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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/

Are Sanders and Warren Throwing a Lifeline to the Military-Industrial Complex?
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/sanders-warren-throwing-lifeline-military-industrial-complex/5687293

Bernie Sanders Devotes San Francisco Rally To His Free Education Platform Plank
Photos and Text | indybay.org | 2019-08-27
Students talk of their financial hardships and struggles to fund higher education…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/24/18825669.php

The Small Freedom
Seana Sperling | indybay.org | 2019-08-27
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

Tinderbox Earth: The Significance of the Amazon and Siberian Fires
Dr. Andrew Glikson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/significance-amazon-siberian-fires/5687303

World Extreme Weather: Is it Man or Something Else?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/world-extreme-weather-man-something-else/5687280

Globalization and Women's Rights: Economic Restructuring, Women's Experiences and Responses to "Neoliberal Shocks"
Tina Renier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/women-experiences-responses-neoliberal-shocks/5687305

America's Authoritarian Use of the Word "Authoritarianism"
Dr. Dennis Etler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/america-authoritarianism/5687300

What Everybody Needs to Know About the Amazon Rainforest
Geraldo Luís Lino | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/everybody-needs-know-about-amazon-rainforest/5687352

America 2019: A Woody Allen Film? "Waking Up in the Future to Learn Civilization Was Destroyed"
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/america-2019-a-woody-allen-film-waking-up-in-the-future-to-learn-civilization-was-destroyed/5687297

The Putin-Erdogan Summit Will Influence the Syrian End Game
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 | …
globalresearch.ca/putin-erdogan-summit-influence-syrian-end-game/5687286

Can we reach 100 percent renewable energy in time to avert climate catastrophe?
Daniel Ross | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-27
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…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/27/can-we-reach-100-percent-renewable-energy-in-time-to-avert-climate-catastrophe/

Anti-China Witch-hunt Targets Australian Universities
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/anti-china-witch-hunt-targets-australian-universities/5687241

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

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

Don't be Evil? Lethal Autonomous Weapons and Artificial Intelligence. A Survey of the Tech Sector's Stance
PAX | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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…
globalresearch.ca/survey-tech-sectors-stance-lethal-autonomous-weapons/5687251

Video: Military Escalation in the Middle East. Israel Carries Out Strikes on Syria, Lebanon and Iraq
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/video-israel-carries-out-strikes-syria-lebanon-iraq/5687283

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/

Trump's entire worldview is a nut job conspiracy theory
Michael Winship | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-27
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…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/27/trumps-entire-worldview-is-a-nut-job-conspiracy-theory/

Nestlé and the Privatization of Water
Franklin Frederick | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/swiss-development-aid-nestle-water-privatization/5687211

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

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

G7 Nations at Odds on Iran? Macron to Lead G7 Discussions with Tehran in Defiance of Washington?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/g7-nations-at-odds-on-iran-macron-to-lead-g7-discussions-with-tehran-in-defiance-of-washington/5687246

Salmon fishermen blast Trump administration's war on science
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-08-27
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

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/

Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science
Julianne Tveten | commondreams.org | 2019-08-27
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… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/27/protectors-mauna-kea-are-fighting-colonialism-not-science?cd-origin=rss

Students for Trump is more dangerous than you think
Dahn Shaulis | indybay.org | 2019-08-27
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

The future is socialism, but it must be fought for
wsws.org | 2019-08-27
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/27/iyss…

Tensions rise as unions and district attempt to head off strike by Las Vegas teachers
wsws.org | 2019-08-27
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/27/ccea…

Selected Articles: Amazonia in Flames — Brazil's Bolsonaro Is a World Criminal
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-amazonia-flames-brazil-bolsonaro-world-criminal/5687259

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

Brexit "Transition": The Calm before the Storm for Boris
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-transition-the-calm-before-the-storm-for-boris/5687277

Privatizaàßà£o da água: notícias preocupantes que vêm da Suíàßa
Franklin Frederick | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-26
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 …
globalresearch.ca/privatizacao-da-agua-noticias-preocupantes-que-vem-da-suica/5687271

The West Is Spinning the "Cultural Genocide" of Macedonians
Bill Nicholov | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-26
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 …
globalresearch.ca/west-cultural-genocide-macedonians/5687207

"Cracking Down" on Independent Media: Global Research Needs Your Support
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-26
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 …
globalresearch.ca/cracking-down-on-independent-media/5666168

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/

Brexit Britain: The Serious Question of Becoming a "Failed State"
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-26
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 …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-britain-question-becoming-failed-state/5687237

'If A Kid Says Help, You Help': Climate Action Advocates Call On Adults to Join Young Activists in September's Global Climate Strike
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-26
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… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/27/if-kid-says-help-you-help-climate-action-advocates-call-adults-join-young-activists?cd-origin=rss

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/

'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Is a Science Fiction Film
Jeet Heer | thenation.com | 2019-08-23
'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Is a Science Fiction Film…
thenation.com/article/tarantino-sly-science-fiction/

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

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2019-08-26: News Headlines

Tracy L. Barnett (2019-08-26). How the women of Standing Rock are building sovereign economies. nationofchange.org Sources reviewed this article for accuracy. | For Sicangu Lakota water protector Cheryl Angel, Standing Rock helped her define what she stands against: an economy rooted in extraction of resources and exploitation of people and planet. It wasn't until she'd had some distance that the vision of what she stands for came into focus. | "Now I understand that sustainable sovereign economies are needed to replace the system we support with our purchasing power," she said. "Our ancient teachings have all of those economies passed down in traditional families." | Cheryl Angel leads a group on pilgrimage at Black El…

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2019-08-26). Israel's Ban on Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Backfires. globalresearch.ca During Congress's August recess, a group of 41 Democratic and 31 Republican congressmembers traveled to Israel on a delegation sponsored by American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). AIPAC subsidizes congressional trips to Israel in order to further the "special relationship" …

Photos and Text (2019-08-26). 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…

WSWS (2019-08-26). Germany: New higher education law in North Rhine-Westphalia allows military research. wsws.org The focus of the law is the abolition of the Civil Clause, which proscribes research for military purposes.

Seana Sperling (2019-08-26). 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.

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 …

Nicole Hao (2019-08-26). Beijing Launches Plans for Shenzhen to Become World Hub, in Apparent Bid to Replace Hong Kong. globalresearch.ca Beijing has released a new policy laying out its ambitions for Shenzhen City—located in Guangdong Province just across the border from Hong Kong—to become a world-class tech innovation city. | Media in Hong Kong are theorizing that it signals the …

Elijah J. Magnier (2019-08-26). Who Is Behind Blowing Up Ammunition Warehouses in Iraq? Iran Is the Target. globalresearch.ca An explosion occurred Tuesday at an ammunition storage warehouse used by Iraqi security forces operating under the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) close to the US air and military base in Balad, Salahuddin province, 64 km north of Baghdad. Over a …

(2019-08-26). Lawsuit Challenges New Trump Administration Land Swap to Bulldoze Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. globalresearch.ca Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge a land-swap deal with King Cove Corporation aimed at putting a road through the heart of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. | Izembek is one of America's most ecologically significant wildlife …

EWG (2019-08-26). White House Aides Evacuate Over Asbestos Risks as Administration Moves to Keep Deadly Carcinogen Legal. globalresearch.ca Ivanka Trump, Kellyanne Conway and other senior White House aides have vacated their West Wing offices while asbestos is removed — even as the Trump administration is manipulating a federal chemical safety law to keep asbestos legal. | Bloomberg reported that …

Peter Koenig (2019-08-26). Hong Kong and the Audacity of the U.S. Part of a "Destabilization War" with China. globalresearch.ca The US has sent a couple of war ships into China waters at Hong Kong. They had the audacity to ask Beijing to grant them the right to dock at Hong Kong harbor. Beijing refused and warned Washington — do not meddle in our internal affairs.

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-26). Trump Escalates Trade War with China. Orders Corporate America to Stop Doing Business with China. Beijing Will Retaliate. globalresearch.ca Trade wars assure losers, not winners, Trump waging it on multiple fronts — China his main target, a nation able to give as much as it takes directly and asymmetrically. | His MAGA agenda has nothing to do with reducing the …

Michael Snyder (2019-08-26). A Critical Threshold Has Just Been Crossed, and Things Will Never be the Same Again… globalresearch.ca Just when things seemed to be settling down a little bit, our conflict with China has suddenly escalated to a dangerous new phase. This is not simply just a "trade war" any longer, and our relationship with China will never …

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 …

Firas Samuri (2019-08-26). Illegal Activity of Western Special Forces in Syria. globalresearch.ca In late June 2019, Fox News Channel published a video material, taken in Al-Hol refugee camp in northwestern Syria. On the footage, we can see a group of children under five chanting ISIS slogans. "We will stand on the heads …

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2019-08-26). Trump's Other Wall. "The Wall of Money". Towards a Global Currency War? globalresearch.ca Trump brags about the 'wall of money' now flowing into the US from abroad—from Europe, Asia, emerging market economies—as the global economy slides into recession there faster than in the US. He thinks that is great news for the US …

Kurt Nimmo (2019-08-26). MAGA Republican Joe Walsh: Get Rid of Trump, Vote for Me. globalresearch.ca Most of us agree. Donald Trump is a disaster. He's an unmoored mental case consumed with attacking enemies real and perceived. Trump's not Hitler or a white supremacist. He's a malignant narcissist. | Joe Walsh, a former Illinois Republican representative, …

Irina Slav (2019-08-26). Turkey Affirms Its Claim on Cyprus Oil and Gas. globalresearch.ca Turkey will continue exploring for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean waters around disputed Cyprus, and "No project can be realised if Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus are not involved," said President Recep Erdogan as quoted …

Matt Agorist (2019-08-26). After Covering the Paris Notre Dame Cathedral Fire Non-Stop, Media Silent as the Amazon Burns for Weeks. globalresearch.ca When the famous Notre Dame Cathedral erupted in flames last April, images of the blaze were plastered across television and computer screens alike. For days on end, mainstream media networks around the world devoted round-the-clock coverage to this burning church. …

Eric Zuesse (2019-08-26). The Media's Response to Bernie Sanders' "Climate Plan" globalresearch.ca U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a U.S. Presidential candidate in the Democratic Party primaries, presented on August 22nd the most-detailed climate-plan that has ever been presented by any U.S. Presidential candidate — 14,000 words, or the equivalent of a normal …

Jacob G. Hornberger (2019-08-26). Spending on Defense Is One Great Big Lie. globalresearch.ca Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson is worried. He thinks that maybe — just maybe — the U.S. government is not spending enough on defense. In a column entitled, " Here's Why We Could Be Under-Spending on Defense," Samuelson has …

Ricardo Vaz (2019-08-26). Venezuela's Maduro Confirms Secret Trump Talks as US Navy 'Ready' for Action. globalresearch.ca Venezuelan government officials have had secret contact with US officials for "months," President Maduro revealed Tuesday. | "I confirm that for months there have been contacts between senior officials from the Trump administration and from the Bolivarian government, with my express …

Stephen Lendman (2019-08-26). Tulsi Gabbard's Anti-War Foreign Policy. globalresearch.ca Her public statements, website positions, and body language suggest she's a genuine anti-war presidential aspirant. | Wanting US wars of aggression ended against nations threatening no one makes her worthy of everyone's support. | At the same time, it's important to note …

Peter Koenig (2019-08-26). Amazonia in Flames — Brazil's Bolsonaro Is a World Criminal — Encouraging Jungle Burning for Private Exploitation of Freed Land. globalresearch.ca On 28 October 2018, Jair Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil with 55.1% of the vote — and with a gigantic help from Cambridge Analytica. | At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in January 2019 in Davos Switzerland, Bolsonaro made a …

Yves Engler (2019-08-26). If Trudeau Cared About Environment He'd Stop "Making Nice" with Brazilian President Bolsonaro. globalresearch.ca By now most environmentally conscious people understand that Jair Bolsonaro is a bad guy. Brazil's president has scandalously blamed environmentalists for starting fires burning in the Amazon region, after having called for more "development" of the huge forests. | Canadians are …

WSWS (2019-08-26). Anti-China witch-hunt targets Australian universities. wsws.org The government and the security agencies convened a meeting with universities, threatening research involving Chinese academics.

Prof Susan Babbitt (2019-08-26). Fire and the "Changing Narrative" Thing. globalresearch.ca Changing narratives is a new buzz term. I even heard a Distinguished Professor say he can change the narrative about himself. He can't change it much. Narratives are intellectual, depending on concepts that depend on societies. They are ultimately conservative….

George Stacey (2019-08-26). Norvergence: Climate change fueled Syria's civil war. nationofchange.org "Until now the main cause of civil war is a wealth of the nation in few men hands but Syria showed us another reason; Climate Change" With this blog post, environmentalists at Norvergence have taken their research and study to a whole new level. The purpose of this content is to make people aware of …

Andrew Korybko (2019-08-26). India is Reviving an Old Narrative in Its Anti-Khalistan Infowar. globalresearch.ca The influential Indian online opinion outlet Daily O is reviving the old narrative that the Khalistani cause is supposedly backed by Pakistan and therefore represents a betrayal of Sikh interests as part of the latest stage of the state's increasingly …

Dan Bacher (2019-08-26). 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, 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 salmon…

Staff (2019-08-26). Free College Is a Good Start, But Low-Income Students Need Additional Support. truthout.org | | Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are thought to represent the left-leaning wing of the Democratic Party and even to embrace some socialist ideals. | Their ambitious proposals to eliminate undergraduate tuition and fees at public two-year and four-year colleges, as well as at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), though, signal that the real constituency they are courting is the American middle class.

Dahn Shaulis (2019-08-26). 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.

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 …

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…

Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer (2019-08-26). Good Job, Little Man. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

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. …

Ed Rampell (2019-08-23). 'This is Not Berlin': South of the border like never before. peoplesworld.org The young rebels also find themselves at demonstrations and fighting their parents, teachers and the police, as part of their cultural revolution against Mexico's middle-class mores. It's to the barricades, amidst lots of generation gap angst. Marina de Tavira (who was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress for portraying the mother in Roma) plays Carlos and Maud's mamacita, who may not be as un-hip as she appears to her kiddies. | Sama's film, which has been making the festival circuit—including Sundance, Tribeca, and Outfest (where I recently saw it, coincidentally sitting beside the director)[mda…

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

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, …

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…

Lyn Neeley (2019-08-22). Bolivarian revolution and Black liberation. workers.org Portland's Hands Off Venezuela PDX sponsored a Skype teach-in on Aug. 17 with Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent, an assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, who spoke about the role of racism in Bolivarian Venezuela to a room of 25 Oregonians. She said, "Just as Haiti . . . | Continue reading Bolivarian revolution and Black liberation at Workers.org

The Canary (2019-08-21). UK budget surplus misses forecasts as Government spending jumps before Brexit. thecanary.co The UK public purse delivered a smaller-than-expected surplus last month as public spending continued to increase. | The government posted a £1.3bn surplus in July, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), as it highlighted the budget restraints facing prime minister Boris Johnson amid significant Brexit-related spending commitments. | The surplus was £2.2bn smaller than in July 2018 and fell short of analyst forecasts of a £2.7bn surplus. | It's typical for the public finances to show a surplus in July, due to the boost from self-assessment income tax payments swelling the nationa…

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.

ACLU (2019-08-19). Trump is Taking More Money for Raids and Detention. Congress Should Stop Him. aclu.org Without congressional checks, ICE and CBP will continue to overspend and overstep. | The budget for Trump's turbo-charged immigration enforcement and border militarization is now larger than ever. And just last week, we learned that ICE plans to redirect even more money to further expand immigration detention and enforcement. The plan is currently being reviewed by congressional appropriato…

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