US Winks, Israel Bites? Shifting Middle East Alliances. The War on Iran is "On Hold"?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-23
At the outset of Bush's Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of rogue enemies of America, & that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement & without us putting pressure on them "to do it".
globalresearch.ca/us-winks-israel-bites-the-escalation-scenario-the-war-on-iran-is-on-hold/5624691

As Boteach comes for Dua Lipa, has Tactic of Smearing People as anti-Semites for Backing Palestinian Human Rights jumped the Shark?
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-05-23
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Orthodox Rabbi Shmuely Boteach has come after the brilliant, Grammy-award-winning Kosovar-British pop star Dua Lipa with an ad in the New York Times accusing her of anti-Semitism for supporting Palestinian rights. She vigorously denied the charge and denounced the ad. She should also sue for libel. Boteach is a huge …
juancole.com/2021/05/boteach-smearing-palestinian.html

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Guidelines and nuances of wearing a face mask
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-05-23
Recent COVID-19 masking guidelines announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continue to generate a public conversation. "The decision about masking needs to be nuanced," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "Wearing a mask should be based on the risk of infection, the percentage of the …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-guidelines-and-nuances-of-wearing-a-face-mask/

Digital Apartheid: Palestinians Being Silenced On Social Media
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-23
Nassar's research, like many others before it, clearly demonstrates that more than three decades after the publication of Said's landmark essay, the exclusion of Palestinian voices from mainstream media narratives in the West — and the attempts to erase the humanity of the Palestinians or whitewash Israel's crimes against them — continue unabated.
popularresistance.org/digital-apartheid-palestinians-being-silenced-on-social-media/

Charter School Promoters' War on Consciousness
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-23
Charter school promoters have always relied on disinformation and irrationalism to justify the existence of charter schools, but in recent weeks and months it appears that a new, more pernicious, form of self-serving disinformation and irrationalism has reared its head. This new disinformation and irrationalism seeks to further debase social consciousness and takes the form …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/charter-school-promoters-war-on-consciousness/

Mayo Clinic Minute: Tips to 'stop the bleed' in an emergency
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-05-23
If you came upon an emergency where a person is bleeding, would you know what to do? During National Trauma Month, May 20 is acknowledged as Stop the Bleed Day — a day to teach people how to take to control of serious bleeding. In this demonstration, Gwen Meyer, a Trauma Center nurse and trauma …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-tips-to-stop-the-bleed-in-an-emergency/

Consumer Health: Reducing your risk of breast cancer
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-05-23
Breast cancer will affect 1 in 8 women, according to the American Cancer Society. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the U.S. Researchers have identified hormonal, lifestyle and environmental factors that may increase your risk of breast cancer. And an estimated 5% to 10% of breast cancers are …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/consumer-health-reducing-your-risk-of-breast-cancer/

Science Saturday: Explaining cholesterol, research and regeneration
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-05-23
Isobel Scarisbrick, Ph.D., directs the Neural Repair Laboratory within Mayo Clinic's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Her lab examines central nervous system repair after injury, such as traumatic spinal cord injury or a disease like multiple sclerosis (MS). A major area of innovation for the lab is improving nerve regeneration by identifying what helps or hinders that process. Cholesterol, the …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-explaining-cholesterol-research-and-regeneration/

Colombia: Truth Commission To Investigate Repression in Cali
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-22
The President of Colombia's Truth Commission Francisco de Roux and the commissioner Alejandra Miller on Friday toured the city of Cali to research human rights violations and contribute to solve the political and social crisis that the city, and the country, have been going through since April 28. | RELATED: | Colombia: Constitutional Court Revives Peace Seats | The commission visited the places where national strike protesters are concentrated and accompanied the departure of indigenous pe…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Truth-Commission-To-Investigate-Repression-in-Cali-20210522-0002.html

South African Dockworkers Refuse to Unload Israeli Ship in Solidarity with Palestinians
Press TV | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-22
A member of the South African Student Congress (SASCO) holds a poster reflecting the face of the late Palestinian political leader, Yasser Arafat, during their protest in solidarity with Palestine outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on May 20, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Dockworkers in the South African port city of Durban have refused to offload cargo …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/south-african-dockworkers-refuse-to-unload-israeli-ship-in-solidarity-with-palestinians/

The Third Intifada. Israel's Crimes. Palestine's Wrath. Ray of Hope?
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
The Israeli forces launched more than 100 airstrikes on the northern tip of Gaza. On the Israeli side, 12 people were killed including 2 children. On the Palestine side, an estimated 248 people including 66 children were killed, with more than 1,900 wounded…
globalresearch.ca/the-third-intifada-israels-crimes-palestines-wrath-ray-of-hope/5745917

The Palestine Litmus Test
Margaret Kimberley | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
President Joe Biden…
globalresearch.ca/palestine-litmus-test/5745898

San Antonio teacher fighting retaliation after speaking out against unsafe schools
Brianna Griffith | liberationnews.org | 2021-05-22
After months of outspoken advocacy for school safety during COVID, and retaliation from her school, this means that the school board has effectively fired Tucker.
liberationnews.org/san-antonio-teacher-fighting-retaliation-after-speaking-out-against-unsafe-schools/

160+ Experts Slam COVID Vaccines as 'Unnecessary, Ineffective and Unsafe' in Powerful Letter
Raymond Wolfe | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
Dozens of medical …
globalresearch.ca/160-experts-slam-covid-vaccines-unnecessary-ineffective-unsafe-powerful-letter/5745907

[Perspectives] Yee-Sin Leo: a leader in Singapore's fight against infectious diseases
Udani Samarasekera | thelancet.com | 2021-05-22
In January, 2020, Yee-Sin Leo, Executive Director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in Singapore, and her team followed an unexplained pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, very closely for any evidence of human-to-human transmission. Given population movement in the region, they knew that if they saw that evidence it meant "that Singapore will get hit with COVID-19 cases", Leo says. So the National Public Health Laboratory at NCID prepared to detect and diagnose cases, drills were done to smooth workflow, and the COVID-19 Research Workgroup was set up.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01101-6/fulltext?rss=yes

Israel Is Ethnically Cleansing Gaza
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
This started becoming …
globalresearch.ca/israel-ethnically-cleansing-gaza/5745840

"Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

Can We Trust the WHO?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
First published on April 25, 2020 The most influential organization in the world with nominal responsibility for global health and epidemic issues is the United Nations' World Health Organization, WHO, based in Geneva. What few know is the actual …
globalresearch.ca/can-we-trust-who/5708576

Syria Elections: Always Disparaged by the Meddling Imperial West
Janice Kortkamp | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-22
The election for | …
globalresearch.ca/syria-elections-always-disparaged-meddling-imperial-west/5745832

[World Report] $6 ∑5 billion proposed for new US health research agency
Susan Jaffe | thelancet.com | 2021-05-22
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health would fund high-risk, high-reward medical research, but its short-term planning could stymie basic research. Susan Jaffe reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01150-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Thousands of Australian high school students protest climate change inaction
wsws.org | 2021-05-22
One young worker noted that the lack of action on climate change "is all about profit, all about the economy. It's not about the future that young people are trying to fight for and grow up in. It's about what is in their wallet."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/22/clim…

Teachers' union supports return to regular operations at schools and nurseries in Germany
wsws.org | 2021-05-22
The Education and Science Union (GEW) is once again playing a key role in pushing through the "profits before lives" policy in face of enormous resistance among students, educators and parents.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/22/gewe…