(2021-04-26). Australia Cancels Two Development Agreements with China. asia-pacificresearch.com …
(2021-04-26). The US Maintains High Military Spending Despite Pandemic. telesurenglish.net The United States continues to increase its military spending despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report on Monday. | RELATED: | Military spending by the United States in 2020 increased 4.4 percent compared with 2019, reaching an estimated US$778 billion — the third consecutive year of growth, following seven years of continuous reductions. | As the world's largest military spender, the United States accoun…
(2021-04-26). Year one in the Fight Against COVID-19: A Conversation with Elisabeth Daza and Jose Mireles (Part I). orinocotribune.com 
Frontline health workers reflect on the first year of the pandemic in Venezuela. | Elisabeth Daza and José Mireles are frontline medical workers in Caracas. Daza is doing her residency at the Angel Vicente Ochoa Ambulatory in the working class "Cementerio" barrio in Caracas. Mireles, a third-year medical student at the Hugo Chávez University of Health Sciences, is regional secretary of the Venezuelan University Student Federation and president of his university's student center. Last year we
(2021-04-26). Pfizer Is Obsessed with One Thing in this Pandemic. And It's Not Saving Lives. globalresearch.ca Pfizer is the corporation that has profited most from Covid-19 vaccines …
(2021-04-26). Washington State Lawmakers Approve Capital Gains Tax on Wealthiest to Fund Public Education. commondreams.org Progressive in the state say the passage of a bill imposing a 7% capital gains tax to fund public education represents a victory. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-04-26). Yes, Biden needs to Cancel Student Debt up to $50K: Society and Employers should pay for College to begin With, like High School. juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — The years in the aftermath of the North American Free Trade Act were difficult and often painfully disheartening for many working class Americans. Growing up with the expectation that a high school degree was a ticket to jobs with income, healthcare, comfortable pensions they were confronted by …
(2021-04-26). Media Evasions on Racism and the Role of Derek Chauvin. commondreams.org "The main perpetrators and beneficiaries of systemic racism—whether in healthcare, housing, environmental pollution, employment, education or criminal justice—include powerful corporations that sponsor news outlets that have aimed a bright spotlight at this killer cop," writes Jeff Cohen. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-04-26). Why childbirth is deadlier if you're not white. therealnews.com 
The statistics don't lie: Maternal morbidity and mortality rates in the U.S. are significantly higher in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. We talk with filmmaker Dominique Rémy about her investigation into why this is happening and what can be done about it.
(2021-04-26). Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash Is Funding the Push to War with China. globalresearch.ca Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their …
(2021-04-26). CDC Investigating 3 Deaths after J&J Vaccine, New VAERS Data Include 584 More Reports of Deaths after COVID Vaccines. globalresearch.ca Data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
(2021-04-26). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Should pregnant women be vaccinated for COVID-19? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: ?I am a teacher at a middle school that is teaching students in person. I have been vigilant about following safety guidelines, but now that I am pregnant, I worry even more about contracting COVID-19 and the risk to my baby. Our state is opening up COVID-19 vaccines to educators, and I am …
(2021-04-26). Urgent! 5 Doctors Agree that COVID-19 mRNA Experimental Shots Are Bioweapons and Discuss What to Do About It. globalresearch.ca Ever since reports have surfaced in recent days that people who …
(2021-04-26). Mass Murder: 3,486 Deaths in the U.S. Following COVID Injections in 4 Months: More Vaccine Deaths Recorded Than in the Past 15 Years Combined. globalresearch.ca The CDC
(2021-04-26). French Drug Assessment Center Demands Removal of All Four Widely Used COVID Vaccines. globalresearch.ca A regional independent drug assessment center, the CTIAP (Centre territorial d'Information …
(2021-04-26). 'Every Time the US "Saves" a Country, It Converts It Either into a Madhouse or a Cemetery'. globalresearch.ca After twenty years, the United States government — and the forces …
(2021-04-26). Palestinian Prisoners' Action Week 2021: Global action report and growing solidarity. samidoun.net 
Organizations and activists around the world demanded freedom for Palestinian political prisoners as part of the Palestinian Prisoners' Week of Action between 17 and 23 April. Every year, since 1974, Palestinians, Arabs and internationalists commemorate a day of action on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners' Day. This week of action involves protests, boycott actions, mobilization and education to demand freedom for all Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel, expose the complicity of imperialist and reactionary regimes and stand with the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance. The Week of Action also comes…
(2021-04-26). Palestinian Prisoners' Action Week 2021: Global action report and growing solidarity. samidoun.net Organizations and activists around the world demanded freedom for Palestinian political prisoners as part of the Palestinian Prisoners' Week of Action between 17 and 23 April. Every year, since 1974, Palestinians, Arabs and internationalists commemorate a day of action on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners' Day. This week of action involves protests, boycott actions, mobilization and education to demand freedom for all Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel, expose the complicity of imperialist and reactionary regimes and stand with the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance. The Week of Action also comes…
(2021-04-26). Selected Articles: 'Every Time the US "Saves" a Country, It Converts It Either into a Madhouse or a Cemetery'. globalresearch.ca 
By After great loss of life and the further destruction of Afghan society, the US departs …
(2021-04-26). Echoes of Revolution. realprogressives.org As I'm writing the book The Journey to a New America and through my research becoming more familiar with these often unspoken elements of history, I'm also beginning to see history repeating itself in the events happening even as I felt the stories I was telling were over. | One of those stories which are unfolding right now is happening in the unlikely state of Alabama, as the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) seems to be getting closer every day to winning a historic uphill battle against one of the most consistently anti-union companies in modern America — Amazon. The battle to unio…
(2021-04-26). Asylum seekers removed from UK without proper legal representation. wsws.org Figures seen under Freedom of Information law by LBC show that over half of the people removed by the Home Office on specially arranged charter flights in summer 2020 did not have a lawyer on records.
(2021-04-26). Minneapolis high school students demand: Justice for Anthony Thompson Jr, no police in schools. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — Around 50 protesters gathered outside the John B. Davis Education and Support Center, the main headquarters for the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education, on April 25 to demand justice for Anthony J. Thompson, Jr., a 17-year-old Black youth who was murdered by Knoxville, Tennessee police on April 12, in his own school. The Knox County district attorney already declared that Jonathan Clabough, the officer who shot and killed Thompson, will not be charged. The protest to demand justice was organized by the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar (TCC4J) and the Student Movement Act…
(2021-04-26). The Globalist Takeover of the American Educational System. globalresearch.ca Summary | It's easy to look at the individual things that are …
(2021-04-26). Australia: Teachers discuss educational disaster at Shepparton super-school. wsws.org "We have no voice on anything. This is what happens when other people decide. It doesn't surprise me that teachers were threatening to go on strike last year."
(2021-04-26). Safe speech vs free speech: higher education's false dilemma. zcomm.org In the 'cancel culture' era, universities should remember that the original purpose of free speech was to empower the weak, not to shelter them…
(2021-04-26). 20th Annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival. indybay.org 20th ANNUAL REEL WORK MAY DAY LABOR FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FREE APRIL 1 – JUNE 1 2021 FILMS AND DISCUSSIONS | Topics include Women, Education, Global Economics, IATSE, Art, and More…
(2021-04-26). SAR to strengthen national security education. ecns.cn The Ministry of Education will give full support to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government's revamp of the SAR's education curriculum in order to cultivate more young talents who love the Hong Kong SAR and the country, a senior education official said on Wednesday.
(2021-04-26). Chinese lawmakers consider tougher punishment for identity theft in school, college admissions. ecns.cn Tougher penalties for those who steal the identities of others to enroll in a school or college were highlighted in the latest draft revision to the Education Law, which is under consideration of the Chinese lawmakers.
(2021-04-26). Global Research: The Silencing of Independent Media. We Need Your Help. globalresearch.ca We are currently facing an unprecedented threat to the independent media and freedom on the Internet. An increasing number of search engines & social media implement algorithms which are negatively biased against independent news and analysis websites such as Global …
(2021-04-26). MIT Study Suggests Six Foot Social Distancing, Limited Occupancy Rules Are Completely Pointless. globalresearch.ca A new study conducted by MIT scientists and released this week …
(2021-04-26). Growing Opposition to the Bayer Monsanto Roundup Settlement. globalresearch.ca Tens of thousands of people have sued Monsanto owner Bayer AG …
(2021-04-26). Africa Is Choosing China over the U.S.: The Case of Cape Verde. globalresearch.ca In February the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, made …
(2021-04-26). Public Masking Does Not Stop the Spread of the Virus. The Ultimate Goal is "Mandated Vaccination" globalresearch.ca It is established that public masking
(2021-04-26). Leaking Oil and Gas Wells: A Ticking Time Bomb. globalresearch.ca They could be in your town or the next town over. …
(2021-04-26). 175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration. globalresearch.ca Amid renewed fear mongering about an "invasion" at the U.S.-Mexico border, …
(2021-04-26). How the Rich Distort Politics. "Government by the 1% for the 1%" globalresearch.ca "At some level of extreme wealth, money inevitably corrupts… it …
(2021-04-26). When America Believed in Eugenics. globalresearch.ca Of relevance to the current debate on Eugenics and Depopulation, this …
(2021-04-26). The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine. globalresearch.ca An exposé of the corruption of medicine by the pharmaceutical industry …
(2021-04-26). Montana Becomes First State to Pass Resolution Against Unconstitutional Wars. globalresearch.ca The Montana state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan and unprecedented resolution …
(2021-04-26). Taiwan Strait: A Shooting War Involving China, Taiwan and the US? globalresearch.ca We are witnessing the fourth Cross-Strait Crises. Chinese and American armed …
(2021-04-26). 75 Years Ago: Red Army Encircles Berlin. Analysis of Germany's Failed 1942 Offensive. globalresearch.ca First published on April 21, 2020. Three-quarters of a century ago, on 21 April 1945 the Soviet Army had encircled Berlin and was unleashing its final attack upon Nazi Germany. | With the Germans having killed more than 10 million …
(2021-04-26). Implications Are Global In New Study Predicting Human Exodus In Bangladesh. eurasiareview.com Rising sea levels and more powerful cyclonic storms, phenomena driven by the warming of oceans due to climate change, puts at immediate or potential risk an estimated 680 million people living in low-lying coastal zones (a number projected to reach more than one billion by 2050). In nations like Bangladesh these populations are already moving to escape sea-level rise. | In a new study, "Modeling human migration under environmental change: a case study of the effect of sea level rise in Bangladesh," researchers led by Maurizio Porfiri, an engineer at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at the NYU T…
(2021-04-26). Asteroid That Hit Botswana In 2018 Likely Came From Vesta. eurasiareview.com An international team of researchers searched for pieces of a small asteroid tracked in space and then observed to impact Botswana on June 2, 2018. Guided by SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens, they found 23 meteorites deep inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and now have published their findings online in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science. | "Combining the observations of the small asteroid in space with information gleaned from the meteorites shows it likely came from Vesta, second largest asteroid in our Solar System and target of NASA's DAWN mission," said Jenniskens. "Billi…
(2021-04-26). Energy-Saving Gas Turbines From 3D Printer. eurasiareview.com 3D printing has opened up a completely new range of possibilities. One example is the production of novel turbine buckets. However, the 3D printing process often induces internal stress in the components which can in the worst case lead to cracks. Now a research team has succeeded in using neutrons from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) research neutron source for non-destructive detection of this internal stress – a key achievement for the improvement of the production processes. | Gas turbine buckets have to withstand extreme conditions: under high pressure and at high temperatures they are exposed to…
(2021-04-26). Why the U.S. Embargo Against Cuba? globalresearch.ca Now that Cuban president Raul Castro has resigned the presidency of …
(2021-04-26). Scientists improve how global climate progress can be calculated. imperial.ac.uk Researchers have worked out how to improve the assessment of progress towards limiting global heating to 2 ∞C above preindustrial levels.
(2021-04-26). Miscarriage costs UK society £471m a year. imperial.ac.uk New research suggests miscarriage costs the UK at least £471m a year.
(2021-04-26). New collaborative research projects to probe frontiers of science and technology. imperial.ac.uk Imperial and France's CNRS have announced six exciting new joint PhD projects, as two of Europe's scientific powerhouses forge ever closer ties.
(2021-04-26). Data sharing thorough in WHO report, expert says. ecns.cn "Chinese and international experts were able to arrive at consensus through arguing, with the shared goal of examining more evidence and improving the research," Liang said.
(2021-04-26). Pfizer "Experimental" mRNA Vaccine: Israeli Lawyers Sue Netanyahu Government for Crimes Against Humanity. globalresearch.ca Israeli lawyers and human rights activists Arie Suchovolsky and Ruth Machnes…
(2021-04-26). Pfizer Vaccine Confirmed to Cause Neurodegenerative Diseases: Study. globalresearch.ca In a shocking new