Indiana Teachers to Rally for Better Pay, Better Schools
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-11-18
The notoriously conservative, right-to-work state has proven to be fertile ground for market-based education reform policies–and teacher discontent.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/indiana-teachers-rally-november-lahm-191118/

Yes, Something Stinks about the State Takeover of the Houston Independent School District
Diane Ravitch | commondreams.org | 2019-11-18
"Something stinks in Texas," writes education historian Diane Ravtich. (Photo: United Federation of Teachers/ Facebook) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/18/yes-something-stinks-about-state-takeover-houston-independent-school-district?cd-origin=rss

Protesters Demonstrate at VP Mike Pence's NASA Speech in Mountain View, CA
Protest Reporting | indybay.org | 2019-11-18
Vice-President Mike Pence gave a speech at NASA Ames Research facility on November 14 following a brief fundraising trip to California. The same day there was a school shooting in Santa Clarita. Demonstrators did not hesitate to point out that Pence is an adamant supporter of the National Rifle Association.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/17/18828174.php

US Politicians Ruthless in Pushing Hong Kong Bill in US Senate, Condone Mob Violence
Global Times | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
A 70-year-old cleaner died Thursday night after being struck with a brick thrown by rioters during a Wednesday street clash. He was the first Hong Kong resident directly killed from street clashes since the unrest was sparked by the since-withdrawn …
globalresearch.ca/us-politicians-pushing-hong-kong-bill/5695225

Washington Threatens Egypt with Sanctions Over Russian Su-35 Fighter Jet Purchase
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Washington's latest attempt to dissuade an ally from making arms deals with Russia came in the form of a letter sent on last Wednesday to Egyptian officials warning them that they could face sanctions if they continued with their $2 …
globalresearch.ca/washington-threatens-egypt-sanctions-russian-su-35-fighter-jet-purchase/5695288

China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
For several years since the global push to develop mass-scale Electric Vehicles, the element Lithium has come into focus as a strategic metal. Demand is enormous in China, in the EU and in the USA at present, and securing control …
globalresearch.ca/china-usa-and-the-geopolitics-of-lithium/5695346

Open Guidelines: The Foreign Interference Problem in Australian Universities
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-11-18
asia-pacificresearch.com/open-guidelines-foreign-interference-australian-universities/5628941

The US-Sponsored Coup that Ousted Evo Morales. Bolivia's Partnership with China in Lithium Production
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Any human being who values justice and freedom would condemn the coup that ousted the Bolivian president Evo Morales on the 10th of November 2019. | Morales obtained 47.08 % of the vote to secure a fourth term as president …
globalresearch.ca/coup-ousted-morales/5695281

Bolivia Faces Ethnic Cleansing, Racism and South African-Style Apartheid?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Post-coup Bolivia is at risk of Croatian-style ethnic cleansing and South African-like apartheid unless the protesters succeed in putting substantial international pressure on the new "authorities" and ensuring that genuinely free and fair elections are held as soon as possible …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-faces-ethnic-cleansing-racism-and-south-african-style-apartheid/5695262

Hardline US Senators Call for Combatting China
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
On November 12, a joint press release by US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hardliners Chris Coons, Jeff Merkley, Marco Rubio, and Todd Young called for combatting China. | The so-called Global Economic Security Strategy Act of 2019 (GESS) is all about …
globalresearch.ca/hardline-us-senators-call-combatting-china/5695247

Fight Bolivia's Coup, The Resistance: Indigenous Workers Build Self Defense Committees
Tatiana Cozzarelli | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
After weeks of increasing right-wing protests, the Bolivian military demanded on Sunday that President Evo Morales resign. The protests had reached a fever pitch, with the police joining the side of the right-wing in the streets demanding the president's ouster….
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-workers-build-self-defense-committees-fight-bolivia-coup/5695207

US Threatens Sanctions on Serbia, Scrambles to Thwart Possible Russian S-400 Missile Defense Purchase
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
In a largely unreported but hugely important story that played out this week in the Balkans, Washington is putting immense pressure on Serbia to shelve future plans for acquiring Russia's advanced S-400 air defense missile systems. | The controversy began …
globalresearch.ca/us-threatens-sanctions-on-serbia-scrambles-to-thwart-possible-russian-s-400-missile-defense-purchase/5695201

Western Media Whitewash Bolivia's Far-Right Coup
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Bolivia has a new US-backed puppet leader, and the Western media can hardly conceal their adulation. | Jeanine àÅñez declared herself "interim president" in a near-empty Senate chamber on November 12, proceeding to don the presidential sash with the assistance of …
globalresearch.ca/western-media-whitewash-bolivia-far-right-coup/5695244

Bolivia's U.S.-backed Coup Government Has Given the Military a License to Kill Protestors
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
The de facto and unelected president of Bolivia, Jeanine àÅñez, signed a decree that exempts all military personnel from being criminally responsible, even in the cases of murder, in the midst of demonstrations against the coup d'etat that ousted …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-us-backed-coup-government-given-military-license-kill-protestors/5695284

After Al-Baghdadi, Islamic State Is Being Headed by Shura Council
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
In July 2015, the security officials of Afghanistan and Pakistan were holding an important meeting in Islamabad to initiate a dialogue process with the Taliban when the Afghan National Directorate of Intelligence publicly announced that Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar…
globalresearch.ca/after-al-baghdadi-islamic-state-headed-shura-council/5695251

Self-proclaimed Guaido Congratulates the New Self-proclaimed in Bolivia: Believe It or Not
Orinoco Tribune | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Today Wednesday, the deputy president of the National Assembly in contempt and "self-proclaimed" Juan Guaidó congratulated the president in charge — and also " self-proclaimed " — of Bolivia, Jeanine àÅñez, after the coup d'etat was consummated in that …
globalresearch.ca/guaido-congratulates-new-self-proclaimed-bolivia/5695231

US Says Israeli Settlements Are Legal, 23 Killed In Bolivia As Violent Coup Ignored & Venezuela Flop
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-18
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 (11/18/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/us-says-israeli-settlements-are-legal-23-killed-in-bolivia-as-violent-coup-ignored-venezuela-flop/

Russia-Africa Relations: Writing off Soviet Era Debts. Miltary-Technical Cooperation
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Long seen as a strategic partner, Russia has opened a new chapter and started building better relations with Africa, and most significantly made its move by writing off Africa's debts accumulated from the Soviet era. After the Soviet collapse, Russia …
globalresearch.ca/russia-africa-relations-writing-off-soviet-era-debts-miltary-technical-cooperation/5695218

A History of U.S. Economic Warfare, from WWII to the Present
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
On the Global Research News Hour we do our best to cover a wide spectrum of topics from the environmental crisis to economic and geopolitical analysis to debunking war pre-text narratives. | We welcome listener support to maintain and improve the …
globalresearch.ca/a-history-of-u-s-economic-warfare-from-wwii-to-the-present/5695139

US Dirty Hands Escalate Hong Kong Violence
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Months of violence and chaos in Hong Kong have US dirty hands all over them. | Orchestrated by the CIA in cahoots with other anti-democratic US agencies and anti-government Chinese hooligans, there's nothing spontaneous about what's going on endlessly. | Days earlier, …
globalresearch.ca/us-dirty-hands-escalate-hong-kong-violence/5695259

Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM): 20 Years True to Fidel's Humanist Thought
Granma | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Cuba's President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, presided the 20th anniversary celebration of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), which he described as "a visionary project founded to improve the quality of life of those who were born and died …
globalresearch.ca/elam-20-years-true-fidel-humanist-thought/5695223

Brazil's Amazon Guardians Respond to Killing of Paulo Paulino
Native News Online | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
We've lost a great warrior in our fight. They murdered our friend, our brother, our tireless companion in the defence of the forest, Paulo Paulino "Lobo" Guajajara. | We're mourning and our hearts are hurting. | Lobo was killed because he …
globalresearch.ca/amazon-guardians-respond-killing-paulo-paulino/5695293

Ramazzini Study on Radiofrequency Cell Phone Radiation: The World's Largest Animal Study on Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link
Environmental Health Trust | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Scientists call on the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer to re-evaluate the carcinogenicity of cell phone radiation after the Ramazzini Institute and US government studies report finding the same unusual cancers. | Watch Dr. Belpoggi describe the …
globalresearch.ca/ramazzini-study-radiofrequency-cell-phone-radiation-world-largest-animal-study-cell-tower-radiation-confirms-cancer-link/5695275

"Unearthing Justice": Canada's Mining Industry, Environmental and Social Impacts
Richard Fidler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs and benefits, propagates myths about its contribution to the economy, shapes government policy and regulation, and deals ruthlessly …
globalresearch.ca/unearthing-justice-canadas-mining-industry-environmental-and-social-impacts/5695278

Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent
Mnar Muhawesh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
It's an open secret. The deep state is working hand in hand with Silicon Valley social media giants like Twitter, Facebook and Google to control the flow of information. That includes suppressing, censoring and sometimes outright purging dissenting voices — …
globalresearch.ca/social-media-censorship-twitter-permanently-bans-dissent/5695269

Shut Down the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC
Dévora González | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
On November 16, 1989, the US-trained and funded Salvadoran Atlacatl Battalion entered the grounds of El Salvador's Central American University (UCA) and brutally murdered six Jesuit priests, sixteen-year-old Celina Ramos, and her mother, Elba Ramos. Nineteen of the twenty-five …
globalresearch.ca/shut-down-school-americas-whinsec/5695234

Yemen: Letter from a Father Who Calls for Justice
Abraham AbdulKarim | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
It's been a year and half since you left us but for your father and mother, it seems like forever. We miss hearing your beautiful baby voice in the morning that made us feel like the luckiest parents in the …
globalresearch.ca/yemen-letter-father-calls-justice/5695221

Establishment press attacks against Corbyn have sunk even further into the gutter
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2019-11-18
One week into the general election, new research shows that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour is getting more "press exposure" than any other party. But there's a huge issue with this. Because it isn't positive coverage. In fact, the establishment press is pushing a strong anti-Labour stance, and backing the Conservatives all the way. Again. So even given its history, the gutter press j…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/11/18/establishment-press-attacks-against-corbyn-have-sunk-even-further-into-the-gutter/

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians, Including One Woman, In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-18
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening, three Palestinians, including one woman, in front of the Hebrew University in occupied Jerusalem, after many students held a nonviolent activity in solidarity with the slain Palestinians in Gaza, and Israel's arbitrary excessive use of force against civilians. The Palestinian News & Info Agency …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-three-palestinians-including-one-woman-in-jerusalem/

UCSC Grad Student Association resolution calls for UC withdrawal from TMT at Mauna Kea
MKPUCSC | indybay.org | 2019-11-18
The UCSC Graduate Student Association approved a resolution on November 5th calling on the University of California system and UC Santa Cruz to (a) divest from the Thirty Meter Telescope project on Mauna Kea and (b) use their unique leverage concerning the fate of the TMT to make sure construction of it never occurs on Mauna Kea. The resolution, written by members of UCSC Mauna Kea Protectors, passed by an overwhelming margin of 13-2 (with four abstentions).
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/16/18828155.php

Student protesters are walking a tightrope in Hong Kong
Dave Lindorff | nationofchange.org | 2019-11-18
The whole world is watching Hong Kong.
nationofchange.org/2019/11/18/student-protesters-are-walking-a-tightrope-in-hong-kong/

Whose News Literacy? – Resources for teachers and students offer useful tools but reinforce status quo
Jane Regan | fair.org | 2019-11-18
by Jane Regan | In schools and campuses across the country, tens of thousands of students are in the midst of media and news literacy courses. | Employing online tools with names like Checkology, Allsides and The Trust Project, following online courses like " Making Sense of the News," or like scores of classrooms across the nation and around the world, using materials from Stonybrook University's…
fair.org/home/whose-news-literacy/

Fire devastates student accommodation block covered in combustible cladding in Bolton, England
wsws.org | 2019-11-18
The six-storey building was covered in HPL cladding that can heat 25 times faster and burn 115 times hotter than non-combustible products, according to a recent study.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/fire…

Students Told They Would Be Better Off 'If They Had Jesus in Their Life'
Heather L. Weaver | aclu.org | 2019-11-18
The ACLU and the ACLU of Tennessee filed a lawsuit against the Smith County School System for violating the separation of church and state on Monday. According to the lawsuit, four students who are atheists have had to contend with school officials promoting Christianity through official prayers, Bible distributions, religious posters, and even a giant cross painted in one of the school's athletic facilities. | We asked our three high school clients in this case — Harleigh, | Leyna and Pyper — to tell us about their e…
aclu.org/news/religious-liberty/students-told-they-would-be-better-off-if-they-had-jesus-in-their-life

Chicago Teachers Unions pushes through austerity contract, paving way for school closures
wsws.org | 2019-11-18
The five-year contract, lauded by union and city leaders, threatens more school closures and continues the starvation of the country's third-largest school district.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/chgo…

Michael Lynk's UN Report on Israeli Settlements Speaks the Truth, But the World Refuses to Listen
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-18
He's a very tall man with bright eyes and a broad smile, and he holds out a great paw when he greets you. But Michael Lynk is no gentle giant. He may teach human rights law at the Western University in London, Ontario, but as the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/18/michael-lynks-un-report-on-israeli-settlements-speaks-the-truth-but-the-world-refuses-to-listen/

Lab Rats for Corporate Profit: Pesticide Industry's Poisoned Platter
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-18
Newly released pesticide usage statistics for 2018 confirm that the British people are being used as lab rats. That's the message environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has sent to Dave Bench, senior scientist at the UK Chemicals, Health and Safety Executive and director of the agency's EU exit plan. In her open letter to Bench, Mason …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/lab-rats-for-corporate-profit-pesticide-industrys-poisoned-platter/

Driven by Anti-Science Agenda, Trump Agencies Defying Mandate to Save Endangered Species From Climate Risk
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-18
A new study exposes serious gaps in the U.S. government's commitment to fighting the effects of the climate crisis on endangered species, which federal agencies are required by law to protect. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/18/driven-anti-science-agenda-trump-agencies-defying-mandate-save-endangered-species?cd-origin=rss

Selected Articles: US Sanctions and Regime Change
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Lying is a money making activity and lies are commodities. There is a profitable global market for media and public figures committed to spreading disinformation. | Needless to say, "Telling the Truth", on the other hand, Is Not a Money-Making Proposition. …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-us-sanctions-regime-change-agenda/5695308

CTU members vote to accept tentative agreement
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-17
Chicago, IL – Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) members voted November 15 to accept the tentative agreement they won in the wake of their historic eleven-day strike. | With 80% of schools reporting, members have voted 81% yes to ratify the new contract with Chicago Public Schools. | The union won powerful gains for students and their school communities. | Those gains include mandatory class size caps and enforcement, language forcing CPS to comply with special education laws and regulations, sanctuary school protections for immigrant and refugee students, and supports for thousands of homeless students. While today mo…
fightbacknews.org/2019/11/16/ctu-members-vote-accept-tentative-agreement

Hasakah: Syrian Arab Army Deploys Over 200 Kms on Borders with Turkey
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-17
Hasakah: The Syrian Arab Army continues its swift deployment in the northeastern province along the borders with NATO member state Turkey to protect the Syrians living there from the aggression by the Turkish Army, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Wahhabi …
globalresearch.ca/hasakah-syrian-arab-army-deploys-200-kms-borders-turkey/5695166

Bolivia's New US-Made Dictatorship, Netanyahu Wins As Gaza Loses & Iran's Protests Are Trump's Fault
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-17
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 (11/16/19). 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/bolivias-new-us-made-dictatorship-netanyahu-wins-as-gaza-loses-irans-protests-are-trumps-fault/

Should We Trust Science?
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-16
Scientists working on the issue have often told me that, once upon a time, they assumed, if they did their jobs, politicians would act upon the information. That, of course, hasn't happened. Anything but, across much of the planet. Worse yet, science failed to have the necessary impact in significant part because of disinformation promoted …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/should-we-trust-science/

Arkansas 'Heisenberg'? Chemistry professor who praised 'Breaking Bad' for scientific accuracy arrested for cooking meth
rt.com | 2019-11-16
A chemistry professor at Henderson State University in Arkansas, who once called 'Breaking Bad' one of his favorite shows, has been arrested for allegedly producing methamphetamine together with a partner. | For the uninitiated, the hit TV series tells the story of a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher named Walter White, who recruits the help of a former student to kick-start a meth lab and eventually becomes a ruthless drug lord. | Well, this man may have taken the show as an instruction manual. Bradley Allen Rowland, 40, of Arkadelphia was arrested on Friday together with fellow chemistry professor Terry Davi…
rt.com/usa/473602-real-breaking-bad-arkansas/

The Chicago Teachers Strike Was a Lesson in 21st-Century Organizing
Sarah Jaffe | thenation.com | 2019-11-16
The Chicago Teachers Strike Was a Lesson in 21st-Century Organizing…
thenation.com/article/chicago-ctu-strike-win/

Chicago Teachers Approve Contract Deal That Ended Strike
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-16
United States Chicago teachers approved Friday the contract deal that ended a 14-day strike, which includes pay raises, US$35 million to enforce limits on class sizes and a pledge to supply each school with a nurse and a social worker. | RELATED: | US: Chicago Teachers to Go on Strike Oct.17 If Deal Not Reached | "This contract is a powerful advance for our city…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chicago-Teachers-Approve-Contract-Deal-That-Ended-Strike–20191116-0006.html

LA rally marks 25 years since racist California Prop 187
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-15
Los Angeles, CA – On November 9, hundreds rallied in downtown Los Angeles at Los Angeles State Historic Park to mark 25 years after the defeat of the racist California Proposition 187. California Proposition 187 which was commonly referred to as the Save Our State (SOS) initiative, was a 1994 ballot initiative initiated by the Republican Party with then Republican Governor Pete Wilson attacking mostly Mexican immigrants. Prop 187 called for a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibited the undocumented from using non-emergency health care, public education and other services in the State of California.
fightbacknews.org/2019/11/14/la-rally-marks-25-years-racist-california-prop-187

Interview with a Chavista: Temir Porras
Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2019-11-15
Hands Off Venezuela PDX sponsored an Oct. 9 Skype event with Temir Porras, a revolutionary Chavista who served as a former chief of staff to both President Hugo Chávez and President Nicolás Maduro. He is a knowledgeable economist, who also served as Venezuelan deputy minister for higher education and in . . . | Continue reading Interview with a Chavista: Temir Porras at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/11/44409/

Israel Kills Over 30 In Gaza, Bolivia Coup About Lithium And More & Israeli Group Taking Syria's Oil
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-15
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/14/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/israel-kills-over-30-in-gaza-bolivia-coup-about-lithium-and-more-israeli-group-taking-syrias-oil/

MMT & the Art of Social Practice with Vienne Chan (Live)
Maxximilian Seijo | mronline.org | 2019-11-15
In this special live episode of Money on the Left, artist and researcher Vienne Chan joins us to talk art, politics, and money–and how Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) reconfigures the boundaries between all three. Recorded at the Third Annual International Conference on Modern Monetary Theory held at Stony Brook University, our conversation focuses specifically on […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/15/mmt-the-art-of-social-practice-with-vienne-chan-live/