(2021-01-28). Dr. Peter Hotez: "Globalized Anti-Science Movement" Threatens Pandemic Response & Public Health. democracynow.org 
The Biden administration has vowed to increase the rate of vaccinations as COVID-19 continues to spread uncontrollably across the entire U.S., with 90,000 people predicted to die in the next four weeks. President Biden announced plans to acquire another 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech and is devising ways to allow retired nurses and doctors to administer vaccines. Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, says the Trump administration'
(2021-01-28). Russia's population decline accelerated in 2020, losing 500,000 residents amid Covid deaths, falling birth rate & less immigration. rt.com 
Russia has recorded its largest annual population decline in 15 years. According to Rosstat, the official government statistics service, the number of people permanently living in the country dropped by 510,000 in just 12 months. | The national population now totals 146.24 million, a steep drop from 146.75 million at the start of 2020. The last time the country saw such a significant decline was in 2005, when the number of people decreased by 564,500. | Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Moscow was already concerned about the country's falling number of inhabitants. Russia's population peaked at the start of 2018 a…
(2021-01-28). 'I Ain't Marching Anymore' chronicles 260 years of war resistance and conscientious objection. juancole.com From the American Revolution through the Global War on Terror, author Chris Lombardi tells the inspiring stories of people who refused to kill. By Frida Berrigan | — ( Waging Nonviolence) — Everywhere I look, violence is the answer. Geopolitics and foreign policy, criminal justice and incarceration, education and housing policy, entertainment — especially entertainment. …
(2021-01-28). The crown of creation. indybay.org The real plague is the pandemic spread of shareholder value to institutions of general interest such as hospitals, nursing homes, old-age care and education. The dogma of "private before state" has become deeply ingrained in official thinking; the legitimate profit motive, the urgently sought investor, the search for the profitable market niche is hardly questioned.
(2021-01-28). Safe return or no return: Strikes loom for public schools. therealnews.com 
Students in Baltimore and teachers in Chicago may strike against top-down plans to force educators back into the classroom during the deadliest month of the pandemic.
(2021-01-28). Victimized Chicago teacher speaks out against deadly school reopening. wsws.org When Chicago Public Schools demanded Chicago teachers return to teach in unsafe pandemic conditions, hundreds refused and the district retaliated by locking more than 150 educators out.
(2021-01-28). Chicago teachers lead resistance to Biden's school reopening plan as pandemic enters deadlier phase. wsws.org Chicago educators are in the forefront of the resistance of educators across the US to the campaign by the Biden administration and the corporate media to reopen schools.
(2021-01-28). Educator Shocked that GOP put Marjorie Taylor Greene, who spoke of Assassinating Nancy Pelosi and denied Parkland School Shootings, on House Education Committee. juancole.com 
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader of the US House of Representatives, and his fellow Republican leaders, I s…
(2021-01-28). [Research Paper] Short-term outpatient follow-up of COVID-19 patients: A multidisciplinary approach. thelancet.com Overall, most patients suffered from functional limitations. Dyspnea on exertion was most frequently reported, possibly related to decreased DLCOc. This could be caused by pulmonary fibrosis, which should be investigated in long-term follow-up. In addition, mechanical ventilation, deconditioning, or pulmonary embolism may play an important role.
(2021-01-28). UN Secretary General Receives First COVID-19 Vaccine Shot. sputniknews.com To date, the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved vaccines produced by BioNTech and Pfizer. According to research results, the effectiveness of the vaccine reaches 95 percent, and in the case of those over 65 – over 94 percent.
(2021-01-28). Just in time for Joe? US Covid-19 cases drop a record 35 percent over last three weeks. rt.com 
Covid-19 cases in the US have declined 35 percent over three weeks, a record drop that conveniently coincides with the ascension of President Joe Biden — and a handful of other explanations media reports have ignored. | The New York Times posted the encouraging statistics on Thursday, crediting "the very early stages of herd immunity" and a possible increase in mask-wearing and social distancing. The paper did not provide evidence for any of the claims, calling them "possible explanations." | "The United States has never experienced a sharp and sustained decline in new coronavirus cases — until, per…
(2021-01-28). US health agency misused funds for years: Watchdog. yenisafak.com Millions of dollars intended for use in responding to public health emergencies like Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19 has been "misappropriated," a federal watchdog said in a report released Wednesday.The report by the Office of Special Counsel accused Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) cautioned of potentially violating the Antideficiency Act by using Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a department under US Health and Human Services (HHS), for "non- BARDA purposes.""ASPR also potentially augmented other ASPR appropriations with BARDA funds," it said.The 2…
(2021-01-28). Philippines sees worst recession ever amid COVID-19. yenisafak.com The Philippines' economy contracted a record 9.5% last year as coronavirus measures wrecked the retail and tourism sectors while a series of natural disasters ruined crops, official data said Thursday.The Philippine Statistics Authority that while gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 9.5% year-on-year in 2020, it is showing an easing decline from the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic.The number, according to government data, was the worst since records began in 1946.The agency said GDP plunged 8.3% year-on-year in the fourth quarter.The recession last year further hampered the two-decade growth of the countr…
(2021-01-28). Hundreds of thousands of children 'left without mental health help'. thecanary.co 
Mental health services are "nowhere near" to meeting the needs of hundreds of thousands of children struggling through the coronavirus pandemic, the Children's Commissioner has warned.Anne Longfield said there have been some improvements but a lack of ambition from the government is hindering progress.It is the commissioner's fourth annual report on the state of children's mental health services in England.She said the research, which largely covers the year up to March 2020, reveals a system without the "necessary capacity or flexibility" to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.The "cocktail of risks and stresses…
(2021-01-28). NY Times' pseudo-expert accusing China of genocide worked for publicity arm of far-right cult Falun Gong. thegrayzone.com The New York Times recycled flimsy claims by a far-right apocalyptic extremist to accuse China of "genocide," in an op-ed by a former staffer for Epoch Times, a far-right, pro-Trump outlet backed by Falun Gong. The New York Times published a factually challenged op-ed accusing China of committing "genocide" against its Uighur minority. The article sourced its spurious accusations to a right-wing operative who insists his research is part of a divine "mission" against Beijing that is "led by God." …
(2021-01-28). NY Times' pseudo-expert accusing China of genocide worked for publicity arm of far-right cult Falun Gong. thegrayzone.com The New York Times recycled flimsy claims by a right-wing apocalyptic extremist to accuse China of "genocide," in an op-ed by an American with 1/8th Uighur heritage who worked for Epoch Times, a far-right, pro-Trump outlet backed by cult Falun Gong. The New York Times published a factually challenged op-ed accusing China of committing "genocide" against its Uighur minority. The article sourced its spurious accusations to a right-wing operative who insists his research is part of a divine "mission" against …
(2021-01-28). Mega-investors punished with $70 BILLION LOSSES as GameStop and other shorted firms see stock surge — data analysts. rt.com 
Short-selling investors lost a staggering $70.8 billion this month, according to financial data analytics firm Ortex. Their losses were partly driven by small traders pumping money into stocks like GameStop. | Short-sellers lost $70.87 billion on US companies this year so far, according to analysis from Ortex reported by Reuters on Thursday. To put the loss in perspective, $70.87 billion is half a billion dollars more than the GDP of Slovenia, according to CIA statistics. | In just a few short days, the American people realized their power and took down $70 BILLION in predatory trading. We're not even finished…
(2021-01-28). Iranian press review: Outrage after lawmaker slaps and intimidates traffic officer. middleeasteye.net 
Iranian press review: Outrage after lawmaker slaps and intimidates traffic officer | Meanwhile, Iran's football federation tells a women's football referee to stop researching discrimination, and the true cost of Iran's brain drain | Thu, 01/28/2021 – 13: 50 | Iranian dailies accuse politicians of acting above the law without accountability (AFP) | Outrage after lawmaker slaps and i…
(2021-01-28). Secret Teacher | It's time for a radical approach to free school meals. thecanary.co One educational issue has lodged inside the brains of the nation over the last few weeks: free school meals. | Opposition: | In the absence of a decent Labour Party (Keir Starmer has shown his disrespect for our profession by consistently refusing to back us up over his tenure), Marcus Rashford has become the unofficial opposition. Rashford's most recent intervention, which came thanks to the
(2021-01-28). [Research Paper] Safety and efficacy of long-term mild hypothermia for severe traumatic brain injury with refractory intracranial hypertension (LTH-1): A multicenter randomized controlled trial. thelancet.com Long-term mild hypothermia did not improve the neurological outcomes. However, it may be a potential option in sTBI patients with initial ICP ‚â• 30 mm Hg.
(2021-01-28). 'Turkey third country worldwide with vaccines at clinical phase'. yenisafak.com Joining just two other vaccines in the world, vaccines developed in Turkey are now set to enter the clinical study phase, said the nation's president on Thursday."Three innovative [Turkish] vaccine candidates are on the verge of starting phase studies. Work by our professors has the potential to become the third vaccine candidate in the clinical stage in its category in the world," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an award ceremony for the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) in the capital Ankara.According to the World Health Organization, Turkey has t…
(2021-01-28). Turkey starts vaccination for people aged 75 and older. yenisafak.com Turkey has begun administering the coronavirus vaccine on people aged 75 and above.Nationwide vaccination started on Jan. 14 after the Chinese Sinovac was granted emergency use approval by Turkey's drug regulatory authority.So far, senior citizens over 90 and 80 years old at care homes or their residences have been vaccinated.Also, vaccination is ongoing for employees at pharmacies and students studying the subject at university level.According to the official figures released by the Health Ministry, Turkey has vaccinated 1.524 million people as of Thursday morning, including frontline health workers.The vaccine…
(2021-01-28). Change the system to save the climate. greenleft.org.au Andrew Chuter reviews a 2014 graphic novel that communicates the science, politics and personal impacts of what is arguably humanity's greatest existential threat.
(2021-01-28). Florida Teachers Face Setback In Fight For Safe Schools. popularresistance.org The Broward Teachers Union's fight to secure work-from-home orders for about 1,100 teachers seems to have ended with an arbitrator's decision. | The BTU filed a lawsuit against Broward County Public Schools, demanding those teachers with health concerns be allowed to keep special accommodations which were granted in October. The district said only the most seriously ill teachers, about 600, would be allowed to teach from home as the rest were needed in the classroom. | The arbitrator sided with the district. | "This is a win for our students," said Superintendent Robert Runcie. "We recognize the health concerns o…
(2021-01-28). Turkey's economic confidence up 1.6% in January. yenisafak.com The confidence in the Turkish economy rose month-on-month in January, said the country's statistical authority on Thursday.The economic confidence index reached 96.2 this month, up 1.6% from 94.7 in December, TurkStat said.The monthly rise was driven by increases in consumer and services confidence indices.‚Ä® ‚Ä®The consumer confidence index posted the largest increase with 4% in the same period. The reading for retail trade and construction slipped by 0.1% and 5.2%, respectively.This month, the services confidence index was up by 2.9% compared to last month, while the real sector p…
(2021-01-28). Coronavirus kills 647 health workers in Indonesia. yenisafak.com Adib Khumaidi, a team leader at the Indonesian Medical Association, said in a press release that the number comprises 289 doctors, 221 nurses, 84 midwives, 27 dentists, 15 medical laboratory personnel, and 11 pharmacists.Khumaidi claimed the country's fatality rate for medical personnel is the highest in Asia, and among the top three in the world based on comparison of test statistics and population."From December 2020 to January 2021 we recorded 53 deaths," he said, attributing the high number of fatalities to increased people's activity and mobility recently.The official said the current coronavirus situation i…
(2021-01-28). Sunday 1/31: Movie Night: My Octopus Teacher. indybay.org on line…
(2021-01-28). Wednesday 2/3: Fugitive Archaeological Spaces. indybay.org Online Event…
(2021-01-28). For a European-wide strike against school openings! wsws.org This statement was adopted by a meeting of the Network of Action Committees for Safe Education.
(2021-01-28). SF School Board Pays for Renaming Empty Buildings. indybay.org Not to be outdone for contempt for education in this backward country, the San Francisco School Board wants to rename 44 empty schools, costing SF taxpayers thousands of dollars, while not spending the money necessary to provide in-house learning now. This mandates a restraining order! See www.sfexaminer.com/news/dozens-of-city-s……
(2021-01-27). The UK's Pandemic Gets Worse. counterpunch.org 
The number of people in the UK who have died after testing positive for Covid-19 has risen to 97,936 (as of January 24), and will pass 100,000 in a few days. There has been an increase of 610 in the death toll over 24 hours. The real figures for the daily death toll are certainly higher, as indicated by Office for National Statistics records.
(2021-01-27). Corporate Media Bash Teachers Unions for Resisting School Reopenings Amid Rising Death Toll. mintpressnews.com Rather than attack the government for its poor handling of the COVID crisis, corporate media have opted for a return to a favorite pastime of theirs: union bashing.
(2021-01-27). Pandemic False Alarm: 14 news headlines show hospitals regularly overrun during cold and flu season. globalresearch.ca •
(2021-01-27). The Chicago teachers' rebellion and the fight to contain the pandemic. wsws.org Acutely aware of the militancy among educators, the corporate media and political establishment are engaged in a frenzied propaganda campaign to vilify teachers and distort science.
(2021-01-27). Chicago teacher opposing return to school maligned for citing anti-Nazi poem. wsws.org The Chicago Teachers Union's support for the Anti-Defamation League's specious attack on high school teacher Stu Abram highlights the CTU's complicity in the reopening of schools, and its downplaying both the severity of the pandemic and the danger of the far right.
(2021-01-27). Columbia U student strike hits high tuition, destruction of Harlem housing. liberationnews.org 
Owen Park is a student at Columbia University and participant in the strike; Grant Miner is a PhD student at Columbia and a member of the Graduate Workers Union, which supports the strike. On Jan. 22, the deadline for Spring semester payments, Columbia University students officially began a campus-wide tuition strike. They are calling it …
(2021-01-27). Kerala communists serve the people, look to youth and women. mronline.org 
At 21 years of age, Arya Rajendran is barely eligible to vote. Nevertheless, she is now the mayor of Kerala's capital city Thiruvananthapuram, population 2,585,000. She is a second-year student at All Saints College. She concentrates in math.
(2021-01-27). Amnesty International: Navalny a Prisoner of Conscience. But not Manning, Assange or Mandela. mintpressnews.com Amnesty International has a long and sordid history with its prisoner of conscience designation, denying it to enemies of the US government and granting it to some less than savory characters.
(2021-01-27). Mexico's Covid death toll 56 pct. more than reported for Jan.-Aug. 2020. laprensalatina.com Mexico City, Jan 27 (efe-epa).- Mexico suffered 108,658 confirmed Covid-19 deaths in the first eight months of 2020, a figure 55.56 percent greater than the 69,849 deaths reported by health authorities, according to a report released on Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) based on official lists of deaths and death …
(2021-01-27). Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash: Biden's Climate Agenda Must Go Beyond Undoing Trump's Damage. democracynow.org 
President Joe Biden is expected to issue executive orders to suspend new oil and gas leasing on federal property, reestablish a White House council of science advisers, and set a goal to protect 30% of federal land and water by 2030. He is also predicted to announce a number of initiatives prioritizing environmental justice by creating a White House interagency council on environmental justice and directing federal agencies to invest more in communities of color heavily impacted by pollution and the climate crisis. These actions, as well as executive orders to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline and put a moratorium…
(2021-01-27). Russian-American Relations Under Biden: More of the Same Except for One Thing. globalresearch.ca Russian-American relations will remain just as bad under Biden as they were under Trump except for the 46th President's desire to extend the New START for another five years as part of an implied nuclear detente with Moscow after his …
(2021-01-27). No Likely Change in US Dirty Business as Usual. Pro-Navalny Protests in Russia. globalresearch.ca Straightaway after replacing Trump by election theft, the illegitimately installed Biden/Harris regime targeted Russia, China, and domestic freedoms — the latter by inventing a domestic terrorist threat that doesn't exist except when state-sponsored. | It's an ominous sign for what's likely …
(2021-01-27). Saving the New START Arms Control Agreement between the US and Russia. globalresearch.ca The last remaining arms control agreement between Russia and the US expires on February 5 unless extended at the 11th hour. | Hardline Trump regime's arms control negotiator Marshall Billingslea rejected Vladimir Putin's good faith offer to extend it for another …
(2021-01-27). Cuba Back on "Terrorism List." What Is Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles including the E-Book can be read in 27 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Vease el texto de Arnold en Español. | *** | As …
(2021-01-27). Enemies of the Deep State: The Government's War on "Domestic Terrorism" Is a Trap. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles including the E-Book can be read in 27 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | "This is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, …
(2021-01-27). CTU rank-and-file votes to save lives, continue to teach safely and remotely. zcomm.org Educators call on Mayor Lightfoot and CPS to adopt CDC health metric, agree to rigorous testing and allow educators to return as they're vaccinated, among other concerns…
(2021-01-27). In the 1930s, UK and US Business Ties to Nazi Germany. Churchill's "Admiration" of Adolph Hitler. globalresearch.ca Early this century Winston Churchill was voted "the greatest Briton of all time" in a nationwide British poll, which attracted more than a million votes, as he finished ahead of figures like the naturalist Charles Darwin. | It is little known, …
(2021-01-27). Chipmaker Group Urges Biden Government To Reassess 'Unilateral' Trump-Era Trade Ban, Policy On China. sputniknews.com The letter from the major trade association representing industry leaders such as Intel, NXP Semiconductors, Samsung Electronics, Broadcom and Micron Technology slammed the former Trump administration's trade policy in an open letter as being imposed without public input and doing harm to the long-term competitiveness of tech firms.
(2021-01-27). Turkey to bolster Afghanistan's transportation system. yenisafak.com Turkey and Afghanistan will sign a memorandum of understanding on Thursday for cooperation in research and development activities in the fields of motorways, railways and aviation, an official said.Turkey's Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoglu said in a statement after a meeting on Wednesday with his Afghan counterpart Kudretullah Zeki that Ankara will support infrastructure projects in the war-torn country."We are willing to undertake the necessary procedures to increase the possibility of rail transport between our countries and to create new cooperation opportunities," Karaismailoglu said.He added: "We are d…
(2021-01-27). Collection of priceless Roman coins unearthed in Turkey. yenisafak.com Over 650 priceless Roman-era coins have been unearthed in an ancient city in western Turkey, researchers said Wednesday."These 651 silver coins, from the era of the Emperor Augustus, constitute a very special and unique collection," Elif Ozer, senior archaeologist supervising the dig in the ancient city of Aizanoi, told Anadolu Agency.The coins were found in an ancient jug, said Ozer, a professor at Pamukkale University.A Turkish team took over the excavations in 2011 in Aizanoi, located in the Kutahya province, a settlement which draws comparisons to the famed ancient city of Ephesus, she added.Aizanoi also boas…