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NATO-Exit: Dismantle NATO, Close Down 800 US Military Bases, Prosecute the War Criminals
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
Washington's unspoken hegemonic objective is Worldwide militarization and economic conquest. This imperial design is carried out through acts of war, military intervention, coups d'Etat, regime change, US sponsored insurgencies, cyber-warfare, economic sabotage and destabilization. "All options are on the table".
globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-war-dismantle-nato-close-down-800-us-military-bases/5670610

Video: "NATO-EXIT". Michel Chossudovsky
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
70 years ago NATO was born. In April 1949, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established what was designated as the doctrine of "Collective Security" under Art. 5 of the Washington Treaty. | NATO has a sordid history of aggression and …
globalresearch.ca/video-nato-exit-michel-chossudovsky/5673641

White supremacist symbol found spray-painted at the site of fire, civil rights center says
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-04-04
Someone painted a white supremacist symbol at the scene where fire ravaged a building tied to the civil rights movement, according to a statement from the Highlander Research and Education Center. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/04/04/white-supremacist-symbol-found-spray-painted-at-the-site-of-fire-civil-rights-center-says/

Fascist-like attack hits Highlander Center
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2019-04-04
The deadly racist spree in Charlottesville in 2017 and the killing of 12 congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg in 2018 were fire bells in the night. Another rang out in New Market, Tennessee on March 29 as the main building at the Highlander Research and Education Center burned to the ground, …
peoplesworld.org/article/fascist-like-attack-hits-highlander-center/

Mike Pompeo's "Version of Jesus Christ": Endless Wars, Open-Ended Surveillance at Home
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
Where does Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo get his inspiration? From Jesus Christ. | Mike's version of Jesus Christ may not be the same one millions of others know. The Pompeo version of Christ is a psychopath and a full-throated …
globalresearch.ca/mike-pompeos-version-of-jesus-christ-endless-wars-open-ended-surveillance-at-home/5673572

Amid Rising Tensions, NATO Chief Pitches Confrontation with Russia to US Congress
Bill Van Auken | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivered the first-ever address by a leader of the US-led imperialist alliance to a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday, promoting a military buildup against Russia under conditions in which ever greater fissures …
globalresearch.ca/nato-chief-pitches-confrontation-russia-us-congress/5673587

More than 40 US Organizations Pressure US Congress: End Trump's Crusade for War in Venezuela
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
More than 40 organizations from around the United States are demanding their Congress put an end to U.S. intervention in Venezuela saying that, in particular, the illegal and "extensive economic sanctions, imposed unilaterally by the Trump government since August 2017, …
globalresearch.ca/us-orgs-congress-end-trumps-crusade-war-venezuela/5673624

Brussels Becomes First Major City to Halt 5G Due to Health Effects
Josh del Sol | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
The statement was made by Céline Fremault, the Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Housing, Quality of Life, Environment and Energy. From an interview last Friday, with L'Echo: | "I cannot welcome such technology if the | …
globalresearch.ca/brussels-first-major-city-halt-5g-due-health-effects/5673606

Why Is the Fed Paying So Much Interest to Banks?
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
"If you invest your tuppence wisely in the bank, safe and sound, | Soon that tuppence safely invested in the bank will compound, | "And you'll achieve that sense of conquest as your affluence expands | In the hands of the directors who …
globalresearch.ca/fed-paying-much-interest-banks/5673574

Ontario: Debunking the Conservative Party Policy of Ford and Scheer
Paul Kahnert | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
We learned many lessons in fighting the Conservative governments in the past, and personally in our long battle to block the privatization of Ontario Hydro One. The government of Doug Ford in Ontario, and the policies that Andrew Scheer is …
globalresearch.ca/ontario-debunking-the-conservative-party-policy-of-ford-and-scheer/5673619

Video: Syrian Military Sends Reinforcements to Fight ISIS in Central Desert
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
Over the past few days, the Syrian military has deployed a new batch of reinforcements to the Homs-Deir Ezzor desert following a recent series of ISIS attacks in the area. | ISIS cells operating in the desert in central Syria pose …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-military-sends-reinforcements-fight-isis-central-desert/5673563

China's PLA Troops in Venezuela Is Game Changer
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
The reported arrival of Chinese military personnel in Venezuela last weekend is undoubtedly a major event in world politics. | Unlike Russia, which has a history of force projection abroad, this is an extremely rare Chinese move. Although vital Chinese interests …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-pla-troops-venezuela/5673593

What Monroe Doctrine?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
Because there is a presidential election coming up next year, the Donald Trump Administration appears to be looking for a country that it can attack and destroy in order to prove its toughness and willingness to go all the way …
globalresearch.ca/what-monroe-doctrine/5673589

Researchers Find More Cases of Facebook App Data Exposure
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-04-04
SAN FRANCISCO–Security researchers have uncovered more instances of Facebook user data being publicly exposed on the internet, further underscoring its struggles as it deals with a slew of privacy and other problems. | The researchers from the firm UpGuard said in a blog post Wednesday that the data, which included user names and passwords, came from two different Facebook apps that stored their data publicly on Amazon's cloud services. Facebook said the databases have been taken down. | But the episode illustrates Facebook's issues with…
truthdig.com/articles/researchers-find-more-cases-of-facebook-app-data-exposure/

In the wake of RussiaGate: Where Is the World Headed?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
Since 2016 the United States has been in the Russiagate box, a hoax created by the US military/security complex to prevent President Trump from normalizing relations with Russia. Normalized relations would devalue THE RUSSIAN THREAT, an orchestration that protects the …
globalresearch.ca/in-the-wake-of-russiagate-where-is-the-world-headed/5673576

Brunei's Phased Adoption of Islamic Law
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
Western countries are up in arms over the conclusion of Brunei's phased adaptation of Islamic law which will controversially see homosexuals and adulterers stoned, much to the consternation of human rights activists across the world. Hollywood celebrity George Clooney, known …
globalresearch.ca/bruneis-new-laws-west-disabuse-them/5673515

US VERDAD Act: Senate Support for Regime Change in Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
Seeking dominance over all other nations is imperialism's defining feature — by brute force if other tactics fail. | With no end of it in prospect, they continue on the phony pretexts of humanitarian intervention, responsibility to protect, and democracy building …
globalresearch.ca/us-verdad-act-senate-support-regime-change-venezuela/5673602

How Brzezinski's Chessboard Degenerated into Brennan's Russophobia
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
"Russia is an inalienable and organic part of Greater Europe and European civilization. Our citizens think of themselves as European. That's why Russia proposes moving towards the creation of a common economic space from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, …
globalresearch.ca/brzezinskis-chessboard-brennans-russophobia/5673610

Night Parrot Confections: The Dangers of Discovering the Elusive
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
Discoveries of natural flora, fauna and phenomena are not necessarily straightforward things. The discoverer may wish to conceal the source. The discoverer may also have various motivations. In certain grave instances, the entire claim might be fabricated. Piltdown Man, discovered …
globalresearch.ca/night-parrot-confections/5673581

Syria Will Not Liberate the Occupied Golan for Decades to Come
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-04
The Syrian state will not be in a position to liberate the occupied Golan for decades to come. US President Donald Trump made a gift of the territory to Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu last month. The move was Trump's support …
globalresearch.ca/syria-will-not-liberate-occupied-golan-decades/5673615

Paraguay: Students Protest Severe Teacher Shortage
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-04
Representatives of the National Federation of Secondary Students (FENAES) presented a letter, Wednesday, addressed to the President of the National Congress, Silvio Ovelar, requesting that the Minister of Education and Sciences, Eduardo Petta, be questioned in relation to Paraguay's education system crisis. | RELATED: | Morocco Teachers Protest For Better Work Conditions | In the meantime, FANAES spokeswoman Karina Gill says that students will conduct sit-ins, close down streets, and go o…
telesurenglish.net/news/Paraguay-Students-Protest-Severe-Teacher-Shortage-20190404-0001.html

Hopkins Students Sit-In to Oppose University's Private Police and ICE Contract
STAFF | therealnews.com | 2019-04-04
The protestors say they will occupy Hopkins until officials end the militarization of its campus…
therealnews.com/stories/hopkins-students-sit-in-to-oppose-universitys-private-police-and-ice-contract

Anti-Union University Administrations Fight Surge In Graduate Student Worker Organizing
Michael Sainato | shadowproof.com | 2019-04-04
Since the National Labor Relations Board ruled in August 2016 that graduate student workers at private universities have the right to unionize, graduate student unions in the United States have surged. Yet, currently, nearly all of these unions face resistance and union-busting efforts from their university administrations. | At Boston College, graduate student workers voted to unionize in September 2017. The univers…
shadowproof.com/2019/04/04/anti-union-university-administrations-fight-surge-in-graduate-student-worker-organizing/

Brazil to Revise Textbooks Denying 1964 Coup
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-04
Brazil's education Minister Ricardo Velez said Wednesday that school textbooks will be revised to deny the 1964 coup. | RELATED: | Brazil's Bolsonaro Says Nazism Was 'a Leftist Movement' | According to Velez, Brazil will teach the children "a wider version of history." Velez said that the 1964 military ousting of the democratically elected President Joao Goulart was not a coup and the following 21 years of military rule was "a democratic regime by force." | Velez told local media that t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Education-Minister-Wants-Revised-School-Textbooks-Denying-1964-Coup-20190404-0009.html

Are Academics Academic?
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-04
The dictionary defines academic as "educational, scholastic," as well as "not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest." After spending a week at an academic conference with eminent university scholars of international relations, I find it appropriate to question the relationship between the two definitions. Were the scholars and their scholastic writings…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/04/are-academics-academic/

Lawmakers to push worker safety bills, but timetable uncertain
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-04-04
WASHINGTON–The majority Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee will push two key pro-worker safety bills this year, but the exact timetable is uncertain. In an informal conversation after the first congressional briefing in years on worker health and safety, a top committee aide on the issue said he expects the legislation will hit …
peoplesworld.org/article/lawmakers-to-push-worker-safety-bills-but-timetable-uncertain/

Women outliving men 'everywhere', new UN health agency statistics report shows
United Nations | un.org | 2019-04-04
Average life-expectancy globally has increased by five-and-a-half years since the turn of the century, and women outlive men "everywhere", the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/04/1036091

Israeli Forces Killed 57 Palestinian Children in 2018
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-04
Israeli forces killed 57 Palestinian children in 2018, three times as many this year, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported Thursday, a day before Palestinian Child Day. | RELATED: | Video: Israeli Troops Arrest 10-year-old at Palestinian School | Of the 57 children killed in 2018, five were between newborn age to 12 years, while 29 were between 13 to 15 years, and 23 others were 16 to 17 years old, according to data provided by the Defense for Children In…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Killed-57-Palestinian-Children-in-2018-3-Times-More-Than-Previous-Year-20190404-0012.html

Facebook's Ad Algorithm Is a Race and Gender Stereotyping Machine, New Study Suggests
Sam Biddle | theintercept.com | 2019-04-04
How exactly Facebook decides who sees what is one of the great pieces of forbidden knowledge in the information age, hidden away behind nondisclosure agreements, trade secrecy law, and a general culture of opacity. New research from experts at Northeastern University, the University of Southern California, and the public-interest advocacy group Upturn doesn't reveal how Facebook's targeting algorithms work, but does show an alarming outcome: They appear to deliver certain ads, including for housing and employment, in a way that aligns with race and gender stereotypes…
theintercept.com/2019/04/03/facebook-ad-algorithm-race-gender/

Climate Panel Disbanded by Trump Launches Independent Network to Tackle Crisis at Local Level
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-04-04
Members of a climate advisory panel disbanded by President Donald Trump in 2017 launched an independent network on Thursday to help communities across the country with science-based guidance to tackle the challenges of a rapidly warming world. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/04/04/climate-panel-disbanded-trump-launches-independent-network-tackle-crisis-local-level?cd-origin=rss

Implicit Biases Installation
Sarah Khosla | indybay.org | 2019-04-04
Hi All! I'm Sarah Khosla, a student doing her thesis and I'm in need of some voices for my topic! | I'm developing an installation in the Bay Area that translates into an interactive digital platform. The subject is on unconscious stereotypes, and the installation will be a construct of individual experiences with stereotypes. | In order to execute the installation I need help from you. | Has someone made a comment that passed a judgement or stereotyped you in some way? Have you walked away from a comment or experience wondering "was that because of my age, gender, sexual orientation, race..?" You don't need to d…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/04/03/18822511.php

University of Illinois-Chicago faculty to vote on strike action as grad student walkout enters third week
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-04
The American Federation of Teachers hopes to block faculty members from joining grad students and escalating the fight against the Democratic Party's austerity program.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/04/grad…

White House Aide: US to Pump Money Into Venezuela After Regime Change
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-04-04
(ANTIWAR.COM) — In a special briefing for the Christian Science Monitor, President Trump's top economic adviser Larry Kudlow revealed that the administration is already working with banks internationally in plans to greatly increase US investment in Venezuela if there is a regime change. President Trump has demanded immediate regime change, with Venezuela's president to be replaced by their opposition …
theantimedia.com/us-pump-money-venezuela…

Beyond Prisons: Rachel Herzing On Political Education
Beyond Prisons | shadowproof.com | 2019-04-03
Rachel Herzing joins Beyond Prisons for a conversation on political education, transformation, and more. | Rachel is the co-director of Center for Political Education, a resource for political organizations on the left, progressive social movements, the working class and people of color. She has been an organizer, activist, and advocate fighting the violence of policing and imprisonment for over 20 years. | She is a co-founder of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex. She was also the director of research and training at Creative Intervention…
shadowproof.com/2019/04/03/beyond-prisons-rachel-herzing-on-political-education/

Selected Articles: US Puppet Guaido Stripped of Immunity
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-03
Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-us-puppet-guaido-stripped-of-immunity/5673544

Mumia Abu-Jamal's Next Stop: Freedom
Noelle Hanrahan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-03
The first question on everyone's lips is "What is in those old boxes?" Remember the boxes the Philadelphia District Attorney's office "found" in a storage closet late last year from Mumia Abu-Jamal's original trial? | The answer could be previously …
globalresearch.ca/mumia-abu-jamals-next-stop-freedom/5673483

Jane Byrne: Chicagoans Elect First Black Female Mayor
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-03
The late Harold Washington was Chicago's first Black mayor, elected in 1983, serving until his premature death at age-65 on November 25, 1987, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday that year. | No one before or since was like him, affectionately …
globalresearch.ca/jane-byrne-chicagoans-elect-first-black-female-mayor/5673522

Pro-Israeli Power Rolls over Washington
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-03
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has just completed its annual summit in Washington. It claims that 18,000 supporters attended the event, which concluded with a day of lobbying Congress by the attendees. Numerous American politicians addressed the gathering …
globalresearch.ca/jewish-power-washington/5673479

Like Libya and Syria, Venezuela Is Not "Just About Oil"
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-03
Yes, the latest research confirms that Venezuela is so rich in natural resources, that it could single-handedly satisfy all global demand for oil, for over 30 years. And it has much more than oil to offer, in its Orinoco basin …
globalresearch.ca/like-libya-syria-venezuela-not-just-about-oil/5673488

US Drone Strikes "Outside War Zones" in Somalia, Yemen: Why Trump's Actions Have Put Civilians at More Risk
Jennifer Gibson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-03
Yesterday, President Trump scrapped an Obama-era regulation forcing the government to publicly report the number of civilians killed in US drone strikes outside war zones. The National Security Council dismissed the regulation as an annoying bit of paperwork, describing it …
globalresearch.ca/us-drone-strikes-outside-war-zones-why-trumps-actions-have-put-civilians-at-more-risk/5673537

Like Libya and Syria, Venezuela is not "just about oil"
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-03
Yes, the latest research confirms that Venezuela is so rich in natural resources that it could single-handedly satisfy all global demand for oil for over 30 years. And it has much more than oil to offer, in its Orinoco basin and in other areas of the country. But it is not all 'about oil'; actually, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/like-libya-and-syria-venezuela-is-not-just-about-oil/

'A Lot of That Science They Point to Is Science They Paid For' – CounterSpin interview with Carey Gillam on Monsanto lawsuit
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2019-04-03
Janine Jackson interviewed Carey Gillam about Hardeman v. Monsanto for the March 29, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/a-lot-of-that-science-they-point-to-is-science-they-paid-for/

Explosion in Colombian University, Wounded and Dead Reported
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-03
Colombian students from the University of the Valley in Cali reported that on Wednesday afternoon during support protests for the National Minga, an explosion was felt in the Melendez campus causing at least six wounded and one reported death. | RELATED: | Colombian Police Kill Indigenous Protester at Cauca Valley | "During a demonstration in support of the National Minga between students against the Mobile Anti-Disturbances Squadron (Esmad) an explosive blast shook the university,…
telesurenglish.net/news/Explosion-in-Colombian-University-Wounded-and-Dead-Reported-20190403-0041.html

Hillsborough, FL custodians and teachers rally against privatization
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-04-03
Tampa, FL – Over 40 custodians, teachers and concerned community members rallied outside the Hillsborough County School Board meeting, April 2, to stop plans to privatize the custodial staff at all Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS). The rally was hosted by the Hillsborough State Employee Federation and Hillsborough County Teachers Association. Chants at the rally included "It's time to stop the greed, give custodians what they need!" and "Up up with education, down down with privatization!" | The Hillsborough County School Board (HCSB) claims there are currently no plans to contract out custodial services…
fightbacknews.org/2019/4/3/hillsborough-fl-custodians-and-teachers-rally-against-privatization

Wagging the Dog in Rhode Island
Steven F. Forleo | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-03
Another Raimondo Tale Ever since Gina Raimondo, (a republican in any other state), became governor of Rhode Island, she has unabashedly launched a political coup on our lone community college. She continues to exclude faculty from her pie-in-the-sky Rhode Island Promise free tuition escapade while simultaneously allowing hand-picked business types on her "higher education" board…
counterpunch.org/2019/04/03/wagging-the-dog-in-rhode-island/

White Supremacist Symbol Found Spray-Painted at the Site of Fire, Civil Rights Center Says
Michael Edison Hayden | splcenter.org | 2019-04-02
Someone painted a white supremacist symbol at the scene where fire ravaged a building tied to the civil rights movement, according to a statement from the Highlander Research and Education Center.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/04/02/white-supremacist-symbol-found-spray-painted-site-fire-civil-rights-center-says

New UN data tool shows 'mismatch' between government aid and places modern slavery exists
United Nations | un.org | 2019-04-02
A new interactive data tool created by the UN University Centre for Policy Research, which shows a mismatch between where modern slavery occurs, and where governments are spending resources to address it, could help make a positive impact on policy debates surrounding the issue.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/04/1035751

New Report Spurs Congress to Question Up to $1 Billion Wasted on Charter Schools
Jeff Bryant | progressive.org | 2019-04-02
Congress members confronted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over a proposed budget increase for a program funding charter schools that quickly closed, or never opened at all.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/new-report-spurs-congress-to-question-charter-grants-bryant-190402/

A World is Right When We Learn to Preserve and Embrace the Word Like a Poet
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-04-01
Special for Dissident Voice and LA Progressive, part of National Poetry Month, 2019 ***** I'm thinking a lot about creativity. About young people, 6 or 7 years of age, so ripe for learning and how we as mentors and teachers should not only respect how their inner voices count, but allow them that exploratory space. Words …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/04/a-world-is-right-when-we-learn-to-preserve-and-embrace-the-word-like-a-poet/

University of Kentucky hunger strike demands that students' basic needs are met
Lidya Azad | liberationnews.org | 2019-03-31
The strike is part of the Basic Needs Campaign, which is demanding that the University of Kentucky 1) establish and fund a physical Basic Needs Center, 2) establish a Basic Needs Fund, and 3) create a full-time Basic Needs staff position.
liberationnews.org/university-of-kentucky-hunger-strike-demands-that-students-basic-needs-are-met/

Last Process: 50 Postees: 2019-04-04 21:06 GMT (17:06 EST)

2019-04-03: News Headlines

Andre Vltchek (2019-04-03). Like Libya and Syria, Venezuela is not "just about oil". dissidentvoice.org Yes, the latest research confirms that Venezuela is so rich in natural resources that it could single-handedly satisfy all global demand for oil for over 30 years. And it has much more than oil to offer, in its Orinoco basin and in other areas of the country. But it is not all 'about oil'; actually, …

Noelle Hanrahan (2019-04-03). Mumia Abu-Jamal's Next Stop: Freedom. globalresearch.ca The first question on everyone's lips is "What is in those old boxes?" Remember the boxes the Philadelphia District Attorney's office "found" in a storage closet late last year from Mumia Abu-Jamal's original trial? | The answer could be previously …

Stephen Lendman (2019-04-03). US Puppet Guaido Stripped of Immunity. globalresearch.ca Usurper in waiting Guaido is a front man for the Trump regime's coup attempt to topple democratically elected President Maduro. | Most of all, the scheme aims to eliminate Bolivarian social democracy, wanting Venezuela transformed into a US vassal state, gaining …

John W. Whitehead (2019-04-03). American Idiocracy: 50 Years Later, We're Still Stranded in the Twilight Zone. globalresearch.ca " We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."—Rod Serling | Have you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone?…

Andre Vltchek (2019-04-03). Like Libya and Syria, Venezuela Is Not "Just About Oil" globalresearch.ca Yes, the latest research confirms that Venezuela is so rich in natural resources, that it could single-handedly satisfy all global demand for oil, for over 30 years. And it has much more than oil to offer, in its Orinoco basin …

Philip Giraldi (2019-04-03). Pro-Israeli Power Rolls over Washington. globalresearch.ca The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has just completed its annual summit in Washington. It claims that 18,000 supporters attended the event, which concluded with a day of lobbying Congress by the attendees. Numerous American politicians addressed the gathering …

Andrew Malone (2019-04-03). The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented a New Legal Term to Target Pipeline Protesters. globalresearch.ca The government of South Dakota has made it very clear that it does not like people who protest the Keystone XL pipeline. The state's governor has dismissed them as "out-of-staters who come in to disrupt." And other officials have similarly …

Robert Bridge (2019-04-03). Is Washington Preparing the Groundwork for a Maidan Scenario in Venezuela? globalresearch.ca Venezuela is home to the largest oil deposits in the world, which makes the political stakes involved much higher than they would be otherwise. Enter Juan Guaidó, Washington's puppet leader in Caracas, who will be attempting to rally the …

Jennifer Gibson (2019-04-03). US Drone Strikes "Outside War Zones" in Somalia, Yemen: Why Trump's Actions Have Put Civilians at More Risk. globalresearch.ca Yesterday, President Trump scrapped an Obama-era regulation forcing the government to publicly report the number of civilians killed in US drone strikes outside war zones. The National Security Council dismissed the regulation as an annoying bit of paperwork, describing it …

Federico Pieraccini (2019-04-03). Belt and Road Initiative in Full Swing in Europe. globalresearch.ca The multipolar transformation that is occurring across the Eurasian continent confirms the industrial and diplomatic cooperation between China and the European continent in spite of strong opposition from the United States. | Xi Jinping's visit to Europe confirms what many …

Global Research News (2019-04-03). Selected Articles: US Puppet Guaido Stripped of Immunity. globalresearch.ca Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…

Telesur (2019-04-03). Why Was Guaido Barred from Holding Public Office for 15 Years? globalresearch.ca Venezuela's Comptroller General Elvis Amoroso announced Thursday that the opposition politician Juan Guaido has been barred from holding public office for 15 years over irregularities in his financial activities. | This decision was taken "considering that the deputy Juan Guaido has …

Stephen Lendman (2019-04-03). Jane Byrne: Chicagoans Elect First Black Female Mayor. globalresearch.ca The late Harold Washington was Chicago's first Black mayor, elected in 1983, serving until his premature death at age-65 on November 25, 1987, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday that year. | No one before or since was like him, affectionately …

Christopher Black (2019-04-03). A Threatening Monster. globalresearch.ca President Trump used to attack President Obama as being weak with regard to Syria for not being more ruthless in the American led war of aggression against Syria, a prelude to war with Iran; that he had drawn red lines …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-04-03). Terms of Asylum and Distraction: Ecuador's President Moreno's "Assange Problem" globalresearch.ca Political asylum is an accepted if often ignored right. It is also at the mercy of those interests that grant it. Ecuador's repeated insistence on conditioning Julian Assange's stay in its London abode is tantamount to corroding the idea …

Janine Jackson (2019-04-03). 'A Lot of That Science They Point to Is Science They Paid For' – CounterSpin interview with Carey Gillam on Monsanto lawsuit. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed Carey Gillam about Hardeman v. Monsanto for the March 29, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…

teleSUR (2019-04-03). Burnt Body of British Activist, Missionary Found in Peru. telesurenglish.net The burnt body of Paul McAuley, a 71-year old British environmental activist and Catholic missionary was found in the Amazon city of Iquitos on Tuesday. | RELATED: | Peruvian Trans Activist Claudia Vera Shot Dead in Lima | His body was found in a shelter house he founded for Indigenous students, "La Salle", located in the district of Bethlehem (Iquitos). Some students informed the police after finding the body. | Authorities are questioning six Indigenous men who lived in the hostel.

teleSUR (2019-04-03). Caribbean Students Protest War, Demand Respect for Venezuela. telesurenglish.net Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: The rapidly unfolding events in Venezuela are continuing to attract attention across the Caribbean with students joining the discussion, demanding a peaceful solution and condemning promotion of growing confrontation between the opposing sides. | RELATED: | US Orgs to Congress: End Trump's Crusade For War in Venezuela

STAFF (2019-04-03). Teachers' Movements Gain Community Support by Centering Social Justice. truthout.org The teachers' strike wave began in West Virginia and spread across several red states, and then into blue states with work stoppages in Los Angeles, Denver and Oakland. | Leading teacher militant Gillian Russom has been a high school history teacher in Los Angeles for 18 years. She's been an activist-member of the United Teachers Los Angeles for most of that time and currently serves on the union's board of directors. She is a contributor to the book Education and Capitalism, published by Haymarket Books. | She spoke to Truthout ab…

Fight Back (2019-04-03). Hillsborough, FL custodians and teachers rally against privatization. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – Over 40 custodians, teachers and concerned community members rallied outside the Hillsborough County School Board meeting, April 2, to stop plans to privatize the custodial staff at all Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS). The rally was hosted by the Hillsborough State Employee Federation and Hillsborough County Teachers Association. Chants at the rally included "It's time to stop the greed, give custodians what they need!" and "Up up with education, down down with privatization!" | The Hillsborough County School Board (HCSB) claims there are currently no plans to contract out custodial services…

Steven F. Forleo (2019-04-03). Wagging the Dog in Rhode Island. counterpunch.org Another Raimondo Tale Ever since Gina Raimondo, (a republican in any other state), became governor of Rhode Island, she has unabashedly launched a political coup on our lone community college. She continues to exclude faculty from her pie-in-the-sky Rhode Island Promise free tuition escapade while simultaneously allowing hand-picked business types on her "higher education" board More

plenglish (2019-04-03). Classes Resumed in Venezuela after Electrical Power Attacks. plenglish.com 03 de abril de 2019, 09: 51Caracas, Apr 3 (Prensa Latina) Teaching activities at all levels are starting again in Venezuela on Wednesday after the sabotage perpetrated against the national power grid that forced the Government to suspended work and school activities since early March. President Nicolas Maduro urged the authorities of the electricity industry to report on any issue that affects the country after continued aggressions against the generation and distribution of energy.

Craig Murray (2019-04-02). The Chagos Islands and the Dark Soul of the British Labour Party. globalresearch.ca Even if you think you know all about the Chagos story — an entire population forcibly removed from their island homeland at British gunpoint to make way for a US Air Force nuclear base, the people dumped destitute over a …

The Global Research Team (2019-04-02). Global Research in a "Post-Truth" "Fake News" Era. globalresearch.ca In a "post-truth" "fake news" era, it is important more than ever to have a reliable news source that delivers the critical analysis that is ignored or manipulated by the mainstream media. | Global Research is committed to curbing the tide …

Kavaljit Singh (2019-04-02). The Financial Transaction Tax (FTT). globalresearch.ca The financial transaction tax is an issue that never goes away from the public agenda completely. It keeps coming back to the policy and political discussions in different forms across the world. Currently, the idea of a financial transaction tax …

South Front (2019-04-02). Video: US Says Syrian Army Must Withdraw from Golan Heights' Contact Line. globalresearch.ca Over 50 ISIS members were eliminated by strikes of the US-led coalition in the outskirt of the town of al-Baghuz al-Fawqani in the Euphrates Valley over the past few days, local sources reported. The airstrikes were a part of the …

Stephen Lendman (2019-04-02). Electoral Dirty Tricks in Israel. Fake Social Media Promoting Likud and PM Netanyahu. globalresearch.ca Why not! Elections in the US, other Western countries and Israel are rife with dirty tricks. | According to Haaretz, the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post and other Israeli media, hundreds (maybe thousands) of fake social media accounts are promoting …

Global Research News (2019-04-02). Selected Articles: Lawyers Worldwide: Investigate Israeli Crimes. globalresearch.ca A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer". | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-04-02). The End of the Politician (in a Fashion): The Slovak and Ukrainian Elections. globalresearch.ca The structures of politics have become so rigid, so distant, and ultimately so irrelevant to those who vote for them that a trend through countries can now be confirmed. Brittleness has set it. The part and election strategists have few …

Prof Rodrigue Tremblay (2019-04-02). Trump-Barr's Manipulation of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller Report of March 22, 2019: The Political Cover-up of the Century? globalresearch.ca "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power …

Chris Cole (2019-04-02). Will the UK Continue to Launch Strikes Against ISIS in Syria? globalresearch.ca On Saturday (23 March) the Syrian Defence Force announced that ISIS' last stronghold, the small town of Baghuz on the banks of the Euphrates, had been captured. With that, ISIS' so-called Caliphate was at an end. | When British MPs …

Michael Edison Hayden (2019-04-02). White Supremacist Symbol Found Spray-Painted at the Site of Fire, Civil Rights Center Says. splcenter.org Someone painted a white supremacist symbol at the scene where fire ravaged a building tied to the civil rights movement, according to a statement from the Highlander Research and Education Center.

Jeff Bryant (2019-04-02). New Report Spurs Congress to Question Up to $1 Billion Wasted on Charter Schools. progressive.org Congress members confronted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over a proposed budget increase for a program funding charter schools that quickly closed, or never opened at all.

CP Editor (2019-04-02). The Criminalization Of Teachers. counterpunch.org …

RT (2019-04-02). 'My body should be celebrated': Teacher sacked over topless selfie sues for sexual discrimination. rt.com A 25-year-old middle school teacher claims she was fired from her job after a topless selfie she sent to a boyfriend ended up in the hands of a student. Now she wants "to fight back," filing a $3 million discrimination lawsuit.

WSWS (2019-04-02). After fascist attack, New Zealand teacher unions cancel nationwide strike. wsws.org In a thoroughly anti-democratic decision, primary and secondary teacher unions have used the Christchurch attack as a pretext to call off a major nationwide strike.

StudentNation (2019-04-01). What 16 Young People Think About the Green New Deal. thenation.com What 16 Young People Think About the Green New Deal…

Paul Haeder (2019-04-01). A World is Right When We Learn to Preserve and Embrace the Word Like a Poet. dissidentvoice.org Special for Dissident Voice and LA Progressive, part of National Poetry Month, 2019 ***** I'm thinking a lot about creativity. About young people, 6 or 7 years of age, so ripe for learning and how we as mentors and teachers should not only respect how their inner voices count, but allow them that exploratory space. Words …

Lidya Azad (2019-03-31). University of Kentucky hunger strike demands that students' basic needs are met. liberationnews.org The strike is part of the Basic Needs Campaign, which is demanding that the University of Kentucky 1) establish and fund a physical Basic Needs Center, 2) establish a Basic Needs Fund, and 3) create a full-time Basic Needs staff position.

STAFF (2019-03-31). NRA's Playbook Shows Why the US Does not Stop Mass Shootings. therealnews.com After the Chistchurch shooting, New Zealand moves to ban assault weapons, while the US is promoting plans to arm school teachers instead. Al-Jazeera exposes NRA's "playbook" on media responses after mass shootings…

Binoy Kampmark (2019-03-30). A Privileged Education: The US College Admissions Scandal. dissidentvoice.org The oldest idea of history; the perennial problem of station: education. Get the child as far as possible so that he or she can be propelled, as if from a trebuchet across the ramparts of life. Nasty obstacles — one being a lack of intellect — will be cleared, and the wretched genetic issue will …

Dan Beeton, CEPR (2019-03-29). Venezuela's Oil Production Plummets in February Due to New US Sanctions. venezuelanalysis.com The Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington DC analyzes the "very harsh impact" of the latest sanctions imposed on Venezuela's oil sector.

STAFF (2019-03-29). Kamala Harris Calls for Teacher Raises—An Anomaly in Presidential Politics. therealnews.com Democratic frontrunner calls for $315 billion investment—education activists, such as Lois Weiner, say it's still not enough…

Democracy Now! (2019-03-27). Are Federal Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids Hurting Patients with Chronic Pain? democracynow.org As Oklahoma and Purdue Pharma reach a landmark settlement, we look at an underreported result of the opioid crisis: the underprescribing of opioids for patients who rely on them for pain management. This month, more than 300 doctors and medical researchers sent an open letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning patients have been harmed by a lack of clarity in guidelines for prescribing opioids. The CDC revised the guidelines for primary care physicians in 2016 in order to improve safety and reduce risks associated with long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain. But many say the new guidelin…

Keegan Hankes, Senior Research Analyst (2019-03-27). SPLC reacts to Facebook policy on white nationalism. splcenter.org The internet, and social media in particular, continues to be a powerful tool used by the radical right to accelerate the spread of hate into the mainstream.

Democracy Now! (2019-03-27). OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma to Pay $270 Million Legal Settlement That Will Fund Addiction Center. democracynow.org The state of Oklahoma has reached a $270 million agreement with Purdue Pharma—the makers of OxyContin—settling a lawsuit that claimed the company contributed to the deaths of thousands of Oklahoma residents by downplaying the risk of opioid addiction and overstating the drug's benefits. The state says more Oklahomans have died from opioids over the last decade than have been killed in vehicle accidents. More than $100 million from the settlement will fund a new addiction treatment and research center at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa. "It's really just the first move in what is a very complicated…

Katie Logan & Shelby Shoup (2019-03-27). Islamic Center of Tallahassee and Students For Justice in Palestine hold solidarity vigil honoring Christchurch victims. liberationnews.org There was a touching show of unity as over 40 community members, both Muslim and non-Muslim, came to the steps of the Florida Historic Capitol to observe the candlelit vigil. The event started out with a few words from Imam Munir Alfarra, who said, "If I could tell him something I would say he did not waste his time to know about Muslims. To know how they pray, and when and where. To know that Muslims' doors are always open…"

Hersch Rothmel (2019-03-27). Boston Teachers Union "All In" to fight for a fair contract. liberationnews.org "Do you realize we are the only school district in Massachusetts that does not have a full time nurse in every school?"

AlexBainbridge (2019-03-25). Students call next big climate action. greenleft.org.au Hundreds of people turned out to the #ClimateElection kickstart event on March 25. This was the major event organisers encouraged participants in the March 15 School Strike to attend. | The most inspiring part of the night was the announcement of the next big action on May 3. Details are still being worked out. | Demands of this campaign are: Stop Adani; No new coal, oil or gas; and for 100% renewable energy by 2030. | The timing has been set for just bef…

Nigel Lisbon (2019-03-24). Indiana legislature ends elections for state education leader. liberationnews.org Only a socialist democracy, where workers wield state power, will fully fund public schools.

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