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2019-08-28: Social Media Postees

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The political battle facing teachers
wsws.org | 2019-08-28
Teachers across the globe are escalating the fight against social inequality, the growing privatization of education and the unrelenting attacks on their standard of living.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/28/educ…

Vote No. No contract, no work. Build rank-and-file committees to unite the working class in defense of public education
wsws.org | 2019-08-28
Washington state teachers again face a turning point in the fight to defend public education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/28/seat…

The Small Freedom
Seana Sperling | indybay.org | 2019-08-28
We talk about protecting our freedom, however we suffer from a lack of freedom in this country. Healthcare, education and housing have all become out of reach for some living in the U.S.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825721.php

"Shadow Statistics": US Government's Fudging the Numbers on Unemployment, GDP and Inflation
Bryant Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
John Williams has worked as a consulting economist since getting his BA and MA from Dartmouth college in New Hampshire in 1972. He now lives in California — these paragraphs are from his biography: | One of my early clients was | …
globalresearch.ca/shadow-statistics-us-governments-fudging-the-numbers-on-unemployment-gdp-and-inflation/5687366

Video: Syrian Army (SAA) Works to Secure Recent Gains in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces are conducting active security operations in the recently liberated parts of northern Hama and southern Idlib. The goal of the effort is to remove mines and improvised explosive devices, uncover weapons …
globalresearch.ca/video-army-works-secure-recent-gains/5687373

U.S. Africa Command Marks a Controversial Return to Libya
Alaeddin Saleh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Mohammed Al-Ghasri confirmed in an interview to a Libyan media outlet "Ain Libiya" that U.S. African Command team arrived at Air Defense College airbase located in Libyan port city of Misurata on July 22….
globalresearch.ca/u-s-africa-command-return-libya/5687406

The Media's Russian Radiation Story Implodes Upon Scrutiny
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
How the mainstream media reported an August 8 accident at a top-secret missile test facility in northern Russia should serve as a cautionary tale regarding the dangers of rushed judgments via institutional bias. | In the days following the initial report …
globalresearch.ca/media-russian-radiation-story-implodes-upon-scrutiny/5687397

New Delhi's Man in Moscow Is Right, Russia and India Are Global Partners
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
The Indian Ambassador to Russia was right when he said that his host nation increasingly views his homeland as a global player, an observation that's becoming all the more significant after Moscow has shown that it's willing to contradict China …
globalresearch.ca/russia-india-global-partners/5687420

India's Shadow Banking Crisis Is Intensifying
Kavaljit Singh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
The ongoing liquidity crisis in India's shadow banking sector is intensifying. The troubles that started with defaults by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) last year are far from over as the sector continues to face a severe liquidity …
globalresearch.ca/india-shadow-banking-crisis/5687425

The EU and NATO Remain Closely Linked on the Most Important Issues. Nuclear Weapons "Sharing Policy" directed against Russia
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Of the European Union's 28 member states, it reveals much that 22 of these nations belong to NATO, the Pentagon-run military organization. | What is striking also is that, in…
globalresearch.ca/the-eu-and-nato-remain-closely-linked-on-the-most-important-issues-nuclear-weapons-sharing-policy-directed-against-russia/5687361

Momentous Decision by CITES to Limit Trade in Wild Caught African Elephants from Zimbabwe and Botswana for Zoos to "Exceptional Circumstances" with Independent Oversight
Humane Society International | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
This momentous decision will save countless elephants from being snatched from their families and natural environment, says Humane Society International at CITES CoP18 in Geneva | *** | Wildlife experts from animal protection charity Humane Society International are celebrating a momentous win …
globalresearch.ca/cites-limit-trade-wild-caught-african-elephants-zimbabwe-botswana/5687447

Lula Tells the World He's "Back in the Game" from Jail. "Lula is Brazil's only Possible Factor of Stability"
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Brazil has always been a land of superlatives. Yet nothing beats the current, perverse configuration: a world statesman lingers in jail while a clownish thug is in power, his antics now considered a threat to the whole planet. | In a …
globalresearch.ca/lula-back-game-from-jail/5687382

Hollywood Reboots Russophobia for the New Cold War
Max Parry | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
It is an age-old question as to the extent art reflects the world we live in. Bertolt Brecht allegedly said to the contrary that art was "not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape …
globalresearch.ca/hollywood-reboots-russophobia-new-cold-war/5687362

Malaysia: The Najib Razak 1MDB Trial. The Prosecutor's Opening Statement
Gopal Sri Ram | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
The following is appointed prosecutor Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram's opening statement at Najib's 1MDB trial, reproduced in full. | 1. This case concerns the monies of a company called 1Malaysia Development Berhad, widely known as 1MDB. It was originally …
globalresearch.ca/sri-ram-opening-statement-najib-1mdb-trial/5687422

Video: "Dawn of Idlib": Syrian Army's Offensive in Northwestern Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
August 2019 was marked by important changes on frontlines in northwestern Syria. | The month started with a declaration by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani that his group, the most powerful faction in Idlib and formerly the official branch …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-offensive-northwestern-syria/5687469

The Amazon Fires and the Dawn of Environmental Interventions
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
So-called "environmental interventions" might become commonplace as global powers seek excuses to intervene in the domestic affairs of sovereign states in order to seize control of their natural resources. | The entire world has watched in horror over the past week …
globalresearch.ca/amazon-fires-dawn-environmental-interventions/5687376

What Is Happening in Hong Kong?
Brandon Turbeville | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Over the past few months, both mainstream and alternative news outlets have been covering massive protests in Hong Kong where tens of thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations that have since devolved into violence both with police, counter-protesters, …
globalresearch.ca/what-happening-hong-kong/5687331

Israel Has Attacked Lebanon and Syria — So What?
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
On August 25th, 2019, Israel attacked Lebanon. It has done it again. | Just as it attacked Syria, the same night. | RT reported the same day: | "Israeli drone flights were "an open attack on Lebanese sovereignty" and an | …
globalresearch.ca/israel-attacked-lebanon-syria/5687390

US Removes Palestine Authority from List of Countries
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
"Cancelling Palestine (Palestinian Authority or Palestinian Territories) from the U.S. State Department's list is not related to American national interests," PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said. | *** | Palestinian officials slammed the United States Sunday for removing it from its list of …
globalresearch.ca/us-removes-palestine-authority-list-countries/5687428

US/Israel Upping the Stakes for More Middle East War
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
No nation may legally attack another state preemptively — what US-dominated NATO and Israel do time and again unaccountably. | It's what aggression is all about — defined by UN General Assembly Res. 3314. | Calling it the "most serious and dangerous …
globalresearch.ca/us-israel-middle-east-war/5687434

Multiculturalism, In Morocco, Difference Is a Strength
Caroline Kirk | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-28
Morocco's belief in the strength of pluralism has energized me and shown me that difference can serve as a strength for any country, whether it is religious or secular, large or small, developed or developing. | I was told that there …
globalresearch.ca/morocco-difference-strength/5687438

The Reality Brokers (or the rise of the Automagicians)
John Steppling | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-28
In the case of both Big Tech and governmental surveillance agencies, undergirding a commitment to the inevitable and imminent time after-Earth is the appeal of science fiction aesthetics, concepts and projects, all aimed toward the new goal of having new places and opportunities to conquer, colonize and dominate post-Earth. — Sarah T. Roberts, b-20, August …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/the-reality-brokers-or-the-rise-of-the-automagicians/

Salmon fishermen blast Trump administration's war on science
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-08-28
Reacting to the news that Southern Resident Killer Whales are included in the list of species that would be jeopardized by the Department of the Interior plan, Noah Oppenheim, Executive Director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA), concluded: |…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825720.php

Felton Fire District Captain Calls for Vigilante Justice Against Homeless People
Santa Cruz News | indybay.org | 2019-08-28
In the wake of an alleged assault on a middle school student in the San Lorenzo Valley, Captain Daniel Bonfante of the Felton Fire Protection District has called for vigilante justice against homeless people, who he blames for the majority of crime in the area. On August 21 on Instagram, Captain Bonfante called for community members to "get the posse together" and "let the rift raft know that we are vigilant". "99% of all crime is homeless in felton right now," Bonfante said. "They are getting aggressive and don't care anymore." Photo: Captain Daniel Bonfante of the Felton Fire Protection District.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/27/18825766.php

Students for Trump is more dangerous than you think
Dahn Shaulis | indybay.org | 2019-08-28
Charlie Kirk, Chairman of Students for Trump has promised to use "aggressive" means to help Donald Trump win the 2020 election. Kirk's organizations have already used shady tactics to win student body elections and possibly to violate IRS regulations covering charitable organizations and political action committees.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/25/18825709.php

What the New Deal can teach us about winning a Green New Deal: Part III–the First New Deal
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2019-08-28
If we hope to win a Green New Deal we will have to build a movement that is not only powerful enough to push the federal government to take on new responsibilities with new capacities, but also has the political maturity required to appreciate the contested nature of state policy and the vision necessary to […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/28/what-the-new-deal-can-teach-us-about-winning-a-green-new-deal-part-iii-the-first-new-deal/

What Will It Take To Declare A Climate Emergency?
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-27
Students march in Melbourne, Australia. Source AAP. The Embassy Protectors Defense Committee is calling on the US State Department to drop the federal charges against us. On May 16, federal forces invaded the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC in violation of the Vienna Convention and arrested four Embassy Protectors even though we were there with …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/what-will-it-take-to-declare-a-climate-emergency/

Counting Deaths for Dollars: The Rise and Fall of Nicaragua's 'Human Rights' Organizations
John Perry | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
In their hunger for US funding, Nicaraguan "human rights" NGO's inflated the death toll during last year's coup. Today, these groups are in a state of complete disarray. | *** | When political conflict results in people being killed — especially at …
globalresearch.ca/rise-fall-nicaragua-human-rights-organizations/5687333

Taunting the Dragon: Background to US-China Trade War and Hong Kong Protests
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
The Hong Kong protests are escalating, just as the US-China trade war is also escalating. None of this is out of the blue. For quite some time now, the US has been shifting the focus of its hegemonic and imperial …
globalresearch.ca/us-china-trade-war-hong-kong-protests/5687335

Does Israel Interfere in American Elections?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
Does anyone remember what the Mueller investigation was all about? It was to determine whether the team surrounding candidate and then president-elect Donald Trump had colluded with a foreign power, presumed to be Russia. | It did not discover any such …
globalresearch.ca/does-israel-interfere-american-elections/5687279

Israel's Infamous USS Liberty Attack
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
Throughout Israel's history, its ruling authorities have been responsible for virtually every form of indignity, degradation, barbarity, and other high crimes of war and against humanity imaginable. | Palestinians suffered most from the theft of 78% of their historic homeland in …
globalresearch.ca/israels-infamous-uss-liberty-attack/5687348

Orangutans 'could hold key to how human speech evolved'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-27
Orangutans can control their voice in a similar way to humans, with new research suggesting they may hold the key to how human speech evolved. | Scientists from the University of St Andrews and Indianapolis Zoo gathered a unique insight into the language similarities while studying great apes. | They worked alongside animal care staff at the zoo in the state of Indiana, home to one of the largest groups of orangutans in any American zoo, to analyse 11-year-old Rocky and 36-year-old Knobi. | Both orangutans were given a basic music instrument — a membranophone, such as a kazoo — and used their voice to…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/08/27/orangutans-could-hold-key-to-how-human-speech-evolved/

Upshots and Unintended Consequences of Africa's Nuclear Energy Ambitions
Gerard Boyce | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
Earlier this month, cash-strapped Zimbabwe announced that it had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia to engage in uranium exploration and enrichment with a view to the possibility of generating nuclear energy in future. In so doing, it joined | …
globalresearch.ca/upshots-unintended-consequences-africa-nuclear-energy-ambitions/5687338

Revival of Shintoism in Abe's Japan: Why? Another Holy War?
Prof. Joseph H. Chung | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
It is possible that Abe's Korea bashing is a part of his ambition of restoring the pre-1945 Japan where Shintoism ruled the body and the mind of the Japanese people. | Under Shintoism, the Japanese were united, or forced to be …
globalresearch.ca/shintoism-japan/5687330

Big Business Is Suddenly Showing a Conscience. But Is That Enough?
Katrina vanden Heuvel | thenation.com | 2019-08-27
Big Business Is Suddenly Showing a Conscience. But Is That Enough?
thenation.com/article/big-business-is-suddenly-showing-a-conscience-but-is-that-enough/

Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal?
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-27
In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: "Let's start now to liberate the UK's extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let's develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world." Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The 'GM will feed the world mantra' is pure industry spin. There…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/27/boris-johnson-gmos-and-glyphosate-irresponsible-negligent-and-criminal/

Selected Articles: Nestlé and the Privatization of Water
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer". | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-nestle-privatization-water/5687342

St. Paul Teachers Union Picks the Health Care Battle
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2019-08-26
Skyrocketing insurance costs generated a national wave of teacher strikes last year. Now, Minnesota educators head into a new school year ready to fight for affordable health care.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/st-paul-teachers-union-health-care-lahm-190826/

Unreported Deaths, Child Cancer & Radioactive Meat: The Untold Story of Chernobyl
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-26
Following a mysterious nuclear accident in Russia that left seven dead, we look back at the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. It sent a cloud of radioactive fallout into Russia, Belarus and over a large portion of Europe, but the death toll from Chernobyl remains unknown. Chernobyl is considered the worst nuclear accident in history, but Kate Brown, an MIT professor of science, technology and society, says much of what we understand about the disaster is inaccurate. Her new book, "Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future," chronicles the devastating and underreported impact of radiation on tens of t…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/26/kate_brow…

Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-24
In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: Let's start now to liberate the UK's extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let's develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world. Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The 'GM will feed the world mantra' is pure industry spin. …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/boris-johnson-gmos-and-glyphosate/

Charter School Fictions and Grandstanding
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-24
It is no secret that charter school advocates become disingenuous and belligerent when endless problems in the scandal-ridden charter school sector are exposed, criticized, and opposed with greater depth, sophistication, and regularity. For nearly 30 years charter school promoters have been reluctant to admit, let alone come to terms with, profound problems with privately-operated nonprofit …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/charter-school-fictions-and-grandstanding/

School closures triple in Central and Western Africa as education comes under fire
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-23
A surge in "deliberate" attacks against students, teachers and schools in West and Central Africa has led to a tripling in school closures in the last year and left almost two million youngsters "robbed of an education", the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1044821

Friday's Daily Brief: Education in Africa, Sudan flash-floods, WHO on Ebola, spike in South Sudan violence, Rwanda, Uganda move to normalize relations
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-23
A recap of Friday's stories: Education under fire in Central and Western Africa; Sudan flash-floods wreak havoc; Ebola outbreak spreads, albeit with fewer transmissions; UN rights experts on South Sudan; and UN chief welcomes understanding between Rwanda and Uganda…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1044861

One Woman's Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions, Seaweed, Wave Energy
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-23
Symbioses — prolonged associations between organisms often widely separated phylogenetically — are more common in biology than we once thought and have been neglected as a phenomenon worthy of study on its own merits. Extending along a dynamic continuum from antagonistic to cooperative and often involving elements of both antagonism and mutualism, symbioses involve pathogens, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/one-womans-research-on-aquatic-bioinvasions-seaweed-wave-energy/

Top 1% up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% down $900 Billion
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-23
The insights of this new data series are many, but for this post here I want to highlight a single eye-popping statistic. Between 1989 and 2018, the top 1 percent increased its total net worth by $21 trillion. The bottom 50 percent actually saw its net worth decrease by $900 billion over the same period. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/23/top-1-up-21-trillion-bottom-50-down-900-billion/

Say no to the McCarthyite attack on Chicago teachers
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-20
As the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) find itself locked in tough contract negotiations and faces the possibility of a strike, corporate and right-wing media like the Chicago Tribune, Breitbart and others have launched a bizarre attack that seems like it is straight out of the 1950s red scare. Rather than addressing the real problems impacting teachers and students in Chicago schools, these reactionary pundits have decided the rant and rave about – of all things – a delegation of teachers that traveled to Venezuela earlier this summer. | Here are the facts of the matter. A group of teachers who are also members of…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/20/say-no-m…

Maryland teacher incorporates hard lessons about slavery into public school curriculum
Brad Bennett | splcenter.org | 2019-08-20
At a workshop for teachers about educating children on American slavery, one instructor grew angry and insisted that Thomas Jefferson — who fathered biracial children with an enslaved woman on one of his plantations — was an advocate for racial equality.
splcenter.org/news/2019/08/20/maryland-teacher-incorporates-hard-lessons-about-slavery-public-school-curriculum

SPLC Responds to FRC and ADF's Attack Op-Ed
splcenter.org | 2019-08-17
On August 17, 2019, a former Family Research Council (FRC) staff member, who currently works at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) — two organizations designated as hate groups by the SPLC — attacked the SPLC in a USA Today OpEd for its hate group designations.
splcenter.org/news/2019/08/17/splc-responds-frc-and-adfs-attack-op-ed

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2019-08-27: News Headlines

Colin Todhunter (2019-08-27). Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal? counterpunch.org In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: "Let's start now to liberate the UK's extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let's develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world." Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The 'GM will feed the world mantra' is pure industry spin. There More

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers (2019-08-27). What Will It Take To Declare A Climate Emergency? dissidentvoice.org Students march in Melbourne, Australia. Source AAP. The Embassy Protectors Defense Committee is calling on the US State Department to drop the federal charges against us. On May 16, federal forces invaded the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC in violation of the Vienna Convention and arrested four Embassy Protectors even though we were there with …

Medea Benjamin (2019-08-27). Are Sanders and Warren Throwing a Lifeline to the Military-Industrial Complex? globalresearch.ca Among the frontrunners in the Democratic Party presidential primary, Senators Warren and Sanders not only have the most progressive domestic agenda, but also the most anti-war, pro-diplomacy foreign policy agenda. The sharpest distinction between them is that Sanders has voted …

Photos and Text (2019-08-27). Bernie Sanders Devotes San Francisco Rally To His Free Education Platform Plank. indybay.org Students talk of their financial hardships and struggles to fund higher education…

Seana Sperling (2019-08-27). The Small Freedom. indybay.org We talk about protecting our freedom, however we suffer from a lack of freedom in this country. Healthcare, education and housing have all become out of reach for some living in the U.S.

The Canary (2019-08-27). Orangutans 'could hold key to how human speech evolved'. thecanary.co Orangutans can control their voice in a similar way to humans, with new research suggesting they may hold the key to how human speech evolved. | Scientists from the University of St Andrews and Indianapolis Zoo gathered a unique insight into the language similarities while studying great apes. | They worked alongside animal care staff at the zoo in the state of Indiana, home to one of the largest groups of orangutans in any American zoo, to analyse 11-year-old Rocky and 36-year-old Knobi. | Both orangutans were given a basic music instrument — a membranophone, such as a kazoo — and used their voice to…

Gerard Boyce (2019-08-27). Upshots and Unintended Consequences of Africa's Nuclear Energy Ambitions. globalresearch.ca Earlier this month, cash-strapped Zimbabwe announced that it had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia to engage in uranium exploration and enrichment with a view to the possibility of generating nuclear energy in future. In so doing, it joined …

Michael Winship (2019-08-27). Trump's entire worldview is a nut job conspiracy theory. nationofchange.org Once upon a time, when I first was writing for newspapers and magazines, because I was the junior guy in the rotation, one of my many beats was the conspiracy theorists—in those days, mostly small, cult-like groups with some truly bizarre ideas. | One Thanksgiving weekend, I was assigned to cover a conference on assassination investigations, held at Georgetown University. The place was awash in conspiracy junkies although there also were journalists and others who had performed real research and were raising interesting questions about the motives behind a number of political killings in America, includi…

Geraldo Luís Lino (2019-08-27). What Everybody Needs to Know About the Amazon Rainforest. globalresearch.ca The Amazon Rainforest biome has an extension of about 6.7 million square kilometers shared between Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and the French Guyana. Some 62% of it is in Brazil, where 84% of its original area …

John Perry (2019-08-27). Counting Deaths for Dollars: The Rise and Fall of Nicaragua's 'Human Rights' Organizations. globalresearch.ca In their hunger for US funding, Nicaraguan "human rights" NGO's inflated the death toll during last year's coup. Today, these groups are in a state of complete disarray. | *** | When political conflict results in people being killed — especially at …

PAX (2019-08-27). Don't be Evil? Lethal Autonomous Weapons and Artificial Intelligence. A Survey of the Tech Sector's Stance. globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention our readers excerpts from an important study on the development of autonomous weapons largely guided by artificial intelligence. The report entitled Don't be evil? A survey of the tech sector's stance on lethal autonomous weapons…

Philip A Farruggio (2019-08-27). America 2019: A Woody Allen Film? "Waking Up in the Future to Learn Civilization Was Destroyed" globalresearch.ca In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." Shanker was condemned by many when …

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-27). Israel's Infamous USS Liberty Attack. globalresearch.ca Throughout Israel's history, its ruling authorities have been responsible for virtually every form of indignity, degradation, barbarity, and other high crimes of war and against humanity imaginable. | Palestinians suffered most from the theft of 78% of their historic homeland in …

Dr. Andrew Glikson (2019-08-27). Tinderbox Earth: The Significance of the Amazon and Siberian Fires. globalresearch.ca As fires rage across tens of thousands square km the Amazon forest, dubbed the Planet's lungs, producing some 20 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere, with some 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, where fires on such a …

Makia Freeman (2019-08-27). Taunting the Dragon: Background to US-China Trade War and Hong Kong Protests. globalresearch.ca The Hong Kong protests are escalating, just as the US-China trade war is also escalating. None of this is out of the blue. For quite some time now, the US has been shifting the focus of its hegemonic and imperial …

Andrew Korybko (2019-08-27). The Putin-Erdogan Summit Will Influence the Syrian End Game. globalresearch.ca Turkish President Erdogan's visit to Moscow on 27 August will see him and his Russian counterpart hashing out the details of the Syrian end game. | The kinetic (military) phase of the War on Syria is rapidly drawing to a close …

Philip Giraldi (2019-08-27). Does Israel Interfere in American Elections? globalresearch.ca Does anyone remember what the Mueller investigation was all about? It was to determine whether the team surrounding candidate and then president-elect Donald Trump had colluded with a foreign power, presumed to be Russia. | It did not discover any such …

Franklin Frederick (2019-08-27). Nestlé and the Privatization of Water. globalresearch.ca Last February, the Government of Switzerland announced the creation of a Foundation in Geneva, under the name 'Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator' (GSDA). The purpose of this new foundation is to regulate new technologies, from drones and automatic cars …

F. William Engdahl (2019-08-27). World Extreme Weather: Is it Man or Something Else? globalresearch.ca Our planet seems to be in a growing crisis in terms of agriculture and crop production related to unusual weather shifts. Many reports in recent months use the term "extreme weather" to describe record heat across Europe this summer, record …

Dr. Dennis Etler (2019-08-27). America's Authoritarian Use of the Word "Authoritarianism" globalresearch.ca We see the word "authoritarianism" all over the US media, a blanket term employed to describe countries that the United States government currently considers as threats to its interests. Although "authoritarian" refers to a society in which political power is …

South Front (2019-08-27). Video: Military Escalation in the Middle East. Israel Carries Out Strikes on Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. globalresearch.ca The situation in the Middle East is once again escalating. | On August 24, Israeli warplanes bombed what the Israeli military described as 'Iranian targets' near the town of Aqraba south of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The Syrian air-defense forces intercepted …

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-27). G7 Nations at Odds on Iran? Macron to Lead G7 Discussions with Tehran in Defiance of Washington? globalresearch.ca The short answer is yes and no. | G7 nations Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and US are united in one respect. They're profoundly undemocratic while pretending otherwise. | They're united for privileged interests over beneficial social change. They operate …

Oscar Grenfell (2019-08-27). Anti-China Witch-hunt Targets Australian Universities. globalresearch.ca On August 21, the Australian government convened a "crisis meeting" with representatives of the universities and the intelligence agencies, as part of a hysterical campaign alleging pervasive "Chinese influence" throughout society. | Little has been revealed about what was discussed at …

Tina Renier (2019-08-27). Globalization and Women's Rights: Economic Restructuring, Women's Experiences and Responses to "Neoliberal Shocks" globalresearch.ca There is a critical nexus between colonial development and economic re-structuring processes in the Third world whereby globalization is an ideological weapon that extends imperial control over ex-colonies through persistent poverty and underdevelopment. | Globalization is also an external war that …

Daniel Ross (2019-08-27). Can we reach 100 percent renewable energy in time to avert climate catastrophe? nationofchange.org Ten years ago, two climate scientists, Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, published a groundbreaking article in Scientific American outlining a road map for becoming 100 percent reliant on energy generated by water, wind and sun by 2030. This was something that needed to be done "if the world has any hope of slowing climate change," the researchers warned at the time. | The article proved incendiary. "First of all, nobody believed it when we put out that paper in 2009," Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, told…

Katrina vanden Heuvel (2019-08-27). Big Business Is Suddenly Showing a Conscience. But Is That Enough? thenation.com Big Business Is Suddenly Showing a Conscience. But Is That Enough?

Dan Bacher (2019-08-27). Salmon fishermen blast Trump administration's war on science. indybay.org Reacting to the news that Southern Resident Killer Whales are included in the list of species that would be jeopardized by the Department of the Interior plan, Noah Oppenheim, Executive Director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA), concluded: | "We must produce more salmon, not less, for Southern Resident Killer Whales' dietary needs. The Department of the Interior is content to put fewer fish in the ocean, starving orcas and fishermen alike, but we are not content with their plans. The state of California must take action to resist these environmental rollbacks and increase the sa…

WSWS (2019-08-27). The future is socialism, but it must be fought for. wsws.org Students and youth must fight to build an independent political movement of the working class, in opposition to all the parties and organizations that support capitalism.

Dahn Shaulis (2019-08-27). Students for Trump is more dangerous than you think. indybay.org Charlie Kirk, Chairman of Students for Trump has promised to use "aggressive" means to help Donald Trump win the 2020 election. Kirk's organizations have already used shady tactics to win student body elections and possibly to violate IRS regulations covering charitable organizations and political action committees.

WSWS (2019-08-27). Tensions rise as unions and district attempt to head off strike by Las Vegas teachers. wsws.org After thousands of teachers flooded a meeting of the Clark County School District demanding their contractually-mandated raises, school board members abruptly ended the meeting before being escorted out by police.

Global Research News (2019-08-27). Selected Articles: Nestlé and the Privatization of Water. globalresearch.ca A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer". | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …

Global Research News (2019-08-27). Selected Articles: Amazonia in Flames — Brazil's Bolsonaro Is a World Criminal. globalresearch.ca Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …

Johanna Ross (2019-08-27). Brexit "Transition": The Calm before the Storm for Boris. globalresearch.ca UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron last week in Paris as part of his continuing tour with European leaders in a last-minute attempt to strike a deal over Brexit. President Macron echoed the words of …

Julianne Tveten (2019-08-27). Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science. commondreams.org At the heart of the Mauna Kea action is thus a challenge not only to a telescope, but to capital and the pursuit of unmitigated industrial growth at any cost. (Photo: Screenshot/Washington Post) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

The Global Research Team (2019-08-26). "Cracking Down" on Independent Media: Global Research Needs Your Support. globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | We often receive words of encouragement from those of you who regularly check our website or are subscribed to our daily newsletter. As we do not follow a mainstream narrative, the recent online trend has generally been to …

Franklin Frederick (2019-08-26). Privatizaàßà£o da água: notícias preocupantes que vêm da Suíàßa. globalresearch.ca No último mês de fevereiro o Governo da Suíàßa anunciou a criaàßà£o de uma Fundaàßà£o em Genebra ( www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foundation-for-the-… ) , com o nome de "Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator" (GSDA). | O objetivo desta nova fundaàßà£o é o de regulamentar …

Bill Nicholov (2019-08-26). The West Is Spinning the "Cultural Genocide" of Macedonians. globalresearch.ca What they could be doing, instead, is preventing the forced name and identity change on Macedonia and Macedonians. Yes, the one initiated by Greece, and executed by the West. You see, the US, EU and other Western countries have forcibly …

Sarah Lahm (2019-08-26). St. Paul Teachers Union Picks the Health Care Battle. progressive.org Skyrocketing insurance costs generated a national wave of teacher strikes last year. Now, Minnesota educators head into a new school year ready to fight for affordable health care.

True Publica (2019-08-26). Brexit Britain: The Serious Question of Becoming a "Failed State" globalresearch.ca This is the formal description of a failed state — "A failed state is a political body that has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government no longer function properly. A state can …

Julia Conley, staff writer (2019-08-26). 'If A Kid Says Help, You Help': Climate Action Advocates Call On Adults to Join Young Activists in September's Global Climate Strike. commondreams.org As climate activist Greta Thunberg neared the United States on a boat which set sail from Britain on August 14, the global climate action movement ramped up efforts to call people of all ages to join in the climate strike which the 16-year-old Swedish student helped to inspire. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

Staff (2019-08-26). Unreported Deaths, Child Cancer & Radioactive Meat: The Untold Story of Chernobyl. democracynow.org Following a mysterious nuclear accident in Russia that left seven dead, we look back at the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. It sent a cloud of radioactive fallout into Russia, Belarus and over a large portion of Europe, but the death toll from Chernobyl remains unknown. Chernobyl is considered the worst nuclear accident in history, but Kate Brown, an MIT professor of science, technology and society, says much of what we understand about the disaster is inaccurate. Her new book, "Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future," chronicles the devastating and underreported impact of radiation on tens of t…

Shawgi Tell (2019-08-24). Charter School Fictions and Grandstanding. dissidentvoice.org It is no secret that charter school advocates become disingenuous and belligerent when endless problems in the scandal-ridden charter school sector are exposed, criticized, and opposed with greater depth, sophistication, and regularity. For nearly 30 years charter school promoters have been reluctant to admit, let alone come to terms with, profound problems with privately-operated nonprofit …

Colin Todhunter (2019-08-24). Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate. dissidentvoice.org In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: Let's start now to liberate the UK's extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let's develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world. Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The 'GM will feed the world mantra' is pure industry spin. …

Paul Haeder (2019-08-23). One Woman's Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions, Seaweed, Wave Energy. dissidentvoice.org Symbioses — prolonged associations between organisms often widely separated phylogenetically — are more common in biology than we once thought and have been neglected as a phenomenon worthy of study on its own merits. Extending along a dynamic continuum from antagonistic to cooperative and often involving elements of both antagonism and mutualism, symbioses involve pathogens, …

Eds. (2019-08-23). Top 1% up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% down $900 Billion. mronline.org The insights of this new data series are many, but for this post here I want to highlight a single eye-popping statistic. Between 1989 and 2018, the top 1 percent increased its total net worth by $21 trillion. The bottom 50 percent actually saw its net worth decrease by $900 billion over the same period. | Source

United Nations (2019-08-23). School closures triple in Central and Western Africa as education comes under fire. un.org A surge in "deliberate" attacks against students, teachers and schools in West and Central Africa has led to a tripling in school closures in the last year and left almost two million youngsters "robbed of an education", the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.

United Nations (2019-08-23). Friday's Daily Brief: Education in Africa, Sudan flash-floods, WHO on Ebola, spike in South Sudan violence, Rwanda, Uganda move to normalize relations. un.org A recap of Friday's stories: Education under fire in Central and Western Africa; Sudan flash-floods wreak havoc; Ebola outbreak spreads, albeit with fewer transmissions; UN rights experts on South Sudan; and UN chief welcomes understanding between Rwanda and Uganda…

Jeet Heer (2019-08-23). 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Is a Science Fiction Film. thenation.com 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Is a Science Fiction Film…

Fight Back (2019-08-20). Say no to the McCarthyite attack on Chicago teachers. fightbacknews.org As the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) find itself locked in tough contract negotiations and faces the possibility of a strike, corporate and right-wing media like the Chicago Tribune, Breitbart and others have launched a bizarre attack that seems like it is straight out of the 1950s red scare. Rather than addressing the real problems impacting teachers and students in Chicago schools, these reactionary pundits have decided the rant and rave about – of all things – a delegation of teachers that traveled to Venezuela earlier this summer. | Here are the facts of the matter. A group of teachers who are also members of…

Brad Bennett (2019-08-20). Maryland teacher incorporates hard lessons about slavery into public school curriculum. splcenter.org At a workshop for teachers about educating children on American slavery, one instructor grew angry and insisted that Thomas Jefferson — who fathered biracial children with an enslaved woman on one of his plantations — was an advocate for racial equality.

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