2021-08-16: News Headlines

Keith Lamb (2021-08-16). Don't Let Them Fool You: Afghanistan Has Been a "Tremendous Success" globalresearch.ca

Tom Clifford (2021-08-16). Afghanistan: To be Integrated into China's "Belt and Road" globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-08-16). Was America Attacked by Afghanistan on September 11, 2001? globalresearch.ca The legal argument used by Washington and NATO to invade Afghanistan was that the September 11 attacks constituted an undeclared "armed attack" "from abroad" by an unnamed foreign power…

Andrew Korybko (2021-08-16). Ashraf Ghani Was Always the Greatest Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan. globalresearch.ca

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-08-16). How a Black Lives Matter Leader Started a 'Freedom School' Summer Program for Kids. counterpunch.org Middle- and upper-income parents know that summers are an opportunity to give one's children the sort of well-rounded education that can enhance future college applications. Summer camp rosters fill up months in advance, and price tags for enrichment programs can run upwards of $500 a week. This is especially true in high-priced Southern California, where

WorkWeek (2021-08-16). WorkWeek On Trumka, Racist Attacks & Hanging Nooses & Privatization Of Education. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the death of former AFL-CIO president Trumka, the racist terror campaign against Black LA Belt line rail workers including hanging nooses. | WorkWeek also covers the privatization of public education and the racist xenophobic attacks on Asians and Asian Americans.

imperial.ac.uk (2021-08-16). Next step in Imperial's longstanding partnership with Twig Education. imperial.ac.uk Longstanding Imperial partner Twig Education has been acquired by Weld North Education, the USA's largest provider of digital curriculum solutions.

Ted Snider (2021-08-16). History: The Dark Side of Eisenhower's Foreign Policy. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2021-08-16). US epidemiologist Michael Osterholm warns of impending catastrophe as children are sent into unsafe schools. wsws.org Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, warned on Sunday that the reopening of schools amid the spread of the Delta variant will fuel an explosive growth of infections that could overwhelm the health care system.

Ralph Nader (2021-08-16). "Nobody Is Above the Law"—Except the Biggest Corporate and Goverment Criminals. globalresearch.ca

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2021-08-16). US-Africa Relations: Corporate Council on Africa Hosted the 13th U.S.-Africa Business Summit. globalresearch.ca

Dee Knight (2021-08-16). Does China's Rise Really Threaten the U.S., Or Just Its Sociopathic Power Elite, Who Want to Keep Ruling the World Even if It Drags Us into WW III? globalresearch.ca

Hardscrabble Farmer (2021-08-16). France Has Gone to the Extreme with the "Health" Pass. globalresearch.ca

Brian McGlinchey (2021-08-16). Lockdowns, Masks and the Illusion of Government Control over COVID. globalresearch.ca

RT News (2021-08-16). 'Manifestly Not Saigon'? Watch US Helicopters Evacuate Kabul Embassy as Blinken Defiantly Rejects Vietnam Pullout Comparisons. globalresearch.ca

Mordechai Sones (2021-08-16). Pilot Condemns United Airlines for Mandating Experimental Injection. globalresearch.ca

Michael Snyder (2021-08-16). Bill Introduced in Congress that Would Ban Tens of Millions of Unvaccinated Americans from Flying. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2021-08-16). The Lies Behind the 'Pandemic of Unvaxxed'. Grossly Misleading Data Manipulation. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2021-08-16). Awareness Foundation COVID-19 Roundtable. globalresearch.ca

imperial.ac.uk (2021-08-16). Imperial researcher scoops Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship. imperial.ac.uk Dr Alalea Kia has won a Research Fellowship to further develop permeable pavements to curb snow and ice buildup at airports.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-08-16). The 2020-21 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-16). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: It's like a Code Red hospital alert. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org An overwhelming surge of COVID-19 cases is underway in the U.S. The delta variant continues to spread, the lambda variant is showing up, and some people are refusing to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or wear face masks. "My message today is a hospital term and that's Code Red," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "It is Code Red in the U.S. and for the globe regarding…

Will Jones (2021-08-16). COVID Vaccine Safety Reports and Analysis Compiled by a Group of Medical Doctors. globalresearch.ca

imperial.ac.uk (2021-08-16). Science Minister visits thriving innovation ecosystem at White City. imperial.ac.uk The Minister for Science, Research and Innovation Amanda Solloway MP visited Imperial's White City Campus yesterday.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-16). Inspired by barnacles, medical glue stops bleeding in seconds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a rapid-sealing paste that can stop bleeding organs independent of clotting. The details are published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The inspiration for this paste? Barnacles. Barnacles are those sea animals that adhere to rocks, the bottom of ships and large fish with the aim of staying in place despite wet conditions and variable surfaces. They're successful because they exude…

Julian Conradson (2021-08-16). Video: Vax Pass Hits Canada: Tens of Thousands March in Montreal Against Vaccine Passports Ahead of Sept. 1 Rollout. globalresearch.ca

Julian Rose (2021-08-16). The Great "Global Warming" Alarm Is Part of the WEF's "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca

NewBraveWorld (2021-08-16). mRNA "Vaccines," Eugenics, and the Push for Transhumanism. dissidentvoice.org In 1989, researchers from the Salk Institute in California published a paper detailing how they developed an RNA transfection system that could "directly introduce RNA into whole tissues and embryos". The concept of using RNA as a drug is first described in this paper, making it the seminal work that formed the foundation for decades …

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2021-08-16). All of the Evidence Is In: The COVID Vaccine Is a Failure, More Dangerous than the Virus. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-16). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: How Mayo hopes to slam the door when COVID-19 comes knocking. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The COVID-19 pandemic has brought public awareness to vaccines and how vaccines work. A vaccine is any agent that causes the immune system to remember a specific disease-causing entity, thereby preventing future infections. In the case of COVID-19, that's a coronavirus. At Mayo Clinic, decades of research have led to development of a new vaccine platform — a single-cycle adenovirus nasal vaccine — that is now being tested in a phase 1 clinical trial for COVID-19….

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-16). Mayo Clinic Minute: Music on the brain. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Music soothes, energizes and inspires. It also fortifies pathways in your brain that neurologists say can lead to a better understanding of cognition and dementia. To help better understand how music strengthens the brain, Dr. Bernard Bendok, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explains how music strikes a chord with researchers in this Mayo Clinic Minute. Note: Music composed by the musician and free to use. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/UrGabRHqWFs

Anonymous103 (2021-08-16). Biden's America Is Back — To Somalia. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageWhile Biden keeps pushing his human rights narrative, his latest airstrikes are part of a great power competition. | Written Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | On July 20, the US carried out an airstrike in Somalia against al Shabaab militants — the first one in Somalia under President Joe Biden. It struck again on July 23 and August 1. Last week, it was reported Biden seeks to host a "Summit for Democracy". | According to a…

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2021-08-16). Globalism, Propaganda and the Dangers of Wireless Radiation. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-16). Mayo researchers develop algorithm to predict rheumatoid arthritis disease activity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Individualized Medicine and Division of Rheumatology have developed a first-of-its-kind machine learning algorithm that can predict rheumatoid arthritis disease activity in a patient. The algorithm analyzes biochemical metabolites ‚Äï the product of the body's metabolism ‚Äï in blood. Close up of rheumatism/arthritis medical examination. "Having fast, reliable and scalable measures for predicting the clinical course of disease activity is an important unmet need for patients with rheumatoid arthritis," says Jaeyun Sung, Ph.D., a computational biologist within the Center…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-16). Science Saturday: A "sandbox" for innovation: The Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory (ADL) is a visionary space designed to continue Mayo Clinic's long tradition of pioneering patient treatments and diagnostics. The ADL's mission is to foster innovation — including grassroots innovation — across different specialties, through partnerships in-house as well as with external companies. Located on the third floor of One Discovery Square in a 9,600-square-foot space, the lab was born out of an initiative between Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) and the…

WSWS (2021-08-16). German federal and state governments escalate policy of mass infection by reopening schools and dismantling public health measures. wsws.org The threat of a renewed wave of mass death in Germany will increase over the coming weeks as millions of students return to school after the summer holidays.

WSWS (2021-08-16). CFPE (Australia) online meeting: Form rank-and-file safety committees to oppose school reopening amid COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org Educators, students and working people in Australia and internationally are invited to participate in an online meeting on Sunday, August 22 at 1 p.m. (AEST).

WSWS (2021-08-16). Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio educators call for struggle to shut down in-person learning. wsws.org Educators from Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio call upon educators, staff, students and parents to join and build rank-and-file safety committees to fight the deadly policy of reopening schools for in-person learning.

Scott Naar (2021-08-16). First-Person Singular: The Plight of an International Student. progressive.org Those who come to the United States to study face an array of obstacles.

HEAT (2021-08-16). Monday 8/16: SF City College: Defend Health & Safety of CCSF Students, Faculty & Staff HEAT Action. indybay.org In front of Conlan Hall, Ocean Campus CCSF…

_____ (2021-08-16). What AIDS Activists Can Teach Us About The Covid Pandemic. popularresistance.org While health advocacy organizations have urged the federal government to learn from the HIV/AIDS crisis to more effectively respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, both within America and abroad, many HIV/AIDS organizers argue that the government has now failed twice in its responsibility to the nation's‚Äâ—‚Äâand the world's‚Äâ—‚Äâmost vulnerable people.

WSWS repost (2021-08-16). American educators speak out against school reopenings. indybay.org This report illustrates how some teachers are determined to fight back against the reckless subordination of human life to capitalist private profit.

Moderator (2021-08-16). What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me About the American Empire. scheerpost.com Perhaps even more relevant today than it was in 2008, when it was first published, is the remarkable Howard Zinn's writing on how, from his childhood in school to his years as a bombardier with the Eighth Air Force in the Second World War and beyond, he had to discover for himself that his country was an imperial power of the first order, another empire in a long history of them.

Shatha Hammad (2021-08-15). Palestinians Fight for Right to Water, Survival in Jordan Valley. globalresearch.ca

United Health Professionals (2021-08-15). International Alert Message about COVID-19. United Health Professionals. globalresearch.ca We are more than 1,500 members (including professors of medicine, intensive care physicians and infectious disease specialists) from more than 30 countries. The lockdown has not only killed people, it has destroyed physical and mental health, economy, education and other aspects of social life.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-08-15). How a BLMLeader Started a 'Freedom School' Summer Program. zcomm.org Jasmine Richards views the education and empowerment of young Black and Brown children in her community to be just as important as fighting racist police brutality…

Robert Reich (2021-08-15). How the System is Failing Young People. zcomm.org The reason a lot of young people are not doing nearly as well as their parents is that they're paying huge amounts for education, higher education or student debt, housing for rent, health care, even transportation…

Pepe Escobar (2021-08-15). A Saigon Moment Looms in Kabul. globalresearch.ca

Children's Health Defense (2021-08-15). 'Historic Win': CHD Wins Case Against FCC on Safety Guidelines for 5G and Wireless. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-08-15). øExiste el virus? øSe logró aislar el SARS-CoV-2? "El fraude más grande en la historia de la medicina" globalizacion.ca El infierno está vacío y los demonios están todos aquí , William Shakespeare , La tempestad, 1610-1611 | Introducción | Hay una secuencia de mentiras y fabricaciones descaradas que se utilizan para justificar decisiones políticas de gran alcance que en el transcurso…

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