Marijuana Goes to House Floor with Landslide Victory for Safe Banking Act
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
For the first time since the war on marijuana was declared by President Richard Nixon, progressive marijuana law reform was considered on the Floor of the House of Representatives, and won by a landslide. Now, it is likely to be …
globalresearch.ca/marijuana-landslide-victory-safe-banking-act/5690319

At UN Session, US Empire in Decline and Global Solidarity on the Rise
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
As the United Nations General Assembly conducts its fall session, Popular Resistance is in New York City for the People's Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save the Planet. Themes of the mobilization are connecting militarism and …
globalresearch.ca/un-session-us-empire-decline-global-solidarity-rise/5690306

The Good (Free Tuition!), the Bad (Student Debt), & the Ugly (DeVos's DOE) in Higher Ed
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2019-09-27
The Good (Free Tuition!), the Bad (Student Debt), & the Ugly (DeVos's DOE) in Higher Ed…
thenation.com/article/education-debt-devos-loans/

The Trump Administration Can't Force Colleges to Further Its Anti-Muslim Agenda
aclu.org | 2019-09-27
We're demanding the administration end its politicized investigation into Duke-UNC's Middle East Studies program, and turn over all related records. | In a move that would make even Senator McCarthy blush, the Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding from a Middle East Studies program for failing to toe the government's line on Islam and Muslims. | Last week, Betsy DeVos's Department of Education sent a letter to administrators…
aclu.org/blog/religious-liberty/using-religion-discriminate/trump-administration-cant-force-colleges-further

Brazilian Students Take Protest to Next Level, Launch Strike Against Bolsonaro Education Cuts
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-27
Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has proposed privatization and immediate slashing of the public education budget. Students worried about the future of education in Brazil are beginning to mobilize with a strike at one of the county's main universities. Mike Fox reports from Brazil…
therealnews.com/stories/brazil-students-protest-bolsonaro-education-cuts

Protest Alone Won't Save Our Planet
Paul Street | truthdig.com | 2019-09-27
We can all use a shot of hope. I got one from 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and the disproportionately youthful masses–4 million across 150 cities worldwide–who came out for climate sanity last week. I listened online to the speech Thunberg delivered to more than 300,000 mostly young people in lower Manhattan on Friday. She spoke eloquently about the supreme ecological danger we face, thanks to the relentless pursuit of profit and to the insincere assurances and pathetic inaction of politicians and policymakers the world over: | We have not taken to the streets, sacrificing our education…
truthdig.com/articles/protest-alone-wont-save-our-planet/

Ukraine's Federalization: Lavrov vs. Lukashenko
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Belarusian President Lukashenko are publicly at odds over the issue of Ukraine's federalizaton as a possible outcome of Kiev finally implementing the Minsk Accords in the event of the "New Detente" succeeding, with this serious …
globalresearch.ca/ukraine-federalization-lavrov-lukashenko/5690362

Longstanding US Electoral Dirty Tricks. Ukrainegate is a Russiagate Spinoff
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Along with clear evidence of US meddling in scores of foreign elections, wanting ruling authorities serving its interests installed, the US political process was rife with fraud and other dirty tricks time and again since early in the 18th century. …
globalresearch.ca/longstanding-us-electoral-dirty-tricks-ukrainegate-is-a-russiagate-spinoff/5690347

Maduro Thinks Russia and Venezuela Can "Overcome Any Difficulties", but Is He Right?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
During a meeting with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro held on last Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia supports Venezuela's legitimate government against the continued U.S.-backed coup led by opposition leader Juan Guaidó. However, the Russian president also …
globalresearch.ca/maduro-thinks-russia-venezuela-overcome-any-difficulties/5690342

Challenges to US Hegemony: America Will Remain the World's Strongest Nation for Years to Come?
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
It was always an impossible challenge for America to retain the unrivalled power she enjoyed in 1945, when the country controlled both ends of the earth and had a massively powerful economy. At the end of World War II, the …
globalresearch.ca/america-remain-strongest-nation/5690317

Washington Sends Arms and Logistic Equipment to Its Occupation Forces in Syria
Basma Qaddour | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Washington had sent over the past hours new reinforcements to its occupation troops in Syria, according to local sources in Qameshli. | The sources said that a convey composed of dozens of cars and trucks carrying weapons plus military and logistic …
globalresearch.ca/washington-sends-arms-logistic-equipment-occupation-forces-syria/5690315

Turkey Gives the US a Deadline in Syrian 'Safe-zone'
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The Syrian war ends in Idlib | While most of Syria struggles to recover from 8 years of bloody conflict, Idlib is left as the last hot-spot. The population in Idlib today includes foreign terrorists following the tenets of Al Qaeda. …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-gives-us-deadline-syrian-safe-zone/5690292

5G Cell Phone Transmission Across Poland: Prime Minister Morawiecki Did not Sign the Global 5G Appeal
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The Polish Ministry of Digitalisation has denied (June 11) that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki signed the Global Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space.[1] | The refute was put out by the Ministry of Digitalisation, the government department that …
globalresearch.ca/polish-ministry-digitalisation-denies-polish-prime-minister-supported-5g-appeal/5690340

Video: Who Really Benefits from The Alleged 'Iranian Attack' on Saudi Arabia's Oil Facility?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
In the second half of 2019, the Middle East entered yet another turbulence zone created by a sharpened conflict between Iran and regional Shia groups on the one side and the US-Israeli-Saudi alliance on another. In contrast to the 2015-2017 …
globalresearch.ca/who-benefits-iranian-attack-saudi-arabia/5690300

Official Reforms and India's Real Economy
Sunanda Sen | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-09-27
asia-pacificresearch.com/official-reforms-india-real-economy/5628907

Hong Kong Protests: Fading Foreign Tantrum, Not Genuine Revolution
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Just as unfolded in 2014 during the so-called "Umbrella protests" or "Occupy Central" movement, a growing backlash has begun across Hong Kong against US-funded protests that have attempted to disrupt governance and commerce as part of a floundering movement to …
globalresearch.ca/hong-kong-protests-fading-not-genuine-revolution/5690335

Caltech receives $750 million from bottled water industry billionaires
Amanda Mills | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-27
Billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick, who own The Wonderful Company which produces Pom Wonderful and Fiji Water, just announced they will be donating the second-largest donation ever to an American university for environmental studies on climate change. Today Stewart and Lynda Resnick, owners of @Wonderful, announced a $750M gift to fund environmental sustainability research and …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/27/caltech-receives-750-million-from-bottled-water-industry-billionaires/

145,000 Tons of Indian Oil at Risk after US Blacklists Chinese Shipping Companies
Great Game India | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The US has put sanctions on several Chinese companies and their top officials for allegedly shipping Iranian oil, putting dozens of supertankers off limits to western energy traders. As a direct impact of the blacklisting of Chinese shipping company Cosco, …
globalresearch.ca/145000-tonnes-indian-oil-risk-us-blacklists-chinese-shipping-companies/5690370

Just How Swampy Are U.S-Saudi Arms Deals?
Andrew Cockburn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The old maxim that "the U.S. government exists to buy arms at home and sell arms abroad" was never truer than today. Our defense budget is soaring to previously undreamed-of heights and overseas weapons deals are setting new records. | Indeed, …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-saudi-arms-deals/5690355

Leaked: Johnson to Use NHS Privatisation Failure as Centre Piece in Snap Election
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
In 2013, the Conservative party famously went about purging its website and the internet of press releases it made about its 2010 manifesto promises. Basically, they lied to get into power and U-turned on the most significant of promises. | In …
globalresearch.ca/johnson-use-nhs-privatisation-failure-centre-piece-snap-election/5690359

Remembering Hisham Ahmed. The Reality of Palestine
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
Hisham Ahmed was born in Deheisheh refugee camp on the outskirts of Bethlehem, Palestine in 1963. Blind from birth, Hisham somehow surmounted all odds and ultimately earned a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He taught for …
globalresearch.ca/remembering-hisham-ahmed-the-reality-of-palestine/5690323

Forty Years Ago, the Carter Administration Covered Up a Presumed Israeli Nuclear Test
John Krzyzaniak | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
On September 22, 1979, a US Vela satellite detected a "double flash" signal far off the coast of South Africa. It was the tell-tale sign of an atmospheric nuclear explosion: US Vela satellites, launched to help enforce the Partial Test …
globalresearch.ca/forty-years-ago-carter-administration-covered-up-presumed-israeli-nuclear-test/5690367

The Real Purpose of the Impeachment Investigation against Trump. Political Power Play
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The Democrats know that there is no impeachable offense. What they intend to do is to use the investigation to look into every aspect of Trump's life and try to make dirt out of things unrelated to his talk with …
globalresearch.ca/democrats-reveal-real-purpose-impeachment-investigation/5690312

New research warns severe climate-related droughts could threaten 60% of global wheat crop by 2100
Jessica Corbett | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-27
Underscoring the necessity of aggressive action to combat human-caused global warming, research published Wednesday warns that the majority of the world's wheat fields are at risk of enduring "severe, prolonged, and near-simultaneous droughts" by the end of the century–raising serious concerns about future food insecurity and political instability. "If only one country or region sees …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/27/new-research-warns-severe-climate-related-droughts-could-threaten-60-of-global-wheat-crop-by-2100/

Why Didn't Iraq Retaliate Against Israel?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The US and Israel are manoeuvring between the internal Iraqi differences in order to hit Hashd al-Shaabi, the "Popular Mobilisation Forces" (PMF). These forces have gathered significant domestic support and created many enemies among the Iraqis. The reason for this …
globalresearch.ca/why-didnt-iraq-retaliate-against-israel/5690357

US War on Russia by Other Means
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-27
The US under both militant wings of its war party is an unparalleled global menace. | For the first time in world history, one nation threatens everyone everywhere at home and abroad. It risks destruction of planet earth to own it, …
globalresearch.ca/us-war-russia/5690345

Laid off Wrightbus workers 'face struggle to house families'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-27
Wrightbus workers face a struggle to house their families, one former employee has said. | Ryan Price, a supervisor aged 29, is married and his two children share a bedroom in a rental property. | He was bidding to buy a house and had saved a deposit but will find it difficult to access state benefits because of his savings. | The musician picked up his guitar and sang a song by Irish performer and social conscience Christy Moore about the impact of factory closures on ordinary men. | Mr Price said: "A lot of people are down and out, it is not just us, it affects other companies too. | "Morale still seems good bu…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/09/27/laid-off-wrightbus-workers-face-struggle-to-house-families/

The Way to Authoritarianism is Paved with Lies
Jurg Muller-Muralt | indybay.org | 2019-09-27
Lying is part of the human condition. But democracy is in peril when politicians make lying into a "business principle." Lying is a second nature for Trump. Trump lies strategically and doesn't have a bad conscience. For Trump, the borders between true and false have largely disappeared. Liars and bullshitters undermine trust in language and calculable communication.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/26/18826747.php

"Our demands remain the same": A conversation with Extinction Rebellion UK's national spokesperson, Zion Lights
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-27
Starting on Friday, September 20th and scheduled to officially end on the 27th, the global climate strike movement started by Greta Thunberg has brought together students and many of those inspired by them, from parents to union workers, in cities and towns around the world. Perhaps one of the most interesting things about the struggle to …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/27/our-demands-remain-the-same-a-conversation-with-extinction-rebellion-uks-national-spokesperson-zion-lights/

Mandarin announcement of Australian lecture series on 70th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution
wsws.org | 2019-09-27
The lectures, which are being held on university campuses across the country, have been organised by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/27/mand…

Ninety-four Percent of CTU Members Vote to Authorize Strike for Schools Chicago's Students Deserve
commondreams.org | 2019-09-27
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/09/27/ninety-four-percent-ctu-members-vote-authorize-strike-schools-chicagos-students?cd-origin=rss

Protests in Indonesia against new criminal code met with "mass police violence"
wsws.org | 2019-09-27
Tens of thousands of students and youth have taken to the streets, in some of the largest student protests since the mass movement that toppled the Suharto dictatorship in 1998.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/27/indo…

Graduate Workers Will Fight Like Hell to Stop the Trump Labor Board's New Rule
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-27
| At universities across the country, graduate student workers perform essential labor. We teach classes, grade exams and assignments, tutor and mentor undergraduates, maintain labs, and perform clerical duties. Some 66,000 graduate employees at over 30 universities in the United States are currently represented by unions and protected through collective bargaining agreem…
truthout.org/articles/graduate-workers-will-fight-like-hell-to-stop-the-trump-labor-boards-new-rule/

2M Yemeni Children Out of School, 3.7M at Risk of Dropping Out
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-26
Two million children are currently out of school in war-torn Yemen as the new school year is about to start, and the figure includes almost half a million who pull out since the conflict started in 2015, according to a statement released Wednesday by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). | RELATED: | Saudi Arabia Uses Human Trafficking to Hire Soldiers: Report | In addition, the organization said that the education of another 3.7 million children now is uncertain as teache…
telesurenglish.net/news/2-M-Yemeni-Children-Out-of-School-3.7M-at-Risk-of-Dropping-Out-20190926-0024.html

Mirrored classroom display highlights scale of massive education crisis
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-26
A non-profit dedicated to exposing the severity of the global education crisis has been inviting delegates to the UN General Assembly inside a compact mirrored installation this week, to drive home the reality that around 260 million children are missing from classrooms around the world.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1047772

Education Dept says Middle East Studies program has to advance the security interests of the United States in order to receive further funding
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-09-26
The U.S. Department of Education has determined the Duke-University of North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies misused Title VI funds and they're requiring the program to provide a revised list of activities that will use these funds over the coming year. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/25/education-dept-says-middle-east-studies-program-has-to-advance-the-security-interests-of-the-united-states-in-order-to-receive-further-funding/

Trump Frees Himself From Bolton — but Robert O'Brien Will Be Just as Bad
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-26
After months of rumors, John Bolton was finally fired from the White House but…
globalresearch.ca/trump-frees-himself-from-bolton-but-robert-obrien-will-be-just-as-bad/5690247

Shadow Politics and the "Kremlin's Hand", To Whom Does It Belong? The Historic Role of Sergei Shoigu
Michael Kim | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-26
A fair face may hide a foul heart. This idea will never lose its relevance, especially when it comes to the appearance of public officials — senior executives, businessmen and presidents. Their appearance, or rather their image, is what we …
globalresearch.ca/shadow-politics-and-the-kremlins-hand-to-whom-does-it-belong-the-historic-role-of-sergei-shoigu/5690224

Using delicate cycle for everyday laundry can release more microfibres, study says
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-26
Using a delicate cycle for everyday laundry is causing hundreds of thousands of extra microfibres to be released into our water systems and end up in the sea, scientists have found.Although regular washing cycles cause clothes to be bashed together and create more friction between garments, they use less water than gentler programmes which agitate the garments less, they said.Researchers at Newcastle University found that it is the volume of water used, rather than the spinning action in the drum, which is the key factor in plucking the tiny plastic particles from man-made material.Millions of plastic microfibres…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/09/26/using-delicate-cycle-for-everyday-laundry-can-release-more-microfibres-study-says/

Will China's Belt and Road (BRI) Diplomacy Facilitate a Rapprochement Between Myanmar and Bangladesh?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-26
China's active diplomatic efforts in trying to resolve the "Rohingya" issue can facilitate a rapprochement between Myanmar and Bangladesh that strengthens their trilateral cooperation through the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) and secures a second corridor for Beijing to the …
globalresearch.ca/will-chinas-belt-and-road-bri-diplomacy-facilitate-a-rapprochement-between-myanmar-and-bangladesh/5690233

No Justification for the Existence of Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-26
One of the main claims to fame of privately-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools is that they will deliver bigger and better results than public schools in exchange for greater flexibility and autonomy to operate than public schools. Two recent reports, however, build on extensive previous research which shows that academic performance in privately operated …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/no-justification-for-the-existence-of-charter-schools/

Trumpsters: Grad Students Are Not Workers, Have No Rights
Michelle Chen | progressive.org | 2019-09-26
The National Labor Relations Board just proposed a rule returning to their Bush-era position, undermining years of steady gains in graduate worker organizing.
progressive.org/dispatches/trumpsters-grad-student-no-rights-chen-190926/

Indonesia To Reconsider Graft Law After Student Dies in Protest
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-26
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said Thursday he is considering revoking a new law governing the country's anti-corruption agency, which has alarmed activists and helped drive the biggest student protests in decades. | RELATED: | Thousands Demand Independence in Indonesia's Papua Regions | In a televised address, Widodo said he had received a lot of feedback on the new law including on whether to use his authority to replace it by issuing a regulation instead. | "Of course we will c…
telesurenglish.net/news/Indonesia-To-Reconsider-Graft-Law-After-Student-Dies-in-Protest-20190926-0011.html

Jewish anti-racist Jackie Walker speaks about resisting 'a major witch hunt'
Slava Zilber | thecanary.co | 2019-09-26
Jackie Walker is a Jewish supporter of Palestinian rights who has faced off allegations of antisemitism in recent years. And she recently spoke to me about her ordeal. | A 'professional anti-racist': | She began by explaining her background, saying: I'm not just an activist… I was also professionally an anti-racist. So I was an adviser/teacher on anti-racism as well as going on demonstrations etc about anti-racist practice, because the reason my parents were together was because of the civil rights movement. And in th…
thecanary.co/feature/2019/09/26/jewish-anti-racist-jackie-walker-speaks-about-resisting-a-major-witch-hunt/

Teachers, Service Employees become first unions to back Trump impeachment probe
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-26
WASHINGTON–The Teachers (AFT) and the Service Employees have become the first unions to break organized labor's long silence on starting an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. They're for it. "All Americans–no matter where we are from or what color we are–can agree that our democracy is too important for any individual to be above …
peoplesworld.org/article/teachers-service-employees-become-first-unions-to-back-trump-impeachment-probe/

'We are a wave of change,' say New York climate strikers
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-26
climate action Barry SheppardIssue 1239 United States student strike for climate SS4CSeptember 26, 2019I had no idea that September 20 would be so huge. Greta Thunberg said to a reporter as she…
greenleft.org.au/content/we-are-wave-change-say-new-york-climate-strikers

School strikers take aim at Morrison, vow to continue
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-26
Climate Strike climate action Pip HinmanIssue 1239 AustraliaSeptember 26, 2019″The student strikes have been phenomenal — surreal at times," Sydney high school student Chloe Russell-Alexander told Green Left Weekly reflecting on the huge Climate Strike that saw…
greenleft.org.au/content/school-strikers-take-aim-morrison-vow-continue

Mark Taliano's "Voices from Syria": An Antidote to Anti-Syria Propaganda
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-26
Taliano talks and listens to the people of Syria. He reveals the courage and resilience of a Nation and its people in their day to day lives, after more than six years of US-NATO sponsored terrorism and three years of US "peacemaking" airstrikes. "Voices from Syria is a powerful account of a message from the Syrian people telling the West to stop killing innocent civilians…"
globalresearch.ca/mark-talianos-voices-from-syria-new-book-from-global-research/5606787

Postcards From the Global Climate Strike
StudentNation | thenation.com | 2019-09-25
Postcards From the Global Climate Strike…
thenation.com/article/postcards-from-the-global-climate-strike/

Baltimore's New Teachers Union President Says Schools are in a "State of Emergency"
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-25
"There has been a culture of fear and retaliation created in the Baltimore City Schools," says the new president of the Baltimore Teaches Union in episode 10 of Real Talk Tho…
therealnews.com/stories/baltimore-teachers-union-president-schools-state-emergency