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2019-06-06: Social Media Postees

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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

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

A Third Brazilian Mine Tailings Dam Disaster Is About to Occur. The Dangers of Experimental Copper Mining in Minnesota
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
I plead with the readers of this column to click on the following links and read about the Vale Mining Corporation's warning of an impending dissolution of yet another Brazilian mine tailings dam. Here is the link to the developing …
globalresearch.ca/third-brazilian-mine-tailings-dam-disaster-occur/5679748

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 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

Study suggests higher cocoa prices could end child labor in Ghana
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-06-06
REUTERS FILE | Ghana could end child labor on cocoa farms by increasing the prices it pays impoverished farmers by about 50%, a U.S. study said on Wednesday. | Paying just 3% more at the farm gate could stop children in Ghana doing the most hazardous tasks, like using machetes, or working more than 42 hours a week, researchers said, as the illegal practice is driven by poverty and rarely prosecuted. | Ghana is the world's second largest cocoa grower, More than 700,000 children help produce the crop. | "We figured there has to be some kind of incentive, on top of the laws, to get the farmers to stop using child la…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/06/06/study-suggests-higher-cocoa-prices-could-end-child-labor-in-ghana/

Romanticism and Music: The Conversion of Music into a "Mass Narcotic" on a Global Scale
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
" Narcotic: drug that produces analgesia (pain relief), narcosis (state of stupor or sleep), and addiction (physical dependence on the drug). In some people narcotics also produce euphoria (a feeling of great elation)." | Introduction | Romanticism is a philosophical movement …
globalresearch.ca/romanticism-music-conversion-music-mass-narcotic-global-scale/5679743

Islamophobia and the 2017 Quebec City Mosque Massacre: Motion M-153 Does Not Honour Mosque Victims
CFJPIME | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is deeply concerned that Motion M-153– which purports to honour the victims of the January 29, 2017 Quebec City mosque massacre — is an attempt to avert a proper tribute …
globalresearch.ca/motion-m-153-not-honour-mosque-victims/5679725

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

Plastic Waste and Pollution: Environmental Organizations Call on Canadian Government to Take Immediate Regulatory Action
The Ocean Legacy Foundation | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
Twelve leading ocean conservancy and environmental groups have requested that Canada's environment and health ministers take immediate regulatory action on plastic waste and pollution, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999, and call on the Government of Canada to add …
globalresearch.ca/twelve-environmental-organizations-call-canadian-government-take-immediate-regulatory-action-plastic-waste-pollution/5679814

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

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

The US/UK "Special Relationship": Anglo-American "Common Values and Shared Interests" Threaten World Peace?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
In his 1946 Fulton, Missouri "Iron Curtain" address, Winston Churchill coined the US/UK "special relationship" term. | Until its 1776 declaration and war of independence, Britain colonized the US. Now it's the other way around. | The same is true for post-WW …
globalresearch.ca/the-usuk-special-relationship-anglo-american-common-values-and-shared-interests-threaten-world-peace/5679715

'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

Boris Johnson as Interim Prime Minister Could be a Disaster for the UK and British Interests
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
Boris Johnson as interim Prime Minister — even for a short period up to the next UK General Election — could prove extremely dangerous for both democratic government and for Britain as a sovereign, independent power. | Johnson is not only …
globalresearch.ca/boris-johnson-interim-prime-minister-disaster-uk-british-interests/5679719

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/

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

The Long Arm of the Bilderberg Group. Created by the CIA and MI6
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
Three Italians were invited to this year's meeting of the Bilderberg Group, which was held in Montreux, Switzerland, (30 May to 2 June). Another journalist was invited with Lili Gruber, the host of the TV channel La7, and now the …
globalresearch.ca/long-arm-bilderberg-group/5679805

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

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/

Fundamental Palestinian Rights: Trump's "Deal of the Century" "No-Peace/ Peace Plan", Derogating "The Right of Return"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
From what's known about the scheme, subject to change, Trump's so-called "deal of the century" has nothing to do with regional peace or treating Palestinians equitably. | It has everything to with serving US and Israeli interests at the expense of …
globalresearch.ca/fundamental-palestinian-rights-trumps-deal-of-the-century-no-peace-peace-plan-derogating-the-right-of-return/5679711

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

How the U.S. Navy Sold the Vietnam War
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
Dr. Tom Dooley, whose best-selling book "Deliver Us From Evil" helped create a favorable climate of opinion for U.S. intervention in South Vietnam, has long been linked to legendary CIA officer Edward G. Lansdale and his black operations in …
globalresearch.ca/how-u-s-navy-sold-vietnam-war/5679662

Reinterpreting History and Reality, Retrospective Exhibition of Simone Fattal, New York Museum of Modern Art PS1
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
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

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

Snubs, Bumps and Donald Trump in Britain
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-06
He may not be popular in Britain, but he still has shavings of appeal. For a country that has time for Nigel Farage, pro-Brexit enthusiast and full-time hypocrite (he is a member of the European Parliament, the very same institution …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-britain/5679707

'Abortion Up to Conscience, Not Government,' Declared Bernie Sanders… in 1972
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-06
The 2020 Democratic contender, says one top aide, "has been fighting these battles for decades, even when it wasn't politically advantageous." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/06/abortion-conscience-not-government-declared-bernie-sanders-1972?cd-origin=rss

Corporate Media Will Regret Abandoning Julian Assange
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-06
After British police arrested Julian Assange on April 11, the first instinct of corporate journalists was to perform a line-drawing exercise. In so doing, corporate media dutifully laid the groundwork for the US Department of Justice's escalating political persecution of the WikiLeaks founder, and set the stage for a renewed assault on a free and independent press by the Trump administration. | Following the philosopher of science Karl Popper, I'll call this the problem of journalistic demarcation. Facing his own demarc…
truthdig.com/articles/corporate-media-will-regret-abandoning-julian-assange/

Here's what Trump learned after Prince Charles dropped climate science on him
Molly Enking | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-06
In the middle of President Trump's controversial U.K. visit, he and Prince Charles were supposed to have a 15-minute sit-down for tea on Tuesday. Ninety minutes later, Trump left the meeting, reportedly after getting something between a lecture and a plea on the climate crisis. Trump discussed the meeting with British media personality Piers Morgan on ITV's Good …
peoplesworld.org/article/heres-what-trump-learned-after-prince-charles-dropped-climate-science-on-him/

Niger's students demand U.S. and French bases close
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2019-06-06
On May 25, at the call of the Union of Nigerien Students (USN), a few thousand students marched through Niamey, the capital of Niger, chanting, "Down with foreign military bases," "Down with the French army" (Niger is a former French colony), "Down with the American army," and "Down with the . . . | Continue reading Niger's students demand U.S. and French bases close at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/06/06/nigers-students-demand-u-s-and-french-bases-close/

Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Staff To Unionize
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-06
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren Thursday endorsed her campaign staff's decision to unionize, an expected move from the United States Senator from Massachusetts who has made workers' rights a major part of her 2020 platform. | RELATED: | US Election: Elizabeth Warren Proposes Canceling Students Debt for over 40M People | The staunchly pro-labor senator joins three other Democratic presidential candidates – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Verm…
telesurenglish.net/news/Elizabeth-Warrens-Campaign-Staff-To-Unionize-20190606-0017.html

Lutheran student pastor Betty Rendón deported back to Colombia less than a month after being detained by ICE
wsws.org | 2019-06-06
Pleas from community members and family fell on deaf ears as the Trump administration escalates its war on immigrants.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/06/brco…

Louisiana law will increase transparency in public school discipline and policing
splcenter.org | 2019-06-06
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a bill today that will help ensure schools are transparent in their student disciplinary practices and school policing programs.
splcenter.org/news/2019/06/06/louisiana-law-will-increase-transparency-public-school-discipline-and-policing

Palestinian Solidarity, South Africa BDS & Director Muhammed Desai
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-06-06
WorkWeek interviews SJSU professor Sang Hea Kil about her trip to South Africa to attend the Teaching Palestine confernce in March 2019. While at the conference she and two other women were sexually harassed by Muhammed Desai, the director of South Africa BDS. She talks about that experience and the cover-up that followed. She also discusses the role of Israel and the attacks against professors and students in the United States who are critical of Israel…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/03/18823720.php

Lutheran student pastor Betty Rendón deported back to Columbia less than a month after being detained by ICE
wsws.org | 2019-06-06
Pleas from community members and family fell on deaf ears as the Trump administration escalates its war on immigrants.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/06/brco…

Lutheran student pastor Betty Rendón deported back to Colombia less than a month after being detained by ICE
wsws.org | 2019-06-06
Pleas from community members and family fell on deaf ears as the Trump administration escalates its war on immigrants.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/06/brco…

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/

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…

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/

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/

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…

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

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/

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/

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 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/

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/

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…

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

Chilean Teachers on Strike Hold National March
plenglish.com | 2019-06-06
Santiago, Chile, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) Primary and high-school teachers in Chile, who have been on strike since Monday, held a march on Thursday in this capital with participation of colleagues from all over the country, the College of Professors informed.
www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id…

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2019-06-05: News Headlines

Colin Benjamin (2019-06-05). American Professor At Jamaica's Edna Manley College Contemplates Hunger Strike Amid Student Sex Scandal "Coverup" blackstarnews.com Visiting African-American Maluwa Williams-Myers has a story to tell about sex abuse at Edna Manley… | On Tuesday, African-American Professor Maluwa Williams-Myers told the Black Star News she is contemplating a hunger strike to force change at a Jamaican college where a serial sex offender has allegedly abused female students "for a decade." | Professor Williams-Myers told Black Star News she is compelled to consider this drastic approach because officials at this college are involved in a "coverup." She is worried about the victimization of other young women. | Is there a rape culture problem inside this Jama…

WSWS (2019-06-05). Stop Stalinist Terror Against Chinese Workers. wsws.org The ICFI statement entitled "Stop Stalinist Terror Against Chinese Workers" was issued on June 22, 1989, as the scope of the police dragnet and repression against workers and students expanded following the Tiananmen Square massacre.

RT (2019-06-05). 'Coward from Broward' cop arrested for failing to act during Parkland school shooting. rt.com Florida school security officer Scot Peterson has been charged with neglect of duty after an investigation into his failure to act for nearly an hour allowed an ex-student to gun down 17 people at a Parkland high school last year.

Emma Fiala (2019-06-05). Teacher Gives Boy With Autism 'Most Annoying Male' Award. theantimedia.com (TMU) — A special education teacher in Indiana is in hot water after giving an 11-year-old student with autism a trophy for "most annoying male." Speaking to the Times of Northwest Indiana, the boy's father, Rick Castejon, said he was "blindsided" when his nonverbal son was given the award last month during an end-of-the-year awards ceremony at …

Mark Gruenberg (2019-06-05). GOP moves to ban teacher strikes in West Virginia. peoplesworld.org CHARLESTON, W. Va. (PAI)—The Republican-run state House here will take up legislation on June 17 to boost charter schools and vouchers to parents of private school kids, outlaw public school teacher strikes, fire all public workers—not just teachers—who strike, and withhold pay from strikers. The State Senate approved the bill on an 18-15 party line …

Yohuru Williams (2019-06-05). Where the 2020 Hopefuls Stand on Public Education. progressive.org Broad support for the wave teacher strikes has candidates jostling each other step up on public education.

plenglish (2019-06-05). Chilean Teachers on Third Day of National Strike. plenglish.com 05 de junio de 2019, 11: 25Santiago de Chile, June 5 (Prensa Latina) Chilean teachers indefinite national strike is this Wednesday on in its third day after thousands of members of Teachers Association protested in several cities.

WSWS (2019-06-05). Chicago Public Schools lay off hundreds of teachers and staff. wsws.org Layoff notices were sent to 220 teachers and 498 support staff ahead of the June 30 Chicago Teachers Union contract expiration.

Rev. William Alberts (2019-06-05). Beware of Authoritarian Christians. counterpunch.org Christianity and authoritarianism are commonly believed to be at opposite ends of the democratic-autocratic continuum. A commonly held belief is that Christians, guided by The Bible, are accepting and caring of each other and others, and are thus democratic. Yes, many Christians do good with-and-for others, inspired by Jesus' Sermon on the Mount's emphasis on mercy and forgiveness and peacemaking (Matthew 5: 1-10), his teaching that doing to others as you would have then do to you is the bottom line of religion (Matthew 7L 12), and his saying that the greatest commandments are to love God and one's neighbor as on…

CGTN Africa (2019-06-05). Zimbabwe moves to ban strikes and protests. cgtn.com Zimbabwe's leaders are expected to enact a law this week that will bar workers from staging strikes and other protests before using other measures. | Zimbabwean schoolchild awaits transport from school during a teachers' strike in Harare, Zimbabwe, February 8, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo | The country has dealt with several strikes by doctors, teachers since its disputed general elections took place in 2018. Zimbabwe is currently facing a threat of a strike by the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA). ZINA recently issued a two-week notice to the Health Services Board. Nurses are threatening a walkout over sala…

Jason Ditz (2019-06-05). Chaos as Trump Administration Bans Cruises From Visiting Cuba. theantimedia.com (ANTIWAR.COM) — The Trump Administration has made clear that their anger toward Venezuela's government also extends to Cuba, and this was shown again today with the administration imposing new restrictions to prevent Americans ever setting foot on Cuban soil. The new restrictions target educational trips as well as cruise ships, forbidden all cruises from stopping in Cuba for …

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2019-06-05). 'Straight-Up Cruel': Trump Admin Condemned for Canceling Education, Recreation, and Legal Services for Detained Migrant Children. commondreams.org Human rights advocates responded with outrage Wednesday to the Trump administration's decision to start canceling education, recreation, and legal services for unaccompanied migrant children in federal shelters across the country, purportedly because of high detention rates and low funds. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

teleSUR (2019-06-05). Cuba's Diaz-Canel Rejects New Cultural Restrictions by US. telesurenglish.net Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Wednesday rejected the new restrictions by the United States on cultural and educational trips to the island. | RELATED: | Cuban Doctors Praised for Their Work in Post-Cyclone Mozambique | The new measures, which enter into force this Wednesday, will intensify the blockade and violate international law, the president said in…

Yves Engler (2019-06-05). Trudeau Government Squeezes Cuba. globalresearch.ca Ottawa faces a dilemma. How far are Trudeau's Liberals prepared to go in squeezing Cuba? Can Canadian corporations with interests on the island restrain the most pro-US, anti-socialist, elements of the ruling class? | Recently, the Canadian Embassy in Havana closed …

Hans Stehling (2019-06-05). Kushner-Trump Family Plan for an Enlarged Israel, Ridiculed as the 'Confidence Trick of the Century'. globalresearch.ca 700,000 illegal settlers, economic migrants from Israel who have built temporary homes on Palestinian land, are proposed to be legitimised under a Kushner family plan dubbed the 'confidence trick of the century'. | The son-in-law of Donald Trump, Jared Kushner is …

Jessica Purkiss (2019-06-05). How US "Good Guys" Wiped Out an Afghan Family. globalresearch.ca It was 4am when Masih Ur-Rahman Mubarez's wife Amina called, an unusually early time for their daily chat. When he picked up the phone, he could hear the panic in her voice. | Amina was calling from the Afghan province of …

Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2019-06-05). Advancing Its War on Science, Trump Admin Blocks Fetal Tissue From Being Used in Federal Research. commondreams.org "This will make it harder to find cures for deadly diseases." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Aidan O'Brien (2019-06-05). The EU Votes and the CIA Wins Again. globalresearch.ca The European Union voted last month but not one of its 21st century war crimes and war criminals were a topic of conversation. The real possibility of a nuclear war between the EU and Russia wasn't an issue either. The …

Andrew Korybko (2019-06-05). The 75th Anniversary of the Allied D-Day Liberation of Nazi-Occupied Western Europe. A Civilizational Provocation, Russia was Not Invited. globalresearch.ca The decision not to invite President Putin to attend the 75th D-Day commemoration event was a civilizational provocation aimed at dividing the European Allies during World War II and reinforcing the historically revised notion that the Soviet Union was an …

Maurice Stierl (2019-06-05). EU Sued at International Criminal Court over Mediterranean Migration Policy — As More Die at Sea. globalresearch.ca In the same week that more migrant lives were lost at sea, the EU's migration policy in the Mediterranean has been brought to the attention of the International Criminal Court (ICC). | It emerged on June 3 that the ICC had …

Arabi Souri (2019-06-05). ISIS Remnants Regroup and Attack Syrian Army Posts in the Desert with U.S. Help. globalresearch.ca ISIS terrorists, defeated by the Syrian Arab Army in the major battles of Der Ezzor and Albukamal east of Syria, have regrouped and launched a new wave of attacks against the SAA posts in the dese…

Nadia Bazuk (2019-06-05). The Ukrainian State's Interference in Church Affairs. globalresearch.ca The recent presidential elections in Ukraine ended quite unexpectedly — the comedian Volodymyr Zelensky whose bid for presidency hadn't been taken seriously by experts and voters in early 2019, defeated Petro Poroshenko and won a landslide victory. The margin between …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-06-05). "Freedom of Expression" and "The Battle of Ideas" globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | This is a personal message. Please read carefully. | When Global Research was born in September 2001, we were convinced that "Freedom of Expression" and "The Battle of Ideas" would contribute to reversing the tide of war, while also …

South Front (2019-06-05). Video: War Propaganda and US Military Buildup Against Iran. globalresearch.ca Tensions continue to grow in the Persian Gulf. | In early May, the US deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group as well as the USS Arlington amphibious transport dock, additional marines, amphibious vehicles, rotary aircraft, Patriot missiles and a bomber …

Eric Toussaint (2019-06-05). "The Lesson of the Soviet Union Is that the Bureaucracy Chooses Capitalist Restoration" globalresearch.ca Wilder Pérez Varona (WPV): My first question to you is about the issue of bureaucracy. | Before 1917 the issue of the socialist transition is one thing. The 1848 Revolution, the Paris Commune (which is a crucial episode, but of …

Andrew Korybko (2019-06-05). The US-China Trade War Can be Traced Back to the Failed Tiananmen Square Color Revolution. globalresearch.ca The current "trade war" owes its origins to the US' failed Tiananmen Square Color Revolution that convinced the Chinese authorities that their late-Old Cold War-era American "allies" couldn't be trusted, which in turn inspired the Communist Party to use the …

plenglish (2019-06-05). Brazil had a Historic Record of 65,602 Murders in 2017. plenglish.com Brasilia, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) Brazil had 65,602 people killed in 2017, revealed this Wednesday the Atlas of Violence, prepared by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and the Brazilian Public Security Forum.

Andrew Jackson (2019-06-05). After the Fall of the Berlin War: Between Dystopia and Democratic Socialism. globalresearch.ca After the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread sense that liberal capitalism had triumphed in the battle of ideas, and that socialism as a plausible alternative was pretty much dead. But the many crises of contemporary …

Colin Todhunter (2019-06-05). From Glyphosate to Front Groups: Fraud, Deception and Toxic Tactics. globalresearch.ca Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and the British Medical Association Council Chairman, Chaand Nagpaul. | Her purpose is to not only draw attention to the impact of biocides, not least that …

Arabi Souri (2019-06-05). Video: US-Sponsored Kurdish Militia Burn Wheat Fields in Northern Syria. globalresearch.ca The Kurdish separatist militia SDF and its affiliates from PYD and Asayish are burning wheat fields in the territories under their occupation northeast of Syria. | Some of the most fertile lands as well as territories rich with oil are under …

Peter Maass (2019-06-05). What the Horror of "Chernobyl" Reveals About the Deceit of the Trump Era. theintercept.com The HBO miniseries reveals the perils of a society based on lies. It also warns about ignoring the laws of science — and climate change.

Editor (2019-06-05). Liberal' — hasta a un punto. workers.org Los llamados medios de comunicación liberales en los Estados Unidos, especialmente el New York Times, el Washington Post y algunas fuentes de noticias de televisión, profesan la independencia. Pero no se atreven a ofender a sus dueños de clase dominante en asuntos internacionales clave. Tomemos, por ejemplo, el "informe" que . . . | Continue reading Liberal' — hasta a un punto at Workers.org

John Wojcik (2019-06-04). Black women display leadership during presidential forum attack. peoplesworld.org A white male protester grabbed the microphone from Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., after he jumped onto the stage last Saturday during a presidential candidates' forum sponsored by MoveOn. Harris was in the middle of remarks about student loans for black students when the animal rights activist lunged toward her and grabbed her mic. In an …

WSWS (2019-06-04). WSWS republishes ICFI statements on Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, 1989. wsws.org Thirty years after the brutal military crackdown on unarmed workers and students in Beijing, these documents contain the essential political lessons for the revolutionary struggles ahead.

Labor Video Project (2019-06-04). Palestinian Solidarity, South Africa BDS & Director Muhammed Desai. indybay.org WorkWeek interviews SJSU professor Sang Hea Kil about her trip to South Africa to attend the Teaching Palestine confernce in March 2019. While at the conference she and two other women were sexually harassed by Muhammed Desai, the director of South Africa BDS. She talks about that experience and the cover-up that followed. She also discusses the role of Israel and the attacks against professors and students in the United States who are critical of Israel…

WSWS (2019-06-04). Victory to the Political Revolution in China. wsws.org The following statement was published on June 8, 1989, just four days after the Chinese government's brutal military crackdown on students and workers in Tiananmen Square.

WSWS (2019-06-04). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Mass protests are continuing in Brazil against education cuts by the right-wing Bolsanaro administration while striking Honduran teachers and doctors held protests against privatization of healthcare and education.

Ashley Curtin (2019-06-04). 'GOP retaliates against the people who educate our children:' West Virginia passes education bill that bans teacher strikes. nationofchange.org Lawmakers in West Virginia recently passed an education bill with an amendment that would ban teachers strikes. The legislation, which passed the Senate, heads to the state's House of Delegates later this month. | While the right-to-work state already doesn't give employees collective bargaining rights, many call the amendment "pure retribution, retaliation." | "This is just I think another stab at trying to punish us, making the law perhaps a little more severe with such language," Fred Albert, president of the West Virginia chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). | The amendment would "specify…

Michael Welton (2019-06-04). Education in the Service of Assimilation: The Founding Vision of Residential Schools in Canada. counterpunch.org Many of us can scarcely comprehend why a teacher might smack a child across the mouth with a ruler for "speaking Indian" (one of thousands of cruel acts perpetrated on Native children). They were stripped of their clothing and given a number upon entering the residential school. They were separated from their siblings by gender and removed from parental contact and community bonds. They were fed lousy food in lousy buildings. Around 6000 children died of various diseases, particularly tuberculosis. Their own spiritual traditions and practices were attacked mercilessly. Spiritual desolation awaited them down the r…

WSWS (2019-06-04). New Haven teachers strike enters third week. wsws.org The New Haven Teachers Association has dropped their wage demands beneath inflation, leaving teachers at a loss.

CGTN Africa (2019-06-04). Huawei, AU deepen relationship with new 3-year deal. cgtn.com Chinese technology giant, Huawei, and the African Union (AU) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to consolidate ICT cooperation. The MoU aims at strengthening the partnership between the two sides on broadband, internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, 5G and artificial intelligence, according to a statement issued by Huawei. | The initiative will also train young people in tech skills, and offer AU departments support in dealing with cybersecurity, as well as digital health and education. | The deal follows a 2015 MOU which focused on improving the union's technological capabilities, including by or…

teleSUR (2019-06-04). US Bans Educational and Recreational Travel to Cuba. telesurenglish.net As of June 5, U.S. citizens will be prohibited from making group educational and cultural trips known as "people to people" travel to Cuba, Secretary of Commerce Steve Mnuchin of the U.S. Treasury Department confirmed in a statement Tuesday. | RELATED: | US Sanctions Violate Human Rights, International Law: UN Expert | According to the commercial director at Cuba's tourism ministry, Michel Bernal, the island nation received about 250,000 U.S. visitors in the first four months of…

Manlio Dinucci (2019-06-04). Le lunghe mani del gruppo Bildenberg. globalresearch.ca Tre italiani sono stati invitati quest'anno alla riunione del gruppo Bilderberg, svoltasi a Montreux in Svizzera dal 30 maggio al 2 giugno. Accanto a Lilli Gruber, la conduttrice televisiva de La7 ormai ospite fissa del Bildelberg, è stato invitato un …

Stephen Lendman (2019-06-04). Dubious Report on Russia Withdrawing Defense Support to Venezuela. globalresearch.ca With attribution to Mark Twain's remark about false reports of his death, a Wall Street Journal report on Russia withdrawing defense support to Venezuela is greatly exaggerated. See below. | Trump is Exhibit A proof that all politicians lie, and nothing …

Firas Samuri (2019-06-04). Israel Continues Its Interference in the Syrian Crisis. globalresearch.ca On June 2, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Israeli aggression on the T4 airbase, located in the eastern countryside of Homs province. It's recognized that the Syrian Air Defense System managed to destroy two missiles. The remaining rockets …

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2019-06-04). President Lopez Obrador of Mexico's Letter to Donald Trump. "I Don't Want Confrontation…" globalresearch.ca President Donald Trump, | I am aware of your latest position in regard to Mexico. In advance, I express to you that I don't want confrontation. The peoples and nations that we represent deserve that we resort to dialogue and act …

Andrew Korybko (2019-06-04). South Asia's Role in the Pentagon's "Indo-Pacific Strategy Report" globalresearch.ca The US' recently released "Indo-Pacific Strategy Report" envisages India playing a key role in this vast transregional space in order to "contain" China, while Pakistan is conspicuously absent from the text despite being one of the few nuclear weapons states, …

Rep. Ron Paul (2019-06-04). Hey Trump: Remember Wikileaks? globalresearch.ca Last week in an episode of my daily Ron Paul Liberty Report we discussed whether the US and British government were actually trying to kill jailed Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. More than seven years ago Assange was granted asylum …

George Szamuely (2019-06-04). Strange Defenders: Assange and the Press. globalresearch.ca In recent days, in response to the Trump administration's issuance on May 23 of a 17-charge indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a number of prominent liberal columnists and Democratic politicians have come out with highly critical comments. Understandably, …

Manlio Dinucci (2019-06-04). As mà£os desmedidas do grupo Bilderberg. globalresearch.ca Três italianos foram convidados este ano para a reunià£o do grupo Bilderberg, realizada em Montreux, na Suíàßa, de 30 de Maio a 2 de Junho. Ao lado de Lilli Gruber, a apresentadora televisiva do La7, agora convidada permanente do Bilderberg, …

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