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Video: Michael Cohen Testimony on Hush Money, Fraud and Trump's Skyscraper Project in Moscow
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/michael-cohen-testimony/5669974

The Venezuelan War Council: Pence, Pompeo, Bolton, Abrams and Green LLP
William Walter Kay | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/pence-pompeo-bolton-abrams-venezuelan-war/5669957

Historic Supreme Court Win: World Bank Group Is Not Above the Law
EarthRights International | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/world-bank-group-not-above-law/5669991

The Chagos Islands Case, WikiLeaks and Justice
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/chagos-islands-wikileaks-justice/5669953

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shields Israeli Systematic Mutilation Machine
Dr. Vacy Vlazna | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/international-paralympic-committee-ipc-shields-israeli-systematic-mutilation-machine/5669967

Pence Threatens War in Venezuela at Colombia Summit: "There Is No Turning Back"
Eric London | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/pence-war-venezuela-colombia-summit/5669940

Russia, Japan and the USA: The Unfinished Business of War
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/russia-japan-and-the-usa-the-unfinished-business-of-war/5669939

Video: Russia's Kalashnikov Kamikaze Drone 'KUB-BLA' Already Battle-tested in Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/video-russias-kalashnikov-kamikaze-drone-kub-bla-already-battle-tested-in-syria/5669934

As Tensions Rise, UK Criticised for Arming Both India and Pakistan
Joe Lo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/uk-arming-india-pakistan/5670008

U.S. Condemns Venezuela's Government Yet Commits Human Rights Abuses Across the Middle East
Dr. Leon Tressell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
globalresearch.ca/united-states-human-rights-abuses-middle-east/5669948

Poisoning the Public: Toxic Agrochemicals and Regulators' Collusion with Industry
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/toxic-agrochemicals/5669949

History: Resistance to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/resistance-atlantic-slave-trade-colonialism/5669963

Who are the "Brutal Dictators"?
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/who-are-the-brutal-dictators/5669959

Genocide Survivors Demand Elliott Abrams Leave Holocaust Committee Board
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/genocide-survivors-demand-elliott-abrams-leave-holocaust-committee-board/5670013

ILWU Members & ILWU Local 34 Have Backed Striking OEA Oakland Teachers at Rally & March
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
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

Day Three of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Keith Brown, Minister Perkins, and Oakland High Teacher
APTP | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
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!"
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/25/18821459.php

Why is there no strike pay for Oakland teachers?
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/24/18821444.php

Unions, Democrats rush to end strike
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
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

The Key to the Brexit Backstory. The Legacy of the Defunct British Empire
Prof. Sally Tomlinson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-28
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 …
globalresearch.ca/brexit-backstory/5669998

Oakland teachers form rank-and-file strike committee
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
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

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…

Fremont, California teachers stage sick-out
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
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

Growing calls for nation-wide struggle
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/24/18821445.php

Oakland teachers continue strike as Kentucky teachers launch statewide sickout
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
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

Schoolidarity: screening and panel in support of the Oakland Teachers' Strike
Liberated Lens Film Collective | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
Omni Commons | 4799 Shattuck Ave | Oakland…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/25/18821470.php

Day Three of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Lincoln Elementary Teacher and Message from OEA
OEA | indybay.org | 2019-02-28
Stacy, a second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary, says students deserve better support, school nurses and lower class sizes.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/25/18821471.php

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

China's Discovery of Major Gas Reserves in the Bohai Sea: How Will it Affect LNG Gas Imports from the US?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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 | …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-discovery-of-major-gas-reserves-in-the-bohai-sea-how-will-it-affect-lng-gas-imports-from-the-us/5669649

It's Time to Make Sure Our Kids Are No Longer Bound, Shackled, or Locked Away When They're at School
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-02-27
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…
aclu.org/blog/disability-rights/disability-rights-and-education/its-time-make-sure-our-kids-are-no-longer

Alert: Feb. 27, OneWeb Begins Launching Satellites to Beam 5G and Wi-Fi Worldwide
Nina Beety | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/oneweb-begins-launching-satellites-5g-wi-fi-worldwide/5669898

Congress Is Unlikely to Stop Trump's "Emergency," But Lawsuits Could
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/congress-unlikely-stop-trumps-emergency-lawsuits-could/5669894

US Troops Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Underlying Cause of Friction Between India and Pakistan?
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-withdrawal-cause-friction-india-pakistan/5669901

"Trump is a Racist, a Conman, a Cheat": Michael D. Cohen's Testimony to US House of Representatives Committee
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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, …
globalresearch.ca/trump-is-a-racist-a-conman-a-cheat-michael-d-cohens-testimony-to-us-house-of-representatives-committee/5669908

Study Reports 536 Women Assaulted Every Hour in Brazil
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-27
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/Study-Reports-536-Women-Assaulted-Every-Hour-in-Brazil-20190227-0032.html

Killing Elephants 'for Pet Food' Condemned
The Ecologist | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/killing-elephants-pet-food/5669867

Varoufakis's Secret Negotiations and His Disappointments with China, Obama and the IMF
Eric Toussaint | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/varoufakiss-secret-negotiations-and-his-disappointments-with-china-obama-and-the-imf/5669726

US Army Transferring 50 Tons of Gold from ISIS-Daesh Held Areas in Syria and Iraq back to the US. Reports
Daily Sabah | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/us-army-transported-50-tons-gold-syria/5669876

Roll Out of 5G: The Threat Posed by Modern Microwave Technology to Human Life
John Weigel | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/krakow-un-wireless-technology-5g/5669895

Conscience Over Profit
Antonio Carty | zcomm.org | 2019-02-27
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…
zcomm.org/zblogs/conscience-over-profit/

Trump's Nomination of Kelly Craft for U.N. Ambassador Is a Slap in the Face of Climate Science and Human Rights
commondreams | commondreams.org | 2019-02-27
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/02/27/trumps-nomination-kelly-craft-un-ambassador-slap-face-climate-science-and-human?cd-origin=rss

Disarmament Expert on N. Korea Summit: An International Process Is Needed to Reduce Nuclear Threat
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-02-27
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."
www.democracynow.org/2019/2/27/disarmame…

Fremont, California teachers stage sick-out
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-27
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/27/frem…

Oakland teachers form rank-and-file strike committee as union keeps educators in the dark
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-27
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/27/oakl…

Harvard coddles students with campus 'climate' probe over Weinstein lawyer fiasco
RT | rt.com | 2019-02-27
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. | …
rt.com/usa/452605-harvard-students-weinstein-lawyer/

Scientists Plan to Geoengineer Planet Earth to Save Us From Global Warming
Foundation for Economic Education | theantimedia.com | 2019-02-27
(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, …
theantimedia.com/geoengineer-planet-glob…

Nuclear medicine fallout: Cremated man's ash spread radioactivity in local area — study
RT | rt.com | 2019-02-27
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. | …
rt.com/usa/452555-radioactive-man-cremated-medicine-risk/

Does Pakistan Have the Capability to Eradicate Terrorism?
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-27
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 | …
globalresearch.ca/pakistan-terrorism/5669887

Six new books for an ecosocialist bookshelf
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-27
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…
greenleft.org.au/content/six-new-books-ecosocialist-bookshelf

ICE Entraps Foreign Students: Not New, but Immigration Criminalization is Intensifying
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-02-26
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…
therealnews.com/stories/ice-entraps-foreign-students-not-new-but-immigration-criminalization-is-intensifying

Will Militarizing Schools Make Them Safer?
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-02-26
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…
therealnews.com/columns/will-militarizing-schools-make-them-safer

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2019-02-27: News Headlines

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…

Anya Parampil (2019-02-27). Meet Juan Guaido's First Ambassador, Fake Twitter Diplomat Slammed by Costa Rica for 'Unacceptable Entry'. globalresearch.ca Maria Faría, the daughter of a would-be Hugo Chávez assassin, illegally barged into Venezuela's embassy in Costa Rica and declared herself ambassador. The embarrassing stunt highlighted everything wrong with Juan Guaidó's reality-show government. | *** | While tweeting that she had …

Andrew Korybko (2019-02-27). India's "Surgical Strike 2.0" against Pakistan or Big Bollywood Spectacle? globalresearch.ca India is portraying its first aerial violation of the Line of Control (LoC) in nearly half a century as another "surgical strike" against Pakistan that followed in the footsteps of the operation that it claimed to have pulled off without …

Zero Hedge (2019-02-27). Cohen Tips Off NYT: Will Call Trump "Racist" , "Con Man" and "Cheat" in Wednesday Testimony. globalresearch.ca Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen — who will soon head to prison after pleading guilty to eight criminal charges — will testify to Congress on Wednesday that President Trump is a "con man" and a cheat," according to a copy …

F. William Engdahl (2019-02-27). New Studies Confirm Dangers of Glyphosate. globalresearch.ca Since the 1960s uproar over the dangers of widespread agriculture use of the weed killer, DDT, no other herbicide or agriculture chemical has stirred as much widespread opposition as glyphosate. Glyphosate is the main and only publicly disclosed ingredient in …

Craig Murray (2019-02-27). UK Rejects International Court of Justice Opinion on the Chagos Islands. globalresearch.ca In parliament, Alan Duncan for the government has just rejected yesterday's stunning result at the International Court of Justice, where British occupation of the Chagos Islands was found unlawful by a majority of 13 to 1, with all the judges …

Press TV (2019-02-27). Israel Burying Nuclear Waste in Syria's Golan: UN. globalresearch.ca UN chief Antonio Guterres will unveil Monday a report which accuses Israel of burying radioactive nuclear waste in the Golan Heights, a Syrian territory under occupation for over five decades. | Guterres will submit the report — which is based on …

Global Research News (2019-02-27). Selected Articles: "Humanitarian Aid" for Nefarious Purposes. globalresearch.ca Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis provided by Global Research on a daily basis? | At present we are not covering our monthly costs. The support of our readers is much appreciated. | Click to donate or click here to …

Andre Vltchek (2019-02-27). In Washington, Regime Change Is Truly and Urgently Needed! globalresearch.ca I am surprised that no one else is saying it, writing it, shouting it at each and every corner: | It is not Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Iran that are in dire and crucial need of 'regime change'. It is the …

Jonathan Cook (2019-02-27). Is Israel's Tax Grab a Prelude to Further Hollowing Out the Palestinian Authority? globalresearch.ca Israel's decision to withhold part of the taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority and plunge it deeper into crisis starkly illustrates the hypocrisies and deceptions at the core of the two governments' relationship. | Under the terms of …

Kurt Nimmo (2019-02-27). Mike Pence: Orchestrator of the Venezuelan Coup. The Invasion Option Is On The Table. globalresearch.ca According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, the US is preparing to covertly arm the opposition in Venezuela. | From Sputnik: | We have evidence that US companies and their NATO allies are working on the issue of acquiring …

Shane Quinn (2019-02-27). Venezuela Must Draw Inspiration from Survival of Cuban Revolution. globalresearch.ca As the Soviet Union crumbled in December 1991, a Special Period unfolded in Cuba as she reeled from the disappearance of her principal commercial partner. In the late 1980s, over 85% of Cuba's trade was tied to the USSR. | During …

South Front (2019-02-27). Video: Russia Slides Towards Internal Political Crisis. globalresearch.ca This is a critical look at the situation in Russia. The video is based on an article of one of our readers and additional data. | *** | The Russia of 2019 is in a complicated economic and even political situation. Smoldering …

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.

Liberated Lens Film Collective (2019-02-27). Schoolidarity: screening and panel in support of the Oakland Teachers' Strike. indybay.org Omni Commons | 4799 Shattuck Ave | Oakland…

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 Repost (2019-02-27). 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 (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.

WSWS Repost (2019-02-27). 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.

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, …

APTP (2019-02-27). 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!"

Hans Stehling (2019-02-27). Why Have Israel and UK Rushed to Sign a Trade Deal Ahead of Brexit? globalresearch.ca Annual bilateral trade between the 5th largest economy in the world and the 34th rated global economy exceeds US$3 billion with over 300 known Israeli companies operating in Britain. Much of this trade is in classified military equipment, armaments and …

WSWS Repost (2019-02-27). 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 (2019-02-27). 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.

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.

WSWS Repost (2019-02-27). 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.

OEA (2019-02-27). 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.

Labor Video Project (2019-02-27). 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.

Ashley Smith (2019-02-26). The Bitter Fruit of Trump's China Bashing: Anti-Asian Racism. counterpunch.org Donald Trump's New Cold War with Beijing has caught Chinese foreign students at American universities in its crosshairs. His administration has tightened restrictions on their visas, accused them of spying for the Chinese state and its high tech giants, and in the process whipped up a climate of Anti-Asian racism. Trump's policies have yielded bitter More

South Front (2019-02-26). Video: Why There Will be No Full US Troops Withdrawal from Syria. globalresearch.ca A contingent of US troops will remain deployed in Syria even after the troops withdrawal declared by President Donald Trump. | On February 21, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced that "a small peacekeeping group of about 200" troops …

Jose Morales (2019-02-26). The Current State of the Swedish Submarine Industry. globalresearch.ca With a rapidly changing industrial environment Europe, driven by macro-economics, economic reforms and the natural ebb-and-flow of business, some of the continent's industries are currently on the losing side of history. Among them, Sweden's submarine industry, which was promising 40 …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-02-26). Shifting the Centre of Gravity: Julian Assange Receives His Passport. globalresearch.ca In March 2008, one Michael Horvath of the US Army Counterintelligence Center within the Cyber Intelligence Assessments Branch considered the risks posed by WikiLeaks in a 32 page document. Created under the auspices of the Department of Defence's Intelligence …

Andrew Nicla (2019-02-26). Renewed Attempt to Ban Uranium Mining Permanently Near the Grand Canyon. Rep. Raúl Grijalva. globalresearch.ca An Arizona lawmaker is renewing his push to halt uranium mining near the Grand Canyon, outlining a proposal Saturday that would make permanent a moratorium on new claims across 1 million acres of public lands. | Rep. Raúl Grijalva has introduced …

The Global Research Team (2019-02-26). Is "Lying" a Money Making Activity? globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | Lying is a a money making activity and lies are commodities. There is a profitable global market for those committed to spreading disinformation. | Needless to say, "Telling the Truth" Is Not a Money-Making Proposition. Independent online analysis of …

William Walter Kay (2019-02-26). "Humanitarian Aid" for Nefarious Purposes. USAID and Guaido's February 23, 2019 — The Second Battle of Cucuta. globalresearch.ca On Sunday morn, February 28 1813, General Ramon Correa, commander of 800 Spanish Royalist troops, sat upon his favourite Cucuta pew. While Correa communed with the Almighty, Simon Bolivar marched 400 men to hilltops overlooking Cucuta. Futile attempts to …

Arnold August (2019-02-26). Cuba's Referendum on a New Constitution: Cuba Has Indeed "Changed", But Not as Some Had Hoped. globalresearch.ca The results were announced at 4 p.m. on Monday, February 25, the day after the referendum, and they are excellent. However, based on my visit to Cuba last September—October, during the course of the debate when people had the opportunity …

Federico Pieraccini (2019-02-26). Final Steps of the Multipolar Revolution: Containing the US in Europe. globalresearch.ca We discussed in the previous article how China and Russia are using diplomatic, economic and military means in areas like Asia and the Middle East to contain the belligerence and chaos unleashed by the United States. In this analysis, we …

Andrew Korybko (2019-02-26). Russia Regards the "Indo-Pacific Region" as an "Artificially Imposed" Pro-US Concept. globalresearch.ca Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov strongly spoke out against the US' so-called "Indo-Pacific" concept that's recently become very popular among Indian strategists, remarking that it's "artificially imposed" and conditioned on containing China. | From "Conspiracy Theory" To Strategic Fact | Routinely dismissed …

Michael Welch (2019-02-26). Black History: Trump Era Resistance, Mumia's Plight, and Freedom for the Move 9. globalresearch.ca "Bi-partisanship between neoliberals and conservatives built the monster we now call 'mass incarceration.' No so-called 'progressive prosecutor' can or will unbuild it. That's because it took the entire system — DAs, judges, cops, defense lawyers, and prison administrators, not …

Andrew Korybko (2019-02-26). "Arab NATO" Isn't NATO-like at All. globalresearch.ca It's become popular over the past few years to talk about the so-called "Arab NATO" that the US is reportedly trying to assemble in the Mideast to militarily contain Iran, but the actual entity being created doesn't resemble its European …

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…

Shared by Merula Furtado (2019-02-26). If Emissions Aren't Curbed, Clouds May Disappear. truthout.org A study just published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that if we continue with business-as-usual fossil fuel emissions, the atmosphere will hold 1,200 parts per million CO2 in about a century from now, which will cause stratocumulus clouds to disappear. Their absence could leave the Earth to warm by a staggering 8 degrees Celsius (8°C). | The computer simulation used in the study showed that once that 1,200 parts per million (ppm) tipping point of atmospheric CO2 is breached, the Earth's temperature would soar by 4°C just from the…

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…

WSWS (2019-02-26). The global struggle of teachers. wsws.org Throughout the world, teachers have come to the forefront of the struggle against decades of austerity and levels of social inequality not seen since the 1920s.

Shared by Samantha Borek (2019-02-26). Youth Climate Activists Arrested for Sit-In at Mitch McConnell's Office. truthout.org Hundreds of Kentucky high school students and climate campaigners with the youth-led Sunrise Movement descended on the Capitol Hill office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday to deliver 100,000 petition signatures and stage a sit-in to make clear to lawmakers that young people want a Green New Deal for their communities and futures. | For calling on McConnell to heed public demands for federal lawmakers to pass policies that will phase out fossil fuels and combat the global climate crisis while also creating green jobs and a…

The Mind Unleashed (2019-02-26). Nobody Knows How This 10-Ton Whale Crash-Landed Deep in the Amazon Jungle. theantimedia.com (TMU) — Scientists are baffled by the recent discovery of a 10-ton humpback whale found dead deep in the Amazon jungle of Brazil. The massive whale was found on the island of Marajo, which is located at the mouth of the Amazon River. Some researchers suggest that the whale was thrown onshore during a storm, but …

WSWS (2019-02-26). Unions, Democrats rush to end strike as Oakland teachers resist attack on public education. wsws.org The district's financial oversight trustee has threatened to veto any deal that provides wage increases above the rate of inflation.

Shared by Merula Furtado (2019-02-26). Photo Essay: Oakland Teachers Fight for Public Education. truthout.org Students and parents have come out en masse to join the marches and picket lines of the ongoing teachers strike in Oakland, California. All say that they are trying to save the city's public school system. | "This is a strike to save our district," said Heath Madom, who's taught 10th grade English for three years at Oakland Technical High School, which is referred to as "Tech" by educators and pupils. "Our Tech community is committed to saving public education. Twenty-four schools are on the chopping block. We could become like New Orleans, with no public schools and all charters, if this keeps going." | Like…

WSWS (2019-02-26). Oakland teachers and students speak on third day of strike. wsws.org On the third day of the strike, teachers and students alike expressed strong support for a broader, united struggle of workers against the corporate assault on education.

WSWS (2019-02-26). In wake of January teachers strike, further attacks on public schools planned in Los Angeles. wsws.org Details are emerging of how the Los Angeles Unified School District intends to prosecute its assault on teachers, including plans to break up the district into multiple local networks.

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