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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/

Global Research in a "Post-Truth" "Fake News" Era
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-in-a-post-truth-fake-news-era/5673461

The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s Is the Story of Our Times. The Killing of the Kennedys and Today's New Cold War
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
"'We're all puppets,' the suspect [Sirhan Sirhan] replied, with more truth than he could have understood at that moment." — Lisa Pease, quoting from the LAPD questioning of Sirhan | When Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968, …
globalresearch.ca/cia-takeover-america-1960s/5673387

The Chagos Islands and the Dark Soul of the British Labour Party
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/the-chagos-islands-and-the-dark-soul-of-the-british-labour-party/5673439

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

Global Arms Trade: USA Increases Dominance; Arms Flows to the Middle East Surge, Says SIPRI
SIPRI | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
The volume of international transfers of major arms in 2014–18 was 7.8 per cent higher than in 2009–13 and 23 per cent higher than in 2004–2008, according to new data on arms transfers published today by the Stockholm International Peace …
globalresearch.ca/global-arms-trade-usa-increases-dominance-arms-flows-middle-east/5673419

Will the UK Continue to Launch Strikes Against ISIS in Syria?
Chris Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/will-uk-continue-launch-strikes-against-isis/5673433

Selected Articles: Lawyers Worldwide: Investigate Israeli Crimes
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/lawyers-worldwide-urge-international-court-investigate-israeli-crimes-2/5673448

The Financial Transaction Tax (FTT)
Kavaljit Singh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/why-us-needs-financial-transaction-tax/5673391

NATO Propaganda Promotes War, Military Spending
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
Third in a four-part series on the 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. | The first two installments of the series showed how NATO was set up to blunt the European left and to justify European/North American …
globalresearch.ca/nato-propaganda-promotes-war-military-spending/5673416

Trump-Barr's Manipulation of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller Report of March 22, 2019: The Political Cover-up of the Century?
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
"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 …
globalresearch.ca/trump-barrs-manipulation-mueller-report-political-cover-up-century/5673442

Venezuela's Chief Supreme Court Justice Calls for Stripping Guaido of Immunity
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
Trump regime designated puppet/usurper in waiting Guaido is a serial law breaker. | He's Trump regime front man for the ongoing coup attempt to topple democratically elected and reelected President Maduro, along with aiming to replace Bolivarian social democracy with US-controlled …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelas-chief-supreme-court-justice-calls-stripping-guaido-immunity/5673426

Video: US Says Syrian Army Must Withdraw from Golan Heights' Contact Line
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/video-us-says-syrian-army-must-withdraw-from-golan-heights-contact-line/5673396

The Russians Are Not Coming!
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
Not since the witchcraft hysteria of the Middle Ages have we seen such a display of human idiocy, credulity and absurdist behavior. I refer, of course, to the two-year witch hunt directed against President Donald Trump which hopefully just concluded …
globalresearch.ca/the-russians-are-not-coming/5673422

'I Love Israel': Bolsonaro Nudged by Netanyahu to Recognize Embassy Move During Visit
Julia Kassem | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro was received warmly by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday during his first visit to Israel, greeting Netanyahu with a Hebrew "I love Israel" at a welcoming ceremony in the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv….
globalresearch.ca/i-love-israel-bolsonaro/5673405

China's President Xi Jinping in Italy: It's the Maritime Ports!
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
To the concern of Germany, France, Holland and other EU countries, Italy's coalition has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China to join China's Belt Road Initiative, the so-called New Economic Silk Road. Italy is the only industrial G7 …
globalresearch.ca/xi-jinping-italy-its-ports/5673397

Electoral Dirty Tricks in Israel. Fake Social Media Promoting Likud and PM Netanyahu
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/electoral-dirty-tricks-israel/5673428

Russia Establishes Attack Helicopter School in Venezuela
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
A military helicopter training facility, constructed by Russia's Rosoboronexport, was revealed in Venezuela Friday, several days after Moscow deployed troops and equipment to the crisis-stricken South American country, reported TASS News. | "A modern helicopter training center was built under | …
globalresearch.ca/russia-establishes-attack-helicopter-school-venezuela/5673413

The End of the Politician (in a Fashion): The Slovak and Ukrainian Elections
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-02
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 …
globalresearch.ca/slovak-ukrainian-elections/5673402

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

The Criminalization Of Teachers
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-04-02
counterpunch.org/2019/04/02/the-criminalization-of-teachers/

Border Patrol Visit Protest Lands Arizona Students in Hot Water
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2019-04-02
Two students at the University of Arizona will face misdemeanor charges after a video showing them protesting an appearance by Customs and Border Protection officials on their campus went viral, Rachel Leingang reports in the Arizona Republic. | As Border Patrol agents gave a presentation on March 19 to the Criminal Justice Association, a student club, some outside the event recorded the presentation and shouted "Murder Patrol," "murder…
truthdig.com/articles/border-patrol-visit-protest-lands-arizona-students-in-hot-water/

Beloit College students protest speech by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, prompting cancellation
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-02
The founder of the notorious mercenary group had been invited to speak at the private liberal arts school in Wisconsin by the local chapter of Young Americans for Freedom.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/02/bepr…

Community College of Philadelphia faculty vote for strike action
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-02
In the aftermath of more than a decade of cuts to higher education, faculty at publicly-funded colleges are being galvanized into strike action.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/02/phil…

'My body should be celebrated': Teacher sacked over topless selfie sues for sexual discrimination
RT | rt.com | 2019-04-02
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. | …
rt.com/usa/455377-teacher-fired-topless-selfie/

Let's harness the power of political education
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins | zcomm.org | 2019-04-02
We are organising Bristol Transformed to help build a the thriving political education network this country so desperately needs…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/lets-harness-the-power-of-political-education/

After fascist attack, New Zealand teacher unions cancel nationwide strike
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-04-02
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/02/nzte…

Six Month-Old Baby Dies Just Five Days after Receiving 13 Vaccines
Christina England | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-01
Imagine being emotionally blackmailed by your doctor to have your baby vaccinated with a lethal cocktail of 13 vaccines, which included two doses of the DTaP, three doses of the oral rotavirus vaccine and two doses of the polio vaccination. …
globalresearch.ca/six-month-old-baby-dies-just-five-days-after-receiving-13-vaccines/5673353

Farcical Ukraine Presidential Election
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-01
Ukraine is a Nazi-infested police state, a fantasy democracy, not the real thing, fundamental freedoms eliminated. | In February 2014, democratic governance was abolished, orchestrated by the Obama regime, resistance against repressive ruling authorities not tolerated. | On Sunday, round one of …
globalresearch.ca/farcical-ukraine-presidential-election/5673322

Japan, A "Necessary Evil"? Keeping Women Out of Medical Schools Won't Fix What Ails the Japanese Medical Profession
Prof. Chelsea Szendi Schieder | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-01
On August 2, 2018 an article in the Yomiuri shimbun broke the news that Tokyo Medical University has been systematically tampering with the scores of entrance exams to benefit male applicants. The news emerged in the course of an investigation …
globalresearch.ca/keeping-women-out-medical-schools-wont-fix-what-ails-japanese-medical-profession/5673357

The Palestinian Political Scene is in a State of Paralysis: "The People Reject Normalization with Israel"
Abdel Bari Atwan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-01
Mohsen Abdelmoumen: What is your analysis of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Gaza? | Abdel Bari Atwan: The Palestinian political scene is in a state of paralysis, which is a direct consequence of the disastrous Oslo …
globalresearch.ca/abdel-bari-atwan-peoples-reject-normalization-israel/5673334

The Lake Baikal Water Bottling Scandal Says a Lot About Russia-China Relations
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-01
Russian-Chinese relations are excellent and the two Great Powers have never been closer to one another in history, but that doesn't mean that their partnership is perfect and without its problems, as the Baikal water bottling scandal recently revealed. | A …
globalresearch.ca/the-lake-baikal-water-bottling-scandal-says-a-lot-about-russia-china-relations/5673238

Fascistic Talks and Deeds Wrapped in the American Flag: "The Fear Doctrine", Immigrant Families, Asylum Seekers, Babies Caged under a Bridge
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-01
After every disaster, when a reporter asks the survivors about their experiences, some with the utmost honesty and astonishment answer: "We never thought it would happen to us." | Americans are shocked to see that immigrant families, asylum seekers, babies being …
globalresearch.ca/fascistic-talks-and-deeds-the-fear-doctrine-immigrant-families-asylum-seekers-babies-caged-under-a-bridge/5673363

Syria: Suspected Al-Qaeda Chemical Attack in Northern Hama and Al Skeilbiyyeh Bells Ring in Defiance
Vanessa Beeley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-01
Al Skeilbiyyeh — on the 23rd March 2019 I entered the Syrian Christian town of Al Skeilbiyyeh. Between 4 and 5pm, at least four villages to the west of the town were attacked by Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) forces …
globalresearch.ca/syria-suspected-al-qaeda-chemical-attack-in-northern-hama-and-al-skeilbiyyeh-bells-ring-in-defiance/5673343

Corporate Media Propaganda: Protecting the EU from 'Russian Influence' — by Manufacturing History
Nina Cross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-04-01
It is now apparent with the release of the Mueller investigation findings, that the great storm that has embattled the US government and establishment since 2016 over supposed Russia-Trump collusion during the US elections, originates not from a genuine …
globalresearch.ca/disinfo-maginot-line-protecting-eu-russian-influence/5673350

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/

What 16 Young People Think About the Green New Deal
StudentNation | thenation.com | 2019-04-01
What 16 Young People Think About the Green New Deal…
thenation.com/article/what-16-young-people-think-about-the-green-new-deal/

Education, Jobs and Capitalism
Gerald Coles | zcomm.org | 2019-04-01
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation's schools…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/education-jobs-and-capitalism/

UK Companies Rush to Stockpile Bracing for Brexit
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-04-01
UK firms stockpiled raw materials and finished products at a record-high rate in March 2019 as they prepare for the impact of a no-deal Brexit closely looming, according to an IHS Markit and Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) survey. | RELATED: | Fourth Time's the Charm? May Ponders Another Bid to Pass Deal | "Businesses on both sides of the channel intensified t…
telesurenglish.net/news/UK-Companies-Rush-to-Stockpile-Bracing-for-Brexit-20190401-0019.html

NRA's Playbook Shows Why the US Does not Stop Mass Shootings
STAFF | therealnews.com | 2019-03-31
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…
therealnews.com/stories/nras-playbook-shows-why-the-us-does-not-stop-mass-shootings

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/

A Privileged Education: The US College Admissions Scandal
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-03-30
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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/03/a-privileged-education-the-us-college-admissions-scandal/

Venezuela's Oil Production Plummets in February Due to New US Sanctions
Dan Beeton, CEPR | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-03-29
The Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington DC analyzes the "very harsh impact" of the latest sanctions imposed on Venezuela's oil sector.
venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14411

Kamala Harris Calls for Teacher Raises–An Anomaly in Presidential Politics
STAFF | therealnews.com | 2019-03-29
Democratic frontrunner calls for $315 billion investment–education activists, such as Lois Weiner, say it's still not enough…
therealnews.com/stories/kamala-harris-calls-for-teacher-raises-an-anomaly-in-presidential-politics

Professor Pablo and Fourth Grade Enlightenment in Lincoln City
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-03-29
The shape of learning comes in all sizes, all forms. We know what not learning is — texting, emailing, You Tube videos, a world of Teletubbies, from birth to death. I know what education planners are not — hedge fund billionaires, charter school profiteers, down home religious bigotry and stupidity ignoramuses, the lady from McDonald's …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/03/professor-pablo-and-fourth-grade-enlightenment-in-lincoln-city/

The System, Youth and Democracy
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-28
When masses of students from all over the world mobilize around a utopia, adults become uncomfortable, writes Roberto Savio. By Roberto Savio in Rome Inter Press Service If we ever needed proof of how the political system has become self-referential… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/28/the-system-youth-and-democracy/

"The Opioid Crisis Isn't White": How the Lethal Epidemic Affects Communities of Color
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-27
As Oklahoma and Purdue Pharma reach a $270 million agreement in a lawsuit claiming the company knowingly helped create the opioid crisis responsible for nearly 50,000 deaths per year in the United States, we look at how the opioid crisis affects communities of color with Abdullah Shihipar, a graduate student of public health at Brown University who wrote an op-ed about his research for The New York Times headlined "The Opioid Crisis Isn't White."
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/27/the_opioi…

Are Federal Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids Hurting Patients with Chronic Pain?
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-27
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…
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/27/are_feder…

OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma to Pay $270 Million Legal Settlement That Will Fund Addiction Center
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-27
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…
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/27/oxycontin…

SPLC reacts to Facebook policy on white nationalism
Keegan Hankes, Senior Research Analyst | splcenter.org | 2019-03-27
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.
splcenter.org/news/2019/03/27/splc-reacts-facebook-policy-white-nationalism

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2019-04-01: News Headlines

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2019-04-01). Lawyers Worldwide Urge International Court: Investigate Israeli Crimes. globalresearch.ca On the eve of the first anniversary of the "Great March of Return" at the Gaza border, lawyers and jurists around the world are calling on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute Israeli crimes …

Philip Giraldi (2019-04-01). Israeli Accountability Begins Now. globalresearch.ca Recently returning to the U.S. on a flight from Venice, too-bored-to-read syndrome drove me to watch a movie. I chose "Bohemian Rhapsody," which recently won an Academy Award for lead actor Rami Malek, who truly did turn in a memorable …

Daniel McAdams (2019-04-01). Video: Hunger Games: Four Years of Saudi/US Aggression in Yemen. globalresearch.ca For four years the Saudis (with US backup) have been bombing neighboring Yemen to force them to accept a Saudi-backed president that was overthrown. | Due to Saudi bombs and a total blockade, millions face starvation and tens of thousands of …

Andrew Korybko (2019-04-01). Russia's Response to India's ASAT Missile Test Wasn't What New Delhi Expected. globalresearch.ca India probably thought that Russia would enthusiastically accept its entry into the "space super league" as Prime Minister Modi described it, but Moscow is actually pretty critical of New Delhi's anti-satellite missile tests and urged it to join a Russian-Chinese …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-04-01). Unnecessary Expansions: The Australian War Memorial. globalresearch.ca War is not merely a matter of sowing death, much of it needless; it entails preserving a rationale to perpetuate it. The mistake often made about reading, consulting and listening to the harrowing tales of those who have perished in …

Tom McKay (2019-04-01). Judge Rules Trump Plans to Open Up Swathes of Arctic, Atlantic Oceans for Drilling Illegal. globalresearch.ca In a major blow to the Donald Trump administration's oil and gas policy, on Friday a federal judge ruled the president's order opening massive swathes of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil and gas drilling operations illegal, the Washington …

WSWS (2019-04-01). Ontario education minister touts class-size increases as means to teach "resiliency" wsws.org Thompson's remarks exemplify the ruling elite's contempt for the millions of working-class families that rely on Ontario's chronically underfunded public education system.

WSWS (2019-04-01). Germany: Links found between right-wing network inside army and police officer murdered by far-right terrorists. wsws.org According to research by weekly Die Zeit, the AfD parliamentary group employs at least 27 activists and supporters of right-wing organizations. Die Zeit speaks of a "Nazi network inside the German Bundestag."

RWMDLFF (2019-04-01). Koch Brothers Exposed. indybay.org Kresge College Student Lounge, UC Santa Cruz…

Gerald Coles (2019-04-01). Education, Jobs and Capitalism. zcomm.org American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation's schools…

WSWS (2019-04-01). Teachers at school in Sheffield, England, strike against job losses and threat to eliminate sixth form. wsws.org Parents, teachers and school staff oppose the Bradfield School Board of Governors and the headteacher, who justify the closure of the school's sixth form on the basis that demand is lower than expected.

Margherita Furlan (2019-04-01). The New Arab OTAN — Serving Who? globalresearch.ca "Iran is the main threat in the Middle East, and confronting the Islamic Republic is the key to achieving peace in the entire region". As American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pronounced these words in Poland, on February 13, Iran …

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.

Kevin Zeese (2019-03-31). 2019 Sees The Return Of Labor Activism As Workers Strike Back. popularresistance.org National Labor Relations Board data indicate that 2018 marked a huge upsurge in strikes by workers across the U.S. The year saw 21 major work stoppages involving 485,000 workers, compared with 25,000 in 2017. The most obvious takeaway is this: In the year of the Janus Supreme Court decision that prevented unions from charging fees to non-union workers who still benefit from union-negotiated contracts, workers were anything but cowed. Workers struck across the country, including hotel workers, university graduate students, United Steelworkers locals, and staff of the University of California Medical Centers up and…

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…

James ONeill (2019-03-31). Golan Heights, Kosovo and Crimea: A Case Study in Hypocrisy and Double Standards. globalresearch.ca The recent announcement by United States President Donald Trump that the US will recognise Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights draws attention yet again to the double standards applied by NATO and its satraps including Australia to the issues of …

Peter Koenig (2019-03-31). China — and Macron's U-Turn. globalresearch.ca Less than a week ago, President Macron was lambasting Italy for signing agreements with China in the context of their New Silk Road, alias President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in the same breath he was criticizing …

Global Research News (2019-03-31). Selected Articles: NATO Expansion Could Trigger Nuclear War. globalresearch.ca Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …

Michael Welch (2019-03-31). Venezuela Under Siege. globalresearch.ca "This opposition campaign has been one of what was called the other day in the media, circus. It's PR stunts. It's about media publicity. As ever, the opposition has not learned the fundamental key root to change that they want …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2019-03-31). Cyclone Idai Causes Devastation Compounding Economic Challenges in the Southern Africa Region. globalresearch.ca Governments throughout the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are working feverishly to provide relief to millions of people affected by cyclone Idai, a category three-to-four storm which has severely impacted three states, Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, with some damage extending …

Sumaya AlEssmael (2019-03-31). Syria — The West Destroyed Our Homes but Not Our Dreams. globalresearch.ca Time before the war, Syria was a peaceful place where we used to live at peace. Peace meant to us life. But now we lost life since we lost peace. My daughter, that little girl at that time of peace …

Zero Hedge (2019-03-31). DoD Orders $250 Million of Gas Masks — What Do They Know? globalresearch.ca The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Avon Protection Systems Inc., Cadillac, Michigan, a $245,961,250 firm-fixed-price contract for production of M53A1 Chemical Biological Protective Mask systems, according to the DoD contract website. | The Army estimates M53A1 gas masks …

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 …

Stephen Lendman (2019-03-30). Trump Regime Approves Sale of Sensitive Nuclear Technology to Saudis. globalresearch.ca Saudi nuclear power ambitions are well known. For months, the Trump and Saudi regimes have been negotiating the sale of US nuclear technology to the kingdom. | Anti-nuclear expert Helen Caldicott explained that any country operating nuclear power plants "can theoretically …

South Front (2019-03-30). Video: "Dumb Bombs", Indiscriminate Strikes and Civilian Casualties in Syrian War. globalresearch.ca A recent series of Russian strikes on positions of militant groups in the Syrian province of Idlib has once again caused a wave of mainstream media reports regarding civilian casualties caused by Russian bombings. According to "local activists" quoted by …

Gustavo Villapol (2019-03-30). Juan Guaidó Confesses Being Behind the Sabotage of Venezuela's Electric System. globalresearch.ca "A confession from [America's] puppet pointing to evidence," said journalist Gustavo Villapol Wednesday, noting that the deputy of the National Assembly in contempt Juan Guaidó confessed to be behind the attacks perpetrated against …

(2019-03-30). Senator Calls for Investigation of Bernhardt's Role in Suppressing Science Showing Pesticide Harmed Nearly 1,400 Protected Species. globalresearch.ca U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today called on the inspector general for the Department of the Interior to investigate Acting Secretary David Bernhardt's role in blocking a scientific assessment showing the pesticide chlorpyrifos threatens the existence of nearly 1,400 …

Prof. Sam Gindin (2019-03-30). Workers' Rights and Canada's Auto Industry: GM Oshawa: Lowered Expectations, Unexplored Opportunities. globalresearch.ca Following an aggressive public relations campaign in which union officials questioned GM's loyalty to 'Canadian taxpayers', General Motors has apparently agreed to keep its Oshawa facility partially open. No official announcement has yet been made, but there are rumours of …

Eoin Higgins (2019-03-30). 'We Are Running Concentration Camps': Images from El Paso Stir Outrage over Migrant Treatment. globalresearch.ca Hundreds of migrants are being held by border agents in a fenced in encampment under a bridge in El Paso, leading to anger and accusations that the American government is holding people in "concentration camps." | Images posted online by reporters …

Liu Caiyu (2019-03-30). Xi's Visit Sets Tone for China-EU Relations. globalresearch.ca Chinese President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on Wednesday after his visit to Europe, bringing a fruitful outcome and the visit assures the cooperative trend of China-EU relations, analysts noted. | The outcome of Xi's visit to Europe is "beyond …

Stephen Lendman (2019-03-30). UK MPs Reject May's No-Brexit/Brexit Deal for the Third Time. globalresearch.ca Theresa May's no-deal/deal went down by a 344 — 286 margin. Did her latest defeat signal three strikes and she's out — her coup de grace of no return? | Britain has until April 12 to crash out of the EU …

Tyler Durden (2019-03-30). Marijuana Brought in Millions in Tax Revenue Last Year. theantimedia.com (ZH) — Despite the fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not track job creation in the U.S. marijuana industry, a recent report claimed that the sector has created around 300,000 direct and indirect jobs in the states where the drug has been given the green light for recreational use. While job creation has been one of the more …

Paul Haeder (2019-03-29). Professor Pablo and Fourth Grade Enlightenment in Lincoln City. dissidentvoice.org The shape of learning comes in all sizes, all forms. We know what not learning is — texting, emailing, You Tube videos, a world of Teletubbies, from birth to death. I know what education planners are not — hedge fund billionaires, charter school profiteers, down home religious bigotry and stupidity ignoramuses, the lady from McDonald's …

Mark Gruenberg (2019-03-29). AFT members to drive presidential endorsement. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—This time around, members of the American Federation of Teachers will drive its presidential endorsement process — and it's going to demand Oval Office hopefuls walk in teachers' shoes, too. The March 20 decision came after a 30,000-person mass conference call convened the night before by AFT President Randi Weingarten to hash out the details, …

Rob Urie (2019-03-29). Re: The Green New Deal: First, Shoot the Economists. counterpunch.org Soon to be released research from the United Nations is expected to place species loss, a/k/a mass extinction, as an environmental threat equal to or greater than climate change. Industrial agriculture— vast expanses of monoculture crops managed with chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, will feature prominently as a cause. This plant agriculture supplies people with increasingly toxic and processed food and antibiotic and hormone dependent factory farms with animal feed. Together, these link the model of capitalist efficiency economists have been selling for the last two centuries to environmental c…

Ryan Cooper (2019-03-29). Why Is the Government Allowing Its Own Drug Research to Be Monopolized for Profit? commondreams.org "In the United States, Truvada is monopolized by the pharmaceutical giant Gilead, which charges between $1,600 and $2,000 a month for the treatment," Cooper writes. (Photo: Reuters) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

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.

Chauncey K. Robinson (2019-03-29). Review: 'Captive State' puts sci-fi and resistance center stage in Chicago. peoplesworld.org "As long as we fight, we have a chance." — Captive State Throughout the history of the science fiction and horror genre of film and literature, there have been stories that hold a mirror to the realities of our world. Through fantastical plotlines, socio-political themes such as corruption, sexism, racism, and a general questioning of …

Consortiumnews (2019-03-28). The System, Youth and Democracy. consortiumnews.com When masses of students from all over the world mobilize around a utopia, adults become uncomfortable, writes Roberto Savio. By Roberto Savio in Rome Inter Press Service If we ever needed proof of how the political system has become self-referential… Read more →

Dave Zirin (2019-03-28). The Trump Administration's Ableist Cuts to the Special Olympics. thenation.com The Trump Administration's Ableist Cuts to the Special Olympics…

Adam Lee (2019-03-28). NAACP-supported bill promoting equal pay for equal work passes the US House. naacp.org Despite the Equal Pay Act of 1963, women in the United States are typically paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to men, and the statistics are even worse for women of color. As a result, women were 35% more likely to live in poverty than men. While the Equal Pay Act of 1963 has helped to narrow …

Democracy Now! (2019-03-27). "The Opioid Crisis Isn't White": How the Lethal Epidemic Affects Communities of Color. democracynow.org As Oklahoma and Purdue Pharma reach a $270 million agreement in a lawsuit claiming the company knowingly helped create the opioid crisis responsible for nearly 50,000 deaths per year in the United States, we look at how the opioid crisis affects communities of color with Abdullah Shihipar, a graduate student of public health at Brown University who wrote an op-ed about his research for The New York Times headlined "The Opioid Crisis Isn't White."

Binoy Kampmark (2019-03-27). Disinviting Jordan Peterson: The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas. dissidentvoice.org He has sent so many cliques and groups into titters of anger, and the indignant have attempted to turn on him. The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites …

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?"

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…

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…

Rachel M. Cohen (2019-03-27). Beto O'Rourke's Free Ride on Charter Schools Won't Last for Long. theintercept.com When Beto O'Rourke ran for Senate in 2018, he highlighted the importance of public education and consistently said that he stood squarely in support of teachers. Given that his opponent was Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, that was more than enough to secure endorsements from both the Texas State Teachers Association and its parent union, the National Education Association. Teachers across the country helped fuel his small-dollar donor machine. | There was little reason, then, to probe Beto O'Rourke on charter schools. In the Democratic pres…

Democracy Now! (2019-03-26). "Suicide Is Preventable": Public Health Advocates Push to End Stigma After Parkland & Newtown Suicides. democracynow.org The father of a 6-year-old girl who was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was found dead by apparent suicide Monday. Jeremy Richman was a neuroscientist who, after the death of his daughter Avielle, founded the Avielle Foundation to support brain science research, with the ultimate goal of preventing violence and building compassion. The news of his death came just days after two students who survived last year's shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, died by suicide. An unnamed student died Saturday, according to local authorities, and 19-ye…

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