The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): The Asian Parliamentary Assembly Meeting in Gwadar Was Good News for CPEC
Ace Hoffman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
It was a very prudent move for Pakistan to have Gwadar host this year's Asian Parliamentary Assembly instead of any other of the country's cities because Islamabad showed off the progress that's been made thus far on CPEC, encouraged its … | The post The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): The Asian Parliamentary Assembly Meeting in Gwadar Was Good News for CPEC appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/asian-parliamentary-assembly-meeting-gwadar-good-news-cpec/5658501

Right-Wing Groups Are Recruiting Students to Target Teachers
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-31
Albert Ponce [pictured] is one of dozens of educators that are being singled out, berated and threatened with violence by anonymous trolls for performing their jobs. | The post Right-Wing Groups Are Recruiting Students to Target Teachers appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/right-wing-groups-are-recruiting-students-to-target-teachers/

The New Global Tinderbox. A Far More Complex Global Conflict Map than the Cold War
Michael T. Klare | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
When it comes to relations between Donald Trump's America, Vladimir Putin's Russia, and Xi Jinping's China, observers everywhere are starting to talk about a return to an all-too-familiar past. "Now we have a new Cold War," commented Russia expert Peter … | The post The New Global Tinderbox. A Far More Complex Global Conflict Map than the Cold War appeared first on
globalresearch.ca/the-new-global-tinderbox-a-far-more-complex-global-conflict-map-than-the-cold-war/5658565

Video: The Stone Guest at the Table with Italy and Russia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
"I consider it very important for us to meet a strategic partner like the Federation of Russia, and also necessary, in order to work out solutions to the main regional crises" — such was the statement by Prime Minister Giuseppe … | The post Video: The Stone Guest at the Table with Italy and Russia appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/video-stone-guest-table-italy-russia/5658546

WWF Report Reveals a 60% Decline in Wildlife Populations Since 1970
Nick Lavars | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has released its latest Living Planet Report, an assessment of the health of our planet, and it paints a rather grim picture of the damage caused by humanity's growing footprint on Earth. | The WWF publishes | … | The post WWF Report Reveals a 60% Decline in Wildlife Populations Since 1970 appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/wwf-report-reveals-a-60-decline-in-wildlife-populations-since-1970/5658508

An Examination of the Politics of White Identity
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
The projection of white people as having a collective set of interests at both national and global levels is a phenomenon which has taken greater shape in recent times. Fuelled by trends related to changes in demographics, increases in both … | The post An Examination of the Politics of White Identity appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/an-examination-of-the-politics-of-white-identity/5658544

Colombian Farmers Start 60-km Walk for 'Dignified Livelihood'
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2018-10-31
The farmer's caravan is requesting that the state fulfill its obligations regarding the provision of health, education, potable water and electricity.
www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombian-Fa…

Mass Shooting at Pittsburgh Synagogue: Anti-Semitic Violence Erupts in America
Joseph Kishore | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
The anti-Semitic massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has raised the crisis of American politics and society to a new level. More and more, the conditions in the United States have the character of a civil … | The post Mass Shooting at Pittsburgh Synagogue: Anti-Semitic Violence Erupts in America appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/mass-shooting-at-pittsburgh-synagogue-anti-semitic-violence-erupts-in-america/5658532

Video: Media Reports About Mysterious Israeli Airstrikes Go Wild
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have continued attacks on targets in Syria even after the downing of the Russian Il-20 military plane on September 17, Reuters reported on October 29 citing "a senior Israeli official". | "The IDF have attacked in | … | The post Video: Media Reports About Mysterious Israeli Airstrikes Go Wild appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/video-media-reports-about-mysterious-israeli-airstrikes-go-wild/5658526

Spooks and the Masked Media
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
"Back of the world in which we live, far in the background, lies another world. The relation between the two is not unlike the relation we sometimes see in the theater between the forestage scene in the regular acting area … | The post Spooks and the Masked Media appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/spooks-and-the-masked-media/5658538

Trump 'Not Welcome in Pittsburgh' Until He Denounces White Nationalism
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
A progressive Jewish group says Donald Trump is not welcome in Pittsburgh, the US city where a deadly attack on a synagogue took place on Saturday, until the US president denounces white nationalism. | The local branch of Bend the Arc, … | The post Trump 'Not Welcome in Pittsburgh' Until He Denounces White Nationalism appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/trump-not-welcome-in-pittsburgh-until-he-denounces-white-nationalism/5658524

India's Farmers Plan Mass March to the Nation's Parliament as Agrarian Crisis Reaches "Civilization Proportions"
Colin Todhunter | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2018-10-31
The post India's Farmers Plan Mass March to the Nation's Parliament as Agrarian Crisis Reaches "Civilization Proportions" appeared first on Global Research.
asia-pacificresearch.com/indias-farmers-plan-mass-march-to-the-nations-parliament-as-agrarian-crisis-reaches-civilization-proportions/5628390

Welcome to the Jungle
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
It's darkness at the break of (tropical) high noon. | Jean Baudrillard once defined Brazil as "the chlorophyll of our planet". And yet a land vastly associated worldwide with the soft power of creative joie de vivre has elected a fascist … | The post Welcome to the Jungle appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/welcome-to-the-jungle/5658515

Scientists Warn That Canadian Glacial Melting Is "Outside the Scope of Normal"
Andy Rowell | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
Canadian scientists are becoming progressively alarmed at the increasing rate of melting of the country's glaciers, warning that climate change is having a severe impact on the region. | Anyone concerned about climate change and sea level rise often thinks about … | The post Scientists Warn That Canadian Glacial Melting Is "Outside the Scope of Normal" appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/scientists-warn-that-canadian-glacial-melting-is-outside-the-scope-of-normal/5658570

Lawsuit Charges Trump Organization a 'Racketeering Enterprise That Defrauded Thousands of People for Years'
Jessica Corbett | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
A new federal lawsuit charges that President Donald Trump, his company, and his three eldest children–Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric–deliberately defrauded working-class Americans by convincing them to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars in sham business opportunities … | The post Lawsuit Charges Trump Organization a 'Racketeering Enterprise That Defrauded Thousands of People for Years' appeared first on
globalresearch.ca/lawsuit-charges-trump-organization-a-racketeering-enterprise-that-defrauded-thousands-of-people-for-years/5658530

Anti-immigrant scare tactics wear thin among Iowa voters
Christopher R. Martin | peoplesworld.org | 2018-10-31
For weeks during the summer of 2018, the case of a missing University of Iowa student occupied statewide and national attention. Mollie Tibbetts, 20, who was housesitting in Brooklyn, Iowa (population 1,391), went jogging at night on July 18 and disappeared. On August 21, police identified Tibbett's alleged killer, who led them to her body …
peoplesworld.org/article/anti-immigrant-scare-tactics-wear-thin-among-iowa-voters/

Angela Merkel's Last Days
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
Cultural compilations such as James Frazer's The Golden Bough are rich with these accounts: the high priest or leader of a tribe, whose lengthy tenure is wearing thin, is set for the sacrifice, either through ritual or being overthrown by … | The post Angela Merkel's Last Days appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/angela-merkels-last-days/5658497

Russia's Reshaping Syria's "Deep State" in Its Own Image
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
The recently promulgated pact between Russia and Syria to have the former's Defense Ministry train the Arab Republic's children in cadet schools for free is a sign that Moscow intends to reshape Syria's permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies ("deep … | The post Russia's Reshaping Syria's "Deep State" in Its Own Image appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/russias-reshaping-syrias-deep-state-own-image/5658556

New Brazil President to Close "Palestinian" Embassy: "You Do Not Negotiate with Terrorists"
Robert Spencer | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
A refreshing dose of reality from a country that has supported the "Palestinian" jihad for a considerable period. | "Brazilians elect first ardently pro-Israel president," by Marcus M. Gilban, JTA, October 29, 2018: | RIO DE JANEIRO ( JTA | … | The post New Brazil President to Close "Palestinia…
globalresearch.ca/new-brazil-president-to-close-palestinian-embassy-you-do-not-negotiate-with-terrorists/5658559

The Return of the Latin American Caudillos
Wayne Madsen | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
Latin America's "springtime of socialism" is at a close. After over a decade of progressive socialist presidents putting people ahead of cronyism, Latin America's oligarchs, through the abuse of the courts, parliaments, and electoral systems, have put caudillos in office … | The post The Return of the Latin American Caudillos appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-return-of-the-latin-american-caudillos/5658519

The US Blockade Is the Main Obstacle to Cuba's Development
Cuba Solidarity Campaign | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
On 31 October, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on Cuba's annual resolution calling for an end to the US blockade. | Resolution 72/4, 'Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America … | The post The US Blockade Is the Main Obstacle to Cuba's Development appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/the-us-blockade-is-the-main-obstacle-to-cubas-development/5658511

Does US Withdrawal From Another Nuclear Treaty Really Benefit Russia?
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-31
No. Obviously Russia does not benefit from the scrapping of yet another treaty designed to prevent a nuclear exchange amid a war with the United States. | Yet, as an attempt to frame blatant US provocations as somehow "Russia's fault," a … | The post Does US Withdrawal From Another Nuclear Treaty Really Benefit Russia? appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/does-us-withdrawal-from-another-nuclear-treaty-really-benefit-russia/5658554

Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-31
The wages of a typical worker have barely risen in four decades, many recent college grads are facing unbearable student loan burdens, housing costs are hugely outpacing inflation in many cities, making life especially hard for low- and moderate-income households. Naturally, the problem is the Social Security and Medicare received by baby boomers. That's what…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/31/diverting-class-war-into-generational-war-again/

New Zealand teachers' union moves to call off strikes
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-31
In order to quash rolling strikes due next month, the primary teachers' union has joined with the Ministry of Education to seek urgent facilitation to end a long-running pay dispute.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/31/nzed…

Electronic Intifada Report: "Israeli embassy used fake Facebook profiles to spy on students"
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2018-10-30
Reposted from The Electronic Intifada, By: Asa Winstanley and Ali Abunimah 30 October 2018: An Israeli embassy officer spied on student supporters of Palestinian rights, undercover video released exclusively by The Electronic Intifada shows.

Electronic Intifada Report: "Israeli Embassy Used Fake Facebook Profiles to Spy on Students"

Help Global Research Ride the Storm
TGRT | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-30
Dear Readers, | We find ourselves in troubled waters. Global Research, like many independent voices all over the globe, is feeling the effects of online measures set up to curtail access to our website, and by consequence, hinder our finances. We … | The post Help Global Research Ride the Storm appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/help-global-research-ride-the-storm/5658487

Collapsing Rainforest Ecosystems
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-30
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently issued a report on the status of arthropods in rainforests (Bradford C. Lister and Andres Garcia, Climate-Driven Declines in Arthropod Abundance Restructure a Rainforest Food Web, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722477115). The report's shocking analysis discovered a collapsing food web in tropical rainforests. Oh please!
counterpunch.org/2018/10/30/collapsing-rainforest-ecosystems/

Why Is the Pentagon Weaponizing Insects?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-30
There is strong evidence that the Pentagon, through its research and development agency, DARPA, is developing genetically modified insects that would be capable of destroying agriculture crops of a potential enemy. The claim has been denied by DARPA, but leading … | The post Why Is the Pentagon Weaponizing Insects? appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/pentagon-weaponizing-insects/5658460

Vale Marie Muir: unionist, feminist and fighter
kathy_f | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-30
Marie Muir was born in 1930 on the NSW Central Coast, the youngest of five children of Doreen Burt and George Jovanovich. Growing up with the surname Jovanovich in the 1930s and '40s meant Marie was often called a "wog", but Marie said it taught her acceptance of all people, regardless of their creed or colour, and to show compassion and tolerance to others. | The family moved to Sydney when Marie was accepted into the selective Sydney Girls High School and in 1948, she won a scholarship to Sydney's Teachers College to study Infants Education. While still a student, she joined the NSW Teacher's Federation and rem…
greenleft.org.au/content/vale-marie-muir-unionist-feminist-and-fighter

Students for a Democratic Society grows with 13th national convention
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-30
Salt Lake City, UT – Student activists from as far as Massachusetts, Florida, Texas and Minnesota gathered in Salt Lake City for the 13th annual Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) national convention over the weekend of October 20. | The two-day convention, with the theme, "Struggle! Solidarity! Strike!" focused on the current period of Trump's attacks, and our need to build movements against police crimes, opposing racism and hate crimes, and international solidarity. Speakers included organizers speaking from Jacksonville Community Action, Anakbayan, and the SLC Brown Berets. | Members of Teamsters Local 2…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/29/student…

Salt Lake City: 'We Exist, We Resist' rally defends transgender rights
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-30
Salt Lake City, UT – More than 70 people rallied in downtown Salt Lake City, October 27, to protest Trump's proposed policies that would erase protections for transgender and non-binary individuals. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the University of Utah organized the event, in conjunction with other protests by SDS chapters around the country. | There were two speakers from SDS, and they reminded the crowd that trans women, especially trans women of color, are targets of transphobic violence and that 22 trans women have been killed so far this year. With Trump's blatant attack on the trans community th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/30/salt-la…

Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-30
Canada's decision to welcome White Helmets terrorists evacuated from Syria is consistent with Canada's overall strategy throughout the course of this criminal "Regime Change" war against Syria, a founding member of the United Nations, according to Mark Taliano, the … | The post Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/canadian-analyst-st-white-helmets-terrorist-auxiliaries/5658478

Saudi Death Squad Controlled by Crown Prince. Report
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-30
Reportedly a Saudi tiger hit squad was formed in 2017 by crown prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) to covertly assassinate regime critics internally and abroad. | Its existence is well known to US and other Western intelligence — comprised of dozens … | The post Saudi Death Squad Controlled by Crown Prince. Report appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/saudi-death-squad-controlled-by-crown-prince-report/5658468

True Yemen Death Toll Five Times Higher Than Previous Estimate, Researchers Say
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2018-10-30
(MEE) — At least 56,000 people have been killed in armed violence in Yemen since January 2016, according to data collected by an independent research group, a tally that is more than five times higher than previously reported. The new figure encompasses the deaths of both combatants and civilians in Yemen between January 2016 and 20 October …
theantimedia.com/yemen-death-toll/

What Journalism Gave Me: Reflections of Ady Barkan
Ady Barkan | theintercept.com | 2018-10-29
Late one winter evening during my sophomore year of college, facing a midnight deadline to turn in a draft of my biweekly opinion column and with no clue what I was going to write about, I left my dorm room and wandered down Broadway in search of inspiration. I returned to my room a couple hours later, having had three of those intense, revelatory conversations that only college sophomores can have: with a homeless man wearing a Howard Dean T-shirt, a sex worker enjoying a late-night meal at the counter of Tom's Restaurant, and an evangelical security guard working the overnight shift. | Being a student journalis…
theintercept.com/2018/10/29/ady-barkan-reporting-fellowship-the-intercept/

Puerto Rico Tribunal puts U.S. on trial
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-29
New York, NY – Over 150 people gathered at the Holyrood Church in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City on October 27 for the International Peoples Tribunal on U.S. Colonial Crimes in Puerto Rico. | Fifteen leaders from various movements, such as national liberation, student and anti-war organizations, sat on the jury. This included Pam Africa of MOVE; Chrisley Carpio, a national leader of Students for a Democratic Society; Deirdre Griswold of Workers World Party; and Bernadette Ellorin of BAYAN USA. | The jurors heard testimony from an array of speakers and witnesses to the U.S. crimes against Pue…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/29/puerto-…

Why We Need More School Leaders of Color, Especially in White Districts
Rann Miller | progressive.org | 2018-10-29
Racism in the classroom leaves white students racially illiterate.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/racist-educators-harm-white-students-too-181029/

Union leaders fault top political leaders for role in synagogue massacre
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2018-10-29
WASHINGTON–Two union leaders, D. Taylor of Unite Here and Mary Kay Henry of the Service Employees, plus the Jewish Labor Committee, faulted top U.S. political leaders, implicitly or explicitly, for fomenting the environment that led to the anti-Semitic synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh and other recent acts of hate. Other union leaders, including Teachers President Randi …
peoplesworld.org/article/union-leaders-fault-top-political-leaders-for-role-in-synagogue-massacre/

Western Massachusetts students rally community against Trump's transphobic attacks
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2018-10-28
Northampton, MA – Western Massachusetts Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a rally and speak out for transgender rights, October 26, in downtown Northampton's Pulaski Park. Pulaski Park is a block from Smith College, and a short trip from Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, and UMass Amherst. | This event was inspired by SDS actions in Tampa Bay and Tallahassee earlier this week. Joining a national SDS call for students to protest the Trump administration's proposals to change Title IX to include an unwavering definition of gender, based on genetics and a binary idea of biological…
www.fightbacknews.org/2018/10/28/western…

Members of Netanyahu's Likud Blame Victims of Pittsburgh Pogrom and Echo the Killer's Rhetoric
Max Blumenthal | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-28
As Israeli Minister of Education Naftali Bennett sets out to Pittsburgh, prominent members of the governing Likud Party have blamed… | The post Members of Netanyahu's Likud Blame Victims of Pittsburgh Pogrom and Echo the Killer's Rhetoric appeared first on Grayzone Project.
grayzoneproject.com/2018/10/28/members-of-netanyahus-likud-blame-victims-of-pittsburgh-pogrom-and-echo-the-killers-rhetoric/

Teachers set to walk off for refugees
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2018-10-28
The Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian Branch Council has endorsed a planned walk off by teachers and education support staff in support of refugees on November 20, Universal Children's Day. | There are currently about 60 refugee children being detained by the Australian government on Nauru. | More than 6000 doctors issued an open letter to the government on October 22, calling on it to remove children from Nauru due to very serious mental and physical health emergency on the Pacific island. | Doctors and health workers have spoken out about the significant trauma children suffer in detention. | Australia…
greenleft.org.au/content/teachers-set-walk-refugees

"I Believe in the Bible. I Also Believe in Science": How One Man Built Florida Home to Survive Storm
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-26
Fifteen miles from Tyndall Air Force Base is Mexico Beach, Florida, which was practically wiped off the map after Hurricane Michael. On the beach, just one house still stands–it is known as the Sand Palace. Over the weekend, Democracy Now! traveled to the Florida Panhandle. We spoke to Russell King, an attorney from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who owns the Sand Palace.
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/26/i_believ…

Will the Save Our Schools Movement Propel a Change Election?
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2018-10-25
Demoralized teachers, overtested students, and lack of improvement from draconian policies are changing public opinion on education.
progressive.org/dispatches/will-the-save-our-schools-movement-propel-a-change-election-181025/

Scott Walker's Short-Term Vision on Education
Carole Trone | progressive.org | 2018-10-25
Under the Republican governor, public education in Wisconsin is hemorrhaging.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/walkers-short-term-vision-on-education-181024/

Students cross social boundaries, challenge stereotypes on Mix It Up at Lunch Day
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-10-23
While young people across the country are adjusting to colder temperatures and figuring out what kind of costume to wear for Halloween, thousands of students in America are also stepping out of their comfort zones to get to know someone new.
splcenter.org/news/2018/10/23/students-cross-social-boundaries-challenge-stereotypes-mix-it-lunch-day