trench warfare. For those unfamiliar with the term, it consisted of …

Jack Rasmus (2019-12-27). On Those Questionable US Wage Stats…Again. counterpunch.org In recent months, various independent business and research sources have been raising questions about the accuracy of US official job and wage statistics. Several more sources have joined the discussion, questioning the oft-cited official—and widespread mainstream press reported—3.1% annual rise in US wages the past year. As many have indicated, the 3.1% grossly over-estimates recent More

Miri Wood (2019-12-27). Trump Threatens Syria: Will POTUS Come to the Rescue of Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Idlib? globalresearch.ca Trump wished the Syrian Arab Republic a belated Merry Christmas by tweeting yet another threat, warning the Syrian Armed Forces not to liberate Idlib from the approximately 10,000 al Qaeda terrorists who have occupied this area of the country, since …

J. B. Gerald (2019-12-27). Human Rights and Political Conflict in Cameroon: The Anglophone Secessionist State of "Ambazonia" globalresearch.ca On an ugliness scale of one to ten, if the U.S. Guantanamo prison is 7, the French military in Algeria 8, Pinochet's controls of Chile 9, and the Inquisition 10, the severity, scale and number of Cameroon military human rights …

Fight Back (2019-12-27). Tallahassee gathers for vigil and speakout for FAMU student killed by sheriff. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On December 21, over 50 members of the Tallahassee community joined with Jamee Johnson's friends and family at the Eternal Flame on Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University's (FAMU) campus to honor the life of the 22-year-old senior who had recently been killed by police. | His life was taken December 14 by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO) Officer J. Garriga, who shot Johnson four times during a traffic stop. Police have referred to Johnson's possession of a legal concealed weapon to justify the shooting, despite acknowledging he had informed them of its presence. The family's at…

Kenneth Surin (2019-12-27). The UK Election: a Postmortem. counterpunch.org The various statistical analyses of the UK general election result have been coming in, and they allow some interesting and perhaps important observations to be made. The perception that it was Leave voters switching from Labour to Tory en masse who cost Labour the election has to be qualified by the fact that Labour lost More

WSWS (2019-12-27). Industrial carnage in US: 5,250 workers killed on the job in 2018. wsws.org Fatal on-the-job injuries in the US increased by 2 percent in 2018, according to this year's report by the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Jon Queally, staff writer (2019-12-27). Because Bernie 'Constitutionally Incapable of Sucking Up,' Anti-Corruption Champion Zephyr Teachout Endorses Sanders. commondreams.org "That's why people love him," says progressive activist and legal scholar. "They know he'll always be on the side of the little guy against big agriculture, big banks, big pharma, big tech, hate, and fear." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

Staff (2019-12-26). Year in Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuels Expansion, Scary Science and Global Activism. therealnews.com The Real News Network's Steve Horn and Dimitri Lascaris talk about the 2019's biggest climate stories.

Peoples Dispatch (2019-12-26). Turkish Communists hold gatherings in Istanbul and Izmir. peoplesdispatch.org The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) organized gatherings in Istanbul and Izmir on December 22-23, calling for "hope, organizing, and celebrating, to win 2020." TKP general secretary Kemal Okuyan, poet Nihat Behram, journalist-author Enver Aysever and actor Orhan Aydƒ±n participated in the gatherings, besides hundreds of party workers. | The events were organized to prepare the party cadre for the upcoming struggles in the new year. SoL reported that workers from many sectors, including workers of retail giant Bimeks, textile workers, teachers, construction workers and metal workers, besides daily wage…

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-24). Israel AGAIN Attacks Syria Over Christmas, Khashoggi Trial Theater & MSM N Korea Xmas Fear-Mongering. 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 (12/24/19). 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 …

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