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/

The UN General Assembly Is Great in Theory Just Not in Practice
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/un-general-assembly-great-theory-not-practice/5689982

Russia Slams US General for Plan to Destroy Russia's Air Defenses
Jason Ditz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/russia-slams-us-general-plan-destroy-russia-air-defenses/5689943

Globalising Artificial Intelligence (AI) Surveillance
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/globalising-artificial-intelligence-ai-surveillance/5689928

America Confronts Iran: History of US-Iran Relations and the Rule of Law
Courtenay Barnett | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 | …
globalresearch.ca/what-law-who-breached-us-iran-west/5689912

Orwellian Nightmare: Six US Cities Make List of Most Surveilled Places in the World
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/six-us-cities-most-surveilled-places-world/5689945

Russia's Vision for the Emerging Multipolar World Order. Lavrov
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/lavrov-elaborated-russia-vision-emerging-multipolar-world-order/5689957

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/

The Deep State Is Dragging Trump into War with Iran
Robert Bridge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/deep-state-dragging-trump-war-iran/5689899

Has Russia "Stopped Israel" from Bombing Syria? Has Moscow Authorized Syria to Use the S-300 Air Defense System
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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. …
globalresearch.ca/recent-fake-news-about-russia-israel/5689917

Three Billion Birds: Decline of the North American Avifauna
Kenneth V. Rosenberg | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/decline-north-american-avifauna/5689949

Global Research, The Battle against Disinformation
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
Lying is a money making activity and lies are commodities. There is a profitable global market for media and public figures committed to spreading disinformation. | Needless to say, "Telling the Truth", on the other hand, Is Not a Money-Making Proposition. …
globalresearch.ca/freedom-of-speech-under-attack-support-global-research/5641204

Climate Action Protests and "Extinction Rebellion" versus 5G Microwave Radiation
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/climate-action-protests-deep-state-call-regime-change/5689923

Peace Versus Climate
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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.
globalresearch.ca/peace-versus-climate/5689953

Zimbabwe Proclaims Former President Mugabe (1924-2019) a National Hero
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/zimbabwe-proclaims-former-president-mugabe-national-hero/5689889

5G Cell Phone Electromagnetic Radiation: Numerous Health Impacts, Nervous System, DNA, Cancer, Cardiac Effects, Alzheimer
Dr. Martin Pall | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 | …
globalresearch.ca/5g-great-risk-eu-u-s-international-health/5689929

Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age
Bryant Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/banking-people-democratizing-money-digital-age-2/5689964

At Least 100 Cases of Salmonella Poisoning from British Eggs
Andrew Wasley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/100-cases-salmonella-poisoning-british-eggs/5689898

North America's Bird Population Is Collapsing — Nearly 3 Billion Birds Have Been Wiped Out Since 1970
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/north-america-bird-population-collapsing-nearly-3-billion-birds-wiped-out/5689947

Was Iran Really Behind the Attack on Saudi Aramco Facilities?
Omar Ahmed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/was-iran-really-behind-attack-saudi-aramco-facilities/5689890

Canadian Media Attacks Labour Leader for Syria Solidarity
Dave McKee | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/canadian-media-attacks-labour-leader-syria-solidarity/5689974

Blackface / Brown Face of the Past: Is Justin Trudeau a Racist?
Kim Petersen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/blackface-brown-face-of-the-past-is-justin-trudeau-a-racist/5689886

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/

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…

Five Hundred Days of Injustice: On the Imprisonment of Luiz In√°cio Lula da Silva
Celso Amorim | commondreams.org | 2019-09-23
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… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/09/23/five-hundred-days-injustice-imprisonment-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva?cd-origin=rss

Climate strike action rocks San Jose
Henry Millstein | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-23
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 …
peoplesworld.org/article/climate-strike-action-rocks-san-jose/

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/

Australian students and youth speak out at climate strikes
wsws.org | 2019-09-23
"The governments are too scared to do anything because they want to make profits, rather than save the planet."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/23/clim…

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/

The U.S. Department of Terrorism
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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)….
globalresearch.ca/us-dept-terrorism/5689967

Thomas Cook Collapse: First Major Brexit Casualty?
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-23
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 …
globalresearch.ca/thomas-cook-collapse-first-major-brexit-casualty/5689980

"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 Gov't Against Universities 'Portraying Islam Too Positively'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-22
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Admin-to-Cut-Funding-to-Universities-for-Portraying-Islam-Too-Positively-20190922-0011.html

FIFA President Urges Italian Football to React Against Racism
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-22
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/FIFA-President-Urges-Italian-Football-to-React-Against-Racism-20190922-0016.html

Firing Bolton: Bait and Switch or Changing Tack?
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
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, …
globalresearch.ca/firing-bolton/5689842

Take the General Motors Oshawa Plant, "Save the Planet"
Russ Christianson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-22
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, …
globalresearch.ca/take-plant-save-planet/5689857

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/

Chicagoans demand climate justice in massive #GlobalClimateStrike
Aaron Cynic | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-21
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…
nationofchange.org/2019/09/21/chicagoans-demand-climate-justice-in-massive-globalclimatestrike/

At UN, youth activists press for bold action on climate emergency, vow to hold leaders accountable at the ballot box
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-21
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."
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1046962

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/

The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis
Mike Konczal | thenation.com | 2019-09-20
The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis…
thenation.com/article/student-debt-zaloom/

Workers want Chicago cops out of schools, parks
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-09-20
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.
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/9/20/workers-…

UN staff support youth-driven global action on climate crisis
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-20
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.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1046872

Working in America: Paychecks for Silence
Louis Yako | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-20
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/working-in-america-paychecks-for-silence/

Charter School Advocates Grow More Belligerent
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-20
Steadily mounting opposition to privately-operated nonprofit and for-profit charter schools is inevitable and becoming a bigger thorn in the side of nervous neoliberals, privatizers, and corporate school reformers. Terrified of discussion, investigation, and analysis, and hell-bent on privatizing schools, no matter the cost to society, on September 11, 2019, "Chiefs for Change" issued a letter …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/charter-school-advocates-grow-more-belligerent/

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…

"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…