(2020-12-09). Capitalist COVID catastrophe / FIGHT or DIE! workers.org 
It's December 2020. The working class in the United States is facing a crisis of survival. It is the worst such crisis since the Great Depression, especially for the most oppressed. The statistics are damning: One in six households face hunger; one in five workers are out of work; some . . . |
(2020-12-09). Pathologist Petitions FDA to Halt Pfizer Emergency Use Authorization Until Vaccine Efficacy Confirmed. globalresearch.ca Connecticut pathologist Dr. Sin Hang Lee and Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) have "Until an accurate count of …
(2020-12-08). OPCW Executives Praised Whistleblower and Criticized Syria Cover-up, Leaks Reveal. globalresearch.ca Exclusive: Documents obtained by The Grayzone show that OPCW executives privately criticized the manipulation of a Syria chemical weapons probe, and supported a dissenting veteran inspector. One official, however, feared helping the "Russian narrative." These private admissions further expose the …
(2020-12-08). Why Jeh Johnson Would be a Better Defense Secretary than Michèle Flournoy. globalresearch.ca Michèle Flournoy, was originally seen as a shoo-in and was touted as a …
(2020-12-08). Action for Change Starts in Congress. counterpunch.org 
We know their names! We've given immense power to Five Hundred and Thirty-Five People to do good or bad. One Hundred Senators and Four Hundred and Thirty-Five Representatives. Unfortunately, some 1500 corporations control most Members of Congress. Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials
(2020-12-08). The COVID-19 Vaccine; Is the Goal Immunity or Depopulation? globalresearch.ca "There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic… You do not vaccinate people who aren't at risk from a disease. You also don't set about planning to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine …
(2020-12-08). The Crack-Up at the Federal Reserve Is Coming. Decline of US Dollar, Rejection of Its World Reserve Currency Status. globalresearch.ca Some Federal Reserve officials are calling for tougher banking regulations in order to prevent the Fed's low interest rate policy from leading investors to take "excessive" risks that will create asset bubbles. The Fed is understandably worried that these bubbles …
(2020-12-08). Bolivarian Social Democracy Triumphs in Venezuelan National Assembly Elections. globalresearch.ca On Sunday, Venezuelans voted to elect 277 National Assembly members for five-year terms from January 5, 2021 to January 5, 2026. | An unprecedented total of 14,400 candidates from 107 political parties ran for office. | Two Bolivarian blocs were heavy favorites …
(2020-12-08). Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm. counterpunch.org 
I was in Israel on 4 November 1995 when a student named Yigal Amir assassinated the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv. A video shows Amir loitering by an exit to the square for 40 minutes before Rabin appears, when his killer takes out a pistol and
(2020-12-08). Biden/Harris to Name Hawkish General Lloyd Austin as "War Secretary" globalresearch.ca US generals and admirals aren't doves. | They earn stars and medals by waging preemptive wars to advance the nation's imperial aims. | Throughout…
(2020-12-08). Relations Between Colombia and China Are on the Rise. globalresearch.ca China is about to accomplish a historic act in Colombia. In 1942, when Bogotá had 380,000 inhabitants, a project was launched to build the urban metro. After more than 75 years and with 8 million people, the work finally seems …
(2020-12-08). China Overtakes the US to Become EU's Biggest Trade Partner as Beijing's Economy Continues to Boom Post-COVID while the Rest of the World Slides into the Red. asia-pacificresearch.com …
(2020-12-08). Everyone Is Already Wearing a Mask. They Just Don't Work. globalresearch.ca One of the most common pro-mask arguments I've heard over the course of the past year, both from "public health experts" and your average citizen, sounds similar to the following statement: | "If only everyone would just wear a mask, we …
(2020-12-08). Using Smartwatch Data to Detect COVID-19 Cases Early. jamanetwork.com Early this year, investigators at the Scripps Research Translational Institute found that resting heart rate and sleep data from wearable sensors could predict population-level trends in influenza-like illness. Now, a new study from the same team suggests that wearable sensor data combined with self-reported symptoms might aid in the early detection of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
(2020-12-08). Canada, India Mudslinging over Sikh Farmer Protests. asia-pacificresearch.com …
(2020-12-08). Coding Errors in Study of Factors Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Health Care Personnel. jamanetwork.com To the Editor On behalf of my coauthors, I write to report errors in our Research Letter, "Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Health Care Personnel in the New York City Area," published online first on August 6, 2020, and in the September 1, 2020, issue of JAMA.
(2020-12-08). Palestinians: Victims of 'Cancel Culture'. globalresearch.ca In the very month in which I read articles condemning the "cancel culture," which some apply exclusively to the "left's efforts to silence or shame views with which they disagree," several disturbing incidents caught my attention. | A Palestinian American Congresswoman …
(2020-12-08). Evolving Strategies for Long-term Asthma Management. jamanetwork.com Research in the 1960s and 1970s revealed increasing prevalence of asthma in the US and internationally, the importance of airway inflammation in asthma, and the role of indoor aeroallergens as causal or aggravating environmental factors in many patients with asthma. The introduction of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment for asthma in the 1970s provided an effective approach to long-term pharmacologic therapy. In 1991, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute sponsored the development of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, off…
(2020-12-08). Reopening of New York City schools threatens massive spread of COVID-19. wsws.org The driving force behind the homicidal campaign to open schools and nonessential workplaces is not science or public health, but rather the profit interests of the capitalist class.
(2020-12-08). Intravenous Acetaminophen in Postoperative Patients. jamanetwork.com To the Editor In the randomized clinical trial on the effect of intravenous acetaminophen (paracetamol) on postoperative hypoxemia after abdominal surgery, the authors did not find a significant opioid-sparing effect of intravenous acetaminophen and therefore no statistically significant reduction in the adverse effect of hypoxemia.
(2020-12-08). As Private Cities Advance in Honduras, Hondurans Renew Their Opposition. counterpunch.org Efforts to develop semi-privately governed jurisdictions called Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs) in Honduras have recently emerged anew. ZEDEs, first legislated as Special Development Regions (REDs) and informally known as "charter cities," "model cities," or "startup cities," are a flexible territorial concession that can be used for city-scale real estate and tourism development, resource
(2020-12-08). Plans by University of Colorado at Boulder to cut 50 tenured jobs evoke opposition. wsws.org The threat to eliminate tenured faculty positions and hire adjuncts in their place has created a backlash among staff and students at the school.
(2020-12-08). Braving police restrictions, Greeks honor Alexandros Grigoropoulos. peoplesdispatch.org On Sunday, December 6, progressive sections in Greece paid tribute to Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old student who was killed by two special guards of the Greek police in Exarcheia in 2008. The Greek police obstructed the mobilizations and other commemorative events across Greece under the garb of COVID-19 restrictions. Braving police repression, student groups and activists of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) paid tributes to Alexandros Grigoropoulos, while adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols. | 12 years ago in the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens, 15-year-old school student Alexandros Grigoropoulos…
(2020-12-08). Improving Care for Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)—A Polypill-Based Strategy. jamanetwork.com This Viewpoint proposes that a polypill combination of a Œ≤-blocker, renin angiotensin inhibitor, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, and sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor might be the most efficient way to deliver guideline-directed HFrEF therapy, and proposes a research roadmap to design and evaluate the pill and implementation strategies for getting it to patients.
(2020-12-08). Inaugurating the "New World Order" via the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca The Great Reset is basically aimed to "transform organization design and work design" as spelled out in section 1.1 of the White Paper Resetting the Future of Work Agenda: Disruption and Renewal in a Post-COVID World issued in October 2020 …
(2020-12-08). Stuck in a Lift with John Pilger: News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger. dissidentvoice.org 
Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: 'You are really deeper in the heads of the British establishment-serving commentariat than anyone else — congrats.' ((Greenwald, Twitter, 12 September 2012.)) If that was true then, our relationship …
(2020-12-08). Saturday 12/12: People Get Ready: Beating the Right, Strengthening the Left, and Building Power. indybay.org Online/virtual symposium…
(2020-12-08). Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Psychological Warfare Disguised as a Pandemic Threat. globalresearch.ca "Look! You fools! You're in danger! Can't you see? They're after you! They're after all of us! Our wives…our children…they're here already! You're next!"—Dr. Miles Bennell, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | It's like
(2020-12-08). Selected Articles: Sorry, Boris Johnson Will Not Disappear. globalresearch.ca 
By The assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is the…
(2020-12-08). Sorry, Boris Johnson Will Not Disappear. globalresearch.ca It is currently popular among those who make money writing media articles about politics, to argue that Boris Johnson will implode next year and be replaced as Tory leader by someone more rational and conventional. I very much doubt this: …
(2020-12-08). US Sanctions Have Caused Iranians Untold Misery — And Achieved Nothing. globalresearch.ca "My young cousin passed away last week," an Iranian Twitter user recently lamented. "She needed medication for her cancer that doctors said can't be found." | The tweet tragically went on: "Maybe she'd be alongside her little daughter now if she …
(2020-12-08). TIBETAN DELEK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION. indybay.org Non Profit helps Tibetan children with health care & education…
(2020-12-08). 2020 Asthma Guideline Update From the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. jamanetwork.com This guideline summarizes updated recommendations for management of asthma in adolescents and adults, focusing on evidence for use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs), add-on long-acting muscarinic antagonists (LAMAs), fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) testing, indoor allergen mitigation, immunotherapy, and evidence against use of bronchial thermoplasty.
(2020-12-08). Gas production from SPGF hits 139% growth annually. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 08 (MNA) — Statistics have shown that gas production from South Pars Gas Field has registered a 139 percent growth annually from 2013 to 2019.
(2020-12-08). Students at the Most Expensive University in America Are Going on Tuition Strike. zcomm.org With an $11 billion endowment, Columbia University has been fleecing students during the pandemic. Now students are fighting back…
(2020-12-08). Data Inaccuracies in Text and Tables. jamanetwork.com In the Research Letter titled "Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Health Care Personnel in the New York City Area," published online first on August 6, 2020, and in the September 1, 2020, issue of JAMA, there were inaccuracies that resulted from a coding error. The errors, once corrected, affect the relative risks and 95% CIs for the associations reported in the tables. Working in direct patient care (but not intensive care) is now significant in bivariable but not multivariable analysis, and several demographic variables (including increasing age and non-White race or ethnicity) that were previously reported…
(2020-12-08). Canadian Organizations Urge Canada to Vote for a Shared Jerusalem at the United Nations. globalresearch.ca Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) and the Coalition of Canadian Palestinian Organizations (CCPO) are urging the Canadian government to vote in support of an upcoming
(2020-12-08). Come Salvarsi dal Covid Sotto le Bombe Nucleari. globalresearch.ca Agenzia federale per la gestione delle emergenze, dipendente dal governo degli Stati uniti — ha aggiornato le istruzioni alla popolazione su come comportarsi in caso di attacco nucleare. Le nuove istruzioni tengono conto del Covid-19, dei conseguenti lockdown e delle …
(2020-12-07). Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger — 'News And How To Use It' by Alan Rusbridger. zcomm.org Pilger tells the unfiltered, uncompromised truth about the foundations of power. His focus is on speaking up for the victims of power, not on serving power…
(2020-12-07). Threat of More Illegal US Sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. globalresearch.ca The US under both right wings of the one-party state is waging a long war on Russia by other means — and all other nations unwilling to bow and scape to its imperial demands. | US aggression includes endless smashing of …
(2020-12-07). Ireland and U.S. Imperialism. mronline.org 
When discussing Ireland's role in imperialism today it is vital to highlight the role Ireland plays in assisting the U.S. to extract profits from 'poorer nations'. That is to say nations that have abundant natural resources that the mass of the local population do not get to reap the benefits of.
(2020-12-07). Mother whose child died of asthma calls for education on air pollution. thecanary.co 
The mother of a girl who died following a chronic asthma attack has said she would have moved house immediately had she known the effects of dangerous levels of air pollution on her daughter's health.Nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 after suffering numerous seizures and making almost 30 visits to hospital with breathing problems over the previous three years.An inquest at Southwark Coroner's Court is investigating whether dangerous levels of air pollution in the London Borough of Lewisham, where Ella lived with her family, may have contributed to her death.Desperate: Speaking at the in…
(2020-12-07). Selected Articles: India: Largest Strike in World History. globalresearch.ca 
By The general strike occurred…
(2020-12-07). US, UK Governments Should Free Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca In Steven Spielberg's 2017 historical thriller…
(2020-12-07). Alabama loses two more educators to COVID-19. wsws.org A veteran teacher recalls the victims and calls for uniting workers against the deadly return to in-person schools.
(2020-12-07). Deprived schools face a funding crisis as they continue to deal with coronavirus. thecanary.co Schools in poorer areas Research by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has reported that lost income and additional coronavirus (Covid-19) expenses may leave a quarter of schools unable to meet their costs. Deprived schools were twice as likely to be affected. | The researchers suggested current government funding pro…
(2020-12-07). Final Defense Bill Denies Military Request to Expand Nevada Bombing Ranges. globalresearch.ca Congress today moved to deny the Defense Department's request to seize more than 1.7 million acres of public land in Nevada for bombing ranges, following a five-year grassroots campaign by public lands advocates to stop the land grab. | The Air …
(2020-12-07). COVID-19 Vaccination. "Coerced Consent"? globalresearch.ca A commonly heard presumption is that ……….the vaccines induce immediate or latent adverse reactions that sideline these first responders and frontline workers? It could be a catastrophe. And if for …
(2020-12-07). More Scandals on Dutch Government's Involvement in Supporting Terrorism in Syria. globalresearch.ca A new chapter in the scandals of the Netherlands's involvement in supporting terrorist organizations in Syria is unfolding in front of the world public opinion after Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has recently admitted that he personally intervened to obstruct …
(2020-12-07). Republican Senator Tries to Prevent the US from an Alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood. globalresearch.ca