Kenya's Strathmore University beats Harvard in WTO competition
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-12
A team of three students from Strathmore University defeated Harvard Law School in the final of a global law school competition held in Geneva, Switzerland. | Strathmore University trio beats Harvard in global law school competition. | Mishael Wambua, Kandalla Maleehah, and Catherine Penda became the first African team to win the John H. Jackson Moot Court on World Trade Organization (WTO) Law Competition. | They also beat teams from Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Uganda to represent African at the competition's seventeenth edition. | During the competition, part…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/12/kenyas-strathmore-university-beats-harvard-in-wto-competition/

CA State Supt. Thurmond Making Nice With The Charters & Privatizers
repost | indybay.org | 2019-06-12
State Superintendent of Public Instruction who was elected by the support of the CTA, CFT and labor with Governor Newsom appointed charter advocates, privatizers and union busters to a board to investigate the role of charters. He talks about his acceptance of charters in an interview. | His pro-privatization appointments of | California Charter Authorization Professionals (CCAP) | California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) | Green Dot Charter Schools | Stephanie Medrano Farland, Consultant, Collaborative Solutions for Charter Authorizers…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/10/18823878.php

Logan High & The Battle For Public Education: New Haven Teachers Face Union Busting
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-12
New Haven Teaches Association members are interviewed at Logan High School at Union City on their 13th day on strike in the district. They discuss their fight to defend public education and union busting by the trustees and management.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/07/18823789.php

Palestinian Solidarity & SA BDS Director Desai With Professor Sang He
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-12
SJSU professor Sang Hea Kil is interviewed by WorkWeek about her trip to the Teaching Palestine conference in Capetown, South Africa. The conference looked at the role of Israel and the Zionist apartheid state. While attending the conference, she and two other participants were sexually harassed by the South African BDS director Muhammed Desai and the organization sought to cover-up this incident.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/11/18823884.php

The Last Bastion of Al Qaeda in Syria: US Propaganda Blitz Ahead of Idlib's Liberation
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
A concerted effort is being made to once again flood Western headlines with now familiar and long-since discredited war propaganda as Syrian forces and their Russian and Iranian allies move in on Idlib in northern Syria to liberate it from …
globalresearch.ca/us-propaganda-blitz-ahead-idlibs-liberation/5680373

Toxic Air Leads to Premature Death in New York, Paris, London, Beijing, Berlin and Moscow
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
There is today a major health crisis due to toxic air pollution exposure in every city in Europe, America, China and around the world. | Whilst there is now some regulation that has recently been introduced to control toxic exhaust emissions…
globalresearch.ca/toxic-air-leads-premature-death-new-york-paris-london-beijing-berlin-moscow/5680370

Chilean Drinking Water Contains Polluting Substances
plenglish.com | 2019-06-12
12 de junio de 2019, 03: 00Santiago, Chile, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) "Ghost" pollutants were found in drinking water in several northern Chilean cities, according to researchers from the Biotechnology and Microbiology Laboratory of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering at the Catholic University (UC).
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

Japan's Prime Minister Abe Is Trump's Informal Ambassador to Iran, but He Wants More Than to Mediate
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
Japanese Prime Minister Abe is functioning as Trump's informal ambassador to Iran during his two day trip to the Islamic Republic, though he has much greater strategic interests in mind than just being the US President's proxy such as expanding …
globalresearch.ca/abe-trumps-informal-ambassador-iran-he-wants-more-than-mediate/5680388

Russia-China: The Summit Which the Media Ignored
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
On 5 June, the media projectors zeroed in on President Trump and the European leaders of NATO, who, for the anniversary of D-Day, auto-celebrated in Portsmouth "peace, freedom and democracy in Europe," vowing to "defend them at any time, wherever …
globalresearch.ca/russia-china-summit-media-ignored/5680360

Video: The Seven Biggest Failures of Trumponomics
Robert Reich | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress keep crowing about the economy, when in reality Trumponomics has been a disaster. Here are its 7 biggest failures: | 1. Trump promised to bring down America's trade deficit " as fast as possible."…
globalresearch.ca/video-the-seven-biggest-failures-of-trumponomics/5680383

India Now Supports Israel at the UN against Palestine. Are They Allies?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
India broke with decades of its post-independence political traditions by unprecedentedly supporting "Israel" at the UN and voting against granting consultative status to a Palestinian NGO that allegedly has ties with Hamas, therefore formally allying with the self-professed "Jewish State" …
globalresearch.ca/india-israel-officially-diplomatic-allies-un/5680392

The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere but War. China's Competitive Edge
Glen Ford | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war. | "The early U.S. global hi-tech …
globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-has-been-eclipsed-in-every-sphere-but-war-chinas-competitive-edge/5680343

Tory cuts result in 131,000 preventable deaths in the UK
wsws.org | 2019-06-12
The Institute for Public Policy Research found that austerity measures carried out in the UK since 2012 have led to 131,000 preventable deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/12/prev…

A Russian-American-Israeli Meeting of National Security Advisors in Jerusalem: Syria and Iran on the Table
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-12
This month of June, the National Security Advisors of Russia, the US, and Israel, Nikolay Patrushev, John Bolton and Meir Ben-Shabbat, respectively, are expected to meet in Jerusalem to talk about Iran and Syria and what Israel considers the …
globalresearch.ca/russian-american-israeli-meeting-jerusalem-syria-iran-table/5680395

Canada announces plan to ban single-use plastics
Alexandra Jacobo | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-11
Leaving the US even farther behind in policy designed to help the environment, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that Canada will ban single-use plastics as early as 2021. | Specific items included in the ban will be plastic straws, cotton swabs, drink stirrers, plates, cutlery, and balloon sticks. Other items will be added once the government completes a science-based review. | Trudeau says the inspiration came from the European Union vote to impose a ban on single-use plastics in March. If EU states vote in favor of the measure passed by the European Parliament a ban against a range…
nationofchange.org/2019/06/11/canada-announces-plan-to-ban-single-use-plastics/

Sorry, But Just Having Better Schools Won't Fix America
Nick Hanauer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-11
Even the most thoughtful and well-intentioned school-reform program can't improve educational outcomes if it ignores the single greatest driver of student achievement: household income. (Photo: Edmon de Haro) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/11/sorry-just-having-better-schools-wont-fix-america?cd-origin=rss

Bring Troops Home and Send More Kids to College
Jesse Jackson | commondreams.org | 2019-06-11
Student debt—now at about $1.6 trillion—is greater than the amount owed to credit cards or in auto loans. (Photo: ©Arenacreative/Dreamstime.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/views/2019/06/11/bring-troops-home-and-send-more-kids-college?cd-origin=rss

CA State Supt. Thurmond Making Nice With The Charters & Privatizers
repost | indybay.org | 2019-06-11
State Superintendent of Public Instruction who was elected by the support of the CTA, CFT and labor with Governor Newsom appointed charter advocates, privatizers and union busters to a board to investigate the role of charters. He talks about his acceptance of charters in an interview. | His pro-privatization appointments of | California Charter Authorization Professionals (CCAP) | California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) | Green Dot Charter Schools | Stephanie Medrano Farland, Consultant, Collaborative Solutions for Charter Authorizers…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/10/18823878.php

Reinsertion Plan Benefits 1.6 Million Venezuelan Youths
plenglish.com | 2019-06-11
Caracas, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) More than 1.657 million Venezuelan youths have registered in the Youth Employment Great Mission (Gran Mision Chamba Juvenil), a government program to reincorporate young people into educational and labor projects, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

Reject NHTA sellout! Expand the strike to defend public education!
wsws.org | 2019-06-11
The following statement was distributed to teachers in the New Haven school district in northern California who were voting Sunday on a union-backed deal that cuts real wages and opens the door to deep budget cuts.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/11/nwhv…

Reinsertion Plan Benefits 1.6 Million Venezuelan Youths
plenglish.com | 2019-06-11
Caracas, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) More than 1.657 million Venezuelan youths have registered in the Youth Employment Great Mission (Gran Mision Chamba Juvenil), a government program to reincorporate young people into educational and labor projects, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

News Hounds Ignore Red Meat in D.C., Gnaw on Bone in New York
Gregory Glover | truthdig.com | 2019-06-11
Monday's House Judiciary Committee hearing was just getting started when the first reports came in: New York. Aircraft. Building.
truthdig.com/articles/democrats-launch-mueller-education-blitz-but-big-media-cuts-class/

Logan High & The Battle For Public Education: New Haven Teachers Face Union Busting
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-11
New Haven Teaches Association members are interviewed at Logan High School at Union City on their 13th day on strike in the district. They discuss their fight to defend public education and union busting by the trustees and management.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/07/18823789.php

Communist Party and Labor History Tour a big feature at coming convention
Special to People's World | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-11
CHICAGO–Delegates, guests, and the public, too, will have a unique opportunity before the Communist Party USA's 31st National Convention, opening here June 21. They'll have the chance to explore the history of the city's communist and labor movements in a special bus tour co-sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society, the People Before Profits Education …
peoplesworld.org/article/communist-party-and-labor-history-tour-a-big-feature-at-coming-convention/

Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2019-06-11
Teachers in the state of Michoacán have begun a protest over millions of pesos in back pay, blockading streets around the Finance Secretariat in the capital…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/11/wrkr…

Union betrayal ends three-week teacher strike in Hayward-Union City, California
wsws.org | 2019-06-11
After striking for 14 days, New Haven teachers were pressured heavily to vote for the union's sellout contract.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/11/newh…

New Zealand: Teacher at impoverished school speaks out against conditions that led to last month's historic strike
wsws.org | 2019-06-11
The WSWS interviewed a New Zealand teacher, who revealed the growing crisis facing severely under-resourced schools in rural towns.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/11/nzte…

Canadian 'Srebrenica Genocide Denial Law': When Even the Truth Is No Defense
Stephen Karganovic | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
Never mind the slow but steady dismantling in the fabled West of the "welfare state", that temporary horror the elites grudgingly used to tolerate. But that was only as a means of pacifying their subjects and winning over credulous hearts …
globalresearch.ca/canadian-srebrenica-genocide-denial-law/5680160

Media Paints Jihadist Commander Who Pledged Allegiance to ISIS as a Soccer Star with the Voice of an Angel
Alexander Rubinstein | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
If you've read the headlines about the death of "Syrian activist" Abdel Basset al-Sarout, you probably think he was a pretty cool guy. Headlines referring to him as a "Syrian footballer, singer and rebel" make him seem like he …
globalresearch.ca/media-paints-jihadist-commander-who-pledged-allegiance-isis-soccer-star-voice-angel/5680292

Global Warming Morphs into the Solar Minimum
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
Since Climate Change (CC) has been a constant of life on Gaia with the evolution of photosynthesis 3.2 billion years ago and has more complexities than this one essay can address; ergo, this article will explore CO2's historic contribution to …
globalresearch.ca/global-warming-morphs-solar-minimum/5680254

Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution in the Crosshairs of US Imperialism
Roger D. Harris | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
With the likes of John Bolton and Elliot Abrams directing US foreign policy, the US government has abandoned all pretense of "plausible denial" for its illegal regime-change initiatives. The "humanitarian" bombs may not be falling but, make no mistake, the …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelas-bolivarian-revolution-crosshairs-us-imperialism/5680247

Video: Al Qaeda Militants Suffer Large Casualties in Clashes in Northern Hama
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
Fierce clashes have been ongoing in northern Hama since June 6 when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Jaysh al-Izza, the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL) and their allies launched an advance on Syrian Arab Army (SAA) positions there. | Initially, militants seized …
globalresearch.ca/militants-suffer-large-casualties-clashes-northern-hama/5680223

The Various Shades of Black… and Green
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
The hit film of 2018 was Peter Farrelly's Green Book. The film takes place in 1962, and was based on a true story about an Italian American bouncer, from the famous Copacabana NYC nightclub, securing a temporary job as …
globalresearch.ca/various-shades-black-green/5680231

Canada's 'Srebrenica Genocide Denial Law': When Even the Truth Is No Defense
Stephen Karganovic | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
Never mind the slow but steady dismantling in the fabled West of the "welfare state", that temporary horror the elites grudgingly used to tolerate. But that was only as a means of pacifying their subjects and winning over credulous hearts …
globalresearch.ca/canadian-srebrenica-genocide-denial-law/5680160

From Dollar Hegemony to Global Warming: Globalization, Glyphosate and Doctrines of Consent
Prof Denis Rancourt | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
There has been an on-going tectonic shift in the West since the abandonment of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971. This accelerated when the USSR ended and has resulted in the 'neoliberal globalization' we see today. | At the same time, …
globalresearch.ca/dollar-hegemony-global-warming-globalization-glyphosate-doctrines-consent/5680238

Russia-Cina: il vertice che non fa notizia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
I riflettori mediatici si sono focalizzati il 5 giugno sul presidente Trump e i leader europei della Nato che, nell'anniversario del D-Day, autocelebravano a Portsmouth ´la pace, libertà e democrazia assicurate in Europa ª impegnandosi a ´difenderle in qualsiasi momento siano …
globalresearch.ca/russia-cina-il-vertice-che-non-fa-notizia/5680348

Turkey's "Military Multipolarity": US Ally and NATO Heavyweight to Purchase Russia's S-400 Air Defense System
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
The progress made on furthering the military dimension of Turkey's multipolar grand strategy might be irreversible by this point after the US suspended the country from the F-35 training program and increased the odds that it'll seek replacement warplanes from …
globalresearch.ca/turkeys-military-multipolarity-irreversible/5680285

I Grew Up in Rural Jamaica. I Witnessed Abject Poverty
Tina Renier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
"Just as surely history is the product of those forces which seek to dominate in the name of glory or profit, equally is history the product of the forces of those who rebel" — Michael Manley, 1978 | As a critical …
globalresearch.ca/personal-always-political-situating-myself-labour-development-research/5680242

Repeal the Espionage Act
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
World War I is the gift that just keeps on giving. Although the U.S. government's intervention into this senseless, immoral, and destructive war occurred 100 years ago, the adverse effects of the war continue to besiege our nation. Among the …
globalresearch.ca/repeal-espionage-act/5680301

America's "Gun Violence Archive". Data on Incidents and Casualties, Geographic Distribution
Gun Violence Archive | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
The Gun Violence Archive is an online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 2,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence. | GVA is …
globalresearch.ca/americas-gun-violence-archive-data-on-incidents-and-casualties-geographic-distribution/5680294

Top Brazilian Judge Clears for Trial Lula's Request for Freedom
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
The Supreme Federal Court (STF) judge, Gilmar Mendes, cleared for trial on Monday the request for freedom of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, according to Brazilian media. | The habeas corpus (HC) was presented by Lula's defense …
globalresearch.ca/top-brazilian-judge-clears-trial-lulas-request-freedom/5680310

Video: 5G Telecommunications Technology in Space: "This is All About Controlling People in 'Smart Cities'"
Claire Edwards | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
Claire Edwards talked about 5G last February in Poland. | Now more than ever, it is necessary to know the advantages and disadvantages of the said technology. | First we are told that 5G in space will help mitigate global warming — …
globalresearch.ca/video-5g-telecommunications-technology-in-space-this-is-all-about-controlling-people-in-smart-cities/5680012

'How Will I Feed My Son?': British Government Workers Fighting Back Against Poverty Pay
Nathan Akehurst | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
In the heart of one of the world's oldest and richest democracies, the staff keeping government offices functional are forced to turn to food banks because they cannot afford to eat. | Cleaners at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial …
globalresearch.ca/how-will-i-feed-my-son-government-workers-fighting-back-against-poverty-pay/5680306

Asylum-Seeking Children from Central America Suffer Multi-Dimensional, Recurrent, Sustained Trauma
Physicians for Human Rights | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
Since 2014, the number of children arriving at the U.S. border has risen dramatically, as unaccompanied children, adolescents, and young families have fled gang and other forms of violence in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. …
globalresearch.ca/asylum-seeking-children-northern-triangle-suffer-multi-dimensional-recurrent-sustained-trauma/5680317

Global Elites, Crisis of Humanity and 'Facing the Juggernaut'
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
The standard line is that the dominant powers in the world are democracies governed 'of the people, by the people, for the people.' Yet, we see that the important decisions are made by a relative handful of global elites by …
globalresearch.ca/global-elites-crisis-of-humanity-and-facing-the-juggernaut/5680216

The SCO Summit in Bishek, to Address US Threats, Geopolitics of the Region, Cooperation
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) 19th summit is scheduled to be held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 13-14 June 2019. It is a Eurasian political, economic, and security alliance, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China …
globalresearch.ca/19th-sco-summit-expectations-high/5680233

Radio Frequency Radiation (EMF) Threatens Plant and Animal Species with Extinction
Lisa Henkes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
"Despite widespread denial, the evidence that radio frequency (RF) radiation is harmful to life is already overwhelming." | But in a recent BBC article, they basically did just that: completely ignored the ridiculously large volume of evidence, which any 'respectable' …
globalresearch.ca/unspoken-truth-emfs-threaten-1-million-species-extinction/5680338

Canada's 'Liberals' Have a Disturbing Imperial Streak, Express Support for Regime Change in Venezuela
Prof. Vijay Prashad | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
Canada's embassy in Venezuela will–at the end of this month–close. The spur for this closure is an open attempt by Canada's Justin Trudeau to overthrow Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro. Canada is one of the leaders of the Lima Group, a …
globalresearch.ca/canadas-liberals-disturbing-imperial-streak/5680321

The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell's 1984 Is No Longer Fiction
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
"You had to live–did live, from habit that became instinct–in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."–George Orwell, 1984 | Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual …
globalresearch.ca/omnipresent-surveillance-state-orwells-1984-no-longer-fiction/5680227

India Complies with US Sanctions against Iran, Iran Keeps Begging It to Reconsider
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
India capitulated to American pressure and complied with the anti-Iranian sanctions regime, yet Iran keeps begging it to reconsider and continue investing in the Islamic Republic anyhow, with its humiliating behavior revealing just how desperate it is for economic relief …
globalresearch.ca/indias-complying-american-sanctions-iran-keeps-begging-reconsider/5680236