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"Killer Diplomacy": The Kim-Trump Summit in Hanoi, Sabotaged by Mike Pompeo?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
"If Kim Jong-un suddenly dies, don't ask me about it"… Given the history of the CIA, I'm just not going to talk about it," (Mike Pompeo, October 2017). And you expect the DPRK Leadership to Trust Washington's "Chief Negotiator"
globalresearch.ca/the-kim-trump-summit-in-hanoi-sabotaged-by-mike-pompeo/5670071

Hanoi summit thwarted by an uncompromising US
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-03-01
The second meeting between the US president, Donald Trump, and the North Korean chairman, Kim Jong-un, at the two-day summit in Vietnam's capital city of Hanoi ended on the afternoon of February 28 without reaching any agreements. | North Korea offered to dismantle all the nuclear reactors in the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, which is the sole known source providing plutonium for its nuclear program, on the condition that the US-led international sanctions against the country are lifted in return. | The US, which has sought to paint the North Korean possession of nuclear weapons as an existential t…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/03/01/hanoi-summit-thwarted-by-an-uncompromising-us/

Britain's Witchfinders Are Ready to Burn Jeremy Corbyn
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
"McCarthyism" is a word thrown around a lot nowadays, and in the process its true meaning — and horror — has been increasingly obscured. | McCarthyism is not just the hounding of someone because their views are unpopular. It is the …
globalresearch.ca/britains-witchfinders-jeremy-corbyn/5670122

Returning Syrian Refugees Were Fleeing US Proxy War, Not "Assad"
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
A recent BBC segment titled, " The Syrians returning home after years of fleeing war," contradicted 8 years of the British state media's narratives regarding the war in Syria. | A synopsis of the short BBC video segment would read: …
globalresearch.ca/returning-syrian-refugees/5670177

Venezuela's Foreign Minister Arreaza Holds UN Marathon for Peace: Usurper Guaido Urges Military Intervention and War
Carla Stea | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
In a herculean effort to prevent war, and protect the integrity of his country, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza held a breathtaking schedule of events at the UN, including a meeting with the Secretary-General, consultations with envoys of 60 UN member states…
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-arreaza-un-guaido-military-intervention-war/5670110

The Trump Presidency: From the Manhattan Underworld to the White House
Patrick Martin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
"The finance aristocracy, in its mode of acquisition as well as in its pleasures, is nothing but the rebirth of the lumpenproletariat on the heights of bourgeois society."–Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France | What Marx described, in his analysis …
globalresearch.ca/trump-presidency/5670128

Can the Left Look to Portugal for an Alternative to Austerity?
Asad Ismi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
While social-democratic parties all over Europe have been losing power and popularity, the centre-left Portuguese government is being lauded even by the mainstream media for defying the European Union (EU) with its anti-austerity policy and thereby sparking an economic recovery | …
globalresearch.ca/portugal-alternative-austerity/5670092

Netanyahu to be Indicted for Bribery, Fraud, and Breach of Trust
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
Accountability for his highest of high crimes of war, against humanity, including genocide are omitted from coming charges against him, a reported 55-page indictment explaining criminal charges against him in detail. | Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit equivocated endlessly over whether …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-indicted-bribery-fraud-breach-trust/5670130

400 Years and the Struggle to End Enslavement, Colonialism and Neo-colonialism
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
Note: Following is the text of an address delivered by the author on Thursday February 28, 2019 at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The event was held in honor of African American History Month. Azikiwe …
globalresearch.ca/400-years-struggle-end-enslavement-colonialism-neo-colonialism/5670152

From Late Victorian Holocausts to 21st Century Imperialism: "Crocodile Tears" for Venezuela
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
On 26 February, Stephen Hickey, UK political coordinator at the United Nations, delivered a statement at the Security Council briefing on Venezuela that put the blame for the situation in that country on its government. He said that years …
globalresearch.ca/holocausts-imperialism-crocodile-tears-venezuela/5670099

Is Israel Just a European-Style Democracy but in the Middle East?
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
Israel, in fact, is unlike any European state. It does not have a democratic government that ratifies and/or abides by international and United Nations resolutions, agreements and conventions on human and civil rights, nuclear/chemical/biological weapons of mass destruction, or conforms …
globalresearch.ca/israel-european-style-democracy/5670094

Pakistan Didn't Violate the Geneva Convention, It Confirmed Its Adherence to It
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
After suffering a humiliating military defeat on the morning of 27 February when Pakistan shot down two of its MiGs that violated the country's airspace and even captured one of its pilots, India went wild trying to distract its population …
globalresearch.ca/pakistan-geneva-convention/5670091

The War on AMLO: US Backlash Supported by Mexican Right Wing
Kurt Hackbarth | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
Ten weeks into the administration of progressive president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Mexican right has made it clear how it plans to oppose him: not as an adversary to be defeated, but as an enemy to be destroyed. …
globalresearch.ca/the-war-on-amlo-us-backlash-supported-by-mexican-right-wing/5670141

Cohen Knows What Trump Is Capable of. His Testimony Should Terrify Us
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
On February 27, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee for six hours. In two months, Cohen will begin serving a three-year prison sentence. He pleaded guilty to campaign finance …
globalresearch.ca/cohen-knows-trump-testimony-terrify-us/5670155

Video: Are India and Pakistan on Brink of All-out Military Conflict?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
This week, the Indian-Pakistani conflict over the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir erupted with a bang when the Pakistani military declared on February 27 that it had shot down 2 Indian aircraft inside Pakistani airspace. | A spokesperson for the …
globalresearch.ca/india-pakistan-military-conflict/5670101

Walkout in Hanoi: The Second Trump-Kim Summit
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
"Sometimes you have to walk and this was one of those times." That was US President Donald Trump's remark about something he has been doing a lot of lately: walking away from agreements or understandings in the hope of …
globalresearch.ca/second-trump-kim-summit/5670106

China Sees Some Light in the Failure of the Hanoi Summit
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
The failure of the Hanoi summit, from Beijing's point of view, could yet turn out to be a success. | North Korea's most important relationship is with China. The most important relationship for China is with the United States. In January …
globalresearch.ca/china-failure-hanoi-summit/5670167

India's Prime Minister Modi's Conversations with Russia's President Putin
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
According to the Kremlin's official website, President Putin never said anything about "Russia's steadfast support for India's efforts to protect its interests against cross-border terror attacks", but that didn't stop Prime Minister Modi's office from misleadingly implying that he did …
globalresearch.ca/modis-conversation-putin/5670137

Russia Officially Returns to South Asia by Offering to Host Indo-Pak Peace Talks
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
Russia's 21st-century grand strategy of becoming the supreme "balancing" force in Afro-Eurasia is one major step closer to fruition after Foreign Minister Lavrov offered to host peace talks between India and Pakistan, proving that Russia's refusal to take …
globalresearch.ca/russia-host-indo-pak-peace-talks/5670089

UN Report Accuses Israel of High Crimes in Gaza
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
There's no ambiguity about longstanding Israeli high crimes of war, against humanity, and slow-motion genocide in Gaza — similar crimes committed throughout the Territories for over half a century, accountability never forthcoming. | An entire Palestinian population is held hostage to …
globalresearch.ca/un-report-israel-high-crimes-gaza/5670135

If Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt Wants to Build Peace in Yemen, He Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia
CAAT, Campaign Against Arms Trade | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
The Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is touring the Middle East over the next few days, with visits to Saudi Arabia, Oman and United Arab Emirates. It is likely that the war in Yemen will be at the top of …
globalresearch.ca/jeremy-hunt-peace-yemen-stop-arming-saudi-arabia/5670127

Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt–These Students Are Fighting to End That
Adriana Colón-Adorno, Alejandro Comas-Short | thenation.com | 2019-03-01
Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt–These Students Are Fighting to End That…
thenation.com/article/yale-benefits-from-the-puerto-rican-debt-these-students-are-fighting-to-end-that/

Community, labor support strong and growing for striking Oakland teachers
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2019-03-01
OAKLAND, Calif. — As it entered its seventh day March 1, the Oakland teachers' strike was continuing to bring large, spirited actions by teachers, students, parents and community supporters to areas throughout the city, including those threatened by the Oakland Unified School District's plan to close 24 of its 86 public schools, mostly in economically …
peoplesworld.org/article/community-labor-support-strong-and-growing-for-striking-oakland-teachers/

West Virginia Offers a Blueprint to Combat School Privatization
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-03-01
If charters are to be defeated, if public education has a future in the U.S., our teachers will have to take matters into their own hands.
truthdig.com/articles/west-virginia-offers-a-blueprint-for-the-fight-against-school-privatization/

Protesters meet with brutal police repression in Cauca, Colombia
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-03-01
The protesters are demanding that the national government guarantee basic rights such as health, education and housing as well as the protection of social and peasant leaders…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/03/01/protesters-meet-with-brutal-police-repression-in-cauca-colombia/

Youth Climate Movement to World Leaders: We Will 'Change Fate of Humanity, Whether You Like It or Not'
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-03-01
Student climate strikers issue open letter ahead of global day of action on March 15 that will consist of more than 500 events in over 50 countries | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/03/01/youth-climate-movement-world-leaders-we-will-change-fate-humanity-whether-you-it-or?cd-origin=rss

Public Good or Private Wealth
Werner Raza and Willy Sabautski | indybay.org | 2019-03-01
The deep and growing chasm between the rich and the poor is not an accident. This gulf is the result of political decisions. Many rich countries have lowered or abolished property taxes. Governments reduce spending on education and health care, Misguided policy led us into this crisis and true policy can lead us out.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/01/18821537.php

Oakland teachers continue strike as Kentucky teachers launch statewide sickout
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-03-01
The issues which teachers confront across the United States are shared ones. | Hundreds of teachers, parents and students on Wednesday afternoon shut down an Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) board meeting! | Teachers from San Francisco and Berkeley are initiating a wildcat sickout in support of Oakland teachers! | Two of the largest school districts in Kentucky will close as a result of over 40 percent of their teachers reporting sick! | Teachers in Oakland have formed a rank-and-file strike committee to take their struggle out of the control of the unions and into their own hands!
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/28/18821508.php

Will the Youth-led Climate Movement Use Labor's Playbook?
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2019-03-01
You've probably seen the video in which young climate activists confronted Sen. Dianne Feinstein last Friday. | Middle and high school student activists carrying a large handwritten letter to Feinstein urged her to sign on to the Green New Deal and take the dramatic action necessary to save the planet. Feinstein dismissed the young activists and told them that they could learn a thing or two by listening — and to run for office when they're old enough. | When the students urged Feinstein to adopt the only kinds of radical transforma…
truthout.org/articles/will-the-youth-led-climate-movement-use-labors-playbook/

Unions, Democrats rush to end strike
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-03-01
The OEA and CTA are preparing to sell out the Oakland teachers strike. | To prevent this betrayal, teachers must form rank-and-file strike committees to take the conduct of the strike and negotiations out of the hands of the unions.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/25/18821475.php

Virginia's first lady apologizes for handing cotton to black kids
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-01
Pam Northam, the wife of the governor of Virginia, was forced to apologize after she gave cotton to black students during a recent governor's mansion tour so that they could capture how it felt to be a slave. | …
rt.com/usa/452720-cotton-candy-virginia-black-children/

Teacher anger exploding across the United States
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-01
A summary of teacher struggles underscores the need for educators to break the grip of the unions in order to unify in a common fight to defend public education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/01/uste…

Beautiful Sight in Hamburg as Thousands of Students March in Latest Climate Strike
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-03-01
The youth, said Greenpeace Germany, "are fed up with politicians' blah blah and call for #ClimateAction!" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/03/01/beautiful-sight-hamburg-thousands-students-march-latest-climate-strike?cd-origin=rss

As Oakland strike enters seventh day, union keeps teachers in dark on negotiations
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-01
The rank-and-file strike committee, at a meeting Thursday night, exposed the anti-democratic measures of the OEA leadership.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/01/oakl…

Brexit: The Implications for Health and Social Care
Beccy Baird | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
This was originally written by Helen McKenna and published on 13 December 2017. It was updated by Beccy Baird on 22 February 2019. | *** | Brexit has major implications for health and social care in England. Here we look at some …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-implications-health-social-care/5670113

It's Our Fight Too! Bay Area Teachers Join Striking OEA Teachers Strike On Day 6
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-03-01
Teachers from other districts in Northern California joined the rally and picket lines of Oakland OEA teachers, parents and students on 2/28/19 Day 6 of the strike.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/28/18821527.php

Oakland teachers form rank-and-file strike committee
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-03-01
To carry their struggle forward, Oakland teachers have announced the formation of a rank-and-file strike committee, independent of the pro-corporate unions and in opposition to all budget cuts, teacher layoffs, and school closures.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/27/18821497.php

America's "War on Terrorism" — Understanding the Web of Deceit Threatening Humanity
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-01
Dear Readers, | To understand the complex web of deceit aimed at luring the American people and the rest of the world into accepting a military solution which threatens the future of humanity, get your copy of Michel Chossudovsky's international …
globalresearch.ca/america-s-war-on-terrorism/14816

ILWU Members & ILWU Local 34 Have Backed Striking OEA Oakland Teachers at Rally & March
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-03-01
ILWU Local 34 endorsed the OEA teacher's strike and ILWU members attended the 2/22/19 rally and march.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/26/18821487.php

Fremont, California teachers stage sick-out
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-03-01
On Tuesday, February 19, teachers in Fremont, California, who have been working without a contract for the entire 2018-2019 academic year, staged a sick-out. | The sick-out has been blacked out in the local media.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/27/18821496.php

Teacher anger exploding across the United States
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-03-01
Oakland strike, mass "sickout" in Kentucky…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/01/18821538.php

Genocide survivors demand violent coup master Elliott Abrams' removal from Holocaust museum board
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-01
A dozen survivors of genocides from the Holocaust to the 1980s' US-backed slaughter in Central America have demanded US diplomat Elliott Abrams be removed from the US Holocaust museum's "Conscience Committee." | …
rt.com/usa/452707-genocide-survivors-elliott-abrams-holocaust/

Selected Articles: Who Are the "Brutal Dictators", The Business of War
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-who-are-the-brutal-dictators-the-business-of-war/5670051

Kim Meets Trump in Hanoi. Failure of Second US-DPRK Summit
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
Two days of talks were cut short on Thursday with no resolution of major differences, no final statement as was issued after last June's summit — the customary format whenever formal meetings between leaders are held. | Negotiations broke down because …
globalresearch.ca/usdprk-summit-hanoi/5670050

Twenty years Ago: NATO Aggression Against Serbia
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
An international conference on "GLOBAL PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT VS. WARS AND DOMINATION" will take place in the Serbian capital Belgrade from 22 to 24 March 2019. It is a commemoration "against forgetting the NATO aggression 1999". | Organizers are the "Belgrade …
globalresearch.ca/20th-anniversary-nato-aggression-serbia-fry/5670029

DeVos Proposes Tax Credit to Promote School Privatization
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-02-28
The Trump administration renewed its push for school choice on Thursday with a proposal to provide $5 billion a year in federal tax credits for donations made to groups offering scholarships for private schools, apprenticeships and other educational programs. | Education Secretary Betsy DeVos unveiled the plan as a "bold proposal" to give students more choices without diverting money from public schools. | "What's missing in education today is at the core of what makes America truly great: freedom," DeVos said. "Kids should be free to learn where and how it works for them." | Legislation for the tax credits is be…
truthdig.com/articles/devos-proposes-federal-tax-credit-to-promote-privatization/

Is the Tide Turning in Trump's War on Science?
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-02-28
The last two years have seen an all-out assault on environmental safeguards, but there may be a glimmer of hope on the horizon.
truthdig.com/articles/is-the-tide-turning-in-trumps-war-on-science/

Oakland teachers' strike enters sixth day, with demand of a 12% wage hike
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-02-28
The teachers' union outrightly rejected the district school board's proposal for 8% wage hike, and forced the board to postpone a decision on further fund cuts and layoffs…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/02/28/oakland-teachers-strike-enters-sixth-day-with-demand-of-a-12-wage-hike/

'Disconnected Youth' Is a Growing Crisis
Michelle Chen | thenation.com | 2019-02-28
'Disconnected Youth' Is a Growing Crisis…
thenation.com/article/youth-education-employment/

Oakland teachers continue strike as Kentucky teachers launch statewide sickout
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-28
As teachers in Oakland California begin their sixth day on strike, the wave of teachers struggles, begun in West Virginia a year ago, continues to expand across the United States.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/28/teac…

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2019-02-28: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-02-28). Video: Michael Cohen Testimony on Hush Money, Fraud and Trump's Skyscraper Project in Moscow. globalresearch.ca While US President Donald Trump is in the Vietnamese capital for a second summit with the north Korean leader, his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen testified before US congress. | Michael Cohen offered explanations mainly regarding three cases, the WikiLeaks-hacked Democratic …

Joe Lo (2019-02-28). As Tensions Rise, UK Criticised for Arming Both India and Pakistan. globalresearch.ca After the Indian military bombed Pakistani territory last night, Pakistan promised to respond and the UK has been criticised for arming both sides. | The Indian Air Force claimed to have targetted a training camp of the militant Jaish-e-Mohammed group in …

Eric London (2019-02-28). Pence Threatens War in Venezuela at Colombia Summit: "There Is No Turning Back" globalresearch.ca US Vice President Mike Pence delivered a bellicose speech before representatives of 14 Latin American countries at a meeting of the Lima Group in Bogotá, Colombia, yesterday. The remarks were timed to coincide with the US-orchestrated provocations at the Venezuelan …

Christopher Black (2019-02-28). Russia, Japan and the USA: The Unfinished Business of War. globalresearch.ca As the USA and North Korea meet in Vietnam to discuss the possibility of a peace treaty between the two after decades of hostility against North Korea from the USA, the governments of Russia and Japan are engaged in talks …

Dr. Vacy Vlazna (2019-02-28). International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shields Israeli Systematic Mutilation Machine. globalresearch.ca Malaysia, on 12 January, one of the international hosts of the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships ethically boycotted Israel as a competitor. | Malaysia's principled boycott was not directed against the athletes but against the Jewish state of Israel in protest …

EarthRights International (2019-02-28). Historic Supreme Court Win: World Bank Group Is Not Above the Law. globalresearch.ca In a historic 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided today in Jam v. International Finance Corporation (IFC) that international organizations like the World Bank Group can be sued in U.S. courts. | The Court's decision marks a defining moment for …

Telesur (2019-02-28). Genocide Survivors Demand Elliott Abrams Leave Holocaust Committee Board. globalresearch.ca A group family member victims of the 1940s WWII Holocaust and U.S.-supported 1980s genocides in Central America are calling on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council's Committee on Conscience to remove Elliot Abrams from its board, questioning how "a proven …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2019-02-28). History: Resistance to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism. globalresearch.ca Beginning in the early decades of the 15th century the African continent faced an unprecedented onslaught where human traffickers and colonizers sought to conquer the people for the purpose of labor exploitation, strategic territorial advantage and the plunder of …

South Front (2019-02-28). Video: Russia's Kalashnikov Kamikaze Drone 'KUB-BLA' Already Battle-tested in Syria. globalresearch.ca A Russian defense contractor, Kalashnikov Concern, named after one of the most famous small-arms designers of all time, is now producing kamikaze drones designed to destroy remote ground targets. | The "high-precision unmanned aerial system" KUB-BLA was for the first time …

Dr. Leon Tressell (2019-02-28). U.S. Condemns Venezuela's Government Yet Commits Human Rights Abuses Across the Middle East. globalresearch.ca "Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250." Gore Vidal | Last Saturday U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-02-28). The Chagos Islands Case, WikiLeaks and Justice. globalresearch.ca Let this be a lesson to its detractors, doubters and stuff shirts of the secrecy establishment: the documents sourced from WikiLeaks can have tangible, having significant value for ideas and causes. They can advance matters of the curious; they can …

Colin Todhunter (2019-02-28). Poisoning the Public: Toxic Agrochemicals and Regulators' Collusion with Industry. globalresearch.ca In January 2019, campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason lodged a complaint with the European Ombudsman accusing European regulatory agencies of collusion with the agrochemicals industry. This was in the wake of an important paper by Charles Benbrook on the genotoxicity of …

Mark Taliano (2019-02-28). Who are the "Brutal Dictators"? globalresearch.ca Elected Presidents Assad and Maduro are not the brutal dictators. We are. | We are the ones imposing economic warfare, and regime change wars on non-belligerent countries. We are the ones supporting terrorists who impose the death penalty on hundreds of …

William Walter Kay (2019-02-28). The Venezuelan War Council: Pence, Pompeo, Bolton, Abrams and Green LLP. globalresearch.ca Do personalities matter; or do they dissolve in the sea of circumstance? | The Atlantic alliance set sail on a collision course with Venezuela before Trump's improbable election; then Trump's dilettantish, dreadful selection of subordinates generated an additional, autonomous impetus to …

Labor Video Project (2019-02-28). ILWU Members & ILWU Local 34 Have Backed Striking OEA Oakland Teachers at Rally & March. indybay.org ILWU Local 34 endorsed the OEA teacher's strike and ILWU members attended the 2/22/19 rally and march.

WSWS Repost (2019-02-28). Oakland teachers form rank-and-file strike committee. indybay.org To carry their struggle forward, Oakland teachers have announced the formation of a rank-and-file strike committee, independent of the pro-corporate unions and in opposition to all budget cuts, teacher layoffs, and school closures.

WSWS Repost (2019-02-28). Growing calls for nation-wide struggle. indybay.org The attack on public education is part of the broader onslaught against the rights and living standards of the working class across the United States and around the world. It is this global attack that produced the series of teachers strikes across the United States. | The only way in which the striking teachers can carry out their fight to defend public education is by forming rank-and-file committees independent of the union and building for a nationwide strike.

WSWS Repost (2019-02-28). Why is there no strike pay for Oakland teachers? indybay.org Historically, the provision of strike pay was one of the elemental tasks of unions. | The Oakland Education Association, however, is not providing a penny in strike benefits to the embattled teachers even though union dues are regularly deducted from their paychecks.

OEA (2019-02-28). Day Three of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Lincoln Elementary Teacher and Message from OEA. indybay.org Stacy, a second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary, says students deserve better support, school nurses and lower class sizes.

WSWS (2019-02-28). Oakland teachers continue strike as Kentucky teachers launch statewide sickout. wsws.org As teachers in Oakland California begin their sixth day on strike, the wave of teachers struggles, begun in West Virginia a year ago, continues to expand across the United States.

WSWS (2019-02-28). Oakland teachers and students speak as strike reaches critical juncture. wsws.org Teachers, students and other workers expressed their determination to fight on the fifth day of the strike by 3,000 educators in Oakland, California.

Prof. Sally Tomlinson (2019-02-28). The Key to the Brexit Backstory. The Legacy of the Defunct British Empire. globalresearch.ca The British empire may strike many of us as distant history that has no more than a marginal impact on our 21st-century lives. But we can't really understand Brexit — the British move to exit the European Union — without …

Liberated Lens Film Collective (2019-02-28). Schoolidarity: screening and panel in support of the Oakland Teachers' Strike. indybay.org Omni Commons | 4799 Shattuck Ave | Oakland…

APTP (2019-02-28). Day Three of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Keith Brown, Minister Perkins, and Oakland High Teacher. indybay.org At the mid-day rally in Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland Education Association President Keith Brown reports on bargaining efforts with the Oakland Unified School District, before leading a march to the State Building to support OEA negotiators. "We as educators are winning because we have the power!"

WSWS Repost (2019-02-28). Unions, Democrats rush to end strike. indybay.org The OEA and CTA are preparing to sell out the Oakland teachers strike. | To prevent this betrayal, teachers must form rank-and-file strike committees to take the conduct of the strike and negotiations out of the hands of the unions.

WSWS Repost (2019-02-28). Fremont, California teachers stage sick-out. indybay.org On Tuesday, February 19, teachers in Fremont, California, who have been working without a contract for the entire 2018-2019 academic year, staged a sick-out. | The sick-out has been blacked out in the local media.

WSWS Repost (2019-02-28). Oakland teachers continue strike as Kentucky teachers launch statewide sickout. indybay.org The issues which teachers confront across the United States are shared ones. | Hundreds of teachers, parents and students on Wednesday afternoon shut down an Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) board meeting! | Teachers from San Francisco and Berkeley are initiating a wildcat sickout in support of Oakland teachers! | Two of the largest school districts in Kentucky will close as a result of over 40 percent of their teachers reporting sick! | Teachers in Oakland have formed a rank-and-file strike committee to take their struggle out of the control of the unions and into their own hands!

ACLU (2019-02-27). It's Time to Make Sure Our Kids Are No Longer Bound, Shackled, or Locked Away When They're at School. aclu.org Congress is finally holding a hearing on the use of restraints and seclusion in our schools. | In 1998, teachers in West Virginia strapped a 4-year-old autistic girl with cerebral palsy to a wooden chair. Why? She was being "uncooperative" because she needed to use the bathroom. The girl suffered bruises and was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. | In 2003, school officials in Michigan held a 15-year-old autistic boy in a face-down restraint for an hour after he had a seizure and lost control of his extremities. He died without receiving medical attention. | These are just two of many barbaric s…

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2019-02-27). Congress Is Unlikely to Stop Trump's "Emergency," But Lawsuits Could. globalresearch.ca Today, the House of Representatives is poised to adopt a resolution overturning Donald Trump's trumped-up "national emergency" proclamation, in which he claims authority to fulfill his campaign promise to build a wall at the southern border. | The National …

John Weigel (2019-02-27). Roll Out of 5G: The Threat Posed by Modern Microwave Technology to Human Life. globalresearch.ca For 500 years since Copernicus, Krakow has revolutionized science. Today the city stands alone in the conflict over the safety of electromagnetic radiation to protect its citizens. | *** | At the Third International Forum on Protection from Electromagnetic Environmental Pollution three …

Nina Beety (2019-02-27). Alert: Feb. 27, OneWeb Begins Launching Satellites to Beam 5G and Wi-Fi Worldwide. globalresearch.ca Tomorrow in French Guiana, OneWeb plans to launch the first 6 of 900 satellites to blanket the Earth in 3G, 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi. From the company website (oneweb.world): | Liftoff is scheduled at exactly: | 4: 37 p.m., in Washington, D.C. | 6: 37 …

Nauman Sadiq (2019-02-27). US Troops Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Underlying Cause of Friction Between India and Pakistan? globalresearch.ca In a pre-dawn airstrike on Tuesday, according to Indian account, 12 Indian Mirage 2000 fighter jets intruded into Pakistan's airspace and dropped their payload on the top of a mountain at a terrorist training camp, allegedly belonging to a jihadist …

The Ecologist (2019-02-27). Killing Elephants 'for Pet Food' Condemned. globalresearch.ca Proposals to allow trophy hunting of elephants to resume in Botswana, home to Africa's largest elephant population, and even use the meat for canned pet food have been strongly criticised by the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting (CBTH). | A report …

Daily Sabah (2019-02-27). US Army Transferring 50 Tons of Gold from ISIS-Daesh Held Areas in Syria and Iraq back to the US. Reports. globalresearch.ca The U.S. Army is transferring tons of gold from Daesh-held areas in Syria to the U.S., multiple reports said. | According to a source who spoke to Kurdish Bas News Agency, the U.S. forces transferred about 50 tons of gold from …

Global Research News (2019-02-27). "Trump is a Racist, a Conman, a Cheat": Michael D. Cohen's Testimony to US House of Representatives Committee. globalresearch.ca We are bringing to the attention of our readers the testimony of former Trump staff Michael D. Cohen. | Cohen's statements are backed up by documents made available to the House Committee on Oversight. The testimony includes reference to fraudulent transactions, …

Eric Toussaint (2019-02-27). Varoufakis's Secret Negotiations and His Disappointments with China, Obama and the IMF. globalresearch.ca In chapter 11 of his book, Adults in the Room Yanis Varoufakis tells how he arranged the sale of the third container terminal of the Port of Piraeus to the Chinese corporation Cosco who manage the other two quays since …

teleSUR (2019-02-27). Study Reports 536 Women Assaulted Every Hour in Brazil. telesurenglish.net Over 500 women are assaulted every hour in Brazil, an investigation conducted by the Brazilian Public Security Forum (FBSP) and the Institute Datafolha said Thursday. | RELATED: | Chile: Website Behind Nude Photos Of Women, Minors Sued | Researchers asked 2,084 women from every social strata, aged 16 years and older, to participate in a survey and report any in…

Democracy Now! (2019-02-27). Disarmament Expert on N. Korea Summit: An International Process Is Needed to Reduce Nuclear Threat. democracynow.org President Trump is meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un today in Vietnam in their second summit to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. We speak with physicist, nuclear expert and disarmament activist Zia Mian. He is co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is the co-author of "Unmaking the Bomb: A Fissile Material Approach to Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation."

commondreams (2019-02-27). Trump's Nomination of Kelly Craft for U.N. Ambassador Is a Slap in the Face of Climate Science and Human Rights. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Antonio Carty (2019-02-27). Conscience Over Profit. zcomm.org Palestine needs Europe and the world's solidarity in effective ways, so its good to hear a union in my own abuela Beazcochea's Basque country has voted against its company's attempted collaboration with the internationally condemned Israeli occupation. The workers council of Spanish train manufacturer CAF voted last month against participation in the Jerusalem light rail tramway Read more…

WSWS (2019-02-27). Fremont, California teachers stage sick-out. wsws.org Teachers in the Bay Area city of Fremont called in sick last week after working without a contract for the entire school year. Their wildcat action came two days before the start of the Oakland teachers' strike.

stuart_m (2019-02-27). Six new books for an ecosocialist bookshelf. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism's editor Ian Angus looks at six new books that expose environmentalism's false friends, analyse the idea of "environment", explain renewable energy, trace the history of oceans, expose Monsanto's Round-Up, and examine British science denial. Inclusion in this list does not indicate agreement with a book's contents by the author. | *** | What It Will Take: Rejecting Dead-Ends & False Friends in the Fight for the Earth
| By Carol Dansereau
| CreateSpace, 2016 | To win the environmental fight, we must understand what we're up against…

WSWS (2019-02-27). Oakland teachers form rank-and-file strike committee as union keeps educators in the dark. wsws.org Teachers are seeking to take the conduct of the strike into their own hands and prevent a betrayal of their struggle by the Oakland Education Association.

Nauman Sadiq (2019-02-27). Does Pakistan Have the Capability to Eradicate Terrorism? globalresearch.ca After losing tens of thousands of lives to terror attacks during the last decade, an across-the-board consensus has developed among Pakistan's mainstream political forces that the policy of nurturing militants against regional adversaries has backfired on Pakistan and it risks …

RT (2019-02-27). Nuclear medicine fallout: Cremated man's ash spread radioactivity in local area — study. rt.com In 2017 a 69-year-old man living with pancreatic cancer was treated with nuclear medicine to shrink his tumor, but sadly died three days later and was cremated. New research suggests his remains may have spread radioactivity.

Foundation for Economic Education (2019-02-27). Scientists Plan to Geoengineer Planet Earth to Save Us From Global Warming. theantimedia.com (FEE) — Harvard's Gernot Wagner wants to save the world from global warming. His method? Develop a new type of plane that will fly more than 4,000 missions a year dumping particulates into the stratosphere. Wagner and his colleague Wake Smith call the proposed plane "SAI Lofter (SAIL)." Anonymous individuals at "Airbus, Atlas Air, Boeing, Bombardier, GE Engines, …

RT (2019-02-27). Harvard coddles students with campus 'climate' probe over Weinstein lawyer fiasco. rt.com Harvard is launching a probe into the 'climate' of the university after widespread rage over a law professor's decision to represent Harvey Weinstein, worried the decision to let him have a lawyer has offended the student body.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-02-27). China's Discovery of Major Gas Reserves in the Bohai Sea: How Will it Affect LNG Gas Imports from the US? globalresearch.ca The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has confirmed "the discovery of a high-quality and high-yield oil" in the Bohai Sea with proven reserves of natural gas exceeding 100 billion cubic meters. (see RT News) | "The flow has been discovered …

Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski (2019-02-26). ICE Entraps Foreign Students: Not New, but Immigration Criminalization is Intensifying. therealnews.com While the Trump administration is continuing many of the anti-immigrant policies of the Clinton and Obama administration, his efforts to criminalize all immigrants represents a new twist, says Prof. Aviva Chomsky…

Shared by Hezvo Mpunga (2019-02-26). Will Militarizing Schools Make Them Safer? therealnews.com As Baltimore faces another uptick in shootings and violent crimes, officials are considering arming police officers to make schools safer. | After a shooting at Frederick Douglass high school that left one staffer injured, the Baltimore School Board is considering whether to support a bill that would allow school police officers to be armed during the school day. | On Tuesday, Feb. 25, Baltimore City's school board will reconsider the measure after originally voting unanimously against it on Jan. 23. During that hearing, students from the Baltimore Algebra Project took over the meeting to urge the school board to…

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