Arizona educators, progressives confront ALEC summit and Betsy DeVos
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-12-09
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…
fightbacknews.org/2019/12/8/arizona-educators-progressives-confront-alec-summit-and-betsy-devos

US and UK Military-Intelligence Apparatus Campaigns to Destroy Jeremy Corbyn
Ben Norton | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
Days before Britain's historic election, the UK's military-intelligence apparatus is turning to the corporate media and US government-funded NATO cut-outs to smear Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with evidence-free Russiagate allegations. | *** | The popular socialist leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy …
globalresearch.ca/us-uk-military-intelligence-apparatus-campaigns-destroy-jeremy-corbyn/5697123

Jews, Antisemitism and Labour — A Letter to the BBC
Jewish Voice for Labour | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
To Tony Hall, Director General of the BBC | cc: Fran Unsworth and Tracey Henry | URGENT — "Is the BBC Antisemitic?" | We need to register with you our deep concern that, once again, and in the closing stages of an …
globalresearch.ca/jews-antisemitism-labour-letter-bbc/5697163

Kerry's Endorsement of Biden Fits: Two Deceptive Supporters of the Iraq War
Norman Solomon | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
The spectacle of Kerry praising Biden as a seasoned leader amounts to one supporter of the Iraq catastrophe attesting to the character and experience of another supporter of the same catastrophe. | *** | On Thursday afternoon, the Washington Post sent out …
globalresearch.ca/kerry-endorsement-biden-fits-two-deceptive-supporters-iraq-war/5697069

Winston Churchill and "the Indian Holocaust": The Bengal Famine of 1943
Great Game India | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
A new study by Indian and American researchers confirm how Winston Churchill caused the Bengal Famine and starved over 3 million Indians to death. Glorified as the "Saviour of the World" in the west and dubbed the "Butcher of Bengal" …
globalresearch.ca/winston-churchill-indian-holocaust/5697096

The Sun deleted its latest Jeremy Corbyn smear after being caught using neo-Nazi sources
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2019-12-09
On Saturday 7 November, the Sun managed to plunge to a depth even we didn't think was possible. It published a smear about Jeremy Corbyn headlined: Ex-British intelligence officers say Jeremy Corbyn is at the centre of a hard-left extremist network.The story itself is laughable. These supposed intelligence officers have basically just scribbled a load of coloured lines on a website and added some names and links to back up their claims. But it's much worse than just another dodgy Sun story, because the researchers of this network used neo-Nazi and antisemitic sources to back up its already incredibly dodgy points:…
thecanary.co/opinion/2019/12/09/the-sun-deleted-its-latest-jeremy-corbyn-smear-after-being-caught-using-neo-nazi-sources/

A Beautiful but Deceptive Documentary: "For Sama"
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
The documentary movie "For Sama" has won a host of awards in Europe and North America. Its producers and protagonists, Syrians Waad Kateab and her husband Dr. Hamza Kateab plus English film-maker Edward Watts, have received gushing praise. And …
globalresearch.ca/beautiful-deceptive-documentary-for-sama/5697085

"Cracking Down" on Independent Media: Global Research Needs Your Support
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
We often receive words of encouragement from our readership, praising our comprehensive coverage and our efforts to inform without trying to divide. We appreciate the moral support all the more so in the face of the current online trend to …
globalresearch.ca/cracking-down-on-independent-media/5666168

Israel's War Minister Naftali Bennett Threatens Iran
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
Israeli ruling authorities are the most extremist in Jewish state history. Arab MKs aside, the vast majority of Knesset members are militantly hardline racists, threatening regional peace and stability. | New Right party head Naftali Bennett earlier held various ministries, including …
globalresearch.ca/israel-war-minister-naftali-bennett-threatens-iran/5697136

The Holocaust, "The Evil One", Fascism and the Bush Family
Bill Van Auken | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
This article was originally published in 2003. | "History is a reminder of what's possible." These were the words spoken by President George W. Bush as he emerged from a guided tour of the gas chambers at Auschwitz. The former Nazi …
globalresearch.ca/the-holocaust-the-evil-one-fascism-and-the-bush-family/5697117

Paranoias of Interference: Russia, Reddit and the British Election
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
In some ways, it is a very British thing: fair play is expected; the reasonable person with all faculties intact, going about the business of living and voting. Little thought is given to the fact that these assumptions are as …
globalresearch.ca/paranoia-interference-russia-reddit-british-election/5697108

What Really Happened in Iran? Wave of Protests in 100 Cities
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
On November 15, a wave of protests engulfed over 100 Iranian cities as the government resorted to an extremely unpopular measure: a fuel tax hike of as much as 300%, without a semblance of a PR campaign to explain the …
globalresearch.ca/what-happened-iran/5697127

NATO Doesn't Care that Montenegro Is a Haven for Crime and Corruption
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
There was international jubilation when Montenegro seceded from its union with Serbia in 2006 after a controversial referendum. The Referendum Law prevented Montenegrins living and registered in Serbia from voting in the referendum, ensuring that tens of thousands of Montenegrins, …
globalresearch.ca/nato-doesnt-care-montenegro-haven-crime-corruption/5697156

What Have the US and Protesters in Lebanon Achieved over Iran and Its Allies?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
For several weeks now, much of the Lebanese population has turned on the country's traditional political leaders and wrought havoc on the corrupt domestic political system. Those who have ruled the country for decades have offered little in the way …
globalresearch.ca/what-have-us-protesters-lebanon-achieved-over-iran-and-its-allies/5697160

Iran False Flag, Bolivia's Coup Gov Seeks Israel's Help, Israel's Been In Yemen 'Since Day One'
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-09
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 (12/8/19). 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/iran-false-flag-bolivias-coup-gov-seeks-israels-help-israels-been-in-yemen-since-day-one/

Syria Will Not Cooperate with the OPCW New Investigation Team
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
OPCW was used before to justify the invasion of Iraq, providing a temporary cover before exposed, to the pariah states in the world is at it again, this time willingly and without death threats to its teams, and this time …
globalresearch.ca/syria-will-not-cooperate-opcw-new-investigation-team/5697080

Skin Deep, Journey in the Divisive Science of Race, by Gavin Evans
wsws.org | 2019-12-09
The overwhelming weight of scientific research demonstrates that "race" does not exist as a valid biological category, but is a social construct.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/09/skin…

Target… Iran!? 74,000 U.S. Troops in the Middle East and Eurasia
Steve Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
In June of this year we examined why the United States will not attack Iran subsequent to raised tensions in the region. Six months later on the cusp of 2020, the United States has not attacked Iran militarily … yet. …
globalresearch.ca/target-iran-74000-u-s-troops-in-the-middle-east/5697075

Stage-Managing the Pensacola Naval Base Shooting: Mollycoddling the Face of Evil
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
As should be expected, the government is attempting to stage-manage the shooting at the Pensacola Naval Base. The Pentagon said sailors killed by a Saudi student reportedly angry over the serial murder of Muslims by the US government "showed exceptional …
globalresearch.ca/pensacola-shooting-mollycoddling-face-evil/5697083

On Those Questionable US Jobs Numbers… Again!
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
This past friday, December 6, the BLS reported a jobs gain in November of 266,000, surprising just about every estimated forecast. At least 70,000 or so were not actually 'new' jobs, but the return to work of GM auto workers …
globalresearch.ca/questionable-us-jobs-numbers/5697078

Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Us or Simply Make Humans Irrelevant?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
Artificial Intelligence is generally seen as a great advance and benefit for mankind. Smart humans, however, see it as our undoing and even possibly our extermination. | Much of modern technology has far more prospect for harm than for good. | Consider …
globalresearch.ca/will-artificial-intelligence-destroy-us-simply-make-humans-irrelevant/5697132

Israel Tests Nuke-capable Missile System Aimed at Iran: Report
Press TV | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
The Israeli military has reportedly tested a propulsion system used for carrying nuclear-capable and other missiles, with the occupying entity's media billing the alleged display as "a show of force aimed at Iran." | The test was carried out at Palmachim …
globalresearch.ca/israel-tests-nuke-capable-missile-system-aimed-iran-report/5697071

International Communication Congress for the People in Caracas Venezuela
Teresa Teran | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
The first international Communication Congress of the People was held in Caracas Venezuela from the second to the fourth of December 2019, with the motto! It is the Time for the people to speak! | The idea for this Congress took …
globalresearch.ca/international-communication-congress-people-caracas-venezuela/5697093

Banning Russian Athletes? Politicized International Sports Competition Rears Its Ugly Head Again
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
Olympism and other major international sports events are all about profiteering, exploiting athletes, scandalous wheeling, dealing, collusion, and bribery, marginalizing the poor, other disenfranchised groups, and affected communities, sticking taxpayers with the bill, and providing nothing in return but hype …
globalresearch.ca/banning-russian-athletes-politicized-international-sports-competition-rears-its-ugly-head-again/5697139

West Seeks Control over Asian Rivers
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
At first glance the human rights and environmental issues surrounding a proposed dam seem like serious objections to their construction. In some cases they may be. | In other cases — these concerns are manufactured, promoted, and cynically exploited by foreign …
globalresearch.ca/west-seeks-control-asian-rivers/5697088

"The American Love Affair with the Automobile": The Unspoken History of the Electric Car
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
A study of gasoline-powered automobiles reveals one of the greatest corporate frauds and resulting environmental disasters to ever have been inflicted on human society. There are three distinct but interwoven themes in this story: the promotion of gasoline-powered transportation by …
globalresearch.ca/who-killed-roger-rabbit-oil-hydrogen-political-domination-electric-car/5697098

Winter Demands in Response to the Camping Ordinance Being Considered
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2019-12-09
HUFF, Conscience and Action, Food Not Bombs and the Santa Cruz Homeless Union demand:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/08/18828759.php

Make Social Democracy Great Again
Pascal Zwicky and Cedric Wormwood | indybay.org | 2019-12-09
Erik Olin Wright spoke of smashing, taming, escaping and eroding capitalism as alternatives of a transformational left. We must resist the "selective perception" of the elite that ignores market distortions (tax havens, stock buybacks, micro-second trading, insider trading), market failures, political failures, and the attacks on the poor, seniors, disabled, children and students.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/07/18828691.php

Israeli Forces Arrest Palestinian Youth at Checkpoint in Hebron
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-09
According to the Palestine News Network (PNN), Israeli occupation forces arrested a 14 year old female student, on Sunday morning, as she attempting to cross the Abu al-Reesh checkpoint, near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the center of Hebron. Israeli media quoted a statement from the occupation army that its soldiers …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinian-youth-at-checkpoint-in-hebron/

Youth demonstrating in Australia speak out against climate change and war
wsws.org | 2019-12-09
Students attended climate change protests in major cities in solidarity with rallies organised globally on November 29.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/09/clim…

First Irish working-class poetry anthology published
Special to People's World | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-09
Dr. Jenny Farrell teaches modern Irish literature at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in Galway, Ireland. She is also associated editor of the British publication, Culture Matters. In the interview below, Dr. Farrell discusses her latest book, The Children of the Nation: An Anthology of Working People's Poetry from Contemporary Ireland. People's World: This is …
peoplesworld.org/article/first-irish-working-class-poetry-anthology-published/

Proof the Rich Have Decisively Won America's Class War
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2019-12-09
Throughout the year, a barrage of studies has uncovered the breathtaking scope of wealth inequality all over the world. Among them was " Public Good or Private Wealth," the British charity Oxfam's annual study of global inequality that revealed, among other disheartening statistics, that the fortunes of billionaires increased by 12% in 2018–or $2.5 billion a day. In the same year, the wealth of the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity dropped by 11%. I…
truthdig.com/articles/the-triumph-of-the-rich-theyre-earning-more-and-living-longer/

Selected Articles: Target Iran!?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-09
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-bush-family-link-nazism/5697172

'Staggering' New Data Shows Income of Top 1% Has Grown 100 Times Faster Than Bottom 50% Since 1970
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-09
New data released by an economist focused on inequality and the accumulation of wealth by top earners explains the numbers behind Sen. Bernie Sanders' often-cited statistic that the three richest Americans hold more wealth than the 160 million people who make up the bottom 50% of the population. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/12/09/staggering-new-data-shows-income-top-1-has-grown-100-times-faster-bottom-50-1970?cd-origin=rss

Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
Prof. James Petras | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-08
The task of imperial rulers is to fabricate a world in which the enemy is portrayed as an 'invader' or an 'aggressor'…
globalresearch.ca/provocations-as-pretexts-for-imperial-war-from-pearl-harbor-to-9-11/9063

Israel Bombs Gaza, Israeli Bot Group Caught Spreading Hate & US Admits Houthis Not "Iran Proxy"
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-08
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 (12/7/19). 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/israel-bombs-gaza-israeli-bot-group-caught-spreading-hate-us-admits-houthis-not-iran-proxy/

Pearl Harbor Revisited: Dispelling Surprise Attack Mythology
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-08
December 7, 2019 is the 78th anniversary of what Franklin Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy (when) the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."…
globalresearch.ca/pearl-harbor-revisited-dispelling-surprise-attack-mythology/5696980

Permafrost Hits a Grim Threshold
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-07
For tens of thousands of years the Arctic's carbon sink has been a powerful dynamic in functionality of the Earth System. However, that all-important functionality has been crippled and could be permanently severed. According to new research based upon field observations conducted from 2003 to 2017, a large-scale carbon emission shift in the Earth System …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/permafrost-hits-a-grim-threshold/

How Media Turn Support for Public Schools Into Opposition to Children of Color
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2019-12-07
by Julie Hollar | 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…
fair.org/home/how-media-turn-support-for-public-schools-into-opposition-to-children-of-color/

Pensacola shooter 'held mass-shooting dinner party' where fellow Saudi students watched disturbing videos — report
rt.com | 2019-12-07
The Saudi gunman who killed three people at a US naval base in Florida on Friday had reportedly held a dinner party days earlier, at which guests watched video footage of mass shootings. | At least ten Saudi military students were being held at Naval Air Station Pensacola and several more were "unaccounted for" after the Friday shooting that left at least three dead and eight injured, an anonymous US official told AP on Saturday. | While the gunman was shot on the spot, the source said that another student videotaped the scene of the shooting on Friday, while another two watched from inside a car. All three ar…
rt.com/usa/475298-pensacola-student-mass-shooting-party/

Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate Known as the CIA
Michael Steven Smith and Heidi Boghosian | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-06
Douglas Valentine is an investigator and author with a rare and tenacious approach toward research. His writing results in uniquely incisive and revealing books on the dark side of U.S. intelligence activities and the National Security State. His latest book, The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World, draws parallels between CIA operations …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/inside-the-organized-crime-syndicate-known-as-the-cia/

Hooked on Orcas
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-06
Facts about orcas abound in Colleen Weiler's brain, because her role is to lead policy research and engagement around what we call the Southern Resident Orcas (SROs). Her job is with the Plymouth, Massachusetts-based US headquarters of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation non-profit, established 32 years ago in England. Our name is what we do. …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/hooked-on-orcas/

The US Is Manufacturing A War With Iran Under Cover Of The Impeachment Distraction
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-06
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 (12/5/19). 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-manufacturing-war-with-iran-under-cover-impeachment-distraction/

Brown University corporate responsibility committee votes to divest from companies connected to Israeli occupation
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-12-06
Brown University corporate responsibility committee votes to divest from companies connected to Israeli occupation: In the NewsMichael Arria Economic Boycott Student solidarityDecember 6, 2019 | By: | | Mondoweiss …
bdsmovement.net/news/brown-university-corporate-responsibility-committee-votes-divest-companies-connected-israeli

Why Are Some of Spain's Biggest Polluters Sponsoring U.N. Climate Summit?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-06
A group of climate activists walked out of a panel at the U.N. climate summit in Madrid on Thursday to protest the presence of Shell, BP and Chevron. Representatives from the oil companies were taking part in an event organized by the International Emissions Trading Association. This comes as the Spanish government is facing criticism for reaching out to Endesa, Spain's biggest corporate greenhouse gas polluter, to sponsor the U.N. climate talks. We speak with Pascoe Sabido, a researcher and campaigner for the Corporate Europe Observatory, who has been organizing toxic tours of Madrid to expose the corporations a…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/6/big_pollu…

CNN Says US Has "Fresh Intelligence" Of Iran Prepping Attack But Can't Show It & More NYT Propaganda
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-05
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 (12/4/19). 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/cnn-says-us-has-fresh-intelligence-of-iran-prepping-attack-but-cant-show-it-more-nyt-propaganda/

New Legislation Aims to End the "School to Confinement Pathway"
Alice Speri | theintercept.com | 2019-12-05
Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts introduced new legislation Thursday aimed at ending the "school to confinement pathway." The bill targets discriminatory and punitive school discipline policies that push black and brown students out of schools at disproportionately high rates, often directly into the criminal justice system. | The bill offers incentives to states and schools that commit to ban most suspensions and expulsions, as well as corporal punishment and the physical restraint of students. It also allots resources to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights at a time when the Trump administrat…
theintercept.com/2019/12/05/criminalization-students-school-prison-pathway/

David Osborne Keeps Casually Peddling Worn-Out Charter School Disinformation
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-05
David Osborne is a well-funded neoliberal demagogue who has authored several books advocating the elimination of the public sphere and public interest. He has long championed the narrow private interests of major owners of capital. Osborne has spent much of his life openly attacking the public sector and pushing for its privatization ("reinvention" and "innovation") …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/david-osborne-keeps-casually-peddling-worn-out-charter-school-disinformation/

Sweden Provides Free Higher Education, Universal Healthcare, Free Daycare — Why Can't the U.S.?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-05
Medicare for All and tuition-free universities have been at the core of the 2020 Democratic presidential campaigns, creating a stark division between progressive candidates and their centrist counterparts. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have proposed to make Medicare for All and public universities cost-free by taxing massive corporations and the super wealthy, and earlier this year, Sanders introduced legislation that would cancel student loan debt. His plan would be paid for with a new tax on Wall Street, he says. It would also make public universities and community colleges free — a key pil…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/5/sweden_vs…

The Education Debate Over Minority Voters
Peter Greene | progressive.org | 2019-12-04
Are minority parents seeking better schools for their kids supporters of charter schools, or leading figures in the resistance to a choice-based education reform movement?
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/education-debate-minority-voters-greene-191204/