Qatar: Education as a Weapon
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-09
There seems to be no limit to Qataris tossing around their wealth. This tiny kingdom with 2.6 million inhabitants is full of ridiculously lavish gold-plated palaces, most of them built with terrible taste. It is overflowing with Lamborghini racing cars and Rolls Royce limousines, and now, even with ludicrously wasteful air-conditioned sidewalks (cold air blows …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/qatar-education-as-a-weapon/

Labour vows to expand 30 hours' free childcare offer and bring Sure Start back
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-09
A Labour plan to provide 30 hours per week of free care to all children aged between two and four could save parents as much as £5,000 per year.Leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow education secretary Angela Rayner will use a visit to Leeds on Saturday to announce proposals to provide 30 hours' publicly-funded childcare every week for all pre-school children over the age of two.It comes on top of a £1bn investment programme to reverse Conservative cuts in order to open 1,000 extra Sure Start centres in England to support young families.According to party-commissioned analysis from the independent House of…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/11/09/labour-vows-to-expand-30-hours-free-childcare-offer-and-bring-sure-start-back/

Fight for Racial Justice Fuels Little Rock Educator Strike Preparations
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-09
This article was first published at Labor Notes. | The site of struggle to defend unions and public education has moved quickly from Chicago to Little Rock. | The 1,800-member Little Rock Education Association began preparing for a potential strike after the Arkansas State Board of Education ended recognition of the union. Their demands: return collective bargaining rights to LREA, give full local control of the school district back to the people of Little…
truthout.org/articles/fight-for-racial-justice-fuels-little-rock-educator-strike-preparations/

The War on Syria was Pre-Planned. ISIS Was Financed by the US and its Allies
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-09
How do we know that the War on Syria was pre-planned by imperial powers? Consider the following: | . | . | . | Still not convinced? Check out this admission from the former Minister of Foreign Affairs for President Mitterand. | General Flynn admitted …
globalresearch.ca/teaching-voices-syria-unit-one/5694311

Is the Run on the Dollar Due to Panic or Greed?
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-09
What's going on in the repo market? Rates on repurchase agreements ("repo") should be around 2%, in line with the fed funds rate. But they shot up to over 5% on September 16 and got as high as 10% on …
globalresearch.ca/run-dollar-due-panic-greed/5694296

A "Blue Dot" Barely Visible from China's "New Silk Roads"
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-09
Chinese President Xi Jinping six years ago launched New Silk Roads, now better known as the Belt and Road Initiative, the largest, most ambitious, pan-Eurasian infrastructure project of the 21st century. | Under the Trump administration, Belt and Road has …
globalresearch.ca/blue-dot-barely-visible-new-silk-roads/5694303

102 Years Ago, The October Revolution: "Ten Days that Shook the World"
Sergei M. Eisenstein | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-09
Next week, November 7, 2017 is the 100 years anniversary of the October Revolution, November 7, 1917. | We bring to the attention of our readers Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece: "Ten Days that Shook the World" (1928) | In documentary style, events …
globalresearch.ca/the-october-revolution-ten-days-that-shook-the-world/5613450

The School of the Americas
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-09
| An integral part of America's brutal colonisation of undeveloped nations is the little-known US Army "School of the Americas" located in Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains Latin American military officers and soldiers to subvert their governments and kill hope in | …
globalresearch.ca/school-americas/5693503

Defeating the US / EU / NATO Axis of Domination: A Global De-Colonial Imperative
Canadian Peace Congress | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-09
The Canadian Peace Congress, in cooperation with a number of local peace and anti-imperialist organizations, is pleased to announce the upcoming tour of Ajamu Baraka from November 11-16, 2019. During his visit, Mr. Baraka will visit five urban centres across …
globalresearch.ca/defeating-the-us-eu-nato-axis-of-domination-a-global-de-colonial-imperative/5694418

Possible False Flag In Iraq, US Votes Against Anti-Nazi Res. & Pompeo's Iran Nuclear Lies Debunked
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-09
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/6/19). 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/possible-false-flag-in-iraq-us-votes-against-anti-nazi-res-pompeos-iran-nuclear-lies-debunked/

Video: Russia Setting Up Military Bases Across Northeastern Syria. To Undermine US Mission to Appropriate Syria's Oil?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-09
Syrian and Russian warplanes carried out more than 40 airstrikes on militants' positions in southern Idlib, northern Lattakia and southwestern Aleppo. According to pro-government sources, the resumed airstrikes were a response to the recent offensive actions by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham …
globalresearch.ca/video-russia-setting-up-military-bases-across-northeastern-syria-to-undermine-us-mission-to-appropriate-syrias-oil/5694300

Geneva Is Key to Syria's Recovery
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-09
The political solution to the Syrian conflict is the task at hand for the constitutional committee that has been meeting in Geneva since October 30. The co-chairs are Ahmad Kuzbari from the Syrian government and Hadi Albahra from the opposition. …
globalresearch.ca/geneva-key-syria-recovery/5694298

Never Again? Can We Stop the War When Big Business Profits from it?
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-09
On the Global Research News 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 quality …
globalresearch.ca/never-again-can-we-stop-the-war-when-big-business-profits-from-it/5694422

Bring Back Claudia! SFUSD Parent, Students,Teachers & Community Supporters Protest
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-11-09
Dozens of parents, students, teachers and community members rallied at 24th and Mission St. in San Francisco on November 6, 2019 to protest the retaliation and removal of Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Principal Claudia DeLarios Moran. | Union busting superintendent Vincent Matthews has also sought to cut $300,000 from MLK Middle School and he and his SFUSD board are seeking to outsource the school bus drivers to non-union operators and Zoom UPBER operators.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/06/18827917.php

Massive people's protests continue in Algeria
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2019-11-09
Ever since Feb. 22, Hirak — the protest coalition in Algeria — has held a nationwide protest on Fridays, the day the weekend starts there. Students and youth generally hold their nationwide demonstrations on Tuesdays. This Nov. 1, Algeria marked the 65th anniversary of the start of its War of . . . | Continue reading Massive people's protests continue in Algeria at Workers.org…
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Ahead of SCOTUS Hearing on DACA Hundreds of Immigrant Youth Walk Out of Schools Across the Country
United We Dream | indybay.org | 2019-11-09
Students are raising their voice to tell the Justices to Preserve DACA, move local officials to do more to protect their families, and declare their home is here and they're here to stay.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/08/18827937.php

Defying their unions, Dutch teachers stage countrywide one-day strike
wsws.org | 2019-11-09
The teachers' action was the latest in a series of mass protests across the country, which has been dubbed an "autumn of discontent."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/09/neth…

Massive vote in favour of strike by Ontario elementary school teachers
wsws.org | 2019-11-09
The virtually unanimous strike vote by teachers reflects the depth of opposition to the government's austerity agenda and is part of a growing upsurge of the class struggle internationally.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/09/teac…

The Globalization of Poverty: What Is Neoliberalism?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
In these unprecedented economic times, the world is experiencing as a whole what most of the so-called "developing" countries have experienced over the past several decades. For a nuanced examination of the intricacies of the global political-economic landscape and the …
globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-poverty-inside-the-new-world-order/5313987

Oakland teachers and parents condemn police brutality
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2019-11-08
Oct. 28 — At a vigil called by the Oakland Education Association, parents, teachers and community members denounced police brutality against demonstrators protesting school closures and consolidations. During a loud but peaceful protest Oct. 23 at an Oakland School Board meeting, Oakland city police and some of the school district's . . . | Continue reading Oakland teachers and parents condemn police brutality at Workers.org…
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Substandard Education in America
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
We know all the criticisms. China's children are taught only to memorise and not to think or question. They are rote-learning robots without capacity for original thought. They know only how to produce high scores but not to apply any …
globalresearch.ca/brief-look-substandard-education/5694267

The Contemptible Secretary DeVos
Christopher Brauchli | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-08
That shut her up real horrorshow and lovely. — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange As a lawyer I am reluctant to speak unkindly of a federal judge, but I cannot resist observing that U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of San Francisco can only be described as a something of a Johnny come lately. It was she,…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/08/the-contemptible-secretary-devos/

The Vaccine Deep State. Impacts of Aluminum Adjuvants in Vaccines
Richard Gale | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
Who coined the term anti-vaccine or anti-vaxx? The derogatory term "anti-vaxxer," which has been championed by the media and the medical industry's experts who function as the media's talking heads, are merely people who question the efficacy and safety of …
globalresearch.ca/the-vaccine-deep-state-impacts-of-aluminum-adjuvants-in-vaccines/5694331

'All Eyes on Nestlé': The Commodification and Privatization of Water
Doreen Nicoll | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
Ontario's environment minister, Jeff Yurek, plans to announce the provincial government's decision on water bottling permits by mid-December. The announcement comes after the government's extension of a moratorium on new and expanded permits, put in place by the Liberal …
globalresearch.ca/all-eyes-nestle-campaign-draws-attention-commodification-water/5694313

"American Self Preservation Doctrine": US National Security Agreements (MCC, ACSA, SOFA) Incompatible with International Law
Tamara Kunanayakam | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
"[T]here is no friendship when nations are not equal, when one has to obey another and when one only dominates another." Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India Closing Speech at the Asian-African Conference, Bandung, 1955 | Acquisition and Cross …
globalresearch.ca/mcc-acsa-sofa-incompatible-international-law/5694350

Speaking truth to power: the UN experts fighting for global human rights
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-08
Fearless. Plain-speaking. Critical. Courageous. Unflinching. Unfair. Biased. Manipulative. These are some of the adjectives used to describe the Human Rights Council experts who fan out across the world to research, hold consultations and gather information on a vast range of human rights violations.
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China and US Agree on Phased Tariffs Rollback?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
According to US and Chinese media, negotiators of both countries agreed to partially roll back tariffs. | Spokesman for China's Commerce Ministry Gao Feng said the following: | "If the phase-one deal is signed, China and the US should remove the same | …
globalresearch.ca/china-us-agree-phased-tariffs-rollback/5694369

Dwindling US Hegemony in South East Asia in Favor of China
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
The 2019 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit held in Thailand earlier this week has given a signal of how the regional order is beginning to change. The ASEAN platform serves as a biannual conference between 10 Southeast countries, …
globalresearch.ca/dwindling-us-hegemony-in-south-east-asia-in-favor-of-china/5694329

Nelson Algren and the Pathologies of Life in the USA
Ben Terrall | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-08
Colin Asher's Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren is both a top-notch work of research and an elegantly written profile of a great writer who is too little remembered today. Unlike too many contemporary biographies, which tend to be either research dumps badly in need of editing or axe-grinding…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/08/nelson-algren-and-the-pathologies-of-life-in-the-usa/

Syria: Where Have All the "Professional" Journalists Gone?
Janice Kortkamp | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
I'm in Homs on my sixth visit to this vibrant city since May 2016 as an independent, self-funded activist and social media amateur journalist. | Since peace and stability have been restored and life is returning, the "professional news media" is …
globalresearch.ca/where-professional-journalists-gone/5694319

Israel's Supreme Court — Upholding "Targeted Assassinations" and Torture
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
Time and again, Israel's high court upholds human and civil rights abuses committed by the state. | In 2006, the court upheld its targeted assassinations policy, claiming they're OK when no other choices exist to protect against dangers to national security …
globalresearch.ca/israel-supreme-court-upholding-abuses-human-civil-rights/5694365

Thirst for Justice: America's Struggle for Clean Water
Leana Hosea | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
Somehow I'd ended up on a plastic mattress in a tiny prison cell wearing the infamous orange jump suit. I'd been arrested once before in Egypt during the revolution as a journalist, but now I was in Wisconsin, America, where …
globalresearch.ca/thirst-for-justice-americas-struggle-for-clean-water/5694371

Flooding the market with fake rhino horn could help stop poaching
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-08
Scientists have invented a way to create fake rhino horn using horse hair — hoping it will provide a blueprint for flooding the market with credible fakes.Rhino horn is believed to have many benefits in Chinese medicine, including working as an aphrodisiac.However, researchers say the reality is that sellers are often cutting the horn with drugs such as Viagra.They add that regardless of the blend, the demand for rhino horn continues to drive poaching, with devastating effects for wild populations.The study, published in Scientific Reports, aims to provide a way to confuse, and in turn diminish, the demand f…
thecanary.co/uk/2019/11/08/flooding-the-market-with-fake-rhino-horn-could-help-stop-poaching/

China's Vision for the Future: "Give Peace a Chance"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
China's vision for the future is "Give Peace a Chance". It is also the title of one of John Lennon's most prominent songs. It became the anthem for the anti-war movement, at the time of the US-waged war against Vietnam. …
globalresearch.ca/china-vision-future/5694334

New Chapter in Greek-Russian Relations?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
The Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on November 6 amidst a string of events that have complicated relations between the two countries. Following official visits to Cyprus, Israel and the United …
globalresearch.ca/new-chapter-greek-russian-relations/5694380

Syria: "U.S. Get Out!"
UNACpeace | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) stands in solidarity with the long-suffering people of Syria. We oppose all foreign occupation of Syrian territory. Syria belongs to the Syrians. | The current Turkish incursion into northern Syria is in violation of Syrian …
globalresearch.ca/unac-statement-situation-syria-u-s-out/5694345

Breaking Open a Black Hole: The World's Most Dangerous Experiment
Haley Zaremba | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
2012 was a big year for black holes. Or, rather, for our understanding of them. First, Scientific American published a moderately terrifying paper titled "Black Holes are Everywhere" and then a team of researchers at Princeton University numerically solved the …
globalresearch.ca/breaking-open-black-hole-world-most-dangerous-experiment/5694375

The Completion of the Kartarpur Corridor Is a Victory for the Sikh Community
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-08
The global Sikh community is celebrating the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor on 9 November that will create an international pilgrimage route from India to the nearby Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan where the founder of the world's fifth-largest …
globalresearch.ca/completion-kartarpur-corridor-victory-sikh-community/5694343

Growing Ecological Civilization in China
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-08
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences invited me to an international ecological conference in Jinan, Shandong Province. The Academy gave the conference a provocative and insightful title: a Paradigm Shift: Towards Ecological Civilization: China and the World. I listened to several Chinese and non-Chinese experts talk about a variety of issues (political, economic and ecological)…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/08/growing-ecological-civilization-in-china/

Beijing looks to end Hong Kong protest movement
wsws.org | 2019-11-08
Youth and students fighting to defend democratic rights in Hong Kong must turn to the international working class as their only allies in this struggle.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/08/hong…

Remembering the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-08
The 1968 Orangeburg massacre is one of the most violent and least remembered events of the civil rights movement. A crowd of students gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University to protest segregation at Orangeburg's only bowling alley. After days of escalating tensions, students started a bonfire and held a vigil on the campus to protest. Dozens of police arrived on the scene, and state troopers fired live ammunition into the crowd. When the shooting stopped, three students were dead and 28 wounded. Although the tra…
truthout.org/video/remembering-the-1968-orangeburg-massacre/

I'm Watching My Students Become Soldiers in Our Endless Wars
Danny Sjursen | thenation.com | 2019-11-08
I'm Watching My Students Become Soldiers in Our Endless Wars…
thenation.com/article/afghanistan-army-west-point/

Study: At Least 15,600 Premature Deaths Resulted From GOP Blocking Medicaid Expansion
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-08
New research "shows that gaining Medicaid coverage is literally a matter of life and death, particularly for people with serious health needs," and bolsters arguments in favor of states expanding their Medicaid programs, according to a report published this week by a leading progressive policy institute. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/08/study-least-15600-premature-deaths-resulted-gop-blocking-medicaid-expansion?cd-origin=rss

#HereToStay: Student Walkouts Across US to Demand Supreme Court Defend DACA
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-08
Days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the first oral arguments regarding President Donald Trump's decision to rescind working permits for undocumented young people, thousands of high school and college students staged walkouts Friday to declare that DACA recipients are "here to stay." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/08/heretostay-student-walkouts-across-us-demand-supreme-court-defend-daca?cd-origin=rss

Remembering the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre When Police Shot Dead Three Unarmed Black Students
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-08
The 1968 Orangeburg massacre is one of the most violent and least remembered events of the civil rights movement. A crowd of students gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University to protest segregation at Orangeburg's only bowling alley. After days of escalating tensions, students started a bonfire and held a vigil on the campus to protest. Dozens of police arrived on the scene, and state troopers fired live ammunition into the crowd. When the shooting stopped, three students were dead and 28 wounded. Although the tragedy predated the Kent State shootings and Jackson State killings and it was the fir…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/8/rememberi…

World in revolt: People rise up
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-08
People's movementsIssue 1244 World climate emergency student strike 4 climate Extinction RebellionNovember 8, 2019Across the globe, people are rising. | People's power moveme…
greenleft.org.au/content/world-revolt-people-rise

America's Education System: Teaching the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
John Stanton | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-07
Ask students to read for more than a couple of sentences and many will protest that they can't do it. The most frequent complaint that teachers hear that it's boring. It is not so much the content of the written material that is at issues here; it is the act of reading itself that is …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/americas-education-system-teaching-the-price-of-everything-and-the-value-of-nothing/

Apartheid in the global governance system
Jason Hickel | mronline.org | 2019-11-07
In my research I have argued that rising global inequality is driven in large part by power imbalances in the global economy, in that rich countries have disproportionate influence when it comes to setting the rules of international trade and finance. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/07/apartheid-in-the-global-governance-system/

'Could have been the worst day': 6yo Ohio student brings LOADED GUN to class for 'show & tell'
rt.com | 2019-11-07
A charter school in Ohio was in for quite a scare when a first grade student showed up to class armed with a loaded handgun, in what police say could have become the "worst day" in the school's history. | Responding to a call from Kids Care Elementary School in Columbus on Wednesday morning, police soon learned that a six-year-old student had brought a weapon into the building. The pistol was safely retrieved from the boy's backpack after he showed it to a classmate, who in turn alerted a teacher. The boy was then taken into protective custody. | "Another student had seen the gun in some fashion, and [then]…
rt.com/usa/472811-first-grader-gun-school/

Algerian Protesters Are Still in the Streets, Months After Pushing Out Longtime President Bouteflika
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-07
In Algeria, protests against corruption, the jailing of opposition leaders and the army's powerful role in national politics have entered their ninth month. Tens of thousands filled the streets of the capital Algiers last Friday to mark the 65th anniversary of the war of independence from France and to demand a "new revolution" rather than an upcoming election they say will be rigged. Over 100 student protesters were arrested last night as the Algerian government intensified its crackdown on demonstrators ahead of the upcoming polls. Interim President Abdelkader Bensalah announced the country will hold a presiden…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/7/algerian_…