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Medical Doctors Issue Urgent Australian Appeal to Save Julian Assange
Doctors for Assange | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
More than 100 medical doctors have issued an urgent appeal to the Australian government to protect the life of its citizen, imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist and publisher Julian Assange. | The doctors' action follows warnings from medical and human rights experts that …
globalresearch.ca/medical-doctors-issue-urgent-australian-appeal-save-julian-assange/5697853

Plea for the Liberation of Julian Assange. Response from the Archbishop of Canterbury
Diana Johnstone | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Dear Friends, | The plea which you kindly signed calling on the Archbishop of Canterbury to use his moral influence to bring about liberation of Julian Assange from Belmarsh prison was delivered to Lambeth Palace in London last November 29. On | …
globalresearch.ca/plea-liberation-julian-assange/5697818

Trump Regime Breaching Mandated Judicial Procedures Against Assange
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
According to the London Daily Mail, the Trump regime intends to use secret evidence against Assange — undisclosed to him and his legal team, wanting them prevented from preparing a proper defense. | He faces 18 spurious charges under the …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-breaching-mandated-judicial-procedures-against-assange/5697880

Ontario Teachers Ramp Up the Pressure on the Tories
Dudley Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Educators are ramping up their fight against the Tories' 18-month attack on public education. | On Tuesday, public elementary teachers stepped up their work-to-rule refusing, for example, to participate in performance evaluations, plan new field trips, buy school supplies on their …
globalresearch.ca/educators-ramp-up-pressure-tories/5697917

An Ominousness Act: Jewish Nationality
Sheldon Richman | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-16
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order that implicitly defines Jewishness as a racial or national category and not as just a religious category. This is ominous. The order reinforces the Department of Education's power to punish colleges that receive federal tax dollars if they allow Palestinian solidarity activities that offend pro-Israel Jewish students…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/16/an-ominousness-act-jewish-nationality/

Millions Wasted on Charter Schools
Jeff Bryant | progressive.org | 2019-12-16
The Network for Public Education calls the findings in its recent report "nothing short of a national scandal."
progressive.org/op-eds/millions-wasted-on-charter-schools-bryant-191216/

Rating the 2020 Democrats at This Weekend's Education Forum
Carol Burris | commondreams.org | 2019-12-16
Warren argued throughout for increased funding for public education, funded by her proposed wealth tax. (Photo: Public Education Forum in Pittsburgh) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/12/16/rating-2020-democrats-weekends-education-forum?cd-origin=rss

Minnesota Runs a Huge Budget Surplus Amid Higher Education Cuts
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-12-16
State Republicans want new tax breaks, not a strong university system.
progressive.org/dispatches/minnesota-runs-a-huge-budget-surplus-amid-higher-education-cuts-lahm-191216/

The Devos Stole Christmas
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-16
truthdig.com/cartoons/the-devos-stole-christmas/

Maduro Causes a Stir with About-Face on Dollarisation
Clodovaldo Hernández | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Former Vice President, turned journalist and TV host José Vicente Rangel recently returned to the screen in a big way with an interview with President Nicolas Maduro, in which Maduro shook the hornet's nest with his comments concerning dollarisation….
globalresearch.ca/maduro-causes-stir-about-face-dollarisation/5697816

Pamir Highway: The Road on the Roof of the World
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
This is arguably the ultimate road trip on earth. Marco Polo did it. All the legendary Silk Road explorers did it. Traveling the Pamir Highway back to back, as a harsh winter approaches, able to appreciate it in full, in …
globalresearch.ca/pamir-highway-road-roof-world/5697834

Afghanistan Papers Proves U.S. Invasion Was Built on Lies, Deceit and Confusion
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
The war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history, is based on lies made by top U.S. officials and was "idiotic" as there was no clear plan, according to the documents published by the Washington Post, dubbed the …
globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-papers-proves-u-s-invasion-built-lies-deceit-confusion/5697909

U.S. Regime Change Operation Is Taking Shape in Mexico?
Rainer Shea | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
When it comes to Mexico, one can at this point easily spot the signs of a brewing U.S. regime change operation. Since Mexico's president Andre Manuel López Obrador was elected last year, he's been thoroughly vilified by the U.S. media. …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-regime-change-operation-taking-shape-mexico/5697800

On Rogues and Rogue States
Fred Reed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
I have just finished reading William Shirer's Berlin Diary. (This may not fascinate you, but I am coming to something.) I first encountered it in high school. It is of course Shirer's account as a correspondent in Germany of the …
globalresearch.ca/rogue-states/5697889

The Revelations About Cambridge Analytica Indicate Clearly that Western Governments Are Subverting Democracy
Kitty S Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
I wrote an article about Cambridge Analytica, the commodification of voter decision making and the marketisation of democracy, along with previous articles about western government strategies for subverting democracy. I have also extensive…
globalresearch.ca/revelations-cambridge-analytica-indicate-western-governments-subverting-democracy/5697802

The Afghanistan Papers Confirm America's Longest War Is a Lie
Sonali Kolhatkar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
The Washington Post's Afghanistan Papers, detailing a true history of the nation's longest official war, reveals nothing new about the war's futility or about the fact that it was doomed to failure from almost the beginning.
globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-papers-confirm-america-longest-war-lie/5697812

Ltamenah Village: Syrian Military Finds Massive Weapons Left Behind by NATO Terrorists
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Ltamenah is a village in Hama countryside which the Syrian Arab Army recently cleansed of foreign-owned and armed terrorist savages. Last week, authorities discovered a mass grave. This week, they have found a massive quantity of weapons left behind: …
globalresearch.ca/ltamenah-military-finds-massive-weapons-left-behind-nato-terrorists/5697831

India: The Self-Professed 'World's Largest Democracy' Is Experiencing a Real Social Uprising
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Increasingly violent protests are sweeping the self-professed "world's largest democracy" as its people fight to protect the secular nature of their state following Prime Minister Modi's decision to push forward with a religiously discriminatory citizenship amendment, with this national uprising …
globalresearch.ca/self-professed-world-largest-democracy-experiencing-real-uprising/5697904

Open Rights Group Reveals How UK Political Parties Are Using Data to Profile Voters
Derek du Preez | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
The Open Rights Group …
globalresearch.ca/open-rights-group-reveals-how-uk-political-parties-using-data-profile-voters/5697749

'The Calculated Subversion of Humanity' …and How to Resist It
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
As we transition into 2020, our World is in the grip of a deliberate attempt to destroy the fundamental values upon which all civilised life depends. | Humanitarian values of love, kindness, compassion and mutual support — are being deliberately blocked, …
globalresearch.ca/subversion-humanity-how-resist-it/5697914

Climate Change Accounting: The Failure of COP25
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Prior to the UN Convention on Climate Change talks held in Madrid, the sense that tradition would assert itself was hard to buck. Weariness and frustration came in the wake of initial high minded optimism. Delegates spent an extra two …
globalresearch.ca/climate-change-failure-cop25/5697855

Stay Informed about What They Don't Want You to Know: Support Global Research
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
As the saying goes, knowledge is power. The more informed we are the harder it becomes to deceive us. | We are currently facing an unprecedented threat to the independent media and freedom on the Internet. The ultimate goal is the …
globalresearch.ca/stay-informed-about-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know-support-global-research/5697957

The Armenian Genocide: US Congress' Recognition and Remembrance. Ignores White House and Turkey's Objection
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Over a century ago, the systematic mass extermination and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians from the Ottoman Empire took place between 1914 and 1923 (some accounts state 1915-1922). For decades, Turkish and Israeli lobbies in Washington have successfully prevented …
globalresearch.ca/congress-ignores-white-house-turkey-objection-recognizing-armenian-genocide/5697886

Trump's Monroe Doctrine 2.0
Wayne Madsen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Donald John Trump has turned back the clock in the Western Hemisphere to an era that saw coups and political unrest as the order of the day. Trump and his administration of far-right and pro-fascists have already overthrown the democratically-elected …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-monroe-doctrine-2-0/5697799

Those Torture Drawings by Guantanamo Prisoner in the NYT
John Kiriakou | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
In 2002, John Kiriakou captured the Guantanamo prisoner who drew those sickening pictures. Abu Zubaydah has a constitutional right to face his accusers in court, or be released, Kiriakou says. | *** | The New York Times last week published shocking drawings…
globalresearch.ca/those-torture-drawings-nyt/5697899

Climate: From Catastrophe to Cataclysm
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-16
Please watch the 23 minute video, linked below, to completion. It shows an interview of Dr. Peter Carter (Director Climate Emergency Institute, IPCC expert reviewer, Co-author in 2018 of Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival). This interview was conducted at COPS25 ("this is set up to fail") currently underway in Madrid,…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/16/climate-from-catastrophe-to-cataclysm/

Mass Protests Spread in India After Citizenship Law Passes
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-16
Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses on Monday as critics said the Hindu nationalist government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with the country's founding as a secular republic. | RELATED: | Indian Police Clashes with Anti-Citizenship Law Protesters | Students pelted stones at police who locked up the gates of a college in the northern city of Lucknow to prevent them from taking to the streets. About two dozen s…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mass-Protests-Spread-in-India-After-Citizenship-Law-Passes-20191216-0001.html

'Your batons can only break our bones, not our spirit of resistance'
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-16
On Sunday, December 15, police in the Indian state of Delhi baton charged and tear gassed students of Jamia Millia Islamia University and laid a siege on nearby Muslim dominated colony. According to reports, police entered university hostels and library, thrashing students and firing tear gas inside the library reading room. Numerous students were injured, with three said to be in critical condition. | The Jamia students and residents were protesting against the discriminatory citizenship law and all India National Register of Citizens being implemented by far-right Indian government.
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/16/your-batons-can-only-break-our-bones-not-our-spirit-of-resistance/

Unrest Grows in India Over New Citizenship Law
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-16
NEW DELHI–Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India's capital, while a southern state government led a march and demonstrators held a silent protest in the northeast on Monday to protest a new law giving citizenship to non-Muslims who entered India illegally to flee religious persecution in several neighboring countries. | The protests in New Delhi followed a night of violent clashes between police and demonstrators at Jamia Millia Islamia University. People who student organizers said were not students set three buses on fire and police stormed the university library, firing tear gas at…
truthdig.com/articles/unrest-grows-in-india-over-new-citizenship-law/

Stop The Cuts! Hundreds of CCSF Students & Faculty Protest 300 Class Cuts AT BOT
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-12-16
Hundreds of students and faculty protested at the San Francisco Community College Board of Trustees meeting against the 300 class cuts by CCSF chancellor Mark Rocha. The board had previously voted give to big raises to executives at the community college. The cuts will also close down the senior class program.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828883.php

The "fixing capitalism" headfake
Yves Smith | mronline.org | 2019-12-16
It's not hard to see why young people are embracing socialism. It isn't simply that they can see a probable grim future under capitalism as they know it: more and more low-wage, high surveillance jobs versus more budget and psychological stress as most also have higher fixed costs (rentier housing costs, student loan payments, even […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/12/16/the-fixing-capitalism-headfake/

EXPLAINED: What Really Happened in Jamia?
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-16
In the afternoon of December 15, news broke about violent clashes between youths and students protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the police in Delhi's Jamia area. What followed was a series of violent attacks and detentions through the evening and night to early Monday morning. As these developments took place, social media started getting flooded with different reports about the events, some true, and some unverified. But what really happened? NewsClick brings to you a timeline of events, as they took place yesterday.
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/16/explained-what-really-happened-in-jamia/

Deputy suspended after assaulting student on video
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2019-12-16
"School and district officials are working closely and in full cooperation with the local authorities to address this matter consistent with school board policy and state laws."
nationofchange.org/2019/12/16/deputy-suspended-after-assaulting-student-on-video/

No Justification For The Existence of Any Kind of Charter School
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-16
Charter school promoters are skilled at promoting disinformation about charter schools and public schools; they have decades of experience. One of the most worn-out forms of disinformation deployed repeatedly by charter school promoters is to pressure people into thinking that the problem is not that privately-operated charter schools run by unelected individuals and funded by …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/no-justification-for-the-existence-of-any-kind-of-charter-school/

Ann Arbor Taskforce on the Center of the City Commons
Peter Linebaugh | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-16
In October 2018 the voters of Ann Arbor, Michigan, approved an amendment to the City Charter for a commons in the center of the city. These remarks formed the basis of a brief talk to the Task Force charged with planning its implementation. We want an open space; we want a beautiful place; we want…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/16/ann-arbor-taskforce-on-the-center-of-the-city-commons/

Selected Articles: New WikiLeaks Bombshell
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
Global Research strives to shine light on the under-reported, less known injustices ignored or buried. | | Governments know it too, which is why there is an unprecedented threat to the independent media and the Internet. Fight-back was never more needed. | Please, …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-new-wikileaks-bombshell/5697925

L'esplosivo Della Strage Di Piazza Fontana Proveniva Dalle Basi Nato
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
La Denuncia Del Magistrato Imposimato: | Nel 50 ∞ anniversario della strage di Piazza Fontana, ripubblichiamo l'intervento del magistrato Ferdinando Imposimato, Presidente Onorario della Suprema Corte di Cassazione, al Convegno del Comitato No Guerra No Nato, svoltosi a Roma il 26 Ottobre …
globalresearch.ca/lesplosivo-della-strage-di-piazza-fontana-proveniva-dalle-basi-nato/5697582

The Hidden Military Use of 5G Technology
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
At the London Summit, the 29 member countries of NATO agreed to "guarantee the security of our communications, including 5G". Why is this fifth generation of mobile data transmission so important for NATO? | While the earlier technologies were perfected to …
globalresearch.ca/hidden-military-use-5g-technology/5697848

The Brexit Election Labour Lost. The Relentless Smear Attacks against Jeremy Corbyn
Diana Johnstone | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-16
The chorus of smear attacks on Jeremy Corbyn was so vile and relentless that it is unseemly to blame him personally for the defeat of his party in the December 12 parliamentary elections. Perhaps Labour's defeat was inevitable. But with …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-election-labour-lost/5697843

US Threatens To Attack Iran Over Rockets Fired In Iraq & Assange Blocked From Seeing Key Evidence
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-15
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 (12/14/19). 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-threatens-to-attack-iran-over-rockets-fired-in-iraq-assange-blocked-from-seeing-key-evidence/

Brazil's Amazon Deforestation Rises Over 100% Year-Over-Year
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-15
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published on Friday. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro: Torture Methods of Dictatorship to Fight Corruption | Destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest totaled 563 square km (217.38 square miles) in November, 103% more than in the same month last year, according to the country's space research agency INPE. | That wo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazils-Amazon-Deforestation-Rises-Over-100-Year-Over-Year-20191215-0005.html

'Linked to white supremacy': Paper celebrating Google's quantum computer SOUNDS RACIST, say SJW scientists
rt.com | 2019-12-15
A Google computer recently achieved "quantum supremacy," performing a calculation that'd be impossible on a regular machine. Some scientists are up in arms — not at the breakthrough, but because "supremacy" sounds vaguely racist. | Put short, a quantum computer developed by Google managed to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world's most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. The research paper on the calculation is published in Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal…
rt.com/usa/475957-google-quantum-supremacy-computer-racist/

Police brutality against students in Delhi hits a new low
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-14
On December 13, the Delhi police unleashed brutal violence against thousands of students and teachers of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), attacking them with baton and tear gas. The students and teachers were taking out a march to Indian parliament against the discriminatory citizenship amendment act (also known as CAB), recently passed by far-right Indian government. | The act provides pathway for naturalization to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh migrants, but not to Muslim refugees or refugees from other neighbouring countries who may also face religio…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/14/police-brutality-against-students-in-delhi-hits-a-new-low/

The Mother of Us All: Ancient India's Vedic Civilization
William T. Hathaway | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-14
Researchers have determined that the Vedic culture of India was the first global civilization. They have uncovered archeological and historical evidence indicating that the society which began millennia ago in the Indus Valley grew to encompass all of South Asia, then spread peacefully to many parts of the world. Science and technology in ancient India …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/the-mother-of-us-all-ancient-indias-vedic-civilization/

Report highlights social crisis confronting Australian youth on welfare
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
Hundreds of thousands of working-class youth and students confront soaring housing and utility costs, and a deepening jobs crisis.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/acos…

New York Times uses racial politics to promote charter schools
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
The New York Times recently published a dishonest article promoting racial politics in defense of charter schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/time…

The Science of Lethality
Joan Roelofs | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
While the Pentagon's preeminent mission is to increase lethality of the forces, DARPA notes that its cyborg technology is also used to "augment the loss of functionality from injury or disease," such as implants controlling the use of prosthetics. Nevertheless, it sees a great need for social research to dispel resistance to cyborgs or robots (synthetic autonomous agents) on ethical grounds.
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/the-science-of-lethality/

UN Counters US Claims Of "Proof" Iran Attacked Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu Impunity & Turkey Sanctions
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-13
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 (12/12/19). 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/un-counters-us-claims-of-proof-iran-attacked-saudi-arabia-netanyahu-impunity-turkey-sanctions/

As COP25 goes into the night, Guterres calls for more climate ambition
news.un.org | 2019-12-13
With national delegations thrashing out an outcome agreement at the UN COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, the UN chief has called on countries to be more ambitious, side strongly with science, and commit to stronger action.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/12/1053521

Anakbayan-USA holds 3rd congress
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-12-13
Los Angeles, CA – On November 30, Anakbayan-USA had their Third Congress, with more than 200 members from 12 chapters across the country in attendance. They learned lessons on solidarity, talked about the economic situation in the United States and reported back on the progress being made on a national and local level. | Anakbayan-USA had three national organizations they invited to speak on their "International Solidarity" panel: the Palestinian Youth Movement, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | CISPES and PYM spoke on bridging the gap…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/12/13/anakbay…

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2019-12-15: News Headlines

John Pilger (2019-12-15). Parem já com as mentiras sobre Assange. globalresearch.ca

Danica Jorden (2019-12-15). O revisionismo do Bolsonaro no Brasil. globalresearch.ca O governo do Presidente Jair Bolsonaro está embarcando em um projeto de revisà£o histórica e cultural. Em setembro, a Cinemateca Brasileira ficou " ocupada" por militares e politicos da extrema-direita que criticaram o "marxismo cultural" da instituiàßà£o e prometeram …

Thomas Drake (2019-12-15). How a Government Censored an NSA Whistleblower. commondreams.org It was the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre who finally admitted before an Australian Parliament committee that she had unilaterally directed and pressured the CyberCon conference to drop myself and an academic research professor (an Australian citizen) from the University of Melbourne as speakers.

Kristina Kristen (2019-12-15). Japan Leads the Way in Child Health: No Compulsory Vaccines. Banned Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) Vaccine. globalresearch.ca Important article first published by Children's Health Defense, posted on Global Research on April 28, 2019 | In the United States, many legislators and public health officials are busy trying to make vaccines de facto compulsory—either by removing parental/personal choice …

Larry Romanoff (2019-12-15). China's YiWu: Business Models You've Never Even Heard of. globalresearch.ca The YiWu Commodities Market | A brief bit of background for context. YiWu is the world's largest supermarket. YiWu is a small town (it's actually a city with more than one million people, but in China that's a small town) in …

General Wesley Clark (2019-12-15). Global Warfare: "We're Going to Take out 7 Countries in 5 Years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.." globalresearch.ca Originally published in March 2007. | Global Research Editor's Note: | This interview serves as a reminder regarding the diabolical timeline of America's hegemonic project. Is Iran the next target "to be taken out"? | All these countries are on the Pentagon's drawing …

Larry Romanoff (2019-12-15). Humanity at the Crossroads. globalresearch.ca Humankind is at a cusp, a point of transition between two different states of governance and existence. The world today is like a sack being slowly filled while the string around the opening is pulled increasingly tighter to prevent the …

Brett Redmayne-Titley (2019-12-15). The Humane Obligation of Conscience. Capitalist Orchestrated Horror. Desperate Protests Across the Globe. globalresearch.ca The world war of Democracy against its people is now official. | On Oct 20, 2019, Chilean president Sebastian Pinera publicly admitted the singular capitalist threat implicitly and silently embraced by virtually all politicians across our embattled Earth: Pinera formally declared …

F. William Engdahl (2019-12-15). O capital financeiro mascara-se de verde. globalresearch.ca à Clima. Quem haveria de dizer. As próprias mega-corporaàßàµes e mega-bilionários por trás da globalizaàßà£o da economia mundial nas últimas décadas, cuja busca de valor para o accionista e reduàßà£o de custos infligiu tantos danos ao meio ambiente — tanto no …

William Blum (2019-12-15). United States Bombings of Other Countries. America's "Bombing List" globalresearch.ca The important legacy of the late William Blum will live. This article was first posted on GR in June 2016. | *** | It is a scandal in contemporary international law, don't forget, that while "wanton destruction of towns, cities and villages" …

F. William Engdahl (2019-12-15). The Bogus Legend of Paul Volcker. The Break with Gold. globalresearch.ca Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve during the 1980's, has died at age 92. Major media are writing words of praise for the banker who "killed inflation" in the wake of the 1970's oil crises and food price …

teleSUR (2019-12-15). Brazil's Amazon Deforestation Rises Over 100% Year-Over-Year. telesurenglish.net Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published on Friday. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro: Torture Methods of Dictatorship to Fight Corruption | Destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest totaled 563 square km (217.38 square miles) in November, 103% more than in the same month last year, according to the country's space research agency INPE. | That wo…

Steven Sahiounie (2019-12-15). Europe Was the Main Player in Destroying Syria and Creating the Refugee Crisis. globalresearch.ca Monica Maggioni is an Italian journalist and is CEO of Rai.com, which broadcasts 'Rai News 24 TV', among others. She interviewed Syrian President, Bashar al Assad, on November 26, and the interview was to be broadcast on December 2; …

Nikolai Malishevski (2019-12-15). The Pentagon's Map of Afghanistan: An Eldorado of Mineral Wealth and Natural Resources. globalresearch.ca According to the media, The Afghanistan Papers released in early December 2019 by the Pentagon point to " US dysfunction" 'We did not know what we were doing'? | Nonsensical. They knew what they were doing. The object of US wars …

James Grundvig (2019-12-15). The Threat 5G Poses to Human Health. globalresearch.ca The crime scene was straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. One hundred and fifty dead birds lay sprawled on the ground, fallen out of trees in a park in The Hague, Netherlands. | The second such occurrence last autumn made …

Michael Welch (2019-12-15). White Helmets, James Lemesurier, and the Humanitarian Regime Change Network. globalresearch.ca THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of …

Dr. Bischara A. Egal (2019-12-15). Threat to Somalia's National Security and Existence as a Nation State. The Right to Self-Defense. globalresearch.ca On November 15, 2019 the UN security Council extended the illegal, immoral and racist 27 years of arms sanctions on Somalia which was in effect since 1992. | Through a recorded vote, the Security Council today renewed the mandate of the …

Vicky Peláez (2019-12-15). The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery? globalresearch.ca This incisive and carefully researched article was first published by Global Research eleven years ago in March 2008. | In recent developments, California has adopted legislation which bans the private prison industry from operating in the state. | "The move will probably …

It's Going Down (2019-12-15). This Is America #99: Inside The UC Santa Cruz Wildcat Strike. indybay.org Welcome, to This Is America, December 12th, 2019. | On this episode, we are lucky enough to speak with two grad students involved in the growing wildcat strike that is demanding a cost of living adjustment on the University of California (UC) campus of Santa Cruz, located south of the bay area in Northern California.

Labor Video Project (2019-12-15). Stop The Cuts! Hundreds of CCSF Students & Faculty Protest 300 Class Cuts AT BOT. indybay.org Hundreds of students and faculty protested at the San Francisco Community College Board of Trustees meeting against the 300 class cuts by CCSF chancellor Mark Rocha. The board had previously voted give to big raises to executives at the community college. The cuts will also close down the senior class program.

RT (2019-12-15). 'Linked to white supremacy': Paper celebrating Google's quantum computer SOUNDS RACIST, say SJW scientists. rt.com A Google computer recently achieved "quantum supremacy," performing a calculation that'd be impossible on a regular machine. Some scientists are up in arms — not at the breakthrough, but because "supremacy" sounds vaguely racist. | Put short, a quantum computer developed by Google managed to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world's most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. The research paper on the calculation is published in Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal…

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-14). NAFTA 2.0: Revising the 1994 Agreement. globalresearch.ca According to the Wall Street Journal, it's a "template for deals to come," adding: | "The new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (has) implications for agreements beyond North America, including new bilateral deals being contemplated for China, Japan, the European Union, and the UK." …

Caitlin Johnstone (2019-12-14). Someone Interfered in the UK Election, and It Wasn't Russia. globalresearch.ca Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday. | Before you get all excited, no, it wasn't the Russians. It wasn't the Chinese, the Iranians, Cobra …

Nauman Sadiq (2019-12-14). "The Good Terrorists": How U.S. Airstrikes Helped Prop Al-Qaeda in Syria's Idlib? globalresearch.ca Al-Qaeda in Syria has two noteworthy apologists. One is the jihadist propagandist Bilal Abdul Kareem, a former correspondent for CNN, often seen in videos sporting a long beard and reporting from the ground in the al-Nusra Front strongholds in …

John LaForge (2019-12-14). O Juiz que criticou o "culto da Bomba" globalresearch.ca Numa dada circunstância, o Juiz do Distrito Federal, Miles Lord, que faleceu em 10 de Dezembro de 2016, aos 97 anos de idade, poderia ter-me aplicado uma sentenàßa de dez anos. Longe disso, o famoso Juiz sem rodeios, que era …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-14). China-US "Phase One" Trade Deal: The Devil in the Unannounced Details and Implementation. globalresearch.ca According to China's official People's Daily broadsheet, Beijing and Washington "agreed on the text of a phase one economic and trade agreement based on the principle of equality and mutual respect," adding: | "The text includes nine chapters: the preface, intellectual …

Andre Vltchek (2019-12-14). Nunca vi o Mundo tà£o fragmentado! globalresearch.ca É impressionante a facilidade com que o império ocidental está a conseguir destruir os países "rebeldes" que està£o no seu caminho, sem que haja resistência. | Trabalho em todos os cantos do planeta, onde os "conflitos" kafkianos forem desencadeados por Washington, …

Andrew Korybko (2019-12-14). Prime Minister Modi Triggers Political Instability in India's Northeastern States. globalresearch.ca Indian Prime Minister Modi has a huge crisis on his hands entirely of his own making after some of the ethno-religiously diverse Northeastern States of the so-called 'Seven Sisters' are erupting in rage after the passage of the 'Citizenship (Amendment) …

William T. Hathaway (2019-12-14). The Mother of Us All: Ancient India's Vedic Civilization. dissidentvoice.org Researchers have determined that the Vedic culture of India was the first global civilization. They have uncovered archeological and historical evidence indicating that the society which began millennia ago in the Indus Valley grew to encompass all of South Asia, then spread peacefully to many parts of the world. Science and technology in ancient India …

Joseph Thomas (2019-12-14). US Seeks Thai Opposition for Anti-China Alliance at ASEAN Summit. globalresearch.ca Why is the US talking "democracy, human rights and justice" with an opposition who lost recent elections, abuses human rights and works daily to undermine and evade justice? | Time was precious at the 35th ASEAN Summit. Leaders from across Southeast …

South Front (2019-12-14). Video: Latin America, Geopolitical Battlefield. U.S. Threatens Military Intervention. globalresearch.ca Latin America has long been regarded as the exclusive stomping ground of US economic interests, US military, and US intelligence services for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, to the point that the US public has grown to view …

IMEMC News & Agencies (2019-12-14). Samidoun Releases Statement in Support of SAIA York and Palestinian Students' Right to Organize. imemc.org Photo credit: Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses our strongest solidarity with Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University (SAIA York) and denounces the decision of York University president Rhonda Lenton to suspend SAIA as an organization after its members were the victim …

WSWS (2019-12-14). Report highlights social crisis confronting Australian youth on welfare. wsws.org Hundreds of thousands of working-class youth and students confront soaring housing and utility costs, and a deepening jobs crisis.

Susie Gardner (2019-12-14). Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. truthdig.com …

WSWS (2019-12-14). New York Times uses racial politics to promote charter schools. wsws.org The New York Times recently published a dishonest article promoting racial politics in defense of charter schools.

Joan Roelofs (2019-12-13). The Science of Lethality. counterpunch.org While the Pentagon's preeminent mission is to increase lethality of the forces, DARPA notes that its cyborg technology is also used to "augment the loss of functionality from injury or disease," such as implants controlling the use of prosthetics. Nevertheless, it sees a great need for social research to dispel resistance to cyborgs or robots (synthetic autonomous agents) on ethical grounds. More

Thomas Drake (2019-12-13). Kafka Down Under: the Threat to Whistleblowers and Press Freedom in Australia. counterpunch.org It was the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre who finally admitted before an Australian Parliament committee that she had unilaterally directed and pressured CyberCon to drop myself and an academic research professor (an Australian citizen) from the University of Melbourne as speakers. I viewed the extraordinary pressure exerted by the Australian Cyber Security Centre More

news.un (2019-12-13). As COP25 goes into the night, Guterres calls for more climate ambition. news.un.org With national delegations thrashing out an outcome agreement at the UN COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, the UN chief has called on countries to be more ambitious, side strongly with science, and commit to stronger action.

Fight Back (2019-12-13). Anakbayan-USA holds 3rd congress. fightbacknews.org Los Angeles, CA – On November 30, Anakbayan-USA had their Third Congress, with more than 200 members from 12 chapters across the country in attendance. They learned lessons on solidarity, talked about the economic situation in the United States and reported back on the progress being made on a national and local level. | Anakbayan-USA had three national organizations they invited to speak on their "International Solidarity" panel: the Palestinian Youth Movement, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | CISPES and PYM spoke on bridging the gap…

Sophie Kasakove (2019-12-13). As Cities Dole Out Billions to Developers, Teachers Ask: What About Us? thenation.com As Cities Dole Out Billions to Developers, Teachers Ask: What About Us?

Tracy Keeling (2019-12-13). A Jewish academic nails the problem with the centrist reaction to Corbyn's election result. thecanary.co From the moment the BBC announced the results of its exit poll, it was clear that the establishment in Britain would seek to destroy 'Corbynism' on the back of it and take Labour back to the 'centre ground'. But a Jewish academic and media activist just nailed the major problem with that position. | You lost: | Justin Schlosberg is a senior lecturer in Journalism and Media at Birkbeck College, University of London. He's also on the …

RT (2019-12-13). Shocking VIDEO shows 14-year-old being brutally beaten on school bus for allegedly wearing MAGA hat. rt.com A disturbing video shows a Florida teenager being attacked by a group of students, purportedly because he had been seen wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat. The parents of the victim said that their son was hospitalized. | In the short clip, a young man is approached by a girl who suddenly strikes out at him. The teen tries to get up from his seat on the school bus, but is quickly pushed down, where he is punched and hit repeatedly. The girl then appears to thrust his head against the side of the bus several times. Two other students are also seen landing blows. High-pitched screaming is heard throughout…

Mohamed Elmaazi (2019-12-13). Labour activist warns against blaming left-wing policies for electoral loss. thecanary.co Labour Party activist Umaar Kazmi put out a tweet warning against blaming Labour's electoral defeat on its "common sense socialist policies". He says the Labour right will predictably blame "the shift to the left under Jeremy Corbyn". But in reality, he stresses, it was Labour's failure to stand up to right-wing attacks within the party, and its perceived 'disregard for democracy' regarding the Brexit vote. | What went wrong?: | Kazmi is a law student at Nottingham University and was a delegate for Rushc…

Gerald Meyer (2019-12-12). Sinatra's birthday today: We remember when "Old Blue Eyes" was red. peoplesworld.org This article first appeared in Science and Society in the Fall of 2002 and was run later in Political Affairs. The version that follows is abridged. Gerald Meyer taught history for many years at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York and authored the biography of him entitled "Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician." …

news.un (2019-12-11). COP25: Italy and Mexico pave the way on climate education. news.un.org A commitment by Italy and Mexico to ramp up climate and environmental education has been welcomed by the UN office which supports global efforts to respond to climate change.

Fight Back (2019-12-10). Chicago: Striking unions honored at People's Thanksgiving. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Thunderous applause greeted officers and strikers from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73 at an event sponsored by Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). The 28th People's Thanksgiving, a fundraiser for Fight Back! brought over 100 people together to recognize the historic Chicago Public School strike by the two unions. | In the words of CTU Vice President Stacy Davis Gates, "The work we do is to dismantle white supremacy." She vowed that the union will be "bolder, more aggressive and impatient" and to have a "Chicago that reflects the nee…

Fight Back (2019-12-09). Arizona educators, progressives confront ALEC summit and Betsy DeVos. fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – On December 4, a coalition of union educators, immigrant rights, police crimes, and climate change activists confronted the agenda of corporations like UPS and energy industry giants and billionaires like Charles Koch and Sheldon Achelson. At its height the crowd numbered around 200 with signs reading: "ALEC: Oligarchy in progress" and "Privatization, criminalization, incarceration, climate change, imperialism: #ALECisBehindIt." | The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a notorious organization of hardcore conservatives, was holding its States and Nation Policy Summit in Arizona. ALEC hoste…

news.un (2019-12-09). Human Rights Day celebrates 'tremendous activism' of the world's young people. news.un.org Activists, students and UN officials came together on Tuesday to pay tribute to young people's "tremendous activism" in promoting human rights for everyone.

Julie Hollar (2019-12-07). How Media Turn Support for Public Schools Into Opposition to Children of Color. fair.org Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential candidates are rejecting the Obama administration's embrace of charter schools, and media observers aren't taking kindly to it. "Minority Voters Chafe as Democratic Candidates Abandon Charter Schools," blared a recent New York Times headline ( 11/26/19). "The front-runners for the presidential nomination are moving away from the charter school movement, and black and Latino families ask why their concerns ar…

Matt Bruenig (2019-12-01). The Usual Incoherence on Student Benefits Is Back. peoplespolicyproject.org Of all the welfare state topics, student benefits manages to consistently attract the most incoherent and weird arguments, and the recent spate of arguments on this front are no exception. In the last week, a student benefit dustup has been instigated by Pete Buttigieg ostensibly being against free public college for millionaires and billionaires while Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are ostensibly for it. | This has set off the usual round of commentary about how Buttigieg is arguing for means-testing while Warren and Sanders are arguing f…

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