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Israel: Ethnic Cleansing, Land Theft, Apartheid and Racism against Palestinians
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
In recent weeks, racism against Palestinian people and the expansion of apartheid-Jim Crow policies have escalated. The Israeli lobby and its supporters attacked freedom of speech in the United States, showing how far they will go to prevent the US … | The post Israel: Ethnic Cleansing, Land Theft, Apartheid and Racism against Palestinians appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/israel-ethnic-cleansing-land-theft-apartheid-and-racism-against-palestinians/5663271

Video: Syrian Army Is Set to Respond to Any Future Israeli Attacks
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
The Syrian Armed Forces will respond by force to any Israeli attack on its bases as a part of new policy, which was adopted by the Syrian leadership following the incident with the Russian Il-20 plane last September, the Kuwaiti … | The post Video: Syrian Army Is Set to Respond to Any Future Israeli Attacks appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-is-set-to-respond-to-any-future-israeli-attacks/5663232

AMLO: Minimum Wage Up 16%, Biggest in 23 Years
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2018-12-18
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) followed through on a campaign promise Monday announcing a minimum wage hike of 16.21 percent, Mexico's largest in 23 years. | RELATED: | AMLO Repeals Nieto's Education Reform, Presents His Own | "The minimum wage (increase) sets the stage to advance the country's labor policy through an agreement … of unity and trust between the private sector, workers and the public sector," said the head of state Monday afternoon at the National Palace.
telesurenglish.net/news/AMLO-Minimum-Wage-Up-16-Biggest-in-23-Years-20181218-0008.html

Marc Lamont Hill Speaks Out After CNN Fires Him for Pro-Palestine Speech at U.N
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-12-18
Less than a month after CNN fired Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill for giving a speech at the United Nations supporting Palestinian rights, we speak with him about the international attention his comments have received, academic freedom and why he feels it's more important than ever to speak out about Israeli human rights abuses. Marc Lamont Hill is a professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University. He is the author of several books, including "Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond." We also speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journa…
www.democracynow.org/2018/12/18/marc_lam…

Fifth French "Yellow Vest" Protest Opposes Macron Government
Alex Lantier | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
"Yellow vest" protesters mobilized for a fifth day of action in France on Saturday, facing a new police crackdown and clashes centered in provincial cities, as fewer protesters traveled to Paris. | The interior ministry claimed that some 66,000 people had … | The post Fifth French "Yellow Vest" Protest Opposes Macron Government appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/fifth-french-yellow-vest-protest-opposes-macron-government/5663275

The Waters of American Democracy
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2018-12-18
Trump's EPA is about to open the gates of water pollution even wider in order to satisfy farmers, real estate developers, and petroleum and mining companies. The agribusiness-academic-government complex doesn't want any oversight of the farmers spraying neurotoxins. They have bamboozled the country with weaponized science making sprays harmless.
counterpunch.org/2018/12/18/the-waters-of-american-democracy/

NATO-Backed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Poses with Pro-Nazi Soldier
Ben Norton | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
Petro Poroshenko, the staunchly pro-NATO president of Western ally Ukraine, posed for a photo op with a soldier wearing a Nazi symbol. | On December 6, the Ukrainian billionaire oligarch leader posted a photo on multiple social media accounts that shows … | The post NATO-Backed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Poses with Pro-Nazi Soldier appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/nato-backed-ukrainian-president-petro-poroshenko-poses-with-pro-nazi-soldier/5663265

Selected Articles: Pandering to Washington's Whims
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
Whether your concerns are current affairs, foreign affairs, Trump or Togo, Panama or pacifism, nuclear's nightmares and global myriad complexities, Global Research strives to shine light on the under-reported, less known injustices ignored or buried. | | Governments know it too, which … | The post Selected Articles: Pandering to Washington's Whims appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-pandering-to-washingtons-whims/5663300

Canada Serves the US Empire…Again…and Again
Jim Miles | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies' chief financial officer, demonstrates fully Canadian compliance with U.S. desires. | Canadian authorities, notably Foreign Affairs Minister … | The post Canada Serves the US Empire…Again…and Again… appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/canada-serves-the-us-empire-again-and-again/5663249

SPLC: Trump's school safety commission recommendations would make schools less safe
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-12-18
The Federal Commission on School Safety–established by President Trump following the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and led by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos–released a report today that recommends withdrawing the 2014 Department of Justice and Department of Education legal guidance on discriminatory discipline.
splcenter.org/news/2018/12/18/splc-trump%25E2%2580%2599s-school-safety-commission-recommendations-would-make-schools-less-safe

Why the US Senate Vote to End Yemen War Is So Important
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
Last week something historic happened in the US Senate. For the first time in 45 years, a chamber of the US Congress voted to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act. | While there is … | The post Why the US Senate Vote to End Yemen War Is So Important appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/why-the-us-senate-vote-to-end-yemen-war-is-so-important/5663289

Ottawa Sends Contradictory Messages on Arms Control
CFJPIME | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is encouraged to hear that the Trudeau government is looking for ways to stop exporting armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia. However, this news comes on the heels of last week's … | The post Ottawa Sends Contradictory Messages on Arms Control appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/ottawa-sends-contradictory-messages-on-arms-control/5663252

China 'Re-education Camps' Provide Labor for US Sportswear
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2018-12-18
One million Uighur Muslims in China's "re-education caps" camps have been working in factories making sportswear for United States companies, an investigation by the Associated Press revealed Monday. | RELATED: | Huawei CEO Meng Wanzhou Faces Iran Fraud Charges, Court Hears | A United Nations panel accused China of turning the western region of Xinjiang "into something that resembled a massive internment camp shrouded in secrecy, a 'no rights zone.'" | Most of those who have been r…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Re-education-Camps-Allegedly-Provide-Forced-Labor-for-US-Sportswear-20181218-0016.html

The Integrity Initiative and the UK's Scandalous Information War
Mohamed Elmaazi | mintpressnews.com | 2018-12-18
Grayzone Project — Recent hacked documents have revealed an international network of politicians, journalists, academics, researchers and military officers, all engaged in highly deceptive covert propag…
mintpressnews.com/the-integrity-initiative-and-the-uks-scandalous-information-war/253014/

The Truth About Nursing Homes
David Macaray | counterpunch.org | 2018-12-18
Let me say at the outset that I do not regard myself as any kind of "expert" on the subject of nursing homes. I've done only scant tangential research, and other than what you're about to read here, have never published anything on the subject. But that said, I like to think I have gleaned…
counterpunch.org/2018/12/18/the-truth-about-nursing-homes/

5G Dangers, 5th Generation Wireless Technology. Health and Environmental Impacts
Electromagnetic Sense Ireland | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
This first EU 5G Appeal was initially submitted in September 2017 to the European Commission demanding a moratorium on the increase of cell antennas for planned 5G expansion. Concerns over health effects from higher radiation exposure include potential neurological impacts, … | The post 5G Dangers, 5th Generation Wireless Technology. Health and Environmental Impacts appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/5g-dangers-5th-generation-wireless-technology-health-and-environmental-impacts/5663264

Mass Demonstration by Los Angeles Teachers
Dan Conway | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers and their supporters converged in a rally and march in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to demand better pay, smaller class sizes and increased funding for the 640,000 students in the second-largest school district … | The post Mass Demonstration by Los Angeles Teachers appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/mass-demonstration-by-los-angeles-teachers/5663268

Have the Russian Military Aircrafts in Venezuela Breached the Door to "America's Backyard"?
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
At an international media conference last December 12 in Caracas Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro referred emphatically to knowledge, that his government had acquired through its intelligence services, of preparations to destabilize Venezuela. | That in itself is major news but it … | The post Have the Russian Military Aircrafts in Venezuela Breached the Door to "America's Backyard"? appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/have-russian-military-aircrafts-venezuela-breached-door-americas-backyard/5663260

Number of Gun Deaths in US at All Time High
Daily Sabah | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
Deaths caused by firearms in the U.S. have reached the highest level in decades, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). | According to the data, 39,773 people were killed by guns in the U.S. … | The post Number of Gun Deaths in US at All Time High appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/number-of-gun-deaths-in-us-at-all-time-high/5663290

Alleged Russia Meddling: UK Report Falsely Claims Russia Went All-Out Trying to Help Elect Trump
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
The claim is the Big Lie that won't die — no matter how often accusations and allegations are debunked. | Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Research Project (COMPROP) claims to investigate "how tools like social media bots are used to manipulate public … | The post Alleged Russia Meddling: UK Report Falsely Claims Russia Went All-Out Trying to Help Elect Trump appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/alleged-russia-meddling-uk-report-falsely-claims-russia-went-all-out-trying-to-help-elect-trump/5663310

The Yellow Vest movement strengthens in France
Eds. | mronline.org | 2018-12-18
It is hard to count demonstrators spread out across thousands of mobilisations, but it seems that over half a million people were involved in "Act Four" of the Yellow Vest mobilisation in France on Saturday 8 December. In Bordeaux, a huge joint demonstration between university students and Yellow Vests chanted: "Students and Yellow Vests, same […] | Source…
mronline.org/2018/12/18/the-yellow-vest-movement-strengthens-in-france/

Video: US "Local Partners" in Northeast Syria Are About to be "Sold to Turkey"
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-18
Turkey is ramping up its military preparations and propaganda campaign ahead of a possible attack on the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in northeastern Syria. | On December 17, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) can … | The post Video: US "Local Partners" in Northeast Syria Are About to be "Sold to Turkey" appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/video-us-local-partners-are-about-to-be-sold-to-turkey/5663305

Take the Money Out of Prison Slavery
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-12-18
Activists and students continue a national divestment movement to stop the corporate funding of private prisons. Sylvester Owino, a Kenyan immigrant, spent 10 years in an immigrant detention center while his case bounced between the lower and higher courts. Owino and other activists talk about the private prison divestment movement and abuses in the transporting… | The post Take the Money Out of Prison Slavery appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/take-the-money-out-of-prison-slavery

SEP meeting attendees speak out in defence of Julian Assange
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-18
Workers, students and young people responded with enthusiasm to announcements at a Socialist Equality Party meeting last Sunday that the SEP will hold rallies next March in defence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/18/ints…

Los Angeles teachers and supporters speak out at mass rally
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-18
WSWS reporters were warmly received by teachers and their supporters at a mass rally in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/18/lain…

Workers Struggles: The Americas
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-18
Thousands of teachers in Baja California struck to demand payment of their year-end bonus last week while the Ontario Tory government has recalled the provincial legislature to illegalize a threatened strike by power workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/18/wrkr…

DeVos' Solution to Mass School Shootings? Scrap the Rules Designed to End Discrimination Against Students of Color
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2018-12-18
The highly anticipated Final Report from the Federal Commission on School Safety, led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, was released Tuesday—and includes a long-rumored recommendation that is alarming civil rights advocates: to rescind Obama-era policies crafted to end racial disparities in school disciplinary practices. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2018/12/18/devos-solution-mass-school-shootings-scrap-rules-designed-end-discrimination-against?cd-origin=rss

That shrinking feeling: MIT team develop tech that can reduce objects to nanoscale
RT | rt.com | 2018-12-18
While it may not be worthy of 'Honey, I shrunk the kids' or Marvel's Ant-Man, MIT researchers have developed a technique that will allow humanity to create nanoscale objects "of nearly any shape." | …
rt.com/usa/446796-mit-nanotech-shrinks-objects/

Bermuda: A Human Rights Friendly School approach
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2018-12-18
Students and teachers of a school in Bermuda talk about their experience after five years participating in the Human Rights Friendly Schools project | Warwick Academy was the first school established in Bermuda, in 1662. 300 years later, it was the first traditionally white school in the country to integrate, almost a decade before the 1971 Bermuda Education Act made it illegal for any school in Bermuda to base admission on race. In 2011, the school achieved another first: the first school in Bermuda to make themselves human rights friendly. A few years on, students and teachers from Warwick Academy tell their st…
amnesty.org/en/latest/education/2018/12/bermuda-hrfs/

Theresa May Days in Britain, Stonewalled in Europe and the Parliament
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-17
It is hard to envisage sympathy for a person who made a name as a home secretary (prisons, detentions, security and such) taking the mast and banner of her country before hopeless odds, but inadequate opponents will do that to … | The post Theresa May Days in Britain, Stonewalled in Europe and the Parliament appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/theresa-may-days-in-britain-stonewalled-in-europe-and-the-parliament/5663137

A Green Future for Oman: A Trail for Environmentalism in the Arab World
Austin Bodetti | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-17
Oman has long proved an outlier among the monarchies at the western edge of the Persian Gulf. Most Omanis subscribe to Ibadism, not Sunni Islam, and the Omani Sultan, Qaboos bin Said Al Said, has pursued a much quieter foreign … | The post A Green Future for Oman: A Trail for Environmentalism in the Arab World appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/a-green-future-for-oman-a-trail-for-environmentalism-in-the-arab-world/5663199

Brazil: Fascism on the Verge of Power?
Jà∂rg Nowak | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-17
The extreme right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidential elections on 28 October in the second round with a margin of 11 million votes (all in all about 58 million or 55 per cent) against the candidate of the … | The post Brazil: Fascism on the Verge of Power? appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/brazil-fascism-on-the-verge-of-power/5663203

Gulf Rivalries Spill onto the Soccer Pitch. The 2022 Tournament in Qatar
James M. Dorsey | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-17
With the 2018 World Cup in Russia behind it, the soccer world's focus shifts to the 2022 tournament in Qatar. Politics and the Gulf's internecine political and legal battles have already shaped debate about FIFA's controversial awarding of World Cup … | The post Gulf Rivalries Spill onto the Soccer Pitch. The 2022 Tournament in Qatar appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/gulf-rivalries-spill-onto-the-soccer-pitch-the-2022-tournament-in-qatar/5663162

Yellow-vest protests in France-an extraordinary political school
Eds. | mronline.org | 2018-12-17
Hello, Professor Drweski. My name is Maria Cernat. I am a feminist, an academic and a journalist writing for Baricada.org. I am a lecturer at the Communication Sciences and International Relations Department, Titu Maiorescu University. I was very curious, and I am sure our readers are too, about the situation in France. I have a […] | Source…
mronline.org/2018/12/17/yellow-vest-protests-in-france-an-extraordinary-political-school/

India Caught Between Iran and Saudi Arabia
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-17
The following is an interview in which geopolitical expert Andrew Korybko offers his analysis of Saudi Arabia's decision to offer new investments to India at a time when the US is leveraging its main south Asian partner against its partnership … | The post India Caught Between Iran and Saudi Arabia appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/india-caught-between-iran-and-saudi-arabia/5663151

Kiev Sends Tanks and Troops to Donbass, Poroshenko Regime Hatching an Armed Provocation?
TASS | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-17
The Russian news agency TASS reports (December 16, 2018) on disturbing developments pointing to the deployment of Ukrainian troops and tanks against Donbass. "A spokesman for the DPR defense ministry Daniil Bezsonov said that tank and mechanized battalions of … | The post Kiev Sends Tanks and Troops to Donbass, Poroshenko Regime Hatching an Armed Provocation? appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/kiev-forces-send-tanks-and-troops-to-donbass-kiev-regime-hatching-an-armed-provocation/5663157

Growing US Public Support for One State Shared Equally by Israelis and Palestinians Falls on Deaf Ears
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-17
Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect — and in ways that will please neither of them. | The American public is now evenly split between those … | The post Growing US Public Support for One State Shared Equally by Israelis and Palestinians Falls on Deaf Ears appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/growing-us-public-support-one-state-shared-equally-israelis-palestinians-falls-deaf-ears/5663181

Smartphone Wars: Yandex and Huawei Challenge Western Monopolies
Caleb Maupin | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-17
The arrest of Chinese telecommunications CFO Meng Wanzhou has sent shockwaves through the global markets. The context of the smartphone industry and the challenges facing big monopolies from Russia and China is vital background information for anyone who wants to … | The post Smartphone Wars: Yandex and Huawei Challenge Western Monopolies appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/smartphone-wars-yandex-and-huawei-challenge-western-monopolies/5663192

CTU members overwhelmingly ratify UNO/Acero tentative agreement
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-12-17
Chicago, IL — Chicago teachers Union (CTU) teachers and paraprofessionals in the Acero/UNO charter network have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract that will dramatically improve teaching and learning conditions in the charter network's 15 campuses across Chicago. The wins were achieved after a historic five-day strike that saw hundreds of union educators and paraprofessionals take to the streets to demand a fair contract, joined by parents, students and allies calling for change at schools run by Acero. Growing numbers of elected officials joined in the call for a decent contract and accountabili…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/12/17/ctu-mem…

'Generations at Risk': Paraguay Study Links Agrotoxins to DNA Damage
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2018-12-17
A new study financed by Paraguay's Catholic University and the National Council of Science and Technology showed significant damage in the DNA of children exposed to widespread fumigation techniques in the use of agriculture. | RELATED | Brazil's Neoliberal Policies Boost Agrochemicals Use, Leading to over 148 Deaths a Year | Pediatrician Stella Benitez Leite led the team that carried out the research project which was based on the analysis of the cells of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Generations-at-Risk-Paraguay-Study-Links-Agrotoxins-to-DNA-Damage-20181217-0016.html

The Myth of Western Democracy
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2018-12-17
How does the West get away with its pretense of being an alliance of great democracies in which government is the servant of the people? | Nowhere in the West, except possibly Hungary and Austria, does government serve the people. | Who … | The post The Myth of Western Democracy appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-myth-of-western-democracy/5663189

The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism
Julian Vigo | counterpunch.org | 2018-12-17
I have been following the scandal of the UK's Investigatory Powers Act (also known as the Snoopers' Charter) and Holland's Sleepwet and their relationship to the encroaching government powers over private data, privacy, data collection, surveillance, and free speech for several years now. And very much related to these bills created ostensibly to protest us…
counterpunch.org/2018/12/17/the-world-google-controls-and-surveillance-capitalism/

Mass demonstration by Los Angeles teachers
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-17
The demonstration, which involved up to 50,000 protesters, was the latest indication of the resumption of resistance by educators across the US who have been involved in the largest strike wave by teachers in decades.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/17/teac…

West Virginia: Task force concludes without a "fix" for public workers' insurance
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-17
Throughout the strike and pro-forma hearings, teachers and public service workers demanded that health care be funded through increased taxes on the state's oil and gas industry.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/17/peia…

New York City school therapists protest for changes to union-backed contract
WSWS | wsws.org | 2018-12-17
The action demonstrates, yet again, the determination of teachers to defend their living standards and stop the assault on public education, against the unions' role.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/17/nyco…

Climate Strike: Heeding Call of Greta Thunberg, Polish Students Walk Out of Class
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-12-14
Fifteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has called for a global climate strike today to protest inaction at the U.N. climate summit. Greta made international headlines after she refused to go to school in August and began a School Strike for Climate. Greta made the call for today's strike in a video posted on Twitter.
www.democracynow.org/2018/12/14/climate_…

France: Police Crowd Control Methods Maim People
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2018-12-14
Riot police barricade, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, December 8, 2018. | © 2018 Human Rights Watch | (Paris) — French police used crowd control and anti-riot tactics during demonstrations in Paris in November and December 2018 that caused physical harm to peaceful demonstrators, including high-school students, and journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. Law enforcement should exercise greater restraint in demonstrations planned to take place on D…
hrw.org/news/2018/12/14/france-police-crowd-control-methods-maim-people

The #RedforEd Wave Is Likely to Build, Not Subside, in 2019
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2018-12-13
Teachers unions are poised to strike across the country.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/red-for-ed-wave-will-build-in-2019-181213/

US Consumer Board Conceals how Wells Fargo Fleeces Students
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2018-12-13
The Consumer Financial Protection Board kept a detailed report about how Wells Fargo has long been involved in charging students up to three times more for financial services than other banks do. Why did the CFPB not reveal this? Bill Black explains | The post US Consumer Board Conceals how Wells Fargo Fleeces Students appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/us-consumer-board-conceals-how-wells-fargo-fleeces-students

Push for profit: Births, babies and the bottom dollar
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2018-12-13
Reliable research into safe and healthy childbirth is being ignored by maternal hospitals in Australia. | Women are not told of the adverse effects of current interventions and practices in childbirth, or that not a single long-term study exists of the almost 50 childbirth drugs currently being used. | The majority of birthing mothers are drugged in some way and one in three women describes their birthing experience as "deeply horrifying". | Viable alternatives, such as homebirth or birth centres, are systematically defunded, demonised by the media and discredited by the medical establishment. | If mothers an…
greenleft.org.au/content/births-babies-and-push-profits

2018-12-17: News Headlines

amnesty (2018-12-18). Bermuda: A Human Rights Friendly School approach. amnesty.org Students and teachers of a school in Bermuda talk about their experience after five years participating in the Human Rights Friendly Schools project | Warwick Academy was the first school established in Bermuda, in 1662. 300 years later, it was the first traditionally white school in the country to integrate, almost a decade before the 1971 Bermuda Education Act made it illegal for any school in Bermuda to base admission on race. In 2011, the school achieve another first: the first school in Bermuda to make themselves human rights friendly. A few years on, students and teachers from Warwick Academy tell their sto…

Eds. (2018-12-17). Yellow-vest protests in France-an extraordinary political school. mronline.org Hello, Professor Drweski. My name is Maria Cernat. I am a feminist, an academic and a journalist writing for Baricada.org. I am a lecturer at the Communication Sciences and International Relations Department, Titu Maiorescu University. I was very curious, and I am sure our readers are too, about the situation in France. I have a […] | Source

(2018-12-17). As U.S. Airbase Construction Starts in Okinawa, Legal Action Aims to Save Endangered Dugongs. asia-pacificresearch.com

James M. Dorsey (2018-12-17). Gulf Rivalries Spill onto the Soccer Pitch. The 2022 Tournament in Qatar. globalresearch.ca With the 2018 World Cup in Russia behind it, the soccer world's focus shifts to the 2022 tournament in Qatar. Politics and the Gulf's internecine political and legal battles have already shaped debate about FIFA's controversial awarding of World Cup …

STAFF (2018-12-17). The Trump Administration's Approach to the Environment Is Immoral. truthdig.com A new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists accuses Trump's Interior Department of "relentless attacks on science ranging from suppressing and sidelining the work of the department's scientists to systematically refusing to act on climate change." | To put it mildly, this is concerning. | The Union of Concerned Scientists is an advocacy group whose words are chosen to advance their viewpoint. They refer often to "science," which we assume to be non ideological, universal, and…

aljazeera (2018-12-17). French court rules against former students in discrimination case. aljazeera.com Three former students accused state of racism after they were stopped and searched by police on a school trip in 2017.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2018-12-17). The Myth of Western Democracy. globalresearch.ca How does the West get away with its pretense of being an alliance of great democracies in which government is the servant of the people? | Nowhere in the West, except possibly Hungary and Austria, does government serve the people. | Who …

Julian Vigo (2018-12-17). The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism. counterpunch.org I have been following the scandal of the UK's Investigatory Powers Act (also known as the Snoopers' Charter) and Holland's Sleepwet and their relationship to the encroaching government powers over private data, privacy, data collection, surveillance, and free speech for several years now. And very much related to these bills created ostensibly to protest us More

Prof. Mel Gurtov (2018-12-17). Weaponizing Humanitarian Aid. globalresearch.ca Long ago, US foreign aid programs honored the principle that humanitarian aid should be treated separately from economic and military assistance to governments. Public Law 480 (popularized as "Food for Peace"), which began under President Eisenhower in the 1960s and …

Jonathan Cook (2018-12-17). Growing US Public Support for One State Shared Equally by Israelis and Palestinians Falls on Deaf Ears. globalresearch.ca Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect — and in ways that will please neither of them. | The American public is now evenly split between those …

Philip Giraldi (2018-12-17). Why the United States Has Not Won a Real War Since 1945. globalresearch.ca If anyone is still wondering why the United States has not won a real war since 1945, I offer up the example of retired U.S. Army Colonel Wes Martin, who writes for Town Hall and reportedly also has appeared …

Fight Back (2018-12-17). CTU members overwhelmingly ratify UNO/Acero tentative agreement. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL — Chicago teachers Union (CTU) teachers and paraprofessionals in the Acero/UNO charter network have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract that will dramatically improve teaching and learning conditions in the charter network's 15 campuses across Chicago. The wins were achieved after a historic five-day strike that saw hundreds of union educators and paraprofessionals take to the streets to demand a fair contract, joined by parents, students and allies calling for change at schools run by Acero. Growing numbers of elected officials joined in the call for a decent contract and accountabili…

Prof Michael Hudson (2018-12-17). The Vocabulary of "Economic Deception". Dr. Michael Hudson. globalresearch.ca The whole focus of classical economics is to tax wealth not income, and obviously, the tax burden was going to fall on the wealthy, on the landlords first and foremost, then on the bankers and then on the monopolists. That …

Stephen Lendman (2018-12-17). Federal Court Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional. globalresearch.ca On Friday, federal District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled the Obama regime's 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) unconstitutional over its mandate requiring all Americans buy health insurance, negating their right to opt out. | O'Conner said the mandate …

teleSUR (2018-12-17). Colombia: 13 Wounded During Barranquilla Nightclub Explosion. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, an explosion taking place in a nightclub in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, left 13 people wounded. | RELATED: | Students Reach Deal with Colombia Gov't, Yet to Call Off Strike | The victims were football fans gathered at the club to celebrate the eighth victory of their team, Junior de Barranquilla. | At around 8 pm, an artifact was th…

Caleb Maupin (2018-12-17). Smartphone Wars: Yandex and Huawei Challenge Western Monopolies. globalresearch.ca The arrest of Chinese telecommunications CFO Meng Wanzhou has sent shockwaves through the global markets. The context of the smartphone industry and the challenges facing big monopolies from Russia and China is vital background information for anyone who wants to …

Jà∂rg Nowak (2018-12-17). Brazil: Fascism on the Verge of Power? globalresearch.ca The extreme right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidential elections on 28 October in the second round with a margin of 11 million votes (all in all about 58 million or 55 per cent) against the candidate of the …

Andrew Korybko (2018-12-17). India Caught Between Iran and Saudi Arabia. globalresearch.ca The following is an interview in which geopolitical expert Andrew Korybko offers his analysis of Saudi Arabia's decision to offer new investments to India at a time when the US is leveraging its main south Asian partner against its partnership …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2018-12-17). Theresa May Days in Britain, Stonewalled in Europe and the Parliament. globalresearch.ca It is hard to envisage sympathy for a person who made a name as a home secretary (prisons, detentions, security and such) taking the mast and banner of her country before hopeless odds, but inadequate opponents will do that to …

WSWS (2018-12-17). Mass demonstration by Los Angeles teachers. wsws.org The demonstration, which involved up to 50,000 protesters, was the latest indication of the resumption of resistance by educators across the US who have been involved in the largest strike wave by teachers in decades.

WSWS (2018-12-17). New York City school therapists protest for changes to union-backed contract. wsws.org The action demonstrates, yet again, the determination of teachers to defend their living standards and stop the assault on public education, against the unions' role.

WSWS (2018-12-17). Student parliament condemns right-wing attack on IYSSE meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin. wsws.org The student parliament unanimously passed a resolution defending the International Youth and Students for Social Equality against attempts by the right-wing extremist Alternative for Germany to disrupt its meetings.

WSWS (2018-12-17). West Virginia: Task force concludes without a "fix" for public workers' insurance. wsws.org Throughout the strike and pro-forma hearings, teachers and public service workers demanded that health care be funded through increased taxes on the state's oil and gas industry.

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2018-12-17). Anti-BDS Laws Challenged as Unconstitutional After Speech Pathologist Loses Job at Texas School for Refusing to Sign Pro-Israel Pledge. commondreams.org Texas officials are facing an onslaught of criticism after a speech pathologist lost her job at an elementary school for refusing to sign a pro-Israel pledge mandated by state law—a case that has cast a spotlight on efforts to neutralize the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which opposes Israel's oppression and slaughter of Palestinians. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Jon Queally, staff writer (2018-12-17). After Historic Union-Backed Strike, Chicago Charter School Teachers Celebrate New Contract as Win for Students. commondreams.org Less than two weeks after the first-of-its strike by organized charter school teachers, members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted nearly unanimously over the weekend to approve a new contract won by their walkout and celebrated the new terms as a result of collective action and community power. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Jon Queally, staff writer (2018-12-17). 'Time for a Jubilee!': US Student Loan Debt Hits Record $1.46 Trillion. Funny, That's More Than GOP's Corporate-Friendly Tax Giveaway. commondreams.org It's been almost a year since the Republican Party and President Donald Trump delivered their behemoth giveaway to the nation's corporations and wealthiest individuals by passing a controversial tax bill that will ultimately blow a $1.5 trillion hole in the nation's budget. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Jason Hickel (2018-12-16). Colonialism: How the British Empire Stole $45 Trillion from India. And Lied About It. globalresearch.ca There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India — as horrible as it may have been — was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India …

Countercurrents (2018-12-16). BJP Loses the Semi Final. asia-pacificresearch.com

Edward Curtin (2018-12-16). A Spiritual "Special Ops" Christmas Gift. The Nixon-Kissinger "Christmas Bombing" of North Vietnam. globalresearch.ca "It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning, they shouted even louder. So I think the world …

Michael Welch (2018-12-16). Slowing Down the Beast of American Empire: A Salute to the Life and Legacy of William Blum. globalresearch.ca "I'm a member of a movement which has the very ambitious goal of slowing down, if not stopping, the American Empire, to keep it from continuing to go round the world doing things like bombings, invasions, overthrowing governments, and torture. …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2018-12-16). France's Yellow Vests: Fuel Tax Hike Triggers Poverty, Finances War and Repayment of the Public Debt. globalresearch.ca President Emmanuel Macron is an instrument of the financial establishment, a former employee of the Rothschilds, acting on their behalf, enforcing a profit driven macro-economic agenda as well boosting the revenues of the military contractors.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2018-12-16). Having It All Ways: Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison's "Jerusalem Compromise" globalresearch.ca The pieces were already put in place during the Wentworth federal by-election, a hopeless, needless gambit that reduced the Coalition government's majority whilst giving the outgoing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a crack at some vengeance. His successor, Scott Morrison, …

Philip A Farruggio (2018-12-16). Who Needs Warriors? The Empire Does. US Army Revving Up its Ad Campaigns. "Ultimate Fight" for Country. globalresearch.ca The US Army, perhaps in need of more 'boots on the sand', is revving up its ad campaigns. The latest television ad says it plain and clear: Warriors Wanted! (see screen shot below) And why not just appeal to the …

Ann Wright, Ayumi Temlock, et al. (2018-12-16). Joint Statement of US Civil Society Groups in Support of the Peace Process in Korea. globalresearch.ca The 2018 has been a year of historic change on the Korean Peninsula. The leaders of North and South Korea met three times, and President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also held their first summit in Singapore …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2018-12-16). Selected Articles: Next Generation 5G and the US-China "Cellphone War" globalresearch.ca The unspoken US policy objective behind the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on trumped up charges, consists in breaking China's technological lead in wireless telecommunications. | What is at stake is a coordinated US and allied intelligence initiative to ban …

Vanessa Beeley (2018-12-16). The ISIS Massacre in Sweida: A Story of Torment and Resilience for an Uninterested World. globalresearch.ca "Imagine that this were your village, or your neighborhood! Imagine that one of those were your house! Imagine that the same thing happened to you! Imagine that you lost a family member, or maybe two, or maybe more! Imagine that …

Sam Pizzigati (2018-12-16). Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change? commondreams.org We either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or all of us are going to fry. So essentially posits still another new blockbuster study on climate change, this one just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Our fossil-fuel industrial economy, the study details, has made for the fastest climate changes our Earth has ever seen.

Mehr News (2018-12-16). Iran Can Teach Others The 'Art Of Evading Sanctions': Zarif. iranian.com "Trump has called for negotiations despite his hostile policies, and we have responded to him, [asking] if he was joking," the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said while addressing the 18th edition of Doha Forum in the Qatari capital on Saturday. "Negotiating with Donald Trump's administration is futile," Zarif stressed. "Iran used to be […]

Julia Conley, staff writer (2018-12-16). "It's About the Students!" 50,000 LA Teachers Join Protest, Accusing District of Hoarding Funds Instead of Investing in Schools. commondreams.org Los Angeles teachers set out to provide a "show of force" on Saturday, with tens of thousands rallying in the city's downtown area to illustrate the power in their numbers, ahead of a potential strike next month. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Democracy Now! (2018-12-14). Climate Strike: Heeding Call of Greta Thunberg, Polish Students Walk Out of Class. democracynow.org Fifteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has called for a global climate strike today to protest inaction at the U.N. climate summit. Greta made international headlines after she refused to go to school in August and began a School Strike for Climate. Greta made the call for today's strike in a video posted on Twitter.

Kerry McDonald (2018-12-14). How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Parents. theantimedia.com Parents are increasingly required to obey, to conform to a school's demands even if they believe such orders may not be appropriate for their child. (FEE) — Schooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: "In fact, the whole educational and professional training system is a very …

Human Rights Watch (2018-12-14). France: Police Crowd Control Methods Maim People. hrw.org | | Riot police barricade, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, December 8, 2018. | © 2018 Human Rights Watch | (Paris) — French police used crowd control and anti-riot tactics during demonstrations in Paris in November and December 2018 that caused physical harm to peaceful demonstrators, including high-school students, and journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. Law enforcement should exercise greater restraint in demonstrations planned to take place on D…

RT (2018-12-14). US gun deaths at 40-year record as suicide rate spikes. rt.com Gun deaths in the US are at an all-time high, but it's not because more people are shooting each other, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Instead, they're turning the weapons on themselves.

Sarah Lahm (2018-12-13). The #RedforEd Wave Is Likely to Build, Not Subside, in 2019. progressive.org Teachers unions are poised to strike across the country.

Fred_F (2018-12-13). Push for profit: Births, babies and the bottom dollar. greenleft.org.au Reliable research into safe and healthy childbirth is being ignored by maternal hospitals in Australia. | Women are not told of the adverse effects of current interventions and practices in childbirth, or that not a single long-term study exists of the almost 50 childbirth drugs currently being used. | The majority of birthing mothers are drugged in some way and one in three women describes their birthing experience as "deeply horrifying". | Viable alternatives, such as homebirth or birth centres, are systematically defunded, demonised by the media and discredited by the medical establishment. | If mothers an…

Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski (2018-12-13). US Consumer Board Conceals how Wells Fargo Fleeces Students. therealnews.com The Consumer Financial Protection Board kept a detailed report about how Wells Fargo has long been involved in charging students up to three times more for financial services than other banks do. Why did the CFPB not reveal this? Bill Black explains

Human Rights Watch (2018-12-13). Lebanon: Stalled Effort to Get Syrian Children in School. hrw.org | | Fewer than half of the school-age refugee children in Lebanon are in formal education. | (Beirut) – The number of Syrian refugee children enrolled in school in Lebanon has stalled at the same inadequate levels as in the 2017-2018 school year, Human Rights Watch said today. | Fewer than half of the 631,000 school-age refugee children in Lebanon are in formal education, wit…

Alice Herman (2018-12-12). Grinnell College 'Invites Trump onto Campus,' Aiming to Limit Student Collective Bargaining. progressive.org Student unionization efforts are underway at twenty-four U.S. universities—while the first independent undergraduate union in the country fights for survival.

Hatewatch Staff (2018-12-11). Hatewatch Headlines 12/12/2018. splcenter.org Conspiracy theories still thriving on YouTube; Columbia student's race rant goes viral; Trump's 'disease' attack echoes Nazi propaganda; and more.

pip.hinman (2018-12-11). Oppose nuclear weapons? Stop backing the companies that produce them. greenleft.org.au Research published by Don't Bank on the Bomb Scotland in September revealed the extent of Scotland's investments in nuclear weapons companies, including shares worth nearly £300 million held by the Scottish local government pension funds. | This week, new analysis by The Ferret showed that the Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme (SPPS) holds shares worth £2 million in fossil fuels, arms and tobacco companies. This includes £175,495 in Rolls Royce, one of four key contractors involved in Britain's Trident nuclear…