2021-04-12: News Headlines

Gareth Porter (2021-04-12). Pentagon Campaign to Recruit Vietnam as Military Ally Against China Exposed Delusions of US War Strategy. globalresearch.ca When the Pentagon began gearing up for a future war with …

Kevin Gosztola (2021-04-12). Two Years After Assange's Arrest, Biden Can End Trump's Assault on Press Freedom. globalresearch.ca WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been detained at the high-security Belmarsh …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2021-04-12). Nimble Failure: The Australian COVID-19 Vaccination Program. globalresearch.ca "I am not going to be talking about numbers today," Australia's …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-04-12). "Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map", 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II. globalresearch.ca According to a secret document dated September 15, 1945, "the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas.

Ethan Yang (2021-04-12). Young People Are Particularly Vulnerable to Lockdowns. globalresearch.ca In response to the Covid-19 pandemic governments across the world implemented …

Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War (2021-04-12). Lift Canada's Economic Sanctions against the World's Poorest Countries. Trudeau Government "Must Respect the Rule of International Law" globalresearch.ca One year ago, following the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic, UN …

Karen Conner (2021-04-12). PREVIEW: What to Look for in the March Consumer Price Index. cepr.net (The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday, April 13th at 8: 30 AM Eastern Time.) In March, we should be seeing more of the bounce back in prices that fell sharply during the pandemic. For example, airfares were 25.6 percent below their year-ago level in …

Labor Video Project (2021-04-12). Teachers Against Dying, AFT and The Pandemic With Texas Teacher Michael Hull. indybay.org Texas teacher and founder of Teachers Against Dying talks about the effect of Covid and the pandemic on teachers, students and their families. He also discusses the role of the AFT including a debate he had with Randi Weingarten national president of the union.

Global Research News (2021-04-12). Selected Articles: Why NATO Destroyed Libya Ten Years Ago. globalresearch.ca By Ten years ago, on March 19, 2011, US/NATO forces began their bombardment of Libya by air and by sea. The war was initiated directly by the …

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-04-12). US: Indian Ocean Is Not India's Ocean. asia-pacificresearch.com

Patrick Delaney (2021-04-12). Media Censored COVID-19 Early Treatment Options that Could Have Reduced Fatalities by 85%. Prominent Medical Doctor. globalresearch.ca An exceedingly well-qualified physician, who was censored by YouTube last year, …

Jeanne Smits (2021-04-12). French National Academy of Medicine: COVID Nasal Swabs Associated with Increased Meningitis Risk. globalresearch.ca The Académie nationale de médecine, an independent but official learned society …

Giacomo Tognini (2021-04-12). Meet the 40 New Billionaires Who Got Rich Fighting COVID-19. globalresearch.ca Below is the summary of Forbes analysis on how the Corona …

ecns.cn (2021-04-12). Commentary:Keep alert against sinister political manipulations on COVID-19 origin tracing research. ecns.cn &nbsp…

_____ (2021-04-12). Does Canada's Unilateral Sanctions Regime Violate International Law? popularresistance.org Is Canada breaking international law when it applies to unilateral coercive economic measures, commonly referred to as sanctions? | Most countries and international law experts believe sanctions are only legitimate when approved by the United Nations Security Council or the World Trade Organization. Economic sanctions outside the framework of the UN Charter are generally considered "unilateral" and unlawful. | According to a report by the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization, "the imposition of unilateral and secondary sanctions on countries through application of national legislation is not-permissible…

ecns.cn (2021-04-12). Vocational education climbing to new heights in China. ecns.cn China is home to 30.88 million students currently acquiring skills in 11,300 vocational education institutions, according to statistics from the Ministry of Education.

reitschuster.de (2021-04-12). Historic Court Judgment in Germany: "Threat to the Well-Being of Children". No Masks, No Social Distance, No More Tests for Students. globalresearch.ca The Weimar District Court has ruled that the obligation to wear …

Prof. Francis Boyle (2021-04-12). Dedication in Honor of Ramsey Clark. globalresearch.ca I would like to dedicate this book to my friend and …

Telesur (2021-04-12). Cuban and Venezuelan Authorities Mourn Ramsey Clark's Death. globalresearch.ca As an Attorney General, Clark stood up for civil rights and …

Steve Watson (2021-04-12). Report: Brits at Pubs Will Have to Register on Government Tracking App, Hand Over Phones. globalresearch.ca According to a report in the

J. B. Gerald (2021-04-12). "A Knee on the Neck" of Longterm Political Prisoners. globalresearch.ca The line between clearly defined political prisoners and prisoners targeted to …

Rick Rozoff (2021-04-12). U.S. Warships to Enter Black Sea in "Significant Signal" to Russia Over Ukraine. globalresearch.ca Turkey has confirmed an earlier CNN report that the U.S. will …

Levi Rickert (2021-04-12). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Allows Dakota Access Pipeline to Continue Operation. globalresearch.ca The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) on Friday said they …

Bryan Metzger (2021-04-12). How a Shadowy, Hawkish New Group Tied to Iranian Monarchists Is Gaining Influence in Congress. globalresearch.ca A new organization with ties to Iranian monarchists is cultivating relationships …

The Global Research Team (2021-04-12). Global Research vs. Media Manipulation: We Need Your Support! globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | In an increasingly polarized world, political spin and media manipulation on complex issues are commonly used tools, creating dividing lines in the sand. Global Research provides a perspective free from the vested interests of major corporation-backed media. | If …

Dave DeCamp (2021-04-12). China Blasts US Military Interventions in Human Rights Report. globalresearch.ca In the face of constant attacks by US officials over alleged …

Ramsey Clark (2021-04-12). The United Nations has become an Instrument of NATO. Ramsey Clark. globalresearch.ca Our thoughts are with Ramsey Clark. His legacy will live forever. …

Jonathan Cook (2021-04-12). The News Media Offers Wall-to-wall Propaganda Every Day. The Death of Prince Philip. globalresearch.ca A few lessons to be learnt from the wall-to-wall coverage of …

Manlio Dinucci (2021-04-12). Why NATO Destroyed Libya Ten Years Ago. globalresearch.ca Ten years ago, on March 19, 2011, US/NATO forces began their …

Luke Yamaguchi (2021-04-12). Another of the Many Dark Sides of Vaccines. Getting the "Vaccine" After Having Had the Infection. globalresearch.ca Introduction by Dr. Gary G. Kohls | If Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & …

Ramsey Clark (2021-04-12). Global Warfare: The Great Purveyor of Violence Is the United States of America. The Legacy of Ramsey Clark. globalresearch.ca Ramsey Clark's Legacy Will Live Forever | First published by GR in …

John Scales Avery (2021-04-12). Ecology and Economics. counterpunch.org Humanity has reached a critical decade. A new report, published on 14 March, 2021 in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' journal Ambio, points out that humanity is hurtling towards destruction unless we have the collective wisdom to change course quickly. The Ambio article was written as part of the preparation for a meeting of

imperial.ac.uk (2021-04-12). Team investigating the evolution of bacterial 'tails' wins prestigious grant. imperial.ac.uk An international team, led by Imperial's Dr Morgan Beeby, has been awarded a prestigious Human Frontiers Science Program grant.

ecns.cn (2021-04-12). China greenlights four sci-tech innovation IPOs. ecns.cn China's securities regulator has approved the initial public offerings (IPOs) of four companies on the science and technology innovation board.

Moderator (2021-04-12). Book Review: Driving the Samburu Bride. scheerpost.com Driving the Samburu BrideBy Diane C. Perlov Reviewed by H Patricia Hynes / Original to ScheerPost Diane Perlov's memoir of the two years she lived among semi-nomadic people in northern Kenya as a doctoral student in anthropology is singularly engaging for a host of reasons. For one, it has compelling freshness of detail, story, humor, …

StudentNation (2021-04-12). What the Cops Off Campus Movement Looks Like Across the Country. thenation.com What the Cops Off Campus Movement Looks Like Across the Country…

Labor Video Project (2021-04-12). Stop The Cuts & Restore City College Of SF! Rally/March To Defend SF Community College. indybay.org City College of San Francisco, students, faculty and supporters of community college and public eduction rallied and marched on 4/11/21 to protest the massive cuts and destruction of the college. | They said entire programs including music were being destroyed.

Cynthia Kaufman, Miriam Eide (2021-04-12). Investing in Destruction: California Teachers Pension Money Should Not Be Funding Line 3. commondreams.org For years organizations have been calling on pension funds to divest from fossil fuels due to environmental racism and the climate impact of these investments. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-04-11). Covid-19 and the Falsification of Death Certificates: The CDC's "More Often Than Not" Clause. globalresearch.ca This text is an excerpt from Chapter III of Michel Chossudovsky's E Book entitled | Introduction | At the outset of the Covid pandemic, …

UCAN (2021-04-11). Pakistan: Christian Nurses Saved From Mob After Blasphemy Claim. eurasiareview.com By Kamran Chaudhry | Two Christian nurses were rescued by policemen from an enraged mob after being accused of blasphemy by their hospital's staff in Pakistan. | Staff nurse Mariam Lal and student nurse Newish Urooj were detained by police after a first information report (FIR) under section 295-B of the blasphemy law was made by Dr. Mirza Muhammad Ali of Civil Hospital, Faisalabad. | "Labbayk ya Rasool-Allah [Here I am at your service, O Messenger of Allah]" and "Beheading the only punishment for blasphemer"

Eurasia Review (2021-04-11). Mars Didn't Dry Up All At Once. eurasiareview.com While attention has been focused on the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last month, its predecessor Curiosity continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp on the red planet and is still making discoveries. Research published n the journal Geology shows that Mars had drier and wetter eras before drying up completely about 3 billion years ago. | "A primary goal of the Curiosity mission was to study the transition between the habitable environment of the past, to the dry and cold climate that Mars has now. These rock layers recorded that change in great detail," said Roger Wiens, a coauthor on the paper an…

Ranjit Devraj* (2021-04-11). Hospital Superbug Traced To Remote Island Beach. eurasiareview.com Researchers confirmed the presence in the wild of Candida auris, a multidrug-resistant fungus commonly found infesting hospitals. The Bursting onto the

Eurasia Review (2021-04-11). An On-Off Switch For Gene Editing. eurasiareview.com Over the past decade, the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has revolutionized genetic engineering, allowing scientists to make targeted changes to organisms' DNA. While the system could potentially be useful in treating a variety of diseases, CRISPR-Cas9 editing involves cutting DNA strands, leading to permanent changes to the cell's genetic material. | Now, in a paper published online in Cell, researchers describe a new gene editing technology called CRISPRoff that allows researchers to control gene expression with high specificity while leaving the sequence of the DNA unchanged. Designed by Whitehead Institut…

Eurasia Review (2021-04-11). How Will Climate Change Affect Hailstorms? eurasiareview.com Hail severity may increase in most regions of the world while Australia and Europe are expected to experience more hailstorms as a result of climate change, an international review led by a UNSW Sydney researcher has found. | The review study, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, examined the effects climate change will have on hail in the future. | It shows a global summary of hail trends from past observations and projected future trends from simulations and models. | The review led to the general expectation that hailstorm frequency will decrease in East Asia and North America, while increasing…

Eurasia Review (2021-04-11). Better Metric For Thermoelectric Materials Means Better Design Strategies. eurasiareview.com Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have shown that a quantity known as "thermoelectric conductivity" is an effective measure for the dimensionality of newly developed thermoelectric nanomaterials. Studying films of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes and atomically thin sheets of molybdenum sulfide and graphene, they found clear distinctions in how this number varies with conductivity, in agreement with theoretical predictions in 1D and 2D materials. Such a metric promises better design strategies for thermoelectric materials. | Thermoelectric devices take differences in temperature betwe…

Eurasia Review (2021-04-11). Colorado River Basin Due For More Frequent, Intense Hydroclimate Events. eurasiareview.com In the vast Colorado River basin, climate change is driving extreme, interconnected events among earth-system elements such as weather and water. These events are becoming both more frequent and more intense and are best studied together, rather than in isolation, according to new research. | "We found that concurrent extreme hydroclimate events, such as high temperatures and unseasonable rain that quickly melt mountain snowpack to cause downstream floods, are projected to increase and intensify within several critical regions of the Colorado River basin," said Katrina Bennett, a hydrologist at Los Alamos Nati…

Eurasia Review (2021-04-11). Lightning Strikes To More Than Double In Arctic As Climate Warms. eurasiareview.com In 2019, the National Weather Service in Alaska reported spotting the first-known lightning strikes within 300 miles of the North Pole. Lightning strikes are almost unheard of above the Arctic Circle, but scientists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine have published new research in the journal Nature Climate Change detailing how Arctic lightning strikes stand to increase by about 100 percent over northern lands by the end of the century as the climate continues warming. | "We projected how lightning in high-latitude boreal forests and Arctic tundra regions will change across North Americ…

People Before Profits (2021-04-11). US is 13th in Infrastructure, 27th in Education and Healthcare. indybay.org As Pres. Biden embarked on a campaign for improving US infrastructure by raising the corporate tax to 28% (was 53% in 1950s), he provided a ringing indictment of the US private-profit-first economy with a list of the 12 countries that have better infrastructure than the US: 1. Singapore, 2. Netherlands, 3. China, 4. Switzerland, 5. Japan, 6. South Korea, 7. Spain, 8. Germany, 9. France, 10. Austria, 11. United Kingdom, 12. United Arab Emirates. See mothership.sg/2021/04/joe-biden-infrastr…

Gustavo Lopardo, Waldo H. Belloso, Esteban Nannini, Mariana Colonna, Santiago Sanguineti, Vanesa Zylberman, Luciana Muñoz, Martín Dobarro, Gabriel Lebersztein, Javier Farina, Gabriela Vidiella, Anselmo Bertetti, Favio Crudo, Maria Fernanda Alzogaray, Laura Barcelona, Ricardo Teijeiro, Sandra Lambert, Darío Scublinsky, Marisa Iacono, Vanina Stanek, Rubén Solari, Pablo Cruz, Marcelo Martín Casas, Lorena Abusamra, Héctor Lucas Luciardi, Alberto Cremona, Diego Caruso, Bernardo de Miguel, Santiago Perez Lloret, Susana Millán, Yael Kilstein, Ana Pereiro, Omar Sued, Pedro Cahn, Linus Spatz, Fernando Goldbaum, INM005 Study Group (2021-04-11). [Research Paper] RBD-specific polyclonal F(ab ¥)2 fragments of equine antibodies in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 disease: A randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, adaptive phase 2/3 clinical trial. thelancet.com Albeit not having reached the primary endpoint, we found clinical improvement of hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, particularly those with severe disease.

Eric Sagonowsky (2021-04-11). Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 Vaccine Under Scrutiny at EMA after 4 'Serious Cases' of Unusual Blood Clots. globalresearch.ca AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine has dominated headlines as reports of rare blood …

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