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Video: An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela
Abby Martin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
On the eve of another US war for oil, Abby Martin debunks the most repeated myths about Venezuela. | She uncovers how US sanctions are crimes against humanity with UN investigator and human rights Rapporteur Alfred De Zayas. | Watch the …
globalresearch.ca/video-an-ocean-of-lies-on-venezuela/5669354

Oakland teachers strike for higher wages and smaller classrooms
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-02-22
On Thursday, February 21, teachers in Oakland, California, went on strike, demanding significant pay rise, smaller classrooms sizes and student support from the Oakland Unified School District's (OUSD) management of Oakland public schools. The decision was taken on February 4, when 95% members of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) voted in favor of strike action. The OEA, which represents around 2,300 public school teachers, gave the call for strike after 18 months of unfruitful negotiations with the OUSD authorities. The demands include a 12% increase in wages, more nurses, counselors and support staff and…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/02/22/oakland-teachers-strike-for-higher-wages-and-smaller-classrooms/

"Out Here Because I Love Teaching": The Oakland Teachers Strike, In Photos
Brooke Anderson | commondreams.org | 2019-02-22
Oakland Education Association President, Keith Brown, leads a march today of striking teachers through downtown Oakland. "We ask the School Board Superintendent: Which side are you on?" said Brown, as he rallied a crowd of thousands of striking teachers, parents, and students. (Photo: Inthesetimes) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
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Thousands of students and teachers come together on the streets to save education in India
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-02-22
Students and teachers joined hands as part of the two-day protest demonstration in New Delhi against the right-wing government's assault on the nation's educational sector…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/02/22/thousands-of-students-and-teachers-come-together-on-the-streets-to-save-education-in-india/

UNESCO Commends Bolivia's Work for Multilingualism
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-22
Bolivia is at the forefront of multilingualism in the world, the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said Thursday marking the International Day for Mother Language. | RELATED: | Bolivian Woman Scientist Wins Prestigious Prize in Ethnobotany | UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay acknowledged Thursday Bolivia's work in the defense and respect for the education of local Indigenous languages. | "With 37 languages re…
telesurenglish.net/news/UNESCO-Commends-Bolivias-Work-for-Multilingualism-Preserving-Indigenous-Languages-20190222-0010.html

5G and Trump's Tweets — Ignorance, Greed, or Insanity?
Felicity Arbuthnot | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Dr. Martin Pall, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State University. | Donald Trump's total disregard for humanity, fauna, flora, environment — and indeed a towering ignorance — is perhaps encapsulated …
globalresearch.ca/5g-and-trumps-tweets-ignorance-greed-or-insanity/5669371

In Teachers' Strikes, Unions Focus on Social Justice, Not Just Salaries
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2019-02-22
For the past few years I've been studying teacher unions and teachers strikes throughout the Americas. My research has taken me from the Mexican state of Oaxaca — where teacher protests in 2006 led to both violent repression and a broad-based social movement for direct democracy — to the streets of S&atild…
truthout.org/articles/in-teachers-strikes-unions-focus-on-social-justice-not-just-salaries/

The Start of Homelessness in Cyprus
Andreas C Chrysafis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
A Rachman-style landlord has decided to make homeless and evict over 100 of his tenants during the week of last Christmas from his rundown apartment building located in Nicosia. He has given the occupants eight-days notice to vacate the premises …
globalresearch.ca/the-start-of-homelessness-in-cyprus/5669351

The Subways in New York City Should be Free
Christopher Baum | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Last month, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio finally launched his eagerly anticipated Fair Fares program offering half-price transit fares for low-income New Yorkers — but the early reviews were decidedly mixed. | The first phase of the program will …
globalresearch.ca/the-subways-in-new-york-city-should-be-free/5669336

The Candidate Rides Again: The Bernie Sanders Re-Run
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
He could not stay away, and few could blame him. Such political tendencies are nerves, conditions, diseases: eventually, we have to succumb to them. Bernie Sanders has announced his intention to run for the White House in 2020. It was …
globalresearch.ca/candidate-rides-bernie-sanders-re-run/5669302

Trump's Border Wall 'Emergency', Abuse of Power: We'll See You in Court, President Donald Trump
Anthony D. Romero | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Donald Trump's emergency declaration is a blatant abuse of power in the service of his anti-immigrant agenda. No president has ever tried this before. | *** | President Donald Trump declared a "national emergency" on Friday to pay for his border …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-border-wall-emergency-abuse-of-power-well-see-you-in-court-president-donald-trump/5669347

War with China? It's Already Under Way
Michael Klare | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Introduction | by Tom Engelhardt | These days, the trade "war" between the Trump administration and China is regularly in the headlines and, sometimes, so are the bases the Chinese are building in the South China Sea, the ships the U.S. Navy …
globalresearch.ca/war-with-china-its-already-under-way/5669321

Iran's Turning into India's Proxy by Taunting and Threatening Pakistan?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Major General Qassem Soleimani, the famed commander of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC), proved that his country is increasingly turning into India's proxy after he taunted and threatened Pakistan, resulting in the Islamic Republic incredibly taking some …
globalresearch.ca/irans-turning-into-indias-proxy-by-taunting-and-threatening-pakistan/5669373

Step Aside USA, Canada Is the New Bully in Our South American 'Backyard'
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Many Canadians are familiar with the Monroe Doctrine. First issued by the United States in 1823, it warned European powers against renewed colonization of the Western Hemisphere. Presented as anti-imperialist, the Monroe Doctrine was later used to justify US interference …
globalresearch.ca/step-aside-usa-canada-is-the-new-bully-in-our-south-american-backyard/5669332

Venezuela: Is Trump Heading for Military Intervention?
Marc Vandepitte | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
After Chávez' death in 2013 Maduro was elected president of Venezuela. Since then the US has resolutely been heading for a regime change. The strategy to achieve this has run through several stages. Now we have come to the …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-is-trump-heading-for-military-intervention/5669313

UN Warns of Alarming Rate of Language Disappearance
Prensa Latina | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
In the celebration of the International Mother Language Day this Thursday, the UN draws attention to the alarming rate at which languages are disappearing and calls for more action to counteract this trend. | According to UN data, at least 43 …
globalresearch.ca/un-warns-of-alarming-rate-of-language-disappearance/5669341

Venezuelan Military Reject Trump's Incitement to Rebel: 'Over Our Dead Bodies'
Paul Dobson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
The government also announced a rival peace concert and plans to supply food and medical attention to poor Colombians as the border heats up. | *** | Venezuela's armed forces have responded angrily Tuesday to threats made against them by US President …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelan-military-reject-trumps-incitement-to-rebel-over-our-dead-bodies/5669343

Saudi Crown Prince MBS' Asia Tour Is Much More than a Post-Khashoggi Photo-Op
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Many have dismissed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's Asia tour to Pakistan, India, and China as nothing more than a post-Khashoggi photo-op to shore up international support, but it's actually about much more than that because of its …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-crown-prince-mbs-asia-tour-is-much-more-than-a-post-khashoggi-photo-op/5669299

If Truth Is Politicized, All Is Lost. Trump Grants Free Rein to the Crazed Neocons
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Trump's surrender to the neoconservatives makes it impossible for an informed person to support him. He has signed off on the coup against democracy in Venezuela, and he has placed all life at risk by pulling out of the INF …
globalresearch.ca/if-truth-is-politicized-all-is-lost-trump-grants-free-rein-to-the-crazed-neocons/5669297

Venezuela's Stalled Coup: US' Allies May Soon Regret They Rushed to Embrace Guaido
Gilbert Mercier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
The Venezuela coup attempt is not going well at all and Washington's global allies may soon regret rushing to recognise Juan Guaido as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela, French journalist and geopolitical analyst Gilbert Mercier told Sputnik. | Make no | …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelas-stalled-coup-us-allies-may-soon-regret-they-rushed-to-embrace-guaido/5669317

Putin on National Defense: Threats or a Bid to Negotiate on Arms Control?
Dr. Gilbert Doctorow | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
As he stated at the outset, Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address today before a joint session of the nation's bicameral legislature was devoted preponderantly to domestic policy. He was expanding on the practical implications for the …
globalresearch.ca/putin-on-national-defense-threats-or-a-bid-to-negotiate-on-arms-control/5669367

Video: Why is the S-300 Air Defense System in Syria Not Being Used Against Israeli Aircraft
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
There has been considerable speculation in recent months concerning reasons why the S-300 air defense systems supplied to the Syrian Arab Army by the Russian Federation have yet to fire a shot in anger at Israeli aircraft encroaching on its …
globalresearch.ca/video-why-is-the-s-300-air-defense-system-in-syria-not-being-used-against-israeli-aircraft/5669304

Quantitative Easing (QE) Forever: The Fed's Dramatic About-face
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
"Quantitative easing" was supposed to be an emergency measure. The Federal Reserve "eased" shrinkage in the money supply due to the 2008-09 credit crisis by pumping out trillions of dollars in new bank reserves. After the crisis, the presumption was …
globalresearch.ca/quantitative-easing-qe-forever-the-feds-dramatic-about-face/5669320

Venezuela — US Attack Imminent?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Imagine, the President of the self-declared, exceptional and unique Superpower, Donald Trump of the United States of America, has the audacity to threaten the Venezuelan military with their lives, if they keep standing behind the democratically elected President Nicolás Maduro…
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-us-attack-imminent/5669311

The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies
John Pilger | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humour in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was …
globalresearch.ca/war-venezuela-built-lies/5669329

Is the Tide Turning on President Trump's War on Science?
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2019-02-22
Douglas Costle, who helped create the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and then ran it during Jimmy Carter's administration, died recently at the age of 79. If the Trump administration has its way, the agency as we know it will die along with him. | "Clean air is not an aesthetic luxury," Costle said when he took the job as EPA administrator. "It is a public health necessity." | President Trump said pretty much the same thing in an interv…
truthout.org/articles/is-the-tide-turning-on-president-trumps-war-on-science/

Oakland educators join the nationwide wave of teacher strikes
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2019-02-22
OAKLAND, Calif. — Joining the wave of teachers' strikes that are sweeping the country, Oakland teachers and school staff hit early-morning picket lines throughout the Oakland Unified School District's 86 elementary, middle and high schools Feb. 21, before packing the City Hall plaza for a lively noontime rally with other union leaders and members, parents, …
peoplesworld.org/article/oakland-educators-join-the-nationwide-wave-of-teacher-strikes/

SPLC and Latin GRAMMY Award-winning band release song that teaches immigrants their rights
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-02-22
‚ÄãThe SPLC and the Latin GRAMMY Award-winning band Flor De Toloache launched a new song today whose lyrics teach immigrants about the rights they can exercise when interacting with law enforcement and immigration authorities.
splcenter.org/news/2019/02/22/splc-and-latin-grammy-award-winning-band-release-song-teaches-immigrants-their-rights

Arts Organizing Lifts Oakland Teachers Strike
Joe Brusky | zcomm.org | 2019-02-22
Interview on arts organizing in the teachers union movement…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/arts-organizing-lifts-oakland-teachers-strike/

Oakland, California teachers walk out as unions sabotage West Virginia strike
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Oakland's teachers walkout began as unions sabotaged the two-day strike by 33,000 teachers and school employees in West Virginia. | The unions are not working class organizations, but instruments of the ruling class. | Oakland teachers must draw the sharpest lessons from these experiences if their struggle is not to be isolated and betrayed.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/21/18821325.php

"When We Fight We Win!" Thousands Of Oakland OEA Teachers With SEIU 1021 Workers Strike
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Thousands of OEA members and SEIU 1021 members struck on February 21, 2019 and were joined by parents and students. They are fighting for living wages, decent conditions and against privatization.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/22/18821377.php

Terrorism and Insurgency: The Semantics of Political Legitimacy
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-02-22
The definition of the term "terrorism" has been deliberately left undefined by the Western powers to use it as a catch-all pretext to justify their interventionist policy in the energy-rich Islamic countries. Depending on context, "terrorism" can mean two markedly …
globalresearch.ca/terrorism-and-insurgency-the-semantics-of-political-legitimacy/5669306

Australia: Royal commission finds that Murray-Darling Basin Authority acted unlawfully
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-22
The investigation found that a triumph of political considerations over "best available science" led to environmental catastrophe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/22/mdrc…

Day One of Oakland Teachers' Strike: School Picket Lines & Message from Keith Brown
OEA | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Teachers and allies were out by 6: 30am on Day One, picketing in front of schools across Oakland. At at Manzanita Community School, teachers chanted: "Get up, get down, Oakland is a union town! Hey, hey, ho, ho, where did all the money go?"
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/22/18821342.php

Powerful support for Oakland teachers' strike
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-22
Like teachers across the US and internationally, striking teachers in Oakland, California are fighting against the corporate war on public education and the complicity of the trade unions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/22/oakl…

Affordable housing should be a priority
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-22
As housing unaffordability becomes an increasingly critical social issue in Australia, it is perverse to find that most MPs own two or more homes. | It is surreal to see some politicians' real estate portfolios. And while this doesn't tell you everything about their class interest, it does reveal how Australia is increasingly becoming a two-tiered society when it comes to having access to an affordable roof over one's head. | The official statistics all point in a direction that no advanced capitalist country could possibly be proud of. | Homelessness rose across Australia by 14% between 2011-16. Median mort…
greenleft.org.au/content/affordable-housing-should-be-priority

Support Oakland teachers! For a general strike to defend education!
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-22
The call must go out in every workplace in the Bay Area, across California, the US and internationally: "The Oakland teachers must not fight this decisive battle alone!"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/22/otst…

Oakland Teachers on Strike: Stakeholder Voices on the Struggle
Upfront, KPFA | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Today, we bring you a full two hours on the Oakland teachers strike.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/21/18821334.php

School strikers won't be bullied
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-22
The following statement was released by School Strike 4 Climate on February 20 in response to statements made by the federal and NSW education ministers and deputy prime minister Michael McCormack, as well as a front page article in the Daily Telegraph, attacking students for exercising their right to strike from school to demand urgent climate action. | *** | School students striking for climate action won't be bullied by conservative media and politicians telling us not to strike from school on March 15 as part of the Global #ClimateStrike. | School…
greenleft.org.au/content/school-strikers-wont-be-bullied

Powerful Support for Oakland Teachers' Strike
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
The strike is the latest in a wave of walkouts by teachers, which began exactly a year ago in West Virginia. In every case, teachers are fighting over the same issues and facing the same enemies: decades of defunding, falling living standards, punitive evaluation schemes to scapegoat teachers, and a bipartisan drive to close public schools and expand for-profit charter schools.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/22/18821345.php

Support Oakland Teachers! For a General Strike to Defend Education!
Repost | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
The miserable state of public education in California, which is 43rd in the nation in per pupil spending, underscores the need for struggle against capitalism and the horrific levels of social inequality it creates.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/22/18821346.php

House Education and Labor Committee: US schools are in shambles
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-02-22
A recent Congressional hearing exposed the disastrous state of public schools but offers no solutions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/22/educ…

Day One of Oakland Teachers' Strike: Rally at City Hall
APTP | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Keith Brown, OEA president: "When we strike, we win!
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/21/18821336.php

2019 Oakland OEA Strike Rally: Day One "We Shut It Down"!
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-02-22
Thousands of Oakland OEA teachers went on strike for living wages, for smaller classes with nurses and counselors and against privatization and the closure of public community schools…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/21/18821331.php

Outrage as kids pick cotton, sing slave songs during school field trip (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2019-02-22
Disturbing cell phone video has appeared online apparently showing a class of 10-year-old South Carolina elementary school kids picking cotton and singing slave songs as their teachers supervise. | …
rt.com/usa/452173-slave-songs-pick-cotton-kids/

West Virginia teachers end strike as Senate votes to postpone the controversial bill on education
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-02-21
The controversial bill, named SB: 451, was set to introduce charter schools in West Virginia for the first time, in a bid to privatize education…
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/02/21/west-virginia-teachers-end-strike-as-senate-votes-to-postpone-the-controversial-bill-on-education/

Charter school strike in Chicago ends with workers' victory
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-02-21
Chicago, IL – Solidarity matters. Teachers and paraprofessionals at the Chicago International Charter Schools hit the picket lines at 6: 00 a.m. on February 5 and stayed out until they had won what they needed at 3: 15 a.m. on February 17. What they need was smaller class sizes for their students, adequate staffing for special education students, maternity leave for educators and a wage scale close enough to the Chicago Public School teachers to bring some measure of stability to the classroom. | They won these things by sticking together. The cold nasty weather did not deter the strikers. They kept in communicatio…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/2/20/charter-…

UNESCO to Document Israeli Violations in Jerusalem
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-21
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) may send a mission to document Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem, according to Al-Wattan Voice Wednesday. | RELATED: | Israeli Police Evict Palestinians From Home Without Notice | Speaking to Palestine Voice, Mounir Anastas, representative of the Palestinian Authority to the U.N. organization, said that "Israel continues to prevent international UNESCO experts from documenting Israeli violations ag…
telesurenglish.net/news/UNESCO-to-Send-Mission-to-Document-Israeli-Violations-in-Jerusalem-20190221-0021.html

Denver Teachers' Strike Was a Rejection of Education 'Reform'
Jeff Bryant | progressive.org | 2019-02-21
Teachers in the school district that was supposed to be the model for education reform just rebelled–and won.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/denver-teachers-strike-rejection-of-education-reform-bryant-190221/

Bolivian Woman Scientist Wins Prestigious Prize in Ethnobotany
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-21
Five researchers from developing countries won the 2019 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists, a prize which is focused on life sciences and is granted to women who have made a demonstrable impact on the research environment both at a regional and international level. | RELATED: | Day of Women, Girls in Science Focuses on Growth, Inclusivity | Among the recipients is Narel Paniagua, who works at the Bolivian National Herbarium and received the ethnobota…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivian-Woman-Scientist-Wins-Prestigious-Prize-in-Ethnobotany-20190221-0020.html

Last Process: 50 Postees: 2019-02-22 19:25 GMT (14:25 EST)

2019-02-21: News Headlines

Democracy Now! (2019-02-21). Headlines for February 21, 2019. democracynow.org White Supremacist Coast Guard Lt. Had "Hit List" of Democratic Targets, Trump Considering Anti-Science Adviser to Head Climate Change Committee, SCOTUS Limits State and Local Civil Asset Forfeiture, Massive Fire Kills At Least 80 in Bangladesh, Mexico: 2 Radio Journalists Killed in Past Week, U.N. Warns of Oil Company Complicity in South Sudan Mass Atrocities, Egypt Executes 9 Men over 2015 Prosecutor Killing Amid Claims of Torture, Syria: Civilians Evacuated from ISIS Enclave, Trump Says Alabama Woman Who Joined ISIS Should Not Be Allowed Back in U.S., West Virginia Teachers End Strike After Killing Pro-Charter…

Stephanie Wykstra (2019-02-21). Fixing Tech's Ethics Problem Starts in the Classroom. thenation.com Fixing Tech's Ethics Problem Starts in the Classroom…

Shared by Merula Furtado (2019-02-21). Oakland Teachers Strike, Joining #RedforEd Movement on Picket Lines. truthout.org Today, teachers in Oakland, California, are joining their #RedforEd counterparts in Los Angeles and across the nation in striking for better working conditions and fully funded schools. The city's schools remain open as substitutes teach more than 36,000 students across 87 Oakland Unified School District schools. | The strike comes on the heels of West Virginia teachers' second strike since they walked out of their classrooms a year ago this month. Teachers there demanded that lawmakers imme…

Eric Blanc (2019-02-21). The Educators' Revolt Is Spreading to Oakland. thenation.com The Educators' Revolt Is Spreading to Oakland…

Fight Back (2019-02-21). Charter school strike in Chicago ends with workers' victory. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Solidarity matters. Teachers and paraprofessionals at the Chicago International Charter Schools hit the picket lines at 6: 00 a.m. on February 5 and stayed out until they had won what they needed at 3: 15 a.m. on February 17. What they need was smaller class sizes for their students, adequate staffing for special education students, maternity leave for educators and a wage scale close enough to the Chicago Public School teachers to bring some measure of stability to the classroom. | They won these things by sticking together. The cold nasty weather did not deter the strikers. They kept in communicatio…

Peoples Dispatch (2019-02-21). West Virginia teachers end strike as Senate votes to postpone the controversial bill on education. peoplesdispatch.org The controversial bill, named SB: 451, was set to introduce charter schools in West Virginia for the first time, in a bid to privatize education…

STAFF (2019-02-21). Oakland Teachers to Start Strike Thursday. truthdig.com OAKLAND, Calif. — Teachers in Oakland, California, plan to raise picket signs Thursday in the country's latest strike by educators over classroom conditions and pay. | The city's 3,000 teachers are demanding a 12 percent retroactive raise covering 2017 to 2020 to compensate for what they say are among the lowest salaries for public school teachers in the exorbitantly expensive San Francisco Bay Area. | They also want the district to hire more counselors to support students and more full-time nurses. | The walkout will affect 36,000 students at 86 schools. | The Oakland Educators Association called for the s…

David Solnit (2019-02-21). Arts Organizing Lifts Oakland Teachers Strike. commondreams.org "For strikes," explains arts organizer Joe Brusly, "my role is to just capture moments and share stories that help sustain those on the line. The beauty is, the art created in the hands of those picketing tells so much of the story on their own." (Photo: Brooke Anderson Photography) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Keith Brown (2019-02-21). Why Oakland Teachers Are Going to Strike. commondreams.org Oakland teachers make their way into Taylor Memorial Methodist Church in Oakland on Monday to discuss the possibility of a strike Thursday, Feb. 21. The vote was to strike. (Photo: Jessica Christian / The Chronicle) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Science for Peace (2019-02-21). Why Canada Should Withdraw from NATO. globalresearch.ca Hon. Lloyd Longfield MP | February 20, 2019 | Dear Lloyd, | I am a longstanding member of Science for Peace, Canada's most renowned scientific community for peace research and advocacy over more than 30 years centered in the Department of Physics of …

Global Research (2019-02-21). Global Research PDF Collection: 6 PDF Books for 1 Price. globalresearch.ca Purchase six e-books from Global Research Publisher's PDF collection at a discounted price. Download your order as a zipped folder straight to your computer and avoid shipping and handling costs. | Special Offer: Global Research PDF Collection — 6 PDF Books : …

Canadian Peace Congress (2019-02-21). Canadian Peace Congress: Act Now to Defend Venezuela's Sovereignty! No Sanctions! No Coup d'État! No Military Intervention! globalresearch.ca The orchestrated campaign to remove the elected government in Venezuela and replace it with a puppet authority willing to serve U.S. economic and political interests has now reached a critical moment, one which may well end in a bloody civil …

Leo Panitch (2019-02-21). Trump and the World Economy. globalresearch.ca Martin Thomas (MT): I can see four main sorts of possible outcomes to be considered from Trump's economic jousting. | One: it may reshape some deals, like NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement] to the USA's advantage or imagined advantage, …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-02-21). The Most Selfish of Virtues: Alan Bennett's "Lady in the Van" globalresearch.ca It does seem specific. A middle class concern centred on a man and an elderly woman, a sort of surrogate, irritating mother type of indulgent wisdom and uncertain past, seemingly irritating yet, on some level, fulfilling. Alan Bennett writes prose …

Stephen Lendman (2019-02-21). Trump Regime Pursuing Nuclear Technology Sales to the Saudis. globalresearch.ca Saudi Arabia is a fascist dictatorship run in cahoots with religious extremists — the Middle East's most dangerous regime after Israel. | Other than nations already with nukes, it's likely the last regime on earth anti-war activists would want to be …

Greg Guma (2019-02-21). Obstructed Justice: Law and Disorder in the Klan Age. globalresearch.ca Forty years after the Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation it still wasn't safe to be free and black in Kentucky. For Celia Mudd, who was born into slavery but had inherited the Lancaster farm in Bardstown, it was time to …

Andrew Korybko (2019-02-21). The Ins and Outs of the West's Anti-Russian Infowar. The Role of "Government Organized" NGOs. globalresearch.ca Western governments are indirectly promoting hostile narratives against Russia simultaneously with censoring those that are supposedly "Russian-linked". | *** | It is obvious that the US and Russia are at loggerheads in a New Cold War, one which is taking a completely …

David DeGraw (2019-02-21). Shocking Quotes from High-Ranking Government Officials on Unaccounted For Military Spending. globalresearch.ca Defense Secretaries Sound the Alarm | This first quote was an important admission from Robert Gates, as Defense Secretary during the second-term of the Bush Administration and first-term of the Obama Administration, it was his responsibility to sign off on …

South Front (2019-02-21). Russia to Press for Putting "White Helmets" on Trial for Crimes in Syria. globalresearch.ca Russia will press for putting the White Helmets on trial for crimes committed in Syria, including faked videos of chemical attacks, the director of the Foreign Ministry's department of new challenges and threats, Ilya Rogachyov, told TASS in an …

Nauman Sadiq (2019-02-21). Education and the Capitalist Myth of Equality of Opportunity. globalresearch.ca We commit a big fallacy when we assume that our educational accomplishments are our individual achievements. We like to believe that we are born with a certain innate talent that makes us intellectually superior to all the rest. | But the …

Hans Stehling (2019-02-21). Fraught Times for Europe's Jews Now Advised to Reconsider Their Unqualified Support for Israel. globalresearch.ca Jewish communities in Britain and France, London and Paris, together with the rest of Europe are now reconsidering their unqualified support for the state of Israel in terms of money and arms which they concede are used for the subjugation …

Alan MacLeod (2019-02-21). The Fake News About Humanitarian Aid and Venezuela. globalresearch.ca In recent times the international media, including many who promised to "resist" the dangerous commander-in-chief Donald Trump, have been awash with stories about Nicolas Maduro blocking US "humanitarian aid" reaching Venezuela. Maduro is said to have even blocked …

Enzo Calandra (2019-02-21). Dollar Dominance and the Third World. globalresearch.ca The history of international political economy has consisted of several monetary regimes, each corresponding to a particular stage of capitalist development and possessing traits which reflect said stage. | In order to illuminate the dynamics of the dollar regime, I will …

Philip Giraldi (2019-02-21). What If They Started a War and No One Showed Up? globalresearch.ca The humiliation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Warsaw last week was a good thing. The ancient Greeks, exercising their demonstrated ability to synthesize defining characteristics, had a word for it: hubris. Hubris is when one develops …

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2019-02-21). Big Economic Questions of the Day: Trump Tax Cuts, Economic Growth, Inflation. Monetary Policy. Undocumented Immigrants. globalresearch.ca Recently I have had several journalists, academics and progressive activists ask me my opinion on some of the key economic questions of the day. Here are some of my replies: on Trump tax cuts and US growth, current immigration debates, …

Tony Cartalucci (2019-02-21). Who Gains from Turning Europe into a Potential Nuclear Battlefield? globalresearch.ca The United States and its NATO partners are attempting to make the case for Washington's decision to abandon the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. | Claims that the Russian Federation has been violating the treaty have yet to be substantiated with …

Fight Back (2019-02-21). Tampa Bay students rally against Trump's 'National Emergency'. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – In the wake of President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to get increased funding to the border wall, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the University of South Florida (USF) held a rally to respond to the attacks on immigrants. The rally, held on campus on February 19, called for a halt to the preparation of a border wall, as well as pushing for more protections for immigrants across the country and at USF. | "This state of emergency is an abuse of power that has resulted from the implementation of racist ideas from the Trump administration. The wall is a symbol of white supremac…

Tamar Singer (2019-02-21). 'Save the world by changing the rules'. zcomm.org Two students explain why they walked out of school to demand action on climate change…

WSWS Repost (2019-02-21). Oakland, California teachers walk out as unions sabotage West Virginia strike. indybay.org Oakland's teachers walkout began as unions sabotaged the two-day strike by 33,000 teachers and school employees in West Virginia. | The unions are not working class organizations, but instruments of the ruling class. | Oakland teachers must draw the sharpest lessons from these experiences if their struggle is not to be isolated and betrayed.

WSWS (2019-02-21). Oakland, California teachers walk out as unions sabotage West Virginia strike. wsws.org Teachers in Oakland, California will walk out of schools in the latest of a series of strikes by educators in the US and internationally against austerity and social inequality.

WSWS (2019-02-21). NSW universities increasingly integrated into Australian military build-up. wsws.org The Defence Innovation Network is aimed at subordinating university research ever more directly to the ruling elite's preparations for war.

APTP (2019-02-21). Join us at the Oakland teacher's picket line! indybay.org Priority Schools (map here): | Ralph J Bunche High School (West Oakland – 1240 18th Street) | Prescott Elementary (West Oakland – 920 Campbell Street) | McClymonds High School (Off San Pablo and 27th – 2608 Myrtle Street) | Hoover Elementary (Off San Pablo & 33rd St – 890 Brockhurst Street) | Piedmont Elementary (Piedmont – 4314 Piedmont Avenue) | Downtown Admin Building (Downtown – 1000 Broadway) | Lakeview Admin Building (Lake Merritt – 746 Grand Ave) | Bella Vista (Lake Merritt – 1025 East 28th Street) | Fruitvale Elementary (Lower Dimond – 3200 Boston Avenue) | Burckhalter Elementary (North East Oakland – 399…

WSWS (2019-02-21). Anti-Semitic and far-right violence on the rise in Germany. wsws.org Statistics shedding light on dangerous political developments in Germany were released over the past week.

WSWS (2019-02-21). Thousands of teachers attacked by riot police in Morocco. wsws.org The confrontation came in the midst of a general strike of Moroccan workers on the eighth anniversary of a revolt that was part of the 2011 "Arab Spring."

amnesty (2019-02-21). United Arab Emirates: Further Information: Jordanian Journalist Released: Tayseer Salman al-Najjar. amnesty.org On 12 February 2019, Jordanian journalist and poet, Tayseer Salman al-Najjar was released from al-Wathba prison in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE authorities waived the fine imposed on him and he was flown back to Jordan on the same day. A prisoner of conscience, Tayseer had been due for release on 13 December 2018, having served his three-year prison sentence, but as his family could not pay the fine imposed by the court, his detention was extended…

Jon Queally, staff writer (2019-02-21). Who Is Refusing to Back the Green New Deal? Follow the Fossil Fuel Money. commondreams.org "The Green New Deal is our generation's last and best hope at avoiding climate catastrophe in our lifetimes. Any politician with a conscience will stand up to the fossil fuel lobby and co-sponsor this resolution." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

WSWS (2019-02-21). Trump regime targets "loser teachers" in red-baiting tirade. wsws.org Speaking in El Paso last week, Donald Trump, Jr. launched into a vicious McCarthyite attack on public school teachers, one of a series of anti-socialist diatribes by the administration.

Julia Conley, staff writer (2019-02-21). Latest to Join Nationwide Uprising, Oakland Teachers Strike to Defend Public Education. commondreams.org Nearly 3,000 teachers and other school staffers in Oakland, California were set to join the nationwide wave of #RedForEd strikes on Thursday, demanding greater investment in the district's public schools, students, and teachers—instead of a continuation of the recent unregulated growth of charter schools in the area. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Democracy Now! (2019-02-20). Headlines for February 20, 2019. democracynow.org Dems Probe White House Plan to Transfer Nuclear Technology to Saudis, West Virginia Teachers Celebrate as Lawmakers Halt Pro-Charter School Bill, NYT: Trump Asked DOJ to Put Loyalist In Charge of "Hush Money" Probe, Trump to Nominate Transportation Sec. Jeffrey Rosen as Deputy AG, Trump Signs Order to Establish "Space Force", France: 20,000 Protesters Denounce Surge in Anti-Semitic Attacks, Haiti: Police Arrest 5 Americans Amid Political Unrest, WaPo: Pope Ignored Claims of Sexual Abuse Against Deaf Children, Women Survivors of Church Sexual Abuse Speak Out, Arkansas Signs "Trigger" Abortion Ban into Law, Illinoi…

Doug Johnson Hatlem (2019-02-20). "Electability" is Real (Unless Married with the Junk Science of Ideological Spectrum Analysis). counterpunch.org If electability were dependent on how moderate a candidate is, or is perceived to be, Jimmy Carter would likely have won a second term. We also likely would have had Presidents Mondale, Kerry, McCain, Romney and President Hillary Clinton. Maybe also President Gore. Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi is disgusted with the way "electability" was used More

Global Research News (2019-02-20). Selected Articles: Political Correctness Demands Diversity in Everything but Thought. 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 …

Yves Engler (2019-02-20). Canadian Policy on Venezuela, Haiti Reveals Hypocrisy that Media Ignores. globalresearch.ca If the dominant media was serious about holding the Canadian government to account for its foreign policy decisions, there would be numerous stories pointing out the hypocrisy of Ottawa's response to recent political developments in Haiti and Venezuela. | Instead silence, …

Nauman Sadiq (2019-02-20). Imran Khan's "Socialist Revolution" in Pakistan. globalresearch.ca In order to assess the prospects of Imran Khan's Pakistan Movement for Justice (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) as a political institution, we need to study its composition. With the benefit of hindsight, it seems the worst decision Pakistan's former Prime Minister…

Paul Dobson (2019-02-20). Venezuela Expels Euro Deputies Amid Reports of Talks with Washington. globalresearch.ca Foreign Minister Arreaza has confirmed meeting twice with US Special Envoy Abrams despite denials by the latter of any dialogue with Caracas. | *** | Venezuelan authorities have expelled six deputies of the European Parliament (EP) this Sunday after denying them entrance …

Andrew Korybko (2019-02-20). Russia's Nuclear Energy Edge Got the US to "Cut Ethical Corners" with the Saudis. globalresearch.ca One of the latest American scandals revolves around former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's alleged breach of ethical norms in trying to secretly push through a nuclear energy deal with the Saudis which might have even been illegal if …

Elijah J. Magnier (2019-02-20). Reshaping the Middle East: Why the West Should Stop Its Interventions. globalresearch.ca Foreign intervention has pushed many Middle Eastern populations into poverty, at the same time making them more determined to confront and reject the global domination sought by the USA. The number of Middle Eastern countries and non-state actors opposed to …

South Front (2019-02-20). Video: Staged Chemical Attack Videos and Other Trends in Modern Propaganda. globalresearch.ca The scandal regarding the fake hospital video published by the White Helmets as a proof of the Douma chemical attack has reached its peak in the media and has caused reaction on the diplomatic level. | On February 13, BBC Syria's …

John O'Day (2019-02-20). When India Tries to Regulate Amazon, US Media Qualms About Monopoly Disappear. fair.org The "breakthrough idea" heralded by the New York Times ( 9/7/18)—that antitrust should be about power, not just prices—was nowhere to be seen when US media reported on India's attempt to regulate Amazon. | Last September, the New York Times ( 9/7/18) ran a remarkable profile on a law student who had, as the Times characterized it, "rocked the antitrust establishment" with a "runaway bestseller" essay in…

Leslie Gaar (2019-02-20). The 'Viscerally Terrifying' Lockdown a Mom Experienced in a Classroom of 4-Year-Olds: 'I'd Never Witnessed the Real Thing. And, Oh God, This Was the Real Thing.'. commondreams.org A student helps block the classroom door with furniture during a mock lockdown drill at Moody High School in Corpus Christi, Tex., in 2013. (Photo: Rachel Denny Clow/Corpus Christi Caller-Times/AP) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

ACLU (2019-02-20). A Supreme Court Milestone for Students' Free Speech Rights. aclu.org In 1969, a group of public school students protesting the Vietnam War made First Amendment history that stands strong to this day. | This month marks 50 years since the landmark Supreme Court ruling that cemented students' rights to free speech in public schools, Tinker v. Des Moines. We're inspired to see that students still take advantage of their First Amendment rights and speak out on political issues today. | We grew up in Iowa, where our father was a Methodist minister. Believing that faith s…

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