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Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military's Experiments with Climatic Warfare
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
'Climatic warfare' has been excluded from the agenda on climate change.
globalresearch.ca/weather-warfare-beware-the-us-military-s-experiments-with-climatic-warfare/7561

Climate Disruption: It's Not Due to CO2
Prof. Claudia von Werlhof | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
Professor Claudia von Werlhof wrote to Greta Thunberg. | In her letter Von Werlhof says that the disruption of the global climate is not due to CO2. | Following the publication of her letter, Silvia Terribili, of Onda Italia interviewed …
globalresearch.ca/climate-disruption-its-not-due-to-co2/5677036

Human Rights Rhetoric at the UN Is Not Enough to Combat the US Blockade on Cuba
Ramona Wadi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
The latest tightening of US sanctions on Cuba which have led to a fuel crisis in the country, expose the futility of UN diplomacy when it comes to upholding its own definitions of international law. Since 1962, Cuba has been …
globalresearch.ca/human-rights-rhetoric-at-the-un-is-not-enough-to-combat-the-us-blockade-on-cuba/5690046

The Coverup of President John F. Kennedy's Assassination Is Wearing Thin
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
Below is a several years old documentary of 35 minutes summarizing the powerful evidence that the Warran Commission Report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is a cover-up. | All available evidence points to the CIA and the US …
globalresearch.ca/the-coverup-of-president-john-f-kennedys-assassination-is-wearing-thin/5690094

Why a War Against Iran Will be the "Nail in a Coffin" for U.S. Hegemony in the Middle East
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
First published in July 2019 | President Donald Trump was recently interviewed on Fox Business and was asked about Iran's President Hassan Rouhani's statement calling the White House "Mentally Retarded" and if the U.S. was going to have a war …
globalresearch.ca/why-war-against-iran-will-nail-coffin-u-s-hegemony-middle-east/5682883

American Torture Techniques Were Developed At McGill University
Edward McCary | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
Many Canadians have been closely following the beginning of the Trump presidency, watching in shock and horror as Trump passes a series of authoritarian executive orders. | One executive order in particular, planned for the near future, is poised to resurrect …
globalresearch.ca/american-torture-techniques-were-developed-at-mcgill/5690054

Tiananmen Square: The Failure of an American-instigated 1989 Color Revolution
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
There are few places in China that seem more burned into the consciousness of typical Westerners than Tiananmen Square, and few events more commonly mentioned than the student protests of 1989. But the stories are wrong on several levels. It …
globalresearch.ca/tiananmen-square-the-failure-of-an-american-instigated-1989-color-revolution/5690061

US Election Candidates: As Joe Biden Falters, Will Elizabeth Warren Survive the Scrutiny
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
Despite early polls which showed some of the 'top tier' Democrat candidates beating Trump in a general election, the last DNC debate left considerable question as to whether there was enough substance on that stage to win the White House….
globalresearch.ca/us-elections-candidates-as-joe-biden-falters-will-elizabeth-warren-survive-the-scrutiny/5690087

Russia's Middle East Strategy: "Balance" vs. "Betrayal"?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
There's an intense debate raging within the Alternative and Independent media over whether Russia's contemporary Mideast strategy amounts to "balancing" or "betraying" the Resistance given the Eurasian Great Power's extremely close military cooperation with "Israel" in Syria. | The Freakish Fusion …
globalresearch.ca/russias-middle-east-strategy-balance-vs-betrayal/5690056

Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
Much of the following article is based on a new 20-page report by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason. Readers are urged to access the full report containing all relevant citations here. | In a new paper published in King's Law …
globalresearch.ca/pesticides-in-the-dock-ecological-apocalypse-but-business-as-usual/5690072

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to be Released in the US? Trump Ally Pushes for Permit
GMWatch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
Documents obtained through the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show a lobbyist and leading Trump fundraiser, his billionaire friend who owns the GM mosquito firm Oxitec, and the US EPA's then boss met to discuss how to forward Oxitec's …
globalresearch.ca/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-to-be-released-in-the-us-trump-ally-pushes-for-permit/5690052

Syrian Army Prepares for Escalation in Golan Heights
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
On September 21, an EW unit of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) intercepted and took control of a large quadcopter-style unmanned aerial vehicle over the town of Erneh, near the contact line between the SAA and the Israeli-occupied part of …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-army-prepares-for-escalation-in-golan-heights/5690080

The Treatment of Schizophrenia and Dr Loren Mosher's Soteria Project
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
"Psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies…We're so busy with drugs that you can't find a nickel being spent on [non-drug] research." — Dr Loren Mosher | Psychiatrist Loren Mosher (who earned medical degrees from both Harvard …
globalresearch.ca/dr-loren-mosher-soteria-project-nefarious-psychiatric-governmental-pharmaceutical-industry/5689904

Hot and Cold Tensions, What Iran and the US Offer Their Allies: Tehran's Multiple Messages
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
The alternately hot and cold tension between the US and Iran is evolving on the Middle Eastern stage where Tehran is hitting its enemies (on its own and with the help of its allies) without causing the death of a …
globalresearch.ca/hot-and-cold-tensions-what-iran-and-the-us-offer-their-allies-tehrans-multiple-messages/5690048

India, Pakistan, Kashmir: Taking the War Option Off the Table
Zia Mian | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
On September 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York. This appearance will come at a time of great concern about the increasingly hostile …
globalresearch.ca/india-pakistan-kashmir-taking-the-war-option-off-the-table/5690044

Humanitarian Crisis in Kashmir: India's "Economic Opening" Has "Closed Off Kashmir"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
The following is the speech that Andrew Korybko gave at the "Humanitarian Crisis In Kashmir: Paths To A Resolution" conference that was held in Moscow on 23 September. | We're here today to draw attention to what's been happening in Indian-Occupied …
globalresearch.ca/humanitarian-crisis-in-kashmir-indias-economic-opening-has-closed-off-kashmir/5690100

The Rockefeller Way: The Family's Covert 'Climate Change' Plan
The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
First published in December 2016, this article is of relevance to an understanding of the ongoing Climate, Extinction Rebellion debate. | Who is funding the "Protest Movement" | "Beginning in the 1980s, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund became leading advocates of the global …
globalresearch.ca/rockefeller-familys-covert-climate-change-plan/5678775

Full Spectrum Dominance: The US Demonizes "Invented Enemies"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
Hegemon USA needs enemies to advance its imperial aims. None exist so they're invented. | The scheme is all about pursuing what the Pentagon's May 2000 Joint Vision 2020 called "full-spectrum dominance." | It refers to unchallenged US control over planet earth, …
globalresearch.ca/us-demonizes-invented-enemies/5689750

A Damning Verdict by the Supreme Court against Boris Johnson Who Should Now Resign with his Cabinet
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
In a verdict unprecedented in British legal and constitutional history, the Supreme Court consisting of eleven of the most senior justices, today ruled unanimously that the current Conservative Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, had acted unlawfully in his prorogation (suspension …
globalresearch.ca/a-damning-verdict-by-the-supreme-court-against-boris-johnson-who-should-now-resign-with-his-cabinet/5690032

Dialogue in Venezuela is a Missed Opportunity for Democrats
Leonardo Flores | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
President Nicolás Maduro signed an important agreement with four opposition parties. These events offer insight …
globalresearch.ca/dialogue-in-venezuela-is-a-missed-opportunity-for-democrats/5690085

5G Danger: 13 Reasons 5G Wireless Technology Will Be a Catastrophe for Humanity
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
The 5G danger can't be overstated. | 5G (5th Generation) is now being actively rolled out in many cities around the world. Simultaneously, as awareness over its horrific health and privacy impacts is rising, many places are issuing moratoriums on it …
globalresearch.ca/5g-danger-13-reasons-5g-wireless-technology-will-be-a-catastrophe-for-humanity/5680503

Youth lead as millions march in Global Climate Strike
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2019-09-24
Sept. 20 — Around the world today, it's estimated that 4 million people took to the streets in an unprecedented Global Climate Strike, led for the most part by youth under 18. Many students walked out of school in unexcused absences, while others came with teachers or parents. Many young . . . | Continue reading Youth lead as millions march in Global Climate Strike at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/09/24/youth-lead-as-millions-march-in-global-climate-strike/

8000 march at Youth Climate Strike in St. Paul, MN
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-09-24
St. Paul, MN – More than 8000 students, youth and their supporters marched to the State Capitol, September 20, joining the global Youth Climate Strike. As the protest poured onto the capitol grounds, they chanted, "Hey hey, ho ho, climate change has got to go," and "There is no planet B!" They joined millions from around the world. | Daylon Prochaska, a Chaska High School student and member of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike who helped organize the Twin Cities school walkout, stated, "Never has there been such an incredible mobilization here and on international the scale or ever in the history of the world." | Aft…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/9/24/8000-mar…

Extinction Rebellion: Leaving it to the Students
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-24
The protestor of school age sported a placard featuring a distorted caricature of Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison: "Scomo was liking it hot". A glorious spring day, and a gathering was already fussing and buzzing outside the Victorian State Library and students were striking. The placard image was one that toasted both ways — looking…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/24/extinction-rebellion-leaving-it-to-the-students/

Gun Violence Memorial Project allows victims to speak, even in death
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-24
CHICAGO–"Kaylyn was visiting my parents. She was coming home when she was shot in a drive-by shooting," said Alan Scott softly, the painful memory plainly etched in his voice. His daughter, Kaylyn Nicole Pryor, was a student at Robert Morris College when she was killed in 2015. Scott had come to the opening of the …
peoplesworld.org/article/chicagos-gun-violence-memorial-project-allows-victims-to-speak-even-in-death/

Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2019-09-24
Argentine teachers have set a September 25 date for a nationwide strike to press wage demands while 1,000 hospitality workers in Vancouver, British Columbia have launched an indefinite strike…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/24/wrkr…

Nate Silver and the Pitfalls of the Corporate Pundit Class
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-24
Political statistician and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight Nate Silver found himself in hot water recently when he seemed to refer to the diverse supporters of Bernie Sanders' campaign as "residue." Jacqueline Luqman talks to Anoa Changa about why that language, and the bias of the corporate pundit class, is an issue.
therealnews.com/stories/nate-silver-and-the-pitfalls-of-the-corporate-pundit-class

Alexandrópolis, a nova base USA contra a Rússia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
"Acabei de voltar de Alexandrópolis, uma visita estrategicamente importante que se concentrou nas relaàßàµes militares excepcionais entre os Estados Unidos e a Grécia e no investimento estratégico que o governo dos EUA está a fazer em Alexandrópolis": declarou, em 16 …
globalresearch.ca/alexandropolis-a-nova-base-usa-contra-a-russia/5690122

Alessandropoli, nuova base Usa contro la Russia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
´Sono appena ritornato da Alessandropoli, una visita strategicamente importante che ha messo a fuoco sia le eccezionali relazioni militari fra Stati uniti e Grecia, sia l'investimento strategico che il governo degli Stati uniti sta facendo ad Alessandropoli ª: lo ha dichiarato …
globalresearch.ca/alessandropoli-nuova-base-usa-contro-la-russia/5690114

UK Supreme Court Rules Parliament Shutdown Illegal. Boris Misled the Queen
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
Since taking office on July 24, virtually everything Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson put to a vote was defeated — an unparalleled record of failure over a short period, especially for a new leader. | Notably, Johnson lost every no-deal Brexit/snap …
globalresearch.ca/uk-supreme-court-rules-parliament-shutdown-illegal-boris-misled-the-queen/5690036

Boris Johnson Tells "Big Business" What a Post-Brexit Deal Really Means for Them
Graham Vanbergen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-24
After yet more failed talks with EU leaders over the backstop for Northern Ireland in New York while attending the UN summit, Boris Johnson took the opportunity to sell to America what Britain will be offering them in a no-deal …
globalresearch.ca/boris-johnson-tells-big-business-what-a-post-brexit-deal-really-means-for-them/5690076

On the Liberty to Teach, Pursue, and Discuss Knowledge without Restriction
Gilad Atzmon | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-23
It didn't take long for the American Administration to crudely interfere with an open society's most sacred ethos, that of academic freedom. We learned this weekend that the US Department of Education has ordered Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to remake their joint Middle East studies program after concluding …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/on-the-liberty-to-teach-pursue-and-discuss-knowledge-without-restriction/

Debating the bedrock of climate-change mitigation scenarios
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-09-23
Researchers and policymakers rely on computer simulations called integrated assessment models to determine the best strategies for tackling climate change. Here, scientists present opposing views on the suitability of these simulations. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/23/debating-the-bedrock-of-climate-change-mitigation-scenarios/

Milwaukee: Hundreds march for the planet
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-09-23
Milwaukee, WI – On the morning of September 20, more than 500 people gathered and marched in downtown Milwaukee to defend the planet. The crowd included a wide variety of people from all different backgrounds and of all different ages. The leaders were young, Black, and predominantly women. | After gathering strength at city hall, demonstrators were led on a nearly two mile march by a handful of students from North Division High School. The student activists are part of a group organized in their school called Youth Rising Up. For many of these young adults, it was their first experience protesting anything, and…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/9/22/milwauke…

From scientist to activist
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-09-23
"Dr. Doom." fellow students joked as we walked out of our department seminar. It was 1998 and the presenter was Richard Gammon, a co-author of the first IPCC report. I didn't share my fellow University of Washington grad students' joke. I was uneasy, wondering about the timing of forecasts and feedback loops. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/23/from-scientist-to-activist/

Millions march against climate change, capitalism and war
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-09-23
Four million people participated in the global climate strike across every continent on Friday, many of them students who skipped school on that day. Demonstrations at more than 5,800 locations in 161 countries began in Australia and the Pacific, moved to Asia, Antarctica, Africa and Europe, and then to North and South America. This is […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/23/millions-march-against-climate-change-capitalism-and-war/

What Back-to-School News Stories Hide About Charter Schools
Peter Greene | progressive.org | 2019-09-23
Behind the feel-good puffery are issues about the loss of local control, under-funded schools, and public money used for private gain.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/back-to-school-hide-charter-schools-greene-190923/

"Our House Is on Fire": Greta Thunberg Addresses Hundreds of Thousands at NYC Climate Strike
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-23
Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg spoke at Friday's climate strike in New York, where an estimated 300,000 people took to the streets. Thunberg inspired the global spread of weekly climate strikes when she started skipping school to protest outside of the Swedish parliament last year. "We will not just stand aside and watch," Thunberg told a crowd of thousands in her speech at Manhattan's Battery Park. "We are united behind the science, and we will do everything in our power to stop this crisis from getting worse."
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/23/new_york_…

"This Is Our Time. This Is Our Future." Voices from the Historic Youth Climate Strike in NYC
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-23
As many as 4 million people around the world took to the streets Friday in the largest day of action focused on the climate crisis. Students across the globe led climate strikes in hundreds of countries, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. The demonstration kicked off in Foley Square, where tens of thousands of people gathered before the march. Varshini Prakash, co-founder and executive director of the Sunrise Movement, and climate activist Vic Barrett were among the handful of activists who addressed the climate strikers in Foley Square.
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/23/global_cl…

US university racism workshop returns, just NINE students come to learn about white privilege
rt.com | 2019-09-22
A university workshop on white privilege and racism was a major flop — attracting just nine students out of the 30,000 enrolled in the school. Last year, the course sparked outrage over the perception that it was 'whites-only'. | The White Consciousness Conversations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte first drew national headlines in September of last year. The scheduled events for students and staff were said to be "for white people" by the school website. Following public backlash, the description was changed to explain that people of color would be welcome to learn about white privilege…
rt.com/usa/469348-whiteness-university-workshop-fail/

Ghost post! Google creates world's most powerful computer, NASA 'accidentally reveals' …and then publication vanishes
rt.com | 2019-09-21
Google's new quantum computer reportedly spends mere minutes on the tasks the world's top supercomputers would need several millennia to perform. The media found out about this after NASA "accidentally" shared the firm's research. | The software engineers at Google have built the world's most powerful computer, the Financial Times and Fortune magazine reported on Friday, citing the company's now-removed research paper. The paper is said to have been posted on a website hosted by NASA, which partners with Goo…
rt.com/usa/469325-google-quantum-computer-reports/

The Supreme Court Considers Mandatory Government Funding of Religious Education
aclu.org | 2019-09-20
A case out of Montana could result in the church-state separation being stripped to the bone. | In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Supreme Court will address a question that would have been unthinkable to ask even until quite recently: Can a state be forced to underwrite religious education with taxpayer dollars? Although the court has previously allowed the government to adopt school-voucher programs that provide indirect government aid to religious schools, it has never suggested that the U.S. Cons…
aclu.org/blog/religious-liberty/religion-and-public-schools/supreme-court-considers-mandatory-government

Two Years After the Hurricane, Puerto Rico's "Generation Maria" Leads a Climate Strike
Alleen Brown | theintercept.com | 2019-09-20
One of the most important moments in 16-year-old Tristán Queriot Rodríguez Vélez's climate activism came at the international airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in mid-July. Puerto Rico's former secretary of education, Julia Keleher, was flying back to the island from Washington, D.C. to stand before a federal judge and confront corruption charges. Rodríguez Vélez and…
theintercept.com/2019/09/20/climate-strike-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria/

"Young People Have Had Enough": Global Climate Strike Youth Activists on Why They Are Marching Today
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-20
Today is the Global Climate Strike, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. As people took to the streets in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, we host a roundtable discussion with youth activists organizing marches in the United States — in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis — ahead of next week's U.N. Climate Action Summit. We are joined by Xiye Bastida, a 17-year-old climate justice activist originally from Mexico who is an organizer with Fridays for Future New York and a student at Beacon High School in New York; Katie Eder, a 19-year-old climate justice activist wh…
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/global_cl…

This Afghan Teen Was Set to Join First-Ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit, But U.S. Denied His Visa
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-20
Climate youth activist Nasratullah Elham of Afghanistan was invited to participate in the first-ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit, but the United States rejected his visa. He breaks the sound barrier to join us from Phuket, Thailand, where he is a 12th grade student, and says his activism is based on the crisis's impact on his home country. "The poor people there are very badly affected in a situation [where] they do not really have much carbon emissions," he says.
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/afghan_te…

California Is Ready to Ensure Every Public College Student Has Access to Abortion
aclu.org | 2019-09-19
The state legislature has passed the first bill in the nation ensuring medication abortion is available on UC and CSU campuses. | In a year when we've seen states throughout the South and Midwest move to ban abortion and restrict access to reproductive health, California could soon cement its reputation as a leader in reproductive freedom. This past week, the state legislature passed SB 24 to ensure that medication abortion is available to college students in public universities. | Jessy Rosales, a UC student, stru…
aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/abortion/california-ready-ensure-every-public-college-student-has-access

Amnesty Head: Climate Crisis Is a "Death Penalty" for Humanity. Leaders Need Political Will to Act
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-19
More than a million students are expected to walk out of class on Friday in a Global Climate Strike, with more than 800 climate strikes scheduled in the United States alone. Strikes are also being organized in another 150 countries around the world. In our New York studio, we speak to Amnesty International's Secretary General Kumi Naidoo, who has urged school districts across the globe to allow students to walk out of school on Friday without facing punishment. In a letter, Naidoo, who is also the former executive director of Greenpeace, writes, "Children should not be punished for speaking out about the great in…
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/19/kumi_naid…

"Beaten Down, Worked Up": Steven Greenhouse on the Past, Present and Future of American Labor
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-18
As UAW workers stand on picket lines across the country, teachers prepare to strike in Chicago, and thousands of healthcare workers with Kaiser Permanente plan to strike in October, we speak with longtime labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, author of the new book "Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor." Among other issues, Greenhouse discusses how labor and climate activists are teaming up to push for a Green New Deal.
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/steven_gr…

Tennessee Republicans in Fisticuffs Over School Vouchers
Andy Spears | progressive.org | 2019-09-17
Hot chicken, sex, and cocaine are part of the story of how Tennessee became the latest state to succumb to the Betsy DeVos-backed voucher craze. The result could determine how the GOP addresses the issue across the country.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/tennessee-republican-school-voucher-fight-spears-190917/

Greta Goes to Washington
Rick Reinhard | progressive.org | 2019-09-16
Hundreds of young people and their supporters rallied near the White House in a Friday Student Climate Strike protest. What has been a small weekly gathering grew exponentially in size last week as Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined them.
progressive.org/dispatches/student-climate-strike-Reinhard-190916/

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2019-09-23: News Headlines

Eds. (2019-09-23). Debating the bedrock of climate-change mitigation scenarios. mronline.org Researchers and policymakers rely on computer simulations called integrated assessment models to determine the best strategies for tackling climate change. Here, scientists present opposing views on the suitability of these simulations. | Source

Gilad Atzmon (2019-09-23). On the Liberty to Teach, Pursue, and Discuss Knowledge without Restriction. dissidentvoice.org It didn't take long for the American Administration to crudely interfere with an open society's most sacred ethos, that of academic freedom. We learned this weekend that the US Department of Education has ordered Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to remake their joint Middle East studies program after concluding …

Henry Millstein (2019-09-23). Climate strike action rocks San Jose. peoplesworld.org SAN JOSE, Calif.—The call "This is what democracy looks like" echoed across downtown as some 1,500 students and their allies marched from the Diridon train station to City Hall as this city's contribution to the global climate strike demanding action to rein in global warming and the fossil fuel industries that seek to block action …

Eds. (2019-09-23). Millions march against climate change, capitalism and war. mronline.org Four million people participated in the global climate strike across every continent on Friday, many of them students who skipped school on that day. Demonstrations at more than 5,800 locations in 161 countries began in Australia and the Pacific, moved to Asia, Antarctica, Africa and Europe, and then to North and South America. This is […] | Source

Eds. (2019-09-23). From scientist to activist. mronline.org "Dr. Doom." fellow students joked as we walked out of our department seminar. It was 1998 and the presenter was Richard Gammon, a co-author of the first IPCC report. I didn't share my fellow University of Washington grad students' joke. I was uneasy, wondering about the timing of forecasts and feedback loops. | Source

Especial para Mundo Popular (2019-09-23). Estudiantes presionan a las escuelas para tener energía limpia. peoplesworld.org Un día, la primavera pasada, Lucas Lajeunesse y un amigo estaban hablando sobre el cambio climático. Ambos se mantuvieron al tanto del tema en las noticias y, como muchos de sus amigos en Hopkinton High, estaban preocupados. "Estábamos pasando el rato, y se nos ocurrió la idea de que deberíamos cambiar nuestra escuela para que …

Omar Ahmed (2019-09-23). Was Iran Really Behind the Attack on Saudi Aramco Facilities? globalresearch.ca On 14 September, state-owned Saudi Aramco's oil processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais in the Eastern Province were the target of a sophisticated drone and cruise missile attack. The Houthis of Yemen were quick to claim responsibility for "Operation Deterrent …

Zero Hedge (2019-09-23). Orwellian Nightmare: Six US Cities Make List of Most Surveilled Places in the World. globalresearch.ca A new report from Comparitech, a technology research firm, details how an Orwellian society, very similar to what was written in George Orwell's (non-fiction) novel 1984, is playing out across cities in the US. According to Comparitech, six US …

Jason Ditz (2019-09-23). Russia Slams US General for Plan to Destroy Russia's Air Defenses. globalresearch.ca It goes without saying that the US and Russia both have many, many plans to attack one another. Generally speaking, however, it's been treated as bad form to bring them up, and worse form to brag about them. | So Russia …

Julian Rose (2019-09-23). Climate Action Protests and "Extinction Rebellion" versus 5G Microwave Radiation. globalresearch.ca On 20 September, hundreds of thousands stepped out onto the streets of the world's cities to call for 'Climate Action'. The great majority doing so, no doubt based upon genuine feelings of concern for the future of the planet and …

Michael Snyder (2019-09-23). North America's Bird Population Is Collapsing — Nearly 3 Billion Birds Have Been Wiped Out Since 1970. globalresearch.ca All around us, our world is literally in a state of collapse, but most people don't seem to care. I spend much of my time writing about the inevitable collapse of our economic and financial systems, but they are only …

Andrew Korybko (2019-09-23). Russia's Vision for the Emerging Multipolar World Order. Lavrov. globalresearch.ca The Russian Foreign Minister's latest article provides the most up-to-date information on his country's interpretation of International Relations straight from its top diplomat himself, which includes numerous critiques of the fading US-led unipolar world order and several envisioned goals that …

Peter Koenig (2019-09-23). Peace Versus Climate. globalresearch.ca Climate Change number ONE? — How about PEACE? — Nobody thought about that? Have these western kids been brainwashed. Not even UN Secretary General Guterres, whose mandate it is to lead the UN towards conflict solutions that bring PEACE — this is the very mandate that the UN has been founded on. Not climate, but PEACE.

Dave McKee (2019-09-23). Canadian Media Attacks Labour Leader for Syria Solidarity. globalresearch.ca One hundred trade union delegations from around the world gathered in Damascus on September 8-9, for the Third International Trade Union Forum in Solidarity with Syrian Workers. The purpose of the meeting was to build opposition to imperialist intervention against …

Robert Bridge (2019-09-23). The Deep State Is Dragging Trump into War with Iran. globalresearch.ca Should we chalk it up to coincidence theory that just days after Trump gives John Bolton the boot as his National Security Adviser, Iran is blamed for an attack on a Saudi oil facility, forcing Washington to forego any hope …

Kim Petersen (2019-09-23). Blackface / Brown Face of the Past: Is Justin Trudeau a Racist? globalresearch.ca Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you. — Matthew 7: 1-2 | Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau has found …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-09-23). Globalising Artificial Intelligence (AI) Surveillance. globalresearch.ca They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of "security". Call it surveillance, or call it monitoring the global citizenry; it all comes down to the same …

Sarah Abed (2019-09-23). The UN General Assembly Is Great in Theory Just Not in Practice. globalresearch.ca On September 23rd, the 74th annual United Nations General Assembly conference commences at U.N. Headquarters in Manhattan, New York. The General Assembly is one of six main organs of the U.N. and all 193 member states are represented. | Every September …

Andrew Korybko (2019-09-23). Has Russia "Stopped Israel" from Bombing Syria? Has Moscow Authorized Syria to Use the S-300 Air Defense System. globalresearch.ca The Alt-Media Community has been in a state of ecstasy over reports that Russia has supposedly stopped several " Israeli" strikes in Syria and also finally given the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) the authority to use the S-300s. …

Bryant Brown (2019-09-23). Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. globalresearch.ca A few weeks ago I posted a blog about Ellen Brown (its here if you want to read it) and then her new book came out; Banking on the People -Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. She introduces it …

Courtenay Barnett (2019-09-23). America Confronts Iran: History of US-Iran Relations and the Rule of Law. globalresearch.ca It is said that maybe Iran was behind a recent attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities. | The Iranian Government denies that any attack was launched from Iranian territory. | Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for the attack; other accusations …

Global Research News (2019-09-23). Global Research, The Battle against Disinformation. globalresearch.ca 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. …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2019-09-23). Zimbabwe Proclaims Former President Mugabe (1924-2019) a National Hero. globalresearch.ca During the early morning hours of September 6, a news item shook the international community saying that President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, known affectionately as "Gushungo", had passed away at the age of 95. | Former President Mugabe had been receiving …

Dr. Martin Pall (2019-09-23). 5G Cell Phone Electromagnetic Radiation: Numerous Health Impacts, Nervous System, DNA, Cancer, Cardiac Effects, Alzheimer… globalresearch.ca This report was originally published in May 2018. | We know that there is a massive literature, providing a high level of scientific certainty, for each of eight pathophysiological effects caused by non-thermal microwave frequency EMF exposures. This is shown in …

Kenneth V. Rosenberg (2019-09-23). Three Billion Birds: Decline of the North American Avifauna. globalresearch.ca Species extinctions have defined the global biodiversity crisis, but extinction begins with loss in abundance of individuals that can result in compositional and functional changes of ecosystems. | Using multiple and independent monitoring networks, we report population losses across much of …

Andrew Wasley (2019-09-23). At Least 100 Cases of Salmonella Poisoning from British Eggs. globalresearch.ca Dozens of people have been poisoned after eating British eggs contaminated with one of the most dangerous forms of salmonella, the Bureau can reveal, despite government assurances that the risk had been virtually eliminated. | There have been at least 100 …

Celso Amorim (2019-09-23). Five Hundred Days of Injustice: On the Imprisonment of Luiz In√°cio Lula da Silva. commondreams.org A supporter of the former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva holds a flag during a national strike protest called by unions and students against the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's pension reform in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 14, 2019. (Photo: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

WSWS (2019-09-23). Australian students and youth speak out at climate strikes. wsws.org "The governments are too scared to do anything because they want to make profits, rather than save the planet."

Fight Back (2019-09-23). Milwaukee: Hundreds march for the planet. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On the morning of September 20, more than 500 people gathered and marched in downtown Milwaukee to defend the planet. The crowd included a wide variety of people from all different backgrounds and of all different ages. The leaders were young, Black, and predominantly women. | After gathering strength at city hall, demonstrators were led on a nearly two mile march by a handful of students from North Division High School. The student activists are part of a group organized in their school called Youth Rising Up. For many of these young adults, it was their first experience protesting anything, and…

Peter Greene (2019-09-23). What Back-to-School News Stories Hide About Charter Schools. progressive.org Behind the feel-good puffery are issues about the loss of local control, under-funded schools, and public money used for private gain.

Kurt Nimmo (2019-09-23). The U.S. Department of Terrorism. globalresearch.ca The State Department—under the leadership of the Zionist fellow traveler, former CIA boss and tank commander Mike Pompeo—has tweeted out the following propaganda produced with your tax dollars (or debt spending that will be passed on to your children)….

Johanna Ross (2019-09-23). Thomas Cook Collapse: First Major Brexit Casualty? globalresearch.ca Brexit has not yet taken place, and there's no certainty that it will, but it seems the fallout has already begun with the announcement today that one of Britain's largest and oldest tour operators, Thomas Cook has ceased trading with …

Staff (2019-09-23). "Our House Is on Fire": Greta Thunberg Addresses Hundreds of Thousands at NYC Climate Strike. democracynow.org Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg spoke at Friday's climate strike in New York, where an estimated 300,000 people took to the streets. Thunberg inspired the global spread of weekly climate strikes when she started skipping school to protest outside of the Swedish parliament last year. "We will not just stand aside and watch," Thunberg told a crowd of thousands in her speech at Manhattan's Battery Park. "We are united behind the science, and we will do everything in our power to stop this crisis from getting worse."

Staff (2019-09-23). "This Is Our Time. This Is Our Future." Voices from the Historic Youth Climate Strike in NYC. democracynow.org As many as 4 million people around the world took to the streets Friday in the largest day of action focused on the climate crisis. Students across the globe led climate strikes in hundreds of countries, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. The demonstration kicked off in Foley Square, where tens of thousands of people gathered before the march. Varshini Prakash, co-founder and executive director of the Sunrise Movement, and climate activist Vic Barrett were among the handful of activists who addressed the climate strikers in Foley Square.

Peadar O'Cearnaigh (2019-09-23). Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches the most bizarre attack on Labour's vote to abolish private schools. thecanary.co On 22 September, delegates at the Labour Party annual conference in Brighton voted for a motion to abolish private schools. The plan would see the removal of their charitable status and a redistribution of their properties to the state. Delegates approved this motion to become part of Labour's next election manifesto. | It…

teleSUR (2019-09-22). US Gov't Against Universities 'Portraying Islam Too Positively'. telesurenglish.net The United States University of North Carolina and Duke University had until Sunday to submit information to the Trump administration about the two schools' Consortium for Middle East Studies after the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) accused the joint program of biased information about Christianity and Judaism. | RELATED: | US: Secretary DeVos Proposes US$18-M Cut to Disability Programs | The DOE complained in a letter sent in June to the universities that "there is a consi…

teleSUR (2019-09-22). FIFA President Urges Italian Football to React Against Racism. telesurenglish.net FIFA President Gianni Infantino urged authorities to hand out stadium bans for supporters guilty of racism after another incident in a Serie A match between Atalanta and Fiorentina Sunday. | RELATED: | Rights Group Accuses FIFA of Ignoring Israeli Ban on Palestinian Footballers From Gaza | "Racism is combatted with education, condemnation, and discussion," said the FIFA chief, who was a guest on a program aired by Italian state broadcaster Rai. | This c…

Tony Cartalucci (2019-09-22). Firing Bolton: Bait and Switch or Changing Tack? globalresearch.ca News of US National Security Adviser John Bolton's departure was followed by hopeful commentary both within the US and abroad that so too would follow the aggressive foreign policy he advocated — particularly in regards to Iran. | However, …

Russ Christianson (2019-09-22). Take the General Motors Oshawa Plant, "Save the Planet" globalresearch.ca It is a tragic irony that General Motors (GM) chose its hundredth anniversary in Oshawa to announce the December 2019 closure of its Oshawa assembly plant. This means the loss of over 15,000 jobs in Ontario: 2,200 GM assembly jobs, …

Afroze Fatima Zaidi (2019-09-22). As the climate emergency worsens, poor people will suffer the most. thecanary.co The worldwide climate strikes on Friday 20 September showed enormous public will towards addressing the climate crisis. Ahead of the UN climate change summit to take place on 23 September, protesters from all over the world took to the streets to demand action from world leaders. | I…

RT (2019-09-21). Ghost post! Google creates world's most powerful computer, NASA 'accidentally reveals' …and then publication vanishes. rt.com Google's new quantum computer reportedly spends mere minutes on the tasks the world's top supercomputers would need several millennia to perform. The media found out about this after NASA "accidentally" shared the firm's research. | The software engineers at Google have built the world's most powerful computer, the Financial Times and Fortune magazine reported on Friday, citing the company's now-removed research paper. The paper is said to have been posted on a website hosted by NASA, which partners with Goo…

Aaron Cynic (2019-09-21). Chicagoans demand climate justice in massive #GlobalClimateStrike. nationofchange.org Thousands of Chicagoans marched and rallied across the city Friday as part of a massive global day of action to demand governments take action on climate change. | "My generation deserves a sustainable future. We are calling on the government to fight for us," said Lauren, a senior at Illinois science and Math Academy. "We need to act fast. We can't wait for policy to come. Our futures, our lives, are on the line." | Image credit: Aaron Cynic/NationofChange | Actions began as early as 7: 00am in the city, with several morning demonstrations feeding into a large march that began in Grant Park near noon, culminat…

United Nations (2019-09-21). At UN, youth activists press for bold action on climate emergency, vow to hold leaders accountable at the ballot box. un.org Students and young activists on Saturday threw down the gauntlet to world leaders heading to United Nations Headquarters next week for high-level climate talks, demanding that they "stop wasting time" and work harder to curb carbon emissions, "or we will vote you out."

Louis Yako (2019-09-20). Working in America: Paychecks for Silence. counterpunch.org Let us begin with just a few recent and disturbing statistics about working in America. First, most Americans (nearly 78%) live paycheck to paycheck, which makes them vulnerable to abuse and bullying by employers. Second, a 2018 Harris Poll found that "seven in ten employers (70 percent) use social networking sites to research job candidates More

ACLU (2019-09-20). The Supreme Court Considers Mandatory Government Funding of Religious Education. aclu.org A case out of Montana could result in the church-state separation being stripped to the bone. | In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Supreme Court will address a question that would have been unthinkable to ask even until quite recently: Can a state be forced to underwrite religious education with taxpayer dollars? Although the court has previously allowed the government to adopt school-voucher programs that provide indirect government aid to religious schools, it has never suggested that the U.S. Cons…

Alleen Brown (2019-09-20). Two Years After the Hurricane, Puerto Rico's "Generation Maria" Leads a Climate Strike. theintercept.com One of the most important moments in 16-year-old Tristán Queriot Rodríguez Vélez's climate activism came at the international airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in mid-July. Puerto Rico's former secretary of education, Julia Keleher, was flying back to the island from Washington, D.C. to stand before a federal judge and confront corruption charges. Rodríguez Vélez and…

Fight Back (2019-09-20). Workers want Chicago cops out of schools, parks. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – On September 13, SEIU Local 73 demanded an end to the city of Chicago spending $33 million from the budget of the public schools, and $12 million from the Parks Department, for police officers. The union, which represents 7000 school workers and 3000 workers in the parks, called for more money for the students and community members. The union was joined by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Black Lives Matter and progressive alderpersons.

United Nations (2019-09-20). UN staff support youth-driven global action on climate crisis. un.org Staff at UN Headquarters in New York joined untold numbers of students, scientists, organized labour, and everyday people worldwide, who took to the streets on Friday, demanding action to address climate change.

Mike Konczal (2019-09-20). The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis. thenation.com The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis…

Staff (2019-09-20). This Afghan Teen Was Set to Join First-Ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit, But U.S. Denied His Visa. democracynow.org Climate youth activist Nasratullah Elham of Afghanistan was invited to participate in the first-ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit, but the United States rejected his visa. He breaks the sound barrier to join us from Phuket, Thailand, where he is a 12th grade student, and says his activism is based on the crisis's impact on his home country. "The poor people there are very badly affected in a situation [where] they do not really have much carbon emissions," he says.

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