'A fully automated society is science fiction'–Michael D. Yates on the state of U.S. labor
Farooque Chowdhury | mronline.org | 2019-05-01
Monthly Review Press editor Michael D. Yates reflects on the state of U.S. labor in this special May Day interview conducted by Farooque Chowdhury. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/04/30/a-fully-automated-society-is-science-fiction-michael-d-yates-on-the-state-of-u-s-labor/

Trump EPA Sides with Bayer/Monsanto over Science, Claims Cancer-Causing Glyphosate Weedkiller 'Safe'
EWG | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
The Environmental Protection Agency said today the active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto's carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup is safe, ignoring a growing body of independent research showing a strong connection between glyphosate and cancer in humans. | "Today's decision by Administrator Wheeler, like virtually | …
globalresearch.ca/trump-epa-sides-bayermonsanto-science-claims-cancer-causing-weedkiller-safe/5676157

Iran Rejects All Negotiations but Signals Domestic Differences: Its Confidence Remains Intact in the Face of Severe Sanctions
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
Despite the positive approach by Iran Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif proposing a humanitarian exchange of prisoners between Washington and Tehran (in an attempt to break the stalemate and ease the current tension), Iranian Speaker Ali Larijani and 'Iranian Revolutionary Guard …
globalresearch.ca/iran-rejects-all-negotiations-signals-domestic-differences-confidence-remains-intact/5676150

Venezuela: Failed Military Coup in Caracas. Guaido Seeks Refuge at Spanish Embassy
Venezuelanalysis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
UPDATE: May 1st, 2019. Failed Military Coup. Guaido and Lopez Seek Refuge at Spanish Embassy | Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addressed the country in a televised speech on Tuesday evening, accusing those responsible for the military uprising of trying to provoke …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-failed-military-coup-in-caracas-guaido-seeks-refuge-at-spanish-embassy/5676130

Western Military Industrial Complex Creates Unreasonable Fear: Tactic to Divert Tax-Payers Money into Weapons Production
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
The Canadian political analyst and Research Associate at Global Research, Mark Taliano, has affirmed that the West does not have a free press and all of the information to which most western people are exposed is delivered by about …
globalresearch.ca/western-military-industrial-complex-creates-unreasonable-fear-tactic-to-divert-tax-payers-money-into-weapons-production/5676091

Predator Cops, Guilty of Sex Crimes Against Women and Children, Are a Menace to Society
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
" Sexual predation by police officers happens far more often than people in the business are willing to admit."–Former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper | How could this be happening right under our noses? | That's what readers wanted to know …
globalresearch.ca/predator-cops-guilty-sex-crimes-women-children-menace-society/5676138

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Is the Perfect Opportunity for Pakistan to Pivot to Africa
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
All Great Powers, including most recently even Russia and India, are increasingly expanding their influence in Africa as they seek to take part in the continent's expected growth across this century, and CPEC provides the perfect opportunity for Pakistan to …
globalresearch.ca/cpec-perfect-opportunity-pakistan-pivot-africa/5676154

Tolerance and Spirituality: Debunking the Islamophobic View of an "Intolerant Islam"
Prof. Henry Francis B. Espiritu | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
Mass media portray Islamic societies to be intolerant of other's religious and ideological persuasions. Authentic Islam–as contained in the pristine revelation of the Qur-an–promotes tolerance, harmony, and goodwill of all peoples despite their differences.
globalresearch.ca/tolerance-and-spirituality-debunking-the-islamophobic-view-of-an-intolerant-islam/5616728

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Trump Administration's Attempt to Impose U.S. Puppet Government on People of Venezuela
Black Alliance for Peace | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
Not satisfied with the orgy of violence successive U.S. administrations have imposed on the world over the last two decades in the Middle East and North Africa, the Trump administration–with the full support of a majority of Democrats and the …
globalresearch.ca/black-alliance-peace-condemns-trump-administrations-attempt-impose-u-s-puppet-government-venezuela/5676140

How Trump Policies Exacerbate Income Inequality in America
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
Earlier last month I was interviewed by the FNA international news agency on the income inequality trend in the US and asked whether Trump policies have been contributing to it. The following is the verbatim transcript of the interview published …
globalresearch.ca/trump-policies-exacerbate-income-inequality-usa/5676136

Zero Percent of US Corporate Media Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela
Teddy Ostrow | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
A FAIR survey of US opinion journalism on Venezuela found no voices in elite corporate media that opposed regime change in that country. Over a three-month period (1/15/19–4/15/19), zero opinion pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post took …
globalresearch.ca/zero-percent-elite-commentators-oppose-regime-change-venezuela/5676162

Video: "Clinton Foundation and IS Funded from the Same Sources": Julian Assange interview with John Pilger
Julian Assange | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
This interview was conducted and published in November 2016. | WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stated that Hillary Clinton's Clinton Foundation and the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS) are funded from the same sources. | He was speaking about the organisation's latest …
globalresearch.ca/uk-clinton-foundation-funded-same-sources/5676143

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a Just World?
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
The Belt Road Initiative (BRI) also known as the One Belt One Road (OBOR) project could well emerge as the obor (the flame in Indonesian or Malay) that will blaze the trail in the evolution of a new epoch in …
globalresearch.ca/obor-towards-just-world/5676151

Venezuela and Binary Choice: Juan Guaido's Coup Attempt
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
When a CIA-backed military coup is attempted by a long term CIA puppet, roared on by John Bolton and backed with the offer of Blackwater mercenaries, in the country with the world's largest oil reserves, I have no difficulty whatsoever …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-binary-choice/5676170

US State Department Offers $4.5 Million Grant to "Investigate" Civilian Casualties in Syria and Iraq
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
The US Department of State (DOS) offered a grant opportunity for " Promoting Accountability in Iraq and Syria For Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and War Crimes," on April 16th. | The grant has a funding floor of $500,000 …
globalresearch.ca/us-state-department-offers-4-5m-grant-investigate-civilian-casualties-syria-iraq/5676165

Sri Lanka: Candidate for a New NATO Base?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019: More than half a dozen bomb blasts shook the country killing from 250 to more than 350 people. Depending on who counts, the death toll varies. The devastation took place in in several …
globalresearch.ca/sri-lanka-candidate-new-nato-base/5676134

A World Without War: Global Research Needs Your Support
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
Dear Readers, | Global Research is a small team that believes in the power of information and analysis to bring about far-reaching societal change including a world without war. We are as committed as ever to the struggle for Peace, but …
globalresearch.ca/a-world-without-war-global-research-needs-your-support/5676117

Putin's Wholehearted Defense of China's Belt and Road Puts Him at Serious Odds with India's PM Modi
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-05-01
The Russian leader's wholehearted defense of China's Belt & Road Initiative at last week's yearly forum on this global series of megaprojects stands in stark contrast to the position of India's Prime Minister, thus reinforcing the notion that Putin and …
globalresearch.ca/putins-wholehearted-defense-of-chinas-belt-and-road-puts-him-at-serious-odds-with-india-pm-modi/5676148

New York pre-K teachers demand pay parity, as union seeks to sabotage strike
wsws.org | 2019-05-01
As thousands of early childhood educators plan to walk out across New York City, AFSCME is dialing back the scheduled strike.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/01/nycc…

The teachers' revolt and the fight for social equality
wsws.org | 2019-05-01
The following statement is being distributed to teachers and their supporters who are marching in Raleigh, North Carolina today.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/01/caro…

May Day rally and march set for LA
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-05-01
Los Angeles, CA – Boyle Heights families, workers and students will march on May 1, International Worker's Day, to protest Trump's anti-immigrant attacks and demand no wall on the Mexico border and no deportations. The May Day rally and march will start at 4: 30 at the corner of Chavez and Mathews streets; and end at Mariachi Plaza for a rally. | According to a statement from march organizers, "The 5th annual May Day in Boyle Heights unites poor working-class families, students, teachers and workers to demand 'Legalization for All,' respect and equality for Mexican-Americans and Latinos." | The march will include…
fightbacknews.org/2019/4/30/may-day-rally-and-march-set-la

'Unions must provide political education or labor will find itself more powerless than ever before'–Timir Basu on labor in India
Farooque Chowdhury | mronline.org | 2019-05-01
The phenomenal growth of the services sector has created a new generation of employees. For these workers, May Day has very little meaning–what they fail to grasp is that they cannot protect their future without knowing their past. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/04/30/unions-must-provide-political-education-or-labor-will-find-itself-more-powerless-than-ever-before/

Green Groups Say Trump EPA Backing Monsanto's Claim Glyphosate Not a Health Threat 'Completely Ignores Science'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-04-30
Environmentalists swiftly slammed the Trump administration Tuesday for reaffirming the federal government's position that the world's most widely used herbicide poses no threat to public health—despite other global experts tying it to cancer. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/04/30/green-groups-say-trump-epa-backing-monsantos-claim-glyphosate-not-health-threat?cd-origin=rss

Trump EPA Sides With Bayer/Monsanto Over Science, Claims Cancer-Causing Weedkiller 'Safe'
commondreams.org | 2019-04-30
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/04/30/trump-epa-sides-bayermonsanto-over-science-claims-cancer-causing-weedkiller-safe?cd-origin=rss

Otto anni dopo: la ´primaverizzazione ª dell'Algeria
Ahmed Bensaada | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-30
Una densa folla, un'atmosfera festosa, giovani nel fiore degi anni, slogan incisivi, humor sottile e corrosivo, la foto di un'affascinante ballerina in posa per la posterità [1], giovani che passeggiano per le strade dopo il corteo, altri che baciano i | …
globalresearch.ca/otto-anni-dopo-la-primaverizzazione-dellalgeria/5676105

Watch Ed Miliband take John Humphrys to task over his imbecilic questions
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2019-04-30
Ed Miliband took Today programme host John Humphrys to task over his imbecilic questions on 30 April. The Doncaster North MP was on the show to talk about the climate catastrophe after announcing he'll serve on the Institute for Public Policy Research's (IPPR) Environmental Justice Commission. | Humphrys' interview style, however, left a lot to be desired. And Miliband debunked the host's moronic questioning without hesitation. | H…
thecanary.co/opinion/2019/04/30/watch-ed-miliband-take-john-humphrys-to-task-over-his-imbecilic-questions/

Erklà§rung Von Florenz. Fàºr Eine Internationale Nato-Austritts-Front
Comitato No Nato | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-30
Die Gefahr eines gewaltigen Krieges, der durch den Einsatz von Atomwaffen das Ende der Menschheit bedeuten kà∂nnte, ist real und wà§chst, auch wenn sie von der àñffentlichkeit, die in Unkenntnis àºber diese unmittelbare Gefahr gehalten wird, nicht wahrgenommen wird. | Ein …
globalresearch.ca/erklarung-von-florenz-fur-eine-internationale-nato-austritts-front/5676101

Operazione conquista delle menti
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-30
Circa 5.000 bambini e ragazzi di 212 classi hanno partecipato, ieri a Pisa, alla ´Giornata della Solidarietà ª in ricordo del maggiore Nicola Ciardelli della Brigata Folgore, rimasto ucciso il 27 aprile 2006 in un ´terribile attentato ª a Nassirya, durante la …
globalresearch.ca/operazione-conquista-delle-menti/5676096

Operaàßà£o Aliciaàßà£o das Mentes
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-30
Cerca de 5.000 crianàßas e 212 adolescentes participaram, ontem em Pisa, no "Dia da Solidariedade" em memória do Major Nicola Ciardelli, da Brigada Folgore, que foi morto em 27 de Abril de 2006, num "terrível atentado" em Nassirya, durante a …
globalresearch.ca/operacao-aliciacao-das-mentes/5676099

Just Another Spring in Progress?
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-30
My corner of New York's Catskill Mountains is shortly due to explode in green. Today however, it's brown, beige, russet and auburn: a wrapping of spindly trunks with naked branches cascading uphill draws my eyes to the horizon. I wait. …
globalresearch.ca/just-another-spring-in-progress/5675280

Per uscire dalla guerra, bisogna uscire dalla NATO
Vladimir Kozin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-30
La conferenza internazionale di membri di organizzazioni senza scopo di lucro (non governative) tenutasi nell'aprile di quest'anno a Firenze, in Italia, potrebbe rimanere al di fuori dal orizzonte di personalità politiche e governative, nonché dei rappresentanti dei media, se non …
globalresearch.ca/per-uscire-dalla-guerra-bisogna-uscire-dalla-nato/5676114

There's a Battle Brewing at Google Over Employee Speech. The Outcome Affects Us All
aclu.org | 2019-04-30
Retaliating against Big Tech employees who push their employers to do the right thing is a threat to us all. | The outcome of a battle heating up at Google over the limits of employee free speech will have huge consequences for all of us. Will Google shut down internal dissent and silence whistleblowers? Or will the company live up to its initial motto, "Don't be evil?" | In 2017, researchers Meredith Whittaker and Kate Crawford founded the AI Now Institute at New York University, with the goal of "produc[ing] interdisciplinary research on the social implication…
aclu.org/blog/free-speech/employee-speech-and-whistleblowers/theres-battle-brewing-google-over-employee

Video: Haftar Forces Launch Push to Encircle Tripoli
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-30
The new battle for Tripoli entered its fourth week. Since April 4, when Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar officially announced its Operation Flood of Dignity, the Libyan National Army (LNA) has reached Ayn Zara, but has not been able to capture …
globalresearch.ca/haftar-forces-launch-encircle-tripoli/5676068

The Facts Behind the Hype: US GDP 1st Quarter 2019 Analysis
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-30
US GDP for the 1st quarter 2019 in its preliminary report (2 more revisions coming) registered a surprising 3.2% annual growth rate. It was forecast by all the major US bank research departments and independent macroeconomic forecasters to come in well below 2%. Some banks forecast as low as 1.1%. So why the big difference?One reason may be the problems with government data collection in the first quarter with the government shutdown that threw data collection into a turmoil. First preliminary issue of GDP stats are typically adjusted significantly in the second revision coming in future weeks. (The third revisio…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/30/the-facts-behind-the-hype-us-gdp-1st-quarter-2019-analysis/

Para sair da guerra, é necessário sair da NATO
Vladimir Kozin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-30
A Conferência Internacional dos membros de organizaàßàµes sem fins lucrativos (nà£o-governamentais), realizada em Abril deste ano, em Florenàßa, Itália, poderia permanecer fora do horizonte das personalidades políticas e governamentais, bem como dos representantes da comunicaàßà£o mediática, se nà£o fosse uma …
globalresearch.ca/para-sair-da-guerra-e-necessario-sair-da-nato/5676111

Blackwater Founder Calls For 5,000 Mercenaries to Topple Maduro
ZeroHedge | mintpressnews.com | 2019-04-30
As if the past months of US push for regime change in Venezuela with officials like Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra conviction infamy at the helm wasn't bizarre enough, things just got weirder, as Erik Prince has apparently been pitching a plan around Washington to privatize US coup efforts using his latest Blackwater inspired mercenary empire. | According to Reuters, Prince — the brother of billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos who has over the past years since selling his mired-in-controversy Blackwater group (now Academi) revived his mercenary empire in China in the form of Frontier Services Group (F…
mintpressnews.com/blackwater-erik-prince-5000-mercenaries-maduro/257988/

Year after Arizona strike, teacher walkouts and protests spread in US
wsws.org | 2019-04-30
Mass protests scheduled for North and South Carolina tomorrow are part of a renewed wave of planned strikes and demonstrations by educators, including in New York City, Chicago and Detroit.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/30/educ…

Dallas celebrates May Day 2019
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-04-30
Dallas, TX – About 50 people gathered in Lake Cliff Park in Oak Cliff, Dallas to celebrate International Workers Day. The theme of the celebration was the resurgence of the strike in labor organizing, and recent victories for workers, such as the teachers' strikes. | Organizations present at the celebration included Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Migrante USA, Communist Party USA, Trans Pride Initiative, Communications Workers of America, International Marxist Tendency, and Workers World Party. Jo Hargis was the emcee of the celebration. The celebration opened with D…
fightbacknews.org/2019/4/29/dallas-celebrates-may-day-2019

Angela Davis: I Would Like to Accept Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Award After BDS Controversy
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-04-30
In February, Angela Davis returned to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. She originally planned the visit to receive the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, but the institute withdrew the award in January, soon after the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center sent a letter urging the board to reconsider honoring Davis due to her support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting the Israeli government and Israeli institutions. Facing swift and widespread outcry, the institute then reversed its decision and reinstated the award. While Angela Davis…
www.democracynow.org/2019/4/30/angela_da…

US: North Carolina University Shooter Kills Two, Injures Four
telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-30
An active shooter on the University of North Carolina killed two people and injured four others Tuesday, emergency management officials confirmed. | RELATED: | San Diego Synagogue Shooter Inspired by New Zealand Shooter | On the final day of classes for the semester, students received a notification from campus safety at 6 p.m. via Twitter, warning them to "run, hide, fight. Secure yourself immediately" and to "remain in a safe location." | Gunfire erupted about 5: 45 p.m. (21: 45…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-North-Carolina-University-Shooter-Kills-Two-Injures-Four-20190430-0029.html

New Report Reveals US Sanctions Have Cost 40,000 Venezuelan Lives
Ricardo Vaz | mintpressnews.com | 2019-04-29
The Washington DC-based Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) published a report Thursday on the effects of US sanctions against Venezuela. | The 27-page paper was authored by economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs, who determined that sanctions have "inflicted very serious harm to human life" in Venezuela. | "The sanctions are depriving Venezuelans of lifesaving medicines, medical equipment, food, and other essential imports," Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR, said in a press release. For his part, Sachs added, "American s…
mintpressnews.com/us-sanctions-venezuela/257960/

"Progressive" 2020 Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Who Support Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-29
More writers, commentators, and researchers are increasingly reminding the public that a large number of democrats at all levels of government have long supported and promoted privately-operated charter schools that annually siphon billions of public dollars from thousands of over-tested and vilified public schools. The oft-repeated myth that the privatization and destruction of public education …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/progressive-2020-democratic-presidential-hopefuls-who-support-charter-schools/

Study: As Climate Crisis Has Worsened, So Has Global Economic Inequality
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-04-29
In a new study out by Stanford researchers reviewing half a century of data, researchers found that as rich countries get richer, they also have more temperate climates and face less of the brunt of climate impacts…
therealnews.com/stories/study-as-climate-crisis-has-worsened-so-has-global-economic-inequality

International Workers Day to be celebrated in Chicago
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-04-29
Chicago, IL — Freedom Road Socialist Organization will host a major celebration of International Workers Day, on May 2, 6 p.m. at the UE Hall, 37 S. Ashland. | A teachers and support staff strike is set to begin on May 1, and leaders of the strike will be participating in the event. | Other speakers at the May Day event will include Frank Chapman, Field Organizer of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression; Aurelius Raines, a Chicago Teachers Union leader in the charter school strike that starts May 1; Anne Kirkner, Co-President of the Graduate Employees Organization, fresh from their st…
fightbacknews.org/2019/4/29/international-workers-day-be-celebrated-chicago

Student "lunch debt" skyrockets across the country. Here's how it works
Patrick Ostiguy | liberationnews.org | 2019-04-29
Under a socialist system, food and education would no longer be luxuries or sources of debt, but guaranteed social rights…
liberationnews.org/student-lunch-debt-skyrockets-across-the-country-heres-how-it-works/

It's Time to Develop a Progressive Education Agenda
Pedro Noguera | thenation.com | 2019-04-29
It's Time to Develop a Progressive Education Agenda…
thenation.com/article/progressive-education-agenda/

Some 300,000 Venezuelan children in Colombia need humanitarian assistance; UNICEF looks to boost response funding
United Nations | un.org | 2019-04-29
Without increased support, the health, education and well-being of at least 327,000 children from Venezuela living as migrants and refugees in Colombia will be in jeopardy, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/04/1037501

All out this weekend: People's mobilization must continue to protect Venezuelan Embassy from illegal seizure
ANSWER Coalition | liberationnews.org | 2019-04-26
We are calling for a full mobilization of all people of conscience to join us on Saturday, April 27 at 2: 00 p.m. at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C.
liberationnews.org/all-out-this-weekend-peoples-mobilization-must-continue-to-protect-venezuelan-embassy-from-illegal-seizure/

Haiti: US mercenaries caught moving $80M from Petrocaribe fund
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-04-26
Embattled President Jovenel MoàØse used United States' help in a poorly executed, but serious, effort to consolidate power writes Matthew Cole (The Intercept) and Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte). | Reprinted with permission of The Intercept. | *** | Most of the Americans arrived in Port-au-Prince from the United States by private jet early on the morning of February 16. They had packed the eight-passenger charter plane with a stockpile of semiautomatic rifles, handguns, Kevlar bulletproof vests and knives. Most had been p…
greenleft.org.au/content/haiti-us-mercenaries-caught-moving-80m-petrocaribe-fund

SPLC: Louisiana's title of incarceration capital of the world an opportunity for reform
Jamila Johnson, SPLC Senior Supervising Attorney | splcenter.org | 2019-04-26
Louisiana once again has the highest incarceration rate, imprisoning 719 of every 100,000 residents, according to a report released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
splcenter.org/news/2019/04/26/splc-louisiana%25E2%2580%2599s-title-incarceration-capital-world-opportunity-reform