New Zealand secondary teachers' union cancels industrial action
wsws.org | 2019-06-07
There is growing anger over the Labour Party-led government's refusal to adequately fund education, and the unions' efforts to isolate teachers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/07/nzte…

Salt Lake City teacher walkout could lead to strike
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-06-07
Salt Lake City, UT – Teachers in the Salt Lake Education Association walked out of a Salt Lake City Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday night, June 4. The meeting was held the night before the last day of school and was attended almost entirely by teachers, some of whom had brought their own children. They wore red shirts to show their solidarity to their union, their students and each other and they carried signs reading "6%" showing their demand to have their salaries raised by 6% in their upcoming contract with the district. The teachers all walked out during the comment period, where input on the upcoming c…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/6/6/salt-lake…

Racism is a Public Health Crisis
Jessicah Pierre | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-07
Racism is often viewed as an action performed by individuals. But even if we got rid of all America's prejudiced individuals, racism would still exist in the systems they built. Systemic racism, writer Jenee Desmond-Harris explains, refers to how racial disparities operate "in major parts of U.S. society: the economy, politics, education, and more." Racism,…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/racism-is-a-public-health-crisis/

Stop the closure of Benton Harbor schools! Defend public education!
wsws.org | 2019-06-07
The following statement was distributed to teachers, parents and students at a school board meeting Tuesday night in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/07/bent…

Trump administration cuts education and recreation funding for immigrant children in detention centers
wsws.org | 2019-06-07
The Office of Refugee Settlement has halted the flow of funding for any activities they consider "not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety," including legal aid and recreation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/07/chil…

Most Popular Articles This Week
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
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Video: Syrian, Russian Forces Pound Militants in Greater Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
ISIS cells have used an IED to blow up a Syrian Army vehicle on the road between Naamer and al-Khirbet in northern Daraa, the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq said on June 4. According to the report, 3 soldiers were killed …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-russian-forces-pound-militants-greater-idlib/5679842

You're Under Arrest: How the US Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
"History shows that governments sometimes seek to regulate our lives finely, acutely, thoroughly, and exhaustively. In our own time and place, criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can …
globalresearch.ca/youre-under-arrest-how-police-state-muzzles-our-right-speak-truth-power/5679865

Reinterpreting History and Reality, Retrospective Exhibition of Simone Fattal, New York Museum of Modern Art PS1
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
Even in New York, it's not often one has an opportunity to view a sculpture exhibit on the scale of Simone Fattal's 50-year retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art PS 1. It's a splendid assemblage of work–247 …
globalresearch.ca/retrospective-exhibition-simone-fatal-moma-ps1-ny/5679731

Angst and Madness at the End of Empire
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-07
"Recent research suggests that human societies will experience disruptions to their basic functioning within less than ten years due to climate stress. Such disruptions include increased levels of malnutrition, starvation, disease, civil conflict and war — and will not avoid affluent nations." — Jem Bendell, professor of sustainability leadership, University of Cumbria, UK…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/112236/

Japan's F-35 Acquisition and the Arms Race in the Western Pacific: Strategic Game Changer or Epic Boondoggle?
Prof. Wilson Wong | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-06-07
asia-pacificresearch.com/japans-f-35-acquisition-arms-race-western-pacific-strategic-game-changer-epic-boondoggle/5628664

The State of the US Economy. Poverty and America's "Mega-Rich". Rigged Markets and the Collapse of the "Real Economy"
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
The story line is going out that the economic boom is weakening and the Federal Reserve has to get the printing press running again. The Fed uses the money to purchase bonds, which drives up the prices of bonds and …
globalresearch.ca/the-state-of-the-us-economy-poverty-and-americas-mega-rich-rigged-markets-and-the-collapse-of-the-real-economy/5679785

Experts from Brazil, Guatemala, Cuba to Research Neuroimmunology
plenglish.com | 2019-06-07
07 de junio de 2019, 05: 58Havana, June 7 (Prensa Latina) Specialists from Brazil, Guatemala and Cuba will meet here from June 11 to 14 to discuss new alternatives in the treatment of demyelinating diseases during the First Cuban School of Neuroimmunology, a press release reported here. .
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

Hundreds Died 'as a Result of the Indonesian Elections'
Andre Vltchek | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-06-07
asia-pacificresearch.com/hundreds-died-indonesian-elections/5628667

Washington's "Malicious Intent": Trump and Son-in-Law Kushner's "Deliberate" Ignorance of Palestinian History
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
When the President of Israel and the Jewish son-in-law of the President of the United States make surprisingly thoughtless statements about Palestine, they show us just how deliberately ignorant of history they are‚Ää–‚Ääand how uncaring they are for …
globalresearch.ca/not-capable-governing-themselves-kushner-final-status-status-quo/5679787

Illinois Legalizes Cannabis
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
The late economist Milton Friedman's notion of capitalism and freedom is polar opposite to my own views. | We're however likeminded on the issue of illicit drugs and so-called US war on them, largely waged on Blacks and Latinos. They …
globalresearch.ca/illinois-legalizes-cannabis/5679853

What Does Facebook Know About Me (It's Scary)
BroadbandSearch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
Whether it's eerily-specific ads popping up in our news feeds, or stories about our data leaking into the wrong hands, there's plenty of evidence that Facebook knows quite a bit about us. | But exactly what information does Facebook have? It's …
globalresearch.ca/what-does-facebook-know-about-me-its-scary/5679877

Chinese Students Might be the "Trade War's" First Civilian Causalities
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
The escalating "trade war" between the US and China is reportedly causing some in Washington to consider imposing legal restrictions on Chinese students in the interests of national security, which shows that all the trade talk was really just a …
globalresearch.ca/chinese-students-might-be-the-trade-wars-first-civilian-causalities/5679788

D-Day Normandy Invasion after 75 Years. The Falsification of History
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-07
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. Once again the event is celebrated by demonization of National Socialist Germany and glorification of America's greatness in winning the war. | In actual fact the Normandy invasion was not a significant …
globalresearch.ca/d-day-normandy-invasion-after-75-years-the-falsification-of-history/5679845

Scientists Now Believe Black Holes Could Be Portals to Other Galaxies
The Mind Unleashed | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-07
(TMU) — In Christopher Nolan's epic 2014 science fiction film Interstellar, a rogue splinter group of scientists constituting the collapsed remnants of NASA hatch a plan to save Earth from environmental collapse by searching for potentially habitable planets in a distant galaxy. They get there by traveling through a wormhole and using the gravitational slingshot …
theantimedia.com/black-holes-portals-oth…

The Accelerating Ecological Genocide
Thomas Klikauer | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-07
In May 2019, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released its latest assessment of the accelerating extinction rates of our global biodiversity. The report was compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries over the past three years. It has inputs from another 310 contributing authors and is based…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/the-accelerating-ecological-genocide/

NZ teachers take historic strike action
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-07
Teachers around Aotearoa New Zealand held a historic one-day strike on May 29. | For the first time, both primary and secondary teachers joined together in a "mega-strike" to demand pay rises, parity between primary and secondary teachers, staffing increases and more time for preparation and out-of-classroom activities. About 50,000 teachers took part in the strike, with most public schools closing for the day. Large, loud and colourful marches took place in all main centres and many regional towns. Teachers also gathered at major intersections with placards and banners, encouraging motorists to toot in support o…
greenleft.org.au/content/nz-teachers-take-historic-strike-action

Teaching Palestine in South Africa
Diana Block | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-07
Reaffirming Internationalism in the Twenty-first Century In March 2019 I traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to attend a conference — Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice. The conference was co-sponsored by the AMED (Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies) program of San Francisco State University (SFSU), AMEC (Afro-Middle East Centre) in…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/teaching-palestine-in-south-africa/

Sri Lankan Trotskyists win strong support for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
wsws.org | 2019-06-07
University students voice their concerns about the US-led assaults on Assange and Manning and speak out in defence of free speech.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/07/asan…

University to return $26.5mn donation over benefactor's pro-choice views
rt.com | 2019-06-07
The University of Alabama is considering rejecting a $26.5mn donation after its benefactor called on students to boycott the school over Alabama's strict new abortion law, which criminalizes the procedure in almost all cases. | …
rt.com/usa/461266-university-alabama-returns-donation-abortion/

Michigan governor announces closure of Benton Harbor High School
wsws.org | 2019-06-07
Students, parents and community members denounced Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer's unilateral decision to close Benton Harbor High School at a school board meeting this week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/07/beha…

Trump's New Travel Restrictions Harm Both US and Cuban People
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-06
Escalating his policy to economically strangle Cuba, Donald Trump has imposed new restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S. persons. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will no longer allow the popular "people-to-people" educational travel and they will deny licenses to cruise ships, the most common way people visit Cuba. | "While this further escalation of the Trump administration's economic war on Cuba is very harmful to the people of Cuba and its…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-new-travel-restrictions-harm-both-us-and-cuban-persons/

Cuban Campaign Seeks To Eradicate Patriarchal Norms
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-06
A year after it was launched, the Cuban national campaign Evoluciona continues its efforts in questioning and to transforming the beliefs that support violence against women, according to members of the campaign who have spoken to the local Cuban outlet Cuba Informacion Tuesday. | RELATED: | Argentina Protests Gender Violence, Demands Right To Abort | Led by the center Oscar Arnulfo Romero in alliance with the Federation of Cuban women, the National Center of Sex Education and the…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuban-Campaign-Seeks-To-Eradicate-Patriarchal-Norms-20190606-0014.html

An analysis of the 2019 Oakland teachers strike
Craig Gordan | mronline.org | 2019-06-06
The recent seven-day strike by the Oakland Education Association (OEA) was eerily similar in key ways to its 26-day strike in 1996. What happened in both cases was that union members and community allies won on the picket lines and in the streets but got a draw, at best, at the bargaining table. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/06/an-analysis-of-the-2019-oakland-teachers-strike/

Joe Biden Once Made Common Cause With School Segregationists
Jonathan Kozol | thenation.com | 2019-06-06
Joe Biden Once Made Common Cause With School Segregationists…
thenation.com/article/joe-biden-education-busing-opposition/

CREDO Says Pennsylvania Charter Schools Are Weak and Unimpressive
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-06
In another recent study on charter schools, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, "finds little to no progress in charter school impact in Pennsylvania."1 A June 4, 2019 press release from CREDO states that: "Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found over four years of study that …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/credo-says-pennsylvania-charter-schools-are-weak-and-unimpressive/

Bolivia's Newspaper Warns of Damage Caused by Blockade of Cuba
plenglish.com | 2019-06-06
La Paz, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) About 800,000 reservations of tickets to Cuba are affected by the U.S. ban on educational trips to the island, according to the Bolivian government"s newspaper Cambio.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

An analysis of the 2019 Oakland teachers strike
Craig Gordon | mronline.org | 2019-06-06
The recent seven-day strike by the Oakland Education Association (OEA) was eerily similar in key ways to its 26-day strike in 1996. What happened in both cases was that union members and community allies won on the picket lines and in the streets but got a draw, at best, at the bargaining table. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/06/an-analysis-of-the-2019-oakland-teachers-strike/

Thursday's Daily Brief: STIs worldwide, food safety and food prices, updates on Iraq and East Africa
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-06
This Thursday, we cover: the latest global report by the UN health agency (WHO) on sexually transmitted infections (STIs); the first ever World Food Safety Day, celebrated this Friday; an update on global food prices; updates on the education and farmland situation in Iraq; and a new UN allocation of US$45 million to help people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya facing food shortages.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1039951

Trump Escalates Economic Attack on Cuba, Banning Americans from Educational, Cultural Trips
MAIL | democracynow.org | 2019-06-06
In the latest attempt by the Trump administration to squeeze the Cuban economy, the Treasury Department announced Tuesday that it is ending the people-to-people program, which has been the most popular way for Americans to visit the country, through organized group trips in spite of the embargo. Private cruises to the island will also be banned. On Wednesday, the cruise companies Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian all said they will no longer travel to Cuba, affecting nearly 800,000 bookings. In a statement, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed the ban is in retaliation for Cuba "providing a…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/6/trump_admi…

CREDO Says Pennsylvania Charter Schools Are Weak and Unimpressive
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-06-06
In another recent study on charter schools, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, "finds little to no progress in charter school impact in Pennsylvania."1 A June 4, 2019 press release from CREDO states that: "Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found over four years of study that …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/credo-says-pennsylvania-charter-schools-are-weak-and-unimpressive/

Chile Teachers Call For Demonstrations Against Poor Conditions
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-06
Chilean Teachers Association called Thursday for a massive demonstration in the capital Santiago to demand the government address the public education crisis, to retract the curricular change which makes the subjects of history, physical education and arts optional and improve the working conditions of teachers in Chile. | RELATED: | Chileans to Demonstrate as President Piñera Adresses the Nation | The teachers' association said they were protesting for structural issues with…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Teachers-Call-For-Demonstrations-Against-Poor-Conditions–20190606-0010.html

General strike in Honduras protests gov't 'reforms'
Sam Ordóñez | workers.org | 2019-06-06
June 3 — A national strike began in Honduras on May 30 protesting a series of reforms announced by the government. The strike was called in response a series of decrees signed by the president on May 28 aimed at restructuring the health and education sectors. The demonstrations, which continued . . . | Continue reading General strike in Honduras protests gov't 'reforms' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/06/06/general-strike-in-honduras-protests-govt-reforms/

Journalist and Educator Among Those Caught Up in YouTube's Attempt to Purge Online Hate Speech
Eoin Higgins | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-06
(CD) — Free speech advocates who warned of the predictable consequences of allowing powerful tech companies to police online discourse seized on YouTube's attempt Wednesday to purge hate speech from their video platform after creators performing public service journalism and education were swept up in the effort. Wednesday's purge came after days of sustained criticism over YouTube's …
theantimedia.com/ford-fischer-youtube-pu…

When Joe Biden Collaborated With Segregationists
Jonathan Kozol | thenation.com | 2019-06-06
When Joe Biden Collaborated With Segregationists…
thenation.com/article/joe-biden-education-busing-opposition/

'We Will Soon Pray There': Israeli Minister Urges Jewish Settlers to Enter Al-Aqsa (The Temple Mount)
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
An Israeli minister has called on settlers to continue entering Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa compound and thanked security officials for making their visits possible after hundreds broke into the mosque during the final days of Ramadan. | In a video released on Monday, …
globalresearch.ca/we-will-soon-pray-there-israeli-minister-urges-settlers-enter-al-aqsa/5679799

Why Trump Now Wants Talks with Iran
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
Unlike Deep Purple's legendary 'Smoke on the Water' — "We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline", the 67th Bilderberg group meetings produced no fire and no smoke at the luxurious Fairmont Le Montreux Palace Hotel. | The …
globalresearch.ca/trump-now-wants-talks-iran/5679733

The Fracking Endgame: Locked into Plastics, Pollution and Climate Chaos
Food & Water Watch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
In the mid-2000s, the oil and gas industry accelerated the use of the controversial hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") technique to extract formerly inaccessible natural gas from shale rock and other geologic formations. Fracking has threatened communities near drilling rigs with water | …
globalresearch.ca/fracking-endgame-locked-plastics-pollution-climate-chaos/5679796

US Forces Destroy Syrian Oil While Enforcing Sanctions
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
The U.S. military attacked three Syrian oil tankers, destroying all and killing four of their drivers. The tankers were carrying Syrian oil, pumped from Syrian oil wells, and driving on Syrian territory. The U.S. justified the attack and murders …
globalresearch.ca/us-forces-destroy-syrian-oil-enforcing-sanctions/5679710

Coalition Airstrikes against Syria and Iraq: "Counting" Civilian Casualties, Fake Atrocity Narratives
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
Washington-led Empire is a global gangster state[1]. It corrupts all organizations that stand in its way, including supposedly "non-governmental" agencies[2]. | These agencies are government and/or foundation-funded. They are not neutral. They serve and advance Empire's crimes. They fabricate consent by …
globalresearch.ca/coalition-airstrikes-against-syria-and-iraq-counting-civilian-casualties-fake-atrocity-narratives/5679606

The Root of All Evil: "People No Longer Matter"
John Kozy | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
How primitive human beings dealt with the harsh conditions of life can hardly be imagined. I suppose humans emerged in racial and ethnic groups that then merged to some extent, sometimes easily, sometimes not. All, however, face the same hardships …
globalresearch.ca/the-root-of-all-evil-people-no-longer-matter/5679817

Modern Apocalypse. The Human Condition
Jim Miles | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
The following text is a selection from Jim Miles book entitled Modern Apocalypse | The entire text of Jim Miles book is available in E-book pdf format | The Human Condition | Within the universe I am completely insignificant. Insignificance opens up the | …
globalresearch.ca/modern-apocalypse-the-human-condition/5679741

Tulsi Gabbard Pushes No War Agenda — and the Media Is Out to Kill Her Chances
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
Voters looking ahead to 2020 are being bombarded with soundbites from the twenty plus Democratic would-be candidates. That Joe Biden is apparently leading the pack according to opinion polls should come as no surprise as he stands for nothing apart …
globalresearch.ca/tulsi-gabbard-pushes-no-war-agenda-media-kill-her-chances/5679802

Pentagon Nuclear War Plans: Fallout Would Have Wiped Out Many More Countries than Previously Estimated
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
By 1961 the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, a group of senior military figures advising the president, had concluded that proposed nuclear attacks across China, the USSR and Warsaw Pact allies would result in over half a billion deaths. Approximately …
globalresearch.ca/pentagon-nuclear-war-plans-fallout-would-have-wiped-out-many-more-countries-previously-estimated/5679722

Trump's Visit to the United Kingdom: The "Special Relationship", Post Brexit Future, Upholding "Western Civilization" … against Russia
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
Trump's first-ever state visit to the UK was a monumental event that celebrated the history of these two Great Powers' "Special Relationship" and also hinted at what…
globalresearch.ca/trumps-visit-to-the-united-kingdom-the-special-relationship-post-brexit-future-upholding-western-civilization-against-russia/5679791