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Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia Coup, Trump Dubs Nicaragua 'National Security Threat' and Targets Mexico
Ben Norton | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
Note from The Grayzone's editor: This article was updated on November 29 with more information about US sanctions against Nicaragua. | After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a "national security threat" and announced new sanctions, …
globalresearch.ca/operation-condor-2-0-after-bolivia-coup-trump-dubs-nicaragua-national-security-threat-targets-mexico/5696802

Medical Doctors Protest Failure of UK Home Secretary to Act on Mr Julian Assange
Doctors for Assange | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
Medical doctors who wrote to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel last month calling for urgent action to protect the life of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have today issued a further urgent appeal. | Despite worldwide media coverage of their open …
globalresearch.ca/medical-doctors-protest-failure-uk-home-secretary-julian-assange/5696778

Global Warming and the Ozone Layer: What's More Dangerous, CO2 or Nuclear War?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
Prof. Max Gluckman (1911-1975) showed how ritualized forms of rebellion against those in power "through a controlled expression of hostility" ultimately leads to the reinforcement of the established structures of authority. Is that not what is happening today? The movement against capitalism is funded and supported by capitalism.
globalresearch.ca/global-warming-and-the-ozone-layer-whats-more-dangerous-co2-or-nuclear-war/5690216

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/

DeVos Accused of Scheming to Stop Next President From Canceling Student Debt
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-05
Billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week proposed handing over the federal government's $1.5 trillion student loan portfolio to a "stand-alone government corporation," a move observers condemned as a corrupt ploy to strip the next president of the ability to cancel student loan debt. | "This very much appears to be a Betsy DeVos scheme to block the next president from unilaterally forgiving f…
truthout.org/articles/devos-accused-of-scheming-to-stop-next-president-from-canceling-student-debt/

As Abortion Access Dwindles, App Offers Safe and Discreet Options
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-05
Each year, 25 million unsafe abortions are performed around the world. The rate of unsafe abortions is higher where access to skilled providers and effective contraception is limited or unavailable, or where sexual education is lacking. | Accessing medically accurate information about abortion can be a sensitive pursuit for people desperate for answers; it's particularly dire if they're pregnant without wanting to be. Decisions based on misinformation can lead to disability — and even death. | Earl…
truthout.org/articles/as-abortion-access-dwindles-app-offers-safe-and-discreet-options/

Labour reveals plan to 'poverty proof' schools as headteachers say budgets are at 'breaking point'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-05
Free healthy breakfasts would be served to all primary school children under a Labour proposal to "poverty proof" England's schools and reduce the number going hungry. | Labour will detail plans to improve education, including by recruiting 20,000 more teachers, capping primary class sizes at 30 and investing £7bn repairing school buildings. | The free breakfast programme would also be piloted in secondary schools in an attempt to boost children's education chances, if Jeremy Corbyn's party wins the 12 December election. | All secondary school children whose families receive Universal Credit would get free…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/12/05/labour-reveals-plan-to-poverty-proof-schools-as-headteachers-say-budgets-are-at-breaking-point/

Trump Considers 14,000 Troop Deployment to Middle East to 'Counter Iran'
Jason Ditz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
In the past six months, the US has been playing up the idea of threats posed by Iran, and has been steadily announcing new deployments into the Middle East, mostly to Saudi Arabia and the vicinity, and very publicly aimed …
globalresearch.ca/trump-considers-14000-troop-deployment-middle-east-counter-iran/5696840

Increased Incidence of Brain Cancer. Caused by Exposure to Pesticides and Electromagnetic Fields?
Equipe Phonegate | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
In July 2019 (updated in September 2019), the French Public Health Agency " Santé Publique France", together with the Francim cancer registries, the Hospices Civils de Lyon and the Institut National du Cancer, published national estimates of cancer incidence …
globalresearch.ca/brain-cancers-4-times-more-new-cases-glioblastoma-2018-according-public-health-france/5696844

Don't Look, Don't See: Time for Honest Media Reporting on Impacts of Pesticides
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-05
The UK-based Independent online newspaper recently published an article about a potential link between air pollution from vehicles and glaucoma. It stated that according to a new study air pollution is linked to the eye condition that causes blindness. The report explained that researchers had looked at vision tests carried out on more than 111,000 people across Britain between 2006 and 2010 and cross-referenced results against levels of air pollution in their neighbourhoods. Those living in areas with higher amounts of fine particulate matter were at least 6% more likely to have glaucoma than those in the least…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/05/dont-look-dont-see-time-for-honest-media-reporting-on-impacts-of-pesticides/

Detroit Demolition Bond Proposal Defeated Amid Mass Discontent
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
On November 19, the Detroit City Council voted down a bond proposal advanced by corporate-imposed Mayor Mike Duggan ostensibly designed to eliminate blighted residential properties in this overwhelmingly impoverished African American municipality. | The latest bond initiative came to the city's …
globalresearch.ca/detroit-demolition-bond-proposal-defeated/5696785

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/

Biased Media Coverage of Iranian Unrest and Protest Movement
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
The Mainstream Media is pushing forth the weaponized narrative that the Iranian government is carrying out a cover-up of mass killings that supposedly occurred during its recent unrest, though this is nothing more than an infowar conspiracy designed to make …
globalresearch.ca/iranian-unrest-cover-up-mass-killings-infowar-conspiracy/5696826

The Relationship between Cell Phones and Cancer? The Health Impacts of RF Radiation. WHO Report
Microwave News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
After eight years of work, the World Health Organization ( WHO) is reopening its review of the health effects of RF radiation for a summary report intended to serve as a benchmark for its more than 150 member countries. …
globalresearch.ca/will-who-kick-icnirp-habit/5696833

Crimes against Humanity: US Sanctions Harm One Third of World's People
Sara Flounders | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
The most insidious and pervasive form of modern warfare by Wall Street and the Pentagon, acting in coordination, is passing largely unnoticed and unchallenged. This calculated attack is rolling back decades of progress in health care, sanitation, housing, essential infrastructure …
globalresearch.ca/crimes-against-humanity-us-sanctions-harm-one-third-of-worlds-people/5696794

The U-Turn That Made America Staggeringly Unequal
Bob Lord | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-05
Wealth in America has concentrated — and dramatically so — over the past four decades. Since 1980, note wealth researchers Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the top 0.1 percent share of the nation's total wealth has more than doubled, from under 10 percent in 1980 to over 20 percent today. In a nation of over…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/05/the-u-turn-that-made-america-staggeringly-unequal/

Grand Canyon Under Threat as Trump's Nuclear Working Group Considers Allowing Uranium Mining
Western Values Project | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
Right-wing groups like the Heritage Foundation have previously recommended revoking the mineral withdrawal area, which would again allow dangerous uranium mining around Grand Canyon National Park. Meanwhile, the White House Nuclear Fuel Working Group — a working group reviewing how …
globalresearch.ca/grand-canyon-under-threat-trump-nuclear-working-group-considers-allowing-uranium-mining/5696836

Harriet Tubman Film Highlights the Leading Role of Africans in Their Own Liberation
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
Title: Harriet | Director: Kasi Lemmons | Producers: Gregory Allen Howard, Debra Martin Chase, Daniela Taplin Lundberg | Screenplay: Gregory Allen Howard, Kasi Lemmons | Starring: Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman along with Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn and Janelle Monáe | Since the conclusion …
globalresearch.ca/harriet-tubman-film-highlights-leading-role-africans-own-liberation/5696703

Congo: Millions Die While the "UN Keeps the Peace"
Ann Garrison | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
In its most recent report to the UN Security Council, the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) blandly recounted "progress" in service to their mission, but what is their mission? Up until 2013, MONUSCO had …
globalresearch.ca/congo-millions-die-while-un-keeps-peace/5696797

Arbitrary Law Enforcement in the US
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
Glenn Greenwald wrote that "the most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The US administration has not only asserted …
globalresearch.ca/arbitrary-law-enforcement-us/5696159

The Grotesque Immorality of the US War Against Vietnam. Veterans For Peace Brian Willson
S. Brian Willson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
First published in May 2016 | Celebration of Memorial Day in the US, originally Decoration Day, commenced shortly after the conclusion of the Civil War. This is a national holiday to remember the people who died while serving in the armed …
globalresearch.ca/us-war-against-vietnam/5696831

New Silk Roads in Action at China-Kazakh Border
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
We are cruising on a pristine, 380 km-long four-lane superhighway from Almaty to Khorgos — finished in 2016 for $1.25 billion, 85% of the cost covered by a World Bank loan. And then, suddenly, riding parallel to us, there's the …
globalresearch.ca/new-silk-roads-china-kazakh-border/5696770

China's High-Speed Trains
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
One of the great advantages of train travel compared to flying is the saving in wasted time. A flight in most any country normally involves a one-hour trip to the airport with a requirement to arrive at least 1.5 hours …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-high-speed-trains/5696774

Inside the CIA: An Interview with Douglas Valentine
Douglas Valentine | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
In the following interview, Valentine reflects on a variety of issues including the Phoenix Program, plausible deniability, paramilitary wars, drug trafficking, sabotage, blackmail, propaganda, Operation GLADIO, class interests of the CIA establishment, Trump, the Mueller Report and the Bidens. | Heidi …
globalresearch.ca/inside-organized-crime-syndicate-cia-interview-douglas-valentine/5696790

Global Poverty: How the Rich Eat the Poor and the World
Prof. John McMurtry | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-05
62 individuals — 388 in 2010 — now own more wealth than 50% of the world's population. More shockingly, this share of wealth by half of the world's people has collapsed by over 40% in the last five years.
globalresearch.ca/the-davos-blind-eye-how-the-rich-eat-the-poor-and-the-world/5503273

Don't Look, Don't See: Time for Honest Media Reporting on Impacts of Pesticides
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-05
The UK-based Independent online newspaper recently published an article about a potential link between air pollution from vehicles and glaucoma. It stated that according to a new study air pollution is linked to the eye condition that causes blindness. The report explained that researchers had looked at vision tests carried out on more than 111,000 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/dont-look-dont-see-time-for-honest-media-reporting-on-impacts-of-pesticides/

Tufts University Severs Ties with Family Behind OxyContin
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-05
BOSTON — Tufts University is cutting ties with the billionaire family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, saying it will strip the Sackler name from its campus and accept no further donations amid concerns over the family's role in the opioid crisis. | University officials announced the decision Thursday, ending a relationship that has spanned nearly four decades and brought $15 million to the school's science and medical programs. Tufts leaders said they considered the issue for more than a year before concluding it is inconsistent with the school's values to display the family's name. | "We had to de…
truthdig.com/articles/tufts-university-severs-ties-with-family-behind-oxycontin/

Sweden Offers Free Higher Ed, Universal Health Care, Daycare — Why Can't the US?
Staff | truthout.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…
truthout.org/video/sweden-offers-free-higher-ed-universal-health-care-daycare-why-cant-the-us/

Los Angeles school board commits to renewable energy after months of grassroots campaigning
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2019-12-05
"This 100% Clean Energy school district commitment demonstrates what can happen when students, parents, teachers and school district leaders work to move the needle on climate."
nationofchange.org/2019/12/05/los-angeles-school-board-commits-to-renewable-energy-after-months-of-grassroots-campaigning/

Thousands of teachers strike in Croatia
wsws.org | 2019-12-05
The teachers, on strike for over a month, are demanding increased wages and improved working conditions in schools and colleges.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/05/croa…

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…

UFC star Islam Makhachev on the importance of education alongside MMA: 'We need good doctors and specialists as well' (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-12-05
Islam Makhachev was at the opening of teammate Khabib Nurmagomedov's new MMA academy in Dagestan, and said that the new facility had the potential to be valuable not only to pro fighters, but also the local community. | Chatting to RT Sport during the gym's official launch day, UFC lightweight contender Makhachev said that it was important to ensure the gym helps nurture and educate the next generation, as well as help elite fighters sharpen their skills. | "Yes, we need to teach the next generation the stuff we were taught," he explained. | "It's very important that it's not just professionals training in the…
rt.com/sport/475129-islam-makhachev-khabib-nurmagomedov-new-gym/

Russia suspends research project at Iranian nuclear site after Tehran resumes uranium enrichment in response to US pressure
rt.com | 2019-12-05
The Russian research project at Iran's Fordow nuclear site has been put on hold, after Tehran resumed uranium enrichment. The US earlier said it will be revoking the sanctions waiver for the facility. | TVEL, a company that is part of Russia's atomic agency Rosatom, said on Thursday that its work to convert Fordow to the production of radioactive isotopes for medical purposes has been suspended. | "The enrichment of uranium and the production of stable isotopes can't be carried out in the same space, since trace amounts of uranium, incompatible with the use of the resulting isotopes for medical purposes, will…
rt.com/news/475137-iran-russia-us-nuclear-fordow/

Julian Assange: An Appeal From International Lawyers
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-04
The ongoing proceedings against Australian citizen Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, presently held in Belmarsh Prison near London, display a grave erosion of time-honoured principles of human rights, the rule of law, and the democratic freedom to gather and …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-appeal-international-lawyers/5696744

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/

Rioting in Hong Kong and Iraq: Human Rights and Hypocrisy in the White House and Congress
Brian Cloughley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-04
For months Western media outlets have been retailing stories about riots in Hong Kong. With lip-smacking relish there have been such reports as "On October 1, China's National Day, the first live round to hit a protester was fired by …
globalresearch.ca/human-rights-hypocrisy-white-house-congress/5696749

House Dems Release Sham Impeachment Inquiry Report
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-04
Make no mistake. What's going on is one of the most disturbing political spectacles in US history — one right wing of the one-party state trying to defrock the other wing's leader for politicized reasons, not legitimate ones. | Daily theater …
globalresearch.ca/house-dems-release-sham-impeachment-inquiry-report/5696734

Erdogan Opened a Pandora's Box in Libya that Will be Difficult to Close
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-04
Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean are rapidly rising after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan met with a Libyan official of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), based in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, in Ankara last week. They …
globalresearch.ca/erdogan-opened-pandora-box-libya/5696729

Is Boris Johnson a Liar? Denies He Will Sell Off UK National Health Service to Trump
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-04
'A plot against the whole country' declared Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as he brandished a wad of leaked documents last week which he said proves that the UK National Health Service would indeed be 'on the table' when it came …
globalresearch.ca/uk-government-denies-sell-off-national-health-service-trump/5696741

Iraq Protests: Who Holds the Initiative and Who Has the Power
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-04
There is little doubt that Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr controls the streets in Iraq and can make peaceful protests violent when he chooses. Notwithstanding the presence of several smaller players and those genuinely asking for serious reforms, Sayyed Moqtada can move …
globalresearch.ca/who-holds-initiative-who-has-power-mobilise-street-iraq/5696738

Video: The New Arms Race. Is Russia Overtaking the US in the Realm of Strategic Bombers?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-04
The Russian Armed Forces put into action an ambitious program to modernize and expand the strategic bomber fleet. | In March 2018, Russia announced that it would completely overhaul its entire Tu-160 long-range strategic bomber fleet by 2030. According to Deputy …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-new-arms-race-is-russia-overtaking-the-us-in-the-realm-of-strategic-bombers/5696731

Dossier 23: Peace, neoliberalism and political shifts in Colombia
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2019-12-04
Once again, the people of Colombia straddle two realities–the drums of war and the hope of peace. This tension has along, complex, and multi-dimensional historical process. This dossier from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research examines the root causes of the crisis and the two realities of war and peace. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/12/04/peace-neoliberalism-and-political-shifts-in-colombia-dossier-23/

Indian University Agrees Not to Host Future Israeli Government Events Following Student Protests
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-12-04
Indian University Agrees Not to Host Future Israeli Government Events Following Student Protests: UpdateIn a courageous show of solidarity, students in New Delhi held firm against the university administration's violent crackdown on protests of an Israeli government event until their demands were met. | Academic BoycottNovember 20, 2019 | By:…
bdsmovement.net/news/indian-university-agrees-not-host-future-israeli-government-events-following-student-protests

People's World Awards Gala to honor Chicago Teachers
Special to People's World | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-04
CHICAGO–The annual People's World Awards Gala, to be held on Sunday, Dec. 8, will honor The Chicago Teachers Union and feature Howard Kling as keynote speaker. Stacy Davis Gates, vice-president of the Chicago Teachers Union will accept the award for her union. The CTU will receive the Frank Lumpkin-Rudy Lozano award at the dinner. The …
peoplesworld.org/article/peoples-world-awards-gala-to-honor-chicago-teachers/

What Happens When a Reform Prosecutor Stands Up to the Death Penalty
Jordan Smith | theintercept.com | 2019-12-03
Standing behind a podium outside the Orlando courthouse, Aramis Ayala, the elected state prosecuting attorney for Florida's Orange and Osceola counties, announced that after extensive research, discussion, and reflection, she had decided that she could no longer seek the death penalty for defendants charged by her office. "My duty is to seek justice, which is fairness, objectivity, and decency," she said. "I am prohibited from making the severity of sentences the index of my effectiveness." | In many ways, Ayala's announcement in the winter of 2017 should not have been a terribly newsworthy event. Death penalty p…
theintercept.com/2019/12/03/death-penalty-reform-prosecutors/

Pompeo Says US Will "Help Prevent" Protests For "Legitimate" Governments & US Bombs Afghan Family
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-03
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 (12/2/19). 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/pompeo-says-us-will-help-prevent-protests-for-legitimate-governments-us-bombs-afghan-family/

Nicaragua Marked Next For US "Liberation", Trump Blames "Vicious World" For Khashoggi Murder & More
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-02
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 (12/1/19). 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/nicaragua-marked-next-for-us-liberation-trump-blames-vicious-world-for-khashoggi-murder-more/

How a Mass Bot Network is Pushing the Coup in Bolivia
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2019-12-02
New research found that, of the 17,427 accounts studied using anti-Morales hashtag #BoliviaNoHayGolpe, almost a third were created on November 11, the day of the coup.
mintpressnews.com/how-mass-bot-network-coup-bolivia/263122/

Tariq Ali on U.K. Elections, Corbyn's "Radical Social-Democratic Program" & Rise of Extreme Right
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-02
The British general election is just 10 days away and will have huge implications for the future of the country as well as Brexit. When voters cast their ballots later this month, they will choose between two dramatically different candidates: right-wing Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson and left-wing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn recently unveiled an ambitious election manifesto promising to transform the country and resuscitate its public sector. The plan proposed a $100-billion tax increase on the wealthy to fund investment in infrastructure as well as increased spending on education and heal…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/2/tariq_ali…

2019-12-04: News Headlines

The Tricontinental (2019-12-04). Dossier 23: Peace, neoliberalism and political shifts in Colombia. mronline.org Once again, the people of Colombia straddle two realities—the drums of war and the hope of peace. This tension has along, complex, and multi-dimensional historical process. This dossier from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research examines the root causes of the crisis and the two realities of war and peace. | Source

PACBI (2019-12-04). Indian University Agrees Not to Host Future Israeli Government Events Following Student Protests. bdsmovement.net Indian University Agrees Not to Host Future Israeli Government Events Following Student Protests: UpdateIn a courageous show of solidarity, students in New Delhi held firm against the university administration's violent crackdown on protests of an Israeli government event until their demands were met. | Academic BoycottNovember 20, 2019 | By:…

Special to People's World (2019-12-04). People's World Awards Gala to honor Chicago Teachers. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO—The annual People's World Awards Gala, to be held on Sunday, Dec. 8, will honor Stacy Davis Gates, vice-president of the Chicago Teachers Union, and feature Howard Kling as keynote speaker. Gates will receive the Frank Lumpkin-Rudy Lozano award at the dinner. The Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1, and the Chicago Public School system …

Fredrik S. Heffermehl (2019-12-04). Julian Assange: An Appeal From International Lawyers. globalresearch.ca The ongoing proceedings against Australian citizen Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, presently held in Belmarsh Prison near London, display a grave erosion of time-honoured principles of human rights, the rule of law, and the democratic freedom to gather and …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-12-04). Does the US Military "Own the Weather"? "Weaponizing the Weather" as an Instrument of Modern Warfare? globalresearch.ca Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, "offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary", capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes…

Peter Greene (2019-12-04). The Education Debate Over Minority Voters. progressive.org 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?

WSWS (2019-12-04). Australia: Vote 'no' to the NSWTF salaries agreement! Form rank-and-file committees to defend public education. wsws.org The NSW Teachers Federation is seeking to split and isolate teachers as they meet at hundreds of different venues across the state to hear details of the latest award.

WSWS (2019-12-04). Ontario high school teachers stage one-day walkout Wednesday. wsws.org More than 60,000 Ontario high school teachers will walk off the job today in opposition to the sweeping cuts the provincial Conservative government is making to education and their terms of employment.

F. William Engdahl (2019-12-04). 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?

South Front (2019-12-04). Video: The New Arms Race. Is Russia Overtaking the US in the Realm of Strategic Bombers? globalresearch.ca The Russian Armed Forces put into action an ambitious program to modernize and expand the strategic bomber fleet. | In March 2018, Russia announced that it would completely overhaul its entire Tu-160 long-range strategic bomber fleet by 2030. According to Deputy …

Arabi Souri (2019-12-04). Russia-China Cooperation, The Power of Siberia Project, Strategic Gas Pipelines. globalresearch.ca The inauguration of the Power of Siberia project to transport gas from Russia to China will strengthen Russia's position as the world's first gas exporter and boost economic relations between the two countries in an unprecedented way. | Thanks to the …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-04). House Dems Release Sham Impeachment Inquiry Report. globalresearch.ca Make no mistake. What's going on is one of the most disturbing political spectacles in US history — one right wing of the one-party state trying to defrock the other wing's leader for politicized reasons, not legitimate ones. | Daily theater …

Larry Romanoff (2019-12-04). The Theology of Politics. globalresearch.ca This is a serious discussion, so let's be sure we are on the same page by ensuring we apply the same meanings to our words. "Democracy" is NOT government. It is not freedom, it is not human rights, it is …

Johanna Ross (2019-12-04). Is Boris Johnson a Liar? Denies He Will Sell Off UK National Health Service to Trump. globalresearch.ca 'A plot against the whole country' declared Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as he brandished a wad of leaked documents last week which he said proves that the UK National Health Service would indeed be 'on the table' when it came …

Prof. Martin Makary (2019-12-04). Medical Error: The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published in 2016. | Introduction | "2.6 million people die annually in low-and middle-income countries from medical errors, and that most of those deaths are related to misdiagnosis and administration of pharmaceutical products…Medication errors alone cost an estimated …

Paul Antonopoulos (2019-12-04). Erdogan Opened a Pandora's Box in Libya that Will be Difficult to Close. globalresearch.ca Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean are rapidly rising after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan met with a Libyan official of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), based in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, in Ankara last week. They …

Jonathan Burden (2019-12-04). Swarm Drone Technology and Military Escalation. Will US Drones Push the Middle East Past the Point of No Return? globalresearch.ca Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) or drones, both armed and unarmed, have altered how states and insurgents conduct warfare in the Middle East. The widespread proliferation of these weapons, combined with the range of capabilities they confer and their potential to …

Elijah J. Magnier (2019-12-04). Iraq Protests: Who Holds the Initiative and Who Has the Power. globalresearch.ca There is little doubt that Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr controls the streets in Iraq and can make peaceful protests violent when he chooses. Notwithstanding the presence of several smaller players and those genuinely asking for serious reforms, Sayyed Moqtada can move …

Brian Cloughley (2019-12-04). Rioting in Hong Kong and Iraq: Human Rights and Hypocrisy in the White House and Congress. globalresearch.ca For months Western media outlets have been retailing stories about riots in Hong Kong. With lip-smacking relish there have been such reports as "On October 1, China's National Day, the first live round to hit a protester was fired by …

South Front (2019-12-04). Video: Russian Military Police Under Attack in Northern Syria. globalresearch.ca Three Russian military police officers received light injuries when an improvised explosive device went off near their armored vehicle in northeastern Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on December 2. The incident happened when the Russian Military Police were fulfilling …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-12-04). Going to the ICJ: Myanmar, Genocide and Aung San Suu Kyi's Gamble. globalresearch.ca Leaders currently in office rarely make an appearance before either the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court. International law remains affixed to the notion that heads-of-state are, at least for the duration of their time in office, …

WSWS (2019-12-04). Harvard University graduate student union begins strike over pay, conditions. wsws.org The HGSU-UAW has made only token appeals to other sections of workers at Harvard to support the grad student workers' strike and has offered substantial concessions to the university on virtually all issues.

Staff (2019-12-04). End the Wars, Win the Antiwar Vote. truthdig.com Like anyone else who was around that day, I can tell you exactly where I was on 9/11. | I was a Catholic school eighth grader, fresh off my 14th birthday. The school day lurched along for a while, but eventually we dropped the pretense of carrying on. Teachers ushered us into the adjoining church for a prayer service, then sent us home early. | Later on, in the car with my dad, we heard what sounded like an explosion — a sonic boom from the nearby air base. My dad pulled over alongside other panicked drivers, all of us scanning the sky. In our agitated state, we genuinely believed that our little corner of…

Jeffrey C. Isaac (2019-12-04). Watergate Teaches Us That Democrats Should Broaden the Impeachment Charges. commondreams.org Hundreds of activists attend a rally in New York City on October 13, 2019 demanding that Congress fulfill its constitutional duty and impeach President Donald Trump. "Broadening the impeachment makes constitutional sense," writes Isaac, "and it makes political sense, too." (Photo: Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

teleSUR (2019-12-04). 70 Percent of Mexico's Illegal Weapons Come From US: Report. telesurenglish.net The Secretary of National Defense of Mexico, Luis Sandoval, reported on Wednesday that the 19,317 firearms that have been seized inside 26 states of the country have recently been destroyed. | RELATED: | Morales Accuses Bolivian Gov't of Blocking His Migratory Status | Based on the statistics, 70 percent of the weapons that enter Mexico come from the U.S., while 30 percent come from Spain, Austria and other countries, the official said during the morning press conference with P…

Manlio Dinucci (2019-12-04). Il Summit lancia la Nato nello spazio, costi alle stelle. globalresearch.ca Si svolge a Londra, il 4 dicembre, il Consiglio Nord Atlantico dei capi di stato e di governo che celebra il 70 ∞ anniversario della Nato, definita dal segretario generale Jens Stoltenberg ´l'alleanza di maggiore successo nella storia ª. | Un ´successo ª innegabile. …

Julia Conley, staff writer (2019-12-04). Progressives Fire Back at Buttigieg's 'Bad Faith' Claim That Tuition-Free College Proposals Are Elitist. commondreams.org Progressives and supporters of the tuition-free public college plans backed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday denounced Mayor Pete Buttigieg's most recent attack on the proposals, in which the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate claimed offering a free public college education furthered an "elitist" worldview. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

RT (2019-12-04). Cheeky conman erects fake Russia-Finland border, tricks illegal migrants into paying him to cross it. rt.com An industrious conman made a hefty sum of money from four illegal migrants for a walk in the forest, making them believe they were crossing the Russian border. The group, however, was later nabbed by legit Russian border guards. | Read more | | Entrapment? ICE created fake universities to lure foreign students before arresting & deporting them | Details of the bizarre affair were revealed to the media by the Border Service of the Federal Security Service on Tuesday. The incident occurred last week when the border guards apprehended a group of fo…

Global Research News (2019-12-04). Selected Articles: Medical Error: The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US. globalresearch.ca Global Research, like many independent voices all over the globe, is feeling the effects of online measures set up to curtail access to our website, and by consequence, hinder our finances. We sail on despite the unpredictable currents and unfavourable …

Liliana Segura (2019-12-03). By Any Measure, Capital Punishment Is a Failed Policy. theintercept.com The death penalty, they say, is dying. And in many important respects, this is true. Support for capital punishment has decreased dramatically. In 1998, there were nearly 300 new death sentences imposed in the United States. In 2018, there were just 43. In the past decade alone, six states have abolished…

Jordan Smith (2019-12-03). What Happens When a Reform Prosecutor Stands Up to the Death Penalty. theintercept.com Standing behind a podium outside the Orlando courthouse, Aramis Ayala, the elected state prosecuting attorney for Florida's Orange and Osceola counties, announced that after extensive research, discussion, and reflection, she had decided that she could no longer seek the death penalty for defendants charged by her office. "My duty is to seek justice, which is fairness, objectivity, and decency," she said. "I am prohibited from making the severity of sentences the index of my effectiveness." | In many ways, Ayala's announcement in the winter of 2017 should not have been a terribly newsworthy event. Death penalty p…

The Canary (2019-12-03). UK climbs rankings for maths, science and reading — but students are 'less happy'. thecanary.co Students in the UK are continuing to lag behind their peers from smaller European countries such as Estonia and Finland when it comes to maths, reading and science, a bellwether study of global education trends has suggested.Asian nations, including Singapore and Hong Kong, continue to dominate the latest triennial Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) report, a survey of 15-year-old students from around the world to assess the extent to which they have acquired key skills and knowledge.And while the UK's ranking across the three disciplines has improved on the score from three years ago, the coun…

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. telesurenglish.net The main union that promotes protests against the economic and social policies of the Colombian President, Iván Duque, rejected the possibility of suspending the national strike that was called for this Wednesday, December 4 and insisted on a direct dialogue with the government to seek an agreement. | Speaking to RCN News, the president of the Colombian Federation of Education Workers (Fecode), Nelson Alarcón, said that the leaders of the strike will answer the call of the government to begin the negotiation process based on the specifications submitted last week to President Duque. | Alarcón commented that t…

Paul Antonopoulos (2019-12-03). NATO's Continuing Enlargement Aims at Further Weakening of Russian Influence in the Balkans. globalresearch.ca Of the 29 NATO member states, 22 have already ratified the accession protocol of North Macedonia into the anti-Russian alliance. The ratification process will likely be completed before the end of NATO's summit taking place in London this week, which …

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-03). Pompeo Says US Will "Help Prevent" Protests For "Legitimate" Governments & US Bombs Afghan Family. 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 (12/2/19). 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 …

Jan Oberg (2019-12-03). NATO's Deep Political and Legal Crisis: Madness and Irrationality. globalresearch.ca Political | NATO's London Summit on December 3 and 4, 2019 displays the deep political crisis of the 70-year-old alliance: Only a dinner and a short meeting, no statement to be issued, quarrels among the leading military members, accusations, substantial differences …

Dr. Barbara G. Ellis (2019-12-03). Lebanon Protesters: Ensure a Unified 'B-Team' Runs Any New, Responsive Government. globalresearch.ca As Lebanon's massive, countrywide, anti-government demonstrations continue, the vacuum provides time for those ardent, long suffering protesters to create the most responsive anti-austerity government in the Middle East. If any populace in that region could do it, it's Lebanon's well-educated, …

Arabi Souri (2019-12-03). Syria's Post-War Reconstruction: 600 Establishments Resume Work at Aleppo Industrial City, Sheikh Najjar. globalresearch.ca Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city and the region's economic power horse is getting back on its feet again, despite all the efforts by the US and its NATO stooges and terrorists. | It's moving forward slowly but steadily, with over 600 establishments …

Steven Sahiounie (2019-12-03). Syria's Pharmaceutical Industry Rebuilds Following the Defeat of US-NATO Sponsored Terrorists. globalresearch.ca The first factory of its kind in Syria and the Arab world opened November 21, 2019, in Damascus. Central Pharmaceutical Industries Company, 'Mainpharma', celebrated the opening of its factory for the manufacturing of anticancer drugs at Adra Industrial City, in …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-03). China Retaliates Against Hostile US Legislation. globalresearch.ca In late November, House and Senate members unanimously passed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act (HKHRDA) of 2019. | Trump signed the measure into law, along with a companion bill, restricting exports of US crowd control devices to …

Global Research News (2019-12-03). Selected Articles: A Future Without NATO? globalresearch.ca A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer". | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …

Alan Macleod (2019-12-02). How a Mass Bot Network is Pushing the Coup in Bolivia. mintpressnews.com New research found that, of the 17,427 accounts studied using anti-Morales hashtag #BoliviaNoHayGolpe, almost a third were created on November 11, the day of the coup.

Ryan Cristián (2019-12-02). Nicaragua Marked Next For US "Liberation", Trump Blames "Vicious World" For Khashoggi Murder & More. 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 (12/1/19). 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 (2019-12-02). Tariq Ali on U.K. Elections, Corbyn's "Radical Social-Democratic Program" & Rise of Extreme Right. democracynow.org The British general election is just 10 days away and will have huge implications for the future of the country as well as Brexit. When voters cast their ballots later this month, they will choose between two dramatically different candidates: right-wing Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson and left-wing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn recently unveiled an ambitious election manifesto promising to transform the country and resuscitate its public sector. The plan proposed a $100-billion tax increase on the wealthy to fund investment in infrastructure as well as increased spending on education and heal…

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…

Fight Back (2019-11-30). DPRK tests new weapon system and strengthens defenses. fightbacknews.org Washington DC — The Democratic People's Republic of Korea tested a new rocket launching system on November 29. | According to a report from the Korean Central News Agency, "Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, inspected the test-fire of the super-large multiple launch rocket system conducted by the Academy of Defense Science." | In a related development, Kim Kye Gwan, advisor to the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK, commented on past meetin…

Shawgi Tell (2019-11-30). Irresponsible Charter School Promoters Blocked from Further Lowering Teaching and Learning Standards. dissidentvoice.org Despite the vehement objections of thousands of teachers, parents, college professors, public school advocates, state officials, and teachers' unions, in late 2017 the State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustee's charter school committee voted 4 to 1 to unilaterally and illegally lower training and preparation standards for teachers employed at privately-operated charter schools …

Jordan Smith (2019-11-29). Fingerprint Analysis Is High-Stakes Work — but It Doesn't Take Much to Qualify as an Expert. theintercept.com One wrong fingerprint match could send an innocent person to prison or see a killer go free. But proficiency tests are frighteningly easy to pass.

Fred_F (2019-11-27). In defence of human rights in Chile: An open letter to the Australian community. greenleft.org.au international solidarityIssue 1247 Australia ChileNovember 27, 2019We express our deep concerns about human rights violations taking place in Chile, including the de facto war that billionaire President Sebastian Piñera has unleashed on his people. | On October 18, Chilean students took to the streets to protest a hike in public transport…

RT (2019-11-27). Entrapment? ICE created fake universities to lure foreign students before arresting & deporting them. rt.com US immigration authorities created fake universities, lured foreign-born students to enroll, and took large sums of their money — before arresting and deporting them for immigration violations, a new report has revealed. | In recent months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported 90 students enrolled in a fake Michigan-based university, the Detroit Free Press reported on Wednesday. As many as 250 people, mostly from India, have been arrested since January, as part of the sting operation concocted by federal agents. | The scammed students had arrived in the US legally on student visas, but…