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Trump Was Right: NATO Should be Obsolete
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Donald Trump uttered during his presidential campaign are "NATO is obsolete." His adversary, Hillary Clinton, retorted that NATO was "the strongest military alliance in the history of the world." Now that Trump has been …
globalresearch.ca/trump-right-nato-should-obsolete/5696524

The Spanish Case Takes a Turn, Activities of Security Outfit Aimed at Wikileaks. Julian Assange in Video Conference?
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Judge José de la Mata of Spain's High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, had been facing a good deal of stonewalling on the part of his British colleagues. He is overseeing an investigation into the surveillance activities of a Spanish security …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-video-conference-spanish-case-takes-turn/5696557

Hundreds Attend London Meeting to Demand Freedom for Julian Assange
World Socialist Web Site | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Hundreds packed the St Pancras New Church in Euston Thursday night for a meeting demanding freedom for imprisoned WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange. | The largest meeting held in London to date reflects growing opposition to plans by the …
globalresearch.ca/hundreds-attend-london-meeting-demand-freedom-julian-assange/5696489

Warm reception for SEP candidate Chris Marsden at Sheffield student meeting
wsws.org | 2019-12-02
Marsden told students that Britain has the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, who is being targeted because he exposed war crimes, locked up in a maximum-security prison and intends to ship him to America to face 175 years in prison.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/02/keds…

Video: The Perils of Fifth Generation (5G) Wireless
Dr. Beverly Rubik | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
The new generation of wireless technology, 5G, is fraught with controversy. Researchers and scientists worldwide are deeply concerned. Beverly Rubik, a renowned expert in biophysics, will discuss the issues and how we can protect ourselves. | 5G is Federally Mandated but …
globalresearch.ca/perils-fifth-generation-5g-wireless/5696517

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 using the 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/

Say No to Bloomberg
Margaret Kimberley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Bloomberg says he wants to stop Donald Trump but he's really running to stop Bernie Sanders. | "Bloomberg targeted black people for political gain with whites and he created great suffering in the process." | In 2002 Michael Bloomberg was sworn …
globalresearch.ca/say-no-bloomberg/5696521

Former Tory MP Calls Johnson a "Compulsive Liar" Who Has Betrayed "Every Single Person He Has Ever Had Any Dealings With"
Jack Peat | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Former Tory MP Nick Boles described Boris Johnson as a "compulsive liar" who has betrayed "every single person he has ever had any dealings with" in a candid interview in the Evening Standard today. | The ex-minister, who resigned the Conservative …
globalresearch.ca/former-tory-mp-calls-johnson-compulsive-liar/5696491

How Israel Became One of the World's Worst Rogue States
Prof. Alain Gabon | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
As an integral part of its ongoing propaganda, Israel, along with its fervent supporters and legions of paid and anonymous agents, zealously repeats and disseminates — in the media, on university campuses, in blogs and comment sections, at conferences …
globalresearch.ca/how-israel-became-one-world-worst-rogue-states/5696515

Bolsonaro's New Political Party Is to Bring Back the Brazilian Dictatorship
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro founded a new political party in November as he faces a noisy divorce with the Social Liberal Party (PSL). Since the beginning of his political career as a councillor in Rio de Janeiro in 1989, Bolsonaro …
globalresearch.ca/bolsonaro-new-political-party-bring-back-brazilian-dictatorship/5696531

Pakistan's Foreign Relations and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
The following article was written in response to a question asked by Ms. Sheila Khalid, a Ph.D. student working on the topic "Pakistan-Russia Relations in…
globalresearch.ca/cpec-future-your-foreign-policy/5696549

The Man in the Bathtub, December 1, 1940: History of a Young Italian Who Emigrated to America in the Early 1900s
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Firs published on GR on November 25, 2017 | He was born and raised in a little town just outside of Licata, Sicily. By the time he was 18, the young man was accepted into university in Tunisia, a far more …
globalresearch.ca/the-man-in-the-bathtub-december-1-1940-history-of-a-young-italian-who-emigrated-to-america-in-the-early-1900s/5619981

Global Research End Of Year Fundraiser: Help Us Meet Our Goal!
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Dear Readers, | In late October we sent you a message asking for your help in raising $25,000 before the year ends. Our goal with this being simply to cover the costs we incur in bringing you investigative reports and analysis …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-end-of-year-fundraiser-help-us-meet-our-goal/5696585

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/

The Pentagon's "Mother of All Bombs" (MOAB) Dropped on Afghanistan (2017): Devastating Health Impacts, Ruined Farmland
Abdulhaq Omeri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Almost two and a half years after the United States dropped the "mother of all bombs" onto a Daesh hideout in eastern Afghanistan, locals say they have been afflicted by "many diseases" and agricultural lands are not yielding crops. | TOLOnews …
globalresearch.ca/mother-all-bombs-caused-illness-ruined-farmland-residents/5696547

Bolivia Coup: "Hatred of the Indian"
àÅlvaro García Linera | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Almost as a nighttime fog, hatred rapidly traverses the neighborhoods of the traditional urban middle-class of Bolivia. Their eyes fill with anger. They do not yell, they spit. They do not raise demands, they impose. Their chants are not of …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-coup-hatred-indian/5696519

Greece's Samos Island Refugees: A Reluctant Update on Enduring Cruelties
Chris Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
Over the past few months I have been asked by various groups and individuals to provide an update on the refugee situation on Samos. | Until now I have not responded to these requests for the simple reason I have nothing …
globalresearch.ca/samos-refugees-reluctant-update-enduring-cruelties/5696482

Washington's Grand Design: Draw NATO into Confronting Russia and China
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
The December 3-4 summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in London resembles a family reunion after the acrimony over the issue of military spending by America's European allies. | The trend is up for defence spending across European Allies …
globalresearch.ca/us-primes-nato-confront-russia-china/5696485

The World's Safest Cities
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
There are occasions where the Americans want to publish a list that demonstrates their innate moral superiority over the rest of the world, but they hesitate because the lies are too large even for them and would expose them to …
globalresearch.ca/world-safest-cities/5696389

Bolsonaro Denounced Before International Criminal Court
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
The Brazilian Bar Association for Human Rights and the Arns Commission on Wednesday denounced President Jair Bolsonaro formally for "crimes against humanity" and incitement to genocide of the Amazon indigenous peoples. | This complaint was filed before the International Criminal Court …
globalresearch.ca/bolsonaro-denounced-before-international-criminal-court/5696500

Don't Look, Don't See: Time for Honest Media Reporting on Impacts of Pesticides
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/time-honest-media-reporting-impacts-pesticides/5696510

The Iraq Protest Movement: 373 Killed During November
Margaret Griffis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
During November, at least 373 people were killed and 3,136 were wounded. Mass graves gave up 73 bodies as well. October saw 433 deaths and thousands more wounded. | Protests continued last month, but the Iraqi government ceased giving official …
globalresearch.ca/the-iraq-protest-movement-373-killed-during-november/5696535

Amazon Fires Are Causing Glaciers in the Andes to Melt Even Faster
Matthew Harris | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
If you have turned on a TV or read the news during the past few months, you have probably heard of the widespread fires that wrought havoc on the Amazon rainforest this year. Fires occur in the rainforest every year, …
globalresearch.ca/amazon-fires-causing-glaciers-andes-melt-faster/5696533

IYSSE, student unions defend students in Germany against right-wing attacks
wsws.org | 2019-12-02
Last week, nearly 100 students at Berlin's Humboldt University and representatives of student organisations from numerous other universities met to protest against right-wing and militaristic teaching and defend students who criticize it from right-wing attacks.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/02/asta…

Protesters call for action after woman gang-raped and killed in India
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-02
Hundreds of people gathered in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and other Indian cities on 2 December to demand justice in the case of a veterinarian who was gang-raped and killed last week.The protesters demanded a fast-track investigation of the case and stringent laws for the safety of women in India."We are not safe anymore in India. We are scared to move out of our homes," said Sejal Kumar, a college student from New Delhi.The burned body of the 27-year-old woman was found on 28 November by a passer-by in an underpass in the southern city of Hyderabad after she went missing the previous night.University students…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/12/02/protesters-call-for-action-after-woman-gang-raped-and-killed-in-india/

Many unanswered questions as Tories exploit London terror attack
wsws.org | 2019-12-02
The brutal murder of the two young students was seized on by Boris Johnson and the pro-Tory media, with the Sunday Times leading on a promise from the prime minister to "lock terrorists up and throw away the key."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/02/lond…

National Climate Strike in Livermore
Student Activists | indybay.org | 2019-12-02
Las Positas College, 3000 Campus Hill Drive, Livermore, CA 94551…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/02/18828546.php

Wages Have Risen Due to Minimum Wage Increases and the Fed's Obama-Era Policies
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-02
There are a lot of things — like high health care costs, unaffordable housing and crushing student loan debt — which are not going right for people right now. However, it is worth noting one important way in which things are going in the right direction. The low current unemployment rate, coupled with minimum wage increases in many states and cities, is leading to real wage gains at the middle and bottom end of the wage ladder. | The data on this are very clear. The weekly wage…
truthout.org/articles/wages-have-risen-due-to-minimum-wage-increases-and-the-feds-obama-era-policies/

UN Climate Convention Switch From Chile to Spain May Hinder Climate Justice
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-02
In October, as scientists, policymakers and civil society leaders geared up to travel to Chile for the 25th Conference of the Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 25), which begins today, the country was making headlines for different reasons. | In mid-October, school students began jumping the gates of Santiago's subways in protest of fare increases, eventually shutting down the entire Metro system fo…
truthout.org/articles/un-climate-convention-switch-from-chile-to-spain-may-hinder-climate-justice/

This week in history: December 2-8
wsws.org | 2019-12-02
25 years ago: Over 300 killed in fire in ChinaOn December 8, 1994, a fire in a crowded theater in the northwest Chinese oil town of Karamay in Xinjiang province took the lives of 323 school children and their teachers. A further 100 people were injured. The blaze erupted as 800 teachers, children and parents were inside the theater for a celebration of a literacy campaign in the minority Uighur community.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/02/twih…

Disabled workers paid 88p for each pound made by non-disabled colleagues, new data shows
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-02
Employers across the UK pay their disabled staff 12.2% less than those without disabilities, new government data has shown.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the median hourly wage for disabled employees was £10.63 in 2018, lower than the £12.11 paid to their non-disabled counterparts.The gap was the widest, at 18.6%, for those with mental impairments, which include depression, anxiety, epilepsy and learning difficulties.(PA Graphics)A physical impairment led to a 9.7% gap while those with other impairments faced the narrowest gap, at 7.4%. The other impairments include cancer, HIV and mult…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/12/02/disabled-workers-paid-88p-for-each-pound-made-by-non-disabled-colleagues-new-data-shows/

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…

These LGBTQ Students Say Their School Treats Them Like Second-Class Citizens
Mary Retta | thenation.com | 2019-12-02
These LGBTQ Students Say Their School Treats Them Like Second-Class Citizens…
thenation.com/article/christian-university/

The War against Syria: In the Name of the Father the Son, the Holy Spirit … and the Truth
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-02
If the truth about the war on Syria was known and accepted by broad-based Western populations, then there would be no war on Syria. | If the truth were known and accepted there would be no terrorism in Syria. | If the | …
globalresearch.ca/name-father-son-holy-spirit-truth/5696502

Criminalizing Speech and Press Freedoms. Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-01
The persecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is all about waging war on truth-telling. | Chelsea Manning remains imprisoned for invoking her constitutional right to remain silent — for refusing to testify against Assange. | Her First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and …
globalresearch.ca/criminalizing-speech-press-freedoms-us-uk/5696400

US Created Fake University to Lure Int'l Students, Arrest Them
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-01
The United States Department of Homeland Security created a fake university in 2015 luring international students who wanted to study in the country, in order to have them arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, as reported by the Detroit Free Press on Nov. 27. | RELATED: | Yale Student Fights To Halt Deportation of His Mother With Stage IV Cancer | About 90 foreign students, mostly from India, of the fake University of Farmington located in Detr…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Govt-Created-Fake-University-to-Lure-Intl-Students-Arrest-Them-20191201-0007.html

Six European Nations Join Worthless INSTEX's Trade Mechanism with Iran
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-01
The EU Instrument for Supporting Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) with Iran became operational in June — a smoke and mirrors scheme to bypass dollar transactions, unrelated to restoring normal European trade with Iran. | It's an illusory financial transactions mechanism, pretending to …
globalresearch.ca/six-european-nations-join-worthless-instex-trade-mechanism-iran/5696402

Poland Proposes Raising Carcinogenic 5G Emission Levels as a "National Norm"
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-01
Hundreds of letters are pouring into the office of Polish Minister of Health, Lukaz Szumowski, from Polish citizens and people all over the world, responding to Mr Szumowski's proposition to exponentially raise the officially recognised limit for cell phone …
globalresearch.ca/polish-minister-health-proposes-carcinogenic-5g-emission-levels-national-norm/5696399

The Usual Incoherence on Student Benefits Is Back
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-12-01
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…
peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/11/30/the-usual-incoherence-on-student-benefits-is-back/

DPRK tests new weapon system and strengthens defenses
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-30
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…
fightbacknews.org/2019/11/30/dprk-tests-new-weapon-system-and-strengthens-defenses

After student sets himself on fire, French youth protest: "Precariousness kills"
wsws.org | 2019-11-30
Anas K.'s desperate action and his scathing denunciation of the Macron government and of capitalism have reverberated powerfully among tens of thousands of students who face the same dire conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/30/anas…

Irresponsible Charter School Promoters Blocked from Further Lowering Teaching and Learning Standards
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-30
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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/irresponsible-charter-school-promoters-blocked-from-further-lowering-teaching-and-learning-standards/

Fingerprint Analysis Is High-Stakes Work — but It Doesn't Take Much to Qualify as an Expert
Jordan Smith | theintercept.com | 2019-11-29
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.
theintercept.com/2019/11/29/fingerprint-examination-proficiency-test-forensic-science/

On State Contravention of the Genocide Convention
J.B. Gerald | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-28
I'd like to note two articles by Professor Michel Chossudovsky published this November in Global Research: they help explain the current denigration of the Convention on Genocide. When we grow accustomed to our system's atrocities we lessen our humanity. In an article of November 13th, 20191 Chossudovsky outlines the history of George H.W. Bush's father, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/on-state-contravention-of-the-genocide-convention/

A Lawsuit at Harvard Pries Open Debates About Science and Reparations
Eamon Whalen | thenation.com | 2019-11-28
A Lawsuit at Harvard Pries Open Debates About Science and Reparations…
thenation.com/article/harvard-slavery-racism/

In defence of human rights in Chile: An open letter to the Australian community
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-27
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…
greenleft.org.au/content/defence-human-rights-chile-open-letter-australian-community

Entrapment? ICE created fake universities to lure foreign students before arresting & deporting them
rt.com | 2019-11-27
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…
rt.com/usa/474504-fake-university-foreign-students-us/

Choked, sexually assaulted & murdered for IGNORING catcalls: Lawyers describe horrific attack on Indian-American student
rt.com | 2019-11-27
Disturbing details about the murder of a 19-year-old Indian-American student have emerged after her attacker reportedly confessed that he choked the young woman and sexually assaulted her after she ignored his advances. | Ruth George, a student at the University of Illinois in Chicago who is originally from Hyderabad, India, was found dead in her car in a campus garage on Saturday. | During a court hearing on Tuesday, authorities said that the 26-year-old suspect had confessed to the murder. Local media, citing prosecutors, said that the attacker thought George was "pretty" when he saw her walking to her car,…
rt.com/usa/474424-india-student-murder-catcalls-chicago/

Chicago conference to relaunch National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression a huge success
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-26
Chicago, IL – More than a 1200 joined together for an historic gathering on the weekend of November 22 — 24, at the hall of the Chicago Teachers Union, to refound the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. The newly refounded Alliance will concentrate its efforts on building the fight against police crimes and for community control of the police, and it will campaign for the release of political prisoners and the wrongfully convicted. | Longtime leaders of the Black liberation movement Angela Davis and Frank Chapman, along with elected officials, trade unionists, and other progressive ac…
fightbacknews.org/2019/11/25/chicago-conference-relaunch-national-alliance-against-racist-and-political-repression-hug

Talking Turkey About Impeachment Hearings – NYT coverage teaches us how not to discuss the end of democracy
Dorothee Benz | fair.org | 2019-11-26
Congratulations, you made it through the public hearings of the impeachment inquiry, one eye on the livestream and one eye on your work email, and somehow you met your deadlines even as you followed along blow by blow. So what are you going to say about it around the Thanksgiving dinner table? | There were certainly some moments designed to stoke feelings of patriotism as we head into the heavily mythologized, uniquely American holiday this week. Alexander Vindman (New York Times, 11/19/19): "The uniform I…
fair.org/home/talking-turkey-about-impeachment-hearings/

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2019-12-01: News Headlines

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-01). Criminalizing Speech and Press Freedoms. Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning. globalresearch.ca The persecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is all about waging war on truth-telling. | Chelsea Manning remains imprisoned for invoking her constitutional right to remain silent — for refusing to testify against Assange. | Her First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and …

Diana Johnstone (2019-12-01). Appeal to Archbishop of Canterbury for Liberation of Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca Œë letter signed by 60 intellectuals from 15 countries was delivered to Lambeth Palace calling on His Grace, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, to use his moral influence to end the unjustified imprisonment of Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison….

teleSUR (2019-12-01). US Created Fake University to Lure Int'l Students, Arrest Them. telesurenglish.net The United States Department of Homeland Security created a fake university in 2015 luring international students who wanted to study in the country, in order to have them arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, as reported by the Detroit Free Press on Nov. 27. | RELATED: | Yale Student Fights To Halt Deportation of His Mother With Stage IV Cancer | About 90 foreign students, mostly from India, of the fake University of Farmington located in Detr…

Global Research News (2019-12-01). National Endowment for Democracy (NED) "Pulling the Strings" in Hong Kong. globalresearch.ca According to a report by NewsHub, a so-called "offshoot of the CIA" was involved in engineering the protest movement in Hong Kong. The report which quotes French author Maxime Vivas states that the Washington based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) …

Julian Rose (2019-12-01). Poland Proposes Raising Carcinogenic 5G Emission Levels as a "National Norm" globalresearch.ca Hundreds of letters are pouring into the office of Polish Minister of Health, Lukaz Szumowski, from Polish citizens and people all over the world, responding to Mr Szumowski's proposition to exponentially raise the officially recognised limit for cell phone …

Gilbert Mercier (2019-12-01). Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Genocide of Native Americans. globalresearch.ca The sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundreds years it managed to rewrite its own history into a mythological fantasy. | The concepts of liberty, freedom and free enterprise in the …

Paul Antonopoulos (2019-12-01). Trump Designating Drug Cartels as Terrorist Organizations Is Aimed Against Mexican President. globalresearch.ca Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a patriotic socialist, in his first year of government rejected a war against the powerful narcotic cartels. However, he now faces a dilemma in the face of Washington's intentions to label the cartels …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-01). Six European Nations Join Worthless INSTEX's Trade Mechanism with Iran. globalresearch.ca The EU Instrument for Supporting Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) with Iran became operational in June — a smoke and mirrors scheme to bypass dollar transactions, unrelated to restoring normal European trade with Iran. | It's an illusory financial transactions mechanism, pretending to …

South Front (2019-12-01). Video: Syrian Military Bombs Oil Smuggling Infrastructure in Turkish-Occupied Areas. globalresearch.ca On November 26, Kurdish rebels from the so-called Afrin Liberation Forces announced that their forces had eliminated 5 Turkish-backed militants and injured 6 others in an attack near Tuweys in northern Aleppo. The killed and injured militants were reportedly belonging …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-01). Turkish Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Syria. globalresearch.ca Launched cross-border on October 9, east of the Euphrates River, Turkish aggression is all about President Erdogan's aim to annex northern Syrian territory. | So-called "Operation Peace Spring" has nothing to do with peace, nothing to do with protecting Turkey from …

Nicolas J. S. Davies (2019-12-01). Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of 'Made in the USA' Corruption. globalresearch.ca As Americans sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, Iraqis were mourning 40 protesters killed by police and soldiers on Thursday in Baghdad, Najaf and Nasiriyah. Nearly 400 protesters have been killed since hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets …

Eric Zuesse (2019-12-01). Bolivia Coup, Masterminded in Washington: Post-Coup Update, Rigged Elections? globalresearch.ca With every passing day, it becomes clearer that the military coup in Bolivia on November 10th was masterminded in Washington DC. This reality will create yet a new difficulty in relations between the U.S. regime and Mexico to its direct …

RT (2019-12-01). 2nd London Bridge stabbing victim named: 23-year-old former Cambridge student slain by jihadist. rt.com The second victim of jihadist Usman Khan's knife attack on London Bridge has been named as Saskia Jones, a 23-year-old former student at the University of Cambridge. | Jones was taking part in an event in Fishmongers' Hall to mark five years of the university's Learning Together program, which brings together people in criminal justice and higher education institutions, when she was brutally murdered by Khan. | Also on rt.com | | London Bridge stabbing victim named: 25yo man who worked on same criminal rehab workshop attacker had attended | The young woma…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-12-01). George H. Walker Bush: The Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Cartel. globalresearch.ca Donald Trump has offered to intervene in Mexico "to go after the Drug Cartels" The Mexican president has turned down Trump's generous offer. President Trump confirmed that he is now considering categorizing the Mexican drug cartels as "terrorists". Extend the "War on Terrorism" to Latin America?

Global Research News (2019-12-01). Selected Articles: The Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Cartel. globalresearch.ca Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis provided by Global Research on a daily basis? | Click to | * * * | | George H. Walker Bush: …

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…

F. William Engdahl (2019-11-30). China's African Swine Fever (ASF) "Spreading Globally"? globalresearch.ca The worst outbreak of fatal African Swine Fever disease ever has devastated the world's largest pig population, that of China, over the past months. Now it is spreading to neighboring states and even threatens the United States pig herds. The …

Mondialisation (2019-11-30). Le imbarazzanti parole di Papa Francesco da Hiroshima: ´L'atomica immorale e criminale ª. globalresearch.ca Silenzio di tomba nell'arco istituzionale italiano, sempre loquace sul papa, sulle parole pronunciate da Francesco il 24 novembre a Hiroshima e a Nagasaki: ´L'uso dell'energia atomica per fini di guerra è, oggi più che mai, un crimine. àà immorale il …

Sean Gervasi (2019-11-30). Video: How the U.S. Caused the Breakup of the Soviet Union. globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention of Global Research readers the text of an unpublished Lecture delivered in 1992 by the late Sean Gervasi on the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the US Strategy formulated during World …

Staff (2019-11-30). As Global Inequality Rises, So Are the Movements Fighting It. truthout.org This week we as Fight Inequality Alliance have released our first report, The State of the Growing Movement Fighting Inequality. We aimed to begin balancing the plethora of research on inequality — its causes and symptoms, as well as the data crunching and killer stats that others have been doing so well since inequality has skyrocketed to its current crisis levels — with some analysis of…

Catherine Austin Fitts (2019-11-30). The U.S. Government Has Been Run as a Criminal Enterprise: Financial Fraud, Criminal Cash Flows. globalresearch.ca First published in December 2017 | Financial expert and investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts says the U.S. Government runs on massive criminal activity. Fitts explains, | "The U.S. economy is deeply dependent on criminal cash flows. We're the global leader in money …

Alan MacLeod (2019-11-30). Shaping Public Opinion: The New York Times' Long History of Endorsing US-Backed Coups. globalresearch.ca Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup d'état earlier this month after Bolivian army generals appeared on television demanding his resignation. As Morales fled to Mexico, the army appointed right-wing Senator Jeanine Añez as his …

Elijah J. Magnier (2019-11-30). The Explosion in Lebanon Has Been Delayed: Until When? globalresearch.ca Europe is concerned about the Lebanese political crisis and its potential spillover consequences in case of a civil confrontation. Even if the European states do not have differing strategic objectives in Lebanon from the US, a civil war will affect …

Dmitriy Kovalevich (2019-11-30). Ukraine: Land Privatization Demanded by IMF, Links to Biden Graft Scandal. Engineered Bankruptcy of National Economy. globalresearch.ca November in Ukraine has been marked by the adoption of the so called 'land reform', in accordance of the demands made by the IMF amongst other international financial organizations. The reform opens the way for the mass privatization of Ukraine's …

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2019-11-30). Is The Nuclear "Green"? "CO2- And Climate Neutral"? globalresearch.ca On the 28th of November 2019 the European Parliament in Brussels voted in favor of nuclear energy, because it is defined as CO2- and climate-neutral. | This happened when a resolution proposal for the coming UN Climate Conference in Madrid …

Larry Romanoff (2019-11-30). The Short Road: Democracy to Fascism. globalresearch.ca Fascism is a political ideology fundamentally authoritarian, with a strong nationalism and a militaristic outlook. Fascism carries primarily a corporate perspective directed to satisfying the needs, values and objectives of finance and corporations,…

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…

teleSUR (2019-11-30). Barbados Celebrates the 53rd Anniversary of Its Independence. telesurenglish.net The people of Barbados celebrates the 53rd anniversary of their country's political independence from the United Kingdom on Nov. 30, with colorful parades, musical spectacles, and other events | RELATED: | Barbados Eyes Museum to Honor Island-Born Icon Rihanna | This year's parade includes "community groups, sporting, and cultural icons; some 5000 students, life-sized portraits of our national heroes, vendors serving traditional Barbadian items, secondary school students taking part in…

WSWS (2019-11-30). After student sets himself on fire, French youth protest: "Precariousness kills" wsws.org Anas K.'s desperate action and his scathing denunciation of the Macron government and of capitalism have reverberated powerfully among tens of thousands of students who face the same dire conditions.

Manlio Dinucci (2019-11-30). Gli F-35 decollano con ali bipartisan. globalresearch.ca Lorenzo Guerini (Pd), ministro della Difesa del governo Conte II, ha comunicato alle commissioni parlamentari il passaggio alla fase 2 del programma di acquisto degli F-35 della statunitense Lockheed Martin. Passaggio preparato dal governo Conte I: il vicepremier Salvini (Lega) …

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.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-11-29). Video: Why Are We Still in Afghanistan? globalresearch.ca The 9/11 attacks were categorized as act of war by a foreign nation (Afghanistan) against a member of the Atlantic Alliance (the USA). Afghanistan had attacked America. Under NATO's doctrine of collective security the terror attack on the WTC was an act of war by a foreign country against all NATO member states.

WSWS (2019-11-29). Over 250 students arrested in Michigan by ICE in fake university scam. wsws.org After arresting 161 students in January and February earlier this year, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement revealed that they had detained an additional 91 students in an ongoing sting operation conducted by the federal agency.

Jenny Ricks (2019-11-29). As Global Inequality Rises, So Are the Movements Fighting It. counterpunch.org This week we as Fight Inequality Alliance have released our first report, The State of the Growing Movement Fighting Inequality. We aimed to begin balancing the plethora of research on inequality — its causes and symptoms, as well as the data crunching and killer stats that others have been doing so well since inequality has More

Larry Romanoff (2019-11-29). Spreading Democracy the American Way. globalresearch.ca That's the entire list. You can see that it's blank. But how can that be? We all know that the US has freed dozens of nations from their evil and repressive governments, and installed loving democracies where people lived happily …

teleSUR (2019-11-29). Colombia's Indigenous Peoples Join National Strike in Bogota. telesurenglish.net Indigenous organizations like the Cric from the Cauca province, arrived at the capital Thursday in order to support the workers, students, and campesinos that have so far been the core of the national protests against the conservative government. | RELATED: | US Stands by Colombia Govt during Protests, Pompeo tells Duque | Indigenous leaders will be participating in a meeting on Friday at 8 a.m., local time, in order to coordin…

J.B. Gerald (2019-11-28). On State Contravention of the Genocide Convention. dissidentvoice.org I'd like to note two articles by Professor Michel Chossudovsky published this November in Global Research: they help explain the current denigration of the Convention on Genocide. When we grow accustomed to our system's atrocities we lessen our humanity. In an article of November 13th, 20191 Chossudovsky outlines the history of George H.W. Bush's father, …

Eamon Whalen (2019-11-28). A Lawsuit at Harvard Pries Open Debates About Science and Reparations. thenation.com A Lawsuit at Harvard Pries Open Debates About Science and Reparations…

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…

RT (2019-11-27). Choked, sexually assaulted & murdered for IGNORING catcalls: Lawyers describe horrific attack on Indian-American student. rt.com Disturbing details about the murder of a 19-year-old Indian-American student have emerged after her attacker reportedly confessed that he choked the young woman and sexually assaulted her after she ignored his advances. | Ruth George, a student at the University of Illinois in Chicago who is originally from Hyderabad, India, was found dead in her car in a campus garage on Saturday. | During a court hearing on Tuesday, authorities said that the 26-year-old suspect had confessed to the murder. Local media, citing prosecutors, said that the attacker thought George was "pretty" when he saw her walking to her car,…

Shawgi Tell (2019-11-27). Widespread Poor Performance Persists in Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org After nearly 30 years of hype surrounding charter schools, a large number of charter schools across the country continue to perform poorly. This is especially disturbing given the fact that non-profit and for-profit charter schools routinely cherry-pick their students, have high teacher turnover rates, are run by unelected individuals, oppose unions, over-pay administrators, and siphon …

Fight Back (2019-11-26). Chicago conference to relaunch National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression a huge success. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – More than a 1200 joined together for an historic gathering on the weekend of November 22 — 24, at the hall of the Chicago Teachers Union, to refound the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. The newly refounded Alliance will concentrate its efforts on building the fight against police crimes and for community control of the police, and it will campaign for the release of political prisoners and the wrongfully convicted. | Longtime leaders of the Black liberation movement Angela Davis and Frank Chapman, along with elected officials, trade unionists, and other progressive ac…

Staff (2019-11-26). Iraqi Scholar Sinan Antoon: Anti-Government Protests Have Led to "Reclaiming of Iraqi Identity" democracynow.org In Iraq, more than 340 people have died since anti-government protests began in early October. More than 15,000 Iraqis have been injured. Tires were set on fire Monday and main roads and bridges were blocked in the cities of Basra and Nassiriya. Over the weekend, security forces opened fire on civilians in Baghdad and other cities. Demonstrators are protesting corruption and lack of jobs and basic services, including clean water and electricity. In Baghdad, many university students are taking part in the demonstrations. To talk more about the protests in Iraq we are joined by the Iraqi poet, novelist, translator,…

Staff (2019-11-26). Headlines for November 26, 2019. democracynow.org Judge Rules Trump Can't Stop Officials from Testifying in Impeachment Inquiry, Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Disclosure of Trump's Financial Records, U.S. Troops Resume Combat Mission Against ISIS, U.N.: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Surged to Record-High Levels in 2018, 56 Killed in Landslides in Kenya, Leaked Documents Reveal China's "Brainwashing" of Uyghur Muslims, Duque Calls for "National Dialogue" as Protests Continue to Rock Colombia, Global Protests Mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Argentine Catholic Priests Sentenced to Prison for Raping Students, Water Protectors Block…

RT (2019-11-26). 'Pete Buttigieg is a lying MF' trends on Twitter after column on past 'racism' goes viral. rt.com While he may be enjoying a surge in the Iowa polls, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is trending on Twitter for an entirely different reason, after a column entitled 'Pete Buttigieg Is A Lying MF' went viral. | In the column for the Root, senior writer Michael Harriot scathingly addresses a recently resurfaced video of Buttigieg claiming that black kids in low-income neighborhoods fail at school in high numbers because there "isn't someone who they know personally who testifies to the value of education." Buttigieg made the comment in 2011, while he was running for mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

Dorothee Benz (2019-11-26). Talking Turkey About Impeachment Hearings – NYT coverage teaches us how not to discuss the end of democracy. fair.org Congratulations, you made it through the public hearings of the impeachment inquiry, one eye on the livestream and one eye on your work email, and somehow you met your deadlines even as you followed along blow by blow. So what are you going to say about it around the Thanksgiving dinner table? | There were certainly some moments designed to stoke feelings of patriotism as we head into the heavily mythologized, uniquely American holiday this week. Alexander Vindman (New York Times, 11/19/19): "The uniform I…

Ashoka Mukpo (2019-11-25). In Nicaragua, She Dodged Bullets. Now She's Stuck at the Border. aclu.org (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) The sting of tear gas was still in Julia's eyes when she ran into a public park in the center of the Nicaraguan city of Estelí on June 20, 2018. Earlier that day, she'd wrapped her face in a blue-and-white bandanna — the colors of the Nicaraguan flag — and joined a student-led march against the government of President Daniel Ortega, whose proposed cuts to social benefits were sparking tense street demonstrations across the country. [Note: 'Julia' is a pseudonym; the ACLU is protecting her identity for her safety.] | As the students marched through the streets, paramilitary p…

Fight Back (2019-11-25). USF students rally for more Black enrollment before meeting with administration. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On November 20, students at the University of South Florida (USF) gathered in front of Cooper Hall to demand that administration increases Black enrollment on campus. Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized and led the demonstration. | This event occurred in anticipation of an upcoming December 4 meeting with administration. SDS will be meeting with the Vice President of Student Success Paul Dosa, VP of Diversity and Inclusion Haywood Brown, Assistant VP of Admissions Glen Besterfield, and Dean of Students Danielle McDonald. The meeting will determine the future of how USF will add…

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